Time: February 16, the second year of Maode's reign, at 4:30 in the morning.
Location: Baozhou, also known as Baoding, is a hundred miles away from the northern part of the country, beside the official road, which is like a disk, in the formation of large and small vehicles.
Just like what happened every morning in the past.
The cooks in the Northern Expeditionary Army, wearing white aprons, got up early when it was still dark.
And under the urging of the old cooking squad leader, he got busy quickly.
It was a cold pre-dawn day in February, and I was so busy that I sweated all over my forehead.
Specifically, they began to prepare sumptuous breakfasts for their respective troops through field cooking trucks modified from new-style carts.
Yes, that's right! Considering the current environment, the breakfast of the Northern Expedition Army can definitely be said to be sumptuous.
For example, today, each person can get half a salted duck egg and a cup of soy milk made with soy milk powder. The soy milk is salty because sugar is still too expensive.
In addition, you can eat as much as you want, such as pickles, steamed buns, porridge, etc. The only requirement is that they cannot be wasted.
In contrast to these war-torn times, many people can only drink a bowl of gruel when they get up in the morning.
Or if you only eat two meals a day, one dry and one thin, I don't know how much better it will be.
Thanks to the skillful work of the cooks, the breakfast food was almost ready after six o'clock in the morning; it was also at this time that the bugler blew the wake-up call on time.
Amidst the continuous reveille, everyone got up and washed up one by one.
Nowadays, toothbrushes made of pig hair are no longer a rarity. At least all soldiers of the Northern Expedition are issued one every six months according to regulations.
The only pity is that so far, Hu Biao and others have not discovered natural baking soda ore, a mineral called sodium bicarbonate, on the territory of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, in the modern dimension, toothpaste is just a trivial thing that is not worth mentioning, and it is still impossible to produce it now.
Everyone could only use a toothbrush dipped in green salt and start brushing their teeth. Fortunately, the effect was pretty good.
At about 6:20 in the morning, everyone finished washing and started eating breakfast; the sky at this time was actually just hazy and bright.
This breakfast time is also only twenty minutes.
The main thing is that the process of queuing up for breakfast takes a while; everyone actually eating breakfast, including the subsequent washing of dishes, will not take more than ten minutes.
Finally, a group of Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers spent another 20 minutes sorting out the various debris from the camp last night.
The mules and horses were hitched onto the cart, and the convoy that had originally formed a circular formation was once again switched to marching mode.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the marching bugle was blown again by buglers.
With such a reputation, the Northern Expeditionary Army began to take action.
In short, the entire Northern Expedition army of more than 200,000 people looked like a precise instrument, rotating in an orderly manner.
Thinking about it carefully, it’s not surprising that the Wanyan Demon Mother’s army appeared under the arrangement of the system and kept harassing the advance of the army.
Otherwise, his so-called third phase mission will not be difficult at all.
In addition, if we look at the situation on the surface, what the Northern Expeditionary Army showed today is no different from usual times.
However, only the officers at the middle and regiment levels of the army knew that there were some huge murderous intentions hidden in the seemingly normal progress of the Northern Expeditionary Army today.
Once they do, after the 'King of Diamonds' appears, they will launch like a volcanic eruption.
What makes everyone unexpected is that their waiting process is so long and painful...
At 7:36 in the morning, that is, only 36 minutes after the army set off, the Jin cavalry raiding force appeared on time again.
They launched daily harassment operations against the large army columns that had been dragged out for dozens of miles.
Damn it! This thing makes people feel like they are working from 9 to 5, arriving on time every day.
Twenty-three minutes later, a Sky-piercing Monkey shot into the sky and exploded at Hu Biao's 5 o'clock direction, twenty miles away.
Hu Biao was completely unmoved by such a movement.
The people hidden in the marching team showed no reaction at all.
The reason is simple. Such a signal does not represent the movement of the ‘K of Diamonds’; everyone continues to stand by and do whatever they want.
Of course, in order not to make the Jin people suspicious.
Under this ordinary signal for help, Lao She, who was the closest at the time, immediately rushed over with more than a hundred people to support him.
After a brief but bloody battle.
After each side left dozens of people behind, the Jin man ran away when he saw that he could not take advantage.
In the following time, such signals for help would rise into the sky and explode after intervals ranging from ten minutes to less than half an hour.
It's a pity that although there are many signals like this, there is no signal that represents the 'K of Diamonds', which means you are already hooked.
Instead, a large number of elite personnel among the New Army cavalry were deployed.
The cavalry units used to cover the movements of the army today had a hard time resisting, and their blocking defenses were broken through from time to time.
So much so that the advancing teams often have to stop and form formations more than an hour apart.
Prevent the attack of those Jin cavalry from causing unnecessary casualties.
In one morning, the army's advance stopped three or four times; if it continued at this marching speed, it was unknown whether it could advance thirty miles today.
Faced with such a situation, Hu Biao could only face the fat man next to him, and after a while, he would ask:
"Where is Wanyan's mother? Has she moved?"
And after the fat man put down the telescope, the answer he gave was always so infuriating:
"'King of Diamonds' is now with people, twenty miles away to the left of the army. It has not moved at all, and has no intention of moving~"
"It's moving. The grandson has moved. Unfortunately, he followed the army and advanced side by side. There seemed to be a distance of fifteen or six miles. It seemed that he had no intention of rushing over~"
Just like that, in the frustrating and difficult wait.
Wan Yan's mother, the 'King of Diamonds', seemed to have never planned to lead the charge personally, but only drove multiple groups of troops under her to charge continuously.
On the contrary, the cavalry unit of the New Army, which was responsible for covering the march of the army, was in a hurry under such crazy harassment.
This situation lasted until almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
At that time, Hu Biao thought that today's "King of Diamonds" might not take the initiative to lead people to attack; such an action today would eventually turn into a joke.
Suddenly, the high-pitched cry of the second fat man sounded in Hu Biao's ears.
In a row, three different pieces of information were reported:
"It's moving, it's moving. Erhei is flying in a small circle in the nine o'clock direction, indicating to me that the 'King of Diamonds' is rushing over with people.
Damn it! The grandson of Wanyan Yanmu is so brave. He actually launched a surprise attack towards the location of our Chinese army.
No, the situation is not good. According to Erhei's movements, the size of this group of cavalry may be 5,000. It is estimated that this group of Jin cavalry is the most elite group~"
After hearing the above information, Hu Biao was surprised and happy for a while.
What made him happy was that this guy, Wanyan Yanmu, finally plunged into the big net they had set.
What made him feel a little uncomfortable, or rather hesitant, was that the fish that had plunged into their big net were much larger than expected.
Because the operational troops they had prepared in advance for this operation were only three thousand elite cavalry in total.
The reason why we only prepared 3,000 people was because there was nothing we could do about it.
On the one hand, the number of their remaining cavalry was originally less than ten thousand.
If too many people are deployed, the remaining cavalry units covering the march of the army will be significantly reduced in team strength. If the Jin people are suspicious of this, then there will be huge flaws in this action plan.
On the other hand, in these days, the size of the Jin cavalry raiding troops was not large.
There were only more than a thousand people standing up to the sky, and at least three times the number of troops were used to surround and kill them. At the meeting, everyone agreed that the number was definitely enough.
The current situation means that the original 60% probability of successfully killing Wanyan Yan Mu has now been reduced by half, or even more.
After realizing the above embarrassment, Hu Biao's head started to spin rapidly.
After only ten seconds at most, I had already made an immediate decision in my heart.
Damn it! Not to mention that there is still a 20% to 30% chance of success, even if it is only 10%, you still have to give it a try.
No matter what, it is much better than the situation of only being able to walk more than 20 miles a day; when the mission deadline comes and the army has not arrived at Yanjing City, it is like a slow suicide.
"It's done, everyone follow me, wait for my order to send the signal~"
After Hu Biao yelled such a sentence, he took the lead in spanking the horse's butt with the horse pole in his hand.
With a total of more than 300 people behind him, he killed towards the nine o'clock direction.
In such a team, they are also the elite members of the army's cavalry; in addition to Er Pang, there are three others including Yu Hanfeng, Singer, and the Imperial Concubine.
The three people who had vaguely realized that they would be involved in this battle all made a move to throw their notebooks out and throw them to the remaining infantry personnel.
He did not forget to say: "Remember, if I don't come back later, give this to Mr. Hu or other Mr. Hu."
After saying that, he also beat the horse hard and caught up with Hu Biao.
Letting these netizens follow him will be the first step in the 'King of Diamonds' operation that they will soon carry out: luring the enemy.
After the enemy is lured, Wanyan Yanmu still has to be entangled for a period of time; this process is very difficult and dangerous, and it will not work if the strength is slightly inferior.
At the same time, this is also the reason why Hu Biao shouted to wait a moment before sending the signal.
Aren't they worried that Wanyan's mother would see the signal early and run away...
In the following time, after Hu Biao and his group rushed out five miles away, they could already see Wanyan Yanmu and the huge movement of the five thousand people rushing towards them.
Hu Biao just shouted out: "Send the signal, raise my handsome flag~"
Under such an order, all the guards around Hu Biao took action.
A flag-bearer rolled up a handsome flag with the word "Hu" on it from being rolled up and carried on the horse's back to being unfolded and raised high.
At the same time, a guard took out a large Sky-Piercing Monkey from a bag on the side of the saddle, pulled it hard and then raised it high.
A few seconds later, a shot was fired that represented the highest level situation in the Northern Expedition.
It was a signal that the coach was in danger, and it exploded in the air.
Specifically, it was a cloud of red smoke that exploded in the air and turned into the shape of an arrow; it felt like "an arrow piercing the clouds, thousands of troops came to meet each other".
Of course, Hu Biao had already secretly informed about such a situation.
It would not have happened under such a highest-level signal that the entire army would panic.
After sending such a signal, Hu Biao, who was leading the way, turned around and started to escape in the back direction without even thinking about it.
He put on a posture that when he saw that the opponent had too many troops, he would run away immediately.
It is naturally not easy for the war horses to turn around during the charge, and it takes a lot of time. During such a period of time, Wanyan Yan Mu behind her, leading an army of 5,000, was already less than three miles away.
Distanced.
And, even after the U-turn is completed.
Hu Biao also led the others, acting as if after fighting for most of the day, their horsepower had been severely depleted and they could not run fast at all.
Hu Biao didn't believe it. After seeing Shuai Qi and such a signal for help, as well as such a embarrassed look, he turned around and ran away.
Then Wanyan Yanmu still didn't fall for the trick and followed her without taking a shot of chicken blood?
As Hu Biao expected, Wanyan Yanmu immediately led a group of cavalry under her command and chased after them, beating their horses desperately, and acted "King of Diamonds".
The first stage of ‘luring the enemy’ has been completed relatively perfectly...
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"Quick, quick, quick, catch up with me. We must not let Hu Yitong escape into the car formation. His Majesty the Emperor said that no matter who kills this beast, Dajin will not hesitate to reward him."
Raising her throat, Wanyan's mother began to shout crazily.
Soon after, a group of personal guards beside him, as well as some of the military commanders Meng'an and Centurion, also started shouting.
Even amidst the sound of galloping horses' hooves, such a shout was clearly identifiable.
After the Jin cavalry heard this, they immediately became extremely excited.
Yu Hanfeng and Singers were able to make the heads of the Jin Kingdom’s senior officials into playing cards. Naturally, those Jin men were also able to post the portraits of Hu Biao and others everywhere in the army.
By the way, a terrifying reward was also offered.
By the way! After seeing the group of no more than 300 horsemen in front of him, flying Hu Biao's handsome flag, turning around and escaping in a hurry, Wanyan Yanmu didn't have any doubts in his heart?
I'm wondering, is this current scene too much of a coincidence?
Of course, Wanyan Yanmu is not a rookie.
But such hesitation only lingered in Wanyan's mother's mind for three to five seconds, and she still issued the command to "catch up" from his mouth.
Without him! The temptation to kill Hu Biao is too great.
In just one year, the Song Dynasty, which had already stood on the edge of the cliff, was able to miraculously turn over again.
The Kingdom of Jin, which was once at its peak, was in danger of annihilation.
All of this is inseparable from the contributions of Hu Biao and his party members; it can be said that the Song Dynasty, which seems to be extremely powerful now, was forcibly created by Hu Biao and others.
As long as Hu Yitong is killed, the countless conflicts between the Song people can no longer be suppressed and may be exposed in an instant.
Then they, the Great Jin Kingdom, still have a chance to make a comeback.
So as long as Hu Biao can be killed, no matter how big the loss is, it is worth it.
Besides! Among the 5,000 cavalrymen behind him, 3,000 are elites from the Jurchen lineage, and the remaining 2,000 cavalrymen, composed of Jin people, Xi people, Liao people, and Bohai people, are also trustworthy.
warrior.
Because these people all belong to the Song people who have blood debts on their hands. Even if they surrender and are captured, they will be executed and their heads will be built into the Jingguan, without any way out.
These five thousand people have basically not participated in raids today, and their horsepower is still quite sufficient.
Therefore, even if they are unable to kill Hu Yitong, it is still quite simple to find a way to escape.
With this understanding, Wanyan Yanmu decided to catch up.
This guy even thought with great enthusiasm, what if the situation in front of them was a trap? They could just eat the bait and run away.
Relying on the speed of their horses, Wanyan Mu and others were soon less than a mile and a half away from the backs of the group of fugitives in front of them.
Although the infantry troops of the Song Dynasty saw their commander in danger, they did not even bother to form a car formation for a while.
They formed battle formations one after another and rushed towards them amidst the sound of intensive drum beats; however, they were still more than five miles away from Hu Biao and others.
In addition, there were many Song cavalrymen, galloping in regardless of the life or death of their horses.
It's a pity that these cavalry are also far away from each other. There are only about 200 of them, and as few as a hundred or ten.
After seeing such a scene, Wanyan Chan's mother suddenly became more and more ecstatic.
It happened that at this time, the situation began to change again.
Perhaps it was because he also discovered that he simply couldn't run away, so he might as well take the initiative to turn back and fight for his life.
In the blink of an eye, those who were fleeing just a second ago circled around again and started to kill towards this side.
Because of such a U-turn and delay, the distance between the two sides was already less than three or four hundred steps away.
With Wanyan Yanmu's extremely powerful eyesight, she could see that the leading man had a white face and no beard. Although he couldn't see clearly whether there was a gold mark on his face, but with the indescribable aura on his body, he was basically certain that this guy was Hu Biao of the Great Song Dynasty.
, Hu Yitong.
It was also at this moment that Wanyan Yanmu's mood reached the highest point.
He seemed to see the scene where thousands of people cheered after he returned because of his astonishing contribution to saving Dai Jin...
I have to take my wife and kids out to eat and play in the evening, so I don’t know if it can be updated. Even if it is updated, it will probably be a little late, so you don’t have to wait.
