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On the desolate plains, dozens of soldiers of the American Field Army were chatting and laughing while escorting hundreds of Soviet tribesmen and more than a dozen fine war horses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

During this period, from time to time, there were Indian soldiers with leather whips who whipped slowly, or simply 'unpleasant' Sioux captives!

These Sioux captives are all young and middle-aged, and the old people and children who are inconvenient to escort have long been dealt with, and the red blood stains on the bayonets of these Indian soldiers always remind those Sioux captives who are not handcuffed and shackled, even if they do not have any shackles on them, there should be no bad thoughts......

Dozens of heavily armed Indian soldiers escorted hundreds of empty-handed Sioux captives, even if they were not tied up with ropes, without the slightest fear of what would happen!

Of course, the Indian soldiers did this not because of arrogance and convenience, but simply because the ropes were not enough......

In Louisiana, where there are no railroads, any logistics must be carefully calculated, and where there are ropes and shackles to be transported, it is better to bring more food and water!

The main reason why the scale of modern warfare is dozens of times larger than that of the cold weapon era is that of the logistical system.

Before the advent of railways, the army marched at a maximum speed of no more than thirty kilometers per day, and here we speak of ordinary marches, not rapid marches. We can do the simplest arithmetic, the normal walking speed of an average person is 5 kilometers per hour, but this is under the condition of no weight bearing and the road surface is in good condition. But soldiers need to eat and rest, and it is impossible to maintain this pace for a long time. And we know that in wartime, soldiers have to carry a large amount of materials, in addition to weapons, food, drinking water and bedding, etc., and the weight of an ordinary soldier is about ten kilograms. This is only the weight of individual soldiers, and if you take into account the baggage of artillery, ammunition, food, etc., the marching speed will only be slower. Before the advent of the road, the road conditions of the marching route were in poor condition for the most part, and the roads were often very narrow, and when it rained, they immediately became extremely muddy, which seriously affected the speed of the march. If you also consider that most of the rivers in ancient times had no bridges and no tunnels in the mountains, the marching speed was even slower.

In the Battle of Ulm in 1805, Napoleon commanded the main force of the French army to start from the port of Brun and attack Ulm for a long time, with an average daily marching speed of an astonishing 24 kilometers, which was already a blitzkrieg at that time, so that after the war, the French soldiers proudly said: "Our emperor has created a new art of war, and he does not use weapons, but uses our legs to fight." ”

You must know that the average marching speed of the armies of European countries at that time was only about 15 kilometers per day!

These are all the influences of geographical and topographical factors on the speed of marching, and if we take into account the logistical factors, the speed of the march will be seriously restricted. Before the advent of trains, there were only two ways to supply the army, one was to transport it from the country in animal carts, and the second was to rob. Robbery can be subdivided into two types, one is banditry and the other is civilized. The so-called civilized robbery is to forcibly levy taxes to local residents, or to make white slips. Robbery has many advantages, not only can enrich oneself but can also hit the enemy's combat potential, but the disadvantages are even greater, one of the big disadvantages is that it will cause the local population to resist and thus suffer unnecessary losses; Secondly, this kind of supply method of exhausting the water and fishing determines that the army cannot be stationed in one place for a long time, and can only maintain a state of flow for a long time, and when deciding the route of the march, it is also necessary to consider whether the products in front of the front are abundant, whether it is the season of ripening crops, and other factors. There were many "rogues" in ancient China, and the likes of Huangchao Zhang Xianzhong are typical. They never occupy certain territory on a regular basis, and as soon as they have plundered the area, they move on to their next target. Of course, this has the intention of mobile warfare to avoid the main force of the official army, but it is also an important reason that they do not have a reliable logistics supply system and can only rely on looting supplies.

Of course, in Louisiana, even if Zhao Dutian wanted to rob, there were not many robbers......

This is also the reason why the Sioux tribesmen have been repeatedly plundered, and the desolate Louisiana, these Sioux tribesmen are much more numerous than the French colonists who have been left behind!

This is the biggest disadvantage of relying on looting and supplying - instability, after capturing a large city or occupying a rich area, the supply of the army is naturally not a problem, but if you fight in a barren area, the army will immediately fall into trouble, and there are many examples in history of the army being defeated without a fight simply because food cannot be supplied. Historically, there have been many more instances of armies being crushed by deprivation and confusion than armies being crushed by enemy armies!

Moreover, there is a very big disadvantage of relying on robbery and supply, that is, the discipline of the army is inevitably corrupted, and the army that relies on robbery and supply will eventually degenerate into bandits and robbers without exception. Moreover, once the government relies on looting instead of being supplied by the government, the government will gradually lose control of the army, and the head of the army will become a warlord, which is absolutely unacceptable to the government. A self-sufficient army is an absolute nightmare for the central government.

It is precisely because of the various drawbacks of relying on robbery and supply that the countries of Europe have tried every means to establish a regular logistics supply system, which makes the army's marching operations seriously limited by the supply capacity of the logistics system. Due to the complexity of the war situation, the logistics system often cannot meet the needs of the army, so the armies of various countries actually adopt a mixed supply system, and if the supplies in the rear cannot be delivered in time, they will start looting. Looting has always been a necessary and useful addition to the formal logistics system.

Of course, these drawbacks are not a problem at all in Louisiana, which is vast and sparsely populated, so Wang Qiming naturally adopted this kind of robbery and supply method that does not have much harm!

Wang Qiming did it more thoroughly, he not only robbed property, grain and grass, but also plundered the population!

These Sioux young men are all ready-made miners, or the kind of cheap consumables that don't have to worry about whether they will die of exhaustion!

As for the anger of the Su people, even Zhao Dutian didn't pay attention to it, let alone Wang Qiming, who was a pure soldier with a ruthless demeanor?

For the soldiers, they only care about whether they will achieve victory, and even if they care about the civilians, they are only worried that the army will fall into the wave of civilian resistance!

When successive armies invade other countries, if there is no restriction from those in power, it often means a disaster to the civilians in the invaded area!