In modern people's words, fighting wars is military supplies, fighting money. In ancient times, the same principle was also true. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, was the Ming army not as strong as the Qing army? Wrong, the Ming army could crush the Qing army in terms of quantity and equipment, so why did it lose? Because there was no money, the soldiers on the front line couldn't even have enough food to eat, so they had no intention of fighting!

There were countless examples of victory in ancient times, such as Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms. Perhaps everyone saw only the glory of peerless military generals such as Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian. However, they never thought about how powerful the supply of the Qin army's military supply was. Like the famous "High Wind" arrow formation, the arrows were like storms and rains, and they kept on for a long time. Do you know how many arrows were needed? Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of arrows were shot out in minutes. If the military supply was not good, the arrows could not be supplied. Not to mention the strong wind, the light wind or even the breeze could not be blown!

Of course, things like winning military equipment are rarely recorded in history books. These are generally implicit in the analysis of national strength. If the country has strong comprehensive strength, the supply of military equipment will naturally be strong, and there is no need to specifically describe those who do logistics.

Most of the cases recorded in historical books are battles that rely on military supplies and food to win. The most famous of them is the Battle of Guandu. Cao Cao only had 20,000 or 30,000 troops in total. Yuan Shao was rich in the four prefectures of Hebei, wearing hundreds of thousands of armor and randomly ordered 100,000 elite troops. Later, nearly 200,000 participated in the battle one after another. Cao Cao was determined to lose, but he attacked Wuchao Tun's grain land with one move. Yuan Shao had more than 100,000 people lost food and were immediately defeated. This shows the importance of military supplies and food!

Zhu Cijing certainly knew the importance of military supply, so they specially called Sun Yuanhua, the Minister of War and Bi Maokang, the Minister of Works, and gave a careful advice. In fact, Sun Yuanhua was the main responsible person, and Bi Maokang was just helping.

After Sun Yuanhua returned to the Ministry of War, he immediately recruited all the left assistant ministers, right assistant ministers, and chief officials of each department, and explained the preparations of various military supplies one by one. The most important of these was naturally food and grass. This time, an army of 800,000 went on an expedition and accompanied by 500,000 prisoners of war. The food and grass needed was a massive amount. The reserves of Liaodong and the capital were not enough. Sun Yuanhua immediately captured Nanzhili with a telegram, and ordered Nanzhili to prepare one million stones of grain and one hundred thousand ducts of grass. He drove a special train and sent it day and night. It must be delivered within three days!

Fortunately, there are telegrams and railways now. If it were the past, the Ministry of War's orders were sent to Nanzhili for a 800-mile rush, it would take more than ten days. Nanzhili would organize people and send them to the capital, which would take at least two or three months. In that case, let alone war, you would not dare to assemble the army. If you gathered together for two or three months, you would not be able to rebel!

Of course, this horse can only eat grass, but people cannot just eat white rice or white flour. Even if the court is poor, they have to feed some pickles. What's more, the Ming Dynasty is rich now. The officials in the prefectures of the Northern Zhili are busy again. The orders of the Ministry of War are all purchased in all directions, such as vegetables, fruits, and dried poultry. Well, when the Ministry of Works uses this unit, it is quite useful, so the court offices also use it. In short, as long as the storage time can exceed ten days and half a month, the Ministry of War will have to.

The prefectures in Northern Zhili were too busy to eat, and the Ministry of War could only send orders to Shandong, Liaodong and other places.

The departments and factories of the Ministry of Industry are also very busy. When Zhu Cijiu equipped the battalion with supplies, he actually didn't count a lot of things, such as steel bars used in conjunction with cement. Now, it is popular to build buildings with reinforced concrete in the Ming Dynasty. The sand and stones can be used locally in the desert in the south of the desert. There is no place to pick up the steel bars, and Sun Yuanhua also made up the later.

There is also the copper wire used for telecommunications and communications. Zhu Cijiu also forgot to explain it, and Sun Yuanhua also made up the same. Each legion equipped with thin copper wires for military communications that were thousands of miles long, making the busy machines of the cable factory in the Ministry of Industry almost smoke!

As for artillery and guns, not to mention, they are all made of one base and one base, like the bullets of the flintlock rifle, with a base of one hundred soldiers, and the number is imaginable.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works are busy, and the Tongzheng Envoy Department is not idle either. Wu Meicun has long been familiar with mobilizing mass support for the front line. The Beijing News began to report on this Northern Expedition in a long time, such as Jiannu's intention to destroy our Ming Dynasty, such as Jiannu burning, killing and looting at the border, such as Jiannu's cruel history review, etc.

It is particularly worth mentioning that with the telegram network, the Beijing News finally achieved simultaneous distribution throughout the Ming Dynasty. Of course, it takes at least one or two hours to send a content of the Beijing News by telegram, but it takes at least one or two times better than before, and it takes one or two months for remote provinces to be delivered.

For a time, the people from all over the Ming Dynasty were infuriated and wanted to rush over and bite Jiannu a few times. Of course, they could not bite them, so they could only pay and work. They didn't need to give out this force, because there were 500,000 prisoners of war who were working for them, and in the end, the people's support for the frontline was turned into money and materials.

I won’t talk about this money. After the war, Zhu Cijiu would reward soldiers on the front line based on his military achievements. There were countless kinds of things. Sun Yuanhua was shocked when he saw it. This thing could not be distributed. How could all kinds of things be sent to soldiers on the front line? He quickly wrote a press release and sent it to the Tongzheng Envoy Department. The general meaning was to thank the people of the Ming Dynasty for their support, but please donate other things, because the Ministry of War could not uniformly distribute them to soldiers on the front line. If you want to donate, donate some local special snacks to let the soldiers on the front line taste it.

The press release written by the Minister of War himself was naturally not afraid to not send it, and it was sent immediately. The next day, Sun Yuanhua's press release was reported.

This is awesome. The special snacks from all over the country are delivered to the capital one by one, such as the green onion pancakes from Shandong, the bacon from Huguang, various dried fish and meat from Shanxi, the thousand-layer cakes from Shaanxi, the ham from Jiangnan, etc. Now the people of the Ming Dynasty are rich, so they will naturally think about the good of the court. In addition, local officials are also competing for the future, so the local special snacks donated are so scary!

The preparations for the military supplies were in full swing, but Sun Yuanhua encountered an unexpected trouble. Because there were no trains to send them to Haizhou and Guanning, the warehouses of all government offices in the capital were filled with military supplies. Sun Yuanhua had no choice but to pile the excess supplies in the open air in four new factories in Xicheng District, the Ministry of Industry.

Why did there be no trains? Because trains from various northern provinces were mobilized to transport Lu Xiangsheng's east army. You should know that they were 300,000 soldiers and 300,000 prisoners. If you go from Beidaying to Haizhou, you will definitely not be able to arrive in ten days or half a month. You can only transport them by train. Sun Yuanhua mobilized nearly forty trains to transport them day and night.

Now the trains in the Ming Dynasty are ten cars, and one can hold up to death and can be stuffed in more than two hundred people. Field guns and tents can only be lifted on the roof. According to a train of 2,500 people, 40 trains can only transport 100,000 people in one trip. Even if it runs day and night, it will take at least six days to pull people out. So Sun Yuanhua had to wait first. Fortunately, it took three days to prepare the materials, and he actually only had to wait three days.
Chapter completed!