Luo Zhaoyun galloped fast, rode the dust, set off at noon, all the way to the west, in order to avoid the grassland Turkic soldiers and horses, so he did not go to the grassland outside the pass, but along the border town defense line, first through Yanmen, Mayi area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Here, he had already seen from afar the armor of the soldiers, the flags fluttering, everywhere there were grain convoys and soldiers from all over the country, gathering towards the camp of the army outside the Yanmen Pass, and then heading north together.

The atmosphere of intense gathering and dispatching troops before the war made people nervous and breathing.

Luo Zhaoyun didn't stop here, because outside Yulin and Gupengkou, the Sui army only assisted the Qimin Khan against the attack of the Turkic general Tong Liva, which was a secondary battlefield, whether it would engage in battle, and to what extent it could fight, it was difficult to say, after all, this was a cover battle to pull the main force, and the other party may not really attack, but it is only a constant nuisance, and it is not good to make contributions.

He continued to hurry, the Lu horse galloped like a shuttle, passing through Shuozhou, Xiazhou, Lingzhou, Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, along the way saw a lot of government soldiers assembled in the northwest, the cavalry rushed to the ground, and the grain convoy could be seen everywhere.

You must know that in ancient wars, the soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and the grain and grass needed to fight on the front line were often astronomical, although the government soldiers would bring their own food, but it was only the rations of the month, and half of them would basically be consumed on the way, and when they arrived at the front line, there was not much left.

Once the war lasts for half a year, the consumption of grain and grass is a huge expense.

If a soldier is one pound of rice per day, then the daily consumption of 300,000 troops is 300,000 catties, about 2,500 stones, and in a month, it is 75,000 stones, and in half a year, it is 450,000 stones.

This number is too large, and it is far from enough to transport it from the granary of the border guard, because a king like Emperor Wen of Sui is not at ease to store a lot of grain at the border pass.

This is the case in the Great Sui, several major granaries are in the hinterland of the Central Plains, there are Taicang, Guangtong Warehouse, Changping Warehouse near Chang'an City, Huiluocang, Luokou Cang, Heyang Cang near Luoyang, etc., arranged along the Yellow River and the canal, convenient transportation.

In the frontier land, the government soldiers are self-reliant, they are engaged in agriculture in their spare time, and they use the military fields and official fields to cultivate, which is enough for the garrison's rations, but this time it is necessary to mobilize 300,000 troops, except for the 100,000 people gathered in the border garrison, the remaining 200,000 are rushed from all over the country, and the grain needs to be transferred to the front line by the imperial court.

At this time, the pressure came, just the consumption of more than 200,000 additional soldiers, there were no trains in this era, the horses all used combat horses, there were very few carts, only ox carts and people could be used, and the ploughing cattle were also limited, so most of them were pushed by the people.

And the wheels of this era are all wooden, and the quality of the axles is also poor, so it is very inconvenient to walk, travel long distances, gather from the granaries in the Central Plains, and then send them to the border pass, which requires the use of countless people from all over the country, and then transported from the border pass to the front line hundreds of miles away, and the strong men used are multiplied, and the consumption on the way is huge.

When the 200,000 Sui troops went out on the expedition, the heavy coolies and civilian men in the rear would be recruited, and nearly one million people would be mobilized, and an average of one soldier would have five civilian men to provide logistical assistance.

Moreover, the people also have to consume food, which runs thousands of miles and consumes nearly half, so the food in operation is twice as much as the actual use.

War, a major national event, is not false at all.

The most fundamental is to fight for national strength, now is the heyday of the Sui Dynasty, the accumulation of materials in the major official warehouses, is difficult to look at the back of the previous dynasties, and even more than 20 years after the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the materials accumulated by the Sui Dynasty have not been used up, of course, whether the record is true or not, later generations of scholars have different opinions.

On this day, Luo Zhaoyun finally arrived in the Shazhou area, and he could see the recruitment office, receiving the local government soldiers who rushed over from all over the country, and some of them received military orders to come in teams and troops, so it was easier to arrange.

The Gongcao chief here saw that Luo Zhaoyun was magnificent, with his own armor, and the spears, hard bows, and sabers in his hands were not ordinary, and he knew that he had prepared his own war horse, and expected that he was from a wealthy family and had a solid family, so he did not treat him as an ordinary local government soldier and was directly assigned to the mud-legged infantry battalion, but was selected into the scattered cavalry battalion, and the records of the cavalry battalion were then distributed according to his strengths.

In this era, you pay attention to your family background, if you are an ordinary soldier and peasant, you will have nothing to take care of, and you will directly become a front-line soldier and become cannon fodder for the charge; But the children of the nobility can start in some departments that are slightly easier and make meritorious contributions, such as pro-military battalions, cavalry formations, etc., which are less dangerous and decent.

Luo Zhaoyun got the sergeant's waist card with his name, which is a small wooden card, with the words "Left Army Cavalry Battalion" written on the front, and "Youzhou, Luo Cheng" written on the back, one side represents the belonging camp, and the back represents the name of the registered state and county, and the card does not leave the body, once killed, the identity of the deceased can be determined according to the waist wear.

He mounted his horse, left the recruiting office on the sandbank, and hurried to the assembled camp with the sergeants who had been assigned to the same cavalry.

It turned out that the 300,000 front-line army was divided into two roads, one was the Yumen Pass Army, one was the Yangguan Army, the two city passes, one south and one north, were the necessary places of the Silk Road, guarding the fortress, the Turkic army was attacking with all its might, and the Sui army garrison acted as the vanguard army, which was already in a fierce battle with the Turkic army.

The place where Luo Zhaoyun signed up was the receiving point of the Sui army set up here at Yumen Pass, and soon, a group of their improvised cavalry and infantry teams were taken to the front line and integrated into the Sixth Army.

The so-called six armies refer to the vanguard army, the left army, the right army, the rear army, the middle army, and the baggage army, which is roughly divided, and each army and horse will be subdivided into seven military camps under its command, which is quite cumbersome.

After layers of diversion, finally Luo Zhaoyun finally came to the left army to which he belonged, Sima and the partial generals in the army with the centurion and the team leaders, were inspecting the new army in place today, and by the way selected the men and horses suitable for their own army, a centurion saw that Luo Zhaoyun's war horse was good, so he asked him to the third scout group of the left army.

Luo Zhaoyun breathed a sigh of relief, finally the dust settled, and he made it clear where to go, this layer of gathering and selection, it was quite troublesome, so he could only wait patiently, and now he could go to his own team camp and see his robe partner, a little excited.

The desert is reckless, the wind and sand are long, when Luo Zhaoyun and a group of knights came to the camp with the centurion, a bright red sunset hung in the sky, and it was almost dusk.

But at the Yumen Pass for several miles, there were still the sounds of fighting and drumming, and the sound of the golden iron horse mixed together made people nervous and excited!

He looked around, and there were countless white tents all over the mountains, like small flowers in full bloom, scattered on an oasis field, and the neighing of war horses, the training of soldiers, and the wild dance of the wind and sand were mixed together, converging into a bleak tune.

Countless banners were waved in the wind, and from time to time there were cavalry teams bursting out, the armor was strong, and the horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth.