Chapter 697: Before the Winter Year
At the beginning of September, even though Daqin had 600,000 young men defending the territory as soldiers, Daqin's grain harvest this year was also good.
During the war, even the Donggong Commercial Office in Daqin stopped buying and selling grain, and after the Great Qin government collected the grain tax, it borrowed grain from the people to make up for the loss of the government treasury caused by the war.
When the new grain arrived in the granary of the main battlefield of the front line one after another, the Great Qin defenders in various places also settled down, and immediately whether it was Jingdi, or the soldiers and horses of the northern and central borders, they tended to be more defensive against the coalition forces.
The people of insight in the coalition army, such as Tian Ji, the son of Qi, the general of Wu, and Han Mouchen, all saw through the intention of Qin's attitude.
"The Qin State is a native garrison territory, even if the food is consumed, it can be replenished quickly before it enters the Qin State itself!"
"On the other hand, among the coalition forces, there are as many as one million troops to attack Qin, and among them, there are many princes who are on expeditions to Qin, and it is far less convenient than Qin to replenish war preparation food."
"Qin's move seems to be intended to exhaust the coalition army in winter, so that the coalition army will be weak and unable to attack Qin!"
It is true that Great Qin did have such intentions, and the army that surrendered without a fight was the superior of the art of war, and it was also the most secure way to defend the territory.
Even if they saw through this intention of the Qin State, the attitudes of the six countries of Qi Alliance against Qin were different.
Like South Korea, when the war was about to start, the Qin State preemptively seized more than a dozen cities in the west and lost countless money and grain, but after South Korea annexed Zhengdi, Shen Buhai implemented a more intense new law in Korea, with a vast land territory and abundant grain harvest for several years, which was enough to support South Korea's war consumption against Qin.
Moreover, like Lu and Yan, these two countries are not keen on the matter of cutting Qin, and the Qi Alliance to attack Qin is a symbolic dispatch of 50,000 soldiers and horses, and most of the food and grass consumption is borne by Qi in addition to a part of the burden of their own country.
Lu Guo and Yan ** are also not lacking in discerning strategists, I heard that the Qin army planned to seize the time to urge Qi to urge food before the winter year, and also prepared dry food early, seeing that their plan should be to see that the coalition army is running out of food, that is, to withdraw the troops and return to their country.
As for the state of Chu, it was in a slightly the same situation as Korea, bordering the state of Qin, which was almost equivalent to fighting at home, and food consumption was not an unbearable burden.
Among the princes, the most complete transportation of military rations was not Qi or Wei, nor Qin, but Wu.
Wu's grain transportation system was planned by the great general Sun Changqing, although the general was good at using strange soldiers, but he knew that strange soldiers were just auxiliary battles, and the real victory or defeat on the battlefield still depended on the gap between the two sides' national strength, manpower and material resources.
I have never heard of the truth that a small country can overthrow a large country of a thousand times.
Therefore, Sun Changqing, who believed that "the grain and grass of the three armies were not touched first," paid special attention to the transportation of military rations.
However, after only three days of delay, Wu Guo sent military rations, which also made Bo Pi not borrow half of the grain from Chu State.
Bo Pi believes that since Wu annexed Yuedi, there has never been a shortage of grain, and this time is no exception, so Bo Pi is not in a hurry, after all, there are Wu kings and Na Wu soldiers in the rear of Wu to raise food and manage the transportation of logistics and baggage.
In the final analysis, it was not the [non-war crime] of lack of food.
The most urgent should be the Qi people, although the Qi country is rich, but it can't stand the mouth of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the Qi alliance is dominated by the Qi country, except for the three kingdoms of Wu, Chu and Han, it seems that the military food of the Yanlu army is borne by the Qi country.
If it is only 300,000 mouths, according to the wealth of Qi State, it must be able to afford it, after all, the Lu Qi State was the Jiuhe princes who looked down on the world and the whole world was produced by Qi State, but this time the conquest of Qin State is thousands of miles away from Qi State, so that it is necessary to consume at least ten stone of grain on the way to transport one stone of grain from Qi State to the frontline battlefield...... Sometimes even fifteen or twenty stones may not be impossible!
As you can imagine, the burden on the military rations alone is a great pressure on the Qi State.
"Today's plan must be to enter the Qin State and feed the war with war!" Tian Ji said decisively, but the majestic Tian Ji of Fangcheng Mountain was also seen, although it was a major defeat of the Qin army on the battlefield several times before, but the disadvantage of time and place was definitely not able to erase the gap by relying on manpower!
The depth of Fangcheng Mountain is also hundreds of miles, especially the terrain in the mountains is extremely complex, and the Qin people who are good at building the fortress are also in the Fangcheng Mountain according to the geographical advantage of cultivating the rolling city wall.
Therefore, Tian Ji also sent soldiers and horses to attack Fangcheng Mountain several times, but found that Fangcheng Mountain was like an iron bucket, even if the Qilu coalition army was close to doing its best, but the Qin army stationed in Fangcheng Mountain was like a deaf ear, and would never go out to fight.
Seeing such a turtle-like and hedgehog-like method also made the Qilu coalition army rush to a headache, and soon there was news that the soldiers and horses in the north of Qin State had increased greatly, and the advantage of the Korean army's initiative was once again gone, and the soldiers and horses in the north of Qin State even launched a counterattack against the Korean army stationed in Bishui Pass.
In the blink of an eye, in October, the weather has turned cold, and when I got up in the morning, I found that a thin layer of hoarfrost was covered on the grass stacks on the side of the road, and it was still a hot summer day when the Qi army attacked Qin, and the clothes brought over were all thin summer clothes, and the weather suddenly became cold.
Seeing this, Tian Ji finally returned in defeat, and then ordered the army to gradually change from offensive to defensive, if the Qin army did not attack, only sent a small force to carry out a feint, and at the same time, it was also to reduce part of the rations in the army, which was used to make up for the logistics deficit of the Qi State that escorted over the winter clothes.
As for the situation in Jingdi, it is much more lively than the middle or northern border gradually ceases because of the weather, because the river is not like the big river, and it will not freeze because of the cold in winter, but the water level of the river is also too low, and Bo Pi ordered dozens of pontoon bridges to be laid on the river, and used the countermeasures of sounding the east and attacking the west to deal with the Qin army that was holding Hengshan, but it did not get the expected breaking effect.
In November, the first snow that the Qin people desperately hoped for finally arrived in the north, from the north to the south, and the whole world was finally covered in silver in a few days, and the heavy snow that was higher than the knee also made a truce between the combined forces of Qi, Lu, Yan, Han, Wu and Chu and the soldiers and horses of the Qin State. Still struggling with the latest chapter you can't find? Amway One or search for Hot/Degree/Net/Article "Remember to remove "/"Otherwise you won't be able to search", here is a young lady to help you find books and accompany you to chat!