The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 112 Looking forward to your return

A few days later, Xiang Dongyang went to Qiongzhou. Thousands of soldiers from the Yuan army were released, and they were only sent to make some money, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Zhao Dongting wasn't merciful enough to bother the soldiers too much.

At the same time, Su Quandang also led the imperial army back in triumph.Many pirate lairs in the inner and outer seas were swept away by him, and the warships were piled up with loot, such as grain, tea, cotton, and fruit such as sugar cane, which pressed the warships to an extremely deep waterline.

Xiliu Ferry is a bustling scene again.

Chen Jianghan received the report and waited at the ferry with all the big officials and small officials from the Finance Department. Seeing this scene, his eyes lit up.

Zhao Dongting recently ordered to open schools, reclaim barren hills, and repair roads, which really wiped out all the treasures brought from Lin'an.

Although they obtained a lot of treasures after copying Xiulin Fort, they still couldn't close the gap.

This time Su Quandang came back with a lot of loot, which was a life-saving straw for Chen Jianghan.

"General Su!"

Looking at the majestic and majestic Su Quandang standing on the bow of the boat, Chen Jianghan only thought he was so cute, so he waved and shouted affectionately.

Su Quandang cupped his hands and signaled, "Master Chen, I'm sorry."

Chen Jianghan was even more grinning from ear to ear, blinking his eyes and hurriedly asked his servants to help carry it.

After watching the boxes of supplies being moved off the ship, he was elated.

This can somewhat alleviate the suffering of the Southern Song court's lack of supplies.

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

In less than two months, the imperial granary was already full of grain.Those aristocrats and gentry families have a lot of surplus food, although they are not willing to sell it to the court, they are more likely to take advantage of the war and sell it for a price, but now that the Southern Song Dynasty court is very popular in Leizhou, they dare not make mistakes, they can only be honest Sell ​​grain to the imperial court on the spot.

Zhao Dongting practiced swords, read books, and studied martial arts every day. He lived a very fulfilling life, and his swordsmanship was also improving day by day.

He is now able to stab more than ten grass rings within three breaths, which he never dared to think about before.

On this day, outside the grain depot in Haikang County, [-] bodyguards and corps were waiting.

In ancient wars, the three armies did not move, and food and grass came first, which can be said to be the most important thing.An army without food has almost no victories.

Unless it is a surprise attack, the troops will not carry too much food, such as the battle of Qizhou, and the battle of Qiongzhou.

In the square in front of the grain depot, a total of [-] grain trucks were lined up neatly.Under the command of the commander-in-chief, the soldiers of each army moved the grain and grass out of the inventory and piled them into the grain trucks.

These grain carts look like bucket carts, but there are four wheels on each side of the cart, and the middle of the wheels is connected by a huge steel chain.This is of course 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 grain truck, which only missed making the generals of the three armies ecstatic.

This kind of grain cart can bear a load of nearly [-] catties, and it relies on human pedaling to move, which is naturally much less troublesome than using horses or human power to push it before.

More importantly, this made it unnecessary for the army to hire civilians to transport food during the march.

In the past, when an army of 2 people went out to fight, 3 people were needed just to transport food.If the journey is longer, the grain eaten by the people transporting grain will take up more than half of the entire grain.Now there is this kind of cart invented by Zhao Dongting, which can not only transport food for the army by itself, but also save a lot of horses for transporting food.

Calculated on the basis of one jin of grain per day for a soldier, and [-] jin of grain per day for [-] soldiers, even if each grain cart only puts [-] jin of grain, ten carts are enough.

Ten vehicles, soldiers changing shifts every two quarters of an hour to transport food, and eight hours of marching a day, how many people are needed?

About less than 300 people.

Zhao Dongting only planned to bring two months' worth of grain for this trip to Guangxi, and two thousand grain trucks were enough.

Because, he plans to take only [-] military horses to Guangxi.

In front of the hall, there are 1 imperial guards, nearly [-] guards, more than [-] Yuan soldiers, and [-] gods and beggars.

In fact, this was already considered a mighty army in ancient wars. Due to the limitation of food and grass, it was destined not to have too many people in ancient wars.Those who spend hundreds of thousands or tens of millions are just exaggerating, and those who transport grain and grass alone account for two-thirds, at least half.

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

As for the [-] Huanglong Forbidden Army, Zhao Dongting asked Liu Hongyi to take them to stay in Leizhou.

First of all, Leizhou's grain depot is not enough to supply [-] soldiers with food and grass, and secondly, Leizhou cannot have no defenders.

Most of these Huanglong Forbidden Army are locals. When there is a battle, they are soldiers. When there is no battle, they go home to farm.This is called the garrison system. In ancient times, most armies had this kind of system. Because of the shortage of people, it was difficult to support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

As for the food for 5000 people for two months, that is more than [-] tons, Zhao Dongting asked each army to escort their own food and grass, and go out with the army.

The role of this kind of grain truck can be imagined. It seems simple, but it actually solved the logistical problems of ancient wars.

The soldiers of each army were full of excitement, and they moved the grain and grass to the grain carts allocated by their own army with great enthusiasm.

After moving ten bags, they stepped on the grain cart full of novelty and went to line up.

Only Chen Jianghan took the little official at the gate of the grain depot to count the number, full of distress.

In fact, this matter does not require his majestic Minister of the Finance Department to come over, but because of his iron cock temper, he can't help but want to come and have a look.

Seeing the soldiers moving beams with joy, he kept shouting: "You have taken away so much food and grass, you will win the battle! You will win the battle!"

The soldiers just laughed.

After two full hours, the front of the grain depot finally stopped.

Chen Jianghan looked at the almost empty grain depot and almost shed tears, "My grain..."

The ministers and officials of the finance department next to them all had faces full of laughter, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.

In the early morning of the next day, the clouds were a little low and the sky was gloomy.

Outside Haikang County, countless banners are fluttering in the wind.In front of the hall, the banners of the Forbidden Army, the Guards' Army, and the Yuan Army and other ministries are clearly separated.

Under the flag, there are gleaming spear tips. These spear tips are all forged by Zhao Dongting's new smelting method, and the whole body is bright.

Below the tip of the gun is Qiqi's red tasseled helmet or Fan Yangli.Those with helmets are generals above centurions, and those with Fan Yangli are ordinary soldiers.

Excluding the 3 Huanglong Forbidden Army and the defenders of the counties, the rest of Leizhou's soldiers can be said to be here.

All the armies were led by cavalry troops, and even the horses in heavy armor were covered by scales, revealing a faint light.

Zhao Dongting stood at the head of Haikang County, wearing a black armor inlaid with gold patterns, looking at the endless soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty in front of him, full of pride.

Le Wuhui was beside him, also with a solemn face.

Among the generals including Yue Peng, Su Quandang, Wan Yanzhang, and Liu Hongyi, only Liu Hongyi had a slightly bitter face because Zhao Dongting refused to let him accompany him on the expedition.

In fact, Zhao Dongting left him to guard Leizhou not only because he was the commander of the Huanglong Imperial Army, but also because he had a family and did not want him to die in battle.There is no war without death, no matter how strong the skill is, no matter how well-planned the general is, he may be shrouded in the battlefield.

Liu Hongyi's wife He Huixiang is an excellent woman, and now she is pregnant with an heir, and Zhao Dongting does not want her to stay at home alone.

Speaking of heirs, it's all thanks to Doctor An.It turned out that the two had no children, and it was actually Liu Hongyi's fault, and An Taiyi's medicine helped him recuperate.

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

After a long silence, Zhao Dongting suddenly asked, "Where are the generals of the three armies?"

"exist!"

"exist!"

"exist!"

Waves of sound rippled round and round.

"Is it possible to win this battle?"

"Win!"

"Win!"

"Win!"

"How about winning?"

"die on the battlefield!"

"die on the battlefield!"

"die on the battlefield!"

On the top of the city, all the civil servants and military generals, as well as the royal family and nobles, were all moved.

Concubine Yang Shu shed tears silently.

Seeing the soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty so united, she suddenly felt that Zhao Dongting had grown up, which also made her feel a little sad.

In the past few years, as a woman, she has been carrying the Southern Song Dynasty where the entire building is about to collapse. She is really too tired, too tired...

Zhao Dongting turned around suddenly, wiped away Concubine Yang Shu's tears, and said softly: "Mother, I will take you to Jingjiang when I am triumphant!"

Jingjiang Mansion, the governor's mansion on Guangnan West Road, is also the center of Guangxi.

"set off!"

Turning around again, Zhao Dongting shouted loudly again.

Not long after, the soldiers of the three armies surrounded the grain carts, with the horse army in front and the infantry behind, slowly walking along the Haikang County Avenue.

The ground shakes.

At the top of the city, Concubine Yang Shu and Ying Er embraced each other and wept.

Yue Wu and Yun Jin looked at Zhao Dongting's back from afar and wept silently.

Yun Jin suddenly put the qin on the wall, the sound of the qin was continuous and clear, but it was a song that Zhao Dongting wrote to her last night——Looking forward to your return.

Outside the palace on Quzhou Island, hundreds of disabled soldiers knelt in front of the stele of righteous men and kowtowed.

(End of this chapter)