The heavens and the earth were covered in silver, and suddenly the heavy wind and snow completely froze the land, Li Chen turned around and inspected the camp, "Have all the winter clothes been issued?" "Report, all winter coats have been distributed to the sergeant. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ』

An officer wearing a tight-fitting red jacket, with his legs together, reported loudly, "Winter clothes have been distributed, but there are not enough coal stoves, and there is not enough coal, and we have stepped up the rush from the rear, and the front has urgently transferred them from the railway station, but the cold protection tools are still insufficient."

Before Li Chen sent out the army, he was completely prepared for the long-term war of resistance, and the winter clothes had been prepared for a long time. After all, when the army was first dispatched, it was still late winter and early spring. Maybe one day the temperature plummets, and it will be useful. Later, the weather did not change much, it kept warming, and the winter clothes were not used.

But I didn't expect that now I use it, which is just right. It's just that all kinds of cold tools are seriously insufficient. The sudden arrival of this heavy snowfall, coupled with the continuous march of troops, caused the tools that were originally intended to be used to protect against the cold were left behind. There are simply not enough fronts.

"Is there no way?" "Report, the logistics department is scheduling, and it is currently hoping to suspend the transportation of livestock from the previous and present to the rear, and also suspend the forage, using the livestock forage as emergency military rations, and the train line is fully transporting cold equipment and coal."

Cows and horses can eat it, and so can people. In times of emergency, it is better to satisfy hunger temporarily than to have nothing to eat, and even those animals can be slaughtered for food.

"That's not the way to go." , Li Chen shook his head, these cattle and sheep were all exchanged for the caravan. Not many were robbed. Mainly the Tang Army cavalry, no one will drive sheep, cattle and sheep move slowly, although they are not afraid to fight with the grassland cavalry, dare to fight with less and more, but not many people are willing to grab cattle and sheep.

Li Chen used the caravan to get most of the cattle and sheep of the grassland people, and used the caravan to slowly exhaust the wealth of those nomads. There are a lot of profits, use those wines, inferior iron tools or something, and exchange the cattle and sheep of those nomads, otherwise, how can you smuggle caravans, dare to die like this.

He will choose to have several purposes. First of all, it is that those people can't run. If they really want to resist to the end, although Siberia is cold, it is not impossible to get by, sell them those consumables, and completely get rid of their cattle and sheep, that is, they will not be able to make a comeback at all.

Second, it is to gain time, and the preliminary estimate of the herdsmen on those grasslands is probably only about 2 million. Men and women and children combined, two million. For Datang, it's just a drop in the bucket. But it's a hassle to settle these people all at once.

Gradually hollow out those people, divide them, and completely discourage their will to resist. Slowly cutting meat with a soft knife is better than winning a big battle. It can not only buy time and settle slowly, but also convince them.

A soft knife kills people more torturously than a single knife kills. It's like Ling Chi can be compared to the cruelty of beheading. He didn't know how many people realized this, or if they instinctively wanted to rob the caravan to make up for the loss. It's just that they can't do it at all.

Robbing caravans, the gains outweigh the losses, not to mention that these caravans are extremely difficult to bite, like a turtle with thorns. They will also set fire to the goods, otherwise they will simply poison the cattle and sheep, not that they have not been beaten, but they have not gained anything at all, and the losses are much greater than what they have gained.

As a result, all the caravans that came to trade later retaliated by raising the price. The good deeds done by each tribe made everyone bear the consequences, so that no one fought the caravan doctrine again, allowing Li Chen's plan to be carried out.

Now, at last, people have been forced out. As soon as Li Chen started, he didn't plan to follow the usual routine. I don't want to run behind those nomads, in fact, I am not afraid to follow him.

Those nomads say that they live by water and grass, and their household belongings are cattle and sheep at most, which seems to be easy to move, but in fact they also have weaknesses, and they have a great dependence on water and grass. The Mongols didn't need any supplies, because they brought all the cattle and sheep with them, and they themselves had a high mobility.

Mongolian horses are short and unfast, but they have a long strength. The Mongols took the characteristics of mobility to the extreme. However, they have weaknesses after all, and they are highly dependent on aquatic plants.

Li Chen had already figured out the larger settlements on the grassland through the caravan. Where there is water and grass in the grassland, they probably know better than those who have lived on the grassland for generations. With the development of navigation and Li Chen's advocacy, Datang surveying has made great progress.

Li Chen took the dragon chair in the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace as the benchmark and divided the latitude and longitude. Produced a map with high accuracy, sent caravans, that is, spies, each caravan has the task of drawing maps. Otherwise, it's not a tailwind, and it will be delivered to the door.

Even if there is no caravan guide, the map of the Tang cavalry is in hand, and they are not afraid of getting lost on the grassland. Those steppe nomads don't know them well, they only remember it by passing it down from generation to generation, having been there. I haven't been to a place before, and my eyes are still dark.

It's just that it's still the old saying, Li Chen has been preparing for a long time, and he wants to completely subdue the entire grassland, instead of constantly mending nails and mending nails like fainting to death. In the end, I couldn't make it up, but I still got a new version.

In all dynasties of China, the strong and prosperous ones were almost the same way to treat the grasslands, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, they beat things up. After that, the steppe peoples resurrected and continued to rebel. Sincerity is not the way to go.

And since they plan to completely conquer the grassland, these caravans in exchange for livestock, after all, they still have to be returned to those herdsmen, and now that the war has begun, he believes that it will end soon, and then those herdsmen will be the people of the Tang Dynasty, and they still need to be properly resettled after all. Now if you starve the animals to death, you can't get it.

"Let's make an igloo." , Li Chen just took a turn and found that there was a lot of snow, and he could use the trick of the snow house, so he asked the logistics department in charge of supply to continue to maintain the original plan, as for the cold problem, there is no need to worry about it, the snow house is very warm.

"Also, you have to worry more about transportation." , keeping warm is still a small problem, the big problem is transportation, snow will hinder traffic, although there are trains, but this day is cold, you have to worry about the deformation of the tracks, and also, the train can only be transported to the railway station, and the distribution has to rely on horse-drawn carriages.

In this snowy day, you have to pay attention to the warmth of the horses, and don't freeze the horses. Also note that the wheels are hindered by heavy snow, and there is a lot of resistance when the horse-drawn cart is lifted. When the snow melts, the wheels may sink into the mud. If it's really cold, it's okay, but the mud will also be frozen. I'm afraid of this kind of sudden cold and still warm time.

In fact, Li Chen didn't have to worry about it at all. The logistics department has already begun to prepare in many ways, this sudden change in the weather is not something that can be controlled by manpower, even so, the logistics department will not freeze the soldiers, even if he does not interfere, it is not a problem. It is not in vain that he specially divided the logistics into one of the five military governors' offices, and he did a very good job.

The herdsmen on the grassland were miserable, and the sudden arrival of heavy snow froze a lot of cattle and sheep to death, making their situation even worse, forcing them to fight a decisive battle.

The Tang army camp was densely packed for twenty miles, and in addition to the snow-white on the opposite side, it was black pressure that pressed people's heads. Tang Jun is fully prepared, all of them are cute, round and round, and they are extra warm.

"It's so cold, we don't have to fight in this weather, and the cold has frozen Tang Dog to death." , Ye Shuyun shook his hands and looked at the Tang army camp opposite, he regarded this weather as God's help.

For the cold weather, they have long been adapted, although the cold is very fast, but it's nothing, keep warm or something, they have been prepared for a long time, if it weren't for the freezing of a large number of cattle and sheep, forcing them to have a decisive battle, he wants to continue to consume, let the weather freeze these Tang people.

He took it for granted, Tang Jun opposite, it was white, he didn't know what an igloo was, he didn't know this cold day, in fact, the inside of the igloo was much warmer than the outside. Thinking that the Tang army didn't even have the tools to protect against the cold, although it was urgent, he decided to suggest that he wait for two more days, and when the Tang army was even more powerless, maybe he wouldn't have to fight at that time, and just collect the corpses for the Tang people.

"Huh, I heard that the Tang Dog Emperor is also in the war, if we can kill the Tang Dog Emperor in one battle, we can enter the Central Plains and rob the big one." , Yeluyun really imagined that if the Tang army in front of him could be wiped out, then they would invade the Tang Dynasty, and there would be no obstacles. It is best to be able to capture the Tang Emperor alive.

This is something that has never happened in the ages, when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was trapped in Baishan Mountain, and Emperor Yang of Sui was also surrounded, but they all broke through in the end, if he can do it to capture the Han emperor alive, not only will the grassland general transmit his brave name, they Khitan people may be able to reproduce the glory of their ancestors and enter the Central Plains.

"I heard that there are 600,000 Khitan Gou on the other side." In a snow hut, several soldiers sat in front of the pot, which was steaming hot, each holding chopsticks, putting a piece of meat in the pot, shabu it twice, and quickly scooped it up and ate it.

"It's delicious." A soldier took a bite of lamb and exclaimed, "This weather is just going to eat hot pot, and it would be wonderful to be able to soak in a hot spring again."

"Alas, what about talking, I heard that there are 600,000 barbarians on the other side, you know how to eat, you are not afraid that this is the last meal in your life." The soldier who spoke said unhappily, "What is there to be afraid of. 600,000 barbarians are not as terrible as 600,000 pigs.'"

"That is, I have a gun in my hand, not to mention three times, six times the number of people, I am not afraid." , sitting on his right hand to get the soldier, he didn't care, "600,000 pigs, it's more troublesome to kill, 600,000 people, when they collapse and kill themselves, I don't know how many will die."

"Hah, that's good." , a few people talked, the other few people were silent, just buried their heads in eating, although the Tang soldiers had good rations, but there were not many opportunities to eat meat like this, if it weren't for this heavy snowfall, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to eat meat like this, or even drink a lot of wine.

Because the weather was too cold, Li Chen gave special permission, and each soldier was given a little thin wine to warm up. It is forbidden to get drunk, and if you are drunk, you will be punished by military discipline.

Of course, everyone sends a little bit every day, and it's not easy to get drunk. However, it is not excluded that some people do not drink it and give it to others. Therefore, there is still a set of criteria for judging whether you are drunk, for example, whether you can clearly identify others, whether you can walk in a straight line, and so on.

"Hurry up and eat, and I'll be on duty later." , a well-fed and well-fed soldier, wiped his mouth with satisfaction, and when he first spoke, he punched him over and scolded, "Eat three bowls of electricity and electricity, and you will almost eat up the meat." The soldier smiled indifferently after being beaten, "Whoever told you to talk more, each squadron will be divided into some, if you don't eat quickly, you will eat them all."

The guy who loves to talk is silent, and buries his head in these passive hard erections, and then they are sliced into thin slices with planing, as if they are bitter and hateful.

The soldier, who had just eaten and drunk, began to grease himself, and it was a cold day, but don't freeze his fingers off. Li Chen is really well-prepared, and the degree of thoughtfulness is by no means imaginable to those nomads. To consume, come on, Datang is not the Tang Dynasty before.

"Isn't it time to attack?" This year's winter seems to have come early, and after a few days of weather, it has begun to dare to be cold again, which seems to show that the weather will continue to be cold. Datang doesn't care, it is well prepared, and it is not comparable to those nomads who have little savings.

So, they couldn't hold on. Originally, under the leadership of the Khitans, they were ready to delay the coalition army for a few more days, but they decided to launch it, and they were even more difficult than the Tang Dynasty. Almost all of them are about to run out of food, and if the stalemate cannot be opened, the Tang army has not frozen to death, and the coalition army is afraid that it will starve to death first.

"Let's fight." , Ye Lan had to suggest that everyone should support them, and these 600,000 miscellaneous troops were their last family base.

First of all, after many years of fighting, under the instigation of the Tang Dynasty, the various departments fought endlessly, and they had already suffered heavy losses. Needless to say, those prisoners of war were all sold to the Tang Dynasty as slaves, not to mention their population. was also used by Datang to deal with them.

It was just a matter of being used as slaves, and many people were absorbed, assimilated, and joined the Tang Army. They are also skilled in bowing and horses, and they have an unforgettable hatred for other tribes on the grassland, and they will never be soft when they kill people who belong to the same grassland.

Not to mention the endless internal friction, there are many tribes who have taken refuge in the Tang Dynasty. Don't expect them to help anything, Datang broke them up separately, supervised each other, they are all unfamiliar with each other, Datang also implemented the method of sitting together, they can not reverse the knife head and kill their own people, it is already very good.

"Today, there is death and no life, and there is no advance or retreat." , Ye Lan yelled with grief and indignation, looking at these people, he knew that if he couldn't win a battle today, this prairie would never belong to them as prairie men.

These 600,000 people were all made up by their hard work, men and women, old and young, those who could ride on horses, those who could draw bows, and they all went into battle.

Even if they win, these people don't know how many of them will sleep here, and the vitality of the grassland will not be able to recover for decades.

"Heaven, take care of your people." , Ye Lan yelled with grief and indignation, and seemed to sense his emotions this day, and the heavy rain fell.