Luo Shixin took off his mask and gloves, stuffed them into the side pockets next to the saddle, asked the guards to lead the horse away, and gave the frozen hand a warm breath, hoping to warm it up a little, and said, "No matter how slow it is, it will freeze, has General Chen slept?" ”

"Won't you come back, is he asleep?" Zhang Huaiwei said: "Quick, don't be stunned, come in and warm up for a while!" ”

Gloves and masks were originally ordinary things in later generations, but since they came out of the Great Scattered Pass, many soldiers who were holding the shield were frostbitten, and Chen Ying instantly thought of gloves.

It's just a pity that there was no cotton cloth in this era, and gloves sewn from fine linen were less effective at protecting against the cold, but once gloves were made of leather, although they kept warm, they could not keep their fingers flexible.

After several trials, Chen Ying decided to equip each soldier with two pairs of gloves, one made of two layers of fine linen, although the gloves were slightly inferior in cold protection. However, it will not frostbite the fingers of the soldiers, nor will it affect the flexible movement of the fingers.

Whether it is the crossbowman firing the arrow, or the spear wielding, it has little effect. Leather gloves, on the other hand, are mainly used for tasks that do not require finger dexterity, such as being a shieldman, driving a snow plow, or marching on a snow plow.

In such cold weather, even the more hardy Turks could not open their bows smoothly on horseback, and even if they barely opened their bows, the hit rate was less than 10% of the usual.

Luo Shixin was still wondering what Chen Ying's head was thinking, and he could even think of such a good way. Recently, he led the Vietnamese cavalry regiment to fight the Turkic rangers, and the main reason for taking advantage was because of the gloves.

The unloved Turks, their fingers almost frozen, reacted more than half a beat than usual, and before they could pull their bows, the cavalry under the command of Luo Shixin had already tilted the rain of arrows on their heads. When the Turks reacted, Luo Shixin took the Tang Army and the Yue cavalry to turn around and run.

In such cold weather, the physical exertion of a war horse is very staggering. The most important thing is that the frozen hard ice and snow surface is very damaging to the horse's hooves, but Chen Ying has already nailed the horseshoes of the Yue cavalry to the horseshoe, so he doesn't have to worry about these problems at all.

Therefore, the Turks could not fight and fight, and they could not catch up at all, so they could only vomit blood in frustration.

Standing beside Chen Ying, Ryazan found that Chen Ying's superior momentum was heavier, Chen Ying stood in armor in the command car, and the generals standing under him trembled unconsciously.

The journey of eighty miles a day, rain or shine, is almost draining the physical strength of the soldiers, but Chen Ying still trains in the morning and evening, and does not train in a queue for half an hour, so he is not allowed to rush at all. And the most excessive, as long as any group pulls its hind legs, it cannot reach the camp within the specified time, and the food of the whole regiment is reduced by 30%.

The person who made Gao Yunquan the most incredible, under Chen Ying's harsh torture, although the soldiers of the army complained for a long time, there was never any chaos.

The right guard led Changshi and Duan Lun, the commander of the horses, suffered from a cold as early as when he had just left the Dasanguan, and Chen Ying allowed him to recuperate in the Dasanguan. All the way to the march, Chen Ying used Zhang Huaiwei, Zhang Shigui, and Yin Yuan to train Xun Yifu, Yi Yifu and Yi Erfu all the way to train the troops in an almost harsh way, and the suffering of the officers and men of the whole army can be imagined.

However, without Duan Lun, the commander of the horses, the others did not dare to deal with Chen. A dense thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui came together.

"Tell the general, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui will return to life!"

"Don't be busy first, the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Regiment will add four taels of meat (one quarter catty) and half a catty of wine each!" Chen Ying said lightly.

"Mr. Xie!"

The soldiers of the Yue cavalry roared excitedly.

After Luo Shixin's pale face became ruddy, he drank three bowls of broth in a row. Chen Ying couldn't wait to look at Luo Shixin and said, "How is it in the north?" ”

"Very bad!"

Luo Shixin put down the bowl in his hand, took off his boots, and roasted his legs on the fire. Zhang Shigui put down the bowl depressedly and said unhappily: "Don't let people eat, you haven't washed your feet for a few years!" ”

Chen Ying had long been accustomed to Luo Shixin's stinky feet, and he was not uncomfortable at all. "Did the Turks increase their troops?"

"Yes!" Luo Shixin said: "After folding three brothers, I finally touched the Wild Boar Ridge, and now the Turks in the Wild Boar Ridge have five hundred tents, including more than one big tent and nearly four hundred small tents!" ”

"Five hundred?" When Chen Ying heard this, he was shocked.

The small tents of the Turks, similar to those of the Tang army, were made up of ten or twelve people, respectively. The Great Tent is an account of fifty or sixty people. Of the thousands of tents, it is roughly estimated that there are 10,000 people. The information obtained during his time in Chang'an was that the Turks had only 5,000 light cavalry stationed at Wild Boar Ridge, and now a few have doubled their strength.

If it is 5,000 light cavalry, the right guard led by Chen Ying leads four prefectures and sixteen regiments, and it may not be without the strength to fight. But at this time, the difference in strength is too great.

Chen Ying asked with luck: "Could it be that the Turks are playing tricks?" ”

"Now in this hellish weather, there is no fire in the tent, it's like an ice cellar!" Luo Shixin rubbed his big feet with yellow water, and said helplessly: "These thousands of tents are all occupied by people, the Turks are already short of materials, and now the weather is cold, every tent is a few lives, and they Turks don't have the capital to bluff!" ”

Chen Ying thought about it, a tent is the main property of the family for ordinary herdsmen, and if you lose your tent, you can't even hold it for an hour in this weather.

Luo Shixin said: "The situation in Bogulu City has also been clarified, and the person stationed there is the brother of the Turkic Shibi Khan Ashina Jishi, Ye Hu Ashina Lifu Department!" ”

The relaxed look on Chen Ying's face swept away, and slowly revealed a solemn expression: "How many people are there in the Centaur Department?" ”

"The exact number of people has not been clarified!" Luo Shixin said: "There are capable people under the command of Li Lifu, and the city of Thin Bone Law cannot be approached at all, but watching the smoke rise, the number of people should not be less than 20,000!" ”

"Twenty thousand!" Chen Ying also felt unusually big when he heard the news. There are more than 30,000 Turkic soldiers and horses in Wild Boar Ridge and Bogu Law City, which is six times the number of people in the Right Guard's Mansion, even if the Liang Division does not send a single soldier, these more than 30,000 Turks are enough to give Chen Ying a headache.

Although Chen Ying was already in a mess in his heart, he remained silent on the surface and slowly unfolded the map. Wild Boar Ridge is located in the northwest of Lingwu for thirty miles, and the thin bone law city is more than sixty miles south of Lingwu, and the distance between the middle is more than ninety miles in a straight line. The 90 miles on the map are more than 100 miles in terms of the actual distance.

If the Turks of Wild Boar Ridge want to support Bogulu City, they can reach it in Pingyang in about an hour at most. But in the current weather conditions, it will take at least three hours.

Chen Ying suddenly said: "How many troops are there in Lingzhou now?" What about casualties? And also