On the afternoon of the sixth day of November in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

An unknown village in the south of Baoding Prefecture.

Lu Yuan's mighty army began to camp here to rest.

Supervisor Liu Yuliang and Liu Tingshu, the chief soldier of the Beijing battalion, also took 20,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion to rest here.

After all, Liu Yuliang and the 20,000 Beijing battalion soldiers he gathered were afraid of Jiannu, and only the mighty army that followed Lu Yuan would give them a sense of security.

However, although Liu Yuliang followed Lu Yuan, he basically did not interfere in Lu Yuan's internal affairs in the mighty army.

And the Beijing battalion soldiers and the mighty army also built their own camps.

Liu Tingshu's Beijing battalion soldiers camped in the north of Fangshun River near the village.

The mighty army camped in the south of Fangshun River, near the village.

There are two roads north of the Fangshun River, a big road leads to the Baoding Mansion City when it comes, and a small road leads to the full city, if the Jiannu attack, it is very convenient to retreat.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Tingshu set up the Beijing camp in Fangshun Hebei.

Lu Yuan did not fight with him, but took the initiative to tie up the mighty army in the south of Fangshun River, and the avenue across the bridge south of Fangshun River led directly to Qingdu City.

If Jiannu wanted to attack the camp, Lu Yuan's mighty army camp would naturally bear the brunt.

But.

Lu Yuan didn't worry about this, first of all, Lu Xiangsheng's Xuan soldiers had already crossed the river first and camped in the area between Tang County and Qingdu, so they could completely cooperate with him.

Secondly, he still has a Fang Shun River to rely on, and if he can't do it, he can go to Qingyuan City in the east to defend the city.

Throughout the morning, the baggage brigade of the mighty army began to set up camp.

According to the design of the General Staff, the camp built by the mighty army was to build two lines of defense, the first line of defense was to set up barbed wire fences on three sides except for the river.

The barbed wire fence column was naturally designed to stop the raid of the Nu cavalry.

Iron wire existed as early as the Han Dynasty, but the iron wire of the mighty army was drawn directly through the mold with liquid steel, and it had already been mass-produced, so there was no problem with it as a defensive equipment for temporary camps.

Moreover, the wire of the mighty army also has its own small iron thorns, which can cause greater casualties to the enemy cavalry and horses that come to raid.

Meanwhile.

This wire with iron spikes also prevents wild dogs from intruding.

Now because of the repeated military disasters, there are corpses everywhere, which has led to a flood of wild dogs.

These wild dogs feed on human carrion, and the entire Baoding Mansion was slaughtered by Jiannu and sparsely populated, so these wild dogs are not afraid of people.

If the battalion is not properly defended, there will even be individual officers and soldiers who act alone and will be attacked by wild dogs and will be bitten to death.

Especially after dark, it is even more dangerous.

And with barbed wire, it can be well guarded, and these barbed wire fences are also hung with bells, which can also provide a signal to the whole army when there is an alarm.

As for the iron wire with iron thorns, it is naturally the spring breeze machinery company of the mighty army that pulls the liquid steel through a mold, and only the mighty army can realize the mass production of this industrial product.

Of course.

If it weren't for the protection of Liu Yuliang, the overseer, and Lu Yuan's great reputation for defeating Jiannu twice in a row, these iron wires with iron bars could only be directly requisitioned by other chief officers or deputy chief soldiers.

However, the reality is that Liu Tingshu in Jingying did not dare to do this, and even purchased iron wire from Lu Yuan.

But Liu Tingshu didn't have much money, and he had to take out most of the money left over from drinking soldiers' blood and eating empty salaries to honor his superiors, so he didn't buy much from Lu Yuan, and only enough to put up a barbed wire fence around his own military tent.

As for the periphery, it can only be simply set up with some low earth walls.

And there are not many horse rejection stakes, because the cunning Jiannu doesn't know whether it is to keep out the cold or to facilitate the charge of his cavalry, so he burned the trees near the entire Baoding Mansion and cut them down.

The army was no longer able to set up a large number of horse rejection piles in a short period of time.

However, this is not difficult to defeat the mighty army, the mighty army also has cement to build a second line of defense in the barbed wire fence, with dense cement horse arrest cones and concrete walls, which can not only build a solid defense line in a short time, but also play a role in keeping out the cold and fire.

However, the mighty army did not bring much, and it also relied on some supplies from the liaison stations along the way, so they did not sell out cement, so that Liu Tingshu's officers and soldiers in Beijing still used low earth walls as shelters.

In addition to preparing for surprise attacks and wild beasts, the most important thing is to protect against the cold, after all, it is the cold season, if you don't pay attention to the cold, it will cause diseases to appear, which will lead to a sharp decline in combat effectiveness.

The mighty army has long been stocked with coal to protect against the cold.

In addition, everyone carried a thick quilt on their backs, and they all prepared a winter coat, which could also protect them from the cold.

The Beijing battalion soldiers not far away are a little miserable, most of them only have a single coat, and they are different from the mighty army, they do not have their own logistics support system, plus Gao Qiqian and Guan Ning soldiers have not yet arrived, so these Beijing battalion soldiers can only go farther away to cut some trees or demolish the houses of nearby villagers to keep out the cold, but because Jiannu has done this once, so they can find not much wood that can be used for burning and heating, in this harsh winter of the Xiaoice River climate, some Beijing soldiers were frozen to death on the third day after camping.

However, Liu Tingshu didn't care about these, because many of these Beijing camp soldiers were temporarily put together by homeless people in the capital area, and their lives were like a mustard, and they temporarily entered the army as battalion soldiers just to eat a full meal, and it was not worth how much he, the chief military officer, cared about if they were frozen to death.

Supervisor Liu Yuliang naturally didn't care about this, at this time he was only nesting here in Lu Yuan, he didn't hesitate to take care of his body when he was young, and now he was very cold in winter, so he had to wrap two beds of mighty army quilts, only showing a monkey face every day, and listening to Lu Yuan's report on the recent situation of the entire army.

Lu Yuan naturally didn't care much, after all, he was just a capital division, and he didn't have the ability to let the 20,000 Beijing battalion soldiers have the same treatment as the mighty army.

Lu Yuan can only ensure that his mighty army will not lose its combat effectiveness due to the severe cold.

Every day, Lu Yuan would ask Dr. An about the health status of the officers and soldiers at all levels of the entire mighty army, so as to avoid the appearance of patients with serious diseases infected by wind and cold.

In addition, Lu Yuan also asked the mighty army to still implement a strict health management system, and it is still forbidden to defecate in the open when camping, and there will be special dung pits, and the soldiers of the baggage team have a lot of effort just to dig this dung pit, after all, the soil is frozen in winter and it is not easy to dig, in addition, drinking water must also be boiled water.

That's why.

Fortunately, there have been no sick people in the entire mighty army so far, which may also be related to the fact that most of the officers and soldiers of the mighty army are from homeless backgrounds, and they themselves have suffered from hunger and cold, plus they have been strictly screened when they were selected into the army, and they have also been trained accordingly in the army, in short, the mighty army still has enough combat effectiveness.

However, Lu Yuan didn't know if the Xuan soldiers on the other side of the river still had combat effectiveness, and whether they could continue to fight Jiannu in such cold weather.

"The cold weather combat environment will lead to a large consumption of medicine and food in the army, especially food, officers and soldiers have to eat a lot of meat and food to keep out the cold, the amount of food must be much more than in the past, now the big war is coming, the soldiers are nervous, the amount of food has to continue to increase, our mighty army has already been prepared, the baggage team purchased a large amount of bacon and grain when it was in the capital, but the soldiers and the officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion have to rely on the food transported by Gao Gonggong, Inspector, you still have to urge Gao Gonggong to them, can not wait for the battle, Let the main force of the Xuan soldiers still hungry to attack the city wall, if this person is very hungry and can do anything, Beiqing did not capture the capital but because of the lack of food and chaos. ”

Lu Yuan reminded Liu Yuliang at this time.

Liu Yuliang put his hand on the charcoal fire and roasted it, his red face only looked at the jumping flames, nodded and said, "I know, I have asked Liu Tingshu to send someone to urge again." ”

As he was talking, he heard the voice of Liu Yuliang's housekeeper Liu Wu outside: "I want to see my master." ”

After a while, Liu Wu was let in by Lu Yuan's personal guards, and directly put Liu Yuliang's hand on Liu Yuliang's ear to prepare to whisper.

Seeing this, Liu Yuliang said: "In front of Lu Dusi, there is no need to hide it, just say it." ”

"Yes, sir, Gonggong Gao sent someone back with news that the snow has been too heavy in the past few days, and the speed of transporting grain is really not fast, and seven horses have died of exhaustion, and they can't be sent to the vicinity of Qingdu within ten days!"

After Liu Wu answered, Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and Liu Yuliang exclaimed directly: "What, what is he thinking about!" 50,000 officers and soldiers only arrived in Qingdu, and they couldn't transport grain within 10 days? His 50,000 officers and soldiers, even if each carrying a bag of food, can arrive in Qingdu City within seven days! When the old man entered Beijing to catch the exam, he didn't walk on a snowy day, could it be that his Guan Ningbing soldiers were not as fast as Lao Tzu's scholar? ! ”

Liu Yuliang is the first assistant of the cabinet, and in the inner court, he is equal to the eunuch who is in charge of the seal, and Gao Qiqian is the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, which is equal to the secretary of the military department of the foreign dynasty, so Lu Xiangsheng, the squire of the military department, may not be able to do anything about Gao Qiqian, but Liu Yuliang can call Gao Qiqian's name.

"Take my warrant and urge it again immediately! Tell him that if the food can't be delivered within ten days, the old man will directly ask His Majesty to dismiss him! ”

Liu Yuliang said that he was now counting on Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Yuan to defeat Jiannu in order to avoid being punished by Emperor Chongzhen, so the delay in the arrival of Gao Qiqian's food at this time made him very angry.

Lu Yuan's heart was also very uncomfortable, he didn't expect that although Liu Yuliang in this era did not become a supervisor who didn't care about anything because of his own influence, but Gao Qiqian still did not cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng in food security as in history, if the food from Gao Qiqian really could not be transported, it would mean that Lu Xiangsheng's Xuan soldiers had already begun to run out of food when Qingdu and the Qing army began to fight.

Later, after the siege of Jiazhuang, it seemed that Lu Xiangsheng's decisive battle with Jiannu was expected.