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

Chapter 89 Encountering Xifan Rangers on the Road to Transport Grain!

Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, dogs travel thousands of miles to eat shit, and following Song Yingkui can make life easy wherever they go.This was Yang Shunan's evaluation of Song Yingkui in his heart.

Back then, when Master Zhuang went to repair King Sukang's tomb, he was honored by him.This time the entire fifth battalion volunteer team went to the front line, and the glory was even greater.

There is no need to send food to Ningxi City by sleeping in the open, and just stay in Haishibao and make wheels with peace of mind.

The Haishibao Garrison Mansion allocated food to the Fifth Battalion Volunteer Team at the standard of two catties per day, because the food consumption was not as large as that of the food transport team, so they could basically eat enough.

Moreover, Song Yingkui still had a way to earn other income, and from time to time, he made some pickles and oil to fill his meals. This is not going to the front line, it's just like coming to enjoy a blessing.

What are the other items?Naturally, it's a partnership with the people from the Garrison Mansion's Transit Office to turn the wheels outside to make money.

Due to the impact of the war and the suspension of production, a pair of wheels made by Song Yingkui has been sold at a sky-high price of [-] taels of silver, even if it is so expensive, it is still out of stock.

The price of wheels has risen to this level, and ordinary people must have missed it.Now this thing is usually installed on the carriage by the rich family.The wheels used for carriages are different from those used for shelf carts, but due to the lack of stock, the artisans still came up with a modification method to solve this problem.

In Haishibao, Song Yingkui not only made the wheels for the carriages for the transport team, but also mainly made carriage wheels.After using the materials in the army to make the carriage wheels, the officials of the transfer office tried to find a way to sell them outside.Everyone will share the money earned, and Song Yingkui can share [-]% to [-]% of the profits.

The materials are not our own, we don’t need to manage the sales, and we don’t need to spend money on labor. The profit of [-]% to [-]% is actually very good.

However, Song Yingkui didn't put all the money he earned into his own pocket, and most of it went to the volunteer team's expenses.Buying food is one aspect, and the other aspect is to add equipment to the volunteer team.

In the first month of the second year of the Jingli calendar, each of the more than 300 members of the volunteer team was assigned a felt tent.The size of the felt tent is stacked in two layers, just enough to cover the carriage of the cart.Song Yingkui's idea was to spread this thing in the carriage when transporting grain, so as not to take up space, and take out the felt tent from the carriage when resting at night, and set it up in a triangular shape for use.

Although the Volunteer Team does not do the work of transporting food now, it is safe to prepare a felt tent, and it may be used someday.

In addition to felt tents, more than 40 helmets and ten crossbows were made with fallen iron materials.Since then, the Volunteer Team has nearly [-] iron helmets and [-] bows and crossbows available.According to Song Yingkui's vision, after this assisting battle is over, it is best to save up to [-] helmets, so as to achieve the goal that all members of the Volunteer Team can have helmets.

On the third day of the first lunar month, heavy snow fell near Haishibao, and after a while the snow covered the entire land in white.

Staying in the ground nest, filled the muddy coal stove with stone coal, took out the wine that was bought a few days ago, cooked some mutton in the pot, Song Yingkui called several leaders of the volunteer team, and everyone Drink and eat meat.No matter how heavy the snow is falling outside, it is very warm inside, this is called stealing half a day's leisure.

"Commander, the stone coal-fired stove you asked us to build is really useful. Now the whole Haishi Fort, no matter whether it is outside the city or inside the city, learns from our way of building stoves." Liu Chenghai, Liu Hongguang's son, is now It was a small commander of the volunteer team, who picked up a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth, while praising Song Lingguan.

Coal can be dug out near Haishibao, but people in this era dare not use it in the house because of the smoke.Song Yingkui asked someone to build a clay stove with a flue, and made a hob on top of the stove, which solved the problems of smoke exhaust and sealing.All of a sudden, the use of charcoal stoves became popular in Haishibao.

Because of the appearance of this thing, it also added another job to the volunteer team transporting food to the front line.The generals on the front line also needed to build charcoal stoves to keep warm, so the grain transportation team had to transport the coal from Haishibao to Ningxi City.

The heavy snow fell for three days before it stopped, and after the snow stopped, the snow had not disappeared, and it took another four or five days before the road was barely passable.

The front line of Ningxi City sent several messengers to Haishibao to urge food. If the food was not transported there, the front line would be in danger of running out of food.

Food was scarce on the front line, so Haishibao had to dispatch all the volunteer teams to transport food to Ningxi City. Even the Fifth Battalion Volunteer Team had to go to the front line this time.

Fortunately, we made preparations and prepared felt tents for everyone. Otherwise, it would be strange if people didn't freeze to death on the road in the ghostly weather that just snowed.

The people in the operation office took care of the fifth battalion volunteer team and asked them to line up at the back to set off, so that those in front could step on the snow-covered road and make the road a little easier to walk.

"In places with steep slopes, try to use mules to carry it. It would be too strenuous to rely solely on human pull. Even if you walk a little slower, it doesn't matter! At that time, I will go around and talk about it." Even if there is a team in front of the road , It is still very difficult to pull a shelf car on the snow-removing road.Song Yingkui had no choice but to order everyone to slow down and walk slowly!

These people above really don't use their brains when they do things. They know that the road will be closed when there is heavy snow in winter, so why should they make preparations early?It is good to have people stepping on the snow to deliver food. With such road conditions, it is good to be able to drive forty miles a day.Originally it was a three-day journey, but now I am afraid that it will take five or six days to reach Ningxi City.

There are even more problems with transportation arrangements. The best way should be to set up several transfer points from Ningxi City to Haishibao, and transfer them in sections. A transportation team can only go back for one day, so the road will be blocked by snow. The impact on the logistics support line will be very small.Sending out a grain transportation team and turning back once every six or seven days, the stability of this logistics method is too poor.

Song Yingkui, who was constantly complaining about the arrangement above, no matter how reluctant he was, he still had to hand over the job first.Why is the job I'm doing now the same as Wang Jinxiong's ankles?For people's feet, each shelf cart is equipped with a mule.

After walking hard for three days on the snow-covered road, there is still nearly a hundred miles away from Ningxi Acropolis.According to this posture, it will take two days to arrive.The most embarrassing thing is that due to the inability to travel according to the normal rhythm, there is not even a post house with a courtyard wall for overnight accommodation, and it has become a pure barren mountain for sleeping in the open.

Fortunately, during the recent period, it seems that no Xifan rangers have crossed the mountain road to harass the transportation line, otherwise it would be too dangerous to be exposed to the wild and sleep alone.

Xifan rangers have not been haunted recently, and the protection that should be done is still to be done. If you don’t defend against enemies, you have to protect against wild animals. You can hear wolves howling when you sleep at night in Haishibao, let alone this kind of wild place.

The grain carts were surrounded by two layers of circles, and a few on-duty personnel were arranged to watch the night. After everyone boiled water and cooked, they set up tents and got in to sleep.

In the middle of the night, the person on duty suddenly blew his whistle, and Song Yingkui, who was awakened, hurried out of the tent to check the situation.

"Commander, we heard the sound of horses. From a distance, it seems that someone is coming towards us!" The sentry shouted anxiously to Song Yingkui what they had noticed!
"Someone is coming? Hurry up and shout everyone, grab your weapons, and light a torch!" Someone riding a horse in the middle of the night is definitely not a good thing.

Just after a few torches were lit in the entire convoy, several Xifans on horseback appeared outside the formation.These few should be the scouts of the Xifan people who came over, because there are still a lot of hoofbeats coming from behind them.

It was too unlucky to transport food with great difficulty, and unexpectedly met a Xifan Ranger who hadn't seen it for a long time.After a cursory look, there are at least 200 people in this ranger.

(End of this chapter)