"I don't know the exact situation, but I don't think it's good!" Luo Shixin rubbed his face and said helplessly: "The Turks have raised troops, no matter how good the situation in Lingzhou is, how good can it be?" ”

When Chen Ying heard this, his expression was silent.

Although the military strength of the Turkic Khanate was strong, their national strength was not strong. Usually the savings of grain and grass are very limited, especially in such cold weather conditions, the Turkic cattle, sheep and horses will freeze to death countless times, of course, there is no need to worry about food for a while, but more than 30,000 Turks will consume a very large number every day.

People and horses are the same, the amount of food intake, depends on the calorie consumption in the body, usually horses only eat ten catties of forage a day without worrying about losing fat, but in the current weather, even if you feed twenty catties of forage a day, the same will lose fat. Only soy feed or wheat bran can be added.

Similarly, in ordinary times, people can save their lives by eating one pound of food, and if they do strenuous exercise, they can't keep three pounds of food. At present, three catties of food supply is the minimum standard. Chen Ying roughly estimated that the Turkic people had more than 30,000 men and horses, and they needed to consume at least 1,000 stone of grain and nearly 100,000 stone of forage every day.

Now, in addition to grain and grass, it is also necessary to consume a huge amount of fuel, without fuel, no one can resist such weather.

"If you don't break through Lingzhou, the Turks won't be able to survive this winter!" Chen Ying frowned and said, "So, they will definitely attack Lingzhou at all costs!" ”

Luo Shixin nodded and said: "That's for sure, but we now have the strength to relieve the siege of Lingzhou, once the Turks touch our camp, they will not be polite!" ”

"I know this!" Chen Ying thought for a while and said: "The most important thing now is to find out the situation in Lingzhou, can you select a group of dead soldiers, take the opportunity to enter Lingzhou City, and get in touch with Lingzhou?" ”

"I'm afraid there's not much hope!" Zhang Shigui said: "Now there is ice and snow everywhere, our armor is extremely conspicuous, even if it is ten miles away, you can see it at a glance!" ”

"By the way, we can disguise!"

Chen Ying remembered that the camouflage technology of later generations could be said to be very mature, not only digital camouflage that could prevent infrared detection, but also jungle camouflage that adapted to jungle warfare, desert camouflage to the terrain next to the desert, and mountain camouflage. Of course, in the absence of infrared detection technology, snow camouflage is much easier.

Zhang Shigui looked at Chen Ying suspiciously: "General Chen is still proficient in the Five Elements Escape Technique?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "There is no need for any Five Elements Escape Technique, we just need to put on a white cloak under the moon, even if we get close, we can't find it in the snow!" ”

The Five Elements Escape Technique is the foundation of Taoist magic, and the Japanese Tang Dynasty envoy learned the Five Elements Escape from the Tang Dynasty and improved it, forming the famous Japanese Ninjutsu in later generations. In fact, in this day and age, it is not too clever a thing.

When Chen Ying instantly thought of camouflage, he asked people to find a few white silk cloths under the moon, and Zhang Shigui became a guinea pig for experiments. Since there was no professional tailor, Chen Ying almost wrapped Zhang Shigui in white flour, and even his face was not spared.

Sure enough, Zhang Shigui was ten steps away and could almost be integrated with the snow.

"Still won't work!"

Zhang Shigui said: "In this way, you can only hide in the snow and not move, as long as you move, the Turks or the scouts of Liang Shidu can judge from the traces in the snow that someone has sneaked in!" ”

"Then it's a little more work!" Chen Ying thought of Yang Zirong's surprise attack on Weiwu Mountain in the Linhai Snow Plain, using skis and white cloaks, so that even if the Turks found out, the galloping horses in the snow were not as fast as snowboards. In later extreme sports, skis can do a limit speed of 90 kilometers per hour.

Of course, the objective conditions for such a high speed are very harsh. Chen Ying did not want to be able to achieve a high speed of 90 kilometers per hour, but only needed to be able to exceed the speed of 30 kilometers per hour for the Turkic cavalry to march in the snow.

Chen Ying thought of it, and immediately asked people to find Lin Chuanfu, who would be the supervisor.

This time to support Lingzhou, the Ministry of War mobilized a total of five or six thousand people to transfer materials with the army, but on the way, Chen Ying successively let the people return the same way, mainly because the more people, the greater the consumption, Chen Ying could not ignore the life and death of the people.

Now in the hot spring pool camp, there are less than 1,000 soldiers and civilians. But there were not a single one of the 200 craftsmen. Of course, the snow plow will also be damaged along the way, and they need to be responsible for replacing the damaged snow plow at any time to keep the snow plow in working order.

"Meet Mr. Chen!" When Lin Chuanfu arrived, he respectfully saluted Chen Ying.

Chen Yingdao: "Supervisor Lin doesn't need to be polite, General Ben came to you because he wanted you to build a thing!" ”

As he spoke, Chen Ying drew the skis that he vaguely remembered, the technical difficulty of skis and ski poles is not high, even if there is no alloy and plastic, it should be possible to make it under the existing conditions.

After Lin Chuanfu took Chen Ying's drawings and left, he sent Chen Ying skis and ski poles about an hour. Chen Ying looked at this pair of skis, the skis are made of tomato to make sleds, the bottom surface is polished smooth as a mirror, for the mechanism that buckles the shoe, Lin Chuanfu played a little clever, he made a mechanism similar to a mouse trap, the person stands on the ski, the mechanism starts, and the clamps made of steel on both sides will clamp the sole.

When you use a ski pole to pull the trap back into place, the clip will automatically release.

Chen Ying couldn't wait to put on his skis and skated in the camp despite the cold weather.

Seeing this, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui were extremely surprised.

"I'm just playing around, if I practice well, I can run faster than a horse with this thing!" Chen Ying said with a smile: "Shigui, you go and pick thirty healthy soldiers, quickly learn to ski, and prepare to break into Lingzhou City!" ”

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In Lingzhou City, Guo Zihe, the prince of Jinhe County and the governor of Lingzhou, stood on the city wall with a helpless expression. Guo Zihe is now nearly thirty-three years old, and he is in the prime of life, but at this time, Guo Zihe looks at it and some people believe that he is fifty years old. A face covered with furrows, and his beard and eyebrows were as white as frost.

Since he was the king of Yongle who was the king of the 36 anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Guo Zihe had no ambition to win the world, and was very oppressed by Liang Shidu, so he asked Li Yuan of Chang'an to surrender.

Li Yuan named him the Duke of Jinhe County in Lingzhou and the governor of Lingzhou. However, as soon as he arrived in Lingzhou, the position of the governor of Lingzhou had not yet been hot, and Liang Shidu led his troops to Lingzhou City. There is a way that the enemy is very red when he sees it, and when he sees that Liang Shidu is in person, Guo Zihe does not defend the counterattack, and kills his second brother Guo Zisheng to attack left and right, killing and injuring nearly 1,000 people in Liang Shidu.

But he didn't expect that Liang Shidu would actually move out of the Turks. When the Turks appeared in Lingzhou, he hurriedly asked Chang'an for help. Calculating the time, it is time for Chang'an's reinforcements to arrive. He led the Lingzhou army and civilians to fight bloodily for nearly two months, but after all, he did not let Liang Shidu's soldiers and horses attack the city.