?Yuwen Wen heard the middle-aged man's house and then heard a name: Zhang Xutuo. He turned around and glanced at the young man and nodded and then continued to move forward. The general was smiling and was about to come forward to ask about his well-being, but Zhang Yu politely blocked him.

‘It’s Zhang Xutuo…I didn’t expect that I am a young man of the same age as me now.’ Yuwen Wen was a little confused. He suddenly felt that he was over thirty years old.

Zhang Xutuo, a native of Xi'e, Nanyang, stood out during the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He was a famous general and a pillar of the court. Later, when fighting with the Wagang Army, he was surrounded by a trap. Zhang Xutuo, who had already broken through, saw his subordinates trapped in a heavy siege and rushed back to rescue. After four consecutive times, he saw that the army was defeated and was extremely sad and angry, so he got off the horse and fought until his subordinate Qin Shubao died. Luo Shixin threw himself into Pei Renji's tent and finally surrendered to Wagang.

Yuwen Wen's "accidentally met" the young Zhang Xutuo and remembered that if the world was in chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the eldest son Que Ge was over 30 years old, not to mention how many years older than Yang Guangda after all.

"Go and tell Master Xu Zhuang and arrange for the empty seat of the baggage cart to take someone." Yuwen Wen ordered his men to make arrangements quickly. The father and son were probably not much physically left after falling into the water and slapping their bodies. If they walked to Anlu again, they would be unable to stand it.

‘Zhang Xutuo is so young, then his subordinate Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin are probably not born yet…’ A sense of vicissitudes emerged from Yuwen Wen’s heart. The heroic era of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was more than 30 years later, and now he is considered their father.

"The flag of my father..." He murmured to himself as he looked at the sky, "It will definitely float under the sky of the Great Zhou!"

After a small storm, the large group of troops continued to move eastward. Because it happened to be on the way, the new army under Yuwen Wen, the prefectures and county soldiers who returned home from Jiangling and the army escorting the prisoners set off together. The teams that stretched for several miles on the official road looked spectacular from a distance.

The east bank of Hanjin is the territory of Mianzhou. The continuous fertile fields in later generations that were "huguang and abundant in the world" are still a wild area. There are currently no sufficient water conservancy facilities on both sides of the Han River. The flood that is almost a must-have in summer and autumn every year can make farmers cry without tears.

"The war is about logistics. After two months of dispatch, the army was in short supply of food and could not support the northward journey." Yuwen Wen and Xu Shao were discussing the current situation. "One of the time, the food route became longer and easily attacked, and the second is that the distance was longer, the people transporting food and grass would also increase their consumption alone."

Xu Shaoshen felt the same way. He has been familiar with the classics, history, and collections of military books since he was a child. He did not feel that he could only know what it means to "the army and horses move first before they move."

He was embarrassed when he recalled the scene of his father arguing with his father about how to march and fight. At that time, he was young and arrogant and said with confidence, but he always smiled without saying anything. He also thought he had refuted his father. Now it seems that he was unrealistic to talk about it on paper.

"If the food and grass are gone, people's hearts will be in chaos. The team will be difficult to bring." Yuwen Wen sighed. In the past, the talk-talking general said, "There are tens of thousands of people here, and there are tens of thousands of people." But there is only one problem to operate: how do you solve the food consumption of so many people?

Not to mention the jokes of "a small town gathered hundreds of thousands of heavy cavalrymen" that are completely unsense. Don't talk about how to dispose of hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen. Just the food and grass consumed every day are astronomical figures.

"The army is right. The first thing to do when leading troops to fight is to be able to eat enough." Shi Wansui said while riding his horse, "The soldiers were so hungry that they were rumbled, and they wouldn't even listen to the scattered words."

Shi Wansui has been in the army for more than ten years, and many of the knowledge in military books have been summarized by himself. If you are leading troops, the more cavalry, the better. Not only are there many large ranges of fighter jets selected for movement, but they can escape if they see that the situation is not good, but infantry will not do it. Win, you cannot chase and defeat, and you cannot escape.

The cavalry can march for two or three hundred miles a day and night, but it can be 100 miles apart with two legs. Not to mention the battle immediately. The Southern Dynasties' several Northern Expeditions suffered the loss of weak cavalry but infantry could not fight. Nearly two hundred years ago, the "Qiyue Formation" of Liu Yu, the Southern Dynasties, who used infantry to control cavalry, was famous for a long time, but no one could use it.

A group of people suddenly became darker when they were talking about war on paper. Dark clouds floated from the cloudy sky, and they saw the drizzle falling down into the wilderness but had nowhere to hide.

"It's okay, the dark cloud will pass by in an instant, everyone will get off the horse quickly." Yuwen Wen set an example after saying that. He saw that the dark cloud was not large in area and moving at a low speed, so he determined that it was at most a shower. It doesn't matter if it's sprinkling water, but it's just a matter of lightning.

He felt that he was "attacked by water" one after another and had a fever last time just falling into the water and being blown by the wind. Now he was surrounded by the wilderness and riding a horse. If he was accidentally struck by lightning, he would die young!

The dark clouds come quickly and the rain falls quickly. The drizzle instantly sprinkles on the team that stretches for several miles, and many people look for something to block their heads. Although the rain is soaked, it will catch a cold and get sick if it blows on the air.

It was cloudy and sunny before, so they didn't carry their hats and other rain gear with them. The rain came quickly, so they could only go to the carriage to pick up the front and back of the team for a while, but the middle section was still in order. It was Yuwen Wen's new army. Whether it was soldiers or generals, no one was in a mess, and no one was in a mess to find rain gear.

Because there was a hat behind their backpack. When they saw raindrops, they would fall down and take them off from their backpack and wear them on their heads. Therefore, their speed of travel was almost unaffected, but the cavalry and generals walked on their horses to avoid being struck by lightning.

"I just said that I didn't feel tired when I carried my hat for no reason. It turned out that I was prepared for a long time."

"When there is wind, the body of this man wearing a hat on his head will be wet by the rain. Why don't they take a break and leave..."

"Didn't it mean that Yuwen Tongjun likes to tease people and kill the soldiers all day long?"

"Don't say it. When Yuwen Tongjun heard it, he would draw his sword and chop blood and flow into a river..."

As the New Army soldiers lined up and no one complained. When the new soldiers came to Hu'er and waited for the newly joined soldiers to see their companions, they didn't make much noise. After all, even Yuwen Tongjun, who had a high fever for just a few days, marched with a straw hat and became a big-headed soldier. What else can I complain about?

"Isn't the new one? Tell you that before, I only wore a hat when I was raining in the field." A 'veteran' was quite proud. Seeing that his new comrade was a little reluctant to speak, he explained kindly: "I will definitely boil ginger soup to drive away the cold after a while, don't panic."

Liang Dingxing, the head of the team in front, heard the voice of the team talking, and shouted: "Someone's throat is itchy, right? Whoever speaks will pull it out and yell a few times!"

"It's boring to roar, I have to sing a few songs!" This is the owner of the pagoda, Tian Zhengyue, who is cheering.

"It's not enough to sing alone, you have to sing the same thing!" The military leader Chen Wudi began to 'add up'.

"That's you, Team Chen! The one who talks the most is your team!" Tian Xiaoqi, the leader of the Long Dao Team, did not forget his rival Chen Midou.

"Which ear did you hear is our team talking, the leader of the Tian team!"

"Looking at each one, everyone will have a share!" Yuwen Wen began to 'comfort' as the soldiers were full of morale, "Master Liang Zhuang, start with your Zhuang!"

"Hahahaha!" The team laughed from beginning to end.

"After a while, Master Xu Zhuang will find a place to cook ginger soup, everyone will drink more!"

Seeing that the soldiers in this team were full of morale, the front-end soldiers and the escort soldiers at the back-end were looking at each other. For the soldiers of the county, they were temporarily recruited to the battlefield and died. Now they are unlucky to marches on foot and are exposed to the rain. How could they be so happy?

The escort soldiers from the back end retreated from Jingzhou to Anlu, which was a good job, but they didn't know if they would catch a cold after getting wet. Now they were feeling bad about it.

But the soldiers under Yuwen Tongjun are really crazy and sang one after another when they are wet in the rain. It seems that those who are familiar with each other are wet in the rain when they practice on weekdays?

Zhang Xutuo and his father sat behind the baggage truck with a cloth blocking him, not afraid of being wet. He looked at the soldiers beside him, one of the two of them were wet by the blown rain, not only did not avoid it, but still sang the song with high morale and coaxed him.

The young general who was about his age was the commander of the army. Zhang Xutuo looked a little stunned when he was chatting and laughing with the generals around him. He remembered that the soldiers in the prefectures and counties in this state were all soldiers afraid of Shangguan, and Shangguan did not treat the soldiers as humans, but there was no such atmosphere as the army in front of him.

Zhang Xutuo's dream of making achievements shows that the dark side of the army was a little discouraged: I won't talk about deducting military pay, just the soldiers who have serious cloth shoes to wear, even if the generals "love soldiers as much as their sons."

On weekdays, young and strong people are summoned to join the army to make up for the number of numbers, but if you are not careful, you will be beaten and abused. It is common to die of illness and exhaustion. If you can die in battle on the battlefield, you will die happily. What's the point of joining such an army?

If his family is well-off, he can use his clan to pull up a rural soldier. If he performs well, he will have the chance to be recruited into a government soldier. The Zhang family has a better family but is not as good as the best. His father cannot lay the foundation for him to lead his troops to join the army. If he foolishly applies for the army, he will sooner or later be tortured and lose his life.

Zhang Xutuo was quite puzzled by the army in front of him: when it rained during the march, he would continue to march instead of stopping and waiting for the rain to light before leaving. It seemed ruthless but the soldiers didn't care at all. How did this young general manage the army so that he had such an effect?

The dark clouds quickly floated away, and the sunlight leaked from the cracks in the clouds and sprinkled on the wilderness. In front of the team, Xu Shao had already led the people to set up a "cooking cart" and set up a few large pots to start cooking ginger soup.

This cooking cart was made at the suggestion of Yuwen Wen. Each four-wheeled cart has two stoves and is equipped with firewood and iron pots and other items. This cooking cart can immediately set up a pot and cook water and cook, cooking, and cook more conveniently than temporarily digging pits and cooking in the wild.

Yuwen Wen sent people to spread the word that the soldiers in front of the county and the generals who were escorting the soldiers at the back end of the team "everyone has a portion of ginger soup". After a pot of ginger soup was cooked, the new soldiers took out bamboo tubes from their backpacks and came to the cooking cart in turn to fill the ginger soup and drank it while walking. The bamboo tube was the water cup made by Yuwen Wenqiang as the "standard" water cup.

Zhang Xutuo and his father also shared ginger soup. After drinking the warm soup, they felt that the slight heat and coolness of their whole body were dispelled. He looked at the scene where the soldiers were busy and the soldiers were calm and indifferent, and suddenly had a guess in his heart: the other party was prepared.

In order to prevent the soldiers from catching cold during the marching, most of the soldiers would make ginger soup, but the leader immediately made enough ginger soup for thousands of people to drink, which means that the ingredients were prepared so that the soup could be cooked at any time. Not to mention that just having a water truck is a proof.

After receiving the ginger soup, the friendly troops and entourages from the front and back were collected together, but there was not much left. This shows that the leader was aware of how many people could drink the soup. It would be better to estimate the number of people that they would cook a lot after raising the fire at a time.

Several soldiers passed by the car. Zhang Xutuo heard one of them asks what to do if the rain was heavy and there was no place to hide. The other replied: "Didn't you send an oil-paper umbrella when you are new to join the gang? You can hold on if it is heavy."

"That thing is too heavy and I put it in the baggage truck..."

"I tell you, when I met it rained a few times during the previous marches, I was not allowed to go to the car to get rain gear. Whoever has no oil paper umbrella in the backpack will be unlucky!"

Zhang Xutuo heard this conversation and found that the answer was: This army was indeed not sheltering from the rain, and this army actually gave the soldiers oil paper umbrellas!
Chapter completed!