Chapter 351: Convergence!
"Lu Gongzi wants us to rob those civilians of food?" After hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Deng asked with a slight dissatisfaction in his tone. www.biquge.info They have always been short of food in the western camp, after all, it is too desolate, and it is completely dependent on the Jiannan Jiedu to transport it from other places. Once the soldiers who carry the food encounter some special accidents on the way, they will be short of food. However, even when they were dizzy with hunger, they did not rob the locals of any food. Now Lu Chen actually asked them to go to those small cities to grab food, which made his impression of Lu Chen suddenly become much worse.
After hearing Wu Deng's words, Lu Chen knew that the other party had misunderstood, and he explained with a smile, "Who said I was going to grab food?" I said that I went to these small counties to buy food! ”
After hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Deng was stunned for a while, and subconsciously said, "The military food of more than 10,000 people, even if it is only for ten days, the demand is very huge. ”
Hearing Wu Deng's words, Lu Chen said very confidently, "Although I am not too rich, I still have this little money to feed you 10,000 people."
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Deng was stunned again. 10,000 soldiers' rations, a small amount?
Although he was frightened by Lu Chen's wealth, he was no longer as dissatisfied with Lu Chen as he was just now. After all, Lu Chen is to buy it, not to rob it. To sell or not to sell is up to the civilians themselves.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Deng thought of the chaos outside now, so he said again, "General, although this method is feasible. However, it is not necessary to be able to gather the military rations needed by these more than 10,000 soldiers, after all, this territory is now full of war. Even people who have some surplus grain in their hands are probably not willing to sell grain and grass."
After hearing Wu Deng's concern, Lu Chen also nodded in agreement, and said, "If there is really no one who wants to sell the grain and grass, then I can only find Long Yan and ask him to take out the grain and grass that was looted by the Yizhou Taishou not long ago." Alas, I wanted to save some surplus food, but now it seems hopeless."
Hearing Lu Chen's emotion, Wu Deng "......"
The two were talking, and Lu Chen saw a small city on the edge of the Wen River from a distance. Seeing this scene, Lu Chen motioned for the army to stop advancing. Then he took out the map from his backpack, glanced at the approximate location of this small city, and said, "It should be here, the place I agreed with Longyan and them is near here." General Lao asked everyone to wait here first, I'll go find the others, and then we'll make a battle plan."
When Wu Deng nodded in agreement, Lu Chen immediately ran into the distance. Naturally, he came to the small county town not far away first, and if Long Yan and the others arrived in advance, they would definitely occupy this small town.
In fact, it is true, before Lu Chen came to the gate of this small city, he saw a group of people coming out of the small city, although it was still far away, but it could still be seen from the other party's clothes and vague appearance that it was Long Yan and Luo Gong them.
A moment later, Lu Chen came to them. After seeing Lu Chen, Long Yan immediately asked, "City Lord, have you borrowed soldiers from my father this time?" Although he was asking, Long Yan already had the answer in his heart, after all, the dense soldiers in the distance could not have appeared out of thin air.
After seeing Lu Chen nodding in confirmation, Long Yan still couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart. After all, his father had already sent 10,000 troops before, and now he had sent so many people. He couldn't understand what Lu Chen said about moving his father. actually let him ignore the covetousness of the surrounding forces, and lend his troops to Lu Chen.
Seeing Long Yan's shocked expression, Lu Chen smiled and said, "You don't need to be shocked, I bought these 10,000 soldiers with real money." And the use period is only fifteen days, so we have to attack Luzhou City within fifteen days no matter what! ”
Hearing Lu Chen's words, whether it was Long Yan, Luo Gong, or even some other generals, their brows were slightly furrowed at this time, and their faces were solemn. Obviously, most people don't think that Lu Chen will be able to capture this Luzhou City, at least not easily.
Although now Lu Chen has a gun, crossbow, crossbow and black ball bomb, these two big hole cards. However, the city defense of Luzhou City is not as good as the temporary camp built on the bank of the river by Nayizhou. Even if they still put dozens of black ball bombs, they may not be able to blow a single stone from Luzhou City. As for the gun crossbow crossbow, although it also has some effect. However, because the walls of Minzhou City are too high, and its defenses are also very sound.
This led to Lu Chen's two major hole cards, which were almost useless in front of the city walls of Luzhou City.
However, after seeing the appearance of these people, Lu Chen did not show the same worry as them, he persuaded, "Everyone must have confidence, don't talk about this Luzhou City, even if it is Chang'an City, even if our troops are less than 10,000." However, as long as we have faith in ourselves, we will definitely be able to conquer it! ”
Hearing Lu Chen's words, these generals, including Long Yan and Luo Gong, all nodded very seriously. As for whether they really have faith, I'm afraid only they know.
At this time, Lu Chen remembered that Longyan had gone to recover the city of Shannan West Dao Jiedu Envoy before. He immediately asked, "Long Yan, how many troops have you collected this time?" ”
Hearing Lu Chen mention this, he saw Long Yan smile with satisfaction, "This Shannan West Dao Jiedu envoy seems to have a good reputation among his subordinates. When I took out the military order given to us by the Jiedu envoy, and asked the remnants of the soldiers who had been collected before to tell each other the last words of their Jiedu envoy. As a result, the vast majority of the soldiers voluntarily followed us. Only a few people want to be unarmed and return to the field. In total, we have collected more than 5,000 troops, plus the first 1,000 men, and now I have 6,000 soldiers in my hands. ”
Hearing this, Lu Chen also nodded with satisfaction, even he didn't expect to be able to recruit so many soldiers.
Now Lu Chen has a total of 17,800 troops, as long as he attacks Luzhou City, Lu Chen is confident that he will capture the entire city. Although Lu Chen was so confident that he would attack Luzhou City just now, deep down in his heart, he had no confidence at all. He just wanted to inspire their confidence. If even these generals lose confidence, then they have already lost before they can fight.
After learning about the situation of Longyan and them, they went to find Wu Deng and began to talk about the battle plan for this battle.
However, because the walls of Luzhou City are too high and too strong. Moreover, the protective measures such as the women's wall are also very comprehensive, and if they force an attack, the damage will definitely be very huge. Although it should be able to be captured in the end, the damage must be very heavy, which is not the result that Lu Chen wants.
At this time, looking at Luzhou City on the map, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.
(To be continued.) )