When the news of the victory reached Gangneung Castle in the rear, it was naturally a joyous and cheerful situation.

In fact, this battle of Jingmen, which exceeded expectations, made Zhou Huai'an feel a little surprised and surprised. It's like it's easy to recruit and cultivate by yourself, and the high-potential and growth-value NPCs have accumulated enough experience, tactics, and skill proficiency from the ordinary elite template, and then they have been promoted to the high-level elite template.

Fighting a war in winter, especially the relatively primitive guerrilla tactics of breaking up into parts in the field, is a highly difficult project that particularly tests the army's degree of organization and training, as well as the corresponding logistical support capability. In particular, the consumption of the corresponding manpower and material resources for transfer and replenishment is several times the cost of operations under normal circumstances.

Therefore, even if you have made a lot of preparations in advance, all kinds of frostbite, illness and other unexpected conditions are not uncommon. Or is it just the loss of all kinds of mules, horses, carts, ships, and organizations.

But in the end, Ge Congzhou not only turned the defensive battle and tug-of-war that he expected to rely on the city into a counterattack war that took the initiative to attack instead of defending, but also achieved the degree of the general goal, and actually achieved the final victory. It really deserves to be one of the well-known historical figures in another time, space and historical trajectory who are deeply loved by the luck of the times. As long as there is a suitable opportunity, it will naturally emerge.

For Zhou Huai'an, it is much better to be able to pile up victory with materials than with human lives; What is consumed and lost is, after all, dead and renewable. However, those who survive after winning and losing battles again and again are valuable assets that can continue to multiply, spread, and spread their advantages.

However, after a round of commendations and orders to rest and recuperate, he refocused and focused on the aftermath; As the territory continues to expand, the number of suitable manpower becomes more and more scarce. However, at present, we are also concentrating limited resources and manpower, and can only prioritize and target the most critical nodes and issues.

So not only were the old and new subordinates around him sent out, but even Huo Cun, who led the army to support, did not have a chance to be idle, so he was given a new task. That is, to lead the new and old garrison forces in those places, and cooperate with Wang Chongba's new water army to clear out the potential soil such as mountain bandits and river bandits near the waterways along the way, as well as the villages and market towns where they hide and possess.

Although a considerable part of them existed, they had more or less contributed or benefited from the Taiping Army's northward strategy before; However, under the new order of the Taiping regime that is about to take shape, since they do not want to change and come out, follow the rebels to seek better development and new world, and still insist on following the traditional bad habits of stealing and retaining the people in the past, then do not blame being crushed into powder by the wheels of history and swept into the garbage heap of history.

During this time, he also turned his desires and dissatisfaction into motivation, and turned into an efficient work machine, constantly meeting with various people and accepting reports from his subordinates. The starting point of the First Army itself is biased towards the bottom, so all oral and written materials in the work are known for being straightforward and simple;

As a basic institutional norm, there is neither long talk nor red tape; A meeting or a routine written report can be completed in about five to ten minutes, and only a few of the more important matters are worth his exceptional time.

Of course, the vast majority of the general public in this era are still ignorant and stupid, and sympathy and kindness alone are not enough to touch and change anything. Therefore, they want to transform them into the help and foundation of the Taiping regime; On the one hand, we can only use visible interests and changes to guide, and on the other hand, we can use strict discipline and systems to spur and restrain them;

Just like the principle of herding and domesticating sheep in the usual sense, the ultimate goal is to adapt them to the changes and innovations brought about by the Taiping Army, and finally identify and consciously integrate into this overall atmosphere as a whole.

In the process, Zhou Huai'an also found that he had recently unintentionally unlocked an auxiliary function, that is, the voice and text input after the graphic scanning record; In other words, you can directly multi-purpose the content reported by your subordinates into the corresponding records in the database;

When necessary, the relevant related content will be mobilized for comparison and analysis, and the required results will naturally be obtained. Coupled with the ability to scan words without forgetting, it is more efficient to deal with official business.

Compared with the process of clearing the road and resuming production, the Lingnan area in the rear is somewhat calm and waveless, and the spring ploughing season has been ushered in early. Nowadays, the Lingbiao area under the Taiping Army, especially the Pearl River Valley, has a considerable amount of grain after the accumulation of several harvests in these days.

"Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still has thousands of rooms.

The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant. ”

On the one hand, it reflects the abundance of the world and the surplus of private resources, and on the other hand, it represents the stagnation of logistics and information that is common in the whole era; As a result, most of the resources produced in these places cannot be circulated through suitable channels, and become a source of increasing the overall wealth of market economic activities; Instead, they can only be piled up in the warehouse in vain and waiting for mold and rot.

Food was the most important resource and the first measure of circulation in ancient societies; Even if all the currency and substitute currency in society are useless, food can still be used as a benchmark for barter; After all, under the small-scale peasant economic system dominated by self-sufficiency, you can barely live without money, but you will really die without food.

However, once the grain stored in the warehouse has passed the most basic shelf life, it is in the process of depreciation and depletion all the time; Although sulfur fumigation and smoke (carbon dioxide) are used to kill insects and mildew to increase the shelf life of grain storage, the generally hot, humid and rainy climate in Lingnan is still the trouble and trouble of a large number of storage.

Therefore, as a person with a little foresight, it is necessary to take into account these resources that are not easy to preserve and are easily damaged, and transform them into various things and achievements that are more efficient to preserve or have long-term added value through various means and methods.

For example, using grain as a means of remuneration and payment, organizing a large number of manpower to repair large-scale projects such as farmland water conservancy, roads and bridges; As long as it's not too black-hearted to exploit people to death; Not only can it be disguised to help and enrich through paid labor, but the savings and potential anti-risk ability of those poor people at the bottom of the society can also be exercised in large-scale organizational efficiency and means, as well as the collective concept of working together.

Or through in-depth finishing means, at the cost of a certain amount of loss and scraps, it becomes biscuits, canned food and other similar things with a longer shelf life and higher added value; This will also have more value and usefulness for disaster preparedness.

However, in this regard, there is a considerable degree of obstacle to the improvement and upgrading of military cans; On the one hand, tin-plated white iron sheets are really expensive, and on the other hand, the airtightness and shelf life of clay pots are not very satisfactory; It may be necessary to make glass products more inexpensive and mass-produced.

Or simply to convert these surplus agricultural products into other types of resources through overseas trade channels under the overall planning of the whole. It is also an indirect means of effectively gaining and expanding the circulating value of the market.

In addition, there is a more extreme approach, that is, foreign wars are transformed into corresponding results and gains in disguise; On the one hand, it can divert internal contradictions and attention in disguise, and on the other hand, it can obtain more land population, wealth and other resources that continue to regenerate, so as to continuously expand the original basic market.

The specific measures embodied in Hunan are:

Therefore, under the rule of Zhou Huai'an, it is not allowed for large households to store grain and other agricultural products for traditional reasons; This is the same as the collective farms and the redistribution of surplus products under the rule of Da Mao's father, which is the reason for getting out of the depression and chaos after the war.

On the other hand, with the advancement of the war in Jinghu, the limitations of weapons materials in this era gradually appeared.

As long as we continue to explore and improve the formula of steel materials and continue to invest in labor and raw material resources, we can give full play to the scale advantages of primary industrial mass production; Even if there is a problem of damp rust, it can be solved by the simplest material treatment from oil to oxide coating.

But with long-range projectile weapons, it's a bit of a problem. Although the Taiping army maintained a high rate of bow and crossbow armament, the corresponding attrition rate remained high all the way to the battle. Not to mention anything else, in the battle of Jingmen that just happened, thousands of hard bows and strong crossbows were damaged and broken.

This is not due to mismanagement or other human factors, but to the fact that bamboo, horns, tendons and glue, which are traditional bow and crossbow materials, are themselves biomaterials that are easily affected by obvious changes in the environment and temperature and humidity, and are prone to deformation and deterioration and cannot be stored for a long time.

For example, under high temperature and cold, the thermal expansion, cold contraction and dry cracking of the bow arm and chord, the bowstring is loose and the gum falls off under the rain full of humidity; and even mildew, moth-eaten and decaying problems in long-term storage; Therefore, in addition to routine storage in a dry and ventilated environment at room temperature, it should be taken out every once in a while for inspection, maintenance and replacement.

Only by spending enough time and energy to replace those parts that are not suitable for use on a regular basis can we ensure the basic combat effectiveness when it is time to put it into use; Otherwise, going into battle is really the result of human life. Although the Lingnan region has many mountainous areas, the source of these materials and their by-products is relatively extensive, but due to the climate and environment, the cost of loss and loss that is not easy to preserve is always a big problem.

Just like the weapons and equipment in the arsenal in Guangzhou that fell into the hands of the rebels, and in the case of chaotic management and poor preservation, they became unusable one after another after just over a year, which is a mixed result.

Due to the mass production area of materials and the convenience factor of loss supplementation, the world's largest crossbow soldiers can only be maintained into a large-scale crossbow sequence, and there are only a few places in the south, such as Bayu (Jiannan), Xuanrun (Jiangdong), Huaiyang (Huainan), Jinghu (Jiangxi), and Guiguan (Lingnan).

The one embodied in the Lingnan region is the Guizhou white crossbowmen, and the ones from Hunan are the Jiangling crossbowmen; In the "Book of Acting for Huaixi" by Yuan Zhen, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, there is "Wei Bo's Xiao Cavalry, Jiangling's Strong Crossbow". And these two important crossbow workshops of the imperial court in the past happen to be under the control of the Taiping army today. Therefore, making full use of local conditions is simply against your own vision and common sense.

Therefore, in addition to using iron pieces and bamboo on the bow arms and crossbows to increase strength and longevity, the construction department of the rear of the Taiping Army also intended to use the traditional silk thread and animal tendon and cowhide rope on the basis of; Continue to try to use the thin wire drawn from steel and twist it with sisal fibers that are resistant to acid and alkali corrosion, so as to obtain a new string with better storage and more convenient long-term use.

But compared to these development potentials and ceilings, there is not much room for cold weapons. Zhou Huai'an actually cares more about the test products of the fire gun body tube that are being explored and drilled out by hydraulic machinery. It's just that at the moment, even the mass production of the original artillery casting and disemboweling has not yet met the expected requirements, let alone these more sophisticated individual firearms.

However, the military production department in Nanhai County in the rear has come up with another transitional thing in accordance with the guiding ideology and general direction he gave. According to the news from the waterway signal tower, a batch of escorts had just been transported from Guangfu by waterway ship.

Is it not that the content of farming management and the development of life and agglomeration is written a little more?

(End of chapter)