In fact, when the army regrouped and marched in the direction of Luodu, I found that I still had some underthought.

At present, the biggest trouble and obstacle facing our army is not the northern army that is about to encounter and fight, or the front that may collapse out of control, but the muddy ground that is full of mud after a few days of intermittent rain and snow, so that we, who are accustomed to trekking, have suffered a lot.

Walking on this soft road, whether it is rubber soft shoes, high-top hard boots or animal hooves, it will inevitably adhere to a large mass of heavy mud, and it will take a lot of effort to travel.

Moreover, the cold mud, after accidentally leaking into the gap between the trouser legs, will make the soles of the feet slippery and unfocused, and will also coldly take away the only remaining body temperature and heat in the legs and feet. Therefore, once you stop to rest, you must clean and dry it in time, so as not to leave chilblains and lameness, and maintain the most basic action for the next step.

Moreover, even though the rain and snow stopped, the wind did not stop, and the hunt blew on the face like a knife, as if it was about to peel off a layer of human skin.

It was a completely different experience and experience from me, a centaur who had previously trekked through the wet mud of the rainforest. Although most of my soldiers do not lack the spirit and resilience of hardship and hard work, they are not so easy to adapt to the cold weather characteristic of the north.

The people who were temporarily requisitioned were even more miserable, who could only wade barefoot or in tattered straw sandals, wading in the mud with shallow feet, and their hands and feet were frozen white and purple.

Only the straights built hundreds of years ago, and a little bit of hard roadbed remnants, can roll over the wheels more neatly. Although it is in the plain area, which is known as the vertical and horizontal area of Qianmo, there are only a few routes suitable for large-scale assembly and the new army.

And these continents have also been overused by high-intensity military operations, coupled with the half-dissolved rain and snow, the large and small potholes have become quagmire and trapped.

Aware of this problem, I had to send people to demolish some buildings along the way, collect a large number of boards and logs, and use some easily submerged sections along the way as a paving for temporary passage, so that some of the more bulky gun carriages and the like could barely pass through.

Then, shorten the interval between rest batches and increase the frequency of rotations to try to save a little energy and energy for dealing with unexpected situations. Keep a simple fire cage behind each cart, which can be used to dry your body or provide a limited amount of hot water.

It's just that in this way, the progress will naturally not be faster, and it will be better than the legendary turtle crawling.

Since we who are prepared, we are all so struggling, then under the strong order of the commander, we hurried to the front, and the encounter of those baggage teams and people's regiments, it is even more conceivable.

After heading south to Caozhou, there were traces left after the battle along the way, and the originally fertile land was covered with corpses and broken flags and weapons, which had not even had time to be cleaned up and buried, so exposed to the cold weather, looking from afar, it looked like a group of gray and white sculptures solidified in the field.

And next to the original roadbed, there are still scattered some remains of mules and horses that have been robbed and cut to only bloody racks, as well as all kinds of abandoned corpses on the roadside, mainly those local people and livestock who have been frozen to death and exhausted.

Obviously, although I have been mentally prepared, the cold weather in the north has caused attrition and overall danger, which is much stricter and more troublesome than I expected.

It is no wonder that Shuai Si is in such a hurry at any cost, and he is in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he has tried to put all the troops that can be caught on top of it.

It's just that the farther you go east, the more lonely the people become, even if you go deep into the villages on both sides of the road, it is all kinds of news that has been returned in vain, and the long tug-of-war has exhausted the only remaining young and strong laborers in the populated areas around these roads.

They were either coerced by the northern army to join Ding Zhuang, who defended the city, or they were forcibly conscripted into hard labor by the southern army, and they froze to death from exhaustion, and the rest were all old and weak women and children who stayed in place and waited for death.

Although I didn't care about the means of chasing victory, I didn't choose the lower limit, and directly arrested those women, children, and the elderly to serve in front of the army, which not only did not help the morale of our army, but was a big burden that dragged down them.

Thinking about it like this, the mount under my crotch made a certain whining sound, and wiped it on the horse's mane with my hand, but some of the muscles were stiffened with sweat, and it seemed that the horsepower was already a little unusable.

Now my mount has been replaced by the fifth grizzly panda, because the predecessor of the Red Tiger IX, when crossing the Yellow River, was frightened for some reason, and suddenly broke free from the restraints, jumped from the boat into the water, and was washed away.

Of course, this incident was falsely rumored to mean that I sacrificed the Dragon King of the Yellow River with my mount, and in exchange for the calm and calm of the return trip.

After slowly galloping along the road, inspecting the soldiers in the rear of the march, and inquiring and inspecting their basic equipment and mental outlook, I couldn't wait to get into the prepared car with my frozen hand armor.

The inside and outside of the car are like two heavens, and after blowing too much cold wind, the warm and comfortable feeling suddenly comes to people, and they can't help but admire.

Although this carriage is not much different from other military vehicles on the outside, it is unique on the inside, and it is placed in a rather compact and exquisite furnishings in a small pattern.

The siding is wrapped in fine thick Songjiang cotton, and there is a whole velvet blanket on the ground, folded lamps and tables, fixed closets and drawers, and the fur that sits and lies down twice is soft. Even the transparent windows are a warm mezzanine of double white glass.

It can be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs. The warm and refreshing soup has been boiled on the fixed stove, and after taking a few sips of brown sugar ginger water, I suddenly felt a hot and spicy from the inside out, which made people feel refreshed.

Even the layer of hard shell that was originally blown by the cold wind and froze on the surface of the body is gradually melting away, slowly recovering most of its consciousness. This is the most basic privilege of being a commander.

In contrast, the long cart where ordinary soldiers rested was only two rows of cloth and a stove for boiling water, but at least they could bake and heat the dried bread they carried with them. In order to prepare for the winter, we carried a lot of firewood, fire oil and animal fat with the army.

When the camp was suspended, these long boxes were linked to hooks or stacked on top of each other, and they were equipped with guns and knives and guns, which were some kind of bunkers and improvised sentry posts.

In the sequence of auxiliaries and skirmishers, there is only a caravan and a brazier in the car, as a rest for rotation. This kind of flatbed cart with wooden strips of slats covered with tarpaulin, and the temporary transformation of the caravan is like a simple tent that can be moved on the car, although it has the disadvantages of high counterweight and difficult to maintain balance, but it has a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

When marching, the cattle were tied to the back of the cart and dragged slowly. When camping, you can sleep directly side by side on it, and you can also use the raised wheels to separate the moisture from the ground.

Several carts are enclosed in a small circle, a number of small circles form a large circle, the mules and horses are surrounded in it, and then the sand and gravel are laid with hay bales, and the roof is covered with tarpaulin, which is the temporary stable and storage shed, and then a ditch with drainage and defense line is dug in front of the car, and the ring is set together, which is the pattern of the basic camp, which is much simpler and more convenient.

This kind of dull and dull march was not until it met the ruins of the looted grain platform in the territory of Weicheng in Huazhou, and it was re-alerted and invigorated.

My outposts, too, have finally encountered sporadic fighting and small groups of infested enemies, but they have no organization or order, and are busy looting and scouring places in the empty space behind this battle line.

It wasn't until I saw the banner of my brigade from a distance that I was alarmed, and they fled into the distance, or dropped their weapons and took off their robes and armor, and scattered in the countryside, but they didn't have much decent will to fight.

It is hard to imagine that the Hebei army that we fought and pursued before relied on these people to defeat at least five armies that had returned to the defense and outflanked on the moving line.

Is this the standard of our army too high, or is the friendly army as an opponent too weak, I drove into the defense line of Bianzhou with this kind of doubt and entanglement, and then in Chenqiao Town on the bank of the Wuzhang River, I encountered the first enemy army with a strong base.

Chenqiao Town, yes, is another time and space, the Chenqiao Town with the yellow robe of the Zhao family's boss is just one of the strongholds of the grain platform along the original water transportation route, and it has been surrounded by trenches and wooden fences, and the outer wall built two feet high, which is tightly surrounded.

Many banners and figures of the Northern Army probed their heads to look at us.

It was easy to meet such a decent opponent, and the six battalion officers, who had been tormented by bad roads and bad weather all the way, were already impatient, and they were almost in front of the army, and they were rushing to be the first to ask me to fight.