In the words of modern people, fighting a war is military supply, fighting is money, and fighting a war in ancient times is also a truth, was the Ming army inferior to the Qing army during the Chongzhen Dynasty? Wrong, the Ming army can crush the Qing army in terms of number and equipment, why did it lose? Because there is no money, the soldiers on the front line can't even eat, so how can they still have the heart to fight!

In ancient times, there were countless examples of relying on military supplies to win battles, such as Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six countries, maybe everyone only saw the glory of peerless generals such as Bai Qi, Wang Qian, and Meng Tian, but they never thought about how powerful the military supply of the Qin army was, like the famous 'gale' arrow array, the arrows were like a storm and rain covering the enemy army, which lasted for a long time, do you know how many arrows are needed? Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of arrows are shot out in minutes, if the military supplies are not good, the arrows cannot be supplied, let alone the strong wind, the small wind or even the breeze can't blow!

Of course, such things as the victory of military equipment are rarely recorded in the history books, and these are generally implicit in the analysis of national strength, and the country's comprehensive strength is strong, and the supply of military equipment is naturally strong, and there is no need to specifically describe those who engage in logistics.

Most of the historical records are relying on military grain and grass to win the battle, the most famous of which is the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao has a total of only 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and Yuan Shao is rich in the land of Hebei four states, hundreds of thousands of armor, casually point out 100,000 elite soldiers, and then nearly 200,000 people who participated in the war one after another, it stands to reason that Cao Cao is lost, but he made a surprise attack on the land of Wuchao Tun, Yuan Shao more than 100,000 people had no food to eat, and they were immediately defeated, which shows the importance of military grain and grass!

Of course, Zhu Cijiong knew the importance of military supply, so they specially called Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and carefully admonished them, but in fact, Sun Yuanhua was mainly responsible, and Bi Maokang was just assisting.

After Sun Yuanhua returned to the Ministry of War, he immediately recruited all the directors of the Left Waiter, the Right Waiter, and the Divisions of the Ministry of War, and explained the preparations for various military supplies one by one, the most important of which was naturally grain and grass, this time it was 800,000 troops to go out, and there were 500,000 prisoners of war, and the grain and grass needed were massive, and the reserves of Liaodong and the capital were not enough, Sun Yuanhua immediately sent a telegram to Nanzhili, and ordered Nanzhili to immediately prepare 1 million stone of grain and 100,000 quintals of pasture, open a special train, and send it day and night. Must be delivered within 3 days!

Fortunately, now there is a telegraph and a railway, if it is changed to before, the order of the military department is sent to Nanzhili for 800 miles urgently, it will take ten days, Nanzhili will organize manpower again, and the horse-drawn people will push it to the capital, at least two or three months, in that case, not to mention the war, you dare not assemble the army, and there will be no food for two or three months when assembled, then you must not rebel!

Of course, this horse can only eat grass, but people can't just eat white rice, or white noodles, even if the court is poor, it has to be accompanied by some pickles or something, not to mention the rich flow of oil in the Ming Dynasty now, the officials of the state capitals of the North Zhili have to be busy again, the orders of the Ministry of War are everything, what vegetables and fruits, poultry and dry goods, that are all bought on the ton, uh, the ton of this unit is used by the Ministry of Industry, and it is found to be very easy to use, so the yamen of the imperial court also use it, in short, as long as the storage time can exceed ten days and half a month's dishes, the Ministry of War wants.

Just one of the prefectures in Beizhili is already too busy, and what are the daily necessities such as cotton clothes and quilts, so the military department can only send orders to Shandong, Liaodong and other places.

The departments of the Ministry of Industry and the factories are also too busy, Zhu Cijiong actually counted a lot of things when he equipped the fort with materials, such as the steel bars used with cement, and now the Ming Dynasty is popular to use reinforced concrete to build buildings, this sand and stones can be taken locally in the desert of Monan, and there is no place to pick up this steel bar, and Sun Yuanhua has also made up for it later.

There is also a copper wire for telegraph communication, Zhu Cijiong also forgot to explain, Sun Yuanhua also made up for it, and each regiment was equipped with thousands of miles of thin copper wire for military communications, and the busy machines of the Ministry of Industry and Cable Factory were about to smoke!

As for artillery and guns and ammunition, not to mention, they are all prepared by one base number, like the bullets of flintlock pistols, one base number is one hundred per soldier, and the number is imaginable.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are busy, and the General Political Envoy Department is not idle, Wu Meicun has long been familiar with mobilizing the masses to support the front line, and the "Beijing News" began to report on the Northern Expedition at length, what Jiannu died and my Ming heart did not die, what Jiannu burned, killed and looted at the border, and what Jiannu was murderous and looted, and so on.

Of course, it takes at least one or two hours for the content of a "Beijing News" to be sent by telegram, but it is not known how many times stronger than the previous transmission of fast horses, and the remote provinces need one or two months.

For a while, the people in Daming were indignant, and they were eager to pounce on Jiannu and bite a few bites, of course, they couldn't bite it, so they could only contribute money and effort, and they didn't need to do this force, because there were 500,000 prisoners of war who were helping for them, and finally the people's support for the front line was turned into money and things.

Not to mention this money, after the war, Zhu Cijiong will reward the soldiers on the front line according to his military exploits, this thing is too many types, Sun Yuanhua was dumbfounded, this thing can't be sent, how to send it to the soldiers on the front line in a unified manner, he hurriedly wrote a newsletter and sent it to the General Political Envoy, which probably means to thank the people of Daming for their support, but please don't donate other things, because the Ministry of War can't be uniformly distributed to the soldiers on the front line, if you want to donate, donate some durable local specialty snacks, so that the soldiers on the front line can try it.

Naturally, the General Political Envoy did not dare not send the newsletter written by the secretary of the military department, and it was sent immediately, and the newsletter of Sun Yuanhua appeared in the newspaper the next day.

This is a small thing, the special snacks from all over the country are sent to the capital by car, what Shandong green onion pancakes, Huguang's bacon bacon, Shanxi's various dried curd, Shaanxi's mille-feuille cakes, Jiangnan ham, etc., etc., now the people of the Ming Dynasty are rich, naturally they will read the good of the imperial court, plus the local officials are also secretly competing for the future, so the donated local snacks are called a lot of scary!

The preparation of this military supplies is in full swing, but Sun Yuanhua encountered an unexpected trouble, because there was no train to Haizhou and Guanning, for a time the warehouses of the yamen in the capital were full of military supplies, Sun Yuanhua had no choice, so he had to pile up the excess materials in the open air in the four new factories in Xicheng District of the Ministry of Industry.

Why is there no train? Because the trains in the northern provinces have been mobilized to transport Lu Xiangsheng's East Road army, you must know that it is 300,000 soldiers and 300,000 prisoners, if you go from Beidaying to Haizhou, you will definitely not be able to arrive in ten days and half a month, only by train, Sun Yuanhua mobilized nearly 40 trains for this day and night.

Now the trains of the Ming Dynasty are all ten carriages, one can be stuffed into more than 200 people, field artillery, tents and military materials can only be hoisted on the top of the carriage, according to a train of 2,500 people, 40 trains can transport 100,000 people, even if it runs day and night, it will take at least six days to pull people out, so Sun Yuanhua can only wait first, fortunately, it took three days to prepare the materials, he actually only needs to wait for three days.