Under the influence of that rumors, Li Ling finally no longer had to worry about dealing with attacks and calculations from some people, so he devoted more effort to the chore of raising military rations.

As the emperor's imperial conferred military ration transfer commander of the Northern Frontier, Li Ling's duty was not only to transport grain and supplies from all over the Central Plains to the Northern Frontier. For him, this was just the first step, and there were more important and complex military ration transportation matters that needed him to implement one by one.

For example, how to send military rations to the front line troops safely and quickly, such as the arrangement of various lines, the mobilization of escorts of grain and horses... all kinds of things are actually within his scope of responsibility, and as long as there is a little mistake, it affects the front line war, he will not be able to escape the blame.

Of course, heavy responsibilities also mean great contributions. As long as the front line is sufficient military rations under his dispatch, Li Ling will be well-deserved to be able to win the first merit, and not even beside the generals who fought and commanded the front line. Because there has been a conclusion in history, when Liu Bang won the world and established the Han Dynasty to discuss his merits, Xiao He, who was in charge of logistics, was called the number one meritorious official.

For the sake of credit and the overall situation in the world, Li Ling has really not dared to relax in the past few days. He has been in the mountains of books and various files almost every day, and then used his experience and the assistance of Di Jingfei and others to formulate several suitable plans.

In fact, when he was in the capital, he had already formulated a series of general grain transportation routes and plans with the officials of the Transport Department. However, after he was in the northern Xinjiang area and formally contacted the complex terrain and situation in the local area, many strategies that had been taken for granted had to be overturned, changed and optimized...

Although these are just desk work, their importance is not at all under the frontline combat. Li Ling was so busy that he almost never went back to his own residence, and he had to work for about ten hours every day. Only after the third update would he lie in the public room and wait for dawn, and then he would devote himself to his new work again.

More than half a month has passed for such a hard decision, and the first batch of military rations have begun to transport to the front line according to the established rules. It was not until mid-April that Li Ling was able to finally get out of the heavy and complicated documentary work and pay attention to the changes in the front line and the Central Plains during this period.

Overall, there was no big change in various places in most of the month, and Yunzhou still failed to conquer. For this reason, the court issued a special order to investigate, demoting Dong Gongwang, allowing him to make meritorious service and continue to attack the city. However, this time the court finally relaxed a little, and it was considered a success to let him take Yunzhou before June.

As for other northern cities, they were taken down by the Dayue government troops who fought everywhere. In the end, only Yunzhou was left, and the two cities of Bazhou were still under the hands of Guirong. The latter was now led by Cui Shuangcheng, another famous general in the northern border of Great Vietnam, led heavy troops to attack, but the situation seemed to be not much different from Yunzhou.

Then there was Gui Rong. As the situation of the war took a sharp turn, the troops joined by various troops decisively retreated to the northern desert grassland for the battlefield. Then, because they gained a lot of benefits in the Central Plains, they attracted the jealousy of many Gui Rong tribes further north, as if several civil wars broke out on the grassland.

When the news came back, the Great Vietnamese border army was quite happy and encouraged, thinking about having a great chance to take advantage of the enemy's civil strife and break into the grassland. However, this proposal was quickly rejected by the court. After this period of debate, especially the fact that the two states of Yunba could not capture for a long time, the voice of the court's opposition to continue to use troops to the north completely suppressed the Northern Expedition. This battle seemed likely to end with the recovery of Yunzhou and Bazhou.

Li Ling agreed with this because he knew very well that once the army really entered the northern expedition and entered the grasslands of the northern desert, logistics supply would really become a huge problem.

As long as he thinks that once the Northern Expedition enters the northern part of the Mobei region, he opens up a logistics channel in that completely unfamiliar environment and provides sufficient food and supplies for at least 200,000 to 300,000 troops, he feels chilling. The workload calculation is definitely ten times more than before. He just does not eat or sleep and works hard, and it will probably take half a year to formulate a perfect grain transportation plan.

Therefore, it is better not to use troops in the north. As long as you spend it, the Guirong in the north will decline one day, and finally be completely absorbed and assimilated by the Central Plains culture like the nomadic peoples in history.

In addition to the major incident of the Northern Expedition, there is actually one thing that is most closely related to Li Ling - he was impeached by many imperial officials. The crime of impeachment was that he was ineffective in handling affairs, which affected the spring farming in various parts of the Central Plains.

When Li Ling saw the bullet stamps specially sent, although he was a little annoyed, he had to admit that they were right. Because under his own arrangement, he transferred a lot of people in the Central Plains to transport grain to northern Xinjiang, and some people were forcibly kept by him to send grain to various places.

There are quite a few people who stayed in the north, with as many as seven or eight thousand. These people are all young and strong men, that is, the main force of farming and labor in the local area. Now, it is the most important spring plowing season of the year, and these laborers are needed to reclaim wasteland and sow seeds. As a result, a large number of people have gone to the northern border, so the local area is naturally in a difficult situation.

Once the spring farming is insufficient, it will affect the subsequent harvest. Once the harvest is not good, the taxes in various places will naturally be greatly affected, which will make it difficult for local officials to explain to the court and affect their future careers. So in the end, it was Li Ling's conscription of civil servants that affected the careers of these officials, so everyone naturally refused to do so, and they submitted letters to impeach people, hoping to get the population back.

The court knew the importance of this, and had no intention of blaming Li Ling. He only kept these bullet stamps and did not send them. Then the Political Affairs Hall also specially sent several bullet stamps with the most urgent words. It was obviously because of Li Ling's intention and made him work harder.

After reading these contents, Li Ling was helpless. Due to his current technical ability, there were indeed too many things that needed manpower to do. What he could do was to get some people back to the Central Plains as soon as possible, and perhaps he could solve the difficulties of the Central Plains.

But after all, the key to all this is the front-line war. When can we successfully take down both cities and annihilate the invading Guirong people, everything will be restored to its original state. According to the current battle report, this day should be not far away.

...

Sunset at dusk.

With a burst of golden sounds, the Great Vietnamese army, which was carrying out full force to attack the city, retreated again.

This battle lasted from afternoon to evening, but the Vietnamese army had no other gains except for the loss of hundreds of troops. The solid walls of Bazhou City still stood tall, without any sign of being about to be broken.

Cui Shuangcheng stood in the military camp far away and looked at the city with his face so gloomy that it could drip into water.

It has been a month since he was ordered to attack the city for one month, but the troops were lost by nearly 3,000, but Bazhou remained unmoved, which made him unaware of how to face Dong Shuai's gaze. After all, when he proposed to divide his troops to attack Bazhou, he issued a military order, saying that he would be able to break the city within two months. But now it seems that two months? I'm afraid that March will be in trouble. There is no difference between Bazhou and Yunzhou.

With the recovery of troops, today's siege was over, and the soldiers could finally breathe a sigh of relief and have a good rest. But for the generals, they still have to be busy, counting the troops, resettling the wounded, and pacifying the morale of the army... In the end, they had to discuss the next countermeasures in the central army's tent. They had to work until it was dark before they could return to their own tents.

Cui Shuangcheng, as the main general, became even busier. When it was approaching the third update, he still had a gloomy face and returned to his tent. As soon as he wiped his face and wanted to go to bed, a confidant soldier came to the door of the tent with a strange expression: "General, someone came out in Bazhou City, and said he had something to discuss."

"Huh?" These words suddenly made Cui Shuangcheng's spirit excited. Could it be that those Gui Rong people wanted to make peace? This was expected. Although the Vietnamese army suffered a lot of casualties after more than a month of offensive and defensive battles, Gui Rong who defended the city was not easy. At least more than a thousand people died at the top of the city.

Judging from the previous information, Gui Rong, who is now in charge of Bazhou, has only about 20,000 people, and he still has to defend four cities. It can be said that as time goes by, the battle continues, and in the end, Gui Rong will inevitably be unable to hold on. And once the city is broken, the 20,000 people will die, so it is reasonable for them to seek peace.

Thinking of this, Cui Shuangcheng felt more at ease and nodded: "Let him come in and see me."

After a while, a man in Han costume was brought to him. At first, Cui Shuangcheng didn't care. After all, so long has passed, Gui Rong people always have to change their clothes when they enter Yue Kingdom. In the city, there are naturally some Han costumes that can be replaced. But after a closer look at the other party's appearance, his face changed: "Are you my Han family?"

"It's right, I've seen General Cui in Xia Feng Ziyue." This man was neither arrogant nor humble, and had a smile on his face when he saluted. But when he fell into Cui Shuangcheng's eyes, he had a little provocative meaning: "What a courage, you, a Han man, have been killed by the Guirong people, and you dare to run to the general to be presumptuous. Are you really not afraid that General will chop your head now?"

"Please calm down and listen to a few heartfelt words. If you still feel that you should die, just order me to kill me. Oh, by the way, there is another thing that the general should not know. Although he is a Han person, he is not a member of the Yue Kingdom. I am a member of the Luotian Sect!"
Chapter completed!