When the news of the victory reached Gangneung City in the rear, it was naturally a joyous situation again.
In fact, Zhou Huaian felt some surprises and surprises in the Jingmen battle that exceeded expectations. It's just like I've so easily recruited and cultivated. After NPCs with high potential and growth value accumulate enough experience, tactics, and skill proficiency from the ordinary elite template, they are promoted to the high-level elite template.
Fighting in winter, especially the primitive guerrilla tactics in the wild, are all difficult items that particularly test the organization and training of the army, as well as the corresponding logistical support capabilities. In particular, the consumption of corresponding manpower and material resources for transportation and supplementation is several times the combat cost under normal circumstances.
Therefore, even if a lot of preparations are made in advance, all kinds of frostbite, illness and other accidents are still common. It is still the loss of various mules, carriages and ships in the dispatch and organization.
But in the end Ge Congzhou not only turned the defensive battle and see-saw that he expected to wait for the city into an active counterattack with offensive instead of defensive, he was also able to achieve the general goal and achieved the final victory. It really deserves to be one of the well-known historical figures who are deeply loved by the luck of the times in another time, space and historical trajectory. As long as there is a suitable opportunity, it will naturally emerge.
As for Zhou Huaian, the victory that can be piled up with materials is better than the one piled up with human lives; after all, what is consumed and lost is dead and can be regenerated. However, those who survived through battle after victory and defeat and learned experience are a valuable asset that can continue to multiply, spread, and spread their advantages.
However, in addition to a round of rewards and rest and defense orders, he refocused his attention and energy on the aftermath; the site continued to expand, and the manpower for joint use became more tense and lacking. However, at present, limited resources and manpower are also concentrated, and only the most critical nodes and issues can be solved and targeted first.
Therefore, not only the old and new subordinates around him were sent out, even Huo Cun, who led the army to support him, did not have the opportunity to relax and was given a new task. That is to lead the mixed garrison armed forces in those places, and cooperate with Wang Zhongba's new navy to fight against the bandits, river pirates and others along the waterway, and the villages and towns where they are hiding and possessing them. Potential soil.
Although a considerable part of them existed in the previous Taiping Army’s northward strategy, they have more or less contributed or benefited; but under the new order of the Taiping regime that is about to take shape, they do not want to change. And come out, follow the rebels to seek better development and new world, and still insist on following the traditional bad habits of stealing and benefiting the people in the past, so don't blame the wheels of history for being crushed into dust and swept into the garbage dump of history.
During this time, he also turned his desire and dissatisfaction into motivation, and turned into an efficient working machine, constantly meeting various characters and receiving reports from his subordinates. The starting point of the First Army itself is biased towards the bottom, so all oral and written materials on work are known for their straightforwardness and simplicity;
As a basic institutional norm, there is neither a long story nor red tape; a meeting or a routine written report can be processed in almost five to ten minutes, and only a few of the more important matters are worthy of him to deal with overtime. .
Of course, the vast majority of the general public in this era are mostly ignorant and dull, and sympathy and kindness alone are not enough to touch and change anything. Therefore, if you want to transform them into the support and foundation of the Taiping regime, you can only use visible benefits and changes to guide them on the one hand, and use strict discipline and systems to spur and restrain them on the other;
Just like the principle of grazing and domesticating sheep in the usual sense, the ultimate goal is to make them adapt to the changes and innovations brought by the Taiping Army, and finally identify and consciously integrate into this overall atmosphere as a whole.
During this process, Zhou Huaian also discovered that he had recently unintentionally unlocked an auxiliary function, that is, voice and text input after graphic scanning and recording; in other words, he can directly convert the content reported by his subordinates into Corresponding records in the database;
When there is a need, then mobilize relevant related content to compare and analyze, and naturally you will get the required results. Coupled with the memorable text scanning ability, it is more efficient and more efficient to deal with official duties in this way.
Compared with the raging bandits, clearing the roads and resuming production, the Lingnan area in the rear is somewhat calm, and the season of spring plowing has come early. Nowadays, the ridge surface areas under the Taiping Army, especially the Pearl River Basin, have already had considerable food supplies after accumulating several harvests in these days.
"Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of families.
The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are rich and fruitful. "
On the one hand, it reflects the abundance of the world’s abundance and the surplus of private resources. On the other hand, it represents the general logistics and information blockages that exist throughout the entire era; this has led to most of the resources produced in these places. It cannot be circulated through suitable channels and becomes the source of increasing the overall wealth in market economic activities; instead, it can only be piled up in the warehouse waiting for mildew and decay.
Grain is the most important resource and the top of the circulation measurement in ancient society; even if all the currency and substitute currency in the society lose its effect, the grain can still be used as a benchmark for bartering; after all, it is in the self-sufficient smallholders. Under the economic system, you can barely live without money, but you will really die if you don’t eat food.
However, once the grain in the warehouse has passed the most basic shelf life, it will be depreciated and depleted at all times; although sulfur fumigation and smoke (carbon dioxide) methods are used to kill insects and mold to increase the shelf life of grain storage , But Lingnan’s generally hot, humid and rainy climate is still the trouble and trouble for large amounts of storage.
Therefore, as a person with a bit of foresight, we must consider these resources that are not easy to preserve but are easily destroyed, and transform various things and results that are more efficient in preservation or have long-term added value through various means and methods.
For example, using food as a means of remuneration and payment, organizing a large amount of manpower to repair large-scale projects such as farmland, water conservancy, roads and bridges; as long as it is not too deliberate and exploiting people to death; The accumulation and potential resistance of the poor at the bottom can also exercise large-scale organizational efficiency and methods, as well as a collective concept of concerted efforts.
Or through in-depth finishing methods, at the cost of a certain amount of waste and leftovers, they can become biscuits, cans and other similar things with a longer shelf life and higher added value; this also has more value and use for disaster preparedness.
But in this regard, there are considerable obstacles to the improvement and upgrade of military cans; on the one hand, tinned white iron is a bit more expensive, on the other hand, the airtightness and shelf life of the clay pot are not so perfect. Satisfactory; maybe it needs glass products to be cheaper and mass-produced before they can be improved.
Or simply convert these surplus agricultural products into other types of resources through overseas trade channels under overall overall planning. It is also an indirect means to effectively gain and increase market circulation value.
In addition, there is a more extreme approach, which is to transform foreign wars into corresponding victories and gains in disguise; on the one hand, internal conflicts and attention can be shifted in disguise, on the one hand, it is to gain more land, population, wealth and wealth. Other resources that continue to regenerate, come to enlarge the original basic disk continuously.
The specific measures embodied in Hunan are
Therefore, under Zhou Huaian’s rule, large households were not allowed to store grain and other agricultural products for moldy reasons for traditional reasons; this was the way out of the redistribution of collective farms and surplus products under the rule of Da Mao’s father. The postwar depression is the same as the chaos.
On the other hand, with the advancement of the war in Jinghu, the limitations of weapon materials in this era have gradually emerged.
For ordinary iron cold weapons, as long as we continue to explore and improve the formula of steel materials and continue to invest in labor and raw material resources, we can take advantage of the scale of primary industrialized mass production; even if there is a problem of moisture generation and corrosion, it can be used. It is solved by the simplest material treatment from oiling to oxide coating.
But it is a little troublesome in the long-range projectile weapon. Although the Taiping Army maintained a high rate of bow and crossbow equipment, the corresponding attrition rate remained high. Among other things, thousands of hard bows and crossbows were damaged and broken in the Jingmen battle that just happened.
This is not due to poor management or other man-made factors, but the bamboo, horns, tendons and glue used as traditional crossbow materials, which are themselves susceptible to obvious changes in the environment and temperature and humidity, and are easily deformed and deteriorated and cannot be long-term. Stored biological materials.
For example, under high temperature and cold, the bow arm chord string expands with heat, shrinks, and cracks, and the bow string slackens under the rain full of humidity, and the glue falls off; even the problems of mold, moth, and decay during long-term storage; In addition to the routine storage in a dry and ventilated environment at room temperature, it should be taken out every once in a while for inspection, maintenance and replacement.
Only by spending enough time and energy to replace those unusable parts on a regular and timely basis can the basic combat effectiveness be guaranteed when the matter comes to life; otherwise, getting into the battlefield is really a life-killing result. Although Lingnan is a mountainous region with a wide range of sources for obtaining these materials and their by-products, due to the climate and environment, the cost of storage and loss is always a big problem.
It is just like the general results of the weapons and equipment used in the Guangzhou arsenal that fell into the hands of the rebels, but under the situation of chaotic management and poor preservation, only more than a year has passed. One.
And because of the large-scale production area of materials and the convenience of loss and supplementation, the only ones that can maintain a large-scale formation of crossbowmen in the world are only Bayu (Jiannan) and Xuanrun (Jiangdong) in the south. , Huaiyang (Huainan), Jinghu (Jiangxi), Guiguan (Lingnan) and other places are just a few.
In the Lingnan area, the Guizhou white crossbowmen, and the Jiangling crossbowmen from Hunan; in the "Daiyu Huaixi Shu" by Yuan Zhen, the prime minister of the Mid-Tang Dynasty, there are "Wei Bo’s Xiaoqi, Jiangling’s Strong crossbow". And these two important Nufang production areas of the former imperial court happened to be under the control of the Taiping Army. Therefore, to make full use of it without adapting to local conditions, it is simply impossible to lose sight of one's own vision and common sense.
Therefore, in addition to using iron oleander on the bow arms and crossbows to increase strength and life, the construction department at the rear of the Taiping Army also intends to use traditional silk thread, animal tendons, and cowhide ropes; continue to experiment with steel The thin wire drawn out is twisted with sisal fiber resistant to acid and alkali corrosion to obtain a new string that has better storage capacity and is more convenient for long-term use.
But compared with these development potential and upper limit, there is not much room for cold weapons. In fact, Zhou Huaian was more concerned about the experimental products that were being explored and drilled out by hydraulic machinery. It's just that at the moment, even the mass production of the original artillery casting and opening has not been able to meet the expected requirements, let alone these more sophisticated individual firearms.
However, the military production department in Nanhai County at the rear, based on the guiding ideology and general direction given by him, came up with another transitional thing. According to the news from the waterway signal tower, a group of escorts have just set off from Guangfu and transported them by waterway. (End of this chapter)