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is different from Yuan Shao, who is rich and rich, sharpens his knives, and waits for battle.

At this time, Gongsun Chan was relatively much calmer.

Gongsun Chan has experienced too many wars, and he has been fighting with the Saiwaihu people all year round, and he has been quite calm about the war.

As for the preparation before the war, Gongsun Chan can not do much.

Patrolling in the camp to check the state of the soldiers, the readiness of weapons and equipment, all Gongsun Chan could do was to know as much as possible about everything his side had, and then use these to win the war.

"General, you're on patrol again."

Gongsun Chan listened to the exclamation next to him, and couldn't help but turn his head to look over, and then said with a smile, "Yan Gang, how are the soil soldiers?" You ready? ”

"Don't worry, General, as always, always ready." Yan Gang patted his chest, full of confidence and pride at this moment.

Gongsun Zhan looked at this scene, nodded with satisfaction, then patted Yan Gang's shoulder, and said with satisfaction, "Let's go, patrol the camp together." ”

Yan Gang did not refuse this, nodded, and followed Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Chan walked along the road of the camp, gradually watching, these soldiers who belonged to him, and went up from time to time to ask.

"Yan Gang, what is the situation in the barracks now?" Gongsun Chan stopped, looked sideways at Yan Gang and said.

Yan Gang walked to Gongsun Zhan's side, glanced at Gongsun Zhan, then thought for a while, and said calmly, "General, the soldiers' emotions are relatively stable, there is no big situation, in the case of food, there is no big problem." ”

Gongsun Chan nodded with satisfaction and asked casually, "What about the ordnance?" ”

Faced with this problem, Yan Gang reversed his attitude just now, his face showed a trace of sorrow, and then said, "General, I'm afraid this is very difficult, we don't have so many ordnance at all, and it is not easy to ensure that every soldier has a weapon." ”

Gongsun Chan nodded when he heard it, indicating that he understood, and couldn't help but sigh.

Youzhou is already very poor, even after Liu Yu's governance, it can already achieve self-sufficiency, but in terms of ordnance, don't think too much.

Liu Yu was not originally a main battle faction, but an education faction.

If he hadn't sent an envoy to Jizhou to discuss, he would have been directly wiped out by Yuan Shao, not to mention giving food like now, and it would be good if he didn't give him Gongsun Zhan.

What's more, Liu Yu, the principle of everything for the purpose of governing the locality, will not produce and manufacture ordnance at all.

And his Gongsun Chan really doesn't know how to play these things, even if he wants people to make them, there is no way.

Even if you find some people to make it, it can be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the army.

"How is the ordnance of the White Horse Servant prepared?" Gongsun Chan thought about the most elite troops under his command, and couldn't help but ask Yan Gang on the side.

Yan Gang shook his head with a wry smile, and said bitterly, "Although every soldier has leather armor, a saber, and a short bow, there are too few arrows, no matter how much you urge, it is already good for each soldier to be able to get twenty." ”

Gongsun Chan was a little stunned when he heard it, and then reacted, this is a normal situation.

Twenty arrows, not even half an quiver, is quite frighteningly poor, but this is the norm on the frontier.

As a cavalry that mainly relies on mounted archery and supplemented by close combat, the soldiers of the White Horse Followers naturally possess superb riding skills and archery skills.

However, it is useless, no matter how skillful you are, there is nothing you can do in the face of no arrows.

Leading the cavalry, holding a saber to cut people, it sounds like a powerful thing, but if there are arrows, will he Gongsun Chan choose this method to eliminate the Hu people?

Every time you fight, you are hovering between life and death, isn't it all because there is no way?

Compared with the arrows that are used once in actual combat, it is difficult to guarantee whether they can be used a second time, resulting in large-scale consumption.

If you use a saber to cut people, the loss will be much smaller, at least the saber will be blunt, and it will be good to sharpen it again.

And if the arrow is launched and hits someone else's body or the ground, it is one thing whether it can be recovered.

Therefore, there is no way to be poor, so Gongsun Chan can only choose to get money through various ways to maintain his huge army, including selling horses, all kinds of cattle, horses, and sheep of the grassland Hu people.

As long as someone dares to accept these things and bid for money, unless they are in a state of war, they are basically sold by Gongsun Zhan, and the money from the sale is used to maintain the army on the one hand, and to buy ordnance on the other.

Not to mention that every soldier has leather armor, at least every soldier must have a weapon that can kill the enemy.

"Twenty arrows? Okay, it's quite sufficient, at least it's enough. After hearing the specific number, Gongsun Chan nodded slowly.

For this aspect, Gongsun Chan never had high expectations, he used arrows if he had them, and he didn't forget it.

War is such a thing, don't you have to be fully prepared to come, there are enough ordnance to fight the way to fight, if there is no ordnance, don't you fight?

Once the war starts, who cares about you, anyway, he Gongsun Chan doesn't mind, is it not because of these, he won't fight?

Yan Gang looked at Gongsun Zhan's familiar face, and couldn't help but let go of his heart, at least the general was still the same as before, then everything was fine.

Yan Gang carefully recalled the scenes of the previous war, and finally nodded slowly.

It seems that this is really the case, even if there are only twenty arrows, it is an adequate posture that cannot be compared before.

Even if he can't even fill the quiver of the White Horse Yicong, or even half of it, it can't be denied that this war is indeed the most abundant time.

"In this weather, the snow and ice will melt very quickly, or it won't be long. I'm afraid war will start. Yan Gang looked at the sky and said with emotion.

When Gongsun Chan heard this, he also looked up at the sky, but he didn't see anything strange in the sky, and then shook his head.

"Fight early and fight late sooner or later, Yuan Benchu can't refuse the ambition in his heart, but unfortunately, there are some things that can not be decided by many generals." Gongsun Chan said casually.

Yan Gang could only shake his head when he heard it, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Gongsun Zan is a general of Zhenbei anyway, and there is no problem with directly commenting on Yuan Shao, but he is not strict.

The same sentence also dispelled the uneasy mood in Yan Gang's heart.

General Gongsun still has absolute trust in himself as he once did, and he Yan Gang also has trust in himself, or he has absolute trust in Baima Yicong.

(End of chapter)