Chapter 178: If you want to hurry, you can't reach it

Zhao Ta understood that the Xia Army's 3,000 light cavalry was not much of a threat to him, but the army of Brother Cha behind him was like a pufferfish, which was both delicious and deadly poison, and now he had eaten them into his mouth, whether he could swallow them or not, and whether he could digest them was whether he could hold down Brother Cha's brigade, he led the team to a path that only few people knew could be done by a single horseman, jumped over the front and rear of the Xia Army's forward, and inserted it into the blank area of the front and rear teams, and wanted to arrange another speed bump between them to delay the forward speed of the army-

It is definitely not possible to set up a blocking position, not to mention that there are only more than 50 people, even if there is no danger to defend, 500 people will be broken by the iron cavalry who are desperate to charge, and most of the valley is more than ten miles wide, unless one person carries a super cannon, they can't stop Chage's army, and the only effective way now is to create chaos in the Xia army or have a decapitation operation, and destroy Chage with one shot...

"Brother, why don't you eat and drink water?" During the rest of the team, everyone was busy eating some dry food, but a Western Xia sergeant did not open his dry food bag, but pulled the horse to the side of the road for him to nibble on the grass, he just held some spring water to drink, and his partner came over and asked.

"Big brother, save some food, just now I went to the front to pass the order, I heard some news from them, the Song army has taken our old nest yesterday, and the troops guarding Liangu and attacking Xinqin have been completely annihilated, and now they have mobilized 100,000 troops to block the Chuankou, I'm afraid we won't be able to break out of the river in a day or two!" The soldier looked carefully left and right, and said in a low voice.

"It can't be true, there are more than 30,000 troops over there!" When the sergeant heard this, he said in surprise.

"Big brother, be quiet, don't die!" The gossip guy hurriedly covered his mouth, glared at him and said, "Big brother, don't you understand this matter, we are going to attack the turbidity wheel and relieve the siege of Fengzhou, but how can we suddenly stop the march and turn around overnight, according to the brothers of the former army, the Song army laid several lines of defense in Chuankou, blocking Chuankou from wind and rain, and they didn't believe that the old camp was broken at first, but in front of the Song military camp, there was a banner of the Baotai army, and the head of the Baotai trust army Liang Er, if you don't believe it, now the prince strictly forbids the spread of news, I'm afraid of messing up the morale of the army, don't tell anyone! ”

"Huh?!" The sergeant was dumbfounded, the dry cake in his hand fell to the ground, he suddenly thought of something, quickly picked it up, blew it clean, stuffed it into the dry food bag on his waist, tied it carefully, and his heart was also seven up and down, he didn't believe that Song Jun could be so powerful, but the words came from the mouth of his brother, and all kinds of circumstances also showed that the ** was not far from ten, he couldn't help but believe it, he was stunned for a while, thinking that his fellow brother was still in the Chinese army, and he had to think of a good idea to bring him a word to take precautions.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, emergency military situation!" Suddenly, he rode from the south, urging his horse and shouting to give way.

"Where is this, I look very anxious!" The people who were resting on the road gave way to the side of the road and asked in confusion.

"It looks like it's from the Pioneer Battalion, let me ask!" Someone picked up the stubble, and shouted at the messenger who rode up, "Brother of the pioneer battalion, what's going on ahead?" ”

"Get out of the way... The vanguard encountered the loyal warriors in the Flying Fox Gorge and suffered great losses, so please ask for reinforcements! The man replied casually in a hurry.

"Isn't the Loyal Warrior Army in Toyosu, why did they get to the mouth of the Turbidity River again?"

"The Song army blocked the mouth of the river, then won't we be trapped in the valley, I only have three days of dry food left, what can we do?"

"Oh no, the rear army was attacked by the turbidity wheel and the state army, the general sent people to drive away, fell into an ambush, and lost more than a thousand brothers, what can we do, why don't we line up to meet the enemy, wait for death here!" …,

"I heard that the Song army has dispatched 100,000 troops, and has leveled our left-behind camp, and killed the brothers who attacked Xinqin and guarded the Lian Valley, and the head of the Baotai Army Division is hanging on the Chuankou, and now it is a front and rear attack, ready to gather and annihilate our army!" The kid finally couldn't help it, and shook out what he had just heard.

"We have been tricked, and the Song army has retreated again and again, just to keep us away from the big camp and unable to support, and then surround us and fight!"

"Impossible, the prince has no last resort, he is invincible, how can he fall for the scheme, and then talk nonsense that I killed you!"

"When I'm afraid of you, don't think that you can't kill Liu Fa in Tong'an City, now the Song Dynasty Hedong is also the prince of the Song Dynasty, he only used 3,000 soldiers and horses last year to break our Xia army of 30,000 horses, King Yun was captured alive by him, recruited Yeli, plundered the Shenyong Army, now he has 100,000 military horses, who wins and who loses, maybe it's anyone!"

"I've also heard of this, it is said that this prince of the Song Dynasty will make immortal law, attract heavenly thunder, and all of them will be crushed, and the evil god we met may have been recruited by him, why did you say that we didn't mess with him!"

"There is another thing that everyone doesn't know, let's go back to the army because the son of Fengzhou soldiers and horses sent the news that Weng Li's son risked his death, Fengzhou City was captured more than ten days ago, and the stored grain and grass have long been obtained by the Song army, we are about to run out of food, and everyone has to plan early!" ．．．．

In the past, although there was also a shortage of food, but the Xia army attacked the city and plundered the land, and frequently succeeded, and the army could still maintain high morale, but now negative news suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and there are various versions, anyway, there is no good news. And the rumor spread like a flu throughout the army as quickly as possible, causing everyone to be in danger and panic.

Of course, these news were also quickly learned by military generals at all levels, and immediately arrested a large number of rumor-mongers in the name of bewitching the public, but after interrogation and investigation, the most reluctant were heard, but the initiators could not be found at all, and these people could only be beaten with military sticks to show the public, but the effect was not great, the situation at this time made people more willing to believe that the rumors were true, and the generals who enforced the law also knew that most of them were true, otherwise these people would have been beheaded a long time ago, and a little punishment was only hoped to stabilize people's hearts, and they could hide it for as long as they wanted!

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The weapons carried by the ordinary regular army of the Xia army include a bow, thirty arrows, and more official positions, swords and spears are also necessary weapons, plus the armor is forty or fifty catties, this is only the equipment of light cavalry, plus ten days of food and grass, the burden of the war horse is not light. If it is a heavy cavalry with iron armor all over the body, the weight can be imagined, and he can't travel thousands of miles a day even if he is Guan Gong's red rabbit horse (of course, the ruler of the Han Dynasty is much shorter than now, and thousands of miles are also shrunken thousands of miles). The camel carrying the 'whirlwind cannon' was already walking slowly, and it was even more unhurried after carrying the load.

The march of 50,000 people is even more out of the opposite column that winds for more than ten miles, and it is necessary to stop from time to time to sort out the queue, so as not to cause chaos, and march in the canyon, and the galloping horses are even more foolish dreams, just now to deal with the rumors in the army, delayed some time, Brother Cha looked at the sun, the hour is not early, urge the army to go on the road.

Although Cha Ge's face was calm now, there was an unspeakable distress in his heart, and the evolution of things was completely beyond his expectations. The remnants of the soldiers who had escaped from the camp had fled to the army, but he immediately detained them to prevent the news from being revealed. The 20,000-strong army was wiped out in a day, and according to the remnants, the loyal army only dispatched 5,000 soldiers and horses. Liang Er is a well-known general, although he is not a famous general, but he can also be called a general with both courage and strategy, not a mediocre person, otherwise he would not have handed over such an important task of staying in the camp to him, but the result still disappointed him, and secretly blamed himself for underestimating the strong combat effectiveness of the loyal army, so that he had a new understanding of the famous opponent he had not met! …,

Although these incidents caused some trouble to Chage, Chage also judged from the shabby number of loyal and brave soldiers who fought with the front army and the rear army, the rudimentary defensive measures, and the tactics adopted to delay his own marching speed, and his army outside was still fighting. Knowing that his sudden return to the army caught the opponent off guard, disrupted his combat plan, and now has not completed the operational deployment of the blockade of Chuankou, and now the Song army is unable to draw more troops to intercept his own army, so he has to use these indiscriminate means, but he also has to admit that these methods are very effective, but it also makes him see the opportunity, as long as he can break out of the canyon, he still has the strength to fight, and it is unknown who will kill the deer at that time.

Just as Brother Cha settled down and urged the army to speed up the march and pass through a narrow pass in front of him, when he was thinking about the next step, he felt a shock under his feet, several loud noises in his ears, several puffs of smoke rose in front of him, and the flying gravel fell from the sky all over the sky, and suddenly the scene was chaotic, some were hit by the gravel and fell from the horse, some of the horses were dodging in all directions, and some of the war horses were frightened by the sound of explosions, and they rushed around in the ranks, and the marching army was in chaos...

"Protect the prince!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Chago's guards drew their knives and surrounded Chago, erecting shields to shield him from the flying rocks.

"Hurry up and put up the banner!" People are in the flag, the flag servant is about to die, the handsome flag is the marshal's life and death mark, the direction of the army, the people in the army understand this basic truth, Cha Ge's personal guard in charge of the flag was hit by a rock, hit the head and blood and fell off the horse, the handsome flag naturally also fell, this is repaid, immediately someone went up to re-erect the flag.

'Poof', the pro-soldier who grabbed the flag in front of him had not yet stood the flag steadily, and suddenly there were more eyes on the door of his head, and a bloody hole came out of the back of his head, and the brain and blood gushed out, and the person naturally couldn't stand, and the flag fell again!

Everyone saw that the flag bearer had fallen again, and thought that a flying high stone had just fallen, and smashed into a colander on the head of this unlucky guy, and someone stepped forward to erect the handsome flag, but the same thing happened again, and the person and the flag fell at the same time, but this time there was an extra hole in the chest, and the heart goggles were also torn apart!

"The prince is dead...", the handsome banner servant was finally discovered by the panicked soldiers, and someone shouted in panic, and the news immediately spread throughout the army like a telegram.