Chapter 864 Hearing Wumei's question, Zong Yuan came back to his senses, smiled indifferently, and said, "The minister is thinking of a strategy to retreat from the enemy. ” The spirit of dancing was lifted, she knew that Zong Yuan had always been resourceful, and his military talent was not inferior to Qiu Zhen.
She hurriedly asked, "Did Master Zong think of it?"
Zong Yuan frowned slightly, looked at the sky again, and then pondered for a while, grinned, and said, "Ming, the enemy army will retreat." ” "Oh" Lei Zhen stepped forward and asked, "How did Master Zong know that the enemy army would retreat?"
Zong Yuan smiled and said: "General Lei just needs to arrange a sentry post to prevent the Zhen army from attacking the city at night, as for whether the enemy army will retreat and why it will retreat, we will know when the time comes." ” Lei Zhen looked at Zong Yuan inexplicably, not knowing what medicine he was selling in his gourd.
Today, the Zhen army is an attack setback, but the strength is still there, how can it be possible to retreat for no reason Unless the commander of the Zhen army suddenly dies, but this is an impossible thing to happen.
Zong Yuan didn't say much, turned his head to Wu Mei and said, "Madam, aren't there still 2,000 cavalry in the city, so be ready to go out of the city at any time to chase and kill the thief." ” Wu Mei raised her eyebrows, looked at Zong Yuan with strange eyes, and muttered in her heart, could it be that the battle during the day was too fierce and dangerous, which frightened the brain of this Zong Daren, it was fortunate for the Zhen army not to come to attack the city, and it was a fool's dream to want to go out of the city to chase and kill the Zhen army.
She completely took Zong Yuan's words as a joke, put a laugh, and said softly: "Master Zong is also tired, go and rest" How could Zong Yuan not see Wu Mei's thoughts, he looked up and smiled, and said: "Madame, don't worry, the minister's mind is very sober, the minister said that the enemy army will retreat, the enemy army will definitely retreat, as long as the enemy army retreats, it will be extremely difficult, if our army does not chase and kill, will it not waste a great fighter."
"Then you make it clear, why did the Zhen army retreat?"
"Hehe" Zong Yuan smiled weirdly and said: "Come to think of it, God will help me not die in the wind" Wu Mei and Lei Zhen glanced at each other, and the two of them once again wondered if Zong Yuan's mind was really as clear as he said.
Of course, the Zhen army will not retreat for no reason, and now that they are close to Yancheng, the capital of the wind, victory is close at hand, even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of them, Li Cheng will choose to continue to charge forward.
However, something unexpected happened.
In the first half of the night, the wind and waves were calm, and in the second half of the night, the wind and clouds changed suddenly, the night sky was overcast, and the northwest wind blew wildly.
The Zhen army was lightly armed, and the camp tents they brought were not only thin, but also insufficient in number, many soldiers slept in the open air, and the cold wind blew, even the soldiers in the camp tents were shivering from the cold, and the people who slept outside the camp tents could be imagined.
In such a cold weather, where can people still sleep, one by one, hunched their necks, wrapped their arms around the ground to get up, looking for dry firewood everywhere, trying to make a fire to keep warm, but outside Wancheng is a plain, where can there be dry firewood to find In the end, the Zhenjun, who was so cold that he couldn't stand it, could only hug a few people around each other to keep warm.
Unfortunately, the cold wind blew more and more violently, and then it snowed heavily, and snowflakes like pieces of paper poured down with the cold wind and blew on people's faces, as if they had been slashed by a knife.
This heavy snowfall came too suddenly for the Zhen Army, at this time it was spring, and no one including Li Cheng of the Zhen Army thought that the Wind Country could still fall this heavy snow in the spring, and people couldn't prepare, and they were frozen so hard that even the armor on their bodies was frozen hard, making it impossible to move.
Since the Zhen army entered the wind, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, almost seeing what to rob, but they did not rob the most worthless clothes, at this time the temperature plummeted, the cold wind was fierce, the blizzard was overwhelming, people did not even have some preventive measures, gradually, people have begun to be frozen stiff, lying motionless in the snow, letting the snow slowly bury their bodies.
Now, the soldiers of the Zhen Army would rather exchange all the jewels they had stolen for a cotton coat, but unfortunately, no one would make such an exchange with them.
Li Cheng in the sleeping tent was also awakened by the cold, he was wrapped in the outside, frowned and walked out of the camp tent, and when he went outside, Li Cheng was startled, and exclaimed in his heart Why did it suddenly fall so heavily outside, the snow was heavy, the north wind was howling, Li Cheng only stood for a few seconds and couldn't stand it, and hurriedly went back to his camp tent.
It was cold in the tent, but at least it was able to withstand the cold wind.
Not long after he returned, the curtain of the tent was raised, and the biting cold wind immediately blew near, mixed with snow particles, and Li Cheng couldn't even open his eyes.
He raised his hand to cover his face and screamed, "Put down the curtain, put down the curtain."
The nearest one hastily lowered the curtain and then carefully secured it.
Li Cheng took out the fire twister, re-lit the blown candle, and looked up to see that it was not someone else who had come recently, it was his deputy general Xun Xiao.
"General, the weather has changed abruptly, the cold is abnormal, and our army has nothing to protect against the cold, how can this be good" Xun Xiao strode up to Li Cheng and asked urgently.
Li Cheng didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at this time, he said calmly: "Let the brothers hold on for one night, and wait until tomorrow morning, our army will attack Wancheng again, this time we will kill the wind army in the city, and the brothers can live in the city to keep out the cold." ” Xun Xiao's head shook like a rattle, and he said urgently: "I can't wait for tomorrow."
General, there are not enough tents in our barracks, and many brothers are sleeping outside, and the weather is freezing so far that some brothers have been frozen to death. ” Someone was frozen to death Li Cheng's face flashed with a touch of consternation, he was stunned for a moment, and asked: "How many brothers in our army were frozen to death?"
"It's not clear, the snow is too big, even if the brothers are frozen, they will quickly let the snow bury the general, if we wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid there will be no more people left in our army."
Xun Xiao said in a row.
Li Cheng clenched his fists and muttered, "Is it impossible to attack the city overnight?"
"That's even worse.
The soldiers' armor was frozen like ice, and it was difficult to move, let alone siege the city." syllable Li Cheng slapped the table heavily and shouted: "This is not good, that is not good, Xun Xiao, you tell the general, what to do now" If Xun Xiao had an idea, he wouldn't have to come over to ask Li for instructions.
He bowed his head and whispered, "The last general doesn't know." ” "Hmph" Li Cheng snorted heavily, got dressed, lifted his shoes, then wrapped his coat tightly, shook his head at Xun Xiao and said, "Let's go, let's go out and have a look" Out of the camp tent, came outside, Li Cheng fought several cold wars, the oncoming cold wind blew on the skin, large snowflakes slapped on the face, hot pain, Li Cheng squinted his eyes, and looked around with enough eyesight, if he didn't look carefully, he could hardly see people, and when he looked closely, he found that his soldiers were hugging each other in groups of three or five, and the snow flakes covered their bodies, making them almost merge with the snow.
At this time, people were numb from the cold, no longer shivering, no longer shivering, and each of them sat motionless on the ground like ice sculptures, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.
Originally, the camp tent was for the wounded soldiers, but now, the wounded soldiers have been dragged out by the cold crazy soldiers, but they squeezed in, regardless of whether the wounded soldiers were dead or alive outside, but the soldiers who entered the camp tent did not warm up for long, the north wind blew more and more fiercely, and many of the camp tents were swept into the air, causing a scream below.
After seeing his own situation clearly, Li Cheng's heart kept sinking until it sank to the bottom.
When does the wind country cool down and the snow is not good, why did you just rush to the time when you are about to break through Yancheng, victory is in sight, but God is not perfect, this is considered the wind country is not exhausted, or the sky does not help me Dazhen Li Cheng sighed in his heart, the five flavors are complete.
Xun Xiao is right, in this kind of weather, you can't attack the city, and with your current materials, you can't keep out the cold, you can't fight, you can't stay, and now there is only one way to go, retreat.
You can only withdraw the lockdown first, and then make plans.
Li Cheng has always been fierce in leading the army to fight, only knowing how to advance, not retreating, but now, the weather factors make him have to choose to retreat.
In fact, the wind country is not a sudden change of weather, the temperature is suddenly cold, the sky is snowy, this has been foreshadowed, even in the future, the weather in the middle of the wind country is always gloomy, even in the daytime, the sky is also gray, can not see the sun.
Zong Yuan had foreseen this, so he dared to assert that the Zhen army could not stand the cold and could only retreat.
It turned out that he had calculated correctly, and this night was like a nightmare in hell for Zhenjun.
Li Cheng ordered a retreat, but many of the soldiers sat on the ground and did not get up at all, thinking that they had not heard the order, someone stepped forward and pushed hard, trying to wake them up, but this push, the soldiers who were hugging each other fell to the ground one after another, people's faces were bloodless, and covered with a layer of frost, but the strange thing was that the corners of their mouths were raised, and they looked like they were smiling.
This is a sign of being frozen to death, and the muscles of the person's face have atrophied due to the cold, causing the corners of the mouth to rise up, as if smiling, but in fact he has lost his breath.
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A large number of Zhen soldiers stopped breathing forever under the condition of being frozen, and never stood up again, including ordinary soldiers, and there were also advanced spiritual cultivators, no matter how deep the cultivation of spiritual cultivators is, no matter how strong the spiritual armor is, it can block swords and guns, but it can't stop the severe cold.
In the attack on Wancheng, the Zhen army killed about 10,000 soldiers, but after half a night, no less than 20,000 Zhen soldiers were frozen to death, most of which were wounded soldiers.
The 80,000-strong Zhen army retreated with only 50,000 left, and even so, during the retreat, from time to time someone fell to the ground, and then was covered with snowflakes.
The retreat of the Zhen army, there was no enemy to chase and kill, but it was extremely miserable, they walked together, died together, and countless Zhen soldiers fell in the snow and never got up again.
In cold weather, people react more slowly, and that's true.
Li Cheng retreated in the direction of the blockade, and he didn't think that when he led the army to leave the lockdown, he had burned it down, and now only the remnants of the bricks and tiles remain, even if the lockdown arrived, how could he keep out the cold But then again, after the Zhen army entered the wind, it entered a state of loss of control, robbing after killing, and burning after robbing, along the way, the towns they passed through were burned by them, and they couldn't find a place to keep out the cold.
This can be regarded as a grave dug by the Zhen army for himself
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