A team of elephants stepped on the dead branches and leaves of the mountain and slowly traced up the shallow river, and the horse team on the side of the river also carried all kinds of supplies, and under the drive of the soldiers, they were driven by the soldiers and marched towards the Temo Road with difficulty against the mountain wall.

This primitive road was originally an elephant road stepped on by elephants, but it was later manually and simply repaired to become a traffic artery between Temo Road and Quang Nam.

This was the last batch of supplies that Wu Sheng's army had sent to Temo Dao, and as long as this batch of supplies arrived safely, Di Qing's army could fight for three months without worrying about logistics and supplies.

Di Qing admires the Wusheng Army the most is not their toughness, but the almost perfect logistics supply of the Wusheng Army, from Guangnan in Shuzhong Road, the Wusheng Army has the farthest road and the most treacherous road, but the first to reach Guangnan is precisely the Wusheng Army, and the whole army arrives.

Because of the strong logistical supply, the quality of the Wusheng army is far higher than that of the Western Army, whether it is from combat to life, and the reason why the Western Army eats very poorly and has few things available is not that the imperial court is reluctant to give these 30,000 people rich food and weapons, but because the logistics are simply unable to afford it.

No matter how much the officials look down on the generals, they are still very sober in wartime, and when it comes to deducting the wartime rations of the forbidden army, no civilian official dares to stretch out his hand, once the war is unfavorable and the cause is investigated, no one from the emperor to the people will have half a point of mercy to the person who stretches out his hand.

The supply of the Great Song Dynasty army is called "food", the so-called "food" is that wherever the army goes according to the military order, the local government is responsible for it, and the insufficient part is made up by the imperial court, this method is actually right, in the Great Song Dynasty, if the military food is transported from Tokyo to Guangnan. The wear and tear on the road will reach as much as seventy, which is far less convenient and cheap than the local supply, and the imperial court only needs to calculate the supply of the army into the annual tax quota of the local government and county, which is the most concise and effective method.

Most of the ideas in the world are actually good. But once the "human" thing is mixed in in the middle. A good idea can quickly turn into a very stupid idea.

There is a big difference between people, and some people are smart and unpredictable. Of course, a little military supply could not help him, not only did he serve the army well, but his yamen could also leave a lot of benefits, so he looked forward to the army passing by the territory under his jurisdiction every day.

Some people don't know anything but read. When the army came, the chickens and dogs jumped over the wall, and they didn't understand that they would give such an important official matter to the Tan officials to deal with, so the famous Tan officials of the Great Song Dynasty would pounce on the military supply like locusts, anyway, there was a chief official on top of something happening, so. The army that arrives here is out of luck......

When the army came to the war zone, this was the most troublesome, because there was no government here, and they did not have the habit of raising their own food and grass. So it will become extremely difficult, and sometimes it will be difficult for the army to move an inch.

Wu Shengjun is different, he is born to find food by himself, the Xiang Army, the magistrate will not take the supply of the Xiang Army as a thing, anyway, these people are sent to death when they arrive in the war zone, or they are to sell coolies, no matter how mean they come.

So Yun Zheng didn't count on the local government at all, and he didn't have the time to complain, he brought enough food and equipment when he set off from Shuzhong, plus Cui Da brought a green-eyed merchant group to supply all the way, naturally there was no trouble, Wu Shengjun and Shangjia have formed a bond of interests, in the eyes of those businessmen, Wu Shengjun is here to help them open up business, and their booty is also the richest piece of their business interests. Not to mention that the Wusheng army is now fighting to the death in the front, because of this, there has never been a shortage of materials in the Wusheng army.

This time, the military marquis who transported the supplies was Wu Jie, and the handsome young man had long been turned into a bearded reckless man by the scorching sun of Guangnan, sitting on the head of an elephant with his legs crossed, chewing betel nut in his mouth, and spitting a mouthful of purple-red saliva from time to time. There was a strong crossbow that had been wound at hand, and as the elephant strode forward, his body also jolted, and now that he had reached the area where the wingmen lived, he did not dare to be careless in the slightest, lest the wingmen who did not want to die rush out and rob him.

The wingmen's quarters have been walked for the most part, and there is still no possible attack, which is very abnormal, and the scouts sent out continue to hear the sound of peaceful birdsong in the mountains and forests on both sides, or three times, which means that there is not a single wingman in this place.

His lieutenant Chu Dazhi got off his horse, climbed onto the back of the elephant and said to Wu Jie: "It's not right, I always feel that the silence here makes people panic, are all the wingmen piled together waiting for us in front?" Once we get out of the mountains, where will they have the opportunity to fight us? Is there some conspiracy? ”

Wu Jie shook his head and said: "Let's be careful, the wingmen have suffered heavy casualties this time, and they have been poisoned by the plague again, I don't know how many of them can be left, Di Shuai is a famous general, and the area that his old man has walked all the way is logically safe, this time they are in appeasement of the state, I think Di Shuai has appeased this place." ”

Chu Dazhi said in astonishment: "You mean that Di Shuai is deliberately creating a no-man's land?" ”

Wu Jie rolled his eyes and said: "The appeasement of our Wu Shengjun and the appeasement of Di Shuai are two different things, we think that only the dead enemy is a good enemy, and it is not the first time that Di Shuai has appeased the place." ”

Chu Dazhi said angrily: "What is appeasement? Isn't it just to use appeasement and sacrifice to seek local stability, do you think Di Shuai and the 30,000 tigers and wolves of the Western Army are here to compromise? ”

Wu Jie spit out a mouthful of betel nut water, Chu Dazhi turned his head disgustedly, Wu Jie laughed and said with a blood-red mouth full of betel nuts: "Di Shuai is a gentleman, and our Wu Shengjun is a villain, you must distinguish between the two."

Since it is a gentleman, Di Shuai's strategy of Jin Sui is, of course, based on bitter persuasion, and of course it is supplemented by killing such things that cannot be put on the table, Di Shuai is different from us, as long as we are unhappy in the army, take off our armor and put on green shirts, who dares to say that we are not personable soldiers? Even if we kill, we can find a thousand reasons to extricate ourselves, this is the advantage of being a soldier first and then a soldier, whether it is a writer or a martial artist, we can advance and retreat freely.

Di Shuai and they are different, don't look at his current scenery, haven't you heard of the tragic situation of Di Shuai howling and crying when his titan was beheaded? Don't make trouble for him, it's better for us to take care of things a little more.

"The way you chew betel nut is disgusting!" Chu Dazhi slipped off the elephant with a smile and scolded, and led the horse team to search and move forward again, the leading soldiers were constantly changing, and it was very troublesome to walk in the first place to cut the branches on the road with a knife.

The river turned into a waterfall, the mountain road became flat in an instant, and when the gunpowder was removed from the back of the elephants, the elephants rushed to the bottom of the waterfall to take a bath, and their cheerful cries could be heard for miles.

The cautious Chu Dazhi personally led the scouts to search forward for fifteen miles, and when he came back, his face was full of sadness, the plains in front were true, but there were swamps everywhere, if he couldn't find a suitable path, there was no way to move forward, and he didn't know how Di Qing's army walked over.

Chu Dazhi told Wu Jie about the previous situation, Wu Jie, who was bathing at the bottom of the waterfall, put on his clothes and said with a smile: "30,000 people have passed, Lao Chu, you haven't found any clues?" ”

Chu Dazhi nodded and said: "There is a slip of white bones in the middle of the swamp, all of which are the white bones of people who are hung on the shelf, it is estimated that they are the locals killed by Di Shuaitong when he was in the swamp, I don't like to pass through that white bone road, and besides, it has been flooded, and our elephants are too heavy to walk on the swamp." ”

Wu Jie pointed to a large pile of supplies and said: "I think we have actually arrived at our destination, Di Shuai does not need us to enter other people's military camps, he will definitely worry that we will pass the plague over, the general also said that the two armies are not suitable for contact, after all, we are from the epidemic area, as long as three piles of wolf smoke are lit here, naturally someone will come to answer, our task is over, after sending this batch of materials, the will of the imperial court should also come down, and when the time comes, our two armies will go north and west, and there will be no time to meet." ”

Chu Dazhi breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that Wu Jie began to be in charge of guarding, and he also took off his clothes and began to take a shower, it was already very hot in March in Guangnan, what a hell.

There is no wind today, three yellow and blackened wolf smoke rushed straight into the sky, it didn't take much effort, three wolf smoke also rose on the opposite side of the swamp, Wu Jie stood on a high place and stared at the swamp with his hand on the pergola, a team of people dragged something along the swamp to walk slowly where there was a white bone mark, and when these people came ashore, the sun was already westward.

Ma Jinhu used the fire to roast his hand fork hot, put the hand fork on his leg, and after a while, a lot of locusts fell on the ground, looking at the round body of the grasshopper, and stepped on the ground with blood.

Seeing that his subordinates had finished dealing with the water locusts, the golden tiger bared his white teeth and said to Wu Jie with a smile: "Good brother sends things hundreds of miles away, brother, I can't repay it, so I use my own blood as a gift, brothers won't think I'm rude, right?" ”

Wu Jie laughed, unscrewed the wine jug, poured the liquor inside on Ma Jinhu's lap to disinfect, Ma Jinhu grabbed the wine jug and poured it directly into his mouth, and drank a big sip before saying: "Don't waste it, I will be bitten when I go back tomorrow, or drink it until my stomach is comfortable, damn, I have to use a plug to stuff my asshole when I walk in the swamp, and I want to cry when I think of it." ”

Chu Dazhi took out two silk shorts from his horse bag and gave them to Ma Jinhu and said: "Hurry up and throw away those disgusting things, go wash and change into such underwear, when you go down to the swamp, remember that the beef tendon on the panty leg and waist of the panties should be tightened, the beef tendon will become loose after soaking in water for a long time." ”

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Chapter I