Chapter 225 Unexpectedly
It snowed heavily for five days and finally stopped. Although the sun showed its face, the north wind did not stop, and the weather was still cold to the bone. The sun is refracted through ice and snow, which is dazzling. A sergeant took off the ice on the branch and cut it into an arrow to play with, and then found that there was no problem with the thing shooting people to death.
There is still no shadow of golden soldiers.
Chu Tianya and others are puzzled - this is not the style of Jin Bing! Blitzkrieg and fast strike are the fighting style they should have!
This is really worth thinking about.
In the handsome account, Chu Tianya convened the leaders to discuss the matter. Analyze and study the trend of Jin Bing according to the current weather and landform. Many opinions have different opinions, but everyone agrees that it is not a way to sit here and think about it. We still have to send people to inquire about the military situation.
No matter how difficult it is, you have to send someone out. It's better to be blind here. He knew nothing about the enemy when he was in the war, which was a sign of defeat.
But it's difficult to do.
There is no high-tech airdrop vehicle and radio communication technology now. If you send a scout, it is unknown whether you can walk through the vast snowy mountains and the dangerous road that is difficult to walk on a sunny day. Even if the scouts are bold enough to pass, what awaits him is the heavy sentry and step-by-step killing of the State of Jin. In addition, even if the scouts have all dodged these successful news, who can guarantee that they can come back alive to report the military situation? What year and month will it be when he comes back?
The strategic passivity seems to be really difficult to reverse.
Hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed in Xiaocang Mountain. Eating horses every day can consume a mountain. Coupled with the cost of heating, Taiyuan and Xishan are under great logistical pressure. Recently, I heard that a group of people have been exhausted and sick because of the transfer of logistics materials in windy and snowy days, and there have been several small conflicts.
If it goes on like this, it's not a way!
After all, Taiyuan has just experienced a war disaster less than a year ago, and the family is not rich and the people are panicked. If it goes on like this, without waiting for the golden soldiers to come, the side of Hedong is already exhausted, and it may even stimulate contradictions from the inside and lead to many crises.
Chu Tianya feels that he is now like a prey forced to a dead corner. He is waiting to fight to the death with the enemy with all his fighting spirit and strength. The State of Jin just wants the tiger wolf who only prey on him, but he can lie in the dark and look at him coldly. Neither attack nor relax, just look at him.
The tiger wolf wants to watch the prey consume a lot of physical strength because of tension and excitement, wear out the fighting spirit, collapse the mind, and then carry out a deadly kill.
Instead of recklessly launching an attack when the prey is most ready to fight to the death. In that case, even if you can win, you will be somewhat hurt.
Jin Bing was originally a fierce tiger wolf with sharp teeth and claws, but now he has human wisdom because of a failure, which undoubtedly makes it more terrible.
Chu Tianya knows that the one who gives the wisdom of the tiger and wolf in the Kingdom of Jin is Shi Li Ai!
Although the battle has not yet begun, the strategic confrontation between Hedong and Jin has never stopped.
Now because of the natural advantages and disadvantages, the State of Jin is completely in the position of predators, and the Hedong Rebel Army is completely at a passive disadvantage!
Bai Xue also realized this problem. He said that when the heavy snow fell, Wanyan Zonghan sent a letter of war. Thinking that the golden soldiers have not died now, it is even more proof that they are also a kind of "psychological tactic", which requires the Hedong Volunteers to prepare for the war after receiving the letter of war, and then go back and down again and again!
It's a consumption tactic used by cunning predators.
There is no doubt that because of last year's failure, Jin Guo became cautious and cunning.
How to deal with it?
Someone in the camp proposed that it would be better to take the troops back to the camp for the time being to brake quietly. But that didn't work either. The golden soldiers came as fast as lightning, and they killed under the city of Taiyuan day and night. When they find that their soldiers and horses come to defend again, it is estimated that half of the city has been lost!
If you still stay here, the State of Jin dares not to come so much. One day, the morale of the Hedong Rebel Army will slowly decline and the logistics will be exhausted. They can come and pick up the dead fish.
If you can't retreat or defend, then you can only take the initiative to attack!!
But where to play and how to play?
This problem is simply more difficult to solve than retreating and defending.
Chu Tianya encountered the most difficult problem since he took office; and this problem may be fatal!
"Wait for two more days!" At the end of the meeting, Chu Tianya said, "It will be decided in two days."
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Huanglong Valley, the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain.
The rosefinch and the nobleman stood at the mouth of the valley and looked back, and their hearts were blank.
Up to now, they don't believe that they can come out of this valley. It was not buried by snow, nor was it starved to death, nor was it eaten by Xiong.
There is only one horse left, and the other one is dead halfway. The rest of the animal has lost a lot of weight due to lack of food. The rosefinch and the nobleman took turns to ride, and the other person led the horse. Relatively speaking, noble people who are more adaptable to this bad weather should ride less. After three days, the rosefinch was no longer in shape, and its hair was almost frozen.
"Sister, you have to stick to it!" The nobleman led the horse and staggered with difficulty and shouted, "We have come out of the Huanglong Valley and arrived at the boundary of Hebei!" If you go further, there will be a village, and there will be residents!"
The rosefinch crawled on the horse and squinted slightly to look forward. There was only an endless white, where you can see any city or village. In fact, she had already investigated clearly before departure. Out of a large area of Huanglong Valley, there were no villages or towns at all. It was a military buffer zone.
Crossing the river to the south is the boundary of the Song Dynasty. There are a large number of guards stationed along the Yellow River; going north is the boundary of Zhendingfu, which was once the territory of the Song Dynasty. When Wanyan Zong Wangbing came to Tokyo last year, the newly appointed Song officials had already ceded Zhendingfu and Hejianfu, the two most important military towns in Hebei, to the State of Jin. Taiyuan was once one of them, but because of the Battle of Taiyuan and the existence of Chu Tianya, Taiyuan was not officially taken over by Jin Guo.
The rosefinch just let the nobleman go straight north, and there is no need to stop.
The nobleman wants to find a place for the rosefinch to rest, but this is already a wilderness, and it is difficult to find a place to shelter from the wind and keep warm. Moreover, they have no more dry food. It is extremely difficult to hunt or dig some grass roots.
It's really called every day, and the ground is not working.
I have no choice but to keep going.
Once, noble people felt cold when they thought of the appearance of Jurchens and Jin Bing. Now, she is actually looking forward to being caught by Jin Bing as soon as possible. In that case, at least the rosefinch will not freeze to death.
After nearly an hour, the nobleman also sat down and gasped. She found that her feet were getting heavier and heavier. She wanted to take off her boots and have a look, but she found that the boots had frozen into a strong ice!
The rosefinch looked at her with a pain in her heart.
"It's up to you to ride a horse!" She shouted and scolded.
"It's okay, I'm used to it!" The nobleman grinned and smiled. He also picked up the stone and knocked on the shoes and said, "In the past, when I was in the old forest of Mobei, I didn't wear shoes in winter, so I stepped on the snow barefoot - what is this?"
The rosefinch stopped talking, only hurting in his heart. She knew that the nobleman was bragging. After all, people are human beings. Even if they are livestock, will it feel better if their feet are frozen?
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the rosefinch said, "Let's find a place with trees to have a rest, warm up the fire, and then slaughter the horse for dry food!"
"You can't kill a horse!" The nobleman shouted quickly, "How do you walk if you kill the horse? It doesn't matter if my feet are frozen. You can't do it!"
"This is an order." The rosefinch replied coldly, grabbed a ball of snow and chewed it in his mouth, rattling.
The nobleman turned his head and looked at the thin horse next to him with hot steam, and his heart was sad. She loves animals the most, and the war horse is like a soldier's comrade-in-arms. Although she is not a soldier, she lives with the rebels in Hedong every day. She understands this feeling. When the other horse died, she cried.
The two women rested for a moment, and suddenly there was a noise in the southeast. The nobleman quickly put his ear to the ground to listen, and suddenly raised his head with a frightening look, "The sound of horseshoes! The sound of the horses' hoofs!"
"How many rides?"
"About a hundred!"
The rosefinch stood up and said, "Don't listen, I saw it."
The nobleman also stood up and looked over. Sure enough, a series of black spots appeared on the vast white snow in the southeast. The speed was neither fast nor slow. Obviously, it was the team type of the army cavalry.
"It's Song Bing." The rosefinch said.
"It's strange, why did Song Bing cross the Yellow River and come here?" The nobleman said puzzled, "Sister, can we ask them for help?"
"Don't make a difference. The style of mouth should be tight." The rosefinch said, "What if this is disguised by the golden soldier? Moreover, even if we are Song Bing, we are not from the government, or even good people.
"Yes!" The nobleman was so happy, "The lord is the king of Xiangma Mountain, and we are the little mountain thief!"
"Shut up! - I'll deal with it. Just say you're my maid. Don't talk if you're okay!"
"A maid? Why is it a maid? Can't my sister?
The rosefinch turned his head and looked at her with cold eyes, "Will I have a stupid sister like you?"
As he spoke, the cavalry had already run closer. It seems that it is indeed a well-trained Song cavalry unit, which spontaneously formed a fan to surround them in the middle. The sergeants looked at the two outstanding but embarrassed women, with curiosity and amazingness in their eyes, and a few malicious and cowardly.
One of the riders approached them a few steps and asked, "Who?"
The second woman looked up at him. He was a very young officer. He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his body is also very strong. He belongs to the kind of handsome man who can make women miss bitterly in her boudoir. He is heroic, and there is a sense of righteousness between his eyebrows.
Such a man can undoubtedly give women an inexplicable good impression and security.
But now, the rosefinch and the nobles are full of vigilance against him.
"A good man, a woman is a good family. This is my companion. The rosefinch replied cautiously.
The young officers looked at them up and down, with a cold expression and sharp eyes.
The rosefinch and the nobleman snuggled gently together to avoid his sight.
"Is it Song people or Jin people? Is there an ultimatum to guide the way?"
"Song Ren..." The rosefinch motioned the nobleman to take the certificate from the prison on the saddle and show it to the officer.
As a Qingwei, he is often prepared to go out for tasks, which is naturally indispensable. Moreover, it's not fake. With the relationship between Chu Tianya and Zhang Xiaochun, is it not a trivial matter to apply for a few "Taiyuan household registrations"?
The ultimatum of the rosefinch is written openly that her surname is Yan, her boudoir is Daike, and she is a person from Taiyuan. Pearl is a maid and belongs to a bitch. There is no such thing.
"Miss Yan, why are you wearing a mask? Since you are from Taiyuan, why did you come to Hebei in such a snowy weather? The officer got off his horse and returned the ultimatum to Pearl. He stood in front of the two women and still looked at them with vigilance and suspicion.
"Come and look for relatives." The rosefinch answered, and then took off the mask on his face and put it on for a moment. "Last year, he was injured by a streamer in the Battle of Taiyuan, so he put on a mask to hide his ugly."
The young officer's eyes suddenly appeared, and the corners of his mouth sneered, "You two work! - Come on, take it!"
"No!--" The cavalry shouted loudly and surrounded the general's circle.
"What does the military master mean? We are obviously Song Liangmin!" Zhuque hurriedly shouted, "My husband hasn't returned from the battle. I heard from my neighbors that he had been stationed in the famous mansion with the Tong Taishi, so I came to look for him! - It's a person or a ghost, and I have to see the real body to go back!"
"You just have to be blind!" The young officer sneered, "Where is the arrow on your face? It's obviously caused by a dagger!" Can't you see this flaw? - Words are fraudulent, and deeds must be tricky! In such a snowy weather, it is difficult for well-trained soldiers to come out of the Yellow Dragon Valley. If you are not going south from the north, how can you explain it?
"You are so unreasonable!" Pearl was angry. She shook her body and stepped forward. She pushed her chest straight at the young officer and said angrily, "What hurt is my girl's face? What's the matter with you? What if it's a dagger injury? You don't even think about it. The unmarried husband is recruited from the outside, and the father and brother in the family have passed away again, so you can't avoid some frivolous children coming to disturb him! The girl broke the face with a knife to show her sincerity to her husband and guard her body like jade! Seeing that her husband is still not back at the end of the year, the girl has abandoned her life and don't look for him. She wants to see people and dies and corpses! - This kind of sincerity is wronged by you, a heartless old man. It's really annoying!!"
The call spewed out like a cannon, and the young officer took a few steps back.
It's not that he is scared by Pearl's momentum, but if he doesn't retreat, he will be pushed by her plump and delicate chest.
The rosefinch saw it in his eyes and was secretly happy: this man still has some knowledge of books and etiquette, not a frivolous son! If you meet a group of cowardly military ruffians, it will be difficult to deal with today. In the past, there is no need to worry about these people in front of me, but now I am very weak and have to take care of the distinguished people with extensive skills; who knows how many of them are around here? ... There are two kinds of people in the world that are the most difficult to mess with. One is the monks and the monks, and the other is the people in the army!
The young officer took two steps back and still stared at them like that, without any intention of being relaxed or frivolous.
Hearing the nobleman's call, the surrounding cavalry men were somewhat shocked. They are all people who are outside the army. If there is such a chaste woman at home, who will not be moved?
So, several sergeants involuntarily put away their guns.
The young officer looked at the two women carefully again for a while, stepped back two steps and punched them, and then waved his hand, "You two, disarm! Help the two girls get on the horse! - The sergeants obey the order and escort the two girls to the border!"
"No--" shouted in unison, and the two sergeants jumped off the horse.
The rosefinch and the nobleman are still a little stunned. The situation has changed a little too fast.
The young officer was still so expressionless and said to them, "Even if you are thin, you are still women. Yue will never hurt a woman in his life!"
The rosefinch blinked his eyes, "Do you dare to ask the general... Gao's name? The slave family also has a good impression from the bottom of my heart!"
The young officer did not answer. He strode back and turned over his horse and waved his hand, "Go!"
The sergeant who came to help her get on the horse whispered, "Girl, don't be surprised. You are lucky to meet our big brother Yue! - His big name is Fei, and his name is Pengju!"
"Yue Fei, Yue Pengju!" The rosefinch looked sideways at the young officer sitting on the horse and did not squint at the upright young officer, and said to himself: If this trip can make some achievements, this person will help us a lot! ...It's just strange. Why are there cavalry of the Song Dynasty in this place? This is an unexpected new thing. You have to report it to the Lord as soon as possible!