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Chapter 92 Grain Requisition!

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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 92

    The scorching sun was shining brightly, and heat waves were rolling in the air. A troop of cavalry was slowly marching along the potholed official road.

    "Damn, the sun is too poisonous this day, the skin is almost drying off."

    Sitting on the horse, Zhang Bao wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve, and cursed uncontrollably.

    "There is no water in the ditches. I'm afraid it will be another severe drought."

    Wang Hu, who was walking side by side with Zhang Bao, looked away from a barren field not far from the official road, looking worried.

    Although Wang Hu has grown from a peasant to an officer of the Qinghe Army, he naturally understands the suffering of the peasants. In such a dry weather, without water, it is impossible for the crops to survive.

    "Who says it's not? I don't know how many people will flee." Zhang Bao also sighed.

    The weather was extremely hot, and the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Battalion could have rested in the camp outside the provincial capital.

    However, they received a military order from Marshal Zhang Dayuan the day before yesterday, which was to send their ninth battalion out to collect food.

    Now the number of their entire Qinghe army has snowballed to more than 200,000. The soldiers, the old and the weak, women and children are mixed together, and people eat horse chews every day, which consumes a lot of food and fodder.

    ? They could have relied on the strategy of supporting war with war, and by seizing rations from the dynastic army to make up for the shortage.

    But now the army of the dynasty started a confrontation with their army on the front line of Qingyang Mansion. The army of the dynasty neither attacked nor retreated, just so exhausted. As time went by, the food pressure of the Qinghe army increased suddenly.

    Facing the problem of food shortage, Marshal Zhang Dayuan was also battered, so he had to send a food collection team all the way to raise food and grass everywhere.

    However, the several months of war in Qinghe Province has turned many places into scorched earth, and many towns and villages are even more empty. It is difficult to collect food.

    Chen Ziang set fire to the deputy commander's mansion. Although the commander-in-chief Zhang Dayuan didn't make it public, he found someone who was unable to put out the fire. He was directly removed from the posts of general and deputy chief of military supplies, and was relegated to battalion general.

    Although Zhang Dayuan hopes that the deputy commander Xu Fu and Chen Ziang will fight each other to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

    But in this situation, if the infighting continues, there will be big problems.

    Therefore, Zhang Dayuan also sent Chen Ziang out to collect grain this time, in order to prevent him from staying in the capital and his deputy commander Xu Fu, who might be in trouble.

    Chen Ziang can be said to be quite low-key now, he has already confirmed that Zhang Dayuan has placed eyeliner beside him.

    Since Zhang Dayuan sent him out to collect food, he directly and resolutely carried out the order and led his troops out.

    Moreover, they captured a lot of military horses, and they trained as they walked. He tried to organize the Ninth Battalion into an elite force that could fight both on foot and on horseback.

    Since the area around the capital had been swept away by other grain requisitioning teams, and they couldn't find even a grain of grain, they had to go to farther and more remote places.

    They walked for several days, but most of the villages they saw were dilapidated, and the people had fled long ago, so there was no food at all.

    Not a single grain of grain was found, so they had no way to go back to pay their errands, so they could only continue to search around.

    The sun was scorching on the top of his head, facing the sweating soldiers, Chen Ziang couldn't help but sigh.

    "Send my military order to go to the woods on the left to rest."

    If the march in such a hot day is not done well, he will suffer from heat stroke, so Chen Zi'ang had to order the troops to stop and rest.

    After hearing Chen Ziang's order, the soldiers with drooping heads let out cheers, and rode their horses straight to the shade of the woods.

    Compared with tying them to horseback in the past, most soldiers can now simply ride a horse.

    Although they were able to ride on horseback without falling off, there was still a big gap if they wanted to fight on horseback, but even so, Chen Ziang was very pleased.

    In such an era of cold weapons, the cavalry unit is exactly like the tank unit of later generations. As long as it is used well on the battlefield, it will completely crush the enemy.

    Moreover, the role of cavalry troops is not only for charging and encroaching on the battlefield, their high maneuverability is also what Chen Ziang values ??most.

    ?They can not only run long-distance raids, but also cut off the enemy's food roads, shield the battlefield, and scout the enemy's situation.

    ? As long as there are cavalry units in an armyNow, then you can know more about the surrounding situation, otherwise, your eyes will be darkened, and you may not even know it when you are ambushed.

    Chen Ziang and his ninth battalion's grain requisition team were divided into several groups. He led the way all the way himself, and Li Lang, Yang Zhong, Lin Yu and others also brought some people each in order to expand the scope of the search.

    Chen Ziang and the others had only more than a thousand soldiers on horseback along the way, and all of them flocked to the shady woods at this moment.

    "The 100th team is in charge of security!"

    It has become a habit for Chen Ziang to give orders in person, Zhang Bao, the deputy battalion general, has already shouted and started to set up guards.

    Chen Ziang compiled some regulations in their ninth battalion. Although it seemed complicated, many soldiers found it difficult to accept it at first.

    But Chen Ziang didn't care so much, he forcibly organized soldiers and officers to study, and through this method of forcible indoctrination, some rules were engraved into their minds.

    If they are camping in the wild, the location of the camp needs to be selected according to the standards of the regulations, and light and dark sentries, mobile sentries and patrols are all essential.

    Although it seems unnecessary to do these things, in Chen Ziang's view, there is nothing wrong with being careful.

    Although it is just a simple rest now, the deputy battalion general Zhang Bao still sent a 100-man team to take charge of the surrounding vigilance.

    A brother of the centurion quickly divided into ten security groups and spread them around.

    Surrounded by Zhang Bao and others, Chen Ziang also arrived in the woods, dismounted from his horse, away from the venomous sun, and immediately felt much better.

    "My lord, drink water."

    As soon as Chen Ziang found a stone in the shade and sat down, Li Changqing handed over the water bag.

    Chen Ziang was not polite, he unscrewed the water bag, raised his neck and poured himself a big mouthful of cold water, and immediately felt a lot more comfortable all over.

    "What is the name of the mountain in front?"

    After Chen Ziang put down the kettle, he turned his gaze to a mountain range running from east to west not far away, and asked.

    "My lord, there are no markers on the map."

    A hundred generals of an army took out the map they were carrying, but couldn't find it after looking for a long time.

    "Go and ask if anyone knows, write down the name of this mountain, and mark it on the map."

    "No!"

    The map of the Far Eastern Dynasty had a lot of errors, and only some important cities, roads and mountains were marked.

    Now Chen Ziang not only ordered the scouts to carry charcoal and straw paper at all times to describe some terrains, but he also practiced this thing himself, that is, to draw more detailed maps.

    However, Chen Zi'ang did not complete this task himself, but handed over the drawing of the map to the generals in order to exercise their drawing and map recognition abilities. After all, they are all reserve officers.

    When Chen Ziang and the others were resting, suddenly there was a loud sound from a distance, and the soldiers in charge of security detained two people in coarse clothes.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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