Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 369 Never withdraw troops, attack Jiangdong quickly.

"Bite gold is right. Cowhide and horsehide are also useful."

"Military Master, since you can't buy sheep anymore, let's order people to buy cattle and horses!" Li Chen ordered to Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "King Qin, cows and horses are different from sheep. Sheep are just food, while cows and horses are animal power, which can be used to plow land and pull carts."

"These people, I'm afraid they won't easily sell their cattle and horses!"

Li Chen murmured: "If you don't sell it for double the price, it will be tripled, quadrupled, or even ten times. Now is not the time to worry about money. Everything must be fought first. If you take down Jiangdong, you will have everything."

Li Chen gave the letter of approval, and Liu Bowen was convinced. All in all, no matter what the cost, we must gather enough sheepskin rafts and cowhide rafts that can transport at least 5 people.

Liu Bowen ordered his subordinates to continue to buy cattle and horses. The price was not a problem. As long as he was willing to sell and ask for a price, he would buy them for him.

In this day and age, it is illegal to slaughter and buy and sell farm cattle privately.However, now that Jiang Dong was about to be acquired by Li Chen, the law naturally couldn't control him.Or, in Li Chen's words, that is the new law.

As the saying goes, the major events of the country are only sacrifices and military affairs.In other words, for a country, the most important things are sacrifices and wars.Today, everything has to serve the war.

Cows are a rare thing in this era, and a village may not be able to have a few cows. It can be predicted that even if the subordinates are asked to buy them, it is difficult to gather enough cowhide and sheepskin for 5 people to cross the river.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Chen ordered Cheng Yaojin: "Pass on my order, except for the horses necessary for the cavalry in the army. All other poor horses, mules and horses will be slaughtered."

The horses and mules in the army are used to transport weapons and equipment, food and grass, etc.Simply put, it is the horse that pulls the cart.Li Chen ordered all the horses pulling the cart to be slaughtered, and it cost him a lot of money.

But still the same sentence, everything is in wartime first, as long as Jiangdong can be defeated, it will be worth the big price.

While ordering people to buy cattle and sheep around, they slaughtered the poor horses and mules in the army.On Li Chen's side, he finally managed to gather enough sheepskins to transport soldiers.

After roughly estimating, after all the cowhide, sheepskin, and horsehide were tied into a raft, it would be able to transport more than 5 elite soldiers.Adding the net shuttle boats and chain boats of the Qin army, this first wave can rush up to about [-] Qin army soldiers.

On the front line of Chanling, Zhou Yu deployed 10,000+ soldiers of the Wu army, and [-] soldiers of the Qin army rushed forward. The strength of the two sides was about two to one, three to one.

After all, this kind of force is not too disparate. With the ability of the Qin Army's land warfare, it should be able to gain a foothold on the shore in the first place.

Now the Qin army is ready for everything, the only thing left is to make rafts. It only takes two or three days to tie all these sheep, cows and horseskins into rafts.

However, just as the battle situation on Li Chen's side had just turned around, bad news came that Liu Bei had attacked Xiao Pei.

Qin army camp, meeting hall.

Today, the entire ceremony hall is extraordinarily lively.Usually, the army is not used, so the army trains on the shore, and the generals of the navy hold meetings.

This one is different. The Qin army is now on the side of the navy and the army, all of which have arrived.

On the navy side, there are Zheng Chenggong, Qi Jiguang, and Gan Ning.On the army side, it was extremely lively, with Chen Qingzhi as the leader, followed by Yuwen Chengdu, Pei Yuanqing, Zhao Yun, Cheng Yaojin and many other generals.

"Everyone, have you heard the news?"

"Liu Bei, the King of Shu, is now leading his army to attack Xiaopei while our main force is dealing with Jiangdong. Zhang Liao has only about [-] men in Xiaopei, and he is probably hard to beat. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, etc. The four generals."

"Everyone, are we going back to the army now, or not?" Li Chen asked the generals under his command.

At this moment, Li Chen's face was extremely gloomy.This kid Liu Bei really let him snatch all the bamboo shoots on the mountain.The sneak attack on Xiaopei at this time really put Li Chen in a dilemma.

It is not true that Li Chen is withdrawing his troops now, nor is he not withdrawing.

"King Qin, we cannot withdraw our troops at this time!"

"No one in the army can move. According to the original plan, after the successful landing of [-] elites. As long as we stand firmly on the shore, we can use this as a foundation to transport troops back and forth."

"At that time, when our hundreds of thousands of troops enter the country, we will be able to directly take the land of the six counties in Jiangdong. At this time, once we withdraw our troops, we will very likely fall into a stalemate."

"King Qin, at this time, we have to fight faster. Once the entire territory of Jiangdong is conquered, we can turn our heads and deal with Liu Bei!" Army chief Chen Qingzhi clasped his hands and said.

Chen Qingzhi is good at fighting blitzkrieg and can be said to be the originator of blitzkrieg. Therefore, his propositions are generally full of risks.

As soon as Chen Qingzhi finished speaking, Qi Jiguang stood up and said, "King Qin, the general thinks what Chen Shuai said is right. If we withdraw our troops now, it would be a small loss."

"General Zhang Liao is also a rare general. He has [-] soldiers and horses in his hands. In addition to the high walls and thick walls, he may not be able to defend Xiaopei."

"In other words, even if Xiaopei is lost, as long as Xuzhou is not lost, after we take down Jiangdong, we will not be afraid of Liu Bei."

Qi Jiguang's opinion is the same as Chen Qingzhi's. Now that he has been fighting Jiangdong for so long, if he withdraws his troops, it will be a waste of all his previous efforts.Qi Jiguang and other naval generals are naturally the main battlers.

After Chen Qingzhi and Qi Jiguang's persuasion, Li Chen himself made up his mind to continue fighting Jiangdong.As the saying goes, wealth and wealth are sought in danger, and there is no such thing as a sure thing when marching and fighting.

"Ha ha!"

"King Qin, don't worry, the siege of Xiaopei is not unsolvable."

"Now that Yuan Shao is conquering Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have been liberated. Since Liu Bei was able to attack our Xiaopei while our army was away, Cao Cao can also take advantage of Liu Bei's army to confront us in Xiaopei. Counterattack Zhuojun." Liu Bowen laughed loudly.

Li Chen thought for a moment, then asked with a serious expression: "Military Master, can Cao Cao help us?"

"If Cao Cao would rather let me bear the people of the world than let the world bear my character, it would be impossible to watch us grow bigger."

"And if we captured the six counties in Jiangdong, we would become the number one prince in the world. It stands to reason that Cao Cao would not help us. However, I can't convince Cao Cao, but I can convince Guo Fengxiao."

"King Qin, if I go to Xudu as an envoy, I will definitely be able to persuade Cao Cao to send troops." Liu Bowen said confidently.

"it is good!"

"In that case, the military adviser will be sent to Xu Du." Li Chen nodded in response.

"After I leave, the king of Qin can't be left alone, so let's transfer Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe from Luoyang!" Liu Bowen suggested to Li Chen.

Since we want to capture the six counties of Jiangdong as soon as possible, we have to use some extraordinary means. Jia Xu is much better at this kind of means than Liu Bowen.

(End of this chapter)