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Chapter 630: Heavy Snow Blocks the Road

"Don't let me catch these ghosts, otherwise I will strip them alive!" Li Daozong jumped off his horse with anger, shook off his helmet and cursed while walking.

"Haha, the more angry you are, the more you fall into the trap of the other party. This man is quite cunning. Knowing that we are very cautious, he uses this method to induce us to be angry, and even let us take the initiative to attack, thus revealing flaws. You must not be fooled by this!" Seeing Li Daozong's angry look, Tang Jian, who was sitting opposite Li Xiu, said with a smile.

It was getting late, and Tang Jian happened to come to Li Xiu's place for a meal today. As for Li Daozong, there is no need to say anything. He was too lazy to find any reason. He would come to Li Xiu's place for a meal almost every night after setting up camp. Speaking of which, he was very hard-working, because when marching, he was responsible for leading the cavalry to patrol outside, which can be said to be the first line of defense of the army.

"This Yi Man is really bold. He obviously has no strength, but he still dares to provoke our Tang Dynasty. Do they really don't know how to write the word "death"?" Li Xiu also spoke to himself at this time.

Last time, Yi Nan led Xue Yantuo's cavalry to test the reaction of the Tang army. Li Xiu originally thought that the other party would not dare to come back after retreating, but he did not expect that Yi Nan did not give up. Although the main army retreated, he sent a lot of raids to peep around Li Xiu and the others. Li Daozong had caught several of them. At first, he interrogated them, but later they tied them directly to the rope and dragged them to death with a horse. But even so, Yi Nan still did not stop inquiring about the situation of the Tang army.

"This makes people feel inadequate and swallow an elephant, or it makes a villain successful and does not know his own weight!" Tang Jian replied to Li Xiu with a smile. At the same time, Li Daozong also sat over, then picked up the teapot and fed it.

"The villain succeeds? This description is very appropriate. Xue Yantuo's strength was not strong at first. Later, he defeated Jie Li several times and received funding from our Tang Dynasty. This made his strength soar. Now that the Turks have been destroyed, Xue Yantuo has become the largest force on the grassland. It seems that Yi Nan's ambition has also soared, and he even wants to keep our army so that he can unify the grassland more smoothly!" Li Xiu heard Tang Jian's description, and immediately said with a sudden expression.

"That's it, but from my perspective, although Yi Nan has ambitions and certain strength, he is too impatient. If I were him, he would definitely not have had a fight with our Tang Dynasty now. Instead, he would have to be more respectful to avoid the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, and then secretly work hard to unify the grassland. Only when his strength really grows can he be qualified to challenge the Tang Dynasty. However, his actions are too impatient now, and he does not even have this patience. It is probably difficult for great things to happen in the future!" Li Daozong finally finished drinking the tea in one breath, and then expressed his opinion.

"Haha, it seems that you have a clear understanding of Rencheng King. Since that's the case, there is no need to be angry about Xue Yantuo's small actions. When our army retreats, there are ways to cure this man!" Tang Jian couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Daozong's words. Although Li Daozong was young, he could be valued by Li Shimin, and his talents were not comparable to ordinary people.

"I understand the truth, but because of the emergence of these racquets, our army's speed has slowed down significantly. God seems to be unable to get along with us. It is gloomy every day. If there is really heavy snow, we will probably be blocked on the grassland!" Li Daozong frowned again at this time.

Hearing Li Daozong's words, Li Xiu and Tang Jian also frowned together. Indeed, slowing down the marching speed was the greatest impact on them, because Xue Yantuo's cavalry was appearing around, and the Yi Nan's army was probably around, which made Li Jing dare not rush to the full speed. He was always on guard against Xue Yantuo's army's sneak attack, and the speed suddenly slowed down. For example, according to the original plan, they should be not far from Dingxiang now, but in fact they were still three or four days away.

"This is a problem. I suspect that the man in the Yi Man probably just wants to slow down our marching speed. It will be even more difficult for us to withdraw from the grassland until it snows heavily!" Li Xiu took a long time before he slowly breathed out.

"Don't worry too much. Anyway, we only have three or four days left to Dingxiang. As long as we lasted for a few more days, even if we arrived at Dingxiang, he would not dare to chase him even if we borrowed the courage of Yi Nan." Tang Jian turned his head and looked at the sky outside the tent. He said, but when he was saying these words, he himself had no confidence.

That night, when Li Xiu was sleeping soundly, he was suddenly awakened by the howling wind outside. Speaking of which, since he arrived at the grassland, the wind on the grassland has almost never stopped, but the wind was particularly strong tonight. Whenever the wind blows, it will be filled with a long whistle, and the tent is blown "huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The strong wind lasted for the middle of the night. When Li Xiu woke up the next day, he found that the sky was even more cloudy outside. There was no light in the morning. The sky was covered with clouds. It seemed that it might snow at any time, and it was absolutely impossible to be a light snow. This also made the army very anxious and rushed to speed up the road, hoping to leave the grassland before it snowed.

However, the God on the grassland didn't seem to give Tang Jun a lot of face. In the afternoon, heavy snow like goose feathers fell from the sky. At first, he could barely move forward, but later the snow was too heavy, and there was a strong wind. The cold snowflakes were sucked on his face by the strong wind, which was cold and painful, and the horses couldn't even open their eyes.

Faced with this situation, Li Jing had to order a camp to set up a camp. Although Li Xiu was on the sled, he felt it was difficult to move forward. Finally, when he received the news of the camp, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then the guards around him immediately began to build tents. However, because the wind was too strong, it was difficult to tie up the tent, and even the tent was blown away by the strong wind. Finally, Li Xiu saw that there was insufficient manpower, so he simply came down to build a tent with the guards. As a result, he barely set up the tent when it was dark.

"Master, have a cup of tea to warm your body!" Yuechan also helped to boil a large pot of water, and added the tea to Li Xiu and his guards one by one. She had just set up camp in the wind and snow, and Li Xiu and the others were trembling all over. At this time, they were holding the tea and drinking hard. After a while, they felt warm.

When Li Xiu returned to his tent, Yue Chan changed him to a soaked snow coat inside and frozen outside, and then cooked a pot of lean meat porridge. Li Daozong did not come today, probably was busy relocating his brothers. Li Xiu was also hungry and drank most of the pot of porridge in one breath. Of course, the pot was not big. It was originally something Yue Chan usually cooked for him alone, and it usually just enough for him and Yue Chan to eat.

With something in his stomach, Li Xiu felt much better. However, when he saw the snowflakes coming through the gap in the tent, he also showed a sad look on his face. Now they are at least three days away from Dingxiang, but they are blocked by such heavy snow. If the snow falls one night, they may really be trapped on this grassland.

Li Xiu's worries finally became a reality. The heavy snow fell all night. The next morning, although the snow was much smaller, there were still scattered snowflakes. The snow on the ground was no longer over the chest. Li Xiu's tent door was blocked by snow. In the end, the early guard dug open the tent door, which allowed Li Xiu to come out.

The snow was too thick, and the snow in the camp had no time to clear it out, so I could only temporarily dig out roads, with snow on both sides of my chest high. Last night, the guards took turns to work at night, pulling down the snow from the tent from time to time, otherwise the tent would have been crushed by the snow.

When it was so heavy, Li Jing immediately summoned the soldiers in the camp to discuss matters, and even the two idle people, Tang Jian and Li Xiu, invited them. Although Tang Jian was very dissatisfied with Li Jing, the major matters are the priority now, so he gave up his personal grudges.

"Everyone, when you encounter such heavy snow, the road has been blocked. Fortunately, it is not too far from Dingxiang. As long as the road is opened, we can still go back. However, the supplies in the camp may not be enough. The military officer, how much food and grass are there in the camp now?" Li Jing first looked around and finally asked the military officer.

Although Li Xiu was in charge of the material dispatch in the rear, he only transported the materials to the army. There were special military officers in the military camp to manage the distribution of these materials. The military officer in the military camp was Zhang. He used to deal with Li Xiu often. At this time, he immediately stood up and replied: "Report to the general manager, the military supplies were sufficient, enough for the army to spend seven days, but now the roads are blocked, and I am afraid that the passage will not be able to be opened within seven days!"

"Seven days are definitely not possible. With such deep snow, just cleaning the road is a big project, and it may even take more than half a month or even a month. In this way, the food gap is too big!" Zhang Gongjin also frowned and said.

"The gap is indeed a bit big. Starting today, each battalion will hand over all the food, and then the military will distribute it uniformly. Each person will reduce the amount of food, so it should be able to last longer!" Li Jing, when he heard the words of the military officer and Zhang Gongjin, considered it for a moment and immediately ordered that the unified distribution of food and food were also a common method in the military when supplies were scarce. However, Li Xiu frowned when he heard this, because he carried a lot of food himself. Usually Yuechan used this food to cook, and now he had to hand over it.

No one has any objection to Li Jing's decision. After all, everything is the overall situation. You must know that if the food is out of stock, their tens of thousands of troops will starve to death on the grassland. However, at this time, Li Xiu had an idea, and he was hesitant when he wanted to talk to Li Jing on his own initiative.
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