Wang Shao has led the army to Xiangzi City. The 6,000 Xihe Army, with Zhao Long leading Xuanfeng as the forerunner and Miao Zhu and Wang Sunchen as the front army, began to march towards Hezhou.

In one day, there were only 500 defenders left behind by Wang Shao in Keno Fort. However, this afternoon, Jing Sili should have arrived, and he didn't have to worry about the safety of Kono Castle.

Fort Kono, which had become empty, was quiet, but Han Gang was still not idle.

In order to speed up the transfer speed from Didao to Kenuo, the mountain roads of Kangle Village, Dangchuan Fort, and River Valley Road were all used. The convoy carrying grain and straw materials passed through two roads, one after the other, and arrived at Kono Fort, and within three days, five convoys and horse teams arrived.

The work of counting the numbers was completed by Han Gang's cronies. But he also has to check the completion of this work from time to time when necessary. The number of people to be supported by Fort Kono is now 6,000, and it will increase to 20,000 in the next period. Twenty thousand soldiers, plus four thousand or so horses, will rely on Fort Kono to supply their needs.

Maybe the difficulty of this operation is not as difficult as the party members faced by Hengshan, but in other words, it is the logistics work of the army, but it is ten times that of Luo Wucheng at the beginning.

Han Gang walked through the warehouse hoarding area. Looking at the little officials below with an iron chisel inserted into the grain bag, pull out the center part, and check whether the grain in the bag is intact and whether there is mildew.

"How much is it lost?" Han Gang asked with the outbound slip that came with the car. A total of 16 cars, out of the warehouse there are 240 stones, compared to the Tongtu Avenue can hold five or six thousand catties of Taiping car, a car can only hold more than 1,000 catties, is really a little less. However, it is impossible for the roads in Fan District to exceed the carrying capacity of 1,000 catties compared with the official roads, which is the result of Han Gang having the vehicles change their wide wheels.

"This is from the edge of Taoshui, the number of bags has been counted, and there is no loss." The little official replied, and handed the signed drawing of the counted documents to Han Gang, "Now that people and horses eat and escort the grain and straw separately, no one dares to commit trouble on the road like in the past. ”

In the past, when military rations were transported, they were all sent all the way and eaten all the way, and there was no distinction at all. Some people will even deliberately dump a batch on the road in order to make it easier to transport, and then say that the livestock have eaten it on the way. Now that the two sides are separated, and it is another trip to transportation, the unnecessary consumption on the road has been reduced a lot.

It's just that on the other hand, due to the increase in the number of troops to be stationed on the roads after the establishment of the military station, their consumption is more than in the past, and one entry and one exit actually offset a lot. But after all, the help of the military station system in terms of logistics is obvious, and neither Cai Yanqing nor Shen Kuo have any ideas of changing this until now.

And after Han Gang actually presided over the logistics transfer affairs, he was actually very surprised by the way the previous military transfer envoy worked. In the past, the military transport envoys were literally accompanying the army, and they followed the commander most of the time. The work of organizing the escort of grain from the rear was handed over to the state and county officials in the place where the people departed. Then, after arriving in the army, they were assigned by the military transfer envoys. If the journey is too far, the grain and grass will be sent to the garrison before the army goes out, and then the army will personally lead the people to meet them. In many cases, they are even equivalent to a grain officer.

Even if Han Gang doesn't know much about logistics in the army, he won't think that the job of the logistics supervisor will be as simple as a grain officer, not to mention that he has also experienced a lot in several economic strategy divisions and pacification divisions, and the disadvantages of logistics are also very clear - logistics in later generations is developed, and it is necessary to set up transshipment points on transportation routes, and Han Gang still has more or less points in his heart.

With the car came not only the grain and grass that weighed heavily on the car, but also the news brought from the rear.

Cai Yanqing sat in Longxi City, and Wang Hou was named by him to come and fight. With Wang Hou's cooperation, Qin Feng's support for Xihe has also become orderly. On the other hand, after Shen Kuo took over the post of transporting with the army, he did not immediately burn a few fires, but only promoted two competent officials.

How to say that...... This should be a very clever move. In the case that Han Gang himself is still in the same position, if Shen Kuo is arrogant and powerful, Han Gang will never sit idly by. But no one can interfere with the promotion of two competent officials. Such a step-by-step solid foundation is to lay the foundation for a long term in Xihe in the future. Even if he can't serve in Xihe after the war, Shen Kuo's performance can still be regarded as decent. The success of the war here will inevitably not be less due to his contributions.

He is a smart person who knows how to be a person, and he also knows current affairs. Han Gang put down his snack. Even if there is a little movement, it is still one eye open and one eye closed.

An object that can be cooperated, Han Gang is very interested in meeting Shen Kuo, but he still has no time to clone.

Wang Shao has already sent troops, and the grain transportation behind it must also keep up in time, and it is still a river valley road from Kenuo Fort to Xiangzi City, and you can take a carriage. And from Xiangzi City [now Gansu Hezheng] to Hezhou City [now Linxia, Gansu], there is a mountain to climb in the middle, fortunately it is not high, and the wheelbarrow can still send grain over.

It seems that two more battalions of people transporting grain and grass will be placed in Xiangzi City. Han Gang wondered where it would be more appropriate to draw the manpower.

In the afternoon, Jing Sili led his troops to arrive at Kenuo Fort at the scheduled time, and in the walled fort that had just calmed down, there were 5,000 more soldiers and horses.

Hearing that Wang Shao had already set off yesterday, Jing Sili said sarcastically: "Wang Jingluo moved so fast! I can't catch up. ”

"Mu Zheng is waiting in Hezhou. Of course, the strategy should go a little faster. ”

"And the food problem, right?"

"The Metropolitan Supervisor can rest assured. The temple is invincible, how dare to go into battle. The supply of grain and grass is the first thing to be calculated in the temple calculation. ”

Han Gang is not worried about logistical pressures. After a winter of rush transportation, the grain stored on Xihe Road can probably be used by 30,000 troops until the end of April. And the beginning of May is the time of the wheat harvest. As long as Cai Yanqing can replenish 350,000 stone of grain and grass to supplement Longxi City before the end of April, it will not cause a shortage of grain. Although Wang Shao said that he sent troops in advance, his consumption did not increase much. For a whole month and a half, there would be no problem in replenishing two or three hundred thousand stones. And with the expected harvest of Xihe Road this year, it is enough to maintain the current 30,000 troops until after September.

"The Governor rested all night in Fort Kono, and then he could go on the road to catch up. Without waiting for the main force of the capital eunuch to arrive, Jinglu will not rashly fight a decisive battle with the Tibetan people. However, after leaving a letter, he also asked the capital prisoner to stay in the Keno Fort, leaving one commander of each foot cavalry to help guard the back grain road. ”

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Wang Sunsin rode his horse and led the army and galloped forward on the mountain road.

The river flowing through Xiangzicheng and Kenuobao is the Daxia landscape of Taoshui, and Hezhou City is located on the shore of Lishui [now Daxia River], Taoshui and Lishui are both tributaries of the Yellow River, and Wang Sunchen's department is about to cross the watershed between the two tributaries of the Yellow River.

The south slope of this watershed is steep, and the road up the mountain has to twist and turn around twice. But the north slope is very gentle, and after crossing this mountain pass, there is a gentle slope below.

On the side of the mountain road, there are black traces of the fire on several fortresses set up by the Tibetans. Arrow marks can still be seen on the rammed earth walls, especially against the several walls on the side of the road, and the arrows shot up by the Divine Arm Bow are densely packed together, as dense as the poisonous hairs on the caterpillar's body.

Zhao Long seems to be desperate. ’

pulled out the stronghold on the road overnight, and the strength shown by Xihe Xuanfeng was not slightly worse than that of the former Guangrui general.

As soon as he rode up the mountain pass, before he had time to look at the northern terroir, a cavalryman rushed over and reported to Wang Sunchen, "Du Xun, the Tubo people are attacking the Xuanfeng army, and I also ask the capital supervisor to go to support." ”

Needless to say from this sentry, Wang Sunchen had already seen more than 1,000 Tibetan cavalry, attacking less than half of their Great Song official army.

"Raise my flag, beat the drums, and get ready for battle!"

Wang Sunsin is not afraid of many opponents, but he is afraid that the opponents will not come. After a few words of order, the front army led by him was already lined up on the ramp.

The sound of the drums passed to the battlefield below, and the Song army and the Tibetan people in the battle eased their hands and feet for a while.

At the same time, looking up, a soldier of the Song Army was coming down from the ramp. The sudden arrival of reinforcements from the opponent frustrated the Tibetans, and the gentle slope down the mountain also helped the Song army a great favor.

Wang Sunsin had his squad of soldiers stand on the top of the slope and shoot at the lower part of the slope while slowly marching towards the lower part of the slope. The hillside is woody, and it is inconvenient for the Tibetan people to ride horses into the forest. Just stay on the ramp, and you will be shot by the Song army's crossbow arrows.

Seeing that the situation was not good, in the sound of the horn, more than 1,000 Tubo cavalry slowly retreated. On the ramp where calm was restored, wounded soldiers and horses were left on the battlefield, like shellfish on the beach after the tide receded.

Let people clean up the wounded on the battlefield, Wang Sunchen met Zhao Long. Wang Shao's cronies, the generals who led the selection of Feng, were sitting on the side of the road panting. The armor on his body was covered with arrows, and the heart shield on his chest was also dented. The mount under the crotch is no longer the black horse I saw yesterday.

"Why did you fight so hard?"

"The people of Tibet have even taken out the strength to eat milk, and it is difficult for us to set up a camp."

Zhao Long also worked hard this day, and even he, the main general, had a chance to sit down and take a breath now. Since they descended from the mountain, these vanguard units have relied on their various combat strengths to blindly rush and fight hard, breaking through the enemy's attacks three or four times, but the casualty rate of their own troops has also become very high.

"If you knew the way, you would have changed your means." Zhao Long sighed at the casualties of his own people.

"Stop talking nonsense. Didn't you know from the beginning that Lu Daomu Zheng would give us a dismount? ”

Standing on the mountain pass, Wang Sunchen looked at the Tibetan people in the distance. Under the verdant green mountains, the tents reached the sky and the earth, filling both sides of the water.

"Is there fifty thousand?" Zhao Long asked in a low voice.

"Looks like a lot more!"

"It seems that Mu Zheng has enough troops to intercept our rear path. Hey," he called Wang Sunsin, "you said Mu Zheng would copy that way?" ”

"Probably Konoburg...... Didn't you say that the Tibetan people dug several dark tunnels? Surely they don't know what to do, and we've already found it all. At this time, a bunch of Tibetan cavalry attacked, watching the Tubo people show off their might under the hillside, Wang Sunchen looked at them coldly, "When Wang Jing arrives, they will look good, and that is the real decisive battle." ”

In the Xuanfeng army led by Zhao Long, it was no longer possible to find who shot the first arrow against the Hezhou army. But when Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu led the main force to Lishui, the final drama of the decisive battle in Hezhou was finally staged.