After receiving the order, Li Zicheng led 9,000 people, including Li Guo, Zhang Fatty, Song Xiance, Ji Longfeng and others, and rushed towards Xuanfu.

Seeing that Li Zicheng and Li Guo and Zhang Fatty's third battalion horse army had gone all the way, Zhang Shun, who was quite worried about the situation in Xuanda, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although Li Zicheng was not a qualified founding emperor in his original history, according to Zhang Shun's understanding of him in this era, whether in terms of talent or qualifications, this person can be regarded as a good general.

"A general has more wisdom, but ten thousand chariots are not enough." This is what it means!

Now he is led by himself to push the army behind him, not seeking nothing but seeking nothing wrong. It is still an easy thing for him to stabilize the situation and make it clear to him.

"Your Highness, then let's go too?" Seeing that the pioneer had already started, the chief of staff Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but say.

"Let's go? Don't worry!" Zhang Shun laughed when he heard this. Anyway, with Li Zicheng coming for him now, he temporarily stabilized the situation, so he didn't have to worry.

"It just so happened that Li Shukong was nearby, so he could send an order to ask him to clean up his troops and come to see me immediately."

"By the way, I will draft a letter for me to Sun Chuanting, and he will transfer Ren Liang, the "Gourd King" from his nest and train him to make up for the lack of troops."

"Insufficient troops?" Gao Qiqian beside Xu Ziyuan and Zhang Shun were shocked when they heard this.

In this small Shanxi, you gathered 200,000 soldiers in one breath.

Now we have swallowed Shanxi and Datong towns one after another, and there are not thirty or twenty-eight soldiers in various places. How can we lack the troops?

"My worries are not in the soldiers, but in the food and grass!" Zhang Shun saw that the two of them had not realized the problem, so she shook her head and said.

"This trip to the Northeast will definitely be a fierce battle, and it will not be possible to decide the outcome in a short while."

"Therefore, the three armies have not moved their food and grass before they can move forward, and I have to make a long-term plan for the world."

"Say... As Ashan said, the Jin Khan Hong Tai had a great plan this time, and he actually threw 130,000 elite soldiers from all over the country to compete with me for the world."

"One...one 130,000?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

The fake king Ajige led only 30,000 troops to disrupt the war in Shanxi.

If Zhang Shun hadn't had a sudden idea, I'm afraid the rebel army's plan to seize the entire Shanxi area would have been dead.

Now the Donglu still has a large army of 100,000, so how can this be done?

"What is the value for only one hundred thousand troops?" Gao Qiqian started his business by serving others. He was the best at observing his words and expressions. Seeing that the generals were afraid, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"There are thirty or four hundred thousand men under King Shun's command, three and four, but they can't beat him? Just piles can kill him with 100,000 men!"

"That's right!" The generals were stunned when they heard this, and then they realized that the rebel army had expanded to 300,000 before the expedition to Shanxi.

Although the Later Jin soldiers were very well-armed, we couldn't fight one on one. Wouldn't we fight two against one or three against one?

"Did you understand? This is also why I mentioned the matter of food and grass." Zhang Shun smiled when he saw that everyone understood what he thought.

"This time, in order to seize Shanxi, we dispatched 200,000 troops, mobilized tens of thousands of people and thousands of ships, so we could barely ensure the supply of food and wages."

"However, now Xuanfu is thousands of miles away from Taiyuan, and Beizhi and other places are still in the hands of the Ming army, so you must be careful!"

"This..." Everyone couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, and their scalp suddenly became numb.

Sun Tzu said: In all the methods of using troops, chariots, chariots, chariots, 100,000 armors, and 100,000 miles of food.

Then the cost of internal and external, the use of guests, the materials of glue paint, and the delivery of carriages, will cost a thousand gold a day, and then a hundred thousand troops will be promoted.

From Xi'an, Shaanxi to Taiyuan, there are also the Wei River, the Yellow River and Fen River that can be borrowed, which is so expensive.

Now it is a thousand miles from Taiyuan to Xuanfu, and there is no river to rely on. If it supports the 200,000 army, it will cost almost countless times. How can this cause?

"If... in this way, Shaanxi and Henan have exhausted their wealth!" Lu Xiangjin, a scholar, couldn't help but sigh to the sky when he heard this.

More than just being exhausted?

Now the rebel army occupied most of Shaanxi and small parts of Henan, the population of the two places is only 10 million. It is the limit to support the 200,000 army to capture Shanxi. How can it support the 200,000 army to go north to Xuanfu to fight?

"Who said that the people in Henan and Shanxi are exhausted?" Zhang Shun smiled again when he heard this.

"It was the end of May, Henan's summer grain had been collected, Shaanxi was collecting, and Shanxi was waiting to collect it!"

"Only one place in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi can tax 600,000 shi. In addition to other places, summer grain can be collected more than 200,000 million yuan. How can we not fight this battle?"

Good guy, you can really make plans!

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and their hearts were full of admiration.

It turned out that farming in the Ming Dynasty was divided into summer and autumn. In the northern region, wheat was planted in summer, rice and other miscellaneous grains were planted in autumn.

The wheat yield is higher and the millet yield is lower. The output of the two accounts for 60% and 40% respectively.

Zhang Shun had long been concerned about the timing of organizing this battle.

As long as Pingyang Prefecture can be successfully captured in May, the subsequent grain supply issues can be completed with the help of the abundant Hedong grain tax.

This not only reduces the pressure in Shaanxi and Henan, but also allows for nearby recruitment, reducing the loss of long-distance transportation, killing two birds with one stone.

However, the problem of grain has been solved, and the problem of transporting grain is still a big problem.

Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty once calculated this problem: if there is no additional supply, he only relies on the civil servants to transport grain. A civil servant carries six buckets of food, and the soldiers carry five days of food, which can only last for eighteen days.

If three civil servants can support a 31-day march, and the limit of three husbands to provide one soldier has reached.

From Taiyuan to Xuanfu, there are 20 days of journeys based on the 50 miles a day.

Based on this calculation, the Rebel Army generally needs to mobilize 300,000 civilians to provide supply lines between Taiyuan and Xuanfu.

The two towns of Xuanda are not as good as those in the mainland. Not only are there fewer people in the country, but they are also on the front line of war. They are always at risk of being cut off from food, and it is even more difficult to divide their troops to defend.

If a soldier, a man with a eclipse of two kilograms a day, and a 500,000 people would have a eclipse of more than 8,000 stones a day and a eclipse of two hundred and fifty thousand stones a day.

In other words, if the two sides confront each other in Xuanfu Town for two months, the summer grain in Pingyang Prefecture will be consumed this year.

Of course, just looking at this item, it seems that the rebel army can still support it. If Zhang Shun's army is 300,000, each person will be given one stone of food and salary per month, regardless of other expenses, this item alone will require 360 ​​stones of food.

Not to mention the expenses of officials and management personnel, relief and disaster relief expenses, and military merit rewards. If you can't get it without five million stones a year, you will know how much pressure Zhang Shun is.

"Your Highness, land transportation is different from water transportation. If the consumption is too high according to the common method, you can only use the 'a hundred miles of grain transport technique in one day'!" Xu Ziyuan pondered for a moment and could not help but advise.

The so-called "a technique of transporting grain in a hundred miles a day" is a method of transporting grain with bare hands recorded by Dong Tuanxiao of the Yuan Dynasty.

The general method is: each person walks ten steps, and 3,600 people can travel a hundred miles. Each person carries four dou of rice, and the person does not stop shouldering, and the rice does not touch the ground. Each person walks 500 times a day, with a total of twenty-eight miles of road, and transports 200 stones of rice a day.

What does it mean?

That is to say, if 3,600 people are arranged at a distance of ten steps and each person is carrying four dou of rice for relay transportation, and one person passes five hundred times, he can easily transport 200 stones of grain in a day.

Not only does it consume less than an algorithm like Shen Kuo, but it also consumes faster.

Of course, this method was not first discovered by Dong Tuanxiao, nor did Zhang Shun need to send Ding Zhuang to line up one by one ten steps and deliver grain in a relay manner. It is an ancient idea of ​​transporting grain and grass on land.

This idea specifically refers to the transportation of military food, which is the post station method, or the station method.

The specific operation method is to set up a platform every once a distance to specialize in the reception, storage and transportation of grain.

Generally, this distance is 60 to 100 miles, which serves as a relay point for grain transportation.

The previous station transports the grain over and stores it in this station, and then the station transports the grain out and stores it in the next station, and so on, completing the work of transporting grain for thousands of miles.

If you don’t worry about following this method and try to do miracles according to the method Chen Kuo said, you will find that the more slaughtered, the more food you consume on the road.

Even if you use more cattle, horses and livestock, the more soybean meal and forage are needed. In the end, after more than one month's trip, there will be situations where no matter how you transport it, you will consume the food on the road.

Therefore, since ancient times, the first step in conquering northern grasslands and deserts was to establish a "platform" and adopt a relay grain transport method to meet the needs of long-distance military use.

In Zhang Shun's previous life, the "Altai Army Taiwan Line" of the Qing Dynasty was a typical example.

In order to deal with the war in Ulyasutai and Kobdo, which was five or six thousand miles away, the Qing army, with the help of Shanxi merchants, established a supply line outside the Great Wall from Zhangjiakou to Kobdo.

This supply line is more than 6,000 miles long, and is connected by more than 60 military stations. Each military station has guards, grooms, horses, camels, sheep and other livestock.

Originally, a supply line that would take two months to raid the cavalry, but in this way, the ants moved the grain from Zhangjiakou to Kobdo little by little, which strongly supported the Qing army's war to completely eradicate Jungel.

Of course, although the rebel army has not entered the mainland from Taiyuan City to Xuanfu, it is not so difficult that it needs to set up military stations to connect them all the way like the "Altai Army Taiwan Line".

The rebel army only needs to select node cities, fortresses, and then set up stations, and transport soldiers all the way.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, there are ten to twenty stations from Taiyuan to Xuanfu. Each point requires 150 troops, 300 guards, 300 Taiping chariots, and 300 coachmen." Xu Ziyuan calculated while thinking.

"A total of three battalions and nine thousand horses and six thousand coaches."

"In addition, given that Daizhou's location is important after all, it is recommended to set up a general and a battalion of troops in case of this."

"Okay, this is OK!" Zhang Shun nodded when he heard this and decided.

Although 6,000 vehicles are not ready for a while, it is impossible for the 200,000 rebels to gather together in a short while. As long as they are put on the shelves, everything will be running.
Chapter completed!