Almost everyone was awakened by the cold chill lurking in the darkness before dawn. Whether it was soldiers, generals, or commanders like Yelu Yue and Li Heng, they had lost their sleepiness due to the cold chill before dawn.

The outside of countless camp tents was lit again and started cooking. The sound of horse hooves and neighing were constantly tearing the dark sky, as if I hope that the light could break free from the shackles of darkness and quickly descend on this vast grassland.

The whimpering cold wind rushed out in the mountains, sweeping out, carrying the snow on the ground and fluttering in the air. The thick fur was tightly wrapped around her body, and it was still hard to hide the biting cold chill.

Although I have long been accustomed to the bad weather on the grassland, in the afterlife, everyone stationed here feels like suffering in hell.

It is normal for the inadvertent touch of pots and pans, and then the broken into pieces due to the severe cold, but such a picture can give people a sense of joy in the bitterness of a smile on the cold morning.

Li Heng walked to Yelu Yue with a thick fur in his hand, and sat in front of the tent to keep warm, and looked up, then smiled and shook his head and refused under the light of the fire.

Li Heng looked at the fur in his hand, sat down in his hand and said, "It's better to put it on. It may be even colder after entering the mountain. You don't know that."

"It's okay, just think it's just to recall the past." Yelu Yue's face was slightly hot with fire, but her hands and feet felt a burst of coldness and stiffness. The swaying firelight obviously could only give people a short and superficial warmth, and it was difficult for people to keep the temperature in their body.

"Oh... are you really not considering returning? The pain you will suffer after entering the mountain, let alone you, even if I think about it, my scalp is numb and I am afraid I can't bear it." Li Heng asked again sighed.

When he started camping yesterday, he suggested to Yelu Yue that it would be better to go back to that small town directly, or simply go back to Yanjing directly.

But such a proposal was eventually rejected by Yelu Yue, and he refused very firmly without any hesitation.

"It's because of my choice that so many people are suffering with me, so at this time... General Li thinks I can leave?" Yelu Yue's eyes were still very bright.

Li Heng's eyes gradually turned to Yelu Yue's hands, which were burning fire. Under the fire, you could clearly see Yelu Yue's originally white and slender fingers, which had slightly red, swollen, frostbite.

Feeling Li Heng's eyes on his hands, Yelu Yue smiled silently. Because the temperature of the fire light made the red and swollen frostbite feel a little itchy, she couldn't help rubbing her hands hard to relieve the pain and itchy feeling.

"I haven't had frostbite for many years, but I don't know what happened this year, but I started again when I came to the grassland." Yelu Yue said lightly.

"Frostbite is difficult to eradicate. If it is in a warm place in winter, it may not be born again, but if it returns to a bitter and cold place, frostbite will recur. There are too many such soldiers in the army, especially their faces and hands and feet, which are often the most likely places to get frostbite, which will greatly affect marching and fighting." Li Heng said with emotion.

Yelu Yue nodded silently, looking at her fingers from time to time, the redness and swollenness on the back of her hands were still the noise of the soldiers not far away.

Yao Li had already walked out of the tent, but just looked at Yelu Yue and Li Heng, and then walked in another direction without looking back.

However, after a while, when Yelu Yue and Li Heng were discussing how to search for Ogedei after entering the mountain, Yao Li appeared again. At this time, there was an extra tray in his hand, with a few cups of steaming horse milk wine on it.

"Warm your body." Yao Li said with a smile.

Yelu Yue and Li Heng thanked Yao Li at the same time, then picked up a cup and held it in their hands. In an instant, the warmth of the cup was in the palm of the hand, forming a warm current that extended into the depths of the body and mind, even more than the fire.

To be more comfortable.

"I received news from Yu Yunwen last night, but it was too late, so I didn't inform you. In the past few days, Yu Yunwen has not walked out of the mountains ahead. His judgment coincides with us. He also believes that Ogedei would not be heading to the grassland. He should have entered the mountain to break through a certain pass and take this opportunity to reverse his decline on the grassland. So in the past few days, Yu Yunwen has been looking for Ogedei in the mountains and forests. After dawn, after we enter the mountain, we can pursue from west to east."

"Plus with the scouts sent yesterday, the rewards this morning are almost certain now that Ogedei has entered the mountain." Li Heng held the horse milk wine in one hand and a dead branch in the other hand, gestured on the ground.

The frozen ground seemed particularly hard, and the dead branches would make a crisp sound and break with a slight force. So Li Heng just held it in his hand, drew some outlines randomly, and continued to say, "We went from west to east, while Yu Yunwen went from south to north. I have also sent a scout to contact Liu Keshi, and then asked them to start searching from here... to the west. In this way, a three-sided encirclement can be formed. Unless Ogetei has wings, he will be able to block him this time."

Yelu Yue and Yao Li both bent down and looked down at Li Heng's gesture. Then after Li Heng finished his gesture, the two of them immediately straightened up and took the horse milk wine in their hands together with a tacit understanding to keep warm.

Then Yelu Yue looked at the place where Li Heng drew a few blurred marks just now. When he looked up again, there was only a faint layer of remaining night in the sky. Yelu Yue said, "General Li and Yelu Tiege, Yelu Shange entered the mountain, I will stay outside the mountain..."

"This is very dangerous. Once we cannot completely surround them in the mountains and forests, when they escape from the mountains and forests, even if there is only a small force, the people's will to survive at that time is enough to be worth thousands of troops." Li Heng was stunned for a moment, and then he reminded Yelu Yue.

Yao Li looked at Yelu Yue with some concern, then looked at Li Heng, looking at him as if he wanted to speak but stopped.

Obviously, Yao Li was also worried that if only a group of people were left outside the mountains to block them, Wogedei and others who might escape from the forest, then then the red-eyed Wogedei and his troops would be even more vicious than the most brutal wolves on the grassland for a way out.

Yelu Yue's mouth was drawn with a light curve, looking quite confident and free, and said softly: "General Li said this, do you not believe in Yu Yunwen and Liu Keshi, and you who can completely trap Ogedei in the mountains and forests? Or... If you don't believe me, Yelu Tieyi, can't deal with Ogedei? Don't forget that Ogedei was coming in a fierce way back then, and Yelu Yixue was not intercepted by them in the end?"

"At that time, Ogedei was young and had little experience in leading troops to fight. How could he be compared with the current Ogedei? Of course, what I meant was not that you could not deal with him, but... but I think this was too dangerous. The Hua family army was coming to help, but you also refused. Now you are just relying on..." Li Heng pointed to Yelu Yixue and others who were walking slowly over not far away.

Before Li Heng finished speaking, Yelu Yue continued, "Whether Yelu Yue or I, Yelu Yue, or the troops we came to the grassland this time were all the remaining old generals who escaped from the tiger's mouth of Ogedei. This time, when we came to the grassland, we were not only to avenge our own hands, but also to avenge the fall of the Great Liao Kingdom. If I can't avenge this hurdle, this revenge, those of us who surrendered to the Song court will be uneasy for the rest of our lives. We are also ashamed of the entire Great Liao Kingdom."

Looking at Yelu Yue's firm look, then looked at Yelu Yixue's face and firmness coming over. Li Heng sighed helplessly, drank the horse milk wine that had been cold, and then said: "Okay, I agree with your opinion." u2028 Then Li Heng stood up and stretched, smiled helplessly and said: "You are making things difficult for me. Remember to protect your Princess Chengli, otherwise, I will be there Ye Qing.

If you can't explain, you can only raise your head and apologize."

"I will stay with the princess and will not enter the mountain." Yao Li suddenly spoke.

Yelu Yue looked back at Yao Li with a smile, then nodded, as if she had agreed to Yao Li's request.

The remaining night completely disappeared on the entire grassland, and the endless mountains opposite became much clearer and more majestic. Although the east has not yet appeared, it may seem like a good day today.

The reason why Ogedei went to sneak attack and rob food and grass was that in addition to waiting for a quick time, he brought back an agreement with Chagatai, he hoped to use this time to verify whether Chagatai and Tolei would join forces.

So when Subutai left Chagatai as a lobbyist and confirmed that Chagatai and Tolei started a war, they rushed back to Ogedei, and then they began to truly make the determination to grab the food and grass in the small city.

But when they set out, Ogedei looked at Yao Li, who was so charming that although he was much plump but still charming, and suddenly a sentence flashed through his mind: Beautiful women are not credible.

It is precisely because of this that although Ogedei still left many soldiers in the territory, he brought all his personal guards of nearly 10,000 people. Compared with Chagatai's small hand, Ogedei brought nearly 20,000 troops to go on an expedition.

Finally, his experience in the small town also verified the words suddenly popped up in Ogedei's mind, but even though Ogedei made a perfect solution at the last moment, after escaping from the small town, he still couldn't help feeling scared when he thought about it.

When he was fleeing, he did think about going around from the depths of the grassland to his territory, but how could Ogedei, who had always been arrogant, be willing to return to his territory in failure?

Therefore, when Yelu Yue and Li Heng were chasing each other, Ogedei had to leave some of his personal guards behind, and then some of his personal guards created the illusion of him running deep into the grassland along the way.

This plan was indeed used correctly, and it also gave him time and opportunity to get rid of Yelu Yue and Li Heng's pursuit of the soldiers, and also gave him time to calm down and think about his current situation on the grassland and how to recover this decline.

So after discussing with Subutai and Badu, Ogedei decided that if he wanted to completely reverse this passive and possible isolation situation, he could only attack the passive pass of the Song court. In this way, other tribes on the grassland could not only see another way of getting along with the Song court, but also allow the Khan of other tribes to change his position because of his bravery.

Naturally, the ultimate goal is to reverse the situation where he might be isolated on the grassland, so that Tuo Lei or Chagatai, at the last moment, he should not pay attention to the fact that he could bravely launch a real attack on the Song court. At the same time, he also told them that the warriors on the grassland could get everything with their bows and arrows and knives, and not only rely on the Song people to get those.

After Ogedei decided to attack Song, he immediately chose the target, which was Wuzhou, which is the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

The reason why I chose Wuzhou was naturally the black stone in Wuzhou. Over the years, Song Ting has been controlling Wuzhou, which made it necessary for both Yanjing and the grassland to buy black stones for winter.

Of course, although cow dung and other people on the grassland can keep warm, they are even better than black stones in the eyes of some people, but if they catch up with the severe cold and wind and snow, cow dung is like a drop in the bucket, which makes them have to exchange cattle and sheep for black stones, or secretly exchange horses and other handmade products for black stones.

After Yu Yunwen finished drinking a cup of tea, the army around him was ready to go. Yu Yunwen frowned, and then lit the dead branches in his hand hard on the snow. As the dead branches snapped, Yu Yunwen decided to set out towards Wuzhou.
Chapter completed!