Chapter 388 Scouts Intelligence Support
When the sky was bright, Guan Yu, who had not slept all night, picked up the half bowl of remaining wine in front of him and drank it down in one gulp. He stood up and called out, "Commander!" Guan Yu called.
The ordering soldiers waiting on the side immediately came to obey the order.
"At daybreak, let the fishing industry collect the nets and withdraw."
After netting fish all night, many people soaked in cold water all night. When they climbed out of the water, in this autumn morning, many people's lips turned white from the cold.
Guan Yu frowned when he saw the miserable condition of the fishermen.
Although Li Mengxi was in charge of the fishing camp, the rebels did not have any mountainous factions. Instead, they had now developed a culture of finding fault with each other.
Guan Yu thought that maybe Li Mengxi had forgotten that the weather was cold and was negligent.
In spring and summer, fishermen may be fine if they soak in the water overnight, but now that autumn is here and the weather is getting colder, it would be unbearable for fishermen to soak in the water overnight.
Thinking of this section, Guan Yu felt that he should mention it to Li Mengxi.
The fishing camp is packing up things. Last night was the first night that was busy all night. Last night, the nets were cast so many times that two nets were worn out and torn.
At night, I didn't carefully count how many fish were caught. Now that it's dawn, I carefully counted and found that there were too many fish. The fishing team brought a car and carried more than a dozen large baskets, which could not be filled.
Fish catch.
When the incident was reported to Guan Yu, Guan Yu thought for a while and decided to buy all the cart baskets and other things in the village to hold fish.
Since you want to buy something, you should also buy some other things. One fish-killing scissor is not enough, so you have to buy it.
The fishing team also had insufficient nets, so they had to use hemp, which was very useful. They also had to weave a rope that was more than ten feet long. If a pontoon bridge was to be built one day, a long enough rope would be needed.
Therefore, if there is ready-made raw sesame in this village, it would be a good idea to buy half a cart and go.
As the main commander-in-chief of the army, Guan Yu generally knows a lot about various matters in the army.
Most ordinary soldiers didn't know what Li Mengxi's caravan wanted to buy, and what the army lacked. The fishing camp was full of people, and no one knew what to buy. Fortunately, Guan Yu followed him and took care of it.
Soon, Guan Yu was here and everything was ready.
Li Mengxi was raising chickens and ducks in the army. He was worried that there were not enough chickens and ducks, so Guan Yu thought about buying a few more chickens and ducks.
Just as I was thinking, "Grrrr~"
The loud crow of the big rooster came from the other side of the village.
Guan Yu knew that chickens and ducks could be bought in this village.
After everything was packed up and some shopping was done, the fishing camp was seen off by the villagers, old and young, and left with a full load of catch.
When leaving, the one vehicle that the fishing team came with turned into four vehicles, one of which was for placing fishing nets, and the other three vehicles were filled with fish that had been killed and cleaned. The three vehicles were full.
For fear of fish falling off, the car was enclosed with mats and formed into a closed cart shape. In this way, when the car was rolling along, fish would still fall out of the car from time to time.
The fish loaded on the car were carried in large baskets from the fishing camp. Four of the baskets were filled with fish gills, intestines, fish offal, etc. The four baskets were full.
The fish gills, fish offal and other offal alone weighed no less than two hundred kilograms. You can imagine how big the harvest was after working all night last night.
On the way back, Guan Yu couldn't bear to look at the people in the fishing camp who were all wet and shivering from the cold.
Guan Yu called to the captain of the fishing camp and said, "Our military advisor is in charge of the fishing camp. There should be nothing wrong with it.
But there are dozens of you, traveling during the day and busy all night, do you have time to rest?"
The captain of the fishing camp said, "Today we have thirty people working at night, and tomorrow we have thirty people working together. We will work one night and sleep the other night."
Hearing this, Guan Yu nodded, it turns out there was an arrangement.
This is good, otherwise, the fish camp will be exhausted day and night, with no time to sleep, and the iron man will not be able to carry it for a few days.
The fishing site was more than four miles away from the camp. When the fishing camp came back with a full load of fish, the sky was just bright. In the military camp, fires were just starting to be made for cooking, and the camp became lively.
When Li Mengxi got dressed and got up, he saw Guan Yu coming back with the fish.
He was extremely surprised. How much did he get from the three big car fishes?
No matter where you go fishing, you can catch so many.
"I have a little boy of two thousand catties." Guan Yu replied.
"Two thousand?!" Li Mengxi was surprised.
Fish meat is different from beef, pork, etc., fish meat has a lot of water and a small dry weight.
If one pound of beef is equivalent to four pounds of grain, then one pound of fish is equivalent to one and a half pounds of grain at most.
One pound of grain is not much. If an adult only eats one pound of grain a day, he will never be full.
But one pound of food a day can barely meet the minimum needs, and people will not starve to death.
Two thousand catties of fish means that these two thousand catties of fish can be used to supplement the food rations and can feed two thousand people for a day.
There are currently only ten thousand people in the army. Last night, two thousand catties of fish were caught in the net. This means that fishing alone is enough to meet one-fifth of the rations.
Unexpectedly, a random idea came up not long ago, which saved the food rations of as many as 2,000 people.
Guan Yu told Li Mengxi what happened while fishing last night.
Guan Yu said that it was autumn now and people would get sick from the cold if the fishing camps went into the water to surround the fish.
Li Mengxi thought about this issue for a while and felt that he had indeed overlooked this issue, but it was not a big problem.
The reason why the fishing camp needs to go into the water is because there are not enough osprey boats. There are only two osprey boats, which can only allow two people to go deep into the water and cast a net for fishing.
Now the osprey boat technology has matured, and new osprey boats will soon be built. When one person has an osprey boat, there will be no need for anyone to go into the water. Everyone will step on the osprey boat and fish on the water.
enough.
When Li Mengxi said this, Guan Yu thought the same thing. The boat was enough and there was no need to launch it into the water.
"One more thing." Guan Yu frowned and said, "In the village where the fishing camp went last night, you can buy carts, chickens, ducks and other items.
This matter should have been the responsibility of the caravan, but why did the caravan not go to buy it? If the fishing camp hadn't arrived, wouldn't it have been missed?"
When Guan Yu asked this question, Li Mengxi was stunned.
Li Mengxi thought for a moment, and his brows gradually furrowed. After thinking about it, Li Mengxi realized that this matter was not simple.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Why didn’t the caravan go to the village where the fishing camp went to buy things? Obviously a lot of supplies can be bought in that village.
Negligence may occur during this period of camping in the evening.
Normally when setting up camp, the caravan would stop purchasing for the day.
In fact, in the evening, the caravan can still go out to buy something.
The fishing team can be four to five miles away from the camp. The caravan has cavalry and carriages, and its mobility is several times that of the fishing camp. Four or five miles is not a problem for the caravan.
One of the problems is that here, the caravans have not fully utilized the daylight hours.
The period between setting up camp and getting dark is roughly half to an hour, and the traveling caravan can be fully utilized. In the past, whenever the traveling caravan set up camp, the traveling caravan would return to camp.
The second problem is probably more serious.
How does the fishing team know where there is water, fishing, or even villages and fish ponds dug by the villagers?
They were scouts. Zhang Fei led more than half of the scouts in the army to disperse and conduct reconnaissance, and by the way, they found out the water source.
Because the fishing camp needs intelligence support from scouts, a scout is assigned to lead the fishing camp to the water source every evening.
The traveling caravan did not receive intelligence support from the scouts.
The caravan itself has horses and can complete the search and exploration duties itself, so this was not considered before.
There are only two teams of traveling caravans, with a total of six horses and two carriages. Because the traveling caravans, three cavalry and one carriage have to move together, therefore, the entire traveling caravan’s reconnaissance and search capabilities are only equivalent to
There are only two scouts, and their ability to search for villages and supply points is actually very limited.
The scouts will exchange information with Liu Xuande, Guan Yu, and some with the fishing team, but not with the ranger caravan.
If the scouts provide intelligence support to the caravan by the way, then the caravan does not have to find the village by itself. With dozens of mounted scouts, the probability of encountering a village supply point is dozens of times higher than that of the caravan.
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This means that the purchasing efficiency of the traveling caravan can be improved dozens of times.
Dozens of times means that originally only thirty pallet trucks can be purchased in a month, but one per day is average, which improves the efficiency by dozens of times. In a month, hundreds of pallets can be purchased.
Now that the rebels are in urgent need of carts, hundreds of carts are replenished every month, which directly solves the urgent need.
Furthermore, taking poultry and livestock as an example, it is far from enough. On average, you can’t buy even one chicken or duck a day.
After increasing the efficiency by dozens of times, it means that the Ranger Book can purchase four times a day instead of twenty times a day. Ten chickens and ducks can be purchased every day. In half a month, the army's stocking-related matters can be directly related to it.
Become a climate.
All kinds of things like that.
If the efficiency of the Ranger caravan could be increased dozens of times, then the Rangers would leapfrog far beyond the Carpenter Battalion and become the most important logistics team in the army.
This is a serious oversight, insufficient utilization of intelligence, and insufficient cooperation between scouts and other parts of the military.
Fortunately, Guan Yu saw this and spoke out, allowing Li Mengxi to make up for it later.
After thinking about all this, Li Mengxi told Guan Yu what he thought.
"General Guan, please tell the Third General to ask him to come back so that we can discuss the matter of liaison between the scouts and the ranger caravan."
Chapter completed!