On the third day of the guerrilla army's entry into the city, it was as if God could not see this endless fighting and entanglement, and suddenly his face changed, and a sudden snowstorm fell on the heads of all parties in the foreign war in the city.

The goose feather snow that roared all over the world fell for a whole day and a night in one breath, dyeing everything in the world white.

When the snow on the streets and buildings was already more than a foot thick, it basically made it difficult to mobilize a large number of troops, and all kinds of costly military operations had to be stopped.

Prior to this, the counterattack force of the Northern Army from the Imperial City had taken the initiative to organize several strong attacks and raids on the Fang area near the Upper East Gate, but they were all helplessly folded under the preset street fortifications, bunkers, and hidden gun arrays, and even a commander of the Zhenjing Army was not under the stray arrow projectile on the spot.

After repeated efforts in vain, these soldiers of the Northern Army finally recognized the reality and stopped, and after Yang Keshi arrived, they changed their course and retreated, and then bypassed these control districts and went to recover other neighborhoods first.

Anyway, with the size of Luodu's Beiguo, what the other party can control and influence is only a dozen square areas in the northeast corner.

Of course, if the new army of the Southern Dynasty guarding the east gate really expands the pursuit regardless of a qiē, it will also mean that the offense and defense are transposed, and they don't mind using the convenience of being familiar with the geographical advantage of the home field to teach these Southern barbarians from afar a lesson.

As the newly arrived town defense envoy, Yang Keshi explained and calmed down those new subordinates who were temporarily trapped in frustration.

Next, it is through these several burned white blocks as a buffer, with a small number of elite men and horses facing each other, alert to the other side's possible local counterattack or take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack.

And for the guerrillas nesting in the Upper East Gate.

Due to the accumulation of heavy snow, there were also many incidents of building collapse and damage in the temporary shelter near the Upper East Gate, as well as incidents of soldiers freezing to death and frostbite, and all kinds of trivial matters suddenly increased.

In just a few days, the troops under my command had been gathered, at least tens of thousands of scattered friendly troops, and the garrison near the Upper East Gate had swelled to more than 30,000 again.

Thirty percent of them are the main combat units directly under me, and they are also the core attack force I rely on; There are also three percent of the former army from Wang Gui, as well as Xu Qing's garrison from Wujiaoguan, a number of battalion heads cobbled together to form the auxiliary subordinate troops, which are used to garrison the rear is also reassuring, and the next is the stragglers who are gathered all the way, and there is basically no morale and fighting spirit at all.

At least until the remnants of these nearby friendly forces are reorganized and reorganized, there is no way to count on their combat effectiveness, so we can only take advantage of the interlude in the weather to seize the time to digest internally and restore the organization first. With the basic point of organization, it is possible to consider arranging labor and less important field defenses.

In addition, the soldiers gathered also aggravated the consumption of baggage, the grain and grass brought by the army from the camp of the White Horse Temple, plus the small amount of baggage left in the upper east gate, originally had enough food for at least a month, but now it can only support about twenty days according to the distribution of heads, and supplies must be raised from the city on the spot.

Therefore, it is natural to implement a rationing system of 369 and so on, to ban and limit any unnecessary calorie consumption and activity, and then select combatable soldiers from among the remnants of those friendly forces, and supplement them into the auxiliary army and the stragglers to enjoy equal treatment.

The rest can only maintain a minimum of daily consumption and wait for the situation to improve.

The wind and snow are so big, even those active Huma figures outside the city, have gradually disappeared, although it is said that they have been through the wind, frost, rain and snow outside the city for a long time, and can endure hardships without fear of severe cold, but as human beings, they still have to abide by the laws of nature.

According to the limited range of activities outside the city, a number of people and horse corpses buried under snowflakes were found, but most of the corpses were not very complete, and obviously showed signs of being cut and bitten by sharp objects.

Obviously, I don't know when the jackal vulture in the wild has learned to use human knives and daggers to eat......

However, this heavy snow is a real aggravation and disaster for the palace front army, the left forward department of the new army and other mid-lane soldiers and horses in the battle in the south of the city.

As the glory and pride of the first army before the ban, they supported them to fight bloodily all the way under the trend of rebellion, and fought and retreated here, and it was easy to regain a foothold, but because of the loss of a lot of baggage in the rout, now Yan zhòng lacks all kinds of materials, and even the firewood and charcoal for heating can only be dealt with by taking materials nearby.

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The camp where they were temporarily stationed was full of soldiers hiding in leewards, curled up to roast the fire, and the light of the fire dancing in the daytime reflected their expressions of being blue and numb from the cold, as if there was nothing enough to impress them except for these little fires and warmth.

And in the special building that provides shelter for the wounded from the wind and snow, they are also constantly carrying out the frozen corpses.

Having lost the baggage in the siege camp, and the heavy snow had temporarily cut off their communication with the south of the city, the carrier pigeons and harriers could not be dispatched in this weather, and could only rely on a small number of soldiers to cross the southern corner of the city, which the enemy had not yet had time to completely blockade, to maintain some kind of intermittent and reluctant contact.

And trekking back and forth in the deep and thick snow, it is easy to cause a single carelessness, these soldiers from outside the mountains in hot areas, all kinds of frostbite and necrosis of their hands and feet, so even in the state of local defense, all kinds of non-combat injuries and diseases are almost straight up.

On the embankment on the south bank of Luoshui, Tan Guochen, the commander of the left front of the new army, was also looking at the frozen river.

Those large swaths of fragmented ice can be seen everywhere, like scars all over the white, and they are also the eternal pain in the hearts of the soldiers of the Southern Army.

Because, when they were running wildly across the frozen Luoshui to escape, the last traces left by the soldiers of the various armies who were swallowed by the fragile ice surface after the miserable struggle and fluttering, because the shattering was so bad, it still seems that they have not been able to heal the wounds, and they have somewhat blocked the follow-up pursuit of the northern army on the ice.

To make matters worse, in the process of retreating, although he tried to contain his troops, he had to abandon and burn heavy or large heavy equipment to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy.

As a result, after losing these advantages of long-range suppression and projection firearms, he had to let his subordinates and regular troops fight the enemy in general, which was undoubtedly a helpless and cruel decision.

But at least they were still alive, and they had backup in the camp outside the city, and they only needed to wait for the weather to improve and clear the way for the brigade to march, which of course, also meant the all-out attack of the northern army on the periphery, and the bitter and tragic battle

And in the falling snowflakes, I am in Xingyifang, on a private trip to revisit the old place,

The advantage of occupying a corner of the north of the city is that we only need to defend the west and south two major aspects, of which the first battalion is stationed in Shanglinfang in the south, the fourth battalion is stationed in Wenluofang, and the third battalion and the first, fifth, and sixth auxiliary brigades are stationed in Jingxingfang and Beishi in the west.

Xingyifang is just in the center, and the second battalion is stationed nearby, the fifth battalion is guarding the city tower, and the teaching team, the pacesetter, the special car regiment, the hunting battalion and other direct subordinates are on standby in the upper east gate, but there are no additional risks and accidents.

My predecessor changed his name and surname to study in Luodu for many years, and the goal of his exploration was wrong this time, and it happened to be in the control area of this formation.

I also got a rare leisure because of the heavy snow, and I can answer a little bit of a question in my heart for a long time.

The soldiers of the pro-direct regiment quickly cleared a large area of ground for me from the rubble and snow, and then found the location of the vague shaft.

As the soldiers dug up the frozen stone pavement, they were greeted by a faint smell of stale dust and snowflakes rolled in.

When the air communication between the inside and outside was almost complete, the wind lantern was lit, and a sergeant with a waist tie was the first to climb down tentatively

After making sure there was nothing serious going on, and after a little bit of cleanup, I was able to enter. Although the opening of the shaft may seem small, the horizontal passage inside is actually quite spacious, enough for several people in thick robes to move around in parallel.

Walking along the firelit ground, walking in the underground tunnels that are isolated from the sound of wind and snow, it is like entering another world, except for the hoarfrost on the walls, the slightly flowing air, in addition to the smell of some kind of silt and swamp, is even a little warm.

Until a fork in the road, with the light falling from the sky overhead, the vision suddenly became clear, and the soldiers walking in front were suddenly alerted, but I pushed them away and stepped forward.

The corpses trapped in it back then still maintained a certain posture of struggling to the death, stacked there horizontally and vertically, as if yesterday's events were still vivid.