Chapter 311 (2/2)

Then the weapon only carries a crossbar, a small shovel and a spear. Only those who are good at shooting will carry bows and arrows. The rest of the main and auxiliary weapons can be carried freely according to the physical state and strength of each soldier.

Anyway, Wei Ran himself wrapped a Li's weighted crossbar, four stone hard bow, 60 arrows and one pole Xuanhua axe with tarpaulin, and also violated the Convention to equip a scale armor in leather armor.

Horses and livestock can't be carried. This year's snow is particularly heavy and deep. Otherwise, in previous years, horses can still walk on the snow.

It's nearly 500 miles from Hezhou City to kuozhou city. Snow March, even with the benefit of sledge, can not exceed 60 miles a day. Then it will take at least seven days for the dare to die camp to get to kuozhou City, so the carrying of food and grass is a problem.

Wei Ran had discussed this issue with Zhao Xuanqing before. In order to reduce the supply difficulty on the military road, Zhao Xuanqing ordered the civilian men of Fenglin pass to set out first and bring enough military supplies to Yanquan city at the junction of Hezhou and kuozhou.

Fenglin pass used to be nearly 200 miles away. In winter, many civilian men died and regiment training lacking winter marching training, which aroused the dissatisfaction of several large families in the state.

They believe that Yanquan city is an empty city at present. The population in it has been plundered by Tubo, and the city is too low to rely on defense. Zhao Xuanqing's move is purely schemless and a waste of manpower.

However, Zhao Xuanqing still insisted on resisting the relevant responsibilities and persuaded these families. Of course, he did not tell the reasons for the march in winter. Such military action is confidential and of course can not be disclosed casually.

In this way, Wei Ran only needed to carry three days of grain and grass, cross more than 200 miles to the relay station Yanquan City, and then supply in Yanquan City, which directly shortened the marching distance of more than 200 miles.

It is less than 300 miles from Yanquan city along the mountain roads on both sides of the Yellow River to kuozhou City, which reduces a lot of food and grass.

Wei Ran had previously conducted snow Attack Training for the dare to die camp. At that time, he used sleds for the whole camp. He marched down a day, and the most time was a hundred miles a day.

Of course, at present, it is impossible to calculate according to this speed. We can only conservatively calculate the marching speed by traveling 60 miles a day. Then we can reach kuozhou city in five days. Each soldier must carry at least seven days of food and grass. The extra food and grass is used to deal with accidents.

Naturally, it can't be all military grain such as corn and wheat flour. In order to maintain heat and physical strength, all the grain and grass carried by the whole army are ground into powder and compressed with air-dried meat. This is still a grain making technique learned from the later Mongolian army. As long as you soak water, you can expand a large piece.

Wei Ran even asked the Cheng family to take out precious sucrose and maltose, which were invented by Wei ran for Cheng's mother in Chang'an City when he was a child.

Now there are some local stocks, which are taken out by Wei Ran and boiled with crude salt lard flour to make a paste food with great compression and high energy. The taste was almost indescribable, but it was absolutely resistant. He also used it to equip the whole army.

Even if it is an improved food, it has to be 30 kilograms based on seven days of food. Plus a suit of equipment, each person carries more than 50 kilograms of materials, which is equivalent to the weight of a full set of iron armor.

Fortunately, people in this world have been warmed by the spirit of heaven and earth, and their physical endurance is much stronger than those in Wei Ran's native world. These weights are no problem for the trained dare to die camp.

He led the whole army all the way up the Yellow River from yanquancheng. All the way is basically uphill, and only a few downhill can slide. Therefore, the March is not skiing, but walking on the snow road. In order to prevent falling into the snow, people even have to connect with each other with ropes, which is much more difficult than when they were marching and training.

Wei Ran had to run from the head of the team to the tail of the team to boost morale and help soldiers who couldn't walk because of physical problems.