Please ask me to be the emperor

After receiving the order, Li Zicheng led Li Guo, Fatty Zhang, Song Xiance, Ji Longfeng and nine thousand troops, and hurried towards Xuanfu.

Seeing that Li Zicheng, Li Guo and Fatty Zhang had gone all the way with the three battalions of cavalry troops, Zhang Shun, who was quite worried about the situation in Xuanda, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although Li Zicheng was not a qualified founding emperor in the original history, according to Zhang Shun's understanding of him in this era, he could be regarded as a good general in terms of talent and qualifications.

"One general has more than enough wisdom, but ten thousand talents are not enough." This is true!

Now it is an easy task for him to lead the army to suppress the enemy's formation from behind. He does not seek no success but no fault, and stabilizes the situation for himself and announces the situation.

"Your Highness, let's go too, shall we?" Seeing that the senior officer had already started calling, Chief of Staff Xu Ziyuan couldn't hold himself back and said.

"Let's go? Don't be in a hurry!" Zhang Shun smiled when he heard this. Anyway, now that Li Zicheng is going to temporarily stabilize the situation for him, he doesn't have to be so anxious.

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

"By the way, I will draft a letter for me in a while and send it to Sun Chuanting, so that he can take Ren Liang, the 'Gourd King' of Sanzuoya, out of his lair and train him to make up for my lack of troops."

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

In this small Shanxi, you gathered 200,000 soldiers and horses in one breath.

Now they have taken over the towns of Shanxi and Datong. The total number of soldiers and horses in each place is not thirty, but twenty-seven or eighty. How come there are not enough troops?

"My king's worry is not about soldiers and horses, but about food and grass!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but shook his head when he saw that the two of them had not realized the problem.

"This trip to the Northeast will definitely be a fierce battle. The winner will not be determined in a moment."

"Therefore, the three armies went ahead without using food and grass. I have to make a long-term plan for the sake of the world."

"Reject Ah... As Ah Shan said, the Jin Kingdom's Khan Hong Tai had a very big plan this time. He actually sent 130,000 elite soldiers from all over the country to compete with me for the world."

"One...one hundred and thirty thousand?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

The false king Azige only led 30,000 troops, but he disrupted the battle in Shanxi and turned it upside down.

If it hadn't been for Zhang Shun's sudden idea, I'm afraid the rebels' plan to seize the entire territory of Shanxi would have been aborted.

Now Donglu actually has an army of 100,000 people. How can this be done?

"Only an army of 100,000 people, what's it worth?" Gao Qiqian started his career by serving people. He was the best at observing people's actions. Seeing that the generals were fearful, he couldn't help but cheer up.

"King Shun has 300, 400,000 or 400,000 horses under his command. Three against one, four against one, but still can't defeat him? Even a pile of 100,000 of his troops can kill him!"

"That's right!" The generals were stunned when they heard this, and then they realized that before the expedition to Shanxi, the rebel army had expanded to 300,000.

Although the Jin soldiers were very good at that time, we couldn't defeat one on one, wouldn't we be able to defeat two against one, or three against one?

"Understood? This is also the reason why I mentioned the matter of food and grass." Zhang Shun smiled when he saw that everyone understood what he was thinking.

"This time, in order to capture Shanxi, we dispatched 200,000 troops, mobilized tens of thousands of men, and thousands of ships. Only then could we barely guarantee the supply of food and wages."

"However, Xuanfu is now thousands of miles away from Taiyuan, and Beizhi and other places are still in the hands of the Ming army, so we must not be careless!"

"This..." Everyone couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this, and their scalps suddenly became numb.

Sun Tzu said: The method of using military force is to drive a thousand chariots, a thousand leather chariots, a hundred thousand armors, and provide food for thousands of miles.

Then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the materials for glue and paint, and the service of chariots and armors will cost a thousand gold per day, and then a hundred thousand troops will be raised.

From Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to Taiyuan, which is 1,500 miles away, there are also Wei River, Yellow River and Fen River to borrow, yet it costs so much.

Now it is thousands of miles from Taiyuan to Xuanfu, and there is no river to rely on. If we support an army of 200,000, it will cost almost countless money. How can we do this?

"If... like this, Shaanxi and Henan will run out of money!" Lu Xiangjin, a scholar, couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed after hearing this.

More than running out of money?

Nowadays, most of Shaanxi and a small part of Henan occupied by the rebels have a combined population of less than 10 million. Supporting an army of 200,000 to capture Shanxi is already the limit. How can they support an army of 200,000 to march north to fight in Xuanfu?

"Who said that the people in Henan and Shanxi are running out of money?" Zhang Shun laughed again when he heard this.

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

"Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi Province alone can tax 600,000 shi. Adding in other places, the summer grain harvest can exceed 2-3 million. How can we not win this war?"

Good guy, you are really good at calculating things!

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this, and their hearts were full of admiration.

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 the summer, and rice and other cereals were planted in the autumn.

The wheat yield is higher, and the millet yield is lower. The two yields account for 60% and 40% respectively.

Zhang Shun had already considered the timing of organizing this battle.

As long as Pingyang Prefecture can be successfully captured in May, the subsequent food supply problem can be solved with the help of the abundant Hedong grain tax.

This not only reduces the pressure on Shaanxi and Henan, but also allows for nearby collection, reducing the loss of long-distance transportation and killing 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 of the Song Dynasty once calculated this problem: If there are no additional supplies and only the peasants carry food, each civilian carries six dou, and the soldiers carry five days of food, which can only last for eighteen days.

If there are three civilian husbands, it can support a thirty-day march, but three husbands for one soldier has reached the limit.

The distance from Taiyuan to Xuanfu is a thousand miles, and based on the calculation of fifty miles per day, it takes twenty days in total.

Based on this calculation, the rebel army needs to mobilize 300,000 civilians to supply the supply line between Taiyuan and Xuanfu.

The two towns of Xuanda and Da are not as good as those in the mainland. Not only are there few people and poor land, but they are also on the front line of war. They are always in danger of being cut off from food routes, and it is even more difficult to divide their troops to defend them.

If the soldiers and young men eclipse two kilograms per day, and the five hundred thousand people eclipse more than eight thousand kilograms per day, and the moon eclipses two hundred and fifty thousand kilograms.

In other words, if the two sides confront each other in Xuanfu Town for two months, Pingyang Mansion's summer grain will be exhausted this year.

Of course, just looking at this one item, it seems that the rebels can still support it. If we add Zhang Shun's army of 300,000 people, each of whom receives one dan of food per month, and regardless of other expenses, this item alone will cost 360 dan of food.

Not to mention the expenses for official management, relief and relief expenses, and military rewards. If there is no five million dan in one year, it will be impossible to spend. You know how much pressure Zhang Shun is under.

"Your Highness, land transportation is different from water transportation. If the consumption is too high according to the ordinary method, the only way is to use the 'hundred-mile day transportation technique'!" Xu Ziyuan pondered for a moment and couldn't help but admonish.

The so-called "Grain Transporting Technique of Hundreds of Miles in 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 takes ten steps, and 3,600 people can travel a hundred miles. Each person carries four measures of rice. If a person does not rest on his shoulders, the rice will not touch the ground. Each person travels five hundred times a day, covering a distance of twenty-eight miles, and transports two hundred stones of rice per day.

What does it mean?

That is to say, if 3,600 people line up at a distance of ten steps and each person carries four buckets of rice for relay transportation, and one person carries it 500 times, he can easily transport 200 shi of grain in a day.

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

Of course, this method was not the first to be discovered by Dong Tuanxiao, and there was no need for Zhang Shun to send Ding Zhuang ten steps apart to deliver grain in a relay style. It was an ancient way of transporting grain and grass on land.

When this idea is applied to the transportation of military supplies, it is called the station method, or the station method.

The specific operation method is to set up a station at regular intervals to handle the reception, storage and transportation of grain.

Generally this distance is sixty to one hundred miles, serving 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 do not follow this method but try to use the method mentioned by Shen Kuo to achieve miracles, you will find that the more men you recruit, the more food you will consume on the road.

Even if more cattle and horses are used, more soybean meal and fodder will be required. Eventually, after a journey of more than a month, no matter how transported, all the grain will be consumed on the road.

Therefore, since ancient times, the first step in conquering northern grasslands and desert lands has been to establish a "station" and adopt a relay-type food transportation method to meet the needs of long-distance military operations.

In Zhang Shun's previous life, the "Altai Military Line" of the Qing Dynasty was a typical example.

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

This supply line is more than 6,000 miles long and is connected by more than 60 military platforms. Each military platform is equipped with guards, grooms and livestock such as horses, camels, and sheep.

A supply line that originally required two months for the cavalry to attack, transported food bit by bit from Zhangjiakou to Khovd like ants, which effectively supported the Qing army's war to completely eradicate Jungar.

Of course, although the conditions for the rebel army from Taiyuan City to Xuanfu are not to enter the inland, it is not so difficult that they need to set up military platforms to connect them all the way like the "Altai Military Platform Line".

The rebels only need to select node cities and fortresses, then set up stations and transport soldiers there.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, ten to twenty stations need to be set up from Taiyuan to Xuanfu. Each station requires 150 troops, 300 guards, 300 rickshaws, and 300 drivers." Xu Ziyuan said on one side. Thinking and calculating.

"A total of three battalions of 9,000 men and horses, and 6,000 carriage drivers and vehicles are needed."

"In addition, given the important location of Daizhou, it is recommended to set up a general soldier and a battalion of troops to prepare for emergencies."

"Okay, this works!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded his head when he heard this, and made a decision.

Although 6,000 vehicles cannot be gathered in a short time, it is impossible for the 200,000 rebel army to be gathered in a short time. As long as the shelves are put up, everything will work.

This is much more reliable than mobilizing 300,000 men to transport food at once.

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. The author originally thought that he could update it during the holidays. As a result, my friend got married and he was so busy that he almost couldn’t update.