The snow in winter reflects the harsh sunlight and makes it a little hard to open your eyes.

This is the first snow in Guanzhong this year, and there is a rattle of feet stepping on it. The townspeople of Lintong stood on the side of the road, and a team of brightly dressed people was passing through the bluestone road. The head of the Yun family is going on an expedition again, and this time the opponent is the Huns, who are known for their ferocity.

There are too many cars to count, and the snow on the road has already been swept away by the villagers overnight. Piled up on both sides of the road like a, the wheels rolled over the bluestone slabs. The sound of horses' hooves was heard incessantly, and in the middle of the procession a knight in black and armor sat on a tall horse. On the carriage behind him, there was also a white leopard squatting.

The villagers of Lintong kept bowing and saluting the marching team, there was no noisy scene, and the whole team was full of slaughter from the beginning.

It was so cold that Yun Xiao's hands were a little numb from the cold. I really regret that it's not good to sit in a carriage and ride a horse. At the very least, you should wear those damn sheepskin gloves.

Xiaobai squirted a breath of white air, probably thinking it was not interesting. Turning his head and arching into the carriage, the brute cow sat in the wide carriage, and when he saw Xiaobai coming in, his big butt moved to the side. The cold armor grinded with a rattling sound.

The first snow and the battle report of Hetao came to Chang'an City at the same time, and Liu Qi, who got the battle report, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Unlike in the past, this was a war that the Great Han had carefully prepared for half a year, and three fortified new cities were built on the edge of the Hetao. With the cement of the Yun family, the speed of building the city is terrifying.

Li Guang built the wall and stored enough grain and weapons. Just wait for the attack of the Xiongnu Shan Yu.

The Huns proved that their previous looting achievements were guaranteed by their strength, and the military ministers defeated a new city that Li Guangxin had worked so hard to build.

The war report said that the cavalry of the Huns was overwhelming. It was like sand in the desert, and the snow foam carried by the horses' hooves covered the sky. Li Guang estimated that Da Dan Yu concentrated all the cavalry of the Xiongnu to fight this battle. It is estimated that the number exceeded 300,000, and Li Guang only had 80,000 Han troops in his hands.

The solicitation order was issued one by one from the Yanggong Palace, Guanzhong, Yunzhong, Daijun, and Shandong ....... Since Gaozu, the largest Han-Hungarian war began. Both sides put on a decisive battle posture, and both the military ministers Shan Yu and Liu Qi realized the importance of the Hetao.

Dahan used the way of chain building. You can squeeze the Huns out of the loop step by step. If you have this natural horse breeding land. With China's material resources, the Han army will have a strong cavalry in less than ten years.

The military minister knew this, so he brought all his cavalry 350,000 soldiers and horses. Of course, according to the practice of war, he also had to have a claimed number of people - a million troops.

Of course, Liu Qi will not forget the kid who hooked up with his daughter. He was given an honorable mission. Interspersed behind enemy lines. Capture the city of Yinhan, which has been occupied by the Xiongnu for many years, that is, Yinchuan in later generations.

If the Huns do not return to the rescue. It is estimated that the clouds will also cross the Yellow River. Play a desert crossing in winter, anyway, don't play the clouds and swear to stop.

The troops for Yun Xiao were pitifully small, only 8,000 Hui soldiers temporarily recruited from Longyou. Even the generals didn't bother to give the Yunxiao faction. After Yun Xiao's repeated requests, Liu Cheng's goods were sent to Yun Xiao.

Obviously, Liu Cheng is very happy in Jimo. His face was flushed with oil, and his body was a lot stronger, less fat than before, and a little more lean.

The guards he brought were Shandong men with a lot of water, and one mouth had a thick Shandong accent, so thick that no one could understand what they were saying.

These fellows had a pitiful number of horses, less than two hundred horses for three hundred men. Most of them still sit in primitive two-wheeled carts, and they have a great interest in the Yun family's four-wheeled carriage, and they like this kind of carriage that is wide enough to seat many people and does not bump.

Since my brother likes it, Yun Xiao, who didn't say anything, asked Liu Qi for five hundred cars with a wave of his hand. Let Lao Tzu go out to fight, you can't have a car and Lao Tzu out. In the past six months, the construction supervision has been in accordance with the drawings of the Yun family, as well as the assembly line method that Yun Xiao said. The four-wheeled carriage has been mass-produced, and it is not a problem to produce four or five hundred units a month. Now the four-wheeled carriage in Liu Qi's hand is very rich, with more than 2,000 of them.

Yun Xiao ran the farthest, so he naturally had to pay more.

Liu Qi didn't like Yun Xiao very much, and only gave Yun Xiao 300 cars. Other materials can also be deducted, but fortunately, Tian Wei finally got his wish and sat in the position of Cao Cao, the marching director of the Northern Army. Privately, he allocated some grain and straw to Yun Xiao, as well as ordnance.

The people of the Yun family are already familiar with the process of Yun Xiao's expedition, and the materials are constantly loaded into the carriage. Yun Xiao's carriages were quite numerous, and the team of 1,000 people was equipped with nearly 900 vehicles. The horses of the Yun family are also the crown of the Han Dynasty, and there are nearly 2,000 Xiongnu horses alone, which is not counting the large number of cart horses.

The villagers all rode horses, and the empty carts were all loaded with supplies. God knows how far he will have to run this time, if he wins the big order of the Huns in Hancheng, there is no reinforcement. I will continue north along the Yellow River, perhaps all the way north to Lake Baikal. Therefore, you can still bring as many supplies as you can, and as long as you leave the Great Wall, you will never receive supplies from the Han army.

Lan Xiang's children made a simple sand table according to the map given by Yun Xiao.

A white glass represents the Yellow River, lying there in a zigzag. Drinking Seoul is on the west bank of the Yellow River, and crossing the river in the snow and ice should not be a problem this month. The difficulty is how to quickly occupy this city.

The Qin general Meng Tian led the Qin army to recover the Hetao and built a city here to defend it. After Gaozu saw the siege of Baideng, he was occupied by the Huns. The Huns, who had no habit of building cities, went against the norm this time and requisitioned countless Han slaves to build the city closest to the Great Wall as a fortress to harass the Han-Hungarian border.

In recent years, almost all the military operations invading the Great Wall in the western section of the Hetao were instigated here. According to the Han Chinese who fled back, the city was built to be unusually tall and sturdy. The high city wall is more than ten zhang long, and the wide moat is connected with the Yellow River. Wells were everywhere in the city, and the storehouses were full of looted grain, and even when besieged by superior forces, it could hold out for a long time.

The generals of the Yun family are all concentrated in Yun Xiao's study, and the analysis of the situation before the war will be well transplanted by Yun Xiao.

"That's what we know, let's talk about what we can do. Let's do the math, it's barely enough for 10,000 people. Such a fortified city is difficult for us to deal with. ”

Yun Xiao rubbed his forehead, he had thought of many plans these days. However, they were all overthrown by him one by one, either because of too much damage to the city wall, or because there were too many casualties.

The walls of the city of Han cannot be destroyed, and if the Xiongnu are only returning to the army, they will have to use the city wall to deal with them. And the huge casualties are also unacceptable to Yun Xiao, who knows what kind of fierce battles will be fought in the future. One more casualty is one less combat power.

I can't expect much from the soldiers from Longyouhui, a group of peasants who barely have enough to eat. When will there be a war, if the peasants of the Han Dynasty are so powerful. It will not let the Huns wreak havoc for so long, Liu Cheng went to receive the Hui soldiers.

Judging from the letters that came back, the situation was not very good. According to Liu Cheng, these people don't know how to fight at all, so they can only be used as people's husbands. If they had experienced an impact like that of the Huns, I am afraid that they would have run away without the cavalry rushing to them, and what awaited them could only be a one-sided massacre.

The ordnance was also unsatisfactory, and the shafts of many spears were rotten. The iron used to make the spears was also very rough, and many of them were still bronze. Few of the soldiers were able to pull up three bows, and the crossbow arrows were even more skewed. As for martial arts, don't think about it at all, Liu Cheng's letter said that the Yun family's Xiangyong can beat eight of them.

There were no horses at all, and the body and morale of the soldiers were not very high. The captains are all local captains, and they don't know how to lead troops at all. In short, there are many problems, and with such an army is fighting, Liu Cheng feels very unreliable. (To be continued......)