Eat the mountains by the mountains, and eat the sea by the sea.

For a fleet of more than 300,000 people, the consumption of food is also very large. When Li Jing went out to sea from the mouth of the Heishui River, he didn't carry much food. For Li Jing, every grain of grain and grass transported from the Central Plains to the Bohai Sea is precious, because the distance is too far, and the transportation consumption is extremely high. However, this is not difficult for the Qin army, a large fleet is walking on the sea, and they are not worried about food. The sea had everything they needed, and the sailors of the Qin army were the most powerful water army of this era, and at the same time, the most powerful fishing team of this era.

The naval warships escorting the transport fleet played their second-hand skills at sea, fishing.

Every day, the warships of the navy division were sailing and escorting, and at the same time, they caught a net of fish, which not only fully met the needs of more than 300,000 people at sea, but even had a surplus to make canned fish.

At sea, Li Jing starts every morning with a bowl of seafood porridge made from various seafoods. This is also a rare leisure time for Li Jing, the sea trip, although there are occasional winds and waves, but the crew of the fleet are extremely experienced, and they go very easily. There is no need to trek on horseback every day, nor to sleep in the open air, to bask in the autumn sun on the deck during the day, to chat with a few women in the cabin at night, and occasionally to talk about strategy and tactics with the staff officers in the chamber, or simply to participate in fishing or pulling nets with the guards.

Such a rare relaxed and leisure life is like an extremely rare vacation, and it is more like a honeymoon trip.

At least, this comfort and relaxation lasted until September.

In September, the fleet sailed around the coast. Returned to Vladivostok.

The fleet docked in Vladivostok. Carry out replenishment and repairs. After a month's worth of fish, they desperately needed to be supplied with some other food in Vladivostok, especially fresh vegetables and fruits, and at least some beans so that they could sprout on board. On long-distance voyages at sea, if there is no vegetable and fruit supplement for a long time, it is very likely to suffer from sepsis, therefore. Consuming fruits and vegetables for vitamin supplementation is a must. Moreover, after floating on the sea for a month, Li Jing was basically isolated from the outside world, and he urgently needed to know the latest situation in the Bohai Battlefield and the Central Plains.

As soon as he got off the ship, Li Jing's attendant room started quickly, and the work started with the fastest efficiency.

Li Jing quickly piled up countless documents and reports in front of him, but Li Jing first started reading newspapers.

However, it was filtered and screened by the attendant room for him, and the important information in each newspaper was marked, and Li Jing read the newspaper while waiting for the attendant room to compile the updated and more important information, and at the same time he could get more and more comprehensive information from the newspaper.

Browse in a hurry. Li Jing glanced at ten lines. With the pioneer of the Qin Dynasty in the newspaper industry, the newspaper industry is now very prosperous. There are even some deformities. Especially in the Qin Domain, the rapid development of papermaking and printing, as well as the post station system, gave birth to a boom in newspapers. The large number of industrial workers, as well as the rapid spread of new education, gave the Qin clan the highest literacy rate, and at the same time made newspapers more prosperous. There are countless tabloids and tabloids. The common people also like to read the newspaper, whether it is officials or literati, or soldiers and ordinary people, everyone likes to read the newspaper and like to get those big and small things from the newspaper.

Even the intelligence unit of the Inspectorate used newspaper code words to convey all kinds of information.

Li Jing first read ordinary newspapers, although they were all small things such as people's livelihood, and some big things were true or false, but what he wanted to read was things like people's livelihood. It can be learned from the newspaper that this year's bumper harvest in various places, especially in the land of Hebei and Shandong Huanghuai in the Qin Domain, has obtained a bumper harvest, even a bumper harvest in the summer, and the rice harvest is gratifying. Although the main crop, wheat, is only one crop, but it has also been harvested. This news made Li Jing very happy and relieved.

In the war and the war, it is still the logistics supply that is fought. If the harvest is not good this year, it will not only affect the war, but also make the livelihood of the Qin Domain, which has just recovered a little, fall into difficulties. Li Jing is not the marshals of other feudal towns, he only thinks about the use of military force, Li Jing controls a powerful feudal town, and must ensure the prosperity and strength under his rule, first from the inside out, as long as the internal is stable, in order to be invincible to the outside. A feudal town as powerful as the Qin Domain, it is already difficult to destroy them from the outside, and the only thing that can really destroy such a powerful feudal town is from the inside.

Many other news in the newspaper were also not bad, in short, nothing bad happened to the Qin Fan that worried Li Jing.

This made Li Jing breathe a sigh of relief, and began to pick up the tea that had been cooled and sipped it.

After drinking a copy of this year's Ming Qian Longjing and eating a few pieces of osmanthus cake made of freshly beaten osmanthus, Li Jing picked up a few internal newspapers and periodicals on the other side such as internal reference and other internal newspapers that carried more important news. These newspapers have a lot less of the breath of life, and the liveliness of ordinary people is a little more serious. Li Jing looked very slowly, and looked at the parts that were circled by the key points, and it took him a long time to finish reading.

By the time he had finished reading it, the chamberlain had already brought another stack of papers, but they were all briefings on the important matters they had just sorted out for the past few months.

"Just read it!" Li Jing waved his hand, read the newspaper for most of the day, his eyes were also a little tired, he simply leaned back on the soft chair, changed to a comfortable listening position, and his eyes were half-closed.

"Yes!"

"The first piece of news, Li Keyong launched an attack on Shanxi Province in May, this offensive, Li Keyong united Zhenwu, Tiande, Baoda, Dingnan, Chengde, Weibo, Hezhong, Heyang a total of nine towns, and at the same time launched an attack on Shanxi, Beiping, Hebei, Shandong and other places. Almost at the same time, Zhu Quanzhong of Henan united nine towns including Zhou Qi, Lu Yanhong, Zhu Cun, Li Quanzhong, and Han Jian to reinforce Chenzhou and attack Caizhou, Huaixi, and Yinghao Prefectures. ”

Li Jing has just seen these news in the newspaper, whether it is an ordinary newspaper or an internal reference, there are reports on this matter. The attack of these two coalition armies, a total of eighteen feudal towns, on the Qin army was considered by the people of the world to be the rupture of the relationship between the new imperial court of Chang'an and Li Jing, and the formal war between the two sides began. In particular, some newspapers other than the Qin Domain have reports with noses and eyes, saying that all the princes of the Eighteen Routes will attack the Qin Domain. The biggest reason was that Li Jing rejected the request of the Son of Heaven of Chang'an to make his eldest daughter the queen. and said that the reason why Li Jing refused to be the emperor's father-in-law of Taishan. It's because Li Jing is now full-fledged. Prepare to usurp the throne and seek the dynasty and establish himself as the emperor. They even came up with some evidence, the evidence of which is that now many famous civil and military courtiers in the original imperial court, and even some famous nobles in the world, have received Li Jing's invitation to go to Yanjing. It is said that they went to Yanjing to prepare for Li Jing's enthronement ceremony.

But despite all the talk in those newspapers. The Eighteen Domains also launched an offensive against the Qin Domain at the same time, but there was no official statement from the court of Chang'an. So far, the Yang brothers have not made any remarks about attacking Li Jing. They seem to have taken a blind eye to the military operations in the Eighteen Towns.

Li Jing only thought about it for a moment, and then he knew the reason for this result.

The attitude of the Yang brothers showed that they did not want to fight the Qin Domain so soon in the first place. They proposed to make Li Jing's daughter the empress, in order to buy more time and increase their control over the feudal towns of the new imperial court. But it backfired, and Li Jing did not hesitate to veto their proposal and broke their delaying strategy. directly incorporated the remnants of Huangchao, and quickly rebelled against the three feudal towns in Henan. Behind the scenes, he directed them to attack Chen Xu, and went straight behind Luoyang of the new imperial court, shaking the Central Plains.

However, Li Jing's reaction was tough, and Li Jing did not hide that he invited famous people from all walks of life to Yanjing to discuss the establishment of a new emperor, which made the Yang brothers choose not to have him, so they could only turn their faces with Li Jing in advance. But on the other hand, they didn't want to make things go nowhere, so they secretly connived, and even planned this attack on the two roads and eighteen towns, but they didn't make a public statement at all. In doing so, he wanted to gain the upper hand militarily first, and then force Li Jing to return to the negotiating table.

The Yang brothers were still very jealous of the Qin army's military strength, and what they wanted to do now was just to force Li Jing to recognize the new court of Chang'an while Li Jing's main force was outside the pass, so that they could justify it in the future and win more time to prepare.

It is precisely because of this that this war is somewhat strange from the beginning.

It is said that the momentum is huge, and it is indeed very large, and the eighteen feudal towns are divided into two large groups to attack the Qin domain at the same time, but on the other hand, this time the battle is a little tepid.

The southern cluster, they are more in the rescue of Chen Xu Erzhou, trying to recapture Cai, Ying, Hao Zhuzhou, the Qin army is still the main force of the four surrendered armies of Xinzhao'an, and then Yang Xingmi and Xu Sixing's battalion sent a reinforcement of soldiers and horses, the armies of both sides in the Chen Xu area are a little tepid, for most of the year, the war is still stalemate, there is no progress, just like a big quagmire. Shang Rang, Qin Zongquan, and Ge Congzhou did not capture Chenzhou, and Zhu Quanzhong and Li Quanzhong did not repel the Qin army.

In the north, however, it was not a battle, but more of a multi-way attack, and the towns were not fighting a strong attack, but a raiding war. They invaded the territory of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Beiping provinces, and did not attack the city and seize the wall, but completely plundered, just like the invasion of the grassland tribes outside the Saiwai. And their purpose is very strong, this invasion is not an ordinary raid, but directly to the north of the wheat harvest season, directly to harvest the wheat that has just rived, is ready to harvest.

The nine towns in the north gathered a large army and came to harvest wheat with a large number of people. Wherever they passed, they swept away like locusts, and there were no grains left, leaving only a short stubble, and even the straw was taken away.

While they were harvesting wheat, they were also plundering. They did not attack any of the larger walls, but the villages outside the protection of the walls were looted.

The garrisons of the Qin army in all provinces have attacked, but they are not in love with war, they attack everywhere, and they will leave as soon as they succeed. The Qin army responded in all directions, but after all, they did not dare to pursue too much, so as not to be ambushed by superior enemy forces in the field. As a result, the summer harvest in the north has suffered a great loss, and on the borders of Shanxi, Hebei, Beiping, and Shandong provinces, at least 30 percent of the summer harvest has been lost, and about 20 percent has been damaged. Many border villages were destroyed by the fighting, and more than 100,000 people were taken away.

Since then, Jiuzhen has continued to adopt this kind of raiding tactics on the border, and the garrisons in various places do not dare to fight large-scale field battles because the main force is in the north and mainly defends some important passes on the border. As a result, although the four northern provinces did not lose an inch of land or a city, they suffered heavy losses along the border.

Especially in the autumn harvest just past, although the provincial garrisons strengthened their defenses this time and called up a lot of reserves, they still suffered great losses in the face of the invading Zhuzhen troops.

Li Jing directly interrupted the staff officer and continued to read other news, clenched his fists with a dark face, and muttered, "Why don't you fight back?" ”

The attendant staff officer said cautiously: "This is the result of the deliberation of the joint meeting of the left-behind guards, the king of Qin and the army are not in the pass, and at the same time facing the attack of the eighteen towns, the left-behind meeting finally chose a defensive strategy." ”

"Defend a bird!" Li Jing scolded angrily, "It's good that Lao Tzu took away hundreds of thousands of troops, but they won't mobilize the reserves?" Well? Mobilize the reserves, even if only half of them are mobilized, and there will be hundreds of thousands of horses. Moreover, the battlefield in Henan was fought on the opponent's territory, and the real counterattack was only in the four northern provinces, and it was only against the armies of the nine feudal towns. Fuck, these guys, they're scared of a bird. Could it be that hundreds of thousands of Qin troops can't defeat the invasion of a few feudal towns? You know, this is a war on our turf, damn it, shame. ”

Li Jing slapped the table angrily, when he left, he took a lot of soldiers and horses with him, but most of them were mobilized from several provinces outside the Guan. At that time, I was thinking about such a thing, fearing that if other feudal towns took advantage of the fire to loot, it would give the Qin army the power to fight back. But now, there are still so many troops in Guannei, especially when he planned to recruit Shang Rang, Qin Zongquan and others in Henan, these surrendered troops attacked Chenzhou, and at once nine feudal towns had to be nailed to the battlefield in Henan.

But under such circumstances, when Li Keyong and other nine feudal towns attacked the north of the Qin Domain from all directions, the joint meeting that stayed behind actually chose an extremely conservative defense, which made Li Keyong and others feel like no one was in a no-man's land and looted on the border.

This is simply a shame, the so-called result of not losing an inch of land and not losing a city, in Li Jing's view, is a complete failure.

With the loss of 100,000 people, the destruction of countless villages, and the looting of a large amount of grain, there is no doubt that the Qin army is losing.

"Immediately notify the sailors, send a detachment out, and return to Yanjing immediately!" Hearing such a situation in the Central Plains, Li Jing couldn't wait any longer. He needs to return to Yanjing immediately! (To be continued......)