Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1855 Qingzhou Navy

Chapter 1853: Qingzhou Navy

Zhuge Liang led an army of 30,000 to Tuyin County in the northeast, while Qin Hao led the main army to continue to Xuwu County. Before he arrived, he got news of Jia Fu's capture of Xuwu County on the way.

The fact that Liu Che's "Wu Xiong" effect 5 can be activated proves that the whole country of the Northern Han Dynasty is united, so the chance of traitors is naturally not very high.

Magistrate Xu Wu was more courageous than Magistrate Pinggu, and did not surrender voluntarily like Magistrate Pinggu. However, there were only 2,000 defenders in the city, while Jia Fu's troops numbered over 10,000, and Jia Fu was even more powerful. A super **** will be here.

Although Jia Fu's troops did not bring heavy siege equipment, they still brought a lot of dismountable ladders.

With Jia Fu personally leading the siege, the 10,000 Qin troops only carried out two sieges and stormed the city tower with overwhelming force.

There is no one in Xu Wu's city who can stop Jia Fu. Once he is allowed to climb the tower, it means that the city will be destroyed sooner or later.

The battle that followed lasted for less than an hour. Jia Fu personally led his men to open the city gate. More than a thousand defenders were captured. The county magistrate committed suicide, and Xu Wu County fell.

Since then, Youbeiping County, which only had four counties, was divided into three parts, each occupied by the Qin, Han and Qing Dynasties.

After Jia Fu captured Xu Wu County, he immediately went to take over other defenses without stopping.

Those large camps and fortresses set up in dangerous places can effectively resist the Qing army's attack. If they are occupied by the Qing army, it will be a big trouble for the Qin army.

Jia Fu was actually overly worried. Before he arrived at Xu Wu, the 70,000 Qing troops in Aguda on the front line retreated directly to the east of Youbeiping and waited for reinforcements. He never thought about competing with the Qin army for these important areas.

 After easily occupying Xu Wu County and major arteries, Jia Fu also stopped marching and waited for the arrival of the main force from the rear.

Two days later, Qin Hao led the main force to Xu Wu, and Jia Fu also led the entire city's soldiers and civilians out of the city to greet him.

“Ten years ago, I also passed through Xu Wu County when I was traveling around the world with my teacher. At that time, Xu Wu County was just a small city, and the city walls were not as high as they are now.”

Qin Hao's eyes flashed with memories, and he said with a smile: "Now the city wall of Xu Wu County has been renovated to be so strong. It seems that Liu Che attaches great importance to the defense of Xu Wu County, but now they have made it easier for us. It is just right to use Liu Che built fortifications to deal with the Qing army."

After saying that, Qin Hao turned around and looked at Jia Fu and said, "Jia Fu, the defense of Xu Wu County is not weak. If you can capture it in half a day, you must have suffered a lot of casualties, right?"

Jia Fu’s mouth twitched slightly, and he said depressedly: “I’d like to report to you, my lord, that nearly five hundred soldiers were injured or killed.”

There were only 500 casualties, but they captured a fortified city with 2,000 defenders and captured 1,000 enemy troops. This was already a good record, but Jia Fu was obviously not satisfied with this.

When he and Sun Lingming were jointly in charge of the vanguard army, they only suffered 500 casualties when they defeated three counties. Now that Sun Lingming was transferred to the Fourth Route Army, he led the army alone and only defeated one Xuwu County and suffered 500 casualties. Of course he was not satisfied with this.

Jia Fu was dissatisfied, but Qin Hao was very satisfied. He only suffered 500 casualties. He not only captured Xu Wujian City, captured more than a thousand Han troops, but also took over all the fortifications of the Northern Han Dynasty. This casualty number was already very low.

 “Well done.”

Qin Hao patted his cousin on the shoulder and asked with a smile: "Is there a large granary in the city?"

Jia Fu said: "The two cities of Xu Wu and Tuyin were not only the forward bases for the Allied Forces of the Youzhou princes to resist the Xianbei army, but also the forward bases for the Yan and Liao Allied Forces to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Therefore, large grain depots were built in the two cities. To supply frontline food and fodder.”

 “Is it true?”

Qin Hao looked surprised and asked, "How much food and grass are left now?"

"This...Due to the Northern Han Dynasty's extreme military expansion and the transfer of grain and grass from various cities back to Yanjing, there is not much food and grass in the city now, only 30,000 shi are left." "Thirty thousand shi? Too little."

Qin Hao looked disappointed. What could thirty thousand stones do? It's not even enough to feed his 130,000 troops for a few days.

After the Qin army on the fifth route entered Youbeiping, the biggest problem was not that the Qing army was twice as large as their own, but that the supply of grain roads stretched too far, and they had to go through the Bohai Sea to Yuyang and then transfer to Youbeiping.

Now only the southern part of Yuyang is in the hands of the Qin army, and the central and northern parts are still in the hands of the Han army. Before Su Dingfangshedi captures Yuyang, the food and grass of the Qin army in the fifth route of Youbeiping will always be under threat.

“My lord, you can transport grain and grass by sea. You Beiping also has an outlet to the sea. It will be faster and safer to transport grain and grass by sea.” Liu Bowen said.

“Yeah, why did you forget about the navy?”

Qin Hao's eyes suddenly lit up, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered: "Send an order to Zhou Yu to ask the Qingbei Navy to go north to the Bohai Sea and transport grain and grass to Youbeiping."

The Qin Army's Yellow River Navy was abolished by Qin Hao after Zhou Yu unified Qingbei, and was renamed Qingzhou Navy.

Qin Hao also ordered Zhou Yu to organize and train the navy and expand the total number of Qingzhou navy to 50,000. Zhou Yu was appointed as the chief general and Qi Jiguang was the deputy general.

 So, after Qi Jiguang put down the Japanese pirate rebellion, he stayed in Qingbei and served as the deputy commander of the Qingbei Navy.

 After receiving Qin Hao's order, Zhou Yu was also excited.

There are not many generals in the Qin army who can fight on the water, only him, Qi Jiguang, Han Shizhong, Cai Mao and a few others.

Compared with Zhou Yu, there is still a certain gap between the other three people in terms of qualifications and achievements.

Now Zhou Yu is already the commander-in-chief of the Qingzhou Navy. As long as nothing goes wrong in the future, the position of future Commander-in-Chief of the Navy will definitely belong to Zhou Yu.

Although the naval force is currently the weakest branch among the Qin army, no matter how little military power a commander-in-chief has, he is still a commander-in-chief.

In addition, in the future attack on the south, the navy will play a greater role, so sooner or later the navy will continue to expand, and the powers of the navy commander will also be expanded. In the future, he will definitely not be worse than the infantry commander.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Yu felt very motivated and immediately recruited troops in the four counties of Qingbei. Only by training these 50,000 recruits can he securely take up the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

The four counties of Qingbei are all close to the sea, and there are many water systems within the territory. Most of the people are familiar with water, and they are high-quality sources of naval troops.

The treatment of the Qin army was very good. Not only were the military salaries high, but there were also pensions that other princes did not have. Therefore, as soon as the recruitment notice came out, the people in the four counties took the initiative to sign up. Zhou Yu recruited 50,000 new soldiers in just one month. .

The training of the navy is far more complicated than that of the infantry. Even with Zhou Yu, the Chibi ‘God of Fire’, it is impossible to train the navy well in a short period of time.

The Qingzhou navy was not well trained and could not go to the battlefield, but the original Yellow River navy could, so the task of transporting grain and grass this time naturally fell on the original Yellow River navy.

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