After a while, Wei Qi pushed the door with an enamel basin, the basin was steaming with hot water, and a few cans were already hot in the basin.

"Vice marshal, it's all hot."

"Hmm." Bai Liyan picked out a can of braised beef in a catty and handed it to him and said, "Let's eat it yourself, I'll call you again if you have something." ”

"No."

After Wei Qi retreated, Bailiyan said to Xue Sheng while opening the can:

"How are the canned food in each battalion, are you still used to it?"

"Things are good things, but it's too cold, after opening a layer of white oil, you can have diarrhea after eating, especially canned pork, you start to pull before you finish eating, or canned beef and luncheon meat, hot and sour vegetables and dried tofu are also good, the biscuits are hard and salty and chewy and more uncomfortable than choking chaff, you can't swallow it without water, and the balls are not good, and you have diarrhea after eating."

Except for the navy to distribute canned food, the rest of the armed forces have not distributed canned food, and the actual production capacity does not allow a large number of canned food. But three days ago, the 50,000 people who had crossed the river in the Seventh and Eighth Towns began to eat canned food, three meals a day, to adapt to their stomachs.

Ruitian and Wanchuan are currently able to produce ten varieties of canned food, including braised pork, braised beef, luncheon, kidney beans, sour and spicy beans, dried beans, hard biscuits, pork meatballs, beef meatballs, ham, etc., but there is no seafood fish, although fish helps alleviate night blindness, but fish have spines, and the sea fishing technology is immature, there is no basic space for development, Xue Sheng's reaction to greasy eating diarrhea, it is also true.

Although the food in the army is generally better than that of the princes of various countries, it is not to the point of opening meat every day, and suddenly eating a pound of canned pork at a meal, it is not a matter of hell if the intestines are not slippery, which is also the reason for the distribution of canned food three days in advance.

At the same time, due to the lack of heating tools, the problem is more prominent after people get on board. The cold lard is squeezed into a pile of white oil and floats on the top layer of the can, which is indeed difficult to swallow, while beef has less fat but more gum, so the canned beef has less fat and more transparent gum after it is frozen hard, which is more convenient to eat than pork.

The navy goes to sea all the year round, and the Xianguo is located in the north, the climate is hot and the temperature is high, but there are no such problems, and after going south, the latitude increases, the altitude increases, and the temperature is low, and the problems that have not been exposed before come one after another.

But in general, canned food compensates for the lack of emergency rations in field conditions, and it is much better than a big cake every day, and everyone has night blindness. In particular, the cost of canned beef is much lower than that of canned pork, and the calories of beef are much higher than that of pork under the same quality, so the purchase price is much lower, and the cost-effectiveness ratio is also higher, which is very suitable for mass production in the future.

Supposedly, beef should be more expensive than pork, and lamb is more expensive, fifteen years ago, but now it has been radically reversed.

Thanks to the pastures of Qianyue Mountain, which provide a large amount of pasture and thousands of cattle and sheep every year, Xianguo can bring back a large number of cattle and sheep from the southern pastures every year, and at the same time, domestic farms also raise cattle, and the cattle herd rate has increased significantly.

Although the feeding cycle of cattle and sheep is longer than that of pigs, but feeding pigs needs concentrate feed, the current farm epidemic prevention and sanitation conditions are poor, and the mortality rate is higher, and Qianyue Mountain has tens of millions of square kilometers of natural grassland, as much as possible for a large number of grazing, when the population reaches a certain size, the rate of reproduction and the size of the population are enough to make up for the loss of growth rate and food.

In addition, the Xianguo perennial purchase of livestock, the population has been able to grow rapidly, the cost of beef and mutton is lower than pork, because it is state-run, so the intermediate links are reduced, and even the pasture is free, the cost is naturally much lower than that of inland pig farms and private pig breeding.

At the same time, it can also make a profit by selling cattle and sheep and harvesting leather and wool, so the price of cattle and sheep purchased by the imperial court itself is lower than that of pork.

Among them, the largest expenditure comes from the annual transit grassland fee that needs to be paid to lead the way to Zhiguo, and the grassland fee that the horse needs to lead the horse, which has always made Bailiyan extremely cautious about Zhiguo.

King Zhi has always been fearless because he knows the importance of the grassland of Qianyue Mountain to the Xianguo. This time, he dared to take over the hot potato of defending the country, and the reason was that Bailiyan would not turn his face with it for the sake of the gains and losses of a place, and King Zhi dared to play with fire.

At this time, the fleet was slowly sailing towards Hukou Bay in the turbulent water, and the rain became heavier and heavier after nightfall, accompanied by strong winds and lightning, which made the ships shake very hard.

The standing quota of a 10,000-stone warship is 150 to 170 people, and it can carry 300 to 350 people when it is fully loaded with infantry or marines. Of course, if you don't consider self-sufficiency, you can theoretically stuff as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you have five or six hundred people to fill the deck and climb the mast.

But whether it is a warship or a merchant ship, the loading space is not rich, the sailors usually sleep in hammocks, only the captain and the first mate and the second rich, as well as individual trainee officers can sleep in the bed, and now there are nearly 200 more people at once, no matter how the Wanshi ship can be loaded, the place will not become bigger.

The soldiers crowded in the cabin and gathered in groups, some were seasick, some were chatting, some were gambling, and all kinds of things emerged in an endless stream.

Bai Liyan inspected a circle and kept worrying, this is fortunately there is no tobacco at the moment, if anyone smokes, just go out of the fire, everyone is full of weapons and ammunition, and when it explodes, the whole ship will have to finish.

It takes a day and a half to sail from Yangdu to Hukou Bay by boat, but in fact, the upstream river water is surging, the downstream water is turbulent, and the current is against the wind and sailing, and it is expected that the water and land will take a day and a half, and it will take nearly three days, and it will be in the early morning of the ninth day of October to Hukou Bay. At this time, the best time to land had been missed, and the guards' sentinels had been chasing the Xian fleet along the river, and the news continued to spread back to Jiangquan City.

"Is it just a salty army going upstream?" Du Ruixun asked Wang Xie, and then looked at the topographic map of the mountains and rivers hanging in the camp tent.

"Yes, the ships are going upriver under the main force of the Xian army, and they should have crossed Hukou Bay this morning, or landed in Hukou Bay, and further south is Iwacheng, although the wall of the river in Iwaki has collapsed, but the city is still in the hands of our army, the Xian army needs to attack on the back, and the port wharf is not enough to accommodate large ships to dock, and the landing of the Xian army will be extremely slow.

To the south of Iwaki is Dayandang, although our army has abandoned the river bank, but the mud and swamp of Dayan Dang are densely spread vertically and horizontally, which is not conducive to landing, and his subordinates think that the Xian army is very likely to land in Hukou Bay. ”

Du Ruixun looked at Hukou Bay, and the more he thought about it, the more unbelievable it became, he said:

"The main force of the Xian Army and the Navy can transport at most 40,000 or 50,000 horses at a time, and it should land near the other shore to shorten the time it takes to land, but now it is willing to travel from Yang to land in Hukou Bay by water for three days, isn't it a strange thing!"

"What the general said is extremely true, Bailiyan has always deviated from the path of the sword, and it is difficult to say what his intentions are."

The east coast closest to Hukou Bay on the west coast is Feixiaqi, but Feixiaqi is a wetland, there is no wharf, and there is no port, and it is not a big problem to erect a pontoon bridge, but it is simply unrealistic to board ships on a large scale. If the Xian army on the east bank chooses a ready-made wharf to board a ship, go to the opposite bank to land, and then transport troops to and from both sides of the strait, it will have to disperse the ships at three to four wharves on the east bank, and at the same time, it will also have to face counterattacks and sneak attacks by the guards and sailors in the upper and lower reaches of the Sishui River.

If swimming can solve the problem, it is obviously more cost-effective to swim across the river, but obviously it can't, so there is not enough troops to go ashore in a short period of time to disperse the river, and it may also encounter a counterattack by the guards.

Of course, the Xian army has artillery and can implement fire suppression, but at present, it is raining heavily, and it is difficult for the breech gun to continue firing even if it uses a rain cloth, and the range of the mortar is limited, and at the same time, the barrel is soaked in water and the ammunition is damp will fail, so from the perspective of Bailiyan, we must take into account factors such as the favorable weather and geographical conditions of the season and the weakness of our own weapons, all conditions determine that it is impossible to disperse troops to land.

At the same time, Du Ruixun did not really carry out landing operations, and there was no systematic military theory textbook related to it for his reference.

The huge gap in cognitive depth and technical equipment ultimately determines the different perspectives of thinking, and the final conclusions are also different.

However, Du Ruixun's estimate is right, a large-scale frontal beach-grabbing landing will indeed not be carried out in just one location, and there must be a main attack and a feint, or both of them will be the main attack, so as to ensure that one point can be broken through. Bai Liyan's abnormal move of concentrating his forces to land only at one point made Du Ruixunmin realize that this was a trap.

"At present, the Xian army is nothing more than two methods of warfare, one is to concentrate its forces on landing in one place, and then consolidate them, and continue to load soldiers to and fro here, and the other is to concentrate troops to land in many places along the river one after another, and then march in the opposite direction to form a large formation. Apart from these two methods, the Xianjun army had no other way. ”

"And what about our army?"

Wang Xie asked, Du Ruixun was extremely disappointed:

"It's really beyond the reach of the whip, how good it would be if our army could have a BMW Thousand Miles Leap!"

"What does the general mean?"

"Look at the picture." Du Ruixun pointed to Jiangquan on the map and said: "Jiangquan is more than 300 miles away from the Huwei River, and now it is raining heavily, no matter how fast our army scouts, it will take a day to deliver the military order, and the Huwei River is forty miles away from Hukou Bay, and the heavy rain march has to walk for a day, even if it takes half a day to ride a horse, and it is two days before and after."

At this time, the Xian army is probably already ashore, and when the general sends the military order, the Xian army has also set up a large camp, and there are still Xian gunboats on the river.

A few days ago, the projectiles shot by the Xianjun army had already been ordered to be seen by craftsmen, and the production was extremely refined, and there were dozens to hundreds of such iron pellets hidden in the projectiles, which exploded in the air or on the ground, and could kill more than a dozen or even dozens of people, which was extremely fierce. Moreover, the rate of fire is extremely fast, and our army can only fire one cannon in the same time, while the Xian army can fire three or even four cannons, how terrifying.

Its naval army is equipped with a large number of earth-shattering fires, hiding in the ship in the wind and rain, if a large number of projectiles are fired, our army will die without a place to be buried. ”

"According to the general's words, our army has no chance of winning?"

"Yes, at present, it seems that if our army faces the Xian army directly, it will be defeated again, and if its earth-shattering fire crosses the river in a big way, this battle will definitely be defeated. The only way to do this is to take advantage of the fact that the ships of the Xian Army are busy going ashore in Hukou Bay and have no time to land elsewhere, and concentrate the main force of our army to destroy their landing men and horses on the shore and prevent them from crossing the river. ”

"Now that the heavy rain is pouring down, it is still difficult for the Xian army on the east coast to open fire, but the Xian army's battleship is shrinking into the ship and is not affected in the slightest, how to deal with it?"

Du Ruixun thought for a moment and then said:

"Take advantage of the darkness! This rain has to fall for several days or even more than ten days, and the rain on the river at night is like a curtain, and it is difficult to aim, as long as they engage the Xian army head-on, and the two armies are entangled, the heaven-shaking fire on the Xian army's ship will be of no use, and they will never be able to tilt the projectile on their own heads. ”

If you want to say that it is good to be well-informed, Du Ruixun pointed to the key point of the Xianjun army. The ground fire of the Xian army was affected by heavy rain and could open artillery, but could not fire continuously, unlike naval guns, which were shrunk in the cabin of the ship and were less affected by rain and could continue to fire. But as soon as it gets dark, especially in bad weather, after dark, there is a black hole outside, and you can't see it at all.

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