Chapter 312: Ascending to the Mansion (3)
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"Expand your territory?" Now there is not only Lu Bu who is puzzled, but also Liu Mang, you must know that Chen Gong's letter to Liu Mang has the possibility of asking Liu Mang to dissuade Lu Bu from chasing and killing Sun Ce or directly pulling the troops to fight with the Jiangdong Army.
All that's left is to beat Lao Cao! Liu Mang really wants to go up and touch Chen Gong's mind to see if he is faint, now there are only two possibilities to fight Cao Cao, one is to anger Lao Cao, the other is to provoke Lao Cao, Lao Cao in order to prepare for the decisive battle with Yuan Shao, but he personally recruited twice, first drove out Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law Lu Bu, and the other is to drive Liu Daer out, Lu Bu is now waving his army to attack Cao Cao, don't protect Cao Cao Cao Don't want Guandu, don't want Yanzhou, and directly fight with Lu Bu again in a rage, At that time, Liu Mang believed that Sun Ce in Jiangdong would definitely not mind when Lu Bujun stabbed his buttocks, but he was really attacked on both sides.
"To open up the territory, you must fight!" Chen Gong smiled and asked rhetorically, what Lu Bu and Liu Mang thought, how could he not know! Now is not the time to fight anyone, what Lu Bujun needs now is Zhan, not to start another war, although the battle of Wancheng left Sun Ce's 100,000 army, but don't forget that the same Lu Bu army also suffered heavy casualties, the Chengguan army was almost eliminated, the black chess army is now only more than 1,000 people, the defenders of Wancheng have also died a lot, and the wolf cavalry in Bingzhou has also lost more than 1,000 corpses, also in Shucheng, because of the sudden rebellion of the Zhou family, Chen Deng's 15,000 army is less than 5,000 people left, just to form a battalion, Nearly 20,000 people were lost before and after.
There are only tens of thousands of people in Lu Bu's army? Now he needs to rest and recuperate and recruit troops, instead of directly pulling over to fight, and now these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can only protect themselves, and they still need grain and grass to fight, and this early rice will also be harvested, and if they go to war now, they will not have to eat in the next year.
"What do you mean?" Lu Bu also wanted to have a larger territory, and a Lujiang could not support tens of thousands of troops, nor could he do much.
"Look, lord!" Chen Gong took out a large map. Although the map is very rough and crudely made, it is all written manually, only the general appearance but can still be seen clearly: "We now nominally occupy Lujiang, but in fact we only have half of the territory of Lujiang, and the remaining half is no longer under our control!" "On the map, Lu Bujun only has Jiashi Shucheng, Qianshan, and Shiting. Wuwei, as well as the current Anhui City, these cities, and the entire Lujiang River includes Lujiang County, Hefei, Gushi, Anfeng, which is the entire Lujiang River. Chen Gong didn't bring it up before, it was because they couldn't divide the troops, they Lu Bujun just took Wancheng and took half of Lujiang, and they needed to wait for the anger of the original owner of Lujiang to attack, at that time it was really fun to divide the troops, and now Sun Ce was beaten back, and he didn't have a chance to fight again for a while. Then now it's time to take back the entire Lujiang River.
If these four cities are in their hands again, then the entire Lujiang River will be in the hands of Lu Bu, and the territory will be doubled.
"These four cities, let Wenyuan Xuangao send troops and horses to take them back!" Now Zhang Liao and Zang Ba also have Zang Ba's 3,000 Taishan troops in Shucheng, 5,000 local garrison soldiers and horses left by Chen Deng, and 15,000 soldiers and horses who surrendered after conquering Shucheng, it can be said that there are 23,000 soldiers and horses in Shucheng, which is more than the current Wancheng. In addition to the 1,500 black chess army, the 500-strong Chengguan army, the 4,000-state wolf cavalry, the 5,000-trapped camp, the 7,000-Ganning naval army, and more than 10,000 Sun Ce army prisoners, including the more than 2,000 Danyang soldiers who were recruited.
"Nope. No! Chen Gong shook his head, if he just collected these cities, why did he take them out directly, these cities would just send troops to garrison them, even if they were all subdued. It's just that there is only one complete Lujiang! How can a Lujiang compete with the world, Sun Ce owns the entire Jiangdong on the side, that is most of Yangzhou plus a Jiaozhou, Cao Cao has half of Yuzhou plus the whole of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and Liu Biao also has a Jingzhou plus a small half of Yuzhou.
And Lu Bu relied on a Lujiang County to be swallowed up sooner or later, and when these people came back to their senses, then Lu Bujun's life would be sad, Sun Cejun must go to Lujiang if he wants to enter the Central Plains, and Cao Cao must also go to Lujiang if he wants to go down to Jiangdong, Lu Bu has not been able to beat Cao Cao by relying on the entire Xuzhou, Xuzhou has ten counties including Donghai, Xiapi, Langxi, Dong'an, Licheng, Dongcheng, Pengcheng, Guangling, Dongguan, Chengyang, and now how to fight a county.
"The lord saw it!" Chen Gong pointed his finger towards the top of the Lujiang River, "We not only want to take down the entire Lujiang, we also want to take Shouchun and Chengde, so that the entire Huainan is in our hands, and we can also have the capital to compete with these neighbors around us!" "Winning Shouchun and Chengde, then Chen Gong is equivalent to taking half of Yangzhou, so that you can go to the exhibition, to grow, wait for the arrival of the general trend, and then map the world.
"Shouchun!" When Lu Bu and they came to Lujiang, they went to Shouchun, where they also met with Yuan Shu, and went to Bagong Mountain to beat Chen Lanlei, but Shouchun is not a dilapidated city now, what use do you want him, he was defeated by Yuan Shu, and the people ran away a lot.
"Shouchun is dilapidated, and the people have left a lot, but don't forget the lord, the land of Shouchun is still there!" Chen Gong explained to Lu Bu and others, "Shouchun is the seat of governance in the entire Yangzhou and the center of Huainan, the reason why he chose such a place is because he is relying on the Huai River and Yingshui to the east is Peng Zehu, this place is a fertile land, and it is fertile land within a thousand miles, where to plant food, there will be no problem with our army's military rations!" "Shouchun was the capital of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the reason why Chu chose such a place is because of the good terrain and fertile land of Shouchun, and it can be said that most of the soldiers and grass of Chu come from Shouchun.
As for the people! As long as Shouchun is repaired, those people who have left their hometowns will naturally come back! With Shouchun Lu Bujun, the army can feed the army, there is enough grain and grass to recruit troops and buy horses, and the territory has more than doubled!
"And Shouchun, my lord, you can still have a water area to raise a water army!" Lu Bu's navy is a short board, although he destroyed Sun Ce's 30,000 sailors outside the Dazhai of the Wancheng Navy, but once Sun Ce's whole army comes, it is difficult to say, what can the 7,000 navy do?
"Wen Yuan Zang Ba is not enough!" Lu Bu also frowned, if this Shouchun is really so important, then Wen Yuan and Zang Ba will not be enough, because Shouchun is almost equivalent to Lu Bu's general territory and occupies half of the importance, it is not a garrison there, and the military and government have to grasp this person to lead the army. It is also necessary to know how to govern and govern, such talents are in Lu Bu's army, and only Zang Ba has been a prince who has been a prince for a period of time, and it can be said that he can govern one side and command one side.
But an important issue is to release Zang Ba, who do you shoot to assist Zang Ba! Send Zhang Liao? Zhang Liao's status in Lu Bu's army is only higher than Zang Ba's, you can't let Zhang Liao succumb to Zang Ba! Gao Shun is okay. But Gao Shun will only fight, and nothing else.
Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, these two people who are already unruly and unruly, are willing to succumb to Zang Ba? It's good not to fight, the newly acquired Liu Kai? How could his hometown be willing to go to Shouchun in Anhui City! Chen Gong? Gongtai Wancheng hasn't been cured yet! Lu Bu is also inseparable from Chen Gong's advice.
Then there was only that, Lu Bu set his eyes on Liu Mang, and at this time, Chen Gong also looked at Liu Mang.
Chen Gong nodded at Lu Bu, yes! It's Liu Mang! Only Liu Mang meets such a requirement, and he can't say that he is good or bad at commanding the troops. Sun Ce's 100,000-strong army also failed to take much advantage of Liu Mang's hands. In terms of political governance, Liu Mang can also put forward a lot of useful insights, such as recruiting talents, prestige! Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng are very convinced of Liu Mang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Zang Ba, these old people have also seen Liu Mang's magic and are very respectful to Liu Mang, and another important point is that Liu Mang is Lu Bu's son-in-law, and the foundation laid by Lu Bu is not Liu Mang's! Liu Mang is the young lord of Lu Bujun, which is recognized by everyone. He has an advantage that no one else has, and that is that he is Lu Bu's dearest! Lu Bu can trust him almost unconditionally! If it were someone else, Lu Bu would still be suspicious, because according to Chen Gong's strategy, Shouchun would almost have to be independent of Lujiang, and it would be a system of its own, if it was a little different, it would be bad!
But Lu Bu was reluctant to let Liu Mang out! Liu Mang went out, and Lu Bu felt a little empty. Lu Bu didn't have a son, so he almost treated Liu Mang as his own child.
"The lord has decided!" Chen Gong could see Lu Bu's hesitation, and he stepped forward to strengthen Lu Bu's confidence: "If the jade is not cut, it will not be successful, no matter what happens, he also needs to be alone!" Otherwise, my lord, who will teach you to govern the country! ”
"Hmm!" Lu Bu nodded heavily, he had already made a decision, and he was waiting for Liu Mang to accept his fate.
"Well, the problem is over! In this battle of Lujiang, we should also reward the meritorious heroes! Chen Gong reminded that this battle of the Lujiang River. If it weren't for these figures here, I'm afraid Lu Bujun would have had to leave in disgrace.
"Good!" Lu Bu stood up: "Where is Gan Ning and Gan Xingba!" ”
"The last general!" Gan Ning knelt down on one knee and clenched his fists and said to Lu Bu.
"Ganning Ganxingba, if it weren't for your naval army in this battle of Wancheng and the destruction of 30,000 Jiangdong naval troops in one battle, Wancheng might have been lost! Maybe today we will retreat and wait for Sun Cejun's counterattack in Shucheng! So you should take credit for the battle of Wancheng! "If it weren't for Gan Ning's annihilation of 30,000 Jiangdong naval troops, Sun Ce might be stationed in Anhui City now. After the disaster, the endless Jiangdong army will use Anhui City as a springboard to pour into the Lujiang River, and the Lu Bu army will have to retreat if it lacks food! So Gan Ning's credit is great!
"Report to the lord, the last general will not dare to be greedy, without the sharp weapon of the young lord, the last general will not be able to do this!" Gan Ning also knew that without the bed crossbow given by Liu Mang, it would be impossible to defeat the enemy army in the end with 7,000 battles and 30,000!
"Hanyang?!" Lu Bu also knows Liu Mang's merits, guarding Anhui City, and protecting Lu Bu's family, these are Liu Mang's credits, but Lu Bu is not good at rewarding him! You must know that Liu Mang is already the king of Shu, and he has a general of Zhengnan who is one level older than Lu Bu, how do you let Lu Bu reward him, fortunately, Liu Mang is Lu Bu's son-in-law, so Lu Bu doesn't need to reward him, isn't it all Liu Mang's in the end!
"General Xingba, do you think the young lord still needs these rewards!" Chen Gong said with a smile.
"Yes. Why not! Liu Mang shouted in his heart, he didn't want anything else to ask Lu Bu to give him a place to take a concubine and give He Yu a name, but he didn't dare to say it now, if he angered this father-in-law, he couldn't get rid of it!
Gan Ning understood, but he was still unwilling to accept this skill and shook his head, "Lord, this skill will still not be wanted!" The last general wants to take credit for one person! ”
"Credit!" Lu Bu knew who Gan Ning was talking about, but that person was already dead! You really have to give credit to someone who is already dead!
Looking at Gan Ning's determined eyes, Lu Bu could only nod!