Because of the narrow road, the first division of Wancheng led by Zhao Yun was originally the queen of the palace, and half a day after Huang Zhong arrived in Qutang, he also came to Qutang Pass, and at this time Huang Zhong had already completed the incorporation.

Liu Zhang's administration in Yizhou was lenient, although the government was not neat, but fortunately, the degree of oppression of the people was not high, compared to the peaceful and prosperous times, but in the troubled times, if it was worse, it would never be worse than the princes who were reckless.

It's a pity that that's all, Liu Zhang didn't further use this to promote kindness and righteousness - to be precise, Liu Zhang didn't have the ability to let local heroes preach kindness and righteousness for him among the people.

Not to mention cultivating the sense of honor and collectivity of the people of Yizhou, and Liu Zhang has no understanding or communication with the civil and military officials below the core level, and the middle and low-level officials care more about their direct bosses than about the Marquis of Shu.

It can be said that the foundation left by Liu Yan to him was in vain......

This is also why in history, after Yizhou was taken by Liu Bei, there were really a few civil and military officials who died for Liu Zhang, but the people accepted it very plainly, until they found that the taxes and military service of Shu were so much higher than those in the Yizhou Mansion period, and their lives were really affected, so they began to miss Liu Zhang.

And Liu Zhang really doesn't have much knowledge of people, and most of the civil and military who died for him didn't use his strategy or listen to his words before his death, otherwise Liu Bei would not have been invited to Yizhou.

On the contrary, a group of important ministers in Yizhou who are deeply trusted by Liu Zhang behaved staggeringly!

Among them, the most famous is Wu Yi, who is the TOP3 of Yizhou Mansion and has relatives with Liu Zhang-even in the Three Kingdoms period of the late Han Dynasty, where "surrendering after being defeated and captured" was very common, Wu Yi's performance in the romance also left a strong mark.

After Wu Yi was captured in the romance, Liu Bei asked him if he surrendered, and Wu Yi replied very hard at that time......

If I have been caught, how can I not descend? - I've been caught, and you ask me if I can surrender, do you look down on me? Why don't I drop!

can be called the toughest man in the Three Kingdoms......

Liu Bei was probably also drunk by this hard breath, and he was immediately overjoyed.

Thinking about it now, Zhuge Liang was still a little sorry when he scolded Wang Lang for "I have never seen such a brazen person", after all, he also met Wu Yi at that time......

At this time, Zhao Yun had just entered Qutang Pass, and he heard that Huang Zhong said that Wei Yan had already led three regiments to the White Emperor City not far away!

"The terrain of White Emperor City is dangerous, Wen Chang won't be impulsive, right?" Zhao Yun asked with a little worry.

"Zilong can rest assured that the current defender of White Emperor City is a member of the Gan clan, and because he was excluded before, he took his troops to guard White Emperor City, and originally White Emperor City was just a small city to inspect caravans, and the standing garrison did not exceed a thousand people, and the resistance would not be too fierce." Huang Zhong had already inquired about the situation.

Zhao Yun also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this-Qutang Pass was just the first test, just the beginning.

It is not realistic to directly capture Yizhou, but it must not stop at Kuimen, or rather...... If the results of the battle were only kept in Kuimen, they could only withdraw to the state of Chu after the flood season!

There is one point, whether it is Yan Yan or Wu Jing, who has become a pool, they have all analyzed it correctly before - from the counties of Jingzhou, through Xiling Gorge to Zigui, from Zigui through Wuxia and Qutang Gorge to Kuimen, the transportation of materials during this period was very unfavorable.

If you simply transport grain, a stone of rice can be transported, and one and a half buckets can be left, all thanks to the various agency transport vehicles of the Ministry of Industry, and thanks to the abundance of animal power, the road sections that can use cattle and horses are all used by cattle and horses!

Otherwise, I'm afraid it will only be half a bucket......

Of course, the Wancheng 1st Division and the Xinye 1st Division, as the first armies to be reorganized and carry out foreign conquests, are undoubtedly the first-line elite soldiers of the Chu State, and for the elite soldiers of the Chu State, the military needs cannot only be food.

Not only does elite training itself require nutritional intake, but also grassroots generals are already cultivating true qi, and they have higher requirements for food and dietary nutrition!

Because of the intake of a certain amount of meat, eggs, fish, fruits and vegetables, the cost of individual military rations in the daily training of the Chu army is now seven or eight times that of the ordinary armies of other princes, and the infantry burns more money than other people's cavalry!

Originally, the standard of individual consumption of military food was one stone a month, and the Chu army also had to consume a lot of meat, eggs, fish and vegetables, and the military weight was only one and a half stones, but it was worth nearly ten stone of rice grain - the current standard "stone" of the Chu State was more than the previous eight buckets, and it was slightly reduced.

Of course, the cost of transportation will not also increase by seven or eight times, which means that the value of the goods transported is higher, and the weight is only increased by half......

There is no rule that you have to eat whatever you transport!

However, the trouble is that if it is transported by the Chu army, the Chu army responsible for the transportation will also have a lot of expensive rations, and if the people are mobilized...... The cost is also three times higher than before!

After all, now a large number of workshops are recruiting, and manpower is suddenly valuable, like when the General's Mansion was just started, the days when there was a large number of laborers in charge of rice are gone.

Three times, it is still the people out of family and country feelings, especially knowing that this is to transport grain for the crusade against Yizhou, so even if it is less profitable, they are willing to do it!

Although it is really necessary to starve to death, it is natural to gnaw on the "compressed grain bricks", the elite of the Chu State does not lack the quality of hard work, and the minimum intake of nutrition and maintaining physical strength are also usual training items.

However, if the minimum consumption is maintained for a long time, the body of the True Qi Warrior will not be able to bear it, and the strength of the Ji Zao soldiers will also decline......

And if it is supplied normally, 25,000 elite soldiers will remain in Kuimen, which is equivalent to the consumption of 100,000 elite soldiers.

In the entire Chu State, there are less than 200,000 people trained to the standard of elite soldiers, and there are 100,000 standing garrisons in various places.

In other words, if these two divisions stay in Kuimen, it will also be a big expense for the Chu State.

In particular, the Hanshuiyan project in Wudang is also under construction, and it is a big money and grain absorber!

In this case, even if the state of Chu has a lot of grain in stock, it will not be able to supply the two large grain-burning households for a long time.

Unless...... Able to eat locally - get food and grass locally in Yizhou.

At the very least, the "portion" of grains such as rice grains should be collected locally as much as possible, and then only meat and eggs should be transported in the form of air-dried or pickled products, and the cost pressure will be much less.

Moreover, the character of the Chu State must be stabilized, and the spirit of Bai Xue must be established, "eating locally" cannot be "eating the enemy", and the ordinary people of Yizhou cannot be regarded as enemies, like Dong Zhuo's old troops in Guanzhong......

In this case, the limit of the flexibility is that the tax can be "credited" to the people, but it should not be more than doubled, and the other is to use dried meat, gold and silver to buy grain from the people!

In other words, unless they can defeat a few counties, no matter how smooth it is, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong can only retreat the same way.

This is also why, Huang Zhong will directly agree to Wei Yan's attack on the White Emperor City - with Wei Yan's temperament, it is not surprising that he will ask for battle, but in Huang Zhong's style, if it is not for a purpose, he will not agree in such a hurry.

Of course, part of the reason was that the news he got in Qutang Pass reassured Huang Zhong.

Otherwise, even if Huang Zhong would agree, he would have ordered Wei Yan to leave two regiments to defend Qutang Pass, and personally lead most of the soldiers to rush to the White Emperor City!

After all, the White Emperor City itself is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are not many defenders, if you are careless, there is a danger of capsizing in the gutter.

However, now that the guards are Gan's people, they have been squeezed out before, and the last bit of risk has been reduced to very small......

When Wei Yan led people to the White Emperor City, he found that Gan Mao was actually greeted ten miles outside the city...... It's not, it's coming!

Looking at the square array of thousands of people, Wei Yan already understood what Gan Mao meant.

If you really want to defend it, you must defend the walls of the White Emperor City, how can you come out to meet the enemy?

"Second battalion commander, out of the ranks!" Wei Yan called out his second battalion commander, Liao Hua.

"Here!" Liao Hua shouted angrily.

"You go to the name, and then fight with the opposing general...... Remember, the other party is a member of Gandudu's clan, and his martial arts are not as good as you, so he doesn't have the heart to win now, don't kill anyone. Wei Yan whispered to Liao Hua behind him.

After all, Wei Yan is also a person who can rank in the top 20 of the Chu army now, and he is young and vigorous, so he naturally does not want to go up to accompany Gan Ning's relatives to fake a fight!

Although Wei Yan has only been crowned for a long time, he has been a general for a long time and has his own prestige, while Liao Hua is only sixteen years old, younger than Wei Yan, and he was only Du Bo before, but during the restructuring, because of the training of the army commander and soldiers, he was praised by Wei Yan by name, promoted to one level, and became the battalion commander, otherwise Du Bo should normally be the company commander after the restructuring......

"Liao Hua, the commander of the second battalion of the second regiment of the first division of Dachu Xinye, is here, and the enemy will dare to fight!" The Liao Hua engine sprayed and came directly to the front of the two armies.

In the current front-line army of Chu State, most of them are gilded generals, and there are only garrisons from all over the country, and you can still see Mushi Dubo, and Liao Hua is naturally also a gilded general!

Although Liao Hua is still young, he is not a genius, but he caught up with a good time - when the General's Mansion was stationed in Jingzhou and the Chu State was not officially established, Liao Hua rushed to go to the Naxian Pavilion to join the army and become a Dubo, and even falsely reported his age for this, but fortunately he grew more mature, and later when the country was founded, BUFF was promoted to gilding.

On the other side, Gan Mao didn't understand, what kind of messy name this was, but he just saw that the other party was a pioneer and called the formation, and he understood in his heart that the other party also understood what he meant.

"Although I am willing to be squeezed out by incompetent people, and I only have hundreds of defenders under my command, but my courage and loyalty, can show the sun and the moon, even if the Marquis of Shu is confused by traitors, I will hold on to the White Emperor City until the last moment, to ...... Let's fight! Gan Mao made excuses for himself first.

The overall idea is "I am excluded", "I have no soldiers under my command", and the reason for this is that "the Marquis of Shu appointed traitors", and now Ben Zhongliang is going to fight the enemy to the death......

Then, before he was twenty together, Gan Mao was stabbed to the ground by Liaohua's three-pointed knife.

"Ahh I'm tied up...... Don't surrender to save me! Gan Mao yelled as he was tied up, and he cooperated with the retraction of his armor.

As for Gan Mao's own soldiers, at this time they had already begun to shout that they wanted to surrender for the commander, and some people rushed up...... Fall to your knees, beg to save your useful body, and don't resist again!

Other defenders?

It was originally an eighteenth-line army that had not been in battle for a long time and had never even killed the enemy, where could it withstand this!

With an excuse...... Ah no, after having a valid reason, they all surrendered immediately.

Wei Yan couldn't stand it, so he asked people to pull off these scenes a lot, and directly placed the military talisman, incorporated the soldiers of Ji Zao, and entered the White Emperor City......