In the snow-soaked field, a short but fierce encounter had just ended, when a fleeing ranger suddenly threw himself on his horse's back and fell headlong, hung on a stirrup with one foot, and was dragged upside down before stopping.

Someone patted the horse to catch up, carefully lassoed the owner's horse, and pulled it back as part of the battle.

Although it cannot be directly possessed as oneself, as a military horse, especially a rare material such as a war horse for riding, after being handed over, it can be exchanged for a large internal quota for a small group that acts together, half of which is distributed to each person on the spot, and half is used as the capital shared by the group.

From the surplus materials or trophies managed by the timber officers or the subordinates at all levels, they can exchange for a lot of good things such as tobacco, soaphorn, whale oil, raincoats, linoleum, kettles, pots, charcoal, and small folding knives, or spare weapons, lead ingots, medicines and other consumables and related tools that are brought in addition to the basic ration.

Of course, this must at least be the welfare of the regular soldiers of the main battle battalion or the veterans of the inferior military order, mainly to promote and adjust the circulation and consumption of surplus materials within the army in disguise, and to avoid too much backlog of goods and goods in the hands of soldiers, which will affect the will and determination to fight.

"Well done, sixth ......"

The catcher Niu Gao patted the shoulder of the hunter Shi Changquan Liu very hard,

"Half of this horse's quota is yours......"

Fang had just untied a piece of the white cloth cloak that he had hidden from his power, and he just smiled a little and carried the long pole behind him. He was originally a talkative person, but after becoming a hunter, he was even more silent. Therefore, it is very much to the appetite of some people, and repeatedly named the task of advancing and retreating and acting together.

"Thirteen killed, ......five wounded and captured"

"Just a cavalry ...... of fire"

"Of the sixteen mounts that were found nearby, only eleven of them could be used,"

"If you are too injured to take it away, you will be slaughtered on the spot......"

Niu Gao waved his hand.

"Hurry up and cut the meat...... It's not easy to break in this cold day."

Afterwards, they left half of the men behind, and rode around to guard the horses, and casually took the rest of the horses away, so as not to hurt the scene and affect the mood and state of the mounts.

The other half of the people were busy on the spot, they worked together to put down the horses that were still injured and not dead, carefully at the position of the neck, felt the large veins that were still throbbing, pulled out the special spurs, carefully pierced the tip, and then reversed and stirred out a wound.

This will try to avoid injuring more organs, and provoke the injured horses to resist and struggle, resulting in more waste, which they have already done many times with a good car.

So the large strands of blood suddenly twitched with the vigorous twitching of the military horses, and the large strands gushed out, and then pressed them with the big skin bags they carried, and soon they were filled with seven or eight large skin bags.

Add a little salt and minced ginger to the mouth to prevent coagulation, and shake it vigorously to make it done, Niu Gao personally picked up a full skin bag, poured a big mouthful into the mouth, and immediately dyed the short whiskers at the corners of the mouth into a bright red color, although the hot horse blood did not taste very good, but in this cold winter, it was a good drink to replenish calories and body.

At this time, the wounded horse was almost dying, and even the blood flow under the hard squeezing gradually became slowly thinning, and then, the others used helmets and other hollow containers to catch the remaining blood and water, and the military horse almost died. They sat down on the carcass of the horse, sprinkled some salt and seasoned it, and drank it hot, and although they could not help frowning and disgusting, none of them were wasted.

In the ability to sustain oneself in the wild, it is also important to learn to hunt and then drink blood and eat raw meat under conditions that are inconvenient to start a fire, and at the same time to avoid possible frontal parasites and infectious diseases through proper handling.

At the very least, drinking the blood of large animals is a good way to temporarily satisfy stomach and thirst, and to avoid most wild pathogens.

Then, they switched back to the easier cutting of curved knives, and in groups of three or five they cut along the texture of the upper limbs of the dead horse, and before long the red and white tendons and flesh strips of red and white tendons worn on the rope, and the fat of the white flowers with mucous membranes, were stacked in piles on the ground, and then they were frozen hard again.

As for the rest of the other flesh and bones, I can only give up, this is a battlefield where the enemy may encounter at any time, and there is not much time to waste. As Niu Gao whistled, the people who came out to patrol and guard also gathered back and put these raw meat and fat behind the saddle.

After running like this, the cold wind will naturally further dry it to reduce weight, and when the chase is fierce, it can even be directly used to dry and gnaw and make emergency rations.

Subsequently, they found new traces of the enemy on the other side of the river again, and carefully checked the traces left behind, but they sneaked out by boat from under the water gate of Luodu, and the small troops responsible for harassment and sneak attacks couldn't help but speed up their horses to catch up.

It didn't take long for them to catch up with the enemy, and they threw away their armor and ran for their lives, jumping into the icy river water in a hurry, wading like a boat on the river to meet them, and then they were knocked down from behind by a dozen people, floating in the river and becoming patches of faint blood.

On the boat that slowly moved away, there were still some mournful shouts faintly

"It's Redbeard"

"Those Blood Rakshasas are coming......"

Niu Gao touched his chin a little stunned, but touched the blood powder residue in his hand, raised his hand armor and wiped it, facing the mirror of the piece of armor, he immediately shone the blood-red beard, and looked at other people who were also like this, and more than a lot of false hair was mottled with blood.

Suddenly I thought about it.

Surrounding the huge field near Luodu, in such a large area, small-scale loitering and patrolling, encountering and capture, chasing and intercepting, also occurred one after another, forming a front line of confrontation between the two camps, and the warning range was constantly changing.

With the main formation of the eastern front capital stationed, the rumbling sound of the attack sounded on the east side of the city of Luodu,

Under the attack of the southeast and southeast lines, although Luodu had a high and solid city defense, the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty defending the city were still inevitably in the increasingly tense and difficult defense, making the offensive and defensive battles fierce and sinister.

After all, the defensive surface that is too wide is also a weak factor and weakness for the defenders, and they have to focus on the deployment of their forces with specific towers as nodes, and then according to the section of the city attacked by the enemy, they will resist nearby or support from the side.

The wide area of the city where horses can run also means that the defenders need to have sufficient means of dispatch to avoid all kinds of exhaustion.

Although for some reason, our unit was temporarily excluded from frontal warfare, but as a combat force of sufficient size, it is not so easy to be idle.

Soon, under the urging and pressure of the rear commander, on the fifth day of our army's stationing, we obtained a new strategic objective, and sent troops to the northwest to reinforce the friendly forces attacking the Heyang Bridge east of Luodu, so as to completely cut off the possibility of support from Hebei and other battlefields.

However, it was Wang Gui's former military headquarters that was ordered to sweep the remnants of the south bank of the Yellow River to the north, but in this section of the Heyang Bridge, it was blocked by the local large-scale defense points, and because of the heavy weapons in the Eastern Front Army, they were all transferred to besiege Luodu and could not be attacked for a long time.

In a hurry, I remembered that there were at least twenty or thirty cannons in my subordinates, so they asked me for cooperation. Of course, this favor is not so easy to help, and it becomes a thankless task if you are not careful. So I'm still expelling the conditions and the basic bottom line.

Although, our army is responsible for the area between the south and east of the city, the connection between the middle route army and the east route army, the angle between the flow of Yishui and Bishui, and a number of ferries and bridges. But in fact, it still has enough range of activities and autonomy.

In other words, you can exclude Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu can also leave it alone, it is not a subordinate all the way, only the master and slave work together, you can help me.

Therefore, I simply made a long list of long forms and detailed plans for dealing with various situations, and directly sent someone to present it to the king, and only after the other party pinched his nose and countersigned it and handed it back, did I slowly order my troops and horses to go out of the battle.

Of course, there was news afterwards that after receiving this obviously wasting a lot of paper, the king, who paid attention to image and authority, almost didn't go crazy on the spot, and drove my messenger out with a wave of his sleeves, but because of the supervision of the handsome priest who was present, he had to announce that he would stay in the middle of the matter, and then reluctantly replied afterwards.

It's just that the after-effects of a slight deterioration in relations with someone, and the decline of collective prestige in the upper echelons of the troops on the Eastern Front to coldness, are not in my consideration.

Heyang Bridge is also called Mengjin, Mengjindu, when King Wu of Zhou crossed the river with the princes of the alliance, that is, in this place, so it is called Mengjin. The Western Jin Dynasty Fengle Pavilion Hou Du pre-erected the first pontoon bridge on the Yellow River here, called "River Bridge" is the predecessor of Heyang Bridge.

To the Northern Wei Dynasty, three cities of Heyang were set up, the south city and the north city were built on the north and south banks of the Yellow River, and the Zhongyang city was built on the sandbar in the river, and the three cities were connected by the Heyang pontoon bridge. Therefore, the Mengjin Pass of the Three Cities Bridge is also called Heyang Pass, which is one of the eight passes of Luomen.

Therefore, this place is the traffic artery from Luoyang to Hebei, and it is a place where soldiers must fight for in the past dynasties. From the Heyang decisive victory between Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and Emperor Gengshi in the Xinmang period, to the battle of Heyang Bridge between Li Guangbi and Shi Siming in the previous dynasty, the soldiers of all dynasties competed for the Central Plains.

Therefore, the Heyang Bridge we are going to attack is actually a long and strong Nanguan City. To borrow the description of the "poet saint" Du Fu in "Five Songs of the Later Stopper (Part II)":

"Towards the East Gate Camp, go to the Heyang Bridge at dusk. The sunset shines on the banner, and the horse is singing in the wind. Pingsha Liewan curtain, the troops have their own moves. The bright moon hangs in the middle of the sky, making the night lonely. The number of sorrows moved, and the strong men were not arrogant. By asking who the general is, I'm afraid it's Huo Yao. ”

Of course, I have no intention of using the lives of soldiers to fight hard to climb the city, but I only provide support and cover for fire projection, and by the way, I can still reluctantly make it difficult for me to practice my fire.

For a time, dozens of large and small artillery forts fired in unison, swallowing the momentum of fireworks and fireworks, but not letting others, a piece of high or low bullet hit the point, hitting the head of the south pass of Heyang Bridge, was a piece of debris and dust, and occasionally there were human bodies and stumps that were splashed up, which was regarded as some kind of incidental result.

Sure enough, the cannon is the romance of boys.

After several rounds of rumbling bursts, the cannon finally hit half of the support of a brick and wood tower, and suddenly it shook a few times, but it was still overwhelmed and broke off, and the people above it fell into the dust and debris.

In our camp, there was a sudden burst of cheers raising weapons again. No matter how inhumane and entangled the upper echelons are, these desperate generals at the bottom are still relatively simple and rarely have an impact.

Their worldview and pursuit is nothing more than defeating the enemies in front of them, winning and rewarding again and again, and a little more ideal is just a matter of accumulating the worry-free capital behind them, or the way to get a good background.