Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 53 The main points of leading troops
As the ancients said, the three armies have not moved, and the food and grass go first.

Logistics, whether it is ancient or later, is extremely important.

Although there are only more than [-] people from the three guards of Yulin and Jinyiwei, and the distance is only [-] miles, but these [-] people eat horse chews, and all the needs of the march need to be arranged.

When the army was full of mobs and all the middle and high-level generals in the army were sent away by himself, Zhu Youjian took on the task of commanding the army.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, after three hours of trekking, Habayashi Sanwei had marched thirty-six miles northward.

Three hours is a full six hours. This speed can be called turtle speed.
Six hours, only marching less than [-] kilometers, and an average speed of less than [-] kilometers per hour, if Zhu Youjian was a soldier in his previous life, he would definitely be called a dog by the squad leader.

After all, even in a regular march, the marching speed of the troops needs to reach four to five kilometers per hour, and at least thirty kilometers must be marched in six hours.

If the march is forced and harsh, it may even reach a marching speed of six kilometers per hour, and the daily march may be upwards of fifty kilometers.

But after all, that is the standard of later generations, after the army feeds these big soldiers and trains them well for several months.

The Habayashi Sanwei in front of Zhu Youjian right now, although they are not as skinny as they are in the late Qing photos, they are at most the normal body shape of the [-]s and [-]s.

With such a body type, it is a luxury to ask for a high-intensity march, but Zhu Youjian saw that the time was up, and immediately opened the car window and said to Lu Wenzhao:
"How far is it from the rest station I arranged?"

"Going back to Your Highness, it's less than three miles away." Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao responded quickly, admiring Zhu Youjian's arrangement in his heart.

Zhu Youjian arranged for Cao Huachun to prepare the food and grass for the army three days ago at the post station.

This arrangement may not be very eye-catching, and it will not be praised, but if it is placed on a ten-year-old child, it will be terrible.

Generally speaking, the food and grass for the ancient marches had already been transported to the front line or on the marching road, so basically there would be no shortage of food halfway.

Unless there is no preparation and hastily dispatched troops, like Ming Yingzong, he became the God of War of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, marching is a very important and extremely well-planned affair.

There are strict regulations on the direction and speed of any army, even where to camp and rest, and where to light a fire for cooking.

These have been planned before the war, and they are part of the preparations and planning for the war. Therefore, it is basically impossible to mobilize troops with a slap on the head.

After all, without a plan, even if it's just four or five people going to eat, there will be disputes.

Finally, due to the constraints of conditions and other unstable factors, even if it is a plan made in advance, it is another matter to execute it.

Therefore, on the ancient battlefield, it is very easy for reinforcements to miss appointments, miss fighter opportunities, or go deep alone and be wiped out collectively.

The most well-known example is Li Ling who killed Sima Qian.

But Zhu Youjian, who was only ten years old, thought of all the marching problems he could think of.

For the route of Habayashi Sanwei, Zhu Youjian tried to choose a place close to the small mountains on one side and a large plain on the other side, and arranged in advance to explore the situation of the small mountains.

Zhu Youjian chose the temporary supply station for the army, which is a place surrounded by mountains on both sides.

On the land of Yanyun, most of the people who need to be on guard against are the northern captive Mongolian cavalry from the northern border.

Although the various ministries on the Mongolian Plateau have not harassed the borders of the Ming Dynasty since the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian ministries opened up the mutual market a few years ago, Zhu Youjian still chose the safest route for his march.

This point is not as good as many generals.

"Order the whole army to march in a hurry. After arriving at the temporary post, the carriages will line up and the people will bury the stove. After an hour, they will continue to set off. They will arrive at Gonghua City before dark and enter the city to rest."

After receiving Lu Wenzhao's response, Zhu Youjian also ordered according to his marching route.

"Obey!" Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao quickly dispatched more than a dozen Tiqi from Jinyiwei to inform the army.

More than a dozen Jinyiwei riders began to pass military orders back and forth, very fast.

"The Fifth Palace ordered the whole army to march three miles in a hurry. After arriving at Lishanao, they buried pots and cooked food. After resting for an hour, they continued to march. They arrived at Gonghua City before dark, and entered the city to rest!"

"The Fifth Palace ordered the whole army to march three miles in a hurry. After arriving at Lishanao, they buried pots and cooked food. After resting for an hour, they continued to march. They arrived at Gonghua City before dark, and entered the city to rest!"

The military order was issued, thanks to the short marching team arranged by Zhu Youjian, so many people heard the military order clearly.

Zhu Youjian's marching formation is based on the marching formation set by Qi Jiguang in the "New Book of Ji Xiao" for marching in the north.

That is to say, the carts and chariots walk on both sides, and the sergeants walk in groups of five, with three steps apart. During the march, no conversations or questions are allowed.

For a team of more than [-] people, under such a marching army situation, the army can only stretch three miles away. Once attacked, they can quickly occupy the car and change their armor.

Xu Wenshou's idiots, in order to put on face, directly told everyone to go north, so Zhu Youjian saw the mistake at a glance.

Normally speaking, for generals who often drill and train, in our territory and know that there are no enemy troops, the army will travel lightly.

That is to say, you only need to wear a winter coat, plus an inner armor, and put the heavy armor and heavy weapons on the horse-drawn carriage.

Although "Ji Xiao Xin Shu" also said: "All officers and soldiers must wear armor and helmets to carry weapons when they set out. The common people are light when facing the enemy, and they are not allowed to hold shoulders together. If the road is far away and the weather is hot, you have to order Fang Xu to pass it on. "

But with heavy armor and weapons weighing nearly [-] catties, even the elite Ming army marched with heavy armor, and they could only march [-] miles a day.

People and horses like Wei Wuzu, armor and weapons forty catties, and the mileage converted from the Ming Dynasty, marched seventy miles, which belonged to the elite of the elite.

It is impossible for Zhu Youjian to demand the three guards of Habayashi according to the standards of Qi Jiajun and Wei Wuzu.

If they were to march with heavy equipment, they would have had enough to walk thirty miles a day.

The marching method in "Ji Xiao's New Book" is very effective, but it should be modified according to the quality of the troops under your command.

The art of war cannot be rigid, but must be adapted to local conditions and individual conditions.

For Zhu Youjian, as long as the current formation is not chaotic, the carts will be gathered at the critical moment, and then the two will help one person wear armor, so that one-third of the army will soon be armored and guarded. The remaining two-thirds of the people have time to wear armor.

Although he didn't think there would be Mongols or refugees attacking him in Northern Zhili, there was nothing wrong with being cautious.

That is, under his command, the army slowly went north, and finally arrived at Lishanao ahead of schedule.

When he arrived at Lishan'ao, Zhu Youjian also took out the temporary camping drawings he had drawn and handed them to Lu Wenzhao. He ordered people to surround the camp with a truck, and then began to bury the pot and make food.

Puffs of cooking smoke blew high into the sky, and goshawks chirped in the air. Zhu Youjian's first command of the march looked pretty good so far. Even Yang Lian and his party, who had just entered Lishan'ao at the end, couldn't help but feel sorry for him. They looked sideways.

(End of this chapter)