Chapter 901 The seriously underestimated Qingzhou Yellow Turban
When Guan Yu and Zhang Liao each returned to the camp with five thousand talisman carts of meat, eggs and vegetables, their soldiers cheered, as if they were celebrating the New Year.
"Good stuff, really good stuff!"
"This much meat, as well as eggs and vegetables, is enough for us to eat for half a month!"
"It would be great if we could catch up with the Yellow Turban Army's logistics personnel and have a steady supply!"
"Go ahead and have your big dreams. Even if you can get such good food and supplies, you will have to pay for it next time!"
"Isn't it just payment? We have conquered so many cities in these days. If we just take out some of them, it will be enough for us to eat every day!"
"If you really want to do it, go talk to the general and see if he is willing!"
"You guys are so insidious. Why do you encourage me to come forward for such a thing? We have to go together. Even if the general gets angry, we can carry it together!"
"Ignore all that, it's really important to have a few fat meals!"
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Not to mention the lower-level officers and soldiers eating happily and having their mouths full of oil, even the senior officials of Liu Bei Group and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry also enjoyed themselves eating the food and grass supplies they received from the Yellow Turban Army.
"Hey, the life of the Yellow Turban Army is really enviable!"
All the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry executives gathered in Lu Bu's handsome tent, eating and drinking while shaking their heads. Hou Cheng looked satisfied and said regretfully: "It's a pity that I can't enjoy it every day!"
This sentence aroused a chorus of agreement from the commander-in-chief, but even Lu Bu, who was sitting in the main seat, did not utter a word to refute.
It's not that they are short-sighted, but during the march, they can naturally eat the best food because of their status, but they can't eat meat, eggs, vegetables and poultry together.
Ordinarily, the land of Huainan was originally very wealthy, otherwise Yuan Shu would not have regarded this as his home base.
It's a pity that Yuan Shu's ability is very poor. He and his men harmed the prosperous land of Huainan and made the people miserable. They lived in poverty.
It was the same in Nanyang before. It was the most prosperous county in the Han Dynasty, but it was almost collapsed due to the disasters of Yuan Shu and his men. In the end, it was really impossible to squeeze out any profit, so it had to be transferred to Huainan to continue the troubles.
The same is true. Although the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry destroyed many Huainan cities and took away a lot of gold, silver, copper coins, etc., they lacked daily necessities such as food, meat, and poultry.
The best thing is naturally enjoyed by Lu Bu and other high-ranking officials, but they cannot provide meat, vegetables and eggs for every meal like the Yellow Turban Army, let alone the soldiers under their command. A multi-grain pancake mixed with wild vegetable soup is quite good.
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"I don't know how the Yellow Turban Army did it. If you have the chance, you should learn from it!"
This sentence also attracted a chorus of agreement from the commander-in-chief.
Even though they are all high-level officials of the Bingzhou Army, their lives are actually not that smooth.
Previously, he had been wandering around with his boss, Lu Bu, and he was always on tenterhooks for fear of being used as cannon fodder and killed. It was not until Xiaopei's life became easier.
It's a pity that Bingzhou Langqi is a purely military group, and there are basically no experts on hand to govern the local area.
That is to say, the military advisor Chen Gong is extremely capable and can barely maintain the logistics supply of Bingzhou Langqi from being cut off. If he wants to do better, he cannot do it alone.
The key point is that the top management of Bingzhou Langqi are all a bunch of warriors. Even the most capable Zhang Liao has no ability to govern the place. In addition, Lu Bu has a reputation as a "house slave with three surnames" that stinks on the street. It is basically difficult to recruit people with the ability to govern the place.
A talented literati can only make do with his life.
But who would be willing to live a tight life all day long if they could have a better life?
Forget it if there is no Yellow Turban Army for comparison. Even if Liu Bei is the Mud of Xuzhou, the life of his men and horses will not be much better.
It is true that Xuzhou is wealthy, but the real wealth comes from aristocratic families and local powerful people, and has little to do with the government.
Liu Bei is not only concerned about himself, he also has to consider feeding his army of more than ten million. The local garrison can be ignored, but the core troops must consider their food problem.
It is quite difficult to seize resources from aristocratic families and local powerful people while ensuring the basic order and stability of Xuzhou.
It is said that Liu Bei was worse off than Lu Bu. He didn't have a talented person like Chen Gong under his command. The governance of Xuzhou relied on the rich families and local powerful people here, and his life was very tight and not very rich.
As the saying goes, the eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother, and he is talking about Liu Bei Group and Bingzhou Langqi.
However, in Yuan Shu's expedition to Huainan this time, with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army as a comparison, both Liu Bei's group and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry felt extremely depressed.
Although Yuan Shu's men were rubbish, and Liu Beijun and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry were deliberately showing off, the Yellow Turban Army was not allowed to take action all the way, but the gap between the two sides in military discipline, military capacity, and logistical support really cannot be ignored.
Especially in terms of logistical support, the gap was so great that the two families were desperate.
It's not that the Yellow Turban Army is competitive, on the contrary, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is very friendly. Any city that Liu Bei's army and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry conquered, the Yellow Turban Army will not even enter the city, so how can they fight for any spoils?
But the two families grabbed a lot of good things, but in terms of later supplies, they were not as good as the Yellow Turban Army, which was embarrassing.
This time, the generals in the army were making such a fuss that in the end the generals from both sides had to take the initiative and shamelessly begged for five thousand talisman carts of food and supplies each. They enjoyed the food in their mouths but felt very unhappy in their hearts.
"What do you think, sir?"
Lu Bu was not polite at all. He ate all the meat, vegetables, eggs and vegetables on the table in front of him in a few seconds. He took the basin handed to him by his soldiers and washed himself. Then he looked at the man beside him who was slowly eating vegetables.
Chen Gong asked.
"It's not easy!"
It was rare to be able to eat fresh vegetables. Chen Gong first ate all the vegetables on the table in front of him, and then said slowly: "Gong also went to the Yellow Turban camp to have a look before. Not to mention the layout of the camp, just their logistics and supply capabilities.
Much better than us and Liu Shijun’s family!”
"Is there any chance to learn what they are capable of?"
Lu Bu didn't mean to be angry. He couldn't be angry just because someone else's army was stronger than his own. He would have been angry to death long ago.
"There's no way to learn it!"
Chen Gong smiled bitterly and said: "The Yellow Turban Army dares to do this because they have a complete foundation in Qingzhou, which is enough to supply them with a steady stream of food and grass supplies. We do not have such a foundation!"
"What about the Talisman Car? Is there any way to make it myself?"
Lu Bu is not a fool, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are not hiding anything. Basically every half month, 10,000 talisman carriages return to Qingzhou's home base, bringing back full carts of food and supplies. This is the number of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans riding on each of the two million Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
The main reason for having a good meal.
He could see that the talisman was a good thing. It was loaded with so much food and supplies that only a pack horse could fly. If it were a general, a talisman cart could carry more than twenty people at a time.
Man, if you hitch up a horse and run at least as fast as a cavalryman.
As the boss of the Wolf Cavalry in Bingzhou and a 'flying general' who had fought many battles with foreign races on the grasslands, Lu Bu obviously had a very accurate view of the mobility of his men and horses. He could see at a glance the importance of the Fu Chariot in logistical transportation and military motorization.
Amazing effect.
Privately, he and Chen Gong also talked about this. If the Yellow Turban Army's two million elite cavalry dismounted and took the accompanying 100,000 talisman vehicles, the speed would not be slow at all, and the maneuverability might be stronger than the cavalry.
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This is a powerful fighting force!
Although the Yellow Turban Army has not taken action yet, Lu Bu did not dare to underestimate him at all.
If the Talisman Chariot can be copied, the combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry will reach a higher level. Even Lu Bu, with his unruly and arrogant character, is quite eager to do so.
"Difficult, difficult!"
Chen Gong smiled bitterly and said: "No one expected that Taiping Taoist masters would have such abilities. If Zhang Jiao had such vision, the price the imperial court would have to pay to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army would have been even heavier!"
As the most intelligent person in the world, Chen Gong has long been aware of the benefits of the talisman car. It is not that he has not inquired about it in private and thought about it.
But the final result is quite helpless. Without the help of Taiping Taoist, it will be useless no matter how many talisman vehicles we get now. Bingzhou Langqi has no talents who can maintain and manufacture them.
What Lu Bu could think of, he could naturally think of it, and he could think even more deeply. He felt that the Talisman Car was of great use, and it was not an exaggeration to call it an important weapon of the country.
Also regarding the use of Taiping Taoist masters, even he had to admire Lei Hudao, the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. In the past, no one took these Taiping Taoist masters seriously, and even classified them as evil sects and severely attacked them.
Although Talisman is a branch of cultivation, there are not many Talisman masters in the Han Dynasty. Zhang Jiao is one of them, but he raised a banner to rebel, and forcibly dragged Talisman into the category of evil sects.
In other words, the performance of the spell in combat is actually very average, but on the contrary, its role in assisting is not small.
In the beginning, Zhang Jiao relied on Fu Shui to cure his illnesses and was able to gather so many Yellow Turbans. As for the Taiping Taoist masters, their level was not comparable to Zhang Jiao's, so naturally no one paid attention to them.
But who knew that the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou would change his mind and make Taiping Taoist's role reach an astonishing level, turning decay into magic.
"It seems that we still seriously underestimated the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Their strength is much stronger than imagined!"
Lu Bu's face looked quite ugly, but he was helpless against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban.
The power revealed by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban alone is not something he can ignore. Who knows what the Qingzhou Yellow Turban's lair has become like with the Taiping Taoist's methods?
"Now that Marquis Wen has figured it out, we can think carefully about our relationship with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in the future!"
Chen Gong smiled and said: "Liu Shijun can be friends with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, so can we, and we can have more in-depth cooperation!"