In April, the spring breeze blows on the earth. Although the snow on the grassland has not completely melted and the wind still has some biting coldness, it has changed the world and is still not the bitter and cold grassland before. Finally, you can see traces of green growing slowly on the earth and gathering together.

Zhang Shun himself did not expect that the New Year had just passed when he entered the grassland. At that time, he thought that the decisive battle with Kublai Khan must be completed in the snow and ice, but when he saw that Kublai Khan's army was already spring. The underdeveloped road in ancient times made time extremely long. Fortunately, he finally survived this process.

Their destruction on the grassland was actually not great. After all, there were ice and snow everywhere, which greatly increased the difficulty of their attack. The biggest difficulty was the problem of weapons. A large number of firearms lost their effect, so Zhang Shun could only send a small number of cavalry to clear some nearby small tribes. But after doing such a few times, the news spread throughout the grassland. Those people also knew that the army led by Zhang Shun had entered the grassland, so they began to deliberately leave the place where generations had been hiding from the cold winter, and went further or hid, which also made Zhang Shun's cavalry quickly lose their target.

But the losses they caused were also irreparable. Because of the hasty choice of a place to hide from winter, many tribes of the Yuan people were hit by nature, which was also fatal. Therefore, the situation of the Yuan people's non-combat reduction on the grassland this winter was shocking. A large number of people died on the road rather than on the battlefield, and the animals were even more ten times. The huge losses were still unbearable for everyone. If spring came one month later, Zhang Shun would not need to attack them, and they would have tormented themselves.

Fortunately, Kublai Khan led the army back at the most dangerous time. Although they did not gain any benefits from the Song Dynasty, and the so-called 700,000 troops are now only about 300,000. Most of them escaped on the road or were not combat-reduced. It doesn’t matter, because the remaining people are basically soldiers loyal to Dayuan who can conquer warlike soldiers, and they also brought back the most needed animals and food in the grassland. As for how these things were obtained, no one pursued them. After all, everyone knew in their hearts that this battle had cleared the Dayuan’s family’s background, and now there was something to eat, and there was no other way except to grab them. The only difference was that they robbed them was their own people.

But so what? Anyway, the Han people are robbing, who cares about their lives? At this time, as long as there is food, more soldiers can be attracted, so more than 100,000 people will soon join Kublai Khan. Of course, not every one of these people can fight to kill the enemy, but there are many people who can fight to the battle. What's more, what Kublai Khan wants now is the population. As for what they look like, he doesn't care in his heart, because he also knows that Zhang Shun, who can't stop the cold winter, is even less of an opponent, but he comes here to fight desperately this time, so what can be the result?

The army on Zhang Shun's side has increased several times compared to before. That is because the situation on all battlefields has almost ended in the past few months, so a large number of troops have time to be sent here, and new troops will enter the battlefield almost every day. After Zhou Feiyu, Gao Xu, Tan Zhenqi, Xu Ning and others have successively brought the troops, Zhang Shun's troops have reached 300,000, and behind them, Fatty Dong and others have mobilized nearly 2 million people to transport supplies to them. Now every day there are troops that are out of sight and ordinary people pushing carts. They use their legs to open up a lifeline of war.

Zhang Shun was very happy with the arrival of these people. He knew that many people were unwilling to miss this fierce battle, so he poured into this battlefield without caring about it.

"You should all hear that before entering the grassland, Kublai Khan committed a heinous crime to the people under his rule. He actually robbed his people of his own food. Now in the spring famine, many people in many places may not be able to survive this spring." Zhang Shun sat in his main tent, saying slowly, in front of him were his generals. Some of these people followed him to the north and north and the present, and many of them were generals who had only emerged recently, but both the new and the old were all full of spirits.

"Yes, Kublai Khan is crazy!" Long Hai had already stood up, and he looked indignant when he talked about this. This time he did not come directly from Shanhaiguan, but returned to Bianliang first. It is now the location of the front-line command center. A large amount of supplies are waiting to be transferred there. When he went back, he was also to escort a batch of supplies, so he saw the tragic situation with his own eyes. "I saw with my own eyes that these damn Tartars are bastards, and they don't care about the lives of the people at all. They rushed into the grasslands like locusts passing through. They snatched all the seeds from everywhere, and they didn't even leave the seeds for the people. Now it's really hungry and terrible that a large number of people fled to our territory."

Zhang Shun nodded, "So I have notified Polu and asked him to stay in Bianliang to appease the victims. Isn't the reason for our war to liberate these brothers? Kublai Khan can ignore their lives, but we must take care of it. Fortunately, we have stored a large amount of canned food and emergency food over the years, and now we can take it out, enough for these people to spend a spring. And I also asked someone to urgently transfer seeds from the south, which should not affect spring plowing. We must try our best to minimize the losses. We cannot drag ourselves down for this battle."

Guo Polu came back immediately after the Japanese signed the agreement. He also hoped to participate in this battle, but he didn't expect that he would catch up with this kind of thing in the end. You can imagine how he feels in Bianliang now?

Zhang Shun waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's not discuss this matter anymore. Since we have already arranged something, we should not focus all our energy on this matter anymore. We should put how to deal with Kublai Khan's more than 500,000 troops first. Xu Ning, tell me."

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Chapter completed!