"Did Saburo really decide not to bring a man with him?" Wei Zheng asked again.

At the military food processing station in Wild Fox City, Ling Yun watched a team of women frying corn in full swing, kneading dough and steaming cakes, dividing salt packets, checking them from time to time, and praising the busy women. Regarding Wei Zheng's question, he grabbed a small amount of freshly fried fried rice from a hot pot and put it in his mouth, and said without replying: "Well, the soldiers are fast, and it is impossible to be fast with the people." Moreover, this time we are only fighting a hundred miles away from the city, and the opponent is not strong, so we can win and collect our troops within seven days. ”

"What if the fighting doesn't end within seven days?" Wei Zheng asked again.

"If I really can't win, I'll pull back."

"This" Wei Zheng didn't expect Ling Yun to answer like this, how could he be so hasty when it comes to soldiers. If you really can't win, you have to withdraw when the time comes, how can it be so easy, if you can't fight, you can't retreat, you can't pull back, you drag it there, and there will be no food in the army by then, what should you do?

However, Ling Yun didn't think of going to them, he had already decided not to bring Minfu this time. The grain and grass needed in the army were brought by the soldiers themselves, six days of rations, two days of emergency food, and eight days of food, which was enough to finish the battle. Of course, this is not that Ling Yun underestimates the enemy or is arrogant, but that he is already seven or eight points sure, and it is not helpful to bring the people, but it will drag down the army.

The logistical efficiency of the ancient army was extremely low, even outrageously low.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Li Guangli attacked Dawan for the second time, with 60,000 foot riders, and the logistics used were 100,000 cattle and 30,000 horses. Donkeys and camels carried grain in tens of thousands.

"Hanshu - The Biography of the Master Father": "Qin Shi Huang attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and made the world fly and save the corn, starting from the counties of Huang, Xuan, and Lang evil and negative seas. Transferred to the North River, the rate of thirty minutes to a stone. One bell is equivalent to six stones and four buckets, and thirty bells are equivalent to one hundred and ninety-two stones, which means that the grain transported from Shandong to the northwest Hetao region in later generations was only five thousandths. How amazing it is to transport 200 stone grain from Shandong to Hetao, and in the end only one stone grain can be left. Of course. With the advancement of history, roads and means of transportation were also greatly developed, but during the Sui conquest of Goryeo. Minfu often needs to consume five to seven stone of grain to transport one stone of grain to Liaodong, and some far away, sending one stone of grain to Liaodong even needs to consume more than a dozen stone of grain.

And according to the records of Wu Beizhi later. The rickshaw can carry up to four stones for two people. An ox cart with two oxen and two oxen can carry up to 14 stones, and a mule cart with 10 mules can carry up to 30 stones. And although horses and mules carry more, they can eat more. During transportation, horses and mules also have to consume grain, and a horse eats five to six times as much food as an ordinary young man. An ox cart for two oxen can only hold fourteen stones, but two oxen and two people need to consume twelve to fourteen people every day, and one person consumes two catties of grain every day. These two people and two cattle have to consume twenty-eight catties of grain a day. Fourteen stone grains were only 1,680 catties, which could be enough for them to eat for 60 days at most. If you include the food needed for the return trip, it will support them for a maximum of 30 days. If they travel for more than 30 days, they will only have enough food for them. If the journey took fifteen days, only half of the fourteen stone grain would be left.

Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty once had a special calculation for this, according to his calculations, each man could carry six buckets of rice, the soldiers themselves could bring five days of dry food, and a man could supply a soldier for eighteen days at a time. If you want to count the return trip, you can only move forward in nine days.

If two men supply one soldier, it can last for sixteen days at a time. (Two buckets of rice with one stone, three people have to eat six liters a day.) Eight days later, one of the men had eaten all the rice he was carrying, and he was given six days' rations to return first. On the next eighteen days, the two of them ate four liters of rice on the first day. If you were to count the return trip, you would have to go forward in thirteen days. (Eat 6 litres of rice per day for the first 8 days, and 4 litres of rice per day for the next 5 days and the return trip.) ）

Three men supplied one soldier, which could last thirty-one days at a time. (Three people carried rice with one stone and eight buckets, and for the first six and a half days, there were four people, eating eight liters of rice a day.) Subtract a man and give him four days' rations. For the next seventeen days, three people ate six liters a day. and subtract one of the men and give him nine days' rations. The last eighteen days are eaten for two people, four liters a day. If you want to count the return trip, you can only move forward for sixteen days. (Eight liters a day for the first six and a half days, six liters a day for the middle seven days, eight liters a day for the last eleven days and the return trip, six liters a day for the middle seven days, and four liters a day for the last eleven days and the return trip.) Three people supply one soldier, and the limit has been reached.

If 100,000 troops were to be dispatched, one-third of the baggage was to be taken up, and only 70,000 soldiers were able to go into battle, 300,000 men would have to be used to transport grain.

And if the grain is transported by livestock carts and horses, etc., if the cart breaks down, or the livestock dies, then the loaded grain can only be abandoned on the spot.

Lingyun's 5,000 men and horses were dispatched, and he assigned 1,500 men to be responsible for opening the road and escorting the baggage. If you bring another group of people to transport grain, they will not eat much and eat a lot, and they will leave the city for protection at a critical time, and these people will also divide troops to protect them, not to mention the speed of the march, and they will be easily attacked by the enemy.

Therefore, in the end, Ling Yun considered that this battle was actually only more than 100 miles away from the city, and the other party was not a strong enemy, so he finally decided that the soldiers would bring their own rations for eight days, and would no longer bring the people to transport additional food. In case the situation is not right and the shape is unfavorable, then Ling Yun will withdraw his troops and come back when there are three days of food left, and then make arrangements.

On the first day of the seventh month of the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, Ling Yun stood in front of the city gate of Wild Fox City, which was still being built in a hurry, and his heart was full of surprises.

The five thousand men and horses have all been assembled, and it has only been a while, Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Lai Cheng, Wang Bodang, Huang Junhan and others already have a fierce taste, especially the soldiers under them, although the time is not long, they can take turns to sweep in Yanshan, practice in actual combat, and destroy dozens of cottages, large and small, there is already the feeling of a real warrior, taking off the greenness of a rookie, and one by one with the taste of blood and fire. Originally, Ling Yun thought that it would be difficult to train a soldier in two or three years, but he was wrong. The centaurs in front of them already have an elite momentum. But it's no wonder that these soldiers originally brought together the warriors he brought from Jianghuai, Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places, and selected a group of elites from Saibei, as well as three hundred elite private soldiers given to him by Yang Guang, all veterans of a hundred battles. Those who came from Henan, Hebei and other places are also from various wealthy families, and they are also trained and have good martial arts. And these in Saibei, although it is said that they were some bandits and horse bandits in the past, they are already brave, especially the people here are mostly mixed with Hu and Han, the people are fierce, the long people are tall and big, and all of them have the fierceness of the border people. Such a group of people are combined, with the veterans of the three hundred Jin Palaces and the veterans of the Gao family as grassroots officers, as the backbone of the whole army, and a group of brave generals such as Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong, plus the actual combat training during this period of time, they take turns to train the bandits in Yanshan Cottage in actual combat, which makes them reborn in a short period of time and have a real elite prototype.

Ling Yunle's eyes were almost gone, and he slapped Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Lai Quan, Wang Bodang and a group of other generals on the chest, and said with a smile: "Good boy, you are really a scholar for three days, you should be impressed." It's only been so long, and everyone has the appearance and momentum of a veteran of a hundred battles. Ling Yun also found that the group of people and horses brought by Shan Xiongxin and others were not only reborn in spirit, but even their equipment had changed greatly.

During this time, Shan Xiongxin and others took turns to sweep the cottages in Yanshan, today you take a village, tomorrow he takes a fort, the loss of troops is almost nothing, but the harvest is extremely rich. Not only did it achieve the expected goal, but it also won a lot of food stocks from various cottages. And also harvested a large amount of gold, silver, copper, money, cloth, silk, etc., these Shan Xiongxin and others did not care, all of them were handed over to the public according to the rules, and then the rewards were issued from above. But in addition, they also harvested a lot of war horses and ordnance. For these gains, they are naturally excellent to supplement their troops. What cottage does not have dozens of horses, a batch of knives and guns, and a few pieces of armor?

After such a circle, the 2,000 infantry troops in Lingyun's tent actually exchanged shotguns for guns, not to mention that each officer wore iron armor, even small leaders such as the gang commander and the army commander, and the soldier leaders had already been assigned a set of iron armor. Even some of the most powerful soldiers who are brave in battle and excellent are also assigned to iron armor. The other two battalions of infantry even built a cavalry regiment of their own, and each of them raised a horse team of 200 people, and one person was very extravagant with two horses. In addition to each of them equipped with a cavalry regiment, there was still a surplus of war horses, and above the head of the team, they were all assigned mounts, and they were all booming. What surprised Ling Yun even more was that the two battalions of the outer battalions were not ambiguous, although they each only built a cavalry team, they put together all the crossbow machines seized by each cottage, and each of the two battalions made a crossbow regiment.

"Good fellows, you've made a fucking fortune." Ling Yun was also quite happy with this result.

Wang Bodang is also like a rich man, and his battalion of 1,000 archers is even more awesome. Each of these archers was more than 1.75 meters tall, and they were all strong men of 1 out of 10 miles, and a thousand people pulled over could deter many people just by standing there. After Wang Bodang presided over the longbow camp, he immediately ordered two longbows for each longbowman, plus five bowstrings for each person, and three pots of 120 arrows with him. He also gave his longbowmen a suit of light leather armor for each of them, all painted green, plus a water-green silk cloak for each person, which looked like a green patch from a distance. What's more, Wang Bodang took advantage of the fact that he was a shareholder of the United Armory Workshop and the young owner of the Wang Family's Bow and Arrow Workshop, and forced the Armory Workshop to equip each of his longbowmen with a horizontal sword, and also snatched all the 100 Fuyuan crossbows newly driven out of the Armory Workshop, and gave each of his longbow battalions a pair of double Fuyuan crossbows.

Looking at this group of people who were armed to the teeth, they were very sassy, and they were showing off their equipment to each other, Ling Yun was suddenly full of arrogance in his heart, with this group of guys, even if the old knife handle reappeared in the rivers and lakes, what could it do?

Ask for a commuter pass! (To be continued......)