Chapter 139 Conflict between two groups

"It's enough for a week." The adjutant replied.

"When will the food and grass from the rear be delivered?" Li Deming asked.

"If it's fast, it will take about five days, if it's slow, it will take a week." The adjutant said.

"What's going on? Why does it take so long?" Li Deming frowned.

As a veteran in the army, Li Deming knew that during a war, any accidents could happen, and once an accident happened, the food and grass that could have arrived in five to seven days might take a long time, and the food and grass here could not last that long.

"The main thing is that the food and grass need to be raised. In addition, the people who transport the food and grass are also temporarily recruited from various villages and towns. After being called up, these people will also undergo a short training." The adjutant said.

"Hmph! The food and grass must be sent before the troops move! Even the lowest-ranking soldiers in the army know this, but those people in the court don't know it! Especially the Minister of Revenue Zhou Yanfeng. As the Minister of Revenue, he is in charge of the world's food. When I first went on the expedition, I asked him for food, but he actually shirked all kinds of responsibilities. If it weren't for the order from His Majesty, I guess he would not be willing to give me food. At that time, I reminded him that the food he gave might not be enough, and asked him to continue to mobilize, but he didn't take it seriously. Now I want food, but he can't supply it in time. He is really more of a hindrance than a helper!" Li Deming complained.

"Those civil officials are too much." The adjutant also said dissatisfiedly: "They are dragging their feet at this time."

In fact, the adjutant knew what was going on. This was not a personal grudge between Li Deming and those civil officials, but a grudge between the military generals group and the civil officials group.

Yanfeng Country has always been the world of scholars. Since the founding of the country, the ancestor has valued literati and deliberately suppressed military generals because the ancestor himself was a military general and relied on rebellion to build the country. Therefore, he was afraid of other military generals and was afraid that they would do the same thing.

This also led to the fact that in Yanfeng Country, the status of literati is relatively high, and the status of military generals is relatively low. Military generals of the same rank are always half a level or even a level lower when facing civil officials, and they are not confident enough to speak.

The power of the court has always been in the hands of civil officials. Military generals do not have much say in the court. In the minds of the emperor and civil officials, these military generals only need to lead troops to fight. In terms of governing the country, they still need scholars to take the helm.

However, this situation has changed in recent years.

In recent years, the situation in the court has been somewhat corrupt, and there have been constant uprisings in the country. Although they have been successfully suppressed, they will soon emerge from other places and continue.

In addition, the influence of the demon world is also increasing. Whether it is demonic energy or people in the demon world, they are constantly invading the human world, causing great troubles to the human world, and these troubles can only be dealt with by military generals.

In addition, the friction between Yanfeng Country and several neighboring countries has been continuous.

These factors together have led to the increasing status and power of military generals in Yanfeng Country.

The civil official group, which has always suppressed the military general group, is naturally unwilling to see the military generals rise and take away their rights from them. They don't want to see the military generals' status rise, which will threaten their own status.

Therefore, the contradiction between the civil official group and the military general group has intensified, and there are often dirty things between the two sides.

And this time, it is obvious that the civil official group deliberately dragged the military generals' feet on the issue of food, which led to the delay in the arrival of food.

Of course, the civil official group did not dare to blatantly not give food to the front-line military generals, otherwise, if this matter was reported to the emperor, they would also suffer.

"Also, what's the matter with those soldiers who were temporarily recruited?" Li Deming asked, "Doesn't the court still have many unmoved troops? Why do we need to recruit militia?"

"It seems that the court has not been peaceful recently, and rebels have appeared in many places. Therefore, His Majesty wants to send troops to suppress them, and other troops cannot be mobilized at will." The adjutant said.

Li Deming has been here in the wilderness plains for some time, and he has not paid much attention to things in other places. He only knows about this now.

After hearing what his adjutant said, he snorted coldly: "It's all the good things done by those civil officials. If it weren't for their perverse actions, how could so many people not survive? How could so many people rise up? Your Majesty should behead them all as a warning to the public."

As a veteran in the army, Li Deming has a deep conflict with the civil official group and has fought for many years. He doesn't have much good feelings for those so-called people who read sage books.

"However, it's just transporting food and grass, so there is not much problem with using the temporarily recruited miscellaneous troops." Li Deming said.

Transporting food and grass does not require fighting on the battlefield, nor does it require high combat skills or strong strength. It is appropriate to use these civilians who serve in the army to transport them.

"General, should we send someone to welcome them?" The adjutant asked, "Recently, the court is not peaceful."

"I do want to, but do you think we can still mobilize surplus troops?" Li Deming said.

They have been in a stalemate with the people in the demon world for a long time. Many people from the demon world have come this time. Li Deming is under great pressure in this direction. At the same time, he needs to guard against people from other countries who want to attack them, so Li Deming can't mobilize troops here at will.

The adjutant nodded in understanding and said, "Nothing should happen."

That's all they could think of. They had no way to mobilize troops to meet the grain transport teams, and they were in urgent need of food. They could only hope that there would be no accidents with the grain transport teams.

Wu Fan and his team had been traveling for a day, and when the sun was about to set, they stopped moving forward and began to camp in place, waiting to set off again tomorrow morning.

There were no street lights in this era, and many people had night blindness, so they couldn't see things clearly at night. In addition, there would be wild beasts and monsters on the road, so unless it was absolutely necessary, everyone would not choose to travel at night.

The commander of the Feiniao Camp obviously did not intend to travel at night.

In fact, Li Deming on the front line was very anxious for food and grass, but the people transporting food and grass in the rear were not so anxious at all.

The atmosphere in the entire Feiniao Camp was relatively relaxed, because the higher-ups meant that they only had to deliver the food within a week. Therefore, the commander of the Feiniao Camp was not in a hurry at all, and naturally would not choose to risk traveling at night.