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After two days of rest, the fatigue of more than ten days of marching was swept away, and the soldiers were full of strength and prepared to return to the division.

Piece by piece, the seized material was loaded into chariots converted into sleighs, not only gold and silver, fur, deer antlers, bows and arrows, scimitars, but everything in the tribe, including the pots and pans used by the Mongols. Of course, the dozens of chariot wagons were not enough when they came, but the Mongols themselves had large chariots, and they chased water and grass all year round and migrated, so they could not do without horse-drawn chariots. Now these carriages have also been removed from their wheels and converted to the style of sleighs.

The sleigh naturally needs to be pulled by livestock, but it is not possible to use war horses, because such a cold weather allows horses to pull, which is likely to cause great physical damage to the war horses, and perhaps after more than ten days, these war horses can no longer gallop on the battlefield. War horses are too delicate and rare, Chen Yue is reluctant to let them lose in this place, which is why he was embarrassed at the beginning. Among the more than 2,000 horses, there may be less than half of the real war horses, but no matter how bad the horse is, it is also a horse, and it cannot be used for a battlefield charge, and it is also possible to use it as a pack horse. But what can you do without these horse-drawn sleighs?

And the idea of the slave named Ren Yu made Chen Yue's heart relax, and he proposed to let the oxen pull the sled, this idea is not unexpected, but the grassland cattle are not as good as the domesticated ploughing cattle in the mainland, and there is no way to make them contribute, so they have to pull the sled over for you. But Ren Yudao, as long as these grassland cattle are pierced with nose rings to ensure that they are obedient one by one, the ploughing cattle in the mainland can also wear nose rings to plow the fields.

So, in the past two days, the mooing of the cattle in the whole camp became a loud sound, and more than a thousand soldiers worked together, and finally put on nose rings for all the cattle, of course, there were not so many nose rings made of iron, and they were all held with leather ropes.

More than 2,000 oxen, led by these freed slaves, were enough to pull thousands of sleigh carts. As for the tens of thousands of sheep, the pioneers walked in the snow, and those who could follow followed, but those who could not keep up with the team were slaughtered on the spot and thrown into carts to pull.

The forage stored by the herders in the camp was also loaded into carts, and the animals could not do without fodder after a long march.

In this way, on the third day, the army marched and rushed back towards Qingshikou. As for the more than 1,000 Mongol women and children, they were left to fend for themselves in the camp.

At the front of the team was Yu Feng with three hundred cavalry and two horses to open the way, although it was a cavalry, but in order to protect the war horses, almost most of the time was dismounted and walked.

In the middle is Chen Yue Wang Yin with a large convoy, a thousand carts of converted sleighs under the traction of more than 2,000 oxen, sliding happily in the snow. More than 400 freed Han slaves and hundreds of officers and soldiers tried their best to pull more than 2,000 cattle, although their nostrils were pierced, these cattle were still difficult to control, and from time to time some people were pushed to the ground. In the end, Ren Yu thought of a way and tied a stick to the head of the cow, and a bunch of hay was tied to the end of the stick.

On both sides of the sleigh were more than 30,000 sheep driven by hundreds of soldiers, and the speed of these sheep in the snow was so slow that it seriously slowed down the march of the team. The soldiers slaughtered the sheep with knives and threw them on top of the carts pulled by oxen.

More than 1,000 troops, tens of thousands of livestock, walking on the vast snowfield, like a tribe migration. The speed of walking in the ice and snow weather is not fast at all, at most thirty or forty miles a day, so it will take at least more than 20 days to return to Qingshikou, I am afraid that when I return to Qingshikou, it will be the New Year!

Marching during the day and camping at night, there are not so many tents for cattle and sheep to shelter from the cold, and the oxen pulling the sleigh will cover each head with a blanket, and the sheep can only rest in the snow den. Every day, a large number of sheep freeze to death, and in the end, the carcasses of the frozen sheep are piled up with sleds, Chen Yue knows that I am afraid that by the time Qingshikou arrives, there will not be a single sheep alive!

The carcasses of so many sheep could not be pulled by sleds, and in the end two of each horse had to be packed, and thus thousands of sheep carcasses were still on the snowfield.

The army walked with difficulty, and the vast snowfield did not know what size was, and many soldiers had frozen their toes and fingers to the point that they had long lost consciousness, and severe frostbite could only be amputated. By the fifteenth day, some soldiers had already developed a high fever that could not hold on, but they could only wipe their bodies with snow to cool down. Chen Yue could no longer take pity on the war horses, and let the war horses carry these sick soldiers on the march.

Chen Yue sadly found that he had not lost a few in the battle with the Mongols, and he was afraid that the harsh march would cause a large number of attrition of the troops. However, no matter what, the team cannot stop, and if it stops, many people will no longer be able to take a step and will sleep in the snow forever.

From time to time, the corpses of war horses appeared in front of him, Chen Yue's heart was numb, he only hoped that he could get out of the snow field and return to Qingshikou as soon as possible!

I don't know how many more days have passed, when everyone is desperate, a winding and undulating dragon appeared in front of me, it is the side wall, and the bluestone mouth has arrived!

The moment they saw the side wall, many people knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly, after more than a month of hard fighting, they defeated the Mongol tribe, and then passed through the vast snowfield, and finally returned!

Countless figures passed through the city gate and ran towards the snow, which was the comrade of Qingshikou, who came to meet the soldiers who had returned from meritorious service!

"Ah Yue!" Yang Zhengping grabbed Chen Yue's arm, looked at Chen Yue's dry and blue lips, and cried out in distress.

"Young Master!" Chen Ping also grabbed Chen Yue's other arm, and the two of them put him off the horse.

With the support of the two, Chen Yue walked on the ground with difficulty, his legs were numb, as if he was not his own.

"Brother Zhengping, are the hot soup and meals ready?" Chen Yue asked weakly.

"The hot soup and hot rice are all good, and there is a hot earthen kang that is burned, Ah Yue, you can rest assured." Yang Zhengping said.

"That's good, that's good, by the way, there are many brothers who are sick, so get them medical advice as soon as possible. By the way, what day is it? ”

"Rest assured, everything is ready. Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and seven days are left for the New Year. ”

"Is it almost the New Year? It's going to be the seventeenth year of Chongzhen soon! Chen Yue let out a faint sigh.