The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 541 Logistics Reserve
The general strategic plan has been set. Once the war started, the four armies pressed against Cao Cao in an instant. Chen Ziming wanted to end this troubled world by crushing it.

What kind of strategy, what is winning more with less, there is no need to waste these time, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are useless.

Of course, counselors are indispensable. Chen Ziming doesn't want to see a repeat of the Battle of Chibi, and doesn't want to see the confrontation between the Three Kingdoms in China for nearly a century. Counselors not only plan offense, but also plan defense.

"First, enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, strengthen training, replace better weapons, improve tactics, and make the soldiers in the army more professional and professional. Especially for various siege weapons, professional soldiers must be trained to control them."

After Chen Gong introduced the situation and layout of each army, Chen Ziming began to issue tasks. The first one was to strengthen the army's combat effectiveness and dominate the world. A strong army is the foundation. Whether it can crush the opponent depends on whether the millions of elites are strong enough.

"Second, the dark guards comprehensively investigate the enemy's situation, including the number of enemy troops, the distribution of the enemy troops, the enemy's equipment, the enemy's generals, the enemy's logistics reserves, and the enemy's possible war plans. Draw a clear map, all roads, water flows , lakes, woods, everything that can affect the battle of the army must be marked on the map."

For the upcoming war, the dark guards expanded again, and countless carefully selected, professionally trained dark guards were sent to the territories of Cao Cao and Sun Quan to start collecting intelligence.

Under the influence of Chen Ziming, the profession of spy in the real sense appeared for the first time in the world. Of course, this kind of profession appeared very old, but it was not called spy before, it was called spy work, and it was small in scale, unprofessional, and played no role. big.

But the secret guards are different. The spies trained under the guidance of Chen Ziming's meticulous training manual are very professional.

Moreover, the hidden guards have another task, which is to lure the enemy officials to surrender, regardless of whether they are civil servants or generals, they can do it, intimidate and lure them, and do everything they can.Liu Bei has plenty of money and rights. As the number one prince in the world, it is a trivial matter to be appointed an official after the matter is completed, and there are guarantees.

The dark guard is Chen Ziming's trump card. Chen Ziming wants to let Cao Cao and Sun Quan know that the dark guard is not comparable to a scout who only knows how to detect the enemy's situation.

"Third, strategic reserves, food, money, weapons, etc., all related to war, need a large amount of reserves. Everyone, we need at least enough reserves to swallow Cao Cao in one go."

In war, what is fought is logistics. Regardless of the past, present, or future, logistics is the most important thing. A war without logistics is a fight of desperadoes.

In Chen Ziming's opinion, there should be no problem with logistics reserves. Even Sun Quan, who controls the land of fish and rice, doesn't produce as much grain as Liu Bei does today. In terms of money, it goes without saying that Liu Bei's family has a mine, and it's also a gold mine. , Silver mine.

Moreover, the commerce under Liu Bei’s rule was very developed, almost reaching an unbelievable level. The prosperous Tang Dynasty in history may not be as developed as the commerce under Liu Bei’s rule. It's just the internal trade between Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Fuzhou.

But even so, the annual business tax has reached a terrifying level. Even if the mining of gold and silver mines in Fuzhou is abandoned, the development of Liu Bei Group will not stop because of this. of.

Under the rule of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, the status of merchants was still very low. Even those clans who were merchants did so quietly, for fear of being discovered. It was not because merchants were defined as low-class.

Cao Cao and Sun Quan also ordered the development of commerce when they saw Liu Bei's terrifying commercial tax revenue, but they couldn't compare with Liu Bei.

Regarding the orders of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, they did not put their minds to it at all. They oppressed businessmen and collected high taxes to explain to Cao Cao and Sun Quan. It can be said that Cao Cao and Sun Quan are still supported by agricultural taxes. .

In order to compete for the world, both Cao Cao and Sun Quan increased the agricultural tax collection, and the people were miserable, and the food they grew was not enough to pay the tax. What was even more frightening was that all the strong men in the family were conscripted into the army, and their production capacity was greatly reduced.

Compared with Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Sun Quan's ability to endure war is incomparable at all. Liu Bei's way is to develop and grow, and then go to war, while Cao Cao and Sun Quan's way is to go to war first, and then think about development. The result can be imagined.

In the end, Cao Cao and Sun Quan were poor and useless. In order to resist the ever-growing Liu Bei, they had reached the point of militarism. As for Liu Bei, the lives of the people had no effect at all, and the more they passed the better, the population increased instead of decreasing.

Liu Bei's large-scale disarmament operation shocked Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and even made Cao Cao and Sun Quan have an idea that Liu Bei did not want to dominate the world.

Of course, the two of them were just thinking about it, and they would not be idiots to think that Liu Bei would let them go. Cao Cao and Sun Quan had nothing to do except step up their military expansion and preparations for war.

After hearing Chen Ziming's arrangement, Chen Gong immediately raised an unexpected and reasonable problem: "Money, medicinal materials, and weapons are all easy to handle, and even the follow-up soldiers are no problem. If necessary, we can immediately recruit 50 troops, and the combat effectiveness No problem. But the food, I’m afraid it won’t meet the requirements.”

Just now Chen Ziming proposed the specific amount of reserves. Everything else is easy to handle, not to mention money. It is no problem to support this war, and the medicinal materials are also easy to handle. Linzi Medical College has trained countless pharmacists and established many branch colleges. The acquisition of medicinal materials has not stopped, and even established its own medicinal material planting base.

Weapons are supported by specialized researchers, supported by several iron mines, and several weapons manufacturing factories have been established. As long as the military department is willing to purchase, they can manufacture as many as they need.

The difficulty is food, even if there is more Yizhou, a big food-producing state, the amount of food is still far from enough, especially now that there are millions of Di people who need food relief, since the Di people have voted for Liu Bei, it is impossible for Liu Bei Let the Di people go hungry.

"Immediately restore the grain production in Yizhou. Half of Yizhou can produce enough grain for Yizhou, Hanzhong, and Di tribes. You can also reserve enough strategic grain. Hanzhong is also suitable for growing grain and cannot be abandoned."

Yizhou is a famous food production place, but unfortunately only half of the Chengdu Plain is in the hands of Liu Bei, which is cheaper for Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)