Chapter 157: Material Supply
"Yun Niang, let's go back, I shouldn't be able to wait today." The little lady in blue said to the little lady in green standing outside the camp.
"Wait, it's coming." The little lady in green glanced at the camp, and then turned to look at the official road.
"Forget it, Yun Niang, we've been waiting for ten days, and we're going to come early." The little lady in blue plays with the ribbon around her waist.
The little lady in green looked at the official road and did not speak.
"Let's go, the sun is setting." The little lady in blue took the hand of the little lady in green.
Under the sunset, two small figures left the official road and slowly walked into the city.
In the sunset, Yang Congyi came back on horseback, and there were more than a dozen recruiters who were from Susong County and missed the recruitment time.
As soon as he returned to the camp, Yang Congyi summoned Jiang Kai and Zhang Biao that night and asked about the situation these days.
The recruitment was very successful, and a total of 738 troops were recruited in Taihu County, and a total of 732 people came to report to the camp. The remaining six people did not arrive, and it is estimated that they will not come, and they have been notified to the county government and asked them to recover the settlement fee, and punish them, each with an additional 30 days of labor. These people who have come to the camp have already carried out basic instruction training and formation and queue training according to Yang Congyi's explanation, and more than 700 people have been selected to temporarily serve as detainees in accordance with the military system, and a team of 50 people has been selected to temporarily serve as detainees for management and training, and now they can basically understand the instructions and ensure basic discipline.
Huaining also brought news that they had recruited nearly 500 troops, and they had also entered basic training, and had sent people many times to ask when they could meet.
Taihu County does have a bit of a delay, but it is not without reason. Huaining has Lord Chen to help, and Yang Congyi is not too worried. He directly told Zhang and Jiang the news that they had invited the masters, and told them that as soon as the others arrived, the whole army would immediately set off and go to Huaining to rendezvous.
This is undoubtedly good news, the new army is worried about accidents, but fortunately nothing happened. When the high-ranking people arrive, they can breathe a sigh of relief.
The basic training of the new army continued, and the formation and platoon were practiced again and again, and they were trained in the habit of obeying orders.
Yang Congyi was still quite satisfied with it, in the wide camp, each team practiced back and forth. This set of military training in high school and college is relatively simple, and it can be learned in ten days, and all that is needed is proficiency.
Zhang Biao is in charge of the basic training, Yang Congyi doesn't care, he has more important things to do.
One person, everything is a trivial matter, but once more than 700 people take action, eating, drinking, Lazar and sleeping are all major matters, and everything must be solved one by one. If you don't do it well, the team will have to be a mess, there will be people making trouble if you don't have anything to eat, someone will run if you don't have a place to sleep, once someone is not satisfied, you will discuss it privately, the first person will run and the second person will run, just like a rout, and it will not end in the end.
There are so many wars in history where the weak defeated the strong, which defeat did not start from the rout, the front army ran back as soon as it made a little contact, and the back did not know why, of course, it would follow, once the rout fled, whoever prevented the rout from fleeing, the rout would kill whom, and the final result was self-evident. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the famous rumor incident was that the front army retreated a few miles, and the army behind thought that the front army had failed, which caused the army to flee, and the 8,900,000 troops did not fight a battle, lost their armor, and fled cleanly.
Although the problems during the march of the new army will not be as serious as the rout of the war, but for the new army that has just been recruited, the damage is also huge, this problem has to be taken seriously, Taihu County is more than 2,000 miles away from the final station, if there are people running all the way to the march, how much is left in Mingzhou, but it is really hard to say.
In order to solve the grain problem, we must make plans for how to procure, where to procure, how to transport, how long it will take 1,200 people to travel from Anqing to Mingzhou, how much grain they will need, and how much money they will need. Eating is the first priority and must be solved in the first place.
As a result, after careful calculation, it will take two months to bring people from Anqing to Mingzhou at the earliest, and the consumption of grain alone will be at least 3,000 guan, and the combination of firewood, rice, oil, salt, and vegetables will be indispensable 4,000 guan. The money is a lot worse, the three thousand guan brought from Lin'an, half of the army has been used up, the new army is eating and drinking these days is a lot of money, the rest of the money is estimated to be less than one thousand, borrowed two thousand guan from Guo Qing, and now the maximum in his hand is three thousand, from now to before leaving from Huaining, it will cost several hundred, so calculated, the food money is short of nearly two thousand guan, and the purchase of tents, medicinal materials and other materials is a lot of money. With all the money in their hands, they can't go to Lin'an. If the vacancy is vacant, you have to send someone back to Lin'an to get it, or go to Guo Qing to borrow a few thousand yuan. There is a shortage of manpower, and it is impossible to send people back, so they can only borrow first.
Of course, it would be best if tents, medicinal materials and other materials could be borrowed on credit, but Yang Congyi was not good at material procurement and other things, and only Guo Qing could use them in Taihu County. Maybe you can outsource all the material procurement problems to him, after all, knowing the root cause can also save him a lot of things.
Yang Congyi thought of this and immediately took action, and went to Guo Qing to tell him his thoughts on the same day.
Although he did not make money by doing business for the army, he was fortunate to make a steady profit without losing money, and he could still earn a profit of one percent.
Yang Congyi also told him that if he could ensure the logistical supply of 1,200 of them all the way from Anqing to the Mingzhou garrison, after arriving in Mingzhou, the logistical supply of the whole army of 5,000 people would also be handed over to him, and if possible, he could even hand over the procurement of the living materials of the entire fleet to him, and the supply of 7,000 or 8,000 people for half a year would be a huge amount of money.
When Guo Qing heard Yang Congyi's words, he agreed without hesitation.
Because the pie that Yang Congyi painted for him was too tempting for him, he couldn't refuse it at all. If you can do the procurement of living materials for the entire Huiyi fleet, it is not impossible to earn one or two hundred thousand yuan at a time, such a good thing, since there is an opportunity, of course you have to seize it.
Guo Qing immediately promised that the logistics supply of the whole army along the way from Anqing to Mingzhou would be fully borne by him, and all expenses could be settled at one time after arriving in Mingzhou.
Let professional people do professional things, this is what Yang Congyi should do.
When the problem of material supply for the new army was solved, Yang Congyi was about to leave immediately, but Guo Qing repeatedly retained, saying that there were still many details that needed to be discussed one by one, so he had to stay and continue to discuss some details of the supply.
"Brother, what are you doing hiding in the house?" The door was suddenly pushed open, and Guo Qing's sister appeared at the door.
As soon as he saw Yang Congyi and Guo Qing in the room, his face suddenly turned pale and he said coldly: "It's you again, come to lie to my brother again." ”
"Don't be rude! We still have something to do, you go out first. Guo Qing's face turned cold.
"I can't get out." The little girl found a chair and sat down.
Yang Congyi said with a smile: "It's almost over, let's stop here today, I have other things, I'll talk about it another day if I have questions." He got up and was about to leave.
"Brother Yang stays, it's not too early, let's have a light meal and then leave." Guo Qing got up and stayed.
"Come as you say, leave as you say, and treat my home as your home." The little girl rolled her eyes and glanced at Yang Congyi.
Yang Congyi said with a smile: "Let's have a good meal another day." Let's go. With that, he strode out and left.
"Yun Niang, didn't you let you accompany your sister-in-law, what are you doing here? You've messed up the business. Guo Qing was very unhappy, looking at this sister, he was helpless.
The little girl replied in a cold voice: "It's stuffy in the house, I can't go out for a walk." ”
"Okay, whatever you like." Guo Qing got up and went straight out, his mood was a little shy.
The two left one after another, and the room was suddenly empty and deserted.
The little girl sat there, looking at the doorway, alone in a daze.
Guo Qing has a lot of things to do, and he needs to find someone to do the logistics supply and supply of more than 1,000 people.
He is a local, and his family still has some connections, and he has known a lot of peers in business in recent years, and it is not so difficult to find someone to do things in Taihu County.
"I'm going to leave for a while, when I'm not there, you pay more attention to safety, and let Yun Niang accompany you in the yard when you're bored, don't think nonsense." Guo Qing took the woman's hand, and her words were as gentle as possible.
The woman smiled and said, "Go ahead, I can do anything at home." It's just, when are you going out this time? ”
Guo Qing said: "I want to go to Mingzhou, two or three months later." I try to get back before my son is born. ”
The woman smiled, "That's good." ”
Guo Qing touched the child in the woman's belly, and the two had a sweet talk.
As soon as the marching tents arrived at the camp, they were all distributed, a team of five fires, one fire of ten people, one fire of a tent, and they had to learn to set up a solid camping tent at once, which was a necessary skill, and everyone had to ensure that they could do it.
The problem of marching and eating has also been refined to the fire these days, and each fire has a pot, boiling water to cook rice, and taking turns to do it, which has been basically solved.
The issue of the military skills training of the new army can only be carried out after the new army is stationed in Mingzhou, and there is only one thing to be done before that, that is, to bring the new army to Mingzhou safely, and the rest can be ignored for the time being.
After a few days of training and preparation before departure, a group of distinguished guests were ushered in in the camp that day, and they were none other than the masters invited by Yang Congyi.
Yang Congyi never asked, and only then did he know the uncle's name, Wu Qian. There were also six people who came with him, all of whom had been in the army in their early years and had fought with the Jin people, and he specially brought them to help Yang Congyi train the new army.
For the arrival of such a team, Yang Congyi was a little surprised, but more of a surprise.
He immediately announced the establishment of the teaching group, these seven people are all members of the teaching group, responsible for the military training of the new army, and the uncle Wu Qian is the head of the teaching group, and announced the news in front of all the new army, giving enough respect to the members of the teaching group, after all, they are veterans who have been on the battlefield.
Everything was in place, and before dawn the next day, the new army set out of camp, and more than 700 people of the whole army passed through the city from Taihu County.