The winter of Wude's fifth year was really cold, and the earth seemed to be covered in ice and snow. In many places, the ground was frozen and cracked. In such a cold winter, Yun Hao had only seen it in the northeast before. I didn't expect Datang's Hebei to be so cold.

However, such a cold winter is also good news for Yun Hao. At least, the road is frozen honestly, and its own logistics and supplies are a little more convenient. What he hoped for most was that Master Sheng Yan would be able to come back with enough oil and gunpowder. With these two things, even in the face of 100,000 Turkic iron horsemen, he was confident to hold the city of Bingzhou.

The city of Bingzhou is not very large, the city of three miles and the Guo of seven miles, a small county town in Hebei Province. In recent years, Hebei has been fighting repeatedly, and the city of Bingzhou has been seriously destroyed by the war. The city wall, which is only three feet high, has been crumbling and almost collapsed in several places. The first thing Yun Hao did after merging the state was to mobilize the soldiers to boil water and water the city wall.

It's certainly not realistic to build the walls now, but fortunately, the weather is cold. Freezing the entire city wall with ice should be a good idea.

Ling Jing sent people to cut down the trees within a radius of ten miles, and pulled them to the city with ox carts and piled them up. Yun Hao ignored this indiscriminate deforestation, he knew Ling Jing's thoughts. These trees can be used as siege materials, and it is good to cut them down and use them as firewood.

In fact, in winter wars, firewood is more important than food. Especially in such a weather where dogs are frozen, dogs can really be frozen, and when Yun Hao went out to inspect the city wall today, he saw more than one stray dog that was frozen to death.

Let Xiong Kuohai bury the stray dogs, this thing is not willing yet. said that dog meat is fragrant meat, and what dog meat is rolled three times, and the gods can't stand steadily. The immortal's unsteady standing must be drunk, and it has a hairy relationship with dog meat.

Hebei has been fighting one after another, and the land is barren. Yun Hao marched all the way, but he didn't see a few populated villages. I have seen a lot of ruins, and the destructive power of war is enormous. After more than ten years of recuperation, Hebei does not want to return to the pre-war level.

said that it was the county seat, but Yunhao only knew it when he saw the county. There are only more than 10,000 people in this city, young and old. Those who could move around fled the famine, and the rest were either old and weak or rich families with a few dollars at home who were unwilling to go. The city was huge, and the people who were finally gathered were only four or five hundred.

"Master Hou, that's all. The subordinates even called the domestic servants of the house, and there was really no one. "The county order is called Liu Fulu, the name is good, and the person is fat like a big Fu. can mix up this figure in Hebei, and kill Yun Hao and don't believe that this guy is a clean official.

looked at Liu Fulu, whose face was drawn into a bun, and then looked at the dozen or so guys in the team wearing small hats in green clothes. Yun Hao knew that this guy wasn't lying.

"Let your people go out of the city to collect firewood. In three days, I will have a thousand loads of firewood. Now Yun Hao is worried that there is not enough firewood, because the rate of firewood consumption is too fast. After Yun Hao taught the soldiers to make an earthen stove, the entire Bingzhou City became a huge furnace. Countless chimneys billowed with smoke and dust all day long, and from a distance, a layer of pale cyan mist shrouded in the sky over the city of Bingzhou.

In such a cold weather, the firewood must not be broken, otherwise it will be a disaster. Yun Hao couldn't understand, Hebei would be so cold for Mao. I have the impression that this kind of weather should only occur in the Northeast.

"A thousand quintals ......! Master Hou! Liu Fulu's facial features were about to be clenched, and the forest within a radius of ten miles had already been cut down by the army. If you want firewood, you can only go farther away, but I heard that the Turks have already called. At this time, who would dare to go out of the city.

"If there is no firewood, Lao Tzu will use your fat body to light the fire!" Of course Yun Hao wouldn't pay attention to this guy, Qiu Shili reached out and grabbed Liu Fulu's neck collar and said viciously.

Ignoring Liu Fulu, who was screaming, Yun Hao walked into the county office. Now Yun Hao is like a tiger trapped in a cage, with an irritable breath all over his body.

The news in the military newspaper is getting worse day by day, and Li Er's old problem has been committed again. Personally took the Xuanjia army and went out to reconnoiter the enemy situation of the Turks. As a result, he almost didn't come back. If it weren't for Wei Chigong and Qin Qiong being too brave, maybe the Tang Dynasty would be mourning for the loss of a prince now.

The Turks in Hebei and Shanxi implemented a three-light policy. As long as there are people, they will be robbed. The houses were also burned down, and it is said that Youzhou and Yizhou are already full of wolf smoke. The defense line of the Great Wall is simply precarious!

Burning houses, that's because the Turks also didn't have firewood for heating. These bastards are unwilling to cut down trees themselves, so they can only burn the thatched huts of the Han people for heating. This thing is just a little bit, and it's very good to burn.

In addition to the fact that people do not kill much, the Turks have done almost all the evil things. It's not that the Turks are merciful, it's that they need slaves. Except for some who were too old and weak to be killed, all the Han Chinese captured by the Turks were packed and transported back to the steppe.

After the White Plague, there is always a lot of labor on the grasslands. It also requires a lot of women to have children, as the Turks have done from generation to generation. He didn't think there was anything wrong with that. Wolves are born to eat sheep!

Yun Hao can imagine the kind of miserable scene like a devil entering the village. But he couldn't help it, the Tang Empire, which was established at the beginning of Guozuo, was very fragile. The internal strife has not subsided, and there is still room for strength to deal with the fierce Turks. Just look at the tired Hebei to see how much harm the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty brought to this nation.

Liu Fulu still took people out to cut down trees, and Qiu Xinggong detained his wife, children and old mother. If you don't pay enough firewood, you will be hit by the board, and if you don't come back, the whole family will die.

At the end of the first month, it was extremely cold. It snowed like goose feathers, and a long line of ox carts appeared in the distance. Yun Hao exhaled a white breath and looked at the ox carts happily. Sheng Yanshi finally came back, said the scout sent yesterday. There were 1,300 catties of gunpowder and more than 2,000 catties of oil. This is almost all the inventory of the academy, Li Yuan said. Yun Hao's left military guard is related to the left flank of the army, if the state is lost. The entire Tang army in Hebei will be cut off by the Turks.

The current Hebei has almost gathered the essence of the Tang Army, if it is really wiped out by the Turks. The consequence is that the fledgling Tang Empire will fall apart in an instant. If we want to have a unified regime, we don't know what year or month it will take.

Of course, the Turks also knew this. The military report that came back said that Ashina Simo led 50,000 iron cavalry and had disappeared from the Yizhou front. It is likely that it is to attack the state where Yun Hao is stationed.

"Master Hou!" Seeing Yun Hao's frozen beard, Sheng Yanshi was a little speechless. The coach is a pampered person, when has he ever suffered such hardships. How many times, on a cold day, Master Sheng Yan saw Yun Hao hiding in a warm room. I don't want to step out of the house!

Now in this cold weather, he is frozen like a turtle to welcome himself.

"It's good to come, it's good to come!" Yun Hao patted Sheng Yanshi's shoulder excitedly, news came from the scout yesterday. Traces of large groups of Turks have been found a hundred miles away, according to the pace of their march. In a day or two, the Turks will be in the city. As long as they take the annexed states, they can attack the weak flanks of the Tang army unimpeded.

Master Sheng Yan came too timely, with gunpowder and oil. Yun Hao did not believe that the Turks on horseback would be able to cross the walls of Bingzhou. If these guys are going to bypass the state, then Yun Hao will be the strongest nail in their supply line. Although the Turkic horsemen were very brave, they also needed supplies.

Every time the Turks went on an expedition, they were followed by a large herd of herdsmen driving cattle and sheep, which were the military supplies of the army.

"Master Hou, not only did your subordinates bring oil and gunpowder. There are also 1,000 strong crossbows recently made by the superintendent, all of which were recently developed by the fisherman. I heard that two hundred paces away, you can shoot through chain mail. There were also more than fifty eight-ox crossbows, and the bowstrings were all wireless. In such cold weather, it is also available. "In order to support Yun Hao, Master Sheng Yan has emptied the academy. As long as it was something that could be used in front of the two armies, he would load it on the car without dropping.

With Li Yuan's approval, Wen Daya was selectively blind to Sheng Yanshi's actions. Not only that, but also privately revealed some recent scientific research products, and opened the door for Sheng Yanshi.

"Oh yes, Master Hou, look who's coming." The excited Sheng Yanshi even said with a gesture, otherwise he slapped his head. As if he suddenly remembered something, he pulled Yun Hao to a carriage.

"Why are you here?" I saw the old fisherman with all white hair and beard, and he looked like a fairy. Yun Hao's eyes almost fell, the cold here is far less warm than Chang'an. It's so old, what if it freezes out.

"Huh! Scold! As soon as you kid went out, you disappeared, could it be that my old man was left to run the academy alone? Those things need to be continuously improved. This time, the old man is here to see the effect of using these things. In the future, we will make targeted improvements. Alright, hurry into the city. Hebei is breaking the sky, it's so cold! The old man was already afraid of the cold, so the old fisherman shivered and got back into the carriage. Yun Hao hurriedly followed in, saying that his feet were already frozen and unconscious.

The goose-feather snow fell for two whole days when the snow stopped. Yun Hao stood at the head of the city very satisfied, and the whole land was covered with snow. Naturally, things like triangular nail pits were buried under the snow. Not only did the enemy not know where the trap was, but even Yun Hao himself didn't know it.

The old fisherman took a deep breath of clear air, smiled and pointed into the distance: "They are here!" ”

Yun Hao followed the old man's finger and saw a Turkic cavalryman standing on the mountain beam in the distance. The Turkic cavalry held a large black flag in their hands, which was constantly shaking in the wind. Soon, a second cavalryman appeared. And then the third, the fourth, the fifth, ......! When the boundless Turkic army pressed towards the city of Bingzhou, Yun Hao gasped.

Looking at it like this, it seems that tens of thousands of Turks came at once. Could it be that Ashnasimo came with an army of 50,000 to attack the city of Bingzhou, which he was stationing? I think too much of Lao Tzu, Zuo Wuwei is only a little more than 8,000 now.

The Turks poured out of the mountain beams like an earthy yellow flood. These people seem to be ghosts out of hell, and there is no end to it.

"It's not that there are only 50,000 people, how can there be so many?" Yun Hao saw more and more Turkic cavalry, and his heart was a little weak.

"Fifty thousand? If there are less than 80,000 people, you can dig up the old man's tricks. The old fisherman glanced at Yun Hao with disdain, Yun Hao, who was known as a master of arithmetic, couldn't even figure out the number of people. What a shame to throw home!

"Where did they come from so many people, didn't they say that there were only 100,000 iron horsemen who invaded Hebei?" Yun Hao scratched his head, and now he couldn't figure it out. If there are 80,000 people on his side, then isn't there only 20,000 people on Li Er's front? There is no reason, Li Er, who has an army of more than 100,000 troops, can't beat 20,000 Turkic cavalry!

"Barbarians, some of them are still at the level of knotting ropes. Do you expect them to figure out the numbers correctly? The Turks called a hundred thousand troops, that means a lot. The old fisherman put his hand in his sleeve, and although he could not see the situation in the distance clearly, he was reluctant to take it out of his sleeve. Now holding the copper telescope is simply a punishment.

Yun Hao took a closer look at the binoculars, and he was wearing thick sheepskin gloves on his hands. Zhang Miaoke led two little wives, handmade products, absolute limited edition.

"So that means that the Turks are pouring out this time?"

"It's so cold in Hebei, what do you think the grassland will look like? They were frozen, and even if it was cold, it was warmer than the grassland. As long as there is a way to live, they will not care whose land it is. God is fair, as long as the tribes of the steppe start to grow stronger. There will always be such calamities, and each time the tribes on the steppe will be much reduced.

Sometimes, even large tribes of tens of thousands of people disappear from the steppe. If this were not the case, my Han family would have been occupied by the steppe barbarians a long time ago. Even so, there is still a tragedy of Wuhu chaos. So don't blame God, he's a fair man. The old fisher looked at the Turkic army in front of him, and suddenly began to chatter in the spirit of a philosopher.

Knowing that the old guy was selling off his knowledge, he didn't see the students who came with him from the academy, and there were already little stars in his eyes. A star-chaser like a nymphomaniac!

While the Turkic cavalry continued to climb over the mountain beams, the Turkic cavalry that had arrived in advance had already begun to charge. The horses under their crotches galloped, swaying snow foam into the sky. It was like a puff of white smoke, rushing towards the city of Bingzhou.

Yun Hao was dumbfounded, he didn't understand what the Turks thought. Could it be that they are not riding horses, but winged unicorns of the West? Want to fly to the city walls?

The Turkic cavalry was still accelerating, as if it was about to crash headlong into the city walls.

"This is the usual tactic of the Turks, who sent their sharpshooters to shoot arrows at the city and urge us to surrender. If they refuse to surrender, they will slaughter the city after it is broken. Seeing that Yun Hao didn't understand, Qiu Shili beside him explained.

"Ah......h So that's it! Yun Hao looked at the arrow stack with great interest, but he wanted to see if his small means could be successful.

The galloping Turkic war horse suddenly began to fall non-stop. The galloping horses have accumulated great kinetic energy, although the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow. But falling off a horse and breaking a tendon fracture is the best outcome.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the old fisherman, Qiu Shili explained very doggedly: "This is all ordered by the Hou Ye, and a lot of fist-sized stones are thrown on the ground. He also asked the people to dig many small holes one foot deep. Now it's all covered in snow, and even we don't know where the traps are.

Galloping horses stepped on stones, or stepped into pits. Naturally, they will fall, and those condor shooters who are on horseback now in winter must have suffered heavy losses. ”

"This kid, the location is used by him to the extreme. Who would have thought that small stones and earth pits would be a good way to fight against the Turkic iron horsemen. The old man glanced at Yun Hao, and he had to admire Yun Hao's methods.