A week later, Ye Tianlong's 200,000 troops were finally assembled, and Ye Tianlong handed over 50,000 of them to his master Li Rufeng, who was responsible for staying in his hometown, while he led the remaining 150,000 troops to attack the Svadia Kingdom.

Now bordering the territory of the Blue Dragon Empire are the Swadia Kingdom and the Vekia Kingdom, this time Ye Tianlong is going to lead a large army to conquer the Svadia Kingdom, so this country should not be able to draw any troops to counterattack the Blue Dragon Empire.

However, the kingdom of Vecchia needs to be guarded against. Don't look at the Naya Rogelk King on the surface is already soft towards Ye Tianlong, but who knows what this light mind thinks, this time Ye Tianlong will go to the Swadia Kingdom, and will bring most of the elite troops in his hands to attack the Swadia Kingdom, and in the country of the Qinglong Empire, there will only be some recruits left who have not been recruited for a short time, and it is difficult to guarantee that the Vekia Kingdom will not take this opportunity to send troops to attack.

Li Rufeng also understands this, so after taking over the 50,000 regular soldiers, she still feels that it is a little insufficient, and plans to train another 100,000 militia troops in various places to assist those regular soldiers to defend the city.

The equipment of these militias does not need to be too good, just like the militia troops engaged in by Ye Tianlong before, each person is equipped with a steel cuirass, a pot helmet and a flintlock rifle, after all, these militias are used to assist in defending the city, and the equipment does not need to be as sophisticated as the regular soldiers.

The most important thing is that the militia does not need to be paid, only needs to be responsible for providing three meals a day, and most of these militiamen are still farming at home as farmers, and will only gather for training during the off-season.

Now that it is winter, it belongs to the slack season, and Li Rufeng can directly start recruiting militia from all over the country for training.

On Ye Tianlong's side, he had already led an army of 150,000 and marched towards the territory of the Swadia Kingdom.

King Haraus felt very depressed after learning from the scouts that the Blue Dragon Empire had sent troops, after all, it was already winter now, according to the previous practice, this day was frozen, and the countries should temporarily truce, after all, the technologically backward Calradia continent does not have modern down jackets and other warm clothes, and even grain and grass may occasionally not be supplied under a long campaign, if the war continues in the winter, the soldiers who freeze to death may be more than those who die in battle, and the gains outweigh the losses.

But now the Blue Dragon Empire obviously can't even wait for this winter, and directly sends troops against the cold wind.

You must know that a few days ago, Haraus had seen a thick layer of hoarfrost on the flowers and plants in his garden, so he speculated that the temperature should have dropped below freezing, so he was ready to order the defenders everywhere to shrink and hide in the city for the winter.

But now that Ye Tianlong is leading a large army to kill, his side can only begin to gather a large army to prepare to resist its attack.

Ye Tianlong led the army here, and the first stop he arrived at was Deqiosburg, the castle of the Swadia Kingdom, which had been captured by Ye Tianlong, and all the people inside were forcibly relocated by Ye Tianlong.

After that, the Svadia Kingdom did not seem to have any intention of rebuilding this castle, so when Ye Tianlong led the army to arrive here, the castle was still in tatters, and there was no one in the city.

But after all, this is a city, which can barely shelter from the wind and rain, Ye Tianlong looked at the snow falling more and more in the sky, and prepared to let the army repair here for a day before continuing to advance.

He Cheng followed his company commander and was responsible for going out to find some firewood to make a fire for heating.

As a regular soldier of the Qinglong Empire, He Cheng's equipment is very luxurious, the previous kind of iron armor has been eliminated, and now these regular soldiers are each with a set of full-body steel plate armor customized according to their respective body types, as for the weapon, there are also upgrades, the original flintlock rifle has been replaced with a rear-loading bolt-action rifle, compared with the flintlock rifle, which is backward and primitive front-loading rifle, the bolt-action rifle is much higher in terms of range, lethality and accuracy, The only flaw may be that the rate of fire is also not fast.

However, this shortcoming is not a disadvantage for Ye Tianlong now, after all, the bullet of this rear-loading rifle is the kind of copper-shelled bullet, which is much more manufactured than the paper-shelled fixed ammunition used in the previous flintlock rifle, and now even if the Qinglong Empire is fully developing the military industry, the output of this rifle bullet is not too high, so Ye Tianlong deliberately asked Guan Jun to design and manufacture a rear-loading bolt-action rifle with an unfast rate of fire.

Because he had never seen more advanced firearms, He Cheng was very satisfied with the rifle in his hand, and he would usually maintain it according to the commander's instructions whenever he had time.

Recently, because the temperature has dropped rapidly and it has begun to snow, He Cheng is worried about whether his rifle will freeze.

However, his company commander told him that these rifles were designed with high and low temperatures in mind, and that they would not freeze until the temperature was as low as minus thirty or forty degrees.

After listening to the company commander's explanation, He Cheng was much relieved, but when he came out, he still held his rifle in his arms.

He Cheng stepped on the snow with both feet, feeling that each foot would sink deeply, and he estimated that the thickness of the snow was more than twenty centimeters.

Such a thick layer of snow really affected the march, and it was no wonder that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to repair here for a day before advancing.

His Majesty the Emperor, He Cheng was also fortunate to see it with his own eyes before, and he looked mediocre, but his attitude towards these little soldiers was very easy-going, and he didn't have the frame of being an emperor at all.

"Stop! There seems to be movement ahead! ”

Suddenly, Johnny, the vanguard who was at the forefront, issued a warning, and He Cheng and the others immediately stopped when they heard this, picked up their rifles and began to guard on the spot.

Company commander Dong Lian raised his telescope to observe, and soon found the target that made a movement, which was actually a giant bear with a body length of more than four meters.

Perhaps because the snow fell so suddenly, the bear did not hibernate yet, and was hungry and still foraging for food in the forest, despite the heavy snowfall.

At the same time that He Cheng and the others found the giant bear, the giant bear also seemed to have discovered He Cheng and them, although the bear's eyesight was not very good, but its sense of smell was very sensitive, and it immediately distinguished the smell of humans wafting in the air.

It seems that it has eaten people before, and after smelling the smell of humans, this giant bear not only did not turn around and run away, but became excited, let out a low roar from time to time, and ran quickly in the direction where He Cheng and them were.

"Looks like you can't dodge, Johnny, shoot this brute!" Seeing this, the company commander Dong Lian opened his mouth and ordered.

Hearing the company commander's order, Johnny, who was the sharpshooter in the company, raised his rifle and aimed it at the head of the giant bear.

The rifle in Johnny's hand was a special sniper rifle with a caliber of fifteen millimeters, while He Cheng's ordinary rifle was only eight millimeters in caliber.

The caliber of this sniper rifle is nearly twice as large as that of an ordinary rifle, and the recoil when fired is naturally much stronger, that is, because Johnny himself is already a Ming Jin martial artist, so he can use this kind of big guy freely.

The increase in caliber naturally increased the power of the sniper rifle a lot, and after the bullet hit the giant bear's head, it actually directly lifted a large piece of the giant bear's skull along with the flesh on its head. The body of the giant bear that was opened to the sky was also slammed, and then fell heavily to the ground, and after a few convulsions, his body completely lost his breath of life.

However, the sniper rifle was really loud when it was fired, and after the gunshot, the snow on many nearby trees was shaken down.

It is precisely because of this that if there is no need for the company commander Dong Lian will not let Johnny shoot, after all, such a loud sound can easily attract the attention of the enemy army, and they have now entered the enemy territory, it is always good to be careful.

After confirming that the giant bear was really dead, the company commander Dong Lian sent more than a dozen soldiers to prepare to drag the body of the giant bear back, while the other soldiers continued to collect firewood.

He Cheng was also in the team responsible for carrying the corpse of the giant bear, this giant bear was huge and staggeringly heavy, and it was very difficult for a dozen of them to drag it together. Fortunately, this place is not far from the castle, otherwise He Cheng felt that if they wanted to drag the giant bear corpse back, they would all have to lie down one by one.

After He Cheng and the others finally dragged the body of the giant bear back, the other soldiers also collected enough firewood, and the ragged Deqios Fort quickly lit fires.

As soon as He Cheng sat down in front of the fire, his comrades on the side handed over a piece of jerky.

"The one that just came down from the top is said to be beef jerky, and it's delicious! It's just a little spicy! ”

He Cheng heard that his comrades-in-arms said it was beef jerky, and immediately couldn't wait to take a bite, after all, beef was something that they had never tasted before! In the Great Song Dynasty where he used to be, it is said that only those landlords and old wealth had the opportunity to eat it, but he didn't expect that now that he is a soldier, he will also have the opportunity to taste this good thing.

As a result, He Cheng felt that his mouth was immediately spicy, this beef jerky is not only a little spicy! That's really spicy!

But spicy is spicy, this beef jerky is really delicious, in addition to chili peppers, there should be a lot of other seasonings added to it. He Cheng drank the cold boiled water in his kettle while eating the piece of beef jerky, and soon sweated. At this time, He Cheng also understood why the above gave them such spicy beef jerky, probably just to dispel the cold for them.

And just when He Cheng had eaten most of the beef jerky, a gunshot suddenly came into his ears.

"Enemy attack, find enemy cavalry!"

Soon, the shouts of the sentinels also reached He Cheng's ears.

Before leaving, He Cheng and the others were told that the Swadia Kingdom had extremely elite cavalry troops, so at this time, when they heard the sentry say that they had found enemy cavalry, how dare He Cheng and them be careless.

He Cheng directly stuffed the uneaten small half of the beef jerky into his arms, then quickly picked up his rifle, loaded the bullet, and then trotted all the way with a large group of comrades under the command of the company commander to a broken breach in the city wall and established a defensive line.