The more than 600,000 Xia cavalry concentrated in the weak Luoshui were still with Han Zigao as the commander and Ji Xiang as the deputy commander, although they did not launch a counterattack against the Sui army, but they firmly held the key position of Liaoshui leading to the hinterland of the Xia State, waiting for the next move at any time.

Corresponding to the Sui Empire and the Turkic cavalry alliance that had already advanced to the Luanshui line, although Yang Jun was nominally the commander of this cavalry alliance, the Turks, who had always been unruly, were not willing to obey his orders at all.

At present, the war between the Xia and Sui empires has not officially begun, and the Sui army is concentrated on the west bank of Luanshui from Zhuojun to the north of the Great Wall, while the Xia army is stationed in the upper reaches of Liaoshui and the east bank of the Liao River.

As time passed, the battle between the scouts on both sides became more and more intense, and now the scouts on both sides are almost always in dozens or even hundreds of people, and the scouts who are too small in number will not be able to return to their army garrison alive, and now everyone knows that this peerless battle is about to begin.

"Shhh "Boom ······"

The weak Luoshui, which has always been sparsely populated, became very lively after concentrating hundreds of thousands of Xia State cavalry.

Even though Xia Guo attaches great importance to the training of war horses, after concentrating hundreds of thousands of war horses, the war horses still continue to neigh every day, and the scouts outside the military camp for dozens of miles can prevent all enemy sneak attacks.

With the heavy snow covering the entire prairie, the Xia army could use binoculars to detect the enemy situation within a hundred miles, which made the sneak attack of the Sui army even more impossible, but the Xia army still maintained a high level of vigilance, and the scouts scattered every day were still thousands.

After another heavy snowfall, the sky finally cleared slightly, a cavalry in winter clothes patrolled around the camp as usual, and suddenly saw a team of more than 100 cavalry galloping quickly, it seems that there should be a hurry, otherwise such a cold winter makes the war horses gallop quickly, it is easy to get sick and cause death and injury.

After informing the token and password, the cavalry dismounted and hurried towards the Chinese army's tent.

"Report to the General,"

The young lieutenant led by the leader reported, "General, our department has killed sixty-eight scouts of the Sui army in the southern branch of the weak Luoshui, and the remaining half have fled, they are specially going to the south bank of the weak Luoshui to investigate, according to our torture, the former army of the Sui army has already come out of Liucheng County, and it may have to launch an attack in a few days!" ”

"Your Highness, sit down and drink some hot soup first! In the future, don't take risks in person, beware of the white Arowana suit!! ”

Han Zigao was not in a hurry to listen to the information, but beckoned the young lieutenant to sit down, and then ordered his soldiers to bring a pot of hot soup.

It turned out that this young lieutenant was Wang Ze's eldest son Wang Dong, who was now twenty-one years old and his second brother Wang Rui both served as captains in different cavalry units, which could be regarded as Wang Ze's experience for the two of them.

"Uncle Han's words are wrong!" Wang Dong took a sip of hot soup, and retorted with a smile when he heard Han Zigao's advice, "My father started the army at the age of eight, and he fought in all directions to have such a foundation today, although we are sons of man who are not as good as my father's innate sanity, but if we don't even have the spirit of hard work and adventure, how can we have the face to say that it is my father's son in the future!" ”

Looking at Wang Dong's resolute face, at this moment Han Zigao seemed to suddenly see Wang Ze who he saw for the first time, although Wang Dong was Wang Ze's eldest son, but because of his relatively mediocre talent, except for some literati who insisted on making him the prince, most of the other generals were not optimistic about Wang Dong.

But at this moment, Han Zigao found that he was wrong, Wang Dong is indeed relatively low, but he is very resolute, he may not achieve anything great in an ordinary person's family, but he can't stand up to him to have a good father, as long as Wang Ze lays a good foundation for him, he can also achieve great things, and even do better than others.

Thinking of this, Han Zigao came back to his senses, and then smiled at Wang Dong: "That's what I said, but since the big war is about to start, you don't always have to run away with scouts anymore, it's normal for the Sui army to prepare to attack in the next few days, what if I don't attack, what if I don't attack?" ”

"Could it be that the general had long expected the offensive of the Sui army?" Wang Dong was a little strange, he also knew that Han Zigao's military talent was relatively high, but it was too strange to expect when the Sui army was ready to attack.

"Last month, there was information from Chang'an, saying that Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty was preparing to drive the expedition in person, and now he has led more than 300,000 Sui troops to the area of Dongjun, and we conclude that Yang Jun and the Turks will inevitably launch an attack before Yang Jian arrives, and at least they will seek a small victory, so that they can also behave in front of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui!"

Looking at Han Zigao's confident smile, Wang Dong was a little puzzled: "General, it stands to reason that such a large-scale war will either be carried out in autumn or spring, why do we have to delay the war until winter?" This winter is clearly not suitable for large armies to fight! ”

The super war in the northern Xinjiang in winter is undoubtedly extremely painful, not only the soldiers have to endure the cold environment, but also have to endure the logistics that may be cut off at any time, and the non-combat attrition caused by the cold weather at this time is very serious.

"Haha, when you say that winter is not suitable for fighting, you mean the Sui army, our Xia army is not afraid of the cold now!"

Han Zigao smiled and pointed to the clothes on Wang Dong's body and said, "Your Highness, look at these clothes on your body, is it very convenient to wear, and you won't feel cold?" ”

Wang Dong subconsciously looked at the standard military uniform on his body, and then said in surprise: "What does the general mean is that this leather coat on my body was not specially prepared for me?" But it is already possible to equip the army generally? ”

"Exactly!" Han Zigao stroked his palms and laughed, "I really have to admire Your Majesty's long-term vision, since more than twenty years ago, when we first started to attack the Tongjiang Valley, Your Majesty encouraged the people who moved to the Northland to raise animals with high-quality fur in the bitter cold land further north!"

For more than 20 years now, a large number of high-quality fur animals have been raised in the Tongjiang River Basin or the Wanshui Basin, and even Sakhalin Island and Elephant Island (Kamchatka Peninsula), and even around the Beihai Sea, many people have raised them, so our army can equip every soldier with leather winter clothes! ”

"Shhh Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, but he knew how high the cost of these high-quality fur leather clothes was, this war would cost a lot just to prepare leather clothes and winter clothes for millions of Xia army soldiers, even if the Xia Kingdom had completely mastered the sea trade between the East and the West, it was not a small amount.

However, the benefits that come with it are also visible, the soldiers of the Xia Army wear leather and winter clothes in such cold weather, not only can they continue to fight in the cold of tens of degrees below zero, and even these winter clothes will not affect the activities of the soldiers.

The Sui army and the Turks who could not tann leather had to wear heavier winter clothes, and the impact on the action was not counted, so that the Xia army would have a great advantage in the battles that followed, and the victory was made up of these little factors.

Even equipping the soldiers with leather winter clothes is not counted, Xia Jun not only equipped each soldier with leather winter clothes, but even prepared a vest made of leather and cotton wool for the war horses, so as to prevent the war horses from freezing in the cold, although these costs a lot of money, but Wang Ze thinks it is worth it.

"Although the soldiers have a great advantage, the logistics of winter operations are inconvenient to transport!" Although he knew that the Xia army now had a great advantage, Wang Dong still felt that winter was not a good time to fight.

"Your Highness is also worried!" Han Zigao agreed, "It's freezing this day, even the railway is covered with a thick layer of snow, and even the steam locomotive can't run!" It's really a delay in the transportation of logistics and baggage! ”

Just when Wang Dong thought that his opinion had been praised by Han Zigao, the other party suddenly changed his voice and said, "It's just that this war has always relied on the wit of the people, although the road and the railway are covered by heavy snow, but this does not mean that our Xia army cannot easily transport materials!" ”

"Can this kind of weather ensure supplies for hundreds of thousands of people and nearly a million people?" At this moment, Wang Dong always felt that Han Zigao was bragging, although the heavy snow only covered less than a foot thick, but because the Xia country was vast and sparsely populated, it was impossible to clear the snow across the country, and it was too difficult to ensure the logistics of millions of people under such conditions.

At this moment, Wang Dong suddenly felt that the hot soup he had placed on the table was a little bumpy, and when he saw this, he was shocked and said: "General, there is a large group of cavalry approaching, beware of enemy attacks!" ”

"Haha, how can a large group of enemy troops get close to my camp!" Han Zigao laughed and said, "This must be the arrival of the baggage team arranged by His Majesty!" ”

"General, Jiangzhou County and Xuanyu County in the rear have sent us a large amount of grain, grass and military materials!" At this time, Fayan's deputy Zhang Gang was heard shouting excitedly outside the tent.

"Let's go, Your Highness, let's take a look too!" Han Zigao laughed and walked out as he spoke.

With such a thick snow, there is no problem for horses to gallop on people, but vehicles full of grain, grass, and military funds can't drive, and I don't know how these horses pull the baggage, Wang Dong also followed Han Zigao to the outside of the camp with such questions.

"Your Majesty is truly unparalleled in wisdom!"

When Han Zigao came to the outside of the camp, Ji Xiang, Fa Yan, Pei Jie and other cavalry generals were already watching the excitement, and they were full of praise for the baggage team that had just arrived.

Wang Dong was dumbfounded when he saw it when he arrived, it turned out that the animal power used to transport the baggage was not horses, but huge reindeer, these reindeer were huge and not inferior to some ordinary horses in the Xia Kingdom, and the soles of their feet were extremely wide, which could be more suitable for action on the snow than horses.

And these reindeer are not pulling carriages that are difficult to move in the snow, but a lot of sleds, enough to carry thousands of catties of grain and grass, with the size of these reindeer, it is easy for four reindeer to pull a sled,

"Your Majesty has long anticipated today's war, in order to ensure that grain and grass can be transported in winter, since last month, 100,000 reindeer have been requisitioned from Beihai, Xuanwei County, Yangwu County and other places, and more than 20,000 sleds have been specially built in the rear, which can transport tens of millions of catties of grain and other baggage to our army each time, which is enough to ensure the needs of the front-line army!"

"Not only that, Your Majesty also said!" Han Zigao said with a smile, "At the critical moment, these reindeer are all excellent meat, which can provide sufficient physical strength for the soldiers during the battle!" His Majesty encouraged the breeding of reindeer ten years ago, and I don't know if he had long thought about such a thing as today! ”

Hearing Han Zigao's words, the generals only praised Wang Ze's wisdom, I am afraid that it is the guidance given by the Haotian Divine Monarch or the Immortal Emperor, but Wang Dong feels that his father figure is getting taller and taller.