Chapter 773: Sprout 3
Standing on the wall of Luguan, after watching the departing brigade, I also gave the order to set off.
Although there are more uncertain fates and choices waiting for them, they are still not directly related to us for the time being. After parting ways, it is necessary to continue to go north, and get the benefits and benefits that I have booked first.
As for those who are still in Kaiyi City, whether it is our side or Luo Yunxiao's side, they have temporarily chosen to ignore it, they obviously forget, or rather, from Luo Yunxiao's position, and do not want them, senior retainers, to appear in this crusading army.
This is called putting aside differences for mutual benefit.
Of course
Relying on the seven or eight thousand people in my hands alone, if they are placed in the land of the five prefectures in western Liaoning, even if they are evenly distributed according to the most basic cities and towns, that is, they are like sprinkling pepper noodles, they basically have no effect.
Therefore, I can only focus on solving some local points, and ensure and alleviate the problem of insufficient control and influence on the whole in a point-by-point manner.
For example, in the land of the two states in the north now, following the story of the south, relying on the mountainous terrain, the most basic line of defense and the edge of power were first established.
When necessary, you can also give up some, lack of shelter from mountains and rivers, and need to spend a lot of effort to maintain the lot and corners.
But at least compared to the coalition army led by Luo Fan, when they first fought in Liaoxi, they encountered all kinds of resistance, all kinds of difficulties and troubles, and the situation I had to face this time was much simpler.
Because the princes who arrived in advance to take over the local area have already helped me clean up in disguise. Many of them, in the name of the remnants of the Xue clan, were still in the southern port, waiting to be loaded on ships to Huaidong.
As long as the strength of the upright elders crushes the past, the scattered armed forces of the place will be leveled and cleaned up in one go; In this case, even between the mountains and hills, the remaining princely forces will not have much room for meddle and the courage to pick up cheap.
After all, in the turmoil caused by the upheaval of the Luo family, they are also one of the victims and parties involved in the great loss of strength to some extent.
In addition, it is a matter of aftermath and follow-up management.
This time, by mistake, on the other side of the sea in Huaidong, the acquisition of such a large area of new territory at once is tantamount to increasing the front that our side needs to maintain and guarantee by more than half at once.
At the same time, it also brings difficulties and shortages in the investment of various resources and the setting up of political power, after all, materials can be transferred and temporarily transferred, and the manpower of the corresponding management and operation of the local area is not so easy to replenish.
It is necessary to have a steady training cycle and a buffer process of practical practice in order to initially meet the daily needs.
This is the result of the repeated change of plans and expectations, and the sequelae of various surprises or indigestion that need to be slowly cleaned up and made up.
Fortunately, outside Huaidong, there are no too strong opponents for the time being, and there are no serious enemies and pressures; It can be seen that the recruitment and dismantling tactics should be used for a sufficient period of time to slowly operate, correct and complete these problems.
Of course, the premise is that there is no major internal famine or the need for large-scale external wars, otherwise hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Huaidong will still be overstretched or unable to succeed after all these years of hard work and accumulation.
Compared with the three eastern states located on the Liaohe Plain, or the two southern states running through the southern coastal plain, and even the Liaoxi County itself, which is the most productive of the eight states, Yaozhou and Pingzhou in the north can really be described as lackluster and relatively narrow inferior states.
There is no decent mineral smelting and handicraft industry, and there is not much land suitable for farming, and it is divided into fragments by rolling hills, but there is no decent danger and ruggedness between them, and with the upper gorge of the Daling River flowing through the territory, most of the urban and population areas are maintained in a basic state of connection and penetration.
Therefore, whether it is in terms of population or tax money and grain, it is in the eight states of western Liaoning dominated by the Xue family, which is in a kind of bottom state.
However, there is also a characteristic industry in the local area, that is, forest and grass animal husbandry developed in the mountains and hills, which can produce cattle and sheep and excellent timber;
And from here, along the Daling River upstream, continue to the west or north of the heavy mountains, is the place? the tribes of the steppes outside the mountains, and the princes of the outer parts of the Seychelles, who ruled over them; Therefore, there are also border markets and trade activities extended from the traditional tea and horse trade, as a supplement to some kind of economic activities.
Although most of the profits from trade and the proceeds of military conquest during this period were usually owned by the Xue family, the long-term continuous livestock and horses from the grasslands also greatly promoted and improved the local animal husbandry.
Therefore, as one of the military pillars of the Xue clan in western Liaoning, the so-called Xue clan cavalry, which was good at trekking over mountains and could also do short-distance assaults in narrow places, was based on the production of the two states in the north, and accumulated and developed from generation to generation.
At present, the biggest key is to seize the time to organize manpower to clean up and repair the roads, and thus establish a brand-new grain distribution line and battlefield transportation system that runs through the southwest and north of Liaoning by sea.
Since ancient times, in terms of the logistics efficiency of traditional transportation, manpower is not as good as livestock, and among livestock, cattle and donkeys are not as good as healthy horses; The burden of healthy horses is not as efficient as that of chariots and horses;
Under normal circumstances, land transportation is not as time-saving and worry-free as water transportation; In water transportation, the transportation of traditional river systems is not as large as the scale and cost of sea transportation.
Therefore, for the sake of production efficiency and material circulation, scientific and technological means are essentially constantly improving and climbing.
Therefore, it is the most stupid thing to directly use the number of people to pile up logistics and supply lines. Not only is there a great waste of valuable labor and means of production, but also a large amount of food supplies consumed to maintain the heavy labor transportation. Most of the quartermasters were eaten on the way before they reached their destination
After all, in terms of individual food consumption, people may not eat as much as livestock, but they are more delicate and fragile than animals that have been domesticated for generations for specific purposes and can withstand rough feeding; And while they are burdened with heavy labor, they need more than just food.
Obviously, in terms of the cost performance of the corresponding efforts, the number of people and the herd have no advantage. The invention of vehicles and boats has further raised and expanded this ceiling and efficiency.
The so-called Daima losers, that is, during the Hundred Years of Troubled War, those Central Plains feudal towns who basically played soy sauce near their doorsteps to compete for hegemony; Or under the friction and conflict of generations, the princes of the border domains who have been in love and killed each other for many years like to do.
The Great Liang of the Southern Dynasty was able to control it with ease, known as the sea frontier and foreign feudal land that spread all over the east and west, relying on the huge maritime trade activities of the past dynasties, and the powerful maritime force and naval fleet derived from it.
For example, in Huaidong, because of the relatively developed canal water network and the traditional water transportation system, as well as the mature offshore transportation routes, it is a complex of water, land and sea transportation; For the production activities of local collective agriculture and factory mines, it provides a number of additional bonuses and efficiency advantages.
However, after arriving in the land of western Liaoning, it had to degenerate into a more primitive and backward state.
At this time, the corresponding use of mature chariot and horse technology, and how to make use of the relatively abundant local animal resources, has become one of the key issues that need to be paid attention to and invested in at present.
This is also one of the decomposition topics I assigned to those who are new to the army, the trainees of the Chinese army, and the soldiers and counselors.
Of course, the development of Huaidong to the current situation has gradually departed from the vague and extensive concepts such as traditional money, food, soldiers, horses, armor, etc.; It extends to the most basic statistics, co-ordination, organization and management, physics and chemistry derived from military foundations, astronomy and geography, geological exploration and climatology, and a series of modern military theories.
Although most of them are still very immature and sometimes make some mistakes, on the whole, they are still moving forward step by step under the catalysis of external pressure and needs, catalyzed by internal guidance and correction......
This expedition in western Liaoning can be said to be a good practice process, and there are enough experimental materials and soil.
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