After the lively Laba Festival, the entire Great Song Dynasty fell into the tense preparations before the festival, and people who had worked hard for a year hurried to purchase various materials before the New Year, just for their families to have a good year.

These days, the hawkers and shops that specialize in selling New Year's goods are making a lot of money.

With the gradual improvement of the living standard of giving away people over the years, the willingness to spend more on the New Year's Festival every year has become more and more year by year.

Their business is also getting better every year.

The entire Great Song Dynasty was immersed in a joyful festive atmosphere.

At this time, the Xiongnu and the Northern Turks had been trapped in the steppe by heavy snow.

Every day, I receive news that my people are freezing to death, and the population is decreasing in the extremely cold weather, and it is very miserable.

In the same season, two different lifestyles, the two situations faced are the gap between the Great Song Dynasty and these barbarians.

Even the Southern Turks, who traded with the Great Song Dynasty, are now living a good life.

In previous years, the Southern Turks would also be like the Northern Turks now, huddled in tents for the winter, watching the people in the tribe who were freezing to death and starving to death powerless.

However, now, with the help of the mutual market, plus they robbed the Northern Turks before the winter, and exchanged a large number of supplies from the mutual market.

Today's Southern Turks spend the winter in warm felt tents warmed by honeycomb coal, holding warm wine and gulping down, and an iron pot is boiling the fragrant beef and mutton that is constantly boiling in the steam.

Take a sip of wine, eat a bite of meat, and the warm current flows all over the body, this day is so unhappy!

Even the livestock sold fodder from the mutual market, and they did not worry about eating and drinking at all.

The same grassland, different circumstances, and a big difference in treatment are desperate.

Under very different circumstances, four years of Xingwu passed quietly.

After the long Spring Festival holiday, the Great Song Dynasty on vacation woke up again.

The time came to the fifth year of Xingwu, February 21.

Equinox.

Spring water is born, and spring forests are in full bloom.

The harsh winter gradually passed, the young grass sprouted, and everything began to revive.

It stopped for more than a month, and the state apparatus began to slowly turn again.

And the expedition that I started preparing for last year is almost ready now.

Five days, five years of Xingwu, February 26.

During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot.

There was a light rain in the sky, and nearly 700,000 troops stood silently outside Bianjing City, their eyes were resolute, like iron towers that could not fall, and their eyes looked at the figure of the vermilion crown on the gate tower of Bianjing City.

Zhao Jun stood on the gate tower of Bianjing, looked at the huge army under the city, and said the only three words he wanted to say today.

"Soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, go to the grassland to vent our hatred to the fullest!

Let the unrepentant Hun barbarians pay the price for what they have done!

Blood debt! Only blood can pay for it! ”

Sonorous!

Nearly 700,000 soldiers wearing armor raised their heads in unison, their eyes were full of anger, and they raised their weapons with a click and shouted:

"Blood debt and blood payment! Blood debt and blood repayment! Blood debt and blood repayment! ”

"Let's go!"

Click, click, click!

With the sound of metal colliding, the black army was like black waves in a storm surging towards the north.

The army of 700,000, carrying the flame of revenge that has been endured for nearly five years, wants to vent it all this time!

Northern Xiongnu steppe.

Tira looked at the report from below with an ugly face.

After a winter, the Huns, who were already not doing well, made matters worse.

During the trip to the Western Regions before winter, the Xiongnu had robbed a lot of supplies.

It's a pity that he was pitted by the Turks in the follow-up support.

The 300,000-strong army was pursued by more than 500,000 Tatars, and by the time they ran back to the Stag Steppe, there were less than 250,000 of the 300,000-strong army left.

The loss of 50,000 young and strong is an unacceptable heavy casualty for today's Huns.

This also made the things that the Xiongnu had obtained with great difficulty in the Western Regions go down the drain.

After this heavy snowfall, according to the information reported by various ministries, the entire Xiongnu population has reached a new low.

Last year, the total population of the entire Xiongnu was 930,000.

It's less than a million.

Then after one winter, the Huns froze to death more than 40,000 people.

Coupled with the losses in the previous war, the total population of the Xiongnu today is even 800,000.

800,000 people, of whom less than half are young and able.

The entire Xiongnu ninety emptied their families, and they couldn't get together 400,000 people.

Although such a large number of troops is enough for the Xiongnu to dominate the surroundings.

However, they also faced an even more powerful enemy beside them, and that was the Song people.

According to the Falcon Court, the current army of all people is at least one million or more, and its population is as high as 10,000.

If it is about the comprehensive strength of the full output, the Song people are afraid that they can gather nearly 10 million troops!

Such a large number of them really made Tila feel uneasy.

The Xiongnu have fallen, but the enemy is growing stronger.

An unprecedented sense of crisis pervades Tira's body.

"Da Danyu, there is news from the Erle Department that the tribe is in short supply of food, and I want to ask the royal court if this side can borrow a little food from the Erle Department to tide over the difficulties?"

Tila heard this and was about to say yes when another man walked in.

"Da Danyu, there is a shortage of food to the Japanese department, and I want to come to borrow food!"

Another man came in.

"Da Danyu, the Chunmo Department also needs to borrow grain!"

In a short time, the felt tent of Tila Thanyu was filled with people from all the tribes who had come to borrow grain.

Looking at the crowd standing full of felt tents, Tira's smile stiffened on her face.

There are so many people, how can we borrow this grain? If it is lent out, will he still have anything to eat in the royal court?

Food has become a major problem for Tila today.

And at this moment, someone suddenly proposed: "Da Danyu, if it weren't for the Turkic Department releasing our pigeons a few years ago and pit us, where would we suffer such a big loss?"

Now that all families are having a hard time, they can't live on the edge of the Song Dynasty like before, and they can still go to the Song Dynasty to grab two handfuls.

It's far away now, and I can't beat it.

The 500,000 troops of the Song Dynasty in the Western Regions are still stationed, let alone go.

I think there's only one way we can do it at the moment! ”

The crowd and Tirazzi were silent, listening to him in silence.

And when this man saw that everyone was looking over, he immediately shouted: "Since we have no food, let's go and grab the grain of the Turks!"

Originally, he owed us, but I heard that they were attacked by male classmates before, and now our ancestors have suffered heavy losses, and this winter is more difficult than us.

They can't beat us, but if we kill them, we can take possession of their pastures and gather their supplies! ”

In an instant, all the Huns, who were almost driven crazy by food, were moved.

The fierce light in Tira's eyes flickered for a moment, and as soon as she gritted her teeth, she nodded heavily:

"Gather all the troops now! Get ready to go!

Tell them that Ben Shan Yu is going to take them to grab food!

Warriors who want their clans and families to survive are all joining in! ”

"Yes!"

All the Hun generals smiled and hurriedly went back to prepare.

At the same time, the Northern Turkic Division.

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(End of chapter)