When the news of the victory reached Jiangling City in the rear, it was naturally a joyful and encouraging situation.

In fact, this battle in Jingmen that exceeded the expected level made Zhou Huaian feel a little surprised and unexpected. It was like he had finally recruited and cultivated it. The feeling of being promoted to the advanced elite template after accumulating enough experience and tactics from ordinary elite templates and proficiency.

In winter, especially in the field, the relatively primitive guerrilla tactics that are broken into pieces in a relatively small way are all difficult projects that particularly test the army's organization and training degree and corresponding logistics support capabilities. In particular, the consumption of corresponding manpower and material resources transfer and supplementation is several times the cost of combat under normal circumstances.

Therefore, even if a lot of preparations were made in advance, various frostbite, illness and other unexpected situations were still common. It was the dispatch of various mules, horses, carriages and ships and organizational losses.

But in the end, Ge Congzhou not only turned his expected defense and tug-of-war that he had to wait for the city into a counterattack that actively attacked instead of defense, but also achieved the level of general goals and achieved the final victory. He is truly one of the well-known historical figures in another time and space and historical trajectory, deeply loved by the times. As long as he has the right opportunity, he will naturally emerge.

For Zhou Huaian, the victory that can be piled up with materials is much better than that of human lives; the things consumed and lost are dead and can be regenerated after all. However, after repeated battles and winning and losing, people who survive by surviving experiences can continue to proliferate and spread and spread their advantages.

However, in addition to a round of commendations and orders to adjust and adjust defense, he refocused and focused on the aftermath matters; as the territory continued to expand, the combined manpower became increasingly tense and lacked. However, at present, limited resources and manpower were also concentrated, and the most critical nodes and matters could only be addressed and targeted first.

Therefore, not only were the new and old subordinates around him sent out, but even Huo Cun, who led his army to support him, had no chance to have a free time and was given a new task. That is, to lead the new and old troops in the places, cooperate with Wang Chongba's new naval army to clear out the bandits, river thieves and other potential soil near the waterway along the way, and the villages and towns that they hid and possessed.

Although a considerable number of them have been more or less effective or benefited in the previous Taiping Army's northward strategy; under the new order of the Taiping regime that is about to take shape, since they do not want to change and follow the rebel army to seek better development and new world, they still insist on following this traditional bad habit of stealing and people in the past, then don't blame them for being crushed into pieces by the wheels of history and swept into the garbage dump of history.

During this period, he also turned his desire and dissatisfaction into motivation, transformed into an efficient working machine, constantly receiving various figures and receiving reports from his subordinates. The starting point of the First Army itself was biased towards the bottom, so all oral and written materials in work were known for being straightforward and simple;

As a basic institutional norm, there is neither long talk nor red tape. A meeting or routine written report can be handled within about five to ten minutes. Only a very small number of more important matters are worth his timeout.

Of course, most of the general public in this era are still 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 help and foundation of the Taiping regime, you can only guide them with visible interests and changes on the one hand, and use strict discipline and systems to spur and restrain them;

Just like the usual principle of grazing and domesticating sheep, the ultimate goal is to adapt to the changes and innovations brought by the Taiping Army, and ultimately identify and consciously integrate them into this overall atmosphere.

During this process, Zhou Huaian also found that he had recently unintentionally unlocked an auxiliary function, which is to enter the voice and text after graphic scanning records; that is, he could directly turn the content reported by his subordinates into the corresponding records in the database with all his heart;

When you need it, you will mobilize relevant related content to compare and analyze it, and you will naturally get the required results. In addition, you can remember the text scanning ability, so you will be more efficient when handling official business with half the effort.

Compared with the busy bandit suppression and restoration of production in Hunan, the Lingnan area behind is a little calm and has ushered in the season of spring plowing early. Now, the Lingbiao area under the Taiping Army, especially the Pearl River Basin, has already had considerable grain and surplus products after several harvests over the past few days.

"Recalling the prosperous days of Kaiyuan, the small town still has thousands of families.

Rice is fat and corn is white, and both public and private granaries are abundant."

On the one hand, this reflects the prosperity of the world and the prosperity of private resources. On the other hand, it represents the universal logistics and information stagnation in the entire era; thus, most of the resources produced in these places cannot be circulated through appropriate channels, becoming a source of increasing the overall wealth in market economic activities; and can only be piled in the warehouse for mold and decay.

Food was the most important resource and circulation measurement of goods in ancient society; even if all the currency and currency in society lost their function, food could still be used as a benchmark for barter; after all, under the self-sufficient small peasant economic system, you can barely live without money, but you will really die without food.

However, once the grain in the warehouse has passed its most basic shelf life, it is in constant depreciation and loss; although the sulfur fumigation method and the smoke irrigation (carbon dioxide) method are used to kill insects and remove mold to increase the shelf life of grain storage, the generally hot, humid and rainy climate in Lingnan is still the troubles and troubles of large-scale storage.

Therefore, as a slightly forward-looking person, we must consider these resources that are difficult to preserve and are easily damaged, 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 grain as a means of remuneration and payment, a large amount of manpower is organized to repair farmland, water conservancy, roads and bridges and other large-scale projects; as long as people are not too unintentional to exploit people to death, not only can they provide disguised relief and enrichment through paid labor, but the savings and potential risk resistance of poor families at the bottom of society can also be cultivated to develop large-scale organizational efficiency and means, as well as the collective concept of working together.

Or through in-depth finishing methods, at the cost of certain losses and scraps, they can be turned into similar things such as biscuits, canned foods with longer shelf life and higher added value; this also has the value and purpose of preparing for disasters and famines.

But on this, there are considerable obstacles to the improvement and upgrading of military cans; on the one hand, the tin-plated white-mouthed tin sheet is really expensive, and on the other hand, the sealing and shelf life of the clay pots are not satisfactory; perhaps glass products can be mass-produced more cheaply before they can be improved.

Or simply, through overseas trade channels, these remaining agricultural products can be converted into other types of resources under overall coordination. It is also an indirect means to effectively gain and expand market circulation value.

In addition, there is another more extreme approach, which is to transform foreign wars into corresponding results and gains in disguise; on the one hand, it can divert internal contradictions and attention in disguise, and on the other hand, it can obtain more land population, wealth and other continuous renewal resources to continuously expand the original basic foundation.

The specific measures reflected in Hunan are those local troops armed and mobilized to eliminate bandits, river thieves and local barbarians; at the expense of continuous consumption of large amounts of resource reserves, they obtain long-term bonuses and development potential in local public security and ruling order.

In fact, with the establishment of many grain transport stations (army stations) with wall signal towers as the core and the affiliated military farms (collective garrisons) in the area, these existences that rely on the protection of high mountains and dense forests and the convenience of waterways flowing, have become increasingly powerless in the local area for a long time;

Either the blockade and run out of the mountains to receive organization and management and transformation in the face of extreme material scarcity and difficulties, or they fled to the Taiping Army Institute not as deep as the inland.

Therefore, under the rule of Zhou Huaian, major farmers were not allowed to store grain and other agricultural products for traditional reasons and leave them moldy; this was the same as the redistribution of collective farms and surplus products under the rule of Da Mao Cifu, which was the principle of getting out of the post-war depression and chaos.

On the other hand, as the war in Jinghu progressed, the limitations of weapons and materials in this era gradually emerged.

It is okay to say that ordinary iron cold weapons are. As long as you continue to explore and improve the formulation of steel materials and continue to invest in artificial and raw material resources, you can give full play to the scale advantage of primary industrial mass production; even if there is a problem of turbidity and rust, it can be solved by the simplest oiling to oxidized plating material treatment.

But it was a bit troublesome when shooting weapons from a long range. Although the Taiping Army maintained a high crossbow equipment rate, the corresponding loss rate remained high throughout the journey. Not to mention anything else, in the just-departed battle of Jingmen, thousands of hard bows and strong crossbows were damaged and broken.

This is not a bad management or other artificial factor, but bamboo, corners, tendons and glue made of traditional crossbows are easily affected by obvious environmental and temperature and humidity changes, and are prone to deformation and deterioration and cannot be stored for a long time.

For example, the thermal expansion, contraction and dry cracks of the bow arm chord lines under high temperature and cold, the bow strings are loose and the gum falls off under rainwater with humidity; and even the problems of mold, insect worms and decay during long-term storage; so in addition to routine storage under normal temperature and dry ventilation environments, they must be taken out for inspection, maintenance and replacement every once in a while.

Only by spending enough time and energy to replace the unsuitable parts regularly and timely can we ensure the basic combat effectiveness when things are in use; otherwise, it will be a life-threatening result when we are on the battlefield. Although as Lingnan, as a mountainous area, the sources of obtaining these materials and their by-products are relatively wide, due to the climate and environment, the cost of loss that is difficult to preserve is always a big problem.

Just like the weapons and equipment that fell into the hands of the rebels in Guangzhou's arsenal, but in the chaos of management and poor preservation, after only more than a year, the results are quite slight.

Due to the convenience of batch material production and loss supplementation factors, the number of places that can maintain a large-scale sequence of crossbow soldiers in the world is just a few places in the south, including Bayu (Jiannan), Xuanrun (Jiangdong), Huaiyang (Huainan), Jinghu (Jiangxi), Guiguan (Lingnan), etc.

The ones reflected in the Lingnan area are the white crossbow soldiers in Guizhou, and the ones sent from Hunan are the crossbow soldiers in Jiangling; in the "Book of the Imperial Examinations of Huaixi" by Yuan Zhen, the prime minister of the middle Tang Dynasty, there are "Wei Bo's cavalry and Jiangling's powerful crossbows". These two important crossbow shops in the past are just under the control of the Taiping Army today. Therefore, it is a shame to not make full use of them according to local conditions.

Therefore, in addition to using iron oleander on the bow arms and crossbows to increase strength and life, the construction department behind the Taiping Army also plans to continue to try to use steel to draw thin threads and twist them with acid and alkali corrosion-resistant sisal fibers to obtain new strings that are better and more convenient for long-term use.

However, compared with these cold weapons with little development potential and upper limit, Zhou Huaian actually cared more about the fact that the musket body tube test items were being explored and drilled out with hydraulic machinery. However, even the mass production of original artillery casting and opening has not yet met the expected requirements, let alone these more precise individual firearms.

However, the military production department located in Nanhai County, behind, developed another transitional thing based on the guiding ideology and general direction he gave. According to the news from the waterway signal tower, a batch of people just left from Canton and transported by waterway ship were escorted.
Chapter completed!