Zhu Xiang said mysteriously: "Don't tell you!" ”

Li Mu: "......" first mentioned this topic, and then didn't tell me, what's wrong with you?

Zhu Xiang continued to blossom.

Hahahaha, Li Si Zhang Cang, who originally went to Chu State to find Xunzi to apprentice in history, really came to Xianyang School Palace in this time and space. They still followed Xunzi's footsteps.

Zhu Xiang was very curious about what Li Si and Zhang Cang looked like when they were young.

Li Si didn't say it, although he was a great talent, later generations said that he was a traitor. He also hung stinky salted fish around Qin Shi Huang's corpse, hahahaha, I want to laugh when I think about it.

If Zheng'er had known about this, would he have raised his little short sword to poke Li Si's thigh.

As for Zhang Cang, he is also a talent.

Needless to say, Zhang Cang himself is knowledgeable, especially in arithmetic. But Zhang Cang himself is particularly fond of eating the soft rice of a married woman, and was almost executed for messing with the relationship between men and women.

It is said that Zhang Cang is very good-looking, and when he is old, he can be released from the execution ground because of his appearance. I don't know what Zhang Cang looked like when he was young.

"When I return to Xianyang, I'll find a chance to meet them." Zhu Xiang muttered to himself.

Li Mu couldn't bear it: "Since you don't want to tell me, don't talk in front of me." ”

Zhu Xiang laughed, so angry that Li Mu squeaked his fists.

Zhu Xiang pretended to be threatened, rubbed his face with his hand, and said with the corners of his mouth down: "The people I fancy are named Li Si and Zhang Cang." I've already heard of their reputation, and guess that they might come to Xianyang Academy. Both of them are great talents, but they have a bit of a problem with their personal qualities, so I'm curious. ”

Li Mu was speechless: "What's so curious about this? ”

Zhu Xiang was puzzled: "Aren't you curious?" ”

Li Mu: "......"

Zhu Xiang: "......"

The two were once again relatively speechless because of their different thoughts.

Li Mu sighed and said, "You are free." However, people who have a loss of personal morality, you had better not contact too much. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "No problem. A person who wants to be prosperous and rich, and a person who likes to be a friend of the boudoir of a noble lady will not affect me. ”

If Li Si wants to be prosperous and rich, he will please himself. Zhang Cang will only "fall in love" with the noble lady. Neither of them could influence him.

Li Mu: "...... Isn't that a big deal? "It's problematic no matter how you think about it!

Zhu Xiang scratched his head and said, "Of course it's not a big problem. ”

Li Mu was silent for a long time, sighed deeply, and said, "You don't get along with them less." Others are free. ”

Zhu Xiang nodded: "I should have few opportunities to contact them, don't worry." By the way, did the king agree to you send troops? ”

Li Mudao: "I haven't received the edict yet, but the king will definitely agree." ”

Zhu Xiang was puzzled: "Why are you so sure?" ”

Li Mudao: "Because even if I lose, the Qin State will not have much to lose; And I won, and the Qin State has a great interest. ”

"Oh." Zhu Xiang said, "Leave the logistics to me, you don't want to lead the war to Qianzhong County, I don't want to help you defend the city." However, you are taking the initiative to attack, and the battlefield cannot be in Qianzhong County. Again, don't beat Chen Du, you can't hold it, and you're wasting your troops in vain. ”

Li Mu smiled: "I know." I just want to take down the plains around Yunmengze. The terrain is flat, don't you say every day that there is rice planted there? ”

Zhu Xiang sighed: "It is indeed suitable for planting rice, but the area around Yunmengze is also an area with a high incidence of water Gu disease. ”

Li Mu said: "Then it should be taken down." After taking it down, you send someone to extinguish the snail. Haven't you always been obsessed with water Gu disease? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Yes." Anyway, sooner or later, it will be the territory of the Qin State, and sooner or later it will have to go. ”

After Li Mu wiped off his sweat, he put on his clothes, went with Zhu Xiang to count the grain and grass, and handed over the logistics to Zhu Xiang to manage.

The logistics officer's face was a little unpleasant.

There was a lot of oil and water in managing military food logistics, and he thought he could make a fortune.

He was about to test Zhu Xiang to see if he could deceive Zhu Xiang and snatch back the logistics power. But Zhu Xiang was the first to find him, gave him a bunch of icons, and taught him how to identify the icons and the symbols in them.

He didn't know why, so he honestly followed Zhu Xiang to learn, and the more he learned, the more sweat he felt.

These icons actually re-sorted out the ledger that he had deliberately made fake accounts before. According to the way Zhu Xiang taught, he found out those fake accounts with his own hands.

He looked up at Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang looked at him calmly.

"Zhu Xianggong, spare your life, spare your life......" The official's legs weakened and knelt on the ground.

Zhu Xiang sighed, and was about to speak, asking people to deal with this person according to the law, when Li Mu's hand pressed on his shoulder.

"The punishment in the army was reported to me at the same time. Even if I'm fighting on the front lines, you just need to imprison people first, and then punish them when I come back. Li Mu said, "Don't make your own decisions. ”

Li Mu's words sounded very polite, as if he was warning Zhu Xiang not to overstep his authority.

Zhu Xiang smiled: "I'm not so fragile yet, when I'm a jade?" ”

Li Mu said: "I think you are not much harder than jade. Cover his mouth and drag him down. ”

The guards immediately took the order.

"Do you hear that? When you encounter someone who needs to be punished in the future, you only need to detain them, not punish them. Li Mu emphasized again.

Zhu Xiang waved his hand: "I know, I know, I know, lock it up and wait for you to fall." He didn't covet much food and grass, so you don't have to worry about logistical pressure. ”

Li Mu said: "I'm not worried, I still have a lot of pumpkins." ”

Looking at Li Mu's slightly meaningful appearance, Zhu Xiang wanted to speak and stopped.

Pumpkins are easy to rot in the south, don't think of pumpkins as military rations, it's not the first time I've said it!

Zhu Xiang felt a little tired.

He was pondering how to make military rations that were easier to carry and less perishable.

Sure enough, it's still fried noodles, right?

Fried noodles are the grains ground into flour, fried with sugar and salt, you can directly grab a handful and eat, you can add water to make a paste, it is the easiest to carry on the battlefield when there is no modern compressed convenience food, the easiest to carry on the battlefield.

Zhu Xiang collected lard, cane sugar and salt cubes, taught people to make some high-calorie fried noodles, and gave them to Li Mu as a reward for "warriors" who needed to perform special tasks.

Oil and sugar are luxuries, and it is impossible to give them to every soldier. These high-calorie dry foods are only available to soldiers who need to carry out special tasks.

For example, night raids, such as bait, such as first boarding.

Li Mu was different from other generals, and Zhu Xiang was very relieved of him.

After Li Mu got this batch of dry food, he really carefully stored it, and did not distribute it to the generals, but formulated a military order, stipulating when this batch of special dry food could be enjoyed to improve the morale of the army.

Zhu Xianggong's own hand-made dry food with high calories, sweetness and lard immediately raised the morale of the army to a higher level. Before Li Mu was mobilized before the war, the soldiers were already gearing up to be the first to enjoy special dry food.

Zhu Xiang said that he really didn't expect this situation.

Later, in order to check the logistics, Zhu Xiang went around the warship that could transport supplies, and provided many suggestions on the arrangement of trebuchets and how to dock from the warship.

The soldiers' eyes lit up, and Li Mu sighed lightly.

He found Zhu Xiang in private: "If you don't want to go to the battlefield, shut up for me!" If you have any ideas, you can tell me privately! ”

Zhu Xiang was aggrieved: "What did I say?" I'm just chattering. ”

Li Mu sighed: "Casual chatter? Did you know that there is no such thing as a method of fighting? ”

Zhu Xiang thought for a while and said, "It seems that there really isn't." ”

At present, there is no formed naval army, and they are just transporting grain and grass. No one has ever thought of building large ships to fight directly from the water, and no one has thought of installing long-range weapons on ships to attack cities along the way.

"Well, it's my broken mouth." Zhu Xiang immediately admitted his mistake, "I saw that you built a warship, so I ignored this matter. ”

Li Mu raised his forehead again and sighed: "You." ”

He was once again sure that if Zhu Xiang led his troops to fight, he was probably really an extremely terrifying general.

Don't say anything about "mercy is not in charge of soldiers", Zhu Xiang's bizarre fighting methods are unguardable, and I am afraid that he will not sacrifice many soldiers to achieve good results.

If King Qin knew about Zhu Xiang's talent, even if Zhu Xiang was unwilling, he might use various "accidents" that Zhu Xiang couldn't refuse to force Zhu Xiang to lead the troops.

Even if he didn't force Zhu Xiang to lead the troops, he would let Zhu Xiang make the way he knew how to fight public—not after teaching others in private, others would make it public, but in the name of Zhu Xiang.

In this way, the king of Qin can say that the benevolent and righteous Zhu Xiangdu took the initiative to offer advice to the Qin State to attack other countries, indicating that Zhu Xiangdu recognized the Qin State as the destiny of heaven.

After Li Mu was betrayed by the monarch, he would never be loyal to any monarch again. With the greatest malice, he speculated on the kings who took advantage of people in their bones.

"If you don't want to do something, don't show your talent in public." Li Mu told him again, and then led the fleet out of Qianzhong County.

This was the first battle in the history of China with a naval army as the main battle.

Zhu Xiang watched Li Mu's fleet go away and did not leave immediately. He sat on a stone by the river, silent for a long time, like a stone statue.

Didn't he really understand what Li Mu said?

How could he not understand.

It's just that Zhu Xiang is very conflicted in his heart. While he didn't want to face the war head-on, he hoped that what he knew would help Qin end the war more quickly.

A war that destroys the withering and decaying is the war that does the least harm to the people. If the war becomes a tug-of-war, civilians and soldiers will become meat to be chewed between the teeth.

Chapter 92: Qin Zhou's Ship

In fact, the pre-Qin period had already appeared in the prototype of a naval army.

"Zuo Biography" said that in 549 BC, "Chu Zi was the boat master to defeat Wu". The boat master was the earliest naval army.

However, at this time, the navy army was mainly responsible for transporting grain.

Although the states of Chu, Wu, and Yue had ships similar to "warships", warships did not have the function of "war" compared with later generations.

The pre-Qin warships were divided into two tiers, with rowing on the lower deck and troops on the upper deck. There are three types of troops, one with bows and arrows, one with long weapons, and one with short weapons.

In battle, the archers provide long-range attack deterrence, and then the ships move closer to each other and use long weapons to stagger the attack, jump to the gang or scuttle the opposing ship, the so-called "rook and hub and hand-to-hand attack".

It can be seen from this mode of operation that the boat division is not even a supplement to the land arms, and the combat is basically not much different from the combat with chariots on land, so the main task is still to transport food and troops.

Therefore, it is clear that in "Zuo Chuan", the Chu State has used the Zhou Division to fight with the Wu State and the Yue State many times, but the Yunmengze area with a dense water network, that is, the Jianghan Plain, is still not fortified in the Yangtze River Basin, which makes it easy for Bai Qi to win.

Why can Bai Qi immediately know Li Mu's hole cards? Because when Bai Qi attacked the Chu State, he used the boat division to hit the Chu State by surprise.