please make me king

Chapter 1353
After receiving the order, Li Zicheng led Li Guo, Zhang Fatty, Song Xiance, Ji Longfeng and other [-] people, and hurried to the Xuanfu.

Seeing that Li Zicheng, Li Guo and Fatty Zhang went all the way, Zhang Shun, who was quite worried about Xuanda's situation, couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

Although in the original history, Li Zicheng was not a qualified founding emperor, but according to Zhang Shun's understanding of him in this era, no matter in terms of talent or qualifications, this person can be called a good general.

"One general has more than enough wisdom, but ten thousand chariots have not enough talent", as the saying goes!

Now it is still a piece of cake for him to lead the army to hold back the formation for him, not to seek no merit but no fault, to stabilize the situation and declare the situation for himself.

"Your Highness, shall we go too?" Seeing that the first officer had called, Xu Ziyuan, chief of staff, couldn't hold back.

"Let's go? Don't worry!" Zhang Shun laughed when he heard the words. Anyway, now that Li Zicheng was going to stabilize the situation for him, he didn't have to worry so much.

"It just so happens that Li Shukong is nearby, but I can send an order to him to rectify his troops and come to see me immediately."

"By the way, I will draft a letter for me to Sun Chuanting in a while, asking him to transfer the 'Gourd King' Ren Liang from the Three Cliffs out of his lair and train him to make up for my lack of troops."

"Insufficient troops?" Gao Qiqian beside Xu Ziyuan and Zhang Shun was startled when he heard this.

In this small Shanxi, you have gathered [-] soldiers and horses in one go.

Now that Shanxi and Datong towns have been swallowed successively, there are not thirty soldiers and horses in all places, but there are twenty-seven or eight. How can there be insufficient troops?
"My king's worry is not about soldiers and horses, but food and grass!" Zhang Shun shook his head seeing that the two hadn't realized the problem.

"This trip to the Northeast will definitely be a fierce battle, and the winner will not be determined in a short time."

"Thus, the three armies went ahead without using food and grass. This king had to make a long-term plan for the world."

"Resist... what Ah Shan said, that Jin Guohan Hongtai has a big plan this time, and he has poured [-] elite soldiers from all over the country, wanting to compete with me for the world."

"One... [-]?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

The false king Azig led only [-] troops, and the Shanxi war situation was turned upside down.

If it weren't for Zhang Shun's sudden whim, I'm afraid the rebel army's plan to seize the whole of Shanxi would have been aborted.

Now Donglu still has an army of [-], how can this be achieved?

"Only one hundred thousand troops, what's it worth?" Gao Qiqian started out as a servant, and he was the best at observing words and expressions. Seeing that the generals were afraid, he couldn't help cheering up.

"King Shun has [-] to [-] horses under his command, three to one, four to one, and still can't beat him? Guangdui can also pile up his [-] horses to death!"

"That's right!" The generals were taken aback when they heard the words, and then realized that the rebel army had expanded to [-] before the expedition to Shanxi.

Although the gold soldiers were very good at that time, we couldn't fight one-on-one, wouldn't we fight two-on-one, three-on-one?
"Understood? This is also the reason why this king mentioned the matter of grain and grass." Zhang Shun smiled when he saw that everyone understood his thoughts.

"This time, in order to capture Shanxi, we mobilized [-] troops, tens of thousands of young men, and thousands of ships. Only then can we barely guarantee the supply of food and wages."

"However, the Xuan Mansion is now thousands of miles away from Taiyuan, and Beizhi and other places are still in the hands of the Ming army, so don't be careless!"

"This..." Everyone couldn't help but look at each other when they heard the words, and their scalps felt numb.

Sun Tzu said: "The method of using troops is to drive a thousand horses, to ride a thousand leather chariots, to carry one hundred thousand armour, and to feed food for thousands of miles."

The internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the materials of glue and paint, and the decoration of the car and armor cost thousands of gold a day, and then a hundred thousand teachers will be raised.

From Xi'an, Shaanxi to Taiyuan for [-] miles, there are Weihe River, Yellow River and Fenhe River that can be borrowed, even if it costs so much.

Now it is thousands of miles from Taiyuan to Xuanfu, and there is no river to rely on, if it supports an army of [-], it will cost almost countless, how can this be done?
"If... so, Shaanxi and Henan will run out of money!" Lu Xiangjin, a scholar, couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.

More than exhaustion?

Today, most of Shaanxi and a small part of Henan occupied by the rebel army have a combined population of less than [-] million. It is the limit to support [-] troops to capture Shanxi. How can they support [-] troops to go north to fight in Xuanfu?
"Who said that the people in Henan and Shanxi are exhausted?" Zhang Shun laughed again when he heard this.

"It's the end of May, Henan's summer grain has been harvested, Shaanxi's is harvesting, and Shanxi's is waiting to be harvested!"

"Just one place in Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi can tax [-] shi, and other places can collect more than [-] to [-] million summer grain. How can we not fight this battle?"

Good guy, you can really calculate!

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other when they heard the words, and they were full of admiration in their hearts.

It turns out that farming in the Ming Dynasty was divided into two seasons, summer and autumn. In the northern region, wheat was generally planted in summer, and rice and other miscellaneous grains were planted in autumn.

The yield of wheat is higher and the yield of millet is lower, accounting for [-]% and [-]% respectively.

However, Zhang Shun had long thought about the timing of organizing this battle.

As long as Pingyang Mansion can be successfully captured in May, the follow-up food supply problem can be completed with the help of the abundant Hedong grain tax.

This not only relieves the pressure on Shaanxi and Henan, but also enables nearby collection, which reduces the loss of long-distance transportation and kills two birds with one stone.

However, the food problem has been solved, but the problem of food transportation is still a big problem.

Shen Kuo in the Song Dynasty once calculated this problem: If there is no additional supply, only relying on civilian husbands to transport food, a civilian husband can carry six buckets of food on his back, and soldiers can only carry [-] days of food for themselves, and they can only last for [-] days.

If there are three civilian husbands, they can support a [-]-day march, and three husbands for one soldier has reached the limit.

From Taiyuan to Xuanfu thousands of miles, calculated on the basis of [-] miles per day, it takes a total of [-] days to travel.

Based on this calculation, roughly [-] civilians would need to be mobilized by the rebel army to be able to supply the supply line between Taiyuan and Xuanfu.

And the two towns of Xuan and Da are not comparable to those in the mainland. Not only are the people poor and poor, but they are also the front line of the war. They are always in danger of being cut off from food and roads.

If soldiers and young adults eclipse two catties on the sun, [-] people will eclipse more than [-] stones on the sun, and [-] stones on the moon.

That is to say, in terms of rations alone, if the two sides confront each other in Xuanfu Town for two months, the summer rations in Pingyang Prefecture will be exhausted this year.

Of course, just looking at this item, it seems that the rebel army can still support it.If Zhang Shun's army of [-] is added, and each person is paid one stone per month, regardless of other expenses, this item alone will cost three hundred and sixty stones of food.

Not to mention the expenses for officials and management personnel, disaster relief expenses, and rewards for military merits. If there is no five million stones in a year, it is impossible to get it down, so you know how much pressure Zhang Shun is under.

"Your Highness, transportation by land is different from transportation by water. If it consumes too much by ordinary methods, we can only use the 'Hundred Miles Day Grain Transportation Technique'!" Xu Ziyuan pondered for a moment, and could not help admonishing.

The so-called "grain transport technique in a hundred miles a day" is a method of transporting grain with bare hands recorded by Dong Tuanxiao in the Yuan Dynasty.

The general method is: each person walks ten steps, and [-] people can walk a hundred miles.Each person bears four buckets of rice, and the rice does not touch the ground without resting on the shoulders.Each person travels five hundred times a day, counts the distance twenty-eight miles, and transports two hundred stones of rice a day.

What do you mean?

That is to say, if [-] people are lined up at a distance of ten steps per person, and each person carries four buckets of rice for relay transportation, and one person passes five hundred times, two hundred shi of grain can be easily transported in one day.

Not only is it less expensive than Shen Kuo's algorithm, but it is also faster.

Of course, this method was not first discovered by Dong Tuanxiao, nor did Zhang Shun send Ding Zhuang to line up ten steps one by one to deliver food in a relay style. It was an ancient way of transporting grain and grass by land.

This kind of thinking is specific to the transportation of military rations, which is the post station method, or the station method.

The specific operation method is to set up a platform at a certain distance to take charge of the receiving, storage and transportation of grain.

Generally, this distance is sixty to one hundred miles, and it is used as a relay point for grain transportation.

The previous station transported the grain and stored it at this station, and then this station transported the grain out and stored it at the next station, and so on, completing the work of transporting grain for thousands of miles.

If you don't follow this method, but try to use the method mentioned by Shen Kuo to make miracles, you will find that the more young and strong you conscript, the more food you will consume on the road.

Even if more cattle, horses and livestock are used, the more soybean meal and fodder are needed. In the end, after a journey of more than one month, no matter how they are transported, the food will be completely consumed on the road.

Therefore, since ancient times, the first step in conquering the northern grasslands and deserts was to establish a "platform" and adopt a relay-type grain transportation method to meet the needs of long-distance combat.

In Zhang Shun's previous life, the Qing Dynasty's "Altai Army-Taiwan Line" is a typical example.

In response to the war in Uliasutai and Khobduo, which were five or six thousand miles away, the Qing army, with the help of Shanxi merchants, established a supply line from Zhangjiakou to Khobduo outside the Great Wall.

This supply line is more than [-] miles long and is connected by more than [-] military platforms.And each military platform is equipped with guards, grooms, horses, camels, sheep and other livestock.

Originally, a cavalry raid would have required a two-month journey to supply the supply line. In this way, the ants moved food from Zhangjiakou to Kebuduo little by little, which strongly supported the Qing army's war to completely eradicate Zhungeer.

Of course, although the conditions for the rebel army from Taiyuan City to Xuanfu are not suitable for entering the mainland, they are not so difficult that they need to set up military platforms all the way to connect them like the "Altai Military Station Line".

The rebel army only needs to select node cities and fortresses one by one, and then set up stations and transport soldiers all the way there.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, ten to twenty stations need to be set up from Taiyuan to Xuanfu. Each station requires [-] troops, [-] guards, [-] Taiping vehicles, and [-] drivers." Xu Ziyuan said Thinking while calculating.

"A total of three battalions of [-] horses and [-] coachmen and vehicles are needed."

"In addition, in view of the important location of Daizhou, it is recommended to set up a general soldier and a battalion of troops, just in case."

"Okay, that's fine!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded when he heard this, and made a decision with one word.

Although it is not possible to prepare [-] vehicles in a short period of time, it is impossible for the [-] rebel army to gather in a short period of time. As long as there is a shelf, everything will work.

This is much more reliable than mobilizing [-] young men to transport food in one go.

　I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, the author originally thought that it would be a big change during the holidays.As a result, my friend got married, and the guy was so busy that he almost couldn't update it.
　　
　
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