Chapter 294 The North Wind Rises (22 more updates for AT)
In the fourth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, June 3rd, it was about 10 o'clock in the morning.
In a series of sounds of "Bah, bah, bah~", Hu Biao spat out several mouthfuls of saliva filled with sand. After that, he wrapped his mouth and nose with a torn piece of clothing. This was what made him
The whole person feels better.
The weather in the Northern Song Dynasty was really weird.
At least in the fourth year of Xuanhe, this was the situation.
Since around 7 o'clock this morning, a scorching sun has been hanging in the sky. Hu Biao and his group, who were forced to go on their way, were very dizzy and almost suffered from heat stroke.
But just now, the weather suddenly changed in just a few minutes, and it was a drastic change.
Without any warning, a strong north wind blew up from the plains.
Not only were the large dark clouds blown to the top of the head by the north wind, which suddenly reduced the visibility, but more importantly, the sand on the ground was flying.
By accident, Hu Biao fell into the trap.
I was given a mouthful of mud, but after spitting out a few mouthfuls, I managed to spit out all the mud in my mouth.
After feeling a little better, Hu Biao ignored his disgraced appearance and shouted amidst the howling wind:
"Yu Hanfeng, Yu Hanfeng, that guy went out for reconnaissance, is he back now?"
"I'm back, I'm here." The voice just fell, and Yu Hanfeng responded loudly.
Then, without Hu Biao asking the following questions, this team just continued to reply:
"We are still five or six miles away from that river bend, and we are still twelve or three miles away from Xiongzhou City. If we go at the current speed of the army's advance, it will take at least an hour to get there.
At the bend of the river."
"Another hour? It's too late."
After hearing this, Hu Biao instinctively muttered this sentence.
If they had followed their original plan, they planned to place the preset battlefield for this battle at the bend of a tributary of the Daqing River in Xiongzhou.
No way! Xiongzhou, that is, the Xiongxian area in the modern plane, is a flat plain.
Therefore, it is destined that they want to find a dangerous place to defend on the official road and block the pursuit of the elite soldiers of the Liao Kingdom. This is a bit unrealistic at all.
Therefore, the river at that bend is neither wide nor deep, and it is not difficult to cross the river on a horse.
Hu Biao and the others still had few choices, and the preset battlefield was the one with the most terrain. After all, the river water could slow down the charging speed of the Liao soldiers to some extent.
Unfortunately, it seems that this preset battlefield is no longer available.
Because according to Hu Biao's understanding, there is only a short amount of information about the battle of the Liao army in various historical books.
The general meaning is: Zhong Shidao led the main force of the Song army on the west route and launched a bloody battle with the Liao army in Xiongzhou.
At this time, God was unlucky, and suddenly a north wind blew up, causing dust to fly, and then hailstones as big as fists fell.
Under the double blow of the Liao army and Haizi, the Song army was disoriented and collapsed across the board. From Xiongzhou to the south to Zhending, corpses could be seen everywhere for hundreds of miles.
Therefore, looking at the sudden north wind blowing in front of him, Hu Biao could be sure of one thing: even if the troops had not broken out yet, they would appear in a panic from behind.
But at this time, Duanhou led by Zhong Shidao must be fighting with the Liao soldiers.
Not long after, as long as the legendary fist-sized hailstones fall, it will be the beginning of the disastrous defeat of the Liao army and the West Route Army.
This means that the time left for Hu Biao and others to prepare can be calculated in minutes; there is still more than an hour to get to that bend of the river...
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With the overwhelming anxiety in his heart, Hu Biao couldn't care less about the sand hitting his forehead and other places, and now he even felt some dull pain.
With a quick movement, he climbed directly onto a large car covered with oilcloth.
Standing at such a high place and looking around further, Hu Biao could see that there was a barely usable preset battlefield about two to three hundred meters away.
I saw there, on the left side of this dirt road, a narrow wild pond of dozens of acres. If you want to go around this wild pond, you need to make a big circle in the soft mud after the rain.
OK.
On the right side is a forest of one hundred acres.
The trees in the forest are not very tall, but they are relatively densely spaced, plus there are many thorns, shrubs, vines and so on.
If the pursuers of the Liao soldiers wanted to bypass this place, they would also have to work hard in the wilderness for a while.
It is equivalent to blocking the 100-meter cross-section between the dirt road and the forest and the wild pond.
If the Liao soldiers wanted to pursue quickly, they could only defeat their defenses.
Therefore, after seeing the terrain clearly, Hu Biao decisively issued an order without any hesitation:
"The whole battalion listened to the order, speeded up, and formed a formation at the edge of the wild pond."
Under such an order, AT, Xu Feng, Fengrui, Lao Hei, Er Pang, and Zhan Xiang, who were currently at the front of the infantry camp, could not understand what this meant.
Of course, we had no choice but to fight the Liao soldiers here.
Seeing that the matter had come to this, they did not dwell on this battlefield. In fact, it was not that ideal; they could only buy more time to arrange the defense line in advance.
The six people shouted loudly, greeted the twenty or thirty brave warriors behind them, and headed straight ahead after suddenly encountering a strong wind.
They had already stopped advancing, and the teams from other battalion heads rushed over.
He shouted, "Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly." These words were spoken at the same time.
Waving a sheathed sword in his hand, he beat those who were still blocking the road, whether they were soldiers, civilians or officers, mercilessly beating them.
Even those large trucks loaded with luggage and currently blocking the road.
Seeing that it was impossible to get out of the way for a while, with the combined efforts of a group of more than a dozen people, it was overturned on the side of the road and a road was forcibly opened.
During such a process, a deputy commander who was Hu Biao's immediate superior immediately became furious upon seeing this.
With several personal guards, he rushed towards AT and others, and at the same time, he also cursed: "How dare you, Qiu Ba, what do you want to do, how dare you rebel..."
There was something in his mouth, probably the word "成", but he didn't even have time to say it out loud at that time.
War Elephant grabbed him by the lapel of his clothes, flicked him and threw him five or six meters away into a muddy pond on the side of the road.
What time is it now? No matter how high-ranking an official stands in front of her, he will always be treated like this.
Several of his personal guards saw their masters suffering a loss and immediately drew their swords to attack; but under the glare of the war elephant's big eyes, they felt inexplicably terrified and couldn't even pull out their swords for a while.
After letting Fengrui and others bump into him with their shoulders, they staggered back to the side of the road and let go of the road.
Even in such an urgent situation, seeing such a scene, this rookie still couldn't help but feel terrified.
The previous war elephant seemed to show mercy to him...
Relying on the AT, Xu Feng, Fengrui, Lao Hei, Er Pang, and Zhan Xiang, this simple and crude method was able to forcefully open a passage for Hu Biao and the others in a short period of time.
It took the whole battalion of 500 people and 49 large vehicles to arrive between the pond and the forest in five or six minutes.
In the first moment, they pushed the carts horizontally and led the mules and horses away, forming a formation that could be regarded as blocking a cross-section of a hundred meters wide.
While commanding the daredevils, they loaded the movable planks on the cart.
Lang Qing suddenly thought of something and shouted at Hu Biao: "Old Hu! Why is there no news about the first phase of the system's mission now?"
"Fuck the system mission, I only know this battle, we must not lose~"
Hu Biao shouted such a reply.
This is indeed the case! The shame of Jingkang is simply a huge shame etched on this nation.
And everything that followed was due to the current fiasco; so even if it wasn't for the system mission, he and the Xuange Camp team had enough reasons to fight to the death...
