Hua Mulan was overjoyed when she heard the battle report, she didn't expect that Fu Zhan's vanguard army would be so fast, and it only took two days to solve Ku Moxi's room.

However, she immediately realized that the main force would leave too late and the vanguard army would not be able to support it in time, and asked, "How are the soldiers prepared?" ”

Cui Hao replied: "All matters have been prepared, but it is past noon now, do you want to leave until tomorrow morning?" ”

"No!" Mulan waved her hand, "Someone, pass the order, the army will set off in an hour!" ”

Although Cui Hao had never actually commanded a campaign, he was also well-informed when he followed several emperors, and he knew the truth of the speed of soldiers, so he didn't say anything.

Pinggang only left 500 infantry garrisons, and the rest of the horses were all taken away by Mulan, Mulan obviously did not regard Pinggang as the location of the logistics baggage, she set up the logistics baggage hoarding place in Fan City, the closest border to Kumoxi, although the city was in ruins at this time, a dead city, a city that was half buried by heavy snow.

The main army set out from Heijo after noon and did not make any stops on the way until dusk.

At dusk, the army passed by a bush, and Mulan ordered the army to rest in place for half an hour, and asked the men to quickly dig stoves and pots, collect firewood and boil water.

Mulan took a fancy to the fact that there were a large number of dead branches in this shrubland, and although the ground was covered with heavy snow, it was very dry under the heavy snow, and the dead branches were collected and burned easily.

A large cauldron was set up, and the men piled clean white snow in the pot, and burned firewood at the bottom of the pot, and the snow water in the pot melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon it was burned and tumbled, and the soldiers lined up in the pot to get boiling water in the clay bowl.

The men scooped up a spoonful of boiling water with a spoon and poured it into their pottery bowls, and the soldiers took the boiling water and walked away one by one, stirring the batter in the pottery bowl with chopsticks.

After a while, everyone finished eating, the pee of those who should pee, the poop of the poop, and the feeding of the horses, after half an hour, it was dark, but Mulan ordered: "The whole army continues to set off, rush to Fancheng and rest!" ”

Experienced generals know that in this cold winter wax moon, the most painful thing on the march is not to march and hurry, but to sit down and rest, once you stop to rest, the body heat production decreases, the body gradually becomes cold, the hands and feet freeze, the ears freeze, and even can not get up again.

Thanks to Zhao Junsheng's strict management of the army, once the order is issued, it cannot be questioned or disobeyed, and must be carried out to the end.

At the time of Li Min, the army arrived in Fancheng, and the two-day journey from Pinggang to Fancheng was completed by Mulan's army in an afternoon and a whole night, and it was still in this cold winter wax moon.

The first thing she did when she arrived in Fancheng, Hua Mulan did not order everyone to rest, but ordered everyone except the gang to go into the city to clear the snow on the ground and the roofs of the houses, and at this time they were resolutely not allowed to rest and sleep, otherwise it would be difficult for many people to wake up.

The temperature of more than minus 20, Hua Mulan never thought that she would be so crazy, and walked so far with 20,000 soldiers overnight, there is no doubt that the soldiers have done a good job of keeping warm, helmets and armor have fur inner villages, thick leather boots and gloves, the whole body is included in two layers of thick fur, plus the strong willpower that the soldiers have trained hard for a long time to complete this journey.

All 20,000 horses were dispatched, and the streets of this small city were cleared in half an hour, all the houses were cleaned up, and Mulan provided houses for each part.

Before the soldiers who had a place to settle down had time to sleep, the order came down again, and everyone went to line up to get boiled water and soaked batter to eat, and after eating, they were to make a fire in the room, but they were not allowed to close the doors and windows, so that they could sleep.

After only one night of sleep, the young soldiers could still hold on, but the civilian officers of the army who were weaker could not hold on, and the 2,000 infantry assigned to guard the place to become a logistics baggage hoarding place took on the task of guarding and guarding, and everyone else fell asleep.

At noon, Mulan woke up and walked around the city, walking down the street until she heard the incessant snoring from the houses on both sides.

A messenger galloped into the city from outside the city on horseback, saw Hua Mulan head-on, and jumped down to report: "General Qiqi, General Fu ordered the villain to send a war report!" ”

Hua Mulan immediately took the battle report, opened it and read it hurriedly, her nervous expression relaxed slightly, but she frowned again.

Fu Zhan said in the battle report that he led the vanguard cavalry to continue northward after defeating the Murodebu, and then raided the Khithu Department with lightning speed, and met resistance when attacking the Mohofu Department forty miles northwest of the Khithu Department yesterday morning.

Due to the rush of time, the people of the Mohe Buddha Department did not have time to drive away the cattle and food and daily necessities were killed by the troops of the Fu Zhan Army, so they could only abandon these baggage and cattle and flee in panic, and more than 1,600 people who were blocked after the battle were defeated after the battle of the Fu Zhan army, and then the army led by Fu Zhan to catch up with the men, women, old and weak who were retreating from the Mo He Fu Department, and captured all of them.

However, the news had already spread, and the Mukun tribe in the northeast got the news and abandoned their livestock and household utensils before Fu Zhan led the army to arrive, and hurriedly retreated into the mountains with only a small amount of food.

Fu Zhan also brought a news in the war report, the general of Yuyi Town, Chi Yandong, led the army to attack from the west and defeated the main army of the Humiliation in the upper reaches of the weak Luoshui, but the news was soon learned by the Ahui clan living in the upper reaches of the weak Luoshui area, and the Ahui people quickly retreated into the mountains and forests with their families.

Kumo Xi really played the old routine again, and if he couldn't beat it, he retreated into the deep mountains and old forests, trying to drag down the army of attack, although Mulan had already prepared for this in her heart, but she still felt a little tricky.

However, in general, the first battle wiped out the four Kumoxi tribes, and only two tribes retreated into the deep mountains and old forests, and Mulan felt much less pressure.

But she was still worried that Wei Chi Yandong and Fu Zhan would underestimate the enemy and be attacked by the Kumo Xi people.

Without further ado, Mulan immediately sent someone to blow the trumpet and order the soldiers to assemble.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

When the soldiers heard the sound of the horn, they jumped up and ran out with their weapons, and some heralds rode along the street on horseback and shouted: "Everyone go to the open space outside the city lord's mansion to assemble!" ”

Hearing this, the generals ran in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

Not long after, the open space outside the city lord's mansion was densely packed with soldiers, and the phalanx was quickly filled by the soldiers, only such a large open space could not accommodate 20,000 horses at all, and others who could not enter could only gather in formation on the street.

"There is no superfluous nonsense, General Ben will give you an hour to eat and drink, pack up everything, and assemble outside the North City Gate after an hour and disband!"

The soldiers and generals quickly dispersed, still using boiling water to wash the batter, and after finishing eating, drinking, and Lazar, they packed up their things and went out of the city to gather.

Before dark, the army arrived at the residence of Murodebu, an old stockade.

Hua Mulan This is the first time to see the living environment of the Kumoxi people, the village because of the sneak attack by Fu Zhan and the troops, many wooden houses have been burned down, in addition to some old wooden houses in the village, there are many stone houses built up according to the mountain, whether it is a wooden house or a stone house, it looks messy, one here, one there.

The people in the stockade were killed, and the corpses were lying everywhere, not even the dogs.

Hua Mulan frowned at this scene, Cui Hao noticed her expression, and said: "This Fu Zhan is also really, kill it or bury it, and be thrown to our main force by this mess, can't you spare any time to collect the corpse?" General, don't be angry, the minister knows that you blame General Fu for killing too much, and he didn't even let go of the children and women, but he is a lone army, and there are not many troops, if he captures the captured soldiers, he has to leave the soldiers to cut and kill, which is even weaker for his own small forces! ”

Hua Mulan also knew that Cui Hao was telling the truth, but she always felt uncomfortable in her heart, no matter what the circumstances, she couldn't kill women and children.

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! Hua Mulan finally knew why Zhao Junsheng often put this sentence on his lips, if his heart was not hard enough, he was really not suitable for controlling the army, once he sat in this position, he had to think about the lives of the soldiers of the whole army, and he couldn't rely on his own temperament.

"Cui Gong doesn't have to persuade me, it's not that I don't know the severity!"

Hua Mulan waved her hand and said to Guo Sheng: "General Guo, order the soldiers to camp and rest in this stockade, and clean up and bury the corpses first." Send someone to inspect all the stockades that are not well housed to see if there are any living mouths or the like, and try to eliminate dangerous factors! ”

"General rest assured, these things will be arranged in the future!"

Hua Mulan led the army to catch up with Fu Zhan's vanguard army around Shen Shi the next afternoon, and what she feared finally happened, Fu Zhan was a little light after destroying three Kumoxi tribes in a row, and the vigilance and guards became lax when the Mukun tribe was blockaded, and was attacked by the Mukun tribe at night.

After a night of hard fighting, the loss of more than 1,000 people in the battle of Fu Zhan, the war horses were all scattered in the night attack, most of the baggage was burned, and after dawn, the remnants of the baggage had to be discarded and retreated to Tianwang Mountain to defend it.

The news of the arrival of the main army led by Mulan was reconnoitred by the spies of the Mukun Division, and the Mukun Department quickly withdrew to the mountains and forests again with the baggage discarded by Fu Zhan.

At the foot of Tianwang Mountain, Guo Sheng rode on horseback and said to Mulan: "This mountain originally had no name, Feng Ba, the king of Northern Yan, had led an army to attack Kumoxi, and he had hit it here, and used this mountain as a camp, so it was named Tianwang Mountain, and the old minister was with Feng Bao at that time!" ”

Soon, Fu Zhan came down from Tianwang Mountain with the remnants of the defeated army with a guilty face.

"General, the last general is ashamed, he underestimated the enemy and carelessly fell for the trick of the Mu Kun Division!"