After sending off Zhou Jin and other new teaching leaders, Chen Kefu had just returned to the tent, Li Benlei. Mao Yi and the other generals came over again.

Looking at Lu Shishen's happy face, Chen Kefu guessed that the matter of being responsible for going to Jinshan City to collect supplies and population would definitely be very rewarding.

"How? How many food equipment are there in this Golden Mountain City? Lu Shishen is like the old wealth of the landlord in the countryside, who suddenly grew old, with a smile on his face, and a big mouth that was almost grinning behind his ears. As soon as he heard Chen Kefu ask, he hurriedly laughed and said, "Commander, in the future, such an errand will be handed over to me, it's so refreshing." There's a whole city of riches out there, and I didn't really know what to do when I first entered the city.

Saying that, he was still a little reluctant to say, "Commander, the walls of this Jinshan City are strong, otherwise, let's not give up." Even if I let my second division stay, when the Liao people come, we will definitely hold it. It's a shame that such a big city was abandoned like this. When the Liao people came, they became Liao people again. ”

Chen Kefu swept the generals in the tent, and Luo Lin, Li Jie, Mao Yi and other generals were all a little moved.

This Jinshan City is a big city, and it is not too far from Liaodong City, if they can, of course they want to stay. After all, if it is defeated and abandoned, the Liao people will always be allowed to occupy it at that time.

If they send troops to stay behind, then this city will be their own, and when His Majesty conquers Goguryeo again next year, this Jinshan Fortress is still in their hands, which will be another great achievement.

Like everyone else, Chen Kefu is of course a little reluctant in his heart. If possible, of course, he would prefer to take this opportunity to occupy the major mountain cities on the first line of the Liaohe River, and then he would be able to firmly control the entire Liaodong.

It's a pity that he knows that he can't eat a fat man in one go. Sometimes if you are too greedy and eat too much, then you will have indigestion. Now he has 80,000 soldiers and horses, but there are 70,000 new soldiers, if he gathers the soldiers and horses together and clenches them into a fist, then with Liaodong City, he is still sure to defend it. Especially now that the Goguryeo military force has just swept away the front line of the Liao River, the Liao people are also greatly weakened.

But if, he wants to do it in one step now, divide his troops and stay behind. At that time, Buyeo City,

Gaimu City, Baiyan City, Anshi City, these same big cities, do they also have to send troops to stay behind? Gathered into a fist, the division becomes five fingers. At that time, he was 90 percent sure that the Liao people would definitely come to break through. If they go out of the city to rescue, maybe the Liao people can come to a siege point to help. These 80,000 new troops were divided into various cities, and basically there were less than 10,000 people in one city.

Such a thought is absolutely self-defeating.

"Everyone, you are willing, you are willing, you are giving! Ben Shuai is also reluctant to these cities, but we can only be reluctant. If you really send troops to defend it because you are reluctant, then it should not be the idea of a general. Everyone is a senior general in my Northeast Army, because they should see farther than ordinary soldiers. If we are 80,000 elite soldiers, needless to say, this commander will definitely divide his troops to defend these big cities that have been taken. However, we are 80,000 new recruits who have just formed an army, and if we are delusional and greedy, we will only lose big because of small things, and then we will not only lose Jinshan, but also may lose Liaodong City! Lu Shishen didn't expect this matter to be so serious, so he hurriedly put away his smile and said, "Commander, this matter is wrong with me, I shouldn't have these thoughts, I'm confused for a while." ”

His words were very sincere, he was Chen Kefu's confidant, and he had always obeyed Chen Kefu's decision. At this time, he didn't care about his face, and he admitted his mistakes very generously, and in front of the public, Chen Kefu's majesty was even more demonstrated.

"Tell me, what's the harvest in the city?" "The materials in the city are relatively abundant, Dashuai, you can come up with a strategy casually, and the people of the entire Jinshan City will go out of the city, and it will be much easier for us to search. However, there are too many supplies, grain and grass in the city, and I am afraid that it will not be able to be moved for a while. I first looked at the various warehouses in Jinshan City, there were about 200,000 stone of grain, and it was estimated that the grain storage in the homes of the people in the city and the nobles in the city also had this amount. There was also a lot of gold, silver, and money, and there were plenty of weapons, swords, and soldiers. ”

Li Jie waited for Lu Shishen to talk for a long time before he finished speaking, and hurriedly interjected, "Commander, I think there are many materials in Jinshan City, and it is impossible to move the materials in the entire city at once.

At present, we should classify the materials in the city according to the priority, for example, food should be the first priority, and it must be transported back to Liaodong City as soon as possible. Armor and equipment should be the second most important, and cattle, sheep and livestock should also be the third. And now that winter is coming, the soldiers and men in the army also have to change into winter clothes, and the mountains are covered by heavy snow in this winter in Liaodong, and the temperature is very low. We have to prepare early! "Although Li Jie and Chen Kefu are not very compatible, their personal ability cannot be ignored, whether it is leading troops or managing the people, this noble son general can always complete it very well. For such a person, Chen Kefu is jealous and loving, and he doesn't want to waste such a talent to use him, but he is always worried that this sharp knife will hurt his hand. It really makes him love and hate, although it is still in the initial stage, and it has not yet reached the time when specialized internal affairs and civil affairs talents are needed, but the big piece of logistics really needs a capable and reliable person. ,

Although the original Sima Zhoucheng and Cangcao Counselor Wang Lin and others can also be regarded as able to write and calculate, it is indeed a big problem to jump from the identity of Sima and Cangcao of a small Yingyang Mansion to the logistics of hundreds of thousands of people. Moreover, now that the Liao soldiers are being captured and the population of the cities that have been plundered is increasing, the pressure on the entire internal logistics is increasing.

Li Benlei is a veteran of the battlefield, but the opponent is also a little afraid of the management of civil affairs, at this time when he saw Li Jie talking about it, he was also busy saying, "What General Li said is very true, it is only August at the moment, but when it rains a few more times, this Liaodong will become a complete winter." Now that we are cut off from the Central Plains, we can no longer expect to deliver winter clothes from the Central Plains. It's still early, so it's time to prepare. Collect the cloth, silk and linen, and clothes in the Liao city, otherwise, when the weather is cold, it will be too late. ”

Chen Kefu nodded, there are no air-conditioned quilts and cotton jackets and military coats these days, if you are not careful, it will be a big deal to freeze to death at that time.

"Chen Gui, your Sixth Division is now resting and giving you a task. In a big city like Jinshan, there are all kinds of markets, even smaller mountain towns, there should also be shops. You take your Sixth Division and go to all the mountain cities we occupy, and collect the cloth in each city, whether it is silk, cotton, embroidery, linen, silk and other cloth, or cow and sheepskin, dog skin, horse skin, wolf skin, bear skin and other furs, even if it is just a cloth, you have to collect it all for me and send it back to Liaodong City. And the garments of the people of every city were gathered together, and they were all taken away, and one of them was one.

This has a bearing on the issue of the wintering of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and it must be handled in earnest. When Chen Gui heard that it was so important, he hurriedly got up and took the order.

"In addition, I think General Li Jie should find out all the women who are neat and can knit tailors from among the Liao people, and make a quilt workshop to make clothes, shoes and socks for the army. This workshop is to choose a place in Liaodong City, and these women work in the workshop, responsible for their two meals a day, and use food as their wages, and you will decide how much you will give at that time. When it comes to the problem of these captured residents and soldiers, all the generals also have opinions, and now there are about 50,000 Liao people in Liaodong City after the city is broken, and more than 30,000 people have been captured after defeating Gao Zhen. Hu Hai sent a quick letter a few days ago, saying that he had led the officers and men of the Third Division to take down Anshi, Baiyan, and nearly 30 nearby mountain cities. Not only did he get millions of stone of grain, but he also captured nearly 100,000 Liao people.

And the just-concluded battle of Jinshan Canyon captured more than 60,000 Liao people.

It was taken again, and all 40,000 people in the city fell into the hands of their Northeast Army. Moreover, the nearby twenty or thirty cities such as Gaimu City and Fuyu City not far away will definitely fall into their hands, and if they still have to take all the population away, then the population will be at least nearly 150,000 people.

The total number of soldiers and civilians in Liaodong was 400,000, and the Liao people in their hands at the moment will be 390,000, which is definitely a frightening number, even Liaodong, the first fortress in the northeast, cannot accommodate so many people.

And what is even more critical is that it is wartime, and it is autumn and winter, and production cannot be carried out.

790,000 people, that is, 790,000 mouths, consume at least 20,000 stone of grain every day.

This is definitely a terrifying consumption rate, even if Liaodong City has millions of stone of grain, it is not like this.

Shen Guang sat on the side, thought for a long time, and suddenly felt that the Liao people they had captured were too large, patted his head and said loudly, "Dashuai, according to our expectations, after plundering the population of Fuyu City and Gaimu and other cities, then there will be 400,000 Liao people in our hands." General, these people can't produce, and they can't fight, so what's the use of keeping them, they can only consume our precious food. Otherwise, just like Liaodong City, kill it, especially these Liao prisoners, it would be a disaster to keep them, and they would simply kill a hundred. ”

Although Shen Guang's words were a bit simple, generals in the army, such as Mao Yi and Lu Shishen, agreed with it, and even Li Benlei and Li Jie did not object. For the generals, it was really unnecessary to keep so many prisoners, that is, to separate people to take care of them, and to consume food. It's better to kill it, it's a hundred, and it can be regarded as a dead end.