In October, Lingnan is still a hot summer, and the land of Sanqi in the Central Plains has just entered the early winter, which is not very cold, but the place of Beji, which is located in the northeast of Liaodong, has already been in the season of heavy snow more than a month ago.

Although it is not yet the coldest time of the year, there are already many heavy snowfalls, and the continuous snowfall has overlapped a foot or two of snow in the vast forest.

The winter temperature in the land of Beji is very low, even if it is still in a rare warm period in Chinese history, but the land of Beji is now more than 20 degrees below zero, which can be described as dripping into ice, such a low temperature makes the soldiers of the East China Sea who have been living in the land of Sanqi and the East China Sea tremble one by one.

No matter how tightly they wrapped their sheepskin jackets, they couldn't resist the chill that pierced the bone marrow carried by the cold wind of the hunt, and the soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army who were hiding in Zhenhai Fort felt that if they hadn't been able to drink a little steaming sugar cane wine at any time to activate their blood, I am afraid they would have frozen stiff a long time ago.

What Cao An and Zhang Hang, who came to Zhenhai with confidence, never expected was that after coming to Zhenhai, the first powerful opponent they faced was not the upcoming Goguryeo army, but the harsh climate here, and at the same time, they also admired Zhao, who had lived here for several years.

What made Cao An and the others even more headache was that the soldiers in the East China Sea, who had not encountered this cold climate at all, were very unsuitable for such an extreme climate, and no matter how they increased their clothes, a large number of soldiers still began to have a large number of frostbite.

These soldiers, their fingers are swollen like red carrots, and their swollen hands can't hold them, and even eating has become a problem, so don't say anything about going to war with the Goguryeo people with weapons.

Fortunately, at this time, there was a small clan leader of the Beji Savage tribe who had taken refuge in his side nearby, and after seeing this situation, he did not hesitate to offer his tribe's medicine for chilblains, so that the Blue Wolf Army avoided the first incident of the entire army withdrawing from the battle due to non-combat attrition.

Although the weather was so bad that even the warriors of the local Beji Savage tribe would not go out again unless they had to, Cao An and Zhang Hang still did not dare to slack off.

In order to prevent a sudden attack by the Goguryeo army, they sent a large number of scouts in the direction of Goguryeo, and these scouts were scattered throughout the wilderness, from Jinhae to the vicinity of the Tongmen River (Tongmen River was the name of the Tumen River before the Jin Kingdom), which was only a hundred miles away from Najin Fortress.

Originally, the people who lived here were the people of Beiwofu, but now it is the Baeksan tribe of the Yambu that gradually occupies the advantage, because it is subordinated to Goguryeo, so it is also considered the territory of Goguryeo, and Najin Fortress is a city built by Goguryeo to strengthen its rule here.

However, because it was the core of Goguryeo's rule before, Goguryeo did not attach much importance to it, and Najin City was just a small city that could accommodate 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Although the military center of Goguryeo is not here, the Northern Wofu people and the Gurya people who live in the mouth of the Tongmen River are after all vassals of Goguryeo, and if the Wofu people and the Turquoise tribes living here listen to the words of the Goguryeo people and are willing to fight for the Goguryeo people desperately.

Then the pressure on his own side will increase a lot, not to mention that these Wofu people are not weak in their ability to move in winter, and they are likely to become the vanguard of the Goguryeo people, so Cao Anning is willing to send more scouts, and he does not want to believe that the weather of this trough cake can stop the Goguryeo army.

In a forest at the foot of the mountain, only a few miles away from the mouth of the Tongmen River, a white thing moved slowly on the ground, and in a short time it got into a snow pit, and at this time the snow was more than a foot thick on the flat ground, and the snow on the depression next to the cliff in front of him was more than four feet thick, and a child could easily stand in the snow without being noticed.

The white shadow just now flashed at this moment, it turned out to be a soldier in a white cloak, it turned out that this snow pit was connected to a very hidden cave nearby, the cave was hidden by thick snow, and it was difficult to be detected.

In winter, outdoor activities are very dangerous things, especially after the temperature drops sharply in snowy nights, people can easily die due to hypothermia, if there is a snow pit it will be much better, and this cave not only blocks the cold wind, but also has some warm appearance.

At this time, there were more than a dozen soldiers in snow camouflage uniforms resting in the cave, and it could be seen that these were the scouts of the Blue Wolf Army, and the two soldiers who were guarding saw that the soldier who had just come in was about to come forward to greet him, but stopped under the gesture of this soldier, and the others did not notice the person who came in at all.

The soldiers could see that they trusted their comrades, and several young soldiers were roasting around a pile of charcoals, on which there was a large copper kettle hanging from a tree branch.

Since the occupation of the Wa Kingdom, the abundance of copper mines has increased the opportunity for everyone to use valuable copper utensils, and this copper kettle was obviously specially made for the army, not only for soup and stew, but also for water and food when marching.

At this time, there were a few unknown birds stewed in the copper kettle, but the soldier, who was familiar with the mountains and forests, could tell at a glance that in addition to two hazelnut chickens, there were also four or five turtledoves boiled inside, and the tumbling thick soup revealed a strong fresh fragrance. New Lewen

The soldier who had just come in smelled the fragrance and stepped forward, just wanted to take advantage of everyone's inattention to catch a bird's leg from the copper kettle to eat, but unexpectedly immediately took a kick from a veteran, "Da Biao, you kid don't learn well, look at so many brothers who haven't eaten, you don't set a good example for them!" ”

It turned out that this soldier was Li Biao, after being incorporated into the second division of the Blue Wolf Army, Li Biao still followed Cao An's subordinates, this time it was also to rescue Zhenhai City, with the army coming to Zhenhai, and finally was sent out because of the reconnaissance of the direction of Goguryeo.

The veteran who kicked Li Biao just now was his old partner Gu Lun, and they have now become the squad leader of the scout team, with five soldiers under him, and their old captain Zhang Tao has become the captain of the detachment leading twenty people, and the number of people under his command has increased from two to twenty, which can be said to have increased dramatically.

"Old Gu, do you still have chilblain cream?" Li Biao held a handful of snow in his hand and rubbed it vigorously on his face and ears, and after rubbing his ears and cheeks that were a little stiff and feverish, he saw that his chilblain cream was gone, so he immediately asked Gu Lun unceremoniously to get up, and the friendship between the two of them did not need to care about these details at all.

Gu Lun saw Li Biao's red ears, and immediately took out a box of chilblain cream from his pocket, and complained in his mouth: "What's the use of having such a big face?" It's not a waste of chilblain cream! Gu Lun couldn't help laughing when he said this.

Because Li Biao is big, even his face is much bigger than the average Gu Lun, so the two often joke with each other, and when they heard Gu Lun talking about himself again, Li Biao immediately returned it, and the back and forth quickly rendered the atmosphere of the cave **.

"Da Biao, is there any movement outside?" A voice sounded, and as soon as Li Biao turned around and saw that it was his old captain Zhang Tao, he hurriedly replied: "Captain, I didn't find any movement, it's strange during this time, and I haven't seen the shadow of a Goguryeo person, but in the past two days, I've seen a lot of people walking through the mountains and forests!" ”

"Wolver? No Goguryeo? Zhang Tao walked around the cave after hearing this, and the other soldiers saw Zhang Tao's reaction, so they quieted down one by one, for fear of affecting their captain's thinking.

"Lao Gu, what do you think?" After Zhang Tao turned around for a long time, he suddenly paused and turned his head to ask Gu Lun, among the three, Gu Lun sometimes often had a bloody analysis of intelligence, if it weren't for the fact that he was too jumpy, he wouldn't have been able to be the captain.

After Gu Lun frowned and thought about it, he raised his head and said to Zhang Tao: "Captain, I think there is an eighty percent chance that the Goguryeo people don't want to consume too much strength by themselves, so they must mobilize the Wofu people and even the Beji Savage tribe and the Ya people to take action against us together!" ”

Zhang Tao also nodded when he heard this: "I think so in my heart, but now we can't just guess like this, it's best to catch one or two tongues, so that we can deduce what the Goguryeo people are going to do." ”

"Damn, when did the Goguryeo people become so smart?" Li Biao was a little amazed after hearing the analysis of the two, "We had the support of those tribes around Zhenhai before, I thought that the Goguryeo people were not our opponents, if they were so organized now, I am afraid that at least one or two hundred thousand indigenous troops could be pulled out, so that they would have nearly forty thousand!" ”

What Li Biao said, Zhang Tao and Gu Lun knew very well in their hearts, but because everything had to be done using intelligence, these things were just their own guesses, so they still needed to be confirmed by capturing live prisoners later.

However, it seems that it is necessary to strengthen the attraction and integration of the indigenous tribes around Zhenhai and Jiangkou, no matter what, these indigenous tribes are good soldiers and guides, and if they want to compete with Goguryeo for the entire northeast region, then the indigenous tribes living here cannot be ignored.

The next day, when it was dawn, Li Biao, Gu Lun and Zhang Tao all led their subordinates to sneak out, and when it was dark, several groups of people captured a total of four strange whereabouts of the savage soldiers and the Tatar people, after some interrogation, sure enough, as expected, they were sent by the tribe bribed by Goguryeo to contact the envoys of other tribes.

After listening to the separate confessions of the four tongues, Zhang Tao, Gu Lun and Li Biao all had heavy faces, and the Goguryeo people really won over the Beiwofu and some of the Ya people.

It seems that Goguryeo not only used these indigenous tribes to attack itself, but also intended to further integrate these indigenous tribes, first weakening the power of these tribes through war, and then merging these indigenous tribes into Goguryeo's territory by step-by-step means.

So several people quickly led the team to retreat to Zhenhai, and reported the intelligence and their analysis to Cao An, and Cao An was also surprised after receiving the intelligence analysis, and after some analysis with Zhang Hang and Zhao Qin, they all thought that this was a very likely thing.

If this is the case, then it means that your own forces in the land of Beji are actually at a disadvantage, even if you can keep the stronghold of Zhenhae, but you can't keep the Wuji Savage tribe and the Yan people living in the surrounding area from being absorbed by Goguryeo.

In this way, the Goguryeo people could trap themselves and others in the small fortress of Zhenhai just by using these tribes of the Tatar people who had taken refuge in them, so the news quickly spread to Wang Ze's hands!