"How far has the team gone today?" Shen Changwen asked Xu Yan.

"Thirty-five kilometers," Xu Yan looked at the map in his hand, "the main thing is that the old people and children are walking too slowly, the weather is hot, and there are many sick numbers," he pointed to the camp marked by the Red Cross in the distance: "Those are hot, and there is too little water on the road...... We thought of everything, but we forgot to bring more plastic bottled water. ”

There was no shortage of rivers along the route, but due to the limitations of the containers that could hold water in this era, the marching troops inevitably encountered the challenge of water shortage.

Shen Changwen now had to send a special team to find water around, which even affected the support for Wu Xiaoqing on the front line.

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not a lack of water, but a lack of enough clean water.

If water is available to all by the standards of the era itself.

Water? Isn't that simple?

Find a shady place in the mountains and forests on the side of the road, and there are small puddles of stagnant water everywhere, and you can squat down and drink to your heart's content.

Even if you pay attention to it, there are many villages along the way, almost every household has a large clay pot to store water, and many wells can be found in the village.

However, for a large-scale team, there are undoubtedly too many hidden dangers in the quality of these waters, and Shen Changwen had to ask all the soldiers looking for water to collect and disinfect the water before it can be used by people, so that the efficiency of finding water is greatly reduced.

After the lack of water is naturally disease, so many people simply can't manage it, they will try to save trouble and drink raw water when they are thirsty, plus the hot weather, drink a lot, once they encounter the source of water with the source of infection, it will soon become a bunch of sick numbers.

"Wang Youquan," Shen Changwen shouted through the radio equipment, "From today onwards, you will be in charge of the water, and you will bring more water, and I don't need to teach you the disinfection procedures...... If the bleaching * is not enough, boil the water...... Tell everyone below that the enemy has poisoned the water, and drinking water will poison you...... What poison? Any poison can be! This water is poisonous! ”

The radio came down from the other end.

"Xu Yan," Shen Changwen said again, "You can put the matter here aside for the time being, Wu Xiaoqing has a situation over there, you want a batch of reinforcements, you lead the team, there is no danger along the way, but you still have to pay attention." By the way, you remember, when you see someone, you run to the team, don't run around alone...... Learn to ride a horse more along the way, and really need to escape for your life. ”

Xu Yan didn't think that the current battle situation was as bad as Shen Changwen said: "Didn't Angkor already beat them?" All the way, we didn't even see anyone harassing us on the road. ”

After Wu Xiaoqing left, the command of the entire army was actually held by King Elise himself.

According to King Elis's initial estimates, they must have encountered harassment from enemies from all sides along the way.

According to King Elis's understanding of the Kingdom of Louis, in the original plan, let alone getting supplies along the way, he might not even see a living person.

However, from the present point of view, the enemy, not to mention the scorched earth operation, has now disappeared for a long time even the slightest reconnaissance and harassment. ——Judging from the situation in Xiaoyang City reported by Wu Xiaoqing, it is obvious that the enemy has now been frightened.

"That being said, but a war is a war, always thinking about the worst. How much electricity is left? ”

"I just charged it yesterday, and it's all full."

"Then you can set off tomorrow again, and help show another movie tonight, when you leave, our movie will be difficult."

The so-called movie is to pull a white cloth and use a projector to broadcast various videos downloaded from the laptop.

The content of the video is all clips that Shen Changwen and others have formulated in advance—when mobilizing in the city, this method has been unprecedentedly popular and well received by everyone.

Modern entertainment from the 21st century earth can be imagined to be lethal to the indigenous people of the Middle Ages.

During the march, these films had a very positive effect on morale, and the only flaw was that these things were only available to the four of them in modern times, and they were very power-intensive – that is, labor-intensive in this day and age. Every day, just to charge the battery pack, it takes Shen Changwen several hours of time.

Shen Changwen is a professor, and now he is basically about to become an electrician and supervisor - after the circuit is built, he also arranges a group of people to use the hand-cranked generator to generate electricity.

"There are also leaflets, while there is still electricity, we can simply use them together, and the propaganda leaflet that was said at yesterday's meeting that it is not allowed to steal grain will be printed in the evening, and another 500 copies will be printed...... How many meals has the king eaten today? ”

"Two meals, the record of the injection time is here." Xu Yan handed Shen Changwen a small notebook.

Since the king was mentioned, there was another thing Xu Yan also felt necessary to say: "And there is him, this king...... Isn't that a bit excessive? Today alone, more than 40 fingers were chopped off. ”

Xu Yan was talking about stealing grain, because most of the food was carried by people, but they were not allowed to steal it themselves. So it's inevitable that someone will want to steal the grain. According to the plan, Shen Changwen set up a whistleblower system in the team, as long as he reported others stealing food, he would be rewarded heavily. Those who were caught were handed over to the king to dispose of, and his method of disposal was to roll the dice and chop off his fingers according to the law of Elis.

Shen Changwen looked at Xu Yan: "I can't see that you are quite soft-hearted." ”

Xu Yan smiled awkwardly. Shen Changwen then sneered and said: "You'd better get used to it now, it's just a finger now, and when the matter over there is over with Wu Xiaoqing, I'm afraid it's going to be beheaded every day." ”

……

"Angkor, you're in a good place now!" Looking at Wu Xiaoqing's blood-stained armor and riding on a high war horse in a mighty uniform, Xu Yan regretted it a little.

When the meeting was first held, I should have taken the initiative to fight for the position of the forward commander!

How much risk was it to fight the ancients...... Walking behind Wu Xiaoqing and them, they said that they were enemy territory, and they couldn't even see a ghost shadow along the way.

Wu Xiaoqing took a look at the more than 1,000 people brought by Xu Yan, and the original more than 500 people gathered together, and it was like a mess.

The new soldiers who came to support were even more excited than Xu Yan, and they all looked at the heavy loot of the forward cavalry with envy, and many soldiers had even begun to talk about the trade of the loot now.

Looking at the scorching sun overhead, and then at the dense human heads on the distant city wall, Wu Xiaoqing felt very irritable in his heart.

Xu Yan had just come and didn't know the situation, but now in Xiaoyang City, opposite them, there were already more than 5,000 troops, and follow-up reinforcements continued to rush over.

And Wu Xiaoqing can use 1,500 people.

If it weren't for the fact that the enemy was now frightened, the search and rescue team would not have considered setting up camp so close to the city. Wu Xiaoqing didn't dare to delay for a moment now, and even when he slept during the day, he had to set an alarm clock and patrol every two hours on average to ensure that the enemy did not assemble in the city to prepare for a counterattack.

Wu Xiaoqing is now worried about his life at any time, and then these medieval natives will always cause him something unimaginable.

"More than three times as much as us?" Xu Yan was a little frightened by the news, but he quickly put his mind at ease again, "Then don't be afraid, don't we still have *?" ”

"* Only sieges work...... Field combat was poor. "The search and rescue team is still urging the main force to send a larger reinforcement force as soon as possible, and it only makes sense to blast and attack the city if the force is sufficient.

If its own strength is far worse than that of the city, then the meaning of the blast is at best to blow up one or two hundred people on the city wall.

"So we're dangerous?" Xu Yan looked at the city wall in the distance, and couldn't help but worry.

"It's always been dangerous, but we're not afraid, we're hanging." Wu Xiaoqing wanted Xu Yan to be vigilant, but he didn't want to scare him into thinking nonsense, so he pointed to his glasses and said, "If they want to come out, I will know in advance." ”

Xu Yan looked at the glasses and couldn't help but ask again: "Brother Ang, can you lend me a look...... I heard that the search and rescue team gave it to you personally? Was it taken from an alien spaceship? ”

Wu Xiaoqing was a little strange: "Who did you listen to?" ”

He and Shen Changwen also knew about this.

"Professor Shen once said that he slipped his mouth...... What Uncle Wang heard, Uncle Wang told me, "Uncle Wang is obviously Wang Youquan," Angkor is now in the same boat...... Don't you worry about me? ”

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head: "The search and rescue team specifically said that I can't give glasses to others." "People like Xu Yan are really not reassuring.

"Okay......"

"Others", this word made Xu Yan feel a little sad, and the experience of being an official during this period of time made Xu Yan feel that he was now a core member, "Then let me ask more, is this thing that can see a person's past and future?" ”

"Past and future?" Wu Xiaoqing frowned, "What kind of mess is this?" ”

"Nothing?"

"Nope."

"Really?"

"Of course not! Who do you listen to? What do you think about the past and the future? ”

"Ah......" Xu Yan's face was full of disappointment, he originally wanted Wu Xiaoqing to use this alien high-tech glasses to calculate his future.

"Let's talk about what is in front of us," Wu Xiaoqing said, pointing to the city wall in front of him, "let your people start sleeping now, we are all fighting at night." ”

"Ah, why at night? Night Raid? ”

"That's pretty much what it means," Wu Xiaoqing didn't want to explain to Xu Yan, pointing to the messy and noisy soldiers in the camp and said, "Let your people go back first, and the search and rescue team will let us camp separately at night." Let them all be ready, there may be a war at night...... They've probably never seen a blast. ”

"Cut, where are they going to see you......" Xu Yan said, and as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he hadn't seen it himself. At least I've heard of it, Xu Yan hurriedly comforted himself again.

"Then tell them in advance, don't scare them all," Wu Xiaoqing already has experience in this regard, "Also, build your camp a little bigger, a little farther away from the city, about two kilometers, and repair it in a few days, you can put tens of thousands of people." ”

"Tens of thousands of ......," Xu Yan suddenly realized, "Ah, is this a bluff to scare them?" ”

"Why do you talk so much, it's over to carry out the order." When Xu Yan didn't come, Wu Xiaoqing still felt strange and lonely, and when he came, Wu Xiaoqing felt that this person was really a little annoying.

These orders are all from the search and rescue team, and Wu Xiaoqing now knows that he should not ask everything, especially this level that they don't know at all, because asking too much can only make him appear mentally retarded.

But Xu Yan obviously doesn't have this consciousness yet, just like when he was in the city before, Xu Yan always liked to talk more every time he had a meeting.