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Chapter 21 I Have a Cousin

After these guys had enough food and drink, Li Si said as calmly as possible, "The war is coming, are the soldiers full?"

Hearing these words, Chen Qing from the No. [-] Supply Battalion, and Jiang Xu from the No. [-] Supply Battalion quickly stood up,

"Reporting to Your Highness, after the war ended last night, I buried pots and made meals so that all soldiers who participated in the war could have a full meal. Before dawn this morning, all the meals were ready. All have been fed, all vehicles have been inspected and repaired, and all supplies have been counted, and we will never hold back our army."

"In addition, under General Huang's military order last night, we have gathered [-] young men and [-] craftsmen, and are hurrying up to build fortifications and arrow-proof rafts. We have also arranged for young men to draw water from the river to prevent fires. .”

Li Si was taken aback. He didn't expect that all the soldiers had already finished their breakfast and did so many things while he was still sleeping. It has to be said that the effect of having an extra supply battalion is good.

No, no, it's because General Huang is too powerful and domineering.

The sense of security in Li Si's heart couldn't help but rise a notch.

"What's the situation with the people now?"

This time it was Xu Guan and Jiang Mu who stood up to answer, also full of confidence.

"Reporting to Your Highness, all the people are grateful for His Highness's kindness in taking in, and there is no complaint. The old and weak, women and children among the people have tents to sleep peacefully at night. The treatment, this is thanks to Mr. Zheng, he has been busy almost all night, treating the wounded soldiers, and he will find time to treat the people."

"In addition, the black-toothed prisoners of war are also under strict guard, and nothing will happen."

Hearing this, Li Si knew that there was nothing wrong with the logistics. He had enough food, warm clothes, healed wounds, fortifications, and everyone had rested and had strength. In such a state, of course, he was not afraid of war.

It seems that the logistics must be strengthened in the future. Only with strong logistics can the soldiers fighting on the front line exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

"General Huang, this battle requires you to command and dispatch the overall situation."

At this time, Li Si said to Huang Zhong.

"I would like to die for His Highness!"

The old general stood up solemnly, and suddenly agreed.

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Around ten o'clock in the morning, the sun is shining all over the earth.

The place where Li Si's army was located was quiet, and everything was fully prepared from top to bottom.

The Lu's Army was arrayed at the ruins of Xujia Village, but sent [-] cavalry to the east side of the mountain ridge, trying to harass the rear of Li Si's Army.

However, Huang Zhong's combat experience is so sophisticated. After he found the opponent at dawn, he formed a car formation with 120 carts, and a large number of refusal horses were placed in front of the car formation.

Well, these were all things that didn’t come in handy yesterday. More than 500 repelling horses, together with the formation of vehicles, formed an obstacle zone with a width of 30 meters.

In front of the obstacle area, a 30-meter-wide pit area was dug out.

There is nothing else on their side, they are much younger and stronger, and they have gained experience in digging holes.

In this way, the 60 cavalrymen of Lu's Legion in the entire [-]-meter isolation zone would not dare to rush if given a hundred courage, let alone harass them, and they would not even be able to shoot people with bows and arrows.

So on the chariot formation side, Huang Zhong only arranged fifty ranger captains, which were enough to restrain the three hundred Lu's cavalry.

The real battlegrounds are on the ridge and west slopes.

Although the mountain to the east of Xujia Village is nominally the remnant of Luming Mountain, the mountain is actually not high, with an altitude of more than [-] meters, and it is not too steep. In many places, you can climb up slowly with a horse .

But two days ago, in order to guard against the black-toothed pursuers, Li Si hired a large number of people not only to dig pits, but also dug the hillsides on both sides into cliffs two or three meters high.

Now Huang Zhong has done even better. He cut off the northern ridge directly by Qing Zhuang, and dug out a big ditch five meters wide, three meters deep, and 15 meters long.

So you attack me along the ridge.

Lu's Legion now has to find a way to fill up this big ditch, or build a ladder. In short, it is obviously a field battlefield, and it has abruptly turned into a siege battle.

"Your Highness, the general in command opposite is very stable and talented, but he is a little anxious now."

On the tall wall of the village, Huang Zhong stroked his one-foot-long beard, and said softly, "This army of the Lu family hastened for thirty miles this morning, and when they arrived at Xujia Village, they didn't even have time to bury the pot for cooking. They immediately felled trees. To make the siege ladder, the rest time for the soldiers is not even half an hour, judging from the current appearance, at most half an hour later, they will launch an attack."

"If the final general's predictions are correct, the reason why they want to fight quickly is because the battlefield in Jincheng in the north has changed, and the Lu family in Lucheng is in a hurry."

"But they are anxious. We should be even more anxious. Your Highness, Luming Mountain is not wide enough, nor is it steep enough. Once a hundred thousand black-toothed troops march south, our army will never be spared as long as it is bitten."

"Your Highness, please prepare early."

Listening to Huang Zhong's advice from the bottom of his heart, Li Si pondered in a rare way.

On the one hand, he knew that Huang Zhong's suggestion was correct, so he handed over all military matters to Huang Zhong.

But on the other hand, he has to think about where his army will go in the future. There are too many things to consider. Li Si doesn't think he will be better than Huang Zhong, but he is at least a morally, intellectually, physically, and aesthetically qualified man. A graduate of Earth Grass Chicken University, has experienced the information explosion and played Civilization 9.
In addition, he also has such a big killer as the city building order.

Therefore, tactically, he listened to Huang Zhong, but strategically, he had to make his own decisions.

At this moment, he remembered some things that Zhou Yue took the time to report to him before going to bed last night. These were the information that Zhou Yue had inquired from some elders, shopkeepers, hunters, and fishermen in the past two days.

To put it simply, if you walk eastward along the big river, there is a fishing village fifty miles away, and thirty miles eastward, there is a soil plain called Woniuling. The soil is huge and covers hundreds of miles. It is barren, with few trees and ravines. One mu of land reclaimed every year will be washed away by mountain torrents the next year.

It is a well-known bitter place that cannot support people at all.

Especially the diversion of the river more than a hundred years ago made this situation even worse. A county town over there was submerged, tens of thousands of people died, and ghosts cried and howled at night. Later, they were abandoned by the Daqian Dynasty at that time. .

The torrential river has turned a corner here, and it seems that this place is too poor.

Maybe there are a lot of exaggerations in this statement, even superstition. If it is investigated on the spot, Li Si may have a way to create a frontier in that area.

But the premise of all this is that he can have a few years.

So does he have it?
Now that alien races have invaded, artifacts have been left behind, powerful families have ulterior motives, and the world is in chaos. This chaotic world is like chess, and it doesn't matter who is the king's pawn and who is the real king?
The simplest thing is that Buqi doesn't even have the qualifications to be a chess piece.

If a few days ago, Li Si still wanted to be a serious gangster.

So what he wants now is to grab a base.

As for this base, he took a fancy to the Luming Mountain area.

The soil here is fertile, the vegetation is densely covered, the water network is developed, the population is large, the villages and towns are one after another, and there are big rivers beside them.

Maybe the mountain is not high, not steep enough, and there is little room to move around, but what if he can rely on Luming Mountain to build a strong fortress in a short period of time?
Although there are sayings in the art of war, a lonely city cannot be defended.

But what if he can snatch about 20 mu of rice and wheat?
The 20 mu of rice and wheat belong to the four small towns in the north of Luming Mountain. Since it will mature in more than ten days, even the black-toothed cavalry are reluctant to set fire to it.

Because as long as everyone is killed, the food belongs to them. Why burn it? Isn't it good to keep it to feed the horses?
What's even more strange is that Lucheng Lu's army did not have any plans to burn them, or organize people to harvest rice and wheat.

No matter what the two of them are thinking.

But there was a fire burning in Li Si's heart.

With the size of his current army, with more than 7000 refugees, and with the city building order, even if he only grabs half of the 20 mu of rice and wheat, it is enough for him to gain a foothold here...

"No, it's not enough!"

Li Si muttered to himself, and then he said solemnly to Huang Zhong: "General Huang, I will give you an answer to this matter, but everything will have to wait for the lonely king to interrogate the prisoners."

"Captive?" Huang Zhong was taken aback, not quite understanding.

But Li Si smiled inscrutablely, "I'm afraid General Huang doesn't know that the Central Plains scribe who served as a military adviser to the black-toothed barbarians is actually my distant cousin."

(End of this chapter)