Chapter 677

After the Blue Moon Festival, the short-term psychological relief is over, and the rest is the same old talk in the army: training and killing the enemy.

In mid-March, it has started to heat up here, and you will sweat a little if you move a little. The monks with a lower cultivation level felt very hot after training, and ordinary soldiers felt it even more.

So Shen Hao had no choice but to speak again, reminding Chen Zifang to pay attention to providing enough salt water supplements for the front-line soldiers in each army.

Salt is not a high-street product, let alone a cheap one. Even if the price is fixed by the court because it is a necessity, it is definitely not to the extent that you can have as much as you want, and it is even more acceptable to use it for the entire army. Call it a "luxury" idea.

During the Jianchuan battle before, Shen Hao mentioned to Chen Zifang that light salt water can better replenish physical strength. Chen Zifang did exactly what he did at the time, and the effect was good, but at that time, life and death were at stake, and the general in the army didn't care about the details, so he would naturally use all available methods to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. But now it is not so easy to popularize the whole army.

If it weren't for the straightforward and obvious results of "Cool Baikai" and "First Aid Team", Shen Hao's idea of ​​"salt water" would definitely have a lot of debate, and someone would even jump out and sneer at Shen Hao. However, as a lesson learned from the past, in the end no one jumped out to scold Shen Hao, leaving the decision to Zuo Yuliang.

Of course, Zuo Yuliang agreed with Shen Hao's suggestion, but he also made restrictions: only the front-line combat formations can distribute salt water to the soldiers during the war, and the rest of the formations and non-wartimes can only drink cold water.

Shen Hao knows how difficult it is to obtain salt in this world. It all depends on the coastal areas slowly drying it out. Naturally, the techniques and craftsmanship are not high, and there are even very few places where monks are used. It seems that no monks know the importance of table salt but are willing to spend their time thinking about how it can improve production and efficiency.

Therefore, Shen Hao really wanted to bring the technology from another world to benefit the public, but he found that he was half-baked, knowing only some theoretical formulas, and the actual operation and popularization were extremely low, so he could only think long-term. I'll talk about it later when I'm free.

Afterwards, according to Chen Zifang's excited feedback, the front-line soldiers' physical strength during the war was indeed better than before after being distributed with salt water. He also said that in the future, salt will also become a combat readiness material and start to increase the supply to the army. This has become a note and reported to the Ministry of War.

The reason for the haste was because the battle situation was bloody again after entering the middle of March. Zuo Yuliang will do his best to promote the method that can improve the soldiers' physical strength, even if it is more costly.

In the first ten days of March, the distribution of troops in Jianchuan and Baitou Gorge was still being adjusted, and the fighting became more and more intense after the middle ten days of March.

Zuo Yuliang's method was simple and rude, not at all like the cunning and ruthless manner when he took down Jianchuan. Instead, he chose an upright style and directly faced the enemy with an additional 30,000 superior troops in front of Baitou Gorge Go on the offensive.

At the same time, on the north side of Baitou Gorge, that is, in the direction of Jianchuan, the Jianchuan Division that came from the victory also began to slowly press towards the boundary of Baitou Gorge. The forced barbarians had to mobilize part of their manpower to deal with the pressure from Jianchuan. This further stretched their strength.

Based on the previous feedback, Shen Hao was surprised to find that the barbarians still did not reach a unified opinion on the royal court under such an urgent situation, and even the red-eyed wolves did not have the courage to set up the royal court independently despite the red-earth clan. Otherwise, if the Baitou Gorge is in such a crisis, it is impossible for the bear and monkey clans related to the Hongtu clan not to help.

At least it seems that the affairs of the barbarians are more urgent than those of the old Jing dynasty but difficult to reconcile.

Anyway, based on Shen Hao's current understanding of military affairs, his feeling is that Zuo Yuliang is already preparing to launch a new round of big moves, most likely Baitou Gorge.

Opening up the Baitou Gorge can directly threaten Sangbiqiu, and directly separate the barbarian's main food production area from their hinterland. This is very likely to force the barbarians who have not yet reached a unified caliber to assume a decisive battle posture in front of Sangbiqiu.

If it was really as Shen Hao thought, the decisive battle that started in a hurry, then Jing Jiuchao's chances of winning were definitely much higher than that of the barbarians. When the time comes, the world will be determined by a battle, and it will not only affect the matter in the south, but also the internal affairs of Jing Jiuchao.

The recent news from Heishui has gradually confirmed Shen Hao's previous guess. That is, the war in the south seems to have no direct relationship with the "big test" of the royal family within the dynasty, but the "big test" of the royal family in terms of time followed the war in the south.

Before Jianchuan was opened up by Zuo Yuliang, the "big test" immediately skipped a lot of time in the early stage and entered the fierce stage of fighting for the "knife handle" of the imperial city. Now people with a discerning eye know that Zuo Yuliang will start a new round of offensive at a glance, so will he win the battle again as soon as before?

Because of their awareness of the weakness of the barbarians and the outstanding performance of Zuo Yuliang, a famous general, most people think that there is a high possibility that the battle situation will improve again. So the "big test" will speed up the process again.

The most representative incident was on March 19th, when the eldest prince Yang Baicheng was attacked by an unidentified dead man during a night banquet with a Xiu clan patriarch, he was hacked twice in the back. Fortunately, he was wearing a high-grade soft armor to protect himself And a magic weapon protector on his body helped him offset a large part of the damage, otherwise Yang Baicheng's end would be worrying.

Although the attack failed in the end, the patriarch of the Xiu clan died on the spot. And this Xiu Clan patriarch is also a monk in Yuan Dan Realm. This shows how dangerous the attacker's strength is.

Of course, if Yang Baicheng survived, those who didn't kill him would have no chance of surviving. He directly drank the poison pill and committed suicide.

The furious Yang Baicheng locked his suspicion on the second prince, who was also the dry king Yang Ye. Because the two are about the same age, they are equally powerful on the surface, and there are obvious conflicts in the power structure, so it can be said that the tip of the needle has always been incompatible with each other. Now that Yang Baicheng was almost dead, the first thing he thought of was his second brother, and then an act of revenge.

It's a pity that Yang Baicheng's angry actions were not strictly organized and planned. He was noticed by the highly vigilant Yang Ye's subordinates at the beginning of the operation. The two fought on Huangcheng Street, causing dozens of casualties each. This is not a big deal, but the cultivator made a move, and it was on the street again, the impact would be too great.

It is said that the news released by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs said that the street fight between Yang Baicheng and Yang Ye directly caused serious injuries to three civilians, dozens of minor injuries, and damage to more than ten houses. Fortunately, no one was killed.

But the emperor was still furious, and directly ordered the Major Case Department of the Criminal Ministry to arrest Yang Baicheng and Yang Yeji and put them in prison. It's almost April now, and there is no news that it will be released.