As soon as Ge Lu retreated, Xiao Tachi was about to put on armor and go out of the camp to supervise the battle, and his own soldiers reported again, and Guo Baoyi, the deputy commander, came to visit. Xiao Tachi had no choice but to order an interview. He knew that Guo Baoyi was His Majesty's henchman, and he seemed to be a rough man, but he was actually very scheming. Before setting out on the expedition, Empress Xiao also specially told him that it was Guo Baoyi who recommended him to His Majesty to serve as the commander, and this person needed to be more encircled. However, after the two people met, they were always a little not too speculative. One of the two is the capital and the other is the deputy capital, so they cooperate like this.

Guo Baoyi walked in with a happy face, and when he saw Xiao Tachi, he smiled and said, "Xiao Dutong, there is hope for conquering the thief's lair." Xiao Tachi was slightly stunned, and said secretly in his heart: "A few days ago, everyone said that there was no way, but today the suggestions came one after another. Could it be that the immortal heaven will not bless it? He was puzzled, and couldn't help but look up, the dome of the dome of the dome of the big tent had been opened, but there were only thick dark clouds, and the sky was extraordinary. Sullen.

"General Guo, what's the best way?"

Guo Baoyi looked left and right and shouted, "You guys retreat first!" ”

The soldiers of the White Eagle Battalion who were waiting in the tent looked at Xiao Tachi, Xiao Tachi nodded, and these people obeyed the order to retreat. Guo Baoyi smiled and said, "Xiao Dutong, do you know about King Jin?" ”

"King Jin?" Xiao Tachi hesitated for a moment, and finally remembered, "You mean Han ......?" He only knew that there was a Han man surnamed Han, because he was found to be the remains of the Yelu royal family, and was named the king of Jin by Yelu Dashi. When Xiao Tachi first heard this, he was very disapproving. There are not many sons of tribal chiefs on the steppe who have been exiled into slavery, and there is no one who has become a leader again simply because he is noble. It is even rarer for a slave in a tribe to betray the current tribe because of their ancestors three or four generations ago. Therefore, he just listened to this matter, but he didn't expect Deputy Dutong Guo to mention this surnamed Han again.

"Exactly," Guo Baoyi smiled and said in a low voice, "I can't hide it, because the King of Jin used to have many subordinates in the Han army, and when he went out on the expedition, His Majesty sent the people of the King of Jin to follow him in the army." Sure enough, last night I finally got in touch with the fine work in Iron Mountain Fort. Guo Baoyi walked to the topography map of Tieshan Fort hanging in the tent, and pointed to the cliff road near the sea in the back mountain, "The Han army relies on the steep terrain here, the defense is extremely loose, and there is only one centurion on duty every night. When the time comes, our army will select hundreds of warriors and wait on the ice, and the ropes will be lowered from above. Our army took advantage of the night to sneak up on the front to attract the attention of the Han army, and the warriors took the opportunity to attack from behind. The inside and the outside should be combined to capture the Iron Mountain Fort in one fell swoop. ”

"I see." Xiao Tachi was also overjoyed when he heard this, and asked again: "Lord Guo, does King Jin have any internal response in Nanshan City?" ”

Guo Baoyi shook his head and said: "The defenders of Nanshan were selected by Zhao De himself, and the officers above the commander of ten were all selected by him, and the officers above the centurion were the henchmen of this person." The top and bottom are like a monolith. King Jin's inner should not be able to drill into it. ”

"Oh," Xiao Tachi couldn't hide a trace of disappointment in his tone, and nodded, "Then, Ben will select five hundred warriors from the White Eagle Battalion to climb from the cliff and command the army to attack Tieshan Fort head-on, and there will be Lao Guo Dutong." Although Xiao Tachi was born in the grassland, he has been doing things in the court for several years, Guo Baoyi has already achieved this point, he will not compete with Guo Baoyi for the credit of Tieshan Fort, but wants Yucheng to envelop him.

He looked up at the tent, on the ground in the distance, at the small city, and took a deep breath. "It's okay," Xiao Tachi put on his helmet, "and he doesn't have to do it behind his back, he can take this city." He pinned his scimitar to his body and strode out of the tabernacle. The roar of artillery was deafening, and the smoke and dust covered the sun. Not far away, the punished three thousand men lined up with ladders, and there were cavalry watching over them, and another day of bloody siege began.

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The north wind blew violently, and although it was not covered with snow and ice, it cut people's faces like knives. The world is full of ice and snow, and the snow is so white that there is not even a trace of wrinkles, which shows that this place is not only uninhabited, but also rare for birds and beasts. However, such pure beauty is accompanied by the most cruel cold.

There was no sound, everything seemed to stand still, and the Murbo people marching slowly on the snowy fields seemed to have been abandoned by the Immortal Heaven. Even though they had been wrapped in all their warm clothing, leather jackets, cotton clothes, and even blankets, they still felt cold to the bone, and with every breath, their lungs ached as if they were about to be cracked by freezing. Many people's hands, feet, and faces were frozen, and even their minds were frozen, as if they were frozen by the cold, and they had no feelings or thoughts except the cold, and they followed the army like wood, and they really had no strength, so they fell headlong on the snowfield, and the others pushed him twice and did not move, so he stayed there forever.

Suddenly, a layer of fog appeared faintly in front of him, and the snow field in front of him seemed to be more crystal clear. Many of the Mlbs felt unusual. The smell of the horses was also excited, and the hungry horses even kept digging the snow, revealing grass stalks under the thick snow.

"Water, water!"

"Oh my God, this must be the North Sea!"

The ice with no end in sight suddenly appeared in front of the people, and the people who were already desperate could not help but cry with joy, this must be the North Sea, where the ancestors of the Murb people had grazed, in the vicinity of the North Sea, the climate is much warmer than anywhere else in the vicinity, although the people have been frozen to the point that they cannot feel it, but this is the difference between life and death. Moreover, on the shores of the lakes in the North Sea, there are large patches of pasture grass that horses can eat as long as they cut through the snow.

"Great Khan, this is the North Sea, right?"

"Yes, we've bypassed the North Sea." Bo Shenghuo nodded affirmatively. Although the Murbs have been grazing in the southern part of the North Sea for generations, the North Sea is so vast that no one of the Mlbs has ever experienced the places they have traveled through, including their final arrival on the shores of the lake. Along the way, Bo Shenghuo used the celestial instrument to determine his bearing, and in the past two days, the heat and cool instrument he carried showed that the climate had warmed sharply, which could only be due to the proximity to the North Sea. With the speed of marching southward alone, it was impossible for Yan Liangyi to have such a drastic change. Because the North Sea is a vast lake, only the ice of the North Sea can absorb the cold in this way, making the nearby land much warmer than other places in the desert north.

"This is the North Sea." Bo Shenghuo nodded affirmatively again, looking at the boundless ice field, he suddenly sighed, "Where Su Wu shepherds, a person from the Southern Dynasty has been here for nineteen years, this kind of integrity is really admirable." "Although the people of the Southern Dynasties have revered Su Wu for generations, I am afraid that no one can imagine what a torturous thing this is.

Those people in the Southern Dynasties never had an accurate understanding of Mobei and the tribes of the grassland. They feel that the severe cold in Mobei may be colder than Youzhou. They thought that the nomadic tribes roamed the steppes all year round and had no fixed residence. The people of the Central Plains did not know that if the prairie was compared to a city in the Central Plains, each nomadic tribe was at best familiar with a few of its streets. The steppe tribes graze their cattle all year round, and they all have very fixed routes. And because they can't identify the exact direction, the nomadic tribes have always avoided unfamiliar routes. If the Xiongnu were forced to flee to Mobei by the Han Dynasty, the cost would be extremely painful, often with a large number of deaths of people and livestock. In the same way, even the nomadic tribes marching in the Mobei grassland are not free and easy to gallop, and the army carrying a large number of horses is often very dependent on traditional nomadic routes, water sources, and pastures are not available everywhere, and if you miss a day or two of the trip, you will pay heavy losses.

These things that the people of the Central Plains don't know, the people of Xia know everything about it. The Anbei Military Division only controlled some important routes, and it was extremely inconvenient for the nomadic tribal army to attack westward. On the contrary, the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, with the help of the instructions of the Heaven and Earth Gazetteer, can often take some unexpected routes, such as Zhu Yanheng's successful sneak attack on Haidu Khan's camp, and the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom are approaching dozens of miles away, and the Erbo only notices.

This time, Bo Shenghuo took advantage of this, and this route was the one he had been searching for a long time to find. In order to attack Datong Mansion, the Anbei Military Division poured out the three armies of hussars, Tongqiu and Duhan, and also requisitioned 30,000 Yinhu cavalry. The remaining Tayan and Tucai armies of the Anbei Military Division were originally scattered in the extremely vast grassland Gobi in the Xia Kingdom. Because of the hussars, about 4,500 Tayan troops were successively transferred to Hengzhai Fort, and the cavalry army had not even been concentrated. The cavalry scouts of the Xia Kingdom guarded the main roads that ran through the grassland, but they did not expect that the Murbo cavalry led by Bo Shenghuo even bypassed the entire Beihai. In this way, 20,000 cavalry set out from Xijing Road and marched long distances in the inaccessible Mobei Snow Plain, killing nearly 5,000 people and tens of thousands of horses along the way.

This is the rear of the Anbei Military Division, and the herdsmen of Yinhu are unsuspectingly concentrated in the winter nest pasture for the winter, from here to Hengzhai Fort, where the Xia army is concentrated, there is about 1,600 miles of road. And two hundred miles away in Duhan City, there are only 500 soldiers stationed.

"Warriors, we have walked the hardest road, endured the coldest wind and snow, Immortal Heaven bless, I have brought you here," Bo Shenghuo drew his scimitar, "I swear to Immortal Heaven that this land has everything. Are you hungry? There is fragrant lamb and milk wine. Are you cold? There are furs and padded jackets. Are you poor? There is gold, silver, and money. And, women. As long as you win, it will be yours! ”

Note: In ancient times, the North Sea, the Little Sea, and today's Lake Belga