Chapter 18 Logistics Trouble

In short, after the Jiannu army took Ningyuan City, there was no opponent outside the whole Shanhaiguan that could be their enemy, so the nearly 200,000 Jiannu army then divided the troops and rushed towards Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, the situation of Guanning does not allow Xiao Tianjian to continue to attack north step by step in an orderly manner. Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian considered it, he ordered Luo to be the vanguard, crossed the government-controlled area along the way, directly rushed directly to Hejianfu and the middle route army of Li Xin and Diaozheng, and then immediately marched towards Shanhaiguan. Soldiers, the purpose of attacking the city and pulling up the land along the way is not. Unless they meet the officers and soldiers coming out of the city to intercept them, they will rush to the Shanhaiguan area first to meet Yan Chongxi and Lu Xiangsheng.

At this point, Xiao Tianjian did not disappoint Lu Xiangsheng. Xiao Tianjian faithfully fulfilled his promise to Lu Xiangsheng. The feud between Dazhong and Daming can be temporarily put down. However, in dealing with Jiannu, Xiao Tianjian should focus on national affairs. He can give up overthrowing the Ming Dynasty first, but he must First of all, to resist the army of living and building slaves from the land of Yanyun, they will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the past.

That's why Luo Li led more than 10,000 guards to the city of Hejianfu and the middle army to meet before the right army reached the territory of Hejianfu.

As soon as the Hejian Mansion was taken, Li Xin, Diao Zheng, Luo Li and other generals immediately left Hejian Mansion in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's order and headed for Shanhaiguan.

Xiao Tianjian led the soldiers and horses of the remaining right-wing army and continued to attack Cangzhou along the Grand Canal step by step. He used the current Grand Canal to transport various strategic materials with countless canal ships and transfer them to the north to support the confrontation between the Dazhong Army and the Jiannu Army in the north.

Although Xiao Tianjian is also anxious and wants to rush to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible to personally command the decisive battle against the Jiannu army, he is also well aware of the importance of the Grand Canal for this decisive battle. This big duel can be said to be a key battle for the future of the Han nation. It can be said that both sides will be the most elite. The troops were put into this decisive battle, and even the Jiannu side can be said to have gathered all the soldiers and horses that can be used to complete their entry into the Central Plains this time, and Huang Taiji also clearly announced in the Jiannu that after entering the customs this time, they will not follow the way of entering the early years and withdraw after a full plunder. Back outside the customs, this time they will attack the customs and completely occupy the customs. If the war goes well, they will continue to go south after defeating the Daming and the Dazhong army until the whole Central Plains are controlled by their slaves.

This goal is not ambitious, but also completely exposes Huang Taiji's ambition for the Central Plains. Of course, his ambition is also the ambition of many Jiannu chiefs. Therefore, Huang Taiji used his prestige and position among Jiannu to encourage all Jiannu and opened up this south with a must-have mentality. The prelude to entering the customs.

But relatively speaking, Xiao Tianjian has gathered available soldiers as much as possible, but after all, many places in China have not been pocketed by them, especially the southern provinces, which are loyal to the local government of the Ming Dynasty. They are still coveting the newly established Greater China and want to restore the unification of the Ming Dynasty. He ruled his position, so he had to be distracted and left some troops in the south to prevent the Ming forces in the southern provinces from trying to restore their rule at this opportunity.

Even in Shaanxi, he has to pay attention to the trend of the thief Li Zicheng. Now he and Li Zicheng have completely turned against each other. Li Zicheng's side will not sit back and watch such a good opportunity and not compete with Xiao Tianjian for the world. Therefore, although Xing Tianjun has the current total strength It is far more than Jiannu's side, but it can be used to go north to the decisive battle of Jiannu, but it is not more than half of the Jiannu army. In addition, he also has to be prepared to guard against the officers and soldiers loyal to the Ming Dynasty stab in the back. All kinds of situations can be said to be not beneficial to him.

But even if this pot of rice is a pot of raw rice, Xiao Tianjian must eat it, because once Jiannu is allowed to take the lead in the land of Yanyun, if he wants to restore the Han people's rule over the north in the future, he doesn't know how much manpower and material resources it will take to drive Jiannu back to the customs again and eliminate the fear of Jiannu. I'm afraid it's even more distant.

Therefore, the importance of this decisive battle is far more than the importance of his previous wars since he rebelled. It is not only a matter of whether he can survive, but also its significance has risen to whether the whole Chinese nation can continue to stand on the top of the world's nation in the future.

In addition, because of the way and equipment of building the Xingtian Army, it is doomed to the Xing Tianjun's demand for material supplies. It is more than the demand for material supplies of any army in this era. At present, the north is dilapidated. It is not realistic for him to rely on materials from the north to supplement his military supplies. Love.

War is fighting logistics. Without perfect logistics supplies, the war can't go on. What's more, when Jiannu goes south to enter the customs, he can have no psychological burden. He completely relies on looting to supplement their military needs. There is no need to worry too much about losing the people's hearts. At worst, they can retreat to the customs. He rested outside, but Xiao Tianjian had to consider the problem of people's aspirations. When he went north, he could not rely more on capture to replenish military supplies, but on the rear supplies to meet the needs of the army.

It is not realistic for land transportation to solve the military needs of so many people and horses. In that case, it is not realistic to support the northern expedition of 100,000 troops. At least several times the manpower and animal resources of the army should be mobilized to provide support for the army with the current financial and human strength of the Chinese and dynasties. If you do this, it can also delay the The establishment of the China-China Dynasty was dragged down, so he had to pay attention to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this decisive battle. At this time, this canal has become the lifeblood of the future of Greater China. Before he established usable maritime power, he could only rely on this Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to transport front-line soldiers. Various strategic materials to ensure the needs of this battle.

Sometimes Xiao Tianjian himself thought that if he had been left by God in the area of Nanzhili or the area of Liangguang, Fujian in the south, he would definitely choose to build a strong maritime force first, and then use sea boats to transport a large number of well-trained troops to the north and directly build the nest of slaves. Unfortunately, there is no such thing in the world. If God left him in Shaanxi, where birds don't lay eggs, he can only choose to build strength inland first. Now he can only keep Jiannu out of the gate in this way.

Therefore, every time Xiao Tianjian thinks of these things, he has a feeling of waiting for time. He wants to create a naval force that can cross the sea as soon as possible. In the future, he will gallop on the sea for China's laughter and proud world, attack the city and the land, such as slaves, Japanese slaves, the Netherlands, grapes. Ya and Spain, in front of his powerful navy of China, will be a dish of rotten dishes. He can clean up as he wants.

After completing the adjustment, Xiao Tianjian sent Luo Li's troops to set out, and he immediately continued to lead Liu Yaoben and the remaining soldiers on the right to launch an attack on Linqing City. At this time, Linqing was still a small city, only a county under the rule of Dongchang Prefecture, but Daming built five Grand Canals in Linqing. Caoliang warehouse, so the importance of this small place is highlighted. This is an important node on the Grand Canal. The imperial government has paid great attention to it, so a batch of dispared troops in this small city are also placed here. There are nearly 10,000 officers and troops stationed here, so it cost Xiao Tianjian to attack Linqing. In the past five days, the garrison of Linqing finally announced its surrender.

Although the offensive of the whole right-wing army is very smooth, as the right-wing army goes deeper and deeper into Shandong, the front line has also begun to be rapidly lengthening. It is not difficult for Xiao Tianjian to take down the cities along the way. However, as the front line grows longer and longer, it protects the transportation safety of the canal, but It's getting more and more difficult.

Along the whole Grand Canal, with the development of the war, a large number of officers and soldiers were defeated by the Xingtian Army. Although many officers and soldiers chose to surrender to the Dazhong army, many officers and soldiers turned around and became bandits after being defeated. They kept robbing around along the Grand Canal. Many officers and soldiers and gentry from all over the place simply Taking advantage of their familiarity with the local terrain and wide connections, they turned into water thieves and began to plunder the transport ships of the Dazhong army on the canal.

This situation began to become more and more serious after Xiao Tianjian led the army to seize Xuzhou. Although Xiao Tianjian ordered the sailors of the Dazhong Army to transfer into the Grand Canal and be responsible for protecting a large number of requisitioned transfer materials, these water thieves could use various lakes scattered along the Grand Canal to hide. Traces, constantly attacking the Cao fleet. In fact, these water thieves are not loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Most of the time, they start out of their own interests, and there is no organization or discipline at all. If they can rob the canal, they will rob them. If they can't rob them, they will set fire to the ships of the Dazhong army. It can be said that this kind of destruction. Just out of retaliation against the Dazhong army, there is no reason at all.

Therefore, their actions caused great damage to the subsequent material transfer of the Dazhong Army. The ships transporting materials were robbed or burned. The boatmen who served the Great China and North Korea were also repeatedly slaughtered by these water thieves, so that Xiao Tianjian could receive the news that the boat was hijacked almost every day, which made Xiao Tianjian Light fire.

Originally, it was not easy for the newly established Dazhong Dynasty to collect these materials, and it was organized to be transported to the north by consuming a large amount of money. However, on the way, they were plundered by these unclimatic water thieves and even set on fire for nothing, which caused the losses to the Great Zhong Dynasty. It's so big that it can hardly be counted by numbers.

Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian accepted the surrender of the officers and soldiers, he often disbanded them immediately and placed them in the local area to resume agricultural production as much as possible. However, when this happened repeatedly, Xiao Tianjian had to change his initial strategy and began to bring these surrenders. Carry out the reorganization, send the elite officers under their command to take over these surrendered soldiers, and put them along the canal, responsible for suppressing local bandits and water thieves, and protecting the safety of canal shipping.

In this way, the number of troops can be said to have expanded repeatedly during this period, which has also consumed a large number of materials transported by the Xingtian Army to the north.