Chapter 927 Transfer
After Dong Zhao was dragged away, Zhang Chong issued new military orders.
The entire army did not stop in Peixian, but only arranged the grain station here. Then the 50,000-strong army immediately went south across Fengshui and headed for Pengcheng, a hundred miles away.
This horse is impatient, and I, Zhang Chong, have long been tired of this slimy Machiavellian calculation.
Let this golden horse and iron horse sweep away this evil spirit and snake spirit.
There is only one sentence that is appropriate for this situation and this situation, it is exactly:
"The golden monkey rises up with a mighty stick, and the jade sky clears thousands of miles."
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After Dong Zhao was knocked and dragged to the outside, they carefully put Dong Zhao down, and then said gently:
"Dong Gong, the king is very angry. When he thinks of Dong Gong later, is it not just a matter of words to retaliate against Dong Gong?"
These generals walking beside Zhang Chong understood the king's preferences very well.
They knew very well that there were so many ministers in the army, but the ones who were really used well by the king were Dong Gong and Xun Gong.
And they knew very well that some things really had to be done by Dong Zhao.
To use a fashionable term, Dong Zhao occupies a unique ecological niche.
Therefore, these people did not dare to neglect Dong Zhao at all.
Faced with the overtures of these generals, Dong Zhao did not dare to make excuses.
Oddly enough, Dong Zhao didn't have a good relationship with the upper class, but he was quite popular with the lower class.
Maybe it has a lot to do with Dong Zhao's three-point smile when meeting people.
This time he violated a taboo, and Dong Zhao was actually not too panicked. He only regretted that he could not take credit for this decisive battle.
Originally, he met Li Hu and took the lead in capturing Peixian County, but Li Hu directly left him behind in Peixian County and led his troops south.
Now that he was driven to the baggage side by the king, he was inevitably frustrated and discouraged.
But when Dong Zhao rushed to the logistics area and saw the endless crowds of civilians and countless cattle, horses, and stretchers arriving in a steady stream, Dong Zhao immediately realized that this was where the real achievements were made!
Who can succeed? That's what Dong Zhao is like.
No matter how suppressed he is, he can always find opportunities to do things in his environment and accomplish them!
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All successes of the Taishan Army are inseparable from the Guizhou leaders.
Zhang Chong's statement that "it is Huangtian's great cause entrusted by thousands of Guizhou leaders" is absolutely correct.
During the war in the Central Plains, the Taishan Army had food wherever it went. It did not have a sound logistics department and only had the supply camp as an old camp.
However, as the Taishan Army occupied Yecheng and completely defeated the Lu Zhi Army entrenched in Hebei through two Northern Expeditions, the Taishan Army finally had a vast and connected base area.
It was also at that time that a special transshipment department was established, whose responsibility was to transship grain and supply the army.
Moreover, as the Taishan Army's foreign operations have become more frequent and the scale of battles has become larger and larger, the form of transfer has also changed.
In the past, the Taishan Army would mobilize the people on the spot to support the front, but now it directly allocates the quota for the front based on household registration.
Those who can support the army must be strong people, and they are an important labor force for every family. Large-scale requisition will inevitably affect production, but the Taishan Army has nothing to do, and Zhang Chong cannot do anything.
Under these harsh material transportation conditions, every grain of rice for the frontline army needs to be transported to the rear. Now it only supplies the 60,000 troops in Pengcheng area, and the Taishan Army has recruited about 180,000 civilians to carry food.
And not only the transportation of food, but also the armor, arrows, vegetables, wounded and even needles and threads consumed on the front line required these 180,000 civilians to transport them.
And the vast majority of these 180,000 civilians are from Jizhou. It can be said that the people of Hebei have made huge contributions to Huangtian's great cause.
But it is this dedication that makes the people of Jizhou particularly supportive of this cause.
Hebei is originally an old area, and the Taishan Army has a deep presence here. The people also trust the Taishan Army and truly regard them as their own team.
Moreover, many of these people have experience in serving with the army, so they have trained a large number of conscious grassroots teams.
These people even played a role in persuading prisoners to surrender.
The pawns captured by the Taishan Army were generally poor people, with similar backgrounds to these civilians.
Now that I see the civilian husbands living so well and having so much success in their lives, how can I not feel envious?
But no matter how enlightened you are, people still need to eat.
When Dong Zhao arrived at the Transportation Department, the most important problem he encountered was how to arrange food for these 220,000 people.
But Dong Zhao was really capable and figured out the clues quickly.
Because Zhang Chong's order to disparage Dong Zhao was not sent to the Transportation Department, all the military officials in the Transportation Department did not know about it and thought that Dong Zhao was here to take charge of the work.
Dong Zhao also avoided this question and got to work directly.
He continued to use the previous methods of military depots and grain depots, planning four transfer routes, and then setting up a small station every twenty miles and a large station every sixty miles.
Then all 180,000 civilian teams were arranged to the grain stations on these four transmission lines.
It is stipulated that each team will set off in the morning, then walk 20 miles to the next station to eat, and then receive the wounded or home letters from the sergeants here before returning to the previous station and eating at that station.
In short, 180,000 people were arranged in an orderly manner by Dong Zhao. The four opened transfer lines were like four arteries, continuously providing food, fodder and materials to the main force on the front line.
The Taishan Army relied on Surabaya when it went south, and the most important route for civilians to transport grain was also Surabaya.
But there is only one road to Surabaya, but materials have to be transported from all directions, so coordinated transportation by wheelbarrows, carts, and boats is needed.
The wheelbarrow was used by the Taishan Army during the Taishan period, and later made great contributions when the Taishan Army moved to the Central Plains.
The military affectionately calls it the "Trojan Horse."
Taking the Central and South Shandong base area as an example, as the old area of the Taishan Army, it was also the first area where the Taishan Army widely divided its fields. Therefore, the mass base was particularly good, and this decisive battle also assumed a very heavy task.
Farmers from various farming communities in central and southern Shandong first used one-wheeled wooden horses to deliver grain to the county. The county then organized farmers to transport the grain in carts along the official road to Xiaqiu in Shanyang County.
Xiaqiu is located on the Surabaya waterway, so it has become a transit station for grain transportation in the direction of central and southern Shandong.
The Transportation Department has specially set up a dispatch agency here to coordinate and coordinate transportation in Surabaya.
After that, the canal boats loaded with grain went south along Sishui, passing through Rencheng to Hulu, and finally to Peixian County.
After arriving in Peixian County, the transportation department coordinated the civilian workers of each team, and then transported them to the military supply camps in small cars.
This scheduling seemed to be in order, but in fact, as the Taishan Army's front moved further forward, the transportation lines in the rear became longer and longer, and the transshipment work required became more and more arduous. It would be okay if you were just a little tired, but the difficulty of this work is that it is a systematic operational research project.
For example, when a large amount of grain is transported to the site, how to complete loading, unloading and transshipment in a short period of time. This is far from just enthusiasm. It requires very professional knowledge.
At this time Dong Zhao encountered such a problem.
At that time, Xiaqiu and the army rations that had been stored for about 200,000 shi had to go south via Surabaya. However, because there was no advance planning and arrangement, there was a situation where there were ships but no grain, and there was grain but no ships to transport it.
When Xiaqiu accumulated more and more food, those who had not completed the food delivery task could only be stuck outside the county and slept in the wild, so the roads became even more congested.
So how did Dong Zhao deal with these problems?
He found that problems like those encountered by Xiaqiu were also encountered by other local sites, and the essence of these all involved the coordination and calculation of information.
Therefore, he ordered that each station must be equipped with mules and horses to travel between the upper and lower stations to deliver transportation information.
When the team from the previous station is about to leave, it needs to send Tang Ma to the next station and notify the transportation information in advance, such as how many cars are coming, how many people are there, and what is the approximate arrival time.
After having this information, the unloading work was arranged at the next site, allowing the civilian teams to unload in the designated area and quickly complete the loading and unloading tasks.
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This was still a small test for Dong Zhao. He also solved a big problem, that is, dredging Surabaya.
As the main force of the Taishan Army moved south along Surabaya, the interruptions in Surabaya were basically connected, and navigation capabilities were restored.
Water transportation has been the most important means of replenishing food for the army since ancient times. It is not only highly efficient and has a large carrying capacity, but also has minimal losses.
However, the navigation situation in Surabaya is more complicated.
With the chaos in the world, the passage from Yanzhou to Xuzhou was the first place to lose order. More and more people fled and looted along the Surabaya River.
Moreover, due to local incompetence, the waterways of Surabaya are also seriously silted up, resulting in shallow drafts in some places and extremely fast water in some places. Only very experienced boatmen can cross it by boat.
Another problem encountered by various sites in Surabaya is that their ship reserves are far insufficient.
Especially the waterway from Rencheng to Peixian County, because it was a newly occupied area by the Taishan Army, the people were very suspicious of the Taishan Army and were deeply afraid that their ships would be commandeered by the Taishan Army.
Even though these boats are just small boats, each of them is a source of food for a family.
When Dong Zhao came over, he directly ordered each station to pay the boatmen and boatmen for freight, and calculated the revenue directly based on the transportation volume.
The more luck there is, the more Taishan Army will give.
Dong Zhao knew very well that the world was nothing but profit. Even if the people in the old areas supported their Taishan Army in this way, wasn't it just for "profit"?
Now that the people here have not shown their kindness, the conscription will only be counterproductive, allowing the boatmen to hide their ships, which is far less useful than the money.
As for the water bandits that appeared from time to time in Surabaya, Dong Zhao did not have the time or energy to eradicate them, so he could only let the field protection soldiers from central and southern Shandong go south, and then go south together as a guard force for the canals to ensure the safety of the waterways.
Of course, Dong Zhao had no power to implement the above, but he wrote all the clauses and handed them to the king.
Dong Zhao was very confident because he knew very well who the king was.
The king is a person who does things, so as long as you really do things, you will have a chance.
Sure enough, as Dong Zhao expected, Zhang Chong accepted all of Dong Zhao's suggestions, and gave Dong Zhao the title of camp counselor to plan the army's logistics supplies.
In this way, under Dong Zhao's coordination, the grain from central and southern Shandong, Zhongyuan, Jizhou, and Qingzhou was smoothly imported into the grain platform in Peixian County.
It was enough to achieve this level, but no one expected that the war would develop much faster than everyone expected.
It was originally just a trial battle initiated by Ma Chao. With the continuous investment of troops from both sides, it evolved directly towards the final battle.
When the war intensifies, the consumption of logistics supplies becomes even greater.
In this way, Dong Zhao and the others now not only need to transport enough grain from various places to Peixian County, but also need to transport Peixian County's grain to the front line.
While Dong Zhao was busy solving this problem, the war was already raging twenty miles away from Pengcheng.
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The Fifteen Mile Pavilion that Ma Chao led south with more than 700 cavalry to attack was not just a pavilion, but a fortress carefully built by Chen Deng.
As the last peripheral defense line of Pengcheng, Shiwuliting is of great significance to the Xuzhou Army.
There is a saying in the art of war that "defending a city must be defended by a stronghold".
It's because the simple city method is very dull. Once all your military forces are compressed in the city, although the enemy cannot easily come in, it is also very difficult for you to get out.
Once the enemy forces surround the four gates, the defenders are forced inside the city and can only passively defend. They can attack you whenever they want.
People can use whatever tactics they want, and you can only deal with them.
This is the principle that if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it.
The Xuzhou Army could only hold Fifteen Mile Pavilion. Not only could they gain a foothold outside the city and control the battlefield here, but Pengcheng in the rear could be used as a military depot and command post to continuously support the troops.
More importantly, in the distance from Shiwuliting to Pengcheng, there is enough space and depth for the Xuzhou Army to deploy, so that sufficient military power can be concentrated for a decisive battle with the Taishan Army.
Therefore, for Chen Deng, Fifteen Mile is a battleground.
At this time, Ma Chao led a group of knights out to watch the village near Shifuli Pavilion.
I saw that the last section of the waterway in Surabaya was directly blocked here. A pontoon bridge was used to connect the two banks, and then more than ten barriers were built along the two banks of Qiaotou, including three large ones, which were horns to each other.
Corridors were also built between the forts and forts to facilitate timely support by reinforcements.
And these are things that the outermost defense line of Surabaya Pavilion does not have.
When Ma Chao saw these fortifications, he knew that it would be difficult to conquer these fifteen miles of pavilion with his own cavalry alone.
Of course, as a surprise cavalry force, Ma Chao can completely ignore this place, and it is not impossible to directly bypass and insert into Pengcheng.
But this will inevitably affect the progress of the follow-up troops. Once Ma Chao is surrounded by enemy troops, the headquarters in the rear will be helpless even if they want to come to rescue.
Ma Chao is indeed brave, but he is not stupid!
It's not that he thinks Li Hu is anything special and needs to take care of his face. After all, in his view, Ma Chao, this person is just the master who accomplishes things because of people.
But no matter how pretentious Ma Chao is, he still knows that no matter how incompetent Li Hu is, the five thousand troops in his hands are indeed elite.
Without the addition of Li Hu's force, he would never have been able to capture Fifteen Mile Pavilion.
In this way, Ma Chao had no choice but to stay on the outside and wait for Li Hu and the main force of his team to go south for support.
At this time, he did not know that on both sides of him, the Xu and Yang coalition forces of more than 20,000 people were already waiting and waiting anxiously.