The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 87 It's been a long time, the generals on the front line are actually doing business!
It takes three days to walk from Haishibao to Ningxi Acropolis, and there is no place where a large group of troops can be stationed along the way, there are only a few scattered small post houses where no one is permanently stationed.The food transportation team walks fifty or sixty miles every day, and they can almost come across such a post.

Pull the grain truck to the yard, and the big guys spread out the felt clothes under the truck and sleep on the spot.When the cold wind blows at night, it is very uncomfortable.All the firewood that could be picked up nearby was picked up by other food escort teams, and there was no way to make a bonfire.After holding on until the next morning, I led the team away for half the pay, feeling the coldness on my body only to dissipate.

"It's not the way to go on like this. We have to find a way to get more felt. We need to equip the team with felt tents, so that everyone will have a better life when they camp at night." Tell me what you felt after being frozen all night last night.

In fact, when leading the team to rush here, everyone also slept in the open for a few nights, but when did they think that the conditions would be better after arriving in the place.Who would have thought that the conditions would be even worse after arriving in the place.Sleeping outdoors will almost become the norm in the future, forcing people to think of long-term solutions.

At least there is no snow in the current weather. If you encounter a snowfall while walking on the road, how can you not freeze to death in this wilderness?
"There is a shortage of clothing and things on the front line. It may not be easy to gather enough materials for felt tents that everyone can use. Besides, our team has no military salary, and even if we encounter felts, we have no money to buy them." Yang Shunan's face He was flushed by the wind, and when he said this, there was worry on his flushed face.His grandfather once said that it is not easy to lead soldiers, but after experiencing the military life seriously this time, it seems that it is even more difficult than what his grandfather said.

Yes, a team of more than 300 people, even if they can buy felt, where will the money come from?This kind of self-doing work is really not humanly capable.How many years has it been since time travel?I've done it twice already, which is bad luck.

No matter how difficult it is, we must find a way to solve it. Now that the team has been brought out, we must ensure that everyone goes back safely.

The wheels of the trolley are not strong enough, and one person has to drag more than 300 kilograms of things on the road, which consumes a lot of energy in a day.There was nothing else in the food except coarse grains such as glutinous rice noodles. Song Yingkui did some calculations, and one person might not be able to stop eating three catties of grain a day.According to this way of eating, the food that is already less than the budget is likely to be even more insufficient.

In addition to human food, there are more than 40 mules and horses in the team. Their consumption is even greater, and the key is that they also take up human rations.Not to mention the need for mules and horses. During the march, a certain number of sentries need to be dispatched to prevent Xifan rangers from suddenly appearing on the road, and mules and horses have to be used to lead the carts when encountering steep slopes.

After three days of hard walking, they finally arrived at Ningxi Acropolis.What he saw in Ningxi Acropolis once again exceeded Song Yingkui's imagination.

Originally, he thought that the frontline troops would be stationed in the city, but this was not the case at the scene.Outside Ningxi Acropolis, seven or eight Zheng army camps were set up, at least half of the troops were stationed outside the city.

The place where the Xifan army is stationed is also outside Ningxi Weicheng, but it is a little farther away from Ningxi City.The garrisons of the two armies, in some places, are even close at hand and intertwined.

As soon as the food delivery team appeared outside Ningxi City, Xifan's rangers and Da Zheng's rangers all surrounded them.The two sides circled around the grain transportation team and started fighting with each other. They walked all the way to the Ningxi city, and the Xifan rangers dispersed.Song Yingkui, who was walking this section of the road, was trembling, for fear that the scattered arrows would hurt people.

When they arrived at Ningxi City, after handing over the documents and notices, the military officer in charge of logistics brought people to weigh the food and signed the receipt, and the job was basically completed.

Sure enough, it was an unspoken rule to not have [-]% of the grain, and the officer who collected the grain did not make it difficult for Song Yingkui, and kept a lot of the balance that belonged to the grain transportation team.As far as this matter is concerned, everyone still behaves according to the rules.

The more than 6 catties of grain sent to the front line sounds like a lot, but if the eight or nine thousand troops eat it, they won't be able to eat it for a few days.The standard of food that Dazheng set for the troops fighting on the front line is three catties of grain per person per day, and more than 6 catties of grain can only be eaten for two or three days.

No matter how much people in later generations can eat, they will not be able to eat three catties of staple food a day.But on the front line where the mental and physical strength is highly exhausted, and there is no oil, water or other supplementary food, three catties of food a day may not be enough to eat. War is indeed a waste of money.

"Tonight, our team should find a military camp and set up camp next to each other. It's getting late now, and we won't be able to go very far if we hurry, and it's easy to be left behind by Xifan soldiers. It's too dangerous." In Ningxi City, volunteers who transport food are even more unqualified to live in the city.Ningxi City couldn't completely block the Xifan army from entering the Huangshui Valley. Once they had dozens of people biting the returning volunteer team, it would be troublesome.So Song Yingkui decided to stay in the barracks and go back during the day.

Dazheng's army was better at talking. He chose a barracks and sent Yang Shunan to discuss it. He quickly gave a reply and agreed to the fifth battalion volunteer team to be stationed next to their barracks.

"Where is the team that agreed to let us set up camp?" Even if it is a neighbor for one night, it is necessary to simply find out the roots.

"They came from Ganzhou City in Hexi, and they are soldiers of the Gao family. When my grandfather joined the army, he had a friendship with the ancestors of the Gao family. Just after talking about it, they can still recognize this friendship." Yang Shunan proudly revealed his family's relationship with the military.

The situation in Hexi is quite special. The military and political power of the four counties is basically controlled by the family of the generals, and it can be regarded as a small town in Dazheng.In Dazheng, there is basically no Dafan town, and there are a few small Juntoufan towns in special areas such as Hexi and some northern border areas. Relatively speaking, the power of the central court is still quite large.

The Gao family is the head of the army in Ganzhou City, and their family has controlled Ganzhou for three or four generations.

Surrounding the empty food trucks in a circle and standing them sideways against the wind, the volunteer team simply set up a camp, and it was almost dark at this time.At this moment, I saw hundreds of Xifan cavalry coming from a distance.

what happened?Could it be that they still want to engage in night raids?Song Yingkui hurriedly asked Yiyong to take out his weapons and prepare for battle!However, what happened next blinded Song Yingkui's eyes.

I saw one or two hundred people carrying food coming out of the Gaojia military camp, and the two sides greeted each other like businessmen in front of the camp.Finally, Gao's army put down the food, and people from the Xifan army rushed over a dozen sheep.After throwing some other things on the ground, someone got off the horse and put the grain of the Gao family army on the horse, and led the horse to carry the grain and disappeared into the night.

They do business in front of the battle?What happened in front of him made Song Yingkui's brain shut down for a long time before he could figure it out.Who the hell would have thought that the two teams that fought life and death during the day would actually start the business of exchanging goods like nothing happened at night?This is really a long time to see you!
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