In the north of Siltan County, the Odin army had gathered, and the area in the north of Siltan seemed to have become a huge arrest, and the net seemed to have gradually tightened.

Although the Odin Chixue Army led by Manninger was surprised by the Byzantine Empire resistance in the north, it had the courage to launch an attack on its own side in winter, but without hesitation, it blatantly organized a large army to gather, which was bound to swallow the enemy army that had penetrated deep into its own territory.

Even Manninger himself was surprised and admired the courage of the Byzantine Empire to command the troops. Although this courage was really reckless, Manninger himself was not unhappy. If he could annihilate the enemy in this battle, then there would be no resistance in the north of the Byzantine Empire!

Although his tentative advance ended in failure, it did not prevent Manninger from making a correct judgment on the situation. This rare and intelligent outstanding commander among the Odins had already keenly realized that the northern resistance force entrenched behind him was actually not very powerful, but it was only a 10,000 or 20,000 troops. If he could solve the problem in this battle, Manninger would naturally be unsuccessful!

"End this war in winter, and with this war, we will completely solve our worries in one fell swoop! When we wait for the beginning of spring, our army can concentrate on looking south! Our Odin has dispatched so many troops this time, but it is not enough to be satisfied with only a few counties!"

Manninger was full of energy. Under his urge to urge him, the Odin Chixue Army, who had just annexed the Corsica Military Region, was driven and gathered all the way under his strict orders.

Although the Odins were fierce and good at fighting, they had fought several wars this year, especially the war to annex the Corsica Military Region lasted for more than two months. The Corsica Military Region was really tenacious at the beginning. Although the Odin Chixue Army finally won a great victory, the entire army was already quite tired. After fighting for half a year, the Chixue Army urgently needed some time to repair it. Originally, they planned to take advantage of this winter to repair it and restore their vitality, but under Manninger's eagerness to win, the Odin troops from all walks of life still plucked up the courage to strictly follow the orders of the patriarch. The Odin troops along the way marched southward and gathered in the north of Siltan County, gradually forming a siege of the lonely army led by Green that penetrated deep into the enemy territory.

Manninger himself even dispatched from the county magistrate of Siltan County and personally led his army to take charge of command.

For a moment, in the north of Siltan County, the net of heaven and earth was about to swallow Green's alone in one bite after the pocket was tightened!

After a night of snow, the snowflakes were as big as goose feathers. After a night of falling, when the sky gradually became brighter, the earth was already vast. The silver-white color seemed to have covered the sky and the earth. There was no other color between the sky and the earth except this white.

Xia Ya sat on the horse's back, breathed a breath, and tugged his hands hard.

After lying on the horse's back and rushing through the middle of the night, his whole body was almost frozen, his ears were so cold that he could hardly feel it. His nose was red, and his eyebrows were covered with frost!

There were two cavalrymen around him walking closely to him, guarding the chief general at all times.

This is a trail northeast of Siltanshire.

This is not a main road, and there have always been only some local village residents. After the war spread, the local villages and towns had almost gone empty, and every village was deserted and deserted, so the roads nearby were lost.

There is a river crossing here, which was originally a tributary of the north. There are no bridges on this river. In peacetime, only nearby villages and towns organized people to build simple docks on both sides of the straits, and arranged for peasants to ferry here. It is enough to allow local villagers to travel occasionally. The geography here is remote and there are no caravans passing by. This small ferry crossing has enough capacity to bear the needs of people in peace.

But after the war, all the nearby villages and towns fled, and the small half were driven away by the Odins to take a slave. The villages and towns were empty, so naturally there was no boatman on the ferry.

The team of people who were with Xia Ya came at night and marched all the way, and they were about to arrive here.

Xia Ya sat on the horse and heard the whistle of the front cavalry in front of him, and immediately became energetic. He plucked up his strength, rode his horse forward, rushed to the front of the team, and looked around, a smile suddenly appeared on his frozen face.

"Ha! It seems that the sky is endless! This is a heavy snow, but it has indeed helped me a lot!"

I saw that the river in front of me had already frozen in the cold winter snow weather. The originally turbulent river had already formed thick ice! Looking around, the upstream and downstream of the river had been frozen!!

Xia Ya immediately smiled and said, "Send someone to check the ice on the river. Is it thick enough? Our horse team is heavy, so don't fall down."

At this moment, between the world, there seemed to be only the cavalry where he was.

The cavalry behind Xia Ya dragged out the old man's queue on this white land.

In the team, all the cavalry were wearing thick fur coats, and they seemed to have never worn armor. The outfits were a bit weird, but the horse team behind them were quite large!

The number of cavalry that Xia Ya brought was not too large, just about eight hundred cavalry! But the cavalry seemed to be far more than that! Just because of the construction of this cavalry, Xia Ya put in a lot of equipment, and each cavalry was equipped with two war horses and a mule and horse carrying a weight!!

The 800 cavalry team had as many as 2,500 mounts, which was an exception! It was just because this army was made up by Xia Ya with great expectations and spared no expense!

In this team, each cavalry was now under his crotch, and each had a horse and a mule horse tied to the reins around him. Speaking of mounts, it was very strange. The cavalry riding was not armed, but only wrapped in thick leather jackets to prevent the cold, but all the weapons and armor were tied to the back of the mule and horse beside him! Each mule and horse carrying a heavy weight was a set of cavalry heavy armor! The appearance of this heavy armor looked very eye-catching, and it was actually a rare full-body armor! The breast armor, body armor, shoulder guards, arm guards, and helmets were also the most expensive covered heavy helmet!

In this era of cold weapons, this full-body armored cavalry is probably not so fully equipped with the heavy armored cavalry in the empire. Each set of armor is made of a lot of iron and consumes a lot of iron. The weight of this set of armor is probably about 150 kilograms! Even in the army, only the generals of the heavy armored cavalry can wear such heavy armor. If ordinary soldiers wear such heavy armored armor, they will carry such a large load, and they will be difficult to move. It is like carrying a person's weight on their bodies, and walking is barely enough. Where can they still ride horses to fight? In the army, only some outstanding warriors or generals and officers of the Martial Fighter will wear such heavy armor!

However, in the 800 cavalry team led by Chara, this unusual heavy armor seemed to have become a common basic equipment!

In addition to the heavy set of armor, the mules and horses also bear the long weapons of cavalry on their backs! These long weapons are heavy weapons, heavy cavalry spears, razor hammers, double-edged long-handed heavy axes, etc., each one is different.

After careful calculation, if a cavalry in this team wears all his armor and holds this heavy heavy weapon, he will probably have to be more than 200 kilograms in his body!

With such heavy equipment, no wonder each cavalry had to be equipped with a mule and horse that specializes in carrying heavy equipment. Otherwise, if the long-distance marching carried such heavy equipment, I was afraid that the war horses would have been crushed to death when they arrived at the place. Where could they still fight?

What’s even more unusual is the horse behind each cavalry!

What's strange is that in this army, it seems that the horses behind each cavalry look even more majestic and taller than the horses under the cavalry's own crotch! The horses were all taller than the original horses, and looked thick and majestic. They ran all the way, and the horses breathed heavily and spurted out pieces of white air. The muscles on the horse's body were like steel!

Byzantines have always been dominated by cavalry, especially the Romanian cavalry, which is also the elite military spirit of Byzantine. Naturally, there are unique features in the taming and selection of war horses. Generally speaking, ordinary war horses in the army are just one person's height. The custom in the army has always used southern horses to use southern horses and heavy cavalry to use northern horses. The horses produced in the empire have always been slightly smaller in size, but they are good at endurance. Although short-lived *** is not very good at, they can withstand long-distance marching. Light cavalry is known for its maneuver power on the battlefield, and using southern horses is the most suitable.

Only horses produced in the north have the type of tall body. This kind of northern horse has a tall and wide body, strong weight bearing, and its explosive power and short-distance horse are also one level stronger than the southern horse. Although the endurance of long-distance running is insufficient, it is most suitable for serving as mounts of heavy armored cavalry. The heavy armored cavalry is known for its impact force on the frontal attack.

But at this moment, the tall horses behind the cavalry were much taller than the northern horses in the empire that were specially used for heavy cavalry! They looked majestic, and when hundreds of horses ran, they were faintly as if thunder was shaking!!

There are so many giant horses, I don’t know where Xia Ya found it!

However, these giant horses have no weight on their bodies except the saddle. They run along the way and seem particularly relaxed. It seems that in this team, they are particularly caring for these tall giant horses, and would rather let the mules and horses carry heavy to death than spend the horsepower of these giant horses on a long-distance marching.

Xia Ya stopped by the river and waited for a while, and then she heard the sound of hooves coming from the front. When she looked up, she saw a dark horse slowly coming. She immediately saw a tall figure, wearing a black fur coat, a thick hat and collar, almost half of her face covered. The hat was pressed very low, but the eyebrows exposed outside had long been dyed white by the frost, which was Nene!

Nene came to Xia Ya, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "I have seen it. The ice is very strong. We can go there! I personally rode a horse and ran back and forth, and there was no problem."

Xia Ya finally let out a sigh, then couldn't help laughing to the sky, gestured to the sky with a middle finger, and said viciously: "This god, I finally let go of my luck! I have always given me all kinds of bad luck, but today I finally have kindness! Haha!!"

He looked down at Nene and said viciously: "Order the whole army will cross the river! We cross the river and go straight to the south! Humph, whether this battle is life or death, the scenery or the dead end, it depends on us!"

The ice on the river surface was indeed thick. The horse team slowly crossed the river and heard the horse's hooves hitting the hard ice layer, making a sound like an iron striking.

It took less than an hour for the eight hundred cavalry and mounts to cross the river.

After crossing the river, Xia Ya finally let go of her heart in her throat. He immediately shouted, "Come on! Come and get the map!"

Immediately, a personal guard with him placed a rolled-up map in front of him!

Xia Ya looked carefully and smiled slightly: "Ha! Fortunately, I was very careful when I brought people across the border last time and provoked the Odins and Corsicans to fight, I paid attention to the terrain along the way. The old man Manninger is afraid that he is still in the west and dreams of annihilation of our main force in one fell swoop! We will go south and take his back road!"

He looked up at Nene and said, "Walking south for half a day, it is Chuck City. This is a military town on the east side of Siltan County. It is close to the border with the Corsica Military Region. It was the place where the Siltan County garrison was used to prevent the establishment of the Corsica Military Region. This guy Manninger is quite capable. Although the army has been to encircle Green and the others, he must have left the garrison in this important throat! Let's go now and eat this garrison first! Even if the first battle of this war is started!"

Nene glanced at Xia Ya, hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Actually... I will lead the team this time. Your health has not recovered. Even if you fight, you will not be able to join the formation. Why come and take this risk?"

When Xia Ya heard this, her heart moved and looked up. She saw that although Nene's face was still stern, she couldn't help but show some concern in her eyes. He sighed softly, and naturally understood in his heart that this woman still has a lot of friendship for him. She has been hiding everywhere in these days, and she just hides in the army every day, training the army hard, and vents all her energy in the army. But when she really sees herself, her heart can't suppress those feelings.

Faced with Nene's feelings, Xia Ya finally felt a little indescribable guilt. She couldn't help but subconsciously avoid Nene's eyes and said slowly: "This battle is about life and death. Even if I hide in Denzel City, it is useless. If I win, we will naturally have a smooth road from now on! If I lose, I hide in Denzel City, and it will be a road to defeat! There is no difference between the front and the back."

Nene saw Xia Ya dodging his eyes, and his heart was depressed - he was going to get married after all, his wife was still the imperial royal family, and he was a lonely woman, and he looked so scary, so how could he deserve him? The girl named Adelin had also seen him. She was indeed extremely beautiful and tender and affectionate to Xia Ya. I think she was his good match.

After all, my friendship will not be successful.

Thinking of this, I felt ruthless in my heart, forced all these thoughts, turned around and rushed to the front of the team.

Near noon, a smoke rose in Chuck's city.

There were about a thousand Odin troops stationed in the city and two thousand attached troops. Most of these attached troops were surrendered by the Corsica Military Region. After the Corsica Military Region was annexed by Manninger, they had already surrendered to the Odin people. After being disbanded by Manninger, they were reorganized and placed in various places.

In such cold weather, those affiliated soldiers were not Odin, so they were naturally afraid of the cold. In this haunting weather, even dripping water could freeze, so who wouldn't want to hide in the barracks and burn the fire?

But the Odin barbarians were all monsters. The colder the weather was, the more energetic the Odins became. They heard the Odins get up early in the morning, and then the whole morning was full of lively whistling.

Those Odin people seemed to be particularly excited and happy when they saw this snowy weather. In the morning, Odin people took off their clothes in the military camp in the city, grabbed the snow and scrubbed them. Each of the Odin people was extremely strong and strong, and their skin was red with ice and snow. But these guys seemed not afraid of the cold, but smiled more and more roughly.

There are also Odin people who wrestle and fight for fun in the snow, and they keep playing and making fun all morning.

These Odin people were not afraid of the cold, but they did not let the surrendered surrendered troops live. The leader of the Odin army stationed here ordered the new affiliated troops to patrol the city and defend the city, and ordered them to clean up the streets in the city - all these tasks fell on the head of the unlucky affiliated troops.

This haunting weather can freeze people's noses, who is willing to go out to work?

But these uncle Odin was unhappy and whipped them mercilessly!

Poor to these subordinates, they could only hold back their noses. Who made this situation stronger than others? They are now the main army and they are surrendered. It is already a particularly lucky thing to be able to save a life.

The Odins fought bravely, but they were extremely crude in their daily military management and had no rules. The management was also loose.

Although these affiliated soldiers were forced by the Odins' whip so hard that they had to come out of the warm barracks to work and drink, who would really work hard for the Odins when they were unwilling to do so?

The Odins were having fun in the camp themselves, fighting, wrestling, drinking, barbecue and having fun, but they asked the men to go out of the city to patrol? In this haunting weather, the armor was frozen in pieces, wrapped in thick fur coats, and it could get cold into the bones when the wind blew.

There was a cavalry team assigned to patrol the city. As soon as they left the city, they simply disobeyed and quietly found a leeing hillside to hide from the wind and rest. When the time came, they ran back to the city and reported to the upper part that "nothing was wrong" and it was explained.

Originally, according to the order, the cavalry who went out of the city patrol had to scatter the horses for ten miles, but these affiliated troops were lazy and wouldn't they really run out of ten miles. Only after leaving the city and walking two or three miles was considered to be particularly loyal to their duties.

Damn! On weekdays, I have to take the anger of these Odin barbarians. If you want to beat them, you can scold them. After surrender, the military pay is gone. I only eat some rough noodles with wheat mills every day, and I haven't seen any meat for several days. Whoever works hard for Odin people to work hard is to raise them!

Under such circumstances, Xia Ya's brigade drove all the way outside Chuck City without any obstacles. It was just a single arrow from the city defense, and the defenders in the city did not notice it.

The smoke from noon was rising in the city. Looking around, there was no one defender on the not-so-tall city wall. I was afraid that they would be stomping under the wall to shelter the wind.

The city gate was wide open, and a few unlucky people were thrown at the city gate to clean up the snow.

This small town looks like it is not at all defensive!

Xia Ya's entire army was only a few hundred meters outside the city. After a hillside, the black cavalry had been lined up, and all the cavalry had dismounted and were nervously wearing armor. The heavy armor was not easy to wear. The cavalry could only help each other with their companions and their nervous movements.

Xia Ya was already standing on the hillside, and his fur coat had been dyed white by frost. Standing on this hillside, it seemed to be connected to the surrounding ice and snow. Even if someone looked here in the distance, if he was not careful, he would probably not be able to see clearly that there was still a person standing here.

Xia Ya looked at the smoke rising from the city, touched her chin and smiled: "Ha! It's a coincidence that the guys in the city are going to have lunch! Send the order and let's act according to the plan! Before noon, we will annihilate these guys and then go to the city for dinner!"

He turned around and looked at the cavalry under his command under the hillside. At this moment, the team had finally been prepared. Hundreds of pairs of eyes were staring at Xia Ya. Xia Ya looked cold and shouted: "We have invested a lot of money! Almost empty all the money to provide you with your own strength! Today is the first formation after your army is formed! I will watch you here! I will watch you with my own eyes and fight a beautiful victory for me!"

As he said that, Xia Ya took off a military trumpet hanging around her waist, crushed the frozen ice on it, and stood on the hillside, blew it hard!

In an instant, the thick military horn broke the peace of the earth!
Chapter completed!