The bright candle shines brightly, illuminating the simple official hall with light and shadow.
Zhang Gou personally landed on Lushan Island and took the time to draw a more detailed topographic map; in the same way, Zhang Gou understood more and more why Lin Fu originally said that earth science was the entry-level way for famous generals.
Without understanding the complex terrain of the Lushan Islands and the tidal changes of the Lushan Islands, no matter how many soldiers, horses, and elite warships you lead to attack the Lushan Islands in a hurry, you will be more likely to be defeated and return home.
As long as we have a full understanding of the Lushan Islands, as long as the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels are not trapped in the periphery, and as long as supplies and energy are continuously sent to the island, it will not be difficult to rely on three to five hundred elite soldiers to defend Lushan Island.
In Chen Zhi's opinion, it would be more straightforward to send a mixed force of three to five hundred navy and infantry battalions to guard the Lushan Islands. However, Zhang Gou knew that Lin Fu, apart from not wanting to disperse his troops, had no plans for the Lushan Islands.
It's even more profound.
Zuo Guangying relies on Huaidong's support to defend the Lushan Islands, and is willing to accept Huaidong's influence. Huaidong can use Zuo Guangying and others to subtly influence the people of Yongjia's perception of Huaidong, and regain southern Zhejiang and Huaidong in the future.
To compete with Dong Yuan for control of southern Zhejiang, Zuo Guangying and others will play an important role.
Gaze must not be limited to what is in front of you.
There are more than 400 people in Zuo Guangying's unit, most of whom are fishermen. They are brave and brave soldiers, but there is a big difference between well-trained soldiers and well-equipped and well-trained soldiers.
Zhang Gou has a deep understanding of this point.
At that time, Gan Ye's troops were all veteran soldiers who dared to fight. They could be called the elite pioneers of the rebel army, and their armor was good, but there was a big gap between them and the Huaidong Army. Without him, the Huaidong Army was well-trained and disciplined.
The equipment is more sophisticated; going deeper, Huaidong's system of rewarding military merit and farmland is more popular among the people.
Lin Fu allocated all the materials for building fortifications on Lushan Island, including iron materials, lime, wood, etc.; allocated 400 sets of sophisticated armor, bows and crossbows, arrows, and kerosene, including bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, and other items that were in short supply in Huaidong.
Supplies are also given priority to Lushan Island; six copper-clad fast stern warships are fully allocated to Lushan Island every quarter, with 1,200 kilograms of grain, vegetables, meat and fruits, wound medicine, etc.
The copper-clad warships were all newly built. The previous Jinghaihai camp did not have the luxury to cover the warships with copper armor. Anyway, Zhang Gou had not seen it when he left Daheng Island before. This time, six ships were built at once.
The bronze-clad warships were allocated to Zuo Guangying free of charge. Although they were all small and medium-sized warships, Zhang Gou took Zuo Guangying to lead the warships. The eyes and expressions of the generals of the Jinghaihai camp were sour.
To teach the men brought by Zuo Guangying to operate the warship, the training officers of the Jinghaihai Battalion also first taught them how to use the sea-filling port at the bottom of the ship. They were undoubtedly more worried that the ship would be captured by the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels in their hands.
In addition to material support, Lin Fu paid more attention to allowing Daheng Island generals to communicate with Zuo Guangying and others.
Lin Fu set up a combat training school. In addition to allowing generals at all levels to receive formal military training, a more important aspect was to provide generals at all levels with opportunities to fully communicate and live together.
Collective life and the cultivation of the collective spirit of the officer corps cannot be replaced by other methods. This is also the inevitable means to eliminate gangsterism and factionalism within the army.
If Zuo Guangying is to be used by Huaidong, it is more important for Zuo Guangying to have a sense of identity and trust in the Huaidong group than to win over material and official positions. The officer group formed on this basis will have a more cohesive combat effectiveness.
More powerful.
This kind of essence of military thought that will only appear in later generations is extremely difficult for people in the current world to imitate and learn.
In comparison, there was camaraderie in the military at that time, but it was only limited to a small area. This was precisely the breeding ground for factionalism and factionalism. If the area was large, generals would easily become suspicious of each other due to a lack of opportunities for communication.
; And often because of the imbalance of interests, resentments and mutual hostility arise.
As a result, small groups become more cohesive and more exclusive, and an army often becomes fragmented.
Hao Zongcheng supported the Jibei Army and watched the destruction of the Jinzhong Army. This is the most vivid example. If the generals of the Jibei Army and the Jinzhong Army were generally acquainted and had friendship, even if Hao Zongcheng, who held military power, wanted to sit back and watch the Jinzhong Army
To destroy him, we must also consider the pressure exerted on him by the generals of the Jibei Army.
Although Zuo Guangying was born as a fisherman and did not know much about literacy, he was able to stand out from thousands of people, so he was naturally outstanding.
In the previous joint operations, he realized that compared to the Huaidong Army's combat power, the Yongjia Army was better than a ragtag group.
After staying on Daheng Island for a few days, Zuo Guangying realized that the Huaidong Army was far behind the Yongjia Army in terms of regular construction, and immediately expressed the hope that Huaidong could send several officers to Lushan Island to assist him in building fortifications to defend the island.
and training generals and other matters.
Lin Fu was naturally willing to facilitate this matter, and immediately transferred three military commanders from the original southern raiding fleet to form a military team. He also welcomed Zuo Guangying and Yongjia to send generals to Daheng Island to participate in the training at the combat training school.
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On the fourth day of November, Liu Wenzhong rushed back to Daheng Island from Hangzhou. Chen Mingzhe, who was then the envoy of the Northern Zhejiang Province and the censor of the school, also came with Liu Wenzhong to Daheng Island to see Lin Fu.
Dong Yuan also tried his best to win over the Yongjia people. Obviously, the stronger the Yongjia people's momentum in southern Zhejiang, the more pressure they can reduce in northern Zhejiang.
Dong Yuan was also generous in material support for the Yongjia Army. He allocated full annual pay for five thousand soldiers at one time, which was 20% more than the number of soldiers reported by Liu Wenzhong - the excess was given to
General Yongjia added some people to try to win him over.
The allocated materials were all withdrawn from Pingjiang Prefecture. The most critical issue was how to safely transport them to Yueqing City by sea. Chen Mingzhe took full charge of the matter and was responsible for coordinating with Huaidong, so he followed Liu Wenzhong to Daheng Island.
See Lin Fu.
Liu Wenzhong was still satisfied with his trip to Hangzhou. Dong Yuan fully paid 40,000 shi of grain and 30,000 taels of silver at one time. He also sent Chen Mingzhe to supervise the matter with full authority, strictly prohibiting any delay or neglect from his subordinates.
But when he came to Daheng Island and saw Huaidong's support for Lushan Island, Liu Wenzhong was inevitably a little disappointed.
The Yongjia army was short of food, pay, and even more armor. The armor Dong Yuan allocated to the Yongjia army, in addition to enough spears and spears, was short of armor and bows and crossbows, only four hundred sets.
To train elite soldiers, armor plays an indispensable role.
If two armies with equal fighting will, equal quality of soldiers, and equal training intensity confront each other, if one side is fully armored and the other side lacks necessary defense equipment, there will be an extremely large disparity in casualties.
Perhaps more profound military thoughts are not something every general can understand and master, but putting armor on his troops as much as possible is the most profound and direct understanding of every general in the world.
Dong Yuan allocated four hundred sets of armor to the Yongjia Army at one time. It can no longer be said that Dong Yuan was stingy. Thinking back to the time when Lin Fu led the Jiangdong Left Army to the north to King Qin and relied on Gu Wuchen to coordinate, he did not receive so many armors and crossbows.
Spears consume less iron and can be made with rough iron. It does not require a pound of rough iron to make a spear - it can be made in the workshop of the North Zhejiang Manufacturing Department; armor is completely different.
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Not to mention scale armor, a pair of armor requires nearly thirty kilograms of fine iron - the better the iron material, the stronger the protection.
Repeatedly forged fine iron armor pieces can effectively defend against powerful crossbows and longbows at a distance of thirty to fifty steps; ordinary iron armor's effective protection distance is about twice as long.
Sharp contradictions and strong shields are the two extremes pursued in the development of military technology in the world.
The effective protection distance of thirty to fifty steps means that you can shoot one more round of arrows or receive one less round of arrows!
The Jiangning Ministry of Industry has the largest iron-making workshop in Dai Viet Dynasty, which can smelt more than 200,000 kilograms of refined iron every day in a year. The output of refined iron in the southeastern counties is probably less than one million kilograms, even if all the iron is used
If you want to make armor, how many armors can you make?
In addition to fine iron materials, the manpower consumed in making armor is also extremely terrifying.
Nowadays, the Jiangning Workshop is fully engaged in armor production, producing more than 8,000 sets of armor a year, most of which are leather armor with poor protection.
For such a large amount of output, the Changhuai Army, Huinan Army, Jiangning Garrison Army, Northern Zhejiang Army and Ningwang Palace Guards Camp are all competing for it; Jiangning Ministry of Industry naturally gives priority to meeting the needs of Ningwang Palace Guards Camp and Jiangning Garrison Army.
The Northern Zhejiang Army led by Dong Yuan still ranks behind the Changhuai Army and the Huinan Army.
The North Zhejiang Manufacturing Department also has its own ordnance workshop, but it can only make ordinary iron guns and iron spears. There is no source of fine iron materials and a large number of skilled craftsmen. Not to mention high-quality armor, if you want to make excellent steel
Knives and steel guns are all difficult.
Compared with armor, the production cycle of crossbows is longer, especially the material of elastic bow tires is difficult to find. For crossbows with a power of more than six buckets, the Jiangning workshop can only provide 4,000 pieces per year.
Dong Yuan allocated 400 sets of armor and 400 strong bows to the Yongjia Army at one time, which was quite generous, and he even had to withstand complaints from the generals within the Northern Zhejiang Army.
For example, Chen Hansan's Xuzhou Army and Sun Zhuang's Huaidong Army Division Infantry Division Division and Northern Army Division, who accepted the recruitment, could not get their money, soldiers, armor, ordnance replenished on time.
Liu Wenzhong was not dissatisfied. He understood the current situation and was even grateful for Dong Yuan's generosity.
But when I saw that Huaidong was under Zuo Guangying's command, he was given four hundred and twenty sets of armor per head at one time, the best of which were double-layered leather armor. In addition, twelve large bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows were paid.
A total of two hundred sets of high-quality crossbows and a thousand bundles of arrows were given - comparing them, Liu Wenzhong felt a little unbalanced.
The six copper-clad warships made Liu Wenzhong so greedy that he almost drooled. The thin copper plates covering the six warships alone were enough to create hundreds of sets of bronze armor.
Seeing how generous the Huaidong Army Division was, Liu Wenzhong couldn't blame Zuo Guangrong for getting involved with the Huaidong Army in just a few days.
They are all soldiers. Who can turn his subordinates into armored elites in a blink of an eye? Let alone become one, they can even call him "Grandpa".
Chen Mingzhe secretly lamented: Dong Yuan spent a lot of effort to win over the people in Yongjia, but in the face of Huaidong's wealth and wealth, he was greatly compromised in an instant!
Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying returned. Comparing this, most of the Yongjia Army generals would be eager to be assigned to the Huaidong Army Division, right?