At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Even Xi Zhong felt scared, let alone Xun You who had already been frightened out of his wits.

How could this kind of thing be ignored by them?

However, Guo Jia acted like a normal person, still doing his own work as usual, preparing for the emperor's personal conquest of the Northern Expedition to Xianbei.

The emperor's personal conquest is a big event, not to mention the grand scale of this Northern Expedition, which completely surpassed the wars when Guo Peng personally led an army of [-] to crusade against Kansai and Hanzhong.

The straight-line distance of this war from Luoyang is nearly three thousand miles, which is three times the distance of the battle against Kansai, so all logistical needs must be arranged according to three times the distance of that battle.

This is still the most basic. If something goes wrong, it is not impossible to directly double the investment.

Once this battle is fought, it is unknown to what extent the wealth accumulated by the Wei Empire over the years will be destroyed.

The scale is too huge, huge to the extreme, so huge that just as the emperor put forward a concept of war, the entire court began to mobilize manpower to prepare for this battle.

All departments not only have to deal with daily errands, but also start preparing for the emperor's personal expedition to Xianbei from now on.

Everyone's time is not abundant, especially when this kind of manpower itself is very scarce.

Cao Cao was forced to put the entire cabinet into work, and he lived in the cabinet himself, uploading and sending it down day and night, communicating with the emperor and the minister.

Shang Shutai was also busy, and Cheng Yu and Tian Feng felt that this was a good time to redeem their impression points, so they had no idea of ​​opposing Guo Peng's imperial conquest, and they had to do their best to deal with this matter in exchange for Guo Peng's change in their views.

A large number of officials began to live in government offices day and night, working when they opened their eyes, and sleeping when they were closed.

It seems that they also want to collectively restore the emperor's impression of them, and lick bricks and tiles for this victorious battle.

In this way, when they are rewarded for their merits after the war, they may also get something unexpected.

The so-called three armies have not moved, food and grass go first, and it doesn't matter if the army moves later, but the logistics supply must be prepared at the very beginning, and the delivery must begin now, without delay.

All of them were deployed on the scheduled route of the army marching, and the post stations on the scheduled route of the army marching were filled with food and supplies, so that the army could use them whenever they arrived.

This is the obligation and responsibility of the logistics department.

For this war, the emperor began to store military supplies on the land of Hebei several years ago, with Jizhou as the main storage base.

The officials of the Ministry of War immediately rushed to Hebei to conduct a comprehensive investigation of many military supply warehouses in the ten counties of Jizhou.

Not only Jizhou, but Bingzhou and Youzhou also have warehouses of this type. During this march, warehouses of this type will also be used to support logistics.

They have the statistical data of the Ministry of War over the years in their hands, and will conduct a comprehensive investigation based on these data, but if there is a little problem, the local officials are very dangerous.

But these materials are too much.

There are really too many.

Grain, beans, sauces, and salt are all unexpected.

And the meat is amazing too.

For example, learning about the air-dried beef made by the grassland tribes, the air-dried beef from one warehouse to another, can easily cost a thousand catties, and the amount is astounding.

It is said that all the cattle bought by the emperor from the north, as well as the beef cattle raised by the emperor himself on the grassland, were specially raised for meat and were not used for farming.

For example, those cured meats are basically pork. After being cured with a lot of salt, it is said that the pork can be left for a long time without spoiling.

Store it in a cool and ventilated place, even if you take it out after two or three years, as long as you cut off the unsightly part of the surface, the beautiful red meat with bright color can be exposed inside.

That's still edible.

The taste is really good too.

Chapter 1068 One thousand and seventy-eight, don't stop your logistics!

Speaking of which, pork has long been rather frowned upon.

Although pork has been in people's recipes for a long time, if the feeding method and cooking method are not correct, the pork produced will have a fishy smell and be difficult to swallow.

Therefore, after Guo took over the local development power, while promoting the breeding of chickens, ducks and geese, he also paid attention to promoting the breeding of meat pigs.

When raising meat pigs, special attention should be paid to the fact that other boars except breeding pigs should be steered.

Guo Peng ordered that this method be extended to the people, so that some people who have mastered the relevant skills will go deep into the people to teach the method and help the pig farmers to handle affairs. As a result, the pigs raised do not have so much smell, and the meat grows quickly and is fat. And strong.

After a long time, because of the rapid reproduction of pigs and the large number of pigs raised, the army, the government and the people raised a large number of meat pigs, so the price of pork will soon be comparable to the large-scale breeding of duck meat to prevent locusts. .

It's just as cheap and tastes a lot better.

After the popularity of iron pots, the cooking method of pork has also been improved a lot, so pork became popular all over the world, and various pork dishes began to appear on the stage of history.

Under Guo's instructions, the chefs in charge of Guo's diet used soy sauce and sugar to restore a good-looking braised pork casserole for Guo, allowing Guo to find the taste of memory in the depths of his soul again. .

I have to say that pork is delicious. If it is not too greasy and does not meet Guo's diet plan, Guo is really willing to not leave pork for every meal.

It's a pity that for the sake of fitness and keeping his body healthy and strong, Mr. Guo only eats such delicacies occasionally.

However, since such a delicacy appeared, Mr. Guo was also willing to [have fun with the people], so this dish quickly spread from the palace to the outside.

The restaurants in Luoyang City were the first to introduce this [palace dish], which aroused the popularity of this dish in Luoyang City. This is proud of.

For a while, [Luoyang meat is expensive].

So now, not only the low-level people, but also many high-ranking officials like to eat pork, and each of them even asked their own cooks to toss new dishes to keep up with the trend of eating pork.

So soon, duck and pork became the main source of meat for the Wei people.

Guo paid great attention to some innovations in food, so he quickly promoted the use of salt-baked meat or air-dried meat to increase the storage time of meat and give the army more ways to improve food.

After this method matured, it was also applied to strategic storage.

Someone from Guo stored a large amount of meat for the army to use in the future long-distance Northern Expedition.

Now, this method has shown great effectiveness. A large amount of cured meat provided sufficient protein and oil and water requirements for Wei Jun’s Northern Expedition. Looking at the warehouse full of cured meat, the officials in charge of statistics were very shocked by this. .

Not only cured and dried meat, but also fresh meat.

According to statistics from Bingzhou and Youzhou, while raising large-scale war horses, the emperor also raised grassland sheep on a large scale, with a number of more than [-].

The purpose is to let the sheep go with the army when marching and fighting in the future, eat and kill at any time, eat fresh meat, and supplement sufficient protein and oil.

This is also modeled on the marching habits of nomads. The army walks, the horses follow, and the cattle and sheep follow. Wherever they go, they eat and graze, which greatly reduces the logistical pressure.

This group of nomads used this method to enhance their own logistical capabilities, and for a period of time gained the upper hand.

That's right, if all the more than 30 sheep were put into this war and followed the army, it would really relieve too much pressure on the logistics staff.

The rations for walking do not require much manpower and material resources to transport, which is too convenient.

The Ministry of War in charge of logistics was pleasantly surprised when they learned of this.

With such abundant food reserves, how can we worry about not winning this battle?

The emperor always did this, before the war broke out, he had already laid the victory for the soldiers.

When people were still thinking hard about the outcome of the war, the emperor had already determined that this battle would definitely be victorious.

A large amount of marinated and dried meat was added to Wei Jun's recipe, and a large amount of walking fresh meat was also added to Wei Jun's recipe, and a large amount of rice noodles was naturally an indispensable staple food for Wei Jun's advancement.

Guo can't really afford the needs of an army of 20 if he just eats meat, even if he counts rice and noodles.

During Wei Jun's expedition, he basically didn't eat cooked rice, but big pancakes.

Grind rice grains into noodles and make them into fragrant big pancakes, which are delicious, hungry, and easy to carry.

Anyway, everyone is one person and two horses, and there is not much pressure to carry military supplies.

Front-line combatants need rations, and logistics transport personnel also need rations. If 50 to 70 auxiliary soldiers and civilians are used to transport rations to the front line, the amount of rations that needs to be paid is even greater.

Of course, the rations of auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands will not cost as much as front-line combat soldiers, but their number is almost three times that of front-line combat soldiers.

Calculated in this way, the rations they need are also astronomical, and it is not known whether these warehouses can afford it.

In addition to people, there is also the transportation of livestock. The food intake of livestock is many times that of humans. I hope that the pasture on the grassland can reduce some of the investment in this area, otherwise it will be an astronomical expenditure.

Although the materials accumulated in the warehouse are also an astronomical amount, no matter how astronomical the amount is consumed by tens of 10 people in turns, it cannot withstand it.

A large number of accounting officials are calculating day and night, rushing to work, counting data, comparing data, going from warehouse to warehouse.

Then calculate the total amount of rations needed by a person according to past practice.

How much rations do front-line fighters need, how much rations does a logistics officer need, and so on.

During the pre-Han period, when the army was on an expedition, it was necessary to calculate the rations required by people of different levels according to their respective status and levels.

For example, what specifications should be followed for military officers at all levels to ration food, and how officials at all levels should be rationed. Each level is different, and it is quite cumbersome and difficult to calculate.

In the period of the Wei Empire, in order to reduce the calculation burden in this area and reduce material consumption, Guo Peng specially stipulated that there were only two calculation standards in wartime.

Combatants and support personnel.

According to these two standards to count.

Combatants eat more and better, because they have to work hard.

The logistics staff ate less, almost, because although they were tired, they were at least safe.

During non-wartimes, follow the set of rules. Those with high status and high rank will eat better, and ordinary soldiers will eat less. But in wartime, this situation is not allowed to happen. Same combat food.

From logistics officials to recruited civilian husbands, all logistics personnel also eat the same logistics food, and specialization is not allowed.

Everyone's meal arrangement is arranged according to the pre-calculation, and no difference is allowed. This kind of specialization is carried out during the war.

It's a lot of work, that's for sure.

In order to reduce the burden on the subordinate staff and reduce unnecessary food loss, Guo set an example. Even if the emperor himself conscripted, he would eat the same combat food as the first-line soldiers.

Taking the lead with the honor of the emperor, whoever dares to blatantly specialize is really courting death.

People can be simply divided, according to the eyes of combatants and logistics personnel, but this is really not the case for carrying livestock.

They don't have this kind of consciousness, they eat as much as they should, and if they don't eat enough, something will happen.

How much is needed for war horses, how much for rough horses, how much for oxen, how much for donkeys, and how much for mules.

Etc., etc.

And there is loss along the way.

From the warehouse to the front-line theater, how much is consumed along the way, and how much can really be given to the front-line soldiers before being delivered.

If it lasts for a long time, will there be food corruption and the like, will there be any loss along the way, and how much the loss rate of this part can be tolerated.

Once calculated, the calculated data is enough to make people dazzled.

This makes people feel more deeply the profound truth that war is logistics, and it makes people realize very clearly that war consumes wealth and savings.

Hundreds of thousands of planners work together to calculate and generate data, and the data is quickly sent to the Ministry of War and the Staff Office one by one, and then the data is summarized.

The Ministry of War arranges transportation personnel based on these data, how many people are arranged to transport each place, which route to take, and how long it takes to transport to the next destination, so as to calculate the time for food and grass to reach the front line.

The staff desk, based on this data, stipulates the daily marching distance of the army and plans the marching route of the army.

In the marching plan formulated by the staff desk, the speed of the army must not exceed the limit of the logistics delivery capability, so as to avoid the collapse of the logistics caused by the stretching of the front line, which will affect the frontline battle situation.

All of this requires fairly sophisticated calculations.

And based on these precise calculations, staff officers can conduct accurate war games to a considerable extent.

Then the staff at the staff desk can formulate tactics based on these actual logistics situations, stipulating how the army will move, how to fight, how to abide by the time and cooperate with the logistics troops and so on.

The basic result of the war is not bad, basically within this range.

Ever since someone Guo started to implement this set of war planning methods, Wei Jun's marches and campaigns have not deviated from the estimates of the staff desk.

The level of staff at the staff desk this time is very high.

Someone Guo praised the staff desk so much.

However, the staff desk is not omnipotent, and the staff desk is also very difficult.

Where the frontline troops can fight depends on where the food can be delivered. Only when the food can keep up can the battle continue.

Therefore, there is no staff member who does not want everyone in the logistics force to be Gundam.

If everyone in the logistics team is a Gundam Iron Man, then it really means fighting wherever. With the strength of the Wei army, it can definitely sweep away all enemies.

and so.

Don't stop your logistics!

But the logistics team bitterly said that they are human beings, and they definitely have limits. If they don’t want this limit, unless they all stop being human together.