Chapter 53: Fighting in the Snow
On the 29th day of the 32nd lunar month of Wenyan, this was supposed to be the day of reunion, but on the northern border of Qi State, a great escape from the wind and snow that had never been seen since the founding of Qi State was staged.
What is even more dramatic is that the procession of nearly 20,000 people was divided into two teams, the well-dressed rich officials on horseback and carriage walked down the official road with 3,000 elite soldiers, and the other group of ordinary people in cloth clothes walked down the road under the leadership of 3,000 old and weak soldiers.
Fuguier thought that this so-called lower road was a road built by local officials for the people, but when she really stepped on the lower road, she knew that it was not what she imagined, and this lower road was just a road that backpackers stepped on alive.
From the back city of Hancheng to the rear hurricane pass, there is an official road for transporting materials, it takes 20 days to walk on this road, this road transports military supplies in wartime, but it is a commodity transportation line for border trade in peacetime, but this border trade is not for anyone to do, there must be official procedures, but in the face of the temptation of money, some people take risks and start smuggling, and most of the smuggling of smuggling is extremely strictly controlled by the government.
Smuggling can not take the official road openly, must find another shortcut through the Wulian Mountains to Handcheng, through the mountains and mountains there is no road feasible, so you can only hire foot force to carry these private goods to Handcheng in the way of back, this hired foot force, it has become people's mouth backpacker.
These backpackers travel back and forth between Handcheng and Hurricane Pass all year round, and they also step out of a so-called lower road, although this lower road is difficult to walk, it is indeed a shortcut, and the 20-day journey from Hurricane Pass to Handcheng has been shortened by half.
Usually the day is good, even if it is a road that is stepped out, it is also the measurement of the footsteps of the predecessors, and it must be the easiest place to settle in this mountain wilderness, but now the heavy snow covers the mountain, and the path hidden in the mountains and wilderness is covered by heavy snow, and with the old, weak, sick and disabled of nearly 10,000 people, the difficulty can be imagined, so it can not be described as a hardship.
"Haha, fighting with the sky, the fun is endless, the Red Army has walked 25,000 miles of the Long March, what is my 10-day journey......" Fuguier found a reason and secretly cheered for himself.
The 200 elite soldiers were divided into two teams, one team led by Chu Yong to explore the road in front, and the other team led by Chu Jun to fall at the back of the team as a defense, while the 3,000 logistics veterans were mixed in the ranks of civilians, moving forward with difficulty with the old and the young.
Although Fuguier didn't say it, he knew in his heart that a good day could be reached in ten days, and now in this cold day with wind and snow, it is good to be able to arrive in thirty days, and each person can only carry ten days of food before traveling, and it seems that this food should also be saved.
Fortunately, in such weather, the Liao soldiers are afraid that they will not chase people here, after all, this mountain road is not suitable for cavalry galloping.
These old and weak disabled people showed their exhaustion after half a day, and after half a day, they couldn't walk completely before it was dark, and the evacuees were evacuated in a hurry, and there was nothing to prepare for the cold at night, so Fuguier could only order the soldiers to cut down trees and forests, and build some temporary shelters for these refugees to block the wind and snow.
Everyone hid in the snow and snuggled up to each other to keep warm, and finally survived the first difficult night on the way to escape.
The wind and snow did not stop all night, and the next morning, when people dragged their tired bodies out of the snow, they suddenly found that the mountains and fields were snow-white, and the soldiers who were exploring the road in front could not find the road under the snow for a long time, and some of the tired people retreated.
This trip has just been a day, and it may be too late to retreat to the official road, if the snow does not stop, this group of people is afraid that they will really be trapped in this mountain wilderness.
"General Zhu, but how is this good?" Facing the noisy crowd, Chu Jun was also a little at a loss for a while, and walked to Fugui'er's side and whispered.
"When marching and fighting, I am most afraid that the army's heart will be shaken, what if there is no road, others can step on a road, why can't we succeed, how can there be a turning back arrow when we open the bow. You ordered people to tie up four or five pieces of wood that you had cut down yesterday in a row, and the wooden rafts were full of people, and a few horses were drawn by horses, and the snow was compacted to make a path, and you walked around the foot of the mountain, and stopped looking for the path halfway up the mountain. ”
Fugui stuffed a handful of snow into his mouth, and while chewing on it, he talked to Chu Jun, and the resolute look on his face seemed to really not take the difficulty in front of him seriously.
"The general's method is feasible, but I'm afraid that walking around the foot of the mountain will have to make a detour again, and the march will be lengthened, I'm afraid we won't have enough food to prepare?"
"It's better to be hungry than to lose your life, tell those civilians who want to go back, don't be reluctant to stay, go with me, I'll keep him safe, the Liao soldiers are coming, even if I die, I will die in front of them first, and I won't ......stop me if I want to go back to be a slave or a prostitute."
Fuguier knows that when this person's heart is not satisfied, expectations are always better than reality, this is the nature of people to retreat in the face of difficulties, to stay in their own hands, they will become dependent on the army, this kind of weather in this form, everyone gets together to support each other may have a chance to live, once out of the army, there is little hope of survival.
Just as Fuguier thought, the horse-drawn wooden chop did press out a hard snow road, and the crowd that opened their eyes early in the morning finally followed the team and continued to move forward.
After marching like this for half a day, suddenly a rear army came to report that the rear found enemy scouts.
"I don't give up on this day, I don't let people live, you wait for me to take a look," Fuguier is an idle person, he doesn't want to get involved in right and wrong at all, and now he has the entrustment of the old general, and retreats with the soldiers and civilians of Hancheng, and all kinds of nerve-wracking things he has faced for days, and he has already hooked up the anger in his heart.
The team continued to move forward, but Fugui'er stayed, found a snow nest to hide herself, held the shovel in her arms, adjusted her breathing, and waited for the scout of the place to arrive.
Fugui'er has encountered too many troubles in the past few days, and he has not had time to practice the Qi Gathering Divine Skill, and at this time, when he has a little free time, he took the opportunity to practice again.
I didn't sleep well all night last night, and when I was running the exercises, the cold on my body passed, and I slowly felt drowsy, and Fugui'er was hazy and dazed here, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps stepping on the snow.
"Little thief, look at me with a sho......vel," Fugui'er shouted when the scout approached, and the man bounced out of the snow nest, and the big shovel in his hand also swung out.
Fugui'er has been pondering for the past few days, the war knife has never been touched in the past life and this life, and it is really not easy to use it to cut people at this time, but the shovel of this stir-fry has been used to the extreme, or shooting, or shoveling, or chopping, it is indeed not much worse than the war knife.
At this moment, a shovel was swung and a chopping style was used, and the heavy shovel was slashed at the scout's neck, although it was not as sharp as the war knife, but it could be done with a single knife and the head fell to the ground, but this charged force also made the scout lose his breath in an instant, his head drooped to the side, his body stubbornly straightened, and finally fell into the snow.
"Ah, it's you......" There were not many people waiting, only four or five people, and they were ambushed by Fuguier at this moment, and one person was killed in an instant, and the others hurriedly took two steps back, holding a scimitar and looking at Fuguier with a vigilant face holding a shovel. The man who took the lead was shocked, and he screamed and shouted that it was you.
Fugui'er looked at the person who shouted, but recognized this old enemy at a glance, this person was none other than the female general of the Liao Army who had been shoveled by herself the day before yesterday. The two recognized each other in a breath, and at this moment the enemy was very red when they saw each other, no need to adjust their emotions, no need to accumulate strength, the two did not have any nonsense, and waved the weapons in their hands and fought together.
Snow fighting, what general exercises are really not used, the two of them fight in the snow, all rely on the ruthlessness in their hearts and the brute force in their bodies, to be honest, although Fuguier has kung fu, but under the guidance of Master Huiling, the practice of emergency training for four months is just the practice of escape and hiding, and there is not much kung fu in the real fight.
Today's long-term struggle with this Yelu Yuanjia, one is to borrow the advantage of this snow-covered field, and although the moves used are messy, they are the several sets of military body boxing, grappling boxing, and prostrate boxing that they learned in their previous lives.
Although Fuguier is not a ruthless character, but in his previous life, he was also a serious veteran oil, but all the men who have been trained in the melting pot of the military camp have an indomitable toughness in their hearts, which is something carved into their bones, at this moment, the two of them are already exhausted after fighting for half a day, and the reason why they are still punching and fighting is all relying on perseverance to grit their teeth.
The two of them didn't expect to meet each other today, and they didn't expect the other party to be so resolute, but they stopped here, and they were unwilling for a while, and the second was that they couldn't get over their faces, especially that Yelu Yuanjia, who had been swelled by a shovel of buttocks at the moment, which was a shame for the sky, thinking of Yelu Yuanjia, who was already sore all over his body, took a deep breath and swept Fuguier down with a sweeping leg.
The two of them fought from the halfway up the mountain to the top of the mountain, and at this moment they were swept down by one leg on the top of the mountain, and the body rolled down the mountain.
The snow on this mountain was no more than knees, but the snow below the mountain had already reached the top of their heads, and the two fell into the snow, smashing out two snow holes. Fortunately, the two snow holes were not far away, and each of them gasped for breath, accumulated some strength, and dug up the snow again and fought together.
At this time, the grappling is different from the mountain, although the grappling on the mountain is ugly, but after all, there are moves, and the grappling at this moment is like a child fighting in the mountain village, the two of you pinch me and grab, one elbow for me, I give you a knee, each screaming hatred in his heart, for a while there is no way to take anyone.
Fuguier grew up in the village since he was a child, this way of fighting has actual combat experience, this situation of mutual checks and balances, as long as he grasps the other party's vital point, the other party will raise his hand and surrender, thinking of this, Fuguier no longer hesitates, his body shook and hit the other party's body with his shoulder, a big hand sinisterly grabbed it, and the monkey came directly to steal the peach.
"Holy, where's Peach?" Fuguier grabbed the air and then remembered that it was a woman who was entangled with herself, Fuguier did not succeed in this move, but also touched the other party's vital point, then Yelu Yuanjia not only did not scold and scold, but her eyes lit up as if she had been inspired, and her arm hit her elbow hard, and she also made a move to steal peaches.
This trick is a three-indiscriminate move, which was commonly used by rich and noble children in his previous life, and now this Yelu Yuan Jiazhao gourd painting scoop is used for the first time, but he does not have the essentials of the tricks. Stealing is stealing, but stealing is not a peach, but a spear in hand, this unemployed woman, where does she know where the man's key is, as soon as she succeeds, her face shows a look of victory.
Fugui'er shook his body, and seeing that he couldn't shake off Yelu Yuanjia's grasp, a big hand also reached into the other party's clothes and grabbed the other party's fruit.