After drinking Wei Cui's bowl of wine, Niu Han and the children of the six counties were all excited. In the past month, the Wei army had retreated and did not fight, but now the situation changed, the front line had been lengthened, and it was their turn to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry and cut off the Wei army's food and fodder.

However, the Hu Qi Camp led by him waited on the main road from Wuling to Mei County for several consecutive days. The ambushers who transported fake grains were often tempted by Longyou cavalry, but they immediately formed four martial arts formations with big chariots to resist. After finally paying their lives, they repel the Wei army. They poked the grain chariots with a knife, but found that there was only fodder in the sack and no food.

Niu Han suddenly became very surprised: "The Wei army all used fake grain to lure me on this road. How did those real grains be transported to Mei County? The Mei warehouse has been burned, and tens of thousands of troops can't just chew ice cubes to live?"

It was only slowly clear that the Wei army was actually relying on Chengguo Canal to transport grain...

Niu Han felt incredible: "There are ice and snow, the Wei River and the ditches are frozen hard, and the canal ships are difficult to move. How can the Wei army still transport water?"

With doubts, Niu Han ventured over the Wei army's defense line, approached the Wei River, and lay on a snow-covered plateau, and then he understood the whole story.

The Chengguo Canal is narrow and small. It is often frozen strongly in the twelfth lunar month, and there is no fluctuation, and the surface is quite smooth. However, the Wei army's ration team was walking in the ditches, and the food transport was no longer ordinary carriages, but it was pulled by cattle and horses, which was actually a strange carriage.

Its shape is like a boat, with both ends slightly raised, very similar to the "sled" invented by Dayu in the legend, but it is much larger. It is nailed on a cross bar and a pillar, and made into a carriage with a shaft and a bottom, but no wheel hub. It is driven by a cow or a horse, and it is like flying on the ice. The cow and horse are also wrapped in velvet skin and nailed with iron palms to avoid stuttering.

According to the captured civil servants, "This is a thing made by the King of Wei in the New Qin Dynasty, called it a 'sledge'. Last month, he cut down Ganquan Mountain and Shaoliang Mountain trees, and ordered the craftsmen of Shaofu to build thousands of chariots."

For this winter battle, Wulings have not made any preparations this month. The fifth reunion took out the sled invented in the New Qinzhong again. This year, there are so many snow and heavy, and the ravines are covered with ice and snow. The sledges are moving forward on the ditches or rivers, and the speed is much faster than that of a carriage.

Chengguoqu passes through Wugong from Changling, the old family of the fifth reunion, and leads to Mei County, like a highway connecting Weibei and Youfufeng, making grain transportation smooth.

Niu Han was a little stunned when he counted the sledges, and there were dozens of cyclists, each of which was two, one driving a car, and one holding a soldier guarding him. There were also soldiers and soldiers advancing westward beside the ditches.

He asked someone to attack him, and the food transport soldiers were obviously trained. They immediately protected the cart and retreated to the ice. If the cavalry dared to go up, they would lose their mobility.

And even more, the Wei soldiers heard the news and began to circumvent the back. Niu Han went deeper and had to take his men back.

Niu Han immediately rushed to Chen Cang and reported the latest situation to Wei Cui: "General Baihu, the fifth reunion has the benefits of achieving national canals and sleds. The Wei army may be able to spend the winter calmly in Mei County, Wugong and other places!"

Their plan to make the fifth reunion suffer from the hardships of the world is probably going to fail. In fact, Wei still overestimated the logistics capabilities of the fifth reunion. At most, he sent food for ten days and half a month to the front line, which seemed to be difficult to last for a long time.

But in Wei's heart, once it is delayed to spring, the fifth reunion will be more unscrupulous to dispatch manpower westwards, and the Wei River can sail ships and carry a larger capacity. In contrast, Longyou can only eat the food from Chencangyong land. The reinforcements promised by Wei Xiang must cross Longban before they can come. Fighting a protracted war is definitely not the opponent of the fifth reunion.

Therefore, when Wei Cui and Niu Han learned that the army of the fifth reunification had left Mei County and headed west, they were delighted.

"The fifth reunion will win, and eagerly move westward is a rare opportunity."

Two choices are placed in front of Wei Cui: should we disperse the soldiers, stick to Chencang and Yongxian, and maintain the fifth relationship for a long time; or should we concentrate our troops and fight against them?

Wang Zun, a great surnamed of Baling, quickly suggested: "It is better to let General Niu lead the cavalry to retreat slightly, and General Baihu and I lead the infantry to defend the city, Chencang and Yong County 5,000 people each. The fifth reunion is less than ten thousand soldiers and is difficult to capture, while the cavalry can attack from all directions and cut off the rear route of the food road. If there is less than ten days, the Wei army will be defeated and retreated. At that time, the defeated soldiers will be pursued and you will be able to win a great victory."

Niu Han felt that this strategy was inappropriate: "Since the Wei army had a sled and used the Wei River to transport grain, it would be difficult to cut off and would be easily ambushed by it. It would be better to take advantage of its first arrival and not gain a stable foothold!"

Wang Zun thought it would be better to be more secure: "The fifth army has many soldiers, and the soldiers are promoted to the civilians. There may be a total of 50,000 people, which is far better than me!"

Niu Han said: "The Fifth Reun Army is mostly a small soldier from Hongmen who temporarily drew tenant farmers. I have a good family in six counties. It's no problem to be one and five, let alone one to fight three?"

When they learned that the direction of the fifth reign's march was not protected by the water and the city was high and the depth of the pond, but the ancient capital of Yong County, Qin State, Wei Cui understood that his side had no choice.

"The fifth relationship must be to take Yong County first, then go north along the Li River, send troops nearby to rescue Geng Yan, work with him to completely cut off my retreat!"

My nephew Wei Xiang was right. The fifth organs were all calculated and he really wanted to wipe out his side from Youfufeng.

Wei Cui knocked down the bronze figurines on the map and selected the battlefield that was most suitable for the Liang family in Longyou.

"At the foot of Qishan, Zhou Yuan, fight to the death!"

...

"This is a really amazing project for Cheng Guoqu."

These geniuses of the fifth reunion deeply understand the beauty of the ditch in front of their hometown. They are as sweet springs that cross two counties and irrigate tens of thousands of hectares of land. When they were paired with sledges in war, they became a highway for transporting food and food. Looking back on the scene of fighting for water with the seventh house on the side of the canal, I feel a lot of emotion.

Finally, he complained about the major projects of Chengguoqu and other Hanwu: "Someone wrote about Linyuan and Yanggong, but why did no one write about "Chengguoqufu"?"

Wang Long was frequently asked for manuscripts by the fifth republic of the fifth republic, and he burned a coupon for him. He also wrote a "Rebel Yang Fu" based on the Wei army's expulsion of the noble Yang in the forest. He became a royal literati. Now, when he suddenly heard the King of Wei's words, his face couldn't help but feel bitter. Even though he was quick-witted, he couldn't help but feel a little painful.

Fortunately, Di Wulun did not force Wang Long to stay up late again, and said with a smile: "Forget it, wait until I expand the ditches later, so that she can go west and extend to the foot of Qishan Mountain and connect with Weishui before talking about it."

Although it was just a casual mention, when the army arrived near Qishan, looking at the land, Diwulun felt that if it was not built for water conservancy and irrigation, Zhouyuan would probably be abandoned this time.

He remembered that there was a saying in Yang Xiong's teaching "Daya. Mian": "Zhou Yuan's roe (wǔ), vine (jǐn) is as sweet as she is. It means: Zhou Yuan is so fertile, and the bitter vegetables in the company's roe are sweet.

The birthplace of the Zhou people in the Book of Songs is described as extremely beautiful, with lush grass and trees, deserted plains, rivers and towering mountains. In the fifth imagination, it should be a lush place. Even in winter, the forests should be densely packed on the north side of Qi Mountain.

However, after arriving here, we saw not the beautiful Zhouyuan, but a slightly desolate wilderness. Many lands were abandoned due to lack of irrigation, and even the wheat was not planted. The trees in Qishan had long been cut down, as if they had been shaved and bald.

Thinking about it, more than a thousand years have passed since the Zhou people moved here, and the soil is not as fertile as before. The huge population's huge demand for firewood has caused the axe to frequently enter the mountains and forests regardless of the time limit.

"You shouldn't hear Feng Ming anymore on this Qishan?"

Today in Zhouyuan is tomorrow in Weibei. Guanzhong is still the most developed and most yield per mu in the world, but the ecology here is also unbearable.

But even this vast plateau that was lonely and withered in winter was also a ready-made battlefield. The Wei army had few cavalry. After experiencing the thunder of the Yueqi Camp, it was no longer a separate construction battle, but was distributed to each army to do scouts. Now that the army is moving, it is scattered around for dozens of miles, and once it encounters an enemy, it can be rewarded immediately.

"The king, the vanguard was thirty miles away from the west. He saw the Long Army's troops chasing him, and his scouts were chasing each other and were killed or injured in the battle!"

It is said that there were deaths and injuries between each other, but in fact, the Wei army scouts suffered a lot. Even the Yueqi camp was worse than the good family who had been playing hunting on horseback since childhood.

Wu Lun immediately sent someone to summon Jingdan and Wan Xiu came to discuss countermeasures with the two generals: "In order to lure Long soldiers, our army first led the seventh Biao to pursue the battle rashly and was frustrated, and deliberately left the city walls. He came here in Zhouyuan and made a statement of helping Bo Zhao. Now Wei has indeed come to the trap."

Wan Xiu made a little remark about the Fifth Reun leaving Mei County with the army. If there is any mistake, it will make a big mistake.

But the fifth reunion even smiled at the two generals on the grounds of inspiring the morale of the army: "Don't worry, try your best to fight. Even if you lose, Yu can afford to lose."

At this moment, Wan Huo only calculated the strength of both sides: "The more civilians and men are miscellaneous, the better, so ten thousand civilians stay in the rear. Our army now has 40,000 people, of which 25,000 old soldiers, new soldiers, and 15,000 militiamen."

"The surrendered people confessed that the enemy had about 18,000, or there were any intrusions, and the cavalry would not exceed 5,000, and the rest were mostly accompanied by powerful disciples."

Although the five thousand cavalry are mainly light cavalry, they are also very terrifying numbers. They are not "horse-riding infantry" who became monks halfway through, but are good families who have been riding horses in the mountains and grasslands on Longyou since childhood. In the past two hundred years, they can even compete with the Huns with few enemies and compete with each other.

Wan Feng is not very confident about such an enemy.

Fortunately, there is a guy in the Fifth Reunification Army who claims to be "good at defeating cavalry".

During the previous military discussion, Jing Dan supported the adventure of the Fifth Reunion and proposed many tricks to deal with the enemy cavalry.

"I was in Shanggu and once fought with General Geng and the Huns and Wuhuan. There were Youzhou cavalry in the local area, so we could ride to control cavalry. Even our army could use Shangjun and Xihe horses, but the cavalry could not be trained in a year or two. The strategy of using this battle was to use foot to control cavalry and chariots to control cavalry."

More than a month ago, Song Hong, Shaofu, was ordered to prepare for Jingdan's "carrying with chariots" and "stepping with stairs". Shaofu, Shuiheng's staff worked overtime, carpenters, wheelers, and carmakers not only made sledges, but also made a batch of chariots that could be used as supplies trucks and unloaded grains as well as Wugang's vehicles.

The metallurgists made a batch of weapons specially prepared for the Longyou cavalry and delivered them to the old soldiers for training. During the inspection of the fifth reunion, they also came up with some ideas.

Today they finally had a chance to come in handy, and Jing Dan was even a little excited.

"Zhouyuan seems flat, but the snow in some places is two feet deep, which is not conducive to the cavalry. If they attack rashly, once the horse's hooves fall into it, they can only get off the horse and fight in the field. Therefore, they should find a place where there is snow to camp and set up a formation."

The fifth reun nodded: "According to the front, the left wing is handed over to Jun You, and the right wing is handed over to Sun Qing!"

"As for this king, I will still be in charge of the army himself!"

Just as Wan and Jing were ordered to return to the battlefield, another scout came back hurriedly to report.

"King, the vanguard of the Long Army marched towards our army!"

A few miles away, a huge army appeared at the end of Zhouyuan. You can hear the rumbling war drums of the enemy. Tens of thousands of black horse hooves trampled on the white snow and slowly walked towards the Wei army that had not yet completed the array.

They were all wearing armor of different colors, holding flags or spears and halberds in their hands, with different styles, carrying bows and crossbows on their backs, and the number of stones was uneven. The front row horses were fully armed like the owner, and were equipped with many bearings.

This is the cavalry of the good family. From horses to armored soldiers, each of them was privately funded. The horses in the west and the ankle in the east were supported by the manors in the family. These people were like the knight class of the Han Dynasty, followed by one or two servants and auxiliary soldiers. Two thousand good family and three thousand servants formed the main force of the Long Army.

As for the 16 powerful families and the disciples of the Weinan family, they have not been seen yet because they were left behind by cavalry.

On the other hand, all the big head soldiers of the fifth reunion were originally cannon fodders from Wang Mang to send to the south, but by chance, they followed the fifth reunion and embarked on a path to change their destiny.

Half a year ago, they were once a broken soldier who could not support the wall and were almost destroyed in Chang'an City. But after six months of wars in Hedong, Weishui and Tongyuan, the survivors were tempered from slag into iron. Today, even if they saw the highly oppressive cavalry array of Longyou Army, they could still hold the weapons, listen to the orders of the soldiers, and push the Wugang chariot to line up calmly.

They believed from the bottom of their heart that as long as the King of Wei is here, they will win!

With a long horn, the Liang family of Liujun started to move. Before the fifth formation was completed, they were about to launch a tentative attack!

A cavalry of thousands of people rushed towards the edge of the right wing of the Wei army from leaving the array. The horse's hooves sped past, splashing snow mud, and the whole Zhouyuan seemed to begin to tremble slightly.
Chapter completed!