Horse on the World

Chapter 571 Finding a way out of the impossible

The heavy snow has been falling continuously, and the sky and the earth are covered in a vast area, all of which are covered in one piece. The traces left by the fierce battles these days are slowly buried under the heavy snow, and some broken large equipment stands on the ground. In the snow, there was also a layer of white clothes, and the tattered flags hung down in strands, but they were frozen together. Even the strong wind howled, and they couldn't make it fly again. A few spears stuck on the ground stood alone. , maybe his gun blade was in the chest of a dead soldier, but now he couldn't see anything.

On the bastion, only the watch sentries were left, wrapped in thick cotton clothes and wearing hoods, only two eyes were left, and two nostrils were outside. During breathing, puffs of white gas came and went.The world was silent, and compared with the hustle and bustle of the previous days, it seemed to be two worlds.

In Zhang Aimin's big camp, hundreds of strands of green smoke curled up, and just a few meters high, they were swept into the heavy snow by the howling wind and disappeared without a trace. The vast barracks were also deserted.

"This terrible weather!" Li Zheng stepped into the door while shaking the snow on his body, and said to Li Sizhi who was reading a book by the brazier: "Father, I just went on a patrol again. Although the weather is extremely cold, we are prepared to It is very sufficient, the soldiers seldom suffer from frostbite, there is sufficient charcoal and firewood in every fort and barracks, and there are also a lot of ginger and other things."

"Well, I also need to tell the soldiers to change their shoes and socks frequently. Some soldiers like to be lazy, and if they don't change them in time after being soaked in snow, they will freeze their belts and meat together if they are not careful. This is no joke. !” Li Sizhi ordered.

"Don't worry, Dad, our soldiers are veterans, how could they not know about these things!" Li Zheng sat down, picked up a cup of steaming water, and drank it in big gulps.

"It's better to say one more sentence than to say one less!" Li Sizhi glanced at his son dissatisfied.

"Daddy's lesson is, but daddy, this weather just allows us to rest for a few days, Zhang Aimin is crazy, this kind of weather can never come to attack us, it seems that Minzhou soldiers can't hold on anymore, today is a whole day My God, I didn't see their sentry cavalry come out to wander around! I probably know that we can't attack them!" Li Zheng said.

"What did you say?" Li Sizhi suddenly put down the book in his hand.

"I said that the Minzhou soldiers knew that it was impossible to fight in this kind of weather, so they didn't even send sentry cavalry." Li Zheng looked at Li Sizhi strangely.

Li Sizhi's face changed, he threw down the book, and strode out, Li Zheng, who was bewildered, had to heel up.

Climbing to the top of the bastion, Li Sizhi tried his best to look towards the opposite side through the snow curtain. Zhang Aimin's camp several miles away could not see the slightest abnormality, and occasionally the sound of golden drums could be heard, but there was no trace of people.

"The sentry counted their smoke in the morning, and there was no shortage!" Li Zheng probably understood what his father meant, and explained, "I sent someone to keep an eye on it!"

Li Sizhi remained silent, Zhang Aimin is a veteran, and it is snowing heavily, so it is impossible not to send sentry cavalry, not to send patrols, if he is so casual, he would have been wiped out countless times, how can he become the commander of Minzhou, a general .

"Li Zheng, you send a team of elite cavalry to check out!" Li Sizhi let out a long breath, "I suspect that Zhang Aimin has escaped!"

Li Zheng glanced at Li Sizhi suspiciously, and replied, "Yes, Dad! I will take someone there myself."

After a stick of incense, Li Zheng led a team of cavalry out of the bastion. The snow on the ground was already very thick. Although the bottom had been frozen hard, the top layer was still soft and soft. It was half a foot deep, and they couldn't run fast at all. The horses tried their best, but they could only run one-third of their normal speed. Li Zheng and more than a hundred elite riders unsheathed their swords and guns, and approached the barracks cautiously.

On the high sentry tower, there were no sentries looking out at all. Li Zheng's face couldn't help changing, and he rode his horse forward a few steps, "General Li, be careful!" a soldier reminded.

Li Zheng nodded, looked around vigilantly, the gate of the camp was wide open, and looked in through the opened gate, the thick white snow was spread flat, and there was no sign of anyone walking at all.At this time, he was less than a stone's throw away from the camp, and had already entered the range of the opponent's bow and arrow, but the opponent's camp was still as deadly silent.

Li Zheng has a bad heart, this big camp is definitely not like a place where tens of thousands of troops are stationed, if there are really so many people, the snow between the tents should not be so smooth, nor should it be so clean.

After waving their hands, several cavalrymen yelled, broke their horses forward, and drove into the Minzhou Army Camp along the wide-open gate. In a blink of an eye, they disappeared among the layers of tents.

After a while, a soldier circled his horse, but his expression was very strange, "General Li, run away, they all ran away!"

Walking into the big camp, all kinds of tents were still standing well, but the soldiers who were supposed to live in the tents disappeared. Li Zheng's face was extremely ugly. It's not a big problem that the opponent ran away. Under the eyelids, they slipped away silently, but the Yizhou army who was close at hand didn't notice it. Although the weather was bad, Li Zheng knew that this must not be an excuse for the Yizhou army. Zhang Aimin, sure enough Not good stubble.

"General Li, look!" A soldier pointed forward, following the direction the soldier pointed, Li Zheng saw a dying wounded soldier leaning against the edge of the tent, holding a drumstick in his hand, trying to lift it up. , fell suddenly, and with a bang, the war drum was sounded.Seeing the Yizhou soldiers appearing in front of them, the wounded soldier even grinned at them, then dropped his hands weakly, and never raised them again. A Yizhou soldier ran over and put his finger in his nose, "General, he died!"

"General Li, the brothers went to see it. There are only hundreds of wounded soldiers left in the camp. Some are beating drums and some are lighting fires. They are the ones who made the smoke!"

"Damn it, they tricked me!" A soldier scolded, "General, have all these wounded soldiers been cut off?"

Li Zheng sighed, "Forget it, we have already won this battle, Zhang Aimin can't run far, the cavalry of General Guoshanfeng in Dingzhou will stop them, these wounded soldiers are willing to sacrifice their lives for them It is admirable to delay the pursuit of the soldiers, tell the brothers, take them back to the fort to rescue them, whether they survive depends on their luck!" With a turn of the horse's head, he galloped towards the bastion behind him .

"I was plotted by Thief Zhang!" Li Sizhi slapped his head resentfully, "It's a shame that tens of thousands of troops disappeared under my nose. It's a shame. After I go back, the old man will definitely slap me. I will immediately notify Li Feng behind me. , The whole army of the Yizhou Battalion is dispatched, let me catch up and bite off a piece of their flesh!"

"Father, even the cavalry can't run in this weather! Third Brother and his Yizhou Battalion's combat power will be greatly reduced!" Li Zheng said.

Li Sizhi said angrily: "If we can't run fast, can the fucking minzhou soldiers run fast? Besides, as long as it doesn't snow anymore, the ground will be as cold as a rock overnight, and it won't hinder the cavalry We must form a two-sided attack with the cavalry who have passed the mountain wind. If we eliminate more now, it will be easier in the future. Zhang Aimin has come to Yizhou for a while, and we must leave something to think about."

Zhang Aimin didn't want to leave any souvenirs for Li Sizhi. In an unnamed small village, where his temporary Chinese army was located, when Zhang Aimin said that he would cross Da Cang Mountain and join Qu Yongjie's troops on the other side of the mountain, all the generals immediately all stayed.

Da Cang Mountain is nearly 4000 meters high, with steep mountains and dense forests and high cliffs. Not to mention the season when the mountains are covered by heavy snow, even in other seasons, it is difficult to climb over. An army of tens of thousands of people, how could it be possible to cross the Da Cang Mountain in this weather.

"Throw away all unnecessary things!" Zhang Aimin said categorically, "Each soldier has enough rations for seven days, and throw away everything except weapons!"

"General Zhang, you're not breaking out, you're going to die!" Ouyang Jianxiong said angrily, "How can you cross Da Cang Mountain at this time of year, and how can your horses go up?"

"Kill all the horses!" Zhang Aimin said coldly.

"Are you crazy? Don't you know how precious a war horse is? Do you think we are Li Qing, who can get a large number of war horses from the grassland at any time?"

Zhang Aimin sneered: "In my opinion, a soldier's life is much more valuable than a war horse. Horses can be bought, but can a soldier's life be bought with money?"

"If you cross the Da Cang Mountain, will the soldiers die? Either they fall to death, or they freeze to death and starve to death!" Ouyang Jian said loudly.

Zhang Aimin patted the table, "General Ouyang, don't forget, I am the commander of the first army. Do you dare to disobey?"

"You are reckless!" Ouyang Jian roared, "General Zhang, our Imperial Forest Army is fighting with you, not your subordinates!"

Zhang Aimin stared at him for a long while, his eyes were like knives, and Ouyang Jianqiang stared at him without showing any weakness. The two looked at each other for a moment, and Zhang Aimin suddenly sighed, "General Ouyang, you understand our situation now. Da Cang Mountain, we still have a glimmer of life, this is the only loophole they left behind, and Li Huaiyuan could not have thought that we would risk crossing Da Cang Mountain. The trap, if my predictions are correct, at this time Li Feng from Yizhou led the cavalry to chase after us, we don't have much time left, this gap is our last way out."

"The cavalry who crossed the mountain is less than a hundred miles away from us. This is the sentry report just received. Fortunately, the heavy snow has delayed the speed of the opponent's advance, which gave us enough time to retreat. Everyone, General Zhang Ai captured Gufu one day ago and opened the way for us to go up to Da Cang Mountain."

"We have to survive in the cracks and find a way out of the impossible. Generals, if we don't take the risk of going beyond Da Cangji, but head-to-head with the Dingzhou Guowang Group, I can tell you very clearly that in Under their attack from both sides, we have no chance of winning, and we can only end up with annihilation of the whole army. Even the opponent doesn't need to fight us, as long as they drag us here, they can freeze us to death and starve to death in this icy world , where to go, don’t I need to tell you?”

Everyone in the tent was silent.

"Fanshan, it is still possible to survive, save part of the strength for His Majesty, stay or break through to Jinzhou, it is a dead end, generals, we have no choice!"

Zhang Aimin said sadly.

"Report!" A sentry from outside rushed over, "General Zhang, Li Feng of Yizhou has thousands of cavalry, less than twenty miles away from our department, please show me!"

Before Zhang Aimin could speak, Ouyang Jianqiang jumped up, "Young Li Feng, you are too bullying. General Zhang, I will go meet him!"

Zhang Aimin nodded, "Then it's up to General Ouyang. General Ouyang, don't fight with your opponent, just knock them back. The rest of the troops should quickly advance to Gufu and climb over the Da Cang Mountain!"

(The Guowang Group should have entered Jinzhou from Minzhou, and then broke into Yizhou to attack Zhang Aimin's department. I slipped my hands in the first two chapters and wrote it as Quanzhou. It may have confused some careful book lovers. Sorry, sorry)
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