There were only two ways to transport provisions: by water and by land.
The terrain around Shexing Pass currently only allowed for inefficient, high-cost transport by human and animal power. If they advanced their technology, or ruthlessly squeezed the Martial Gall Warriors who could fly, the Northern Desert might even be able to add airdrops to its options for transporting provisions.
Unfortunately, no one but Shen Tang would do that.
The Northern Desert had only one option for land transport.
Shen Tang drew a large circle around Shexing Pass.
"We could certainly send troops to block the Northern Desert's supply route, but what if they sent Yun Da or Gong Cheng to escort the provisions? We could throw away lives and still fail to cripple their supply lines. The soldiers under my command were all born to parents; we can't just throw their lives away. So, let's try a different approach. We'll blow up this whole area and see how the Northern Desert manages to fly its provisions over!"
If you couldn't find the source of an infection, cut off the route of transmission.
It was certainly a bold and novel proposal.
Disrupting the enemy's supply lines was basic military strategy, but most of the time, people focused on how to obtain the enemy's intelligence, how to send troops to intercept and ambush them, or simply burning any provisions the enemy couldn't carry away. Only in rare cases did they consider solving the problem at its source—for instance, when the enemy's supply route had to pass over a certain bridge or along a certain stretch of road. Only then would they think of cutting off the bridge or sealing the road to achieve their goal.
Shexing Pass clearly didn't fall into that "rare" category.
After all, before its fall, Shexing