The next day, half of the military horses in Youhe were mobilized, and according to the plan, Qi Tian led his 30,000 troops to the junction of Youhe in the northwest direction to resist the invasion of Xianbei in the central part of Lianman; Zhao Hu, Ma Yue, and Xu Shu also led 30,000 soldiers to the north and set up defenses in Lulongsai, on the border between Beiping and Liaoxi, to prevent the eastern Xianbei of Amati from attacking; Cui Shou and Gao Shun mobilized local military horses to deter Xianbei in the west in the Yanmen and Yunzhong areas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Chong and Zhang Zong led 10,000 troops to be stationed in Zhuo County, and Xu Ban and Zuo Ci led another 10,000 troops to be stationed in Dai County. Although Yuan Ding passed through the burning of the Yecheng granary, his vitality has not fully recovered, but he has to guard against stabbing a knife from the back, but Yuan Ding loves to do it the most. Zhang Chong, Xu Fang and other people, and then cooperated with the local county soldiers, it was enough to block Yuan Ding for two months.

Huang Yong was temporarily appointed as the chief general of the Chinese army, and cooperated with Xun Luo, Jia Yuan and other civil and military officials to guard Yanjing and Youzhou counties. Huang Yong was old and serious, and handed over the base camp to him to guard, and Yuan Qi was very relieved. Gan Jing, the governor of the navy, and Su Fei, the deputy governor of the navy, led the navy to entrench themselves in the sea adjacent to western and eastern Liaoning, and were not only responsible for patrolling the sea area, deterring pirates, but also responsible for defending the enemy who might cross the sea from the sea.

Yuan Qi himself took Zhuge Liang, Zhang Long, Wei Yan, Pang De, Xu Chu and Dian Wei to command 10,000 troops and marched to Goguryeo in the northeast. Coming all the way, Yuan Qi has always been discussing strategy with Zhuge Liang, because of the urgency of time, Yuan Qi must solve Goguryeo and Buyeo as soon as possible, and then lead troops to the west, and Zhao Hu's troops into a horn to besiege Amaiti. The time was only two months, except for the time necessary for marching back and forth, leaving time for Yuan Qi. Not much, really. This very tight time for the battle is determined by the specific situation of Youzhou's finances. Several armies marched at the same time, and the required food, grass, and military salaries were an astronomical expenditure, and they were in the north of Youzhou. The climate is already cold, but now it's winter, and a heavy snowfall has just arrived, making the weather even colder. The cotton clothes and quilts needed by the sergeants to keep them warm all cost a lot of money to make. This is also the reason why Tian Feng forcibly proposed that the combat period could only be shortened to two months.

"My lord, the Goguryeo people have always revered the gods. Our army can make a fuss about this, so that they will be in awe and surrender without a fight. Zhuge Liang pointed out Goguryeo's weakness.

Yuan Qi let out a breath of hot air, and the hot air was quickly frozen into mist at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then dissipated in the air. With a wry smile, Yuan Qi said: "You see, if the weather is cold like this, it will definitely bring great difficulties to our army's battle. Therefore, I agree with Kong Ming's idea that we can only outwit this battle. But Kong Ming, we are not gods, how can we make those Goguryeo people be in awe?"

Zhuge Liang smiled: "Whatever they like to fantasize, we will make it, it's not too difficult." ”

Pretending to be a ghost? Yuan Qi couldn't help but feel a burst of amusement in his heart. In later generations, there are often some liars who rely on pretending to be gods and ghosts to fool people and defraud others of their money, but I didn't expect Zhuge Liang, a freak, to be so advanced and apply the methods of later liars to the war in front of them.

Looking at Zhuge Liang with interest, Yuan Qi smiled and said, "Then do you have any specific plans?" Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and said, "For the time being, I just have an idea." Now that our army is still a few days away from Goguryeo, presumably at this moment, Goguryeo's spies have already spied on the news, and they must be actively preparing for battle. During this time, it was a good time for our army to break their fighting spirit. Our army can make miracles along the way and shake their morale, and maybe, by the time our army arrives in Goguryeo, they have lost their fighting spirit, and even opened the city and surrendered. ”

Zhuge Liang's words deeply touched Yuan Qi's nerves. This plan is the most time-saving and the most effective way to ensure that combat effectiveness is not lost, and if it is really successful, it will greatly shorten the time it takes for the Yuan Qi Division to march into the army. Now, what Yuan Qi lacks most is time. Yuan Qi is very much looking forward to Zhuge Liang coming up with a practical and concrete plan as soon as possible.

That night, Yuan Qi's troops came to a large mountain, set up camp in the leeward place at the foot of the mountain, and prepared to rest for a night before continuing the march.

The night was dark, but the candles in the Yuanqi tent were still lit. Dian Wei carefully held a bowl of mutton soup, walked into the big tent, and saw Yuan Qi reading under the candlelight, Dian Wei Weng said angrily: "Lord, drink the broth." As he spoke, he handed the mutton soup in his hand to Yuan Qi's table, and said with a smile: "I saw that the lord hadn't slept yet, so I asked the man to make a bowl of mutton soup." Unfortunately, it was too cold outside, and the broth was a little frozen. ”

Yuan Qi smiled, put down the book in his hand, didn't care about the frozen greasy, and opened his mouth to take a sip of mutton soup. The white greasy soup was poured into Yuan Qi's mouth at the same time along with the slightly hot broth below, chewed twice, Yuan Qi frowned and said, "The frozen mutton soup is really hard to eat." ”

Dian Wei heard this. Stretched out his big hand and scratched the back of his head, and said complainingly: "Isn't it, it's all to blame for the damn ghost weather, and the soil is frozen." I saw that the men had to work hard to dig up the dirt from the ground and set up a stove. ”

Yuan Qi, who was drinking mutton soup, suddenly stopped the movements in his hand, and a spiritual light flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly asked Dian Wei: "Old Hei." What did you just say?" Dian Wei was stunned by the question, and replied, "I said that the weather is damn cold." ”

"It's not this one, the latter one. ”

"Ah, I mean it took a lot of effort for the guys to set up the stove. ”

"Oops. The sentence in the middle!" Yuan Qi shouted a little anxiously.

Dian Wei couldn't keep up with Yuan Qi's train of thought at all, and thought for a while with a bitter face, for fear that he was saying the wrong thing, and said tentatively: "The soil is frozen. Is that it?"

Yuan Qi muttered and repeated: "Dirt...... are all frozen...... Earth...... Frozen ......"

Suddenly, Yuan Qi jumped up and slapped Dian Wei's shoulder hard. smiled happily: "Lao Hei! you are really a lucky general, haha, there is a way to make miracles." ”

A moment later, Zhuge Liang walked into Yuan Qi's big tent wearing a thick cotton coat. No matter when or under what conditions, Zhuge Liang's calm and calm demeanor will not be affected. Not in cold weather, nor in heavy cotton clothing.

Calmly saluted Yuan Qi, Zhuge Liang was just about to ask, Yuan Qi strode over, grabbed Zhuge Liang's hand, and said with a smile: "Kong Ming, I have thought of a way to make miracles." You quickly arrange the manpower and do what you say......"

The next morning, a simple but imposing snow-white castle stood out of thin air in the cold north wind. Except for the sergeant who had been involved in the incident last night, the other sergeants rubbed their eyes vigorously, saying that they did not believe that what was in front of them was real. It wasn't until a few sergeants walked up to the castle wall and struck it twice with their weapons, getting a sonorous echo, that he was convinced that the two-foot-high castle in front of him was real.

It turned out that Yuan Qi, who was inspired by Dian Wei last night, called Zhuge Liang and explained it to Zhuge Liang in detail according to the method of building igloos in the Arctic by the Inuit in later generations. After Zhuge Liang mastered this method, he immediately organized people to repair the ice city overnight. First, a surrounding trench was dug around the barracks, and then water was poured into it, and when the water was frozen and solid, it continued to be filled until the trench was filled.

After the foundation was built, another team of sergeants brought a large number of cloth bags filled with a mixture of earth and ice and snow, and then stacked the wet cloth bags on top of each other, and after a while, when the mixture seeping between the cloth bags froze solidly, they raised a layer of soil on the stacked cloth bags, and then poured some cold water to let the surface soil wrap the cloth bags inside. Then, every once in a while, splash some water on it, so that the cold climate will condense the water splashed on it into ice, forming a layer of silver-white appearance.

In this way, after building a layer, Zhuge Liang asked the soldiers to continue to build a higher layer, so, overnight, around the barracks, there were four tall ice walls, forming a dazzling castle, surrounding the Yuan Qi army, at the entrance and exit of the front, Zhuge Liang also ingenious, built a city gate as high as four zhang and three zhang wide. At the junction of the city gate, Zhuge Liang used several thick wooden sticks as supports, which were horizontally erected on the city walls on both sides, bearing the weight of the lintel. This city gate, which can be described as the finishing touch of the entire ice city, was carved into the shape of a tiger entrenched by Zhuge Liang, opening its huge mouth and eyeing the north.

With the rising sun in winter, the entire ice city reflects the halo of the rising sun, exuding amazing colorful colors, which is magnificent and spectacular.