Xue Bing held a war horse with heavy objects on her body, following Wang Ping back and forth among the mountains. Behind him was Zhao Yun, who looked like Xue Bing, carrying heavy objects on her body and holding his war horse on her hand.

Behind were five thousand elite soldiers transferred from Hanzhong, each carrying a load, while the two thousand people at the end of the team had to carry a lot of firewood, grass and stones. These were used to replace military equipment, food and grass.

The five thousand troops, led by Wang Ping, have been traveling in the mountains for more than a month, but are currently returning to Chengdu. This army has been undergoing emergency marching training for two consecutive months before this mountain marching training for more than a month.

Until a month ago, Xue Bing felt that as long as he conducted another simulated marches to test the results, he could decide whether the assault training could be completed, and immediately rushed to Hanzhong for the final preparations before the war.

To this end, Xue Bing specially applied for a lot of military equipment, food and supplies from King Liu Bei of Hanzhong for this simulation training.

Five thousand soldiers and horses carried a month's food ration, and were escorted by two thousand soldiers and horses in the back formation. The three thousand vanguards carried only some dry food and clear water with them. They were led by Wang Ping and traveled back and forth among the mountains north of Chengdu.

According to the prior discussion between Xue Bing and Wang Ping, in the past month and a half, this army would go on the most difficult road among the mountains, then turn back to the plains in the middle of the river, and finally rush back to Chengdu.

After arriving in Chengdu, there are still a series of tasks that need to be completed to check whether the soldiers still have the most basic combat power.

However, the plan was to take one and a half months, but the food and grass carried with the army was only enough for 5,000 soldiers to eat for one month. In other words, while overcoming the hardships and dangers of the road, we must also overcome the problem of insufficient food and grass.

In response to this, Xue Bing had to order the soldiers to only have one meal a day, and try to minimize the consumption of food and grassland during the march, so as to strive to get a little surplus of food before rushing to the city of Chengdu.

It was just that the plan was very good, but when it was really implemented, it was not as I thought. It was too huge to marches in such a dangerous place to be marching.

In order to ensure the speed of the march, the food and grass carried by the army were consumed at an extremely fast speed.

After the army marched for a month, there was no food or grass left, and it was impossible to support the army to reach the plains before Chengdu.

Xue Bing listened to the report from his subordinates, licked his slightly chapped lips, thinking in his mind that if he encountered this situation during the formal Northern Expedition. How to solve it?

Zhao Yunli stood aside and said to Xue Bing: "Now that the food and supplies have been gone, only a little dry food that the soldiers carried with them. I am afraid that these dry food will not last for less than three days, and it will not be enough to last outside Chengdu."

Xue Bing thought for a while, finally sighed and said, "I can't do it, so I have to replenish some food and grass nearby first. Then I'll go back to Chengdu."

When Zhao Yun heard Xue Bingyan, he hurriedly asked, "Then this military exercise is considered a failure?"

Xue Bing smiled and replied, "It's not a failure. First, as Zijun said, if everything goes well, it only takes about half a month to leave Ziwu Valley. The food and grass carried by our army can be used for one month, and after Ziwu Valley, and then run for a few more days.

Then you can go to the city of Chang'an. I think this food and grass matter should not be a problem."

After hearing this, Zhao Yun nodded, but thought that this military exercise would be marching for a month and a half, but he didn't know why. So he asked Xue Bing in detail.

Xue Bing replied: "But he was afraid that some emergencies would be encountered on the road and delayed his trip. For example, heavy rain fell from the sky."

Zhao Yun nodded to show that he understood.

When Xue Bing saw Zhao Yunming, she turned her head and said to Wang Ping: "You can tell me where is the closest city and county to this place?"

Wang Ping thought about the formation, took out the map and compared it to his current location, and then replied to Xue Bing: "The nearest city and county should be Guanghan, which is in the southwest, about two days away. However, if we marching at the speed of our army and local areas, we can arrive in more than one day.

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When Xue Bing heard this, he nodded and ordered: "So. I will be told that I will order the target of Guanghan, and the entire army will move forward urgently!"...

A few days later, a unit of 5,000 people came to the city of Chengdu. Although these 5,000 people were covered in dust and looked embarrassed. But their eyes flashed with light and were imposing. When others looked at it, they could tell the elite of this army.

Looking at the soldiers' spirit, Xue Bing knew that even if he had fought one day and one night, these soldiers would not have too many problems.

Nearly four consecutive months of assault intensive training have made these soldiers accustomed to marching urgently. Perhaps, for them now, the speed of ordinary marching will make them unaccustomed.

As the soldiers returned to the camp to rest, Xue Bing was about to say goodbye to Wang Ping and Zhao Yun, and then go home to accompany his wife.

After all, he went out for nearly two months this time. In addition, a few days ago, he often stayed at home in order to train the soldiers, but he missed his two beautiful wives at home. "I will definitely let them accompany me tonight."

But as soon as he was about to return to his mansion, he saw Chen Dao suddenly approaching him and whispered: "The king told me that if General Xue returns, go to the palace to see him."

Xue Bing frowned when she heard this and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

Chen Dao whispered: "The specific one is not clear. It seems to be a matter of Jingzhou."

Xue Bing nodded, no longer spoke, but followed Chen Dao behind and looked at the palace to rush to the palace. But in his heart, he was secretly thinking: "Jingzhou? Could it be that something happened to General Guan?"

After walking all the way to the royal palace, Chen Dao led him straight to the back hall. After Xue Bing followed him to the back hall, he saw Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong discussing something.

When Liu Bei saw Xue Bing arrive, he hurriedly said, "Zi Han is here, hurry up, look at the seat." After Xue Bing sat down, he hurriedly said, "I received a letter from my second brother Yun Chang two days ago, and I wanted to consult Zi Han.

However, Zihan had not returned from his troops and had not found it, so he sent Shu to guard the city gate day and night. Just wait for Zihan to return, and then he could make a decision."

After hearing this, Xue Bing never understood what was going on. She only knew that Guan Yu had a letter, which seemed to have written major issues, but Liu Bei didn't know how to make a decision, and he had to wait for him to come back to ask.

Then he asked Liu Bei, "I wonder what is the important thing the king wants to find the last general?"

Liu Bei hurriedly picked up the letter from the side of the case and ordered the left and right to Xue Bing's hand, but said, "The letter Yun Chang said that the troops and horses in Jingzhou have been prepared and the food and grass are ready, so you can immediately lead the army north.

Now the army gathered in Xiangyang and wanted to seize Fancheng first to be the next plan. But my second brother couldn't bear it and wanted to send troops in advance!"

Xue Bing frowned when she heard this, but she never thought it was this. Although Jingzhou is located in a place of war, it has been very stable in recent years, and even Sichuan is not as stable as Jingzhou.

In addition, Guan Yu had long been determined to attack Wei, and most of his troops were stationed on the northern front by him. Therefore, it was just to prepare, but to transport some weapons, food and grass. It can be said that if you want to fight the north, among these three armies, Jingzhou and the whole army had the least problems, and you could send troops at any time.

It was just because Xue Bing's strategic preparations were too tedious, so he had not ordered to send troops since he ordered Guan Yu to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

After several months of this, Guan Yu could no longer hold it back and immediately wrote a letter to express his desire to advance first. Moreover, he did not mention the Northern Expedition in this letter, but only said, "Take Fancheng first and think it will be a plan later."

At a sudden glance, it was consistent with Xue Bing's Jingzhou journey, setting out first, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to seize Fancheng, and then advancing Wancheng.

But just by thinking about it carefully, you can tell how can you stop the army and rest after taking Fancheng with Guan Yu's temper? You must have continued to lead your troops straight up and marched into Wancheng. I am afraid that with his temperament, it will be no big deal to directly defeat Wancheng.

Moreover, if Guan Yu suddenly sends troops to capture Fancheng, the Wei army will definitely make preparations early. Although there will not be too much mobilization to the Yongzhou front line, it is not Xue Bing's wish to attract all the Wei army to the Nanyang area.

Moreover, the Wei army stationed heavily in Wan, which had a profound impact on the attack on the Qingni Pass in his strategy. As a result, Guan Yu's advance at this time would have caused many harms but no benefits.

Thinking about this, Xue Bing immediately said: "Master, no matter what, General Guan cannot advance his troops!"

As soon as this said, Zhuge Liang breathed a sigh of relief. But in the past few days, Liu Bei could not find the proposer of Xue Bing, so he pulled the two military advisors to ask.

As a result, both military advisors disagreed with Guan Yu's proposal to advance the army and listed many disadvantages. After hearing this, Liu Bei felt very reasonable, so he wrote a letter and sent it to Guan Yu, asking him to endure it for a few more months.

Not long after, Guan Yu replied with a quick horse, but continued to ask for the advance. His words were very earnest. When Liu Bei saw it, he couldn't bear to refuse again. He immediately prepared to agree to Guan Yu's plan to advance.

If Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong had not been both persuaded and advised each other, Liu Bei's order to send troops would have been conveyed.

Both military advisors said, "This strategy is offered by Zi Han. Why not wait for Zi Han to return and ask for it again?" In order to delay it for a while. Liu Bei then ordered that if General Xue Bing and General Xue return, report it immediately.

He also asked Chen Dao to guard the city gate every day. Whenever he saw Xue Bing, he would immediately lead him to the royal palace.

After Xue Bing learned about the matter and figured out the pros and cons, he immediately opposed Guan Yu's proposal to advance troops.

Seeing that the proposers of the Northern Expedition strategy were opposed, Liu Bei realized that this matter was too important, so he replied: "Since all the officials thought that advance troops were harmful but not profitable, I would write a letter, asking Mr. Yun to be calm. Just endure for a few more months to lead the troops directly to Fancheng.

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Chapter completed!