While Zhang Zheng was acting, the Tang monarchs and ministers on the Chang'an side were also transmitting news at the same time.

But the snow hasn't stopped, and the results have been ineffective.

After dispersing, Li Shimin came to the back garden, standing under the eaves with his hands behind his back and watching the snow fluttering like goose feathers.

His face was calm and he couldn't see any psychological changes, but a hint of worry flashed in his eyes from time to time.

However, at this time, the only person who was serving near Li Shimin was Wang De, the personal eunuch, and the position where Wang De was standing was behind Li Shimin.

Therefore, the gloom in Li Shimin's eyes may only be seen by God.

"Wang De."

Li Shimin softly shouted the name of the personal eunuch who was standing behind him with his head bowed and said nothing.

Wang De heard Li Shimin calling himself, and hurriedly raised his head and responded: "Your Majesty, the old slave is here, what are your orders?" ”

Li Shimin chatted and asked Wang De: "You say, is my Datang really not protected by God?" ”

Wang De was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was shocked, and a look of panic rose on his face, and he said: "This ......, the Tang Dynasty is the destiny of the world, why did Your Majesty say this?" ”

Li Shimin didn't wait for Wang De to finish speaking, and then interrupted him.

"The finishing touches on the drought and locust plagues have not yet been completed, and snow disasters have followed. In this world full of holes, why is God unwilling to give me a little more time? ”

After Li Shimin said that, he turned around and walked towards the harem, without the intention of asking Wang De to respond at all.

As he walked, he muttered in a low voice: "Zhang Zheng, this kid, why haven't you come back to give me an idea." ”

Seeing Li Shimin walking away, Wang De suddenly understood that Li Shimin didn't really want him to answer any questions, and he was not qualified to solve Li Shimin's doubts.

Li Shimin's words were not for him Wang De, but for himself.

And the answer to this question may only be known to God.

Wang De felt sorry for himself, and quickly stepped forward to keep up with Li Shimin's pace.

……

In the evening, Zhang Zheng came to Fengling Ferry again, just because the snow is much smaller now.

The goose-feather-like snow disappeared and turned into tiny snowflakes like catkins.

After a day and a night of accumulation, the snow on the ground was more than three feet deep.

Zhang Zheng and Li Chengqian came to the edge of the ferry to test the safety index of the river's freezing.

It looks like the snow will stop tonight, and if it stops tonight, then tomorrow the whole army will have to go on the road.

Before that, Zhang Zheng had to come in person to determine whether the river was frozen strong enough.

After all, this is a big river, not a small stream, and if you go to the middle of the ice and suddenly break, then Zhang Zheng and Li Chengqian are included.

One of the people in the Qincha team counted as one, and none of them could survive.

Chen Yu was shoveling down the ice with an arc-shaped skate blade on the ice at this time.

The blades are specially made, with an iron rod at one end and an iron pipe with a scale on the other, which looks like it has been cut through in unison.

The iron pipe was sharpened to the point where it touched the ice.

Every time the ice blade in Chen Yu's hand poked into the ice, a lot of ice chips would splash.

After a while, a small hole appeared in the ice.

A murky stream of water erupted from the hole, but in the blink of an eye, the water from the small hole turned into an icicle.

"Shaolangjun, the ice is six feet deep, and the freezing is extremely firm."

Chen Yu looked at the scale on the ice blade and shouted at Zhang Zheng on the shore.

Hearing the message from Chen Yu, Zhang Zheng, who was standing on the dock, shouted at Chen Yu: "Okay, I know, go to the middle of the river and test again." ”

"Yes!"

Chen Yu got the order and continued to drag the ice blade towards the middle of the river.

And that ice cave was already the seventh exploration hole he had drilled this afternoon.

Zhang Zheng knows the truth of being careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, so he will measure the thickness of the ice surface one after another in different places.

Chen Yu also knew that there was nothing wrong with being careful, after all, this was a matter related to the life and death of more than a thousand Pao Ze brothers, and Zhang Zheng couldn't be too careful.

Yes, although after measuring on the ice for an afternoon, people were almost frozen into ice sculptures, Chen Yu did not have the slightest complaint in his heart.

When the sky was about to get completely dark, hundreds of meters away from Zhang Zheng, Chen Yu, who had already blurred into a dot, shouted towards the shore: "Shao Langjun, six feet and seven inches." ”

Zhang Zheng waved at Chen Yu, signaling that he had heard, and called out loudly for him to come back quickly.

After a while, Chen Yu dragged the skate blade back to the shore, raised his hand and kept breathing at his mouth, jumping from time to time, and his face was frozen into blue and purple.

"Go back to the camp and warm yourself by the fire."

Zhang Zheng took the ice blade and said to Chen Yu, who was almost frozen into an ice sculpture.

Back at the camp, Chen Yu hurriedly took off the armor that had been glued to his underwear, wrapped in a quilt and curled up on the edge of the fire.

Zhang Zheng handed him a cup of hot water, Chen Yu took it and drank it dry, and then said to Zhang Zheng tremblingly.

"Shao Langjun, the ice on the river is extremely solid, the deepest part is close to seven feet, and the shallowest place is nearly five feet, and pedestrians are no problem at all."

Zhang Zheng nodded: "Okay, you warm up your body first, since you have determined that the ice is passable, then see if the snow will stop tonight." ”

At this moment, Li Wucun opened the big tent and walked in, first glanced at Chen Yu, who was shrunk into a ball, and then said to Zhang Zheng: "Zhang Xiannan, the snowmobile has been made twenty finished products so far, and the wood for dismantling the carriage has been used up, but do you still need the soldiers to cut down trees to make more backups?" ”

Hearing Li Wucun say that there were already twenty finished products, Zhang Zheng shook his head after thinking about it.

"No need, twenty is enough, the number of grain, grass and horse material in the team is relatively large, and some other small things are for the soldiers to carry with them."

"Okay."

Hearing Zhang Zheng's answer, Li Wucun replied hello, seeing that he couldn't eat today, he turned around and walked out very simply.

The reliability of the river was determined, and the snowmobile that transported the baggage was ready.

Everything is ready, and now only Zhang Zheng's improved horse iron hoof has not been completed, because this thing needs a lot of it.

One horse has four hooves, and the entire Qincha team has more than 1,500 war horses, that is, more than 6,000 are needed.

However, it is easy to build, and although there are many war horses, the excitement of creating history with the old money is expected.

If nothing else, tonight Lao Qian should pull the liver of a blacksmith in the army to work overtime.

And such a result was naturally expected by Zhang Zheng.

The next morning, when Zhang Zheng opened his eyes and walked out of the big tent, he saw Lao Qian with all the blacksmiths in the army, putting shoes on every horse.