Accidentally getting some news about cotton seeds and cotton, for Li Qing, it was just an unexpected joy, even if he could get a large number of cotton seeds from Murowei, it would take several years to popularize planting and use them on a large scale, and now, his attention has completely turned to the war against the barbarians.

With the passage of time, the climate has become cooler and colder, seeing that winter is coming, and this winter is the time that Li Qing planned to fight against the barbarians, the winter battle, the difficulties faced by the troops are much greater than in other seasons, but compared to the greater restrictions on the barbarians in this season, Li Qing feels that the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

In order to support this operation, a few months ago, Dingzhou began to send a large number of wintering tents and charcoal to Shanglin and Jingling Daben, and now, the materials in these two places have been piled up like a mountain.

Li Qing, who used the debt to raise a large amount of silver, is now really wealthy, eager to arm his soldiers to the teeth, this is the difference between Li Qing and most of the leaders of power at that time, in his heart, always think that talent is the most important, silver can be earned again if the money is gone, and the land can be fought back if it is lost, but if there are no people, there will be nothing.

Lost land and people, people and land are gained, people and land are lost, people and land are lost.

Li Qing, who kept making his soldiers better equipped with this belief, certainly didn't know that every time he upgraded his equipment and improved the treatment of soldiers, the soldiers were more grateful and more loyal. The generals who commanded the soldiers were more confident of victory.

When the first northern scenery came to Dingzhou, Li Qing came to Jingling. With tens of thousands of pairs of gloves and hoods that Long Sihai had just made.

"The marshal really loves soldiers like a son!" Wang Qinian, the supreme commander of Jingling, sincerely admired that he had never heard of a commander who could think so well for his soldiers, except for Li Qing.

Li Feng's knowledge is much wider than Wang Qinian's, and what he is horrified is that in the Li clan in Yizhou, even his uncle's descendant troops cannot do this, at most, the armor and weapons are better, and the silver is higher. Li Feng came to Dingzhou for a few months, although he did not fight the enemy on a large scale, but escorted grain and grass materials, and the small-scale harassing barbarian cavalry still clashed many times, compared with the beginning, the entire Yizhou army was already a lot stronger, in Li Qing's opinion, it was barely able to go into battle.

The weapons and armor of the Yizhou cavalry were originally prepared from Yizhou, and the loss on the battlefield was supplied by Dingzhou, but soon after these Yizhou cavalry found that the new armor and weapons that the robes who damaged the armor received from Dingzhou were much better than their own, so an action of self-damage armor was quietly launched among the Yizhou soldiers. But he deliberately connived, and he was also interested in those equipment.

So a few months later, this army completely had the standard equipment of the Dingzhou cavalry, and Li Qing generously even equipped them with crossbows, of course, they also brought gloves and hoods this time.

In Li Qing's plan, this is not only the material transit station of the left wing, but also a series of tasks such as sheltering wounded soldiers in wartime, so the construction of Jingling camp in addition to the conventional, also built a lot of permanent buildings, that is, in the tent, also built a fire dragon, and transported a large amount of coal and charcoal from Dingzhou for use in winter.

Wang Qinian's residence is a permanent surname building built with stones, divided into two rooms, about dozens of square meters outside, there is a huge sand table in the middle, the sand table is made of the topography of the grassland, it is full of flags of different colors, the white one represents the barbarians, the red one is the Qi Nian Division, the yellow one is the Lu Dalin Department in the forest, and the blue one represents the allied army of the Mountain Department and the Murowei people, from the sand table, the three troops are like three huge swords, deeply rooted into the hinterland of the grassland, Press the white flag into a flat shape.

"Dashuai!" Wang Qinian pointed to the red banner and said: "In the past few months, we have been cleaning up the small barbarian tribes around us, slowly forcing them together, and now within a hundred miles around, except for the Naben tribe in front of us, there are no other barbarian tribes. Marshal, please see, after the 20,000 Longxiao army in Naben's headquarters, and then gathered the remnants of more than 10,000 small tribes, there are about 40,000 people, and they are in the red soil ditch, according to the strategy of the marshal, in the past month, we have not launched a major war, but waited for Naben to gather more tribal troops, and began to launch a decisive battle with them after the winter. ”

Li Qingdao: "Now that Naben has 40,000 people, presumably in a while, there will be more small tribes to vote, so that Naben's army is likely to surge to 50,000 to 60,000, you add the whirlwind battalion here, a total of less than 40,000 people, are you sure to defeat the other party in a head-on battle?" You must know that the Long Xiao Army is not an ordinary army. ”

Wang Qinian said with a smile: "In fact, our real opponent is the 20,000 Long Xiao Army, even though the rest of the small tribes have a lot of people, but their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the Long Xiao Army, and so many troops are gathered together, the great pressure on their logistics can be imagined, there is no strong Dingzhou behind them to support, I estimate that they are enough now, and after a while, when winter comes, they will be more difficult." ”

"And our soldiers are recuperating, in fact, Naben can be regarded as smart, in the past few months, several times took the initiative to come to us to seek a decisive battle, but we insisted on the Jingling camp not out, relying on the camp, using arrows and crossbows to cause them huge damage, helpless Naben except for the loss of troops in vain, nothing to gain, so ah, Naben can only desperately wait for the last moment to come, I think he should have seen the final outcome of this war." Wang Qinian said excitedly.

"Dashuai, I think when it's snowing heavily, it's time for us to attack, right?"

Li Qing smiled, "It's probably in that period of time, but it also depends on the specific situation, sooner or later, it's impossible to say now!" Finger pointed at the blue flag, "Actually, Bayar still wants to go west and then east, first defeat the army of Guoshanfeng and Teniger, and then the whole division will go east and fight a decisive battle with me, so he transferred Huangbu Boyan, which is the strongest force in his hands except for Long Xiao and Wolf Run, but Guoshan Feng is very smart, dragging Bayar in circles on the grassland, just not fighting with him, and the combat effectiveness of the Murowei people also surprised me, Jiang Heiniu wrote to me at the beginning of the battle report that looked down on the other party, but now it seems, It's Jiang Heiniu's opinion that is too biased, at that time he easily defeated Zarantu, probably because it was a battle for the throne, both sides of the war are Murowei's own people, once lost, it is easy to lead to the collapse of the army's morale and defeat, look at the several encounters between the Murowei people and Bayar Longxiao, it is remarkable! ”

Wang Qinian said with a smile: "Yes, if it weren't for the people of Murowei who are good at fighting, they wouldn't have let Hu He stay in the Green Ridge Pass for so long." Invoking the Murwei people to enter the customs, Dashuai's move is wonderful. ”

"Huhe has already begun to retreat." Li Qingdao, "Lu Dalin has now turned from defense to offense, step by step, always behind Hu He, making his retreat extremely difficult. Beard, three-way army, your opposite side is the weakest, I hope you will be the first to make a breakthrough here. ”

"Don't worry, Dashuai." Wang Qinian's eyes lit up, "I will definitely defeat Naben." ”

"As long as you make a breakthrough here, it will set off a chain reaction." Li Qing stretched out his hand and pulled up a white flag, which snapped with a bang.

While the two were talking, there were suddenly bursts of cheers outside, Li Qing glanced at Wang Qinian in confusion, Wang Qinian smiled: "It is likely that the rangers patrolling outside have made another gain and come back triumphantly." ”

"Beard, high morale is a good thing, but you must emphasize to your subordinates, don't underestimate the enemy, the dog has to jump over the wall when you are in a hurry, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of enemies opposite you, that is tens of thousands of strong enemies like wolves and tigers, not tens of thousands of pigs, any mistake may affect the entire battle situation, today I am in your camp, most of what I see is this kind of emotion!" Li Qing looked at Wang Qinian and said solemnly.

"The closer you are to victory, the more you must be careful, because this is also the time when the enemy is fighting back the hardest, have you ever seen a wounded beast? It was often more terrifying back then than it was unscathed. ”

Wang Qinian was shocked. "Yes, Dashuai, I was too careless, I will definitely pay attention to this, Dashuai, since you are here, why don't you see the generals, and it will be more effective for you to emphasize?"

Li Qing smiled, "No, if it's up to me, then where is the majesty of you, the commander of the first army?" It's up to you! Next, I'm going to go to the Whirlwind Camp Jiang Kui to have a look. ”

For Wang Qinian here can take the lead in making a breakthrough, Li Qing is convinced, Wang Qinian's Qinian division now brings together Guan Xinglong, Wei Xin and a large number of Dingzhou generals, these generals under the soldiers are long-term war, extremely strong, Li Qing sent a large number of recruits into the three fortresses, and the three fortresses of these veterans and veterans transferred out, integrated into the Qi Nian division, is to hope that Wang Qinian will take the lead in defeating Naben, in Li Qing's view, Naben is the biggest weakness among the three armies of the grassland barbarians. Defeating Naben will force Hu He to retreat sharply, and under the persecution of Wang Qinian's division and Lu Dalin's division, Hu He will either fight a decisive battle, or retreat to the Bai royal court and join Bayar, but no matter how Hu He chooses, what Li Qing wants is to trap Hu He and Bayar in the Bai royal court in the middle of winter, and when the time comes, I hope that the Bai people's city defense skills can be comparable to their field combat ability. Li Qing sneered in his heart.

(To be continued)