Chapter 356: Bad Luck
Seeing the two of them, Tai Shuhong immediately blurted out and asked, "I heard that You Jun has retreated, is it true or false?"
Xiao Xuan and Mu Wu were both happy, and both nodded in response: "Back to Prime Minister, it's true, You Jun has indeed withdrawn!"
After getting the confirmation of the two of them, Tai Shuhong's heart finally fell back into his stomach.
He let out a long laugh, looked up and sighed: "This is the thousands of generations of God helping me with great gold!" Sighing for a moment, he said to Mu Wu urgently: "General Mu, you lead the two thousand cavalry in the city to chase and kill the You army, and you must not let the You army retreat too much." ”
"The last general obeys!" Mu Wu took the order and turned away.
After Mu Wu returned to the camp, he gathered two thousand horsemen in the city and rushed out of the city to chase after You's army.
The cold wind in the city is not small, but as soon as they get out of the city, the cold wind outside is even stronger, blowing darkly, and the ghosts cry and howl, even if the hardy Jin people can't stand it when they wear cotton clothes and cotton pants, even if they can hold it, the war horses that step down can't stand it.
Mu Wu and his cavalry had not been out of the city for less than two miles, and they were forced to return to the city by Jin Xue outside.
When he returned to the city, not to mention that the soldiers below were frozen to tears, even Mu Wu felt as if his ears were about to be frozen, numb and stinging, and his head and beard were covered with a layer of white frost.
In this kind of weather, it is impossible to get out of the city! He sighed in his heart with pity, wiped his snot from his nose indiscriminately, and went to Tai Shuhong to explain the situation.
After hearing this, Tai Shuhong was not only not angry, but also happy, his own soldiers could not hold on to going out of the city, so the situation of You Jun can be imagined.
His guess was right, the current You Jun is indeed extremely miserable.
People walked hard in the cold storm and snow, and in the queue, from time to time, someone fell straight upright. No one cares about it, and people are already unable to protect themselves, so how can they have the mood and strength to take care of others? In the ice and snow, at first they could still see the road, but when the sky was about to be a little cloudy, they could no longer see the road. I couldn't see any references, and everything I could see was white, as if everything in the world was covered with snow.
At this time, You Jun's march was even more difficult, he could barely see his calves when he took one step at a time, the snow was no longer above his knees, and he had to exert all his strength with every step. Coupled with the biting cold wind, people couldn't open their eyes, and gradually, tens of thousands of You troops were completely lost in this snow-capped world, unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest, and just blindly walked forward.
I don't know how long it took, as if they had discovered a new continent, the soldiers who were walking in front exclaimed, "There are forests! They no longer expect to encounter towns or villages, as long as there are mountains and trees. Just be able to shelter from the wind and snow.
Seeing the woods, the soldiers of the You army were like seeing an oasis in the desert, and people used their strength to eat milk, braved the wind and snow, and quickly ran towards the woods.
The area of this forest is not small, and You Jun entered the forest. They went all the way into the woods, where the cold wind finally subsided a lot, and the snow was pushed off the ground and the branches were cut off from the trees. Make a fire.
The soldiers of the You army gathered around the fire, sat on the ground, and then sighed for a long time, and began to retreat in the middle of the night, until now, everyone in the You army was tired, hungry and cold, and they were exhausted one by one.
Nie Lin leaned against an old tree, half-squatted and half-sitting, looked at the exhausted soldiers around him, sighed bitterly in his heart, and then beckoned, and said to the generals beside him: "You go and count how many troops are left in our army now." ”
You Jun walked all the way, and some people fell to the ground along the way, Li Cheng saw it in his eyes, but he had no way at all.
Soon, the number of each corps was reported, and as soon as the generals counted it, people were a little incredulous.
When attacking Hecheng, there were more than 80,000 people in You's army, and when they retreated, there were more than 50,000, and now, only about 30,000 people remained, that is to say, in the process of retreating, nearly 20,000 people fell.
Seeing such data, Nie Lin looked up and lamented, God was unfair to You Guo, and even more unfair to him Nie Lin! Since the battle in Jinjin, he has never made a mistake, he has won successive battles, attacked the city, and was invincible, but the result is like this, how can Nie Lin accept it?
Seeing Nie Lin's sad face, Niu Gao and other generals comforted one after another: "The general doesn't need to be sad, even if there are only more than 30,000 brothers left, after the wind and snow stop, our army can still capture Wancheng and enter Hecheng!"
Nie Lin looked at the sky, gently shook his head that was shivering from the cold, and muttered, "Who knows when this snowstorm will come to a head?!" As he spoke, his stomach gurgled.
People were stunned for a moment, then they touched their food bags, took out steamed buns and dried meat from them, and handed them to Nie Lin.
Nie Lin took it, and before he could put it in his mouth, he had already lost his appetite.
The steamed buns and jerky handed by everyone have long been frozen, hard as stones, and if they are smashed on the head, it is estimated that they will have to smash out a big green bag.
He shook his head and smiled bitterly, drew his sword, stabbed it the steamed bun, and then put it on the fire to roast.
Seeing this, the generals followed suit, each took out his sword, and roasted steamed buns and dried meat.
They had something to eat, but most of the soldiers did not, and the people were dizzy from hunger, and could not go out of the woods to find food, so they had to lie down by the fire and shrunk up to rest.
The sky was getting dark, but the blizzard showed no signs of stopping, Nie Lin gave the order to go down, and the whole army rested in place and spent the night in the forest tonight.
At night, the bonfires in the forest flickered, row by row, row by row, but the soldiers of You Jun did not have the leisure to enjoy the bonfire and the snow scene, they lay by the fire, and they were too lazy to move again.
No one talked, no one spoke, and no one even made a sound, and in the big forest, there were more than 30,000 You troops, and the silence was terrifying, only the crackling sound of dry wood burning.
There was nothing to say all night, and in the early morning of the second day, the wind and snow were not as strong as yesterday, Nie Lin cheered up and asked the generals on the left and right to take some of their strong brothers to the forest to search for food.
When the order was delivered, the corps commanders shouted loudly, telling the soldiers below to get up quickly.
But at this time, people suddenly realized that many soldiers and soldiers could not get up again when they lay down, and in one night, thousands of soldiers were frozen to death in the forest.
Under the pressure of hunger and cold, You Junli was frozen to death of frostbite almost all the time.
Finally, five hundred soldiers with good physical strength were selected from You Jun, led by a general, and went to the forest to find something to eat.
Not long after they were gone, the storm turned from weak to strong, and the five hundred men of the generals never returned......
This sudden storm lasted four days and four nights.
However, this part of the You army, which drove straight into the attack on Hecheng with Nie Lin as the leader, suddenly steamed in the world, and there was no one alive, no corpse in the dead, and no trace could be found.
The fact that the Jin Kingdom could not find them, and they did not return to the You Kingdom, was puzzling to both sides, and the inexplicable disappearance of Nie Lin became an unsolved case.
It wasn't until a long time later that the hunters of the Jin Kingdom inadvertently entered this forest, and a large number of the remains of the You Army appeared in it, and after careful examination, it was confirmed that the remains of the You Army were Nie Lin, and the lieutenant general of the You State, Nie Lin, was also among them......
The You army led by Nie Lin went deep into the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, from Shuangfeng City to the vicinity of the Jin capital Wancheng, which can be said to have swept through the central and southern parts of the Jin Kingdom, forcing the imperial court to move the capital, but in the end it failed to get out of the country.
Nie Lin was not defeated at the hands of the Jin army, but under that rare blizzard, if You Jun had been able to plunder some cotton clothes by the way when plundering property, then the outcome of this battlefield would probably have changed radically.
But there are no ifs in the world, and the end of the matter is that Nie Lin and his 150,000 troops are almost all buried in Jindi.
This crisis in the capital of the Jin Kingdom was resolved by a sudden snowstorm at the very end, which was unexpected by everyone. (To be continued......)