Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 169
After listening to Li Yunshan's analysis, Lin Chuan fell into deep thought. According to what he said, he really can't go to the nearby villages to collect food and grass. Now that the Nanchuan Army has just occupied the Heishan Iron Mine, it needs the support of the surrounding residents. Lin Chuan knows that An army without the support of the residents is like duckweed without roots, which may be destroyed by a storm at any time, so I already have the answer in my heart, that is, I cannot go to nearby villages to collect food and grass.

"It's even worse to go hunting nearby. The snow is knee-deep now. I'm afraid I'll freeze to death before I catch any prey."

"The third plan is to attack cities with food reserves, but now we have a very serious problem in front of us, that is, the snow on the roads is so heavy that our army can't march at all."

Feng Qingyang retorted: "A large army can't do it, then we can send a small group of troops to attack."

Li Yunshan smiled and shook his head: "Any town with food reserves has heavy troops stationed there. If a small group of troops goes there, there will only be one result. If they go, they will never return."

Facing Li Yunshan's analysis, the heads of the three banners, who were still proud just now, were immediately downcast. They didn't expect that the good plan they had thought of would become so full of loopholes in Li Yunshan's mouth, and they were immediately very embarrassed.

Xiao Zhan said unconvinced: "Since the chief of staff has rejected our plan, and I heard that the chief of staff is amazingly knowledgeable, he knows astronomy first, and geography second, so how can you find food?"

Everyone was looking at Li Yunshan, wanting to see what good solution he could come up with to solve the food problem. Ye Feifeng watched with cold eyes, waiting to see Li Yunshan's jokes.

Lin Chuan was also curious, wanting to see if the Chief of Staff had any good solutions.

Who knows, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, Li Yunshan spread his hands: "I have no choice."

Xiao Zhan burst out laughing: "You talk about feelings for a long time, it's nonsense, haha."

Lin Chuan asked unwillingly: "Is there really no other way?"

Li Yunshan laughed dryly: "There is no solution. I have stayed in the Governor's Mansion of Jiuyuan Province for these years. I know some towns with a lot of grain, and I also know the weaknesses of these towns' defenses. But the key problem now, we don't I can’t get there, let alone snatch food and grass.” Hearing Li Yunshan’s words, Lin Chuan became more interested: “Yunshan, do you really know where there is food stored?”

"Not to mention far away, Dongning Town, a hundred miles away from us, stores a large amount of grain and grass. Where is the supply place for the Second Cavalry Regiment?"

Lin Chuan continued to ask: "How many troops are there in Dongning Town?"

Li Yunshan stretched out five fingers and said, "500 people, led by a deputy chief of a thousand people."

Lin Chuan slammed his fist on the table and said firmly, "We will fight Dongning Town."

Xiao Zhan stood up and said, "General, it's a hundred miles away from Dongning Town, and it usually takes two or three days to get there, but now it's windy and snowy outside, so we can't get there in a week."

"You don't need to worry about this, I will have my own plan." Lin Chuan said mysteriously.

Under everyone's doubtful eyes, Lin Chuan ordered Thunderstorm to cut down a birch tree next to the camp, and Lin Chuan made a quarantine ski with his own hands.

Xiao Zhan muttered: "General, what is this thing? Aren't these two boards? This is your clever plan..."

A large group of soldiers with nothing to do has surrounded them, watching their generals fiddle with it, and looking at the two planks does not seem like a secret weapon.

Lin Chuan didn't bother to explain. Facts speak louder than words. As he spoke, he found two sticks and held them in his hands, and put his feet into the covers fixed on the wooden board. Lin Chuan blew a slogan, bent down and exerted force, and the wooden board fell on the ground. The snow suddenly jumped seven or eight meters, and the surrounding generals were so startled that their mouths grew wide and they were speechless.

"My darling, General, how did you come up with it? It's amazing." Xiao Zhan hurried over, looked at the simple skis carefully, and kept praising.

Li Yunshan also said that Lin Chuan was astonishing as a heavenly man, and he did not expect that Lin Chuan could produce such things beyond the reach of human beings casually.

"General, although I am a civil servant, I am familiar with each other's wonderful things, but I have never seen this thing. I don't know which master's work it is."

Naturally, Lin Chuan would not say that he borrowed the skis from later generations, and pointed to the sky pretending to be mysterious: "Someone had a dream last night, so the secret must not be revealed."

Li Yunshan stopped in a hurry and stopped asking, but he was shocked in his heart, and he was even more in awe of Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan also suddenly had a flash of inspiration, thinking of skis, but he didn't expect that he would really do it based on his memory, but it was just a little simpler.

In the next few 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 they taught the soldiers how to ski.

For a while, around the Nanchuan military camp, there were soldiers holding two sticks and stepping on skis. At the beginning, the soldiers were all bruised and swollen, and they were miserable. But as time went by, except for a few soldiers Still clumsy, most soldiers have already mastered the skills of skiing.

On December 28, under Lin Chuan's order, [-] Nanchuan soldiers paddled their skis and marched towards Dongning Town, a hundred miles away.

This time, Lin Chuan personally led the team. With the internal information provided by Li Yunshan, the chief of staff, Lin Chuan believed that success would be achieved immediately.

Dongning Town, stationed here is part of the No. 30 Five Thousand Defense Team of Jiuyuan Province, 500 people, led by Zhang Wenhuan, the deputy commander of the thousand people.

Since Dongning Town is the logistics supply base of the Cavalry Corps, there has always been a large amount of grain and grass stored here. However, since the Cavalry Corps was defeated by the rebels from the south, the grain and grass stored in Dongning Town has not been touched.

Although the rebels are aggressive, the deputy chief of a thousand people stationed here is not worried at all, because the governor has once again assembled tens of thousands of troops and deployed them on the Jiuqu River in front of them. If the rebels really come over , also blocked by the friendly forces of Jiuquhe.

But what Zhang Wenhuan did not expect was that the army led by Lin Chuan who attacked the grain and grass did not disturb the imperial army defending the Jiuqu River at all, but went east and then north, bypassing the imperial army of the Jiuqu River, and went straight to him Dongning, who was weak in defense, came here.

When the black Nanchuan army appeared outside Dongning Town, Zhang Wenhuan thought he was delusional, but when he saw the Nanchuan army approaching quickly and the swords in their hands, he hurriedly shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Raid!"

Before the defenders closed the city gate, Xiao Zhan, who was the vanguard, had already rushed into Dongning Town, and the panicked defenders were disarmed before they could resist.

Zhang Wenhuan, the deputy commander of a thousand people, was a tough guy who vowed not to surrender. The Nanchuan army didn't have time to deal with him. After a rain of arrows, only one person would die in battle.

(End of this chapter)