Destiny is ashes

Chapter 456 Preparation for War (13)

An Jing had no idea what Prince De was thinking. After taking the head of Song Hujun, he remained silent with clear eyes and a sense of being out of touch with the situation.

He guessed that the King De was reporting on his work, and Zheng Mo had not received any instructions for the next step, so he could only stand there in a daze.

But he is different. An Jing is very busy, has a lot of work to do, and he can't rest yet.

First, the leadership team of Linjiang City headed by An Jing received the notice of reinforcements from the Qinghai Prefecture of Dachen headed by Xing Mofeng. An Jing led his people to welcome them for hundreds of miles. The people of Linjiang City along the way presented food and drink to welcome the Tian army, and even asked the Wu army to enter the city to be entertained.

General Xing Mofeng of the Wu Army expressed his opinion: "It is such a joy that the residents around Broken Blade Mountain welcome us so warmly. However, good fortunes are often accompanied by disasters, and disasters are often accompanied by good fortunes. The reason why the people welcome the Dachen Heavenly Army so much is precisely because they have suffered from the troubles of the Iron Li and Frost Disasters!"
A benevolent army should do the right thing, not just seek enjoyment. The enthusiasm of the people of Linjiang City is our greatest encouragement. Please withdraw those banquets, because our hearts are longing for battle. We must drive the despicable enemy out of our country, leaving no one behind!
Hearing this, An Jing, the Lord of Linjiang City, felt very ashamed. He could not help but sigh: "How could such an army fail when they can clearly discern the situation, not be tempted by anything, and fight wholeheartedly to protect the people? I aspire to be a man like General Xing." So he withdrew the invitation and selected a ground vein node near Broken Blade Mountain as the garrison camp for the Wu army.

After receiving Xing Mofeng and Wu Jun in Guanhua, An Jing began to prepare for logistics-related matters.

Although it sounds unpleasant, in Huaixu, there is one thing that is true everywhere: once a real war begins, the lives of ordinary people are just numbers. Whether it is civilians or militiamen, at most they can operate equipment to some extent when defending the city. In a decisive duel, only the victory or defeat of the military can determine the balance of the battlefield.

Linjiang City has few people, and it is impossible to gather a few serious strong warriors, let alone the military. An Jing could only select twelve warriors and apprentices who practiced martial arts with metal from the guards supported by Hanlang Escort Agency and Mingjing Sect, wear those "Cang Armor", and serve as the guards of Linjiang City, guarding key areas and warehouses to prevent the enemy's possible raiding team from attacking the city and cutting off the ground veins and cutting off supplies.

Just leave these things to Bai Qinghan and Xu Tai. They have gone through a lot of practice and their abilities in this area are absolutely trustworthy.

In addition, An Jing also temporarily lent his Teng Shuangbai to the reconnaissance team where Cang Linzu was.

This person is also trustworthy and has been recognized by the famous general Gu Yunzhi.

The Sons of Disaster team already had a complete set of coordinated intelligence teams. Some people went deep into the exploration, some guided the return, some set off smoke bombs, some relayed signals, and some passed on intelligence... Although An Jing understood it, he knew very well that he had not put his experience into practice in Huaixu, so he let professionals do professional things.

And Teng Shuangbai's high-speed flying shuttle is obviously more important to them than An Jing's means of transportation.

Especially since An Jing now has three magical powers and five magic prohibitions, the physical energy consumption of running is almost zero. Teng Shuangbai does not have a clear advantage in speed, he is just handsome and does not need to use his brain.

"So fast!" This was Cang Linzu's exclamation when he tried to control Teng Shuangbai for the first time: "Faster than the wind-chasing horse!"

"When I have enough money, I will equip each of you with a set of professional equipment. Everyone will have a flying shuttle and an iron kite!"

An Jing was not bragging. The main reason was that the so-called professional exploration equipment in the Tianyuan Realm was actually cheap. It would not take much merit to equip the twelve brothers and sisters with a set, but it could greatly increase their survival rate.

These people who are most loyal to him and are even willing to follow him in rebelling against Xuanming Manor, even one of them is invaluable. An Jing wishes he could equip each of them with his own cultivation method. Unfortunately, Taibai Haoling's Divine Prohibition is not something that ordinary people can learn, not even Hou Tu's method.

It is no wonder that the Tianyi Demon Cult did not choose Hou Tu Fa as a popular martial art. It involves various subtle meridians and the use of strength. It is not difficult for people like An Jing and Huo Qing who have a basic knowledge and certain talent, but it is still a bit difficult for the Son of Disaster who has no basic knowledge.

"It seems that we have to wait a few years until they have accumulated enough martial arts knowledge before we can teach them."

An Jing thought so. The mission of Cang Linzu and others, in addition to investigating the movements of the Tieli cavalry, was also to find their supply lines.

In the war in the northern border, the deeper you go into the enemy-occupied area, the farther the supply line will be, especially for the cavalry, because of the frost disaster and the strong cities on the Dachen side, as long as they don't quickly capture the target, the supply will be very fragile. At that time, as long as the enemy's supply line is destroyed, the cavalry can be forced to retreat without a fight, or forced to launch the final decisive battle in advance, and get the opportunity to destroy the enemy's living forces.

With the drones and Teng Shuangbai's warehouse, the mobility is strong enough to accomplish this task.

Get the logistics right, get the defense right, get the intelligence right—that’s pretty much it.

After finishing all this, An Jing's work as the 'city lord' was completely finished. Next, only the 'warrior' was left.

It sounds simple, but it is actually because Linjiang City has good conditions.

The main outputs of the three cities surrounding Broken Blade Mountain are still the spiritual fields around the earth vein nodes and the products of Broken Blade Mountain itself. In other words, it is actually a city supported by hunters from many hunting villages and herbalists from medicine villages.

In the public's impression, hunters and herbalists only act in small teams at most, but this is not the case in a real deep mountain forest like Broken Blade Mountain.

The hunting and herbal medicine business in Linjiang City is a huge complex industry with upstream and downstream cooperation. There is a group of elite warriors who specialize in going to the deep mountains where various monsters and ferocious beasts live to hunt wild beasts and collect spiritual herbs. The number of these prey is so large that a special team needs to be organized to transport them.

After they are transported here, a whole group of people are needed to identify, cut, slaughter and distinguish the various materials and elixirs from different wild beasts. The scale advantage of this batch processing result is the advantage of the old brands around Broken Blade Mountain. When these processed goods are transported out of the city, a group of special teams are also needed to transport them to major cities in the northern border.

It sounds like just "hunting" and "collecting herbs" in a casual way, but in fact, the organization of the related industries in Linjiang City is so complex and the number of people is so large that it is comparable to a formal army.

Moreover, everyone who has been to the mountains knows that large-scale fights can break out in the countryside over grabbing water and roads, and the conflicts between hunting villages and herbalists are even worse. They have extremely rich experience in struggles, as can be seen from the fact that the old hunting villages that surrendered to the Heavenly Demon were almost seamlessly transformed into elite followers of the True Demon Cult.

Several logistics chiefs and organizational officials appointed and dismissed by An Jing were all veteran hunters. Only with this group of good talents could An Jing be so relaxed.

And the one who dares to use their peace is indeed a qualified leader.

After doing all this, An Jing found an excuse to leave his ancestor behind, left everyone, and set off for the Tianyuan Realm to purchase more supplies for war.

But as soon as he arrived in the Tianyuan Realm, An Jing heard a piece of news from Huo Qing, which he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

"Because the exploration of the ancient immortal ruins has gradually begun, the prices of various combat magic weapons have increased somewhat."

Huo Qing was somewhat helpless: "Self-destructive drones, mines, sword boxes, and various bullet magic weapons are all like this. Even bulletproof raincoats have increased in price by two good merits."

(End of this chapter)