Chapter 16 Strong Logistics Support
"Mr. Shangshu is really lucky." In the camp outside the south city gate, many soldiers were doing the final preparations before going to the expedition. Yan Fei, dressed in custom-made military uniforms, smiled and joked at Ni Yuanlu, "Before going out, you will be promoted again after you come back. Lord Ni's colleagues will probably be envious of you."
Ni Yuanlu was really angry. He came with the mood of serving the country with death and repaying Yan Fei's kindness. However, he didn't expect that Yan Fei would be ridiculed. He was so angry that the corners of his mouth trembled and pointed at Yan Fei and could not speak.
"Don't get me wrong, Lord Ni." Yan Fei smiled and waved his hand, turning his eyes to the clear sky without a cloud of miles. "I'm not joking. People's paths are all taken by themselves. Master Ni can stand up at this time and walk his own path. It's natural to get anything after that. What I want to tell Lord Ni now is that we will definitely win!"
"What is this?!" When Ni Yuanlu followed Yan Fei to an extended trailer, her whole body trembled in fright.
This is already good. People in this era have not collapsed when they see large-scale mechanical products in modern industrial society, but their psychological quality is super high. When they were brought here just now, the officers and soldiers under their command were so scared that they knelt down and kowtowed in countless fears.
This is the command car prepared by Yan Fei for himself. It was modified and brought with him after purchasing it in the modern world. It has a complete living facilities, and there is even an air-conditioned bartender and bathroom, etc. It can be regarded as a large RV.
In addition to this large RV, there are also a large number of trucks in the camp. In addition to troop transport, there are also a large number of supplies and tow cannons.
It has been more than two months since the time and space channel was opened, and Yan Fei has not been idle during this period. In addition to normal training, his soldiers also specially trained a group of soldiers with special skills, and the driver is one of them.
The time is too short, the technology will definitely not be very good. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century did not have traffic police or cameras, and there were no other vehicles on the road to make trouble. These newcomers who had just started the road could at least drive the car.
Although Yan Fei's officers and soldiers were trained strictly, the time was too short. In the cold winter, the marching outside for hundreds of miles in the wilderness of the cold winter months, let alone Yan Fei himself was unwilling to let the officers and soldiers under his command could not withstand it. And with these heavy trucks, everything became simpler.
"This is this..." Looking at the rows of densely packed steel beasts in front of him, Ni Yuanlu was speechless. The impact of this scene in front of him was too great, making him not know what to say at all.
"I shipped these from overseas." Yan Fei lies without changing his face. "The ones bought from overseas are very useful. We can go to Baoding Mansion in the morning even if there is no good road at night. I won't say much about other combat power. Just because of this mobility, do you think we can win?"
Ni Yuanlu was still in shock and couldn't come back to her senses. She could only look at the steel square in front of her. This was a spectacular scene he had never seen before.
"By the way, why are there no eunuchs and military supervisors?" Yan Fei asked casually after inviting Ni Yuanlu to get on the command car.
"I originally ordered Xu Yingyuan, the eunuch of the East Factory, but in the morning, I said that the epidemic suddenly couldn't come." Ni Yuanlu, who was sitting on the sofa and drank a cup of hot tea, finally recovered a little, and said contemptuously about the eunuch.
"Oh." Yan Fei shrugged his shoulders indifferently. "When we come back, he will probably fall ill. He is angry."
Ni Yuanlu lifted the curtains and looked through the thick car windows as she watched the heavy trucks roaring forward outside. She was trembling and suddenly turned around and looked at Yan Fei. "How much is the truck's silver for these cards?!"
"Hmm?" Yan Fei was stunned, and then calculated the price in his mind. If it was calculated based on more than three grams of silver, it would cost about two thousand taels of silver. "Two thousand taels of silver per car."
"Two thousand taels?" Ni Yuanlu looked at Yan Fei blankly. This was higher than the salary of the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet!
Yan Fei actually doesn't care about letting locals get in touch with these industrial-era technological products. It doesn't matter even if they are stolen or robbed.
The flintlock rifles used by the soldiers are customized ammunition. Without ammunition supply, it is a fire stick. The same is true for artillery, even if you want to use things from this era instead.
As for cars, it is even simpler. Every time you refuel, Yan Fei transports oil from the warehouse of the modern world. What is the use of a car without oil? At most, it will be dismantled and smelted iron.
If these industrial products in the modern world lose Yan Fei's logistics support, they will not be able to play a corresponding role.
Yan Fei got up and took out a bottle of royal salute and two cups from the wine cabinet, picked up a few pieces of ice from the refrigerator and returned to the sofa to sit down. After pouring the wine, he handed it to Ni Yuanlu who was sitting opposite him, "This is the price, no shipping fee is calculated."
Ni Yuanlu is not a nerd who can become the Minister of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty. Over the years, overseas red-haired people have been constantly coming to the Ming Dynasty to ask for business, and many Ming people have already had initial contact with the outside world.
Ni Yuanlu knew very well that the Ming Dynasty things would be at least several times the price to be transported overseas from thousands of miles away. Will this magical object called trucks not increase in price when transported overseas? How is it possible!
If two thousand taels of silver are several times more than twice as many, it will be sold at least ten thousand taels per car. Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty court is now full of holes that cannot be filled, and the Ministry of Revenue is even poorer, and the rats are carrying their bags with tears in their eyes. Even in the years of good weather, they can't buy much of the year.
"General Yan is really rich." Looking at the at least hundreds of heavy trucks outside, Ni Yuanlu sincerely praised him.
"It's okay." Yan Fei smiled and raised his wine glass and signaled, "I also feel that I'm doing business well."
Of course, there were no expressways and no toll stations in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The so-called official roads were also the level of rural dirt roads. Fortunately, Yan Fei bought all the Dongfeng Tianlong heavy trucks with good performance, and they were all trucks that could transport strong off-road capabilities on construction sites, and the requirements for roads were not high.
Yan Fei ordered a total of 600 vehicles at one time, not only did he get a discount for each unit with a large quantity of about 200,000 yuan. He also got a certain modification and a good rear-load standard box that can accommodate a large number of soldiers and supplies.
At noon, the convoy stopped to rest, and the cooking squad set up a large pot of tools to prepare food. The baggage soldiers who had been wandering for a whole morning finally had time to rest, and they jumped out of the car and vomited so hard that it was so dark.
It was said that the Beijing camp went on an expedition, but in fact, except for the troops under Yan Fei, the other Beijing camps only gathered five thousand soldiers and threw them over. Although Yan Fei took over these people, they all included in the ranks of baggage soldiers.
Most of these baggage soldiers were rogues who impersonated money or were captured men. They originally thought that they would run away after leaving Beijing, and that they would not only not have to go to war and die, but also make a fortune in vain.
But when I saw the truck, I was already scared. I didn’t know where I came after the bumps in the morning. In this winter, I wanted to escape in the wilderness, and even if no one caught me, I would starve to death and freeze to death in the wild. The cold winter of the Little Ice Age is not just a saying. It can really freeze people to death.
After all the bile was spit out, the baggage soldiers saw the smelly pot nearby and asked the veteran about what he was doing.
The veteran ignored the fact that he was no different from their performance when he first took the bus. Of course, he responded with a contemptuous look on his face and had a meal.
The recruits were stunned. There was no such thing as having lunch.
"We have three meals a day!" The veteran's reply made these people stunned, and then they went crazy when they saw that no one could eat a canned meat and instant noodles until they could not bear it.
Now no one is thinking about running away anymore. They even want to join Yan Fei's command and have three full meals and meat every day!
"Why didn't Zihou eat with the soldiers?" Ni Yuanlu, sitting on the sofa, picked up a piece of tender beef stick with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. She asked Yan Fei opposite the coffee table, "Only by untiing clothes and pushing food can we collect the morale of the army and let the soldiers of the three armies use their lives."
"I'm not taking this route." Yan Fei picked up the beer and sipped. "I'm taking the technology-suppressing route, there's no need to do that."
There were more than a dozen dishes on the coffee table in the command car. This was not made by the chefs in the military, but by Yan Fei, who had returned to the modern world before, ordered from the restaurant in his office. He was really a little uncomfortable with the food from the Ming Dynasty, let alone the instant noodles and canned meat.
"Technology suppression?" Ni Yuanlu, who was fighting with a chicken leg, looked at Yan Fei with a stunned expression on her face. "How can you explain this?"
"I am not the general like King Chu who relies on personal charm to drive the army. Although I think this would definitely be better than Xiang Yu." Yan Fei explained with a smile, "The route I took is to cooperate with advanced weapons and equipment to conduct crushing battles with excellent logistics. This is the right way."
Yan Fei was not wrong. The army that relied on the personal charm and ability of the generals was like Germany, which emerged in many famous generals during World War II. Although the German army won most ground battles, it ended in failure.
Crushing combat is like the US military, crushing its opponents with strong strength to win. Perhaps there is no famous general in the US military who can make surprises in surprise, but they can rely on their strength to defeat any opponent. Unless the opponent's strength is stronger than them.
In the seventeenth century world, there is absolutely no one who can be more powerful than Yan Fei in terms of weapons and equipment and logistics supply.
Chapter completed!