Chapter 173 Grab food
After listening to Li Yunshan's analysis, Lin Chuan fell into deep thought. According to what he said, he really could not go to the nearby villages to collect food and grass. Now the Nanchuan army has just occupied the Heishan iron mine and needs the support of the surrounding residents. Lin Chuan knew that an army without the support of the residents would be like duckweed without roots and could be destroyed by the storm at any time, so he already had the answer in his mind, that is, he could not go to the nearby villages to collect food and grass.
"It's even worse to go hunting nearby. Now the snow is knee-deep. I'm afraid I'll freeze to death before I hit my prey."
"The third plan is to capture cities with food, but now there is a very serious problem in front of us, that is, the roads are severely covered with snow, and our army cannot march at all."
Feng Qingyang retorted: "The army cannot do it, then we can send a small group of troops to attack."
Li Yunshan smiled and shook his head: "All towns with food are stationed with heavy troops. There is only one result when a small group of troops goes there, and there is no return."
Faced with Li Yunshan's analysis, the three flag commanders who were proud just now were dejected. They did not expect that the good plan they had thought of became so full of loopholes in Li Yunshan's mouth, and they were immediately embarrassed.
Xiao Zhan said dissatisfiedly: "Since the Chief of Staff has denied our plan, I heard that the Chief of Staff has amazing knowledge, knows astronomy and geography, how can you find food?"
Everyone looked at Li Yunshan, wanting to see what good way he could say to solve the food problem. Ye Feifeng looked coldly at the sidelines, waiting to see Li Yunshan's joke.
Lin Chuan also showed curiosity, wanting to see if the chief of staff had any good solutions.
Who knew that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Li Yunshan spread his hands: "I have no choice."
Xiao Zhan laughed out loud: "You have been talking about feelings for a long time, haha."
Lin Chuan asked unwillingly: "Is there really nothing we can do?"
Li Yunshan laughed dryly: "There is no way. I have been in the Governor's Office of Jiuyuan Province for many years. I know some towns with a lot of grain storage, and I also know the defense weaknesses of these towns, but we can't get to the key problems now, let alone grab food and grass." Hearing Li Yunshan's words, Lin Chuan increased his interest: "Yunshan, do you really know where to store grain?"
"Not far away, Dongning Town, a hundred miles away, stores a large amount of food and grass, and it is not the supply area of the Second Cavalry Regiment."
Lin Chuan continued to ask: "How many garrisons are there in Dongning Town?"
Li Yunshan stretched out five fingers and said, "Five hundred people, led by a deputy thousand-strong leader."
Lin Chuan punched the table and said firmly: "We'll hit Dongning Town."
Xiao Zhan stood up and said, "General, this place is a hundred miles away from Dongning Town. It usually takes two or three days to get there. Now it is windy and snowy outside, and it will not be there in a week."
"You don't need to worry about this anymore. I will have my own tricks." Lin Chuan said mysteriously.
Amid everyone's doubts, Lin Chuan ordered Leistorm to cut a birch tree next to the camp. Lin Chuan took the initiative to make a quarantine snowboard.
Xiao Zhan muttered, "General, what's this? Are there two boards? This is your trick..."
There were already a large group of soldiers who had nothing to do around. Watching their general fiddling, the two wooden boards did not look like secret weapons.
Lin Chuan was too lazy to explain, facts were better than words. As he said that, he found two sticks to hold them in his hands and put his feet in the condom fixed on the wooden board. Lin Chuan blew a slogan, bent down and tried hard, and the wooden board suddenly rushed out seven or eight meters on the snow, which shocked the soldiers around him to grow up and could not speak.
"My goodness, general, how did you come up with it? It's so amazing." Xiao Zhan rushed over, looked at the simple skis carefully, and kept praising them.
Li Yunshan also said that Lin Chuan was shocked, and he did not expect that Lin Chuan could easily make such something beyond human capacity.
"General, although I am a civil servant, I am also familiar with my own ingenious things. I have never seen this thing before. I don't know which master's work is."
Lin Chuan naturally would not say that he was drawing on the skis from later generations, and pretended to be mysterious and pointed to the sky: "I had a dream last night, so the secret of heaven cannot be revealed."
Li Yunshan hurriedly stopped and stopped asking, but was shocked and even more awe of Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered the skis. He didn't expect that he could do it based on his memory, but it was a little easier.
In the following days, all the trees near the camp were cut down by the Nanchuan Army, and countless simple skis were made. Lin Chuan first taught several officers, and then taught the soldiers' skiing skills.
For a moment, soldiers holding two sticks and snowboards were everywhere around the Nanchuan Military Camp. At the beginning, the soldiers fell one by one and suffered a lot. However, as time went by, except for a few soldiers, they were still clumsy, and most of the soldiers had mastered the skiing skills.
On December 28, Lin Chuan gave an order, ten thousand Nanchuan soldiers paddled their skis and set out in a mighty manner towards Dongning Town, a hundred miles away.
This time, Lin Chuan personally led the team. With the internal information provided by Li Yunshan, chief of staff, Lin Chuan believed that he would definitely succeed.
In Dongning Town, the 35th Guard Thousand Person Team of Jiuyuan Province, 500 people were stationed here, led by Deputy Thousand Person Commander Zhang Wenhuan.
Since Dongning Town is the logistics supply base of the Cavalry Corps, a large amount of food and grass has been stored here. However, since the Cavalry Corps was defeated by rebels from the south, the food and grass stored in Dongning Town has not been moved.
Although the rebels were aggressive, the deputy commander of the thousand-man stationed here was not worried at all, because the Governor had once again gathered tens of thousands of troops and arranged them on the Jiuquhe line in front of them. If the rebels really came over, there would be friendly troops from Jiuquhe to block them.
But what Zhang Wenhuan did not expect was that the troops led by Lin Chuan attacked the food and grass did not disturb the dynasty army defending the Jiuquhe River, but went east and north, bypassed the Jiuquhe River Dynasty army, and headed straight for his weak defense Dongning.
When the dark Nanchuan Army appeared outside Dongning Town, Zhang Wenhuan thought it was his own eyes to see the flowers, but when he saw the Nanchuan Army approaching quickly and the swords held in their hands, he hurriedly shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Before the defenders could close the city gate, Xiao Zhan, who was the vanguard, had already rushed into Dongning Town. The panicked defenders were disarmed before they could resist.
Deputy Chief Zhang Wenhuan is [31 Novel Network Updated Fast] A tough guy who swears to never surrender. The Nanchuan Army has no time to talk to him. A rain of arrows has passed, and in the end he can only end up with a battle death. (To be continued)
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