The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

However, Ye Tianlong understands that not everyone is a born warrior like him and can kill people without blinking in the first battle.

So when facing those ashamed soldiers, he kept calming them down and told them to recover from their injuries first and then learn their lessons and perform well when they go to the battlefield for the second time.

Ye Tianlong also commended those soldiers who performed well in the first battle. For example, He Cheng who killed more than ten enemies in the battle was directly awarded the knighthood and military rank by him. He directly skipped the ranks of corporal and sergeant, and was promoted to staff sergeant in one fell swoop.

After handling these matters, it was already past four o'clock in the night. Ye Tianlong returned to his tent and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

However, he only slept for less than three hours before he was woken up, because at this time the troops were ready to continue setting off.

After a hasty breakfast, Ye Tianlong led a group of cavalry to explore the way ahead.

After yesterday's encounter, Ye Tianlong was much more cautious now. In order to avoid being ambushed by the enemy on the way, he led thousands of cavalry to carefully explore while walking, not missing any place where troops might be hiding.

What makes Ye Tianlong depressed is that although it is a sunny day today with plenty of sunshine, the snow melts very slowly. It was not until noon that less than one-third of the snow melted.

And as the snow melts little by little, the temperature seems to be even lower. Facts have proved that Ye Tianlong's feeling is correct. During the lunch break, Zhou Jiale told him that yesterday the temperature was only minus five degrees, but today the temperature has been It has dropped to eight degrees below zero.

Because the temperature was very low, the food that was originally hot turned cold within a few minutes. Ye Tianlong's food was tasteless.

When we continued on the road in the afternoon, almost half of the snow had finally melted away. However, after the snow melted away, the road became very muddy. Many carriages would get stuck in the mud before they could go very far. Soldiers had to get out of the car and push hard to push these carriages out of the mud pit.

The soldiers' feet would soon be covered with mud when they stepped on the road full of muddy water. The most important thing was that the temperature of the muddy water was still very low. It was considered a kind of turbid ice water, so even if it was separated by The thick military boots will make many soldiers' legs numb from the cold. In the later stage, they will feel stabbing pain when exerting force.

However, even though the advance was so difficult, few soldiers complained about being tired. This made Ye Tianlong feel very relieved and thought that his policy of preferential treatment of soldiers was quite effective. If this had been replaced by those low-status "thieves supporting the army" of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid they would have been destroyed while protesting.

It is a pity that even if Ye Tianlong's soldiers were not destroyed, due to the increasingly bad road conditions, the entire army could only advance less than fifty miles at the end of the day.

You must know that when the road conditions were good in the past, the Qinglong Empire's army, which had all transformed into mules and horses, could advance at least more than a hundred miles in a day, and at most, it could even advance more than two hundred miles in one breath.

So in comparison, today's progress is indeed as slow as a turtle crawling.

"There seems to be a village ahead. Let's camp there for the night today!"

In the evening, Ye Tianlong pointed to a village not far ahead and ordered.

The terrain around this village is flat, and the few trees have been chopped down, leaving only a few saplings. In the village with a slightly higher terrain, you can clearly see the situation for several miles around at a glance.

Camping here, it will not be so easy for the enemy to make a sneak attack at night.

However, what Ye Tianlong didn't expect was that before the enemy attacked, he got another bad news first, that is, several livestock carcasses were thrown into the well in the village, and the water in the well was completely contaminated. At the same time, there were no civilians in the village, and even most of the materials of some use value had been transported away.

Obviously, this is a policy of the enemy to strengthen the walls and clear the country. They want to rely on the severe cold weather and this scorched earth policy to gradually deplete the morale of Ye Tianlong's army.

I have to say that this move is indeed effective. If the Kingdom of Swadia is large enough, it is really possible to completely deplete the morale of Ye Tianlong's army with this move.

Fortunately, the continent of Calradia is not a very large continent. Even in Ye Tianlong's view, the continent of Calradia is more like a large island with a very small area. Even the largest Kingdom of Swadia, its area is It is not as big as a medium-sized province in the real world. No matter how hard the opponent fortifies its walls and clears the country, those big cities cannot be given up. And as long as the opponent cannot give up those big cities, even at the current speed of the turtle crawling army, it will take at most three or four days. , Ye Tianlong can successfully rush to the nearest big city from here.

After setting up camp in the village, Ye Tianlong sent several angels back to the country to inform his master Li Rufeng to prepare more water for the troops. After all, it is now known that the enemy is clearing the country at the strong wall, and it will be difficult to obtain clean water in the future, so he naturally needs to prepare more clean water in advance, otherwise when the troops run out of water, the problem will be big. You know, this person can survive seven days without eating! But if you don't drink water, you will burp in three days. This shows the importance of water to human beings and is worthy of its title of the source of life.

With so much more clean water supplies that need to be transported, it is natural to send more troops to escort the transportation. Otherwise, if the enemy sends a few troops, they may be defeated.

So after Ye Tianlong thought about it, he decided to send [-] troops to escort the logistics supplies.

As a result, Ye Tianlong only had [-] troops left in his hands. Considering that after conquering those cities, he would have to continue to send troops to garrison, the [-] troops were really not many, and they were barely enough. That’s all.

And just when Ye Tianlong and King Haraus began to compete in a battle of wits and courage across the distance, King Yarogerke of the Kingdom of Wikiya finally couldn't sit still.

After all, he knew very well that once the Qinglong Empire destroyed the Kingdom of Swadia, the other party would probably take action against the King of Wikia. After all, in addition to the Kingdom of Swadia, his Kingdom of Wikia was also inextricably linked to the Qinglong Empire. There had been some friction between the two empires before. Although he had given many gifts to the king of the Qinglong Empire, there was no guarantee that the king of the Qinglong Empire was a coward and still held a grudge against him!

So in order to avoid Ye Tianlong's later settlement, King Yarogerke decided to strike first, and the current opportunity seemed to King Yarogerke to be a good time to attack the Qinglong Empire.

At this time, Ye Tianlong led most of the elite troops of the Qinglong Empire to attack the Kingdom of Swadia. There were only tens of thousands of newly recruited recruits left in the country, and their combat effectiveness was definitely not good. If he sent troops to attack the Qinglong Empire at this time, his chances of winning would be Very big.

However, in order to prevent Ye Tianlong from directly leading his army back after learning that his hometown was being attacked, King Yarogerk also waited for a few days after the opponent set off before starting to gather troops. This way, when he led his army into the Qinglong Empire, then Ye Tianlong should have been engaged in a fierce battle with the army of the Kingdom of Swadia, and for a while he simply couldn't spare the energy to rescue his hometown.

King Yarogerk also knew that this battle might be the one that would determine the survival of the Kingdom of Wikia, so he also tried his best to empty out the treasury and assemble an army of [-] in one breath.

You must know that the Kingdom of Wikiya has a small population to begin with. This [-]-strong army has drained almost all of its young population. If this battle is lost, there may not be any need for the Azure Dragon Empire to attack. Wikiya There may be civil strife within the kingdom.

After spending a week to assemble the army, King Yarogerk did not waste any time and immediately led his army to attack the Azure Dragon Empire.

Compared with the soldiers of the Azure Dragon Empire, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Wikia are more adaptable to the severe cold weather in winter. This is because most of the Kingdom of Wikiya is covered with snow all year round, so many of the Kingdom of Wikiya are covered with snow. The soldiers themselves grew up in this kind of ice and snow environment, and naturally they will not feel any discomfort in this kind of weather.

However, it is precisely because most of the Kingdom of Wikiya is covered with snow and is not suitable for farming. Therefore, although the land area of ​​the Kingdom of Wikija is not much smaller than that of the Kingdom of Swadia, its population is less than half of it. It is really The land is too barren and cannot support too many people!

At the same time that King Yarogerke was sending troops, Ye Tianlong was indeed leading an army to fight fiercely with the main army of the Kingdom of Swadia under Suno City, and he had no energy to distract him anymore.

However, before Ye Tianlong sent out troops, he had already anticipated that the Kingdom of Wikia might send troops to attack him during the war with the Kingdom of Swadia, so he specially left [-] regular soldiers in his hometown, led by his master Li Rufeng, and also Let the three heroes of the Zhu family and Hu Sanniang, who had just joined his command and were transferring to Li Rufeng to teach martial arts, to assist.

Speaking of which, Zhu Biao was indeed very eloquent. After returning home, he actually persuaded his father, Zhu Chaofeng, to let all three of his sons join Ye Tianlong's command.

Perhaps Zhu Chaofeng also saw that the Northern Song Dynasty was about to run out of energy. Who told Huizong of the Song Dynasty to be messing around all these years? No matter how rich the family background of the Northern Song Dynasty was, they couldn't withstand such a toss by him, not to mention that there would be a sudden rise of the Jin Dynasty in the future, which would put another foot on the accelerator for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Biao's father Zhu Chaofeng obviously didn't want to hang himself on a crumbling tree like the Great Song Dynasty, so this time after learning from Zhu Biao that there was such a good place as the Qinglong Empire, he let his three sons He came to join Ye Tianlong, and he himself continued to stay in his hometown to run the family business. In this way, even if Zhu Biao and the others did not do well with Ye Tianlong, they could go back and inherit the family business without being so poor that they could not afford to eat.