When Li Jing was fully equipped with troops, he set out from Luoyang with his men. The main force of the army went directly to Shuozhou. Li Jing led his personal guards to personally take the food and grass transportation route to confirm the time for the food and grass supply in the rear to facilitate himself Perform dispatch.
At the same time, Li Jing also needed to go to Jinkou to arrange the fishing plan.
At this moment, Li Jing walked towards Youzhou along the canal, and the more he walked towards Youzhou, because Li Jing's face became more ugly, and when he really arrived at the destination, Li Jing's face was even darker.
The Sanggan River has a two-month freezing period in modern times, but in the Tang Dynasty, the average temperature on the entire earth was higher than that in modern times, and even the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau could support a kingdom.
Therefore, the ice-frost period of the Sanggan River, known as the "Little Yellow River", is actually very short, otherwise the imperial court would not use this river as a grain transport channel.
Even if the ice freezes the river surface, at least it can survive this time by "chising ice" through corvee labor.
But the reality is that there was a snow disaster in August in the Turkic region, which shows that the weather this year is abnormally cold.
The Sanggan River also freezes in this occasional cold weather. By October, the ice surface of the Sanggan River was already quite strong.
However, what really made Li Jing feel angry was that Dou Jing was responsible for the grain transportation in Youzhou. He neither reported back to the court, informed the situation very differently, and did not arrange for the people to chisel ice.
Now that the army has set off, there are problems with the food supply. How can I fight this?
Li Jing suppressed his anger because he knew clearly that Dou Jing was responsible for military farming and logistics when he raised the army from Taiyuan of the Li family.
If it was still the Wude period, Dou Jing would probably be able to take the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he would definitely not be an irrational person.
In any case, Li Jing believes that Dou Jing must have a reason and at least give him an answer.
"I have met General Manager Li." Dou Jing respectfully saluted Li Jing when she saw Li Jing.
Li Jing said seriously: "Dou Sinong, this attack on the Turks is a major task for the country. Now the cold winter is ahead of schedule, causing the Sanggan River to freeze.
Such important matters have not been reported to the court, nor have the people organized to tear ice and break the snow. This battle is related to the Tang Dynasty. How can we play like this?"
"I know what General Manager Li wants, but I have dealt with this matter by hand. The cold weather caused the Sanggan River to freeze several months in advance. I once sent someone to chisel ice, but how can human resources fight with the sky? The ice and snow are chiseled more and more chiseled. The thicker it is!" Dou Jing said with a little sigh.
"But looking at Si Nong's appearance, it seems that this matter has been resolved!" Li Jing said.
"It can only be considered a shortcut!" Dou Jing said, "Just General Manager Li will come with me!"
At this time, Li Jing and Dou Jing rode their horses to the water of the Sanggan River.
In addition to the crowds of people, the most common ones are dogs, but the sounds make the place look extremely messy.
At this time, Dou Jing quickly found Li Chunfeng and said to Li Jing:
"General Manager Li, this is Li Chunfeng, who offered a plan to sail on snow. This is Li Yaoshi, the general manager of the Dingxiang Road.
The food we need to transport is sent from Youzhou to Shuozhou where General Manager Li is located.
Then you talk to General Manager Li about how you plan to ensure the transportation of food!"
When Li Chunfeng heard Dou Jing's introduction, he immediately bowed and said, "I have met General Manager Li."
"Li Chunfeng... You seem to be under the command of King Yue?" Li Jing looked at Li Chunfeng and spoke.
"I am doing things for the court, but I will never embarrass the King of Yue!" Li Chunfeng heard Li Jing's words, but he said tough, "If there is anything wrong with Mr. Li, please give me instructions. As long as I know, I will answer them one by one. ”
"It's a bit of character." Li Jing said with a serious expression, "But even if you are a disciple of the King of Yue, if you delay the transportation of grain, I will still deal with your military law. The King of Yue will not be able to pick up any of the pieces."
"Chunfeng knows his own responsibilities!" Li Chunfeng nodded, "So what does General Manager Li want to ask?"
Li Jing saw that Li Chunfeng was neither humble nor arrogant, but did not continue to make things difficult for him, but said, "How do you solve the problem of military ration transportation?"
Li Chunfeng said calmly: "Chunfeng once stayed in the Taishi Bureau for a while and learned astronomy and numerology for a while.
Although I can't borrow the east wind like Zhuge Liang, I probably know that Youzhou will not be able to warm up within six months.
So after coming to Youzhou, I borrowed troops from Dou Jing and Sinong, and went from Youzhou to Shuozhou while Sinong was leading people to chisel ice!"
"It is probably a thousand miles away between Youzhou and Shuozhou. Even if the Sanggan River has not been frozen, it will take more than a month to go back and forth with the help of the ships. What's more, the Sanggan River is frozen now, how can you be a month? Go back and forth within!”
"This is true!" Dou Jing took out a letter from one side and said,
"In September, there was ice in the Sanggan River. I had to make two arrangements, and while letting the people dig ice along the river, Chunfeng went to explore the way.
Finally, Chunfeng brought back the handwritten book of General Zhang Gongjin, which contained General Zhang’s military seal, which proved what Chunfeng said.
It is precisely because I agreed to Chunfeng’s plan to sail on the snow!”
Li Jing took Dou Jing's letter and looked at it. His face changed.
As Dou Jing said, there is Zhang Gongjin's seal on it, and I know Zhang Gongjin's handwriting even more.
After all, Zhang Gongjin's memorial was sent by himself.
"How did you do it!" Li Jing asked Li Chunfeng with doubts.
"If you want to put it bluntly, just skate!" Li Chunfeng said, "I have been with King Yue for a while and I have often been with ice and snow, so I have studied ice and snow.
I found that people traveling on ice and snow with the speed is not slower than ships, and even in some terrain, the speed is faster than ships, so I planned to take a snow boating."
Li Chunfeng thought of using ice with Li Tai to calculate the length of mercury, but at that time he had been playing with ice for a long time.
Li Tai also made simple wooden ice skates to play with for a while, but the ice and snow period was not long enough. Li Tai stopped playing after playing for a few days. But Li Chunfeng remembered the things like pedestrians on the ice. This time When you encounter it, you put forward a corresponding plan.
Li Jing looked serious when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, "Your idea is very good, but water transportation and land transportation are not the same thing.
Going down the river, your method may really allow you to send food here.
But this time I went upstream from Youzhou to Shuozhou. How can you get through those places that are upstream from this method?!"
"Mr. Li must have seen our Gaoling Port." Li Chunfeng said, "In Guanzhong area, there are also muddy and narrow places. How do these big ships pass through these areas? I am responsible for the labor service in Gaoling. I am more than you clear!"
"You want to rely on manpower to pull it!" Li Jing said when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, "How can this be done!"
"So I personally went to the Sanggan River and found that although the road to both ends of the Sanggan River was against the current, the ice surface was extremely flat after it freezes. I just need to let the dogs move forward, and with the help of the smoothness of the ice surface, transport it No matter what is a thousand pounds, it is no longer a problem.
This thousand pounds of weight can be further disassembled. Each box is less than fifty pounds, and twenty boxes are given at one time. If you use a wooden sled, you can travel fifty miles a day on some stable terrain.
The Sanggan River is frozen and cannot solve the chaotic dysfunction with the help of hydraulic power, so corvee will be added to each chaotic place.
When the supplies are delivered, they will use manpower to carry them over the gap. In other words, when they are delivered, they will be replaced by wooden sleds, and they will not be replaced by supplies."
"How do you arrange the order and quantity of corvee service on this river?" Li Jing asked.
"Arithmetic!" Li Chunfeng replied, "This is the best distance calculated using arithmetic based on the road I have walked myself. There may be errors, but the error is definitely within a hundred meters!
But this situation in the middle is a bit complicated, and I will focus on this ice surface.
The remaining roads are almost flat. So Li Chunfeng can guarantee that he will never delay the transportation of food and grass!"
"Why is it a dog sled?" Li Jing asked again when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, "Can other livestock be faster?"
"Ahem! I'll answer this!" Dou Jing said, "Because horses are not good at walking on ice, and it's very important that horses need too much feed.
But we only need to pull at one time, so in comparison, we collect dried salted fish from the people along the coast of Youzhou.
Feed these dried salted fish to the dog, at least the food takes up less space on the sled and can transport more food."
"Dried fish..." Li Jing nodded when he heard Dou Jing's words, but couldn't help but chewing these two words.
In any case, this matter has been resolved and it is enough to not delay the transportation of food.
Li Jing looked at Li Chunfeng and said, "When my trivial matters are handled, go to Shuozhou with me and I will walk through the food road myself.
If everything is as you said, then the middle section of the grain road will be fully responsible!”
"Old order!" Li Chunfeng heard Li Jing's words and said respectfully to Li Jing, "But General Manager Li, I must report something!"
"You said!" Li Jing nodded to Li Chunfeng when he heard Li Chunfeng's words.
Li Chunfeng said with a serious expression:
"This cold weather is just an accident. In March next year, the earth will return to spring, and the winter snow will gradually melt, and the ice on the river will gradually dissolve, but it has not completely dissolved.
At that time, you cannot ski or sail, so you cannot deliver food directly to Youzhou at least one month later.
Please prepare for land transportation before this!"
Li Jing nodded. For those who are generals, this does need to be paid attention to.
I have to say that this time I saw Dou Jing ensured the transportation of food and felt much more at ease.
However, this time, in addition to checking the safety of the grain road, Dou Sinong also came to Youzhou this time, which was to discuss with Youzhou Governor Wei Xiaojie to build a building ship to catch fish in the Bohai Sea.
After all, Wei Xiaojie is the governor of Youzhou. Whether it is the port construction in Jinkou or the conversion of Youzhou military ships to civilian use, Wei Xiaojie needs to cooperate. Moreover, compared with Wei Xiaojie, Li Jing is just a production plan. The real person is still We need to deal with Wei Xiaoyue.
At the beginning of Wei Xiaojie, I heard that I had to build a port and that I had to transfer military ships to civilians to fish, so I really opened my mouth.
Although I don’t like the navy, I never thought of ruining the navy like this.
But after Li Jing explained the reason that he would fight Goguryeo in the future, Wei Xiaojie expressed that he would arrange this plan.
More importantly, the attack on the Turks is just a flank, but if it is attacking Goguryeo, it may be the main force.
Li Jing arranged some former naval personnel to ensure the smooth progress of the plan, otherwise he would not have to bring so many personal guards to Youzhou, and some of them asked them to join the navy to fish.
Then Wei Xiaojie was asked to support him after launching an attack on the Turks. Then he left Youzhou and took Li Chunfeng across the entire Sanggan River. He arrived in Shuozhou around the beginning of November.
This place had another name during the Han Dynasty, that is Mayi!
Basically, the war between the Han people and the grassland aliens will always be highlighted, and this place is indispensable as a stage.
"I've seen Li Shuai!" Zhang Gongjin finally arrived when he saw Li Jing, and immediately arranged someone to welcome Li Jing.
Li Jing was also very polite to Zhang Gongjin. Not to mention it, just Zhang Gongjin was one of the nine people who accompanied Li Shimin into Xuanwu Gate. You can know that Zhang Gongjin was Li Shimin's absolute confidant, and Li Jing would not be arrogant to Zhang Gongjin.
After all, Zhang Gongjin has a soldier temper. Facing the only two ministers in the Tang Dynasty who have the merit of destroying the country, except for Li Shimin and Li Xiaogong, Li Jing's achievements are convincing to most people.
Unless a person like Yuchi Jingde who takes credit for himself, no one dares to say that he is stronger than Li Jing.
Li Jing smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, you are polite. I just came to Shuozhou and am not familiar with the situation here.
I also asked General Manager Zhang to convene a meeting of generals, inform the situation in the North, work together to discuss when to attack!"
Is this a discussion on the offense?
Zhang Gongjin was slightly stunned and smiled and said, "Please ask Li Shuai!"
Li Jing knew very well that the Sanggan River, which could be navigated all year round, was an unexpected difficulty.
Although Li Chunfeng's appearance solved this problem, don't forget that when spring comes, flowers bloom and rivers thaw, even if the food and grass can still be transported from other places, it will definitely have an impact on the army.
More importantly, the Tang Dynasty has been suffering in recent years, and its foundation is too thin.
If the sudden blizzard had not given the Tang Dynasty the opportunity to fight ten years of peace, it would have not been fought.
"So this war cannot be delayed! We must use the power of the champion cavalry to severely damage or even annihilate the Turks!"
Li Jing thought, because war is just a derivation of politics in the final analysis, and war itself is just a means rather than an end.
Because of the country's situation, Li Jing had already decided in his heart the strategy of dealing with the Turks was to fight quickly.
But for Li Jing, how to implement this strategy still needs to formulate specific plans based on the information provided by Zhang Gongjin.
Li Jing had just arrived and had not even arranged a room to take over, so he summoned the future to discuss matters, which was extremely happy for the generals here.
Because they were ready to fight in Shuozhou, they were waiting for Li Jing to arrive, and then directed them to fight against the Turks.