Chapter 190: The Swamp
Now that Yun Hailan is gone, Wu Feng has lost his most powerful support.
But when there is Yun Hailan's hole card, many things seem to have no suspense, and it is inevitably boring.
Those who have the heart of a strong man are looking forward to challenges that can make people nervous and almost suffocating. After listening to Song Shannei's report, Wu Feng felt that his blood was already faintly burning.
Do what seems impossible...... This battle is enough to make the white-clothed battalion famous and merge with the state and Yuzhou, and even the world!
However, he is only making bold assumptions now, and his reasoning is not detailed and meticulous, and there is no real evidence, and further investigation is needed.
If you can't get definite evidence, you naturally can't risk the lives of all the soldiers of the white-clothed battalion. Then we can only adopt Song Shannei's plan - attack the medicine fields or mines of Xunmeng Village, attract some enemy troops to help, and then lay an ambush to launch a surprise attack, cut off some heads to fight a beautiful battle and quickly evacuate, so as to explain to the chambers of commerce.
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"All regular samurai, the whole army goes out for battle. Wu Feng ordered.
Jiang Ye also wanted to object: "There is a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, and the difference in strength is too big......"
"The purpose of this war is to suppress if it can be suppressed, and if it cannot be suppressed, it will be disturbed, but it is to be gained. We must not let the gentry and people of Hedong look down on our white-clothed battalion!" Wu Feng shouted.
Hearing this, several squad leaders made up their minds.
The basic art of war, they still understand. If you can't hit the crowd hard, you can attack it and take advantage of it. Now we are prepared, and the dream village is huge in scale, and it is in a state of laxity all the year round, and the harassment war can still be fought.
At that moment, one hundred and forty regular samurai were dressed in light leather armor and formed a neat line. Each person carried half a month's worth of dry food, as well as basic supplies for camping in the mountains. The deputy commander Xin Standby led a group of militia and was responsible for the garrison of the dock fort.
Although it is only an attack, but also to act at the opportunity, if the dream village because of the attack and provoke internal contradictions, causing chaos, you can provoke from it, in one fell swoop. So. It is necessary to be prepared to fight for a longer period of time.
Wu Feng was wearing a black battle armor, the armor flashed cold light, majestic, and there was a magic power that could absorb people's hearts.
This is the armor made from the remnants of the Iron Winged Black Scorpion that he obtained in the Valley of Rejuvenation. Lightweight and very strong.
Soldiers rushed out of the gates.
Several of the soldiers were already married, the daughters of several wealthy stewards. When they walked out, his wife came up from behind, waving goodbye.
Wu Feng fulfilled his promise to solve the marriage matter for the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions. At the same time, it also took advantage of this to get closer to the wealthy family. Among the wealthy families with a strong sense of land, the housekeepers have a lot of right to speak, that is to say, if these wealthy families want to attack the white-clothed camp, they must consider and consider.
The castle of the Baiyi camp is just below the Luliang Mountain Range, and after leaving the camp, you will walk up the trail and enter the undulating Luliang Mountain Range.
Under the autumn wind, all the trees are withered, the ground is full of yellow leaves, and it is bleak.
Keep going deeper. The terrain is getting higher and the weather is getting colder. Fortunately, Wu Feng took this into account and ordered the soldiers to wear cotton robes under their battle armor.
After crossing another mountain, I saw that the road ahead was actually covered with a thin layer of snow.
"It's already snowing. Wu Feng said, he remembered that although the Valley of Forgotten Worries was also on the mountain, it would not be as indistinguishable as autumn and winter as here.
"The climate in the mountains is very cold, and late autumn is already winter here. Song Shannei once followed his uncle Hua Zongdai to walk all over the world and was well-informed: "This is also the reason why the mountains are difficult to develop, not only the land is barren. The time to be able to cultivate and grow crops is also short. ”
The conditions in Luliang Mountain are so bad, Ren Xiaoxiao needs to obtain materials, and the people who come to defect will inevitably be squeezed. But even so, there is a steady stream of displaced people who come to seek their dreams. It shows how far the local wealthy families exploited the people.
The more chaotic the region, the more cruel and vicious the lord tends to be. Because they don't know when they will be attacked by other forces, they have a drunken mentality, lack the consciousness of developing their territory, and only know how to extract wealth from the people.
After approaching the Dream Village. Wu Feng ordered everyone to be silenced and marched on a detour.
He took out the sketch that Song Shanuchi had drawn during his previous investigation.
"Although the Dream Hunting Village is lightly guarded, it has extremely superior geographical conditions because it is surrounded by a huge swamp. We can go around to the back of the swamp and see if there is a road through the swamp. Wu Feng said.
From the mouth of the dream village to the outside of the mountain, there is a slightly larger mountain road, which can accommodate horse-drawn carriages to pass, so that caravans can come in and do business. But in order to avoid bumping into the patrol soldiers of Dream Hunting Village, Wu Feng and the others had to bypass this avenue and walk on the path.
But for a small army of 140 people, there is no place to go over the mountains and mountains. If a large army of tens of thousands could not do it, if it marched on a mountain road with only five or six men in parallel, the procession would be extremely long, and the end would not be able to echo it, and if it was attacked and cut into many parts, it would inevitably trample on itself because of confusion, and it was very likely that the whole army would be annihilated.
Mountain roads are difficult to walk, and high mountains are even more so, with twists and turns, and the actual distance to walk is not known to exceed the geographical distance many times, and climbing the mountains is even more physically demanding.
Xunmengzhai is only thirty miles away from the foot of Luliang Mountain, but around the back of the swamp around Xunmeng Mountain, the white-clothed battalion at least crossed the mountains and mountains in the cold wind and snow, and traveled more than 100 miles. Even though the walking speed of cultivators was far from comparable to that of ordinary people, it was morning when they set off, but now it was time for the sun to go down, and the bloody sun was sprinkled with pink streamers on the snow.
Wu Feng looked at the dark swamp in front of him.
Of course, the swamp was already cold, but it had not yet frozen, very different from the swamp with hot and humid bubbles that Wu Feng had seen in the Rejuvenation Valley.
This swamp is extremely wide, more than two miles long, and looking from here, the tall back of Dream Mountain is like a huge wall, rising from the ground and covering the sky.
When I walked around, I saw that Dream Mountain was extremely steep on both the front and the side, but the slope on the back was quite gentle, and if you could cross this swamp, it would be extremely easy to sneak up on the enemy village.
"If only we had been a few days late, and had waited for the swamp to freeze completely. Qin Yu said.
Song Shannei shook his head: "The water in the swamp is dispersed by the soil, and it is not so easy to form thick ice. If you just form unstable frozen ground, you will sink if you step on it...... We can't wait until winter to fight this battle. ”
Qin Yu said: "Since you can't sneak attack, it's better to follow your plan, attack the enemy's mine, pretend that you can't conquer it for a while, and deliberately let people go out to report the news, and attract the enemy to come to help attack......
Wu Feng said: "No, let's try to see if I can rely on stilts to cross the swamp." ”
He used to cross the swamp in the Rejuvenation Valley, using wooden boats, but that was very physically demanding, and if the soldiers pushed the wooden boats across such a wide swamp with their true qi, they might not have the strength to fight when they went ashore.
Wu Feng used his long sword to cut off a tree, quickly cut it into a pair of stilts, and plunged it into the swamp.
The stilts fell extremely quickly, and Wu Feng suddenly felt a strong suction, and the deeper the stilts were inserted, the greater the suction.
He restrained the pressure on his hand, and the stilts stopped sinking, because wood was lighter than wet mud.
"No, I can't. Wu Feng shook his head and said, "This swamp is much deeper than I imagined, and the suction power is also unusually large. ”
At this moment, a childish voice suddenly sounded.
Everyone was shocked, but the information in Song Mountain was clear, and the patrols of Dream Hunting Village would never haunt behind the mountain......
But I saw a child dressed in animal skin flash from behind a mound, blinking his eyes and asking, "Brother soldiers, do you want to cross the swamp to eliminate the bandits on the mountain?" )