Luo Shixin took off his mask and gloves, stuffed it into the side pocket next to the saddle, and asked the guard to take the horse away, steaming the frozen hands, hoping to warm up a little, and said, "If you slow down, you will be frozen. Is General Chen sleeping?"

"If you don't come back, is he asleep?" Zhang Huaiwei said: "Hurry, don't stand there, come in and warm up for a while!"

Gloves and masks were originally ordinary things in later generations. However, since the Dasan Pass came out, many soldiers holding spears and shields were frostbite, and Chen Ying instantly thought of gloves.

It’s just a pity that there was no cotton cloth in this era, and gloves sewn with fine linen cloth had a poorer effect in preventing cold. However, once gloves were made with leather, although they were kept warm, they could not keep their fingers flexible.

After several tests, Chen Ying retreated and decided to equip each soldier with two pairs of gloves, one of which was made of two layers of fine linen cloth. Although such gloves were slightly worse in cold resistance, they would not frostbite the soldiers' fingers and would not affect the flexible movement of their fingers.

Whether it is a crossbowman firing arrows or a spear, it has little effect. Leather gloves are mainly used to undertake jobs that do not require flexible fingers, such as holding a shield, driving a snow sled, or sitting on a snow sled.

In such cold weather, even the more cold-resistant Turks could not smoothly open their bows on the horse's back. Even if they barely opened their bows, their hit rate was less than 10% of the usual ones.

Luo Shixin was still wondering what Chen Ying was thinking, and he could even think of such a good way. Recently, he led the Yueqi Knights to confront Turkic Rangers, and the main advantage he took was because of his gloves.

The Turks without gloves almost all their fingers were frozen. Their reaction was more than half a beat than usual. Before they could pull the bow, the cavalry under Luo Shixin had already tilted the arrow rain on their heads. When the Turks reacted, Luo Shixin took the Tang army and the Yue cavalry and ran away.

In such cold weather, the physical energy consumption of war horses is very amazing. The most important thing is that the frozen and hard surface of ice and snow damages the horse's hooves, but Chen Ying has nailed the horse's hooves of the Yue cavalry, so there is no need to worry about these problems.

Therefore, the Turkic people could not beat them, but they could not catch up at all, so they could only vomit blood in depression.

Liang Zan, who was standing beside Chen Ying, found that the superiors on Chen Ying were more powerful. Chen Ying stood in the command car with armor, and the generals standing at the bottom trembled unconsciously. For the Right Guard leading the 18th Regiment of the Four Prefectures, this long march of less than a month was like a passing day.

The eighty miles a day, regardless of the wind and rain, was almost exhausted by the soldiers, but Chen Ying still trained two days a morning and evening, and did not train for half an hour, so he would not be allowed to rush. And the most excessive thing is that as long as any group pulls its hind legs, it will not be able to reach the camp at the specified time, and the food of the entire group of soldiers will be reduced by 30%.

The person who made Gao Yunquan the most incredible was that under Chen Ying's torture, the military soldiers complained about Lian Tian, ​​but no trouble had happened.

The Right Guard led the chief of the emperor and the son-in-law Duan Lun to get cold when he had just left Dasan Pass, so Chen Ying allowed him to rest. He marched along the way, and Chen Ying used Zhang Huaiwei, Zhang Shigui, Yin Yuan to train Xun's Mansion, Yi's Mansion and Yi's Mansion to adopt an almost harsh method to train troops to march on the side. The pain suffered by the soldiers of the entire army can be imagined.

However, without the prince-in-law Duan Lun, the others dared not face Chen Ying. A dense sound of horse hooves sounded, and Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui came together.

"Report to the general, Luo Shixin, and Zhang Shigui's reply!"

"Don't be busy for now. Each of the soldiers of the Yueqi Group adds 4 taels of meat (one quarter pound) and half a pound of wine!" Chen Ying said lightly.

"Mr. Xie!"

The soldiers of the Yue cavalry roared excitedly.

After Luo Shixin's pale face turned rosy and drank three bowls of broth in a row, Chen Ying couldn't wait to look at Luo Shixin and said, "How is it in the north?"

"It's very bad!"

Luo Shixin put down the bowl in his hand, took off his boots, and put his legs on the stove to roast. Zhang Shigui put down the bowl depressedly, and said unhappily: "Is it still possible for people to eat? Your feet have not been washed for years!"

Chen Ying had long been used to Luo Shixin's stinky feet and was not at all uncomfortable. "Have the Turks increased their troops?"

"Yes!" Luo Shixin said: "I broke the three brothers and finally touched the Wild Boar Ridge. Now there are at least 500 Turks in Guangyezhu Ridge, including more than 100 large tents and nearly 400 small tents!"

"Five hundred tents?" Chen Ying was shocked when he heard this.

The Turks' small tents, similar to the Tang army's gang, were composed of ten or twelve people respectively. The large tents were composed of fifty or sixty people. The roughly estimated that there were ten thousand people. The information I received in Chang'an was that the Turks had only five thousand light cavalry stationed in Wild Boar Ridge, and now a few of them have doubled their strength.

If it were five thousand light cavalry, the Right Guard led by Chen Ying led 16 regiments from four mansions and sixteen regiments may not be unable to fight. But at this time, the difference in strength was too big.

Chen Ying asked with luck: "Can it be the Turkic people who are ridiculous?"

"Now in this ghost weather, there is no fire in the tent, which is similar to an ice cellar!" Luo Shixin rubbed his big feet with yellow water and said helplessly: "These thousands of tents are all tents that are occupied by people. The capital of Turkic people is scarce. Now it is cold and the earth is frozen. Each tent is just a few lives. The Turkic people do not have the capital to bluff!"

Chen Ying thought about it, a tent is the main property of the family for ordinary herders. If he loses the tent, he can't even hold on for an hour in this kind of weather.

Luo Shixin said: "The situation in Bogulu City has also been found out. The brother of Turkic Shibi Khan Ashinaduji, Ye Hu Ashinashiliver established a tribe!"

The relaxed expression on Chen Ying's face shone and slowly showed a solemn look: "How many people are there in Shiliver's division?"

"The specific number of people has not been found out!" Luo Shixin said: "There are capable people under Shiliver's command, and Bogulu City is simply inaccessible. However, when the smoke rises, the number of people should not be less than 20,000!"

"Twenty thousand people!" Chen Ying felt extremely overwhelmed when he heard this news. The Turkic soldiers and horses in Wild Boar Ridge and Bogulu City were more than 30,000, which was six times the number of people in the Right Guard's Mansion. Even if the Liang army did not send a single army, these more than 30,000 Turkic people were enough to give Chen Ying a headache.

Although Chen Ying was already in a mess, he was calm on the surface and slowly unfolded the map. Wild Boar Ridge is located thirty miles northwest of Lingwu, while Thin Gulu City Xianglu Road is more than 60 miles south of Lingwu, with a straight line distance of more than 90 miles between them. The ninety miles on the map, if it is the actual distance, is more than 100 miles.

If the Turks in Wild Boar Ridge need to support Bobru City, they can reach the light cavalry for about one hour at Pingyang. However, in the current weather conditions, it will take at least three hours.
Chapter completed!