The most difficult thing in fighting this kind of grassland battle is not to arrange troops or charge.

From a higher perspective, the most difficult thing is logistics, which is food and supplies.

The Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties have not bad force. If they really want to resist head-on, the Han people can beat the nomadic people on the grassland in minutes.

But the problem is that nomads will not fight you head-on.

Their strategy is that when the Central Plains were weak, they would go south to attack Caogu and fight fiercely, and when the Central Plains was strong, they would attack and run away.

If the powerful Central Plains dynasty army headed north, they would run around the grassland, and they wouldn't fight you anyway.

After you leave, they start to build grass valleys in the border again.

This is the most troublesome thing that has caused all dynasties. In order to push the Huns to the ground and beat them to death, the savings of the previous three generations were almost done. The Huns were still not dead. They hid deep in the grassland and were ready to make a comeback at any time.

Zhao Huan also faced the same problem. The nomads were very mobile and flexible. They had no towns and did not need defense. They could relocate at any time and attack at any time.

When they can't beat it, they will run away. When you are short of food and forced to retreat, they will start attacking.

Therefore, going deep into the grassland has always been a very dangerous thing.

This is also the reason why dynasties of all dynasties rarely spread the range of force to the depths of the grasslands.

Moreover, judging from the input and output, it is really not worthwhile to build a poor place like the grassland, as long as they don’t come to cause trouble in the south.

But Zhao Huan doesn't think so. The grassland must be conquered, and all nomadic peoples must surrender to China.

Otherwise, how could he dare to open up the trade routes in the Western Regions and go to that wider place to find wealth?

In the past, nomadic peoples did not fight grasslands because of the limitations of the farming civilization itself.

Farming civilization seeks stability and is not interested in places where you cannot plant fields.

But now the Song Dynasty is transforming into a commercial society. The commercial society needs to go far away to cut leeks, and the nomadic people on the grassland clearly hindered Zhao Huan from going far away to cut leeks.

The ministers in the court have now realized that in order to restore the Silk Road, the Song Dynasty must prove to the nomadic peoples on the grassland that you must be good!

Otherwise, I will kill you!

Fan Zhixu had just read all the reports on grain transportation. He was probably the first person in the Song Dynasty to have the deepest feelings about the road system that the emperor forced to suppress a few years ago.

Since last year, after the completion of several major cement roads, the military ration transferred from the south has saved half of the time and quadrupled the amount.

There is absolutely a reason why the emperor wants to build the grassland at this time.

Logistics construction has become very common due to the completion of highways and the full implementation of the new military system.

Just say that the emperor is fighting barbarians on the front line now, and barbarians want to play a protracted war, and the Song Dynasty is not afraid at all.

At least Fan Zhixu is not timid now.

Three months ago, the permanent troops of Heishui City went north one after another and built a city wall on the grassland, not far from Heishui City.

They are not large in size and are not far from each other. They form a grain base a hundred kilometers north of Heishui City.

If the enemy raids and needs support when fighting, you can arrive in half a day at the speed of the cavalry.

Now, Fan Zhixu is still building a larger city 150 kilometers northwest of these city walls.

Within a few months, a total of 1.5 million troops in Shaanxi and Hetao were mobilized to enter there.

Their main task is to build a sacking place.

This means that the range that the Song Dynasty could actually control had advanced nearly 500 kilometers to the north.

The most important thing is that this time, the food supply point of the emperor's Northern Expedition advanced nearly 300 kilometers, allowing the emperor to go deep into the northern desert and retreat at any time.

Now, the administrative naming of the Zhengshi Hall has also come out. The stronghold 300 kilometers away from Heishui City is called "Beifu".

In view of the initial achievements in the construction of "Northern Mansion", the Zhengshitang officially included "Northern Mansion" as a strategic center for the Song Dynasty's battle against grasslands.

At present, Zhao Huan is hunting everywhere on the grassland.

This incident has been a whole month, and it is hard to sweat red sweating really is like a turtle hiding in a corner of the grassland and not appearing.

But almost half of the grassland was killed by the Song army and screamed.

People on the grassland were trembling, bleeding, crying and wailing under the Song army's iron cavalry.

Countless people ran to find Yi Nanchi Han and scolded the Han people in his place.

The construction of the prototype of the Song Dynasty's "Northern Mansion" caused him panic after it was spread.

He had also thought of sending troops to attack the still-established Northern Prefecture, but that plan was rejected.

The reason is that the Song State stationed 100,000 troops in Heishui City, and it was too easy to support the Northern Prefecture. It would be easy to be attacked by the Song army and make dumplings.

The strategy that can truly make the Song army retreat is to raid the Longyou Protectorate.

However, after hearing that the Northern Prefecture was completed, Yi Nanchi still couldn't help panic. Now he only hopes that his son Bai Buhua can immediately stir up the storm in the Longyou Protectorate's Mansion.

Zhao Huan led the army, circled the grassland, and returned to Beifu City.

Wu Jie also came back to do supplies.

Before Zhao Huan took off his armor, he sat in the temporary house and found Wu Jie.

Zhao Huan took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Wu Aiqing, that one is also hard to show off. Hebule, that old guy hid in the North Sea and planned to be a turtle for thousands of years. This battle made me feel very frustrated!"

"Your Majesty, we have killed many tribes along the way, which is also a heavy blow to the barbarians on the grassland."

"I want to do it Yi Nanchi's head and the old turtle of Hebule, he deserves the most!"

Wu Jie didn't understand very well, Hebule hid in the North Sea. Although he was powerful, he had no connection with the Song Dynasty. Why did the emperor hate Hebule so much?

Of course he didn't know that if Zhao Huan did not kill Hebule, Hebule's great-grandson (Temujin) would launch a devastating blow to the Song Dynasty and carry out a tragic massacre of the prosperous Chinese civilization in the future, resulting in the destruction of many Chinese treasures in disasters.

This is something that Zhao Huan absolutely does not allow. The only thing he can do is to kill all the children in his infancy, kill all the children in his cradles, and completely eliminate hidden dangers.

This kind of thing was undiscussed. Even if Zhao Huan was asked to search the entire grassland and reach the Arctic Ocean, he would have to kill Borjijin Hebule.

"Wu Aiqing, it's better to do this. You can continue to look for Yinanchi with your men and Zhe Keke. I'm going to Beihai to find Hebule now!"

Wu Jie was slightly stunned and said, "Your Majesty, Hebule is the most powerful on the grassland. Your Majesty is extremely dangerous to go here. I am willing to lead troops there."

"I have decided to leave Yi Nan Chi to you and Zhe Keque. Be sure to come to see me with Yi Nan Chi's head!"

"Abide by the order!"

Originally, Zhao Huan thought it would be difficult for him to send troops to aid if he was not.

In this way, Zhao Huan was also unable to redeem it, and Hu'erzha Hu Si and Hehe Bu Le were solved together.

But I didn't expect that the old thing was like a thousand-year-old turtle, hiding in the North Sea and not coming out.

Compared to him, his great-grandson seemed much more awesome.

Tonight, the Yulin Army prepared all three days and three nights of dry food and set off from Beifu overnight.

The remaining clouds in the sky flew, and the 130,000 troops moved quickly under the dazzling starry sky on the grassland with the strong summer wind.
Chapter completed!