"Ritsu-" Enek rode his horse to the side to let the army behind him pass him, and he himself stopped and turned his head to look at the knights who were passing in front of him, and asked, "How far is it from Calafate, where Modo's army is located?" ”

An official who looked like a military advisor behind him replied: "Your Highness, it's almost dawn now, and it's still about a hundred miles away from Calafate, and it will take about three hours to reach Calafate at the current speed!" ”

"It's too slow, it's too slow!" Enek categorically ordered: "Pass the king's order, speed up the march, and be sure to reach Calafate within two hours!" ”

In this snowy weather, the climate is extremely cold, and the road is difficult to navigate, even if all the cavalry have to march fifty miles in an hour, it is not easy, and a captain next to him said: "Your Highness, it is too difficult to march fifty miles in an hour, even if you can march fifty miles, and arrive at Calafate in two hours, the brothers and the war horses are already exhausted, and they must not have the strength to participate in the battle, please think twice!" ”

Enek thinks about it and thinks it makes sense, this kind of weather is indeed very sinful in the field of marching, although all are cavalry, there are war horses to travel, but war horses are not machines, they also have tired, they are not able to gallop quickly on any road, such as this kind of snowy day, after a night's time, the road surface has been frozen, the horses run easily slippery, even if they barely arrived at Calafate within two hours, the entire army has no combat effectiveness, how can we attack? It's good not to be hit back by Modo.

Enek was about to withdraw the order, but the officer behind him immediately objected: "No." The soldiers are very fast, and we must get to Calafate as fast as possible, and our soldiers are very tired. But Modo's men are even worse than us, although they have been resting for two days in Calafate, but his men and horses lack food and clothing, and have no combat ability at all, and we don't need to attack when we arrive, just confront Modo's army and put pressure on them. At the same time, they can also be monitored, they will not dare to act rashly, and when our soldiers have recovered, they will immediately attack! ”

Enéke listened and was convinced. The other generals all nodded in agreement, this Jian yì was undoubtedly the best choice in their opinion, and Enek said loudly: "That's it, quickly convey the king's order!" ”

"Yes. Your Highness! ”

Building a pontoon bridge on a cold night is a very painful thing to do. And there are not enough boats to build pontoon bridges in the town of Vidin, but fortunately, there are enough timber in the town, and it is reassuring that it is now winter, the river is gentle, the water level is not high, and there is not much resistance to building pontoon bridges, even if people fall into the water, they will not be washed away immediately, and they can be rescued.

Modo would like the temperature to drop a little more. As a result, the river will freeze. The army can cross the river from the ice, but Qin Dong does not want the temperature to drop again, if the river freezes, the Danube can no longer form an obstacle to Enek, and Enek can take his army directly across the Danube.

At dawn, after a night of hard work, Qin Dong mobilized more than 3,000 people to build a three-meter-wide pontoon bridge, according to this width and the bearing capacity of the pontoon bridge, the side by side can only pass two at most, and the distance between the front and rear rows must be more than two meters apart, otherwise the pontoon bridge will not be able to withstand it, and it is very likely to collapse.

On the side of Weiding Town, Qin Dong has already arranged for personnel to build a camp for Moduo's army to rest overnight, and organize personnel to make a fire to cook and cook mutton soup at dawn, according to the results agreed between Qin Dong and Moduo, when the pontoon bridge is completely erected, Moduo will first send the disabled soldiers over, and after the disabled soldiers cross the river, the other departments can cross the river, and the camp just built in the town of Weiding on this side of the river already has steamed buns, steamed bread, and mutton soup, those who cross the river first eat first, After eating, they will receive winter clothes and shoes next to them, and the disabled soldiers will be given priority treatment, and Qin Dong has already arranged for the military doctor to wait here in the small town of Viding.

In addition, in order to prevent accidents when crossing the river, Qin Dong also specially sent people to organize more than a dozen small boats across the river, once someone falls into the water or there is any problem with the pontoon bridge, the pontoon bridge can be rescued and repaired in time, try to solve the blockage problem as quickly as possible, and keep the army at a steady speed.

It can be said that Qin Dong's arrangement and consideration are very thoughtful, and Mo Duo also admires Qin Dong for arranging it so well, how strong does this require overall planning and organizational skills? But although Qin Dong took all aspects into account, he and Mo Duo still missed one point, that is, the problem of Mo Duo's army itself.

After being cold and starving for several days, at the moment when the pontoon bridge was built, the army under the command of Mo Duo was in chaos, and the officers and soldiers who were hungry and cold had already lost military discipline, and the disabled soldiers should have crossed the river first, but before the disabled soldiers stepped on the pontoon bridge, the soldiers of other departments flocked to the disabled soldiers who were preparing to cross the river.

The huge commotion at the bridgehead alarmed Qin Dong on the opposite side of the bridge, he saw that there was a riot on the bridge head on the other side of Modo, and he knew that he was going to suffer, as he expected, the pontoon bridge itself was not a solid building structure, under the squeeze of thousands of people and horses, the opposite bridgehead was crushed, dozens of cavalry on the bridge fell into the river with men and horses, although the river flow is not urgent, the water level is not high, but the people and horses are not allowed to fall down, Modo is so anxious that he jumps to his feet, After pulling out a knife and killing more than a dozen people one after another, he barely stabilized the situation, and the riot was suppressed.

The soldiers and horses who fell into the river were all rescued, but these people were also frozen to the blue face, wet and shivering, Qin Dong saw that this was not the way, and immediately rode on the pontoon bridge to direct the repair, fortunately, the collapsed bridgehead was not long, and the repair was completed in only ten minutes, but it took a lot of time to suppress the riots, in order to prevent the riot from happening again, Qin Dong ordered Batu to take three hundred escort cavalry to cross the river from the pontoon bridge to the bridgehead on Modo's side to maintain order, and Modo's side also organized hundreds of cavalry as law enforcement teams to maintain orderIf someone disregards the military discipline and crosses the river first to disturb the order, he will be killed on the spot to deter other soldiers.

When a qiē was ready, Qin Dong immediately ordered: "Let the disabled soldiers cross the river first, and the other departments will cross the river in accordance with the order after the disabled soldiers cross the river, and those who deliberately make trouble will be killed!" ”

"Long live the king—" all the wounded soldiers knelt down and shouted.

Qin Dong's order can be said to have created a historical precedent in this era, and it also won the hearts of all disabled soldiers, everyone knows that whether they can survive if they are injured during this period depends on the will of God, not manpower can decide, most of the time the wounded soldiers are a burden to the army, commanders and generals generally regard the uninjured soldiers as the most, no matter what they do, they are the priority, as for the wounded soldiers, then I'm sorry, I can only stay until the end.

It took an hour after all the wounded and disabled soldiers crossed the river, and just as Qin Dong was about to ask Mo Duo to order the other troops to cross the river in turn, suddenly a knight with a small flag on his back galloped over, and shouted while galloping: "Emergency military situation-"

The knights who heard this voice all rode their horses to get out of the way, and the knights ran in front of Qin Dong and Mo Duo, and the war horse fell to the ground at once, foaming at the mouth, only the breath was out but not the intake, obviously running to death.

"My lord, Enek's 20,000 iron cavalry is rushing towards our army at a very fast speed, only thirty miles away, and according to their marching speed, it will not take half an hour to arrive!" When the knight had finished speaking, he fell to the ground panting and exhausted.

Modo sent detectives to investigate the surrounding movements last night, and the reconnaissance range of the detectives was limited, until Enek's army appeared fifty miles away from here was discovered by the detectives, and the detectives sent out this night did not rest, and the horses also stayed up all night, and their bodies had long been exhausted, so the horses were exhausted to death.

After ordering a few soldiers to take the comatose knight down to rest, Mo Duo turned his head to look at Qin Dong: "Great King."

Modo's meaning is obvious, now that he is Qin Dong's person, every decision has to be made by Qin Dong. Qin Dong knew that the matter was strict, and he asked, "How many good men and horses are there here now, and how many soldiers are still able to fight?" ”

Mo Duo said: "King, there are still eight thousand cavalry here, and the most that can fight on horses is only five thousand, and the combat effectiveness is very limited!" ”

5,000 Rides VS 20,000 Rides? Without excluding external factors, this is the end of defeat, and five thousand cavalrymen who have been hungry for a few days and shivering from the cold can beat twenty thousand strong cavalry?

Qin Dong's mind was racing rapidly, and he said after a long time: "I didn't expect Enek's army to come so quickly, originally according to my estimate, he should have three more hours to arrive, but he was born two and a half hours ahead of schedule, what does this mean?" It shows that Enek disregarded the bodies of the soldiers and war horses, and marched all the way to this side, and by the time they arrived here, they were already exhausted, and they should not have much combat effectiveness! ”

Without waiting for others to interject, Qin Dong turned back to Batu and said: "Chuan Ben King's order, immediately let the other side of the river carry the prepared food and winter clothes to distribute to the soldiers, Enek is coming to fight us with a large army, we can't go to the river today, see if he Enek has the courage to attack us when the whole army is tired!" ”

"Yes, King!" (To be continued......)