Just two days after Huang Taiji's army retreated, the first snow in Liaodong fell. The snow was not heavy. In recent years, Liaodong has also been affected by drought. If it were still in Longqing and Wanli, the snow would have fallen a few days ago. And one game could stand up to several of the current games.

With this snow, the temperature in Liaodong dropped a lot. Almost overnight, a layer of ice formed on the Great Liao River, but the ice layer was not thick enough to carry people. Half a month later, another heavy snow fell, and at this time, the depth of the snow was more than one foot deep.

Before it was dawn, Batuzarigree wore a thick cotton robe and dragged a small sled to a small courtyard. As soon as she approached the yard, she heard a whimpering howl. As soon as she opened the yard door, a big dog rushed up and put two front paws on Batuzarigree's shoulders, then opened her bloody mouth, spit out her pink tongue, and licked Batuzarigree's face.

"Go! Go! Go! Go! Buck, stop making trouble!" Batuzarigre pushed Buck away with his hand, twisting his face to avoid its big tongue.

More dogs surrounded him, breathing white breath in their mouths, wagging their tails, and circling around Batuzarigre. Seeing that Buck was pushed away, several other dogs also wanted to imitate Buck and pounced on him and licked Batuzarigre.

"Stop making trouble, be honest and ready to eat." Batuzarigre shouted, while his apprentice Zhang Xiaoguang lifted the mat covered by the small sled car, revealing large pieces of whale meat and blubber.

Batuzarrigre was a Khalkha Mongol, a slave to raising dogs. The Zheng family's caravan used trade with the Mongols to exchange for four best snowflake steel knives from his owners, and he, who was the best-selling dog. Then Batuzarrigre became a dog owner of the model army.

From then on, Batuzarigre fell into a honey jar, and he ate full every day, and he was vomiting all kinds of whale meat and sea fish. Sometimes when he fell asleep, he would dream of the hard days he used to be a slave. Every time he had such a dream, he would almost have such an idea in his dream: "It's a pity, it turned out that it was a dream!" When he woke up from such a dream, he often had a long time to make sure that this was not a dream, and then he said with lingering fear and great gratitude: "Fortunately, that was just a dream." His dogs had a good life, each of them was full, round, and their fur was shiny.

Those big dogs that look like wolves are said to have been bought from the savage tribe in the forest further north. These dogs are like those savages wearing deer skin. They are not afraid of the cold, have great strength, and have stupid heads. It is good to use sleds in winter.

It took several years to use these dogs and with sufficient material support, Batuzarigre and his apprentices raised nearly a thousand such dogs. Now it is time to test whether this is worth the investment.

The group of dogs rushed up to eat, humming satisfied while eating. Batuzarigre shook his head. These dogs were stupid, unlike the shepherd dogs he had raised before, who were smart and obedient, and knew how to queue up when eating.

Soon, the dogs had their food. Batuzarigre and his apprentice put bridles on the dogs. The dogs had long been used to eating, and went out to run after they were full. At this time, they all gently asked them to put bridles on and tied sleds on them.

Batuzarrigre and his apprentice caught two sleds and went to the schoolyard. There were already several sleds waiting there. After a while, the other sleds were in place, with a total of thirty sets of sleds, each set of sleds equipped with ten dogs, which could carry three fully armed model soldiers or materials of equivalent weight. Although such an attack was not large in scale, it was also a test of the combat capability of the dog sled team in winter.

The soldiers got on the sled. The sledgemen waved their whips, and one or two sleds left Niuzhuang Fort along the scheduled road and drove into the snowfields in Liaodong.

The sun just came out, and the red sunlight shone on the snow-covered field, which also applied a layer of rouge to the snow, which looked very beautiful. But as the sun rises, the sunlight gradually becomes stronger, and the beautiful snowfield will become white and hurt your eyes. If you look at such a vast snowfield for a long time, snow blindness will easily occur. The soldiers are equipped with goggles made of brown glass, but even so, snow blindness will still occur when watching things in the snow for a long time. Because the goggles made by the Model Army are not actually like polarizers in later generations, which can filter out most of the ultraviolet light, so its effect is actually very limited. Therefore, when on the sled, according to tactical discipline, three people take turns driving the sled. People who are not on the turn must wear eye masks and close their eyes to protect their eyesight.

The sled team first ran along the road by the river, then turned east and bypassed the fortresses used to block the river channel from afar. In normal times, the sledges who built the sledges were moving around, so it was difficult to hide such actions from them. However, after heavy snow, their sledges were not convenient to move in the snow, so the range of their sledges was greatly reduced, which also gave this small sled team the opportunity to avoid their sight.

In the middle of winter, jianmu has also entered a state of winter. Everyone hid in the village and lived a boring life of eating, sleeping, beating their wives. Generally speaking, in such weather, no chaos will happen.

Near Niuzhuang Fort, most of the villages with construction plants are large and have relatively complete walls. This is one of the consequences of a series of harassing activities of the Model Army before. However, in a farther place, beyond the overnight voyage of the Model Army ships at that time, the villages there were not concentrated, nor were there complete walls and defensive facilities. In the Qing Dynasty, these places were relatively safe hinterlands, and these consuming resources were not required, and they would reduce production efficiency. However, what they did not expect was that in winter, due to the existence of dog sleds, the range of activities of the Model Army even exceeded other seasons.

The sled team bypassed the two fortresses on the banks of the Daliao River in the Qing Dynasty, and then stopped to rest in a leeward place. The soldiers set up tents to let themselves and the sled dogs go in to rest, while the battalion commander Yang Wannian, who led the team, took out a map (most of the areas of this map were drawn based on the Liaodong map of the Ming Dynasty, and the accuracy was very problematic, and some were drawn based on the memories of the commanders and fighters of the cavalry units in previous battles.), and compared with the surrounding environment, they determined their position and direction.
Chapter completed!