The first snow on the grassland finally fell.

On a dark night with no wind, when I opened the tent the next morning, I found that everything outside was completely white.

Even the temperature has dropped a few degrees.

Many people stamped their feet helplessly, rubbed their hands fiercely, turned around and returned to the tent again.

"It's a bit difficult..." Li Zuoche knocked a helmet of snow from outside the tent, turned it upside down and hung it on a wooden frame, adjusting the size of the flame to prevent the hemp rope straps from burning.

Han Xin is still studying the sand table diagram.

After arriving here, Han Xin immediately had this simple sand table made, with the approximate locations of each unit clearly marked on it.

He is still thinking about how to launch this attack next year?

When should the battle be set?

The Xiongnu had a precedent of sending troops before the snow melted, so they had to be on guard.

In addition, the prisoners captured this time are also a headache.

This place is really too far away from Dahan, so what should we do?

Throughout the winter, the Han troops would not starve to death, freeze to death, or die of thirst even if they stayed here.

But you can't be blind.

But the problem comes again. I have only had feelings about it before, but when you actually come to the grassland, you will truly realize how unfriendly the winter here is.

Now!

Han Xin even sent out scouts to investigate the situation, but it took a lot of courage to make this decision.

"What's so hard to do?" Han Xin, who was frowning, looked at Li Zuoche's behavior and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

There was no other reason. Although he did not leave the tent, Li Zuoche used his helmet to pack snow and boil water, which proved that the snow outside was already very heavy.

"The worst thing has happened..." Li Zuoche spread his hands and looked at the helmet, which was still heating.

Stir it with a chopstick, as if this can make it melt faster.

Not to mention, the helmets equipped by the Han army have now become treasures.

At least you don’t have to have a headache when cooking.

It can boil hot water, cook porridge, and stew meat. It can do everything, and the heating speed is very fast. Although the heat preservation effect is very poor, but in this situation, who cares about these things?

"It's not particularly cold outside yet. I took a look just now. Although the surface has been covered by a layer of snow, there are signs of melting below. The ground is already a little wet, and it looks so good during the day.

The temperature will most likely not drop any further. After today, when you get up again tomorrow morning, the situation outside will have changed."

"It's not much better over there in the mining area. It's all covered in snow, and it will be more difficult to mine coal." Li Zuoche said.

"How do people on the grassland cope with this situation?" Han Xin frowned tightly.

Snow melting is a normal natural phenomenon.

But here, this natural phenomenon brought huge difficulties to Han Xin.

He wanted to send scouts to detect the enemy's movements and improve his intelligence information this winter.

Only by mastering enough intelligence can we make targeted deployments at the beginning of spring next year, so that at the beginning of spring, just like the Xiongnu defeated Donghu, we can win with one blow.

The snow melts during the day, and the sun sets at night, causing the temperature to plummet.

At this temperature, the snow stops melting, and the snow that has melted into water will turn into ice with the help of low temperatures.

In extreme cases, another kind of thing will happen that makes people feel horrible.

For example, a footprint left by a livestock was originally a concave area, and some grass or snow fell into it. After it melted, it quickly turned into ice, and then the snow still covered it.

It looks flat from the outside, but when you step on it, it will sink instantly.

It's not that people or horses can't pull it out, but if it suddenly dents, it can sprain your feet.

In addition, the bottom layer is covered by ice. Although there is snow on top, the snow will become thinner when the wind blows.

Therefore, winter on the grassland is not suitable for military operations. In addition to the low temperature, another big factor is that you may slip and fall if you don't know where to go.

Humans and war horses are relatively fragile in winter. The same force, angle, and position of falling may only cause pain in summer, but can break bones in winter.

The most important thing is that after being covered by snow, you can't see the situation under the snow at all, especially in early winter.

The river has just frozen and the ice is still very thin. If a war horse steps up onto it without realizing it, it will sink in in an instant.

In winter, in the wild or in a river, once you fall into the water, if you can't change clothes immediately and enter the tent to warm up and recover, this person is basically GG.

"Just stay in the tent and sleep. If there is something urgent, then you have to go out with all your strength..." Li Zuoche shook his head. There was nothing anyone could do about this terrible weather and place.

Compared with the Han people, the grassland peoples are even more helpless.

They don't even have horseshoes, so they can't move as long as they can in winter. If they move, a lot of their horses will be scrapped.

Moreover, the scrap rate is extremely high. Basically, more than half of the war horses dispatched will be scrapped. The longer the dispatch time, the higher the scrap rate.

Compared to Han Xin's nervousness, Li Zuoche was quite open-minded.

Seeing that the snow inside the helmet was beginning to melt and the water level was dropping rapidly, I calmly went outside the tent to beat some snow and add it in.

There were a lot of charcoal piles lit in the tent, and there was no need to think about fire prevention or anything else. They were just holes dug in the ground, and the burning started directly.

The temperature inside the entire tent was almost ten to twenty degrees higher than outside, not to mention how comfortable it was.

"Don't think so much. The soldiers have been out for a year. They have been struggling for thousands of miles. Although the intensity of the battle is not high, it still has an impact on the body. It is not easy to find such a piece of land.

It’s a great place, why not take this opportunity to let everyone have a good rest for the winter, and wait until next spring to consider other things.” After Li Zuoche added the snow, he added: “We are like this now, the Huns can only compete with each other.

It's worse for us, at least we don't have to worry about heating."

The heating effect of coal is very good, and there is no need to consider environmental issues these days.

After the snow brought back from outside has melted, the color of the water is still very clear and clear, and it has no taste when drinking.

Coal generates more heat than firewood and takes longer to burn than firewood. The only disadvantage is that it smells pungent when burning.

But this is not a problem. The imperial court has already given guidance, and coal is not allowed to be burned in confined spaces.

There are also standards for burning coal for heating in a tent. For example, if you light a carbon pile as large as a helmet, you must open a hole as thick as an arm on the top of the tent, and you need to regularly check whether the upper exhaust hole is blocked.

To order a carbon pile the size of a pair of breastplates, two holes as thick as an arm would need to be made.

Han Xin ordered five carbon piles here, and naturally there were five calf-sized holes in them. Although some cold wind would get in, it would not make people feel uncomfortable.

As he spoke, Li Zuoche took out a cloth bag from his body, opened the bag roughly, and poured the contents into the helmet.

Then he took out the salt bag from his body, took out a salt block the size of a copper coin and threw it in.

"What did you put in there?" The sharp-eyed Han Xin saw Li Zuoche's unusual behavior. He seemed to have seen salt?

"Salt, and some seized spices..." Li Zuoche smiled slightly and said: "You can come over and have a taste later. These guys are really restless. They have only been here for a few days.
Chapter completed!