They attacked the mountain stronghold early in the morning. Liu Chan and others had eaten in advance, but the bandits, old, weak, women and children were still hungry at this time.
They made a fire and cooked rice on the spot in the village. After sharing the food with men, women, old and children, they took the remaining food and supplies and began to go down the mountain under the arrangements of Liu Chan's people.
Similar things have been done many times, and the military prince just arranged it in an orderly manner, so Liu Chan didn't need to worry about it at all.
This position of military marquis was appointed privately by Liu Chan and was not considered a formal establishment.
In fact, strictly speaking, the troops under Liu Chan's command are just private soldiers he raised.
After all, he himself didn't hold an official position at this time, he was just a second-generation official.
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On the way down the mountain, Liu Chan was riding among the team on a sacred black horse that was rarely seen here.
This horse looks like it is still young, but it will be even more majestic when it grows up.
The soldiers marching in line silently guarded the surroundings, rarely whispering to each other.
The appearance of this tidy army was very different from other armies that Hu Li had seen, and it was definitely beyond the control of local counties.
There are no soldiers in counties and counties. Those so-called soldiers in counties and counties are only responsible for maintaining internal security, and there is no way they can have such strong combat effectiveness.
Not to mention military discipline and so on.
There was just one thing that made Hu Li a little worried.
The team had been walking for a long time, but he didn't find what he should have been able to see - the food and fodder being transported.
He visually estimated that there were at least four to five hundred of these soldiers. Based on the minimum standard of two kilograms of grain per day, they would consume a thousand kilograms in a day (the kilograms appearing here and in the following text are all Han kilograms, and one kilogram is about the modern Half a catty, no further labeling).
He originally thought that Liu Chan had set up another camp nearby to store food for safety reasons, but it seemed that there was not.
There is no food, so why do you have to bring the old and the weak with you?
At this time, he will inevitably have some bad associations. After all, in this era of cannibalism, the word "cannibalism" is not just an adjective.
It has been two years since Liu Bei launched the Battle of Hanzhong, and Xichuan, originally known as the Land of Abundance, is no longer what it was before.
The Lord didn't kill them just now, maybe he wanted to save some meat for the brothers...
He led the horse and walked aside. He couldn't bear the silence and solemnity in the team, but he didn't dare to take the initiative to speak. He felt very uncomfortable.
Liu Chan was not interested in his random thoughts at this time, but the opponent's favorability degree only increased to 50, and there was obviously potential for development.
This is understandable, I just drew a cake for him.
When will this cake become a reality? Only if the other party eats it with gratitude can it be transformed into a higher degree of favorability.
Past experience tells Liu Chan that it is not an easy task to maximize his favorability.
First of all, there is no point in being a licker in this day and age.
This is the lesson of blood and tears that Liu Chan learned from his past failures.
His father was scolded for knitting straw hats for Military Advisor Zhuge in his early years, and Liu Chan was scolded for taking the initiative to fan the military advisor when the weather was hot...
There are many similar lessons, which have become a dark history that cannot be looked back on.
The behavior of dog licking will only be considered as a sign of lack of ambition and future.
Finding ways to make people appreciate and admire you, and sometimes even a certain amount of fear, is the way to gain favor.
To increase Hu Li's favorability, more communication is necessary.
What's more, those who can trigger the favorability prompt are generally useful talents, so it's better to know more about them.
So Liu Chan chuckled and said, "Hu Li, I guess you have had a lot of dealings with officers and soldiers, and your father once led his troops to fight against the armies. In your opinion, what is the combat strength of our army?"
Seeing Liu Chan taking the initiative to talk to him, Hu Li hurriedly smiled and said: "Back to my lord, my lord's magic soldiers have descended from the sky, and the soldiers are so heroic that one is worth a hundred..."
"Give you another chance and tell the truth."
"Uh..." Seeing Liu Chan's stern face, Hu Li immediately hesitated. He was still a little worried that he would be used as human meat and dry food. "The villain's vision is limited, but compared with what my father saw and heard back then, the elites of each family are also That’s all.”
"Yeah." Liu Chan smiled.
"Even so, my lord was able to break through the stronghold without spending a single soldier. He really used his troops like a god."
This wasn't Hu Li's flattery, he really didn't want to understand.
The village was built on the mountain, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. His father had also set up several sentries in the mountains and forests, echoing the village.
You said that it would be okay if you had a few hundred people to attack the stronghold. The young men in the stronghold today are no longer the old Yellow Turbans of the past, and indeed their combat power is inferior.
But how could you not find out until you were beaten to the village gate? How could they not die alone?
Liu Chan curled his lips, he wanted to use these people to do big things.
If the bandits suffered heavy losses, then I might as well spend decades enjoying myself, wait for the country to be ruined and my family to be destroyed, and then just stop thinking about Shu and be done with it.
The 510-man team he led, except for 10 who were personal guards assigned to him by his family, the other 500 people were neither Lao Liu's white soldiers, nor the unworthy flying army that had not yet been formed.
These were all established and brought out by Liu Chan himself using the privileges he had finally obtained from Lao Liu and the military advisor.
Recruit young people based on the refugees who came to Xichuan. After training, they will be sent out to suppress bandits, and then gradually absorb the defeated bandits from all over the country.
Liu Chan's capital was limited, and based on the principle of valuing troops more than more, he spent several years selecting and choosing from among the fittest to have the 500 men he has today.
He made an agreement with Zhuge Military Advisor that the food, wages, equipment, and even the accommodation of their relatives must be paid by Liu Chan's own money, and no public funds could be used.
After spending so much effort, how could he die here so easily?
"Have you not noticed that there have been more people going up the mountain to cut firewood and hunt recently? Have you ever seen them coming down the mountain before nightfall? I already know the topography of the surrounding area clearly."
Liu Chan curled his lips and did not hide his disdain, "You send people out of the stronghold to collect water. From the frequency and amount of water, you can calculate the approximate number of people in the stronghold, and then it is not difficult to calculate the number of young people who can fight. As for the sentry... Are those shabby sheds also called sentries?"
With such anti-reconnaissance awareness, he was caught all by himself, what's the surprise?
Hu Li was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized and smiled bitterly.
But he didn't think it was because he had done something bad. On the contrary, he admired the young lord even more.
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As the two talked from time to time on the road, the fear and tension in Hu Li's heart gradually disappeared.
Although there are some bad rumors about this lord, in actual contact, he doesn't seem to be a cannibal.
He finally had the courage to ask the doubts in his heart.
"Lord, where are we going?"
"It's been more than a month since I left home this time, and it's time to return to Chengdu." Liu Chan counted the days. If nothing unexpected happened, he estimated that his father Liu's battle in Hanzhong would soon be over.
Liu, who is nearly sixty years old, has been struggling for most of his life. Every time he met Boss Cao, he was hunted down.
After risking everything this time, I finally had the capital to compete with Boss Cao in Hanzhong.
And in the end, he was proud and proud.
In the future, Lao Liu will take advantage of the situation to be called the King of Hanzhong, and usher in the most glorious moment of Guan Ershu's life, the Battle of Xiangfan, and the flooding of the Seventh Army.
Historical records: Yu, powerful in China!
However, Lao Liu's short-lived happiness not only came suddenly, but also went away even more suddenly.
Next year, Fazhenghui will die, Huang Zhonghui will die, Soochow will be stabbed in the back, my second uncle will defect to the enemy, Second Master Guan will die in battle, Third Master Zhang will be killed, and there will be a fire in Yiling...
Ji Han seemed to have been stabbed in the back not by Soochow but by God, ushering in a rapid vertical decline in the country's fortunes.
Even Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, had a unique skill inherited from his ancestors and had full life-saving skills. He was about to fall ill and die. The White Emperor left him alone and the middle path collapsed.
Liu Chan is working hard now, just to try his best in the near future.
Bet on your own destiny and Ji Han's national destiny.
Although in history Liu Chan enjoyed good food and drink throughout his life, he was able to die well in the enemy's country.
But no matter where he is, throughout his life, he will only exist like a mascot.
For a dignified emperor, even the life in the harem must be controlled.
When he dies and goes underground to meet his father Liu Bei, the only thing he can brag about is - the son I gave birth to, Liu Chen, is better than your son Liu Chan...
Such a life is absolutely unacceptable to this soul today.
But he tried taking the upper-level route, but it didn't work.
The bottom line is that he is too young and no one takes him seriously.
He couldn't do anything that was too outrageous. In this age of endless chatter, if anyone suspected that he was possessed by evil spirits, it would be the end.
As for doing nothing and killing Mi Fang and Fu Shiren who surrendered to the enemy before the battle... Stop making trouble. Liu Chan, who grew up with the army, knew that these two people were Lao Liu's confidants.
One is my second uncle, an early angel investor, who initially refused Boss Cao’s solicitation.
The other is an old brother who has been following Conquer the World since Youzhou, and he used to be very loyal.
That's why Lao Liu felt comfortable letting them guard strategic locations like Jiangling and Public Security Bureau.
Uncle Guan never dreamed that these two people would not even resist, just hang up and initiate surrender.
Four years ago, I tentatively said that the two of them looked useless, and they might surrender to the enemy one day...
As a result, Lao Liu immediately slapped his ears.
Not counting the beating, he kept asking for a long time who taught him this.
Not to mention that they are in a high position, so they are not easy to kill.
Even if Liu Chan could really kill the two of them secretly, if it was found out that it was him who did it, what Liu Chan, who had always cared deeply about his old brothers, would do... I can't even think about it.
Fortunately, he still has a favorability reward, and he still has the opportunity to change his destiny on his own!
Just to fight Hanzhong, Lao Liu had already studded, and it was impossible for him to send one soldier at a time.
It was Liu Chan's limit to keep the soldiers he had trained from being "confiscated" by Zhuge's military advisor and sent to the front line.
This person can't change the general trend of Jingzhou, but he can give it a try and try to save his second uncle Guan!
As long as people don't die, there is still hope.
He has been preparing for this in recent years.
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Here Hu Li heard that he was going to Chengdu, and after thinking about it, he felt a thump in his heart.
The journey here is not close, and Liu Chan and the others didn't bring any food or grass... How can they just rely on the food stored in their village to suffice?
Once the grain reserves are used up, even if we arrive in Chengdu, what will the old, weak, women and children eat in the future?
He didn't think that Liu Chan would keep raising these people in vain. There was no such thing in the world.
Hu Li couldn't help but test it out: "It's more than three hundred miles to Chengdu, I'm just worried about food and grass..."
Liu Chan didn't care, and was still thinking about his big plan. He just waved his hand and said calmly: "Someone will prepare the necessary food and grass for us."
Hu Li was dubious, but he didn't dare to say anything more.
Mr. Liu has a distinguished status, so he naturally does not worry about food and drink.
But who would feed lowly people like them with free food?
