Chapter 112: The Great Retreat of the Aftermath
It's over, everything is over now, let alone Chen Gong, even if Lu Bu sees it, he feels that everything is over. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The consumption of grain and grass for 500,000 people is not a small number, and now that it is all destroyed, it will be a problem for dinner tonight. Not to mention anything else, as long as people with a little vision can see this situation, and suddenly their hearts are also cold.
"General Lu, the top priority is no longer to continue the siege, but to find a way to move quickly! Throw down the people and the baggage troops, and even give up some of the auxiliaries, and quickly kill Shouzhang County with the soldiers, no matter how many people are left in the end, as long as we can return to Xuzhou, even if we lose Qingzhou, we can at least hold on and ensure the fruits of the revolution! Han Leng stepped forward for the first time, in fact, he had already estimated this possibility, and calculated the follow-up measures.
"Did you already know this? Why don't you tell me! Lu Bu made the wrong point, watching Han Leng tell such a precise retreat plan for the first time, he immediately thought that Han Leng hadn't thought of this possibility early on, but he didn't tell him, which ultimately led to this failure.
"Defeat before victory, this is the basic element of the staff of the Chinese Republic! And let General Lu take the step by step and don't stretch the supply line too far, Han has said it more than once, but since General Lu doesn't listen, then there is no need for Han to continue to remind, after all, Han is not under General Lu! Han Leng replied without the slightest fear.
He was only seconded to Lü Bu, mainly because the latter did not have a well-developed staff system. In the past, he mainly relied on his own ability to plan, but since he was going to establish a military government, he was naturally no longer an ordinary general. He needed to plan a big negative layout by himself, and even had to think about more things, in order to prevent him from hanging up too early, so he seconded some staff officers under his command, mainly so that Han Leng could be trained.
The staff officer gave a proposal, if Lu Bu didn't listen, then let him follow, and these seconded staff officers themselves would not have any obligation to die with Lu Bu, and they could even give up him and return to the republic at a critical moment to continue to serve.
Lu Bu was also a little embarrassed when he heard this, Han Leng didn't persuade him, but it was a fact that he was full of confidence and didn't listen to it at that time. So he looked at Chen Gong to see what he thought.
"For now, that's the only way to go!" Chen Gong is also a good woman who is difficult to cook without rice, if she was under Lu Bu from the beginning, maybe she will persuade Lu Bu not to continue to expand the number of soldiers, constantly expand the territory, step by step or something. But when Lu Bu reached this point, what he could do was to ensure that Lu Bu could move forward smoothly to the greatest extent.
There are so many conditions, and they are just there, there are not many options at all. Continuing to take these hundreds of thousands of troops will only drag them down and delay their return to Xuzhou. At that time, even if I returned to Xuzhou, others would recover Xuzhou, and I couldn't even get Xuzhou at that time, so I could only continue to return to be the overlord of Jiujiang County.
"Retreat! Total retreat! Seeing this, Lu Bu also knew that things had come to this point, or there was nothing to say. Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Sizhou, he was a little unwilling, but he also knew in his heart that this was the consequence of his arrogance, and even if this bitter fruit was very unpalatable, he would have to eat it.
First of all, the cavalry units must be maintained, then the soldiers and some of their relatives and friends, the remaining auxiliaries, logistics troops and whatever, and give up if they can. Lu Bujun completed a 'slimming' in a very short period of time, dropping directly from 500,000 to 200,000.
Originally, he planned to retreat like this, but Gao Shun wanted to stay, with the remaining more than 200,000 troops.
These 200,000 troops were originally the most undetermined existences, and if they suddenly became abandoned existences, then maybe there would be a riot and bomb the camp at any time. Even if the officers are all veterans of Lu Bu in the past, they themselves are ordinary non-commissioned soldiers, with some ability but insufficient ability, and there is no way to suppress the bombs of the camp.
Gao Shun still stayed, because someone had to stay, otherwise these soldiers would not soon become prisoners of the other party, and they would even join the other party's troops as soon as possible, and then turn around against themselves. In layman's terms, it is a minute to be able to drag on for a minute, and seeing these soldiers become enemies, it is better to let them exert their residual heat!
"You have hatred in your hearts, I know!" Gao Shun gathered everyone over, the enemy was next to him, and Zhu Jun seemed to be going to kill him soon, he didn't have much time, so he could only say simply, "But your enemy is in front, and he caused you to become like this, the key is that they are not many in number, and they have food in their hands!"
In the past, even if tens of thousands of troops surrendered, they were all killed, and your behavior now is no less than the Yellow Turbans of the past. Surrender is still a dead end, staying here is also a dead end, if you want to live, kill them with me! ”
Gao Shun roared almost with all his strength, and the veterans below also realized this and quickly conveyed this meaning. The soldiers quickly calmed down, in fact, they were just chaotic at this time, but after hearing Gao Shun's words, they quickly calmed down again.
Indeed, from that time of the revolution, they had no way out. The Republic of Dahan is no different from the previous Han Dynasty, and even oppresses them even more severely than ordinary people, and even makes them have no political power and can only live at the bottom for the rest of their lives.
If they don't rebel, their children and grandchildren will never have a future, but since they rise up to rebel, then they can only go one way to the dark. Since surrender is also death, then they can only burn everything to the ground in order to live, even themselves!
"Kill!" Gao Shun saw that they had calmed down, and directly ordered them to kill Zhang Feijun.
At the same time, he ordered to concentrate on a full-scale attack on the lower county seat of Fan County, since there is a garrison in it, then there must be food, it really can't be done, the meat of those corpses is cut down and pickled, and it can be eaten improvised. When it really comes to wanting to live, where can you actually take care of so much?
The bloody battle lasted until noon the next day, and Gao Shun did his best, barely breaking through Fan County, and seized part of the grain, which gave him the ability to gradually retreat. He even marinated some meat, after all, he didn't know exactly when he was going to retreat.
Gongsun Zhan ran to recover Qingzhou, but Liu Bei went to chase Lu Bu, but Zhu Jun bit Gao Shun's troops, just because the latter now has less than 50,000 people left. Some of them died in battle, but the desperate fight still had some gains in the end. More of them took advantage of the chaos to escape, and there are many children of the family, who know that as long as they can escape, then they can always survive.
Their status was different from that of those untouchables, and they were forced to join Lu Bu's command, and their ideological education was not yet completed. For the untouchables, they can be said to hate them even more, the two sides have been completely opposed, Lu Bu's behavior has made them completely hate the people, even if they can restore their family background in the future, they will definitely persecute the people more cruelly.
The disadvantage of an incomplete revolution is here, but Lu Bu doesn't know this at all, and he doesn't care about it now.
On Lu Bu's side, there are only 30,000 elites left at the moment, and there are less than 30,000 of the 500,000 people now, which is really ironic, but the hearts of the people are scattered, and it is not easy to lead the team, many people fled halfway, and some people were jointly attacked by the people in the surrounding counties, and a lot of them were killed, and there were 30,000 elites left, which was already a good result.
He even suspected that after returning to Xuzhou, he was afraid that it would be difficult to get the absolute support of the people. Originally, it was supposed to lead them to a better future, but now it is back in embarrassment. The people were not completely crazy, and after regaining their senses, they looked at Lu Bu's embarrassed appearance, but they were afraid that they would be full of questions about the future.
Defending against strong enemies outside and cultivating politics inside, the path that Chen Gong has already named for him, this is even what Han Leng meant. But now the real key is how to return to Xuzhou smoothly.
Without siege weapons, coupled with the constant pursuit of the pursuers, they could not even take the city. After a night of galloping, even the horses were exhausted to death more than a thousand horses. The rest are not in the state, and if they continue, they are afraid that they will be wiped out.
"Lu Bu'er, take your life!" Zhang Fei also chased after him directly and killed the main force of Lu Bujun.
"Hmph, I'll meet you!" Lu Bu was so angry that he didn't care that his stomach was empty and he didn't have any strength, so he killed him directly. In a state of hunger, the combat effectiveness he can exert is less than eighty percent, plus the horse is tired, and it has dropped by one percent, and now he can only exert less than seventy percent of his combat effectiveness, and after fighting with Zhang Fei, he is actually slightly inferior by half a point!
After beating Lu Bu, he realized that the troops who were pursuing him actually had a rare fierce general. Now it's troublesome, there's no way to solve the other party smoothly, and the morale will be completely dispersed.
"An dares to bully the lord, and the enemy will accept his life!" At this time, he didn't want Gao Shun to lead the army to kill him. They also marched forcibly all the way, and with their enthusiasm, they finally caught up with Lu Bu.
This is mainly the reason why Lu Bujun is tired and does not advance fast, otherwise Zhang Fei would not be able to pursue him easily.
"Retreat!" Zhang Fei is not a fool, seeing that the enemy is attacking in front and rear, how can he obediently suffer death, he immediately came to Lu Bu for a round, and quickly left with the troops with the help of the time to return to the horse.
Lu Bu really wanted to lead his troops to pursue, but there was no way. Fortunately, Gao Shun arrived in time and provided some food, which finally stabilized the team. The two armies converged, but food was again a problem.
Fortunately, through the intelligence system of the Huaxia Republic, Han Leng has mobilized a batch of food, which is mainly financial expenditure, and the military rations and materials purchased from the Huaxia Republic, including food and wounded medicine. This batch of supplies has already started to be transported north from Hexiang County, Pengcheng County, Xuzhou, and they just need to get there, then everything is not a problem.
After learning about this, Lu Bu was grateful to the Huaxia Republic again, no matter what, although he paid for the money, he was able to send charcoal in the snow at a critical moment, instead of taking the opportunity to send someone over to occupy Jiujiang and Xuzhou, this covenant is cost-effective!
He didn't know that now the entire market in Xuzhou and Jiujiang has begun to be colonized by others, and if it weren't for the fact that the Republic's finances were already tight, he was afraid that he would not really occupy Xuzhou and Jiujiang County.
The army entered the country of Lu through Rencheng County, and finally arrived in Hexiang County with great difficulty. The number of people also plummeted from the initial 70,000 to 40,000. But at best, it was possible to return to the rear smoothly and quickly restore combat effectiveness in the case of a large amount of material supplies. Liu Bei saw that he couldn't take advantage of it, so he could only retreat.
As a result, the war was officially over, and Lü Bu barely held Xuzhou and Jiujiang County, but the people's hearts were greatly lost, more people were secretly in tune with the Huaxia Republic, and the military junta's economy became more and more dependent on the Republic's investment. From a solitary. It gradually became an economic colony of the Chinese Republic.
Liu Bei also made a lot of benefits, in the end he defeated Lu Bu's 500,000 army, and even recovered Yanzhou and Qingzhou. After Liu Xie's proposal and the approval of the parliament, he was promoted to the general of Zhendong, the assassin of Yanzhou, sitting in Yanzhou, and officially rising! (To be continued.) )