Daming Military Empire

Chapter 282
In the words of modern people, what is fought in war is military supplies, and what is fought is money. It is also the same reason for fighting in ancient times. Was the Ming army inferior to the Qing army in the Chongzhen Dynasty?Wrong, the Ming army can crush the Qing army in terms of quantity and equipment, why did it lose?Because there is no money, the soldiers on the front line can't even eat enough to eat, so how can they even think about fighting!
There are countless examples of ancient battles that rely on military supplies to win battles. For example, Qin Shihuang unified the six countries. Maybe everyone only saw the brilliance of peerless generals such as Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian, ​​but they never thought about how powerful the military supplies of the Qin Army were. The famous "Great Wind" arrow array, the arrows are like a storm gathering rain to cover the enemy, and it lasts for a long time. Do you know how many arrows are needed?Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of arrows are shot out every minute. If the military supplies are not enough, the supply of arrows cannot be supplied, let alone a strong wind, even a small wind or even a breeze can't blow it!
Of course, such things as winning military supplies and equipment are rarely specifically recorded in history books. These are generally implicit in the analysis of national power. If a country’s comprehensive strength is strong, the supply of military supplies and equipment will naturally be strong, so there is no need to specifically describe those Do logistics.

Most of the battles recorded in the history books are battles that relied on military supplies and food to win. The most famous one is the Battle of Guandu. One hundred thousand elite soldiers were selected, and nearly 20 of them participated in the battle one after another. Logically, Cao Cao was doomed to lose. However, he made a surprise attack on Wuchao's food storage area, and Yuan Shao's more than [-] people had no food to eat, and they were defeated immediately. This shows the importance of military supplies!
Of course Zhu Cijiong knew the importance of military supplies, so they specially called Sun Yuanhua, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Bi Maokang, Minister of Industry, and gave them careful instructions. In fact, Sun Yuanhua was mainly responsible, and Bi Maokang was just assisting.

After Sun Yuanhua returned to the Ministry of War, he immediately recruited the left servants, right servants, and the heads of all divisions of the Ministry of War, and explained the preparations for various military supplies. Of course, the most important thing is food. An army of 80 went out with 50 prisoners of war. The food and grass needed was huge. The reserves of Liaodong and the capital combined were not enough. Sun Yuanhua immediately sent a telegram to Nan Zhili, ordering Nan Zhili to immediately prepare 100 million shi of grain and pasture. [-] Dan, a special train will be sent to the past day and night, and it must be delivered within three days!

Fortunately, there are telegrams and railways now. If it was changed to before, the order of the Ministry of War was sent to Nanzhili in an urgent manner, and it would take ten days. It will take two or three months. If that’s the case, let’s not talk about fighting, you don’t dare to assemble the army. If you gather for two or three months and have no food, then you can’t rebel!
Of course, this horse can only eat grass, but people can't just eat white rice or white noodles. The officials of the government are busy again. The orders from the Ministry of War are for everything, such as vegetables, fruits, and dried poultry. They are all bought by tons. Uh, the Ministry of Industry once used the ton unit and found it to be quite useful. Yes, so the yamen of the imperial court also used it. In short, as long as the storage time can exceed ten days and a half months, the Ministry of War wants it.

The prefectures in Northern Zhili are already too busy with food alone, and the military department can only send orders to Shandong, Liaodong and other places for cotton-padded clothes, quilts and other daily necessities.

The departments of the Ministry of Industry and the factories are also extremely busy. When Zhu Cijiong equipped the bastion with materials, he actually missed a lot of things, such as the steel bars used with cement. Now it is popular in Ming Dynasty to build buildings with reinforced concrete. The sand and stones All materials can be obtained locally in the desert of Monan. There is no place to pick up this steel bar, and Sun Yuanhua also added it later.

Zhu Cijiong also forgot to explain the copper wires used for telegraph communication, and Sun Yuanhua also made up for it. Each legion is equipped with thousands of miles of thin copper wires for military communications, and the busy machines of the cable factory of the Ministry of Industry It's about to smoke!

As for artillery and guns and ammunition, let alone, they are all equipment with a base number, such as flintlock bullets, a base number is one hundred for each soldier, and the number is huge as you can imagine.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are busy, and the General Secretary is not idle here. Wumei Village has long been familiar with mobilizing the masses to support the front line. The "Beijing News" began to report at length on the Northern Expedition. Immortality, what kind of slaves burned, killed and looted at the border, what kind of slaves were murderous historical review and so on.

It is particularly worth mentioning that with the telegraph network, the "Beijing News" has finally realized the simultaneous distribution of the whole territory of Ming Dynasty. It takes hours and hours, but it takes a month or two to deliver it on a fast horse than in the past, and I don’t know how many times it takes a month or two in remote provinces.

For a while, the people in all parts of Daming were furious, and they all wanted to jump up and bite Jiannu. Of course, they couldn't bite, so they had to pay money and effort, and they didn't need to spend this effort, because there were 50 prisoners of war who were fighting for Jiannu. They worked hard, and finally the common people's support for the front line turned into money and goods.

Not to mention the money. After the war, Zhu Cijiong will reward the frontline soldiers according to his military achievements. There are countless types of this item. Sun Yuanhua was dumbfounded when he saw it. Soldiers on the front line, he quickly wrote a newsletter and sent it to the General Secretary. It probably means to thank the people of Ming Dynasty for their support, but please don’t donate other things, because the Ministry of War cannot uniformly allocate them to the soldiers on the front line. Just donate some durable local snacks, so that the soldiers on the front line can try something new.

Naturally, the Minister of General Affairs did not dare not to publish the newsletter written by Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and he sent it immediately. Sun Yuanhua's newsletter appeared in the newspaper the next day.

This is a big deal, the special snacks from all over the country are sent to the capital by car by car, such as green onion pancakes from Shandong, cured fish and bacon from Huguang, various dried tofu from Shanxi, thousand-layer cakes from Shaanxi, ham from Jiangnan Wait, wait, etc. Now that the people of Ming Dynasty are rich, they will naturally think about the good of the court. In addition, local officials are also secretly competing for their future, so the local specialties donated are so scary!

The preparation of the military supplies was in full swing, but Sun Yuanhua encountered an unexpected trouble. Because there was no train to deliver to Haizhou and Guanning, all the warehouses of the yamen in the capital were full of military supplies. Sun Yuanhua had no choice but to The excess materials were piled up in the open air in four new factories in the Xicheng District of the Ministry of Industry.

Why is there no train?Because all the trains from the northern provinces have been mobilized to transport Lu Xiangsheng’s army on the East Road. You must know that there are 30 soldiers and 30 prisoners. It was transported by train, and Sun Yuanhua mobilized nearly [-] trains to transport it day and night.

Now the trains in Daming have ten carriages, and more than two hundred people can be crammed into one carriage. Field artillery, tents and military supplies can only be hoisted on the roof of the carriages. A single train can transport 500 people, and even if it runs day and night, it will take at least six days to transport the people, so Sun Yuanhua can only wait first. Fortunately, it took three days to prepare the supplies. Just wait three days.

(End of this chapter)