Chapter 153 Questions

Xiao Tianjian spent half a day in the Luoyang government office of the Xingtian Army. In the afternoon, he went directly to the headquarters of the General Logistics Department, which had also moved to Luoyang City, and met Luo Bin, the commander-in-chief of the Logistics Department.

Compared with the civil servants of Niu Jinxing, although Luo Bin does something similar to their affairs, he belongs to the generals of the military department. Presumably, the civil affairs officials are busy. It can be said that he is more busy here. For this reason, the logistics department has also added a lot of personnel. Even so, In the same way, they are busy with their four feet to the sky.

The sudden change has caused a huge change in the strategic plan and direction of Xing Tianjun. The greatest pressure may be on the logistics department. All kinds of materials originally planned to be redepjusted, and the arranged plan also need to be overturned and readjusted, so their side may be Xing Tianjun at present. The busiest group of people.

When Xiao Tianjian even walked in here with the guard, few people noticed his arrival. There was even an officer holding the ultimatum and walked away with his head down. He almost bumped into Xiao Tianjian. Without raising his eyes, he shouted, "Don't you see that I'm very busy? Still blocking the road, don't you have eyes? Get out of the way..."

"Presumptuous! Do you want to die? Don't open your eyes to see who's here? Why don't you kneel down and plead guilty?" The iron head stared and scolded him harshly.

The officer of the logistics department looked up and saw Xiao Tianjian. After being stunned, he was so scared that he threw the ultimatum in his hand to the ground. His face turned white at that time. His legs fluttered softly and knelt on the ground. He quickly kowtowed and pleaded guilty, "I don't know that the general came! I bumped into the marshal! Death penalty! It's really a death penalty! I'd like to ask the marshal to have a favor!"

Xiao Tianjian squatted down with a smile. First, he cleaned up the ultimatums that fell on the ground and handed them to the officer. Then he helped him up and laughed, "You are so diligent in business. What's wrong with not seeing me? Ha ha! I think you are not only innocent but also meritorious! Don't be afraid! Go ahead!"

The officer almost cried out. His lips trembling and one hand tried to hold the ultimatums. His body tightened his legs together. One hand saluted hard and shouted, "The last general died for the general!"

Tietou rolled his eyes behind Xiao Tianjian. He knew that he didn't know how many people were bought by Xiao Tianjian! It is estimated that the officers of the whole logistics department will become Xiao Tianjian's loyal friends again! He had to admire Xiao Tianjian's ability to buy people's hearts. In a word, one move can sometimes buy the lives of many people and let them willingly die for him. This is really not what ordinary people can do, but of course, Tietou is also happy for Xiao Tianjian. In his opinion, more people want to die for Xiao Tianjian. The better!

When Luo Bin learned the news of Xiao Tianjian's arrival at this time, he quickly rushed out. A group of officers straightened their bodies and saluted Xiao Tianjian and shouted, "See the commander-in-chief!" ......”

After Xiao Tianjian sat down, he did not talk nonsense and immediately asked about the work of the General Logistics Department during this period.

Luo Bin immediately replied, "I want to report to the general! This year, all the craftsmen's camps in various places are under the jurisdiction of the general post. At present, there are 13 craftsman camps in Shanxi, Henan and Huguang. We now have a total of 13 craftsman camps, three in Yangcheng, Shanxi, one in Lu'an, two in Pingyang, one in Lushi County, one in Zezhou, one in Luoyang, one in Ruzhou, and one in Runing. One in Huaiqing Mansion, one in Jingzhou, three of which are exclusive cannons, two are made of armor, and the rest are mainly used to build weapons such as self-made fire guns and knives and guns. There are also six craftsman camps during the period of preparation, including one Kaifeng Mansion, one in Daye County in Wuchang Prefecture, one in Xiangyang and one in Nanyang Prefecture... are recruiting and deployment of manpower and Tools can be put into production in the first half of next year!

In addition, there are also gunpowder as autocratic gunpowder, paper shell bombs, thunderbolts, mines, flowering bombs and various shells, etc., to be needed by soldiers and horses in various places. There are about 6,000 craftsmen, and the recruitment is still increasing.

At present, the logistics department has also established more than 50 military stations in various places, and more military stations are under construction. There are more than 13,000 guards and soldiers in the military station, more than 3,000 mules and horses, and more than 1,000 large vehicles.

In the past year of this year, craftsmen have produced a total of 13,000 self-made fire guns, more than 4,000 hand guns, 20,000 waist knives, 20,000 short blades for self-fire guns, 27,000 gun heads and long guns, 6,000 pairs of chest armors, 230 three-pound guns, 120 6-pound guns, 70 eight-pound guns, and 12 pound guns. Eighteen doors, gunpowder and all kinds of ammunition...

At present, craftsmen's camps in various places are working overtime day and night to build more weapons and strive to equip more soldiers and horses!"

Luo Bin reported a series of numbers like fried beans. Xiao Tianjian nodded repeatedly after hearing this. In the past year, Xing Tianjun's territory has been expanding, and the craftsman's camp has also doubled. It has been planned and built in various places. If it hadn't been for Luo Bin's central dispatch, these things would have been to his death. It can be said that Luo Bin has shared a considerable part of the workload for him.

And the continuous output of weapons made by craftsmen has also greatly enriched his strength. Over the years, I'm afraid that there have been tens of thousands of firearms produced by craftsmen in various places. If it weren't for the continuous production of these weapons to equip the Xingtian army, he would not have thought of getting a connection at all. With a victory, it can be said that the whole craftsman's camp is the foundation of his success, and Luo Bin has not lived up to his trust. He has managed this matter very well, and he has managed it quite well.

So Xiao Tianjian praised Luo Bin repeatedly, which made Luo Bin excited for a while, but then Xiao Tianjian asked, "So how about the inventory of various materials now?"

Luo Bin thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "It's not enough. It can be said that the craftsmen in various places have basically been directly transferred to the armies for distribution, and the inventory is very small. Especially in the past year, the armies have been expanding their troops, and the weapons produced are not enough at all. The generals have sent people to find inferior positions to collect debts all day long. It's such a weapon, and it's really a headache for this!

At present, the inventory of weapons such as knives, guns, swords and halberd in various places is quite manageable. We have picked out the weapons of the general and the officers and soldiers captured by the armies in various places, leaving useful things, stockpiling a batch, some of which are allocated to reserve battalions in various places, and the rest of the unusable armors are sent directly to each. The refining furnace of the earth has returned to the furnace!

But it is not easy to increase the output of self-made fire. After all, the requirements for craftsmen are too high. The quality of the pipe made by ordinary craftsmen is too poor, and it is easy to explode! Therefore, there are only more than 3,000 self-made fires in the warehouse, which are still under pressure. As a reserve, it is only enough for the normal consumption of the army. Within a month, the craftsmen's camp in various places can produce another two or three thousand, which is the best! No matter how much it is, I think it's impossible to be inferior!

In terms of armor, now a craftsman's camp in Yangcheng and a craftsman's camp in Ruzhou are being built, and the output will not increase much for a while. The inventory is basically not much. Most of it has been transferred to the general army, and the rest of the departments have no opportunity to equip!

The grain is slightly better. The marshal has been transferring to the north from the Huguang area during this period. Some of them have been transferred to Shanxi, and some are transferred to the private sector for the relief of refugees. In the military stations in Luoyang, Zhongmou, Kaifeng and other places, as well as the warehouses in the city, there is a current reserve of 30,000 yuan of various grains. About stone is enough for 20,000 or 30,000 troops in a month! No matter how much it is, it will be raised from Huguang, and the local reserves are not very large!"

Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and calculated in his heart. It sounds like a lot of 30,000 stones of grain, but in essence it is not much. When soldiers don't fight, even if they have two meals a day, they need at least one and a half catty and a half of food to eat enough food. Moreover, the reason why Xing Tianjun is strong is that the Xing Tianjun's troops train every day. Above, a month's amount of training can catch up with the amount of drilled by the officers and military for one or even two years, so the speed of Xing Tianjun's new recruits to become an army is much faster than that of the officers and soldiers. This is all because Xiao Tianjian is willing to let the soldiers have enough to eat. After so many years, he has always been trying his best, and even it can be said that he smashing the pot and selling iron to let the soldiers eat. The full stomach to train soldiers makes the soldiers under his command always maintain a relatively strong combat effectiveness, so the daily consumption of food of the Xingtian army can even be more than double that of the officers and soldiers.

Once it comes to marching and fighting, the physical and mental consumption of officers and soldiers will be greater. If you don't have enough to eat a meal, it may seriously affect your combat effectiveness. Therefore, everyone consumes one catty more grain every day, which makes there is more demand for food.

If the 30,000 stone grain is fought, it is only enough for 20,000 to 30,000 horses to eat for a month at most, so it seems that this time he took Huguang and initially solved the problem of military grain. In fact, with the transportation capacity of this era, if you want to transport Huguang's grain to the north, you can only use ocean transportation or sea transportation. Unfortunately, Xing Tianjun has not been able to control the Grand Canal in the east at present, so he can't use this most human and material-saving transportation method to transfer Huguang's grain to Henan. He can only transport Huguang's grain to Henan through semi-water transportation and semi-land transportation. The cost of land transportation is very high. On such a long way, pull a stone of grain and send it to Luoyang. What the mules and horses and people eat along the way will be a small half or even more. Therefore, it is only a preliminary solution to some problems. Once a large number of soldiers and horses go from Huguang to the north, they will no longer eat on the spot. In this way, because It was not expected in advance that the court would negotiate peace with Jiannu, so Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates did not expect to start in advance to transfer a large amount of grain to Henan first. Now the grain reserves in Henan are not sufficient, which is a very serious problem.

Another thing is that in the past year, the expansion of the army has been too fast. Although the logistics department is also trying to expand the number of craftsmen's camp and the number of craftsmen, if you want to quickly increase the production of weapons with "high-tech" content such as self-fired fire, the skill requirements for craftsmen are relatively much higher, so that in a short time, The number of craftsmen who can be engaged in building pipe can not be greatly increased, so it is impossible to greatly increase the number of self-made fire pipe.

In this way, it is impossible to meet the needs of the Xingtian Army to expand its army at all. As a result, many newly formed battalions cannot meet the required number of fire fighters, which can only reduce the number of fire fighters in the newly formed battalion. In this way, it also limits the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army. The performance forced Xiao Tianjian to divide the battalions into A, B, C and 3. If he wants to expand his troops in the future, I'm afraid that there will be a Dingzhong battalion that is not equipped with firemen at all.