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Autumn and October are not the harvest season.

The arid grasslands are like leprosy, yellow and green.

On the Sky Ridge, Princess Ulan gave Chefeng the title of Sweat Tent Guard, and temporarily assigned twenty sweat tent cavalry for his disposal. As the drought worsened, the Tumuts had never relied so heavily on the Han as they do today.

Personally inspecting the Hanzhai and witnessing the rice millet full of earthen houses being transported from the Sein, Princess Wulan was a little calm, and of course Zhai Zhe's extra small request was not a problem.

Now there are not enough herders to keep people alive, and even if the Chahar people are defeated by the Jurchens, the Monan steppe no longer belongs to the Tumuts.

In Hanzhai, the drought in Shaanxi for two consecutive years has made Zhai Zhe worried.

When the drought in the grassland lasts depends on the mood of Changshengtian, if it continues next year, everyone on the Monan grassland may not be able to hold on. The Chahars and Tumuts could migrate to the bitter cold lands of Mobei or even Moxi, and he could only take these Han Chinese into the Ming Dynasty. Join the People's Rebellion? Zhai Zhe shook his head and smiled bitterly.

There are more and more horse thieves fleeing from Daqingshan, Liangcheng and Lingelxi, most of them are Tumuts, and there are also a small number of Han herdsmen, and the Han village coefficient is recruited to his command. Even the Tumut herdsmen need the help of Hanzhai to survive, and horse thieves who have fled west will certainly not survive without Hanzhai.

At the end of October, the weather turned cold, and this year's winter seemed to come very early, and thin ice had appeared in the still water near the shore of the Tumao River, and Zhai Zhe urgently recalled the leaders of the various departments to Hanzhai.

In the conference hall, Zhai Zhe sat in the middle, Xiao Zhiyan, Che Feng, Lei Yanqian,

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Meng Kang, Zuo Ruo and Wang Yi sat in two columns.

Zong Mao and another personal soldier Ma Gui servant, for most of the year, they followed Wang Yi to manage Di Zhai's money and grain, familiar with the operations of the main office, and were also ordered by Zhai Zhe to listen to the proceedings.

"All the leaders of the Han Department have arrived, and today I summoned everyone to come over to discuss important matters!" Zhai Zhe coughed lightly.

"Everyone knows the situation in the grasslands. The cold winter is coming, the houses in the Hanzhai are sufficiently built, and all the departments will transfer all the people and horses back to the cottage after three days, and Lao Yashan and Montenegro will each leave more than a dozen people to guard. ”

"There is one more thing," Zhai Zhe's face was solemn, and he said: "The food supply of each ministry should be reduced by two percent, and it should be rationed according to the number of people, and it will be under the unified control of the main government. ”

"Isn't there enough food in the cottage?" Xiao Zhiyan is very concerned, this is a matter of life and death.

For the first two months, he had been cooperating with Meng Kang to escort the pack horse team from Hukou to Hanzhai, but he did not understand the details.

"Whether it's enough or not depends on how long you're ready to last!" Zhai Zhe took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xiao Zhiyan. It was a secret letter that he had received the day before yesterday.

Xiao Zhiyan took out the letter, swept it with a few glances, and his face changed slightly.

Wang Jiayin, the Shaanxi People's Mutiny Army entrenched in the meanders of the river, could not resist the attack of Cao Wenzhao and Guanning Iron Cavalry, and was forced to flee. There is a great famine in Shanxi this year, and the government is not conducive to disaster relief, and under the influence of thieves in Shaanxi, many people have embarked on the road of occupying the mountain as king. After Wang Jiayin left the meander, he contacted the Shanxi refugees, and hundreds of thousands of Shaanxi thieves smuggled across the Yellow River into Shanxi.

The thieves met the hungry people, the dry wood touched the fire, the southeast of Shanxi was in chaos, the thieves broke several county towns in a row, the officials and soldiers could not resist, and only dared to retreat in the fortified city.

"We will definitely not be able to buy food next year. An invincible enemy we face. Together with the Tumuts, it is up to Heaven to have mercy on us whether we can survive. ”

"If you can drag on one more time, there will be a greater hope of surviving!" Zhai Zhe's voice was low.

Natural disasters are irresistible!

The Monan grassland is full of crises, and those who are slightly alert are preparing to flee.

After Lin Dan Khan led the 30,000 cavalry of Chahar to leave Xinpingbao, he went straight to the edge of the Modong steppe, and surrounded the Alu Korqin tribe, the Sizi tribe and the Aruyisut tribe who were migrating and fleeing eastward. The three herdsmen were forcibly relocated back to the Guyuan grassland, and the Guyuan grassland was also affected by the drought, and the water and grass were not prosperous, and the herdsmen complained.

Winter is quietly coming, this is really the coldest winter Zhai Zhe has ever encountered.

There is a shortage of cotton clothes and fur in the Han village, but fortunately a large number of trees are cut down in the deep mountains in summer and autumn to burn for warmth, but occasionally people die in the cold nights.

Having lost the only pasture in the grassland, the Tumut people could not hold on, and seeing that the livestock had lost weight, it was better to slaughter them as soon as possible. The weather is cold, the meat is not easy to spoil, and the cleaned cattle and sheep can also be preserved.

Princess Wulan began to ask Hanzhai to send rice millet to help the Tumut herdsmen, and Wang Yi and Zong Mao were in charge of this matter, strictly limiting the daily consumption of grain and grass. In order to survive, the hunting teams organized by the Tumut and the Hanzhai people searched the mountain grasslands all day long, and the animals they encountered, as small as mountain mice and as big as yellow sheep, did not miss a single drop.

On the plains near the Yellow River, the Hanzhai cavalry did not rest for fear of famine.

More than 1,600 cavalrymen stepped on the frozen Yellow River into the loop, and all the cavalry of the Han army was concentrated here.

The horn of the assembly sounded, and the cavalry of the various divisions took their positions and tried to form a queue, although it took a long time, and the formation was still chaotic, after all, they were on the right path.

If the left gives the order to blow the sprint, each knight needs to control the horse according to the rhythm of the horn, keep a neat sprint queue, and do not require the fastest sprint of the horse, but must maintain a tight formation.

Xiao Zhiyan returned to Hanzhai and saw Xiao Zhe and Zuo Ruo's training of cavalry, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to train cavalry like this, and you are really unwilling to be a horse thief for a lifetime!" ”

"Are you willing?" Zhai Zhe wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Me?" Xiao Zhiyan smiled cynically, and then talked endlessly about the art of cavalry drills.

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The 7684 sprint formation is divided into two types, one is a wedge and the other is a parallel queue. If you want to attack the opponent's line, the wedge shape is more suitable, because the point of attack is smaller, so the local attack force is greater. If you want to attack an opponent with a loose formation, a parallel formation is more suitable, as there are more people engaged and it is easier to form an encirclement from both sides. Regardless of the formation, the tighter the cavalry arrangement, the more obvious the advantage is when the troops are hand-to-hand, so long-term training is required. ”

"Eight years ago, I fought the Mongols in Yulinwei! But what you are doing now can only be used as targets for the Mongol cavalry who are good at riding and shooting, and the tight formation can't dodge the attack of the bow and arrow! What I like is the light cavalry like a horse thief, coming and going freely, tracking thousands of miles. ”

Zuo Ruo heard it on the side, wanted to refute, thought about it and kept silent.

"Brother Xiao's words are wrong, the two armies are facing each other, and the light cavalry can only intrude, and the frontal battlefield is the place to decide the victory!" Zhai Zhe shook his head and said, "One day, we will no longer track and attack with hundreds of horse thieves, but charge head-on with thousands of cavalry. ”

"I want to train a strong army that can make a name for itself in the north, and I ask Brother Xiao to help me!" Zhai Zhe gave up, he hadn't spoken to Xiao Zhiyan so seriously for a long time.

"A strong army is not trained, it is fought!" Xiao Zhiyan squinted at the Ming Dynasty, which was not visible in the south.

"How can you fight without practice? How can you survive on the grassland? Zhai Zhe roared, "I didn't venture to the grassland to be a horse thief. ”

"What are you shouting, did I say I wouldn't practice?" Xiao Zhiyan laughed, his eyes bloomed with enthusiasm that he had never felt before, it turned out that he still had the opportunity not to be a horse thief in this life, and he still had the opportunity to realize the dream of being a soldier in the big tent and riding an iron horse.

Zuo Ruoqiang, who was standing on the side, suppressed his laughter.

All dreams are pinned on the basis of surviving the famine, and there is hope only by living.