"It's so cold."

"It's cold, it's better to be cold, the cold is our comrades-in-arms, if we arrive in Mengjin, the weather is still so cold, then the Yellow River must be frozen, we don't need to build any pontoon bridges, just cross the river directly!"

Li Mingshan looked at the road ahead, and he laughed at the words of his subordinates.

He wouldn't pin his hopes on the sudden turn of the cold weather, which is the practice of rogues like Li Zicheng. He prefers to keep everything under his control, for example, long before this battle, he once personally served as a guard for the Yellow River Water Research Association, and went to Mengjin to investigate.

Nominally, Tian Boguang and Gu Jiaming were the leaders of the battle, but he and his brother Li Qingshan had their own ambitions. Their brother as the vanguard of this battle, his brother snatched the attack on Kaifeng City, these years the military intelligence system of the Huaxia Army has not been idle, Kaifeng City has long been riddled with holes, many people are under the orders of the Huaxia Army, therefore, it is not difficult to attack Kaifeng City.

And Li Mingshan's job was to attack Luoyang.

Bull Venus is cunning and sinister, but he is not quick-witted, so if something happens, he will not think it very carefully. Now, he should get the news that the Huaxia army has already broken out to attack Kaifeng, if his attention is attracted by Kaifeng, Li Mingshan's troops suddenly appear in Mengjin and go straight to Luoyang, then, Niu Jinxing will have no other choice but to abandon the city and flee.

He definitely didn't have the courage to live and die with the city.

"Where is ahead, how far is it from Mengjindu?" Seeing the scout come back, Li Mingshan asked.

"It's Dayugou in Wenxian County. There are still 100 miles away from Mengjindu! ”

"Looks like there's going to be a snowstorm tonight." Li Mingshan looked up at the sky and muttered.

There is still a hundred miles away, this distance is not a difficult thing for him, when the Huaxia army is still a tiger guard, a day and night to run a hundred miles of rapid marching army training, almost once every month or two. At that time, he used to be strange. Yu Guozhen gave these soldiers enough food and drink, probably because he was afraid that they would be idle, so he had to do this kind of training to consume too much energy for them.

Now he is no longer surprised. If it is strange, it is also strange for Yu Guozhen's far-sightedness in military training - is there really a saint in this world who is born to know, otherwise. Why did Commander Yu Guozhen think of so many details?

The usual hard training is now working. These days, they traveled an average of more than sixty miles a day, and at such a speed, even the war horses could not stand it, so although many of them carried horses, they led the horses on foot, and only the scouts rode back and forth. But even so, they still maintain high morale and high energy.

But if a snowstorm comes, and it's a blizzard, then the speed of moving forward will be affected. Wait for Bull Venus to react. The problem is a bit more serious. It's not that he can't capture Luoyang, Li Mingshan is convinced that his troops have no problem at all in capturing Luoyang City, but they don't fight beautifully, and they have suffered too many injuries. That's not pretty, either.

"Work hard, go to Mengjindu before the snowstorm comes, let's enter Luoyang City and make mutton dumplings for the New Year!"

His words were quickly passed on by his subordinates, and after a while, "Enter Luoyang City." Mutton dumplings for the New Year" became a cry.

"If it's getting late today, do you want to set up camp?" A subordinate asked in a low voice.

Li Mingshan looked up at the sky again, and then took out his pocket watch and looked at it.

The miniaturization of pocket watches has always been a problem, and even those made by the best craftsmen in Shinxiang today are as big as fists, and the number of them produced each year is still very limited. As an important tool, it is given priority to the Huaxia Army, and Li Mingshan naturally has it.

It was only half past four o'clock in the afternoon, because it was winter, and it was cloudy, so it was late.

"Go on, stay until five o'clock, and then prepare to set up camp." Li Mingshan Road.

But it didn't take long for the clouds overhead to get thicker, and the sky was darker, and thirty meters away, it was a little difficult to see the road ahead. Li Mingshan ordered the whole army to light torches and oil lamps, and continued to move forward in the cold wind, but after walking for less than half a mile, a scout Pegasus arrived: "Tuanzheng, look, look at the other side of the Yellow River!" ”

They followed the north bank of the Yellow River, and the scout showed him the south bank. Li Mingshan climbed the high part of the Yellow River embankment and looked towards the south bank, only to see a starry fire dragon walking in the same direction as them.

"Huh?" Li Mingshan's brows suddenly twisted together.

In the information he obtained, Niu Jinxing stationed Liu Xiyao in Kaifeng and himself in Luoyang, but he was still not at ease, and there were still 50,000 troops stationed in Hujiaoguan.

These 50,000 people are the elite that Niu Jinxing relies on the most, Liu Xiyao delayed the enemy in Kaifeng, and then these 50,000 people blocked the Tiger Prison Pass and responded to Liu Xiyao. Now this fire dragon is clearly the enemy army of Tiger Prison Pass, and it is rushing to Luoyang to help.

Niu Jinxing was afraid that he had made another wrong decision in an emergency situation this time, but it was this wrong decision that was mistakenly made. Niu Jinxing may not have known that there is such an army on the north bank of the Yellow River that is rushing towards the center of his rule, but if the enemy army at Hujiao Pass is allowed to go to Mengjindu first to contain the Yellow River, and he wants to cross it by force, it will be a little difficult.

"The other party should have discovered us too." He looked at the torches on his side, and began to regret a little, maybe he shouldn't have fought to light the torches, he should have thought that after lighting the torches and oil lamps, they would inevitably attract the attention of the other side of the river, even if there was no reinforcement of the troops, others would see it.

But soon, Li Mingshan put away the regret in his heart: regret is useless, and now he still has a chance to win!

"Tell the whole army that the enemy is on the other side of the river, whether we can win or not, now it depends on how our two legs can outrun the enemy!" Li Mingshan did not hide his true intentions: "Tonight, dinner is dealt with with dry food, let the gang leader boil water in the front pot, and supply hot water!" ”

At the moment of the order, a group of leaders rode at a gallop, rushed about five miles ahead of the group, and began to boil water in a pot, and when the army arrived, a pot of boiling water had already appeared on the side of the road.

The equipment of the Huaxia Army is inherited from the standard of the Tiger Guard, and each soldier's belongings are among them. There are military enamel kettles. The soldiers stopped to fill themselves with a pot of hot water and take a breath. After a short sip of water, they set off again, walking briskly ahead.

Li Mingshan, like the soldiers, also marched on foot, after the soldiers in front of him had scooped water from the pot. He stepped forward and filled his marching pot with hot water.

Just now, he was covered with hot sweat from the rapid march, but now he was blown by the wind. It's already cold to the bone.

"Are you still moving?" He asked a soldier sitting next to him panting.

"Yes!" The warrior immediately got up, strode forward, and in an instant caught up with the group.

Li Mingshan smiled. Then he turned back to his instructor and said, "Instructor, there's something I want to trouble you. ”

In the military system of the Huaxia Army, instructors are treated the same as commanders at the same level, but they are not allowed to interfere with the military orders of commanders at the same level unless the instructor confirms that the commanders at the same level have betrayed each other. However, the punishment of the soldier by the commander of the same rank must be confirmed by the instructor. Therefore, Li Mingshan was quite polite to his instructors.

"Tuanzheng just commands!"

"Please stay behind with a squad and take in the outdated soldiers, especially those whose bodies really can't support them, and pay attention to ...... Keep them safe. ”

"Yes."

The instructor was also a soldier, and he was equally anxious to march. Li Mingshan's arrangement is actually a kind of care for him, and he naturally knows it. And he said "yes", that is, he agreed with Li Mingshan's order to march overnight, and shared with Li Mingshan the risk that the soldiers might be injured or even die of exhaustion.

Then the march of the Huaxia army became more rapid, the one on the other side of the river. Gradually, they fell behind, and at first their torches could be seen in the distance, but in the middle of the night, only a few of them were still on a par with the Huaxia army, and these were the other side's cavalry. By about three o'clock in the morning, even these cavalrymen. They are all so backward that they can't be seen.

And Li Mingshan's department finally arrived at Mengjindu!

Running a hundred miles in one night, such a speed is enough to make Li Mingshan proud. But he was not in the mood to calculate this, and the first question he asked after arriving at Mengjindu was to ask: "How is the Yellow River frozen?" ”

The scout who was exploring the way gasped, and under the light of the fire, he spit out the white weather from the ice slag falling from the sky: "It's frozen, I've made two trips back and forth, and there is no problem!" ”

"Good, good!" Li Mingshan only laughed at this time.

This is God who saw his hard work and helped him once!

"Cross the river, and ...... Receive Luoyang! ”

In Luoyang City, Niu Jinxing sat up from the bed suddenly, and the beautiful woman at the head of the bed was frightened and her eyes widened.

Since he had a hunch in his heart that Yu Guozhen might do something to him, Niu Jinxing would not turn off the lights when he slept at night, so the beautiful woman could see fear flashing in Niu Jinxing's eyes under the light.

"Prime Minister...... What's wrong? The beautiful woman asked softly, stroking the cold sweat on Niu Venus's forehead with her own hand.

Niu Jinxing rudely pushed her hand away, sat down on the futon for a while, and then got out of bed.

"Is there any military intelligence from outside?" He asked.

"Who trespassed on the Prime Minister's Mansion?" As if in response to his question, there was immediately the sound of shouting and eager footsteps outside.

"Let him in." Without waiting for someone to answer, Niu Jinxing said.

Soon, the messenger from Mengjindu appeared in front of Niu Jinxing with a panicked face: "Prime Minister, the big thing is not good, the Huaxia army is attacking in a big way, Mengjindu has few soldiers, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defend, and please send reinforcements to the Prime Minister quickly!" ”

Mengjindu!

Niu Jinxing did not pay attention to Mengjindu, here, in more than ten ferries that stretched for dozens of miles, he arranged 10,000 defenders, which was already one-third of the entire Luoyang garrison. There is the Yellow River moat, and it stands to reason that with these 10,000 defenders, it is enough to be reorganized, but Niu Jinxing understands that in the face of the Huaxia army, even 100,000 defenders can't sit back!

"Damn, it turned out to be Meng Jindu, and sure enough, it was Meng Jindu!"

Because of his uneasy premonition, he had already issued an order to the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass in advance, ordering them to return to the aid of the starry night. Now it seems that this order, which he gave for no reason at that time, may be the key to saving the situation: "Where has the sergeant of the Tiger Prison Pass arrived?" ”

As soon as he said that, he realized that this was not in his military tent, but in his prime minister's mansion. He is not surrounded by generals.

He settled down, and then ordered: "Beat the drums, gather the generals!" ”

(To be continued)