Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2876 Angle, a new opportunity

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

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

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

  In ancient times, the army went out and marched for a long distance. It was actually a very complicated thing, and there was a lot of work to do.

  After waking up in the morning, as the order is issued, each department needs to pack up the items and armaments, and then listen to the order to line up to eat, and then count the dry food, war horses, weapons, etc. of each department, register and report one by one.

  The Lord will send people to conduct a random inspection to check whether there is any discrepancy. At the same time, scouts are sent to go forward first, generally speaking, there are 24 teams, which are divided into two shifts, and they take turns to detect forward to ensure the safety of the entire army when it is marching.

  Then it is necessary to hold a pre-horse meeting, and the ministries will report the specific problems and related situations, and then quickly make a ruling. If it can be solved on the spot, it will be solved on the spot. At the Maqian meeting, different strategies must be arranged according to the terrain ahead, such as who will be responsible for building bridges when encountering rivers and trenches, and who will be responsible for detection and detection if encountering mountains, forests and highlands.

  Because Fei Qian is basically leading cavalry this time, things are much simpler. Otherwise, if it is a mixed army, then the army needs to be separated even when it leaves the camp. Just like when 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 to leave the camp is the cavalry of each department. Because of the fast speed of the cavalry, after leaving the camp, they quickly advanced to a place two or three miles away from the camp, then stopped standing still, and began to be on guard after setting up a queue. Afterwards, the infantry units will leave the camp in sequence according to the distance of the position and direction, and form an array guard at the distance from the camp, and finally the baggage team will leave the camp.

When marching, if it is a mixed formation, in normal weather, the infantry will walk in front, while the cavalry will follow the baggage team to walk behind, and if there is snow after snowfall, it is the other way around. It will step on a path in front, and the infantry will follow behind as the escorting carts...

  Advancing by water is another way.

In the evening, after choosing a place to set up camp, the cavalry must be sent out to guard and patrol around, and then the infantry will set up camp. After the infantry has set up the camp, the cavalry will be allowed to 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 am extremely busy and exhausted.

   And Jia Xu’s previous preparations in Longyou saved Fei Qian a lot of trouble.

First of all, these sentry posts built along the way, on the one hand, store a certain amount of materials, which can be used as supplements; Temporary camp, which reduces a lot of workload.

  Secondly, many trivial matters are also done by the on-duty personnel of these small army villages, such as the preparation of drinking water, the deployment of fodder, and even help repair the iron palms of war horses, repair the wheel hubs of baggage carts, etc.

In the end, there will inevitably be some accidents during the march, such as some wounded people. At this time, the small sentry post will come in handy. Whether it is to let the wounded take a short rest or transfer them to the rear, it can greatly reduce the number of troops. burden, and also give soldiers more peace of mind.

   Of course, all of this costs money...

   Jia Xu brought the ledger.

Now that the "highway" in Longyou is over, it's time to sum up with Jia Xu to see if this road is worth it, whether it needs long-term setup, and if it is adjusted, what will happen? It is a question of how to adjust and so on.

This is what Fei Qian has been emphasizing. It cannot be said that only Jia Xu is in Longyou, and he and Tai Shici can walk thousands of miles a day. Difficult?

  Longyou was originally an area with very low productivity, poor affordability, and relatively sparse population, which made it difficult to increase taxes even during wars or temporarily collect taxes. 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 the point of view of the family, there is nothing wrong with Shandong's attitude towards Longyou. After all, no one likes a poor relative who reaches out to himself for money every day, endlessly throughout the year, and it is still like this every year, lasting for several years or even ten years.

   But the problem is that Shandong and Longyou are not just "relatives", but belong to the same country, a whole. It was originally a simple concept of cooperation to be a general in Kansai and a prime minister in Kanto, but those who cared about themselves only 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 existed for a long time.

  From the Western Han Dynasty, people have been howling continuously, until the Eastern Han Dynasty.

   Difficult, transportation is difficult, consumption is high, what a big problem!

  But because of this problem, you will never fight outside?

  Jia Xu was also covered in dust. He came from Jincheng, and there were several civil servants following him, each of whom was bundled with a lot of bills. If it wasn't for Fei Qian's promotion of bamboo paper, these bills would have to be loaded in carts.

   Fei Qian didn't talk nonsense, and Jia Xu and Jia Xu found a relatively flat stone and began to study these bills. As for the miscellaneous affairs in the army, Xu Chu was mainly responsible for handling them. Anyway, after a period of time, Xu Chu can be regarded as a more suitable commander of the internal guards, and it is not a big problem to deal with these military affairs.

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

  Since the problem of food and grass is the biggest, let's deal with this problem first.

  People's food intake will not change much relatively. Some people can eat very well, but some people have a small appetite. In the case that the overall human genes have not changed much, the basic nutritional needs of the human body will not change with age.

  The same is true for war horses. In the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties and in the future, the demand can be roughly regarded as a quantitative.

  The cavalry that Feiqian brought this time, strictly speaking, did not ride with two horses, but with one and a half horses, and the rest were composed of mules, horses and other large animals. These mules and horses undertook the load tasks of general baggage vehicles, and also carried a certain amount of trailers.

  Therefore, the consumption of the Fei sneak army on the road is two parts, one is the food and grass carried by oneself, and the other is the additional supplement of these small army strongholds along the way. This time it was for the pursuit of speed, so I didn't bring some small animals. And if you follow the normal marching speed, then carry some sheep, it may be that the amount of solid food and grass carried will be further reduced.

The consumption of war horses is relatively large, about three times the grain and grass consumed by a war horse is that of a soldier. After all, war horses not only need to eat grass, but also need fine grains. Even before the battle, the soldiers will specially feed the war horses with some Stir-fried products mixed with salt and sugar can improve the stamina of war horses. However, mules and nauseous horses are relatively easier to raise. They only need to be fed with forage and occasionally mixed with some beans.

   Fei Qian is also taking advantage of this long march to calculate what is the appropriate ratio of war horses to weak horses. Now it seems that he and Jia Xu can further reduce the proportion of war horses based on the accounts and actual marches. Perhaps it is 1.2 to 1.3 times that of cavalry, which is an appropriate range.

   This not only ensures the supplement of accidental damage during the march of the horses, but also reduces the pressure on food and grass.

  As for the consumption of soldiers, the ancients did not understand the concept of calories, but Fei Qian knew it well, so replacing carbohydrates with fat as much as possible has become an important research direction to reduce military rationing.

  In general, the calories released by the same weight of fat will be twice that of carbohydrates. Of course, this data may not be accurate, but in daily life, the comfort brought by oil will be stronger than that of ordinary carbohydrates. As for the advantages and disadvantages of saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, at this stage of the big man, it is impossible to talk about these at all .

  Heavy salt and heavy oil, if placed in later generations, will definitely be shamed by many healthy gourmets, but placed in the present, it will make the Han people who seldom eat meat cry happily while eating.

  Heavy salt means that food is less perishable and can be carried for a long time in the current weather in Longyou, and heavy oil is an important factor that provides a sense 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 farming to have a stable civilization development since ancient times.

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

  It’s like people with anorexia and bulimia. I’m afraid the signals from the stomach are directly blocked by the brain.

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

   Eat well.

  High in calories and sugar.

  The planting range of beet and sugarcane is not large, and because of the variety, the sugar production is not high. Therefore, Feiqian can only work **** oil, which is the white food and red food of the original nomads. Using Zhuanghe produced by Han people's farming to exchange these white food and red food with the settled Southern Huns and Western Qiang, on the one hand, it promoted the communication and exchange between these herdsmen and Han people, and on the other hand, it also made both parties subconsciously Try to expand production to get more supplies.

  If sugar cane cultivation in Cochin can be further expanded…

   This is the future.

  Fei Qian discovered that herdsmen will also be affected by the "small peasant economy".

  When the producer finds that his hard work is useless and cannot bring more value, or even the hard work is out of proportion to the harvest, the producer will naturally choose a lower and easier level, commonly known as lying down.

"Originally, Han soldiers suffered from lunar eclipse, three stones, three fights and three fights, which was especially insufficient. They often suffered from typhoid fever, dysentery, headache, limbs, fullness, swollen spleen, etc.," Jia Xu said with great emotion, "Now my lord has changed. The rice is white and red, and the lunar eclipse and two stones are also worry-free... There is a saying in the art of war that the general will die if he has no supplies, he will die if he has no food, and he will die if he has no accumulation. Now, my lord, this method can reduce the need for luggage, which can be called a great policy of the country! 』

   Fei Qian nodded, and then let out a breath. Obviously, after increasing the proportion of red and white food, the pressure on transportation has indeed been reduced. This difference is the reason why Mongolia can fight and eat all the way in history, and it is also the unique food worn by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Shackles that can't go away.

"Not only that. ’ Fei Qian pointed to the transportation quantity on the bill, “It is transported by poor horses, one horse can equal the power of five people, and less manpower is used on the way, and more places can be used...”

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

   After all, after adopting high-calorie food, the total weight will drop, so it will inevitably save the power of transportation and relieve the pressure.

   And the benefits are not only these, there are 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 worse ones 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 inevitable. Most of the things, the root cause is mostly malnutrition. The most fundamental cause of malnutrition is the unreasonable distribution of food.

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

  Besides, the soldiers guarding the border are like this, and the ordinary people who are drawn to serve as labor and transported back and forth are reduced again from the basic standards of the soldiers. Therefore, malnutrition will almost certainly appear after a long time.

The longer the war lasts, the more people will be affected by this kind of malnutrition, from the border to the inland, from the soldiers to the common people, and as the rulers of these feudal dynasties in China, they will only see the average and feel that an average garrison Death three stone three, how can there be any problems?

   It's like various averages for later generations.

  This is why Huaxia is getting weaker and weaker. I just stare at the average all day long, and I only look at the land under my feet. If there is a problem, it is either procrastination or giving up. Naturally, I can't really solve the problem, and Fei Qian is now pushed away by Huaxia. A door, this door not only faces the Western Regions, but also faces further places.

   From another angle, you can see a whole new world.

  …(··)…

  The Jiangdong army trapped near Xiaoting is now also planning to find a new angle to solve the problem.

  Huang Gai, besides the command of the navy, the talent skill is "set fire".

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

This is the strategy he thought of, a fire, easy, no need to send people to the mountains and forests to be beaten, and no need to pay any extra costs, just light the fire, and you can sit on the top of the mountain and watch Sichuan and Shu The army wolf howled.

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

   Most of the autumn wind blows from north to south. If Huang Gai set fire to it, it might also burn the Sichuan and Shu positions on the northern hills, but it may also burn his own fleet!

  So Huang Gai could only send water ghosts to sneak around at night to destroy the barriers blocking the river while waiting for the wind direction to change.

  The water ghosts in Jiangdong still had some effect at the beginning.

  It is basically impossible to directly destroy these obstacles nailed to the bottom of the water with the manpower of water ghosts. In fact, it is not very easy for people to exert their strength in the water. The only way is for the water ghost to tie the ropes to those obstacles, and then the boats behind will pull them.

   And this change was soon discovered by the Sichuan and Shu army, and then they directly cast a lot of fishing nets from the upper reaches.

  These fishing nets have some hooks. Once the water ghost gets on it, they can't run away. Even if the water ghost is not caught, hooked to an obstacle, or directly hooked to the rudder of Huang Gai and others, it is quite difficult to deal with.

At the same time, the Sichuan and Shu army also increased the harassment force in the mountains and forests. They came up and down from time to time at night, which made Huang Gai and others nervous. Shu soldiers may not really rush out of the mountains, but what if?

  Especially at night imitating the roars of various wild beasts, pretending to be ghosts crying and other moves, which made Huang Gai's beard tremble with anger, but there was no good way to do it. You can't just plug your ears up, can you? In the middle of the night, after the attack, even Huang Gai was a little scared when he saw the pitch-black forest, let alone ordinary Jiangdong soldiers. If you don't attack, then you can only endure it.

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

  Huang Gai had a headache, while Sha Moke blushed with excitement.

  Samoke really didn't expect to fight like this!

  As the barbarians of Wuling, Sha Moke and his people often fought against Jiangdong soldiers. In the previous battles, Shamoko and his people were always the ones who suffered. Relying on the advantage of having ships, the Jiangdong soldiers fought whenever they wanted, and left when they wanted. Shamoke and others had no good way at all, but now that Shamoke saw Zhuge Liang's operation, he suddenly realized...

Oh, I got it!

   It can still be like this!

  Shamoke is now not only leading people to attack with the Sichuan and Shu mountain soldiers every day, but also summing up every day. Looking at Zhuge Liang's arrangements and scheduling like a cloud of water, he feels that the battle is not too simple!

   Isn’t it like having fish and sauerkraut, and having hands, you can make a pot of steaming sauerkraut fish? !

  Shamoke 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 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 are fish and sauerkraut, who can say that it is not sauerkraut fish?

  Zhuge Liang smiled. He knew that Sha Moke was learning his tactics secretly, but Zhuge didn't hide it, and of course he wouldn't explain anything. Anyway, the dishes are all on display, so how much you can learn is up to you.

  At the same time, Zhuge Liang actually knew what Huang Gai was waiting for, and it just so happened that Zhuge Liang was also waiting for the same opportunity...

  (end of this chapter)