The dense pine forests are now covered with snow, and from a distance, there are snow sculptures of different shapes, and the canopies of the pine trees are now all shaped by the snow, and it is not easy to tell that this is a large forest from a distance.

The snow in the forest seemed much thinner, and in some places there was no snow because the canopy was too high, and above the ground, the withered yellow grass barley lay on the ground, frozen and stiff, and on the fine grass stalks, the shiny ice edges shone slightly.

There are more than 100 men and more than 100 war horses in the forest. They are all the Thunder Army led by the Emperor of Yongdu City. The former pride of the sky, with their eyes above the top, encountered an army that was stronger than them this winter, and in the battle again and again, the other party taught them what the real war was with blood.

The cavalry of a single outpost of 500 men lost most of them in a month out of the city, and now less than 200 people are still struggling to support them. They need to maintain the safety of the grain route from Yongdu City to Shuanglian City.

Liu Kui sat cross-legged under an old pine, chewing vigorously on the frozen dried meat, which was salty but could replenish them with the necessary salt. His war horse was standing beside him, arching the turf on the ground with his mouth, and then rolled his big tongue up, and rolled these grass branches into his mouth and chewed them with taste, or the grass roots that he had pulled out were still a little juice, which made the horse who had chewed the winter hay grain very happy, and snorted with satisfaction, and then continued to arch his head in another place.

The men in the forest were all eating in silence, and some of them leaned on the big trees to sleep after eating, so that they could recover their physical strength quickly. Because in this snowy field, battles can break out at any time, and it seems that enemy scouts are everywhere, sometimes in teams of ten, sometimes in groups of hundreds or even hundreds.

If you don't have enough physical strength, you're playing with your life.

As long as there is a little time, it is necessary to keep yourself and your horse full of physical strength, which is the first thing that the enemy's cavalry has taught them since they left Yongdu, although at the cost of blood.

The glamorous iron armor of the Thunder Army in the past has long been abandoned by them, that thing is indeed mighty and beautiful, and can provide enough protection for the soldiers when the two armies collide head-on, but in this snowfield, in the battle with the enemy cavalry, it is completely useless and even becomes a burden for the soldiers.

Everyone here remembers the scene of the first confrontation with the enemy's cavalry. At that time, they were fully assembled and met with a cavalry of the Ming army, which was no more than a hundred people. At the first time they met, the Ming army turned around and fled, which made them very happy, the Thunder Army was so famous that it allowed the enemy to flee without a fight.

Naturally, they were in hot pursuit, but after only half an hour, they knew that something was wrong, their horses were almost at their limits, and the enemy was still as light as elves on the snow.

The enemy is not armoured, but they are full body armor, when a war horse carries hundreds of pounds of things on its body, no matter how strong it is, its physical strength cannot last.

The momentum of the chase was reversed in an instant. Those who fled became the outnumbered Thunder Army. And the fierce gods are following after the cowards they had laughed at loudly.

One by one, the companions fell behind because of the physical strength of the war horses, and then they were chased and beaten to death by those Ming troops.

In the end, it was the lieutenant who resolutely led a small half of the cavalry to turn around to meet the enemy, and used his own life to buy time for the others to escape. But of the 500-strong sentry, only about 300 remained.

In the ensuing battles, the number of personnel slowly decreased, and half of them were buried forever in this snowy field.

Everyone was at a loss and didn't know where the road was heading.

The enemy seems to be too strong. Every time they encountered the enemy cavalry, they were not the same horsemen, and it seemed that their opponents were constantly changing people, but they were like a wounded lone wolf, facing a ferocious tiger in a futile struggle.

No matter how fierce they seem, they can't hide the fact that they are inherently weak.

They needed to clear the small force of the Ming army in this area to ensure that the grain could be transported to the Shuanglian City. But the further back they got, the more they feel powerless. Every time the grain team was able to get a small half of the grain to the Shuanglian City, they felt that it was a great victory. But this food is not enough to ensure that the soldiers of the Shuanglian City have enough to eat.

Moreover, these scout teams of the enemy seem to be getting more and more. And they, however, are unlikely to have reinforcements. Yongdu City is very large, and the 50,000 Thunder Army is not much for defending Yongdu. Their only purpose was to try to defend the few acropolises outside, delay the movement of the Ming army, buy more time for Yongdu City, so that the emperor could arm more young and strong, and train more qualified soldiers.

But even if this goal is achieved, will Yongdu be able to hold it? Or the lords in the city, the generals thought so, but Liu Kui and his companions, who had been fighting outside the city for more than a month, were not so optimistic.

They have fully understood the power of the enemy.

The Ming army did not launch any powerful attack on the Acropolis, and it seems that it was not that they could not, but that they did not want to. Launching a siege in such weather will undoubtedly be difficult to attack. And all the current actions have made these acropolises on the periphery of Yongdu unsustainable, and if they continue like this, these acropolises will all starve to death and freeze to death if they can't wait for the enemy to attack.

Or the imperial court thought that the Ming army had traveled a long distance, and the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops would make their logistics supply difficult, and they would launch fierce wolves on these acropolis, but it was obvious that the Ming army did not intend to do this at all, and their logistics supply had not been any problem at all so far.

In order to defeat the Ming army and win the Yongdu defense city, the imperial court adopted a cruel plan to clear the wilderness, within a hundred miles of Yongdu, all the people's food was collected, and all the young and strong laborers were driven into Yongdu City, and those old and weak women and children were abandoned, the purpose was to let the Ming army not find a grain of grain outside the Yongdu City, nor could they find a strong man labor force that could be used by them. It is this policy that has caused the tragic situation of being deserted within 100 miles outside Yongdu City.

The people around Yongdu suffered greatly, but the Ming army was not affected much at all. Their logistical supply is continuous, so that this army of tens of thousands of people, even if they are stationed in the ice and snow, still have a good time, but it is the Qin people, and life is becoming more and more difficult.

Liu Kui sighed, took out a flat iron pot from his arms, pulled out the cork on it, took a deep breath, and then slowly poured a small amount of the liquid inside into his mouth, swallowed it, and his lower abdomen was like a fire, and a warm heat spread all over his body along it.

This was snatched from the Ming army after killing a Ming scout team. In fact, a lot of the equipment on some of their bodies was stolen from the Ming army scout where they were killed.

A double leather hat with a mask, gloves that show most of your fingers, and the flask in her hand. After taking a sip, he tightly corked the cork, this kind of wine, he had never drunk before, only a small sip was needed to restore the warmth of the frozen stiff body, and fight in the freezing snow, of course Liu Kui understood the value of this thing. And what made him feel terrified was that such a small wine pot was on every Ming soldier they killed.

Some still have a small half-pot of wine left, some have only a few sips left, and of course, some have only an empty pot left.

The fact that the Ming army was able to equip every soldier with such a luxury shows that there was no problem with the logistics supply of the Ming army at all. Now it is still full of ice and snow, and when the snow melts in the spring of the next year, everything recovers, and the logistics supply of the Ming army is only afraid that it will be smoother.

Liu Kui, who deeply realized this, had already realized that his strategy of trying to weaken the Ming army by dragging down the enemy's supplies had failed.

Putting away the small pot, he took out a small crossbow machine from his arms, which was also a trophy, but unfortunately, after the battle, he only found two crossbow arrows in the snow, one of which was pulled out of the body of his comrade.

Small things are very delicately made, but they can harvest people's lives in an instant. The body of this crossbow machine is also engraved with the name of a man who seems to belong to the owner of this crossbow machine, and he is now dead.

Liu Kui smiled bitterly, maybe it won't be long before he and the owner of this crossbow machine will be with him.

Picked up a horse lance at his feet, it was a ten-person patrol team he met not long ago, different from the Ming army scouts he had encountered before, this team was equipped with this kind of horse lance, although there were only ten people, but in this battle on his side, it was enough to kill more than 20 people before they were taken down, and this horse lance became his own trophy. The combat effectiveness of this cavalry frightened him, much more powerful than the Ming scouts they had encountered earlier. The chasing wind engraved on the end of the horse lance made him quietly understand that this was the army that belonged to the Ming people.

What a luxury army! The horse lance, even in the Thunder Army, is a high-end weapon that only high-ranking officers can have, and in the Ming Army, everyone actually has one.

Liu Kui put one end of the horse lance on the ground, and slowly exerted force with the tail of the spear in his hand, seeing that the lance slowly bent into an arc. As soon as the force was relieved, there was a soft buzzing sound, and the horse lance returned to its original appearance.

How can this battle be fought? A Ming army with such combat effectiveness, as long as it encounters a team of more than 100 people, it will never be able to win.