Usolier City, former site.

The sky and the earth are covered with mist, with a distance of less than two hundred steps. Looking around, it is covered with white space, and the wind is whistling like a knife.

A group of soldiers lined up in a long line on the snow, and they could not see at first sight.

The war horse snorted and vomited white smoke. A carriage was pulled behind the war horse, which was covered with canvas. It seemed to be of great weight from the rut.

The convoy was climbing the hill, and there was a soldier on each side of the car shouting a trumpet and trying hard to help the horse push the cart, but the snowy road slipped from time to time.

"Everyone work harder, walk another five miles to Usolier City. Let's rest outside the city tonight!" The general Feng Sheng rode his horse and patrolled.

Feng Sheng was about forty years old, wearing a black cotton jacket and a cotton hat and frowned slightly.

This is not the first time he has transported supplies outside the Great Wall, but it is the first time he is so far away from the Great Wall.

Originally, the original plan was to transport the supplies to Chernog today, but a few days ago, the weather suddenly fell heavily and the wind and slippery road caused the supply team to barely travel forty miles a day.

Since Beihai Province and Menggu Province were short of food, this batch of grain was transported to the capital from Shandong, Henan and other production areas a few months ago, and then shipped to Datong to pass through customs.

The convoy left the line of Datong, Xuanfu, crossed the Great Wall and headed north to Kulun City, then continued northward, and westward through Chukuboxing and Irkutzk. If the total distance for grain transport was calculated to be at least three thousand miles.

There is nothing to do if you transport grain for such a long distance. Feng Sheng looked up at Wangtian and sighed. The delivery of supplies as scheduled had become a luxury, and his face was full of helplessness.

Perhaps the lightest punishment after completing this task is to be demoted, and maybe he will be dismissed.

I don’t know what happened to the front-line army? Such cold weather is simply a life-threatening person, and many of his men’s hands were cracked by the cold.

"Boss, guess what, will there be people in Usolier City?" Zhang Liu, the official of Qianhu, panted and said with no words.

Since leaving the Ming Dynasty, almost all the cities encountered by the army have turned into scorched earth. This is why the army has not encountered any obstruction of the enemy along the way, and even has not even seen a person for several days.

Zhang Liu still remembered the scene when the grain transport team arrived in Kulun City that night. It was dusk, but he saw countless crows flying over Kulun City, crowded with turbulent crows.

These crows were all fat. Zhang Liu also joked that not only did the Ming Dynasty harvest be good this year, but even this bird could have a full meal.

But the group only found that Kulun City had turned into scorched earth and was burned black inside and outside the city. A veteran grabbed the thick black gray deposited on the ground and smelled it.

A new recruit asked repeatedly, and the veteran shouted at the top of his throat, which was the ashes formed by burning people to death!

A bold soldier walked into the city from the broken wall and vomited all the sour water after coming out.

The city is full of burning corpses that are not human-shaped. This is the best food for crows. Although many of them are broken, crows like to eat carrion. Many of them are pecked to the point of bones, and their eyes are so empty that they are scary.

That night, the soldiers of the grain transport team of more than 5,000 people collectively did not eat dinner because they couldn't eat at all. They just made do with the city side and drove straight to the next day.

It also started from Kulun City. The supply team did not enter the city where there was no one along the way. So just now, Feng Sheng said that the army was resting outside the city just because the city wall could withstand some of the cold wind.

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and urge the people behind you to stay behind, don't fall behind." Feng Sheng had no time to argue and said bluntly.

"Okay, alas, so are you. Anyway, the deadline has been missed. This one is a mistake for one day, and two days is a mistake for two days. Why are you anxious?" Zhang Liu complained while driving his horse to the back.

"Yuan Datou, you will be lazy every time after eating three bowls of rice. You will eat all the food sooner or later. Hurry up and push the cart for me!" Zhang Liu scolded a veteran who was lazy in the carriage and said.

It is not empty talk to eat up all the food. This time, the grain transport team transported a total of 60,000 stones of grain from Datong Prefecture. This was the food for 100,000 soldiers on the front line for a month, but the journey was long, with 5,000 people and more than 1,400 carriages and people consuming nearly half of them.

Yuan Datou was also helpless. He was injured in his legs and his legs were inconvenient when he was a soldier in his early years. Fortunately, his horse was relatively strong and he could completely pull it even if he didn't need to push it. However, he was too lazy to explain to the superior. After hearing this, he got off the horse and started pushing the cart with difficulty.

That night, the grain transport team set up camp outside Usolier City. Zhang Liu's estimate was absolutely correct. Usolier's achievements were indeed a dead city.

"Sir, we have traveled nearly two thousand miles a long distance. If we follow the current marching, it will take at least ten days to reach Chernog." Sun Gui, the Thousand Housekeeper, handed it to Feng Sheng with a bowl of porridge.

"Hmph, if you miss the trip, you may not find the prince even if you arrive at the Chernog." Zhang Liu took a sip of the porridge and said.

"The most important thing at the moment is not food, but the 80,000 sets of cotton clothes. The prince rarely asks the court for grain on the battlefield, but cotton clothes cannot do it!" Sun Gui said again.

"Whoever is not in a hurry is the grandson, but what's the use of being anxious? How fast can the carriage run?" Zhang Liu said with his eyes wide.

His family turned out to be a military household. Thanks to Liu Hongjian, he took off the shackles of military households. He respected and admired Zhang Liu, the prince of Anguo.

But he was a little confused. The court had always driven away the nomadic peoples in the north and retreated their troops when they attacked the nomadic people in the north. It was rare for them to run so far in anger like the prince of Anguo.

It’s not that there was no such thing as Emperor Chengzu’s five expeditions to the ancient Union, but in the end he failed to destroy the Tartars.

"We can't delay any more. Our personal future is small. The lives of the soldiers on the front line are the most important. From tomorrow on, the army will only be allowed to rest for two hours a day. Be sure to transport the cotton jacket to the front line before ten months!"

Feng Sheng sat aside and didn't say anything, but everyone knew that once Boss Feng said, it would be a final conclusion.

But resting for two hours a day is really hard to do.

"Boss, our brothers do physical work. After two hours of rest a day, they can't stand the iron-clad body!" Zhang Liu wailed.

Rest for two hours is just a theoretical matter. These two hours include camping and eating. Although many soldiers will continue to simplify the process in order to have more rest, and even save tents. The three of them share a carriage and take a short while.

Since the army passed the city of Kulun, the soldiers have been exhausted from four to three hours. If they have shortened their temperatures, Zhang Liu is worried that someone will not be able to stand such a cold weather.

"Don't complain, the soldiers on the front line are fighting with their lives. We should also use their lives to transport grain. You are still wearing cotton clothes. Do you know what the soldiers on the front line wear?

After drinking the porridge, go to bed quickly, don’t waste your time!" Feng Sheng said that, and drove everyone out of the tent, then fell to bed.
Chapter completed!