September 15th. Wu Kai's subordinates followed the mixed army with 20,000 people, and arrived at Wuhu through the Bamboo Road.
"here......"
What caught the eye was a military camp with no end in sight, and there were people and horses everywhere. Those who are transporting baggage, those who are new to the area like Wu Kai for supplies, those who are building military fortresses...
Although Wu Kai knew that Wuhu had long been a fixed supply point for the slave caravans in the barbarian territory, and had built some houses and warehouses, which was a basic foundation, he did not expect that it would now become the fortress in front of him. appearance.
It is not clear how many soldiers there are in Wuhu. The gate of the military camp was not opened to Wu Kai's headquarters. The 20,000 people just changed a cart of baggage outside this giant military camp, and then waited for ten people to prepare food. After receiving a hot meat pie a few tents away, we continued on our way.
Wuhu was not the scheduled resting point, but an unnamed rocky beach fifty miles east of Wuhu.
When it was getting dark, Wu Kai followed the army and saw the resting point marked on the map.
"Send the order and tell the brothers to cheer up. Tonight is our defense area to the north. When setting up camp, it will be more prominent. We will be on guard every three hours." Wu Kai held the order that had just arrived in his hand. It is our turn tonight. Two battalions of soldiers under his command were on duty at night.
It's not that the two battalions can't rest at all during the night watch. They only need to send out more than 500 people to form night patrol shifts in batches. They rotate in three batches, and the rest of the people sleep in their clothes.
In the middle of the night, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance. He gave the command and checked his waistband. It was the military commander of the mixed army.
"General Wu Kai takes the order!"
After checking it, Wu Kai accepted the order, unfolded it and frowned after reading it. The brief statement in the order was frightening. It ordered us to break camp at the beginning of the morning tomorrow, and it clearly stated that we were to march at full speed.
What is "marching at full speed"? It means throwing down half of the baggage, loading all the weapons on the carriage, and trotting lightly, and all the running-in training along the way will be terminated.
In addition, starting at the beginning of the month?
Although there are no other words in the order, there is a sense of urgency between the lines.
The situation on the front line has reached this point?
At the beginning of the next day, Wu Kai broke out of camp on time, with trumpets blaring all around, and the mixed army of 20,000 people unified their steps. After lining up, they gathered together into a rapid march array and began to advance at full speed eastward. Half of the baggage, which had been fully supplied in Wuhu before, was also thrown away at this time. It was neatly covered with oilcloth and waited for the follow-up auxiliary troops to pick it up. Long guns and other heavier weapons were all put on the carriage, and the soldiers advanced at a trot.
Everyone can feel that the atmosphere in the military is becoming more and more solemn...
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Tanshi, the official residence of the supervisory envoy. Shen Hao was holding the new information sent back from the Zhuhuo Pass with a stern look on his face.
There are two pieces of information in total. One of them came from the Blackwater spy who infiltrated the carriage house. The second was that the supervisory envoys who followed the army out of the customs and went south came back through Qianliyin. The things mentioned in these two pieces of information are actually the same thing.
The front line in the south is tight!
The intelligence obtained by the Blackwater agents was sorted and analyzed through four parts. Because the materials transported at Zhuohuo Pass in recent days have slowly changed from mainly food to mainly medicinal materials, and at the same time, more wounded people have entered the pass than before. If it were not for the tight situation on the front line, it would not be possible to deal with the wounded and injured medicine in this way.
The news returned by the inspectors who followed the army south was more direct, saying that the march speed had been improved again and again, and the original one-month window had been reduced by nearly 30%, and the soldiers did not even dare to load up their luggage in order to rush on the road.
Although he has not yet received confirmation from the Daoxing General Manager Yamen, Shen Hao understands that the war on the front line is definitely not optimistic.
Looking at the topographic map of the barbarian region hanging on the wall, Shen Hao, a layman who was originally a military layman, could barely say anything useful: "It's too far!"
yes! Too far. A reinforcement of troops would take nearly a month to travel, not to mention that supply stations would have to be arranged along the way, and at the same time, small groups of enemies would have to be guarded against infiltration and harassment. I'm afraid this battle won't be easy.
"If there is a teleportation circle, everything will become easier, but why..." Shen Hao muttered to himself. In fact, he had this thought in his mind not once or twice, but this time he was stimulated by the facts reflected in the intelligence and couldn't help but think of it again.
When Shen Hao was investigating the case before, he had asked the formation masters of Qianhu's arsenal about the teleportation array. Since there are teleportation arrays in major cities, and even some military places have small teleportation arrays, why are there so many teleportation arrays outside the pass? No? The answer they got at that time was vague, as if these formation masters didn't know the reason. They only knew that the structure of the teleportation formation was the highest secret of the country, and how could ordinary people know about it.
It is said that the barbarian land is remote, but now the war is obviously in a dilemma due to the problem of the front line. Why not use the teleportation array to solve the problem of the far distance of the front line? You know, it doesn't take much. Just three or five teleportation arrays from the Kunluo Pass to Jianchuan are enough. Even a small teleportation array can greatly improve the current situation.
Is it really because it is too difficult to set up a teleportation circle and too secretive to be used in barbarian areas? It's okay to deceive ordinary people with this reason, but to Shen Hao, this kind of thing sounds like an "excuse".
Shen Hao kept this question in his heart and did not ask it. The reason is simple. What even a military layman like him can think of, can the generals in the army not think of? Those civil servants who always like to find faults can't think of it?
The only possible explanation is that there is no way to set up the teleportation circle in the barbarian area, or there is no way to install it in a place where Jingjiu was unexpected. This is why the frontier troops now have to face the drag of an extremely long front in barbarian areas.
But the question is what is the reason that restricts the teleportation array from being set up in barbarian areas? Shen Hao felt that this should not be a purely technical problem.
"Maybe I can ask Mr. Jiang?" After thinking about it, Shen Hao finally decided to ask his teacher Jiang Cheng the question in his mind. Jiang Cheng is probably the most suitable person to ask for this kind of problem.
In addition, he happened to report the situation on the border army's side to see if there would be any assignments from above. Because if there are no new changes, according to the current situation, Zuo Yuliang is likely to send his troops south in the near future and move the center of gravity of his deployment from Zhuhuo Pass to the south, so that he can actively shorten the front line and ease the various conflicts on the front line. kind of pressure.
As the chief officer of the Supervisory Envoy, Shen Hao will naturally follow Zuo Yuliang's Chinese army out of the border and go south. When the time comes, the situation he will face will definitely be different.
Finally, what made Shen Hao quite irritable was that his cultivation had almost reached the limit of the eighth level of the God Converging Realm. He was not sure whether he could complete another breakthrough before leaving seclusion and heading south. I was thinking about whether I should take advantage of these few days to work harder and try to gain new strength before leaving the border?
PS: There is another chapter to be posted in the afternoon. I feel a little uncomfortable, please forgive me.
