Qiming 1158

Chapter 95 The Difficult March

The plan is generally formed, the details can be added later, and the specific plan will not be changed.

The shipwreck blocking area was set in a river to the west of the preset battlefield, about half a day away from the preset battlefield.

This section of the river is actually within the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, and it is a certain distance from Tai'an. The river is narrow and the water flow is slow.

With Su Yonglin's order, the soldiers and civilians of the Shengjie Army made concerted efforts to set up a big pit for the Jin Army.

This project was quite time-consuming. Su Yonglin asked the sentry troops to report Jin Jun's whereabouts twice a day to judge whether the time was enough.

He was a little worried that if the Golden Army moved too fast, he would not have enough time to set up the battlefield and practice tactics.

Fortunately, the speed of Jin Jun's advance cannot be considered fast.

It rained heavily for a few days in the middle, and Su Yonglin went into battle in person. Under the heavy rain, he led the soldiers and civilians to work together. Everyone worked overtime, and the hot ginger soup was not stopped. Finally, there was no delay in the plan.

According to the follow-up information transmission, Su Yonglin learned that the Jin Army did not march much in those days.

Jin Jun's slow marching speed bought Su Yonglin enough time, and even allowed Su Yonglin to rest for a few days, so that he could recharge his batteries, formulate tactics calmly, and even pulled the soldiers out to rehearse tactics, and there were several rounds of simulation exercises. .

This is wonderful.

In fact, it is not that Jiagu Asu is unwilling to march at a high speed, it is really that the speed of the army cannot rise.

This army is a temporary army that is patched together. It cannot be said to be elite or not, and it has no cohesion and centripetal force.

Most of them are signed troops, and among the remaining female real soldiers, only a small part of them are regular troops, and most of them are Jurchen strong men who are temporarily brought in.

Jiagu Asu could not care about the life and death of the Han Chinese signing the army and the slaves accompanying the army, and he could let them hurry as soon as possible, but the marching speed of the female real soldiers was too slow.

One or two were able to walk for the first few days, but then began to complain, saying that they couldn't walk because of blood blisters on their feet, chewing and shouting to slow down their marching speed.

Jiagu Asu was out of breath, and planned to kill a group of people to stand up for himself. As a result, hey, there were blood blisters on the soles of the real female soldiers.

The military doctor warned not to force the way, otherwise the soles of the feet will be worn out, and there is a risk of further aggravating the problem, and in severe cases, the feet may fester and die.

This time the atmosphere in the army is even more unfavorable for high-speed marching.

Jiagu Asu hates it, hates these young people who are pampered, one or two with thin skin and tender meat, blood blisters on the soles of their feet after walking a few steps.

He remembered his fathers, and the veterans who followed the Taizu Emperor Taizong to destroy the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

There are thick calluses on the hands and feet, and glorious marks all over the body.

Even without shoes, a pair of big feet can walk smoothly on the gravel ground without frowning, and a pair of big hands are as big as a palm fan, and a slap can slap him half to death.

Now that a generation has changed, that is called Jin Gui, and the soles of his feet will be damaged if he walks a few more steps.

Have they ever had even a month of military training?
Jiagu Asu was angry, but also knew that they could not be forced to march, otherwise the army would be unstable and it would be easy to mutiny.

Some armies can't solve problems by killing people, that is, the mud can't support the wall. Once there is a mutiny in the army and there is no war, the army will be the first to collapse.

So Jiagu Asu pinched his nose and made a compromise reluctantly.

Let this part of the soldiers board the boat and follow the boat without walking.

Jiagu Asu thought that there would be no problem, but it happened again.

A group of those pampered old soldiers became seasick.

After they got on the boat, they vomited so much that they wanted to die.

This is not a sea with strong winds and waves, and you are also seasick on a river with stable currents?
What kind of body is this?
Jiagu Asu was so angry that he pulled out his knife on the spot and was about to chop people, but in the end, he took the overall situation into consideration and did not kill anyone.

But this also caused some cavalry protests.

The cavalry said they were cavalry, why should they give up their horses to those rubbish?

Those who were said to be trash were naturally unhappy, and pointed at the cavalry's nose and cursed.

The emotions of the two sides were intense, and the lips and saliva were flying around, and it was almost impossible to use weapons to fight.

Seeing that the army was going to fight infighting, Jiagu Asu decided to let the Han people sign the army to pull the cart, and dragged the female real soldiers with blood blisters on the soles of their feet. The contradiction, to quell the dissatisfaction of the cavalry.

In this way, the walk is gone, but the marching speed has slowed down again.

He couldn't expect the Han Chinese signing the army to pull the cart to keep up with the cavalry.

What's more, those Han people who signed the army themselves also had the task of transporting grain and military supplies, and they also had to deal with some chores. It was not easy to allocate a group of people to pull carts to serve the old soldiers.

So the speed of the army's advance has never been up.

More unfortunate is still behind.

During the march, the weather was hot, but it also rained for a few days, not all day long, but the kind of thunderstorms that were intermittent.

There were a few rains that were especially heavy, just like pouring water on the ground with a basin in hand. Not only was it big, but it was also falling very fast. It was raining as soon as it was said. Line of sight, a completely unpredictable time.

When it rained heavily, Jin Jun hurriedly prepared items for shelter from the rain, or hid in a place where he could shelter from the rain.

But the heavy rain stopped after a while—the shelter from the rain had not been erected, and the rain scorpion had not yet taken out the box and draped it over his body.

Fortunately, the grain is stored properly on the boat, otherwise the grain will suffer when a heavy rain falls.

Now the food has not suffered, but the rain has poured many people into chicken soup.

Jiagu Asu didn't think much of it at first, but the next morning he learned that the soldiers fell ill with a fever on a large scale.

It's not that Han Chinese signed the army. Most of the Han Chinese signed the army without any problems. At most, a few sneezes will be fine, and they will follow honestly.

On the contrary, a large group of those female real soldiers did not get up in the morning, lying on the bed and groaning, their whole body was hot.

The military doctor looked at it and said that it was raining, and the cold entered the body and failed to dispel the cold in time, so that he had a fever and caught a cold. He needed medication, otherwise the consequences would be quite serious.

Jiagu Asu covered his eyes.

It's this gang of pampered uncle soldiers again!

For a moment, Jiagu Asu really wanted to leave these uncles and leave them alone, and let them die on their own.

However, considering the need for a stable army, he still bite the bullet and gave the order.

The army needs to arrive at the front line within a time limit to fight, and it cannot stay too long. The sick soldiers cannot fight and can be transferred to nearby villages or county towns for proper treatment.

To this end, Jiagu Asu also allocated part of the transport capacity to send these uncle soldiers away.

This is a lot of clean, you can march.

Despite this, there are also female real soldiers who deserted and tried to escape during the march.

But the plan was rough, and when he was discovered, he was caught. Jiagu Aso was furious and killed more than 30 people.

I thought this was the end, but there were actually more than a dozen female real soldiers who somehow fell into the water and drowned during the march.

After doing this, rumors such as [the dispatch of troops is ominous this time] even circulated in the army, which made Jiagu Asu annoyed.

Jin Jun's morale fell to the bottom before it even started.

If it wasn't for a relatively elite cavalry unit following the orders and supervising the advance of the army, and Jiagu Asu occasionally throwing a wave of money to boost morale, he even suspected that he would not wait until he arrived in Tai'an, and the female real soldiers in the army would be Going to run away.

He felt that it made sense that Yelu Chenghui had prepared hundreds of thousands of dollars for him before departure...

(End of this chapter)