Three Kingdoms

The success of this long-distance march was inseparable from Jia Xu's full preparation.

These preparations include not only water and food, but also various military supplies.

Without these preparations, Fei Qian would not be so relaxed now.

In ancient times, military expeditions and long-distance marches were actually quite complicated matters, with a lot of work to be done.

After getting up in the morning, as the order is issued, each department needs to pack up their belongings and weapons, then line up to eat according to the order, and then count the dry food, baggage, war horses, weapons, etc. of each department, and register and report them one by one.

The Lord will send people to conduct random inspections to check whether there are any discrepancies. At the same time, scouts were sent forward first, generally twenty-four teams, divided into two shifts, taking turns to detect forward to ensure the safety of the entire army while marching.

Then a pre-horse meeting needs to be held, where each department will report specific issues and related situations, and then quickly make a ruling. If it can be solved on the spot, it will be solved on the spot. If it cannot be solved, it will be discussed and dealt with when setting up camp at night. At the horse meeting, different strategies must be arranged according to the terrain ahead, such as who is responsible for building simple bridges when encountering rivers and ravines, who is responsible for reconnaissance and reconnaissance if encountering mountains and forest highlands, etc.

Because Fei Qian led basically cavalry this time, things were much simpler. Otherwise, if it was a mixed force, the army would have to be divided into layers even when leaving the camp. Just as you are most likely to be attacked when crossing a river, you also need to follow a specific order when leaving the camp. Generally speaking, the first one to leave the camp is the cavalry of each department. Because the cavalry is fast, after leaving the camp, they quickly advance to a place two or three miles away from the camp, then stop and stand, form a queue, and start to be on guard. Then, each infantry unit will leave the camp in order according to the location, direction and distance, and form a warning array at a distance from the camp. Finally, the baggage team will leave the camp.

When marching, if it is a mixed formation, in normal weather, the infantry will go in front, and the cavalry will follow the baggage team behind. If there is snow after snow, the reverse will be true, and the cavalry will follow the baggage team. They will step on a path in front, and the infantry will follow behind to guard the baggage train...

Traveling by water is another way.

In the evening, after choosing a camping site, the cavalry must be sent out to patrol around, and then the infantry will set up camp. After the infantry has set up the camp, the cavalry can come back to rest. At the same time, various checkpoints must be set up. Arrange night watch patrols, etc.

At the end of the day, I was extremely busy and exhausted.

The advance preparations made by Jia Xu in Longyou saved Fei Qian a lot of trouble.

First of all, these sentries set up along the way, on the one hand, store a certain amount of supplies, which can be used as supplements. On the other hand, they also allow Fei Qian and his party to no longer have to temporarily set up a camp defense system. They can directly build a small military camp based on these sentries. Temporary camp, which reduces a lot of workload.

Secondly, many trivial matters are also completed by the guards of these small military villages, such as the preparation of drinking water, the deployment of fodder, and even help repair the iron shoes of war horses, repair the wheels of heavy vehicles, etc.

Finally, during the march, there will inevitably be some accidents, and some wounded people will appear. At this time, the small sentry post will come in handy. Whether it allows the wounded to rest briefly or transport them to the rear, it can greatly reduce the number of troops. burden, and also make soldiers feel more at ease.

Of course, all of this costs money...

Jia Xu brought the ledger.

Now that the "highway" in Longyou has been completed, it is time to summarize with Jia Xu to see if this road is worth it, whether it requires long-term settings, and if adjustments are made, what will happen? It’s a matter of how adjustments need to be made, etc.

This is what Fei Qian has been emphasizing. It cannot be said that only when Jia Xu was in Longyou, he and Tai Shici could achieve the momentum of traveling a thousand miles a day. Then after changing someone, they could travel three to five hundred miles. Difficult?

Longyou was originally an area with very low productivity, poor affordability, and a relatively sparse population, which made it difficult to increase taxes or temporarily recruit people even for war. Before the Han Dynasty, all the war needs of Xiqiang were recruited from other places. This is also an important reason why Shandong people hate Longxi.

From a family perspective, there is nothing wrong with Shandong's attitude towards Longyou. After all, no one likes a poor relative who asks for money every day, all year round, and it continues to be like this every year, for several years or even more than ten years.

But the problem is that Shandong and Longyou are not just "relatives", but they belong to the same country and a whole. Kansai's generals and Kanto's ministers were originally a simple concept of cooperation, but those who care about themselves and only care about themselves have destroyed the foundation of cooperation.

If there is a problem, it should be solved, not avoided.

Going out to fight will consume a lot of food and grass, which is a big problem.

And this problem has been around for a long time.

From the Western Han Dynasty, people kept howling until the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It’s difficult. It’s difficult to transport and consumes a lot of money. What a big problem!

But because of this problem, we will never fight externally?

Jia Xu was also covered in dust. He came from Jincheng, and there were several civil servants following him. Each of them had a lot of bills tied to them. If it weren't for Fei Qian's promotion of bamboo paper, it would be impossible to say that all these bills would have to be carried in the car.

Fei Qian didn't waste any more words. He and Jia Xu found a relatively flat stone and began to study the bills. As for the miscellaneous affairs in the army, Xu Chu was mainly left to handle them. Anyway, after this period of time, Xu Chu was considered a more suitable commander of the internal guards. Handling these military affairs was not a big problem.

The most important change reflected in these bills is the logistics of grain and grass.

Since food and grass are the biggest problem, let’s deal with this problem first.

Relatively speaking, people's food intake does not change much. Some people are good eaters, but some people have small appetites. As long as the overall human genome has not changed much, the basic nutritional needs of the human body will not change over time.

The same goes for war horses. In the Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty and in the future, demand can be roughly regarded as a quantitative quantity.

Strictly speaking, the cavalry brought by Fei Qian this time were not one horse and two cavalry, but one horse and one point and five cavalry. The remaining ones were composed of mules, horses, horses and other large animals. These mules, horses and horses bear the load of general baggage vehicles, and also carry a certain amount of trailers.

Therefore, Fei Qian's consumption on the march was divided into two parts, one was the food and grass he carried, and the other was the additional supplements from the small military camps along the way. This time I was pursuing speed, so I didn’t bring any small animals. And if you follow the normal marching speed and carry some sheep, it will probably further reduce the amount of solid food and grass carried.

The consumption of war horses is relatively large. A war horse consumes about three times as much food and grass as a soldier. After all, a war horse not only needs forage, but also fine materials. Even before the war begins, the soldiers will deliberately feed the war horses some mixed food. Stir-fried product mixed with salt and sugar to increase the endurance of war horses. However, mules and horses are relatively easy to raise. They only need to be fed with forage and occasionally mixed with some beans.

Fei Qian was also taking advantage of this long march to calculate the appropriate ratio of war horses to rogue horses. Now it seems that based on the account books and actual marches, he and Jia Xu concluded that the proportion of war horses can be further reduced, perhaps 1.2 to 1.3 times that of cavalry is a suitable range.

This not only ensures the replenishment of accidental injuries during the march of the war horse, but also reduces the pressure on food and grass.

As for the consumption of soldiers, ancient people did not understand the concept of calories, but Fei Qian did. Therefore, using fats and oils to replace carbohydrates as much as possible has become an important research direction to reduce military rationing.

Generally speaking, the same weight of fat releases twice as many calories as carbohydrates. Of course, this data may not be accurate, but in daily life, the comfort brought by fats and oils will be stronger than ordinary carbohydrates. As for the advantages and disadvantages of saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, at this stage of the man's life, it is not possible to talk about these at all. .

Heavy salt and heavy oil, if it were left in later generations, it would definitely be looked down upon by many healthy gourmets, but if it were left today in the Han Dynasty, it would make the Han people who rarely eat meat so happy that they cry while eating.

Heavy salt means that food is less susceptible to decay and can be carried for a long time in the current weather in Longyou, while heavy oil is an important factor in providing a feeling of satiety.

The human body is a complex organism. To a certain extent, carbohydrates in food are the source of energy for the human body. It is also an important factor for human beings to pursue stable carbohydrate intake and move toward farming to achieve stable civilization development since ancient times.

When there is a lack of or excessive intake of food, people will feel "hungry" or "full", and this feeling does not entirely come from the distension of the stomach. The stomach is just one part. When eating, the stomach does send signals to the brain, but the brain does not only receive one signal from the stomach.

Just like people with anorexia and bulimia, the signals from the stomach may be directly blocked by the brain.

So actually, how much you eat is not the key to satiety.

Just eat well.

High in calories and sugar.

Both sugar beets and sugar cane are not grown in large areas, and their sugar yields are not high due to their varieties. Therefore, Fei Qian could only work on fats, which were the white and red foods of the nomadic people. Using Zhuanghe produced by Han people's farming to exchange these white and red foods with the settled Southern Xiongnu and Western Qiang, on the one hand, it promoted communication and exchange between these herdsmen and Han people, and on the other hand, it also made both parties subconsciously Work hard to expand production to obtain more supplies.

If sugarcane cultivation in Cochin can be further expanded...

This is something in the future.

Fei Qian found that herders will also be affected by the "small-scale farmer economy".

When a producer finds that his efforts are of no use and cannot bring more value, or even that his efforts are disproportionate to his harvest, he will naturally choose a lower and easier level, commonly known as lying flat.

"Originally, Han soldiers were given three stones, three buckets and three buckets for the lunar eclipse, which was particularly insufficient. They often suffered from typhoid fever, dysentery, headaches, inability to lift limbs, distension of the heart and belly, and swollen spleens," Jia Xu said with emotion, "Now my lord has changed." The grain is white and red, and there is no need to worry about two stones being eclipsed by the moon... As the Art of War goes, a general will perish if he has no baggage, he will perish if he has no food, and he will perish if he has no accumulation. Now my lord, this method can reduce the need for heavy equipment, which can be said to be a great strategy for the country! 』

Fei Qian nodded and then exhaled. Obviously, increasing the proportion of red and white food has indeed reduced the pressure on transportation. This difference is the reason why Mongolia was able to fight and eat all the way in history, and it is also the reason why the Chinese nation has put it on themselves for thousands of years. Unbreakable shackles.

"Not only that. ” Fei Qian pointed to the transportation quantity on the bill, “If it is transported by a horse, one horse can equal the strength of five people. If less manpower is used on the way, more can be used for local use...”

This is also the accounts on the bright side, which can be seen directly.

After all, after using high-calorie food, the total weight is reduced, so the transportation power is inevitably saved and the pressure is relieved.

And the benefits are not just these, there are also some hidden benefits...

For example, in terms of nutrition.

After adding red and white food, the nutrition will be more balanced.

Although the treatment of soldiers guarding the border in the Han Dynasty was not too bad, after all, there were even worse in the subsequent feudal dynasties, but even so, the soldiers guarding the border in the Han Dynasty often suffered from various diseases due to malnutrition, and death, injury and decline were unavoidable. Most of the root causes are malnutrition. The most fundamental cause of malnutrition is unreasonable food distribution.

In the Han Dynasty, the military rations transported to the frontiers seemed to be a lot on the surface, with more than ten kinds, such as millet, millet, highland barley, barley, common wheat and beans, etc., but in fact, they were all basic carbohydrates, and The vitamins and proteins necessary for the human body, that is, some vegetables and meat, need to be purchased by the soldiers guarding the border...

If the soldiers who guard the border are like this, then the ordinary people who are drawn to serve as laborers and transported back and forth are once again reduced from the basic standards of the guards. Therefore, over time, malnutrition will almost certainly appear.

The longer the war lasts, the more people will be affected by this kind of malnutrition, from the border to the interior, from soldiers to common people. As the rulers of these feudal dynasties in China, they only see the average and think that one garrison is the average. Three deaths and three stones, how could there be any problem?

Like various averages in later generations.

This is why China becomes weaker and weaker as it fights. He only stares at the average all day long, and only looks at the land under his feet. If there is a problem, he will either delay or give up. Naturally, he cannot really solve the problem. Now, Fei Qian is pushed away by Huaxia A door, this door not only faces the Western Region, but also faces deeper places.

If you change your perspective, you can see a whole new world.

……(?·??·?)??……

Jiang Dongjun, who was trapped near Xiaoting, was now ready to find a new angle to solve the problem.

Huang Gai, in addition to naval command, his innate skill is "arson".

He wanted to burn the Sichuan and Shu army's positions on the mountain.

This was the strategy he came up with. Just light a fire and sit back and watch Sichuan and Shu on the top of the mountain. The army wolf cried and howled.

But the problem is that it's autumn now...

Most of the autumn wind blows from north to south. If Huang Gai sets a fire, it may also burn the Sichuan-Sichuan position on the mountain to the north, but it is impossible to say that it will also burn his own fleet!

Therefore, Huang Gai could only send water ghosts to sneakily destroy the obstacles blocking the river at night, while waiting for the opportunity for the wind direction to change.

Jiangdong's water ghost was somewhat effective at first.

It is basically impossible to directly destroy these obstacles nailed to the bottom of the water with the help of water ghosts. In fact, it is not easy for people to exert force in the water. The only way is for the water ghost to tie the rope to the obstacles, and then let the boat behind pull it.

This change was quickly discovered by the Sichuan-Shu Army, and many fishing nets were dropped directly from the upper reaches.

These fishing nets carry some hooks, and once the water ghost gets caught, they cannot escape. Even if the water ghost is not caught, it is hooked on an obstacle, or directly hooked on the rudder of Huang Gai and others' boat, which is still very difficult to deal with.

At the same time, the Sichuan-Shu Army also increased the harassment force in the mountains and forests. From time to time at night, real and fake messages came and went, which made Huang Gai and others nervous. Even if they knew that these Sichuan soldiers were hiding in the mountains and forests. Shu soldiers may not really rush out of the mountains and forests, but what if?

Especially the moves such as imitating the roars of various beasts at night, pretending to be ghosts crying, etc., made Huang Gai so angry that his beard trembled, but there was no good solution. You can't just plug your ears, right? At midnight, even Huang Gai was a little scared when he went out to attack in the dark mountains and forests, let alone ordinary Jiangdong soldiers. If you don't attack, you will have to endure it.

For several days in a row, Huang Gai felt that he had a headache.

Huang Gai had a headache, while Shamoke's face was flushed with excitement.

Shamoke really didn't expect that the battle could be fought like this!

As barbarians from Wuling, Shamoko and his tribe often fought against Jiangdong soldiers. In previous battles, Shamoko and his tribe were always the losers. Jiangdong soldiers relied on the advantage of having ships to fight and leave whenever they wanted. Shamoko and others had no good solution at all. But now that Shamoko saw Zhuge Liang's operation, he suddenly realized...

Oh, I got it!

It can still be like this!

In addition to leading people to attack with the troops in the Sichuan-Sichuan Mountains every day, Shamoko is also summarizing every day. Seeing Zhuge Liang's arrangements and dispatches like clouds and flowing water, he feels that the battle is not too simple!

Isn't it like having fish and pickled cabbage, and then having hands, you can make a steaming pot of pickled fish? !

Shamoko felt that his self-confidence was constantly expanding. When he returned to Wuling area, he would first throw the fish into the pot, then throw in the sauerkraut, and then it would be done! Although it may not be as exquisite as Zhuge Liang's, isn't it also pickled fish? Anyway, there is fish and pickled cabbage, so who can say it’s not pickled fish?

Zhuge Liang smiled. He knew that Shamoko was secretly learning his tactics, but Zhuge did not hide it, and of course he would not explain anything more. The dishes are all laid out anyway, so it’s up to you to learn how much you can.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang actually knew what Huang Gai was waiting for, and coincidentally, Zhuge Liang was also waiting for the same opportunity...