Chapter 20 Military Newspaper

"Eat it all."

"Report~~~"

A loud shout was heard.

Followed by a young general who opened the curtain of the tent and walked in, looked at the people in the big tent, smelled the fragrance of the food inside, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, knelt on one knee on the ground, and said: "Report to the commander, General Manager Li Ji has received good news that Beisha City has been conquered." ”

Li Shen frowned when he heard this, and said lightly: "How are the casualties of the soldiers?" ”

Li Chongyi stood up with excitement on his face, ran to the young general, stretched out his hand to take his military report, opened it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Big handsome, big victory, big victory!" With a loss of more than 3,000 men, the city of Beisha was taken. ”

"Bump".

Li Shen exuded cold air all over his body, three thousand people, these three thousand people standing together are a large group of black pressure, these three thousand people can add tens of thousands of people to the Tang Dynasty for decades, and asked in a cold voice: "Without the order of the commander, who let Li Ji attack Beisha City without authorization?" Don't tell Ben Shuai that he will not be subject to military orders abroad. ”

"This ......" The young general was stupid and didn't know how to answer.

In this battle, it was only a city, and three thousand were sacrificed. Li Shen originally wanted to take down the entire Goryeo and lose a maximum of 10,000 people, but he didn't expect to lose such a person in the first battle, and the whole people's hearts were dripping blood.

"Say."

"Big handsome, young general... I don't know. ”

"Commander, there are not many soldiers who sacrificed 3,000 soldiers to take Beisha City." Su Dingfang said, and then said: "After all, when my army set out, I can't hide it from Quan Su Gaiwen, and he will definitely be on guard." ”

Li Shen turned his eyes to look at Su Dingfang coldly, and said coldly: "Do you know how many soldiers and soldiers this commander has suffered to conquer Goryeo here?" 10,000 people, this is the first battle, let me lose 3,000 good men in the Tang Dynasty, how do you let Ben Shuai face these soldiers and families who should not be sacrificed? ”

The soldiers of the entire war looked at Li Shen with a look at each other, 10,000 people, it's just a joke, the former Sui conquest of Goryeo with hundreds of thousands of troops buried in Goryeo, and now it is said that 10,000 soldiers will be lost to take Goryeo, this bull is a bit too big.

Li Shen didn't explain, and looked at Xiao Rui coldly, and said: "Proposed this marshal's military order, Li Ji, the chief of the Liaodong Road march, privately sent troops to Beisha City, causing 3,000 soldiers to die for no reason, and in vain disregard of the military order before the marshal left, temporarily removed him from the post of the chief of the Liaodong Road march, and waited for the commander to ......."

"No." Xiao Rui responded.

Li Shen looked at the crowd at the scene coldly, and said coldly: "This expedition has already explained to His Majesty that any march must obey the orders of the commander, but whoever violates it will not blame the commander for not being merciful, remember that it is anyone." ”

Li Shen stretched out his hand and waved, and said lightly: "Let's all go down, Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu stay." Then he said, "Let's take the food and eat it." ”

Qin Huaiyu looked at the people who were leaving one after another, looked at Li Shen who had a bad face, and said, "Brother Qian, in fact, there are really not many people who captured Beisha City, don't ...... it."

"Three thousand is not much? Qin Huaiyu, how many talents do you say? You have to remember that they are all good sons of the Han family, and their lives are ten times that of those lowly people, or even thousands of times, maybe not much in your eyes, but in my eyes, I can't afford it. Li Shen interrupted him and said coldly.

Li Shen was really angry at this time, if Li Ji was there, he was afraid that he would have the heart to kill him, and he had already exchanged letters with him, saying that he was planning to wait until he came, but he didn't expect to act privately.

"It is inevitable that Brother Qian's sacrifice will be made on the battlefield, but what you just said is too exaggerated, it is estimated that the whole army will know about it tomorrow, and then this will be ......," Qin Huaiyu said hesitantly.

Li Shen smiled, shook his head, and said, "You think I'm joking at you?" Do you know that it's boring for me to let you and Qin Huaiyu collect these things everywhere this time? By the way, I haven't asked you how much you collect? ”

Qin Huaiyu paused for a moment and said, "Brother Qian, what do you mean by this?" ”

Then he said: "It adds up to about seven or eight tons, and there are only so many, and these things are all freshly mined." ”

"Seven or eight tons, a little too little." Li Shen said with a frown.

After all, saltpeter is raw ore, and it needs to be processed before it can be used, and Li Shen doesn't know how to put forward ammonium bicarbonate, so that a pound of saltpeter ore can be raised to 40% of the nitrate.

"Brother Qian, what are you going to do?" Cheng Chumo asked with a puzzled face.

"Of course it works, otherwise I would not be able to boast about Haikou and say that at most I would sacrifice the lives of 10,000 soldiers to take down Goryeo." Li Shen replied.

followed Cheng Chu and said: "In this way, you can arrange more people to do more, the more the better." ”

"But those things can't be shipped away!" Qin Huaiyu said, although he didn't understand why Li Shen wanted to use these things, but since he said so, he must have his reasons.

Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Chu meditated for so long, but they were never able to figure it out, but they were able to conquer Goryeo with these broken stones?

Li Shen knocked on the table and said, "Where are these things now?" ”

"It's all in the Dingzhou military camp not far outside the city." Qin Huaiyu replied.

Li Shen had a slight headache, the distance between Dingzhou and Beisha City was too far, and it was only half of the journey after marching for more than 20 days, the key was that the transportation conditions were too poor, seven or eight tons of saltpeter mines, although the number was not very much, but it was too labor-intensive along the way.

"Do you know if there are any saltpeter mines over there?" Li Shen asked.

"I think there is, but I'm not sure." Qin Huaiyu replied.

"Brother Qian, I think there must be, even if it is mined in our place, it is a very difficult thing to transport, if you want me to say, we should speed up and rush to Beisha City, so that Li Ji, this old man, will have to go out on the expedition without authorization when the time comes, although you have relegated to his military position, but you must not forget that his prestige in the army is not comparable to you and me." Cheng Chumo said.

Li Shen stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, he really had a headache, next time he returned to modern times, he would have to get the train materials in his hands, and first lay the railway in Datang, which would be much more convenient.

"So be it for the time being, arrange for the soldiers to transport all this saltpeter to the city of Beisha, and speed up the march from tomorrow."

"Okay, that brother, I ate, I can't stand the things I eat these days, and I almost vomited, it seems that I am used to this comfortable day, and suddenly it becomes a little hard."