Chapter 468 The pressure increased sharply
At this critical moment when the sword was tense and the situation was tense, Han Song stood up in the crowd.
He was tall and looked like a torch. He took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Silent!"
This loud shout was like a loud bell ringing, with unquestionable majesty, Instantly, he was shocked by the crowds in chaos on the field.
The noisy talk came to an abrupt end, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.
Han Song knew very well that every second at this moment was precious and could not tolerate any delay. He immediately arranged in an orderly manner. First, he looked cold, his eyes swept across everyone, and ordered a ban: "From now on, no one will disclose the news that his lord vomited blood and was unconscious. Those who violate the order will be killed!"
The tone was firm and could not be argued. Everyone nodded in response.
Immediately afterwards, Han Song quickly arranged various affairs.
He first looked at Liu He with a serious expression: "Kaiyang, you go out immediately. Be sure to summon all the famous doctors in the city, the faster the better!"
Liu He immediately took the order and left in a hurry go.
Afterwards, Han Song turned his head to look at Cai Mao, and his voice was loud: "Degui, from today on, you will be in charge of the military power of Xiangyang. Quickly recruit young and strong men, mobilize surrounding troops, arrange defense lines, and strengthen city defense!"
< br>Cai Mao, who was in a mess and was charged with stimulating Liu Biao to vomit blood, felt slightly relieved, looked at Han Song gratefully, held his fists and took the order, and then strode away, preparing to go out to arrange military affairs.
In the end, Han Song thought for a moment and decided to use Deng Yi as his envoy to contact Zhang Ji in Shangcheng County, Guanzhong, and discuss with him about requesting assistance; he also used Fu Xun as his envoy to go to Luozhong to file a complaint with the court, hoping that Being able to gain the support of the court, an edict was issued to mediate the war in Jing Yang.
The reason why Deng Yi was arranged to go was because Deng Yi was upright and resourceful. In Han Song's mind, he was the only one who could take on this important task. After all, asking Zhang Ji for help is undoubtedly a scam with the tiger.
Zhang Ji, among the Liangzhou military men, was more rational and sober and polite to scholars, but he was a Liangzhou military man. In the past few years, he invaded Nanyang many times. After fighting with the Jingzhou army several times, he had to be careful that he would take the opportunity to take over Xiangyang.
It is naturally very suitable for Fu Xun to go to Luozhong.
Fu Xun himself was born in the northern region and was adjacent to Luozhong. He had a great scholar in his family for generations and was very famous in the court after a famous family. Naturally, he was the one who could not be verified.
After the arrangement was completed, Han Song personally protected Liu Biao, and everyone carefully sent him into the backyard.
After a busy treatment, Liu Biao finally woke up slowly.
After listening to Han Song's handling arrangements, his face turned pale and his body was still very weak, but he nodded slightly, which was considered to be acknowledging Han Song's handling.
Xiangyang was busy due to Liu Biao's incident, and Liu Feng also ushered in new difficult problems.
Previously, Liu Feng's army headed north with unstoppable momentum, but when he marched to the front of Zhengguo County, a series of problems accumulated in the previous area finally reached a critical point, and the situation suddenly changed.
The army's marching speed began to slow down, as if it was trapped in a quagmire, encountered resistance from all over the place. Every step forward seemed particularly difficult, and the logistical pressure also soared sharply at this moment. "Master."
A clear voice came. Liu Feng looked up and saw that the person coming in was Zhuge Liang.
Liu Feng was a little surprised. Since the army headed north to Xiangyang, everyone has been busy. Especially Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun, as Liu Feng's essential deputy at both ends of government and military affairs, they were busy every day and kept turning around.
Zhuge Liang came to see him at this moment, and there must be extremely important things to discuss.
Thinking of this, Liu Feng immediately stood up and quickly moved out of the desk. He smiled and said with concern: "What's the matter with Kong Ming coming here?"
As he said, he enthusiastically invited Zhuge Liang to the chair beside him to sit down.
This chair is the latest furniture produced by Pengcheng Workshop. It has exquisite design and novel styles. Several sets were specially sent to Yangzhou for Liu Feng to taste it.
Liu Feng was not polite, so he brought two sets on the boat to use. Over time, he gradually developed the habit of using chairs for people around him.
After leading Zhuge Liang to sit down, Liu Feng called tea soup again, and the steaming tea soup exuded an attractive fragrance.
Liu Feng then looked at Zhuge Liang, his eyes full of inquiries.
Zhuge Liang took out a silk book from his arms, handed it to Liu Feng with both hands, and said with a serious expression: "Lord, this month's food consumption has reached 400,000 stones, and the growth of food consumption is very strong. I'm afraid the next one The number of the month will be even larger."
Liu Feng was shocked, and his hand, which was originally holding the tea bowl, paused slightly, then slowly put down the tea bowl, took the silk book, and began to read it carefully.
Since the Yangzhou army entered Jingzhou, due to tactical needs, the front line has been stretched very long, almost spanning thousands of miles across the middle section of the Yangtze River. If the Yangzhou logistics section is included, it is no exaggeration to say that it occupies two-thirds of the total length of the Yangtze River. Fighting on such a long front, the use of troops is naturally extremely large.
So, since Huang Zu retreated to the state tomb, the monthly food consumption of the Yangzhou army had reached 300,000 stones, far exceeding the original budget of 250,000 stones.
After the Zhouling victory, Liu Feng did not go north to Xiangyang immediately, but made a bold strategic decision and sent troops to capture Jiangling.
This decision was intended to block the last entrance of Kuai Yue's army to smuggle across the river and return to Xiangyang by land. Although he had achieved huge strategic advantages and completely blocked the road to return to Xiangyang by Kuai Yue's army, he could only stay alone and only had the ability to survive. But the same problems followed one after another.
Liu Feng was faced with difficulties in military strength. In order to fill the gap in military strength, he had to transfer the last mobile force stationed in Yangzhou, Jia Kui's army, to Jingzhou. In this way, the combat forces used by the Yangzhou army went straight to 150,000. In addition, a large number of prisoners of war were captured, and in the Battle of Zhouling alone, 40,000 Jingzhou troops were captured alive. This is not the case with Huang Zu's surrender, and he persuaded most of the surrendered troops brought by Jiangxia County.
After that, more than 10,000 prisoners were killed in the Battle of Baqiu.
As a result, the Yangzhou army's demand for food soared to 400,000 stones per month, including nearly 100,000 surrendered soldiers and local recruits of civilians.
In the first phase, the main combat areas of the Yangzhou Army were along the river, even if they were attacking Xisai Yingli, Qichun, Xiazhi, Echeng, Zhucheng, Xiakou, Shaxian, Zhouling and even Ba Qiu and Jiangling are almost all located on the banks of the Dajiang River, and half of them are authentic Jianggang cities. This means that the loss of the 400,000 stone of grain was not serious, and it was really eaten by the Yangzhou army. In other words, such a scale of food consumption is hard consumption and cannot be reduced. What's more serious is that Liu Feng also launched a plan to enter Xiangyang north at this time. "Lord, according to Liang's calculation, the food consumption next month will probably start at least 450,000 yuan. If there is another big victory, it will probably exceed 500,000 yuan directly. .”
Zhuge Liang frowned, looked cautious, and slowly expressed his estimate.
Since going north to Xiangyang, the combat situation has been completely different from the previous stage. After all, the Han River is not as good as the river. Many cities are not built on the edge of the Han River, but are separated by a distance and built on places with higher terrain. This is also the experience and wisdom of the ancients. They are worried that when the Han River comes, the city will not be flooded. But in this way, when the army is conquering these strongholds, it is necessary to use civilians.
Especially in order to gain time, the Yangzhou army will adopt a plan of multi-point simultaneous attack, which will increase sharply for civilians.
Although Liu Feng used the method of recruiting on the spot and using prisoners of war as a substitute, these people also had to eat.
If most of these cities were not far from the Han River, the increase in food pressure would have been even more shocking.
"Are you five hundred thousand stones?" Liu Feng frowned with a solemn expression. This amount was indeed a bit scary. The more than two million stones in stock are only enough for four or five months, and Zhuge Liang is still hinting that it will continue to grow later.
But Liu Feng was not without a backup plan. Not to mention anything else, Liu Bei was holding at least more than 5 million stones of grain in his hand, and the amount was far above Yangzhou. After all, Runan and Xuzhou in Yuzhou are all fertile lands, and the grain they harvest is far above Yangzhou, not to mention that the two counties in Jiangbei in Yangzhou have just survived the most severe drought in the past few decades.
So, Liu Feng could speak with Liu Bei, but the problem was that Liu Feng didn't want to speak with this.
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This is not because Liu Feng is making a fuss, nor because he has any opinions about Liu Bei, but because of the high interests of his camp.
Don't ignore the cost of transporting grain in this era.
Whether it is Yuzhou or Xuzhou, it is six or seven hundred miles away to Yangzhou from these two places alone. Then it is transported from the river to Jingzhou, and enters the Han River in the north. This series of runs down , a distance of two or three thousand miles.
Although water loss is much less than land, less does not mean there is no. According to the loss of 5% per 100 miles, the loss of 1,000 miles is close to 50%, and the loss of 2,000 miles exceeds the original body.
Liu Feng pondered for a moment and asked, "Xiling and Jiangling have opened the city. When Shaxian was captured the day before yesterday, most of the supplies and food were preserved. How much food did these places get together?"
Zhuge Liang had long been familiar with these numbers, and he didn't have to read the silk book at all. He answered directly without thinking: "There is 200,000 stones of grain in Xiling City, Shaxian has 150,000 stones of grain, and Zhouling has 150,000 stones of grain, and Zhouling has 150,000 stones of grain , Jiangling was slightly more, with 300,000 stones of grain. " "Wait." Liu Feng couldn't help but interrupt Zhuge Liang when he heard this, his face was full of surprise and suspicion: "Jiangling only has only one. 300,000 stones of grain stored?"
Zhuge Liang looked calm and nodded and responded, "Not bad."
Liu Feng was surprised and asked, "Jiangling, an important town in Jingzhou, the capital of Nanjun County, and the hometown of fish and rice. How can he only be the only one Three hundred thousand stones of grain."
You should know that the maximum grain in Wuxian was close to one million, and there was obviously something wrong with Jiangling's grain inventory.
Zhuge Liang replied calmly and calmly, "Lord, Nanjun is the hometown of fish and rice in Jingbei, and is also in the mainland. It is only threatened by Yizhou in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, so there have been few soldiers stationed there. And the wealthy food is all He was going to send it to Xiangyang and Jiangxia."
When Zhuge Liang said this, Liu Feng realized it.
"This time, Jingbei Expedition Army went south, and raised 100,000 troops. Jiangxia County is also an important Jiangfang defense center. Neither the troops nor the food nor the food, it cannot be easily transferred. Therefore, the pressure on food and wages is mostly suppressed by Nanjun. In the second half of last year, just in the second half of last year, until the beginning of this year, Nanjun was withdrawn from millions of stones of food and other various types of weapons and materials. "
Liu Feng frowned after hearing Zhuge Liang's additions It became even tighter: "Then Jiangling can't draw much grain?" Zhuge Liang nodded: "Now there are more than 20,000 troops near Jiangling, and at least 200,000 stones of grain must be reserved. Therefore, at most, one can only draw 100,000 stones. However, after the autumn harvest, the situation will improve greatly."
Now, among the three counties in Jingbei, most of Jiangxia County have opened the city to surrender because of Huang Zu. On the contrary, even with Liu Qi in Nanjun, only half of the county towns surrendered. This is also the relationship between Nanjun and many counties and towns close to Xiangyang.
Liu Feng calculated silently in his mind that he could raise 700,000 to 800,000 stones of grain in Jingzhou. In addition, the more than 2 million stones in the Yangzhou treasury, it was roughly not a big problem until the autumn harvest was over. Then I breathed a little relieved.
But he thought about it and decided to say, "Kong Ming, you will write a letter for me and send it to Xuzhou to inform my father, and ask him to order the food in Guangling and Zhongrunan to not move for the time being. , in case of emergency needs. "
Guangling and Jiangdong are across the river. When the food is adjusted from Guangling, the cost is comparable to that of Yangzhou. In Zhongrunan, there are waterways connecting Lujiang and Jiujiang, which can be along the Shouchun and Hefei lines and enter the river. Although the distance is hundreds of miles, it is also the second most cost-effective grain raising land after Guangling.
As long as Liu Bei held the food in these two places and stopped moving, Liu Feng would have enough backup, and this response plan would almost cost no extra cost.
After Liu Feng and Zhuge Liang finished discussing, they specially found Lu Xun.
Now in tactical terms, the Yangzhou army has begun to divide its troops and at the same time launch an offensive against six cities including Zhongxiang, Zhengguo, Qiguo, Yicheng, Shanghong, and Hannan.
Among them, Jia Kui's troops were the main force, and launched an attack on the three major cities of Zhengguo, Qiguo and Yicheng, while Wanlan Army was assisted by the three small cities of Zhongxiang, Shanghong and Hannan. The strategy.
Among these six cities, Zhong Xiang is naturally the most famous one in later generations. Since the Five Barbarians invaded China, it has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. But at present, Zhongxiang is not important. It is just a small city, far less important than Zhengguo, Guoguo and Yicheng.
As for the most elite defeated army, they were arranged to stay in Lankou for rest and recuperation, as a strategic reserve team, and continued to accumulate energy.
At the same time, the troops of Ganning were still pioneered, and the Hanshui Village was blocked ten miles south of the road, and the best access road for Xiangyang to rescue the six cities.
This time, the purpose of Liu Feng calling Lu Xun was to prepare to adjust the situation and give priority to the acquisition of Zhengguo City.
Zhengguo City is close to the Han River and has a natural port. Although the city is not big, it has all the treasury and granaries. If we can take this place, we can serve as the forefront base to hoard grain and transfer base.
(This chapter ends)