As Sun Chengzong, who had lived in Datong, the most important military town in the Ming Dynasty, for many years, how could he not know the logistics system of today's scrambled eggs in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Liu Wei said that he would never reach Mubang within three months. Of course he would not

Feeling annoyed, he nodded slightly.

"Haha, Liu Shuai, I came this time and brought a small gift for Liu Shuai."

"Oh, it's rare. A common soldier gives something to a general. Not many generals in this dynasty can enjoy this kind of treatment."

"Liu Shuai may not have heard clearly just now. I am the one who brings the things, and the person who delivers the things is His Highness the Grand Sun."

When he heard the words "His Royal Highness Taisun", Liu Wei immediately put away his joking expression and stood up solemnly: "Does His Highness Taisun also know the nickname of the last general?"

"Haha, not only do you know it, I should say you also understand it very well. Would Liu Shuai want to hear what His Highness thinks of Liu Shuai?"

"The general is all ears."

"His Royal Highness said that Liu Shuai is loyal to the country. When it comes to fighting, his personal martial arts skills are very powerful and he also has great morale in the army. Therefore, the troops he leads on the battlefield are something worth looking forward to. However, Liu Shuai's

Soldiers, this military discipline is really bad. In the past, aiding North Korea to fight against the Japanese really caused a lot of harm to the people of North Korea... His Highness also said that an army must maintain morale. Of course, it is a way to allow soldiers to harm the people, but

This method is often difficult to sustain. Moreover, once such an army is in dire straits, it will often collapse suddenly..."

"Your Highness, what Your Highness said... really scares the generals~"

"Haha, Liu Shuai, please sit down. Please give Liu Shuai an order to bring in the iron box that I brought."

…

"Liu Shuai, this is the telescope given to you by His Highness the Grand Sun."

"telescope?"

"Haha, as the name suggests, it is a mirror that can see far away. Liu Shuai, do you want to try it? Well, yes, just put your eyes directly on it."

After putting his eyes on the lens tube awkwardly, Liu Wei quickly put the telescope down. Then he put it up again to look at it, and put it down again. After that, he blinked, thought for a moment, and stood up quickly.

He ran out of the main hall, looked around with binoculars in the open space outside the hall, and then ran back with a fanatical expression: "Master Sun! Divine weapon! Divine weapon! With this thing, the enemy can't even think about hiding or ambush our army.

!”

After saying this, Liu Wei hurriedly identified the direction. After finding the direction of Beijing City in the northeast, he simply saluted and knelt down: "General, I would like to thank His Highness Taisun for being so considerate of us and other warriors. His Highness is so kind to me. I really can't think of anything else."

Retribution! We can only fight hard to kill the enemy and live up to my grandson’s high hopes!”

Then Liu Wei handed the monocular telescope to several generals under his command at the banquet, and there was another exclamation and thanksgiving.

"Master Sun, how many, uh, telescopes did you give me this time?"

"Not many, only three. These are all the qualified products of Honghe Village before I set off from the capital."

In terms of history, Westerners first came up with glass that could be industrially produced, and then the profession of mirror grinder came into being. By the early 17th century, Western Europe already had many mature people in related industries who could make convex lenses of various degrees.

Mirrors and concave mirrors. However, it was not until 1608 that by chance, craftsmen in Western Europe realized that by overlapping two lenses, they could see farther or see smaller. From this, the telescope

and the microscope were invented.

In this dimension, Western European telescopes and microscopes will definitely appear in advance. But Zhu Youdong can't control that much. After he got the mirror grinders Matteo Ricci found for him, he immediately asked them to start grinding various lenses, and then polished them

It was assembled. However, time was limited, so it was not until the day Sun Chengzong set off that he could assemble the three telescopes.

"For these three telescopes, His Highness spent a lot of money. He asked the Jesuit Society to transport Thai and Western craftsmen to Honghe Village, and put in five or six thousand taels of silver one after another. After the two Thai and Western craftsmen came to the village, Taisun opened another

I received a high commission. Otherwise, I won’t be able to get such a thing when I go south.”

"I would like to thank my grandson for caring for us so much. When I go to Mu State, I will definitely clear out the Burmese thieves and promote the prestige of our Ming Dynasty."

"Haha, Liu Shuai, generals, the production capacity of this telescope is limited, only three. However, there are thirty Yanyue knives, which is enough for all of you here."

"Yue Yue Dao?"

The shape of the so-called Yanyue knife is similar to that of the ordinary Yanyue knife in the Ming Dynasty. However, thanks to the use of thermometers, the establishment of new blast furnaces, the popularization of hydraulic machinery, and investment regardless of cost, the sharpness, hardness and

The degree of rust resistance has reached a very high level.

Of course, Honghe Village's plan to build plate armor is just like playing for fun, but on the one hand, Zhu Youdong is only a grandson, not an emperor. When building military supplies, one has to consider the emperor's reaction. Honghe Village's knives and armors are more

It is of a scientific research nature and only has a small number of samples and will not be mass-produced. On the other hand, Liu Wei is going to lead his army to fight in the tropical rain forest. Are you going to provide them with plate armor? I'm afraid that without the Burmese army to fight, everyone will become iron.

Pan-yaki?

Therefore, just send some high-quality knives. It is better for the southern army to wear leather or cloth armor.

"Oh, this sword is really good!" The warriors here have all experienced hundreds of battles with Liu Wei, so they will naturally know whether the sword is good or not as soon as they get started.

"His Highness treats us so kindly, so the general shouldn't mention any more difficulties. But Lord Sun, the laws of this country are such that the soldiers of the town under the general's command can travel thirty miles a day, which is already very good.

Even if you have to travel forty miles a day just for His Highness Taisun? You still won’t be able to reach Mubang within three months.”

"Haha, don't worry, Commander Liu. I would like to ask first, if you don't have to worry about food along the way, how many miles can Commander Liu's soldiers march every day?"

"Well, this time the imperial court will command a total of 12,000 people from the three regions of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shu, one town and three guards, and go south. If the general's soldiers in the town do not consider food, they can march sixty to eighty miles a day. Chongqing

The main troops sent by the guards are the stone pillar and white pole soldiers of Ma Xuanfu (Qin Liangyu's husband Ma Qiancheng). They can also cover this mileage every day. As for Guangnan Guard and Erhai Guard, they are much closer to Mubang Bimo, that is

Climbing twenty miles every day for three months is enough."

In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a guard system for the national army. Its basic organizational structure was: small banners, general banners, hundreds of households, and thousands of households, all commanding envoys. Guard troops cultivated military camps in peacetime, and were controlled by the court during wartime.

Senior military officers were dispatched, organized by officials at all levels of the garrison, to mobilize troops to fight. According to Lao Zhu's idea, on the one hand, I can raise millions of troops without costing the people a grain of food, which can greatly save money. On the other hand,

It is to prevent military generals from guarding one side for a long time and thus forming a vassal town.

However, after the Ming Dynasty had been running for more than two hundred years, the guard system was actually on the verge of collapse. Not to mention that the officials of the guard had degenerated from middle- and lower-level officers into landlords and wealthy people, nor that the soldiers of the guard had either fled or become tenant farmers.

The rule that the imperial court only temporarily dispatches senior generals when foreign enemies invade does not apply to the northern border.

Therefore, during the Xuande period, facing the restored Mongolia, the Ming government had to set up permanent generals in Shaanxi and Shanxi - this was the origin of the Ming Dynasty's military town system.

During the Jiajing period, Japanese pirates ravaged the southeastern coast, and dozens of guard posts were in decay, completely unable to effectively resist the Japanese pirates. The Ming government had no choice but to implement a military town system along the southeastern coast.

The so-called military town sources its troops partly from garrison soldiers and partly from recruitment. The biggest difference between military town soldiers and garrison soldiers is that the garrison soldiers bring their own dry food to fight, while the military town soldiers have to be paid by the state.

Moreover, the officers at all levels in the military town: garrison, general, guerrilla, general, deputy general, general, etc. Their generals are permanent.

In this way, the combat effectiveness is improved, but the burden on the country is also increased. At the same time, it is easy to form a situation where the soldiers are the generals.

(By the way, during the Tianqi period, as the situation in the Northeast became worse and worse, the national finances became increasingly tight. In order to balance the balance of payments, the military towns in the southeast were abolished at the age of 9,000. Then the elite soldiers in these military towns were

He turned them all into pirates and made Zheng Zhilong famous.)

Generally speaking, in today's Ming Dynasty, the military town and guard system coexist. Generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of military town soldiers is stronger than that of guard soldiers.

But there are exceptions to the guard soldiers, such as the white pole soldiers at Shizhu.

But no matter how strong the army is, they always need to eat. In a forced march that lasts for a long time, they need to eat even more.
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