Chapter 232: Facing the Sea
In the real world, carrier pigeons are very versatile, both civilian and military, and carrier pigeons fly extremely fast and can convey information in a short period of time. But the system will not make the same item too perfect, the pigeon can convey information in both directions in a short distance within a county, if the distance exceeds a certain range, it can only convey information in one direction.
The carrier pigeon is a kind of poultry that takes advantage of the pigeon's instinctive homing characteristics to domesticate it into a kind of domestic fowl for people, and in the game setting, no matter how far the pigeon is from its nest, it can return to the nest in most cases. For example, the Yellow Turban Army led by Zang Ba on an expedition to Gaoyou can use carrier pigeons to transmit information at a distance from Feitian City, and the carrier pigeons will fly to the lair of Feitian City on their own, but this way of transmitting information is one-way, that is, the carrier pigeons can only find their way back to the nest from the outside and return, but they cannot return to the expeditionary force. And the carrier pigeon does not carry much weight, can only be bound to a small note at a time, sometimes can not convey the detailed information back, and the carrier pigeon is not 100% able to return safely, the eagle flying in the sky will be the number one killer of the carrier pigeon, so the formal information still has to be delivered through people.
The news that Zang Ba led the expeditionary force to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Gaoyou County, Lu Shuang first saw someone post on the forum, knowing that Zang Ba did not disgrace his mission and won a big victory. The carrier pigeon was also delivered during Lu Shuang's retreat, but the more detailed battle report was rushed to Feitian City by the scouts for 800 miles a few days later.
The scouts who delivered important information were composed of a small team of ten Danyang green soldiers, and the captain was a ninth-order Danyang green soldier to ensure the safe delivery of information. According to the requirements for battle reports formulated by the Flying Sky City Military Department, Lu Shuang can clearly understand the expeditionary force's daily march diary and decision-making recording process from the day of the expedition, and the whole process of attacking Gaoyou County is also recorded in detail, even Lu Shuang, a handshaker and layman, can understand it.
The situation in Gaoyou County is already very clear, after the strong attack of the expeditionary force, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in the county has basically become a climate, especially on the way to escape overnight, they were tired of people and horses, and they were bitten by the sudden slaughter of the Blue Wing Legion, and even the last remaining main force suffered heavy losses and was unable to form an army. Without Big Brother, the small forces of the other Yellow Turban camps in Gaoyou County suffered a big disaster and were frantically pursued by the resurgent imperial court camp, and the county lieutenant of Gaoyou County also led the army into the county seat and took over the county seat from the expeditionary force.
Although the player forces are still not the opponent of the NPC forces at this stage, the county lieutenant of Gaoyou does not dare to look down on Zang Ba's small actions in the slightest, after all, the big fist is the true truth, and if there is no help from the expeditionary force, I am afraid that the county lieutenant will be beheaded by the Yellow Turban Army and hung above the city gate like the county order, and the corpse will be thrown around.
Zang Ba received a hint from Lu Shuang before the expedition, and it was not that he would not take any benefits, but on the surface, he ordered the three armies, especially the player soldiers sent by the guild, not to take any items from the local residents, otherwise they would be dealt with according to military law. Behind the scenes, Zang Ba recruited displaced people all over Gaoyou County, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the number of displaced people in various places increased dramatically, and the more rampant the Yellow Turban Army was, the more displaced people there were, and as of the scout's departure, Zang Ba had secretly recruited 200,000 displaced people who were willing to join Feitian City, and now it is estimated that the number of displaced people exceeded 300,000.
After calculating the time, the baggage troops sent by Feitian City probably arrived at Gaoyou County, and after the expeditionary force was finished with supplies, the next target for attack was the Yellow Turban Army in Ping'an County, and finally Sheyang County. Zang Ba's next plan was written in an envelope that needed to be deciphered, saying that several of their generals got a batch of grain from the county lieutenant, enough for 300,000 people to eat for half a month, and arranged 3,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to escort the displaced people back to Feitian City, but worried that someone was secretly doing it, and hoped that Lu Shuang would send a force to meet it as soon as possible, and the return route was marked in the letter, just follow the route to the north.
Lu Shuang read all the battle reports, opened the map of Guangling County, and looked at the contents of the war reports one by one, and found that in addition to Gaoyou being closer to Hailing County, Ping'an County and Sheyang County are both a long distance away from Hailing County, which is nothing for the army, but now the crowd he has to consider is the homeless people who do not have much combat effectiveness, and it is estimated that after this trip, the homeless people who died of illness, exhaustion, and missing will account for more than one or two percent of the total number. In fact, the difficulty of restricting Zang Ba from recruiting displaced people in Gaoyou County is also a matter of distance, their movement speed is much slower than that of soldiers, resulting in nearly a month from Gaoyou to Hailing, and the food or baggage they carry with them cannot sustain a month's consumption, so Zang Ba can only recruit two or three hundred thousand displaced people first, which is a last resort.
The Yellow Turban Army in Ping'an County is not making much trouble, it is estimated that it can only recruit 50,000 displaced people at most, and the situation in Sheyang County is even worse, the battle report also said that the remnants of the Mountain God Guild fled in the northeast direction, roughly in the direction of Sheyang County, Sheyang County has been to the east, that is, Yandu County by the sea, the Yellow Turban Army in Yandu County has also been rampant recently, and there should be many displaced people who have been displaced by the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
"According to Zang Ba's next plan, after fighting Ping'an, and then fighting the Yellow Turban Army of Sheyang, this front is too long and too long for NPCs of non-combat professions, I'm afraid there will be accidents on the way back."
Although Lu Shuang memorized the map of the thirteen counties of Guangling County, his eyes were always on the map at the moment, looking for every detail that might have been missed. As a lord, Lu Shuang is always thinking about how to increase the strength of the territory, and the way to rapidly increase the strength of the territory is to increase the population rapidly, this time during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the number of displaced people increased dramatically, it is a rare opportunity, Lu Shuang hopes to take advantage of the opportunity to do things for the county government, for the benefit of himself and the territory.
"If the Yellow Turban Army in Ping'an and Sheyang counties is successfully swept away, it should be able to recruit no less than 200,000 displaced people, but it is too troublesome to go back and forth, is there any faster way?"
Lu Shuang's eyes went back and forth between Hailing County and Sheyang County, and he had no clue that he inadvertently glanced at the map of Xuzhou, Xuzhou is mainly in a north-south direction, south to the mouth of the Yangtze River, north to the Shandong Peninsula, facing the Yellow Sea in the real world, there is an extremely long coastline, and Hailing County, or Feitian City, is in the southeasternmost protrusion of Xuzhou. I have to say that Lu Shuang's original location was correct, and the establishment of the harbor city of Tiefan City at the mouth of the Yangtze River, whether it is going north or south, shipping is very convenient, especially between the Yellow and Bohai Sea areas that have opened up the channel to the Yangzhou Zhoushan Islands area, basically the Tiefan City Navy has the final say.
"I remember that Zhou Bai and the others don't seem to have any tasks recently, and they also wrote that they were idle and panicked, hoping to find something to do."
Zhou Bai was in Yizhou, in charge of Yizhou affairs, and he was busy to death, but the generals of Tiefan City did not receive major tasks. Lu Shuang turned out the documents sent by the generals of Iron Sail City two days ago, they have recently relied on their powerful fleet to dominate the nearby seas, and there is not much to do except to eliminate the pirates that are refreshed regularly and daily patrol tasks, so the main fleet has been staying in the port of Iron Sail City.
"Ha, it seems that I should really thank these generals in Iron Sail City, for bringing me a good inspiration when I was clueless, and I will definitely not 'disappoint' them." The complaints of the admirals of Tiefan City reminded Lu Shuang that it was possible to use the more convenient and faster transportation by sea by sea, which not only solved the problem of slow transportation of soldiers and displaced people, but also expanded the scope of activities to the coastal counties of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and was no longer limited to the county of Guangling.
Subsequently, Lu Shuang asked the pro-guard army to call several army commanders and the naval generals of Iron Sail City to a meeting to discuss the feasibility of the new plan, after all, Lu Shuang, as the leader, provides a strategic direction at most, and as for how to implement it and how to do it, many of them are handed over to his subordinates to think about and complete.
The prototype of the new plan was quickly decided, and the two main naval corps were sent by Iron Sail City to escort the transport ships carrying the soldiers of the main army to the coastal counties, and to undertake the task of transporting grain, grass and displaced people, and if necessary, the naval corps could assist the main army of Flying Sky City to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army. The key to the new plan is not how strong the naval corps needs to be, but actually to fight tough battles and encounters on land, but to test whether Tiefan City has enough transportation capacity and transportation plan to support the transportation of troops, displaced people, and grain and grass at the same time.
The 100,000 recruits from Yizhou, after a series of actual battles, gradually faded from the label of recruits and could be officially included in the main army. And they completed the promotion trial, because the promotion probability decreased after the system was updated, so only more than 20,000 of these 100,000 soldiers were successfully promoted to the eighth order, and the remaining more than 70,000 soldiers were still staying in the seventh order, waiting for the next trial.
Lu Shuang and the generals decided that the new plan would be carried out in two directions at the same time, one was to go north along the coastal counties of Xuzhou to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army and recruit displaced people one by one, and the other was to reach Yangzhou in the south, giving priority to Wu County and Danyang County, followed by Huiji County further south.
The composition of the troops on the two battlefields is composed of the main army of Flying Sky City plus new recruits, as for whether to divide the troops to advance, it must be considered in combination with the actual local situation. The Iron Sail City Navy needs to do a good job of escorting and transporting tasks, although no strong pirate forces have been found nearby, but it is the truth to be careful about the ship of ten thousand years at sea, so the navy's tasks are very numerous and important.
In this way, Lu Shuang is no longer limited to the four counties in Guangling County, but can look at the larger Xuzhou and Yangzhou, if each county can obtain more than 100,000 displaced people, then Lu Shuang is confident that at the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the strength of Feitian City will be raised to another level.