This winter is undoubtedly difficult for Black Iron City, but winter does not seem to be going to pass easily, in the long winter, the Holy Alliance launched a surprise attack from time to time, and Shu Han can only keep guarding, but fortunately, after many battles, now the army of Black Iron City, including the officers, is not what it used to be, and its ability has already made a qualitative leap, and those who are not qualified have been eliminated in previous wars, And those capable strongmen were promoted to higher positions, which allowed the army of Black Iron City to gradually deal with the battles of the Holy Alliance more calmly, but in general, the Holy Alliance was on the offensive side, and Black Iron City was on the defensive side.

At this point, the Holy Alliance, which has a large number of cavalry, undoubtedly has a vital advantage, the cavalry, coming and going like the wind, wants to catch them, especially in winter is very difficult, while the Holy Alliance can come and go without a trace, this phenomenon is not dissipated until after three days of heavy snowfall, a large number of snowflakes fall, so that the whole world becomes a white world, and in such a world, it is undoubtedly very difficult to win, because even if it is a cavalry, or an electric car, It is difficult to move an inch in such a deep snow of about a meter, after all, this era is not like modern times, and it is impossible to achieve any snow plows if you rely solely on manual snow removal.

The heavy snow brought a relatively peaceful time between the three countries, and the weather became colder and colder, which also made the war really far away, and although the three parties belonged to different forces, after all, they were all people under a traditional nation, so the Spring Festival was still passed, in such a season, even if all parties wanted to fight, but there was no way in hardware, and in the hearts of the people, they also hoped to be able to live a peaceful year, so all parties began to stop using force, and the war was carried out to a relatively stable state.

Shu Han and the others naturally could not go to the rear to reunite with their families, so they directly ate a Chinese New Year's Eve meal on the front line, but because the delivery of materials is really very difficult, so every soldier only has a meat ball plus a piece of cured meat, in addition, it is a pot of wine, which is actually not a particularly good enjoyment for the soldiers, after all, since the birth of chemical fertilizer, the agricultural output of Black Iron City has gradually increased, and these excess agricultural products have brought a huge boost to the development of animal husbandry and breeding, Therefore, today's Black Iron City can basically ensure that the civilian class can eat a meal of meat every month, which is already a very normal thing, so this meal is not very good for the soldiers.

But the backwardness of the transportation capacity really makes the Black Iron City have no choice, the population of the bazaar has just gathered, and the farmers who moved from Asakusa Castle can only do the work of reclamation and doubling the land this winter, as for sowing, it still needs to wait until the spring, so during this time, the bazaar can only provide industrial supplies and machinery that the defense industry can provide, but for those vegetables, fruits, eggs, etc., there is no need to think about it.

In this long three-month war, the soldiers on the front line of the Black Iron City almost never ate any good things, often the meat is the pork shop, and it is very dry, after all, the Black Iron City does not have vacuum technology, and the modern pork shop often retains a part of the water, so that these pork shops, or other jerky products are not too dry, difficult to swallow, that is because modern vacuum packaging capacity has been available, which can ensure that the food is in a state where bacteria cannot grow and multiply, so as to ensure the hygiene of the food.

And in this era, it is obviously impossible to do this, that is, even the era of refrigerators is not popular, in the context of such an era, the jerky made by people is often very dry, really like a layer of skin, the taste is very poor, absolutely not modern delicious, and even when eating, it is often necessary to soak these jerky with hot water to be able to eat.

This is also why there were so many salted fish and salted meat in ancient times, because it was very difficult to preserve food in ancient times, unlike modern refrigerators and other storage methods, the only way is only one, that is, pickling, including vegetables and meat, and they all use a lot of salt to kill the bacteria in these vegetables and pulp, and let them be preserved for a longer time, and the intake of these foods can also add a lot of salt to people, in ancient times, salt intake is a very difficult thing, In fact, the same is true for Black Iron City, including now.

The seaside is also more than a hundred kilometers away from the edge of the Black Iron City's sphere of influence, and it is only an hour's drive from the highway in modern times, but in this era, it is not so simple, not only the terrain has become more complicated, many of the roads have been cracked, but more importantly, there are a large number of very dangerous creatures in the ocean, often close to them, it means death, so people often do not approach the seaside.

The ocean is the largest channel for people to obtain salt, after not being able to obtain salt from the ocean, the main way to obtain salt in the Black Iron City is in a saltwater lake near the Black Iron City, but the volume is limited, so many times the low-level civilians can not buy any salt at all, and can only rely on these things to increase their own salt.

This is what the front-line soldiers eat, the meat is pork shops and other jerky, the vegetables are pickled radish, cucumbers, sauerkraut, etc., as for the staple food is a piece of naan, compared to rice, these naan can be kept for a longer time, so that soldiers can take it to eat for a long time, these things, it is rare to eat once may be acceptable, but it is naturally unbearable to eat for more than three months in a row.

So this meal is not good for these soldiers, but for their current life, it is undoubtedly the best gift, for this, Shu Han is still very satisfied, when he wanted to do this before, in fact, he was opposed by many people, because of the heavy snow blocking the mountain, the rear materials want to be transported, itself is very difficult, and now to meet the needs of the 80,000 army, it will increase the difficulty of the logistics department, so in this matter, there are actually quite a lot of people in Black Iron City who oppose it, But Shu Han is very stubborn in this matter.

In his opinion, after the snow melts, a big war involving the three major forces is bound to make a comeback, and then I don't know how many soldiers will die in other places and die on the battlefield, this may be the last humane festival they have ever had, Shu Han doesn't want this festival to be cold, he hopes that this festival can not only give the soldiers physical warmth, but also let them know what they are fighting for.

For this reason, in addition to food satisfaction, Shu Han also tried his best to satisfy them mentally, even when the snow covered the mountain, Shu Han also used all kinds of means to send the letters of his relatives in the rear to the battlefield on the front line, so that they knew what was happening in their home now, their children were growing up, and their parents and wives were waiting for them to come home, which was a very warm thing, and it was also the only insignificant thing that Shu Han could do for them.

And it is precisely because of Shu Han's efforts, although the battlefield is very difficult, but this year still makes everyone very happy, when the clock at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night rotates to the right, the whole battlefield sings the ballad of Black Iron City, a beautiful tune.

At the same time, during this period of time, almost all the projects under construction have been stopped, first, the heavy snow covers the mountain, and the entire territory of Black Iron City is almost everywhere with heavy snow, and it will undoubtedly be very dangerous to build projects in such an environment, and secondly, Shu Han wants to let them go home, even those captives, let them rest and rest, and wait until the snow melts, and then carry out follow-up construction.

The whole Black Iron City is so silent, people are almost nested at home every day, only some arms factories and factories of daily necessities are still hurrying up to produce materials, and then transport them to the battlefield in a steady stream, everyone knows that when the snow melts, it is the time for countries to start war again, and then it will be a big war, in the process, the consumption of materials will undoubtedly be amazing.

So of course these factories can't stop, the previous war, undoubtedly taught Shu Han a lesson, originally thought that the well-prepared bullets were not enough to fight in the face of the updated weapons, especially those rifles equipped by Shu Han, a magazine is seven bullets, although there are only two hundred guns, but the bullets it shoots are more than the sum of two thousand guns, and the consumption rate of bullets is simply amazing.

The same is true for cannonballs, the previous fortresses and fortresses and the city walls built by the city are often completely shattered by a few shells, and then the soldiers can take it down with a charge, but today's city walls and fortresses have taken into account the protection of gunpowder and cannonballs when they were built, so the city walls and fortresses that originally only needed dozens of rounds to blow up now require thousands of shells to bomb a hole, not to mention most of the buildings in many cities today, They are no longer ordinary brick houses, but mainly reinforced concrete houses.

This kind of house is not easy to explode and collapse in the face of artillery attacks, so if you want to destroy the enemy's attempt to fight in the streets, you need more shells to suppress the other party, so the consumption of weapons has also become very large, the weapons originally prepared by Shu Han were used to prepare for the attack for half a year, but in the end, it was only two months, all the bullets and shells were gone, as well as medicines and medical equipment, etc., all of which were the same.

As the war enters the era of hot weapons from cold weapons, the cruelty of war is getting higher and higher, in this state, no matter who it is, they did not expect the intensity of the war to reach this level, and this is what Shu Han did not expect before, although he is from modern times, but he has lived in this era for too long, so that Shu Han has become accustomed to the thinking of this era, and now he suddenly changed this mode of thinking, and it is really awkward all of a sudden.

Such a huge difference undoubtedly made the consumption of weapons very fast, so this winter, Shu Han let the prisoners and the workers who built roads and artificial lakes into the city, so as to ensure that they would not freeze to death by the cold winter, and also allow them to produce more weapons and equipment to ensure the supply of the front line.

As for the fact that there is almost no major event between the parties, but judging from Qiao Xuan's deployment of troops, it is obvious that he is preparing to make some big moves, during this period of time, judging from the intelligence detected on the front line, Qiao Xuan has been recruiting troops and horses, and at the same time filling a large number of reserves into the army, so that his army has recovered to a certain extent in terms of numbers.

This made Shu Han very vigilant, through this period of time, Shu Han fully understood that Qiao Xuan used troops well, and now he is Han Xin's soldiers, the more the merrier, which makes Shu Han very stressed, which is also the reason why he re-expanded the front-line troops to 80,000, otherwise with the original more than 40,000 people, if he wants to hold the entire Yangtze River direction, Shu Han really has no confidence.

And the only good news during this period of time is that taking advantage of the university weather, the soldiers of the Holy Alliance are not good at guarding the mountains, and the troops of Guangyuan Kingdom have taken a few mountains and a checkpoint back to their own hands, which is undoubtedly good news, and it has also been proved that the Holy Alliance really has nothing to do about mountain warfare, of course, there are also weather reasons.

The climate and temperature in the mountains and forests and the terrain are far worse than those on the flat land, the soldiers of the Holy Alliance on the plains, it can be said that they are invincible in battle, and they defeated the Guangyuan Kingdom with high technology, which is only temporary, and now they take advantage of the time when the snow is flying all over the sky, the hot air balloon cannot be lifted into the air at all, they took the opportunity to recapture these levels, and at the expense of manpower, they quickly built a large number of bunkers, so that the entire level is controlled by the hands of the Guangyuan Kingdom, it can be said that the Holy Alliance's operations have made some progress.

But the construction of a large number of bunkers and the investment of a lot of manpower for this made Shu Han's heart faintly uneasy, after all, the construction of so many bunkers, and the investment of so many manpower and material resources, this had to make Shu Han suspect that the strategic goal of Guangyuan Kingdom had shifted from the beginning of the offensive to the defense, otherwise more human and material resources should be put on the production of offensive weapons, rather than on the construction of these bunkers and bunkers.

This conjecture made Shu Han very scared, because he knew that when he thought so, Qiao Xuan would definitely think the same way, if Qiao Xuan mobilized the troops stationed in Guangyuan Kingdom to his side, then the already great pressure would become even greater, which was what Shu Han was worried about.