The cold wind covered the earth, the thick snow covered the grassland, everything as far as the eye could see became a white expanse, even Shuofang was attacked by the heavy snow, only a pointed tent was exposed, all covered with thick white snow, but the snow did not make the tent below the ground even colder, but left the warmth in the tent completely.

The number of times the Chinese army went out to loot was not much, and the harvest was even less pitiful, but the number of cattle, sheep and horses that froze to death and starved to death did not become much less because of the large number of dried meat, the reason is that the tribes that were relatively close to Shuofang heard that they could exchange the dead cattle and sheep for food, and all the tribes came to the Shuofang station, handed over a large number of dead cattle, sheep and horses, and they lived in Shuofang City.

As the weather is getting colder and colder, the snow that fell a few days ago shows no sign of melting, and now no one wants to step out of the warm tent unless necessary.

Time passed little by little, Li Jing had already said that the time to attack Jieli had been there, but in the past two months, Jia Yi had reported a lot of news to Li Er under Li Jing's orders, but he did not see Li Jing using troops against the Turks, which made Jia Yi wonder to the extreme, this day is cold, it is really not a wise choice to dry up on the grassland, either retreat to the pass, or quickly use the soldiers, so that retreat can ensure the combat power of the soldiers, and enter the army can quickly complete the task and return to the court. Whether it is advancing or retreating, it is much better than staying here now, but when he asked about it, Li Jing gave him a fierce look.

"What do you kid know, have you ever studied the way of using soldiers, do you know that the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, now the white plague is raging on the grassland, food is the biggest difficulty in using soldiers, and then you know, Jieli sits on the entire Turkic, and all tribes are his hiding places, if you can't determine where he is now, and then sweep it all out, when he regroups and returns again, the battle is you or I will fight."

Jia Yi was directly defeated in Li Jing's words, he is a military novice, and Li Jing, the big ** god, is not a high-grade person at all, and he only knows thirty-six strategies for military theoretical knowledge, or the last move, go ahead.

"General, although I don't understand this, but I know that if you delay for one more day, my spies will lose more, when I came, my spies were three thousand, and more than 100 people have been killed in battles after repeated battles, these people are killed on the battlefield, I don't feel sorry for them, I feel honored for them, because they have served the country with their lives, but in the past two months, you have let the probe horses released on the grassland die more than 200, without exception, all of them froze to death, I just feel like they died a little too unjustly. ”

When Li Jing heard this, a pair of sword eyebrows suddenly stood up, and he stood up from the chair suddenly, staring at Jia Yi's eyes with a pair of tiger eyes, as if he wanted to see what Jia Yi was thinking in his heart.

What Jia Yi said was all the truth, and what his words contained was the most true thoughts in his heart, so he did not show any cowardice in his eyes with Li Jing, and he was very brave and very rare to look at Li Jing.

"Boy, if you want to report the military merits to those 200 spies, just say it, why bother to make me laugh at it."

The two of them looked at each other for a quarter of an hour, and just when Jia was a little weak at first, Li Jing's attitude suddenly softened, and he looked at Jia Yi with a faint smile on his face.

According to military law, all spies who are not killed in battle will not have military merits, that is to say, don't look at them freezing to death on the road to serve the army, but there is no such thing as a work-related injury in these years, and no useful information has been sent back, but they died on the road, and military merit cannot have their share at all.

As the supreme commander of the spies, Jia Yi felt that since they were his subordinates, although Jia Yi did not necessarily know them, he felt that he could not let the brothers who ate with him die in vain, so he had the above conversation.

was directly seen through by Li Jing, Jia Yi's face also bloomed with a happy smile, with Li Jing's words, he was able to boldly add a small military merit to those spies, although he could directly crown these spies with military merit as the commander of the supervising army, but if there was no Li Jing's consent, if Jia Yi dared to do so, Li Er would be held accountable for a crime of lying about military merits.

Now that he got the result he wanted, Jia Yi was not ready to trouble Li Jing anymore, and was just about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Li Jing again.

"Boy, although you are doing a good thing, it is also your private matter, but for your private matter, you want to harm the interests of the army, aren't you going to come up with something?"

"Hehe, general, look at what you said, aren't the spies under me also a member of the army, all the spies, including me, are all soldiers under your command, how can I do this as a private matter."

"Don't talk nonsense with me, your jerky and sausages are ready for 2,000 people for 20 days, I will be useful after a while, and prepare some more sleds."

"No problem, I'll go and prepare." Jia Yi hugged his fists at Li Jing, bowed his head and walked out of the tent, standing outside the tent, the cold wind immediately wrapped Jia Yi completely, and he couldn't help but shiver, and walked quickly towards the camp tent of the blacksmith with the army.

The jerky and sausages are all ready-made, take them as you go, and the sled is even simpler, only two thick wooden strips, nailed a few horizontal boards, and the sled is completed, although the amount of preparation this time is a little large, but this is not a big deal, anyway, there are so many people in the army, if you work together, you may be able to make the required amount in a day.

Now Jia Yi thinks about making some grenades to test the power before the army is pulled, this thing is a big killer weapon on the battlefield, if it is used well, I believe it will be able to play a very good effect, at least it can make your own soldiers die a few less.

Walking into the tent of the blacksmiths accompanying the army, after Jia Yi said his thoughts to the blacksmiths, all the blacksmiths frowned, it's not that this thing can't be made, it's just made into a small airtight ball, which is a little more difficult, and it can't be mass-produced, and they can make one or two in a few days, which is already considered a good level for them.

Is it necessary to make grenades? Without the grenade, Jia Yi can only retreat to the second, after all, the production process of the grenade is much simpler than the grenade, it is nothing more than to get the iron sheet quickly, wrap the explosives in it, and then plug a wooden stick in the back, and then leave an oil rope, when the time comes, you only need to point the fuel rope, and then throw it out, but the power of the grenade and the grenade are simply incomparable.

After telling a few blacksmiths about the idea of a grenade, they nodded and could make it, and after speaking, they found a little iron sheet and began to make it, and after a short while, a grenade that was no different from the later generations appeared in Jia Yi's hands, of course, this is just an empty shell, and it needs to be filled with gunpowder.

ran to the quartermaster and asked for an explosives bag, dismantled it, took out some gunpowder and poured it into a grenade, put an oil rope, walked outside the station, and lit the fuel rope with the torch in his hand, under the gaze of a group of friends, Jia Yi threw the grenade out with all his strength.

Then Jia Yi quickly lay on the ground and covered his head with both hands.

"Boom"

A loud bang startled the little friends standing not far away, they didn't know that the army had developed something that could produce a violent explosion, and it was not strange to be frightened when they saw it for the first time.

Qin Huaiyu immediately recovered from the shock, walked to Jia Yi, who had just stood up and was patting the snowflakes on his body, pointed to a dark pit not far away and asked Jia Yi, "What is this?" ”

"My latest grenade, how about it, the power is not bad."

Qin Huaiyu and the other group of friends had not yet given any response to Jia Yi's smugness, but a majestic voice sounded from behind the friends.

"Not bad fart, what kind of thing did you come up with, if I applied it to the battlefield, I don't know how many enemies would die, but there will be countless casualties in our army."

Li Jing, who had a black face, looked at the big pit not far away, walked to Jia Yi's side, and just finished speaking, or because he was very unhappy to see the smile on Jia's face, he raised his hand and slammed it on Jia Yi's helmet, it was cold, Jia Yi didn't feel any pain, as for whether Li Jing's hand hurt or not, Jia Yi didn't know.

"Isn't the general satisfied with the effect of the explosion?" Jia Yi looked at the pitch-black pit with a puzzled face, to be honest, this effect is still very good, and the effect of dispersion after the iron sheet becomes casual is also very helpful, don't you see that the larger area around is scattered with iron pieces.

"What kind of troops are there in our army?"

Li Jing did not answer Jia Yi's inquiry, but asked a question first.

Jia Yi thought about it and found that the majority of those who participated in the battle were always cavalry, and it seemed that it was rare to see infantry participating in the battle, perhaps the infantry would only play a role when attacking the city.

"Cavalry."

"How far do you think a cavalryman can throw this thing out with his arm, and whether these grenades will explode when the horse is within range of the explosion."

Hearing Li Jing's most professional words, fine beads of sweat suddenly appeared on Jia Yi's body.