The battle between Xiang Liang and Lu Zhe will not be the most complicated, but it will definitely be the most chaotic it has ever been.

On Lu Zhe's side, not to mention the headquarters and Ji Busuo that have been put into battle, Su Lie's side is also clearing the forces of Chu in Jiujiang County after unifying the Shu clan, and then there is a 70,000-strong army led by Gongwei who is preparing to enter the battlefield, a 50,000-strong army is near Peng Xinze, and finally there is a 70,000-strong army assembled in Hengshan County as a reserve and may be mobilized into the battlefield at any time.

Xiang Liang personally led a force in Lujiang County, a south in Surabaya County, and troops in Huiji County were also mobilized. The Chu army that entered Lujiang County besieged Fanyang after defeating Huan Chu and Ji Bu successively, and the troops that spilled out were ravaging all parts of Lujiang. The distance between the troops of Surabaya County and Huiji was more than three hundred miles away from the main force of the Chu army, and combined with the chaotic defeated army of Huizhang County, the sluggish command was certain.

In many cases, it is not easy to control the troops in the absence of effective contact, so it is necessary to have a set of operational plans before the start of the war, and this plan is not immutable, so the core of the plan lies in how to accomplish the final operational objectives, and the rest of the directions may change at any time, but this depends on how the commander in command of the overall situation is combined and arranged.

It is impossible for the army to carry a large amount of grain and equipment anytime and anywhere, under the multi-way army, the test of logistics is particularly critical, the person in charge of dispatch on Lu Zhe's side is Kuaitong first, and then Xiao He gradually takes over, and the one who returns to Nanjun also takes over the part. Up to now, basically every army has a special person who is responsible for the supply of the army on the front line, the head of the two armies of Ji Bu and Su Lie is Xiao He, and Lu Zhe's logistics are in charge of Kuai Tong and Mian Bi.

It is not clear who is responsible for the logistics of the Chu army. However, it can be seen from Xiang Liang's wanton plundering of the Lujiang River, except that Xiang Liang's back road was cut off and he could not replenish grain and equipment. The logistical supply of the Chu State also seems to be relatively fragile?

Lu Zhe's looting in Huizhang County was actually not much, and the food was even more scarce to the point of pitiful Cheng Dù. From this, it can be seen that the people of Chu are in a state of food shortage.

Lack of grain, for what reason is there a shortage of grain, this issue Lu Zhe attaches great importance to, is it that Xiang Liang's expedition is too much for the people, or is the grain storage and harvest of Chu itself not good? Figuring out what causes the lack of food seems to be irrelevant, but in fact it is a very important factor in how to deploy in the future to attack the state of Chu.

Xiang Liang would not have been unaware that the looting and killing of Lujiang County would cause the Qianshou of Lujiang to deviate from the Chu State, which had some expectations, so why did he know that there would be such a consequence? Lu Zhe regarded this as Xiang Liang was really forced to have no choice, on the one hand, he was using blood to warn the people of Lujiang to obey, and on the other hand, the state of Chu was indeed a little unable to bear the logistics.

Hundreds of thousands of troops. Each soldier has at least seven taels of grain per meal, and three meals a day in wartime, because the amount of food eaten in a day should be counted as three catties because of more exercise. One person has about three catties of grain a day, and hundreds of thousands of troops are hundreds of thousands of catties a day. Now one stone is about thirty kilograms in the future, how many stones should an army of hundreds of thousands eat in a month?

Lu Zhe attaches great importance to the correct figures, and has made special statistics after the war, and the consumption of food in the war is very terrible, and this does not count the losses that will be abandoned during the war.

That's it. When fighting, the course of the war is often not based on the victory or defeat on the battlefield, but also on the maintenance of logistics.

After arriving in Anfeng, the communist lieutenant did not immediately attack the six counties, and he needed to wait for the commander of the army to count the military rations that could be used in battle. An Feng served as a bridgehead for Lu Zhe's attack on Jiujiang County and for guarding against the direction of Zhao Guo, which came from the attack of Chen County. After it was occupied, it had a reserve of military rations, but the amount was not too much, it should be five months' supply of 50,000 troops.

Zhangzuo counted the grain originally carried by the army and the military rations stored by Anfeng. The result was that if no new military rations were obtained after the war, the existing grain could only support 70,000 troops, which was about two and a half months' supply.

Two and a half months' worth of food is basically enough for an army. After reconfirming, the lieutenant led the army to march out, and it took three days to arrive in the six counties. For the six counties, which had no city walls, it took only half a day to reach the goal of capture, and then left the necessary garrison to point to the other planned target, Lixian.

Su Lie, who was attacking near Chaohu Lake, got the news that Gongwei's army had entered Jiujiang County on the second day after Gongwei took the six counties, and at this time, Su Lie and Shu's troops had been fighting with the local Jiang clan and other allied forces in Jiujiang County for three days.

The number of troops invested by the two sides is not too much compared to the number of 100,000 or 200,000 people in Lujiang County, Su Lie and Shu's side are almost 50,000, and Jiang's and other coalition troops are more than 70,000. In the three-day battle, the losses on both sides were actually not large, and there were only two battles with more than 10,000 people, which was due to the constraints of the terrain.

The news that Liuxian and Lixian were successively captured by the Gongwei of Lu Zhejun was a bad news for the local forces of Jiujiang County, and they lost successive battles with Su Lie, waiting for the discovery that Gongwei had obtained that Qianxian and Liuxian were also advancing towards Chaohu, and the Jiang clan sent envoys to express their willingness to armistice.

Su Lie received the order to deal with the Chu army south of Surabaya County with the Gongwei in Jiujiang County, and he did not hesitate after receiving a truce from the local forces in Jiujiang County and expressed a request for annexation, and sent someone to inform Lu Zhe, who was in Huizhang County, to ask the Gongwei to speed up the march, and at the same time began to negotiate terms with the Jiang clan and other local forces.

There are too many forces in Jiujiang County, basically the one I occupy a few townships, and this one he occupies one county or half a county, and the staggering of its forces is dazzling.

Surrender, and then ask for the preservation of existing troops and territory, this is actually a surrender demand that most people make, so it is a relatively normal category.

Surrender, not surrendering the troops and retaining the territory, and demanding how much food and weapons, and even proposing unbelievably high official positions, and asking for full authority over the entire county, to put forward such conditions is purely a brain caught in the door.

Su Lie faced with the many local forces in Jiujiang County, the conditions put forward were too many and too miscellaneous to deal with, and he himself was extremely short of time, so he asked those forces for the army to cross the border first.

The conditions have not been negotiated yet, how can those forces be willing to let Su Lie's troops enter the territory? In fact, they all intend to surrender and annex and are still struggling with this, which can be seen from this is indeed a group of guys who don't understand the situation.

Later, the army of the communist lieutenants also came over, and in the face of the reality that they were stronger than others, the Jiang clan, which was relatively strong, took the lead in compromising.

With the compromise of the Jiang clan, Su Lie opened a gap and chose some forces that did not meet the actual conditions to be cleared up, and no one dared to chirp crookedly under the lesson of blood.

"The military information obtained by the Lord is that the Chu army in Surabaya County going south will pass through the line between Yinling and Dongcheng, and the exact marching route of the Chu army needs to be reconnoitred by ourselves." Su Lie said this to the lieutenant.

The lieutenant has become more reticent recently, he seems to be in a trance that is not in a state, or Su Lie called a few times before he came back to his senses.

“…… Is it to take the line of Shaobo (Huainan City), or the line along the river? Su Lie looked at the somewhat distraught lieutenant strangely and asked again.

The lieutenant finally looked at the map of the mountains and rivers, the line of Shaobo is the northbound route, and there is a large lake with a large area, which is a good choice for an army that wants to hide its whereabouts, but it is still unclear where the army going south in Surabaya County is located, if it is staggered from the Chu army in the north, it is difficult to say whether it can be intercepted, not to mention achieving the planned goal of annihilation. Along the Yangtze River, the march is leaning on the line of the Yangtze River, which is a very stable route, at least there is no need to worry about staggering with the Chu army, and the disadvantage is that it is impossible to hide its whereabouts.

"My headquarters has traveled nearly 500 miles, and has not been rested, and now I have to rush another 150 miles, and I am afraid that I will be exhausted and difficult to fight when I arrive." The lieutenant said the actual situation of the army in his headquarters, and he muttered for a moment: "First send scouts to reconnoiter the position of the Chu army heading south," the troops were too lacking in rest, so they built yì: "The army temporarily stopped in place, to rest and to deter those who had just surrendered." ”

"This ......" Su Lie hesitated, and the order he got was to use the fastest time to defeat or annihilate the southbound Chu army, but it was also true that the troops were tired, and he looked at the lieutenant in a daze: "The troops should naturally rest, but ...... Isn't that right? He stammered a little, reminding the military order, but the lieutenant sounded a little crooked.

"Alas, the lieutenant knows the situation, because my father ......" The lieutenant's understanding is that his father's affairs in the Chu camp are estimated to be well known, and the recent military law Cao of the military camp has also been a little strange about his attitude, so he is a little sensitive: "But the troops are really very tired, let them force the march, even if they really find the Chu army, it is not suitable for combat." If you go into battle regardless of the exhaustion of the troops, I am afraid that the casualties will be very severe. For the sake of the soldiers and for the sake of being able to complete the mission of defeating the Chu army in the south, I personally honor and disgrace......"

"Wait!" Su Lie still didn't know about Gongwei's father, so he was a little confused, "I'm talking about the combat goal on the military order, what does it have to do with my father?" ”

Gongwei was a little dumbfounded, he saw that Su Lie didn't seem to be pretending to be stupid, and said with a wry smile: "I thought you knew." ”

"What do you mean?" Su Lie asked.

The lieutenant is a little lost and a little decadent, he has been tortured by all kinds of things lately, and he really needs to find someone to talk to. He knew that Su Lie was a simple person, and the friendship between the two was not bad, so he slowly told some of the things that his father had encountered in Chuying and himself in the army, but he didn't write a letter to Gongao to ask him to rebel, after all, whether the matter was done or not, the impact was too bad. (To be continued......)