Chapter 119: Crazy Food

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Whether it is the king's army or the rebel army, the word food has always affected the hearts of the two armies.

The three armies went ahead without using food and grass. This sentence is not just talking.

If there is not enough food in stock, the soldiers will panic, the army will be in a state of chaos, and the soldiers who are hungry will even mutiny.

Since the outbreak of the civil war, food prices in the Drum Kingdom have continued to rise.

Whether it is domestic or foreign, many big grain merchants have already set their eyes on the big piece of meat of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom, and they have tacitly agreed to temporarily stop sending large quantities of grain to the Magnetic Drum Kingdom.

Now, two months after the civil war, some impoverished and backward areas in the Drum Kingdom have begun to experience a food shortage crisis, and the price of food is getting higher day by day because of this, but even so, the grain merchants still have no choice. A large area was sold out.

In the eyes of these unscrupulous businessmen who are preparing to make a fortune in war, the human lives of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom are simply a pair of meaningless numbers, which are not worthy of their attention. What they care about is the ever-increasing value of food. Wealth of a country that has made a fortune selling medicines.

Of course, Williams' Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce did not miss this feast. On the contrary, under Barr's reminder, the Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce began to purchase food in large quantities two months before the outbreak of the civil war.

In order not to attract attention, Williams also secretly established many small chambers of commerce in other major grain-producing countries, allowing local agents to take advantage of the convenience of locals to purchase large quantities of grain at low prices.

The quantity is so huge that it is enough for the people in Vilia port to eat for a year.

During this period of time, the Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce made a fortune in the port of Vilia by relying on these grains. It has been operating normally, and the price has never been higher than the market price.

Since the two armies have been expanding their armies and preparing for war, the consumption of food is simply a bottomless pit, and tens of thousands of food are consumed every day.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, both Gresham and Gilbert took out the food they had secretly hoarded over the years and spent a lot of money to buy food from abroad. Too much food is bought in neighboring countries nearby.

Unless food can be imported from farther countries, it can only continue to consume the food hoarded over the years, but shipping food from farther countries is not only time-consuming and dangerous, but also greatly increases the cost.

Two months have passed,

The food reserves of both sides are almost exhausted.

Especially on Gresham's side, the old king who cared about the people did not forget to release food for disaster relief during the civil war, which led to the rapid bottoming out of the food reserves that had been a great advantage.

On the contrary, Gilbert, the leader of the rebel army, whose personality is actually similar to that of Walpo, has been allowing the rebel army to rob the people of food, and there is still a lot of surplus food in their hands because he does not have too much burden and psychological burden.

Of course, the consequence of Gilbert's approach is that the rebels have a very bad impression in the hearts of the people in the Drum Kingdom, and they have reached an evil army that is similar in nature to pirates.

Gilbert didn't care about this at all. Anyway, his army was already a rebel army in people's minds. Easily suppress those untouchables who want to resist.

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"Thank you for the great love of the commander-in-chief. Don't worry, even if I, Masefield, fight until the last soldier, I will definitely persist until the reinforcements arrive. I will never give up on Ice Town."

In a house in Bingxue Town, Buffett held a microphone and said to the bearded Phone Bug with a serious face.

"Then please, Major Masefield, please protect the batch of food in your hands. If you really can't hold on, you must not let the food fall into the hands of the rebels. Do you understand what I mean?"

The next moment, the phone bug uttered Noland's full of air and majesty.

Buffett was silent for a while, and said seriously: "Yes, we will never let the precious food fall into the hands of the rebels."

After receiving an affirmative answer from Buffett, Noland hung up the phone.

"It seems that the assistance has been successfully obtained. Now, it should be safe to defend Bingxue Town."

Huma, who was wearing a paper mask, was already in the room at this time, and when the phone bug on the palm of Buffetk closed his eyes, he said with a smile.

"It's not that easy, we still need to start a fierce battle."

Buffett shook his head and said, but his face was also smiling, and he didn't feel too nervous.

Using food to force the king's army to send people to support, this is the strategy that Barr and Bafik came up with together.

Due to the fact that Bingxue Town and other nearby towns with ports and railways were destroyed or occupied by the rebels, the king's army could not continuously transport a large amount of food from the sea and railways, and could only transport by land, but land transportation was very inconvenient. Many sections of the road were temporarily impassable due to snow damage.

Therefore, the king's army stationed outside Snow Wind City is also very short of food, which is one of the important reasons why the king's army has been attacking the rebel army's food roads so frequently.

Noland, the commander-in-chief of the King's Army, originally planned to let Buffett's troops and the rebels fight to death this time, so that he could sit on the sidelines and watch the tigers fight, and then the fisherman would benefit, but now with Huma leading the three ships When the food came to Bingxue Town, he couldn't sit still.

It is undoubtedly a large amount of food that can feed an army of 3,000 people for three months.

The number of King's Army stationed outside Fengxue City is currently around 20,000. If there is a supply of food from Bingxue Town, if you save a little, you can continue to support it for half a month without any problems.

And according to the report of the spies who sneaked into Snow Wind City, the rebels in Snow Wind City had begun to run out of food due to the rapid expansion of their army and the frequent disturbance of food roads.

If the rebels can get the food in Ice and Snow Town, they can persist for a long time, and the morale of the rebels, which was weakened by the small-scale victories achieved by continuously attacking the food roads, will definitely be restored.

If Norland didn't want his efforts of more than two months to come to naught, he had to send people to support them to ensure that the food would not fall into the hands of the rebels.

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It didn't take long for the Rebel Commander-in-Chief, Green, to learn about the large amount of food in Bingxue Town, and the fact that the King's Army, which hadn't seen any action before, began to send a large number of reinforcements to support Bingxue Town.

"Where did this traitor get so much grain? Have those damned grain merchants changed their nature?" Green said with a puzzled expression.

Grain merchants at home and abroad have united to hoard a large amount of grain deliberately and interrupt the large-scale grain trade to the Magnetic Drum Kingdom. This is nothing new.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, since the civil war has not reached the final decisive moment, the food stocks in the hands of the two armies have not been completely exhausted, there has not been a large-scale famine in the country, and the price of food has not yet reached the highest point. The grain merchants should not make a move.

At this time, there is a large amount of grain transactions in Bingxue Town, which is undoubtedly a very strange thing, and it may be a special signal.

But no matter what, Bingxue Town is now a fragrant bun, and he has to grab the food from Bingxue Town. Even if he can't get it, he must ensure that this batch of food will not fall into the hands of the king's army.

After more than two months of fighting openly and secretly, the two armies have consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. Now they are like two hungry beasts. If anyone has a full meal at this time, whoever will regain the upper hand.

"Send an order to send 2,000 more people to intercept the troops sent by the king's army to support Bingxue Town. Also, the whole army has entered a first-level combat state. As long as the king's army makes any changes, the whole army will immediately suppress it. It is absolutely impossible to let They sent more troops to support that damned traitor."

The fighter plane was fleeting, and Green didn't think too much, and immediately shouted to the orderly in the military account.

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