nownovels Chapter 828: The Logistics Supply Line Has Been Greatly Shortened, And The Number Of Naval Officers
Chapter 828: The Logistics Supply Line Has Been Greatly Shortened, And The Number Of Naval Officers
Hongwu 20th year, mid-January.
After two years of operations in the 18th and 19th years of Hongwu, the Korean Peninsula, Tamluo Island, and Tsushima Island have now begun to take shape under the development of the Ming Dynasty.
Among them, in the coastal area of Busan on the Korean Peninsula, the Ming Dynasty built a new Ming Dynasty naval military base that can accommodate 300,000 naval officers for stationing and repair.
At the same time, there are also three large-scale sea-going shipyards, provided that shipbuilding raw materials can be supplied.
Through assembly line shipbuilding, approximately one hundred naval warfare ships of various sizes can be produced in a month.
The construction of the large military city on Tamna Island, as well as other ports, roads and other infrastructure have been basically completed.
Today, the Ming Dynasty naval military base on Tamna Island can also accommodate 100,000 naval officers and 400,000 ordinary people to stay and live in it for a long time, and achieve initial self-sufficiency.
The naval military base on Tsushima Island has also been completed, although its scale is not as large as the naval military base on Tamna Island.
However, if a large amount of grain and grass supplies are transported and stored in advance, the grain and grass supplies stored on Tsushima Island can also meet the daily needs of 50,000 soldiers within half a year.
After the construction of the three Ming Dynasty naval military garrison bases on the Korean Peninsula, Busan, Tamna Island, and Tsushima Island, the logistics line of the Ming Dynasty's eastern expedition to Japan can be said to have been greatly shortened.
Because if grain and other supplies are transported from the Busan Naval Military Base on the Korean Peninsula to the Tamna Island Naval Military Base, the logistics time will be about ten days.
If grain and other supplies are transported from Busan Naval Military Base to Tsushima Naval Military Base, the logistics time can be shortened to about half a day.
And if it is to transport grain, grass and other materials from the Tamna Island military base to the Tsushima Naval Military Base, the logistics time will be about two days.
And if it is to transport grain and other supplies directly from the Tsushima Naval Military Base to Fukuoka, which is closest to Japan, then the logistics time will be about one day.
And if grain and other supplies are transported directly from the Tamna Island military base to the Japanese country of Fukuoka, the logistics time will be about four days.
In other words, if we go from the Busan Naval Military Base on the Korean Peninsula, to the Tamna Island Military Base, to the Tsushima Military Base, and finally to the Japanese Kingdom of Fukuoka, then the entire logistics supply time for the Eastern Expedition to the Japanese Kingdom will be about four days.
If there is no passing through the Tsushima military base in the middle, from the Busan naval military base to the Tamna military base, and then to the Japanese country of Fukuoka, then the entire logistics supply time will be about five days.
If we go directly from the Busan Naval Military Base to the Falklands Military Base and then to the Japanese country of Fukuoka, the entire logistics supply time will be shortened to about a day and a half.
Under such circumstances, even the Ming navy officers who were marching eastward to Japan suddenly encountered an accident, resulting in the loss of food, grass, bows, arrows, ammunition and other supplies.
But as long as the Ming Navy officers can pass the news back in time, within half a day, the Ming Navy military base on Tsushima Island can immediately replenish a batch of food, grass, bows and arrows, ammunition and other supplies.
In the same two days, the Busan Naval Military Base can also immediately replenish a large amount of supplies such as grain, bows and arrows, and ammunition.
Even the Ming Dynasty naval military base on Tsushima Island was unexpectedly snatched back by Japan.
But within the same maximum of five days, the Ming Dynasty naval military base on Tamna Island can also immediately replenish a large amount of grain, bows, arrows, ammunition and other supplies.
In a mere five days, as long as the Ming Navy officers who were marching eastward against the Japanese Empire did not encounter a natural disaster that human power could not withstand, then the Ming Navy officers would be able to survive even if they cut trees into soldiers or throw stones into arrows.
So at this point, the logistics supply problem of the Ming Dynasty's eastern expedition to Japan has basically been solved.
After solving the logistical supply problem, the next step that needs to be solved is the problem of naval officers for the Ming Dynasty's eastern expedition to Japan.
At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty had only one coastal naval military base, which was the Haizhou City Naval Military Base jointly established by Yan Changqing and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru.
At that time, the Haizhou City Naval Military Base had a total of more than 200,000 naval officers.
Later, when the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were undergoing four years of experience in knowing the state, everything in the Haizhou City Naval Military Base, including the naval officers, was divided into seven.
Basically, the Haizhou City Naval Military Base at that time, as well as the naval military bases that Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were responsible for replicating, each had about 30,000 naval officers.
Two more years passed, which was the eighth year of Hongwu Day.
The number of naval officers at the Haizhou City Naval Military Base, as well as the number of naval officers at the naval military bases under the control of Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, has basically been increased from 30,000 to 50,000. People around.
In other words, the overall number of Ming navy officers during this period was around 350,000.
After another year of development, that is, in the 19th year of Hongwu, the total number of naval officers affiliated to the seven major naval military bases of the Ming Dynasty was only about 400,000.
After all, the number of young men in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty is also limited. It does not mean that after various naval military bases have deployed 20,000 young men from the coast as naval officers this year, another 20,000 young men will be able to continue to be added to the navy next year.
Whether the coastal people grow up slowly themselves, or young people are recruited from other places to supplement them, it will take time.
The total number of naval officers totaling 400,000, if they were all used to conquer Japan, would be barely enough.
But the problem is that it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to devote all 400,000 naval officers to the Eastern Conquest of Japan.
Because once all these 400,000 naval officers are devoted to the Eastern Conquest of Japan, then the marine fish fishing that has been done by the Ming Navy officers until now will basically come to a halt!
You must know that salted fish made from sea fish is now one of the main sources of meat for the people of the Ming Dynasty. Tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty bought several kilograms of salted fish meat to eat every ten days and a half.
If the sea salt fishing, which the Ming Dynasty's navy was also responsible for, was stopped, then the salted fish meat of hundreds of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty would also be gone!
This will cause great uproar among the people of the world!
Therefore, in order to meet the growing demand for salted fish meat among the people of Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty must have 300,000 naval officers to continue to be responsible for salvaging marine fish.
But in this case, there will only be about 100,000 naval officers left for the Ming Dynasty to conquer Japan.
Even if the seven major naval military bases along the Ming Dynasty were given another year to continue to replenish the number of naval officers, they would each be able to replenish their numbers to around 70,000 to 80,000 at most.
In other words, there were only about 150,000 to 200,000 naval officers left for the Ming Dynasty to conquer Japan.
Such a quantity was far from enough for the Eastern Conquest of Japan.
After all, no matter how backward the Japanese country is at this stage, its population is still between 8 million and 10 million, which is equivalent to one-sixth to one-eighth of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the number of naval officers of the Ming Dynasty must continue to increase, but if you want each naval military base to reach the level of 200,000 naval officers.
So at least it will take another ten or eight years to slowly replenish it before it can be replenished to full capacity.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of serious shortage of naval officers, Zhu Yuanzhang also pioneered the conversion of the army into the navy.
Although the number of naval officers in the Ming Dynasty is far insufficient today, the number of army officers in the Ming Dynasty is very large.
Now the total number of soldiers in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, various local guards, and nine-border towns totals more than 1.8 million!
If 400,000 naval officers are added to the equation, then the Ming Dynasty's overall military strength will exceed 2.2 million!
This has exceeded the peak military power of the Hongwu Dynasty in original history.
Because according to statistics, in the original history of the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), the number of Dayin soldiers in the Ming Dynasty's capital army and local frontier troops combined was only 1.9 million.
It was precisely because he had more than 1.8 million army soldiers that Zhu Yuanzhang could so easily mobilize 200,000 soldiers to annex Goryeo.
Now seeing that the number of naval officers in the Ming Dynasty was seriously insufficient, Zhu Yuanzhang simply transferred the 200,000 army officers who had previously annexed Korea to become naval officers.
But even so, the total of the newly transferred 200,000 naval officers and the original 400,000 naval officers is only 600,000.
If we want to maintain the original fishing industry and conquer Japan at the same time, the number of naval officers is still not enough.
So Zhu Yuanzhang made another wave of his hand and transferred another 500,000 army soldiers to the Korean Peninsula from among the existing army soldiers.
Among them, 200,000 army officers are responsible for continuing to suppress North Korea and maintaining local order in North Korea.
Then another 300,000 army officers were transferred to the navy.
At this point, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 2.2 million soldiers.
Among them, there are 1.3 million army officers and 900,000 navy officers.
Among the army officers, 200,000 officers were responsible for guarding North Korea, 300,000 officers were responsible for guarding the capital, and only 800,000 officers were left responsible for guarding the Jiubian Grassland and maintaining local order.
To be honest, the number of soldiers in this army is relatively small.
Because if you exclude the 300,000 soldiers who defend the capital and the 500,000 soldiers who maintain local order, then the number of army soldiers left to guard the Jiubian Grassland is only about 300,000.
And if these 300,000 people were divided equally among the nine-sided cities, each city would only have 30,000 to 50,000 people.
If the grassland tribes once went crazy and wanted to unite south to invade the Ming Dynasty, such a number of soldiers might not be able to stop them.
Fortunately, in recent years, through trade in wool, goat milk, etc., a brief peace has been temporarily achieved between the Ming Dynasty and the grassland tribes [There are no unthinkable grassland tribes trying to invade the Ming Dynasty.
This is why Zhu Yuanzhang dared to directly transfer 500,000 army soldiers to the navy.
And it would be easy for Ming to replenish the missing half a million troops.
As long as the Ming Dynasty's fifty local guards located in various places recruit 10,000 more soldiers from the surrounding state capitals in the coming year, they will be able to replenish their troops.
Among the 900,000 naval officers, 500,000 were transferred from the army and had relatively little experience in sea warfare.
So Zhu Yuanzhang dispersed and reorganized the original 400,000 naval officers and the 500,000 initially transferred naval officers.
After the disbandment and reorganization of the 900,000 naval officers, 300,000 of them continued to be responsible for the original task of salvaging and catching sea fish and making salted fish meat.
The remaining 600,000 naval officers are respectively controlled by Prince Zhu Biao, King Zhu Di of Qin, King Zhu Fan of Jin, King Zhu Di of Yan, King Zhu Zhen of Chu, and King Zhu Su of Qi.
These 600,000 navy officers, after a year of good training through the old-to-new training method, arrived at
In the twenty years since Hongwu, he has basically transformed from an army officer into a qualified naval officer.
After successively solving the problems of logistical supplies and naval officers for the Eastern Expedition to Japan, Zhu Yuanzhang could no longer bear the temptation to officially start the Eastern Expedition to Japan.
After all, the Japanese country has so many gold and silver mountains, and for an emperor as greedy and stingy as he is to be able to suppress his desire to conquer the Japanese country for two years, it is already considered very good.
Of course, before the eastern expedition to Japan, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent an imperial edict to Japan just like he did when he annexed Goryeo in order to become famous as a disciple, or to vent his anger.
The content of the edict is also very simple and crude, that is:
". "In the Japanese country of Ru'am, I sent envoys to the Japanese country before. As a result, not only did you not come to court as promised, but you also killed our envoys from the Ming Dynasty, detained our envoys from the Ming Dynasty, and robbed us.
The subjects and common people of Ming Dynasty do not respect our national prestige of Ming Dynasty!"
"I'm busy sweeping up Beiyuan, and I don't have time to talk to you for the time being.
"But now that I have finished sweeping Beiyuan, I have my hands free!"
"If I don't defeat you in this battle and destroy your country, then I will count on you!"
After issuing the edict of reprimand, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to care about the reaction of the Japanese state, and directly started the eastern expedition against the Japanese state!
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