In fact, when the army was mobilized again towards Luodu and marched, I found that I was still not considering it.

Nowadays, the biggest trouble and obstacle facing our army is not the Northern Army that is about to encounter and fight, or the front line that may collapse, but the muddy after several days of intermittent rain and snow, which makes us southerners who are already accustomed to trekking suffer all the hardships.

Walking on this soft road, whether it is rubber shoes, high-top hard boots or animal hooves, it is impossible to stick to a large ball of heavy mud, and it takes a lot of effort to move forward.

Moreover, the cold mud accidentally leaks into the gap in the trouser legs, which will make the soles of the feet slippery and weak, and will also coldly take away the remaining body temperature and heat of the legs. Therefore, once you stop and rest, you must be cleaned and baked in time to avoid frostbite and lameness, and maintain the most basic action power in the next step.

Besides, even if the rain stopped and the snow stopped, the wind did not stop, blew on the face, like a knife shattering, as if it was about to peel off a layer of human skin.

This is a completely different experience and experience from my previous trekking in the wet mud of the rainforest. Although most of my soldiers do not lack the spirit and resilience of hard work, they are not so easy to adapt to the cold weather with northern characteristics.

And those temporary recruits were even more miserable. They could only walk barefoot or wear tattered straw sandals, trekking in the shallow mud without feet, and their hands and feet were frozen to the point of being clean and purple.

Only when the straight roads built hundreds of years ago and the remaining hard roadbeds left behind can it roll over the wheels and wheels relatively neatly. Although it is in a plain area known as a crisscrossing plain, there are only a few routes suitable for large-scale assembly and new troops.

These continents have also been overused by high-intensity military operations. In addition, the semi-melt rain and snow have been soaked, and the large and small potholes have become mud and trapped places.

After realizing this problem, I had to send people to demolish some buildings along the way, collect a large amount of boards and logs, and lay the groundwork for temporary passage in some areas that are prone to sinking along the way, so that some more bulky artillery trucks and the like could barely pass by.

Then, shorten the interval of rest batches and increase the frequency of rotation to try to preserve some physical fitness and energy to deal with emergencies. Keep a simple fire cage behind each car, which can be used to bake the body or provide a few mouthfuls of hot water with limited amounts.

But if you go through this, the progress will naturally not be faster, and it is better than the legendary turtle-speed crawling.

Since we were prepared, we were all so difficult to move forward, under the command of the Shuaisi, we were able to imagine what happened to the baggage team and the militia regiments that were transported to the front quickly.

After heading south to Caozhou, the road was full of traces left after the battle. The originally fertile and fertile land was covered with corpses and broken flags and weapons. Before they even had time to clean up and buried them, they were exposed to the cold weather. From a distance, they looked like groups of gray and white sculptures solidified in the wilderness.

Next to the original roadbed, there were some mules and horses that were robbed and cut to the death of blood, as well as various abandoned corpses on the roadside, mainly local villagers and livestock who were frozen and exhausted. Most of the people's bodies, even their thin clothes were pulled out, and only a pair of calves that were better than nothing were left.

Obviously, although I have prepared myself, the cold weather in the north has caused more serious and troublesome workloads and overall harm than I expected.

No wonder Shuai Si was so hurrying and he was so anxious and he was so anxious that he had tried to overwhelm all the troops he could catch.

But the more you go east, the more lonely it becomes. Even if you go deeper into the villages and towns on both sides of the road, there are all kinds of news that you have returned without success. The war has consumed all the remaining young and strong laborers in the crowded areas around these roads.

They were either forced to join the Ding Zhuang who was guarding the city by the Northern Army, or they were forcibly conscripted by the Southern Army as hard labor and frozen on the road. The rest were all the elderly, weak, women and children who stayed there waiting to die.

Although I don’t care about the means of pursuing victory, I did not choose any lower limit. I directly arrested those women, children and elderly people to work in front of the army. This is not only of no use to our morale, but also a big burden to drag down.

Thinking about this, the mount under my crotch made a whine sound, and I applied a hand to the horse's hair, but my sweat was cold and my muscles were hard. It seemed that the horse's power was already a little unbearable.

Now my mount has been replaced by the fifth generation grizzly panda. Because the Red Tiger IX, as the ex-girlfriend, was frightened for some reason when crossing the Yellow River, and suddenly broke free from the shackles, jumped into the water from the boat, and was washed away and disappeared.

Of course, this incident was rumored that I used my mount to sacrifice to the Dragon King of the Yellow River in exchange for the calmness of the return journey.

After walking slowly along the road, patrolling the marching soldiers, asking and inspecting their basic equipment and mental outlook, I then sucked my frozen hand armor and couldn't wait to get into the ready-made car.

The inside and outside of the car are like two different heavens. After the cold wind blows, the warm and comfortable feeling suddenly comes to my face, and I can't help but exclaim.

Although the appearance of this carriage is not much different from other military vehicles, it has a unique inside. In a small structure, it has a very compact and exquisite furnishings.

The wall panels are covered with thick Songjiang cotton, with a whole piece of velvet blanket, folded lamps and tables, fixed closets and drawers, and fur that sits and lies twice. Even the transparent car windows are also a warm mezzanine of double white glazed glass.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. The fixed stove has been cooked to warm up the body and refresh the spirit. After sipping a few sips of brown sugar ginger water, I suddenly felt a hot and spicy feeling from the inside out, which made people feel refreshed.

A hard shell that was originally blown by the cold wind and frozen on the surface of the body is gradually melting away, slowly regaining most of its perception. This is the most basic privilege of being the main general.

In contrast, in the long box truck where ordinary soldiers rest, there were only two rows of bags of seats and a stove for baking and boiling water. However, at least they could put the yam cakes they carried with them on them and bake them for heating. In order to prepare for winter, we carried a lot of firewood, tinder oil and animal fat with our army.

When camp is closed, these long box trucks are connected or stacked with hooks, and they are equipped with muskets and swords and guns, which are some kind of bunker and simple whistle base.

In the sequence of auxiliary troops and scattered soldiers, there is only a caravan and a brazier in the car, which serves as a rotational rest. This type of caravan is covered with a large flat cart with wooden strips and tarpaulin. The temporary modified caravan is like a simple tent that can be moved on the car. Although it has the disadvantages of high counterweight and difficult to maintain balance, it has a place to block the wind and rain.

When marching, the animals are tied behind the car and traction to move slowly. When camping, they are directly squeezed and sleeping on them, and can also separate the moisture from the ground through high-rise wheel hubs.

If a chariot is formed into a small circle, if a large circle is formed in the small circle, mules and horses are surrounded, then flattened sand and stones on a bale, and covered with tarpaulin, it is a temporary stable and storage shed, and then a trench with drainage and defense lines is dug in front of the car, which is surrounded by a circle, which is the basic camp layout, which is much simpler and more convenient.

This bland and dull marching was not until he met the ruins of the empty grain platform in Weicheng, Huazhou, and was re-inspected and excited.

My outpost troops finally encountered sporadic battles and small groups of enemies, but they had no organization or order. In the blank behind this front line, they were busy looting and searching for places.

It was not until I saw the flag of my brigade of men that I was shocked and fled to the distance, or threw down my weapons and took off my armor, scattered around in the countryside, but there was not much decent fighting will.

It is hard to imagine that the Hebei army we fought and pursued before was relied on these people to fight back and defend at least five troops who were surrounded by attacks, and they were defeated.

Is this the standards of our army too high, or is it too weak as an opponent's friendly army? I walked into the defense line of Bianzhou with this kind of question and entanglement, and then met the first enemy army to defend the brigade in Chenqiao Town, on the banks of the Wuzhang River.

Chenqiao Town is yes, it is another time and space. The Chenqiao Town, which was built with the old man from the Zhao family, was only one of the grain platform strongholds along the route that was originally crushed by the water transportation. It was surrounded by wooden trenches and two meters high exterior walls, which were strictly surrounded.

Many flags and figures of the Northern Army were looking at us on it.
Chapter completed!