The word war is often described as a "giant meat grinder". But in fact, it strangled not only the flesh and blood of the soldiers on both sides, but also the wealth and social resources accumulated by the two sides participating in the war for many years. To paraphrase the common people's saying, to fight a war is to fight money.

Youbei Third Road is a grass platform team, counting from the three generations of Yan Qinghong's ancestors, there is no rich person at all; Although the Mobei grassland has also changed two masters, it still can't change the embarrassing fact that it is poor and relies on friends to help; Although the land of Sanqin is rich, it can barely support hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians; If a war were to be waged, it would be equally fantastical.

Therefore, without the continuous blood supply of Di Ting, the princes of these two families who took the initiative to provoke the war are now a little unsustainable. Today, Chaolu and Saldi are ignoring the crumbling Qingshan City, which is just a handful of dry firewood; Instead, he risked his life and went straight to the great desert city of "general" Li Zilin.

Because the Shenshi Alliance in the Mobei Grassland and the Shenshi army under Qingshan City have all run out of food.

Whether it is the Qin army or the Shenshi army; The two of them's food, grass, armor, ordnance, and even some of their salaries, as well as intelligence sources, all came from the full support of Di Ting. Therefore, this war between the two sides is actually a "proxy" war that Nankang secretly manipulated with a large number of silver tickets.

Over the years, the two routes of light and darkness have gone hand in hand, deeply cultivating every inch of land in the Huayu Continent, and two material operation channels have already been deployed. It's just that in the original layout of Guan Beidou, the Youbei Third Road at this moment should have been reduced to an "enclave" in Nankang under the poison of A Hibiscus ointment; And the overall framework of the Youbei Imperial Court has also become a shell of Nankang's resurrection of the soul.

With the two-sided attack of the Youbei Third Road and the Qin army, there is no need for the Mobei people to participate in it.

It's just that the appearance of Shen Gui not only stopped Guan Beidou's plan of "coercing Yan Daytime to order Youbei", but also grasped the life-saving straw of Chaolu and launched a full-scale war in advance by unconsciously continuing to exert pressure and forcing Di Ting to reopen the material operation channel on the Eastern Front.

In Guan Beidou's early conception, the material transportation route of the Qin army's western route should be to go north through the Yizhou section of the Huajiang River and enter the land of Sanqin; The eastern line of the Youbei army should be loaded from Shencheng Wharf, take the outer sea route, enter Dongyouwan, and finally arrive at Ninghai Port on Guanbei Road.

It was also the birth of Shen Gui, which directly destroyed this open sea grain route with higher efficiency and lower loss; Therefore, since the war on the Huayu Continent, all the supplies on the Eastern Front battlefield have crossed the Huajiang River north through Yizhou and re-split into two parts in the land of Sanqin; After that, it went north into the Mobei Hetao, and then went all the way to the east and arrived at the foot of Fuyu City for the Shenshi army to replenish supplies.

Not to mention that this forced operation route is already rugged and bumpy, difficult and difficult to navigate; In terms of distance alone, it is also 6,000 miles away from Yizhou to Fuyu City via Hetao!

Judging from the map, it is nothing more than a long detour; However, you can simply calculate an account to know how much logistical pressure Nankang, the gold owner, is under.

The most fertile land in the Huayu continent is the Youbei Third Road. Here one acre and one season can harvest about 300 catties of grain; As for the ordinary land, the yield per mu is about 200 catties; It's just that the climate in the north is cold, so it can only be harvested once a year; The south has a warm climate and abundant water sources, so it can reach the level of two harvests a year, or even three harvests.

The average ration consumption of a sergeant is about two catties per person per day, which is sixty catties of grain a month. In this battle, the Qin army was dispatched in three times, with nearly 500,000 combatable soldiers; and the Shenshi Alliance, with about 60,000 cavalry; As for the Huashen Sect as a "cannon fodder regiment", although it has the most personnel, due to the extremely fast consumption rate, it is almost the same to prepare a standing ration of 50,000 people.

After calculating the consumption, let's calculate the transportation.

The grain carried by three people can be supplied to a soldier in front of him for 30 days. And they crossed the long supply line of 6,000 miles, and it would be two to three months later at the earliest, before they could reach Buyeo City; And the food these three men consumed on the journey was at least ten times more than what they carried!

However, this is only the consumption of rations; soybean cakes needed by livestock, medicinal herbs needed by the wounded; the armor of the soldiers, the feathered arrows in the quiver of the crossbowmen; From the long-distance transportation of siege equipment, to the saddles and horseshoes of war horses; Such "small problems" that are easily overlooked by others have brought a tremendous burden to the logistical support work.

the Diting organization that has been crazy about accumulating wealth in Huayu Continent for decades; In addition, the Nankang Dynasty, which was rich in Jiangnan and easy to pass through the world, with such a rich family background, only supplied three times for the eastern and western battlefields, and it was already squandered.

It seems that the personal grievances between Shen Gui and Di Ting, compared with the general trend of the world in Huayu Continent, are not worth mentioning at all; But in fact, it was precisely because of Shen Gui's actions that led to the lack of shipping on the eastern route and directly drained every drop of blood in Nankang's body.

Just imagine, if at this moment, the three roads of Youbei are already in the hands of the Nankang people, what will it be? Although the voyage from Shencheng to Ninghai County was still between two and three months; But the carrying capacity of a giant flying sand ship is about two million catties; And the required crew and the non-commissioned officers of the ship are only fifty people.

Speaking of the ability to operate boats and water battles, even if the princes of the entire Chinese-speaking continent are tied together and turned over a few more times, they are not the enemies of the Nankang family!

So when the third batch of materials arrived in Chang'an, in fact, the meeting in Jiankang City had already become a pot of hot porridge. So when Guan Beidou learned that Song Xingzhou, the backer of Di Ting, was overturned by a Taoist boy, he didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately rushed back to Nankang with the black dog.

Others may not know, but Guan Beidou understands better than anyone else: Song Xingzhou's sudden departure will have such a huge impact.

First of all, Di Ting is just a half-black, half-hundred, non-governmental organization, and the fundamental reason why Di Ting can hold the invisible voice in the Nankang Dynasty is that Di Ting's pervasive intelligence network, coupled with Song Xingzhou's absolute big killer.

With the assistance of the intelligence system, Diting can accurately grasp everyone's shortcomings; With the Heavenly Spirit Vein in charge, you can recruit the world's talents, and make those stubborn and upright hard bones disappear invisibly.

But now that Song Xingzhou is dead, not to mention whether only a black dog and the Qilin Jun who is far away on the battlefield in the north can appease those reckless rivers and lakes; Just to say that the Council of Elders and the Council of Laws, which have been restrained for a long time, have finally loosened their ropes, and a huge storm will inevitably brew.

And the center of this storm is a complete severance with Diting.

In the final analysis, the reason why the "great unification" plan proposed by Di Ting has received the full support of many forces in Nankang is because it contains huge benefits. The land and natural resources of Youbei Sanlu, the land of Sanqin has an excellent commercial heritage, the Mobei grassland is a unique war horse pasture, and the two roads of Zhongzhou and Ludong have an inexhaustible supply of "hard labor and slaves......

As long as the Northern Yan Dynasty completely falls, then all this beauty will be open to Nankang.

When Nankang succeeded in changing the dynasty, those who held the inherent strength of such wealth would inevitably be purged once and for all; And those vacated handicaps can just satisfy the expanding ambitions and appetites of Nankang people......

Due to the nature of the work, except for those who are the top geniuses of business, the eyes of ordinary businessmen are inevitably a little shallow. Now that the war on the eastern and western fronts has been frustrated at the same time, even if Youbei and Beiyan have no strength to resist, if they want to take the Huayu Continent, they will have to drag it out until late autumn or early winter at the earliest.

That is to say, if they want to make a profit, these wealthy businessmen and famous families need to make up at least half of the capital and three more rounds of supplies for the east and west lines.

In all fairness, these wealthy businessmen and wealthy people are all people who do big business, so they naturally understand the truth of "seeking wealth and danger"; It's a pity that all resources such as grain, timber, medicinal materials, iron ore, and population have reached the point where they have no market!

With such a huge consumption, Huayu Continent can't afford it!

So, under the initiative of the president of the Presbyterian Church, the head of the Shen family in Gusu, and Shen Ju Shen Caotang; The Nankang Presbyterian Church and the 300 counselors of the Council finally reached a consensus.

Stop losses in time.

Of course, from the perspective of Nankang people, it is only a matter of time before they cut the table with Di Ting, who specializes in dirty work. Now that Song Xingzhou, the biggest threat, is dead, they no longer have any scruples.

Of course, no longer supplying the two agents of the East and West does not mean that they will give up their desire to chase the Central Plains; After all, a huge amount of capital has been invested, and every penny of silver must not be spent in vain!

Guan Beidou knew in his heart that it was a matter of course for the Great Elder Shen Ju to turn against Di Ting. Because of Li Zilin's unexpected defection in Youbei and his wanton flattery to Chaolu, it directly led to the Gusu Shen family, facing a desperate end!

Now that Di heard that there was a fire in his backyard, Guan Beidou must go back to preside over the overall situation. And the "agents of war" on the eastern and western fronts were naturally left hanging there.

King Qin's days of Zhou Changfeng were barely passable; After all, his father and son have been through the land of Sanqin for two generations, and they are diligent and frugal enough on weekdays; After years of accumulation, it can be regarded as a "thin family"; In addition, the flowery city of Chang'an can trade with Hu merchants at any time; Even if Di Ting removed the ladder, they could barely support it for a while.

But Chaolu, who was born as a slave, can be regarded as completely collapsed; Not only did he have no food in the army, but he also had no food in his tribe; Not even a chance to trade with other people! If you don't rush to take the big granary of Dongyou Road before the autumn harvest, not to mention how the battle of Youbei should end; Just say that those small clans who have already submitted to the Shenshi Alliance will also tear him apart!

Therefore, the Chaolu couple went south this time, and they had no intention of returning to the ASEAN pasture!