Dahan first prince

Chapter 16 The army has not moved, food and grass go first

On the second day after returning to Chang'an, Prime Minister Xiao He waited for a visit from Shaofu Qing Yang Chengyan at his Fenghou Mansion.

When the guest of honor was seated in the classroom, on Yang Chengyan's bright face that had been through the years, Xiao He could not be surprised to see a look of distress that was almost the same as his own.

"Young Mansion is here, could it be..."

Before Xiao He's voice fell, Yang Chengyan let out a long and bitter sigh.

"The battle is imminent, and with the full strength of the Shaofu, I will match the bow, feather, arrow, sword, spear and halberd, and they will always be inseparable."

"But regarding the military rations, the Shaofu really has nothing to adjust..."

After saying that, Yang Chengyan shook his head helplessly and sighed, subconsciously picked up the tea bowl at hand, and regained his composure, but lost the interest in tasting tea.

As the saying goes, the army has not moved, and the food and grass go first.

In this era, the biggest war and the most strategic material is the food that is not easy for future generations to understand.

Except for a small group of troops making a surprise attack, or planning to fight to the death like Xiang Yu under Julu City, otherwise, no general would dare to lead an army without a sure guarantee of food and grass!

If the rations for one to three months are not delivered in advance, no general dares to lead the army into the position.

The reason is simple: in this era, food is almost the only guarantee for soldiers' morale.

With food, no matter how bad the battle situation is, the soldiers can always comfort themselves with "It's a big deal, it's an honor, but at least it's a stuffed ghost".

But if there is a shortage of food, no matter how smooth the battle is, even if there is a defeat that cannot be too small, the morale of the army will collapse and the army will collapse.

——In the Battle of Julu 12 years ago, how did Xiang Yu defeat the Qin Great Wall Army that came back to aid?

In the case that the enemy and our forces are likely to reach 3:1, or even 4:1, Xiang Yu can really kill the Qin Great Wall Army, which is known as the strongest and most difficult to defeat in the known world. ?

The truth of the matter is, not so.

It is true that Xiang Yu broke the boat and made the soldiers of the Chu army under his command burst out with extremely powerful fighting spirit in a short period of time.

But the real decisive factor in the Battle of Julu was that the first thing Xiang Yu's army did after crossing the Zhangshui River was to attack Zhang Han's troops who were in charge of protecting the grain roads, completely cutting off the grain supplies of Wang Li's main force. road!

As soon as the food road was cut off, the soldiers of the Qin army were in a state of chaos, and coupled with the high fighting spirit of the Chu army, the overlord broke the boat, smashed the giant deer, and captured more than 20 Qin soldiers. legend.

The reason why the safety of food roads can play such a vital role in the morale of the army is that the only thing the soldiers care about is: can they have a full meal before going to the battlefield tomorrow?

After all, killing the enemy and making meritorious service, beheading generals and capturing the flag are only achievements that can be achieved by a lucky few.

For most ordinary soldiers in this era, eating and drinking enough, accumulating enough strength, giving priority to saving their own lives on the battlefield, and then waiting for an opportunity to inflict damage on the enemy is the top priority for their lives.

But now, the Central Committee of Chang'an wants to send a large army out of the customs to put an end to the Chen Xi Rebellion that has not yet broken out. Naturally, it is necessary to ensure the logistics of weapons, military supplies, and meat.

But even this most basic preparation work before the war has left Xiao He, who is the prime minister, and Yang Chengyan, who is the young mansion, overwhelmed and haggard...

"Ugh……"

"Princes with different surnames come and go, and the war in the Kanto is endless. I don't know when, there will be two years of peace..."

The war is imminent, do we need to prepare food in advance?

The answer is inevitable.

But today's Han Dynasty has gone through nearly ten years, and has almost never stopped fighting...

Twelve years ago, in the first year of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the head of the Pavilion of Sishui, raised his troops in Peixian County to fight against Qin. Ten years ago, in the first year of Han Dynasty, the Qin Empire collapsed.

The mainland of China, which was unified by Qin Shihuang, was divided into eighteen vassal states again under the enfeoffment of the overlord Xiang Yu.

Liu Bang, who was named the King of Han by Xiang Yu, could only withdraw from the land of the Three Qin Dynasty in embarrassment after the Hongmen Banquet, and went to his own fief: Hanzhong.

Just half a year later, the overlord Xiang Yu's attention was attracted by the self-proclaimed king Tian Rong of Qi. Han Wang Liu Bang took the opportunity to go north to Hanzhong, build plank roads, cross Chen Cang secretly, and wiped out Xiang Yu's Yong Wang Zhang Han and Sai Wang Sima Xin and King Zhai (yì) were able to return the Sanqin!

After occupying the lands of Sanqin and Hanzhong, the soldiers of the Han army under Liu Bang almost left Hangu eastward without making any adjustments, and started the four-year Chu-Han war for hegemony.

In February of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu slayed himself in Wujiang, and Liu Bang succeeded to the throne in Sishui. The Han Dynasty, which was able to dominate the world, began the chaos of princes and kings with different surnames that has continued to this day...

——Just a few months after the Han Dynasty was established, that is, in the autumn and July of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Yan King Zang Tu took the lead in rebelling!

A few months later, Linjiang Wang rebelled;

In the autumn of the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Han Wangxin secretly tied up with the Huns, which directly triggered the subsequent Han-Hungarian Battle of Pingcheng.

It was also during this battle that Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was besieged by the Xiongnu Shanyu Modun in Baideng Mountain for seven days and seven nights...

In the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, Han Xin, the king of Chu, was relegated to the Marquis of Huaiyin because of "attempted rebellion";

In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ao, king of Zhao, was relegated to the title of Marquis of Xuanping because of his 'attempted rebellion';

This year, the tenth year of the Han Era, is the imminent rebellion of Chancellor Chen Xi...

It is no exaggeration to say: Since the first year of the Han Dynasty, when the Han army was able to return the Sanqin, ten years later this year, almost every year, a battle broke out in the Han Dynasty and lasted for more than three months, with hundreds of thousands of people participating in the battle. The big battle!

During these ten years, Xiao He, as the prime minister, almost only did one thing.

——Do everything possible to prepare all the logistical supplies needed for the battle for the Han army fighting in all parts of the Kanto!
Even when Xiao He was granted the title of Marquis of Feng, the compliments given by the emperor Liu Bang were, "Suppress the country and caress the people, give wages to the people, keep food and roads, I am not as good as Xiao He"...

After fighting for more than ten years in a row, the Han Dynasty finally had a peaceful year without war last year, but happened to meet the year before last, last year, and this year for three consecutive years. '.

Especially now that the autumn harvest is just around the corner, and the people in all parts of Guanzhong have already run out of food in order, and they are waiting for the autumn harvest to renew the family's life, Xiao He and Yang Chengyan's army ration preparation work has fallen into an extremely difficult situation.

——If you don’t have enough food for yourself, how can someone sell food to take away?

Even if there is still food in circulation in the market, it must be the high-priced food that is "provided in limited quantities" by merchants.

The kind of food that is often "priced at two thousand yuan with stones" is obviously not something that the Han Dynasty can afford today, buying millions of stones as military rations...

　Sorry, I originally set the automatic release at 14:30, I don't know what happened, but the 15 chapters in the draft box disappeared...

　　I searched the computer at home for a long time, but there was still nothing. I went to the Internet cafe to open it, and the recycle bin was empty...

　　No way, I can only rewrite this chapter, so I posted it a little later.

　　Subsequent chapters have been scheduled to be released until November 14, and are updated every day at 30:21 and 00:[-].

　　
　
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