The original plan to go north to Shuozhou was to march at night to Qipan Mountain, the watershed between Fenshui River and Huihe River, station in a posthouse to rest for half a day, and then rush to Yangkou Village in the north of Ningwu City at night, put on the military uniforms of the Khitan and Han troops, and rest for a while. , and then go to Shuozhou.
During this period, the Tianxiong army will also complete the assembly to Ningwu City, Guangwu Village, Yangkou Village and other cities; only the news of Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili officially starting to purge the Khitans and Zalu in Shuozhou comes back , the Tianxiong Army is the first to assemble, and the fastest cavalry unit will immediately set off for Shuozhou.
Yue Hailou did not want Cao Shili to see that the generals in Hedong were not with him, so he urged them to set off.
Ge Yu, however, said that troops are valuable and fast, and there is no need to worry about being attacked when marching in Lanzhou. He suggested not to repair at Qipan Mountain, but to rush to Yangkou Village before dawn to change uniforms and go north.
Ge Yu said that this would make it easier to clear out the Khitans and miscellaneous captives in Shuozhou City in advance, and buy Tianxiong Army one more day to prepare for their surprise attack.
It is seventy-five miles from Kelan to Qipan Mountain, and another seventy-five miles from Qipan Mountain to Yangkou Village. It is easier to divide it into two journeys.
If the cavalry marched during the day, it would not be too difficult if the cavalry traveled 150 miles a day, but at this time, the intensity of the march would be much greater if they had to march all the way at night.
However, one of the most important standards for elite soldiers in this world is to test the ability to march, especially night marching.
Ge Yu has five hundred elite soldiers and cavalry behind him. Ge Boyi has selected the most powerful men from all the Tianxiong Army. He is also led by the powerful generals Ge has accumulated as a general for several generations. He usually has better food than ordinary people. The imperial army must be strong and must be rigorously trained. Night marching is a basic skill.
Ge Yu's suggestion was actually to give the Imperial Military Envoy Yuan a powerful blow.
Zhu Hang was dissatisfied with Ge Yu's rudeness, but was unwilling to be outdone, so he looked at Xu Huai.
Xu Huai shrugged and said he could just leave.
Since the five hundred prisoners were incorporated into the forbidden army, there have been no transfer orders and they are not allowed to move out at will. Even night training can only be organized in the camp. There is no chance to conduct long-distance training to test the marching ability.
However, before the Datong raid, conducting one or two high-intensity night marches had only advantages and no disadvantages. Why did Xu Huai refuse?
"Then let's take a step ahead and meet again at Mingkou Village, so that the post road will not be blocked by unbearable people!" A sneer appeared on the corner of Ge Yu's mouth, and he gathered people and horses to surround Cao Shili. Yue Hailou and others went ahead, hoping to wait until Yangkou It's not too late to ridicule these incompetent fools again.
"..." Zhu Hang was worried about Xu Huaishi, but Wang Zhen strongly suggested that he adopt the opinions of everyone in Tongbai Mountain on everything after going north. Seeing that Xu Huaiman didn't think so, he could only bite the bullet and go with Cao Shili and Yue Hailou first. .
Zhu Zhi, Lu Wenhu and several Zhu family generals were of course following Zhu Hang.
Xu Wukun fell behind and accompanied Xu Huai and others to lead the troops.
Although the two hundred soldiers and horses brought out by Xu Huai have not been tested for long-distance night marches, they are all strong and proficient in fists and feet selected from among the prisoners. After more than a month of recuperation, they have been tortured before. My body has almost recovered.
At this time, Xu Huai organized forty Zhufengtang guards as the backbone and organized them into the queue. In terms of combat effectiveness, they were no longer inferior to the first-line strong troops.
Carrying out a high-intensity night march can only be regarded as a rare opportunity to run in and test.
The post road was not wide, and the two cavalrymen marched side by side. The two-hundred-horse team was more than a mile long, and they held on to the five-hundred elite cavalry led by Ge Yu in front and headed north without opening up the distance at all.
The real pain was felt by Xiao Yanhan.
Although Xiao Yanhan has been practicing martial arts since she was a child and has extraordinary talents, whether it was Chen Zixiao who taught her martial arts in her early years or other stick masters, who would really ask her to beat her muscles to the strictest standards?
Without this level of hard work, Xiao Yanhan would not be able to truly reach the level of a strong person.
Xiao Yanhan rode his horse to travel two to three hundred miles at night, maybe he could sustain it.
However, her whiplash injury had not healed at this time, and her hands and feet were still tied up and then tied directly to the saddle.
Even though there was a layer of soft padding on the saddle that was pressing against her chest and abdomen, as the speed increased and after twenty or thirty miles of jolting, she gritted her teeth and couldn't hold on, so she fainted.
Xiao Yanhan woke up again, only to find that she was squeezed into a saddle with a strong and strong body. She was lying on the saddle, but there was a big hand supporting the position between her chest and abdomen from below.
This big hand not only prevented her chest and abdomen from directly pressing against the saddle, but also swayed slightly with the ups and downs of the horse's galloping, which was just right to slow down the impact caused by bumps.
In addition to the ugly posture, it is far less unbearable than lying on the saddle and marching directly, and it is even a little bit comfortable...
However, although Khitan children are said to be open-minded, Xiao Yanhan still feels ashamed and angry if a strange man puts his hand on her chest and abdomen.
She struggled and turned around, and by the light of the torch in the distance, she suddenly saw Xu Huai's disgusting face.
Seeing Xiao Yanhan gnashing his teeth, Xu Huai felt wronged in his heart. Through a layer of hard armor, apart from being able to roughly feel the scale that was even more majestic than Liu Qiong'er's, there was no feeling at all, okay?
If it weren't for the fact that the generals below could figure out her identity as a woman disguised as a man, or if it wasn't for the fact that she couldn't bear it, Xu Huaicai didn't want to work so hard to support her all the way.
Seeing Xiao Yanhan's unwilling look at this time, Xu Huai threw her directly onto the saddle and withdrew his hand.
Xiao Yanhan struggled to support a stick of incense on the saddle, but it was still too unbearable. She gritted her teeth and asked: "Can't you let go of the rope and ask me to ride alone?"
Xu Huai didn't want to hear their voices, he leaned forward, put his elbows on Xiao Yanhan's back and hips, and asked: "My princess, when did we trust each other so much?"
Xiao Yanhan gritted her teeth and remained silent, but she didn't last long. She curled up and moved closer to Xu Huai's arms, so that she could borrow some strength to reduce the impact of the saddle on her chest and abdomen.
Xu Huai stretched out his hand to hold it over again. Xiao Yanhan thought that the children of Khitan did not need to be coy and coy. They would just chop off this hand and feed it to the dogs in the future.
"Are you thinking that you will have the opportunity to chop off my hand in the future?" Xu Huai asked.
"Huh!" Xiao Yanhan snorted softly.
Xu Huai moved his hand upward and touched it through the hard armor.
Xiao Yanhan watched as Xu Huai's thighs jolted with the horse's body, his breastplate parted to both sides, and he opened his mouth to bite on it.
Xu Huai hurriedly withdrew his hand, pried Xiao Yanhan's mouth open, grabbed her round ass from behind with the other hand, squeezed it hard, and warned her: "Don't think that I won't bully women - there is a layer of hardness between
A, you think I can touch something!"
Her buttocks were thick and round, so she wasn't afraid of hurting her muscles and bones, but Xu Huai's hands were so strong that Xiao Yanhan felt like they were about to be squeezed to pieces.
She has a strong nature. She has been pampered and coaxed by hundreds of men in her life, but she doesn't want to fall into the hands of this murderer. First, her right breast was beaten black and blue, and it hurt even if she rubbed it; now this murderer
He grabbed another part of her private area and caused her unbearable pain. Although she gritted her teeth and said nothing, let alone begging for mercy from this bastard, tears rolled in her eyes and fell.
In addition to taking a break at Qipan Mountain on the way, more than 700 riders arrived at Yangkou Village before dawn.
Yangkou Village is located in the north of Ningwucheng, built on the west bank of the Huihe River, and leans on the steep mountains at the northeast corner of Guanlui Mountain to the west. It is an important place for Hu Qi to go south along the Huihe River estuary.
In addition to building a military stronghold here, Dai Viet also built a side wall more than thirty miles long along the undulating terrain on both sides of the Hui River.
The core of the side wall is rammed earth, which is about four to six feet high and thick. The outer layer is covered with a layer of flat stones - the stones mined in the Lanzhou Stone Factory are mainly used here.
There is also a border wall that is more than a hundred miles long in the north of Langu County, west of Guanlu Mountain, and extends to Fuzhou in the east. It is connected with the fortress on the east bank of the Yellow River, Piantou Village, and forms the Great Wall for the northern Khitan cavalry in Greater Vietnam.
The gate of Yangkou Village is narrow, and more than 700 horses entered slowly. Xu Huaile's horse stopped on a low cliff on the southwest side of Yangkou Village.
Xiao Yanhan had been honest all night. At this time, she no longer had to be tied directly to the saddle. Instead, she was riding on a war horse alone with her hands tied. The reins were also controlled by herself. If it hadn't been for a rope tied around her neck. , if the other end of the rope was not still held by Xu Huai, she could have galloped away to the depths of Guanlui Mountain.
The early morning mist undulates among the mountains, and the cold wind blows in the face, which is already a bit bit bit bit bit bitter.
Xu Huai looked around.
In late autumn, the deep and densely forested northeastern foothills of Guanjuan Mountain still give people a sense of lushness. The leaves turn red and yellow in layers, and the colors are gorgeous. However, looking to the northwest, the continuous desolate loess hills are all yellow. , ravines eroded by rainwater have cut the terrain into pieces, making it difficult for humans and animals to move.
Xu Huai looked up at the lead-clouded sky. He didn't expect that the temperature had dropped so sharply in just one night. He was afraid that a snowstorm would come at any time, which would make the life-and-death crisis that the raiding division was about to face even more embarrassing.
"Winter is about to begin here, a month earlier than in Tongbai Mountain!" Tang Pan said with emotion as he walked up the stone cliff and saw a strong wind blowing over, blowing up dust and turning up a yellow cloud.
Beyond Yangkou Village and the border wall, we are in the territory of Khitan Shuozhou - Shuozhou is only fifty miles away from Yangkou Village.
Although this place has not yet entered a truly bitter cold land, the landforms inside and outside the Caocheng River wall are so different, and the cold season has entered so early, Tang Pan and others are still in awe.
He felt the coldness of the morning, and he also secretly felt how necessary it was for Xu Huai to urgently add a felt blanket to each general in addition to the cold clothes before setting off...
