Prince Ming frowned, puzzled and asked: "Lu Ming, are those engineering soldiers under your command all equipped with wings? Otherwise, why are they advancing so fast?"
"besides……"
"Your mission is to transform and strengthen the strongholds to facilitate the transportation of supplies. You are not the vanguard. You need to attack the city. Why are you running so fast? The defense facilities of the strongholds in the rear must be shoddy, right?"
As soon as he heard this, Lu Ming became anxious on the spot, and his chest thumped loudly.
"If I had been the slightest bit negligent, even five thunderbolts from heaven would not be enough to repay the kindness of the Marquis of Qin!"
"Your Majesty may not know something. The advancement of the engineering troops is not a steady step after a large force is assembled. Instead, it is divided into two groups. The vanguard army consists of 500 people. Each person is equipped with two horses as standard, one for riding. The other horse is specially used to load tools and equipment. In this way, the forward speed of our engineering army's vanguard is no less than that of the cavalry."
"Every time a stronghold is reached, twenty people will be left behind to immediately reinforce and repair the stronghold, while the rest will continue to advance quickly."
"After the main force was assembled, they drove the carriages and moved forward steadily. Every time they passed a stronghold, fifty people were left behind to unload the goods and continue to move forward."
"At this time, I am already standing in front of the prince, and the first stronghold at the scene of the incident is probably almost completed."
After hearing what Lu Ming said, King Ming was stunned and couldn't recover for a long time.
Although the entire Beixi County knows the importance of logistics, after all, that boy Qin Feng talks about logistics all day long, and Prince Ming's ears have already become numb.
However, according to the experience accumulated by the Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses for half their lives, no matter how refined the logistics, there are limits. Under normal circumstances, if the army fights for a hundred days, if the logistics materials can be sent to the front line, it is considered qualified.
If the cost is not considered, then sending the materials to the front line within two months is equivalent to great speed.
However, Qin Feng reduced the speed of the logistics troops to "days".
Moreover... this is the first time that King Ming heard the term "engineer army vanguard" after decades of living. When did these strong men become divided into vanguards and main forces?
not only that!
King Ming looked Lu Ming up and down. As a craftsman, this guy's equipment was better than most soldiers.
Although he only wears a breastplate to prevent sneak attacks from cold arrows, there are also several bags hanging on his waist, filled with various supplies, and the war horse under his crotch is even more excellent. As long as he puts on the armor, he can go into battle to kill the enemy.
That guy Qin Feng probably spent more money on a strong support man than a qualified cavalryman!
King Ming felt his scalp was numb. If he hadn't strived to come to the front line for training and stayed in Beixi County for retirement, he might never have known in his life that Qin Feng had trained all the various arms in Beixi County to this point.
Prince Ming looked at the horses behind Lu Ming, swallowed his saliva, and asked tentatively.
"Lu Ming, tell me honestly, how many horses does Qin Feng have?"
Lu Ming smiled in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, you ask me, how could I know about this kind of thing?"
"You should ask Magistrate Lin. After all, Magistrate Lin has the final say on all domestic and logistical matters. I am just an errand boy."
"But... according to the information I have, there are probably more than 13,000 horses in Beixi County alone."
"If we were to say how many horses Qin Hou could mobilize, I'm afraid it would be more than 50,000..."
Hearing this number, King Ming was shocked again.
Fifty thousand horses...what is this concept?
The horses that can be used in the entire beam are only 200,000. The horses that Qin Feng can mobilize are actually equivalent to a quarter of the entire beam.
Moreover, among the 50,000 horses, at least 15,000 are pure war horses, and the remaining 30,000 horses are various coolie horses.
Before that, although King Ming knew that Qin Feng loved horses as much as his life, and always tried every means to draw horses to his side, this number was still far beyond King Ming's expectations.
You know, most armies don't actually have as many war horses as they say.
For example, a thousand soldiers and horses, this number is the total number of people and horses. In fact, a thousand soldiers and horses may only have about a hundred horses, or even less.
However, the number of Qin Feng's troops and horses has seriously shrunk compared with the book.
Even a so-called engineering pioneer can do this. Each person is equipped with two horses as standard, so the number of horses estimated by Lu Ming will only be less than the real horse reserve, not more.
"Qin Feng is really extremely rich!"
King Ming couldn't help but sigh loudly: "Just taking care of these more than 50,000 horses, the annual cost is an astronomical figure, which is definitely not something that one person can bear."
Whether it's the frontline offensive or the advancement of logistics, they all rely on these huge numbers of horses.
King Ming can be sure that for every one tael that Qin Feng earned, he spent at least 300 cash on horses, another 300 cash on soldiers, and the remaining 400 cash was shared equally among people's livelihood and internal affairs. , the proportion of money that can be accumulated in the end is actually very small.
So, in a sense, one of the richest people in Daliang is actually a poor man?
Prince Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly: "With a master like this, why should Beixi be worried about not being prosperous?"
Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh: "Your Majesty, do you know how the Marquis spends his money?"
"Ordinary people take one step at a time and only spend money in the present, but Mr. Hou earns money now and spends it in the future."
"Just like this horse, it spends money like water on weekdays. It seems that it has money to burn, but when it comes to the actual war, it is discovered that all the money is spent on the blade."
King Ming sighed and stopped talking, because Qin Feng's understanding of military affairs and people's livelihood had exceeded King Ming's knowledge.
King Ming even felt that he could bear the words "simple-minded and well-developed limbs" in front of Qin Feng.
Just as the Zhuozhou offensive was moving northward, Changshui County was already a different scene.
Tens of thousands of troops surrounded Changshui County like an iron barrel, but they had not launched any attack for several days.
On the city wall, more than twenty bed crossbows have been set up.
There are eight defense lines in the east and west, four in the south and three in the north. Under the city wall, there are more than a dozen catapults for coordinated defense.
In addition to the city defense equipment that has been fully put into the battlefield, almost all the able-bodied people in the city have also joined the logistics troops. After all, the people are the most pragmatic. When they realize that the city is impregnable and difficult to be conquered, they join Qin Feng's command and fight for themselves. Seeking some capital for survival is undoubtedly the best choice.
Qin Feng was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, withdraw from the front line, and drag his exhausted body back to the county government office.
