368 Fighting a war is about logistics
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Previously, Xiao Feng had also studied the weapons used by the world's armies, the weapons used by high-ranking nobles and knights, and the weapons used by European armies in his medieval period.
Two-handed swords, broad-bladed heavy swords, riding spears and other equipment, these equipment look cold, when against human soldiers, the effect may be good, but against orcs, it is difficult to say.
As for ordinary soldiers, not to mention, it is an ordinary iron sword, plus a wooden shield, and the spear is also an ordinary diamond-shaped flat spearhead.
Such a weapon can be said to be very poor, human soldiers do not have an advantage in physical fitness against the upper half orcs, and only long-range combat can be effective, but you use such a spear, how to deal with those rough skin and thick flesh half orcs?
That kind of inferior iron spearhead, even the armor of the half-orc can't be pierced, and even if it is often stabbed halfway, it will be caught by the armor of the half-orc, or the thick skin, and broken, relying on such a weapon to fight the half-orc, it is tantamount to sending the soldier to death.
So Xiao Feng thought that in his world, the powerful three-edged bayonet, this thing was first born in the Soviet Union, and later Huaguo also learned to use it, mainly because their forging technology was not up to par earlier, and they could not produce qualified bayonets.
But I didn't expect that the power of this three-edged bayonet is huge, if you stab someone, it is basically a bucket and a bucket, the wound is difficult to treat, and the blood groove is also very conducive to bloodletting, the knife head is not easy to break, and the end is a battlefield weapon.
So Xiao Feng introduced this thing to this era, when he was defending the city before, there were soldiers with spears like this, and they fought against the orcs who rushed up on the city wall, and the effect was really good.
Later, Xiao Feng asked Groyin to expand production, and the spearhead was directly customized to be more than a foot long, with a three-edged shape, each edge has a deep concave blood groove, and the three-edged tip in front of it, because of the shape, it doesn't even need to be carefully polished, and the power is quite amazing.
Equipped with such a spear, coupled with the three-person combat team tactics trained by Xiao Feng, these soldiers, even if they meet the half-orcs, do not need to panic too much, as long as the half-orcs do not use long-range projection weapons, the three-person and five-person combat teams do not need to panic at all against the upper half-orc squad.
This is just the main weapon, the secondary weapon, no one is equipped with a meter-long short knife, which is completely built in the form of a Miao knife in ancient China, which is very in line with the mechanical needs of chopping on the battlefield.
This is only in terms of weapons and equipment, in order to allow these soldiers to save their physical strength to the greatest extent on the battlefield, Xiao Feng also equipped the soldiers with war horses, and they are luxurious to the point of one person and two horses.
In his opinion, these soldiers must not only be qualified infantry, but also qualified cavalry, so no one is equipped with bows and arrows.
In addition, no one is equipped with iron bones, this thing is a small meteor hammer, on horseback, this thing is much better than any cavalry spear or cavalry knife.
In a series of battles on the banks of the Danube, the Mongol Qing soldiers encountered the Crusader alliance organized by the European Church, and the Europeans were armed to the teeth with iron cans, hoplites, and hoplites.
But these iron cans were beaten by the Mongolian cavalry with this iron bone duo, and the heavy iron armor on their bodies had no protective effect in front of this iron bone duo, and it was a big hole when they were knocked.
So such a sharp weapon, of course, Xiao Feng equipped all the soldiers with one, and when charging in close combat, this thing is much better than a weapon such as a rifle.
At the same time, the pulley bow was also equipped with a large number of weapons for each soldier, and all kinds of round shields and wooden escapes were in place.
In addition, Xiao Feng also organized a large number of four-wheeled carriages, which were loaded with a large amount of food, grain and grass, and the key was to keep the morale of the soldiers high and let the soldiers have enough to eat.
In the past two years, with the increase in population, coupled with the great material abundance of the great wilderness outside, the food reserves in the tribe are also quite sufficient.
I brought a lot of all kinds of rice, flour and oil, and I also brought a lot of all kinds of meat.
In fact, in this era, the most headache is the problem of food storage, when the ancient nomads launched wars, their food supply was a group of live cattle and sheep, following behind the army, eating and killing, because there is no good storage means, if the food is not eaten in time, it will be spoiled and wasted.
Therefore, the logistics supply is very difficult to control, and the army at the front can be said to often face the situation of starvation and fullness.
As for the time when the agrarian peoples wage war, not to mention, in the face of such a problem, it is not at all easier than the nomads.
The cooks will make the noodles into dry and hard pot helmets and bring them to the soldiers, such food, at best, can only fill the stomachs of the soldiers, as for what nutritional supplements, not to mention protein supplements, soldiers who eat such food, can ensure high morale, and combat effectiveness, then there are ghosts.
And such a problem, for Xiao Feng, is nothing, instant noodles he knows, there is no shortage of oil in this world, noodles are made, and then fried, can greatly extend the shelf life of food.
Soybeans are planted in a large area in this world, so that there are abundant soybean resources here, these beans can not only be squeezed for oil, but also fermented into a variety of bean paste, black bean paste, with these sauces, you can make pickled pickles, so that soldiers can get vitamin supplements, and do not have to worry about the problem of salt.
It also comes with the need to solve the needs of cooks for seasoning when cooking. In addition, during the march, you can squeeze soybean milk to supplement protein for soldiers, squeeze the remaining soybean meal, and also feed the military horses, which is definitely a universal food.
In addition, in terms of real protein supplementation, Xiao Feng also made countless bacon, sausages, dried fish and other foods, and the amount of these food reserves, according to his estimates, was enough for this army of 6,000 people to go out of the city to fight for three months.
With so much material equipment, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on 3,000 auxiliaries to drive oxen and horse-drawn carts to transport them.
Fortunately, he transferred the Yingzhou people from the Twin Towers City, and the Yingzhou people's fleet has more than 30 large ships with a capacity of four or five hundred tons, all of which can go north along the rushing river.
As for the main food supply and equipment supply, Xiao Feng plans to put it all on the fleet, anyway, he goes north to counterattack, mainly along the river, even if he is far away from the river, he can also choose the tactic of frog jumping supply.
Moreover, if there is a fleet to follow north, they can be regarded as attacking and retreating, but they can't fight, so they retreat to the river and camp, and it doesn't matter if they rely on the fleet to transport them back.
For this plan, he even brought a few marine diesel engines from the modern world and installed them on several large ships, so that the transportation efficiency of the fleet has been improved a lot.
In his opinion, this fleet will be mainly responsible for transporting food supplies, wounded soldiers, captured and liberated humans, and even trophies, etc., and the only thing that orcs can't compete with humans at present is in the field of naval forces, so the waterway is currently the safest transportation channel.
It's a pity that the Yingzhou people in his hands are limited, and there are still too few ships that can be made, if he can find a thousand giant ships, then he can start from the waterway, go straight to the lair of the half-orcs, and kill him seven in and seven out, after all, in this era, whether it is a human or a half-orc, building cities and camping like to live along the water.
In addition to these preparations, Xiao Feng also deliberately brought a lot of fierce fire oil tanks that Charlesman improved several times, this kind of combat vehicle developed by using the fierce fire oil produced by the hybrid of soybeans and potatoes, can be said to be the earthy tank of this world, and the power is quite huge.
Compared with the original batch, Charlesman's improved fierce fire oil tank has increased a lot.
Charlesman's main improvement is in the pressure pump, he improved the sealing pipe, the pressure pump was replaced with pure copper, although the weight of the vehicle increased, but because the air tightness has been greatly improved than before, the pressure in the tank has also been greatly improved, the injection range of the fierce fire tank has also been greatly improved.
In the past, it was only about 80 meters, but now it has been increased to more than 100 meters, and even in the state of continuous pressurization and pumping of two strong men, the spray range of this fierce fire tank can even reach about 150 meters, which is farther than the range of Xiao Feng's individual flamethrower.
Of course, the disadvantages are obvious, that is, this weapon is relatively bulky, mounted on a four-wheeled carriage, requires horse traction, is not flexible enough, the battlefield moves very slowly, and the safety of large wooden oil tanks is always a hidden danger.
Regarding the use of this fierce fire oil tank, Xiao Feng probably has his own ideas, fighting with the orcs in the field, relying on cavalry alone cannot solve the problem, once the orcs rush up and surround them, they must have a way to protect themselves.
And the Spanish infantry phalanx, in his opinion, is a very good solution, the spearmen form a large phalanx, and the musketeers are in the corners of the phalanx, providing long-range strikes and fire coverage.
It's just that in this world, because there are no musketeers, he plans to replace the musketeers with fierce fire oil tanks, and then cooperate with the archers in the middle of the phalanx to constantly project, which should be an innovative tactic, but the specific combat effect will not be known until it is tested on the battlefield.
And this way of fighting, the degree of discipline and cooperation of soldiers is very high, for this battle formation, Xiao Feng also deliberately let Kyle carry out special queue training, and even reorganized the model of army composition, the three-three system began to appear, and each squad leader was equipped with a whistle, and the small backbone of the level of the whistle commander began to appear in the army, which greatly strengthened the officer's control over the army.
In three days, the logistics were prepared, the soldiers were ready, Xiao Feng took the lead in driving out of the city and led the Northern Expedition!