The winter of Dinghai year was particularly difficult.
Especially in Liang State, as soon as December enters, the heavy snow in the northern country will arrive as expected.
It's not that it has never snowed in the south, but have soldiers from Wu Chu ever seen heavy snow for two or three days at a time?
What's even more troublesome is...
Liu Bi forgot to equip his soldiers with enough warm clothing.
As a result, a large number of soldiers suffered from frostbite or even died of frostbite. However, heavy snow closed the mountains, making it extremely difficult to cut firewood. There was a lack of enough heating fuel in the military camp. The extremely cold soldiers even ignored military discipline and secretly gave some to the cattle and horses.
Edible hay is used for warmth.
Military discipline is simple and crude, with beheading, killing, execution, and stick at every turn.
In the past few days, the military judge has killed more than a dozen people.
The bloody heads hung on the camp gates, with angry eyes and disheveled hair, temporarily intimidating the soldiers.
But in the military camp, an undercurrent was quietly flowing.
Faced with all this, Hengba was worried.
The situation at this moment, in his eyes, is really extremely bad!
The army had been stationed at Suiyang City for two months. Although they jumped to the top of the city several times and almost invaded Suiyang City, the Liang army on the opposite side was not a vegetarian. Every time, they fought back desperately.
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According to the prisoners of war, in order to defend Suiyang, King Liu Wu of Liang even knelt on the ground and entrusted the task of defending the city to his six generals. Moreover, he also used the savings of the Liang State treasury to reward meritorious soldiers.
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward!
What's more, the soldiers of the Liang Kingdom who fought on their own soil and wanted to defend their homeland?
This is not the key yet.
The key is what is Zhou Yafu thinking when he is hiding in Changyi?
To be honest, Hengba couldn't understand what Zhou Yafu wanted to do with hundreds of thousands of Han troops hiding in Changyi, digging trenches and building fortresses every day.
Hengba looked through all the military books and couldn't find it. Which book had such a strategy written in it?
Didn't Zhou Yafu know that by capturing Suiyang, Changyi would lose its strategic role?
Doesn't Zhou Yafu know that in the past two months, the Wu-Chu coalition forces didn't even take a look at Changyi?
Hengba didn't think that with Zhou Yafu's IQ and his background, he wouldn't understand a problem that even an ordinary soldier could see clearly!
So the question is, what tricks is Zhou Yafu preparing?
Rubbing his somewhat swollen temples, Hengba sighed.
He has been asking King Wu to strengthen surveillance and alert in the direction of Changyi.
At first, King Wu followed his good example and sent a large number of troops to guard Changyi, and also established an airtight scout patrol network.
At first, even if there was an extra smoke coming from the kitchen in the direction of Changyi, someone would report it seriously.
It's a pity. After two months, Zhou Yafu of Changyi did not only dig trenches but also build tents. He even set fire to the mountains and forests near Changyi, pretending to run Changyi into an iron bucket and pretending to defend it.
Unable to show off.
After a series of surprises, doubts, confusions and explorations, Liu Bi and his ministers finally confirmed that Zhou Yafu was not cheating, and those numerous tents and trenches, burned forests, houses and fields could not be faked. Secondly, there was no trick.
, spies near Changyi and even spies deployed in Lantian, Wuguan and even Chang'an all showed that Zhou Yafu did not play the trick of building plank roads openly and crossing into warehouses secretly.
All the troops that should be in Changyi are in Changyi, no one is missing!
So today, the king of Wu and his ministers finally confirmed that Zhou Yafu seemed to be ready to wait for Wu Chu's army in Changyi.
Countless people, both high and low, expressed confusion about this.
Did Yafu get kicked in the head by a donkey this week?
What's the point of guarding Changyi?
Once Suiyang is captured, the Wu army can completely ignore the Han army in Changyi and march boldly towards Luoyang, Hangu, and Chang'an.
Therefore, some people boldly speculated: Zhou Yafu is probably a timid and cowardly person, right?
In order to confirm this guess, Liu Bi sent people to scold Zhou Yafu's trenches and camps in Changyi.
Ten men with loud voices could scold me for an entire afternoon.
The trenches and camps on the opposite side showed no response.
He didn't even bother to shoot an arrow.
Only when the Wu army tried to get closer to the camp, they fired a dense rain of arrows, killing about three or four people and wounding five or six others. Once the Wu army retreated, they continued to dig trenches and build the camp on the opposite side.
After that incident, the evaluation of Zhou Yafu's cowardice became completely popular among the Wu army.
No one will pay special attention to Zhou Yafu anymore.
What is there to value about such a timid guy?
There is no one left in Chang'an!
Only Hengba kept thinking about what was wrong.
At this time, a group of baggage trucks carrying food was driven by the fire soldiers towards the barracks in the distance.
Several officers were chattering while driving.
Hengba just listened to it at first. The complaints of these baggage officers came and went just because they were exhausted. Damn it, can't you eat less?
However, just as Hengba was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly heard an officer nagging: "It's such a cold weather, no wonder those guys in Huaisikou are hiding in the tents to warm themselves by the fire and hug women to sleep...
…I heard that even the Huaihe River is frozen!”
Another officer excused himself: "No! With this damn weather, the rivers and streams are all frozen. Fortunately, the rivers are frozen, otherwise, we would have missed our schedule this time!"
Hengba immediately stopped, stepped forward and asked, "What did you two just say?"
When the two officers who were still complaining and nagging just now saw Heng Ba, a chill ran down their spines for no reason, and they quickly saluted: "General Heng, we just said that the rivers are frozen..."
Another person said with a charming smile: "Isn't that right? When we returned from transporting the baggage this time, we almost got trapped in the snow. Fortunately, the rivers were all frozen, so we drove the baggage truck.
Went directly from the river!"
"The river is frozen..." Hengba was shocked!
There has never been a river in the South that froze, allowing people to cross the river through the ice.
So, he had never considered this before.
But at this moment, Hengba remembered.
The river freezes every year, and the ice cover is thick enough to even allow the heavy armored infantry and baggage trains of the army to pass through.
The weather this year is even colder.
Just now these soldiers also said that the troops guarding the lifeline of Huaisi were actually warming themselves in the camp.
"I want to go see the king immediately and ask the king to send troops to protect Huaisi!"
The northern army is dominated by cavalry. If Zhou Yafu sends out a cavalry at this time, they can quickly reach Huaisi and cut off Huaisi's grain transportation channel.
Then, the hundreds of thousands of Wu and Chu troops in the ice and snow of the North will soon face the danger of freezing to death and starving to death.
Hengba knew very well that because of the war and because the supply line was too long, the Wu army's army had never enough food for three days!
And once the food road is cut off, everything will probably be in vain! (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
