"General, it's just winter, why do you feel like Sanjiu?"

When they came to the north this time, they were well prepared, brought enough food and meat, and even everyone ate a large piece of fatty meat, and also prepared enough warm clothes, even if it was three or nine days, they could ensure that they were warm and alive.

But here, it has only been the beginning of winter for a long time, and even before the solar term of light snow has arrived, it is already bitterly cold, and they have never seen such cold weather.

"I've long heard that the farther north you go, the colder it gets, but I didn't expect it to be so cold!"

"If you go further north, you can pay it back, even if you wear more clothes, you will have to freeze to death!"

The cavalry general led everyone, I don't know how far he went, and the road was full of ice and snow, and it was white.

And where they are now, there is a large forest!

"What the hell, there are so many trees growing on such a cold day?"

These trees are tall and straight!

They have come out of the middle of the grassland and shrub area, and have come to the edge of the continent affected by the moisture of the ocean!

It's just that at this time they don't understand what these trees mean.

"General, we shouldn't be able to continue north, this light snow season hasn't arrived yet, the weather will get colder in a few days, if we continue to go north, I'm afraid the soldiers won't be able to stand it, and we won't have enough clothes to bring!"

At this time, they had already put on their thick cotton clothes, but they still felt the biting cold.

"Okay, there happens to be a forest in front of you, so the whole army will set up a temporary shelter here and set up camp in the old place!"

General Xiaocai was also a little uneasy at this time, because the army of 10,000 people was not an inconspicuous thing, but could be easily discovered from afar, and he was now afraid that those Hu people would find out the whereabouts of this army, and then lead a large army to encircle and suppress them to death.

It is impossible to go south, if they go south or west after plundering the grain of the Five Nations Alliance, they will definitely be discovered by the main force of their army, so they can only go all the way to the north.

As for the east, although that land has nominally been assigned to the name of the Ming Dynasty, most of the people living there are remnants of the nomadic people, and they will inevitably hate the Ming army.

It's a self-defeating one!

Therefore, the north is their only destination.

Otherwise, once they meet their main force, it will be a sheep over there, not to mention that this is still their home field!

So, if he wants to ensure the lives of his soldiers as much as possible, he must advance to the unknown north!

"This ghost weather is too cold, I originally thought that the privet and Mongolia were cold enough in winter, but I didn't expect that their place is nothing compared to here!"

"Isn't it? Please go back to your subordinates and guess that such a cold place is already a no-man's land, and only some birds and beasts that are not afraid of the cold, and some special plants can grow here. ”

"And their five-nation alliance probably wouldn't have thought of us going here at all!"

As soon as the lieutenant opened his mouth, a white hot air came out of his mouth, and the iron armor on his body had been removed, trying to avoid contact between his body and the exposed metal, and maintain his body temperature as much as possible.

And he was still rubbing his hands together at this time, and his body was trembling with sweat, even the rest of their war horses were like this, animals that were active in the temperate zone all year round could hardly adapt to the cold of this extreme north.

"It just so happens that the food we plundered from them is all big fish and meat, and these things are enough for us to last a month!"

That's the supply of 300,000 troops, although they can only take a small part of it, but it is enough for them to eat and wear for 10,000 or 20,000 people for a month, and the rest of the food is distributed by them all the way to the surrounding people, or fed to the wolf, tiger and leopard, to attract their attention to the past, to avoid collision with casualties.

"Okay, it's more than three days away from the grain road of the five coalition forces!"

General Xiaocai thought for a moment, after all, His Majesty personally entrusted them with such an important task, they can't be passive and slack off!

"For three days, we have three days to rest and build a dwelling, and after three days, we will take turns attacking in teams of every three thousand!"

"Each team will go out for ten days, with enough food and warm clothing, and we will send a team every six days until we finish a round, and we are making adjustments!"

Breaking up a large group of men and horses and fighting guerrilla warfare on this white snow, although not able to annihilate a large number of enemies, can distract the enemy with minimal losses, making it difficult for them to focus on the frontal battlefield.

"Yes, by the way, you can also let them collect some food, there are still three months left in the spring, even if these two are frugal, they can last for a month and a half at most, and we will focus on taking care of their supply troops!"

It's a freezing area, and in the extreme cold, the average person eats much more than usual, and if the food supply is insufficient, the soldiers are likely to suffer from hypothermia.

"The whole army obeyed the order, everyone piled up the supplies together, dug a hole in the forest for me, and built a house with the surrounding wood, and we will set up camp here!"

In the cold zone, the crypt type of house is not necessarily the warmest way to build, but it is indeed the easiest to build a house of the same type of warmth.

And the construction speed is extremely fast, only need to dig a pit, then drive the wooden stakes into the ground, and then cross the beams.

If it's too conspicuous, you can also spread weeds and branches on it, and cover it with snow to hide perfectly from enemies.

Unless they looked closely enough to find out, they wouldn't have noticed that there were still a lot of people living here.

Of course, it's possible that they all walked up to these crypts, and they didn't notice the existence of people below.

If they are smaller, only a few hundred or dozens of people, there is a better option, which is to build igloos with snow on the ground.

But there are tens of thousands of them, and tens of thousands of people are building igloos at the same time, which is a bit unrealistic.

At the same time, the igloo is extremely poor in concealment and weak in defense, so on the whole, this kind of crypt-style house is the best choice. (End of chapter)