On the Xia country's side, Cai Ming took the Cai family's advisors and generals all the way to Xuelun Mountain with great fanfare, so he was not angry, but also, after all, he was the commander of the elite soldiers who went to command 100,000 Xuelun Mountain, which Cai Ming couldn't hide his pride. On the way, Cai Ming thought of several titles for himself: Cai Tianwang, King Xuelun......

One hundred thousand elite soldiers of the Sharon Mountain, this combat power is definitely not to be underestimated even if it is placed in the entire Zhongzhou Continent. As for the Cai family, this combat power can definitely make the Cai family's power go upstairs. The more Cai Ming thought about it, the happier he became.

When he arrived at Xuelun Mountain, Cai Ming saw that the Wenchen military generals from Xuelun Mountain came out to greet them, and they stood in a neat line, and their military appearance was grim. is worthy of the soldiers brought out by Qin Chuan. And when these civil and military generals saw Cai Ming's arrival, they immediately knelt down, held their weapons, and shouted: "Welcome to the marshal"

Cai Ming saw these troops, and he was extremely proud in his heart, with such an army, he could not only defend the Sharon Mountain, but even if he went to attack Mengsai, he was sure. Looking at the deputy commander kneeling at the front, Cai Ming recognized this person, this person was the right-hand man of the original commander Qin Chuan: deputy commander Qin Feng.

Qin Feng has followed Qin Chuan for many years, and he knows the Xuelun Mountain very well, and his military strategy is never under him. But now that Qin Feng and these soldiers were still kneeling below, Cai Ming knew that these people were his future dependents.

So he hurriedly helped up Qin Feng, who was kneeling, and said, "All the soldiers, please get up." ”

Qin Feng was helped up by Cai Ming, and when all the soldiers saw Qin Feng get up, they all stood up immediately, but the movements were uniform and very spectacular. After the soldiers got up, Cai Ming came to the big tent in the army under the guidance of Qin Feng.

When he arrived in the big tent, Cai Ming sat on the throne of the commander, and the military generals sat on the left and right, Qin Chuan sat at the forefront of the generals, and Wenchen sat at the front of a person named Yuwenjing. Cai Ming didn't dare to underestimate this person in the slightest.

Cai Ming stood up and said to the military generals of Wenchen: "Qin Chuan is the pride of the Xia Kingdom, and it is also the greatest glory of the Xia Kingdom. It is also the patron saint of Mount Sharon. Commander Qin Chuan died in battle, and I am very sad. ”

After Cai Ming finished speaking, he picked up a bowl of wine on the table, and the soldiers saw Cai Ming holding up the wine glass, although they didn't know what he was going to do, but the commander did it, and the people below could only stand up and pick up the wine.

Cai Ming saw that the soldiers also stood up, and knew that these people still respected him. So he didn't say much, just drank half of the wine in the cup, and then said, "Respect Qin Shuai"

Qin Feng and Yu Wenjing glanced at each other, didn't say anything, drank all the wine in the cup, and shouted: "Respect Qin Shuai"

When the other Wenchen generals saw Qin Feng and Yu Wenjing doing this, they also took a sip and shouted: "Respect Qin Shuai."

This matter is normal, but in Cai Mingkai's life, this army still disobeys himself, because if they all obey themselves, then when they stand up and shout out to respect Qin Shuai, all the other civil and military generals should shout out respect to Qin Shuai together. But they watched Qin Feng and Yu Wenjing shout first: "Respect Qin Shuai", and then drink and shout respect to Qin Shuai.

Although Cai Ming was not annoyed by this incident, he was not happy to some extent.

After thinking about it again, now that I am weak, I have just arrived here. It's really hard to grudge with them. The other Cai Ming also knew that if they didn't make a little merit, they wouldn't be convinced. People in the army are like that. Straight to the point, but as long as they obey themselves, it must be dead.

After thinking about it, Cai Ming was relieved, after all, this was the pro-army of Commander Qin Chuan.

After that, Cai Ming asked Qin Feng about the armament of Xuelun Mountain, Qin Feng answered one by one, without the slightest falsehood, and then asked Yuwenjing about the strategy formulated by Xuelun Mountain, and Yuwenjing also answered one by one, without the slightest falsehood.

After listening to Qin Feng and Yu Wenjing's report, Cai Ming knew how difficult it was to guard Xuelun Mountain, first of all, the current armaments and materials had not yet arrived, and secondly, the army had been reduced to about 150,000 people, and there were still years of fighting against the Mongolian army.

In terms of supplies, in the past, the supplies of the Sharon Mountains were the first to arrive, but in recent years, the military supplies of the Sharon Mountains have been decreasing year by year. Because for those people in the court, the presence of Qin Chuan in Xuelun Mountain is already as stable as a rock.

On the issue of material reduction, Cai Ming knew, at that time, because Qinchuan began to realize the strategy of elite soldiers, so a lot of soldiers were reduced, and there were about 250,000 troops stationed in Xuelun Mountain all year round, plus many interns, agricultural soldiers, engineering troops, etc., all the troops added up to about 300,000.

And Qin Chuan has been reducing his troops in the past few years, and those who remain are elite soldiers who can be ten with one. Now all the arms together are about 150,000.

Therefore, some ministers of the Xia Dynasty began to reduce the supply of grain and grass materials to the Xuelun Mountain on the grounds of the reduction of the number of soldiers in the Xuelun Mountain. But there was never a time when supplies arrived late.

Cai Ming asked Qin Feng, "Why is the supplies from Xuelun Mountain so late?" ”

Qin Feng replied: "The materials encountered heavy rain on the road, the car could not walk, the horse could not walk, and when the rain stopped, the road became muddy and difficult to walk, which led to the armament materials not arriving at the specified time, I personally went to check, indeed as I saw, the road is too difficult to walk, and the materials are almost all carried by manpower." ”

Therefore, the commander of Qin Chuan at that time did not cure the sin of transporting the troops. You can only wait slowly.

According to the military strategy mentioned by Yu Wenjing, Qinchuan is based on the mountain, and many passages have been built in the mountain, various fortresses are dense, and a city wall of ten thousand miles has been built on the Xuelun Mountain.

This city wall is composed of a variety of fortifications such as city walls, enemy towers, gates, dungeons, camps, guards, and beacon towers in the town city, and is a complete defense engineering system. This defense engineering system is commanded and controlled by military command systems at all levels.

When Cai Ming used to work under Marshal Chen Tang, he saw the drawings of this kind of city wall, which can be said to be a genius work of defensive military affairs. Some important walls were built on top of the walls to resist enemies who might climb the walls.

At that time, after Chen Tang read it, he even said that Qinchuan was powerful, and he also wanted to build such a city wall, but considering the climate, power, race and other reasons in the south, he did not build it.

Regarding the current army of Mount Sharon, there are only more than 100,000 guards left in Mount Sharon. Previously, due to the death of Qin Chuan, these soldiers brought out by Qin Chuan frantically attacked the Mongols, and in just a few days, the original army of 150,000 was almost reduced by 50,000 troops, of course, the same is true for the Mongols. For a time, the corpses of the Sharon grassland were all over the field.

But there is one thing Cai Ming can't figure out, according to the strategic direction of Xuelun Mountain mentioned by Yu Wenjing, Xuelun Mountain is mainly defensive, why would Qin Chuan lead his troops to attack Mengsai?

But even if Cai Ming couldn't figure it out, he didn't dare to question Qin Chuan's decision.

After listening to the statements of all the generals and ministers, Cai Ming knew that he had encountered a big problem now, that is, the grain and grass materials had not yet arrived, and if in a few days, the cold winter would come, and the soldiers would have a problem with food and clothing, then this problem would be very big.

So he asked Qin Feng: "If we follow this progress, how long will it take for the grain and grass to arrive." ”

Qin Feng also replied truthfully: "General Yuwen and I have estimated that it will take half a month at the shortest. ”

At this time, General Yuwen also fought, and said: "The heavy rain has been falling for a month, and now the grain and grass have been late for nearly a month, and if they are not delivered in time, our army's food and clothing will become a big problem." ”

Cai Ming knows the seriousness of the grain and grass problem, the so-called: the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved. If there is no grain and grass, what kind of war will there be, but now it is true that the grain and grass cannot be transported. You can only solve the problem of eating first.

So he said to the soldiers: "This time there are fifty fast horses with me, and they will be killed first, and together with the food left, the soldiers will have a full meal." I'll figure it out later. ”

Although he knew that fifty fast horses were distributed to 100,000 people, there was not much at all, but these were somewhat comforting to the soldiers, and then Cai Mingyou asked Qin Feng: "Which is the closest city to here?"

"It's Tunan Castle". Qin Feng replied.

"Why don't you go to Tufu City to borrow food first," Cai Ming asked.

At this time, Yu Wenjing followed Cai Ming's words and replied: "We have already borrowed all the grain stored by the official store of Tunan City, and the rest are the grain of some big households and landlords. ”

Cai Ming understood that there was grain in Tunan City, but it was in the hands of some big households, Qin Chuan was also helpless at that time, since people didn't want to borrow it, he couldn't take it forcibly, so there was today's situation. So Cai Ming called his own guards behind him to the front and told him: "You go to Tunan City and say that our Cai family buys grain and horses at three times the price of the high market." In addition, let the family prepare money, you go quickly, there can be no delay in this matter, otherwise the military law will deal with it. ”

The guards received the order, and then quickly left the camp. The rest of the soldiers also felt warm in their hearts when they saw Cai Ming's actions, after all, they and the soldiers hadn't eaten for several days.

Only then did Qin Feng know the benefits of being attached to the big family, if it was himself, he would definitely not have the ability to buy the grain and horses of Tunan City. Only Yuwenjing was dismissive of the matter. But it didn't show it either.