In the middle reaches of the barren river, hundreds of thousands of Hu people's armies formed a huge encirclement. In the middle of www.biquge.info the encirclement is a green barracks, in which the flags flutter and the singing is loud and high-spirited, and there is no consciousness of being surrounded.

On the contrary, the Hu army on the periphery was sluggish, and it had been made to the point that the group of flat-headed soldiers was full of grass and trees, and they couldn't sleep at night. The task that Lu Hu, the patriarch of the Di tribe, received at the meeting of the four clans was to wipe out the two Xia armies. Now not only has the Chu army not been eliminated, not to mention that Lu Hu is dead, and even the corpse cannot be brought back in the hands of the Xia people. If they retreat, it will be a trivial matter if they fail to complete the task, and it will be a big trouble if they can't get back the corpse of their leader. The entire Di clan will be reduced to a joke for the rest of the three clans.

The Di tribe must make a posture of siege and must show their determination, and the two are already to the point of not dying. You can lose but you can't retreat.

The barren summer camp is attached to the barren river, and the cold wind is even more biting. Luo Chuan sat around the round table with several barren summer generals and Xiang Liang, and a brazier was placed at each person's feet.

"At present, the distribution of the Hu army in the Central Plains has been clarified. Today, the war situation in the Central Plains is also close to clear. If the three kingdoms of Chu, Wei and Qin could not send troops again, the Xia people would be completely defeated in the Battle of Huxia in the Central Plains. Everyone almost knew this conclusion, and they were all waiting for Yunchen to share the news brought back by the special team.

"The first thing to say is that the Hu army on the periphery of our army. Everybody has dealt with them these days. They are one of the two infantry cavalry soldiers of the Di nationality and one of the flame army, with a number of more than 200,000. According to the news you have received from the north, it is not surprising that the Wei army will either succeed in breaking through or be completely annihilated. The Hu army in the Buzhou Mountain part will go south. As a result, our army will face nearly 400,000 opponents. "The whole army of Huangxia has a total of more than 35,000 people, plus 70,000 Chu troops. The number of enemy troops is several times that of the Xia army, and it can be said that it has reached the saturation level that the Xia army can withstand.

Everyone knows in their hearts that it is not the same as saying it at a meeting. The meeting must have a resolution, and how to deal with the 400,000 troops that are about to face must think of measures. Don't look at the Huangxia army suppressing the Hu people now, but when the 400,000 army really attacks frantically, even if there is a powerful steam crossbow, it will definitely be a meat grinder, and even if the meat is damaged by one to ten, the Huangxia army can't afford it. At present, the weapons of the Huangxia Army have not yet reached the point of ignoring the tactics of crowds.

"Can we eliminate the Hu people in the periphery before the Hu people in the north go south?" Taking the initiative to attack has always been Luo Chuan's tactical policy. I didn't expect to receive it one after another as soon as I exited, and Adong and Yundian's hair paired.

"Nope." Yudong and Yundian spoke at the same time, and the two glanced at each other. Motioned for Yudong to explain the reason. "It's autumn and winter now, and I calculated that the boiler needs more than 1,200 breaths from opening to boiling. The fuel consumption is more than three times that of the summer, and the logistics allocation of our army is still in accordance with the summer. Before the next round of logistics fleet transportation, it is not easy for our army to be able to guarantee the boilers on duty. ”

Military operations require a well-developed logistics system, as well as a well-developed contingency plan. These Luo Chuan didn't take it into account, and the people of the Wild Summer who had never been out of the Deserted Summer naturally couldn't consider it. Sending troops to the Central Plains is not only full of enthusiasm, Luo Chuan and his Huangxia army lack too much.

"When will the next logistics fleet arrive?" Hearing Ah Dong's statement, Luo Chuan roughly calculated in his heart, and he already understood the fuel crisis of the Deserted Summer Army.

"From the return of the fleet to the adjustment of production in the deserted summer, it is expected to be thirty days later." Thirty days is not a short time, but fortunately, Yudong has taken this factor into account, and the offensive strength of the troops is limited, but there is no big problem in defense.

"Thirty days, why is it so long?" If you calculate the length of the river in the basin, it should not be so long.

"Unbeknownst to the commander, as the weather turned colder, the failure rate of the fleet began to rise. Even now, there is still a fleet of steamers left in the river to troubleshoot. Considering the failure rate, thirty days is not bad. "One by one, the problems that were not taken into account began to transform into an abscess, ready to rot the lofty strategy formulated by Luo Chuan.

Fortunately, there are still talents under Luo Chuan, otherwise Luo Chuan would really have to go home. "Thirty days, according to the current arrangement, even if the weather worsens and the boiler heating time is longer, we will be enough to support it." Yudong said something that reassured Luo Chuan.

When Luo Chuan heard this, he was about to take a long sigh of relief, but before the air entered his chest, a terrible thought rose in Luo Chuan's heart. "It's frozen, General Xiang, tell me, will the barren river be frozen? When was the Ice Age? "The people of the barren summer have no concept of the river freezing, and the barren river flowing in the barren summer never freezes. However, Luo Chuan, a modern person, actually ignores this problem.

Xiang Liang originally came with the idea of auditing, and his Chu army seemed to be 80,000 people in the military, and if he really compared with this group of people, he couldn't even resist a division. At most, the military council is here to hear what their follow-up plans are, and if it is useful to get the Chu army, it will serve itself. Seeing that everyone suddenly turned the center of the problem to their side, they suddenly made a mistake and were not in a hurry, "Of course it will freeze!" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Luo Chuan suddenly felt five thunderbolts. Climb to the top of the map, pick up a stick, and point to the watershed of the barren river. "Which paragraph? When? "I damn it, I didn't even think about such an important place.

Xiang Liang saw Luo Chuan so out of shape, and he also felt the importance of this matter. From the table, took a charcoal pencil. It starts in a section of the Xiaozhongyuan River Basin and continues to the front section of Zhongzhou. "Here, every year in the depths of winter, it starts to freeze. Once it freezes, it can be walked, and it will not melt until the following spring. ”

Hearing Xiang Liang say this, Luo Chuanxin was a little relieved, first in the autumn and winter, even if it was thirty days later, it was still the first month of winter, and the transportation could be completed before the ice age in advance.

"By the way, from today onwards, if you want to heat your house, you can cut down some trees, and you can burn carbon reserves. Boiler fuel oil, except for the boiler on duty, is not allowed to move lightly. "Although the staying power and temperature of carbon fire are not as good as mahogany oil, they can also be used temporarily. Fuel must be stockpiled from now on. Yudong will record what Luo Chuan said, carefully record it, and wait until the meeting is over to make arrangements.

"There's another piece of news that I want to tell you." Yunchen waited until everyone finished discussing the matter, and then began to report the information in his hand.

"Speak!"

"There is news from the Ran family's army, they are besieged by the Hu people's heavy army at the corner of the second river of the Weihe River in Suishui." After Yunchen finished speaking, everyone put their eyes on the map again.

In particular, Xiang Liang was particularly excited. "How many Hu people are there besieging them? And is my brother and my father alive? ”

Yunchen showed a look of embarrassment. "I can't get the news of the two generals, the Hu people are too dense, and the special brigade has no way to infiltrate them. The preliminary estimate of the number of Hu people is no less than 800,000. After speaking, together with Xiang Liang, they gasped, the eighty army has reached the point where it can be whipped into the river and cut off its flow, and this is only a preliminary estimate, that is to say, there are only a lot of Hu people's army.

At present, there are nearly 400,000 Hu troops, and the Huangxia army is already having a headache, and there is an even larger Hu army on the periphery of the Ran army.

"What to do." Caring is chaotic, Xiang Liang's mind is full of thoughts about how to use the 80,000 remnants in his hands to rescue the two relatives.

"General Xiang rest assured, as long as the Hu army is still hanging here, it means that the Ran family's army is still resisting. In addition, Luo didn't dare to say anything else, but he decided to rescue one person from the million-strong army. Luo Chuan immediately thought of the steamer left outside, with it, he could land from any of the two river basins. With his combat effectiveness, it is not impossible to save one person.

"Xiang thanked the general!" Xiang Liang had seen the combat effectiveness of Luo Chuan and his men, if he wanted to rescue the two from the siege, if they couldn't, I'm afraid there would be no one else in the world who could do it.

The rescue operation was not impulsive, it also required precise planning, and the military meeting continued.

At the same time, the big tent of the four-clan alliance army besieging the Ran family army was also surging, and the leaders of the major legions gathered here at this time.