Chapter 152: Deep in the Prairie

Jiang Sheng was shocked, could it be that Zhao Yun and Gongsun Zan were annihilated by Qiu Liju? The original worry still became a reality, and now Jiang Sheng is facing more than ten times the elite cavalry of Wuhuan. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Even if the Xuanjia cavalry is one as ten, it will not escape the doom of defeat.

Qiu Liju's cavalry had already discovered that there was an official cavalry near Baishan, with a number of about 4,000, and Qiu Liju was overjoyed, so that they could break through the official army, so they led the army to speed up the march.

Jiang Sheng saw that the situation was not good, so he waved his army to gallop north, and there were Wuhuan cavalry in a large area in the south, and it was impossible to retreat to the south, only one way to the north.

The grasslands outside the Seychelles are covered with a layer of ice and snow, and from a distance, they are snow-white. When Jiang Sheng was in the People's Liberation Army before the crossing, he had gone to the grassland many times to train the troops, but the grassland in later generations was different from now, the grassland was now lush with grass, even in winter, there were yellow-green wild grasses under the snow, Jiang Sheng couldn't take a break, and ran continuously until dusk, before gathering the troops and camping to rest.

The knights all used their hands to pick up the snow, revealing the wild grass underneath for the war horses to eat, Jiang Sheng only brought half a month's dry food when he went out to fight, and it is still sufficient.

Now that it is deep into the grassland, in order to prevent being attacked by foreign cavalry, Jiang Shengjun did not dare to bury the pot to cook, so he could only quench his thirst with snow, satisfy his hunger with dry food, and be ready to evacuate at any time.

Jiang Sheng secretly regretted a little, now it is not a wise move to go deep into the grassland full of enemy troops to search for Zhang Chun, the combat power of the official army is gradually improving under the leadership of Jiang Sheng, even if Zhang Chun makes a comeback in the next year, it can be dealt with calmly, and now he is alone in the depths.

There is no regret medicine in the world, and Jiang Sheng can only use his ingenuity and skills to survive in the wild in the future to preserve his strength.

Judging from the news reported by the scouts, the battle line of the Wuhuan cavalry is very long, and it is clear that it is driving Jiang Sheng's cavalry to the north.

In order to prepare for a long war, Jiang Sheng ordered the whole army to divide the daily ration into five parts, eat one per day, and dig up the grass roots under the snow to satisfy hunger if it is not enough. These dry foods are also regarded as field dry foods invented by Jiang Sheng, which are fried barley flour, mixed with dried vegetable powder and fine salt, and only need to be brewed with hot water when eating.

The logistics baggage soldiers in Jiang Sheng's barracks would grind the raised grain into fine powder with a small mill they carried everywhere, and then fry dry food, and also made rice noodle dumplings, but during the war, it was difficult to ensure the supply of rice noodle dumplings throughout the whole process. During the previous Shimen War, there were too many officers and soldiers, and the logistics soldiers could not make enough rice noodles, so they only provided fried barley flour.

While eating, the scout came to report that the traces of the Wuhuan cavalry had been found twenty miles behind, and Jiang Sheng ordered the whole army to immediately mount their horses and retreat to the northeast.

"General, the northeast is the activity area of the Wuhuan tribe, will we go like this?" One Sima was a little worried.

"Definitely! Qiu Liju made such a large-scale southern expedition, his tribe must be empty, so we took advantage of his unpreparedness and attacked the Wuhuan tribe. ”

Jiang Sheng's idea actually works, Wuhuan has many tribes, but most of them are small tribes with only a few hundred or dozens of people, the largest four tribes, namely Qiu Liju, Su Fuyan Department, Nanlou Department, and Wuyan Department, Nanlou all follow Qiu Liju to the south, and the Wuyan Department that stayed behind was controlled by Qiu Liju's subordinates, and was responsible for the defense of the Wangting tribe, with only more than 5,000 troops, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled.

The farther east he went, the less grass he saw, and Jiang Sheng ordered the march to be stopped. This white field of vision, if you continue like this, you will get snow blindness, and the war horse is not easy to deal with, so this situation must not occur.

Jiang Sheng ordered the army to turn northwest again, and walked along the route that exposed the barren grass or other features, so that the route was tortuous, and the Wuhuan cavalry circled on the snow-covered grassland.

Qiu Liju could see that Jiang Sheng was going around in circles, so he simply ordered the army to set up a series of tents along the east and west, and waited for Jiang Sheng to throw himself into the net.

The scout discovered the long snake camp of the Wuhuan cavalry, and hurriedly returned to report to Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng said with a smile: "Qiu Liju wants to fight a war of attrition, I don't want to obey his wishes, and I will send an order to all the tribes to loot the Wuhuan tribes after three days of rest, and see who can consume whom!" ”

Three days later, Jiang Sheng led the army to continue north, and had penetrated more than 300 miles into the grassland, and the vegetation and climate were completely different from Youzhou, and many soldiers suffered from severe wind chills, making it difficult to continue the march.

Jiang Sheng had to stop continuing to march, he dug a snow hole in a particularly thick snow, fixed it in the hole with bush branches and tarpaulins, and put the patient in the snow cave to recuperate, although there were many herbs on the grassland, but because it was covered with snow, it was not easy to find, Jiang Sheng sent two hundred Xuanjia cavalry to patrol and post a sentry, and then took the rest of the soldiers and horses to dig the snow to find medicine, after a few days of hard searching, finally got a lot of herbs that can cure wind and cold.

Jiang Sheng participated in field training in the army before crossing, and it can be said that he knows a lot about herbal medicine, and the Chinese herbal medicine on the grassland is already abundant.

After a few days, the sick soldiers had improved significantly, but a more serious problem arose, and the dry food they had brought with them had been eaten!

The harsh reality made Jiang Sheng have to think about how to survive, it is difficult to ensure the physical fitness and combat effectiveness of the soldiers by simply eating grass roots, after all, in the era of cold weapons, physical strength is the key factor to win.

According to Jiang Sheng's intentions, the scouts searched for foreign tribes within a radius of a hundred miles, and in the face of the pressure of survival, Jiang Sheng's mercy could only harm everyone, so he made up his mind that he must be ruthless against foreign tribes.

A small tribe of more than 300 people became Jiang Sheng's first target.

Before dawn, there were a lot of uninvited guests on the horizon.

These uninvited guests were dressed in black, which formed a strong contrast with the white snow, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves approaching quickly, and the tribal soldiers in charge of guarding hurriedly sounded the warning horn, and the whole tribe became nervous, regardless of men, women, and children.

This was the fate of the small tribe, which either surrendered to the powerful enemy or was destroyed, and their defenses pale under the attack of four thousand elite cavalry.

The simple fence had no defensive effect, and these horses in fine armor directly smashed the fence to pieces, and the young soldiers guarding the perimeter became headless ghosts in a short time, and the Xuanjia cavalry rushed into the camp with the corpses of the Wuhuan people. (To be continued.) )