"Let Mi Zhu transport grain from the sea to support the front line siege? However, it can be considered, no matter what, it can be used as a backhand and be prepared. Now that the enemy is still outnumbered and our army is outnumbered, we still have to be prepared to consume food for a long time. ”

Liu Bei was quite appreciative of Li Su's suggestion, and agreed to this suggestion after a little thought.

He knew that Li Su's operational command might not be good, but he still thought through the grand strategy and logistical support.

Who let Li Su often watch video programs during his later studies, and he also had to study and analyze the actual combat cases of diplomatic wars. Over time, he has developed the thinking realm of "being an expert in fighting wars and looking at logistics".

Li Su continued to suggest: "My brother is now ranked as the minister of the county, and he can be an official in his official position, such as the minister of state's 'ruling book', more than 600 stones, to tie his heart." ”

Liu Bei smiled slightly: "Boya, this time you can see that the machine is slow, I have already done so." ”

Li Su was slightly embarrassed, and sure enough, Liu Bei didn't need to be taught by others at all in terms of winning people's hearts, but it was a redundant move.

It seems that there is no need to worry about military rations for the time being, and the most important thing at the moment is that the enemy is outnumbered, and solving this big problem is the key.

Now there are only more than 10,000 Han troops under Liu Bei's command, and this is still the young and strong people who recruited the defeated soldiers after defeating Zhang Ju last year.

And Zhang Ju's rebel army has at least 40,000 people, and Hu Duohan has few people, and the advantage in terms of the number of troops is too great, and it is still difficult to exterminate it without some strategy.

……

The group quickly whipped up their horses and walked for two days, first to Linyu, that is, the Shanhaiguan in later generations, returned to the garrison of the army, and then followed the rear battalion soldiers and horses to the north.

The first march to the north was still a little more stable, and it was necessary to ensure that bridgeheads were established along the way, obstacles were cleared, and the terrain was familiarized, so the whole army chose to take the land route, and did not yet take a boat - the boat still waited for the subsequent protracted war to transport food.

It was also at this moment that Li Su personally experienced and walked the road to understand why the Central Plains regime during the Three Kingdoms period had always allowed Liaodong to divide and farm on its own, even if it was as powerful as Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, they all sat back and watched Gongsun Dugongsun Kang Gongsun Yuan three generations of self-isolation - mainly because the Liaoxi Corridor in this era was too desolate!

Starting from Linyu County, I walked 400 miles along the coast, and it was actually a hilly and uninhabited area! It wasn't until it was close to Zhiyangle County, Liaoxi County, that you could see a little crowd.

Yangle County is north of the inflection point of Xiaoyushui (Xiaoling River), while Tuhe County, a key pass of Liaodong vassal states that is now under the control of Zhang Chun's rebels, is east of Xiaoyushui.

Tuhe County and Changli County further east, respectively, are backed by the large and small Yushui, and the combined territory of these two counties is equal to Jinzhou in later generations, constituting the key point at the end of the western Liaoning corridor.

"Looking at the lush vegetation along the way, how can there be no people to reclaim the wasteland? Won't the people cultivate here? ”

Li Su followed the troops for a few days, and the wind, sand, wind and snow on the road became tighter and tighter, and he was also miserable.

For a moment, Li Su even doubted that if he wasn't young, and he had paid attention to nutrition, exercise and health preservation in the past year, maybe he would have been on the way to Liaodong, just like Guo Jia.

It was also the first time for Liu Bei and the other generals to go deep into this bitter cold and no man's land, and they also felt very hard, but they were all born in martial arts, and they were much better than scribes like Li Su.

"Come on, vacate a caravan, let Boya ride forward, and wrap the wheels with cloth to reduce bumps." Liu Bei was also a corporal, just like Cao Cao's arrangement for Guo Jia later, and gave Li Su special courtesy.

After getting in the car, Li Su felt better, at least he didn't have to be blown by the wind and sand.

Every evening when the garrison arrived, Liu Bei also came to visit the situation in person, and also asked the soldiers to go to the beach to catch fish, and boiled fish soup for Li Su to recuperate.

In the evening of that day, Li Su had just drunk the fish soup, and Liu Bei came again and brought some news.

"Boya, the day before yesterday you asked, 'Why is this place deserted?', today I finally caught the people nearby asking. In this bitter cold land of eastern Liaodong, the rain is scarce at the beginning of spring every year, and it all relies on melting snow to flow into the river to form floods and provide irrigation.

If there is no river nearby, it is extremely laborious to rely on manpower to draw water for irrigation. The Han Dynasty did not have no land to plant, so the 400 miles of land between Lushui and Yushui were not cultivated, and the imperial court did not set up any townships and counties. ”

Li Su pondered it with his geographical knowledge in later generations, and asked for another map, checked and checked, and then it became clear.

It turned out that the western Liaoning corridor was too narrow in this section, and the Yanshan ridge was less than twenty miles wide from the sea. Because Yanshan played the role of a watershed, most of the precipitation was isolated to the north of the mountain, forming Yushui, and it was not until near Tuhe County that Yanshan extended to the end that Yushui broke through the mountain barrier and turned south into the Bohai Sea.

This corridor is 400 miles long and 20 miles wide, and there is not a big river with water all year round, so what kind of farming can you take?

Li Su secretly wondered in his heart: "No wonder it was so difficult for the ancients to develop the Northeast, it is said that until the Tang and Song dynasties, the biggest constraint on land reclamation in the Northeast was the lack of water conservancy projects."

And because the north is too cold, the precipitation in winter is accumulated in a state of ice and snow, and the evaporation is very small, and the rainfall in spring is also less, so it can only be formed by the melting of ice and snow. However, flooding is all along the river, and where there is a river, it dies of waterlogging, and where there is no river, it dies of drought.

In this way, the Northeast is really not a good base for dominating the world, unless it is to transport materials and troops out by sea, otherwise even if the farming here is good, the loss of materials by land is too great. Just one corridor in western Liaoning has to go 400 miles of uninhabited land, no wonder the Central Plains Dynasty is too lazy to cross the no-man's land to clean up Gongsun Du, because they can't efficiently dispatch the manpower and material resources of eastern Liaodong after they clean up. ”

After thinking about all this, Li Su also paid more attention to Liu Bei's planning for the last wave of base selection before Emperor Ling's death.

If there is a coincidence in the future and everything goes well, the possibility of starting in Liaodong cannot be ruled out, just let it be. But if you want to solve two things in Liaodong, the first is the construction of water conservancy projects, especially the expansion of irrigation, otherwise it is a pity that so much land cannot be planted. The second is to continue to improve seagoing vessels.

If these two points can't be done, Liaodong is not a good place.

The construction of water conservancy will definitely require a large number of official intensive organization of labor, and the current population of Liaodong is too small.

According to the latest official statistics, among the four counties in Liaodong, the population of Liaodong is only 220,000. Xuansu County and Lelang County only have 40,000 and 30,000 Han hukou respectively, and the four counties together have only 290,000 people.

In the last years of Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang, Liaodong claimed to have a peak population of more than one million, but that was because Youzhou and Jizhou fought for 15 years longer than Liaodong.

Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao washed back and forth repeatedly, so there was a large influx of displaced people from counties such as the western part of Youzhou and the Bohai Plain in Jizhou. In addition, there was no war in Liaodong, and the population grew for nearly 30 years, and it was not until Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty that Liaodong reached the peak value of more than one million.

And this is obviously too slow, how many years do you have to plant?

It's okay to turn your face with Gongsun Chan in advance, but in that case, there is no need to farm in Liaodong anymore, anyway, the population of the world will be relatively sparsely killed at that time, isn't it good to farm directly in the heart of Youzhou? Liaodong also has one more transportation loss in vain.

Moreover, Gongsun Zhan is Liu Bei's senior brother, and Liu Yu is Liu Bei and Li Su's biggest benefactor, no matter who he degrades, he will leave a reputation in the world.

Unless Yuan Shao convulsed and killed Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan, clear the way for Liu Bei to take revenge. Otherwise, it's difficult.

Fighting for the world is not a game of Three Kingdoms, some notoriety can not be washed away for a lifetime, unlike the game of "diplomacy-harmony-money", others forget the ugly things you have done.

Therefore, the game is the most important location, and the real world is the most important person and the most important.

"Let's take one step at a time, regardless of whether you started in Liaodong or not, without exposing the science and technology tree, you can farm moderately, and you are worthy of being an official for the benefit of one party. If Yuan Shao can really kill Liu Yu and Sun Zhan, we will reluctantly stay. ”

Li Su finally set such a tone of "Longzhong Pair" in his heart.

……

Liu Bei's more than 10,000 men and horses quickly camped on both sides of the Xiaoyu River and built fortifications, forming a three-bread sandwich situation for the county town in front of him, and faintly guarding against the enemy's reinforcements from Changli County.

At the same time, Liu Bei sent Zhao Yun to personally lead the scout sentinels out to reconnoiter the enemy. It took a little two or three days to scratch my tongue and torture the general distribution of the enemy army.

"Lord, the enemy situation has been discovered, Tuhe County has the remnants of the Wuhuan Wusu Department as the main force to garrison, and the main general will be an uncle of Wuyan and Wusu, named Wufu, he is now the head of the Wusu Department in the remnants of Liaodong. Zhang Chun also assigned 2,000 Han rebels to assist in the defense and supervision, with a total strength of about 8,000 people.

Changli County is guarded by the Wuhuan Nanqiao King, and there is all the main force of the Nanqiao King under his command, with a total strength of 15,000 people, and there is no regular Han rebel army, but Yan Rou, the liaison officer sent by Zhang Chun, provides staff for the Nanqiao King and serves as a military advisor.

In addition, from the torture of the captives, it was learned that Zhang Chun led the main force of the Han rebels to govern Xiangping in Liaodong County, as well as Liaojiao County at the three-fork mouth of the Liao River in the lower reaches of Xiangping. The total strength of the two places is not less than 20,000 people, and in addition, each county is still under the control of the local wealthy aborigines, or after being broken by Zhang Chun, hundreds to 1,000 soldiers are left to garrison and collect food, and there should be no large rebel activities. ”

Zhao Yun reciprocated.

After listening to Zhao Yun's report, Liu Bei was very satisfied, and there was some surprise: "Zilong has explored in detail, how can he even find out the deployment of troops in Xiangping, hundreds of miles away, to investigate along the Yushui coast?" How much can enemy scouts know? ”

Zhao Yun explained: "When he was a sentinel, he encountered two groups of Hulutou people who led more than 1,000 horsemen to patrol and plunder the army, shot and assassinated dozens of guards around him, and captured the enemy chieftain. ”

After that, with a wave of his hand, a cavalry under his command escorted a prisoner up.

It turned out to be a small tribal chieftain under the Wusu Ministry, who was arrested by Zhao Yun, and at this moment his appearance was already tortured to a non-humanoid shape, covered in scars and blood.

Liu Bei was a little speechless when he saw it: it turned out that Zilong inquired about the military situation, and he directly entered the formation of the enemy's small army, and captured the chief alive to torture him to extract a confession......

The corners of Liu Bei's mouth twitched and ordered: "Zilong is really doing things properly...... Someone came, rewarded ten catties of gold, pushed this Hu chief down and beheaded him, and sacrificed the flag with the first sacrifice to make an auspicious plan for the first battle of the army.

Go and invite the military advisor and Zijing to see how the enemy army is so distributed, how to break the enemy. ”