Chapter 436: The Land of Practicing Horses

"Childe."

"Meet Childe!"

When Fusu, the son of the prison army, walked into the cangcheng, the people who were pushing the grain cart saw him, and they bowed down one after another, unlike the fear of the Qin officials' whipping, the people loved this benevolent son from the heart.

After all, all the way, Qin officials sang black faces, and Gongzi sang red faces.

"Hurry up."

Fusu let everyone be exempted, but in Cangcheng, after hearing that Gongzi was coming, more and more people worshipped down, in order not to cause blockages, Fusu could only not walk the streets and alleys, but instead climbed the city wall and walked through the road of the city wall.

The small town where he was located was newly built by the Qin army stationed here in the past six months, and it stored weapons, arrows, armor, and tens of thousands of stone grain transported from Beidi County

, so it is called "Cangcheng". Different from the simplicity of Huamachi Rong City half a mile away, although Cangcheng is not high, the city walls are thick and heavily guarded.

Every morning, there is a steady stream of people escorting a grain cart full of corn pot helmets, entering from the south gate of Cangcheng, leaving empty from the east gate, changing a group of people and horses, and immediately turning back to the south the next day.

Fusu's daily work is to inspect Cangcheng, and at the same time keep an eye on the books, and the daily grain comes and goes.

This is forced by the situation, as a supervising army, Fusu cannot always run to the front line of the battlefield, and is mainly responsible for supervising grain - even if the generals have abnormal movements, as soon as the food is cut off, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, they all have to become starving.

Heifu also knew that this boy was a novice, and he was prone to compassion, for fear that he would make some kind of moth for himself. Fortunately, there were Beidi Cangfu and Changshi sent by the county guard to assist, and there was the school captain Zhao Ben as the assistant, half of it was advice, half of it was guidance, so there was nothing wrong.

After a month of contact, Fusu also began to gradually become familiar with this work, and the other things that required him to do were very simple: if the grain transported and the food consumed were equal, he could breathe a sigh of relief, and once the income was less than the output, he had to start worrying, and immediately apply for the southern grain team, and speed up the pace!

That's right, after Fusu came to Biansai, the first thing he changed was to learn to make it, order it, and rule it appropriately while loving the people like a child!

No, although Beidi County sent 30,000 troops this time, in fact, only 10,000 chariots and cavalry soldiers were taken by Heifu to join forces with Li Xin and attack Helan together. There were still 5,000 soldiers, divided into three parts, 1,000 men stayed behind to guard the Shenquan Barrier, where they set up a rudimentary fortress and warehouse, 2,000 men were stationed in Huamachi and Cangcheng, and another 2,000 were responsible for protecting the people who were transporting grain to and fro.

The 15,000 people were also divided into two, 10,000 people carried grain back and forth from the north to Huamachi, and 5,000 people carried grain from Huamachi to Shenquan Mountain, and brought back the wounded and sick soldiers......

Beidi Cang Sifu calculated an account for Fusu: not counting the food of livestock, 30,000 foreign soldiers and Ding, counting the losses along the way, will eat 40,000 stone of grain a month!

"Therefore, 40,000 stones need to be transported from the north to Huamachi every month so that the army will not starve."

The location of this long-distance transportation did not start at Xiaoguan, first of all, at least 6,000 northerners had to transport grain from the county warehouse to Xiaoguan. Those grains were transported from Neishi to the north for hoarding in the past six months, which is why the Qin Dynasty has delayed until now. Cangqifu estimated that if the war lasted for more than three months, it would be necessary to increase the grain transported from the north of Neishi, and tens of thousands of people would have to transport grain from Xianyang, Qicang, and Yunyang.

What does it mean that the grain that is shipped to the Northland is dry and easy to preserve, and it needs to be made into rice flour before it can be stopped? In Beidi County, since the arrival of Heifu, although there are also hydraulic equipment such as grinding and grinding, and animal grinding and vertebrae have also appeared, the main force of work is still people. It is necessary for 4,000 subordinate concubines to use the rice day and night, and the stone grinding flour can meet the monthly amount of rice noodles.

If we go back to the roots, in the Guanzhong Plain, at least 20,000 people are responsible for producing these grains.

As soon as Cang Qifu made a calculation, Fusu couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that 10,000 people were in charge of fighting thousands of miles away, and 70,000 people would have to supply them!

"Whoever has a 100,000 teachers, goes on a journey of thousands of miles, the people's expenses, the public family's dedication, the daily expenses of thousands of gold, internal and external disturbances, neglects on the road, and cannot do anything, 700,000 ......"

Fusu really understands this sentence, Sun Tzu is worthy of everyone who understands the essence of war, war is extremely consuming of national strength and people's strength, so although the country is big, belligerence will be dangerous!

If you don't fight, forget it, but once you fight, you have to go all out, such a complicated production and transportation, if something goes wrong in one link, it will affect the life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers!

Fusu didn't dare to delay the date again because of the pity of the people, as he did when he came.

The supply of the Qin army was so difficult, and the Huns knew it very well, so they fortified the wall and cleared the wilderness and moved all the herdsmen and sheep away, which was easy for the Huns......

However, the idea of the Huns is probably about to fail, and as far as Fusu knows, the Northland Lieutenant has made a lot of preparations for this. Those who went west with an army of 10,000 people, in addition to enough to eat fried rice for half a month, there were also thousands of Rong people and 10,000 Huamachi sheep. They will eat grass leisurely in Shenquan Mountain, and if the army does not have enough food, they can kill sheep at any time to replenish supplies, which is also a method learned from the Huns.

The only hidden danger is that after the army marches westward, Shenquan, Huamachi and the grain teams along the way will be attacked by the Huns, but Fusu is not too worried.

He has already received news from Shangjun: Shangjun has also sent troops, and its troops are divided into two routes, and the general Qiang Qi led the main force to the north, wanting to surrender the Lou Fu Department first, and then cross the river to occupy the ancient city of Jiuyuan, and Meng Tian will meet in the royal court of Shan Yu, and fight a decisive battle with the main force.

The captain of the upper county, Feng Zai, with 20,000 foot cavalry, under the leadership of the Linhu people, went west deep into Henan and attacked the Baiyang Department that was dependent on the Xiongnu. This way can cover the long grain route of the Beidi Army, and it can also prevent the Huns in Helan Mountain from retreating north, so that they will be attacked from three sides!

The Huns may not have realized it yet, they have been caught in a large encirclement!

Seeing that the decisive battle was getting closer and closer, although Fusu opposed rash border provocations, he also wanted to go to the front line to see and truly experience what war was like.

He must know what kind of scene is the war in which his father and emperor diligently pursue, the Legalists continue to agitate, the Moshi vigorously oppose it, the Confucian scholars are noncommittal, the military generals are extremely enthusiastic, the Qin people are happy when they hear it, the people talk about it, and the benevolent people sigh and sigh.

As soon as he said and did it, Fusu asked the messenger to bring a letter to Heifu and Li Xinji on the front line.

"The one who oversees the army not only oversees the grain, but also oversees the affairs of the army. If the prince of Qin appears on the front line and practices the land of the horses, the soldiers will be inspired, and when the three generals attack Helan and compete with the Huns, Fusu hopes to watch the battle nearby! ”

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At the same time, thousands of miles away in the clouds, a long and narrow stone wall stretches for hundreds of miles among the peaks and hills at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain......

This is the Great Wall of Zhao built by King Wuling of Zhao, it starts in the Dynasty, goes west along the Yin Mountain, and ends at Gaoque. After the great decline of the national strength of the Zhao State in the Battle of Changping, it was abandoned, the Huns roared from the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, they demolished the Jiuyuan City, and began to take away the bricks and stones on the Great Wall of Zhao, which were used to tamp the felt tent of the sheepfold, and near the Great Wall of Zhao, the first Manchester City was established, and the single was set up in the royal court.

But now, after decades, the flag of the Central Plains is once again fluttering on a long-abandoned beacon tower, only not "Zhao", but "Qin"!

General Meng Tian looked at the rekindled beacon proudly, he admired and admired Li Mu, and now, he wanted to do what Li Mu wanted to do but couldn't: sweep the royal court! Destroy the Huns for Your Majesty!

It is believed that the messenger reported that General Qiang of Shangjun had successfully crossed the boundary of Lou's annoying territory, crossed the river, and arrived at the ancient city of Jiuyuan.

Meng Tian's army went hundreds of miles west of Wuquansai in Yunzhong County, all the way to restore the Great Wall of Zhao, but did not encounter the Huns to stop it, and successfully arrived here, a hundred miles south of them, that is, Shan Yu Wangting......

The next thing to do is to have two Qin armies in the north and south, go through the royal court, bait the tiger's mouth, pick a strong Hu, behead Man, and destroy the Huns!

According to the scout's report, there were still a large number of Huns active in Toumancheng, and the cautious Meng Tian ordered the commander Wang Li to lead thousands of chariots and horses to close up to investigate, but Meng Tian did not expect that it was Wang Li who personally replied.

"General Meng!"

Wang Li was in high spirits when he set out, and decided to make a good contribution, so that people would know that it was not a lie that he "wished to have 100,000 people and run rampant among the Huns", but when he returned, his expression was solemn.

"The subordinates sent people to reconnoiter nearby, only to find that the so-called main force of the Huns was just some ordinary herdsmen, and when they saw my front approaching, they were all scattered as birds and beasts, and they captured a few people and asked, all of them said that Shan Yu had already left for many days. I took people into Manchester City, only to find that it was empty, all the food and people had been emptied, and to the forest to the south of it, there was not a single person or animal in the big tent of the royal court! ”

"General Meng, Shan Yu Wangting, it is empty, the main force of the Huns, nowhere to be found!"