The chassis of the sled in Qi is very low, which is relatively close to the snow plough commonly used in the northeast of another plane, and is towed by a horse, which can carry 200 to 300 catties of personnel or materials on thick snow or ice.

If you use oxen to tow, you can carry more supplies, but the mobility decreases a lot.

The plan of the staff was to equip the front-line troops with horse-drawn sleds, and ox-drawn sleds for logistical transportation.

To this end, 8,000 horses of service age that have not yet been put into service are to be put into service, in addition to more than 5,000 head of cattle.

In order to increase mobility, Xu Shiyang hoped to be able to temporarily purchase a batch of horses and cattle from the Mughurs, and then mobilize civilian draft animals, especially the latter, which was expected to allow the Qi army to obtain an additional 15,000 horses, 8,000 cattle, 8,000 mules, and donkeys, for a total of 31,000 camel animals.

To tell the truth, it was only in the winter that the Qi State was able to mobilize so many livestock-age animals to participate in the war - because there was no delay in farming.

In order to prevent the mass attrition of valuable livestock in the cold winter, the General Staff even asked the industrial sector to produce thick linen clothing for livestock to keep warm.

Such a large-scale mobilization is essentially an experiment in total warfare.

In fact, only the 90,000-odd standing army plus 10,000 Goryeo New Army were really responsible for front-line operations, 120,000 reserve soldiers and militia were dispatched, plus 100,000 slaves were responsible for logistics and transportation, and other mobilized armed personnel were scattered in various places in company units to take charge of defense work in place of the field army.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops, all standing musketeers were to prepare 120 rounds of ammunition, and those who had muskets in the reservists and militia were to prepare 60 rounds of ammunition.

All artillery involved in the war prepares at least 30 shells, and in wartime, if the reserve needs to be replenished, the logistics unit is fully responsible.

In order to meet this standard, Qi urgently sent a fleet to purchase 20,000 catties of sulfur from Fusang, and another 10,000 catties of sulfur and 50,000 catties of saltpeter from Jiangnan and overseas merchants.

All the arsenals produced munitions day and night, barely enough to reach the ammunition reserves needed for the campaign before the start of the war.

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Beginning in September, most of Qi's naval and civilian ships were engaged in transporting people and supplies to southern Liaoning, which also delayed commercial transportation, fishing, and whaling.

Xu Shiyang found that the biggest pressure on such a general mobilization war is actually on the economic side.

In order to save people's power, the mobilization of Qi, whether it is manpower or animal power, has never been gratuitous.

In fact, the field troops are good to say, and the sortie only needs to prepare a small amount of post-war rewards.

However, the temporarily mobilized front-line logistics units need to enjoy half of the salary, while other mobilized soldiers who defend in divisions near their hometowns in companies also enjoy one-third of the military salary.

This is already a very terrifying number, and if you pay the military salary, the Qi army during the battle is equivalent to supporting nearly 300,000 field troops!

And each soldier needs to consume at least three catties of grain and one catty of non-staple food every day, and also use sugar cubes and dried or canned vegetables to supplement vitamins.

Each horse needs at least fifteen pounds of feed per day, and a little less for cattle and mules, but it all adds up to a staggering number.

In addition, the purchase of a large number of textiles, the increase of ammunition reserves, the preparation of food and grass supplies for the war and the consumption of military salaries, etc.

Tobe estimated that if this campaign would cost at least 10 million new stones per month (new stones refer to the new weights and measures of one hundred catties of one stone, that is, the monthly cost of war would be converted into at least one billion catties of grain).

This is a terrifying figure, and for Qi Guo, as long as such an offensive lasts for three months, the inventory accumulation of the past three years will be wasted.

If the offensive lasts for four months, then five years of reserves will be completely depleted!

During the preparations for the battle, His Royal Highness the King of Qi had the idea of stopping mobilization and solving the Jurchen problem in a more gentle way.

However, these ideas were dispelled by Xu Shiyang, and the order that had been issued was withdrawn, which was tantamount to damaging the credibility of the Qi government, which was extremely foolish.

What's more, the five-year autumn harvest in Longdao has been completed, and when the autumn grain is harvested, the Qi government will be able to maintain the minimum reserves.

Of course, Xu Shiyang did not force his own economy into such a predicament, in order to expand reserves, Xu Shiyang sacrificed the simplest economic means: issuing treasury bonds.

There are two kinds of government bonds: domestic debt and foreign debt, with a maturity of five years and an annual interest rate of 6.5 percent, the only difference being that the domestic debt is planned to issue 10 million new stones in the first phase and the foreign debt is 20 million new stones in the first phase.

The collateral of the treasury bonds is the mines and land in the Liaozhong Plain.

The collateral isn't actually in hand yet, but if the war goes well, it's a matter of time.

It will be seen how confident the buyers of treasury bonds are in the army.

In fact, the 30 million stone of the first phase of the treasury bond was almost enough to support the attack, but Xu Shiyang planned that if the war really went well, then he would continue to issue treasury bonds, and save up all the funds needed to redevelop the Liaozhong Plain and deal with the Mughal Tartars in the future.

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October of the fifth year of Longdao.

Just when the Qi State was mobilizing on a large scale and preparing to deal a fatal blow to the Jurchen Tartars, Zuo Helin arrived at the King of Qi with his cronies in Quancheng.

His trip this time was not very smooth, first the two brothers who were originally going to come from the Zhi family were detained by their family, but the Zhi family sent another Zhi Keshi to follow Zuo Helin to Qi Kingdom.

Zuo Helin didn't quite understand what the operation of the Zhe family meant, because Zhi Keshi was regarded as the most outstanding talent of the small characters of the Zhe family, and he was used to replace the Zhe Ke Da and Zhe Ke Seek, in fact, it seemed that the Zhe family attached great importance to this trip to Qi State.

However, the Zhe family attaches so much importance to it, why don't they follow the Shihou team to Quancheng, but follow him Zuo Helin? He also brought 500 soldiers.

Zuo Helin didn't have too many objections to the change of companions, plus a few small characters that Yang, Ding, He, and Guo were willing to keep up with, a total of nine sons of the Shihou family (if you can also count it), set off with 1,200 younger brothers.

Half of the entire team was cavalry, and they looked extremely powerful, but as soon as they entered the territory of Qi State, they were immediately surrounded by a large number of Qi national soldiers.

Zuo Helin's men were so disorganized that they were treated as Tartars who came to harass them by the remaining troops of the Qi State, and the two sides almost caught fire.

Fortunately, a thief who knew Zuo Helin appeared in time and resolved the misunderstanding between the two sides.

After learning that Zuo Helin and Zhi Keshi had brought someone else to Qi to attend the annual meeting, Wang Qinian, who was preparing to participate in the war, had to put down his work and come to greet him.

The Qi army disarmed Zuo Helin and Zhi Keshi's men, and then had Wang Qinian as a guide, and only then did they arrive in Quancheng.

On the way, Wang Qinian didn't say anything to these sons of the family, but after arriving in Quancheng, Zuo Helin immediately noticed that there seemed to be some big moves on the side of the Qi Kingdom.