Three Kingdoms Eschatology

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When Tuolidu came to Pachael's tribe, almost everyone else arrived.Everyone gathered in the hut of Pachaer, discussing in low voices.The reason why Pachaer summoned them has been spread by gossip.

Pochaer cleared his throat and said, "I'm sure you already know why I summoned you here. But I didn't actually want you to discuss whether to surrender to Liang Guobei's army. It's to discuss a surprise attack to destroy them!"

Everyone was astonished when they heard this, and Tuo Li even broke out in a sweat, thinking that it was fortunate that Lv Bu had advised him to conceal the fact that he had surrendered to Liang Jun, otherwise the sacrificial flag would be chopped off today.

Pachaer began to arrange his own sneak attack plan for everyone.Finally he said: "If this plan is successful, we will eradicate Lu Bu in one fell swoop, and even go south to counterattack Beiming City in Mobei. Maybe this is a god-sent opportunity for me to rise up in the grassland!"

Chapter 353

Tuo Lidu cupped his hands and said to Pachaer: "Khan, my camp is near the camp occupied by the Beifu army, I can go ahead and let the tribe sort out more barracks for the placement of my small army! "

Pachaer patted Tuo Lidu on the shoulder and said: "I was about to arrange for you to do this, but I didn't expect you to come with me and bring it up. Well, you will start one day earlier."

The next day, after Tuo Lidu returned to his tribal camp, he hurried to the Beifu military camp to ask to see Lu Bu in person.After seeing Lu Bu and the others, he hurriedly said: "Qijiedu. Ding Ling's Khan... that Pochaer is actually trying to feign surrender to you..."

After Lu Bu heard this, he laughed loudly, walked over and helped Tuo Lidu up and said, "I already knew about this matter. Since this is the case, we will use our plan and surrender Pachaer and Ding Ling's ministries in one fell swoop. At that time, you will be the leader." One piece of work. But this plan requires you to cooperate with us so much..."

After Tuoli had finished listening, he secretly rejoiced that he had made the right choice.Because before that, he also struggled a lot in his heart, wondering if he needed to fight back, rebelled against Liang again, and jointly attacked Lu Bu with Pochaer.But in the end, he still chose to take refuge in Lu Bu's side.Now it seems that Lu Bu was prepared for this.

Tuo Lidu said to Lu Bu: "I will do everything according to Jiedu's orders!" After that, he was about to get up and leave.But Lu Bu said again: "This plan is a bit risky, so that you don't have to worry about the future, you can arrange your family members in our military camp first."

Tuo Lidu hesitated for a moment, then said cheerfully: "I will send my family to come after I return to the camp."

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After another long night passed, the Ding Ling army, like a long dragon, walked forward in the snow, one foot high and one foot deep.

In the end they arrived near the camp of the Beifu Army.There are nearly [-] of them. Logically, such a large number of troops cannot supply food and grass in such a cold season.

But Pachaer thought that he could finish the opponent in one day, and after the battle, there was still a camp in Tuolidu where he could rest and replenish food.Therefore, the soldiers of the Dingling Army set out on the road with only three days of rations and dried meat.

Pachaer asked these Dingling soldiers to lie in ambush in the snow five miles away from the Beifu military camp.Then he sent someone to send a letter to the Beifu military camp, saying that all the ministries of Dingling were willing to surrender, and now Pochaer has taken the leaders of all the ministries to wait outside the camp to be surrendered.

Lu Bu received the message from Ding Ling's messenger and said with a sneer, "Since you have come to submit to our army, why did you go out of the camp a few miles away to accept the surrender instead of entering the camp to surrender?"

Ding Ling's courier replied, "Without the permission of the Jiedu Envoy, the leaders of our ministries dare not enter the camp rashly."

Just when Messenger Ding Ling thought this plan was in vain, and was about to report back and make another backup plan when he went back, Lu Bu said: "Well, in order to show the sincerity of XX, XX will go out to accept their attachment in person."

Only then did the messenger go happily to return to Pachaer.Pachaer was also ecstatic in his heart, he didn't expect Lu Bu to be fooled so easily, and he didn't even need to use the backup plan.

After an incense stick, more than twenty people galloped towards Pochaer on a sled.Pachaer, more than a dozen tribal leaders, and a small number of guards stood in the snow, waiting for each other.But in fact, everyone holds a dagger hidden in their sleeves.

Lu Bu and Li Su got off the sleigh, and under the guard of more than a hundred personal soldiers, they came towards Pachaer and the others.Pachaer looked at Lu Bu who was getting closer and closer to him, and the palms holding the dagger became more and more sweaty.

But when Lu Bu was still five battles away from him, he stopped suddenly and said in his mouth: "Bachaer, this festival has come here, why don't you come to surrender?".

Pochaer originally planned to attack and kill Lu Bu suddenly when Lu Bu approached him, but now seeing that the opponent has so many soldiers and is so far away, even if he succeeds, he will not escape death.He suddenly shouted: "Do it!", and one of them shot a loud arrow into the air.

Almost at the same time, Pachaer shouted again and retreated, and ran away.The rest of the dozen or so chiefs of Ding Ling's various ministries also fled with him.In the distance, those small ambush soldiers burst out of the snow, waving scimitars and rushing towards this side.

At the same time, Tuo Lidu's dagger was stabbing at Pochaer quietly, and with a pop sound, the dagger pierced into Pochaer's back.After Tuo Li finished stabbing him, he immediately ran far away.

Pachaer felt a sharp pain, pointed at Tuolidu and cursed: "You traitor dog, dare to plot against me." He chased after two steps, then lost his strength and collapsed on the snow.The other leaders of the Dingling tribe and some personal guards carried him and tried to continue to evacuate, but dozens of heavy arrows fell from the sky, and shot down more than [-] of them amidst the screams. Throw it on the ground and disperse in a hurry.

At this time, Ding Lingbing who was ambushing nearby had already rushed over, and one of the tribal leaders met the troops in the headquarters and turned back to kill Lu Bu.

Lu Bu saw the opponent rushing towards him, but he didn't run away. He dodged the opponent's stab with a dodge.There was still a shiny knife in his hand, and he stabbed into the opponent's neck with a backhand, severed the opponent's spine, and his whole body went limp.

Although more than half of the leaders of the Ding Ling Department were killed or injured, nearly ten thousand Ding Ling soldiers had already been killed from all directions.Lu Bu and Li Su, guarded by nearly a hundred personal soldiers, retreated while fighting, and a snow fog rose behind them.Three thousand Liang soldiers came galloping in hundreds of dog sleds.As they approached, they jumped off the sled one after another, charged at Ding Lingjun with shields and guns, and heavy arrows fired from longbows passed over them from time to time.

The Dingling soldiers staggering in the snow were constantly pierced by heavy arrows and fell down in the snow.Before they came into contact with Liang Jun's shield, wall and gun forest, they began to become confused. Tuoli, who had been mixed with them, suddenly attacked them.

Some of the Dingling soldiers who rushed near the shield wall were immediately attacked by intensive spear throwing attacks.Dingling soldiers fell layer by layer in the snow.Under the attack from inside and outside, their morale collapsed within a short while of fighting with Liang Jun soldiers, and they began to turn and flee one after another.After a while, they all collapsed.

On the snow field, there are all running figures of Dingling people.Liang Jun boarded a dog sled here, and chased after the fleeing Dingling people.The sound of dogs barking, fighting, crying and howling sounded endlessly on the snowy field.By the time the sun went down, the battle was finally over.

Liang Jun directly killed more than 5000 Dingling people in this battle, and captured more than a thousand people, including many tribal leaders.The few remaining men were routed, and most of them would freeze to death in the freezing night.

Lu Bu looked at the battlefield full of corpses, and said to the generals around him: "After this battle, the Ding Ling people in the southern part of the North Sea can send a call to surrender."

Chapter 354 The Person Who Doesn't Eat Salt or Grain

In the blink of an eye, it was the early summer of the ninth year of Jian'an.As Lu Bu wished, the Dingling tribes on the east and west banks of the southern Beihai were all subdued.

However, a Dingling force in the northern part of the North Sea kept attacking the Dingling people who belonged to Beifu. It was an alliance composed of many Dingling tribes in the north. in a large forest.

The outsiders saw them as Dinlings, but they called themselves Avenk.They are half-herding and half-hunting. In addition to breeding cattle and horses, they mostly raise reindeer, a livestock that is hardy and can pull carts.And they raised wolves as dogs for hunting and fighting.

In fact, it is not just now that the Avenk people attacked the Dingling people in the southern part of the North Sea, and the two sides would have some small-scale conflicts at the junction of their spheres of influence from time to time in previous years.It's just that since the Dingling ministries in the southern part of Beihai were attached to Beifu, the frequency of such conflicts has suddenly increased, and the intensity has also become greater.

On the west coast of the North Sea, the tribes of Tuolidu are busy in their settlements, and the snow accumulated all winter has almost melted away.They are also going to drive the horses to graze on the pastures piled with hay.

Although the Dingling people at this latitude are nomadic people, due to climate reasons, cattle and horses and other livestock are actually raised in shacks for most of the year, and only three or four months in summer are spent on grasslands.

This is also the reason why the Dingling people have never been able to fight against the Huns and Xianbei in the south in history.Their captive horses are naturally not comparable to the opponent's fine horses.

Tuoli inspected the work of his subordinates in the settlement, and he inspected all this with satisfaction.Since he took refuge in the Beifu army that was attached to Lu Bu, he no longer had to worry about the salt and food in the tribe.

Because of his contributions in the Battle of the North Sea, his tribe was assigned to the best part of the pasture on the west coast of the North Sea.The number of livestock in the tribe's pens is also increasing, and the tribe is becoming more and more populous.

At this moment, a personal guard who hurried to his side ruined his good mood.The man said in a panic: "Khan, it's not good, those Avenk men are here again. It seems that they brought a lot of people with them this time. They have arrived seven miles to the northwest."

Tuo Lidu stared and said: "Don't panic, those guys who raise deer have nothing to be afraid of. In the past, they were also defeated by us..."

Before Tuolidu could finish his sentence, two blood-stained men broke in, one of them still had an arrow stuck in his body, enduring the severe pain, he said intermittently: "Khan, the Avenk attack... They killed several of us. They said that the pasture on the north coast belonged to them. We are not allowed to graze there in the future, otherwise we will be killed once. They also said that our tribe should move out of the camp as soon as possible. Go south!"

Tuoli's lips trembled angrily, and he said angrily, "It's unreasonable, they're making progress. All the warriors of the tribe, get on my horse. I want to see how crazy these Avenk people are!"

Not long after, Tuo Lidu led three or four hundred Dingling warriors to the scene.The other party seemed to have already made preparations, and neither side had any extra words to say, and immediately started fighting after meeting. This is the rule on the grassland.

Tuolidu's war cavalry were superior to the opponent's in terms of quality and quantity, and after a short battle, the Avenk seemed unable to support them.Tuolidu's scimitar slashed across a series of sword lights, beheading three Aiwenk's cavalry in a row.

When he rushed towards the fourth person excitedly, he heard the sound of horns.With the loud sound of horseshoes, another row of war cavalry rose on the northwest skyline, and a support army from Aiwenk arrived. The two cavalry teams in front and behind them combined had more than 800 people.And all the males in the Toritu tribe add up to less than [-] people.

After Tuolidu tried his best to knock down another person, he shouted in panic: "The opponent has too many soldiers and horses, retreat! All retreat!" In a moment, Tuolidu's cavalry receded like a tide, and the opponent's The warriors also rushed in like a tide, and after chasing Tuolidu for a while, they stopped chasing and turned around to collect the livestock that Tuolidu's tribe raised loosely on the grassland.

Tuo Lidu withdrew to the camp with his men and horses, and before he could even catch his breath, he ordered the tribe's people to evacuate urgently.They were so busy that they didn't even take away the tents, so they drove the remaining cattle and sheep, and the carts loaded with luggage moved southwest along the west coast of the North Sea.

They only walked for an hour, and a few huge gray wolves and hounds jumped over the fence of the camp and started sniffing around the camp.Immediately afterwards, there was the noisy sound of the horseshoes of Aiwenk cavalry outside, and nearly two thousand cavalry had swept in like a cloud.

Seeing that the gray wolves and hounds in the camp did not howl or bark in warning, the Avenk rode their horses into the camp one after another, only to realize that the other party had already moved.They whistled at each other and chased after each other...

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Beiming City has changed a lot now, and the city walls have also evolved from the original pure wooden walls to stone walls, and these stone walls are made of glutinous rice paste and clay.

Regular houses have also been built in the city, no longer those temporary shacks half hidden underground.Different from the houses in the Central Plains, these buildings are all stone houses, and the windows are very small, and the walls of the houses are all interlayered.

In winter, the house can also burn charcoal in the interlayer for heating.All houses have basements for winter storage.

At this time, the largest building in the city, the Northern Territory Chief Envoy's Mansion, Tuo Lidu had just seen Lv Bu, so he knelt down in front of Lv Bu, and wanted to tell him about the Avenk attack on his tribe.

Lu Bu walked up to Tuolidu slowly, grabbed him by the shoulder, lifted him up abruptly, and said at the same time: "Tuolidu, don't be so polite, get up and talk. Have you been attacked by the Avenk people?" .”

Tuo Lidu was surprised and said: "So Jiedu already knew? Please Jiedu send troops to subjugate the Avenk people, and be the master of our department."

Lu Bu nodded and said, "That's right, I know about this, because before you, several people have come to report to this festival that their tribe has suffered the same attack. But..."

Lv Bu paused, and continued: "However, it is best to plan to attack the army. It is the best policy to subdue the enemy without fighting. It would be the best if some means can be used to subdue these tribes. I think that the food and salt roads of these people must be They will pass through the area around Beihai, and import grain and sea salt from the east of Xianbei Mountain, so as long as your Dingling and other ministries block the trade routes, and the Beifu will come forward to lure them with salt and grain, then they should be able to surrender."

After Tuo Lidu heard this, he immediately said with anxiety on his face: "But Jiedu doesn't know, the Avenk people don't eat salt or grain."

Now it was Lu Bu's turn to be surprised. He had never heard of anyone who didn't eat salt or grain.

Chapter 355 Wolf and Dog

"It is possible without food, but without salt, people will become swollen, lose strength, and eventually die due to lack of salt. How is this possible?" Lu Bu's Tuo Lidu questioned.

Tuo Lidu immediately explained: "Jiedu doesn't know something. This Aiwenke is half-herding and half-hunting on weekdays. He spends most of the time hunting in the mountains and old forests in the northern part of the North Sea every year, and the other half of the time nomadic in the grasslands at the foot of the mountains. He is very different from the world. Although outsiders also regard them as Ding Ling people, in fact we Ding Ling people seldom trade with them. Therefore, they are actually isolated from the world, and naturally they cannot obtain salt and food. But where they have fish Hunting resources are abundant, and on weekdays they eat venison, fish, and wild fruits and vegetables collected and excavated in the mountains and forests. As for salt, as far as I know, they rely on eating and drinking deer blood to supplement the salt needed by their bodies."

Lu Bu nodded and said: "So that's the case. It seems that this method of not fighting the subdued soldiers will not work." Lu Bu meditated for a while, and said to Tuo Lidu: "You should settle down in Beiming City first. Come down, I will immediately meet with the generals to discuss the Northern Expedition to Ewenk, as well as Yakuk, Tungus, and Ewenki tribes and tribes who are also in the north of the North Sea. I hope this time, we can go all out and reach the North Sea of ​​Darkness.”

"Northern Sea of ​​Darkness!" Tuoli exclaimed after hearing this, and then he changed his tone and said, "This Northern Sea of ​​Darkness, even people who have lived in the North Sea for a long time have only heard of it, and only know that it is there all year round. Ice and snow. The sun can’t be seen in winter, and the sun never sets in summer, but it’s always only one pole high. According to the elders, there is at least three thousand miles away from the northernmost end of the North Sea. There is boundless permafrost snowfield in between. Jiedu What are you going to do in that bitter cold place?"

"Because this is King Liang's entrustment!"

The meeting convened by Lu Bu quickly made a decision, and Tuo Lidu sent an order to order the Dingling ministries around the North Sea to gather on the northwestern coast of the North Sea and stand by.Across the vast North Sea, it was impossible to complete this task in a short period of time before, but with the support of the Beifu Viking fleet, it is not a problem to accomplish this.

Lu Bu and Pang Tong came after them with three thousand cavalry.In Beiming City, only Li Su and two thousand soldiers were left to guard Beiming City.

When they arrived at the northernmost end of the North Sea.Tuo Lidu has completed Lu Bu's order, built a camp here, gathered nearly [-] Ding Ling Zhan cavalry, and began to use Viking ships, Ding Ling people's traditional big wheel carts to accumulate supplies.Lu Bu sent a large group of Liang Jun scouts every day, and Ding Lingyou rode around to investigate the movements of the Avenk people.

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At the edge of the border between the grassland and the forest, several people wearing fur robes and fur hats rushed out on horseback. Their fur robes and fur hats were rough in workmanship, looked dirty, and exuded the fishy smell of animals.You can tell at a glance that it is a product of simple manual processing.Behind them were several big gray dogs with huge bodies.

These big dogs bared their teeth, and their brown and green eyes cast fierce glances from time to time. It turned out that they were not dogs, but domesticated wolves.These people are the Avenk scouting force.

One person suddenly noticed a black shadow slipping across the ground, and he immediately looked up to the sky vigilantly, only to see a bald-headed falcon hovering in the sky.The man immediately took off the bow on the horse's back, drew the hard bow to the full, and shot a strong arrow into the sky.

There was only a long howling of an eagle, and the bald-headed falcon had fallen from the sky like a free fall.Avenk scouts rode over to pick up the prey, but found that the hawk had rings on its claws.

"Someone's nearby!" he exclaimed to the two companions beside him.As soon as the words fell, the sound of arrows piercing through the air and the sound of dogs barking could be heard.A heavy arrow passed over his head and shot at one of his companions, and the heavy arrow penetrated his companion's body in the blink of an eye.

"How is it possible!" The Avenk scout screamed in his heart, he didn't know what he saw in detail, because there was a fine iron armor hidden under his companion's leather robe, which was so easily pierced by arrows And pass.

Immediately afterwards, several bulldogs sprang out, and the tame wolf of the Avenk immediately went up to meet them, and the two sides immediately bit each other.Those gray wolves mouthed fiercely, but the mountain dogs scouted by Liang Jun fought tenaciously. No matter how hard the opponent struggled to fight back after biting, they would never let go.

A gray wolf's forelimb was bitten by the mountain dog. It bit the opponent's neck and back with its sharp teeth continuously, bleeding the mountain dog's bite, but it still couldn't free its foreleg from the opponent's mouth.In the end, the mountain dog died completely, and the gray wolf took back the severed forelimbs, limped away with its tail between its legs.

The Liang Jun scouts who rushed out also fought with these Avenk people, and the blades made fierce clashing sounds.Then there was the wail of being stabbed. At the end of the battle, only two Liang Jun scouts survived, and one Avenk escaped.But there was another Avenk lying on the ground, dying.

The two Liang Jun scouts put the victim on horseback with difficulty and brought him back to a temporary stronghold.The Liang Jun scouts in this stronghold used some tricks to quickly make the Avenk man tell what Liang Jun wanted alive.

Liang Jun finally found a camp set up by the Avenk people on the grassland, and the information was immediately reported to Liang Jun's general camp at the northern end of Beihai in the form of a fast horse relay.

Lu Bu led a battalion of light cavalry, a battalion of heavy cavalry, and three thousand Dingling warrior cavalry immediately dispatched and rushed towards the target.Lu Bu decided to launch a surprise attack on the Avenk people as quickly as possible, so all he used were cavalry.

From a distance, Lu Bu saw the scattered tents on the grassland, which must be the camp of the Avenk people.He raised his arm high and waved it in the air a few times, and the riders immediately whipped their horses and ran towards the target at a faster speed.But to Lu Bu's surprise, there was no reaction in the camp, and when he looked carefully, there was no one at all.

Lu Bu murmured in his heart: "There is no fraud in this." But Lu Bu quickly dispelled this doubt, he now has 4000 troops, even if there is fraud, it is a matter of soldiers coming to block the water and flood the earth.

Four thousand cavalry rushed into the camp quickly, and the cavalry drove their horses back and forth in the camp, using long spears and knives to lift up the tent curtains, only to find that there were no people, no livestock, and no carts and luggage in the camp. , this is completely empty camp.

Lu Bu immediately ordered loudly: "The whole army is on alert, beware of the enemy's ambush." ​​The cavalry formation immediately changed into a defensive formation, but after waiting for a long time, no enemy ambush was found.

At this time, a few Dingling people escorted a man in a ragged leather jacket and an old fur hat and walked over.One of them reported "Qi Jiedu, we have caught a living!"

Lu Bu asked the man unhurriedly, "Tell me, where are your people going now?"

Chapter 356

The Avenk man opposite Lu Bu lowered his eyes slightly and remained silent.Lu Bu winked, and the soldier next to him drew out his weapon and put it on his opponent's neck. "Don't tell me, your head will fall to the ground the next moment!"

The Avenk man panicked just now, and shouted: "Don't, don't kill me." Lu Bu sneered in his heart: "I thought he was a good guy, but I didn't think he was a coward!"

Under the guidance of this Avenk man, Lu Bu's four thousand cavalry chased northwestward.Almost at the same time, Tuo Lidu also rode five thousand Dingling Zhan cavalry to the northeast, because an Avenk camp was also found there.

Pang Tong, who was guarding the camp, believed that the Avenk people were hard to find, and such a fighter could not be easily given up, so he immediately ordered Tuo Lidu to lead the army to kill them.

After Tuo Lidu left, Pang Tong faintly felt that something was wrong, thinking what to do if the Avenk people led the army to attack at this time.However, when he thought about it again, he was relieved.Because Lu Bu, who was going to the northwest, should return within two hours anyway.

The sun here never rises overhead, it just circles the sky, and when the sun turns to the southern sky, it is noon.

Pang Tong, who was about to eat, suddenly heard the sound of a trumpet. Pang Tong stood up from his chair and said, "No, the northern barbarians are attacking. The Jiedu Envoy must have fallen into the trap! So did a certain one." .” But then he calmed down and calmly began to deploy defenses.

This big camp built on the northern shore of the North Sea is just a temporary camp, not very strong.There is only a low fence around the outside, and it is not winter now, so it is impossible to use ice walls to defend against the enemy.

Groups of Avenk war cavalry quickly rushed towards the camp from all directions.But the war horses of the Avenk people are all short-bred horses raised in captivity.It is not necessarily possible to jump over the low fence.

But he not only has war cavalry, but also many carts pulled by horned deer.Avenk's archer stood on the car.At this time, these archers began to release arrows, and hundreds of arrows shot towards Liang Jun's camp.With the sound of breaking through the air, many arrows shot into the tent.

At this time, the gate of the big camp suddenly opened, and the remaining nearly a thousand Dingling warriors rushed out quickly, breaking through to the northwest corner.Although the strength of the Avenk people is strong, but the opponent concentrates a little bit to break through, and the quality of Dingling's cavalry is much better than that of the Aiwenk people, so before the Awenk people can react, they are laying down dozens of Aiwenk cavalry After the Wenk cavalry, they walked away.

In the distance, a middle-aged man in a white linen robe and a sable tail was standing on a deer cart watching the battle. He was Horsang, the leader of the Avenk people.

Half a year ago, at almost the same time when the Beifu army marched north to the North Sea, he conquered and unified the various tribes distributed on the north shore of the North Sea, west of the northern section of the Xianbei Mountains.There are not only Avenkis, but also Tunguskas, Yakuks, Sakhas, etc.And he was able to unify these tribes because his tribe tamed a mysterious creature.

At this time, Horsang saw the Dingling cavalry break out to the northwest, and the general beside him hurriedly reminded: "Khan, the enemy has broken through, and they must have gone to report to the rest of the enemy for help. Let's take some of them out quickly. Let the troops go after them."

Horsang thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "No need, they can't catch up with the brigade they sent out. Besides, our horses are not as fast as theirs, and we can't catch up even if we want to."

After finishing speaking, he changed his stern face and said: "We only need to take down the camp in front of us and annihilate the infantry inside. Looting those military supplies will defeat the Liang army! Pass my military order, and the whole army will attack. Flatten the enemy camp!"

Horsang's words are reasonable. Lu Bu's army has more than 1 people at this time. With such a large population, it would consume dozens of carts every day for food and grass alone.As long as all the infantry in the camp were killed and the hoarded food and grass were taken away, the remaining cavalry would not be able to supply the supplies in the short term even if they were transported by water.

As long as the Avenk harass them continuously, they will definitely be defeated.Even if Lu Bu's army persisted, in another month or so, summer would pass and the severe cold would descend on this place again.