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Xiao Tianjian spent half a day in the Luoyang Mansion of the Xingtian Army, and in the afternoon he went directly to the headquarters of the General Logistics Department, which had also been moved to Luoyang City, and met Luo Bin, the head of the Logistics Department, here.

And Luo Bin compared to Niu Jinxing's clerks, although they do something a bit similar to their affairs, but they belong to the generals of the military department, presumably the civil officials are busy, and he can be said to be more busy here, so the logistics department has also added a lot of personnel, even so, they are still busy with all fours.

The sudden change has made a huge change in the strategic plan and direction of the Xingtian Army, and the biggest pressure may be on the side of the logistics department, the various materials that were originally planned to be deployed must be redeployed, and the arranged plan must be overturned and readjusted, so they may be the busiest group of people in the Xingtian Army at the moment.

When Xiao Tianjian even walked in here with the guards, few people noticed his arrival, and even an officer holding Wen Mu walked quickly with his head down, almost bumping into Xiao Tianjian, without raising his eyes, he scolded loudly: "Don't you see that Lao Tzu is very busy?" Still blocking the road, you don't have long eyes? Get out of the way......"

"Presumptuous! Want to die? Don't you open your eyes to see who's coming? Still don't kneel down and plead guilty? The iron head glared at him and scolded him sharply.

The officer of the logistics department looked up and saw Xiao Tianjian, and after a pause, he was so frightened that he threw the document he was holding in his hand to the ground, his face turned white with fright, and he knelt on the ground as soon as his legs were weak, and hurriedly kowtowed: "I don't know if the marshal is coming!" Crashed into the big handsome! Capital crime! What a capital offense! I also ask for the grace of the handsome! ”

Xiao Tianjian squatted down with a smile, first picked up the documents that fell on the ground, handed them to the officer, and then helped him up and said with a smile: "You are diligent in official business, why do you not see me?" Hehe! In my opinion, you are not only innocent, but also meritorious! Don't be afraid! Get busy! ”

The officer almost burst into tears, his lips trembled, one hand barely supported the papers, his body tensed, his legs together, one hand saluted hard, and shouted: "The last general died for the commander!" ”

Tietou rolled his eyes behind Xiao Tianjian's back, he knew that he didn't know how many people had been bought by Xiao Tianjian! It is estimated that the officers of the entire logistics department will become Xiao Tianjian's diehards again! He has to admire Xiao Tianjian's ability to buy people's hearts, a casual word, a move, sometimes can buy many people's lives, so that they are willing to die for him, this is really not something ordinary people can do, but of course the iron head is also happy for Xiao Tianjian, in his opinion, the more people who want to die for Xiao Tianjian, the better!

Luo Bin learned the news of Xiao Tianjian's arrival at this time, and hurriedly led people to rush out, and a group of officers straightened their bodies, saluted Xiao Tianjian and shouted loudly: "See the big handsome!" ……”

After Xiao Tianjian sat down, he didn't talk nonsense, and immediately asked about the work of the General Logistics Department during this time.

Luo Bin immediately replied: "Enlightened handsome! At present, in Shanxi, Henan and Huguang, we now have a total of thirteen craftsman battalions, three in Yangcheng, Shanxi, one in Lu'an, two in Pingyang, one in Lushi County, one in Zezhou, one in Luoyang, one in Ruzhou, one in Runing, one in Huaiqing, one in Jingzhou, three for exclusive artillery, two for armor, and the rest are mainly to build weapons such as self-made firearms and knives and guns, and there are six craftsman battalions in the preparation period. Among them, there is one in Kaifeng Prefecture, one in Daye County in Wuchang Prefecture, one in Xiangyang Prefecture and one in Nanyang Prefecture...... Manpower and tools are being recruited and deployed, and production can be put into production in the first half of next year!

In addition, gunpowder was also built in various places as an autocratic gunpowder, as well as paper shells, thunderbolts, mines, flowering shells, and various artillery shells, etc., for the needs of soldiers and horses in various places, with a total of about 6,000 craftsmen of various kinds, and the recruitment is still increasing.

At present, the logistics department has set up more than 50 military stations in various localities, and more military stations are still under construction, with more than 13,000 guards and baggage soldiers, more than 3,000 mules and horses, and more than 1,000 carts.

Over the past year, the craftsman camps in various localities have produced 13,000 self-made firearms, more than 4,000 handguns, 20,000 waist knives, 20,000 short-bladed guns, 27,000 spears and spears, 6,000 cuirasses, 230 three-pounder guns, 120 six-pounder guns, 70 eight-pounder guns, 18 12-pounder guns, gunpowder, and various kinds of ammunition......

Craftsman battalions all over the country are now working overtime, day and night, to make more weapons, and strive to equip more soldiers and horses! ”

Luo Bin reported a series of numbers like fried beans, Xiao Tianjian nodded again and again after hearing this, this year, the territory of the Xingtian Army has been expanding, and the craftsman battalion has also doubled and sprung up in various places, if it weren't for Luo Bin's central scheduling, these things are estimated to be able to keep him busy, it can be said that Luo Bin has shared a considerable part of the workload for him.

Over the years, the firearms produced by the craftsman battalions in various places have probably been tens of thousands, if it weren't for the continuous output of these weapons by the craftsman battalions to equip the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, he would not have thought about winning one victory after another, it can be said that the entire craftsman battalion is the foundation of his success, and Luo Bin has not lived up to his trust, and has managed this piece of things very well, and he has managed it quite well.

So Xiao Tianjian praised Luo Bin repeatedly, which made Luo Bin excited for a while, but then Xiao Tianjian asked: "So how is the inventory of various materials now?" ”

Luo Bin thought for a while and shook his head and said: "It's not enough, the armor produced by the craftsman battalions in various places can be said to be basically transferred directly to the armies for distribution, and the inventory is very small, especially in the past year, the armies are expanding their troops, and the armor produced is not enough at all.

At present, the inventory of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds and other weapons in various places can be dealt with, and we have selected the weapons of the officers and soldiers captured by the commander and the armies in various places, leaving a number of useful things, and some of them are allocated to the reserve battalions in various places for use, and the rest of the unusable weapons and armor are directly sent to the refining furnaces in various places to be reheated!

However, it is not easy to increase the output of self-generated firearms, after all, the requirements for craftsmen are too high, and the quality of the guns created by ordinary craftsmen is too poor, and it is easy to blow up! Therefore, there are only more than 3,000 self-made fire guns in the treasury, which is still pressed down by humble duties, as a reserve, it is only enough for the normal consumption of the armies, and within a month, the craftsmen battalions in various places can produce another two or three thousand, even if it is the best! If there is more, I think it is unlikely!

In terms of armor, now a craftsman battalion in Yangcheng and a craftsman battalion in Ruzhou are stepping up their construction, and the output will not increase much for a while, and there is basically not much inventory, most of them have been transferred to the army of the commander, and the rest of the departments have not had the opportunity to equip yet!

In terms of food, it is slightly better, the marshal has been transferring from Huguang to the north during this time, part of it has been transferred to Shanxi, and part of it has been allocated to the civil affairs side for the relief of refugees, in Luoyang, Zhongmu, Kaifeng and other places in the military station and the treasury in the city, there are about 30,000 stone of various grains in reserve, that is, enough for 20,000 or 30,000 troops for a month! If there is more, it will have to be raised from Huguang, and the local reserves are not very large! ”

Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and calculated in his heart, 30,000 stone of grain sounds a lot, but in essence it is not much, when the soldiers are not fighting, even if they have two meals a day, they need at least one and a half pounds of food to be full, and the reason why the Xingtian Army is strong is that all the armies of the Xingtian Army practice every day, and the amount of training in one month can catch up with the amount of training of the officers and soldiers in one or even two years, so the speed of the recruits of the Xingtian Army is much faster than that of the officers and soldiers, and this is all because Xiao Tianjian is willing to let the soldiers eat enough, so many years, he is always trying his best to do his best, and it can even be said that he smashes the pot and sells iron to let the soldiers have a full stomach to train the soldiers, which makes the soldiers and generals under his command always maintain relatively strong combat effectiveness, so the daily consumption of food by the soldiers of the Xingtian Army can even exceed twice that of the officers and soldiers.

Once it is time to march and fight, the physical and mental consumption of officers and men will be greater, and not having enough to eat a meal may seriously affect the combat effectiveness, so each person must consume an extra pound of grain every day, which will increase the demand for food.

If 30,000 stone grain is a war, it is only enough for 20,000 or 30,000 horses to eat for a month at most, so it seems that this time he took Huguang and initially solved the problem of military rations, in fact, with the transportation capacity of this era, if you want to transport Huguang's grain to the north, you can only use Cao Yun or sea transportation, but unfortunately the Xingtian Army has not been able to control the Grand Canal in the east at present, so it cannot use this most economical mode of transportation to transport Huguang's grain to Henan, which can only be transported by half-water. Semi-land transportation, to transport the grain of Huguang to Henan, the cost of land transportation is very large, such a long road, pull a stone of grain, and so from Xiangyang to Luoyang, the mules, horses and people along the way to eat, there will be a small half or even more, so the fight Huguang is only a preliminary solution to some problems, once a large number of soldiers and horses from Huguang to the north, it will not be able to eat in Huguang on the spot, so because in advance did not expect that the imperial court will negotiate peace with Jiannu, so Xiao Tianjian and the people under his command did not expect, It is necessary to start ahead of time and transfer a large amount of grain to Henan first, which is now a very serious problem because the grain reserves in Henan are not sufficient.

The other is that in the past year, the speed of army expansion has been too fast, although the logistics department is also trying its best to expand the number of craftsmen and craftsmen, but in order to rapidly increase the production of weapons with "high-tech" content such as self-generated firearms, the skill requirements for craftsmen are relatively high, so that in a short period of time, the number of craftsmen who can be engaged in building guns cannot be greatly increased, so it is impossible to greatly increase the number of self-generated firearms.

In this way, it is simply impossible to meet the needs of the Xingtian Army to expand its army, so that many newly formed battalions cannot reach the required number of nearly half of the firecrackers, and can only reduce the number of firecrackers in the newly formed battalions, which also limits the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, forcing Xiao Tianjian to divide the battalions into A, B, and C. If the troops are to be expanded in the future, I am afraid that there will be a D battalion that is not equipped with firecrackers at all.