"When the holiday is over, Lao Tzu will take you to make up for this lesson. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lu Si grinned and said.

Zhang Yansheng laughed and scolded a few words, and then put the matter aside.

Lu Si said quietly: "You see, this river comes down all the way from the west, so wide, so wide, how much land has moistened, this is really a good place, and it will be ours in the future." I love to smell this muddy smell the most, with the smell of water and earth, my family is Tianchengwei, when we were young, we learned to swim in the Nanyang River, catch fish, catch turtles...... I really didn't expect that one day I would ride a horse so leisurely and fight the Mongols in such a northern place. ”

"You Datong people hate Beiyu very much, right?"

"Of course I hate the North Captives." Lu Si said as a matter of course: "We are military households, how many of our Datong people have died in the hands of the Beiyu in the past two hundred years, I don't know." At least ten or more of my ancestors died at the hands of the Northern Prisoners. ”

"My family escaped from Daming, which is different from those Han people who were robbed." Zhang Yansheng said: "But I also hate Beiyu, and I have bullied us too much." ”

"My lord said, you can't blame the fugitives for this, Liaodong also has a saying that it is better to be born in Liao than to die in captivity, and the gang in the Ming Dynasty Mansion is not worse than the northern captives."

"The sentry is coming." Zhang Yansheng stopped the sentry and said, "I was in a hurry to ask you to report the news just now, but I didn't ask in detail." What's going on, there's no shortage of food over there? ”

"There is no shortage." The sentry grinned: "You will stop in a while, we are driving hundreds of sheep over there, killing all the way, even the captives are not very hungry, and they can go fast." Now we have to rush to offer Jiejie, so when we get here, our brigade will receive supplies or continue to walk, and we still have to hurry today. ”

"Are there many captives?"

"Many, full of mountains and valleys."

"Boasting is blowing in my ears." Lu Si sneered: "You can use hundreds of chasers as cavalry, dragoons are infantry on horseback, use infantry formations in battle, get on horses when pursuing, toss people don't know how far to run, winning is certain, how many prisoners can be taken, I don't believe it." ”

"You'll find out in a moment." The sentry rider was not in a hurry to argue, he recognized Lu Si, a famous young hero, and a lancer, and he couldn't hide the murderous aura on his body.

"." Lu Si was impatient and waved away the sentry horseman.

"Damn, this guy is not telling the truth." Zhang Yansheng said with a smile: "It's only been a few days, where did the hundreds of sheep come from, but the Tubu may bring the herd to send them." There are still captives full of mountains and valleys, this bull is too big. ”

"Not really." Lu Si gritted his teeth and said, "I should have whipped that kid with a whip just now, but I must have told us the truth, this slippery ghost." ”

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Lu Si and Zhang Yansheng didn't wait too long, and two hours later, a large force of dragoon forwards and baggage convoys converged.

It is not uncommon in the history of warfare for soldiers and baggage to be separated from each other for several days.

The so-called soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, generally because they were afraid that the logistics could not catch up with the main force, of course, even if the baggage moved first, they may not be able to catch up, many times the grain road is the lifeline, and in the history of the war in China, there are quite a lot of records of cutting off the enemy's grain road and plundering the enemy's back road to victory, which can be described as abounding.

If it is a huge empire to fight a foreign war, the logistics should be quite good, for example, the Qin army of that year, when the 600,000 Qin army conquered the Chu State, there was no record of logistics shortage, and the soldiers in front could even send home letters and ask for money and clothing from their families, which shows that the grain route has never been cut off, and the communication and material supply chain has always been intact.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chengzu conquered Mongolia, and the logistics team was as high as 100,000 or 200,000, and preparations were made half a year before the start of the war.

The Ming Dynasty stopped conquering Mongolia, on the one hand, the quality of the soldiers declined, the danger of the northern expedition increased, and on the other hand, the logistics could not afford the consumption of the huge war.

Hutchison is not easy in Mobei now, the supply line of thousands of miles means that there are large convoys back and forth every day, a large number of materials are consumed on the way, the loss of cars and horses is also quite large, a large number of people and vehicles are used in the direction of Mobei, and the rest have to reduce business, or buy new cars and hire more personnel, the cost has increased virtually.

In the war against the Khan of Chotu, the method of pushing over the military fortress was not adopted as in Mo Nan, and the most important reason was that the logistics could not afford it.

A thousand-mile supply line to the west would drag Hutchison alive.

This time Hutchison also took a risk, if the Lancer Regiment guarding the southwest direction, including a large area of Qingcheng, was transferred to the north, this battle would definitely be fought heartily without the slightest repetition, but less than 10,000 soldiers were dispatched, and the dragoons were mainly restructured from infantry, and this risk was not small.

In other words, if it weren't for the fact that the pure infantry began to be restructured into dragoons half a year ago, even if Zhang Han made up his mind to take a risk, the preconditions would not be valid.

Infantry is actually more suitable for long distances than cavalry, humans are more tenacious, can endure hardship, not like war horses, even if they are not squeamish, Mongolian horses will die a lot because of a long-distance run, but in terms of speed and weight, pure infantry will drag a long supply line behind them, and it is useless for infantry without supply money to walk. The steppe is not Han land, you can be the enemy because of the grain, if the pure infantry let go of their hands and feet to ask them to loot, it is impossible to grab anything, the Mongols saw them a few miles away and started to run again, and even the yurts would not be left for the infantry.

The soldiers escorted the convoy behind, the main force was in front, the main force did not have too many scruples about supplies, and this time the terrain was favorable, walking along the river, the other party's pasture and the Khan's court were also near the estuary, so there was no need to worry about losing the way, but the main force still ran too happily, resulting in a lack of food, and the logistics convoy did not bear any responsibility for this, but when they saw the main force returning, Lu Si and Zhang Yansheng both heard the cheers of the soldiers behind them.

Anyway, everyone's nerves have been broken up enough lately.

First came a few companies of dragoons, a small number of chasseurs, and then a steady stream of captives along the valley.

Of course, the captives did not have horses, and the thousands of horses captured were guarded by dragoons, even if Taiji and Chotu Khan did not have preferential treatment, they walked on foot.

Ren Jing did this deliberately, to make these Taiji and the Great Khan understand that in the eyes of the merchant soldiers, their aristocratic status is not remarkable, and in the eyes of the merchant army, their identity is a fart, or even a fart, it is nothingness.

This made those nobles who were captured and arrogant stopped a lot, they had to walk on foot with the lowly herdsmen, walking fifty or sixty miles every day, the Han army showed no mercy to those who straggled, rarely scolded, they were all directly whipped, if the whipping could not keep up, they could be killed, under this threat everyone tried their best to walk, fortunately, after two days of hunger, there were sheep to replenish, in the case of fullness, it was not so difficult to walk dozens of miles a day.

The Mongolian wounded were taken in by the Southern Route Army, where there were also military doctors and medical nurses, and the wounded would be taken to the Khan's court for treatment, and the Southern Route Army would continue to sweep the various tribes of Chotu Khan until further instructions from the military commander.

There is only one stretcher in the group of captives, Asarlan has a special identity, he was put on a stretcher and carried all the way by a group of captives, and there are military doctors who change his dressing every day, and the captives either believe in Buddhism or a few still adhere to shamanic beliefs.

"Keep on your way, boys."

"It's hard work, let's go back to the city to rest."

"Goodbye, we'll think of you when we go for a drink."

The two teams staggered by, the soldiers and the escort troops had already put supplies on the road, some medicine and some supplies, mainly food, Ren Jing ordered the soldiers to carry five days' rations each, and another convoy of baggage turned around, the convoy carried enough food including prisoners to eat for five days, and this time there would be no more food in any case.

When the soldiers passed by, they led their horses, and tied the packed food to the war horses, vegetables and fruits were the most popular, followed by some steamed cakes and meat steamed buns, the soldiers liked to enjoy them after baking, and the burnt cakes and steamed buns were quite delicious.

There are also some foods such as sun-dried noodles, which can be cooked in iron lunch boxes that soldiers eat, and the soldiers are quite skilled in these things, and they enjoy it.

These dry rations have to be very complicated procedures, and the Quartermaster Department needs to spend a lot of money to order them from the people, but everyone thinks that it is worth it.

Whether it's a grueling march or a battle at the risk of losing one's life, everyone wants to have a good meal after everything is done, and the thought of having a decent meal to eat before camping and going to bed at night will undoubtedly make everyone feel much better.

When the soldiers had received their share, they opened it as they went, and it was half a smoked duck, and he tore off one of the legs, chewed it, and handed the other to his companion.

The whole team did this, some nibbling on duck legs, others eating apples, and for a while they were hungry, and then every day they boiled mutton, and everyone was starving.

Asaran was lying on a stretcher, seeing the soldier in front of him who was leading the horse and walking chewing duck legs, his mouth was drooling uncontrollably, and he was trembling with youthful anger, he had been eating sick meals for the past few days, that is, the military doctor cooked some rotten noodles for him, this child didn't know that he had just finished a fever and couldn't eat meat, and thought that the Han people were deliberately abusing him, and later found that the whole army was out of food, and Assallan's heart was better, but he was still indignant in his heart, and then he saw that every ordinary soldier in Hutchison was gnawing on duck legs, This thing is also rare on the grassland, only the birds shot during hunting can be roasted to quench their hunger, looking at the soldiers gnawing on duck legs and apples, the young man is greedy and angry, and even the wounds on his body seem to be about to collapse.