Chapter Fifty-Eight: Chisel Ice to Defend Against the Enemy
"General, what are you thinking?" Seeing Fugui'er staring at the map, his brows were tightly locked, Chu Yong, who was standing beside him, asked carefully.
"Look here, Huanshui Lake, such a large lake, the Liao army will not give us seven or eight days to rush, now the lake is frozen, the Liao cavalry is afraid that it will be two days at most, and they will catch up with us, so we will meet the enemy with 200 of us, I am afraid that it will be more than auspicious."
As Fugui'er spoke, she fell into a state of thought again, as if she wanted to come up with a safer route from the map.
"Fight is a war, are you still afraid that they won't succeed, it's a big deal to follow in the footsteps of General Chu, since we are soldiers, we will already take this life and death lightly, kill one is enough, kill two and earn a ......"
"Right...... Right...... ......them" Listening to Chu Yong's words, the brothers around him were ignited, and one by one they stared at each other, as if they really had the pride of fighting with the Liao army to the death.
"The war must be fought, but if we die in battle, what will happen to the old and young brothers who have three thousand heavy logistics, and what will happen to those unarmed people?"
To tell the truth, Fuguier doesn't want to die, let alone his brothers, this is the old general's personal soldiers, and now the old general's blood is scattered on the battlefield, this inheritance and continuation Fuguier still wants to leave him something, and those people can't die in their own impulses and decisions.
"General, why should you be so cautious, although this lake is frozen, isn't there also snow on the ice? With such a thick snowfall, the war horses of the Liao army can't run fast if they want to? A middle-aged man standing beside him had been speechless, and now seeing that everyone was no longer speech, he spoke.
"You have been stationed at the border for many years, and you know that there is not only snow and strong winds outside this pass, but also the ice is smooth, and the snow cannot be saved when it falls and is blown by the wind, and there are always some places on the ice where the snow will be extremely shallow, Chu Yong, do you know how many defenders there are in this hell city?"
Fugui'er answered the sergeant's doubts, and then asked Chu Yongxin another question.
"General Hui, that Hell City is a gathering place for death row prisoners in the Three Kingdoms, there is no risk of being robbed, and it is not an ordinary prosperous place to live, and the soldiers guarding death row prisoners in this city will not exceed 10,000, it should be between 5,000 and 6,000." Chu Yong spoke, and saw that Fugui didn't seem to be very satisfied with this statement, so he pondered it and then added.
"I have three infantry members in a small squadron, nine squadrons in one squadron, five squadrons in a large group of fifty people, and two teams in one hundred people. The combined five battalions were 500 men, the combined five battalions were 2,500 men for the first army, and the combined ten armies were 25,000 men. But all the generals who lead 10,000 troops are under control, that is from the official position of the first rank, and the five grades of Yin Zheng of the Hell City Mansion will be matched with the same level as him, and the troops he leads will not exceed 5,000. Our dynasty has strict management of the army, and no more than 1,000 personal and private soldiers are allowed, so in Hell City, there will be less than 6,000 soldiers and horses at most, and if there are cavalry, the number will be even ......less."
Chu Yong finished his words in one breath, but he gave this rich and noble man a military supplementary lesson.
"Haha, it's good to have five thousand soldiers and horses, find Hell City to borrow troops." Thinking of this, Retro finally showed a sly smile on his face, put away the map, and chased after the army with the hundred and ten brothers.
There was a Liao army in front of him, whether to change the route and bypass Hell City, the Chu army leading the way in front has been uncertain. Therefore, the vigilance was strengthened, and the army was always on standby, and when the winner of the victory general Fuguier arrived, several generals gathered together and discussed it. Fugui'er deployed a battle plan in the true sense since accepting the general.
This plan is very bold and insidious, it requires the full cooperation of the entire team of 10,000 people, and if you cooperate well, you can not lose a soldier and a civilian, and safely borrow Hell City, and the consequences are unimaginable if you don't cooperate well, but Fuguier believes in her own judgment, although leading troops to fight is not her strong point, but Fuguier is still full of confidence in the grasp of human nature.
After receiving the order, Chu Jun took a few soldiers who were very attentive and quick-witted, and left on fast horses, and Fuguier led more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians to set off again and went straight to the direction of Hell City.
As expected, the mighty procession traveled for a day, and arrived at the lake in the evening.
The team was stationed overnight by the lake, and the next day before dawn the team went on the road under the shouting of the soldiers, and last night when the tired people went to sleep, Fuguier took the soldiers to make an ice hammer for a night, and in the previous life, Fuguier used it to break the ice and fish, but this time he was ready to dig thousands of traps on the lake.
Fugui'er arranged a team of soldiers to lead the people to take the first step, and picked out some fairly capable soldiers from the baggage team to accompany him, and dug ice holes in the ice.
The ice hole chiseled out with the ice hammer is not big, it is the size of the bowl mouth, but the layout spacing is very particular, according to the plum blossom pattern at a distance of one zhang, every half day to stop and chisel a piece, although we do not know the wonderful use of these holes, but since it is the above arrangement, one by one also chisel the strength.
"I said Xiao Xingzi, did you go to peek at other people's Hu Niangzi last night, you stinky boy just don't learn well," a group of soldiers worked, and some of the veterans teased those newly enlisted child soldiers.
"How can I peek, the Hu Niangzi is scared alone, and calls me to accompany me, I have my back turned my back, and besides, what can I see when it's so dark?" The little soldier named Xiao Xingzi replied with a red face while holding a wooden ice hammer while chiseling the ice hard.
"Haha, you lie to the ghost, you go to Hu Niangzi every day when you have nothing to do, you think she doesn't know your thoughts, staring at that big ass every day and looking at it is useless, what do you think in your heart, you will tell the Hu Niangzi, that woman is originally selling X goods, help you break your body, then loosen the belt, it is not much slower than peeing in the last thatched house, hahaha......"
The black-faced veteran spit vulgar words out of his mouth, and when he saw the aggrieved look on the little soldier's face, he was extremely satisfied, and all the veterans around him also laughed insolently.
"You are not allowed to say this, Mrs. Hu is a good woman, and she helped me sew and mend my clothes the day before yesterday," Xiao Bing listened to the old soldier's ridicule, plunged the ice wand in his hand into the ice, straightened up, and looked at the old soldier angrily, as if he had a desperate decision with him.
"Haha, good woman, good woman, since you are a good woman, are you willing to marry him? I'm afraid that your bird hasn't grown up yet, and it won't be useful if you marry her, right? Hahaha......"
This ridicule of the little soldier must be grasped well, the ridicule is not in place, the little soldier is not angry and boring, and it is not interesting to make the little soldier anxious and ignore you completely, as he spoke, the crowd burst into laughter again.
"I ...... I...... I'm all hairy......" Hearing the laughter of the veterans, the little soldier was flushed, his chest rose and fell for a few breaths, and finally shouted out a sentence that shocked everyone.
"Long ...... It's hairy...... Hahaha......" After listening to the words of the little soldier, the veteran repeated a sentence in his mouth, and a more presumptuous laugh rose in his mouth.
"Xingzi, don't bother with them, you are also thin-skinned, every time you are teased and cry, look at me. Before, they kept picking up my pants to make me embarrassed, and the more I struggled, the more aggrieved they became, and then I wanted to pick them up, so I took off my pants, come and see, you don't need to pick them, they have no interest in picking up pants from now on......"
The little friend standing next to Xiao Bing saw that the tears in Xiao Bing's eyes came out, and quickly taught his own experience.
In the labor of people's laughter and laughter, this work is not too tiring, along the way, in three days, this huge lake has been dug by these old and young heavy soldiers.
The army marched on the ice for two days and walked out of the lake, and walked ashore for two days, when the old, weak, sick and disabled in the team really couldn't move their legs, the team basically arrived at the pre-designated place of Fugui'er.
This is a densely wooded jungle, and at this moment, Fuguier selected a few women with slightly outstanding posture from the team, asked them to change into new clothes, apply makeup, and gather around the fire to chat and eat.
Most of these women are engaged in the entertainment industry and make a living by serving men, and when they saw that the adults in the army let themselves change their clothes and makeup, they thought that this was the generals in the army who wanted to have fun tonight, so they had nothing to say in the face of the good meals specially prepared for them by Fuguier.
"Hey, you eat elegantly, where is this like a woman," Fugui'er saw that they were too presumptuous in eating, and couldn't help but whisper a reminder.
"Yo, it turns out that the adults like the tone of the women, okay, when we finish eating, we will serve the adults as women tonight." The women were joking, and they didn't take Fugui'er's words to heart at all, after all, the adult in front of them was too young, and he was laughing happily all day long, where was the general's mighty and domineering appearance.
"Let you eat more elegantly, just be elegant, where did you come from so much nonsense, believe it or not, I cut you with a knife," the soldiers around him, seeing that the women were unmoved, shouted angrily, and pulled out a few inches of the waist knife with a sigh.
Fugui'er looked up at the soldiers, and then at the tired women in front of him, and shook his head helplessly, "Eat if you can, laugh if you can, laugh quickly, I'm afraid the big battle is just in the last day or two, I'm afraid I won't be able to laugh if I want to......"
These ordinary people don't know the seriousness of the matter, but as the main general, Fugui'er knows it very well in his heart, and the constant news around him makes him understand that the war is about to break out, and these women in front of him are just bait for fishing.
Yes, it's Hell City, not the Liao soldiers, the plum blossoms under Fugui'er's step are trapped in the horse pit, which really slows down the pace of the Liao army's pursuit, those holes in the ice are not conspiracy or yang conspiracy, and the rows of ice caves are in front of your eyes, you just can't get by.
To be precise, it should be better for people than for horses. A man can choose to walk on the ice without an ice cave, but the horse can't, and if he steps into the ice hole, the horse can't get up at all, and must use a stick to carry him out from under the horse. The ice caves are densely laid out to make it difficult for you to guard against them, and finally build a simple wooden bridge and pull the horses carefully through, which also reduces the speed.
The cavalry is talking about sprinting, and the horses that can't run have only one role, and the moving city wall, the Liao army also attaches great importance to cavalry and archery, and really abandons the war horse and meets the battle on foot, and has no advantage at all in the face of Qi soldiers.