The battle is all about logistics. Yun Zheng knows this. The total number of troops used in the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping exceeded one million. The Qin State used at least 600,000 troops, not including the more numerous logistics troops. This was a battle.
A classic example of relying on logistics to win.
Yun Zheng did not dare to expect the Song Dynasty to fully support him in fighting a war, so he did not dare to rely on the logistics supply of the local government of the Song Dynasty at the beginning of the war. In that case, he might starve to death as soon as he reached Guizhou.
, you can imagine with the soles of your feet what the supplies of a Xiang army will be like. Normally, you don’t have enough to eat in your own jurisdiction. How do you expect the officials outside to find out?
However, Wu Shengjun definitely achieved one of the most famous characteristics of the Song Dynasty, which was politeness. No matter what kind of treatment he encountered, he greeted him with a smile. Every soldier in Wu Shengjun knew what the general said: "You can do it in your heart."
Fuck his eighteen generations of ancestors, but you must show a smile, these bastards are more likely to succeed than fail. Even if we don't live on the chaff they give us, at least don't let them ruin our affairs."
So Peng Jiu greeted Yuezhou Cangcao with a smile on his face. Seeing that the springboard from the ship to the shore was unstable, he held it steady with his own hands, and even jumped on it twice to make sure it was safe before bowing his body and inviting Cangcao on board.
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Cang Cao got on the boat and praised Peng Jiu with satisfaction. Seeing that Wu Shengjun's general was not around, his face immediately fell. He snorted and said, "Your general is so majestic."
Peng Jiu quickly explained: "Reporting to Shangguan, my general went to the stern of the ship for inspection and won't be able to come back for a while, so I have the courage to come to greet Shangguan. If I'm rude, I'd like to thank Shangguan Haihan."
"If you don't see the chief officer, don't expect me to deliver the food and grass to you."
Peng Jiu said with a bitter face: "You must not be like this. My general has a bad temper, and he is a member of the sixth rank. He is also a civil servant, but he is unlucky enough to control us rough people."
Kuracao's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately raised his hands and asked, "I don't know who the general is..."
Peng Jiu smiled and said: "My general's surname is Yun Mingzheng, and his given name is Changsheng. He is a sect of Mr. Peng Li in Sichuan. He is from the same sect as Lu Jiepu. Later he specialized in the great righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", and he also worshiped in Baozhang Pavilion to serve Lu Qing.
Mr. Yuan, please..."
Cangcao quickly bowed and said: "It turns out that he is a son of a famous family. I am disrespectful. I am disrespectful. In this case, you can sign for this batch of food and grass."
Peng Jiu used Yun Zheng's seal and watched the porters loading all the grain onto the ship before sending Cang Cao away. He had just seen that the porters didn't look like they were carrying heavy objects while carrying the grain onto the ship.
After getting on the boat, I waited until Kusao left and took a look at the sack on the back of a porter. Sure enough, it contained only half a bag of brown rice and half a bag of rice bran.
Looking at Cang Cao who was leaving in a hurry, Peng Jiu did not intend to hold him accountable. The general told him to take whatever he gave him without arguing. He would settle the accounts slowly when he returned to the army. It was not a good time to cause trouble.
"Marquis Yu, I could eat these things before, but now I can't." A soldier grabbed a handful of rice bran from the rice bag and showed it to Peng Jiu, who looked very angry.
Peng Jiu kicked the soldier on the butt and said with a smile: "How many days have you had enough to eat? It was good to have this kind of food before, but these things are not for us to eat.
After it was clean, we fed it to the horses. The food we brought from Shu was enough to eat. Cui Canjun also bought a lot of white rice, which was enough for us to eat in Guizhou. But after entering Guizhou, we have to rely on food if we want to eat.
The knife is in our hands."
The soldier said with a smile on his face: "When we enter Guizhou, can we plunder? If we don't have army rations and we don't let plunder, we won't be able to survive."
Peng Jiu gritted his teeth and said: "The general said, it's okay to rob Nong Zhigao. You can do whatever you want, just treat them as bandits. But who dares to rob the people? You know the military laws of our Wu Sheng Army.
That's not easy to talk about, and it would be difficult for Xiaolin to get through it."
A group of people squatted together and figured out how to get more good things without violating military law. Such discussions were common in Wu Shengjun. After Yun Zheng established the military law, he allowed the sergeants to take advantage of loopholes. In the process of suppressing bandits, they
Sure enough, I found a lot of loopholes and made a lot of money relying on these loopholes.
This is a loophole deliberately left by Yun Zheng. As long as there are some innocuous loopholes to exploit, no one will be determined to violate military law. On the one hand, it can maintain the majesty of military law, and on the other hand, it can also have some humanity in the face of severe military law.
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The fleet set off, and the Xiang River in July was a good time to go upstream. Driven by the strong wind, these flat-bottomed boats quickly went south along the Xiang River. Most of the rivers in the Song Dynasty flowed eastward. Only the
The Xiang River flows north.
It is precisely because of this river flowing north that the central political group can use this ribbon to tightly bind the far south. The upstream Ling Canal was excavated and navigable from the Qin Dynasty, and it was not truly opened until the end of the Han Dynasty.
After its completion, it, like the Meiling Ancient Road, is the most important means of connecting the southwest.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the sergeants, Yun Zheng would order the entire army to disembark as long as both sides of the river were suitable for marching, and quickly travel along the river bank. This would reduce the burden on the big ships traveling upstream, and allow the war horses to adapt to the south.
climate.
When his army arrived in Quanzhou, he once again heard bad news. The Chen Department under the jurisdiction of Guangnan West Road was afraid that Di Qing would get the victory alone, so he led 8,000 infantry out in disobedience. Due to the lack of military discipline, the general had no authority and was defeated in Jincheng.
In the post, more than 000 soldiers died.
After Nong Zhigao defeated Chen Shu's army, he started a new round of retreat. He decisively gave up the prosperous Guizhou. Liuzhou once again reduced its military strength to Yongzhou. Guangxi Economic Strategy appeasement envoy Yu Jing,
After learning the lessons from Chen Shu, the pacification envoys Sun Miao and others on Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan West Road advanced slowly, recaptured Guizhou and Liuzhou one by one, and pushed the front line to Yongzhou and stood still, waiting for Di Qing's arrival.
It was at such a precarious moment that Yun Zheng came to Pennsylvania. It was already October, and he had spent more than four months on the road.
Before Yun Zheng could go to Guangxi to appease envoy Yu Jing and submit documents, he received a request from Yu Jing that Wu Sheng's army should stick to Wenquan Pass and block Huang Shimi's troops from retreating from Yizhou to Yongzhou. There was no need to go to Pennsylvania to report.
Zheng was very happy to receive this order and quickly returned to Wenquan Pass in Liuzhou from Pennsylvania. For him, a landowner like Huang Shimi was suitable for him to carve up. If he could kill the bandits who looted Yizhou, Nong Zhi would
One of Gao's arms would be chopped off. In Yun Zheng's view, the necessity of attacking Huang Shimi was much higher than that of Nong Zhigao.
Huang Shimi, like Zhang Yuan of Xixia, angrily took refuge in Nong Zhigao because of his failure in the examination, and gritted his teeth to "revenge" his own people. Huang Shimi's shadow can always be found in Nong Zhigao's invincible battles.
The civil unrest in the state was caused by this person.
It was under the instigation and planning of Huang Shimi and his brother Huang Wei that Nong Zhigao raised his troops brazenly. Instead of attacking Vietnam, which had the hatred of killing his father, he instead invaded the Song Dynasty with all his troops, causing the corruption in the southwest.
At least 150,000 people died in this disaster.
Huang Shimi was from Guangzhou, but it was because of his vanity to return home in fine clothes that Huang Shimi encouraged Nong Zhigao to attack Guangzhou. Fortunately, Guangzhou was able to defend it in the end. Otherwise, would Huang Shimi have come like Zhang Yuan?
A farce like "Guangzhou Revenge Poems" is unpredictable.
Yun Zheng hated this kind of people the most, but on the contrary, he didn't have much hatred for Nong Zhigao.
Wenquan Pass is an inconspicuous small pass. The city wall is only one foot high. It had been destroyed during Nong Zhigao's last invasion. When Yunzheng moved in, the bones he cleared were no less than three.
Judging from the clothes on the bones, most of the hundreds of bones were women and children, and more than seventy of the bones were just children.
The heat in the south is so intense that one year is enough to turn corpses exposed to the wind and rain into bones. The small hot spring pass and the surrounding mountains and fields are full of wild dogs with red eyes and crows flying all over the sky.
Yun Zheng and Zhou Tong stood on the city wall of Wenquan Pass, with dark cloud-like crows croaking above their heads, as if they were celebrating that human flesh was available to eat again.
"Yes, Wenquan Pass is located on the main road from Yizhou to Yongzhou. The terrain is flat and the mountains on both sides are not high, but steep. The people who originally chose this place to build the city gate were very discerning. Wenquan Pass has a man who can pass ten thousand people.
Fumo Kai's momentum is great." Yun Zheng was very satisfied with Hot Spring Pass, as his cavalry could try out new tactics here.
Zhou Tong said with a gloomy face: "It is indeed a good place. Huang Shimi is a big family here. The corpses of 20,000 natives are not enough to cover the open space here. Wild dogs and crows have food."
"That open space should be fertile farmland. Look, the wild rice is growing well, but no one is harvesting it. This land needs people to take care of it in order to grow good food. If possible in the future, the court should pay attention to this place.
The land in Guanzhong and Henan has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the land is barren. It is better to do less to plant a gourd and reap two gourds."
Zhou Tong jumped off the high wall and said to Yun Zheng bitterly: "Let's get more corpses to make the land here more fertile. Do you want to eat the food grown here?"
Yun Zheng laughed and said, "Eat it, why don't you eat it? As long as it's Hulu, I'll have no problem eating it raw."
Su Xun commanded the army to start repairing the city wall. Some places needed to be strengthened, some places needed to demolish the city wall, and some places needed to erect thick wooden piles.
The characteristics of Wu Shengjun's weapons dictate that they do not need a strong city, but a place that can be tightly defended and then attacked quickly. Hot Spring Pass is very suitable in every aspect. As long as they take a little rest, they can defeat Wu Shengjun.
It is an excellent battlefield... (To be continued)