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Chapter 586: Hurrying at night in the wind and snow

If there is no war, it is a good season to warm wine and enjoy the snow and chant poetry, but such weather is not a good thing for the marching army, strictly speaking, under this kind of weather, it is really not suitable for marching and fighting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although the morale was high, due to the bad weather, the Dingzhou army only marched more than thirty or forty miles a day. Even with the well-equipped Dingzhou army, many frostbitten soldiers were forced to withdraw to the rear every day, and as for the Yizhou soldiers, it was even more unbearable.

The cold armor was taken off, and he was wearing only a thick cotton coat, and the hood covered his entire head, revealing only two eyes, and thick cotton gloves on both hands.

Long Xiaotian, who was in charge of logistics and transportation, was busy on all fours, not only to transport a large amount of grain and forage, but also to collect more ginger and other sweaty things for the soldiers to boil ginger soup after the march to keep warm from the cold.

Bad weather makes the Dingzhou iron cavalry lose the speed of this weapon of victory, in the heavy snow, the speed of the war horse is not as good as the infantry, and taking care of the war horse is a hard job, although the Dingzhou army war horse resources are abundant, but also unwilling to let a large number of war horses fall because of the bad weather, helpless, Li Qing had to order the whole army to slow down, wait for the bad weather to pass.

Compared with the Chinese Army and the Yizhou Army, the troops passing through the mountain wind advanced slightly. Xiong Dewu's Hailing battalion had been replaced by Jiang Heiniu's cavalry battalion at this time, acting as a vanguard.

As a cavalry scout, Buyangu volunteered and still walked in front of the whole army, but the scouts to which he belonged had all dismounted, and in such a heavy snowstorm, the horse stepped on one foot, and half of his legs fell into the snow, and it was not as fast as two legs, not to mention, there were more traps under the snow, and many war horses broke their legs because of one foot in the air, resulting in some unnecessary attrition.

Buyangu was in high spirits, and the hearty victory earlier made the people who heard the news happy, and the battlefield promoted Buyangu to the captain of Yingyang on the spot, and the number of subordinates led by him also increased to 500, but the other 400 people were all foot soldiers.

Since Buyangu joined the army, he has been serving as a scout, as a sentry detective, extremely experienced, after being assigned to the command of the Hailing battalion, Xiong Dewu is also a good person, still use him as the vanguard of the whole battalion, walking in the forefront of the whole army, at present, Buyangu's troops have been dozens of miles ahead of the Hailing battalion, this is a whole day's journey.

On the plain, there were many white yangs, and in the dense white yang forests, Buyangu spread the felt on the ground and sat on the ground, except for a few dozen sentinels who were on guard outside, and all his subordinates were gathered here.

"Brothers, twenty miles away from us, is the county of Qinzhou, this is the first county town that our army encountered after entering Qin, the three-way army, only we are the closest to the goal set in advance, if we can take the county, we will become a model for the whole army!" Buyanggu's eyebrows twitched and he said loudly. "When the other ministries were so far from the goal, we were the first to take the lead, and you think, what a credit this is? Not only does General Xiong of our Hailing Camp have a light on his face, even if he is a great general, he will be overjoyed, and as for us, of course, he will be in the limelight! ”

"Captain, we also want to do it, who doesn't want to do this limelight, who doesn't want to do it, we Dingzhou Army, we can judge it by military merits, but the question is, how to do it? In this hellish weather, we have to take a few breaths after walking a few steps, and twenty miles is enough for us to walk for a day, and we are there, and there is still strength to fight, so that the enemy who is waiting for work can easily clean us up? He Yishan Road. As Buyangu's right-hand man and brother, Buyangu was promoted by one level, and he also jumped one level with him, and now he is an officer.

"It's hard to say, but it's easy to say!" Buyangu mystical tunnels. "I have a way to get us to the city quickly. And he also has the strength to fight. ”

"What's the solution?" He Yishan jumped up all of a sudden, and asked excitedly, he had been with Buyangu for a long time, and knew that he was not a targetless person.

Buyangu stood up, "Brothers, when I was on the grassland, life was difficult, and sometimes I had to go out to find food in such snowy weather, and on the snow, horses could not run fast, but those rabbits, roe deer and foxes and the like, they could run fast, and when people were extremely poor, they had to find some way to get out. ”

As he spoke, Buyangu pulled out his waist knife, cut off a white yang with the thickness of a hand bowl, shaved off some of the thinner branches, cut off the coarse paper, cut it in two, and then cut the trunk of the tree, cut it neatly, and stacked it side by side to be slightly wider than his feet, and then twisted the cloth into a rope, tied these neatly cut pieces of trees one by one, tied them with his big feet, and then found two thicker branches with three knives as a cane, and after standing firm, he said, "Brothers, look! ”

Lifting his feet, he trotted two steps, and with a strong push of his two canes on the ground, he slid out of the snow in an instant, leaving only two shallow marks on the snow.

The soldiers were dumbfounded as Buyangu paddled back and forth on the snow, "How about it, brothers, how long will it take us to get to the city?" ”

He Yishan jumped up suddenly: "Captain, if this is the case, we will be able to arrive in two hours at most, but, but the brothers won't?" ”

Buyangu smiled: "It's very easy to learn, brothers, get moving, learn to do these two guys like me, it's still early, let's use a good hour, we can learn as much as possible, as soon as it gets night, let's go, rush to Haocheng, just three watches, at that time, hey, hey, those little cubs in Qinzhou would have thought that we would arrive so soon?" I'm afraid I'm still sleeping! ”

In the Baiyang forest, hundreds of soldiers suddenly boiled. It's easy to make things, this large area of Baiyanglin has ready-made materials, but this seemingly simple gliding has made these soldiers suffer enough, many people have bruised noses and swollen faces, and they are clumsy, Buyangu is also very patient, and demonstrates over and over again, and when it comes to night, all the soldiers are finally allowed to slide, although it is not as light as Buyangu, but it is finally presentable.

"Eat!" Buyangu said excitedly: "After eating, let's act!" ”

The so-called eating, that is, taking out the dry food in their arms, on the snow on the ground, filling their stomachs indiscriminately, they rushed forward alone, but they did not dare to make a fire to cook, the soaring green smoke on this plain, but people will see clearly.

As night fell, in the still whistling wind and snow, 500 Dingzhou soldiers, under the leadership of Buyangu, slid on simple sleds, withstood the wind and snow, and began to march towards Maocheng.

Buyangu said it well, the defender of Haocheng Yu Wenhao did not expect that there would be an enemy under Haocheng today, the news reported by the spies was that the Hailing camp closest to them was still dozens of miles away, under such weather, the dozens of miles that are not far away from them may not be able to go in a day or two, and it is necessary to maintain a certain combat effectiveness, so the speed is even slower, Yu Wenhao hopes that the opponent will rush to the city desperately, then he can wait for work, while the Hailing camp is not stable, and he will be tired and old, led the army out of the city to counterattack, and taught the invincible Dingzhou soldiers a good lesson, but after hearing the spies report that the Hailing battalion had been stationed on the spot, he could only sigh regretfully, this idea was just an idea, and no commander would be so stupid.

In the dark night, under the wind and snow, the city is like a monster, lying silently on the ground, the whole city, there is only the city tower, the two dead wind lamps alone emit a faint light, the soldiers guarding the city are nowhere to be seen, the enemy is still far away, and it is impossible to fly over with wings, who is still patient to stand on the city wall in such weather and suffer!

At the time of the third watch, in addition to the wind and snow, there was no other sound, at this time, in the distant wind and snow, a black line came quickly, the black line dragged on for a long time, and it was also very scattered, this is because Buyangu was grinding his spear in battle, and the level of the apprentices he taught was also uneven, and some of them accepted it very quickly, and they quickly learned, although it was not as good as Buyangu, but it was not too much worse, and they tried their best to barely keep up, but there were still people who were much worse, and they didn't know where they were thrown at this time.

"Stop!" Buyangu stopped suddenly, and He Yishan, who was a few steps behind him, couldn't stop when he said stop, and suddenly he rushed past Buyangu, and Buyangu pulled him to stop, "Right here, the whole army is assembled!" Count the number of people. ”

Half an hour later, He Yishan walked up to Buyangu and whispered, "Captain, there are four hundred and twenty-one people, and there are more than seventy cubs who don't know how far they have fallen. ”

Buyangu nodded, "Okay, almost, don't wait for them, prepare to act, He Yishan, we will divide the people into three groups, after you lead a group of one hundred and fifty people into the city, set fire to me everywhere, especially their grain depots, grass and grain fields." ”

"Yes!"

"Yue Ze! You lead a hundred and fifty men to defend the city gate for me, remember, if we succeed, I will shoot a chirping hammer, you lead the team to take advantage of the chaos to kill into the city, if we miss, we will turn around and kill back and escape, if something happens to you here, we will have no follow! ”

Yue Ze, another Yunlu Captain, nodded vigorously.

"I led a group to go into the city and sneak directly to their guards' mansions, capture the thief and capture the king first, shoot the man and shoot the horse first, and kill the official, things will be much easier! Remember, listen to my chirping, and you'll all do it together! ”

"Yes!" The two of them said in unison.

"Let's go!" Buyangu waved his hand, and dozens of people in front of him took out a plate of hooks and ropes from their arms, Buyangu has more than 100 subordinates who are all from dry scouts, and these things are extremely complete.

One by one, hooks and cables were put on the battlements of the city wall, and black shadows climbed up like apes along the hooks.