Just when Li Yongji was still hesitating whether to continue to attack Pittsburgh along the river or withdraw to Cairo first to rest, God made a choice for Li Yongji, so that he had to continue to stay in the small place of Smithland.

The reason is very simple, that is, a strong cold air suddenly hit, this strong cold air brought a wide range of cooling and heavy snow, not only let the heavy snow block the passage on the land route, but also let the low temperature freeze the lower Ohio River, that is, the section of the river from Portsmouth to Cairo, this time, neither the ships of the special protection fleet nor the motor vehicles, can go.

In fact, even if the vehicle could still go, the troops could not go at this time, because it was only one night, and the temperature near Smithland had plummeted from about five or six degrees above zero to more than thirty degrees below zero.

In order to be able to resist the severe cold, Li Yongji quickly contacted Zhang Xinda, stopped all the other planned teleportation materials, and first went all out to send a batch of cold and frost resistant materials.

"Bitter cold?" Listening to Li Yongji's words, Zhang Xinda shook his head, "Tell me about you, you have been leading troops for a long time, how could you be so careless?" Don't even take precautions for a cold snap? ”

"It was prepared." Li Yongji sighed, "Our whole army has thickened windproof tents, oil-fired heating stoves, and everything like quilts, cotton clothes, cotton boots, and the like, but who knew that such a thing would suddenly come!"

minus 30 degrees, dear, in this weather, those thickened tents can't bear it at all. Even if there is a quilt, a padded clothes, and a heating stove, it will not work!

It's only been one night, and many of my soldiers have frostbitten, looking at this momentum, the blizzard can't stop at all in the short term, if it continues like this. There will be more and more non-combat attrition.

In addition, in the previous battle to capture Smithland, we also captured nearly 50,000 American prisoners, plus more than 5,000 ordinary residents of the area, who did not have enough warm clothing.

Just last night, more than 300 of those American prisoners froze to death. There are more than 5,000 frostbitten personnel, and this is still because of our army's heating stove and spare cotton clothes, if it weren't for this, they would not have just frozen to death of 300 and frostbite of 5,000.

In a word. Now the situation is urgent, you have to quickly send a batch of cotton clothes and oil heating stoves, by the way, there are also thermal insulation color steel houses, but also to speed up, otherwise after a long time, we may not be able to stand it. ”

"I'll go, those Americans who are defending in Smithland. Didn't there be a winter coat before? Haven't Americans always had enough supplies? ”

"You're a modern-day American, the United States of America at this time, you're a poor ghost." Li Yongji shook his head. "When I led my troops to attack Smithland, I thought it was so smooth, and although I had a lot of advantages, I found that their will to resist was too weak.

At first, I thought their soldiers were too bad. But it wasn't until I captured a large number of soldiers that I found out why.

You know what. The Ohio Russian regiment that confronted me at Smithland has been wearing a summer coat until now. And you can only eat two meals a day, and even if it's two, it's just some mashed potatoes with a little salt!

In addition, they also have a strict shortage of ammunition, and their guns are okay, generally capable of one per person, but ammunition is extremely scarce, with an average of only three rounds per gun! There are no shells, only five shells!

It can be said that the Ohio Russian regiment that fought with us before was simply a Hanako unit that lacked food, clothing, and ammunition, and it has been able to hold out until now, which is quite good in terms of the situation of the Americans. ”

"Won't it?" Zhang Xinda was very surprised, "That's the United States, even if it was the United States during the Civil War, but I haven't heard of any shortage of food and clothing in the Northern Army?" On the contrary, according to the information I have gathered, the Northern Army has always fought with sufficient supplies, while the Southern Army has often fought against the Northern Army when it is short of materials, and in the end it was unable to defeat the numerical superiority of the Northern Army and was defeated and lost. ”

"The one you're talking about is the Civil War without our interference." Li Yongji shrugged his shoulders, "But now the situation is different, not only am I interfering, but Britain and France are also interfering, and the result is that the northern army has suffered greater losses, not only the eastern front has been defeated in successive battles, but the western front has been defeated and lost, and there is even an additional northern front."

Under these circumstances, Lincoln had to recruit more young men in advance, which would greatly affect their industrial and agricultural production, and thus their logistical supply.

Well, in short, the United States is now losing blood and can't afford to play with the flow of materials, even if there are some supplies, you have to be careful to spend, he has to first ensure the superiority or parity of the eastern battlefield and the northern battlefield, because compared to us, the eastern battlefield and the northern war are close at hand, and a mistake is a catastrophe, but we, the previous table Xiàn is not angry, plus the distance is also far away, so the United States is not too worried, so that the delivery of materials is not timely. ”

"If it's not timely, it won't leave a legion without winter clothes, right?" Zhang Xinda shook his head and said he didn't understand, "No matter how poor Americans are, they can't afford to give clothes, right?" ”

"I asked their commander, General Schisto, about this." Li Yongji said, "He said that he urged the rear many times, but the rear always shirked with limited transportation capacity, and only brought potatoes to them, and other things like weapons, winter clothes, etc., were not found at all." In addition, even the ships that transport potatoes are not so sufficient, so they only eat two meals of mashed potatoes a day, and the amount is still small, with an average of only about 300 grams per person a day. You should know that if they eat mashed potatoes all day long, and the amount is so small, it's good that they can hold a gun. ”

"Tsk, it's amazing, I've never seen American soldiers take money and smash people, when did the Americans become called Hanako Army."

"Okay, don't talk about that." Li Yongji said, "You better hurry up and send me a batch of cotton clothes and cotton clothes, oil-fired heating stoves, oh, you must remember to do your best to keep the warm color steel room." Without this, we can't resist it! ”

"Then you're not going to let people live in the house first?" Zhang Xinda said, "Didn't you say that Smithland is a small town? There must be a lot of residential houses, right? Those houses should be better than tents, right? It's all this time, so don't play any teachers of benevolence and righteousness. Hurry up and send the army in, at least with a house, you can also escape the wind and snow, right?

You know, whether it's an oil-fired heater or a color steel house, I need time to prepare, wait for the teleportation to pass. You'll have to brave the wind and snow to build, and it will take at least a day to come and go, but during this time, you'd better borrow a house to take shelter. Well. Even if those houses were damaged in the battle, they would be somewhat useful, right? ”

What Zhang Xinda said is actually Li Yongji's behavior of living out of the city.

When Li Yongji broke Smithland, because the fighting was fierce, many houses were damaged, and the troops had a lot of motor vehicles, and the traditional city roads were too narrow for vehicles to enter. Therefore, for the sake of safety and convenience, Li Yongji ordered the troops not to enter the city, but to build a military camp on a small hillside outside the city. All the troops, as well as the prisoners, lived in this barracks.

Because it is a temporary barracks, it is a large barracks by forming a circle of motor vehicles, and then dividing them into sections, and then setting up a bunch of tents in them.

Originally, it was nothing. After all, these tents are modern, thickened, windproof tents, both for sturdiness and comfort. It's not bad, but it's all designed to resist the sixth-level wind standard. Once the wind speed is too strong and exceeds level six, it is basically useless, and the current blizzard, the wind speed sometimes exceeds level ten, which is obviously not something that the tent can withstand for a long time.

In fact, many of the tents were blown apart by last night's strong winds, and if it weren't for the nylon ropes and the large number of motor vehicles nearby, there would have been no less damage that night.

In addition, when the snowstorm first came, Li Yongji didn't think about sending troops into the town to escape the snowstorm, but after asking someone, he had to dispel this idea.

Because as Li Yongji said earlier, the former Smithland was the garrison of the Ohio Russian Army Regiment of the United States, but due to their long-term lack of logistics supplies, especially the lack of cold materials, since the beginning of winter, the 100,000 army has almost burned everything that can be burned locally, so that the town of Smithland has nothing to protect from the cold.

Therefore, even if there are still some intact residential houses in the town, but in the catastrophic temperature of minus 30 degrees, there is also a snowstorm, it will not be able to withstand it.

Moreover, most of the houses in the town were built by the residents themselves, and the sturdiness was originally very ordinary, and because of the great war just now, many houses were damaged, and such a strong wind blew over, if you are not careful, if the houses collapse, the people in the houses will be stoned to death.

Of course, this is also related to the topography here, after all, Smithland is the intersection of the Ohio River and the Cumberland River, which belongs to a shock plain, so the soil here is relatively soft, and the local residents build houses on the land with brick and wood mixture, and few have deep foundations.

Usually a light wind and light snow is enough, but in this catastrophic blizzard, this town is difficult to resist, and it is not even as strong as a pure wood house.

However, this is located in the south, in the past, there are few such extremely low temperature and high wind speed of blizzard weather, like the weather that Li Yongji is encountering now, not to mention once in a hundred years, but also once in fifty years, so in the past, the houses of local residents were not a big problem.

Because there are too few residential houses, and the number of Li Yongji's people is too large, plus prisoners and the like, it has exceeded 80,000 people, so many people, there is no place for them in Smithland.

Isn't the previous Ohio Russian regiment 100,000 men, perhaps? How could they be stationed in Smithland?

The reason is very simple, the main force of the 100,000 people of the Ohio Russian Army Regiment was not in Smithland, on the contrary, they mainly lived in the trenches west of Smithland, and only some of the command staff and the wounded were really in Smithland.

In short, it is quite unrealistic to expect the houses in Smithland to escape the blizzard, and instead of huddled in a group of dilapidated houses, it is better to continue to be on the high ground, relying on vehicles and tents to defend against them, at least without worrying about being stoned to death by the houses.

"So, what I need most now is a warm color steel room, that is, a place to shelter from the wind and snow, as for warm clothes and heating stoves, we are not too lacking, and we can still use it if we deal with it, so don't waste the tonnage of transmission, all of them will send me a warm color steel room, this is the most important!"

"Okay, I understand, I will definitely do my best to prepare enough warm color steel houses for you, and do my best to teleport them to you, so as to ensure the safety of your residence first." Listening to Li Yongji's words, Zhang Xinda also sighed, "Then again, you are really unlucky, a once-in-a-century snowstorm actually let you encounter it." ”

"If you have the kung fu to talk coolly, you better hurry up and prepare supplies for me!" Li Yongji said angrily.

"Okay, then without further ado, I'll do it, you hold on for a while."

After finishing the call with Zhang Xinda, Li Yongji thought about it and opened the communication with another agent, that is, Dou Bifeng.

Li Yongji was not so polite to Dou Bifeng, but because he wanted to guard against the other party, Li Yongji did not ask him to prepare any color steel plate house, but asked him to quickly send a batch of charcoal, kerosene, cotton clothes and quilts and spirits.

Obviously, what Li Yongji said to Zhang Xinda before that there is no shortage for the time being, it is all false, and the reality is that Li Yongji has even begun to be short of cotton clothes and quilts.

"Such a large amount?" Dou Bifeng asked.

"Yes, I need it urgently." Li Yongji replied simply, "You must send it to me as soon as possible, you only have ...... Well, half an hour. ”

"Half an hour? This is impossible, there are so many things, even if I have all the preparations, it will take at least three hours. ”

"You've only got half an hour!"

"Please, can you be reasonable? Half an hour, it's an impossible task! ”

"Then I don't care." Li Yongji, who was masked, said lightly, "If you don't want to suffer anymore, you'd better do what I say, otherwise, I don't mind letting you continue to try the headache, well, maybe you can try it?" ”

Hearing Li Yongji's words, Dou Bifeng's eyelids jumped, and he finally sighed: "Okay, I understand, I will do my best." ”

"It's not about trying, it's about doing it!"

"Yes, it will be done!"

"Very well, then we'll see you in half an hour!" (To be continued) R466