The coldest winter season is coming, and the days are getting shorter and shorter, with dawn at seven in the morning and darkness at five in the evening.

The cold wind blew and there were no pedestrians on the road.

The snow in the fields was frozen into lumps.

People in both the city and the countryside like to hide in their own houses, or on the warm kang, or on the dining table in front of the fireplace.

People in the countryside like to sing and tell jokes that make people happy, so that adults and children can laugh together, while people in the city like to talk about some old stories and occasionally tell children some legendary stories.

Approaching the end of the year, it snowed for five days in a row, and the snow was knee-deep, making it difficult to walk an inch on the road.

In the Eagle Flying Prairie, the situation seems to be even worse, with white snow falling all the time, and the extreme cold has made many cattle and sheep sick.

In the harsh winter months, once the animals get sick, they basically do not survive.

Sick cattle and sheep are rarely eaten, and they are afraid that they will get sick if they eat them, so they have to be picked out of the flock and thrown into the snow to feed the wolves.

After continuous white-haired days, the wolves on the grassland began to attack the herdsmen's cattle and sheep because they could not find food, which is the law on the grassland, and after the heavy snowstorm, it is often accompanied by wolf disasters.

Experienced herders strengthened the sheepfold early, while inexperienced young herders suffered, and once the sheepfold entered the wolf, the consequences were very serious.

The wolf is a very cruel animal, once it enters the sheepfold, it is not only for food, but even when it is full, it will bite the other sheep to death.

Many herders have suffered heavy losses as a result, and some have even lost their families as a result.

In fact, Barak Khan is also responsible for this consequence.

It turns out that in the grassland, in order to prevent wolf disasters in winter, herdsmen are generally organized to fight wolves together in autumn, and by hunting a certain number of wolves, the consumption of food resources and the probability of wolf disasters are reduced.

And because of this autumn, the herdsmen were all transferred to the battlefield by the Barak Khan to harass the border of Liguria, and no one organized wolf hunts, which led to the wolf plague.

Moreover, due to the severity of this year's snow disaster, the wolf disaster is naturally more ferocious than in previous years.

The herdsmen who were harmed by the wolf plague were the most miserable, and although the Balak Khan seemed to be a very benevolent Khan on weekdays, greeting the herdsmen, when winter came, no one was willing to share their already small food and livestock with others.

Those herdsmen who have suffered from the wolf plague can only bear it silently by themselves.

The herders in the depths of the Eagle's Flying Steppe were the most miserable, and after the wolf plague, they had to fend for themselves, but the herders close to the Ligurian side, after the disaster, had no way out and came to the Ligurians.

Naturally, Mordric welcomed these herdsmen, and instead of condemning them for their involvement in the Autumn Offences, he gave them enough food to settle down in Liguria.

By the beginning of spring, these men would be the vanguard and guides of Lacasia, guiding Mordrek's legions deeper into the steppe.

The harsh winter has finally passed, and the snow on the Eagle Flying Prairie has begun to melt, and tender green grass sprouts have gradually grown in the snow.

After a harsh winter, the originally fat and strong horses also became skinny, and the cattle and sheep were also very weak.

This is the time when the grassland herdsmen need to recuperate the most, because some cattle, sheep and mares still have cubs in their bellies, and once they are frightened, they are easy to cause miscarriage and bring great losses.

Herders began to release their cattle and sheep into the wild, and families scattered and returned to their pastoral areas.

Barak Khan also had his own pastoral area, and when spring came, he left only a small number of escort troops behind, and then returned to the pastoral area to run the industry.

The grassland has returned to its former liveliness, and when spring and autumn alternate, there will be a grand scene of wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep.

However, it seemed that Mordric did not intend to give Barak this chance, and shortly after the start of spring, Lacasia's army was marching out.

Hundreds of thousands of Lakassia's army marched into the Eagle Flying Prairie, because the grassland was full of tender grass, the horses did not need to bring forage at all, and the logistics soldiers only needed to bring enough rations for the soldiers.

The cavalry division, led by Wren and Leyard, was the first to enter the depths of the steppe, and under the leadership of a few naturalized herdsmen, they quickly found the pastoral area of Barak Khan and launched a surprise attack on Barak Khan.

After a fierce battle, Barak Khan's Praetorian Guard was beaten to the ground, and Barak Khan was also hit by an arrow in the knee and fled in a hurry.

Lacazia's cavalry corps won a great victory, resurrecting tens of thousands of cattle and horses.

The infantry regiments of Lacacia who followed also advanced rapidly, and they put the horses, cattle and sheep they had plundered along the way, put them on their carts, and made rapid maneuvers, and they could advance 300 miles in one day and one night.

Wherever they pass, all those who do not descend will be killed.

The Lacaxian army set fire to the steppe and plundered everywhere, and each of them had a strong sense of revenge in their hearts, how did Barak rob us last autumn?

Now Lacacia has come back with a tenfold plunder, and everywhere he goes, all the herdsmen's tents have been burned, all the cattle have been plundered, the men have been killed, and the women and children have been used as slaves.

In the face of the large-scale attack of Lacazia, the various tribes on the Eagle Flying Prairie were panicked, and some people began to resist, but in the face of the high-spirited Lacazia army, they could not resist at all, plus the corps of the Lacacian army were equipped with cavalry and infantry, and there were few simple infantry corps.

In a corps, the cavalry is distributed on both flanks, and the infantry is in the middle, and in the event of a war, the cavalry immediately outflanks from both sides, and then the infantry corps advances directly, surrounds the opponent, and annihilates them all.

This method of warfare made the nomads suffer a lot, and the Lacasiya infantry was generally equipped with bows and crossbows, and the equipment rate reached an astonishing 14 percent, that is, in addition to ensuring that each infantry was equipped with at least one bow or a crossbow, the remaining forty percent of the infantry was almost fully equipped with bows and crossbows.

In other words, the nomads have no advantage in both distance and close combat.

Seeing that the general situation had gone, Barak Khan had to take some of his relatives and flee to the deep mountains and old forests deep in the peach orchard.

The spring campaign of the Lacaxian army went very well, and a lot of gains were made, and millions of cattle, sheep and livestock were all plundered and returned.

The small states that had surrendered because they were afraid of Barak Khan were also on pins and needles at this time, especially those that had followed Barak Khan to raid Liguria, and they were even more uneasy, lest Mordrak would raise a teacher to ask for guilt.

However, for these small countries, Mordrak did not pursue too much, and those who were willing to re-annex must completely wipe out all the Barak forces in the country, and then they could continue to be Lacazia's vassal states, if they did not want to re-annex or shield the remnants of Barak, Mordrak would not be polite, and directly sent troops to exterminate them, without mercy.

(End of chapter)