At this moment, Mu Qingyao came in with a pot of charcoal fire and said to Qin Fan: "Son, it is winter now, the north is cold, and the grain harvest may be cut off, you should make plans as soon as possible." ”

"Cut off?" Qin Fan was surprised: "Do you mean that there is no harvest in the farmland in winter?" ”

Before Mu Qingyao could answer, a system announcement sounded.

"Ding! Huaxia District Announcement: In the cold winter, everything withered, the income of farmland was suspended, and the income from fishing and hunting decreased by 50%. Banditry, the probability of riots increases, please be prepared! ”

"! Farmland is no longer producing grain? ”

As soon as Qin Fan heard the announcement of the system, he immediately opened the Fang Market and went straight to the food item, and before he could buy a few orders, all the kinds of food and meat that were still so abundant were suddenly gone.

"It's over...... Finished! ”

Qin Fan patted his head, there were originally more than 100,000 troops relying on the supply of food in Fang City, but now that the farmland is cut off, what will his 500,000 troops eat? The most important thing is that the major cities only have a week's worth of food, and after a week, these 500,000 people will either starve to death or riot.

"Let me think about it...... Let me think about ......"

Qin Fan sat on the futon and looked at the reddened charcoal fire, at present, there is still income from hunting and fishing, but it has also reduced the income by fifty percent, the seventh-order hunters can only supply a hundred people, and if it is halved, it will be fifty people.

He had the patience to brush up on one or two hundred thousand seventh-order hunters, but if there were more high-level hunters in a region, the prey on the mountain would decrease in a short period of time, causing the efficiency of the hunters to plummet, so it was impossible to rely solely on hunters to provide food.

Fortunately, Qin Fan quickly found another shortcut, he remembered that he had bought a large amount of grain from the traveling merchants during the last famine riot. It's expensive, but it solves the problem.

He used the idle population of 2,000 in Tianya Town to brush up a fourth-order traveling merchant and click on his commodity list, the price of food scared him stupid.

The price of grain in Fang City in ordinary times was only three taels of copper per person per day, and when the famine and riot system were active more than a month ago, the price of grain for traveling merchants was only 30 copper. And now, this price has been directly multiplied by three and turned into one silver!

This is only the price of infantry, the golden fire cavalry is three times the consumption of infantry, and the light cavalry is twice as much, according to this consumption, he has to consume seven or eight thousand gold a day just to buy food......

Sleepless all night, the next morning, Qin Fan changed into cotton boots, a white brocade robe and a black wool cloak and went out, this is the winter coat he bought from the traveling merchant, more than 100 gold.

As soon as he went out, Fan Yixian came over with a Mongolian.

"Mr. Fan, who is this?"

"Childe, this is a messenger from the Mongolian Beggars, saying that he wanted to see you, so I brought him over."

This Mongolian man seems to have been on the road overnight, and at the moment his hands and feet are red from the cold, and he shiveres. Qin Fan asked, "What is the matter with the Qiyan Khan calling you here?" ”

"Gongzi Qin, the Great Khan said that Wang Khan in the northwest intends to plunder all parts of Mobei because of the lack of food reserves at the end of autumn, and he advises you to immediately return to the north to resist Wang Khan's invasion, and he can take advantage of the situation to help you."

"Loot me? Am I ...... Yes? Yes! ”

Qin Fan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered that Suha Yeqi and Su Pohan still had fifty or sixty thousand cattle and sheep in stock, and it shouldn't be a problem to last for a month, at least it could reduce Qin Fan's burden.

"Good! If you return to the begging Khan, my department will be there in two or three days! ”

After sending the envoy of the Qiyan Ministry, Qin Fan asked Cai Xu to teleport him to Fengzhou, and he arranged for Xinglong to focus on monitoring the movements of Datong Mansion.

"How? Is there any sign of sending troops to Datong Mansion? Qin Fan looked at Xinglong, who was carefully examining the map, and said.

"Because of the sudden heavy snowfall and food supply problems, the six or seven hundred thousand infantry in Datong Province have not moved for the time being, but there are constantly food teams entering each gate."

The army in the alliance is assembled, and the food consumed by their own troops still has to be taken care of by themselves, unless there is still food in the granary of the city, otherwise they have to be transported from their own fiefdoms, and these food teams should be pulled by the surrounding players.

Now that the food production is stopped, if the troops have to fight, they will consume much more food than usual. Qin Fan felt that the Longlin Alliance would not cross the Great Wall until the food problem was solved.

"Maybe this is a good time to send troops north......

Thinking of this, Qin Fan decided not to delay any longer, and he directly ordered Yue Ziyun to pull all the cavalry back to Mobei.

In the past two days, Qin Fan arranged all the fiefs promised to those cooperative alliances, and by the way, he swiped thirty Anmin notices from a county in the hands of the South Wind Alliance, and used them on the Suha Ye banner.

The snow continued unabated, and the road to Mongolia became muddy, and it took the cavalry three days to get there. During this period, the forum has begun to break out of the famine, riots, and cold snaps caused by the suspension of farmland, a large number of NPC deaths, mutinies, and other negative situations.

Fengzhou's 350,000 troops also had the problem of cold snaps, but fortunately, Qin Fan transferred wool from Mongolia in time and sent it to Fengzhou's tailor shop to make cotton clothes, plus the traveling merchants bought winter clothes, which withstood the cold attack.

Qin Fan guarded the talent panel almost all day and night, constantly repeating the content of refreshing, dismissing, and trading. The compensation received was used to buy food from the traveling merchants on the one hand, and to continue to expand the population cap on the other.

It's a pity that such an orderly day didn't last two days, on the sixth day of their return to Mobei, Wang Khan's 500,000 iron cavalry poured out, and the king tent only left 100,000 elite iron cavalry guards.

The weather in Mongolia is colder than in Datongfu, and the cold snaps from the north continue to erode the entire grassland, the cattle and sheep shiver in the wind and snow, and the earth becomes white and mottled in the cold wind.

This made Wang Khan, who was short of food, eager to start a war.

Heavy snow covered the meadows, and the horses could not speed up their march in the snow, and it took Wang Khan two days to get close to Subohan by bypassing the beggar tribe.

"Childe, Wang Khan's 500,000 cavalry is only seventy miles according to this, and according to the normal march, it will be killed within a few hours."

Winter is the home of dark wolves, they can track all kinds of prey for long distances, and transmit military information several times faster than humans!

"Then kill them by surprise! When the enemy army is still thirty miles away, the whole army will be killed! ”

Looking at the fluttering snow outside the tent, Qin Fan asked again, "How is Mu Qingyao's side?" ”

Mu Qingyao has always taken care of Qin Fan's daily life, and he is actually an eighth-order diplomatic minister, this time he sent Mu Qingyao to the Qiyan Department to discuss the defense plan with Temujin, just to see Mu Qingyao's diplomatic ability.

Mu Qingyao sent back the news that after learning that Wang Khan intended to use troops against Mobei, Qiyan Khan released the news, saying that there was a mutiny within the Golden Horde, and the Qiyan Department was in turmoil. At present, Qiyan Khan has led 400,000 troops to prepare for a raid on the rear of Wang Khan, as long as we can hold back Wang Khan's army, then Qiyan Khan will definitely win! ”

"Humph! Temujin's abacus is really good, and our wave of guns is really good! ”

Mu Qingyao said that she had already received benefits from Temujin, and Temujin had promised that half of the horses, cattle and sheep would go to us, and he would get half of the materials and all the territory. At the same time, as compensation, Temujin was willing to give up several tribes, including the Mobei royal court, and give up the entire Mobei to Gongzi! ”