Chapter 175: Logistics Crisis

However, even so, Zheng Chenggong is quite cautious. First of all, the soldiers who can ride were selected from the army, and there were more than 3,000 people in total, and the reason why there were so many was because Yang Shenzu undertook the task of rebuilding cavalry in Korea.

It's just that Yang Shenzu unfortunately died in battle, and although the various departments suffered heavy losses, they were used to form cavalry. It's still possible to put up a shelf.

As soon as Ma Sanbao arrived, Ma Sanbao was the vanguard, and Zheng Chenggong led the team to press the formation behind.

Ma Sanbao, as Zhang Xuan's favorite general, naturally did not fear the battle, and immediately obeyed the order.

Ma Sanbao was resolute and courageous, and he didn't care if the Qing army had any traps. Along the way, several cities were broken in a row, and everywhere they passed, they looked at the wind and fell, and there was no resistance at all. And collected tens of thousands of troops, approached the Han River, and set up camp south of the Han River.

But the Qing army didn't move at all, as if they didn't see it.

Ma Sanbao was self-aware, he knew that with the army he had put together temporarily, he couldn't be a thunderbolt blow to the Qing army, so he told Zheng Chenggong one after another.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong could not lose his morale, and immediately summoned the sailors on Ganghwa Island into the Han River, and he led a large group of men and horses to join Ma Sanbao.

For a time, separated from Seoul, there were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Xia army.

All the battalions of the Xia army arrived, plus the Korean army, the Japanese army, etc., and there were at least 130,000 people recruited.

However, more people are not necessarily a good thing.

As soon as Zheng Chenggong arrived at the camp, Chen Yonghua took a boat from the rear into Jianghua Island, and then came to the camp from Jianghua Island. Report the critical military situation to Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong knew that Chen Yonghua must have something important here, so he retreated and summoned him alone.

"Lord Wang, the rear food and salary can no longer be supported." Chen Yonghua said.

Zheng Chenggong was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "What's the matter? Didn't the imperial court prepare 10 million taels of silver? ”

Chen Yonghua said: "Summer is a typhoon-prone weather, so the materials transferred from the imperial court are intermittent. And the army is progressing smoothly, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Chungcheong have already arrived, but when the Qing army retreated, almost all the grain that could be taken away was taken away, and what could not be taken was burned. The millions of people in the south are waiting to be fed, and we must arrange them in advance, so that they will naturally be stretched. Speaking of this, Chen Yonghua seemed to want to say something, but he sighed lightly, and then cut off the conversation.

Although Chen Yonghua didn't say it, Zheng Chenggong also knew what Chen Yonghua wanted to say.

Since Zheng Chenggong went north, it can be said that it has been a smooth journey, but he is too cautious

Be cautious, don't mention attacking Qingzhou, and stop troops under Qingzhou City for more than ten days, just saying that the daily march is only forty or fifty miles, and almost half of the time is spent on camping.

This cautious invulnerability, which leaves Azig with no way to finally step into the trap, cannot be said to be wrong, but there are advantages and disadvantages.

Behind this method of warfare, it represents the consumption of the Yuan Dynasty on weekdays. This is also one of the reasons for the drastic consumption of materials by the army.

Zheng Chenggong said: "Isn't it okay to owe some credit to the Japanese side in the name of my Zheng family? ”

Chen Yonghua said: "Xia Guan has already done it, and even the household department has discussed it, and the household department has also agreed, Your Majesty said that all the money that the Zheng family has advanced for the imperial court can be included in the national debt." ”

"In this way, I am the biggest creditor of the imperial court." Zheng Chenggong said with a sneer.

Zheng Chenggong didn't know what to say about this situation, you know, there are two ways to deal with creditors, one is to repay the money, so that the creditor is no longer a creditor, and the other is to kill it, and there will be no creditor.

The Zheng family already holds millions of taels of treasury bonds.

Even if the Zheng family is rich and rivals the country, these millions of taels are not something that can be taken out. This is a lot of money, so Zheng Chenggong has to have a trace of distractions in his heart, however, Zheng Chenggong is Zheng Chenggong, he was born rich, although he has lived a hard life in Japan, but it also depends on who he compares with.

He can be said to be the top rich second generation of the Ming Dynasty. For him, money is far less important than fame.

Chen Yonghua said: "It's just a temporary loan, and after the winter, the money and grain of the imperial court will arrive, and at that time, this hole can be filled." ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded, noncommittal, he expressed doubts about whether the imperial court would immediately fill in this money, he did not suspect Zhang Xuan of being greedy for money, but suspected that the imperial court's finances could not be opened. After all, Zhang Xuan is a bad person, and he has always maintained the tax revenue before the three salaries of the people, even though after the large-scale Qingzhang, the fiscal revenue has increased a lot, but now the place of Qingzhang is not enough, but it is only in the south of the Yangtze River and Zhejiang. If although it has been extended to the south of Anqing, Jiangxi provinces. But if you want to do it well, it is impossible. To clear all the southern provinces, it must be about four years old. There are some things, even if you are in a hurry, it is useless.

Zheng Chenggong's worries about this regard were only a thought, and he asked, "Even so, isn't it enough?" ”

Chen Yonghua said: "Lord Wang, it's not just a matter of money. We bought a lot of grain and grass from Japan, and the Tokugawa family was already dissatisfied. A warning was issued to us. Moreover, the price of food is soaring, and eating it in large quantities at this moment will not only cost a lot, but I am afraid that it will also offend the Tokugawa family. ”

Zheng Chenggong sighed lightly, and he understood in his heart.

What a lot of food to support the three provinces in the south of Korea, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops,

Japan has never been a place where food is produced. A large amount of grain is purchased from Japan, and the price of grain in Japan naturally fluctuates.

This fluctuation was quite unfavorable for the Tokugawa family.

Naturally, the Tokugawa family had to take action.

The situation in Japan is special, the Tokugawa family may not be able to prohibit the daimyo from selling grain to the Zheng family, plus they are not willing to be enemies of the Xia Dynasty, Korea and Japan are very close, so the Tokugawa family also has ears and eyes in Japan, or ninjas.

He even hid among the Japanese samurai he recruited and reported the situation of the war to the Tokugawa family.

Tens of thousands of cavalry appeared in the battle between the Tokugawa family and the Xia and Qing dynasties, and once the fight started, they used the posture of dozens of national collapses, which was a big surprise. It became more and more clear that Japan's military strength was not enough for either the Xia Dynasty or the Qing court.

However, in this case, if food prices continue to rise, there will be problems. So they directly gave the Zheng family a warning, not a block.

However, the reason why Chen Yonghua stopped purchasing grain from Japan was not because he was afraid of Japan. Rather, there is no need to fall out with the Japanese side, after all, for quite a long time, Japan was one of the logistics bases of the Korean battlefield.

It's not just a matter of silver.

Zheng Chenggong asked: "In such a situation, what does Brother Chen think should be?" ”

Chen Yonghua said: "In the opinion of the following officials, the army still suspended the offensive, but the rest of the month is after the autumn, although the southern three provinces have suffered a lot of ravages, but they can also have some output. With this batch of grain, it is not too late to continue sooner, and after the winter, the typhoon subsides, and the grain and grass of the imperial court can also reach Ganghwa Island, which time is not too late to fight again. ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while and said, "It's a good idea, but I'm afraid the people below don't agree." ”

It's not that the people below disagree, Zheng Chenggong is also a little unwilling.

Along the way, from Luozhou to the city of Seoul, only Qingzhou was the most tragic battle, the Qing army's intention to retreat was already obvious, Zheng Chenggong was trying to drive the Qing army out of North Korea in one breath, and then integrate the Korean military and political troops to go west and enter Liaodong. Dig straight out the land where the army is prosperous.

It was not for the sake of dividing Korea equally with the Qing army.

If Zheng Chenggong himself was unwilling to do just unsuccessful deeds, and the generals at all levels of the Xia army did not have such a far-sighted vision, they only seemed to have never fought a battle with the Qing army since they came to Korea, and felt that Zheng Chenggong was too cautious.

Some people have already secretly called Zheng Chenggong a coward.

If the army is south of the Han River, the people below will be even more dissatisfied with Zheng Chenggong, which will affect Zheng Chenggong's prestige. After all, Zheng Chenggong's main force in land warfare was not his own Zheng family's army, but Zhang Xuan's descendants. These people may be afraid of military law, and they dare not slack off on Zheng Chenggong's orders. It's just that I don't know how much obedience I have in my heart.