Fighting in such a harsh and extremely harsh environment, killing and injuring the enemy is no longer very important. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Because in this case, with the current strength of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, it can only play half of it, and even if the Tuliao cavalry has been living in this extreme cold for many years, it will inevitably be affected.

How to ensure that the Dingbei garrison regiment's own soldiers and horses will not suffer too much loss in this harsh environment is the most important thing. After the first night passed, although Commander Xiao Liu had strictly implemented everything that needed to be done, hundreds of soldiers were still frostbitten.

This number does not seem to be large, but if so many soldiers are frostbitten every night, when the Eastern Crusade begins, after a month's march, there is no need to fight with the Tuliao cavalry, and the Dingbei garrison will have to retreat by itself.

The extreme cold on this grassland has now become the first major obstacle to the Dingbei Garrison Regiment's eastward crusade.

The Dingbei garrison regarded the harsh blizzard on the grassland as a great enemy, and Fan Guoshi did not fail to think so.

Fan Guoshi has already begun to formulate a new tactic to use this severe cold against the Dingbei garrison regiment, and the core idea of this tactic is only one word: drag.

As long as the Dingbei garrison can be dragged on the grassland, or outside Tongwan City, Fan Guoshi will be completely sure, and without his action, the Dingbei garrison will be able to repel the Dingbei garrison in this severe cold.

This has happened countless times over the centuries. The Pingzhou Dynasty in the Guannai had organized several northern expeditions, but each time they were in vain, and finally faced the terrible cold outside the fortress, and the snow was more than one person high, so the army had to retreat.

Even the invincible soldiers and horses of the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty could not defeat this terrible cold.

Fan Guoshi had some wishful thinking in his heart, and the Dingbei Garrison Regiment did not know it.

Li De discussed with his senior brother early in the morning, after the official start of the Eastern Crusade, Fan Guoshi would inevitably try all kinds of ways to delay the war and drag the Dingbei garrison regiment to death in the harsh snowstorm winter on the grassland.

This is also the most powerful means for the steppe barbarians to deal with the early conquests of the great unified dynasty in the south in all dynasties.

When the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, after entering the sainthood, he single-handedly defeated the powerful grassland tribe known as 'the sun never sets' at that time, and later organized soldiers to go on many northern expeditions, vigorously clearing the remnants of the grassland barbarians, trying to solve the scourge of the northern grassland forever for future generations.

However, every time the soldiers went deep into the grassland to chase down the remnants of the barbarians, they were always hindered by the terrifying blizzard on the grassland, and it was difficult to completely clean up and complete the work.

The soldiers and horses of the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty were not powerful, and even the cavalry had a large number of heavily armored cavalry. The heroes of the world were run over one by one by the founding Taizu of Ping Zhou, and no one could resist this steel hero.

Even the savage and war-loving grassland barbarians, in the face of the iron and steel heroes who were armed to the teeth of the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, they could only hit their heads again and again.

In the end, the remnants of the barbarians on the grassland, the only way to deal with the iron heroes who swept the world by the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty was to desperately flee north, and take advantage of the terrible cold to block the footsteps of the Ping Zhou army.

Although the remnants of the barbarians on the steppe also suffered heavy losses in the bitter cold, they managed to survive in the end.

The soldiers of the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty withstood the severe cold and chased after them to the north, but in the end, the supply line was too long. The non-combat attrition caused by the severe cold was too severe, and it had to be stopped halfway.

The tribes that survived on the grasslands survived for hundreds of years, and finally survived until the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty was feathered, and then began to slowly migrate south.

Although there is an idiom called "Tiger father has no dog son", don't forget that there is also a saying called "Lao Tzu has capable bastards".

The old man of the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty was indeed wise and martial, invincible in the world all his life, worshipping the four yi, and kneeling down all over the world.

It's a pity that the son who later inherited the throne was just a standard king, far less wise and martial than his father.

Slowly, generations of Dou family emperors also conformed to the laws of the emperors of previous dynasties, and they became worse and worse. This difference does not mean that the emperor's IQ is not good, on the contrary, the emperors of the Dou family are very smart.

But things in the world are so interesting, as the saying goes, "smart people are mistaken by smart", and "smart people always do foolish things".

The smart emperors of the Dou family used all their intelligence to "maintain their own stable rule".

In order to maintain the stability of his rule while still enjoying the sound of dogs and horses, the emperor of the Dou family did not hesitate to violate the ancestral teachings, play tricks, and completely abandon the system of "the prime minister is voted by officials above the fourth grade" set by the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty.

After abandoning this ancestral system, Dou Yeli, the emperor of the Dou family, regained the "right to appoint the prime minister" in his own hands. Subsequently, he personally selected an obedient and shameless prime minister, and from then on, he hid in the harem every day and had fun without worry.

The prime minister's surname is Yan, his single name is a single character, and his expression is Yangjian.

This Yan Prime Minister knows very well how his phase came about, so he spends all his energy on the emperor, and when he can deal with national affairs, he can fool and deal with it. As for the selection of talents, the pacification of disasters, the storage of grain, the stabilization of the border army, and other major military affairs, they are even more ignorant.

At that time, the righteousness of the world still existed in the Pingzhou Dynasty, and some of the officials were capable and virtuous ministers, who were not accustomed to the prime minister Yan being in a high position and inaction, and only cared about flattering the emperor and inviting merit and favor. Therefore, even the previous book was linked, and the prime minister was impeached strictly.

The world is so big on weekdays, there are so many people, Prime Minister Yan is busy with money and power all day long, and he doesn't work at all, it will definitely not work. He was the prime minister for three years, and the world was in chaos, with homeless people, banditry, and bullies everywhere.

With the passage of a book into the deep palace, Emperor Dou Yeli finally used his clever head to detect that something was wrong, and if he continued to play like this, the country would be ruined. Without the country, the emperor himself will be gone. So Dou Yeli ruthlessly kicked the obedient Prime Minister Yan back to his hometown, and picked up a strict and capable Xia Yan as the prime minister.

Although Xia Yan was a little dissatisfied with the emperor choosing himself as the prime minister without voting through the election of hundreds of officials, he still took on this burden.

Prime Minister Xia is indeed an upright and capable good official, as soon as he came to power, he didn't say a word, first picked up the group of corpses in the court all day long, mixed food and waiting for death, and then worked day and night, sweeping away the accumulated shortcomings left by his predecessor in the past three years.

For a while, the world seemed to be back to normal again. However, things suddenly took a turn for the worse.

It turns out that this Prime Minister Xia, although capable, is also very upright, not greedy for money and not lustful. But he has a problem, the desire for power is too heavy, from big to small, there is nothing he doesn't want to manage, and there is no person he doesn't dare to manage. The entire Pingzhou world was managed by him, and in the end, it could only be managed by the emperor.

At that time, the emperor Dou Yeli was really not like words, and he should be taken care of. However, his most fatal one is that he has inherited the throne for five years, and he still has not given birth to an heir to the huge Pingzhou Empire.

This matter is not a trivial matter even if it is placed in the house of a landlord in an ordinary village. As the old saying goes, "one seedling in a thousand hectares", but at that time, the Pingzhou Kingdom was hundreds of millions of land, and there was not a single seedling!

Prime Minister Xia really couldn't look past it, so he picked a time to write to the emperor. Most of this letter has now been burned by the fire of Zhongshen City, because this letter is so famous that it simply changed the history of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, so it is still widely circulated today.

In this letter, Prime Minister Xia "tactfully" advised the emperor not to select plump women in their forties to enter the palace every day, and to dip the fish sauce in the young queen's palace concubines, so as to leave a seed for the ancestors of the Dou family.

When Emperor Dou Yeli saw this letter at that time, he became angry directly, and scolded on the spot: This old puppet actually dares to manage my head, and he also dares to take care of my inner curtain! It's the other way around! It's the other way around! Without me, how can it be a phase?

Subsequently, Emperor Dou Yeli directly called Yan Tan, the former prime minister who was honest and obedient and was retiring in his hometown, and kicked the disobedient Prime Minister Xia away.

The emperor can do whatever he wants, as long as he can afford to pay the price. This is the famous words of the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty to warn future generations.

Emperor Dou Yeli paid the price for doing whatever he wanted this time.

The upright officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all blown up at that time! Emperor, you are sick, Prime Minister Xia is so capable, diligently working for your family's group company, just persuaded you to give birth to an heir, and you kicked people out.

Kick it, kick it, you still call back the sycophant who knows corruption and does nothing, you are going crazy!

If the ministers don't do it, they must stop the emperor from messing around like this. So, first, hundreds of officials were sparse, but the emperor ignored them. Then hundreds of officials were ambushed, and the emperor ignored them. In the end, the hundred officials went directly to the outside of the temple and knelt down, crying bitterly at the tablet of the god of the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty in the middle of the main hall inside.

Now, the emperor is also annoyed, do you mean that I am not filial to my children and grandchildren? Okay, let's see who gets whom! As soon as the emperor spoke, Yu Linwei! Beat!

The court staff, the most famous one in the history of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, began.

This court cane not only killed hundreds of officials, but also broke the backbone of Pingzhou officials. Since then, there have been no upright ministers in the imperial court, and they are all cunning and shameless people who serve as high-ranking officials.

In this way, the wise emperor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty personally sent the dynasty into the beginning of decline.

In the end, under the toss of generations of wise emperors, the Ping Zhou Dynasty became weaker and weaker.

It wasn't until later that a Tuliao state was developed, which invaded the south again, destroyed the Great Ping Zhou Dynasty and plundered the world.

Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the Tuliao tribe relied on the blizzard on the grassland to survive the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty. Now, Fan Guoshi plans to use this blizzard again to drag down the Dingbei garrison.

This is the natural advantage of the steppe barbarians, and it is also the biggest obstacle that the Dingbei garrison must overcome in this eastward crusade.

On the grassland, it was late at night, and the soldiers had already shrunk down to sleep. Li Deyi snuggled up to the Humvee and stood in charge of the vigil for the first night.

Uncle Hummer is indifferent to this bitter cold. His father is fierce, and the Hummer has half of his father's blood, so not only is he not afraid of the cold in the north, but he is also very energetic at the moment.

The Humvee was enjoying the cold wind, which was cool for him, when suddenly, the wings of his nose moved. Immediately, the Hummer arched Li Deyi with his head and signaled that an acquaintance had arrived.

Li Deyi and Hummer had the same heart, but he didn't react for a short time, and wondered in his heart: "How can I have relatives in this wilderness and snowfield......"

Immediately, Li Deyi remembered that he still had a relative here.

"Four Eyes"!

Li De patted the Hummer and motioned for him to lead him to find Four Eyes.

The Hummer followed the smell and took Li Deyi and walked outside the camp.

Not far after walking out, Li Deyi saw the "four eyes" with a silver mane shining all over his body and a majestic man under the night.

Siyan was extremely happy to see Li Deyi come out, and still rushed up like back then, pounced on Li Deyi to lick his face.

Li Deyi hurriedly covered his eyes and said in a low voice: "Good boy, you have gained a lot of weight now, I almost can't get you." ”

Four eyes licked Li Deyi happily, and let out a cheerful low roar from time to time.

It turned out that Four Eyes passed by with wolves nearby, and he was the most skilled, and he found a large group of people in the vicinity in advance, so he ordered the wolves to hide. As the king of wolves, he personally took on the most dangerous things to reconnoitre. Back then, Four Eyes had followed Li Deyi on reconnaissance missions many times, and he was also very experienced in this.

He hid downwind, carefully observing the camp ahead. But unfortunately, Hummer sensed the fluctuation of the original qi of the four eyes from afar.

Li Deyi happily rubbed his big hairy head and played with him.

The four eyes are bright and clean with silver mane, very neat, and they look more noble and more kingly.

Back in the year of Four Eyes, every time Li Deyi bathed the Hummer bristles, he also had to wash him. So far, the four-eyed wolf still maintains good hygiene habits, and even now that he is the wolf king of the grassland, he insists on cleaning his hair regularly.

After arguing with the four eyes for a while, Li Deyi suddenly thought of something, blinked, and whispered to the four eyes.

After hearing this, Siyan did not hesitate, and immediately nodded in agreement.

That night, Li Deyi stood with a Hummer on his left and Four Eyes on his right, as if he had returned to his teenage years.

Before dawn, Four Eyes was leaving, and after Li Deyi whispered to him, Four Eyes left happily.

Subsequently, the cavalry of the garrison regiment woke up on time, and Li Deyi clapped his hands in a low voice to wake them all up. After a brief breakfast, Li had an order, and all the soldiers were left in place for three days' worth of jerky.

Although he didn't know what Deputy Commander Li planned to do, a cadre of elite cavalry still obeyed orders.

Li Deyi then set off with his cavalry and continued eastward.

Soon after Li Deyi left, Four Eyes took the wolves to the temporary camp where Li Deyi had put down his dried meat just now, and enjoyed a rare full meal in the ice and snow.

Li Deyi led 3,000 cavalry and continued to harass the brigade of soldiers and horses led by his senior brother.

Frontal raids, side sneak attacks, and back-to-back raids.

Li Deyi led 3,000 cavalry and mercilessly tested the recruits' ability to meet the enemy at any time in this ice and snow.

From rusty to skilled, when the recruits encountered the fifth surprise attack of Deputy Regiment Commander Li, they were finally able to line up in advance and defend the battle.

Commander Xiao Liu watched the recruits grow up rapidly, and couldn't help nodding in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on his face, and he still had a straight face, strictly demanding the recruits.

Eight days later, Commander Xiao Liu finally arrived at the destination with the recruits, the fifth fortress.

At noon that day, Li Deyi arrived with 3,000 cavalry.

In front of this fort, the two regiment commanders put their soldiers and horses together and held a huge joint infantry and cavalry exercise.

The exercise was very effective, and the recruits were able to cooperate with the cavalry very calmly, completing combat tasks such as foot formation, steering, pursuit, interception, etc. on the snow.

After sending the supplies brought by the army to the twenty soldiers stationed in this fortress, Commander Xiao Liu began to lead the team back.

In order to meet the needs of the future Eastern Expedition, the Dingbei garrison secretly built a grain cellar under each fortress in case the army needed it in the future.

Because the land in the vicinity is frozen all year round, the short summer is not enough to melt away the frost that has condensed during the long winter, so the land under the fort is extremely hard and difficult to dig.

In order to help build an underground grain cellar, Li Deyi even had to use iron eggs to blow a hole in the land and let the engineer battalion dig it.

These underground grain depots are also not large, but they are only small warehouses that can store 500 stone of grain.

Although each grain depot is not large, adding up all the grain depots under the fortress, it can store a lot of grain, which is enough to replenish the army of the Dingbei garrison regiment at a critical moment.

On the way back, in order to be able to rush back before the year, Commander Xiao Liu deliberately accelerated the march.

Finally, on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, they rushed back to the Dingbei garrison regiment.

Under the command of the old medical officer Sun, all kinds of preparations had already been made in the camp, hot water, hot rice, and hot stoves had been prepared for the tired soldiers in advance.

Back at the camp, Regiment Commander Xiao Liu immediately ordered that each soldier must drink a bowl of hot mutton soup before he could rest.

In the past half a month, we have been trekking in the ice and snow, and we must always be vigilant to guard against the surprise attack of the "Tuliao cavalry" and conduct another large-scale exercise. Many recruits have already reached the limit of their physical fitness, and at this time they are just gritting their teeth with the strong perseverance they have trained.

Even those veterans are also a little unbearable.