Chapter 38, Bloody New Year (Part 2)
It has never been difficult for the Song Dynasty expeditionary force to conquer the Kingdom of Jin and destroy Huining, riding in the majestic floating city and possessing Doraemon's magical props. But the real question is, how can we ensure the profits of Doraemon and Guo Jing?
——Doraemon can certainly drive the floating city directly to the head of the Jurchen, and then use a high-power plasma cannon or laser cannon to burn Huining City to a white ground... But this is easy, but it is It will cause everything to be destroyed, and no valuable trophies will be obtained.
Moreover, the Jurchens in Huining City are not fools. Seeing such a castle in the sky floating from the sky, I am afraid that they have already fled away with Wanyan Wu begging the emperor. In this way, Wang Qiu and the others are bound to play a cat and mouse game with a group of native Jurchens in the deep mountains and old forests of the Northeast in the Songhua River Basin... Even Doraemon, who has a [Missing Cane], said that There is no 100% chance of winning.
Therefore, as early as the night before, they used the cover of night to quietly leave the conspicuous floating city and move to the ground. At the same time, they turned the floating city into a mini model with a shrinking light and stuffed it into Doraemon's dimensional pocket... …and then ordered the entire army to wear full-color night clothes After driving for more than ten miles through the night under heavy snow, they finally arrived at the outskirts of Huining, and then used an "explosive basement" to make a temporary shelter, allowing the team to rest temporarily, while Doraemon Take a group of commanders out to check out the locations and scout the routes and enemy situations.
——If they were in the densely populated hinterland of the Central Plains, and more than 800 of them were rushing all the way, there would be a high probability that they would be discovered by the residents along the way. But Huining, which is located on the bank of Jianchuhu River, although it is the capital of the Jin Kingdom, is more vast and sparsely populated than the most remote prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty. Almost beyond the scope of Huining City is an uninhabited wilderness. They ran wildly for more than ten miles in the old forest that night, until they could see the place where Hushui was pressed out. They didn't encounter anything similar to an artificial structure, so naturally there was no possibility of leaking their whereabouts.
Moreover, it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, the coldest time of the year, and most of the Jurchens are hiding at home, burning a fire pit called "Cat Winter", and no one is willing to go out to enjoy the cold weather. Even if there are occasionally a few hunters who are not afraid of the cold, they will not go up the mountain in the dark at night to deliver meat to hungry wolves. The heavy snow that fell until dawn today also effectively covered their footprints. In short, the Song Army's infiltration was very successful and has not been noticed by the Jurchens so far.
Following a bell ringing to announce their identities, Guo Jing, Wang Qiu, and Doraemon entered the passage disguised as a tree hole and entered the underground hideout. Compared with the freezing cold weather and howling wind outside, it is much warmer in this basement. Eight hundred soldiers of the Song Army were seizing the time to rest wrapped in blankets while taking time to feed the war horses with barley, soybeans and other concentrated feeds - although they had used [Universal Adaptive Lamp] to allow these southern horses to adapt to the conditions in the white mountains and black waters. It's extremely cold, but in order to keep them running, they still need to feed them more good food.
The only regret is that in order to prevent these people from burning a fire in the basement and causing collective carbon monoxide poisoning, Doraemon forbids them from lighting a fire to keep warm or cooking, so they can only rely on cold noodles and dried meat to fill their stomachs. All the strong men who have satiated their appetites with hot soup and hot meals on the floating city in recent days have some complaints... Of course, they are just a few complaints. It was not easy for people in ancient times to survive, so they should be thankful if they can fill their stomachs. They are not pampered dandies. If they can't bear to eat a cold meal, they simply can't survive in this era.
As for the truly pampered scholar-bureaucrats, they naturally have different treatment. For example, the censor Zhongcheng Qin Hui, who serves as the supervisor of the army, uses an electric heater to keep warm while drinking warm rice wine poured from a thermos bottle - hot water. He grabbed the bottle and electric heater from the floating city. When he saw Guo Jing and others coming in, he quickly put down his tea cup and said, "...Thank you for your hard work, Master. I wonder if you can find out the gold thief's movements?"< br>
"...Everything is as usual. Huining City is lightly guarded and there is no movement." Guo Jing took off his snowflake-covered cloak and turned around to reply, "...Tonight I tell the soldiers to recharge their batteries, prepare their troops and horses, and have a good meal. Wait. At dawn and sunrise, it’s time to kill the thieves and defeat the enemy!”
"...Oh? It's not that the official doesn't believe in the real person, but...the Jin people really don't know anything about the arrival of our army?"
Qin Hui frowned and asked, "...A few days ago, when the real person flew the Immortal Mansion over the old Liao-Tokyo Road, it caused a commotion in the whole city and empty streets in Liaoyang and several prefectures and counties - could it be that the Jin officials in these places actually Didn’t you send a messenger to Huining to inform the enemy chief? ”
"...So what if they send a messenger?" Guo Jing raised his eyebrows, "...Liaoyang and Huining are thousands of miles apart, and the mountains are covered by heavy snow. How can we get there within a day or two? ? Could it be that Zhong Cheng actually thinks that there really is a BMW that can travel thousands of miles? ”
——As Guo Jing said, the super speed of the floating city is the best cover for this raid. Moreover, Doraemon has been using the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] to monitor several main roads leading to Huining, and then discovered that during this day, not to mention a messenger on horseback, not even a traveling hawker was seen - —Everyone is busy preparing for the New Year. Even if we want to visit relatives, we have to wait until after the New Year’s Eve dinner.
Although a large part of them will never be able to eat this New Year’s Eve dinner again...
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In Huining in the second half of the night, everything is quiet.
In this wild settlement far away from the center of the civilized world, it is obviously impossible to have any lively nightlife. At this moment, all the residents in the city, rich and poor, high and low, had already gone to bed, wrapped in furs and burning fire pits, sleeping soundly. There were only a few soldiers who were unfortunate enough to be on night duty. They stood on the high watchtower, folding their arms and shivering due to the cold wind. They relied on the faint light of torches to take a look at the night outside the city from time to time.
The weather tonight is not very good. The stars and moon are hidden behind the clouds, and there are scattered light snows in the sky, making everything around us look hazy, and the forests and wilderness in the distance are completely shrouded. In the deepest darkness, only vague outlines were left. Only the pressed tiger water covered with thick ice was like a white strip lying on the ground, faintly reflecting the faint light.
Um, wait? What is that sound? There seems to be some noise on the river?
Hearing something that seemed to be moving not far away, a night-watch soldier who was dozing off couldn't help but trembled. He turned back and looked towards Jinche Hushui outside the city, and vaguely seemed to see some black shadow shaking on the ice. But when he opened his eyes and looked carefully, he couldn't see anything anymore.
So, he shook his head and retreated to the edge of the fire to take a nap again - he must have been dazzled just now, at most it was just a pack of wolves wandering around, or a southern slave who was not afraid of death escaped during the night... …In short, it’s better to do less than to do more, so let’s just take it lightly!
——If this was a frontline battlefield, the highly vigilant Jurchen warriors would probably not be so careless, but among the white mountains and black waters where they were born and raised, no one would dare to offend the Wanyan family's awe-inspiring power and stay in Huining. The Jurchens naturally became a lot slacker.
In fact, the warrior's mind has completely turned to tomorrow's New Year's banquet - during the previous New Year celebrations in the tribe, although pigs were slaughtered and eaten, due to the poor conditions, most of them were unpalatable boiled pork. At most, if you add some salt, there will always be an unpleasant smell. But this year, there are all kinds of spices and spirits snatched from the Southern Song Dynasty... Imagining the deliciousness of the roast pork with spices and the sweetness of the Central Plains spirits at tomorrow's banquet, the young Jurchen warrior couldn't help but I swallowed, almost impatiently looking forward to tomorrow.
At this time, another change occurred in the wilderness outside the city.
Um? It seems to be foggy?
Sensing the changes outside, he turned around curiously and saw a vast expanse of white mist, slowly rising from the Hushui area in the distance, like a soft white gauze, blowing continuously with the wind. It spread towards Huining City, and finally spread to Huining City...
The strange thing is that the mist doesn't seem to be very moist, and it seems to have a nice aroma?
As this pleasant-smelling mist flowed into his nose, the soldier couldn't help but take a few more breaths, and then he felt dizzy, filled with intense sleepiness... After only a few dozen seconds, He could no longer grasp the spear in his hand, his legs weakened and he fell to the ground, fainting weakly. And when he fell to the ground, the few remaining conscious sentries in the city also fell into coma one after another in this strange fog.
Next, large tracts of white fog continued to spread over the entire Huining City under the influence of the wind. When most of the Jurchens were still sleeping soundly at home, the mist with a light and elegant fragrance quietly penetrated through the cracks in the windows and doors, and slowly penetrated into their side... thereby making these guys sleep deeper and deeper, Even with the beating of gongs and drums around me, it is difficult to wake up...
At the same time, Doraemon, who was wearing an invisibility cloak, was hiding on the small mound next to the tiger water, nervously using the [Wind God Fan] to blow wind into Huining City. Next to him was a huge metal can with a very sci-fi shape, which was spraying out milky white mist.
——According to Wang Qiu and Guo Jing’s original idea, they planned to release nerve gases such as sarin or soman that can kill in a few minutes into Huining City at night, just like an ant exterminator company removes termites from houses. , all the soldiers and civilians in the city were smoked to heaven in their sleep... In this way, the property in the city was completely preserved, the Jurchens' effective strength was eliminated, and the damage to one's own troops was avoided. It can be said to be the best of all three. beautiful.
——Anyway, there is no need to talk about humanitarianism or war conventions in this era. Countries have always used all possible means to fight.
It is very regrettable that at this time, Doraemon's dimensional pocket does not store deadly chemical gases like sarin and soman that can be called "poor country atomic bombs". There is only one kind that will be used to capture large-scale atomic bombs in the future world. Acute anesthetic gas for animals... After testing its effectiveness and anesthetic power with an unlucky donkey, Wang Qiu and Guo Jing made do with this substitute.
Closer to home, after being "influenced" by the anesthetic gas of this future world for half the night, Huining City became even quieter under the night.
Until the early morning sky turned white, and the flag of the Song Army appeared on the bank of the Jianchuhu River, the capital of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom still seemed completely silent, as if it was still sleeping soundly and was about to fall asleep in a sweet dream. Ushering in a bloody new year...——With the elimination of The rising sun of the evening appeared on the horizon. Yue Fei, the cavalry commander who had been waiting for a long time on his horse, raised his hand and pointed at Huining City not far ahead with his sharp blade. , announced loudly to the men of the cavalry:
"...Commanders and soldiers, listen to my orders! Today is the day to avenge my fathers and fellow villagers! Trample Huining! No chickens or dogs will be left behind!"