Chapter 521 Wanyan's mother's new tactics (repayment)
Chapter 521 Wanyan Mu’s new tactics (repaying debts)
Author: Uncle Long Legs
Chapter 521 Wanyan Mu’s new tactics (repaying debts)
Time: Three days later, around one o'clock noon.
Hu Biao, who was facing the scorching sun, poured a big mouthful of Cantonese-style herbal tea into his mouth, which was effective but tasted really ecstatic.
Mingming clearly remembered that he had asked the same question half an hour ago at most.
However, with the mentality of caring and chaos, he still asked the marching staff beside him: "Zhongda, how far has our army walked today, and how far is it expected to go?"
After hearing this sentence, a scholar who gave up his pen and joined the army acted as a marching staff officer.
The boy whose cousin was named Zhongda immediately answered:
"Ms. Hu, we have walked about seventeen or eight miles today; if the moonlight is good tonight and we catch up on the night journey for another hour, we should be able to walk forty miles."
You can walk forty miles in one day, and you have to walk for an hour at night.
After hearing such a heart-warming statement, the imperial concubine beside her let out a long sigh before Hu Biao could say anything.
The feeling of resentment reaching the extreme is like that of a harem abandoned by a heartless man...
If Hu Biao and his friends followed their plan, they would be marching at a speed of 70 miles per day.
By tonight, they should have marched more than two hundred miles, so they are not far from Zhending Mansion, which is Shijiazhuang in the modern plane. This big city is not far away.
However, in fact, they are still more than a hundred miles away from the capital city of Zhending Mansion.
Why is this happening? I shed tears when I told you.
Not only did the Northern Expeditionary Army set off again the next day after taking Daming Mansion lightly, but they only ran into some huge troubles after walking for only half a day.
Those Jin cavalrymen, after suffering a big loss yesterday, have learned a lot today.
After completely changing their style of play, Hu Biao and the others became extremely uncomfortable.
Specifically, these grandchildren voluntarily abandoned all the cities and levels along the way.
The idea of letting Hu Biao and others quickly attack the city and weaken the Jin people one by one with explosive packs and now a large number of artillery became a failure.
If it's just that, it's nothing.
The key issue is that the Jin people became smarter after this battle and replaced the cavalry with as few as three to five hundred people per horse, and at most one thousand people per horse.
There were dozens of teams in total, cruising like a swarm in an area of a hundred miles.
Relying on the surrounding large-scale plain terrain and their high-speed maneuverability.
The key is that their cavalry has greater advantages than the New Army in terms of quantity and quality. They constantly force their way in through the defensive gaps of the New Army's cavalry and harass the advancing army.
If there is an opportunity, they will rush in and kill for a while before leaving.
If you saw that the Song army had formed a car formation and immediately turned around and retreated without any hesitation, that would be quite decisive.
The main idea is to take advantage of any advantage, but if it doesn't work, it will tire the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, mentally and physically.
Frankly speaking, these Jin people have not achieved much success in the above aspects.
After three days in a row, only five or six companies were rushed into the marching column by these Jin men because they did not form their formation in time, and more than half of them suffered casualties after a series of killings.
This resulted in only a few hundred casualties, which was not proportional to the strength of the Northern Expedition army of the Song Dynasty.
For a war of this scale, it was nothing at all, and it had no impact on the morale of the army.
Therefore, under constant harassment from the Jin people, the Song warriors, who had a large number of carts to take turns in, often maintained their physical strength fairly well after a day.
Morale remains high.
But there is one thing that Hu Biao and others absolutely cannot accept.
That is, under the constant harassment of the Jin people, the marching army needed to stop from time to time and form a vehicle array for defense.
At the end of the day, this happened at least a dozen times, and as many as a dozen times, and the marching speed immediately slowed down.
Not to mention that just like the original plan, after a day of walking, I was able to maintain a marching speed of sixty miles.
It has become like this. I want to walk forty miles in a day and walk for an hour at night. It is very depressing.
Damn it! Do you really want to continue like this?
By the time the first day of March arrives, the deadline set by the system, they may not even be able to see the walls of Yanjing City.
And when he thought of this, another sky-piercing monkey rose into the sky seven or eight miles away and exploded in the sky.
There is no doubt that another small group of Jin cavalry came there.
As a result, the army, which had been marching for less than half an hour just now, had to stop again; when it started to set off again, it was almost an hour later.
Unfortunately, tonight is a dark night.
So after it got dark, considering that there were many civilians in the army and severe night blindness, the army could only camp on the spot.
In total, at the end of the day, we only walked a mere thirty-one or two miles.
What to do? Hu Biao scratched his scalp that had not been washed for several days, and shouted to the imperial concubine who was acting as assistant secretary: "Notify me and let all senior officers, including the division commander, have a meeting in two hours..."
That night, such a meeting lasted until midnight, and only then did they come up with a solution that was not a solution.
The reason why I say this is because there is no good way, Hu Biao can only choose to release all the cavalry, try his best to prevent the Jin cavalry from disturbing the car formation.
Even he understood that he had relied on fire support from the car formation in the previous time.
Originally, the cavalry units of the new army were able to gain some upper hand against the Jin cavalry.
However, once the fighting method is changed to a small-scale battle between cavalry without any fancy on both sides, the New Army cavalry, whose riding skills and scale are smaller, will definitely suffer even more.
In such a process, the New Army cavalry will definitely suffer horrific casualties.
But as the saying goes, choosing the lesser of two evils, Hu Biao could only bear the pain and let these cavalry go up.
As long as they can ensure that they can successfully drive the army to Yanjing City before the 26th, even if the two cavalry divisions are all exhausted, they will still grit their teeth and admit it.
The only thing they can do for the two cavalry divisions is to use as many veterans as possible who are skilled in archery and horsemanship to lead some elite cavalry to serve as fire brigade.
Once you see the Sky-piercing Monkey exploding, which is a sign of asking for help, you immediately rush over to provide support.
With such an order, the most difficult moments for veterans and cavalry divisions began to appear...
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When I saw the 10 o'clock direction, about ten miles away, suddenly there was a group of large sky-piercing monkeys, flying into the sky with a "whoosh" sound.
However, even in the daytime, the exploding fire was still clearly visible.
Immediately in Huang Yizhi's mouth, he cursed bitterly:
"These Jin cavalry troops are really haunting. Don't let me catch Wanyan Yanmu, the old Bideng, or I will definitely kill this grandson~"
After finishing his scolding, the factory owner of the West Factory looked back at the position behind him. He saw a group of elite cavalrymen who were a little tired.
Although I know these people, it is best to let them have a good rest now.
Unfortunately, the movement of the sky-piercing monkey just now meant that the cavalry of our side cruising in that direction could no longer withstand it.
If they don't support them quickly, the Jin cavalry will take the opportunity to attack the marching army, causing the marching team to stop.
Finally, Huang Yizhi gritted his teeth and shouted:
"Brothers, come with me. Once these golden men are defeated, I will add chicken drumsticks to you tonight~"
After saying that, he knocked his heel hard on the belly of the war horse under his crotch; holding a horse-stem in his hand, he took the lead and hurried over in the direction of 10 o'clock.
Upon seeing this, there was originally a reinforced cavalry company with about two hundred people behind him, but now there are only a little over a hundred knights left.
After looking at each other, we noticed the obvious bitterness and fatigue in the eyes of our comrades.
But they all still patted their horses one after another and followed the figure of the West Factory Master...
