Chapter 16 Military Food Issues

Those who know the times are heroes.

Gao Zhandao, a group of water thieves who were born in the official army, seemed to know this truth, and did not have to visit Chu Tianxiu three times to surrender, and just surrendered neatly.

Gao Zhandao's joining really saved Chu Tianxiu a lot of effort and avoided a lot of trouble.

This is not to say that Gao Baodao's ability is outstanding, his military strategy is amazing, and he can help Chu Tianxiu conquer the city and pacify the world as soon as he comes up.

Even if he is, Chu Tianxiu, who is currently a small foundation, cannot afford it. The greatest value in him is not his own wisdom and ability, but rather that he is an officer from the Sui Dynasty, familiar with the practice of the Sui Dynasty army, and understands the organization and tactics of the classical army.

In addition, his subordinates also have about thirty or forty veterans who can be used as instructors when training soldiers.

A few days ago, Chu Tianxiu attacked everywhere and tried to eliminate the water bandits, causing the water bandits under his command to expand like a snowball. He quickly had a large group of more than 2,300 water bandits, thirteen large ships and more than 100 small boats. He controlled the thirteen water camps along the Yangtze River. He truly relied on the most primitive methods to accumulate the "first pot of gold" of his own foundation.

Water thieves of this size cannot even be limited by water thieves. They can completely match some of the weaker uprising troops, so Chu Tianxiu directly named his force Zhenhaijun to show that they are different from the past water thieves and water bandits.

In terms of personnel, Chu Tianxiu did not have many innovative features, nor did he give himself the title of king. He only called himself the commander of the Zhenhai Army, with more than 2,300 Zhenhai Army under his command. The troops below were three armies, each with 800 people. In addition to controlling the first army, Gao Zhandao and Chu Ren were the commander of the other two armies, and Rong was the commander of the logistics.

It is obvious that Chu Tianxiu spent so much effort to encircle and suppress water bandits and establish a foundation, naturally not because he wanted to be a "one pirate" to play with it, but because he had greater interests.

However, in just half a month, Xiangrong, who was originally a little younger than Chu Tianxiu, seemed to be over 10 years old, and said with a very complaining tone.

If these water bandits are still like in the past, they must take everything themselves and lead the team to change their basic combat power, then should they raise some subordinates or some old men?

In fact, Chu Tianxiu had this plan long ago, but no matter in his past or present life, Chu Tianxiu had never been a real soldier, so naturally he had no experience in training soldiers.

The food is about to be out of stock!

food.

In the past month, the military's food was not a problem. When he was destroying twenty or thirty water camps and cultivating and training those water bandits by fighting and raising war, the food and money seized from the Xinshui bandits can not only meet the daily needs of those water bandits, but can even be said to be more than enough.

In this era, the most important thing in training troops is not queue discipline or other things.

After Chu Tianxiu sent people to the island for investigation, he found that although the island was sparsely populated, there were still many refugees and water bandits camping there, so he directly attacked the largest bandit village in the area with about three or five hundred water bandits. After occupying it, he slightly repaired it here and used it as his own base, intending to rectify the bandits here and train them well.

By that time, our Zhenhai Army would really not be able to withstand it."

According to General Gao's training method, even if we don't consider the meat situation, we will run out of all the grain storage.

The existence of Gao Kaidao and his instructors really helped Chu Tianxiu make up for a big flaw, allowing his training plan to be successfully implemented.

What he had to do next was naturally to turn this group of thieves into bandits, train them into real army, and use them for his own use.

"Brother, this will be really not possible. The grain in the granary is only 20 days away for the storage of grain!

No matter how big Chu Tianxiu is, he cannot directly use his "military training training method" on those water bandits, otherwise he would be a joke to take human lives.

After practicing this for about ten days, I finally looked like a soldier, and I increased my ranks and ran long distances, learned to follow the sound of drums and flags, and practiced basic martial arts.

If you only rely on the experience of training and gangs in the military training in previous lives to train the army, even if the effect of training soldiers will not go in the opposite direction, you will have half the result with twice the effort, and there will inevitably be some bumps and bumps.

Even in this era, books on military tactics are still unknown to various aristocratic families, but even those basic military training tactics can be known by ordinary soldiers even middle and lower-level officers in the army.

"Food shortage is indeed a big deal. If you persist for a month, I will go to Jiangyin County and grab the rudder of our Jiangyin branch back. At that time, we can use the power of the Zhuhua Gang to solve this problem."

However, after the thirty days of training, Chu Tianxiu also ushered in all the problems that ancient training troops had to face.

The reason why these people wanted to go to the river to make a living was not to suffer. Even though Chu Tianxiu led the way and participated in the training in person, they still complained that they had to complain. More than 20 water bandits wanted to seize the ship that night.

The reason why those imperial courts, high ranks, and big bandits like Li Mi and Du Fuwei can afford to support a group of real regular troops is not because of the generals who lack training, but because of the simplest and cheapest thing-

After hearing this news, Chu Tianxiu knew that if the army had no food, it would be absolutely not a trivial matter. She couldn't help but feel a stern and said in this way.

After Chu Tianxiu discussed with Gao Zhandao, according to the Sui army's teachings, some military postures and queues were added. After a little modification, Gao Zhandao was appointed as the chief instructor and his soldiers were appointed as the instructors. According to the training standards of the elite Sui army, these water bandits were selected to train them hard.

Chu Tianxiu was not polite when he was killing people on the river, so how could he be polite at such critical moments? That night, Chu Tianxiu personally led people to chase after him, brought back the more than 20 escaped heads, and hung them on the flagpole of the training ground, which made the remaining bandits silent and obediently practiced according to the rules.

Therefore, after taking down Gao Zhandao's extremely critical gang of water bandits in a planned manner, he finally stopped his pace of conquest and chose a Jiangxin Island near Yang, which is the place where Yangzhong City, which has expanded dozens of times due to silt in later generations.

However, after Chu Tianxiu stopped his conquest and let Gao Zhandao train the water bandits by training the regular Sui army, half of the 6,000 stones in his hand were empty, he truly realized what it was like to spend money like flowing water.

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Even at the beginning, I just trained to stand in military posture and walk in the queue to change the appearance of these water bandits, but threw them away to make the water bandits feel very dissatisfied.

"Brother, this is not possible. The food we have under our hands can last for a month, but now we don't need enough meat!

Even if the 200 fishermen under my command work hard every day, the daily catch can only be around 1,000 kilograms. However, our town navy eats meat at least 2,000 kilograms every day, but where can it be?

To be honest, the food is fine, and it can last for a month, but if this continues, the meat in our army will be cut off in at most six days."

It's okay if he doesn't mention meat. After talking about meat, Xurong's face was filled with sadness, and he almost squeezed into the word "囧". Obviously, he was about to be worried by these expenses these days.

(End of this chapter)
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