[Yesterday's second update]

After conquering two passes and crossing Hengshan, what appeared in front of Miao Zhu was not the enemy army waiting for him, but two roads to Lingzhou.

One is to attack directly to the northeast, after crossing the Daidai Ridge, you can reach Weizhou, and then the Lingzhou River that flows to Lingzhou, just to meet with the Huanqing army. This is a plan in the plan, and it is also an order from Gao Zunyu, the deputy director of Huanqing Road.

The other way is to continue along the Hulu River to the northwest and take a little road to reach the Yellow River first. Just on the banks of the Yellow River, there is a city of Mingsha.

"I heard that Mingsha City is the granary of the western thieves, and they have hoarded hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass."

"There can't be so many, the thieves have been so poor all these years that they have to put their pants in the pledge warehouse. In the past two years, there has been a bumper harvest in Kansai, but the price of grain is still rising, and there is a credit to the western thieves who sent people back to Yiguanzhong for grain. ”

"If you can have 350,000 stones, it will be enough for the whole army to eat for a month. At least you don't have to rely on the people behind you to transport grain. How many of them will work hard? ”

"Chief Gao ordered us to go to Weizhou to meet him."

"After we really go to join the Huanqing Army, will we still have a chance to make meritorious contributions?"

The voice of the general below whispered loudly unconsciously because of the quarrel, and it reached Miao Zhi's ears.

Miao Zhu rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, his head was splitting, but he didn't have the heart to scold a few words. The generals under him are actually not wrong, so they will become the main cause of his headaches.

According to Gao Zunyu's previous instructions, the Jingyuan army should join him as soon as possible. However, the problem of grain and grass for the Jingyuan army is even more of a trouble.

After arriving at Gao Zunyu, it was difficult for the people on Jingyuan Road to push the grain cart and chase after him. The rations had to be solved by Huanqing Road, but Miao Zhu didn't think that under Gao Zunyu's hands, he would be able to get the supply of grain and grass in time. Gao Zunyu can't turn into food, and the troops dispatched by Huanqing Road are much more than those on Jingyuan Road, where can there be extra food for Miao?

But Gao Zunyu's order was also inconvenient to ignore. Based on Miao Zhu's understanding of Gao Zunyu, the Queen Mother's own uncle is not a tolerant person, and he will never forgive his offense.

In the end, which way to go, Miao Zhi is now in a dilemma, in contrast, fighting a war is simpler.

The generals below discussed for a long time, but they didn't see any reaction from the coach, so they just rubbed their heads. Finally, someone couldn't help but urge: "Miao Shuai, you can make a message, should you go to Daidailing or Mingsha City?" It's not a problem to hesitate like this! ”

Everyone fell silent, staring at Miao Zhu with a pair of eyes, waiting for his decision.

"Steward!" Miao Xu's son, Miao Xu, called his father with an official title, "We have been waiting for more than ten years, just for the current war." Please also ask the general manager to show me. ”

The generals and soldiers under his command hope to make contributions are all on their faces, and the ambition in the eyes of his son cannot be concealed from Miao Yu. The general manager reminded Miao Zhu that he was the commander of the road on an equal footing with Gao Zunyu, as long as he could have enough military exploits, even if he ignored Gao Zunyu, it didn't matter.

“…… Go to Mingsha City! Miao Zhu pondered for a long time, gritted his teeth and made up his mind, "Most of the thieves will prevent us from meeting with Huanqing Road, and going to Daidailing will inevitably have to fight." The attack on Mingsha City caught them off guard. ”

Everyone can hear Miao Zhu's explanation as an excuse, but the generals below only need an excuse.

Everyone was in high spirits, shouting loudly that the general would obey the order, and began to compete for the position of the vanguard general.

As the grain route extended, the supply of grain and grass would become slower and slower, and the army could only stop and wait for supplies. And once there is enough food, there is no need to wait for the rear to send grain and grass up, and the speed of the army can naturally be a little faster.

And what does speed represent? - It's a credit, the credit of his wife's shadow!

As long as General Manager Gao can be prevaricated at the moment, no one wants to let go of the opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service. The party members avoided the war, and now the Jingyuan army is full of self-determination, but there is no need to get close to the main force to strengthen their courage.

The generals under his command began to quarrel over the vanguard, but the gloom between Miao Xiang's eyebrows did not change. As a manager, you don't just think about the merits, but also about the looming crisis.

Before the war, there was one thing that everyone overlooked. Shaanxi has never succeeded in maintaining a supply line of more than 300 miles during the war. And the grain and grass transportation with more than 100,000 troops also has no experience.

When these two points are combined, and at the same time the distance is extended to 1,000 miles, and the number of troops is increased to 300,000, although the plan is well planned in advance, how well prepared it is, there is enough food in the rear, and there are sufficient manpower, but the operation of transporting grain and grass itself is difficult to maintain to the bottom in any case - Miao Zhi is very pessimistic about this.

The Qin Feng Transit Division, the Yongxing Military Route Transit Division, and the accompanying transport of various armies all lacked the ability to deliver grain and grass to the front-line army in a timely manner. It's just that he has just arrived in the territory of Western Xia, and Miao Zhu has already felt this with his own experience. The amount of grain and grass that arrived in his hands every day was constantly decreasing as the army advanced. In particular, after crossing the Hengshan Mountain, yesterday was a full third less than the amount of grain and grass that arrived three days ago.

This is a helpless thing.

In order to ensure the safety of the grain crop, the grain and grass storage place closest to the front line was 200 miles away from the pre-war border. Several other grain hoarding points are further away from the front line. Even if Miao Zhu has ordered to use the Mo Navel Pass as a military station and order the rear to transport grain and grass as soon as possible, there are very few officials who can compare to the abilities of Han Gang and Shen Kuo, and even Wang Hou is rarely able to compare.

In such a situation, it is necessary to capture Lingzhou as quickly as possible.

Lingzhou is the gateway to Xingqing Mansion, and no matter how much the western thief lures the enemy to go deeper, it is impossible to give up Lingzhou. There must be a large amount of grain in Lingzhou City, which is enough for the whole army to eat.

For Gao Zunyu, Miao Zhu can only say sorry first, he has the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, and the entrustment of the Son of Heaven, ensuring his own food and grass supply is the first place, as for the order, it has to be pushed back.

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At the same time, the seed who had just captured Xiazhou was also having a headache for grain and grass.

The party had no intention of holding on to Xiazhou, but they had plenty of time to dispose of all the grain in the city. After the official army captured Xiazhou City, it took two days to find 3,000 stones, which was just enough for the whole army to eat for two days.

In the past, the planter led the Yan army back and forth, which not only delayed time and consumed morale, but also made the planter now have to rely on the rear to transport grain and grass up, and the ground that has been dug once cannot dig up the grain for the second time.

At present, compared with the previous attack on Yinxia, there are 30,000 more forbidden troops under the command of Chong Ge. Although the strength of the army has increased by half, the combat effectiveness of the whole army has decreased instead of increasing. Even more unfortunate is the fact that the consumption of food is the same as the increase in troops.

With the cavalry's mounts, there were 35,000 more mouths, and the food of the war horses was almost ten times that of ordinary people. But several generals of the Jingying Forbidden Army came to urge Chong Ge to speed up - he was forced to withdraw by the imperial court before, which not only hit the morale of the Yan Yan Army, but also made the arrogance of the Jing Ying Forbidden Army arrogant, and even in front of Chong Ge, it was not inferior.

Standing at the head of Xiazhou City, he has no intention of watching the rare scenery inside and outside Xiazhou, with the scorching sun on his head, his right hand unconsciously pounds the pheasant on the wall one by one, sweating and unconsciously.

Xiazhou was the core town of Yinxia, but the party members who were bent on luring the Song army through Hanhai gave up very simply. The defenders of the city were only more than 2,000 people, and none of them were elite. It was through the captives and spaceships that he detected this, so he insisted on ignoring the efforts of the Beijing camp and handed over the task of attacking the city to his own people.

Merit is merit, and the capture of the city will not fluctuate too much depending on the number of defenders in the city, and the merit of conquering Xiazhou is not slightly worse than beheading 1,800. However, in this way, it will be more difficult to bring the Jingying Forbidden Army.

"Captain, Liu Guiren, they are making trouble and are going to send troops, what should I do?"

The voice sounded from behind, and if he dared to come and disturb the cultivator while he was pondering, it was only a few children of the farming family.

"If you want to walk in the sun, just go, Ben Shuai won't stop you. By the way, I will help them to carry a letter to their home in the capital and send them the reward of martyrdom. ”

To put it mildly, what the cultivator wanted to do most was to send the Jingying Forbidden Army to the desert to the north and leave them to fend for themselves. For the war in front of them, not wasting precious military rations is the only place where they can play their value.

Chongpu coughed, but didn't move his feet.

He turned around, the cloudy expression on his face contrasting sharply with the scorching sun overhead.

"Passing on the commander's military order!" As soon as he raised his voice, the soldiers who were ten paces away hurriedly ran over. I listened to the cold voice of the coach of Yan Yanlu: "No noise in the camp." Sixty rods for those who make noise in the camp. Those who fan people's hearts will be immediately killed. If you don't respect yourself, don't blame Ben Shuai's knife for being merciless. ”

After the soldiers answered, they saw that they had no other orders, so they immediately went down to the city to give orders.

He turned to his son again: "Take the cavalry of the fourth general and check the water source in the Hanhai Oasis." Looking at the current situation of the party members, there should be no ruthless destruction. ”

Chong Pu was stunned for a moment, and immediately said respectfully: "The last general will obey the order of the Taiwei Jun." After receiving the general's order, he asked again: "My lord, the party members are trying to lure us to Lingzhou City in every possible way, and they are so sure?" ”

"What else can they do?" He sneered, "Ruined the water source in the Hanhai Sea? Even if they are lucky enough to win the official army, how can they communicate with Yinxia in the future? ”

"But what about the grain and grass? With just water, Hanhai can't be crossed. ”

"Then we have to see what Li Zhuan is capable of." He snorted coldly, "If he can't do it, he has to ask the Son of Heaven to judge." ”