A mouthful of fresh blood was spat out, falling onto the ground.
The Great Emperor of Ying Country, who years ago still commanded the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains with vigor, directly knelt half on the ground, his vision intermittently darkening, his heart aching, and when he raised his head, he saw the portrait of the woman from his youth.
Suddenly, he felt that the portrait of his wife seed increasingly lively and real, as if trying to co look for him.
Blinding crimson, the long-burning lamp in the Star-picking Tower suddenly shook violently.
......
Li Guanyi led the army to attack the borders of Ying Country, and this ti he truly felt the sense of the large military groups being far from the rear, deeply penetrating alone. The attacking group was led by seventy thousand elite warriors, but regarding logistics, with every hundred miles, a portion had to be added.
At this mont, the logistics troops reached a level of one hundred thousand.
Previously, when Li Guanyi did not understand battle formations, he could not comprehend why the pressure on logistics was so imnse. Now, becoming the lord of a place, he gradually understood that as the army advanced, humans and horses consud intensively every day.
Transporting food and supplies from the rear required a three-line corps.
These soldiers normally fard their own land, trained frequently, and stored enough food to satisfy daily consumption. But once the army was dispatched, and war was mobilized, these governnt soldiers would beco full-ti logistics soldiers, and all consumption was borne by the Heavenly Strategy Mansion.
To transport the food for seventy thousand over a thousand miles, halfway, these logistics troops would consu over half.
The more food transported, the more people needed.
The more logistics troops needed, the greater the food losses on the road.
The greater food losses on the road ant the food taken at the start must be more—the snowball effect; the deeper the army infiltrated enemy territory, the greater the consumption.
Thus, the battlefield was rely an extension of the court, and what constantly consud was silver and gold.
Unless Li Guanyi’s Heavenly Strategy Mansion was like the normal army of this era.
Upon reaching a place, it ravaged villages and towns for military food supplies, killing those who did not comply, otherwise relying on Jiangnan wouldn’t sustain for long.
Should the Heavenly Strategy Mansion conduct such acts.
Not ntioning the changes in the world, not ntioning Li Guanyi’s own ntal collapse.
Even this incomparably brave, world-strong army would internally collapse. Li Guanyi looked at the daily food consumption in the battle reports, his forehead throbbing wildly—
This expedition differs from the one in the Western Regions.
In the Western Regions, Li Guanyi’s group consud without concern, swindling many supplies from Duke Li, from Duke Li’s eldest son, eventually having over sixty cities, with the main battlefield being in the Western Regions.
Li Guanyi did not need to bear the consumption of a thousand-mile deploynt.
Completely different from this ti.
Looking at the battle report inscribed with cinnabar, Li Guanyi muttered:
"It’s over..."
"This military food consumption is too fast."
Yan Daiqing’s two-year accumulation, slowly stored in warehouses, Li Guanyi with one expedition consud at least forty percent, and as the expedition continued, consumption would increase.
Possibly from Jiangnan transporting a day’s worth of food for one hundred thousand troops.
On the way, consuming seven days’ worth of food for one hundred thousand troops.
This was while Changfeng Building, during the campaign, unconditionally gave its own food to Li Guanyi, only asking for a signed financial docunt.
A Xue Family woman jokingly said:
"The Tower Master says, for every docunt signed, there will be a day to compensate my family’s Miss."
"I don’t know how much ti, it can buy Lord day and night, lifeti after lifeti."
Li Guanyi grinned.
This female great rchant had a strong verbal skill, Li Guanyi was no match.
Originally intending to refute fiercely, what does it an to buy day and night.
He accompanies Miss, without needing silver and gold.
But, the daily food consumption was too imnse, Li Guanyi almost visually felt Yan Daiqing’s rage silently rising, if he ate dry all his two years of hard work, hoarding reserve food bit by bit, enriching the people and strengthening the army like a hamster.
Yan Daiqing might faint directly, eyes blacking out.
Regardless, the brothers under him needed to eat.
Lord was mighty across the world, yet incredibly poor, forced to sell himself, rely so.
Li Guanyi boldly signed the docunt, took the food and left, high-spirited.
Behind, the laughter of the female rchant echoed.
Yet, compared to Lord, was even more bold!
But even so, it’s not a long-term solution.
Having entered Ying Country over two hundred miles, with stronghold city defense, and withdrawing wounded warriors from battle formations, the soldiers he brought reduced from seventy thousand elites, to forty thousand.
Li Guanyi murmured: "Almost ti to end."
"Taking gains when they’re sufficient, is the right thing."
Yet the accompanying Think Tank, Feng Xiao, told him, the food is already not keeping up, the situation reached a point where Feng Xiao did not drink, and with logistics lacking, could not rashly advance.
Feng Xiao bit a dry tea leaf, said: "Lord, we have conquered Zhu City, need to think of a way to seize military food."
Under Marquis Qin Wu, all have abandoned the thought of plundering from the civilians.
No trivial violations, even with a hint of pride.
But people need to eat.
Li Guan asked: "What about the influential families?"
Feng Xiao sighed: "They’ve all run off."
Li Guanyi surprised: "Run off?"
Feng Xiao grinned: "Uh, Wen Qingyu’s ans were too ruthless, although when he acted, didn’t leave a trace, but those influential families aren’t foolish, in recent years, they found that nearly all the influential families in Jiangnan were wiped out."
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