Thousands of stones of rice grain, tens of thousands of catties of meat, trapped for two months in the vortex villages, is undoubtedly extremely precious, but it does not constitute a logistical pressure on the Jiangdong Left Army.

This is the biggest advantage of sea transport for logistical support.

The Dongyang has a capacity of 1,000 stones, and after the northern river is frozen in winter, the sea ships go from south to north, which is comparable to the speed of mules and horses to transport goods on the post road, but a cart drawn by a cart with two mules and horses can carry 10 stones, which also means that the Dongyang, which only needs at least 16 shipwrights, needs to transport 1,000 stone of grain by sea, and it needs 100 carts, 200 horses, and 100 coachmen by land.

Compared with the loading capacity of a five-masted ship, it requires 500 carts, 1,000 mules and horses, and 500 coachmen. Such a huge convoy of mules and horses will directly block the post road by land, and the team that pulls out from the front and back is almost eleven or twelve miles long, and if there is a problem in any link, the whole convoy will stop.

The cost of shipping between the two can be said to be very different.

A large number of horses were seriously injured or killed on both sides of the Cangnan victory and the Xiaobotou Zhai victory, and the horses that were only suffocated by the fire in Xiaobotou Village added up to more than 2,000 horses, and the horse meat alone was as high as 560,000 catties.

Yannan will not begin to thaw until mid-to-late February, when it is still the freezing season, and the preservation of horse meat is not a problem. However, the Jiangdong Left Army itself could not digest such a large amount of horse meat no matter what, and it was undoubtedly not the smartest way to dispose of such a large amount of horse meat before the weather warmed up and dump it directly in Dengzhou at a low price.

Lin Tie made Lin Mengde select people from the Gongyi camp and send them to Dengzhou and other places to negotiate with merchants about bartering, exchanging three catties of rice for one catty of horse meat, and even promising Dengzhou Commercial Bank to pay on credit, and if the credit is four catties of rice for one catty of horse meat. As long as there are soldiers in hand, Lin Jian is not worried that Shandong businessmen will not repay their debts, and it is a big deal to send people to lead troops to collect debts after the deadline.

In Shandong, horse meat is still a fresh play, cattle and horses are forbidden to slaughter, even the dead cattle and horses are twice as expensive as pigs and mutton, and three catties of rice are exchanged for one catty of meat, which is really unusually cheap. However, the consumption level of the city is limited, and there are only more than 20,000 dingkou in the big city of Dengzhou, no matter how cheap the horse meat is, it can digest tens of thousands of catties at most, and it is still necessary for merchants to transport the horse meat to the coastal prefectures and counties south of Dengzhou for sale.

In addition, more than two thousand leather goods is not a small number.

Lin Jian will not waste the few large sea ships in his hand on shipping, and wants the merchants in Dengzhou and other places to organize their own sea ship transportation, but he promised to transport all damaged or attacked ships by sea this time, as long as the Jiangdong Left Army sent someone to supervise the ship, whether it is a ship or a cargo, they will be compensated according to the price.

There was an additional guarantee from the Jiangdong Left Army, especially in Dengzhou, where a large number of merchants and shipowners had fled from Hejian Province, and after the Jiangdong Left Army won a great victory in Cangnan, some of them had the courage to go to sea and return to Hejian Province.

On the one hand, it is to do business, and on the other hand, it is also to support the Jiangdong Left Army.

In the past few days, more than 40 seagoing ships have gathered on the islands off the coast of Tianjin, from Dengzhou and other places.

Although there were very few large ships of more than 1,000 stones, most of them were sloops or brigs with a load of between 200 and 500 stones, but they were victorious in that the total amount of loading was large, almost about 10,000 stones, and this time they also directly transported 3,000 or 4,000 stone of rice and flour and other important materials to the Jiangdong Left Army.

The Jiangdong Left Army kept 100,000 catties of slaughtered horse meat with the ships for military use, and the rest, along with the leather goods, were transported to Dengzhou, and were transported away by sea ships from Dengzhou and other places.

As long as the sea route is not cut off, Lin Tie will be able to obtain strong logistical support from the northeastern prefectures and counties of Shandong through them, which is also the logistical support for Lin Tie to carry out large-scale material funding to Vortex and other villages.

All this is supported by the prestige won by the Jiangdong Left Army in Cangnan with two great victories, otherwise, the so-called extra guarantee is not even worth bullshit.

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In addition to the vortex, Changlu, Qingqi and other villages are more short of materials, but Changlu and Qingqi are farther away from the seawall, and more than 4,000 cavalry of the Nahe Xiongqi Department are closely monitoring the vortex, Changlu, Qingqi and other villages, which are more than ten miles apart, and it is still full of danger to ride a horse to quickly detour, not to mention the transportation of materials.

"We can transport the materials into the vortex village first, you can send cavalry to transport the materials, one person, two horses or three horses, empty horses and camels to transport a hundred and ten pounds of heavy goods will not be a big problem, first slow down the most difficult days and then talk ......" Lin Jian said.

Lin Lian, Lin Mengde, and Sun Shangwang entered the vortex village and met with the remnants of the generals of the Jinzhong army, Yang Yihang, Wu Tian, Wei Zhonglong, and Ma Yigong were the generals of Zhaowu Captain Ma Yigong's highest martial arts.

Lin Jian did not mention the matter of the joint army, and it was the most urgent to solve the problem of lack of food in the villages, and the joint soldiers also needed everyone to eat well and recover their strength before they could go out of the village to fight.

Ma Yigong was only thirty-five or sixteen years old, and when he led his troops to break out of the encirclement, there were nearly 300 people, stationed in Changlu Village, gathered the rout, and nearly 800 of his subordinates. He listened to Lin Lian's suggestion to use cavalry to transport grain, touched his nose and said: "There are only six horses left in Changlu Village that we rode over, and if we can't raise any more food, these six horses will not be able to be saved; Zhou Tong and the others still walked over with their feet......"

"Horses are not a problem," said Lin Lian, "Whirlpool, Changlu, Qingqi, for each stockade, I will lend you fifty horses outside the mouth, a hundred ordinary mules and horses, and for each other stockade, as long as you send someone to the Wukou Village, I will lend you twenty horses outside the mouth and forty ordinary mules and horses." If you go back first, let you bring some mules and horses back, and slaughter them first to fill your stomachs, but no matter how difficult it is, you must save the horses for the end to eat......"

Ma Yigong and the others laughed embarrassedly, and horses were the most scarce materials in any place, and the price was more than seven or eight times that of ordinary horses. Lin Lian's words meant to give them the ordinary horses directly, but they were also embarrassed to take the horses outside their mouths.

As long as they have enough to eat, they still want to fight the captives.

"In this way, each of you will go back and gather all the people who carry the grain to the vortex village, so that they can eat a full meal, and don't run out of strength halfway through. After preparing for Qidang, I sent three battalions of soldiers to intersperse between the three villages of Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi to drive out all the cavalry of the Nahe Xiongqi Division, and then the people who transported the grain were dispatched from the Wukou Village," Lin Jian said, "In order to ensure safety, each village only needs to send troops to operate within one mile of the village, so that the Nahe Xiongqi Department is unable to besiege my armor with all its might...... Do you think this arrangement will work? ”

Lin Jian didn't mention the matter of the joint army, but this arrangement has actually formed a joint army.

Ma Yigong of Changlu and Zhou Tong of Qingqi naturally have no opinions, and Yang Yihang, Wu Tian, and Wei Zhonglong also have no opinions, after all, it was the Jiangdong Left Army that rushed in as the main force, and also solved the supply problem of the remnants of their Jinzhong army, in fact, they didn't want to be so sloppy and only move around the village in a radius of one mile.

The fiasco of Gaoyang made the generals of Jinzhong harbor hatred, fire, and resentment in their hearts, although some of them still rejected the Jiangdong Left Army, but they definitely did not exclude filling their stomachs to fight against the Dongyu.

Ordinary generals don't care much about the way out of the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, but Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Zhou and others have to consider this problem, and these middle-level generals may even be held accountable for Gao Yang's fiasco.

Wei Zhonglong, who had the deepest conflict with Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army, was muffled for a long time before his face turned red and stammered: "Does the Jiangdong Left Army have any extra ordnance?" ”

Yang Yihang and them were originally the remnants of the protrusion from the encirclement, and they gathered the defeated soldiers and veterans with combat experience, but the armor and bows and crossbows were very lacking, and they barely defended the village, but their combat ability to go out of the village was weak.

"There isn't much armor, you can make up some more, what do you need?" Lin Jian asked.

"As long as there can be one," Yang Yihang said honestly, "There are 672 soldiers in Jinzhong, a total of 1,000 people including township soldiers, and counting kitchen knives, there are still a quarter of them who do not have weapons......

"......" Lin Tie didn't expect to be embarrassed like this, they came into the village, Yang Yihang brought to greet the soldiers or armor, and he didn't want to lose face in front of them, he discussed with Lin Mengde for a while, replied to Yang Yihang, and said, "That's good, in addition to the previous horses, we don't have many armor, crossbows and Mo knives, I will give you 200 foot bows, arrows and 10,000 feathers for you, and other guns, spears, knives and shields are all completed for you, what do you think?" ”

"......" Yang Yihang and the others were stunned for a long time before asking, "Is this true......"

"There's nothing really fake," Lin Jian said with a smile, "After nightfall, I'll send someone to bring you ...... directly."

Not to mention Yang Yihang, Wei Zhonglong, Wu Tian, Ma Yigong, Zhou Tongchanglu, Qingqi and other generals and representatives of the village were also very surprised by Lin Bin's generosity, they knew that Lin Tie could capture a large number of war horses in Cangnan, but Lin Tie took out four or five hundred horses to support them, not strange, but they didn't know that Lin Tie used 50,000 taels of silver in Jinan to buy military funds worth 300,000 taels of silver, plus the two battles were all great victories of total annihilation, and the military resources were replenished very much, especially light weapons such as guns, spears, knives and shields, and the reserves were very large.

Shooting a foot bow with a distance of more than 100 to 120 paces requires a high level of archerry, and there are not many soldiers in the Jiangdong Left Army who can use a foot bow. There are enough veterans who can use foot bows in the remnants of the Jin army, and Lin Jian naturally uses them to strengthen Yang Yihang's department.

Ma Yigong and Zhou Tong discussed for a while, and asked directly: "Can Changlu and Qingqi villages send some people to the vortex to mount?" The Jiangdong Left Army entered the west side of the vortex, and they could directly stay at the vortex to support the flank of the Jiangdong Left Army......"

"Okay!" Lin Jian agreed without hesitation, he was afraid that Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, and Zhou would fight with them, and he was not afraid that they would ask for weapons.

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PS: The second update is coming.

Now there is something to go out, and the third is more likely to be late!