The speed at which the wagons moved on unpaved roads was a very important logistical problem, so Jason not only listened to the advice of the merchants, but also tried to risk the test on the ground - but unfortunately met with a tragic and characteristic failure.

The newer carriages were able to carry about the same weight as the ox carts, but at twice the speed of the ox carts. The ox cart can travel almost 3 kilometers in an hour, while the modified horse-drawn cart can travel twice as fast as the ox cart, 6 kilometers an hour.

The average person's walking speed is five kilometers per hour.

That is, if the infantry, the improved baggage wagons and the baggage ox carts set off at the same time, then the carriages could even arrive at the predetermined camping point an hour earlier than the infantry, as for the ox carts...... It's still dangling slowly halfway through, and it won't be there for another day.

If bullock carts were used for logistics, the infantry would have to wait until the next night to eat.

But what will happen to this improved carriage on an unpaved road? Jason was troubled by this, because the wagon was not primarily used to transport grain and grain, as most people might think. In fact, on a march within a country the size of Neustria, a soldier could carry the grain he needed for several days in addition to his own weapons and equipment, and even extra loads.

These wagons had to transport a lot of equipment that individual soldiers could not carry: siege engines, tents, horses, a large number of arrows, and so on. In addition, several of these wagons were connected end to end to create a camp with simple defenses.

Considering these functions of the carriage, especially the latter one, which cannot be replaced by pack horses (maybe camels?). But Jason didn't have camels under him), and Jason solemnly sent out a team of real yàn. However, the team on which he had high hopes suffered a tragic defeat as soon as they left the diocese.

Jason was annoyed by this, but what bothered him the most. His hostess not only did not help him in this regard, but, on the contrary. It also caused trouble for him.

"There's not enough food to eat," she said stupidly, reading the form he had prepared, "if the castle can't be beaten......

"And those that are levied on the spot."

"Well, collect it on the spot...... Belch? Are you going to rob - it's not harvest season, who are you going to rob? Robbing the people along the road? No way! ”

"Everyone does it...... yes, in this era, "organized robbery" and "unorganized robbery" are the right way to solve logistical problems!

"No, no! Absolutely not! ”

But......

The Great Demon King Luo Yi resolutely opposes his "local supply" plan - "We are going to Qingma's side. It's not a robbery along the road, but if it's a robbery, I might as well leave them behind to work - at least then I can still make some money, and they must have divided everything they have robbed! She then told Jason that in order to prevent possible robbery of civilians, she was to organize a military police, which she herself would be the captain of, to monitor the movements of the soldiers.

Jason could only mumble to make a logistical supply plan that was not originally in his plan.

Is!

Nothing to do!

Everybody does that. Why can't we do that! The common people will understand, it's strange not to do that!

However, one thing that Jason refused to admit was that as the information was sent one by one. He felt that his mistress had been struck by the right - that the reserves of the common people along the road were not enough to supply the army he had planned—that he had become accustomed to the life of the parish of Tournest, and had forgotten if the peasants elsewhere had reserves. Their lords and priests will strike first, and they can't wait for the army of the Great Demon King to rob them.

But. Luo Yi did not consider the poverty of the farmers along the road, naturally. It's not all about making her hands innocent, on the contrary, she is ready to have blood on her hands.

She did this because she had her own plans.

This expedition was to crusade against her stepmother's injustice, not to rob along the way, at least nominally.

As she pointed out to Jason, she could not benefit directly from the looting of the soldiers, except by robbing the monasteries and noble fortresses along the way, so that some uneaten gold and silver treasures would be left for her, and such robbery would be unrighteous and easy to spoil food, and sometimes cause difficulties in supply—the army that was expected to be dispatched this time was a combination of infantry and cavalry, and cavalry was the usual first.

Someone once calculated that if the infantry and cavalry set out at the same time, the cavalry would lead in the first three days, and then the infantry would give full play to their strengths in endurance to catch up, but in practice, if there is no strong military law and organized military police constraints, the leading cavalry will eat and spoil and consume all the supplies in their radius of activity, and the infantry behind them will be backward and the radius of activity is not as good as theirs, and they will face disconnection, falling behind, and deserting. Napoleon's failed expedition to Russia was due to a number of reasons, one of which was logistical problems, in which undisciplined cavalry spoiled the supply of the entire army.

Another point is that most of her soldiers are not full-time soldiers, and if they are accustomed to the easy income and excitement of robbery, how can they be relieved of their daily work instead of degenerating into a group of bandits? It took a lot of effort for Luo Yi to transform them from aggressive brutes into disciplined soldiers, and she didn't want to fall short by letting them fall back for some food that wasn't necessarily necessary.

Luo Yi couldn't allow this kind of stupid thing to happen that disturbed the people and trapped herself, so she did not hesitate to go into battle herself and act as the captain of the gendarmerie.

This is also a helpless move, this position is cumbersome and offensive, and it is possible to order the killing of several of your own personnel to make an example, in addition, anything can happen on the battlefield, and even if the war is won, the emperor may die from a stray arrow.

Luo Yi feels that she does not have the aura of immortality of the protagonist, but in addition to her triple identity as a nobleman, a bishop's protector, and a big boss of a joint enterprise, who else can suppress the soldiers and the scheming and military heroes?

In this world, there are always some things that others can't do for you.

Luo Yi thought as she stretched out a finger expressionlessly, dipped some water in the water bottle on the table, pressed it on her body, and killed a flea.

Without the pesticides of the modern world, we have only blood on our hands - and my own blood.

However, in this ancient world full of faith and nobility, the sky is blue and the water is green and pollution-free, there are fleas on the body, there are no pesticides at hand, and there is no way to kill with your own hands...... (To be continued......)