The Yellow River has frozen, like a jade belt falling between the mountains.

Guo Shao stood by the Yellow River and looked out at the surrounding mountains. People say that the mountains here are high and the roads are far away, which is compared with the plains of the Central Plains; In Guo Shao's opinion, compared to the Shudao Mountains he had visited, they were not so sinister.

The mountain of the road into Shu is high and steep, and some roads must be built to pass through the plank road. The northwest side is not so exaggerated, the mountain is very large, but the slope of the mountain is relatively gentle compared to Shudi, it is not difficult for people and horses to pass, along the road through the place where there are villages and people, you can also see that there are terraces on the hillside.

It's just that the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the mountains are continuous, and the line of sight is extremely not open, and the road is blocked by mountains in all directions. This kind of terrain can easily hide people and horses and cannot be detected in time. Fortunately, it is still in the jurisdiction of Daxu, and there is no risk to the wife.

In winter, the earth is withered and barren, full of loess, and the air is very dry and cold. Luckily, the weather was nice today, with a blue sky and the sun to be seen, adding a vibrant color to the scene.

There was a faint sentence in the barracks: "Come to a song of Qin Feng." ”

As soon as the words fell, the horn sounded first, like an overture, and then the military musician found the entry point, and the horizontal blowing and drums also sounded one after another, and the rhythm of the song was slow, thick and powerful, and the vigorous and powerful music immediately made the atmosphere different.

The musicians sang first, and then the onlookers also sang, "How can you say that you have no clothes?" with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son......"

The soldiers who dug ditches, cut wood, and set up tents in all directions turned their ears to the camp where the propaganda sounded.

Guo Shao listened, and was inadvertently moved. The barren and backward land in front of him made him seem to see that in ancient times, the army of the Yellow Emperor Yan Emperor held a simple stick and stone axe, cutting thorns and thorns in the wilderness, opening up the territory, and the blood of the ancestors flowed all over Kyushu, so that there was this vast land.

And now, with well-honed armor, well-forged weapons, and even meticulously crafted artillery firearms, there is no reason to retreat!

Guo Shao listened to it for a while, and the musician changed the tune of Han Yuefu again, and he returned to the tent of the Chinese army.

The inside and outside of the tent are still repairing the kang to prepare for keeping warm at night; It's okay during the day, but at night if you sleep in the open, you can freeze to death. Li Gu's logistics were good, he ordered the officials of Yan, Xi, Shi and other prefectures early on, prepared fuel, and conscripted people to send them to the army for the needs of the army, mainly coal (coal), but also charcoal.

The soldiers were setting up a stove in the tent, they were working very hard in front of the emperor, and a soldier was "tinkling" a stone with a chisel, which seemed to be uneven enough.

All the soldiers were dressed differently from when they were in Tokyo, mainly because they had a lot of burlap bags and miscellaneous items hanging on their bodies. Generally, soldiers will have flints, knives, food bags and other things on their bodies, and soldiers also have a lot of weapon-related things, such as a small bamboo tube hanging on a belt and an iron mold for clamping lead shots. Each team also carried various tools such as knives and hammers on donkey carts and mules...... On the march and in battle, there is very little time on the battlefield, and most of the time it is a journey life of eating and sleeping in the open air.

The big tent of the Chinese army has not yet been packed, and Zhu Wenwu has not come, and they are deploying and inspecting the affairs of the various battalions stationed. Guo Shao was in the messy tent, asked someone to take out the pen and paper, and took advantage of this free time to write a letter. The letters to Marigold and the second sister lasted for many days, and they were written intermittently.

Now it is finally possible to write personal letters to Marigold as a matter of course.

In the noisy tent, Guo Shao first described what he saw and felt along the way, this place is relatively deserted, and there is a section of the road that has not seen people all day. But Guo Shao found that when many people walk this kind of road together, people are not worried, and they will rely more on each other. During the emperor's personal journey, he got along with the soldiers day and night, which could build greater trust.

He told Jinzhan and the others not to worry too much, when the army marched to the border area where the Wuding River and the Yellow River meet, they would build a fortress there, and the fortress could be used as a barrier.

Guo Shao wrote another sentence, I miss it very much...... the word "you" was not written, he pondered that it was too explicit, so he wrote the days when he was carefully cared for in Tokyo Marigold.

At this time, the generals and civil officials came into the big tent one after another, Guo Shao put down the brush and asked them to find a place to sit. And they sat down around the stone stove.

The soldiers put an iron pot on the stove, took off the grain bag and poured corn into it, and took out cheese, small salted dried fish, and pickled vegetables and put them in one go, so that they didn't even need the ingredients, and just cooked a pot of porridge. The wheat cake is placed by the stove and baked.

Even Guo Shao eats this thing, and there is not much difference between eating from top to bottom. The military law of the forbidden army prohibits drinking alcohol without reason during the march, and generally the generals of the forbidden army do not drink heavily.

There is no extravagance and magnificence in the palace hall, and there is no extravagant honor guard and pomp. The most powerful ministers of the dynasty sat around such an earthen stove, surrounding the emperor. But at this time, the monarch and the ministers seemed to be much closer.

Guo Shaozheng was holding a map, ignoring the meaning of the crowd, and the princes talked casually. The fire boiling the soup warmed up in the tent.

The drawings were added to the scale by Guo Shao, but they are still very rudimentary. He could get a rough idea of where they were...... Relative to modern psychological knowledge. For example, Guanzhong Jingzhaofu in the south is Xi'an, and Yanzhou is Yan'an, and these place names are all reference objects.

The Yellow River flows north-south in eastern Shaanxi, and now Guo Shao and others are taking this road.

Their early destination was the confluence of the Wuding River and the Yellow River, and they were almost there. This place now belongs to the jurisdiction of Daxu, there is no city, there is no place name, it is the legendary place of the three regards, and there are Xi, Shi, Yan, Sui and other states around...... It is probably on the bank of the Yellow River in the east of "Yan'an", which should belong to northern Shaanxi?

…… The lower reaches of the Wuding River that flows into the Yellow River already belonged to the Pingxia regime. The upper reaches of the Wuding River flow in an east-west direction, and the downstream flow in a north-south direction. The downstream section is on the west side of the Yellow River.

Going up the Wuding River, you will soon reach Suizhou: a city occupied by the Xia Zhou regime. Suizhou is located at the confluence of the Dali and Wuding rivers, and Guo Shao found that Chinese cities like to build at the confluence of such rivers.

Continuing up the Wuding River, another city where the river meets: Yinzhou.

Ginju is roughly part of what the ministers call the "Yokoyama region". Guo Shao had never heard of such a mountain range as "Hengshan" before, but when he was in Tokyo, he thought that this was not a mountain range at all, but a mountainous and hilly area, with many ravines; The reason why it was called a mountain range by the ancients is probably because this area is a place where it passes from the mountains to the northern pasture plateau.

The Hengshan area is the main agricultural and animal husbandry area in Pingxia, and after the party obtained this ravine-rich area, its strength increased a lot.

The Wuding River flows from Yinzhou upstream to the east and west. Further upstream is the center of the party: Xiazhou. The Great Xia State of the Jin Dynasty built the "Tongwan City" as the capital, which was the city built at that time. It is on the north bank of the Wuding River and should belong to the plateau area.

According to Guo Shao's memory, the north of Xiazhou should be the Ordos grassland...... He was very impressed by this place, the real estate bubble was very large, called a ghost town, and it used to be reported in the news.

At this moment, Wang Pu came, and his voice interrupted Guo Shao's thoughts: "The minister has introduced a person for Your Majesty, please show your Majesty." ”

Guo Shao heard that it was Wang Pu's recommendation, and he said straight without asking: "Call him in." ”

After a while, a big man with black skin and a burly body bent over and walked in, knelt on the ground and said: "Brother Hei will knock on Your Majesty, my emperor will live forever and ......"

Guo Shao said: "Get up and speak." He turned his head to look at Wang Pu again.

Wang Pu bowed and said: "Brother Zhehei is a native of Hengshan Qiang, but he was a slave of the Zhe family very early, and he often went out with the father of Zhe De Ran, and fought bravely, so he was a general and gave the surname Zhe. The man sent by Zhederan, now he is no different from the Han Chinese. ”

Brother Zhehei said: "When the public treats the end of the general like a son, it is often said that when the Yellow Emperor Yan, there is no difference between the Qiang people and the Han people, and now the end will enter China, then it will be a child." ”

Guo Shao immediately said: "If you enter China, you will be Chinese, and if you enter China, you will be destroyed." The heart of the public is also the heart of the court and me. ”

Brother Zhehei said: "The last general grew up in Hengshan when he was young, and he knew the party's customs and customs. His Majesty's edict went to Lingzhou, and ordered the marshal to guard the defense, and the marshal sent the last general to vote for His Majesty, hoping to serve His Majesty's personal expedition to Xiazhou. ”

Guo Shaoxin said that he didn't know what it was like to lead the armies of other countries to fight his own people, but there were many parties on Han'er's side, which was not enough to be strange...... After all, Brother Zhehei has been on the side of the Han people for too long, and assimilation still has an effect, and if there is no independent regime of the party, it is estimated that the effect will be better. He nodded quietly and said, "The handsome section is loyal." ”

Zhehei Gebai said: "As far as the last general knows, the Hengshan Dangxiang people have a larger population than Pingxia (the pastoral party in the north of Yinzhou), rich in iron tools and grain, and the people are brave, and it is also the main source of troops for the Xiazhou infantry army. ”

Wang Pudao: "In the Later Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains noticed that the party was becoming more and more powerful, and once sent a large army to crusade. During the siege of Xiazhou, the surrounding area was disturbed by more than 40,000 cavalry of the party, and the road and food were in a dilemma, and the Central Plains was chaotic at that time, and the Later Tang Dynasty court was unable to hold on, so it had to find many excuses to withdraw and give up.

The minister estimated that to this day, the party is extremely large, and with the reinforcements of the Hengshan Qiang infantry army and the Hexi party army, the maximum number of troops that can be gathered may reach 100,000! ”

Guo Shao groaned: "Of course, the party will do its best in this battle. However, the number of troops cannot be just based on the number of people, I have ruled more than 400 states, raised more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and still feel that the treasury is tight. The population of the party's territory is only so large, even if it can mobilize 100,000 horses, the equipment and training must be very crude, and it should be made up of some strong men who are ordinary farmers and herdsmen.

The elite of the forbidden army in a hundred battles is well-trained, brave and good at fighting, and the equipment and grain are the best in the world. Don't be afraid! ”

The crowd bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise." ”

Guo Shao also wanted to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to scare the enemy to death...... If the treasury is so rich that it ignores transportation, it will be enough to supply the front-line military supplies with millions of civilians at any cost.

He said: "100,000 enemy troops, I'm afraid they don't have the courage to fight a decisive battle!" ”