Chapter 43: The Philosophy of Footprints

After Zhang Yunpeng found out that the garrison had been burned, he knew that Zhongji quickly led the troops to retreat. After Zhang Yunpeng left, the six people came down from the tree.

"Platoon commander, instructor, are they okay?" A warrior asked, beside Sabu.

"It's okay, they got it." Sabu looked at the firelight in the distance and smiled, and then ordered everyone to retreat, to the location designated by Shao Fei on the map, and waited for Shao Fei and them.

Zhang Yunpeng's troops quickly arrived at the camp, looking at the embarrassing scene around him, the anger in his heart did not come to one place. He was a dignified general, but he was played by a squad leader of the Red Army as a monkey.

At this moment, a soldier with a little wound on his body was dragged over by two men, who was the soldier in charge of leaving behind to guard the prisoners.

"What about them?" Zhang Yunpeng asked loudly.

"Ran eastward" The soldier was frightened by Zhang Yunpeng's momentum, bowed his head and cowered.

Zhang Yunpeng looked at the east, thought for a while, and ordered: "They should not be able to run far with so many prisoners." Pay attention to the footprints on the ground and chase after me. ”

The general leads the team, which is not trivial. The soldiers under his command all wanted to behave in front of Zhang Yunpeng, so they all chased Shao Fei and them frantically to the east as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Shao Fei continued to evacuate east with a large group of people, knowing that there must be pursuers behind. At their current marching speed, it was only a matter of time before they caught up, so time was now extremely precious.

"Xu Haoran!" Shao Fei shouted.

"Here!" Xu Haoran quickly ran in front of Shao Fei.

"You and your team, then select a dozen or so fast people in the team, run fifty meters to the north, and then go backwards to the original road, and catch up with us quickly. Do you understand? Shao Fei quickly ordered.

"Yes!" Although Xu Haoran didn't know Shao Fei's intentions, he didn't ask much, knowing that time was pressing now.

Xu Haoran took his team, selected more than a dozen Red Army soldiers, and ran towards the woods to the north. And Shao Fei continued to evacuate eastward with a large group of men.

After walking nearly 200 meters, Shao Fei shouted: "Stop advancing!" ”

More than fifty people stopped, and Zhao Fei beside him asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

"Don't ask, just listen to my orders."

Shao Fei tightened his eyebrows, his expression was very serious. Having observed the situation from the daytime, the other party's commander was definitely not an ordinary character, so Shao Fei was very cautious now.

"Listen to my orders and follow me south!"

After Shao Fei finished speaking, he led his troops to walk quickly towards the woods to the south, and when he reached a hundred steps, he stopped, and ordered loudly: "Go backwards and walk to the original road." ”

Fifty people quickly retreated, and Shao Fei began to hide the footprints on the ground, and deliberately left hidden flaws in the first fifty steps.

Returning to the original road, Xu Haoran had already rushed over from behind, and said to Shao Fei in a panic: "I found that the pursuers were all holding torches, and it would take about ten minutes to get here." ”

"Fast forward." Shao Fei ordered loudly.

The sequel to the seventy-nine marched eastward. After waiting for nearly ten minutes, Shao Fei asked the troops to stop again.

Shao Fei turned to Xu Haoran and said, "Let's separate, you take the dozen or so people just now to continue east." Leave as many footprints as you can in the first part of the road, go a little farther, pick up the speed, and finally take them to the pre-designated location for a round. ”

"Got it" Xu Haoran turned around and ordered loudly: "The person just now came with me." ”

After Xu Haoran left, Shao Fei led the rest of the people to start a real evacuation towards the north. During the evacuation process, after Shao Fei and Zhao Fei broke off, Zhao Fei, under Shao Fei's instructions, completely hid the footprints of these people.

Time turned back to Zhang Yunpeng's pursuing troops.

"Report!" A soldier ran up to Zhang Yunpeng and reported: "Two footprints have been found on the ground in front of you. One is sparse to the north, and the other is more dense to the east. ”

"They're going to split up and run away." Wan Bang said on the side.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Yunpeng ordered: "Order a platoon to chase north, and if you don't find footprints behind, come back immediately to join the large army." They are trying to distract us. ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Yunpeng continued to pursue eastward with the remaining three platoons. It wasn't long before they came to a second place where there were footprints, but this time the woods were denser to the south and sparse to the east.

This time, Zhang Yunpeng was a little stunned. Whether to divide the troops, or to chase in one direction.

"Report!"

One of the platoons that had just been chasing north ran back.

"What's the situation?" Zhang Yunpeng hurriedly asked.

"After we followed the footprints for more than 50 meters, the footprints disappeared, and we didn't find any traces of cleaning the footprints." The man replied.

"Damn, they're playing with me." Zhang Yunpeng was a little angry and didn't know why, walking back and forth with his waist in his hands.

"Go, take a few people to the south to reconnoitre, and see if the footprints are the same as before." Zhang Chong shook his hand and ordered the lieutenant platoon commander in front of him.

"Yes."

The lieutenant saluted, and ran towards the footprints to the south with a few men. And Zhang Chong waited for news in the same place.

After five minutes, the lieutenant ran back and reported back: "Report, the footprints were found to have disappeared at fifty meters, but traces of the footprints were found to have been eliminated fifty meters away. ”

"That's right, they must have run south."

Wanbang breathed a sigh of relief, this time his judgment should be correct. But Zhang Yunpeng was still thinking.

After a while, Zhang Chong ordered: "Continue to chase to the east." ”

"Why?" Wanbang was very incomprehensible.

Zhang Yunpeng explained: "Will a person with such a neat mind leave a flaw for us? That's what he deliberately left for us to see. ”

After Zhang Yunpeng finished speaking, he was full of praise and said: "The commander of the other party is really a not simple character, and he is so brilliant in attacking his heart. When I'm done, I'm going to meet him. ”

After speaking, Zhang Yunpeng led everyone to quickly east and continued to catch up. After chasing for more than 20 minutes, he found that the footprints on the ground were becoming more and more scarce, and Zhang Chong realized that there was no longer a large group of men and horses ahead, which also meant that his pursuit ended in failure.

Subsequently, Zhang Chong ordered the troops to stop the pursuit and withdraw to the camp.

This failure had a great impact on Zhang Yunpeng. He didn't expect that only thirteen people could really rescue seventy-two captives under the eyelids of more than two hundred people.

In the process of pursuit, he can play the psychological battle so skillfully. Seeing that what Yang Hong said to himself was not a lie, the Dian Army really had a powerful special combat team.

After Shao Fei successfully escaped Zhang Chong's pursuit, he marched for more than two hours to join up with the six people of Zhongyu and Sabu. They rested at the meeting point for more than an hour, and Xu Haoran's dozen people also rushed back. This rescue operation ended with Shao Fei's complete victory. And Shao Fei didn't know that Zhang Yunpeng would not let them go so easily.