José's explanation was that it was summer, and although there was some food in the city of Sadrand, it was a big expense to transport it long distances. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

So he was going to mobilize grain from the towns west of Sadland, which would not only reduce the loss of grain transportation and telephone costs, but also reduce the distance and facilitate the transportation of grain.

Gray was a little hesitant, but when he heard Jose say this, he readily agreed. After all, in his opinion, the county warden was just a foolish young nobleman, and although General Ronktor took this guy very seriously, Gray didn't think so.

So he quickly changed the route of his march slightly, and set his nearest grain route at the westernmost town of Sadrand, Boulder, which was so close to the territory of the steppe people, and the farthest town to the west of the valley corridor, that it was far easier to transport military rations directly from Boulder than from the town of Sadland.

The garrison of 6,000 men soon moved out of the valley corridor, but Gray left a few generals in the county town of Sadrand to control the 4,000 Northwest Army and the new army he had left. In Gray's opinion, the 4,000 new troops who traveled this time were all selected by themselves, and naturally they had to focus on training, while the 2,000 people who remained in the city of Saddland were worse. He even hesitated to think about whether to leave these two thousand weak soldiers to the Viscount of Sadland, so that at least the scene could be passable and not too ugly.

This is too naïve for Gray to command, although he may still be a good general when it comes to power struggles and strategic calculations, I am afraid that he, the general of the Northwest Army, will not be able to catch up with Joseph and Sophia. Jose didn't care about the two thousand new troops, his target was not only all the six thousand garrisons, but even Gray's four thousand Northwest Army!

After two days of marching, Gray's army had roughly passed through the valley corridor, and the scene in front of him was slowly becoming desolate, and Gray and some generals of the Northwest Army naturally knew that the army had entered the territory of the Tadam Desert in the western frontier. It was still the land of the Empire of Light, and after being diverted along the Turan River, this barren land belonged to the northern part of Sadrand.

Although this is still within the territory of the Bright Empire, it is actually no longer considered an effective control area of the Empire. Because on this desert Gobi, there are dozens of large and small horse thief dens scattered scattered. It's also the gateway to the valley corridor, so even if the caravans try to make a detour, they'll have to pass through this dangerous place.

The composition of these horse thieves and robbers is also different, some are bandit groups that are wandering and committing crimes, some are horse thief gangs composed of steppes and Macedonians, and even many are local homeless people in Moxi, forming a "new" robbery gang. Not only are the members of these guys diverse, but the difference in strength is also different. The big gang of horse thieves has hundreds of people, and they are all outlaws, and ordinary caravans can only obediently accept their fate when they encounter these robbers. Small bands of robbers often consist of only a few dozen people, and their equipment is extremely rudimentary, and they can only barely rob a few small caravans and lone merchants.

Moxi has been traveling caravans over the years, but because of the existence of these guys, they have more or less some influence. This desert Gobi was originally a territory of three things, and even when Heru was the governor of Moxi, he only fought a few times. Because these horse thieves and robbers are very annoying, they rely on their own familiarity with the terrain, often as soon as the army comes, they hide one after another, do not confront the Northwest Army, and when the Northwest Army army leaves, these guys begin to plunder the caravan with great fanfare.

After all, in the Gobi Desert like this, if you want to garrison for a long time and wait for these horse thieves to come up, it is a matter of waiting for the rabbit, and it has not achieved much at all. Moreover, the army's food and drink needs to be supplied from the rear, and the army has sent too much, the logistics cost is too great, and the army has sent too little, and it cannot play the role of suppressing bandits. Therefore, during the period when Heru was the governor, he only occasionally carried out a small-scale purge of these horse thieves, which was all a training for new soldiers.

However, the current situation is more serious, because of the war in the northwest, a large number of displaced people, and the chaotic army is scattered. Because of the confrontation with the empire, the Northwest Army couldn't take care of these horse thieves and robbers at all, so this three-regardless zone developed and grew in just one year, and horse thieves and robbers blossomed everywhere, almost forming an extremely rampant momentum.

During the war in the northwest, the Moxi trade route was almost cut off, in addition to the war, a more important point is the rise of these horse thief gangs. There are many reasons for this area, the location is remote and the environment is difficult, the proximity to the grassland area is quite sensitive, and after the civil strife in the Northwest Army, no force on one side is willing to manage it. After all, there is not only one family in this land, and the Northwest Army has to contribute every time it is cleared, and gradually these guys have lost interest in this Gobi.

These factors undoubtedly contributed to the arrogance of these horse thieves, and even Gould once wanted to expand his army by recruiting horse thieves during the war, which shows the number of these guys. Of course, the larger caravans were not afraid of these horse thieves, and they had the strength to hire a large number of mercenary groups to serve as guards, and even had their own family guards to protect the caravanserais. And those smaller caravans can only choose to mercenary groups, although the danger of doing business is very great, but the relative benefits are also proportional!

The expansion of the power of these robbers and horse thieves has also greatly stimulated the development of the Northwest Mercenary Group, although there are not many mercenary groups in Moxi Province. However, in the neighboring commercial province of Turan Province, there are no less than 100 mercenary organizations of all sizes, and even the subordinate branches of mainland mercenaries are also set up in Loulan City, the capital of Turan Province, which shows that the mercenary team in the northwest is prevalent.

However, for Gray, who led the troops to suppress the bandits, none of these problems posed a threat to him. Even if those horse thieves and robbers are rampant, they don't dare to come and find trouble for themselves at will, after all, a regular army like him who has traveled all the way, with thousands of infantry behind the palace, and hundreds of cavalry in front of him, is still not a small deterrent to those thieves.

Gray was confident that his troops would not meet any great resistance this time, because the small horse thieves would have fled long ago when they heard that their army had crossed the border. And those big horse thief gangs, although they are numerous, their combat effectiveness is obviously not enough to fight against their own Northwest Army army.