Faced with Wang Shun's cold words and taunts, Song Chen slapped the table hard, filled with annoyance and regret.
Because the purchase price of the Peasant Army was very high, with a profit of two or three times, he became obsessed with making money and could not control himself. He sold many, many high-quality ordnance to the Peasant Army. He thought they were buying ordnance for defense, so it was useless to sell it. Psychological stress.
But who knew that after they obtained the ordnance, they would launch an invasion and take the initiative.
what is this?
Song Chen was filled with regret and worry.
The Xiangyang army was offended to death by him. He estimated that once the peasant army really gained a military advantage and the Xiangyang army could not control the situation, it would be very likely to go directly to Sichuan and Shu.
It is true that most of the Ezhou army are new recruits. He went to see it and found that the army was in dilapidated appearance and had no military momentum. He felt that the imperial court had recruited a group of beggars to make up the numbers. As long as the peasant army fought for some strength, these beggars would not be able to defend Ezhou.
Then Wang Shun will definitely run away too.
That myself...
As a local civil servant, if you really want to run away, there will be serious consequences. Your political life will be over anyway. If you do not do well, your home will be confiscated and you will be exiled to a remote area. Then...
Song Chen suddenly became very anxious. He was anxious and worried. He decided to make two preparations and sent someone home quickly. He asked his family to sell part of the real estate at home and turn it into gold and silver and hide it. In case something happened, he would be killed. Even if your home is raided, you can still live on with the hidden money. .
It wouldn't be a waste of money and people.
Then he secretly made preparations to grease the soles of his feet. Anyway, there was absolutely no way he would die defending the city.
This group of people were ready to escape without even seeing the peasant army. They obviously had no intention of protracted fighting. But Xu Tong didn't know that Xu Tong thought that Wang Shun would fight with him and fight with him, and he would never give up this easily. A battle.
Therefore, Xu Tong advanced very cautiously and spent a lot of time. He divided the army into several groups, advanced from different roads, and then agreed to gather at the same destination.
Xu Tong set out on the fifth day of March. Although there were people to guide him, walking was very inconvenient because the road was difficult and it rained during the march. The mountains were muddy and difficult to walk.
However, Xu Tong's troops still overcame difficulties and maintained a certain marching speed.
Zhao Yucheng contributed a lot to this.
Zhao Yu became the leader of Xu Tong's troops and was able to cross the hills and reach their destination on time. It took a lot of effort, such as providing them with expensive military rations-dairy products.
After the grassland war in the second year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin obtained a very large number of seizures and a large number of grassland prisoners. Most of these prisoners were sent to Liaodong and the Yellow River construction sites to engage in heavy manual labor. However, some of them had skills and were collected by Su Yonglin. When he arrived in Zhongdu, he engaged in technical work.
For example, those who can smelt iron, those who can make bows and arrows, those who can make leather and bone products, and those who can make dairy products.
The special logistics model of the Prairie Cavalry has always made Su Yonglin very envious.
Through the addition of a large amount of dairy products and the production of dried meat, the prairie cavalry can obtain a very large amount of calories. The unit heat of dairy products can reach two to three times that of ordinary grain.
There is very little tradition of consuming dairy products in the Central Plains. Even if there is, it is only enjoyed by the upper class, and it is basically impossible for the people at the bottom and the big soldiers to come into contact with these things.
After Su Yonglin acquired a large number of grassland craftsmen who mastered the craftsmanship of dairy products, he gathered them together and used the pastures set up by the imperial office on the grasslands to start making dairy products. He also tried every means to improve the dairy products so that they could be stored longer.
Su Yonglin also introduced the concept of adding salt, trying to use this method to create super-efficient military rations that can not only replenish calories but also replenish salt and have good storage performance.
Equipping the Ming Dynasty's cavalry with this military ration will allow the cavalry to have stronger war endurance and reduce their need for logistics.
This is very meaningful for the future Western Region strategy that requires extensive use of cavalry.
In addition, during the third and fourth years of Hongwu, while Su Yonglin set off a wave of great revolution, he also began a new round of reform of the Ming army's military rations.
In addition to increasing the supply of meat, eggs, and vegetables to daily military rations, we also focus on developing new marching military rations.
When the army stops or is garrisoned in the military camp, they can naturally eat hot meals and dishes prepared by the Huotou Army. There is no problem in this regard. The old tradition of the Ming Army is to feed everyone well.
But during the march, the most important thing is speed. The requirement for military food is to quickly replenish physical strength and fill the stomach. As for taste, it is completely unimportant.
Therefore, four years before Hongwu, the marching rations of the Ming army were generally dry-baked flatbreads with pickles.
Dry-baked flatbreads can be stored for about a month. When soldiers march, they carry grain bags with dry-baked flatbreads neatly stacked in them, and they take them out to eat during meals.
And pickles are the king of shelf-stable. As military food, they are extremely cost-effective.
For this reason, what Ming soldiers disliked the most was the marching process.
During the march, there was no hot food to eat, which was very uncomfortable for them. They repeatedly proposed to the instructors at the democratic life meetings within the army whether they could reform the marching rations and not always let everyone eat dry food. Flatbread with pickles.
The Ming army also had many training projects in its daily training. It was often necessary to march fully armed from one county to another county, or from one state to another state for a limited time, in order to exercise physical strength and enhance the mobility of the army.
This process is quite difficult.
After receiving the army's reaction, Su Yonglin also made some ideas for changes in military rations, preparing to produce the Ming army's version of individual soldier rations to meet the army's food needs.
Dairy products are a very important part of this.
So after Zhao Yucheng went south to make a name for himself, Su Yonglin also gave them some guidance on military rations. Because there was goat breeding in the area controlled by Zhao Yucheng, Su Yonglin sent them some dairy technicians to use goat milk as raw material. , assisting them in making dairy products.
Of course, judging from the current technology, the production cost of dairy products is relatively high. Even within the Ming army, which has abundant military expenditures, it is not a universal military ration and will only be used in emergencies.
This time Xu Tong's tactical action was very valuable in Zhao Yucheng's opinion. In order to improve the success rate, Zhao Yucheng approved the use of dairy rations for Xu Tong's commando team.
Under such circumstances, distributing this level of rations to the army is tantamount to burning money for Zhao Yucheng, but as long as the war goal can be achieved, the money is well worth it.
If the outcome of all wars throughout the ages could be determined by burning money, then no ruler would be willing to burn a lot of money.
They will only worry that they are not burning enough or fast enough.
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