The people on the land of Liangzhou are not yet ready to spend the winter. The cold winter wind has begun to blow. The Liangzhou area under the rule of Xiliang is already ready to spend the winter.
Before winter begins, various regions have already built a large number of houses to spend the winter in accordance with the instructions from the Northwest Yamen. These houses have places where they can burn fires for heating. This technology is still passed down from the Xiliang headquarters.
Come here, it is called floor heating.
It means lying on the ground to dig out a huge cavity, and keeping the heat inside when lighting a fire. In this way, even if the home does not buy quilts and other winter items, it can still rely on burning a fire to stay warm in the cold winter.
As for things to make fires, there is really no shortage in Liangzhou, especially in areas close to mountains. In plain areas, you need to buy some in the market.
The Northwest Yamen has already prepared these things for these civilians. They can obviously rely on their own labor to obtain centimeters and exchange them for these lumber.
These wood are all from the northwest. The remaining wood is used for burning fires or charcoal. It has basically no value, but it is a good deal to use it as an exchange for centimeters.
The civilians in Liangzhou are already preparing for the winter, and the soldiers of the Southwest Army and the coalition forces are in a tense confrontation.
The Xiliang army has been constantly invading the territory of the coalition forces. Basically, there is a small battle every day and a big battle every two days. The fighting between the two sides is not on the main battlefield, but in the armies and defense lines on both sides.
The Xiliang army on both sides was overwhelming, and they rushed directly into the hinterland of the coalition forces. They didn't care about the survival or loss of a place. The Xiliang army basically captured the next city, burned all the supplies in the city, and then turned around and ran away.
There was no direct confrontation with the coalition forces, and coupled with their superior mobility, the coalition army was unable to pursue these Xiliang soldiers and could only watch the other side burn, kill, and loot before escaping.
The walls and various defense facilities in the city were also completely destroyed by the opponent. Even if they wanted to repair the city, they did not have so many resources to rebuild it.
Moreover, even if the city is rebuilt, it will soon fall into the hands of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers again. They are like ghosts, coming and going without a trace.
And over and over again, you have no idea where the opponent will appear, and even one place will be attacked four or five times by them.
Such battles made the soldiers on the coalition side tired of coping. Coupled with the increasingly cold weather, the movements between the armies also became much slower.
In this cold winter, it hasn't snowed yet. Fortunately, after it snows, if the army spends the night outside, it will be impossible to sleep without a stable camp.
Xiliang soldiers did not have so many worries. Their thick armor was enough to protect them from the cold. When the heavy snow fell, they would put on their cloaks.
Each Xiliang headquarters soldier has his own cloak, well, just like the inner armor inside the armor, it is made of the skin of a vicious beast.
It has a very good ability to withstand the cold. When the time comes, it is tied to the body, coupled with gloves and other all-round facilities, even if it snows heavily, the Xiliang headquarters army will move forward.
"My lord, I received news from over there. They predict that heavy snow will fall in eight days."
A soldier came to the big tent and said to Li Xiang: "The first snowfall in winter in Liangzhou will be very heavy, so the monks over there first ask you, my lord, to take back all the troops you sent out to avoid this.
Accident."
"Is it heavy?" Li Xiang stopped writing and looked at the soldiers: "Is it as big as outside the Northwest Pass?"
The soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters said: "The monks didn't say anything, but they said that if we don't take back the army due to the heavy snow, I'm afraid there will be losses.
They also said that this heavy snowfall was different from the heavy snowfall outside the customs, and they did not tell their subordinates the specific differences."
Li Xiang frowned when he heard this, picked up a piece of paper on the side and looked at it for a few times, and then said to the soldier: "Go and call the leader of the monks over to me."
Now there are many soldiers from Xiliang headquarters sent out by him, the number has exceeded 100,000, and eight days is simply not enough to recruit them back.
So he wanted to find out what was the difference between this heavy snow and the heavy snow outside the pass. If it was really huge, this wouldn't be an opportunity for him to defeat the enemy.
The sooner this war ends, the better. He has spent too much time here, spending almost half a year on the land of Liangzhou.
Because the enemy army also has masters at the Grand Master level, he has not had time to return to the northwest and has not seen his relatives for more than half a year.
Not only him, but also the Xiliang soldiers felt this way, especially those who had married families.
It's okay for the soldiers of the headquarters. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Xiliang headquarters, Li Xiang's matter is a big deal. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Seventh and Eighth Legions, they miss their relatives very much, but they also know it very well.
During a war, the military is not a place where you can come and leave whenever you want.
They enjoyed various preferential treatment from Xiliang soldiers, but naturally they also had to pay various obligations, such as fighting with the enemy on the battlefield.
Soon the monks came to Xiang Li's tent.
"Greetings, my lord!" The monk bowed respectfully to Prime Minister Li and said directly without asking Prime Minister Li: "The snow on the ground in Liangzhou is different from the snow outside the customs. This is the first heavy snow with rain mixed with snowflakes.
This means that the temperature will be much colder than outside Guan where it is just snowing.
Because of the raindrops carried in the snowflakes, the rain will fall on the soldiers' armor and clothes. Without a better camp, the soldiers will easily be covered by the rain, and then covered by ice and snow. This will be the end
The whole person will be frozen."
"According to what we have seen from the astronomical phenomena, a heavy snowfall will continue for 4-5 days. After 4-5 days, the earth will be covered with white snow, and a layer of hard ice will be produced.
My lord, you also know that it is very smooth, and it will be very inconvenient for soldiers to move in such an environment."
"That means we won't be able to fight the enemy for a long time?" Li Xiang asked, looking at the monk.
The monk met Li Xiang's gaze and nodded firmly: "According to what we saw, this is indeed the case."
Li Xiang narrowed his eyes: "If you can know this situation, can the enemy also know it?"
"If the other party is a Taoist, you can also make a calculation." The monk said.
Li Xiang thought for a long time, and then said: "What do you think will happen if I take this time to attack them?"
Li Xiang remembered that there was such a sentence in the military book, attack the enemy unprepared and take it by surprise. Since the monks can predict this cold and snowy day, then the people in the enemy's army can naturally predict it.
The other party must have thought that the Xiliang army would not attack them in such clear conditions, but Li Xiang wanted to do the opposite, that is, to launch an attack in such rainy and snowy weather.
Moreover, in rainy and snowy weather, military training outside the other party must return to their own station, otherwise their simple winter clothes will not be able to withstand the rainy and snowy weather.
The clothes, shoes, etc. equipped by Xiliang Headquarters are not enough to support their activities in such weather for too long. The opponent's simple leather armor will definitely have to return to the station to rest.
Therefore, if he launches an attack on the enemy at this time, the success rate will definitely be much higher than when he launches a general attack on the enemy in normal times.
The monk looked at Li Xiang and said: "I don't know whether we can succeed, but if the battle cannot be ended within ten days, many people in our army will definitely lose their lives due to such rain and snow."
"So it's time for you." Li Xiang looked at the monks and said solemnly: "I need you to prepare medicines to keep out the cold. No matter how precious those medicines are, I just need every soldier to have a copy, and
Just within these eight days, I will give you as many supplies as you need within these eight days, but I must prepare all the medicines to keep out the cold."
The monk had a recipe for cold-warming medicine in his hand. Li Xiang knew very well that the Xiliang army also had another thing in his hand that could be used to keep out the cold: "Also, I decided to distribute all the ferocious beast wine among the generals."
These drinks were prepared by Li Xiang to be distributed to the soldiers when the battle was over or before the battle began, so that they could get drunk first and then go to fight.
But since the rain and snow are coming soon, it is better to distribute these drinks first. When the soldiers go to the battlefield, they can drink the beast blood wine to warm their bodies.
This blood wine is made from the blood of ferocious beasts. Drinking it can make people feel hot instantly and is very effective in repelling cold.
When the time comes, coupled with the cold-resistant medicine refined by the monks, it can effectively resist the cold caused by rain and snow.
"My subordinates will go down and prepare." The monks did not dissuade Mr. Li. All they needed to do was to make suggestions. They would complete whatever the Lord decided.
Li Xiang waved his hand to signal the monks to go down. He set his sights on the sand table not far away. This was a sand table built not long ago, and the area where Xiliang and the coalition forces were located was drawn on it.
The battle flags of Xiliang are intertwined with those of the coalition forces. The two sides look like there is me among you, and you among me. However, if you really look carefully, you will find that it is the battle flags of Xiliang that have gone to the coalition forces.
Go over there.
There is a very clear boundary between the two sides. Xiliang's army has obviously crossed the boundary and ran to the hinterland of the coalition. There are more than ten red battle flags at the end of the company, which represent
They are the Xiliang cavalry responsible for cutting off the enemy's logistics.
Now the cavalry is rushing back this way. Cold weather is coming, and the cavalry is no longer suitable for cutting off the enemy's logistics behind the enemy.
If you continue to let them cut off the enemy's logistics routes there, you will let these soldiers die.
So when winter came, I had already asked my men offline to notify the cavalry to come back and prepare to participate in the war on the frontal battlefield.
"There are still eight days left!" Li Xiang stared closely at the main force of the coalition forces confronting him. What was really difficult for the enemy to defeat was the hundreds of thousands of troops in front of Li Xiang.
Fufeng City, a tall city, was like a roadblock, standing in front of Prime Minister Li, blocking the progress of Xiliang's army.
The Xiliang army invaded from both sides and did not enter the area of Fufeng City, because there were also a large number of troops placed on both sides of Fufeng City.
Moreover, behind Fufeng City is the enemy's real command post, and all the high-level officials of the coalition are in the camp behind Fufeng City.
Once Li Xiang attacks Fufeng City with all his strength, the troops in the big camp behind Fufeng City will come out in full force and besiege the Xiliang army attacking Fufeng City from both sides.
They don't need a full-scale Xiliang army, they need to put pressure on Xiliang's main army from both sides, causing the Xiliang army to retreat without attacking.
After all, there are hundreds of thousands of troops around Fufengzheng, plus the troops sent by the high-level sects behind, the total number of both sides is four to five million. With such a huge number, the Xiliang headquarters army must also weigh it carefully.
However, there is a flaw in the enemy's tactics, that is, the army in Fufeng City is far away from the army in the camp behind. The distance between the two sides is about a hundred miles.
The distance of a hundred miles is not that far for cultivators, nor is it too far for cavalry, but this is under normal weather conditions.
If it rains and snows in the sky and a thick and solid piece of ice forms on the grass, will their support be as fast?
At that time, Prime Minister Li only needs to send the 7th and 8th legions to intercept the enemy. He only needs to block them for a period of time to give him enough time to attack Fufeng City.
Thinking that Li Xiang started to fiddle with the battle flag on the sand table, those troops who penetrated deep into the enemy's hinterland could directly attack Fufeng City without returning to the camp.
Launch an attack from both sides, attract the enemy's defenders on both sides, and then lead the main army from the middle to attack Fufeng City. After sending Qian's seventh and eighth legions to go around from both sides, on the small road behind Fufeng City
Build a camp by the stream to stop the enemy.
The weather is so cold that the soldiers of the Seventh and Eighth Legions can use water and mud to build a line of defense on the grassland. The cold weather can quickly freeze the glue of water and mud, turning it into a strong city wall.
Each plan was gradually perfected in Li Xiang's mind, and the war machinery and various siege weapons in his hands were almost ready.
Just as the monk said, the snow is about to fall. If he cannot defeat the enemy and seize this land before the rain and snow ends, then he will have to wait until the next spring.
Otherwise, the entire grassland would be covered in ice and snow. Even if his soldiers were very cold-resistant and could fight in heavy snow, he would still have to take into account the temperature and road conditions.
It is very difficult for the cavalry to walk on the icy road. The cavalry happens to be an important part of the Xiliang army. Without the cavalry, the Xiliang army will lose half of its combat strength.
