Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 234 It's Yangzi Ridge Again

No one could have imagined that Zhao Cheng could eat up Xue Jing's troops in a very short time without resting, and quickly followed Wang Xiu's route for a night march.

In fact, in Zhao Cheng's view, there is not much risk in following the tiger.

Even though Wang Xiu was being cautious, she had two big losses in a row and chose to retreat when she saw that the city could be broken. This would not repair their internal morale in a short time.

Although his troops are strong, they are from more than a dozen cottages of foreign troops. He chose to abandon Xue Jing in the battle of Chizhou South Gate, and because of low morale, political friction among them is almost inevitable.

Based on these favorable conditions, Zhao Cheng chose to follow them like a shadow, and has been following their footsteps since the night.Otherwise, the footprints in the snow will be quickly covered by nature once you stop for trimming.

Before going into battle, Zhang Ji, who likes to study solar terms, said like a weather forecaster that there would be another snowstorm. He didn't know when it would come, but it would be either today or tomorrow.This is the historical data of Chizhou that she backtested. In the past 15 years, there have been mild winters without snowstorms. Once they occur, they will not just happen once, but usually three times, and the maximum interval between each time is no more than twenty hours.

Zhao Cheng has no experience with the weather, but he believes in the "backtest" she made.It is actually the true meaning of history to be used as a reference for future generations. Unfortunately, what most people can learn from history is "knowing nothing".Zhang Ji is different, she is really a respectable scholar.

In fact, she complained about the government's incapacity more than once before this, because the government's records were vague about the impact of the snowstorms in previous years on people's livelihood. There was no specific weather change data, and it was a simple diary with a strong political purpose. .

For example, when the number of deaths caused by a snowstorm is small, they will exaggerate the losses as much as possible to obtain special assistance from the court.If there are many dead people, turn it around and write it down lightly, as if there was no severe cold.That's about it.

This time, it is the literature and materials in the "library" of Weishan Academy that provide data support for Zhao Cheng's military decision-making.Zhang Ji doesn't have many classes. She is always busy because she likes to toss about these things. Although the academy does not have this subject, Zhang Ji is also gathering the wisdom and experience of everyone, and based on the historical documents accumulated in the academy by the predecessors. , intends to compile a set of systematic knowledge that can observe the changes of solar terms through celestial bodies, stars and many details.

To put it simply, she is not a Confucian, but a Shen Kuo-like person, but in a different direction. Zhao Cheng finds her more and more interesting.

The marchers are now thinking about this, and they are facing the biting cold wind again.The whole team didn't feel sleepy, but it didn't mean they wouldn't be mentally fatigued.

This happened to be an opportunity again. If Zhao Cheng's troops were exhausted, Wang Xiu's army would be even more exhausted if they retreated temporarily, and there would be blessings and boosts from low morale.

If Zhao Cheng's troops are facing the cold, Wang Xiu's army will be even colder.

Because Wang Xiu's tactics have always been based on the camp, and did not take this situation into consideration.Zhao Cheng, on the other hand, planned to fight in the severe cold from the very beginning, and made resource mobilization and full preparations for these.

After taking the risk of eating Xue Jingbu at the south gate last night, the biggest advantage is that the cold resistance equipment has been greatly strengthened.

Every war is full of many links of fighting wits and courage, and there are bound to be accidents.

For example, more than 800 runaway militiamen from Zhao Cheng's department have been marching against Wang Xiu's department at night until early in the morning, and they have begun to suffer harassment and casualties.

Some small groups of rebels, such as groups of five or six or seven or eight, suddenly jumped out of the snow and attacked, hacking randomly with knives.

It's obviously an annoying thing to be cut by someone who came out with a knife while walking on the road.So these rebels didn't do much damage, but they had already annoyed the mob with strong morale. As a result, some of these rebels who came out to harass were stabbed to death by everyone on the spot.

Because Zhao Cheng's team was cold-resistant, they were wrapped up like furry bears, so unless they were faced with the sharp knives used by professional assassins, it would not be a big problem to be hacked a few times.

Seeing that some of their own people were stabbed to death, and the harassment and attack tactics did not work, the remaining dozens of rebels dispersed and fled from different directions.

Chase chase chase!
The angry mob became really angry and started chasing them one after another.

"Don't pay attention, continue marching, and don't be harassed by any smoke."

Zhao Cheng resolutely stopped everyone's behavior, "There is only one explanation for this behavior: Wang Xiu is really in a hurry, he is not sure about many things that will happen next, and his mentality is messed up. So he doesn't want to be followed by us."

Zhao Cheng's prestige is very high now, so even if they are very hostile and want to catch these rebels who jumped out and hacked people randomly, they have to give up.

Just continue to ignore all harassment, even if there is some damage, just ignore it.

"Follow me at ease, there will be no big ambush."

Zhao Cheng reassured everyone, "If Wang Xiu really wants to ambush us, unless he is full, he will never deploy a small group of people to harass us. This is like reminding us."

It's easy to say, but in fact, in the battle of wits and courage since the siege of Chizhou, the mutual calculations between Zhao Cheng and Wang Xiu were just mutual wins and losses, not really superior.

It's just that Wang Xiu's morale is low and his mentality is chaotic now, while Zhao Cheng is still stable, can continue to make decisions calmly, and the morale of the team is also high.

That's what the Remnant Is King is talking about.In fact, for people who have reached a certain level, strategies and tactics are difficult to really tell the winner. There is no saying who is superior and who is inferior. It depends on who persists longer, makes fewer mistakes, and has fewer pig teammates...

For Wang Xiu in the past, world affairs or wars were very simple.In the early years, relying on courage and insight, three or five people started a business, licking blood at the edge of the chizhou mire where bandits gathered, and accidentally came to the present.

At that time, those bandit leaders or gang leaders who were looked up to and killed without blinking an eye, now only a few are still working as Wang Xiu's subordinates, and most of them have been buried in the sand.

These things have never made Wang Xiu feel difficult, but it is really difficult now.

Wang Xiu now also understands that most of the time it has nothing to do with how capable he is, but who his opponent is.

Meeting an opponent like Zhao Cheng, and there have been too many unfavorable signals before, theoretically, something will happen.But it is impossible to consider how the accident will happen now, because the road ahead has become extremely difficult now.

The blizzard that had just stopped for less than eleven hours came again!

It made people fall to and fro, and even though the snow wind was isolated by the face towel, when it finally blew on the face, it was still like a knife cutting.

The boundary is close to the Yangtze Ridge where the grain transport team had an accident, and there was a snowstorm at the same time.

These are two shadows, and the synergistic resonance made Wang Xiu feel like a pill, and without any reason, he thought of keywords such as "marching and fighting in the Yangtze Ridge under a snowstorm" by Bai Chenxiang.

Since then, various modules within the rebel army have received military orders from Wang Xiu: Do not wander around and avoid Yangziling.As for the reason, there is no reason.

But with low morale, and under the agitation of the biting cold wind, Wang Xiu's words were almost invalid orders.

Not only was it slow to convey, but it also had to be questioned by the leaders.

It is not yet the point where disaster is imminent, but two big mistakes in succession, the brothers besieged the city of Chizhou for half a month in the severe cold, but it was useless, because of Wang Xiu's caution.Now facing a catastrophic blizzard, he, Wang Xiu, wants everyone to take a long way around the mouth of the Yangtze Ridge in the blizzard?

To detour around the mouth of Yangziling, the distance is about forty miles.This is not a way for ordinary cavalry, but for these mixed horse infantry, when morale is low and in a snowstorm, this is equivalent to a delay of one more day before they can go to Ganoderma lucidum mountain. Not to mention, there is basically no cold resistance equipment. I am afraid that a quarter of the staff will be reduced in the snowstorm?

As a result, Wang Xiu's order failed to get a good response from the leaders. Although it has not yet been broken, it is divided into scattered modules. Most of them are still heading for the Yangtze River Pass, eager to take this shortcut " go home".

This situation is unacceptable to any commander in chief. Wang Xiu held a grudge in his heart but didn't say much, so he had to continue marching towards Yangziling.Even if you have to deal with internal liquidation, you have to wait until you get home, and the external situation has stabilized.

(End of this chapter)