"200 rain tents, 400 catties of gunpowder, 1,000 catties of raw beans, 60 stones of rice, 200 catties of arquebuses......"

In Kuizhou, Sichuan, a long line of river boats docked, and two people who looked like masters began to check the goods on the ship, and dozens of miscellaneous items were mixed together, making the eyes of the two masters scattered, and smoke was coming out of their heads.

Not only that, the two of them complained while lit.

"How good it is to send Jingzhou directly from our Jianshi County, and now we have to go to Kuizhou, which is half the way, which is really laborious and time-consuming."

"That's how the station is set, how can it be done without unified scheduling? Hundreds of states and counties in these six provinces were all sent over by themselves, where did so many people come from the general's account to check and inspect? ”

At the same time, at the wharf of Fucheng in Xiangyang, Hubei, dozens of river boats were crowded by the wharf, and the owners were all shouting with resentment on their faces.

"Why do you want to set a three-point loss!? It's not enough to send two more points!? ”

"My beans are just stained with some mist, why are they soaked in water?"

"The dispatch of the county magistrate didn't say that the rice was polished, why did it say that it was for rice polishing when it was delivered?"

On the wharf, the prefect of Xiangyang, the North Road Grain Station raised his head and shook his head resolutely at a few masters.

"It's military business! Not in line with the list...... This house just can't accept it! If something goes wrong, the government will lose its head! In the same way, you will not be able to get along. Instead of arguing here, it's better to go back and make up for ......"

He had a solemn look on his face of dutifulness, but he said in his heart, these prefects are also ignorant, and they just say that it is okay to deal with me, the prefect, and now I am the Liangtai Tiao! If you don't give me enough gifts, how can I deal with the demands of the hungry wolves who are in charge of military money and food under the general's account? If you don't know anything, don't blame me for being unkind! Refuse to accept your munitions, and see if you wake up! As for why it was refused, isn't it easy to find a reason? When the general's knife cuts his neck, don't blame me for not giving me a chance.

In Ruizhou Mansion, Jiangxi, a group of about 1,000 green battalion soldiers and horses entered the barracks outside the city, and the guerrillas led by them found the station to handle it, and then they were led by the manager to the grain station to be transferred. After a short time, all the mules and horses of this battalion were taken out, and the guerrillas, managers, and promoters had extra silver in their hands, and on a "Submission on the Death of Mules and Horses," the signatures and paintings of the guerrillas and the handlers were conspicuous. 【1】

In Changsha Mansion, General Fuyuan was in charge, and Yinzhen respectfully saluted Chen Wance.

"The arrangement of the Sifang station this time, the army is like electricity, and the baggage and grain are also coming in a steady stream, all of which are planned by Mr. Lao."

"The general has an overreputation, but the general is still well-planned, and he dares to be the first in the world, and he even let the people in the lower districts praise the military affairs."

The bookcase was full of grain table reports, and there were more than a dozen people who looked like tellers were crackling and making calculations, and Chen Wance was also full of sweat on his forehead, half complacent and half humbly in return. He studied under the master of arithmetic Mei Wending, and he never thought that he would use arithmetic to assist the commander of the army today, but between pen and ink calculations, he dispatched the 100,000 army and related military quarters properly, and felt that it was a rare achievement in his life.

Yinzhen smiled slightly, and asked Chen Wance to lead the general promotion of the grain station as a Taoist, and share the military merits, which not only gave Li Guangdi and Chen Wance a favor, but also really helped this battle.

After learning that he was going to lead the army, Yinzhen sank down and wanted to find out the military affairs thoroughly. Kangxi also mentioned him, as a commander, the most important thing is three points: making decisions, employing people and protecting grain and grass. And in the battle of Hunan, the place where I can work hard is the last two. With Chen Wance, it is in response to these two things.

He carefully read the chronicle of Kangxi's use of troops in the northwest and the three feudatories in the forbidden middle [2], not only the matter of grain and straw is important, but also the mobilization of the army is even more important, and the sooner he concentrates his troops, the greater his chances of victory. Like his fourth brother Yinzhen, he always felt that Li Xi's movements in person were very strange, and he was a little vigilant, the sooner he gathered the army, the clearer the situation would be.

For this reason, he devoted himself to research, and put a lot of effort into the setting up of the grain station, and divided the grain station into four roads, which were located in Xi'an, Kuizhou, Xiangyang and Ruizhou, so as to gather the soldiers and horses of the six provinces in the four directions, and at the same time invited Chen Wance to be in the center to promote, so that the troops were gathered quickly, the grain road was smooth, and the army was not successful, which showed a bit of a new atmosphere, so that many veterans were sincerely admired.

"It's just that the emperor Ama is said to march into the northwest and fight against Xianghu Lake, and it is not a pioneering ......"

Yinzhen also said modestly.

"The heavenly soldiers of the imperial court are flying, and with the careful calculation of the general, the Li thief will have no chance of winning!"

Chen Wance felt that the situation in front of him was like a calculation in his hand, and it couldn't be clearer.

In the capital city of Chenzhou, outside the main hall of the prefect's yamen, hundreds of people were listening to Peng Xianzhong's instructions, looking at their clothes, all like industrial and commercial proprietors. Although this is already a battlefield, there are tens of thousands of Qing soldiers in front, but the Yinghua Heavenly King is here in person, and there are also rich orders to lead, so that these owners do not care about their safety, go to the front line in person, and fight for the future.

"The route into Hunan, the proprietors of the delivery industry have already seen and tried it, and they should already know it. And the owners who supplied the munitions also received specific lists and shipping schedules. This is a fair business between our Yinghua Imperial Court and you, as long as the quality is guaranteed, there will be no arrears. You can't trust me Peng Xianzhong, you should always be able to trust the king of heaven and the Sanjiang ticket line......"

This caused everyone to laugh for a while, indeed, now the credibility of the Sanjiang Ticket House is even stronger than that of Li Tianwang, and even the deposit receipts of Manchu officials are not bad, even if they die, as long as there are credible descendants to take the silver, they will still be paid.

"But please remember a little ......"

Peng Xianzhong patted a horse clock on the bookcase.

"Time, not only day and night, but even minutes and seconds, to ensure that the time is accurate!"

As Peng Xianzhong's voice fell, the industry and commerce of the new Yinghua Dynasty were also mobilized, and an invisible behemoth was spurred onto the track of war, pushing the war machine that had just seen its embryonic form, and it rumbled and roared.

At Qingpu Wharf, a huge group of warehouses has been isolated and marked with a striking "Military Restricted Zone" sign, where a steady stream of military supplies gathers. There are Yongli rifles, eight-pound cannons, twelve-pound cannons and flying cannons that have just left the factory in Foshan. Bullets and shells packed in wooden boxes are piled up. Tents, ponchos, uniforms, military boots and other equipment are arranged neatly in categories under the warehouse management adjustment with early experience in bulk cargo management, and the labels on each large material have the planned delivery time and actual delivery time of the relevant links, and the person in charge of each sub-site signs.

The person in charge of the quartermaster area of the wharf dispatched the waybills one by one according to the time schedule, and the stevedores on the wharf pushed the gantry crane to quickly load boxes of goods onto the cargo ships of various shipping lines. Hundreds of miles away, the Taipingguan Wharf of Shaozhou Prefecture has also cleared out a large cargo yard early, with gunpowder and other dangerous goods being isolated in a separate area, and the spacious freight yard is gradually filling with piles of materials.

"Yinzhen used Chen Wance to promote the general of the grain station, set up a quartet grain station, and the army and material transfer capacity were upgraded by a level compared to Kangxi when he went to Mobei, this person is pragmatic and cautious, and he is a strong opponent......

Li Xi and other Yinzhen's army waited in a panic, repeatedly checking the situation of the army, and at the logistics meeting, he emphasized the logistics ability of the enemy in front of him, but his subordinates were disdainful. hasn't been fired with the army under that guy yet, how the battle is, everyone doesn't dare to judge, but when it comes to logistics, hehe...... Xie Dingbei tilted his nose even more, full of disdain, and said that Yinzhen was going to go through the logistics of their British and Chinese army, and he didn't know how many jaws he would drop.

Now 12,000 British and Chinese officers and soldiers have gathered on the Chenzhou front, and the logistics supply is as smooth as in the boot training camp. There are even all kinds of fruits to eat every day, and looking at the label of the box, it was sent from Guangzhou to Chenzhou within three days.

Xie Dingbei himself followed hundreds of lightly wounded soldiers of the Anglo-Chinese army, who had recovered from their injuries in Shaozhou, and now he had returned to the team, and the army of Yinzhen on the opposite side had not yet been seen.

Back and forth to Shaozhou, the scene I saw made Xie Dingbei and the soldiers numb in their scalps, the river boats all the way, almost from Shaozhou to Yizhang, the hundred miles of waterway all the way smooth, there is no obstruction, from Shaozhou to the south, this ship train is not bottomless, it seems that it has been connected to Guangzhou. Each section of the river has a special person to dispatch, and it is not a person from the government, but a "boat dispatch" sent by each shipping company itself.

The wounded soldiers who returned to the front line were transported by special boats, and after arriving in Yizhang, there were carriages that went straight to them, and it only took half a day to travel from Shaozhou to Chenzhou, which was not a special urgency. At such a speed, these middle-level generals all thought of Li Shi's true intention of sitting firmly in Chenzhou and waiting for Yinzhen's army to be suppressed.

In fact, as far as Shaozhou can see, this intention has also been revealed, but everyone has not figured out another link, and the secret of this link is only clear to the high-level, and they dare not ask in detail. But everyone is sure that this battle will be won.

"Of course, compared with the logistics of our Anglo-Chinese army, the Tartars are just a toddler."

Li Yan took a handful of Yinzhen, and then stepped him into the dirt.

Not to mention the small number of people, the equipment is concise and unified, and the logistical pressure is much less. On both the inside and outside, the logistics of the Anglo-Chinese army were one era ahead of the Manchu system.

Internally, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only relied on the station system with local grain stations as the core to roughly support logistics, and could only roughly control the results, during which the process could not be controlled, the efficiency was low, and the resource loss was serious. However, it was only a small staff team that controlled the logistics, and the handover between the grain station and the grain station subordinate to the local administrative system was not smooth.

The logistics of the Anglo-Chinese Army is supervised by a separate department as a whole, and it has been institutionalized; as long as Li Shi has set up an operational plan and what needs to be done in logistics, there will be a special military affairs office to break it down layer by layer, compile a list and schedule. From the earliest Qingtian Company's workshops, to the later Foshan Iron and Steel, Dongguan Machinery and other industries, their raw material supply system contains the same operating principle, and it can be transformed and transplanted.

Abroad, the Manchu Qing Dynasty relied on the cooperation of merchants and the requisition and distribution of grain and Taiwan military stations, and the cooperation of officials and businessmen to complete logistics, which was already much ahead of the ancient times. However, because it is necessary to use the local administrative system to supervise and distribute, there are many links and many involvement. The logistics of the Anglo-Chinese Army, whether it is materials or delivery, is a commercial operation, subcontracted to the corresponding civilian forces, and supervised by the logistics department of the army. There are no checkpoints in the territory, and there are no places involved, the whole process is simple and smooth, and the actual cost is much lower.

The logistics system of the British and Chinese army has just taken shape, and it has not yet been tested in major battles, and now the battlefield is focused on Chenzhou, and Li Shi will promote this logistics system, which is a bit of a knife and a chicken, after all, the distance from Guangzhou to Chenzhou, the logistics is just a simple warm-up.

"It's boring...... Let's go play football. ”

Li Xi finally couldn't help it, summoned an engineering team, and built a football field with simple stands in two days, just under the north city wall of Chenzhou City, beckoned his subordinates to kick football, and also acted as a goalkeeper, showing the novices the "stunt" of flying and throwing the ball.

"The enemy army is trapped in the dangerous city, and the morale of the army has been broken, so they have to bow and have fun to boost morale."

He Tenglin, who used a large trench to protect the camp in the north of the city, reported to Changsha.

"I said that guy can't hurry up? I'm going to 'invent' rugby or something. ”

In mid-June, the military intelligence department found out that the strength and military supply of Yinzhen's army were not ideal, Yinzhen was so angry that he killed a lot of people, and the journey of sending troops might be delayed.

(To be continued)