After sending Zhang Liang to contact Chen Ling, Luo Cheng stopped the march in Linyi.

It's not that Luo Cheng expected Chen Ling to be attached, but because now Linyi has gathered the strength of three armies, more than 70,000 people, and tens of thousands of people who have been recruited.

With such a huge army and people, it is very terrifying for people to eat horses and chew.

Luo Cheng's army came from Liaodong on an expedition across the sea, and when he arrived in Linyi, Luo Cheng was faced with the problem that the supply of grain and grass could not keep up, so he could only delay the march first, and wait for the grain and grass to be mobilized later.

In the past few years, the Central Plains has been destroyed by war, and the land of Shandong is not much better. The plains along the canal to the west were originally grain-producing areas, but they were the worst devastated by the war, with population loss and barren fields.

The central Luzhong region is all mountainous. The Donglai Peninsula is relatively stable, but it is narrow and vast, and it is difficult to support itself.

For more than a year, Shandong itself has raised tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and since then, Luo Cheng has continued to send troops south, and now, he has led two armies to land, so this small Shandong now has six armies of soldiers and horses, as many as 150,000 people.

Relying on the Luzhong Mountains and the Donglai Peninsula, where is it supplied.

Therefore, Luo Cheng had to cross the sea from Liaodong to come over with grain, which was a great burden. At the beginning, Yang Guang conquered Liao, which was to levy millions of people to transport grain to Liaodong, and now Luo Cheng wants to transport grain back to Shandong.

Although the number of troops is only more than 10% of Yang Guangchu's expedition to Liaodong, this is also a big project.

While waiting for grain and grass, Luo Cheng simply asked the three armies under his command to start farming on the spot, and they were idle anyway, training while tuning the fields.

He also adjusted the three armies, so that the originally weakest Zuo Shenji Army was supplemented with many experienced Liaodong officers and veterans of the Zhongwu Army.

Beacon fire.

This people's livelihood has collapsed.

"Indeed, Li Yuan went north from Jiangdu before, and looted Jiangdu, Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Donghai counties, otherwise we could still go south because the enemy was fed by food. But now the southern counties are all empty cities, and if we pass, not only will we not be able to get supplies, but we will have to distribute food to the hungry. ”

There is no need for Chen Ling to clean up the wilderness, it is really Li Yuan who has already searched it once, and it is very clean.

The most important thing in this war is grain and grass.

The larger the army, the more afraid of running out of food and grass.

Even if a god-of-war figure like Luo Cheng has an army of more than 70,000, it is difficult to move an inch without food.

"At this time, I really envy Dou Jiande and Li Mi, these two people, one occupies Liyang Cang, the other occupies Xingluo Cang, these are the savings of the Great Sui Dynasty for decades, and now they rely on these grains, they can toss as much as they want, desperate rioters, grabbing land everywhere, we can't do it. I have worked hard in Liaodong for several years, and this time I sent troops, Du Ruhui repeatedly explained that it could support at most half a year, and it would collapse after half a year. ”

Guo Xiaoke, who had just succeeded Xue Wanjun as the deputy military envoy of the Zuo Shenji Army, said with a smile, "After all, the soldiers are not iron-clad, if they don't die on this day, they have to eat and drink, and besides, they have to consume ordnance to fight." Not to mention anything else, just the war horses and pack mules in the army don't know how much grain and grass they have to chew off in a day. ”

"That's why I envy Li Mi and them even more."

From this point of view, Luo Cheng also has to say that Li Mi is actually still very level, he decided to go north to attack Luoyang, in fact, he has a good vision, he successfully captured Luokoucang, and then there is a situation of continuous violence since then.

"Dashuai, Li Mi is not having a good time now. Li Yuan went all the way to the west, broke several counties in a row, robbed him of countless money and food, and even forcibly took hundreds of people into the customs when he left, which was a stab at Li Mi. However, the most ruthless were Wang Shichong, Pei Renji, and Wei Wensheng, who killed Li Mi by surprise, so that Li Mi failed to defeat Dou Jiande. ”

Luo Cheng shook his head.

"When Li Mi was not finished, this old boy was very good, he and Dou Jiande were going to have a decisive battle, but they only fought a few battles, and each injured 10,000 people, but as soon as he intervened, he immediately took the initiative to stop fighting with Dou Jiande, shook hands and made peace, this decisiveness, not everyone has it."

Although Li Mi suffered some losses, he didn't hurt the roots, what if Li Yuan broke some of his counties and robbed him of some people? Li Yuan couldn't just grab and run, and Li Yuan couldn't stay and occupy his territory, so this loss didn't have much impact at all.

At best, it can only be said that Li Mi missed a great opportunity to solve Li Yuan and get rid of the troubles. If he waits for Dou Jiande to break and then turns back, Li Yuan may indeed never be able to return to Guanzhong.

As for Wang Shichong, although he didn't know how to move Guan Sheng to help, he couldn't change much of his disadvantage in the entire battle situation.

has been beaten by Li Mi for so long, what is the use of sneaking back now, neither taking Luokoucang, nor breaking through the Tiger Prison, but just ruining Li Mi's good deeds and helping Li Yuan escape, for himself, nothing has changed.

Originally, Li Mi wanted to break Dou Jiande first, and then attack Shandong, as for Luoyang, he just planned to continue to trap him, but now it's okay, Li Mi was angry, shook hands with Dou and made peace, Li Yuan also ran away, he Luo Cheng couldn't care about intercepting it, and now he is going all out to kill Luoyang, and he wants to kill him first.

"What is really going to be finished is Dou Jiande, who came to Henan, tried his best, did not take advantage of any benefits, but lost more than 10,000 soldiers, and now he still makes people copy the back road." Luo Cheng said with a smile, he is now waiting for good news from Hebei every day.

I look forward to breaking Dou Jiande's old nest Hejian Leshou as soon as possible, so that Dou Jiande, the king of Hebei, is almost the same.

At that time, he swept Huainan, Heiye and others swept Hebei, and then the north and south divisions attacked Luoyang, no matter who Wang Shichong and Li Mi could win, it would be difficult to survive under his north-south attack, this is the grand strategy.

Regardless of the gains and losses of one city and one place, but the layout of Go, the son slays the dragon.

Between the rivers.

Le Shou, Jincheng Palace.

"It's over!"

Gao Junya, Dong Kangmai, Wang Xiaohu, and the generals of the Xia Army who stayed behind were already frightened.

"Luo Siye captures Qingyuan City in the northwest of Hejian!"

"Rothmo has captured Xiongxian!"

"Feng Xiaoci captured Lucheng and Changlu in the northeast."

"Report!"

"Guo Xuan invaded Lucheng and Wuqiang counties of Xindu County from Anle, Hengshan County, and has already killed to the south of our Leshou and the north bank of the Zhangshui River."

"Leshou is already surrounded on all sides!"

Dong Kangmai asked with some trembling, "Your Majesty, where is Your Majesty?" ”

"Your Majesty's forward Liu Yabu has just crossed the Qinghe, and Your Majesty is still in the pavilion!"

Now the generals' faces became even more ugly.

"It's hard to save the fire from far away, what can I do!" 8)