Who is China's strongest empire? Six hundred thousand troops spent two years, consuming their neighbors alive
We all know that in the current war, most of the fights are arms, science and technology, and economy, but in ancient times, it was not only weapons, strategies, tactics, and a large part of the reason for fighting people.
For example, the ferocity of soldiers fighting, whether they are high in blood and high morale, whether they are crushed in numbers, and so on, and so many soldiers go to other countries to fight, it is common for them to be dissatisfied with water and soil, and it is not a simple problem to overcome these difficulties.
For example, looking at the Warring States period, science and technology and productivity are not the same, coupled with successive years of war, not only a large number of manpower consumption, the consumption of material resources is even more amazing, hundreds of thousands of troops have to eat every day, just the amount of grain, every day is also very scary.
When the Qin army went to attack the State of Chu, it took 600,000 troops with it, and on the road alone, it walked more than a thousand kilometers, and worked hard to get to the State of Chu, and there were still 500,000 troops in the State of Chu waiting in a strict line, thinking about it, it felt hard, and I think, don't look at the 600,000 troops of the State of Qin, it looks like there are a lot more than 500,000 troops of the State of Chu, but there are many people inside who are not soldiers who can fight, because just like the current army has a cooking class of the Logistics Department, there are also many logistics personnel in the army at that time. Responsible for taking care of the soldiers' rations and other things.
However, in ancient times, the transportation of grain was more troublesome and time-consuming, so more logistics personnel were needed, and it was obviously not enough to transport too much grain at one time.
If the army uses cultivating cattle to transport grain, although the grain can be transported a lot, it is obvious that it is necessary to find a place to graze on time every day, and if the right forage is not found, the cultivating cattle will be starved to death, and if the cultivating cattle are starved to death, too much food cannot be brought and can only be thrown away.
And at that time, the number of cultivated cattle was not much, still belonged to the state's first-level protected animals, the Qin State in order to conquer the world, need a large number of cultivating cattle to cultivate the land, so the cultivating cattle can not be used casually, not to mention a large number of them with the car to send grain, so can only rely on manpower to carry.
According to the records, a logistician carries 6 buckets of rice, and the rations of the 600,000-strong army are all pointed to manpower, then it is estimated that there are about 100,000 real soldiers, and the rest are estimated to be logistics personnel, almost four or five logistics personnel to raise a soldier, if the rice on the road is eaten, the logistics personnel have to go back to the back, it is very hard, so the supply line for the war will be pulled very long.
Many ancient generals in order to be able to quickly and labor-saving supply grain and grass, will choose to conscript the nearby grain conscription way to replenish the soldiers, but it is obvious that the Qin state can not use this way, the King of Qin with the soldiers are beaten to the Chu state, if the nearby grain is collected, the people of the Chu state will certainly not supply grain to the Qin state, let them attack their own country in turn.
The road of collecting grain nearby is not feasible, so the Qin state can only continue to transport grain from its own country and continue to send people from its own country, so in order to be able to save as much as possible, the Qin state not only builds a large number of granaries in the country, but even goes out to attack the cities and pools, it will build granaries one after another, and then transport the prisoners in the prison who have committed crimes to let them grow grain for the soldiers to continue to attack the next city.
In order to be able to fight a good war and let the soldiers on the front line have no worries about grain and grass, the Qin State also built many transportation roads, not only on land, but also many waterways, just to avoid that once the war started, it would be difficult to walk on land.
In order to fight, the Qin state also built many cars, four wheels of good transportation, and the quality was leveraged.
The Qin state can conquer the world and finally unify the six kingdoms, which is really very strong, but looking at these logistical supplies, people are already amazed by the huge amount of engineering.