Chapter 1011 Northern War Situation
The threshing ground, garage, rest area, maintenance workshop, warehouse, these are all indispensable facilities. After Luo Chong finished explaining, She Xin immediately agreed and prepared to start handling it after returning.
As for the management rights of this unit, Luo Chong decided to assign it to the Sinong Temple, which is a department directly under the central government. At present, it only needs to be responsible to Luo Chong, and it will be used specifically for mechanized crop experiments in a short period of time.
Sinong Temple has great power in history. There was no concept of nine temples in the Han Dynasty, but there was a position of Da Si Nong at that time. Its predecessor was called Zhi Su Nei Shi, who was in charge of the national granaries, material supply, price regulation, treasury cashier, and imperial farm farming. In addition, the salt and iron monopoly was also under the management of Da Si Nong, a veritable financial leader. Even the Minister of Revenue who was in charge of money and grain in later generations did not have as much power as Da Si Nong.
However, the Sinong Temple of the Han tribe is different. It is more like the Ministry of Agriculture, and its scope of authority has not been clearly defined. After all, the country has not yet been established. The current Sinong Temple is more like a scientific research unit, not only responsible for the selection and breeding of better crops, but also responsible for the breeding and selection of livestock.
In summary, it is to study higher-yield crops, better farming methods, breeding of more valuable livestock, and better breeding methods.
The current Sinong Temple of the Han tribe also has people, but not many people, only a few in total. At the beginning, there was a guy in Fumaguan who discovered that captive antelopes can give birth to one more baby per year than free-range antelopes. He was selected by Luo Chong to join the Sinong Temple. His appearance directly doubled the reproduction rate of antelopes. He is definitely a talent suitable for studying agriculture and animal husbandry.
In the following years, some people have been selected to serve in the Sinong Temple. They are all experts in agriculture and animal husbandry. Some are good at planting various grains, vegetables and fruits, and some are good at poultry and livestock breeding. There are a total of about ten people, and the person in charge is a man named Jiang Er.
That's right, this guy is also a member of the Youjiang clan. Although the Youjiang clan is a clan tribe that joined the Han tribe later, the Youjiang clan obviously has a much longer history of farming than the Han tribe.
The Han tribe has only been farming for a few years, but the Youjiang clan has been farming for who knows how many years. Although the farming technology of this tribe is not as advanced as that of the Han tribe, their enthusiasm for farming is obviously higher than that of the Han tribe. In addition, after this guy joined the Han tribe, he liked to study the planting of various crops, so he was selected by Luo Chong to join the Sinong Temple.
Although it is called Sinong Temple, it actually does not even have a fixed office, and the R&D projects and development plans are not clear. Most of the time it is a part-time state. However, this time with the mechanized farming test field, this department can be officially established.
After leaving Liuyang County and returning home, Luo Chong immediately asked someone to call Jiang Er over, and then told him about the mechanized farming test field, and asked him to gather other members of Sinong Temple to go to the mechanized farming test field to set up the headquarters of Sinong Temple.
Well, it is temporarily set up there, and it will definitely be moved to the capital in the future.
Jiang Er is currently only a secretary of Sinong Temple. The positions of Sinong Temple Secretary and Shaoqing are still vacant. The organization is not that big yet, and there are not that many things to manage, so there are only two secretary and a dozen clerks for the time being. One of the two secretary is responsible for farming, and the other is responsible for animal husbandry. Jiang Er is the one in charge of farming.
Hearing that the tribe has developed a machine that can automatically cultivate the fields, Jiang Er was very excited. Now the experimental field is still a wasteland, and it was useless in the past, so he took the initiative to apply to visit the research institute in Xingang County with other members to learn the use of various agricultural machinery.
Luo Chong thought about it and agreed. After all, if he didn't understand agricultural machinery, how could he manage the experimental field? After all,
the management of the experimental field, the reclamation and planning of the experimental field, the research and development tasks of agricultural machinery, and the training of agricultural machinery drivers, all these things were arranged, and the plan to prepare 50,000 people's annual rations next year was completely implemented. Next, it depends on the progress of the tasks completed by each department.
Luo Chong thought about it and wrote a letter to Youye and Qubing in the north. He first asked about the war in the north, and then told them that the tribe would continue to provide food to the north next year, which solved their worries and let them fight well on the front line. If they needed any supplies, they could write to him and Luo Chong would try to send them after the river thawed in the spring of next year.
After writing the letter, Luo Chong immediately asked the guards to send it out by flying eagle. It would take two or three days to fly such a long distance.
At this time, the north had entered the coldest season of winter.
In the early November of the year of Da Ming, the four-month winter in the eight counties of Hanyang had just passed one month, while the six-month winter in the three major camps in the north had just passed two months, and there were still four months of cold winter waiting for them.
The first three months of winter in the north is when the snowfall is the heaviest. Before Qu Bing arrived, there had already been two heavy snowfalls, and that was before the Shen Ce Guards and the cannibals officially went to war. Since Luo Chong was sent back a victory report last month, there have been two more heavy snowfalls in the north in the following month.
Four consecutive heavy snowfalls and the constant ambushes by the Shen Ce Guards finally had a serious impact on the cannibals in the forest, that is, hunger.
The hunting team disappeared inexplicably, leaving them, who should have obtained a large amount of prey and meat, to starve in the village. The salt pond they controlled was also robbed by the Han tribe. They sent people to counterattack, but were completely wiped out. The old and weak who went out to find food often disappeared without a trace and never came back.
There was no other way. The hungry cannibals could only go out to look for food. The villages without hunting teams could only let the women and the old and weak patrol the traps in the forest. Some of them were lucky enough to catch some prey, so they could continue to survive and wait for the men who went out hunting to come back with a lot of food.
In the villages that caught nothing in the traps, the old, weak, women and children could only risk going to the big river outside the forest to fish. Some were timid and did not dare to go to the big river bend to fish, so they could still survive by chance. Some villages with boldness and large populations were outnumbered and not afraid of danger. As a result, they were immediately caught by the three battalions of the Shen Ce Guards when they arrived at the big river bend.
There were still many young and strong people in some villages, so they attacked the neighboring villages, ate the old and weak in the neighboring villages, replenished their physical strength, and then went to the hunting ground in the east to hunt again.
The enemy's reaction was completely developing according to Qubing's deduction, but what surprised him was that the enemy seemed to have given up the salt pond recently. The second battalion guarding the salt pond had not seen the enemy counterattack for more than half a month.
At first, they annihilated a counterattack team of more than a thousand people. About half a month later, they encountered another counterattack of seven or eight hundred people. Both counterattacks were completely wiped out. The enemy seemed to see that they could not defeat them, and all the giant apes that came over were killed in the battle, so they did not organize another attack team.
So in the next half month, the second battalion did not encounter a counterattack by the cannibals again. Only the elusive giant apes appeared more than a dozen times in succession, but they all died tragically under the guns of the second battalion. It is unknown what the purpose of those monsters is. If they want to take back the salt pond, but only a dozen or a few come each time, what is the point? Instead, it seems more like revenge.
The Third Battalion guarding the river bend has fought quite a few battles recently. Because not many of the cannibal hunting teams have returned, the guys left in the forest have run out of food, and more and more people have come out to fish. In just one month, the Third Battalion has wiped out more than 20 teams of all sizes, with as few as 30 or 40 people and as many as hundreds. In that month, more than 1,200 prisoners alone were captured.
In the recent few times, a lot of women were captured. It seems that the strategy formulated by Qubing is quite effective. The enemy's food shortage has reached a certain extent, and even women have to go out and risk their lives to find food.
However, the one with the greatest achievements is of course the first battalion responsible for the hunting ground. The achievements of the first battalion are not only reflected in the captured prisoners of war, but also in the large number of wild animals, which are also their achievements.
In order to cooperate with the development of local characteristic economy proposed by Qubing, and also to snatch prey from the cannibals, the more than 700 soldiers of the first battalion and the 1,000 hunter militiamen in the hunting ground camp are active outside all day long.
If they find a cannibal hunting team, then of course there is no doubt that they will be eaten up if they find a place. If they don't find a cannibal hunting team, it doesn't matter. It's the same to find prey.
In addition to the three hunting teams that were annihilated at the beginning, during this month, the battalion led by Qu Bing himself ambushed and annihilated four cannibal hunting teams with more than 200 people, and also captured more than a dozen groups of wild animals, mainly the old four, yaks, wild donkeys, alpacas, and giant deer.
These are the main domesticated livestock in the future in the north. Now before the end of the war, the more they catch, the better, which led to a strange phenomenon.
In more than a month of expedition, the first battalion captured only about 1,800 prisoners of war, but the total number of various wild livestock captured exceeded 3,000.
There were more livestock captured than prisoners of war.
However, this caused another problem. In the hunting ground area in the east, the number of herds was limited. The more prey the Han tribe caught, the more difficult it would be for the cannibal hunting team to hunt. The more difficult it was for them to hunt, the longer they would be hungry and the more time they would need to find prey.
In this way, when they encountered the Han tribe, their resistance would be worse.
Therefore, in general, the more beasts the Han tribe captures, the greater the advantage the Han tribe will have.
Now that the three battalions of the Shen Ce Guard have gained some combat experience, Qu Bing no longer needs to lead the team himself. He stays in the camp of the hunting ground with his own guard platoon. The three companies of the first battalion, each with two or three hundred militiamen, are all sent out by him to perform tasks.
Now, in the three battalions and three battlefields, the total number of prisoners captured has reached 4,300, and the number of killed has reached about one or two thousand, totaling nearly six thousand.
Now it is the beginning of November. According to the information provided by You Ye, the hunting activities of the cannibals are mainly concentrated in the first three months of winter. Now that two months have passed, the enemy will only have one month left to go out. During this month, the enemy will definitely go out hunting crazily, which may put a lot of pressure on the first battalion.
Because according to Youye, the herds of animals in the hunting ground have a regular activity pattern. The first three months are the main activity time of the herds. They will look for various dead grasses here. After three months, when the plants in this area are almost eaten, the herds will move south and will not come back again until the spring and summer of the next year. There is also a situation where the snow is too heavy and covers the grass. The herds can't dig out and run out of food in advance, so they will move south in advance.
But this year's situation is slightly different, because the Han tribe has captured a lot of herds in advance, and the plants in the hunting ground will definitely not be consumed so quickly. So as long as the snow is not too heavy, the plants in this hunting ground will be enough for the remaining herds to eat for a longer time, and it may be possible to extend the three months of the previous years to one month.
In this way, as long as the herds do not leave, the cannibals will come out to hunt for a longer time, and the strategic goal of the first stage of the disease elimination can achieve greater results.
But he still has a problem now, and he is not sure in his mind, so he found Youye that day to ask about the situation.
"Uncle You, do you know how big the cannibal population is here? We have wiped out nearly 6,000 enemies in three battlefields. How many of them are left? How many young and strong can we send out?"
"It's hard to say. Although I have been here for several years, I have never really penetrated into the enemy's territory. You asked me how many cannibals there are. I guess even the cannibals themselves don't know how many there are. They have almost no effective organization. Who can know?" You Ye could only spread his hands and said. Qu Bing
could only sit there frowning and worrying when he heard this. He didn't even know how many enemies there were. How should he fight this war? Although he was not afraid of fighting, if he kept fighting guerrilla warfare without a decisive battle, how long would this war last?
Moreover, the enemy did not have any strict organization. They were all scattered soldiers and a mob. No one could organize them to fight a decisive battle with him. This was worrying.
He had to fight guerrilla warfare even if he didn't want to. This was completely different from the situation in the Xin tribe. The Xin tribe at least had an organization and a purpose. The war he was responsible for was more like hunting.
Seeing that he was frowning and silent, Youye advised, "You don't have to worry. Isn't the war going well now? The enemy's reaction is also in line with your strategy. When we have defeated the enemy's manpower and they can't send any more people, we will start to attack.
"According to the current situation, the war here in the hunting ground will last for two months at most. After two months, the enemy will definitely retreat and start to organize to move south. So we only need to annihilate as many hunting teams as possible in these two months, and then we can move the battlefield. "
"I know, I'm just worried that the leader will be anxious. If the battle cannot be ended this winter and drags on until next year, it will definitely affect the farming here. By then, the entire north will be collectively short of food, and I don't know if the tribe can still send food." Qubing said worriedly.
At this time, a guard suddenly came in from outside, holding a bamboo tube and said,
"Report to the commander, the leader has sent a letter. The eagle sent it to the river valley camp, and then forwarded it over there."
(End of this chapter)
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