The conscripts, who occupy more than half of Luo Ming's available troops, have little motivation to participate in an expedition just to gain benefits for the time being.

In the future, it is not impossible to fully mobilize their enthusiasm through ideological education and make the majority of them willing to participate in the expedition.

When Napoleon was able to make a real expedition of hundreds of thousands of troops to Eastern Europe and even Russia, Login believed that as long as he had time, he would definitely do no worse than that great man.

But at least in the near future, it's definitely no fun.

Considering that the conscripts could not only defend the territory, but had to leave a part of the troops to respond to emergencies and suppress unstable factors, the number of people Luo Ming could take away to participate in the expedition would be further reduced.

After all, conscripts are not necessarily independent enough on their own.

Most of them were spearmen and musketeers, and there was a lack of other arms, especially qualified cavalry and artillerymen.

If there are not enough other troops, it will be difficult to cooperate, and it is easy to fall into a dilemma, for example, if you only have spears and muskets, the defense can be said to be almost invincible, but the enemy can also surround you from a distance, or take a detour without fighting.

In this case, if there is a skilled artilleryman, it can directly rely on the firing range to block the surrounding area with a radius of about one kilometer, and it will be many times more difficult for the other side to make a detour and siege.

For example, if there is a cavalry to assist, if the opponent wants to make a detour, he can rely on the cavalry to block them and force them to fight the infantry head-on.

Therefore, Luo Ming must leave a part of the elite forces behind.

But in fact, there is another problem, even if more troops can be dispatched, in fact, Luo Ming's current logistics can't keep up.

Ordnance will be consumed and damaged, and it is necessary to carry blacksmiths and carpenters and spare ordnance with the army to replenish them, not to mention this, military rations alone are already a headache for any commander.

There are no more than two sources of military rations, either from the rear or collected in nearby areas.

If Luo Ming wanted to expedition to the Rhineland region within the empire, the distance in a straight line would be more than 800 kilometers, and although he could save effort by water, it was still a huge expedition.

Even if a thousand soldiers were to be sent, plus at least a few hundred auxiliaries and a few cattle and horses carrying hundreds of goods, and three thousand people on top, they would already be a huge amount - but in front of the next numbers, it was nothing at all.

To deliver the rations of this expeditionary force to them, the fleet carrying the grain itself will have to eat, right?

In order to prevent river bandits on the road, or some nobles want to rob temporarily when they see their wealth, they have to bring an additional group of personnel to escort them.

In this way, just to deliver a day's worth of food for the expeditionary force, the convoy needed a thousand people.

They had to spend about seven days on the road to reach their destination, and then spend about the same amount of time returning home, and in the process of returning, they themselves would eat most of the grain and grass they had transported, and it would be good to have one-third of the grain and grass that could really be provided to the soldiers on the front line.

Obviously, the expeditionary force not only needs a day's worth of food and grass, but also eats every day, and the number of logistics teams has to be increased by seven times in order to continue the cycle without interruption.

If we only rely on rear logistics, only to maintain an expedition of 1,000 soldiers, we need seven or eight thousand strong men to leave production for logistics and transportation services.

Luo Ming couldn't have asked them to bring their own dry food to help, did he? he had to pay for all the consumption out of his own pocket, and the food and grass he ate was enough to fight ten battles near his doorstep.

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