As the saying goes, people are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat for three days, you will be hungry and panic. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And to fight, to fight is money and food.

The ancients often said that the emperor did not send hungry soldiers, and the army would be scattered if there was no food. The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, so it can be seen that the importance of grain and grass is seen.

The ancient army ate very poorly, and it has been verified that before the Song Dynasty, the army rarely had iron pots, most of them were pottery, and the pottery could only cook rice, often adding a little wild vegetables, but not stir-frying.

Just cooking rice, everyone also ate very poorly. The Qin Dynasty stipulated that for high-intensity work, half a bucket of millet in the morning and one-third bucket in the evening, while without fighting, one-third bucket of millet in the morning and evening.

In this way, there is a saying that there is food in the food, and the soldiers are hungry.

And the best way to solve it is for the soldiers to carry food.

In the Han Dynasty, baked cakes began to appear, and during the Song Dynasty, the soldiers went out to fight and ordered the city to make dry food, hemp cakes, wine and other grains, and the soldiers carried hemp cakes, sauce cakes, hard pieces of salt, etc., becoming the so-called pot helmet cake army.

In the Ming Dynasty, the round cake was roasted over charcoal fire, and then a small hole was poked in the middle, and then strung with a rope as a compressed biscuit, and when eating, the rice was soaked in hot water, which was the instant noodles of the Ming Dynasty.

When marching and fighting, soldiers can carry ten catties of this dry food (as a five-day military ration) for short-term operations.

Even during the Korean War in the previous life, the Chinese army's military food habits have not changed, when the war was in full swing, Mr. Zhou called on the people to fry noodles for the army, burn baked cakes, and the US military believed that the volunteer army worship offensive, in addition to ammunition, also includes the supply of military food.

In the era of cold weapons, each soldier wore thick armor (more than 20 catties), carried five or six catties of quilts and five or six catties of clothes, carried ten catties of military rations, and carried weapons, so that each soldier carried a weight of fifty or sixty catties, plus a marching tent or something, so that the daily marching speed was no more than forty miles.

In the musket unit, each soldier carried seven or eight catties of iron on his chest, quilts and clothes, gunpowder, iron sand, lead, and arquebus, and ten catties of military rations, as well as bird guns and thorns, so the weight was less than ten catties.

For long-distance combat ration transportation, "The Art of War" once said:

The rest of the plan, people bear six buckets of rice, the pawn brings five days of dry food, one pawn, one pawn, one can go for 18 days, six buckets of rice, two liters of food per day. The two of them ate it, and it was all over in 18 days. If you return, you can only go for nine days. That is, one person replenishes the other, and after eighteen days the food is cut off.

The two of them were paid and died, and they could go for twenty-six days; Rice is one stone and two buckets, three people eat, six liters a day, eight days, then one husband's burden has been exhausted, and six days' food will be repatriated. On the next eighteen, two people ate, and four liters of food a day. If it is returned, it can be advanced for thirteen days. On the first eight days, the solar eclipse was six liters. Five days later, the return trip will result in a four-liter eclipse of food. That is, three people to supplement one, and after twenty-six days, the food will be cut off.

Three people are paid and one is gone, and one can go for thirty-one days; Rice is one stone and eight buckets, the first six and a half days, four people eat, eight liters a day. minus one husband, and give four days' rations. On the seventeenth, three people ate, six liters a day. and subtracted one husband, and gave nine days' rations. On the next eighteen, two people ate, and four liters of food a day. If you plan to return, you can go forward for 16 days. In the first six and a half days, the solar eclipse is eight liters. On the seventh day, the eclipse is six liters, and on the eleventh day, the eclipse is four liters and food. If three people supplement one, thirty-one days without food.

"The Art of War" once said that three people can supplement one person's food, which is close to the limit, but this can also ensure that the food is safe for a month.

The last time the Liukou attacked Shunqing, they couldn't stand it after being burned 20,000 loads of military rations, and finally retreated if they didn't conquer the city.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, although the cart and wheelbarrow have been promoted on a large scale, there are not many Han people, horses and cattle, and the main means of transportation is the wheelbarrow.

A wheelbarrow transports one stone of grain (one stone is about 150 catties in ancient times), one person is paid one person, and two people eat 4 liters a day, so that they can eat for 36 days, that is, more than three people in the past to supplement one person.

In the past, when I read ancient books, I often said how many tens of thousands of troops were sent, in addition to the possibility of exaggeration, it was probably to count these grain transport troops, if three people supplemented one person, 100,000 troops, the real capable of fighting is only 25,000 people.

A simple wheelbarrow, during which the consumption of military rations is reduced, and how much labor is reduced.

Even so, the consumption of military food and the levy of labor have decreased a lot, but Yang Xuan still thinks that the wheelbarrow transports too little food, and if there are other tools to replace it, it will not help to add several battalions of sergeants.

Shunqing Mansion to Chengdu is more than 500 li, even if it is a daily march of 40 li (normal march), it will take 13 days, which can be regarded as an expedition in ancient times, so Yang Xuan needs to consider changing the way of military food supply.

Some people have verified why the Hunan army was able to defeat the Taiping army, transport grain through the sailors, and establish a water grain road, so as to ensure the supply of grain and grass.

If the grain can be carried by transport ships to nearby ferries and establish grain routes, the transportation distance will only be tens of miles, which can greatly shorten the transportation distance and reduce the consumption of military rations.

After crossing, Yang Xuan also inspected the roads, although they are not like modern highways, asphalt roads, and ordinary roads extend in all directions, but this era also has its own highways.

Since the Warring States Period, in order to strengthen local control, the country has established a number of roads such as Bao Chuan Road, Jinniu Road, Micang Road, Wuguan Road, so the road, the road is about four or five meters wide, and the road is all rammed and compacted, which is convenient for personnel to pass, which can be said to be an ancient highway.

In the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was worthy of being a farmer's son, a monk from Youfang, and when he was in power, although China was built into a small peasant economy and society, but the road construction was still solid.

The imperial court and local governments levied laborers to strengthen these military and economic arteries, and in some places even paved with stones to facilitate the passage of large vehicles.

Even if it is not between these traffic arteries, there are large roads connecting the counties, which are roughly equivalent to the asphalt roads of the previous life, and ordinary roads, ordinary carts, horse-drawn carriages, and wheelbarrows can still pass freely.

In lamenting the industriousness and wisdom of the ancients, and lamenting that the ancient engineering has been durable for hundreds of years (the ancients may have limited product variety, but the practicality and durability are quite strong, when I was young, my old father once said that a pair of rubber shoes would not be broken in the past few years, unlike after the reform and opening up, basically bought every year, and broken every year), Yang Xuan was full of reverie.

If a tool can be made to replace the ancient wheelbarrow to transport grain, this can not only ensure military needs, reduce logistics personnel, but also increase the mobility of troops.

There is no doubt that bicycles and tricycles are the first choice, and those who have never played with bicycles and tricycles in their previous lives are completely mechanically driven, with simple structures, and there is no obstacle to driving on this avenue, which is completely suitable for the environment at that time.

In the previous life, a bicycle (the kind in the eighties) could tow 150 catties of grain in the back seat, and a tricycle could easily tow 5,600 catties of grain, even if it was due to road reasons and technical reasons, I was confident that I could still tow 300 catties of grain.

Besides, on this kind of rammed earth, you can easily walk more than seventy or eighty miles a day (60 miles of grain when you go, and 100 miles when you come back), so that each car supplies 1 team, even if you add the guards who transport grain, 30 catties a day, so it can be ten days.

In this way, the complete logistical supply strategy is very clear, that is, to establish a grain route with a water army, and transport the grain to within a hundred miles of the rear (equivalent to the transportation of large quantities of military supplies by train in the previous life, and the transportation of small items by car), and then use tricycles to transport.

The tricycle goes back and forth once every two days, which is enough to ensure the food needs of a squad for ten days and the food needs of a squadron for three to four days, so as to ensure that the grain and grass are safe (equivalent to the transportation of short-distance goods by car in the previous life).

In addition, each squadron has a man, if each squadron is equipped with a tricycle, two bicycles (or wheelbarrows), so that not only can transport the pots and pans in the army, but also can carry a certain amount of food and vegetables.

Even during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lao Zhou was still encouraging the people to fry noodles for the soldiers.

At the height of the war, Lao Zhou was most concerned about the number of cars, and he hoped that the Soviet Union would provide car assistance, not weapons.

If a water grain route can be established, and a short-distance transportation network of tricycles and bicycles can be established, so that the logistics of the army can be safe, and the squires will not have to worry about large-scale conscription and transportation of military supplies.

In ancient times, the conscription of labor to transport military supplies, the scene was called miserable, the conscripted labor one by one died nine lives, a year and a half back, maybe the wife remarried, the children gave away.

However, there were no male laborers, not only did the land at home be uncultivated, but their lives fell to the bottom, and their wives were separated.

During the two Song dynasties, although there were strong enemies outside, the imperial court fed hundreds of thousands of silver every year, not only was it not hollowed out, but the economy of the Song Dynasty has always been talked about.

The infantry is equipped with tricycles, bicycles, wheelbarrows and other equipment, which can not only transport food and weapons, but more importantly, defense.

Due to the lack of war horses, the Ming Dynasty fought against the northern Tatars through chariots, and tricycles, bicycles, and unicycles played the role of chariots.

Some people commented that compared with the northern nomads, the Central Plains Dynasty was inferior to four inferiors, the first is that archery is not as good, they graze and hunt all day long, and practice archery from childhood to adulthood, and the Han people are not as good as Yi.

The war knife is not as good, the opponent is on a war horse, and the big knife is longer, while the people of the Central Plains are mostly infantry, and the war knife is shorter, so it is not as good as also.

It is not as good as riding a horse, the other party rides on horseback from childhood to adulthood, and two horses and three horses are often exchanged on the battlefield, and the Central Plains ethnic group has war horses in addition to the rich and noble families, although knights can be trained, but at most one person and one horse.

The logistical supply is not as good as the same, and the expedition to the desert requires transporting grain from the far south, and traveling long distances to transport a load of grain to the front line, and the consumption in the middle may be several loads.

Although the equipment of the various units of the Liukou is very simple, the main generals are nearly 20% horses and nearly 60% mules and donkeys, and their rapid mobility is far above that of the officers and soldiers.

Tricycles and bicycles can not only transport grain, grass and baggage, but also increase the mobility of infantry.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was common to erect baffles on the side of chariots, like side vans and mobile castles, and the infantry hid behind the chariots and fired arrows and crossbows to fight the northern cavalry on the plains.