As the sun rose, Yi Feng and the leaders of the five Xi tribes went to the upper floor of the Ice Castle City to watch the battle.

Behind them, groups of young and young people of the Xi clan were looking curiously and awe-inspiringly at the Sui army camp in front of them, and the tall ice castle that was shining brightly. While sighing at the magic of the ice castle and the strength of the Sui army, they were busy digging and moving stones, and a new city was being built on the east side of the ice castle, that is, to the north of the She River, at the intersection of the Luoma River and the She River. According to the result of the discussion between Yi Feng and the leaders of the five tribes of the Xi tribe, it is to take advantage of the opportunity of tens of thousands of people from various tribes to gather here to build a town here. The geographical location here is very important, guarding the three rivers of Shehechuan, Luoma River and Jiabangou River, and controlling the two rivers of Shehe River and Luoma River, and it is also an important mountain pass on the Raolehe Plain leading to the east of Songshan. After the completion of this town, the Huaihuang army can garrison thousands of soldiers and horses here, which greatly increases the strength of the Huaihuang army in Xijing. At the same time, for the Xi people, the Huaihuang army built a city and fort here, which was equivalent to helping the Xi people defend the Turkic army that was moving south along the Luoma River from the northwest.

This fortress has been set by Yi Feng personally named Lianghe Town, after the completion of the Lianghe Town will choke the river control river, east and west 1,000 steps, north and south width 680 steps, the use of stone foundation soil ramming city method, the city is six zhang high, the garrison is 1,000. At the same time, at the upper reaches of the two tributaries at the confluence of the river and three points downstream, twenty miles away from the two river towns, a fort acropolis was built, each with 300 soldiers and horses, and at the same time, these four cities will also be the residence of the people who moved to Tuntian here, and at the same time it is also the trading transfer station of the Xi people in the Raolehe area from the dam.

The enthusiasm of the Xi people to build the city was very high, although the city belonged to the Wuzhou army after it was built. Ke Yifeng and the leaders of the five tribes have agreed that after the construction of Lianghe Town, the officers and personal guards of the five tribes will be trained here by the Wuzhou Army Teaching Team. Meantime. The Wuzhou army will also set up a market here to strengthen the sale of goods to the Xi people, not only tea, wine, porcelain and silk, but also armor and weapons that the Xi people urgently need at the moment.

On the side of the fiery city construction site, a high recruitment banner was still erected in front of the Sui camp at this time. The Sui army recruited 1,000 strong and strong young men from each of the five tribes of the Xi nationality as an army, and the recruiters in charge of recruitment directly announced the recruitment treatment of the Sui army, and listed them clearly. At the same time, a group of soldiers of the Xi nationality were also selected from each battalion to come out and speak. The effect of recruiting soldiers was unexpectedly good, and countless Xi people came to sign up for the army after hearing about the favorable conditions of the Wuzhou Army. If it's just what the Sui people say, they don't necessarily believe it. However, there are many people in the recruitment office who are Xi people, these people say the same thing as them, some Xi people have even dealt with them, and many Xi soldiers who are now in the Sui army were still bankrupt in various tribes and couldn't get along. ran to the foot of Yanshan and the Sui border to break into life. I never thought that now everyone looks like a dog, and even many people have the official body of the Sui Dynasty, and even one has a regimental general.

Zhang Jincheng smacked his lips as he looked at the ice and snow, and whispered to Yi Feng: "Dashuai, this cold and snowy land, a bitter place in the poor countryside, why do we come here to build a city and garrison soldiers?" ”

Yi Feng smiled and said nothing, don't look at the poverty that seems to be here. But this place belongs to the half-mountain and half-mountain area, and the mountains and rivers are staggered. The river valley is vertical and horizontal, and it is more deep in military geography than the open and flat on the dam. Yi Feng occupies the dam, outside the Great Wall, and now the dam has more than 300,000 horses, which is basically saturated, after all, the dam is a meadow forest area, and it is in a semi-arid area, which is not suitable for growing grain. Once the population is large, it will be very difficult to rely on foreign food transportation, and more importantly, such a terrain really has no depth of defense, and if the Turks attack in a big way, it will be difficult to resist. To put it another way, it's not safe to put your eggs in one basket either. And to expand in other directions, to the south is south of the Great Wall, and without the will of the imperial court, it is difficult for him to expand to the south. To the west, to the north, these were the territories of the Turks, and they were arid areas unsuitable for development, neither for growing grain nor for defense. Only to the east, the upper reaches of the Luanhe River at the northern foot of Yanshan, all the way to the western mountainous area of the Raolehe Plain, where the half-mountain and half-mountain rivers are wide, but sparsely populated, and even the Xi people are not many. But this can be developed, the unique terrain of the mountains and valleys, very suitable for building cities and tuntian, as long as they can get along with the Xi people, the Huaihuang army can completely develop this area larger than the dam, and develop stronger forces here. It not only stabilizes the strength of the Huaihuang army, but also strengthens the influence and control of the Xi people, and can also settle the fields and people, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Half of these valleys are river valleys and half are Ji River valleys, so the reclamation of tuntian can reclaim a lot of watered land.

For many people, this may be a bitter cold place, but in Yi Feng's eyes, this is a treasure land. Youzhou and Daibei have greater development potential, but that is not what he can touch, where he can touch, there is no development potential on the grassland, only this mountain, river valley, is extremely potential.

Yi Feng, Su Zhi and other Sui Xi generals climbed on top of the ice barrier and overlooked the western part of the country, and in the white snow in front of them, it was black. The Tiele people had already arrived at the front of the pass, but they stopped in front of the pass and there was no movement. They were shocked by the sudden appearance of the Seki Ice Castle on the retreat road, and it had not recovered until now.

Tongluo people couldn't understand why the retreat was blocked in a few days, and the other party actually built a tall ice castle in just a few days. In the face of this ice-built majestic pass, they were at a loss at all, and could only be dazed and frightened.

On the ice city, the longbowmen were standing behind the battlements with their longbows on their backs, basking in the sun, and with this high ice wall, even if the Tiele people below rushed to the city, it was almost impossible to threaten them. Especially in such a cold season, the power of the riding bow made by the Tongluo people with horn tendons and other things is greatly reduced, on the contrary, the longbowmen are extremely simple longbows, which are only made of the whole Yulin, and the bowstring is also made of hemp rope, which is almost not affected by the weather. In the face of the Tongluo people who were imprisoned in the cage, although there were nearly 10,000 people, the soldiers above the city were very relaxed and did not take it seriously at all.

This battle has not yet been fought, the Huaihuang army is already invincible, and the Tongluo cavalry has not yet been fought. It's already lost. What is in front of them now is only how this battle will end. In the end, the Tongluo people did not surrender in the end, and their heads touched the blood in front of the ice castle. Bloody and dying, or they were finally frozen to death by the ice and snow, or directly admitting defeat and surrendering, this is very different from the Tongluo people, but for the Huaihuang army, there will not be much difference, they are all victories.

Inside the second ice tower on the walls of the ice castle. The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 28th Regiment of the 1st Tank were placed here to rest and stand by. After the ice fort was built, the camp built on the chariot became the second line of defense, and both battalions of charioteers were transferred to the first line of the ice fort on duty. Today is the first battalion of chariots going to the city to assist the third battalion of infantry in defending the city, but with the high walls of the ice castle, even the melee infantry of the third infantry battalion are staying in the tower and standby, and the soldiers of the first battalion of chariots who are assisting in the defense naturally have to stand by in the back.

Although sitting inside the ice tower on the ice wall. But it's not cold in the ice tower. On the contrary, it was warm. The ground of the ice tower was covered with a layer of wooden planks, and the soldiers spread their felt blankets on it, and then put on their coats, and sat around the fire, there was no cold wind, in fact, it was much warmer than outside.

Heavy infantry lieutenant Chi Gong sat on his felt carpet, holding a whetstone in his hand, and carefully sharpened the two-handed sword in his hand. This sword has not drunk the blood of an enemy since it went into battle with him. The pikemen of the same squad in the same convoy, Cheng Yanjin, leaned on his blanket to the side. He said beside him: "Old Hei, don't sharpen it, no matter how fast you sharpen the big knife, you won't have a chance to use it." ”

The righteous brothers Cheng Mingzhen, Li Wenxiang, and Wu Wenguang belonged to another chariot team, and after the last chariot battalion was expanded into two battalions, the three of them were organized in the same capital with Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin, and they belonged to different teams. At this time, the five people were all assigned to a tower to stand by, and Cheng Mingzhen also said helplessly: "Since the day I went north, I have been waiting to kill the Turks to earn military merits, but now, the knife is still bloody." ”

Wu Wenguang also agreed, "It's better than before, I thought that I would have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions after coming down, but I couldn't even see a single Tiele man's hair." ”

Black otter Wu Wenguang wiped the crossbow machine in his hand and asked, "Now that the Tiele people have been beaten by a dog, do you think they will surrender?" ”

Cheng Yanjin smiled on the side: "It's good to surrender, the province is cheaper than those longbowmen, so that they can earn military merits alone." If you surrender, then the military merits will be divided equally, and we will also get a share. ”

Wei Chigong only cared about sharpening his knife, but he didn't have the slightest intention of participating in their chat. He didn't have any nonsense at all, among the five righteous brothers, he was the oldest, and he was also the most eager to go into battle and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. Following Yi Shuai's side, as Yi Shuai's righteous son, watching the young Yi Shuai fight one beautiful battle after another, he had great reverence in his heart, and he was extremely eager to win glory like Yi Shuai one day.

But until now, he is still just a first-class Yiren, and he has never seen the blood of the enemy with his two-handed sword.

In fact, Wei Chigong wants to be a cavalryman, his horse is very good, and he also has a good horse lance rewarded by Yi Feng, and his horse lance also dances well. However, Yi Shuai did not arrange for him to go to the cavalry battalion, but instead arranged him to the chariot battalion as a heavy infantryman.

Cheng Mingzhen chatted for a few moments, then leaned on the blanket and took a nap, but Cheng Yanjin couldn't sleep, he turned his head again, "Lao Hei, do you have a favorite girl?" I suddenly thought that if we suddenly died in battle, it would be too much of a loss, I have never touched a woman's hand in my life. ”

Yu Chi Gong's hand grinding his sword froze for a moment, and a figure of a beautiful figure appeared in his mind, once when he went to give an order for Yi Shuai, he saw a shepherd woman on the road outside Huaihuang City, although the woman was a little dark, but it was so moved to him, so that he was unforgettable. It's just that he was on a mission at that time, and he didn't stay, and when he returned later, he searched for a long time nearby, but he didn't meet the girl. Then he went out with the army, and he didn't know when he would see him again. Thinking of this, he shook his head.

"Old Hei, I think you should find a girl. You are fifteen this year, you are seventeen years old, Yi Shuai has already presided over the hair binding ceremony for you, and you can already find a girl to marry. Hey, I'm only 14 this year, and I'll have to wait at least a year to get married. However, I think I can find a good one first, take a concubine, hey, let me tell you, there are a lot of young Xi girls in the Xi camp behind, I heard that Xi girls are very enthusiastic and generous, you said that after today's duty, let's go there for a walk, if you can hook a Xi girl, it would be good to warm the quilt at night. ”

At this time, the footsteps sounded, and they all joined the army and walked in, holding a stack of papers in their hands, and everyone in the tower said: "There is one thing to say, there are no eyes on the battlefield, just in case, according to Yi Shuai's meaning, everyone can write a suicide note before the war, hand it over to it for safekeeping, and leave a will. ”

The napping and sleeping all of a sudden got up, and everyone silently lined up to get the paper, and then lined up at the table to write the pre-war suicide note.

Not long after the defenders of the city had finished handing in their wills, the Tiele people finally made a move, and they sent a scout cavalry of about fifty horsemen to gallop to the city and shoot arrows at the city.

The two sides exchanged arrows, and in the end, the Tiele cavalry left half of the corpses and fled back to their camp.

On the walls of the ice castle, the longbowmen cheered in unison, cheering like thunder, and even a few bold guys jumped on the battlements, unbuttoned their back coats, loosened the cowhide buckles, took off their big pants, pulled out black and thick and peed on the fleeing Tiele cavalry, and some guys shook their white butts at the fleeing Tiele people.

The morale of the Sui army was high, and it was clear to the Gu Luo Sui army in Luo Ben's formation, and his face turned white.

"Report it, that castle is made of ice!" After leaving half of his brothers behind, the leader of the scout team who fled back from Wolf Bèi reported the results of their reconnaissance to Guluo.

"Is it really made of ice?"

"Absolutely."

Gu Luo frowned, and looked up at the ice castle again, his heart full of turbulence. What he was thinking about at this time was not how the other party had built a strong and tall ice castle in a few days, but where the defenders on this castle came from. He had already seen that the deer flag of the Xi tribe was not flying on the top of the castle, but the white tiger flag of the Sui army. Just like the same banner of the Sui army that blocked his westward march before, now it has reappeared here.

Where did these Sui troops come from, did the Sui people increase their troops again, or did the Sui army here actually block his westward advance before? He suddenly remembered the Sui cavalry that had been sticking to them like a dog's skin plaster before, so it was, he figured it all out at once. The Sui army must have outflanked his retreat, it was impossible for them to outflank him, but those cavalry dragged him for seven days, which allowed the Sui army to successfully outflank his retreat by a long way, and also built an ice castle here.

Gu Luo's face became more and more ugly, turning from gray to iron-blue. He finally understood that he had been tricked by Sui Jun and completely toyed with him. They were imprisoned by the Sui army in this eighty-mile river, in the ice and snow, there was no way to go to the sky, and there was no way to go down.

"These Sui people are going to wipe us out, not a single one will be left, such ruthless Han people!" Gu Luo's teeth were about to be crushed, and after saying this sentence hatefully, he finally became dizzy and fell off the horse. (To be continued......)