Facts have proved that Chang Sunze's strategy was very useful. This guy made a letter by pretending to be real, which made the entire Vietnamese court suspicious. In the future, no matter what they do, they must first figure out the person. After all, their supplies are more precious now. If they fall into the hands of the Tang army again, it will be a big pain.
It’s like a person originally had 1 million in cash, so he doesn’t care much about the 10,000 yuan, but if suddenly he only has 100,000 yuan, then the meaning of the 10,000 yuan will be different. This is basically the situation in Vietnam now.
Of course, a new round of plundering has already begun. All the ministers in the hall that day received their tasks. Whether you like it or not, the soldiers on the front line are still hungry, so you have to find a way to find food and grass around. Even if you can't bear it now, when the Tang army arrives, do you think they won't be able to bear it either?
According to the understanding of Vietnam Net, if the soldiers cannot eat, then their country will be destroyed. If the common people cannot eat, at most a few people will starve to death, and then the country can develop when it is strong. But if the country is gone, then there will really be nothing. So at this stage, there is no need to worry about the lives of the common people, and take care of the army first.
Of course, the most important thing is that these troops are very useful. According to what Wu Yuanhao said, and what the King of Vietnam himself heard, their army was really not idle in the old forest, and caused considerable trouble to the Tang army. They kept attacking the Tang army's camps and transport teams in the rear.
Only if this army continues to be active, the Tang army will not come to the south. If this army is wiped out, the Tang army will definitely have no worries and will probably reach the Vietnamese royal city in a few days.
Every night when it was time to rest, the King of Vietnam could see such a horrifying scene. When a large group of Tang troops appeared in front of him, there might be no way to survive, and he might even jump off his own royal city.
Now Wu Yuanhao's army is like a life-saving straw. As long as these troops are still holding on to the front line, that terrible scene will not happen. So even if a lot of civilians starve to death, he must gather enough food for these 20,000 people. But he can't transport too much to me the first time. Who knows if my previous investigation is correct? I have to wait until the investigation is confirmed before transporting large quantities of food.
The grain transport team is actually very cautious. Although they are still in Vietnam, they have also heard from the soldiers returning from the front line that there are too many spies in the Tang Dynasty, including your companions, and they cannot be trusted. If there were no spies working together from inside and outside, how could Luo Cheng fall in such a short time?
This news made all the Vietnamese feel like a sword was hanging over their heads. They had originally believed that the people around them were trustworthy, but after hearing this, they suddenly realized that these people around them might not be trustworthy. What if these people really were spies? So some people even slept with one eye open, just to be on guard against their companions.
The grain transport convoy stopped and started for nearly five days before it approached the southern end of the old forest. The area of this old forest was very large, about tens of thousands of square kilometers. The northern end was just outside Luocheng, and the southern end was right here.
"General, if they want to hand over the goods here, this old forest is so big, we really don't know how to find their large group."
One of his men looked at the nearby location and said worriedly, "If they were closer to Luocheng, we could follow them directly. If we follow them now, no matter how well we train, we will still be inferior to these locals in the old forest."
"Are you a bit stupid? Find a way to get some croton seeds for the animals to eat. They've been pulling them along the way. We can't follow them too closely. If we do, they'll easily find us."
Huo Qubing was not worried about this matter at all. After coming out of the Vietnamese royal city, he found that this army was indeed very cautious. Sometimes they only walked for half a day a day, and they didn't care how their compatriots in the mountains lived, just to prevent others from catching up.
The men slapped their heads. How could they not have noticed such a simple thing? If they had thought of it earlier, they wouldn't have to follow them so closely. You know, the closer you follow, the greater the risk.
There were indeed people waiting at the southern end of the old forest, but most of them were still at the northern end of the old forest. They came here purely to get food.
When we first entered the old forest, these carriages were still usable, but after walking for a while, all the carriages were abandoned on the side of the road, and all the food was placed on the animals. This was the horse caravan of that era.
Huo Qubing and his men continued to move forward following the animal dung. Fortunately, those people threw away the carriage. If they had thrown away the animals as well, they would probably have found nothing.
After three days of walking in the old forest, they finally found Huo Qubing, the leader of the Vietnamese army. At this point, they were no longer worried. Even if they rode at full speed, it would still take four days to get out of the royal city. Then, it would take another three days to walk from the southern end of the old forest to here. Each time they transported food, it took seven days, which was really a bit long.
If the army in the mountains still had some reserves, then these seven days would not be a big deal for them. But now the army in the mountains was starving and skinny. Huo Qubing could see clearly from a distance that many of them had maggots on their bodies, but these people were unwilling to move at all. It was obvious that their fighting spirit had been exhausted.
"Let's check the information given to us by the Protector-General. Has anyone attacked our military camp or transport team during this period?"
Huo Qubing, about a kilometer away, whispered that in his opinion, these people should not be able to launch a surprise attack on our military camp. They even had great difficulty in standing up...
