Chapter 205 Strange Soldier
The retreat of the Xing Tianjun was relatively slow. A team of soldiers packed up their clothes, put on the simple clothes that they had nothing to do these days, and began to gradually withdraw from the Dashu Mountain camp, carrying the necessary supplies to accompany them, giving up some unimportant things, and then opened out the battalion one after another, slowly towards Feng. Yangfu began to withdraw troops.
The rain in the sky stopped from time to time, and the road was abnormally muddy. At this time, the engineers became the hardest people in the Xingtian Army. They had to find a way to pave the road in front of the team, constantly cut down the trees on the roadside, and spread the trunks and branches on the muddy road for the army to transport heavy trucks. There are gun trucks passing through, otherwise, the heavy wheels will be deeply trapped in the muddy soup. In addition, the heavy rain has made the ditches everywhere full of rivers everywhere. Many small ditches and rivers, where you can pass without taking a bridge, now it is also necessary to take a temporary convenient bridge for soldiers and heavy vehicles to pass through, so that Xing Tianjun The withdrawal of troops is also very slow and difficult.
But even so, the troops will continue to stop and pull out the vehicles trapped in the mud in the mud soup in the rain. There are the sound of shouting horns everywhere. The mules and horses are snorting, panting and struggling in the mud, dragging vehicles, and many war horses have to be temporary. Changed to a new job, it was used as a dragging vehicle, including cavalry, to get off the horse and walk, saving the war horse to help drag the weight.
The news that Xing Tianjun began to withdraw troops was soon learned by Wu Dapu, the governor of Luzhou, so Luzhou City was suddenly full of joy, and everyone's high hearts were completely relieved. In order to ensure that this was not what Xing Tianjun was playing tricks, Wu Dapu also sent a group of bold soldiers to give them a heavy reward and let them sneak out. The city went to investigate the movement of Xing Tianjun to make sure that the news was not fake.
After most of the day, someone ran back to Luzhou City and told Wu Dapu that the Xingtian Army was indeed withdrawing troops. A large number of Xingtian Army had withdrawn from the Dashu Mountain Thieves Army camp and was retreating in the direction of Fengyang Prefecture in the rain, and a lot of things were lost along the way. Obviously, they had no intention to attack Luzhou City again.
In this way, the defenders in Luzhou City were completely relieved. Wu Dapu hurriedly sent people out of the city and reported the good news to Nan Zhili, saying that they had defeated the thief army in Luzhou City, which had forced Xing Tian Thieves to give up Luzhou City and retreated their troops back to the north.
However, no one found that at this time, thousands of soldiers of the Xingtian Army were bypassing from the other side of Dashu Mountain under the cover of the rain, stepping on the mud all over the ground and sliding towards the south of Luzhou City step by step.
Liu Yaoben did not ride a horse. He followed the brigade on foot and marched hard in the mud. He kept shouting at the soldiers passing by, cheering them up, and urging them to rush forward. Everyone was wet, mud and water, like a drowned chicken. It was very embarrassing, but the morale was much better than the previous two days ago. Some soldiers thought that the clothes on their bodies were in the way and were not useful. Anyway, they were already soaked. They simply threw the clothes to the edge of the road, only carrying their armor, strode on the mud and moving forward.
Although ancient times also paid attention to the construction of official roads, it was destined that there could be no modern road in that era. It's okay to say on sunny days, but once you encounter continuous heavy rain, even the best official roads will be muddy. Under such road conditions, force the will of people. It is undoubtedly a great test, which is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian handed over this task to Liu Yao.
Liu Yaoben's Guards Guards may not be the strongest in the Xingtian Army in terms of combat effectiveness, but in terms of will and loyalty, there is absolutely no soldier or horse that can surpass them. The soldiers of the Guards Division are relatively young, and almost all the backbone officers are juvenile battalions or later martial arts. These people are young and strong, and they have a cavity of blood. They are desperate to fight, and they are extremely loyal to Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian is even sure that even if he asks these people to jump off the cliff, but if he doesn't give them a reason, the vast majority of these people will not hesitate to choose to step off the cliff and jump off the cliff. As soon as Xiao Tianjian's order was issued, these people faithfully carried out the order without hesitation and braved the heavy rain and led their soldiers into the heavy rain.
In such weather, as long as there is a way not to go out, all people will never choose to go out under such circumstances. Therefore, there is a posture of thousands of mountains and birds flying and disappearing on the roads everywhere. Basically, it can be said that no one can be seen, even the detailed work and reconnaissance of the officers and soldiers. He will never choose to scout everywhere in such weather, so although Liu Yaoben led thousands of people to march along the road, he didn't have to worry about their whereabouts being found by the government, and in order to ensure the success of their actions, there are also some scouts leading the way and sweeping the pedestrians on the road for the brigade behind. Whenever you meet someone, no matter what they do, the scout did not show mercy this time. If you think the threat is big, you will kill them directly. If you think the threat is small, you will tie them into dumplings and slip them into the woods and tie them up, grab all their things, making them mistakenly think that they have met robbers, and take extraordinary measures in extraordinary times. This is also It's a last resort, so they don't have to worry about being investigated for killing innocent people or qiangjie in the future. This word is also a forbidden word. Don't write novels in the future!) Responsibility for property.
Moreover, Liu Yaoben led his troops to set out this time without carrying any heavy vehicles or an artillery. It was just that the soldiers carried more than a dozen of the captured light tiger squat guns as their heavy fire weapons. It can be said that they were completely light. Each soldier only carried his own weapons, and the heavy armor was also No, just bring iron helmets and chest armor, and light things are left to other soldiers and horses who retreat to Fengyang Mansion. Therefore, although the road is difficult to walk, for their light marchers, they can still maintain a relatively fast speed. However, such a march in the rain consumes a lot of physical strength for the soldiers, even if The soldiers of the Xingtian Army, known as iron legs, can't maintain a long-term rapid march, so compared with normal circumstances, their march speed is still affected to a certain extent.
This time their destination is Anqing Prefecture. After Xiao Tianjian failed to attack Luzhou due to the weather, he had to reconsider the new battle plan. It was inevitable to fight Luzhou, but the weather made it impossible for them to attack Luzhou, a strong city in a short time, but it was obviously not suitable for him to withdraw to Fengyang Prefecture. The plan will boost a lot of morale for the government of Nanzhili, and at the same time, it will seriously delay their plan to attack Nanjing City, so he began to think about another adventure plan, that is, to take advantage of the cover of such weather to attack Anqingfu, make a node on the Yangtze River, and be stationed in Jiujiang. A large number of officers and soldiers in the mansion intercepted Jiujiang Mansion, and then attacked Jiujiang Mansion with the Xingtian army guarding Huguang under the command of Luo Rucai. In this way, they could enter Nanzhili in two ways, making it difficult for Ding Qirui to look at each other. This can also hit the morale of the officers and soldiers in Nanzhili, forcing Ding Qirui not dare to send after the weather improves. The reinforcements reinforced Luzhou City.
In a word, this plan is very risky, but once it succeeds, the profit is also very huge. He always says that war is sometimes gambling, and it is not good without the spirit of a gambler. Although such bad weather prevents them from attacking Luzhou, there is no doubt that this kind of weather is also a If the double-edged sword is used well, it is also beneficial to Xing Tianjun.
No one can think of it at this time. Under such weather conditions, Xing Tianjun has not even attacked Luzhou, and will suddenly attack Anqing Mansion, which is nearly 300 miles away. Therefore, as long as the soldiers and horses sent can hide their whereabouts, they suddenly appear under the city of Anqing Prefecture, it is expected that there will never be the defenders of Anqing Prefecture. Any defense, so there is still a considerable possibility of success in his adventure this time.
Of course, once such an operation fails, it will also be a very dangerous thing for the team who sent a surprise attack on Anqing Prefecture. Since it is a surprise attack, it is impossible to carry heavy weapons. Moreover, in this weather, it will also have a great impact on the performance of Xingtian's weapons. Once their equipment fails the surprise attack, it will be It is not possible to forcibly capture Anqingfu. In addition, they only carry three days of food rations. There is not even a chance to cook on the road. If they can't take Anqingfu in three days, they will run out of food. An army has no food. Even the subordinates of the Xingtian Army will soon lose their combat effectiveness and eventually disintegrate on the edge of the Yangtze River.
Another danger is that they will pass through Shucheng County, Lujiang County and other places on this trip. Once their whereabouts are exposed, they will be informed in advance by Anqing Prefecture, so the people sent this time will still face great danger. However, after thinking about it again and again, Xiao Tianjian also consulted with Li Xin and other staff officers of the staff in detail. After the discussion, I still decided to take this dangerous move.
Liu Yao was selected by him to complete this adventure mission. When the army retreated to Fengyang Mansion, he led his troops and quietly began to rush towards Anqing Mansion in the rain.
Three hundred miles, according to the normal marching speed of the officers and soldiers, even if the weather is good, it will take at least a few days to walk, but in such weather, Xiao Tianjian only gave Liu Yaoben three days.
In these three days, Liu Yao had to cross several counties, cross more than a dozen rivers, and climb a mountain. At the same time, he had to overcome all kinds of troubles brought to them by God. The soldiers could not eat a mouthful of hot food, and in order to hide their actions, they could not find inhabited villages or fortresses to avoid the rain. It was marching in the rain. When they were exhausted at night, they could only find some woods to camp in the woods. After all, after they set out, they didn't even bring a tent in order to move forward lightly. At most, they brought some Xiao Tianjian to find oilcloth for them in the army as much as possible, and held them up to cover the rain at night.
So when many soldiers were tired at night, they squeezed together under the oilcloth to sleep and relied on each other's body temperature to keep warm. As a result, after two days, many people suffered from the wind chill and began to have a fever. When they walked, they swayed like a pendulum and lost their strength. Although many people were sick, But he is still insisting on moving forward. His legs can't use any strength at all. If he is not careful, he will fall to the ground and can no longer stand up.