Outside the wharf of Huile County, Lingzhou, camels and horses gathered together, and there were crowds of people.
People from Huizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Liangzhou, and Lanzhou are all gathering here.
The first to arrive were the Huizhou native soldiers who took a boat from Huining Pass.
They were responsible for escorting grain, grass, millet and wheat to Lingzhou, and completing the delivery with Zhu Liang, the deputy military envoy of Yinshan Camp who rushed here.
But I can't leave yet.
Although supplies can be flown down the river without the need for large groups of civilians to transport them thousands of miles, people are still needed to unload and move the goods on the front line. It is best for these people to be local people from various states and counties, rather than ordinary people.
Wang Quan was sitting on a dead tree, breathing heavily.
He was still a big figure in Huizhou Township, but when he arrived in Lingzhou, he was not even a fart.
A small team leader of the Jinglue Army dared to yell at them, the local regiment soldiers, which made Wang Quan feel old-fashioned.
Wang Jiao was carefully calibrating his bow on the side.
The once young boy has grown into a brave man in the famous village. He can shoot at a gallop, hit 45 out of 10, and throw spears in foot battles with incomparable accuracy. Combined with his powerful sword skills and his many years in the Xinquan Army,
Compared with the old soldiers, they are not inferior, even worse.
The Wang family has an area of land in Huizhou Township, and Wang Quan has received many rewards successively. The family is very wealthy. But in order to hone the martial arts for this cheap son, I don’t know how much it has cost over the years.
It is really not easy to raise a warrior.
This is not a low-grade sergeant who was pulled from the fields, given a spear, and trained roughly for several months. This is an experienced fighter who has really honed his martial arts skills since he was a child, knows how to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and can fight in close combat.
In ancient times, he would probably be the leader of the team.
However, the barbarians in ancient times were far from as strong as they are now, at least their equipment and knowledge were far behind. Without raising such warriors, they would not be able to deal with the barbarians who have become increasingly stronger over the past hundreds of years.
"Dalang, do you remember everything I told you?" Wang Quan rested for a while, took out the Hu cakes, and asked while roasting them on the fire.
"Don't worry, Grandpa, it's not the first time I've been in battle." Wang Jiao put down his bow and replied.
"You really want to go to the battle formation?" Wang Quan laughed angrily and said: "The management army didn't even have a chance to go to the battle formation, so it's your turn? Even if you wanted to, the commander-in-chief wouldn't dare to use us Tuan Tuan countrymen.
Ah. If the bandit army shoots a few rounds of arrows, most of the people will panic. If the bandit army and cavalry charge again, some of the guards will turn around and run away."
Wang Jiao was a little confused.
He has indeed experienced fighting in battle, more than once, but they were all small-scale fights with the Tubo people. My grandfather has experienced large-scale scenes, tens of thousands of people gathered on the battlefield, and the left did not listen to the right, and the right did not listen to the left
, the front formation does not know the rear formation, and the rear formation cannot see the front formation. The slightest gossip on the battlefield can make an extremely nervous person have a nervous breakdown.
You really have to use experienced hands. It’s too easy for newbies to scare themselves.
Another transport team passed by on the post road. Kan Qi should be from Feng'an County in the south, transporting a lot of grain and beans.
There are not enough ships!
A water tanker can transport 1,500 hu of grain, and it can deliver grains, beans, fodder, tents, raincloths, ropes, wood, coal, equipment, clothing and other materials every day. There are nearly three hundred ships, if they only transport grain.
It can transport 450,000 hu of dendrobium at a time, which is enough to supply 100,000 infantrymen with food for five months.
But there are also a large number of draft animals in the army, including riding horses and war horses. The appetite of these animals is very amazing, at least three times that of humans. In wartime, you can't just eat grass, you have to feed them miscellaneous grains. Take the Flying Bear Army as an example
, a total of 6,000 soldiers, 7,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 20,000 horses, which would consume 12,000 hu of rice and flour, 54,000 hu of beans, and more than 50,000 bundles of high-nutrition grass in a month.
There are soldiers who care for their horses and bring some things that the horses usually like to eat, such as turnips, fruits, etc., and give them to the auxiliary soldiers who are familiar with them, so that they can help feed them at night so that their beloved horses can gain weight.
If it weren't for the fat body and strong body that makes chickens unsuitable for long-distance transportation, I guess someone would also carry this thing.
The sergeants are not poor, and they are willing to spend money on war equipment and horses. Some people feel that the standard equipment issued by the army is not suitable, so they simply go to a blacksmith to make one themselves. War horses are also a kind of "war equipment", and they are more delicate.
Naturally, you need to take good care of it.
Most of the Flying Bear Army's logistics transportation volume is prepared for horses.
If we use large carts to transport 25 dendrobiums per cart, and it takes a hundred days to go back and forth, one trip will transport at least four months' worth of grain and grass. Then we will have to recruit more than 10,000 carriages and mobilize more than 20,000 masters. This is only for six months.
Thousands of cavalry serve, if there are 60,000 cavalry, then all the strong men and women in Lingzhou will have to go into battle, which is the legendary "Dafa Minhu", and farm work will inevitably be delayed.
Fight once, no matter whether you win or lose, your vitality will be greatly damaged.
Of course, this is also related to the high standards of the Flying Bear Army.
The high-speed mobile troops have spare horses, and the leopard cavalry even has one person and three horses. The princes of Guandong cannot do this. Zhu Quanzhong's cavalry usually leads the horses on foot. They only have war horses, no pack horses, and no riding horses.
If you have a horse, the cost will be much lower. But correspondingly, the mobility will decrease.
Cavalry without mobility can only look for opportunities to charge at the infantry, which is of little use. Marshal Shao used this type of cavalry in his early years, but now he is tired of it and has specially set up assault cavalry, high backs, and silver spears for counting.
The "Clutch Soldiers" who ran hundreds of miles to attack the enemy's rear did not hesitate to spend their money.
This kind of soldier is very destructive and also hinders your reputation. After all, you are deep behind enemy lines. If you want to obtain supplies, you must plunder the people. It is not easy to restrain them from killing indiscriminately. "Requisitioning food" is actually a
tacitly allowed.
"Da Lang, our native regiment soldiers will not go into battle. They are mostly responsible for transporting grain and grass. This job is easy to do, but it is also difficult to do. If the enemy is serious, they will definitely attack the grain road. If you encounter this, don't panic, they
There won’t be too many people, and they will be traveling lightly, and the equipment will be insufficient. As long as we stand firmly, they won’t try hard if they don’t find it easy.” Wang Quan said: “We only need to withstand the first force of the rebel army.
Exit. With so many of the commander's rangers, they will definitely guard the food route closely. The bandit army is panicked, and it will be good if they can exert 30 to 50% of their combat strength. If you panic, they will panic too!"
"Master, who will we fight during this northern tour?" Wang Jiao suddenly asked.
Since the Northern Dynasties, "Western Inspection" and "Northern Hunting" have almost become synonymous with war. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty led 500,000 people on the "Western Inspection" and finally destroyed Tuyuhun. No one believed that this was just a patrol.
, even Wang Jiao didn’t believe it.
"Who is worth fighting?" Wang Quan took a bite of the biscuit and asked.
Wang Jiao thought for a while and said: "Datong Army? Hedong Army?"
Datong is a neighboring town, and Hedong is more famous. Wang Jiao only thinks of these two.
"It's probably Hedong." Wang Quan said: "Datong Town, how can we put so much effort into it? Even our local regiment soldiers from Huizhou are recruited. This must be a big scene."
Wang Jiao nodded, took out a Hu pancake, and started baking it.
In fact, there is some preserved meat in the package. My mother-in-law prepared it before leaving, but now I’d rather eat the vinegar cakes given by Lingzhou.
"Are you worried?" Wang Quan looked at his elder man and asked.
"Not afraid." He fought with the Tubo people several times. Apart from being a little immature at the beginning and encountering two dangers, he became more and more skillful later on and was gradually able to display his hard-working skills.
Hedong Army? I’ve never seen it before. Is it very powerful?
Wang Quan smiled with satisfaction.
He was illiterate, never learned how to fight, and didn't know how to teach his children. He just taught him what he had learned from the dead in the past half of his life.
This cheap son indeed had the talent to kill Han. Wang Quan never exaggerated about him, he just corrected his mistakes blindly, strictly supervised him, and devoted himself to training him.
Wang Quan thinks that Wang Jiao's skill level has surpassed his own back then, but his experience is still far behind.
The momentum of a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers must not be suppressed. In battle, all you need is courage. If you have enough courage, sometimes you can't believe that you can reach this point.
"When encountering an enemy, if the bandits have horses, they must not run away..."
"The thieves come with spears. They throw their spears first to disturb the enemy, and then they fight..."
"The thieves are highly skilled, don't be afraid. The more afraid you are, the faster you will die. There are not many people like you who can ride horses, shoot arrows, and hone their skills with swords and spears. Calm down and think about how to deal with the Tubo people..."
"You don't have to worry about food and clothing at home, don't stand out when you don't need to..."
"If the thieves are charging and your comrades' position is unstable, take action when it's time to take action. Sometimes just one or two breaths are enough to kill one or two of the fiercest charging thieves, and the position is stabilized..."
Wang Quan took the trouble to talk about what he had said many times, and Wang Jiao listened quietly without any sign of impatience.
After talking for a while, Wang Quan got tired, so he took out a cowhide water bag and took two sips.
People kept passing by the post road, and the pier not far away was even more crowded.
The rafts flowing down the river from Lanzhou almost filled the pier. Tents were set up on the rafts. After people got out of the rafts, they began to unload the rice, dried meat, and cheese loaded on the rafts and load them onto large boats.
Watership.
The rafts will continue to be used and flow down the river until they are dismantled in the Zhenwu Army City area and used as camping timber to avoid cutting down local forests.
In addition to rafts, there are also rafts.
This thing is made in Lanzhou. Use a whole cow to remove its head, peel it from the neck, and remove the bones and meat without damaging the skin. After soaking in water for several days, after the skin becomes smelly, it is dried in the water. Scrape off the hair and brush it clean.
Tie the hoof holes tightly, soak them with salt and oil and rub them thoroughly, then dry them into a skin bag, which can be waterproof and anti-corrosion.
These skin bags are tied together to form a raft. The small skin raft can be sailed directly from Qingtang City and can generally carry one thousand kilograms of cargo.
A medium-sized raft is composed of 80-100 skin bags, with 4-5 sailors, and can carry 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms, that is, more than 250 dendrobium of grain, which is equivalent to ten large carriages, but it can only travel down the river from Lanzhou.
A large raft is made up of multiple small and medium-sized rafts, connected and fixed by dozens of wooden poles in the middle. There is a large wooden oar at each corner. It has 16-18 sailors and its carrying capacity is almost comparable to that of a canoe ship.
Rafts are very suitable for long-distance freight. After arriving at the destination, deflate the air in the raft, return to the starting point by land, and then ship it. Or simply sell the cowhide and make a new raft after returning.
Many people in Lanzhou now do this. They transport goods on wooden rafts. After the goods are delivered to the guests, the rafts are dismantled and sold. The same goes for leather rafts, making two trips to make money.
Timber, cowhide, and sheepskin are actually the main export commodities in Qingtang and Lanzhou. Now the local planting industry has gradually developed, and dried meat, cheese, and camel hair have also begun to be transported downstream in large quantities. As for wool, because the hair is short and thick,
It was hard, difficult to use, troublesome to clean, and had no market unless a better sheep was bred.
Wooden rafts, sheepskin rafts, cowhide rafts, water boats, pack horses, camels, carriages, almost all means of transportation were used. A large number of sailors and civilians gathered from all over the country. When the two sides were about the same strength, the war was actually about logistics.
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Shao Dashuai’s transportation cost is not too high, but what about Li Keyong?
