Chapter 6 Shaheyi

Zheng Guogong Chang Mao took the lead and ordered his subordinates to smash the door. After a while, there was a petty official like the post chief, who was ushered in, and what he needed most was to see and know who could and who could not offend. He only needs to look at the robes on the bodies of Zheng Guogong and Song Guogong Feng Sheng, and he knows that he can't afford to offend.

Gain's coat looks ordinary, but it's the fur of a beast. Carefully remediated. The snow falls but is not slippery, and the fur is fair without a trace of variegation, even a thousand gold may not be able to buy.

The post chief immediately nodded and bowed, not waiting to speak.

Chang Mao had already asked his subordinates to throw down a token and said, "Bring up the best things in your station." ”

Feng Sheng came directly to the post station lobby, only to see a large bonfire in the post station lobby. Feng Sheng didn't say a word, leaned in, and stretched out his hands to bake the fire. After a while, I felt warm all over my body, and the whole person seemed to come to life.

Feng Sheng got up and said; "Let's go and see if the soldiers are settled."

Chang Mao said: "I won't go." ”

Feng Sheng frowned and looked at Chang Mao. Chang Mao got up impatiently.

Feng Sheng looked at Chang Mao's appearance, and said secretly in his heart: "If Chang Yuchun is alive and sees his son like this, I don't know what his anger will become." ”

At all times, generals should always be concerned about the situation of their subordinates. Regardless of whether you bring a few hundred soldiers or hundreds of thousands, this general principle remains unchanged. Chang Yuchun is even more so, if you don't settle down the people below, Chang Yuchun will never rest.

Feng Sheng was a little cold and couldn't stand it, so he roasted the fire first, and then went to inspect, if Chang Yuchun was the main general, he would definitely reprimand Feng Sheng. Because spring is often there, no matter what it looks like, it will be inspected first, and then come to roast the fire.

It's just that in the end, he is only a son-in-law, not a son, and he is also a father-in-law. If it was Feng Sheng's son, he would have slapped him with a big mouth at this moment.

Feng Sheng sighed and took Chang Mao and Feng Cheng on a tour.

This inspection, Feng Sheng was taken aback.

First of all, there is a lot of space in Shaheyi. There are hundreds of rooms. All the soldiers have been settled. There are also large areas of well-leveled open space in the courtyard. There is also a large amount of wood on the side of the courtyard wall. Feng Sheng could see at a glance that it was not firewood, but used to set up camp. Supporting tent land.

This clearing. Plus the open space outside. This post station is stationed with tens of thousands of troops, and it is by no means a problem, and it can even be more.

It is important to know that it is not the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it is normal for Shaheyi, a post station on the traffic artery, to have hundreds of rooms. But now, there are only a few hundred thousand people in the entire Liaodong. There are almost no merchants who take the western Liaoning corridor. A post house with hundreds of houses is clearly a waste.

Feng Sheng observed carefully and found that the wood of the house was some new, and it should not be built for more than half a year, or even a few months.

I even found a few dirt mountains outside. Feng Sheng drew his long sword. Stabbed in. When I pulled it out again, I found that the sword was stained with some black. Nothing else, it's coal.

Seeing this, Feng Sheng already had some thoughts in his heart. When he returned to the post hall lobby, he called the post manager over and said, "Has this place been expanded this year?" ”

"Guogong Mingjian, as Guogong said, this place was expanded in the second half of this year, before it was just a small fort, in the second half of this year, sent a hundred households, to renovate this place into this way, to be honest, these hundreds of rooms, to clean up, but it is difficult. There aren't so many people on weekdays. The post chief said with a smile.

Feng Shengke knew that the most tiring thing to do when marching and fighting was to set up camp.

Don't look at camping, just a few words, it's hard to do. Generally speaking, in order to set up camp, the army had to stop advancing until about four o'clock in the afternoon. Start by cutting down the trees, build a wooden wall, and build a walkway on top of the wooden wall. People can patrol it, and as for the tower, there are inner roads, tents, drains, etc. It's even more tiring work, which is much more tiring than rushing.

But it also has to be done. Otherwise, someone else will attack the camp in the middle of the night. It is a situation in which the whole army collapses.

Of course, marching and fighting, there are many changes, it is impossible to be like this, and when there is a light sneak attack, you don't even bring a tent. When you sleep in the field with a blanket. But most of the time, it is necessary to build a strong camp.

Now the expanded Shaheyi is the prototype of a camp. Even the ministries have arranged their positions. A lot of work is saved.

It is difficult to increase the speed of the march.

Feng Sheng said: "Is there enough food in the post station? ”

The postmaster said, "That's enough." There are two large granaries. It is more than 300 stones. ”

Feng Sheng said; "More than three hundred stones? Is this the case with all the stations along the way? ”

The postmaster said; "How many stone grains they have, I don't know. But I know that there is no inn less than a few hundred stones. There are even a few large stations with more than 1,000 stones, and I suspect that they have sent down our grain for several years. ”

Feng Sheng's tacit calculation in his heart was not this.

A strong man should eat one liter a day. 10,000 people is 100 stones, 300 stones, enough for 30,000 people to eat for a day. If the post stations along the way are like this, then it is enough for 30,000 troops to travel lightly, at a speed of 100 miles a day, along the Liaodong post station, all the way north.

Even faster.

In fact, the ancient march was slow, and the biggest problem was three.

The first one is a lot of baggage. It's not just people who go on their own.

The second is that in ancient times, it was a war of physical strength, and it was too physically exhausting to rush to the road. It also takes time to recover. Even if you run over in a hurry and don't have the strength to fight, wouldn't that be a headshot? Rather than that, it's better to conserve your stamina all the time.

The third is to set up camp and keep guards, which is a waste of time.

However, all three issues have now been solved.

First of all, you don't need to bring a baggage, and you can take care of the food at the post station along the way. Although they went over, the post stations along the way were probably empty.

Secondly, after all, Liaodong is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a Liaodong army, and there may be a small force of Tartar infiltration, but the sudden appearance of the Tartar army is almost impossible. You don't have to conserve too much physical strength, and the things of camping down are also saved a lot, and you can walk for a while longer.

In this way, it is not impossible to travel 100 miles a day.

After all, speaking of which, traveling 100 miles a day is very fast, but in fact, it is only a little more than a whole horse. You know, now the whole horse record, it has been two hours. That is, an hour, although professional athletes, not ordinary people can compare. Now, no matter how lightly armed the soldiers are, they still have to bring weapons. However, it is still feasible to use five hours to make someone else's one-hour road.

In this way, it is possible to raid Aha out.

One of the differences between Feng Sheng and Fu Youde in this battle before was which way to go.

Aha was stationed in Zhaozhou, which was the west of Harbin in later generations. Near Zhaozhou County. Some people think that troops should be sent from Daning, after all, Daming has a garrison in Daning and a grain store. On the other hand, I felt that I could go to Liaodong to send troops. After all, Liaodong is the northernmost part, Zhenbeiguan is not far from Zhaozhou, and Daning is not far from Zhaozhou. But now the imperial army is mostly in the south of the desert and the line of Beiping, and if the army is sent from Liaodong, it needs to pass through the entire Liaodong.

The wear and tear on this route should also be counted.

It's just that the situation here made Feng Sheng have some ideas, that is, to attack the west. Gather a large army in Daning and lead the Tartars to defend it. Then send an army and go straight behind enemy lines from Liaodong.

Now, of course, it's just an idea. After all, a lot of ideas about war seem simple. But it's hard to do.

Although the transfer of information has been very problematic these days. But in these years, the movement of the army is also very problematic, and the daily travel of 100 miles is almost the limit, and most generals dare not come like this. Therefore, it was not a problem for the Tartars to determine the majority of the Ming army's deployment before the war. How, in a short period of time, let the army appear in a place that the enemy does not expect, this is the crux of the problem.

Feng Sheng had this idea, and asked a lot of questions carefully. Like the piles of coal. It's enough for tens of thousands of people to cook on fire.

The postmaster explained the situation one by one. Feng Sheng knew that most of these things, including grain, were transported by sea. Supplement in various places. Feng Sheng has a strong interest in the situation at sea, but the post chief is just a small official with a sesame mung bean, and he understands what he is responsible for. But he doesn't know about these things that are beyond his responsibility.