The scout's mission this time was only to observe Hai Dongqing's flying speed, and they did not need to get too close to King Qin's camp, so there were no casualties, and even King Qin's scouts did not discover them.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the data, Jin Feng asked Monkey to send a total of three groups of people to record three pieces of data. By comparing these data, Jin Feng roughly calculated Haidongqing's flight data in various states.
Jin Feng then started training pilots based on these data.
Dozens of miles to the north of Brass Valley, Dangxiang's southern expeditionary army also completed its assembly and occupied five or six large and small valleys one after another.
They have no mines to live in, so they can only live in tents.
Various tents stretched for more than ten miles across the valley.
The valley runs north-south, and the north wind is blowing now. The north-south valley is the wind tunnel. You can imagine the feeling. Some party soldiers' fingers were frozen off.
This is not an adjective, but a real thing.
The vast majority of party soldiers do not have gloves. In an environment of minus three or four degrees Celsius, it would be better if they hide in tents. But when two armies are facing each other, everyone cannot hide in tents, right? There must be someone on duty.
Those party soldiers on duty were blown by the cold wind and held weapons such as spears in their hands. At first, their fingers would hurt from the cold, and then they would become numb.
When you return to the tent after your shift, the nerves in your fingers may be completely frozen.
Based on the medical conditions of Dangxiang's southern expedition, the only way to cut off the frozen fingers in this situation is to cut off the frozen fingers. Otherwise, after suppuration, the entire palm may not be saved.
As time goes by, this situation becomes more and more serious, and morale is affected to some extent.81Zw.????m
Later, many junior officers could no longer bear it and could only react step by step upwards, all the way to the deputy general.
The deputy general had no choice but to go to Li Lingrui.
"Your Majesty, when will we attack the Shu army?"
The lieutenant general cried: "It's too cold. If it continues like this, our brothers will freeze a lot before the war begins! As time goes by, the morale of the army will not be stable..."
"If you don't freeze to death, I will wait for you!" Li Lingrui scolded with a cold face: "If you pass on the order, whoever dares to cholera the army's morale again will be killed without mercy!"
As the commander-in-chief, doesn’t Li Lingrui know about the issues that all the lieutenants know about?
But there was nothing he could do.
Li Lingrui was too lazy to explain to the deputy general and was about to drive him away when the person in charge of intelligence came in.
Seeing the deputy general here, the person in charge of intelligence couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
When he heard that other generals were inciting the deputy general to look for Li Lingrui, he knew that this guy was being used as a gun again, so he hurried over to stop him.
In the end, we still didn't catch up. Looking at Li Lingrui's face, the person in charge of intelligence could guess what he said.
It seems that after the end of this southern expedition, the deputy general will definitely be relegated to the sidelines by Li Lingrui.
When Li Lingrui saw the intelligence chief coming in, he stopped talking to the deputy general and asked in a cold voice: "Have you found out the situation in Bronze Gou?"
Ever since Hou Hou led the reconnaissance company from Weizhou to Xizhou, the scouts and scouts from both sides have never stopped fighting.
Dangxiang's scouts have been trying to find out more about the situation in Brass Valley recently, but the scouts are extremely well-defended and the terrain of Brass Valley is special. Dangxiang's scouts have not been able to obtain any useful information.
Li Lingrui was worried that he had fallen into Jin Feng's plan to escape. Yesterday, he handed over all the binoculars to the person in charge of intelligence and asked the scouts to go and get information.
"Your Majesty has lent me his telescope. If I can't find out anymore, my subordinate will really die!"
The person in charge of intelligence held the telescope to Li Lingrui with both hands: "We have found out everything clearly, return the telescope to the prince!"
"Is the main force of the Shu army still in Brass Valley?"
Li Lingrui asked as he took the telescope and inspected it carefully.
He took this thing over from the Emperor's brother, and there was only one item in the whole party. If anyone stumbled, he would be scolded.
"Replying to the prince, the main force of the Shu army is in Brass Valley and has not escaped!"
The person in charge of intelligence replied: "The King of Qin's envoy did not lie. They indeed occupied Wutou Mountain."
"That's good," Li Lingrui nodded: "What's the status of the Shu army? What's the morale like?"
"Shu Army..." The person in charge of intelligence hesitated and said, "The morale of Shu Army seems to be okay..."
"Is it okay?" Li Lingrui frowned slightly.
Their camp was in a valley running north to south, as was Brass Valley.
They were having a hard time. The Shu army was surrounded from both ends, and their military supplies were cut off. Their life should be even more difficult, and their morale should be even lower. What else could it mean?
"Your Majesty, Zhuangzhuanggou used to be a mine. The Shu army lived in the mine, and they seemed to have lit a fire in the mine to keep warm, because the scouts saw smoke coming out of the chimney and people going in and out of the mine.
The clothes I wear are very thin.”
The intelligence chief explained.
"Their supply route has been blocked by the King of Qin. Where can they get the firewood to make a fire?" Li Lingrui became even more confused.
The northwest is desolate. There are not many bushes on the mountains and even less firewood.
In his opinion, shouldn't the Shu army tighten their belts and live a miserable life at this time? How come there is still wood to light a fire to keep warm?
Even if Jin Feng was a monk halfway and didn't understand military strategy, he couldn't possibly make such a simple mistake, right?
"The Shu army is well-defended and our scouts dare not get too close to inquire, so we still don't know where the wood they use for heating comes from."
The person in charge of intelligence said: "My subordinates have ordered the scouts to continue to investigate. Once there is any information, they will report it to the prince immediately!"
"The Shu army hiding in the cave can light a fire to keep warm, but what about the Shu army standing guard outside?"
Li Lingrui continued to ask: "How are they doing?"
"My lord, you also know that Jin Feng started his business by weaving, so the Shu army is not short of winter clothes, and they have also come up with a new type of raincoat, which is the kind of raincoat that the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce sold before."
The person in charge of the intelligence said helplessly: "There are only one Shu army on guard now, so..."
"What, each Shu army wears a raincoat?" Li Lingrui's eyes widened.
In fact, Jinfeng Raincoat has been around for a while, and it was sold at Dangxiang’s Chamber of Commerce branch for a while.
However, at that time, the technology for manufacturing raincoats was not yet mature, and there was no way to mass-produce them, so they were expensive and could not be afforded by ordinary Dangxiang herdsmen.
However, after Jin Feng's guidance, the textile factory's raincoat technology became more and more mature, its output became higher and higher, and its cost plummeted, and now it has become one of the standard equipment for escorts.
There is a saying that Jin Feng arranged for the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce to go to Dangxiang. He did not think about making money at the beginning, so he always sold goods at a fair price, and even paid some money for this.
However, when the raincoat technology matured, the party members had already surrounded and suppressed the escort agencies and the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce in the territory, causing Li Lingrui to think that the raincoat was very expensive.
Li Lingrui couldn't help feeling depressed when he heard that each of the Shu troops was wearing a raincoat.