The dense pine forest is now covered with snow. From a distance, there are snow sculptures of different shapes. The pine canopies of different shapes are now shaped into different shapes by snow. From a distance, it is not easy to tell that this place is actually a large forest.

The snow in the forest seemed much thinner. In some places, because the canopy was too tall and there was no snow. On the ground, the withered grass barley lies on the ground, which was frozen hard. On the fine grass stems, the shiny ice edges shone slightly.

There were more than a hundred men and more than a hundred war horses in the forest. They were all the Thunder Army led by the Emperor of Yongdu City. The former pride of heaven, who was above the top, met an army stronger than them this winter. In the battles, the other party taught them with blood what a real war is.

A total of 500 cavalrymen with one mail ended in one month after leaving the city, the vast majority of them were lost. Now less than 200 people are still struggling to support them. They need to maintain the security of the food route from Yongdu City to Shuanglian City.

Liu Kui sat cross-legged under an old pine tree, chewing jerky that was frozen like a stone. The jerky was marinated very salty, but it could replenish the necessary salt for them. His war horse stood beside him, arching the grass on the ground with his mouth, and then rolled the grass branches into his mouth with a delicious chewing, or the grass roots he pulled out were still a bit juice. This made the horse, who had chewed almost one winter hay grain, very happy, sniffed with satisfaction, and then changed his head to another place to continue arching.

The men in the forest were eating silently. Some people leaned on big trees and hurriedly went to bed so that their physical strength could be recovered quickly. Because in this snowy field, battles could break out at any time. It seemed that the enemy's scouts were everywhere. Sometimes they were teams of ten people, and sometimes, a team of hundreds or even hundreds of people.

If you lack physical strength, you are just kidding your life.

As long as you have some time, you must keep yourself and your war horses full of energy. This is the first thing that the enemy's cavalry have learned since they left Yongdu, although they have learned it at the cost of blood.

The glamorous iron armor of the Thunder Army in the past has long been abandoned by them. That thing is indeed mighty and beautiful. When the two armies face each other head-on and head-on, they can provide enough protection for the soldiers. However, in this snow field, in the battle with the enemy cavalry like a secret sect, it completely lost its function and even became a burden for the soldiers.

Everyone here remembers the scene when they first confronted the enemy's cavalry. At that time, they were all full and met a group of Ming cavalry with only more than 100 people. The first time they met, the Ming army turned around and fled, which made them very happy. The Thunder Army was famous and actually allowed the enemy to flee without fighting.

They naturally chased each other, but after only half an hour, they knew that something was wrong. Their war horses were almost at their limit, but the enemy was still as light as the elves on the snow.

The enemy is not armoured, but they are full of armor. When a war horse carries hundreds of kilograms of things, no matter how strong it is, its physical strength cannot last long.

The pursuit and escape instantly reversed. The escaped thunder army became a crowded Thunder Army. The evil spirits followed and chased the cowards they had previously ridiculed.

Each of his companions was unable to stand up because of the strength of the war horses, and were chased by the Ming army and beaten to death.

In the end, the deputy lieutenant resolutely led a small half of the cavalry to turn around to meet the enemy, and used his life to escape to others to win the time. But there were only about 300 people left in this sentry of 500 people.

In the subsequent battles, the number of people gradually decreased, and half of them were buried in this snowy field forever.

Everyone was confused and didn't know where the way was.

The enemy seemed to be too powerful. Every time they encountered the enemy cavalry, they were not the same as the same horse. It seemed that their opponents were always substituting people, but they were like a wounded lone wolf, facing a cruel tiger in a futile struggle.

No matter how fierce they appear, they cannot hide the fact that they are essentially weak.

They needed to clear out the small groups of Ming troops in this area to ensure that the food could be transported to the Shuanglian City. But the further they went, the more they felt that they were unable to do so. Every time the food team could have a small amount of food delivered to the Shuanglian City, they felt that this was a great victory. But these food was not enough to ensure that the soldiers of the Shuanglian City could eat enough.

Moreover, the enemy's scout teams seemed to be increasing. But they were unlikely to have reinforcements. Yongdu City was very large, and the 50,000 Thunder Army seemed not much to defend Yongdu. Their only purpose was to work hard to defend several acropolis outside, delay the Ming army's actions, earn more time for Yongdu City, enable the emperor to arm more young and strong, and train more qualified soldiers.

But even if this goal is achieved, can Yongdu defend it? Or is the men and generals in the city think so, but Liu Kui and his friends who have been fighting outside the city for more than a month are not so optimistic.

They have fully experienced the power of the enemy.

The Ming army did not launch any powerful attack on the acropolis. It seemed that they could not, but they did not want to. In such weather, it would undoubtedly be difficult to launch a siege in a powerful attack. However, all the current actions made these acropolis outside Yongdu unsustainable. If this continues, these acropolis may not be able to wait for the enemy to attack, and they will all starve to death and freeze to death.

Or the court believed that the Ming army traveled a long distance and the consumption of tens of thousands of troops would make it difficult for them to provide logistics supply, and they would launch fierce wolves on these acropolises. But it was obvious that the Ming army had no intention of doing this at all, and their logistics supply had no problems at all.

In order to defeat the Ming army and win the Yongdu defense city, the court adopted a cruel plan to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. Within a hundred miles of Yongdu, all the people's food was collected, and all the young and strong laborers were driven into the Yongdu city, while the elderly, weak, women and children were abandoned, with the purpose of making the Ming army unable to find a grain of grain outside the Yongdu city, nor a strong laborer for them to use. It was this policy that caused the tragic phenomenon of being deserted within a hundred miles outside the Yongdu city.

The people around Yongdu suffered a great disaster, but the Ming army was not affected much at all. Their logistics supply continued, making this army of tens of thousands more live a good life even if stationed in the snow and ice. On the contrary, the Qin people became increasingly difficult to endure.

Liu Kui sighed, took out a flat iron pot from his arms, pulled the cork on it, took a deep breath, and then slowly poured the liquid inside into his mouth and swallowed it. His lower abdomen seemed to be on fire, and a warm heat spread throughout his body along there.

This was stolen from the Ming army after they killed a Ming army scout. In fact, many of the equipment on some of them were stolen from the killed Ming army scouts.

With a double-layer leather hat with a mask, gloves that exposed most of his fingers, and the wine pot on his hand. After a small sip, he tightly plugged the cork. He had never drunk this wine before. He only needed a small sip to restore the frozen and stiff body to warm up. Fighting in the frozen sky and snow, Liu Kui certainly understood the value of this thing. What scared him was that such a small wine pot was in every Ming soldier they killed.

Some have only half a pot of wine left, some have only a few sips left, and of course, some have only one empty pot left.

The Ming army was able to equip every soldier with such a luxury, which shows that there was no problem with the Ming army's logistics supply. It was still ice and snow everywhere. When the next spring comes, the snow melts and everything revives. The Ming army's logistics supply will be smoother.

Liu Kui, who deeply understood this, had long realized that the strategy of trying to put the Ming army into weakness by dragging down the enemy's supplies had failed.

Putting away the small pot, he took out a small crossbow machine from his arms, which was also a spoil. Unfortunately, after the battle, he only found two crossbow arrows in the snow, one of which was pulled out from the body of his comrades.

The small thing is very meticulously made, but it can instantly reap lives. There is a person's name engraved on the fuselage of this crossbow, which seems to be the owner of the crossbow, and now he is dead.

Liu Kui smiled bitterly. Maybe it won’t take long before he would go with the owner of the crossbow.

He picked up a horse spear at his feet. It was a ten-man patrol team he encountered not long ago. It was different from the Ming army scouts he had encountered before. Each of the team was equipped with this kind of horse spear. Although there were only ten people, he died in this battle for more than twenty to take them down. The horse spear became his own spoil. The combat power of this cavalry scared him, and it was much more powerful than the Ming army scouts they encountered earlier. The chase wind carved at the end of the horse spear made him quietly understand that this was the unit belonging to the Ming people.

What a luxury unit! The horse lance, even in the Thunder Army, is a high-end weapon that only high-level officers can own. In the Ming army, everyone actually has one.

Liu Kui pushed one end of the horse spear to the ground, and slowly used force with the tail of the gun in his hand. He saw the spear slowly bent into an arc. With a buzzing sound, the horse spear returned to its original state.
Chapter completed!