After occupying Tongguan and Bauhinia Pass, he never marched into the army, but stationed in the pass for repair.

At first, according to Jiang Feng's wishes, he should take advantage of the high morale to fight quickly and take Yongguan, the gateway to the Snow Moon Empire, as soon as possible.

But later I found out that the real cold weapon war was not as easy as imagined, on average, each soldier needed four logistics, 50,000 elites, and at least 200,000 Yanzhou troops were needed to provide support behind the scenes.

At the beginning of the war, the army was not moving, and the grain and grass had to go first, otherwise it would not be possible to continue the war.

And Mozhou and Jiuli City are more than 100 miles away from Bauhinia Pass, and there are steep snow peaks along the way, and the grain convoy is miserable, and in the end it can only be carried by the frost giant to carry the grain bag on his shoulders and run to the pass on foot.

As a result, the grain and grass were never able to keep up with the speed of the army.

Although Jiang Feng can use the kill value to exchange food from the system, it is not what it used to be, the army of 50,000 is not as easy to feed as the hundreds of bandits in the cottage before, and a day's ration will cost millions of kill points, and it is absolutely impossible to take this road unless it is absolutely necessary.

"How many days is enough food?" Jiang Feng spread out the map and asked Chu He casually.

"Back to Your Highness, the grain and grass carried by the Tiger Ben Army of the Eastern Expedition have long been exhausted, and what we are eating now is the surplus grain in Tongguan and Bauhinia Pass, which is conservatively estimated to last for three or five days. ”

"Three or five days will not work, the time is too short, urge Xun Yu to transport grain as soon as possible. ”

Jiang Feng shook his head.

In comparison, Yongguan is stronger than the first two passes, and the Longqiang wind arrow cannot penetrate it, and there is Qin Lan's commander personally stationed in the city, the difficulty of attacking the city can be imagined, without ten days and a half months, it is estimated that it will be difficult to gnaw this hard bone.

"Your Highness, I have sent troops to urge food many times, but the road along the way is tortuous, there is no way, it can't be fast. ”

In this regard, Chu He was helpless.

At present, it seems that there is no better way than to carry it on the shoulder.

Jiang Feng opened the map, pulled out the yellowed drawings at the bottom layer, and handed them to Chu He, "This is the design drawing of the wooden ox and flowing horse, you send your cronies to Xun Yu and let him use this to transport grain, the efficiency will definitely be higher than that of manual labor." ”

The problem that the grain and grass could not be transported was considered by Jiang Feng before the Eastern Expedition.

According to legend, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, once used wooden oxen and horses to cross the rugged mountain road, and the special travelers traveled dozens of miles and traveled 30 miles in groups, providing a large amount of grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of troops out of Sichuan.

At that time, the road out of Shu was mostly mountainous, difficult and difficult, and ordinary carriages could not pass, which was similar to Jiang Feng's current situation, and it must have helped him solve the difficulty of transporting grain.

"Understood, the minister will do it. Although there were doubts, Chu He still did it.

The two years of getting along with Chu He told Chu He not to easily question Jiang Feng's decision, because he has always done things with reason and evidence, and he will not be brave in the moment.

Even if many ordinary people can't understand and seem to be unwise decisions, the final result proves that Jiang Feng is right.

In Yongguan City, Qin Lan was very keenly aware of this, the Qilian Snow Mountain stretched for hundreds of miles, not to mention whether the Yanzhou Grassland could provide sufficient food, even if there were, if you wanted to transport it along the Snow Mountain, it would take at least three or four months to go back and forth.

For such a long time, the rebels of the Eastern Crusade had long starved to death in the Bauhinia Pass.

In history, the largest rebellion in Yanzhou, with hundreds of thousands of rebels, attacked Fengdu, and finally died not by the soldiers, but died of lack of food, unable to attack for a long time, and starved to death outside the imperial capital.

"Dong Li, you immediately mobilize 20,000 elite soldiers to suppress the rebels, they have just occupied the Bauhinia Pass, they have not yet gained a firm foothold, and the food in the pass is limited, it is an excellent time to annihilate them. ”

Qin Lan transferred his cronies and deputy generals and asked him to lead his army to Zijin Pass to declare war.

"The Mitsubishi arrow, which imitates the silver snow iron horse, can penetrate the city wall with its power? Looking at the captured Dragon Qiang Wind Arrow on the table, Qin Lan's expression was slightly heavy.

Tongguan and Bauhinia Pass were lost one after another, because of the continuous pressure of Mitsubishi arrows, so that the defenders instantly lost the ability to counterattack.

"Yanzhou was originally a closed and impoverished place, their weapons are backward, to this day, the Black Feather Army has all bronze weapons, and their tribesmen are still using ancient stone tools, don't think that they dare to claim to be the master of the tiger after picking up a few weapons of the Silver Snow Iron Horse? ”

As for the real combat power of the Yanzhou Tiger Army, Dongli is not clear for the time being.

What's more, Jiang Feng captured two passes one after another, only exposing the Longqiang Arrow Array and Suo Jiao Light Cavalry, while the more powerful artillery arrays and wizard regiments under his tent, as well as the tactics of multi-arm combination, were not put into the battlefield.

Seeing Qin Lan's hesitation, Dong Liang patted his chest and promised: "Commander Qin Lan, please give me ten days, I will definitely exterminate the rebels, I am willing to make a military order, if not, come and see me." ”

"Dongli, don't underestimate the enemy, this Yanzhou new army is probably not good. ”

Qin Lan bowed his head, muttered for a few seconds, and said slowly: "In this way, I will give you another 10,000 elites, and recover Bauhinia Pass and Tongguan within ten days, if it fails, even if Zai Cheng personally intercedes, it will not be able to save your life." ”

"Your actual combat experience is limited, before leaving, Ben Shuai will give you a little advice, the new army in Yanzhou is seriously short of grain and grass, the mountain roads are rugged, and the follow-up grain and grass will take several months to arrive, you can besiege but not attack, and then break the city when its food is exhausted. ”

"Don't worry, commander, wait for me to make a contribution and eradicate the rebels. ”

After receiving Qin Lan's command, Dongli quickly mobilized 30,000 Black Feather troops, set off from Yongguan, and attacked Bauhinia Pass overnight.

And inside the Bauhinia Pass, Jiang Feng and Chu He had long known about the movements of the Black Feather Army and were ready to deal with it.

"The front line secret sentry came to report, the enemy who came to Yongguan, 20,000 foot soldiers, 5,000 iron cavalry, 5,000 crossbowmen, and the leader of the army will be Nangong Dongli, this person has read the art of war since he was a child, and is known to be able to strategize and win thousands of miles away. ”

"Cousin, you have to take it easy, but don't hurt him, Liuxia has been adrift with me in the Yanzhou grassland for several years, and I have no relatives here, so I just took this opportunity to let her meet her relatives in Fengdu. Jiang Feng muttered to himself.

"Your Highness, please rest assured, I have called the soldiers on the front line, and told them to only be captured alive, and not to shoot Nangong Dongli. ”

Jiang Feng's thoughts, Chu He can also guess a rough idea, even if he doesn't say a word to remind, Chu He will order the soldiers to capture the East Fence.

The reason for this is not only because Tori and Miss Ryuxia are related by blood.

As we all know, in the hundreds of glorious years of the Xueyue Empire, there was the Hai family in Wu, the Nangong clan in Wen, the Nangong family had complex roots in Fengdu, and fifty percent of the important ministers of the court were once retainers of Nangong Mansion.

Compared with Hai Yunfan, who can fight well, the Nangong family is even more difficult to abolish it.

And Dongli, as a member of the Nangong Mansion, served as the general of Yongguan when he was just starting out, which is enough to see his status in the Snow Moon Empire, if he can be captured alive, he may be able to force Commander Qin Lan to surrender without a fight.