However, Ye Tianlong understood that not everyone was a natural warrior like him, and he could kill people in the first battle without blinking.

So in the face of those ashamed soldiers, he kept gently comforting them, telling them to recuperate their injuries first, and then learn a lesson and behave well when they went to the battlefield for the second time.

And for those soldiers who performed well in the first battle, Ye Tianlong also rewarded them all, like He Cheng, who killed more than ten enemies in the battle, and was directly given the knighthood by him, and the rank directly crossed the corporal and sergeant levels, and was promoted to sergeant in one breath.

After dealing with these affairs, it was already more than four o'clock in the evening, and Ye Tianlong fell asleep as soon as he lay down after returning to his camp.

However, he was woken up after less than three hours of sleep, because by this time the troops were ready to continue their departure.

After a hasty breakfast, Ye Tianlong took a team of cavalry to the front to explore the way.

After yesterday's encounter, Ye Tianlong is now much more cautious, in order to avoid being ambushed by the enemy on the way, he led thousands of cavalry to carefully explore as he walked, not letting go of any place where he might hide troops.

What made Ye Tianlong depressed was that although it was a sunny day today and the sun was abundant, the snow melted very slowly, and it was not until noon that less than one-third of it melted.

And as the snow melts little by little, the temperature seems to be lower, it turns out that Ye Tianlong's feeling is right, when he rested and ate at noon, Zhou Jiale told him that the temperature was only minus five degrees yesterday, but the temperature has dropped to minus eight degrees today.

Because the temperature was very low, the meal, which was still very hot, became cold in a few minutes, and Ye Tianlong ate it tastelessly.

By the time we continued on the road in the afternoon, the snow had finally melted away by almost half, but when the snow had melted, the road had become very muddy, and many of the wagons could not go far before they got into mud puddles, and the soldiers had to get out of the wagons and push them out of the mud puddles.

The soldiers' feet on the muddy road will soon be covered with mud, and the most important thing is that the temperature of these muddy water is still very low, which is a kind of turbid ice water, so even through the thick military boots, many soldiers' legs will be numb by a little bit of freezing, and they will feel a tingling pain in the later stage.

However, even if the advance was so difficult, there were not a few soldiers who complained about being tired, which made Ye Tianlong feel very relieved, and thought that his policy of preferential treatment of soldiers was still quite effective. If this had been replaced by those low-status 'thieves with the army' in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it would have been rotten while protesting.

It's a pity that even if Ye Tianlong's soldiers didn't mess up, because of the worsening road conditions, at the end of this day, the entire army had only advanced less than fifty miles.

You must know that in the past, when the road conditions were good, the army of the Blue Dragon Empire, which had already achieved the transformation of mules and horses, could advance at least more than 100 miles in a day, and at most it could even advance more than 200 miles in one go.

So in comparison, today's forward speed is indeed as slow as a turtle climbing.

"There seems to be a village in front of us, let's camp there for the night today!"

In the evening, Ye Tianlong pointed to a village not far ahead, and opened his mouth to order.

The terrain around this village is flat, and the few trees have been basically cut down, leaving only a few small saplings, and in the slightly higher terrain of the village, you can see the situation in a radius of several miles at a glance.

Camping here, it will not be so easy for the enemy to sneak up at night.

However, what Ye Tianlong didn't expect was that he didn't wait for the enemy to sneak attack, but first got another bad news, that is, the well in the village had been thrown away with several livestock corpses, and the well water had been completely polluted. At the same time, there was not a single civilian in the village, and even most of the materials that had some use value were transported away.

Obviously, this is a kind of policy of the enemy army to clear the wilderness, that is, they want to rely on this cold weather and this scorched earth policy to deplete the morale of the army under Ye Tianlong little by little.

I have to say that this move is indeed effective, if the territory of the Swadia Kingdom is large enough, it is really possible to rely on this move to completely exhaust the morale of the army under Ye Tianlong.

Fortunately, the Calradia Continent is not a continent with a large area, and even in Ye Tianlong's opinion, this Calradia Continent is more like a big island, with a very small area, even if it is the largest Svadia Kingdom in it, its area is not as large as the area of a medium-sized province in the real world, even if the other party is strong, those big cities can never give up, and as long as the other party can't give up those big cities, even according to the current speed of the turtle crawling army, it will take three or four days at most, Ye Tianlong can successfully rush to the nearest big city.

After setting up camp in the village, Ye Tianlong sent several angels back to China to inform his master Li Rufeng to prepare some more water for the troops. After all, now that he knows that the enemy army is clearing the wilderness on the strong wall, it should be difficult to obtain a clean water source in the future, so he naturally has to prepare more water in advance, otherwise when the army runs out of water, it will be a big problem. You know, this man can survive for seven days without eating! If you don't drink water, you will burp in three days, which shows the importance of water to human beings, and it deserves the title of the source of life.

And with so many clean water supplies that need to be transported, it is natural to send more troops to be responsible for escorting, otherwise the enemy may be defeated if some troops are sent slightly.

So after thinking about it, Ye Tianlong decided to send 20,000 horses to be responsible for escorting those logistics materials.

In this way, Ye Tianlong only had 130,000 troops left in his hands, and considering that after capturing those cities, he would have to constantly send troops to garrison them, this mere 130,000 troops was really not much, and it was barely enough.

And just when Ye Tianlong's side and King Harlaus began to fight wits and courage in the air, King Yarogerke of the Kingdom of Vekia finally couldn't sit still.

After all, he knows very well that once the Blue Dragon Empire destroys the Swadia Kingdom, the other party is likely to do something against the King of Vekia, after all, in addition to the Swadia Kingdom, his Vekia Kingdom is also bordering the Blue Dragon Empire, and the two sides have had some friction before, although he has given a lot of gifts to the king of the Blue Dragon Empire, but it is difficult to ensure that the other party is a small-bellied chicken intestine, and he still hates him in his heart!

Therefore, in order to avoid Ye Tianlong's reckoning after the autumn, King Yarogerke decided to strike first, and now this time is a good time to attack the Qinglong Empire in the eyes of King Yarogerke.

At this time, Ye Tianlong led most of the elite troops of the Qinglong Empire to attack the Swadia Kingdom, and there were only tens of thousands of recruits left in the country, and the combat effectiveness was definitely not good, and he sent troops to attack the Qinglong Empire at this time, and the odds of victory were very high.

However, in order to prevent Ye Tianlong from learning that his hometown was secretly attacked and directly led the army back to the division, King Yarogerke also specially waited for the other party to set off for a few days before starting to gather troops, so that when he led the army into the territory of the Qinglong Empire, then Ye Tianlong should be almost in a fierce battle with the army of the Swadia Kingdom, and he would not be able to spare the energy to rescue his hometown for a while.

King Yarogerke also knew that this battle might be the battle that would decide the survival of the Kingdom of Vekia, so he also did his best to directly empty the treasury and gather 300,000 troops in one go.

You must know that the population of the Kingdom of Vikia is not large, and the army of 300,000 has almost drained all of its young and strong population, if this battle is lost, there may be no need for the Blue Dragon Empire to attack, and there may be civil strife within the Kingdom of Vekia.

After spending a week to assemble the army, King Yarogerk did not delay and immediately led his army to kill the Blue Dragon Empire.

Compared with the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Vekia are more adapted to the cold weather of this winter, this is because most of the territory of the Kingdom of Vekia is basically covered with snow all year round, so many soldiers of the Kingdom of Vekia have grown up in this icy and snowy environment, and they will naturally not have any discomfort with this kind of weather.

However, it is precisely because most of the territory of the Kingdom of Vekia is covered with snow and is not suitable for farming, so although the land area of the Kingdom of Vekia is not much smaller than that of the Kingdom of Swadia, its population is less than half of it, and the land is too barren to support too many people!

At the same time that King Yarogark sent his troops, Ye Tianlong's side was indeed leading the army and the main army of the Swadia Kingdom to fight fiercely under Suno, and he didn't have the energy to be distracted at all.

However, before Ye Tianlong sent his troops, he had already expected that the Kingdom of Vekia might send troops to attack when he was fighting with the Kingdom of Swadia, so he specially left 50,000 regular soldiers in his hometown, and was led by his master Li Rufeng, and also let Zhu Sanjie and Hu Sanniang, who had just joined him and were transferring to Li Rufeng to teach martial arts, to assist.

Speaking of which, Zhu Biao's eloquence is indeed good, and after he went back, he actually persuaded his father Zhu Chaofeng to let his three sons join Ye Tianlong's command.

Maybe that Zhu Chaofeng also saw that the Northern Song Dynasty was about to run out, who called Song Huizong to be tossing around blindly all these years! No matter how thick the Northern Song Dynasty's family background is, it can't withstand his tossing, not to mention that there will be Jin people who will rise suddenly like a rock shock, which will put another foot on the gas pedal for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Biao's father, Zhu Chaofeng, obviously didn't want to hang himself on such a crumbling tree in the Great Song Dynasty, so this time after learning from Zhu Biao that there was such a good place as the Qinglong Empire, he really let his three sons come to Ye Tianlong, and he himself continued to stay in his hometown to run the family business, so that even if Zhu Biao and they didn't mix well with Ye Tianlong, they could go back to inherit the family business, so that they wouldn't be so poor that they couldn't afford to eat.