Thousands of kilograms of rice and tens of thousands of kilograms of meat were undoubtedly extremely precious to the Uokou villages that had been trapped for two months, but they did not constitute a logistical pressure on the Jiangdong Left Army.
This is the biggest advantage of sea transportation for logistical support.
The Dongyang has a carrying capacity of thousands of stones. After the northern rivers freeze in winter, the sea-going ship travels from south to north, which is equivalent to the speed of a cart with mules and horses transporting goods along the post road. However, a cart pulled by one driver and two mules and horses can only carry ten tons of goods.
Stone also means that the Dongyang ship, which only needs at least sixteen boatmen, can transport a thousand stones of grain by sea, while a hundred carts, two hundred horses, and a hundred drivers are needed by land.
Compared with the loading capacity of a five-masted ship, it would require 500 carts, 1,000 mules and horses, and 500 cart drivers. Such a large convoy of mules and horses would directly block the post road if it traveled overland.
, the team stretched from front to back is almost eleven or twelve miles long. If there is a problem in any link, the entire convoy will come to a standstill.
The transportation costs between the two can be said to be vastly different.
In the great victory of Cangnan and the great victory of Xiao Botou Village, a large number of horses were seriously injured or killed on both sides. In addition, the fire of Xiao Botou Village only caused the horses to die of suffocation. In total, there were more than 2,000 horses. The revenue from horse meat alone was as high as
Five or six hundred thousand catties.
The rivers in Yannan will not start to melt until the middle to late February. It is still the freezing season in the ice and snow, so the preservation of horse meat is not a problem. However, Jiangdong Zuojun himself cannot digest such a large amount of horse meat anyway.
Disposing of such a large amount of horse meat before the weather gets warmer and dumping it directly in Dengzhou at a low price is undoubtedly not the smartest way.
Lin Fu sent Lin Mengde to select people from the labor camp and send them to Dengzhou and other places to discuss bartering with merchants. He exchanged three kilograms of rice for one kilogram of horse meat, and even agreed to give credit to Dengzhou merchants, and the credit would be counted as four
A pound of rice was exchanged for a pound of horsemeat. As long as he had soldiers at hand, Lin Fu didn't worry about the Shandong merchants not paying back their debts. At worst, he would just send people to lead troops to collect debts after the deadline.
Horse meat is still a new thing in Shandong, and the slaughter of cattle and horses is prohibited. Even cattle and horses that have died of illness are twice as expensive as pork and mutton. Exchanging three kilograms of rice for one kilogram of meat is really extremely cheap. However, urban consumption levels are limited, and boarding
There are only more than 20,000 people in the big city of Dengzhou. No matter how cheap horse meat is, it can only digest tens of thousands of kilograms at most. Merchants still have to transport the horse meat to the coastal counties south of Dengzhou for sale.
In addition, more than two thousand pieces of leather goods are not a small number.
Lin Fu will not waste the few large-scale ships he has on sea transportation. He wants merchants in Dengzhou and other places to organize sea-ship transportation on their own. However, he promised to transport all damaged or attacked ships by sea this time.
, as long as the Jiangdong Zuojun sent people to board the ship to supervise it, regardless of whether it was the ship or the cargo, compensation would be based on the price.
With the additional guarantee of Jiangdong Zuojun, especially in Dengzhou, there were a large number of merchants and shipowners who fled from Hejian Prefecture. After Jiangdong Zuojun won a great victory in Cangnan, some of them had the courage to go to sea and return to Hejian Prefecture.
On the one hand, it is to do business, and on the other hand, it is to support the Jiangdong Left Army.
In the past few days, more than 40 ships from Dengzhou and other places have gathered on the islands offshore Jinhai.
Although there are very few large ships with more than 1,000 dan among them, most of them are single-masted or two-masted sailboats with a carrying capacity of between 200 and 500 dan, but the advantage is that the total load capacity is large, almost nearly 10,000 dan. This time, they also went directly with the ship.
Transported three to four thousand stones of rice, noodles and other important materials to Jiangdong Zuojun.
Jiangdong Zuojun kept 100,000 kilograms of slaughtered horse meat with the ships for military use. The rest, along with fur goods, etc., were shipped to Dengzhou and transported away by sea ships from Dengzhou and other places.
The horse meat business is secondary. As long as the sea route is not cut off, Lin Fu can continuously obtain strong logistical support from the prefectures and counties in northeastern Shandong through them. This is why Lin Fu provides large-scale material support to Wokou and other villages. Logistical support.
All of this is supported by the prestige earned by the Jiangdong Left Army's two great victories in Cangnan. Otherwise, the so-called extra guarantee would be worthless.
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In addition to Wukou, Changlu, Qingqi and other villages are even more short of supplies, but Changlu and Qingqi are further away from the seawall. More than 4,000 cavalrymen from the Nahe Xiongqi tribe closely monitor Wukou, Changlu, Qingqi and other villages. , a distance of more than ten miles, a quick detour on horseback is still full of dangers, not to mention transporting supplies.
"We can transport the supplies into Wukou Village first. You can send cavalry to transport the supplies. One person has two or three horses. There will be no big problem in transporting heavy objects of 100 kilograms on empty horses and camels. The most difficult ones will be carried out first. Let's wait until the time passes..." Lin Fu said.
Lin Fu, Lin Mengde, and Sun Shangwang entered Wokou Village and met with the remaining generals of the Jinzhong Army. Yang Yihang, Wu Tian, Wei Zhonglong, and Ma Yigong were all generals who showed the highest military rank in the school.
Lin Fu didn't mention the matter of the coalition forces. Solving the food shortage problem in the villages was the most urgent thing. The coalition forces also needed everyone to eat well and regain their strength before leaving the villages to fight.
Ma Yigong was only in his mid-thirties. When he led his troops to break through the encirclement, he still had nearly 300 men and garrisoned in Changlu Village to collect the defeated troops. He had nearly 800 men. He listened to Lin Fu's suggestion to use cavalry to transport grain. He touched his nose and said: "There are only six horses left in Changlu Village that we rode here. If we can't raise more food, these six horses will not be able to survive; Zhou Tong and the others still walked here on their feet..."
"Horses are not a problem," Lin Fu said. "I will lend you fifty horses and one hundred ordinary mules and horses for each village in Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi. For other villages, as long as you send people to Wukou, For Kou Village, I have lent you twenty horses and forty ordinary mules and horses. If you go back first, I will let you bring some mules and horses back. First, kill the mules and horses to fill your stomach. No matter how difficult it is, the horses from Kouwai can be used. Save it for last…”
Ma Yigong and others laughed sheepishly. Horses are the most scarce commodity everywhere, and the price is more than seven or eight times that of ordinary horses. What Lin Fu meant was to give ordinary horses directly to them. But they were too embarrassed to take advantage of the situation.
As long as they have enough food and strength, they will still want to fight the soldiers.
"Let's do this. You each go back and gather all the people who are transporting food to Wokou Village first. Let them have a full meal and don't lose strength halfway through the walk. When everything is ready, I will send three battalions of armored soldiers to intersperse Arrive at the three villages of Wukou, Changlu and Qingqi and drive out all the cavalry from the Nahe Xiongqi tribe, and then dispatch the food transporters from the Wokou stronghold," Lin Fu said, "To ensure safety, each village only has It is necessary to send troops to move within one mile of the stronghold, so that the Nahe Xiongqi tribe cannot attack our soldiers with all their strength... Do you think this arrangement will work?"
Lin Fu didn't mention the alliance, but with this arrangement, a coalition has actually been formed.
Changlu's Ma Yigong and Qingqi's Zhou Tong naturally had no objections. Yang Yihang, Wu Tian, and Wei Zhonglong also had no objections. After all, it was Jiangdong Zuojun who rushed in as the main force and solved the supply problem of the remnants of their Jinzhong troops.
In fact, they don't want to be so cowardly and only move within a mile around the village.
The tragic defeat at Gaoyang made the generals in Jinzhong harbor hatred, anger, and soaring resentment. Although some of them still rejected the Jiangdong Zuojun, they definitely did not reject filling their bellies and fighting against the Donglu.
Ordinary generals don't care much about the future of the remnants of the Jinzhong army, but Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Zhou Ting and others have to consider this issue. They, intermediate generals, may even be held responsible for the Gaoyang defeat. Only by accumulating military exploits can they
Win the initiative.
Wei Zhonglong, who had the deepest conflict with Lin Fu and the Jiangdong Zuojun, kept silent for a long time, then turned red and asked stammeringly: "Does the Jiangdong Zuojun have any extra ordnance?"
Yang Yihang and the others were originally the remnant troops that emerged from the siege. They gathered broken troops and veterans with combat experience. However, they were severely lacking in armor, bows and crossbows. They could barely defend the stronghold, but their ability to fight outside the stronghold was weak.
"I don't have much armor. I can scrape together some others. What do you need?" Lin Fu asked.
"As long as we can have it," Yang Yihang said honestly. "There are 672 soldiers in Jinzhong. Counting the rural soldiers, there are a thousand people. Counting kitchen knives, there are still a quarter of them without weapons..."
"..." Lin Fu didn't expect to be in such an embarrassment. When they entered the stronghold, the generals Yang Yihang brought to greet them were still well-armed. He didn't want to lose face in front of them. He discussed with Lin Mengde for a moment and gave them
Yang Yihang replied, "That's good. In addition to the horses before, we don't have many armors, crossbows, and swords. I will give you two hundred walking bows, and add ten thousand arrows to you, and other spears."
I have completed the sword and shield for you, what do you think?"
"..." Yang Yihang and others were stunned for a long time before asking, "Is this true..."
"Nothing is true or false," Lin Fu said with a smile, "After nightfall, I will send someone directly to deliver it to you..."
Not to mention Yang Yihang, Wei Zhonglong, Wu Tianlie, Ma Yigong, Zhou Tongchanglu, Qingqi and other generals in the village were also very surprised by Lin Fu's generosity. They knew that Lin Fu could capture a large number of war horses in Cangnan's victory.
, but Lin Fu brought out four to five hundred horses to support them. It was not surprising, but they didn't know that Lin Fu used 50,000 taels of silver to purchase military supplies worth three or four hundred thousand taels of silver in Jinan. In addition, both battles were
In a great victory of total annihilation nature, the military resources were fully replenished, especially the reserves of light weapons such as spears, spears, swords and shields.
An infantry bow with a shooting distance of more than 100 to 120 steps has high requirements for shooters. There are not many soldiers in the Jiangdong Left Army who can use infantry bows. At this shooting distance, Lin Fu is mostly equipped with an arm-mounted crossbow.
To strengthen. The remnants of Jinzhong's army had plenty of veteran soldiers who could use infantry bows, so Lin Fu naturally used them to strengthen Yang Yihang's army.
Ma Yigong discussed with Zhou Tong for a while and asked directly: "Changlu and Qingqi villages can send some people to the vortex mouth to line up? If the Jiangdong left army enters the west side of the vortex mouth, they can stay directly at the vortex mouth.
Support the flank of the Jiangdong Left Army..."
"Okay!" Lin Fu agreed without hesitation. He was afraid of Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Zhou Tong and others who were afraid of fighting, but not afraid of them asking for weapons.
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ps: The second update is here.
I have something to go out now, so the third update may be late!