Chapter 155 Hope you return (2)

"General Su!"

Looking at Su Quandang, who stood tall and majestic on the bow of the boat, Chen Jianghan only felt that he was so cute and waved intimately.

Su Quandang bowed and signaled, "Mr. Chen, I'm working hard."

Chen Jianghan laughed even more and couldn't stop, and blinked his eyes and asked his subordinates to help with the transport.

Afterwards, he was overjoyed as boxes of supplies were moved out of the ship.

This can somewhat alleviate the suffering of material scarcity in the Southern Song Dynasty court.

After Zhao Dongting received this news in the palace, he was also full of joy.

In less than two months, the imperial court's grain warehouse was filled with food. The nobles and gentry had a lot of surplus grain at home. Although they were not willing to sell it to the court, it was more like taking advantage of the war to wait for a price. However, the Southern Song Dynasty court is now extremely popular in Leizhou, and they dare not act rashly, so they can only sell the grain to the court honestly.

Zhao Dongting practices swordsmanship, reads books, and practices arts in the room every day, and his swordsmanship is also improving day by day.

He can now stab more than a dozen grass rings in three breaths. In the past, he didn't even dare to think about it.

On that day, outside the grain warehouse in Haikang County, three thousand guards were waiting in groups.

In ancient times, when the three armies were fighting, food and grass were ahead before they moved, and food and grass were the top priority. There were almost no army with no food to win.

Unless it is a surprise attack, the troops will not carry too much food, such as the Battle of Benzhou or the Battle of Qiongzhou.

In the square in front of the grain warehouse, there were a total of two thousand grain transport trucks neatly arranged. Under the command of the commander, each soldier transported the grain and grass out of the inventory and piled it into the grain trucks.

These grain trucks look like bucket trucks, but there are four wheels on both sides of the truck, and the middle of the wheels is connected by huge steel chains. This is naturally Zhao Dongting's invention. To put it bluntly, it is a large eight-person bicycle.

More than a month ago, Zhao Dongting designed this kind of food truck, but it was only a matter of not making the generals of the three armies ecstatic.

This kind of grain truck can carry nearly 1,500 kilograms of weight, and it is naturally much easier to use horses or push them by humans.

More importantly, this makes the army no longer need to hire the people to transport grain during the march.

In the past, when an army of 20,000 people went out to fight, it would take 30,000 people to transport grain alone. If the distance was longer, the food eaten by the people would take up most of the entire grain. Now, the vehicle invented by Zhao Dongting not only allowed the army to transport grain by itself, but also saved a lot of horses for transporting grain.

Calculate one kilogram per day for one soldier, ten thousand soldiers a day for ten thousand kilograms. Even if each grain truck only holds one thousand kilograms of grain, ten cars are enough.

Ten cars and soldiers change shifts to transport grain every two quarters of an hour. How many people are needed to travel for eight hours a day?

There are only about one thousand three hundred people.

Zhao Dongting was only planning to bring two months of food in Guangxi during this trip, and two thousand grain trucks were enough.

Because he only planned to bring 35,000 troops to Guangxi.

There are 12,000 imperial guards in front of the palace, nearly 5,000 guards, more than 8,000 Yuan troops, and 10,000 Divine Beggars.

In fact, this was already a huge army in ancient wars. Due to the limitation of food and grass, it was destined that there were no too many people fighting in ancient times. Those who often had hundreds of thousands or millions were just exaggerations, and those who transported food and grass alone accounted for two-thirds, at least half.

The real battle between hundreds of thousands of troops is only a handful of in the entire history, and the decisive battle between the two countries is almost the same.

As for the 30,000 Yellow Dragon Imperial Guards, Zhao Dongting asked Liu Hongyi to lead them to stay in Leizhou.

First, the grain warehouse in Leizhou is not enough to supply food and grass for 60,000 soldiers. Moreover, Leizhou cannot be without defenders.

Most of these Huanglong Imperial Guards were locals. When there was a war, they were soldiers. When there was no war, they would go home to farm. This was called the garrison system. In ancient times, most of the army troops were in this system. Because the population was insufficient, it was difficult to support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

As for the two-month food of 35,000 people, it was only more than 1,000 tons. Zhao Dongting asked the troops to carry their own food and grass and go to the war with the army. It was nothing more than a delay, but he no longer had to withdraw the strong men.

The role of this kind of grain truck can be imagined. It seems simple, but in fact it solved the problem of logistics difficulties in wars in ancient times.

The soldiers of each army were full of excitement and were full of energy to move the food and grass to the grain trucks allocated by their army.

After moving ten bags, I walked in a row with a new grain truck.

Only Chen Jianghan took the minor official to count the number at the entrance of the grain warehouse with heartache.

In fact, this matter does not require his dignified Minister of Finance to come, but his rooster temperament is so strong that he can't help but want to come and take a look.

Seeing the soldiers of each army moving the beam happily, he kept shouting: "You have to take so much food and grass, but you have to win the battle! But you have to win the battle!"

The soldiers just laughed.

It took two hours to stop in front of the grain warehouse.

Chen Jianghan looked at the almost empty grain warehouse and almost burst into tears, "My grain..."

The ministers and officials in the Finance Department next to them all laughed, and wanted to laugh but didn't dare.

The next morning, the clouds were a little low and the sky was dark.

Outside Haikang County, countless flags fluttered in the wind. The flags of the imperial guards in front of the hall, the personal guards, and the Yuan army were clearly divided.

Under the banner are the tips of the guns with cold light. These tips are forged by Zhao Dongting's new smelting method, and are bright all over.

Further down the tip of the gun is a complete red tassel or Fan Yangli. The one with the helmet is a general above the centurion, while the one with the Fan Yangli is an ordinary soldier.

Except for the 30,000 Huanglong Imperial Army and the defenders of various counties, the rest of the soldiers in Leizhou can be said to be here.

All armies were in front of the horse army, and the heavy-armored horse army even protected all the scales and light appeared.

Zhao Dongting stood at the head of Haikang County wearing a black gold-patterned armor. He looked at the endless Southern Song army soldiers in front of him, and was full of enthusiasm.

Le Wugong was beside him, and his face was full of solemnity.

Among the generals including Yue Peng, Su Quandang, Wanyan Zhang, Liu Hongyi, etc., only Liu Hongyi had a slightly bitter face because Zhao Dongting refused to let him go to the war.

In fact, Zhao Dongting kept him in control of Leizhou. In addition to being the commander of the Huanglong Imperial Army, he also had a family and did not want him to die in the battlefield. Without war, no matter how strong his skills and the general who planned his strategy could be trapped in the battlefield.

Liu Hongyi's wife He Huixiang is an excellent woman. She is pregnant with her children, so Zhao Dongting doesn't want her to stay at home alone.

Speaking of offspring, it is thanks to Doctor An. It turns out that the two have no offspring, which is because Doctor An uses medicine to help him with conditioning.

This also made He Huixiang and Liu Hongyi grateful to Zhao Dongting and Doctor An.

After a while of silence, Zhao Dongting suddenly became the top, "Where are the soldiers of the three armies?"
Chapter completed!