Chapter 532 Lure the Enemy

Author: Uncle Long Legs

Chapter 532 Lure the Enemy

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."
To be continued...