Qiming 1158

Chapter 1033 The war that burns money

Facing Wang Shun's sarcasm, Song Chen slapped the table fiercely, full of anger and remorse.

Because the purchase price of the peasant army was very high, and the profit was two or three times, he made money and could not control himself. He sold many, many good-quality ordnance to the peasant army. He thought they were buying ordnance for defense, so it was worthless psychological stress.

But who knew that after they got the ordnance, they would brazenly launch an invasion operation and take the initiative to attack.

what is this?
Song Chen was remorseful and worried.

The Xiangyang army was offended to death by him. He estimated that once the peasant army really gained a military advantage, if the Xiangyang army could not control the situation, it was very possible to go directly to Sichuan and Shu.

It is true that most of the troops in Ezhou are recruits. He went to see them, and the military appearance was unbearable and lacking in the momentum of the army. He felt that the court had recruited a group of beggars to fill the numbers. As long as the peasant army was fighting for some air, these beggars would not be able to defend Ezhou.

At that time, Wang Shun will definitely run.

that oneself...

As a civil servant, if you really want to run away, there will be serious consequences. Anyway, your political life will come to an end. If something is not good, your home will be raided and exiled to remote areas. Then...

Song Chen was suddenly very anxious, and his anxiety came and went. He decided to make preparations and send someone home as soon as possible, so that the family could sell part of the real estate in the family and hide it as gold and silver. The house has been raided, and the money can still be used to live on.

Not to be empty of people and money.

Then he secretly prepared to apply oil to the soles of his feet. Anyway, he would never die for defending the city.

These people were about to flee without even seeing the peasant army. Obviously, they had no idea of ​​a long-term fight, but Xu Tong didn't know that Xu Tong thought that Wang Shun would fight with him and would fight him, and he would never give up easily. battle.

Therefore, Xu Tong's advance was very cautious and it took a lot of time to divide the army into several teams, advance from different roads, and then agreed to gather at the same destination.

On the fifth day of the third lunar month, Xu Tong set off. Although someone pointed the way, it was very inconvenient because the road was difficult, and there was rain in the sky when the army was marching, and the mountains were muddy and difficult to walk.

However, Xu Tong's troops still overcame difficulties and maintained a certain marching speed.

Zhao Yucheng had a lot of credit for this.

It took a lot of thought for Zhao Yu to be able to cross the hills to reach the destination on time as Xu Tong's department. For example, they were equipped with expensive and expensive military rations-dairy products.

After the Second Year of Hongwu's Grassland War, Su Yonglin obtained a very large number of captures and a large number of grassland prisoners. Most of these prisoners were sent by Su Yonglin to Liaodong and Yellow River construction sites to engage in heavy manual labor, but some of those who mastered the technology were collected by Su Yonglin To Zhongdu engaged in technical work.

For example, those who can smelt iron, those who can make bows and arrows, those who can make leather and bone products, and those who can make dairy products.

The special logistics mode of the grassland cavalry has always made Su Yonglin very envious.

Through the addition of a large number of dairy products and the production of jerky, the prairie cavalry can obtain a very large amount of calories, and the unit calories of its dairy products can reach two to three times that of general grain.

There is very little tradition of eating dairy products in the Central Plains. Even if there is, it is only enjoyed by the upper class. It is basically impossible for the people at the bottom and the big soldiers to come into contact with these things.

After obtaining a large number of grassland craftsmen who mastered the craftsmanship of dairy products, Su Yonglin gathered them together, used the pastures set up by the imperial court on the grasslands to start making dairy products, and tried every means to improve dairy products so that they have a longer storage time.

Su Yonglin also introduced the concept of adding salt, trying to use this method to make super-efficient military rations that can not only supplement heat but also supplement salt and have good storage resistance.

Equipping this ration to Daming's cavalry units will allow the cavalry units to have stronger war endurance and reduce their logistical needs.

This is very meaningful for the Western Regions strategy that requires extensive use of cavalry in the future.

In addition, in the three and four years of Hongwu, Su Yonglin started a new round of reform of the Ming army's military rations at the same time as he set off a wave of great revolution.

In addition to the addition of meat, eggs and vegetables to the daily rations, it also focuses on the development of new military rations.

When the army is stationed or stationed in the barracks, they can naturally eat hot meals and hot dishes prepared by the Huotoujun. There is no problem in this regard. The old tradition of the Ming army is to give everyone a full and good meal.

But in the process of marching, the most important thing is speed. The requirement for military rations is to quickly replenish physical strength and fill the stomach. As for the taste, it is completely unimportant.

Therefore, four years before Hongwu, the military rations for the Ming army were generally dry-baked flatbread with pickles.

The dry-baked flatbread can be stored for about a month. Soldiers carry grain bags on their backs when marching. The dry-baked flatbreads are neatly stacked in them, and they are taken out and eaten when they are eating.

Pickles are also the king of storage resistance. As military rations, they have a very high cost performance.

Therefore, what Ming soldiers disliked the most was the process of marching.

During the march, there was no hot meal and hot food to eat, which was very uncomfortable for them. They suggested to the instructors at the democratic life meeting within the army many times if they could innovate the military ration for the march, and don’t always let everyone eat dry branding. Flatbread with pickles.

There are also many training items in the daily training of the Ming army. It is often necessary to march from one county to another county, or from one state to another, for a limited time, so as to exercise physical strength and enhance the mobility of the army.

This process is quite difficult.

After Su Yonglin's reaction to the army, he also made some ideas for changes in military rations, and prepared to produce the Ming army version of individual rations to meet the army's food needs.

Dairy products are a very important part of it.

Therefore, after Zhao Yucheng went south and made a big breakthrough, Su Yonglin also gave them some guidance on military rations. Because the area under Zhao Yucheng's control has goat breeding, Su Yonglin dispatched some dairy technicians to them, using goat milk as raw material. , to assist them in making dairy products.

Of course, based on the current technology, the production cost of dairy products is relatively high. Even in the Ming army with abundant military expenditure, it is not a popular military ration, and it will only be used in an emergency.

And this time Xu Tong's tactical action was very valuable to Zhao Yucheng. In order to improve the success rate, Zhao Yucheng approved the use of dairy rations for the commandos under Xu Tong.

In this case, allocating rations of this level to the army would be tantamount to burning money for Zhao Yucheng, but as long as the war goal could be achieved, the money would be very worthwhile.

If all wars throughout the ages can be determined by burning money, then no ruler is unwilling to burn a lot of money.

They just worry about not burning enough or fast enough.

(End of this chapter)