Thinking of something, Dai Cai immediately suggested: "General, why don't you use some of the soldiers under the last general's command as the vanguard to falsely open the Linjiang gate?"
After being startled for a moment, Li Xingchen hesitated. He believed in Dai Cai, but that didn't mean that he also believed in Dai Cai's subordinates. If those people defected when the time came, then I'm afraid Chen Zhishen and the others would be really in danger.
Chen Zhishen and others also looked at Dai Cai with suspicion. Compared with Li Xingchen, they did not have much trust in Dai Cai who surrendered. However, due to Li Xingchen's face, they could not say it in public, and according to what Dai Cai had said before
, this person should still have value, but it would be too much to ask them to trust Dai Cai's subordinates now.
A look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Dai Cai's face. All the eyes of Chen Zhishen and others fell on him, giving Dai Cai a burning feeling. But he also knew that since he had chosen this path, there was no other choice.
You can walk on this road, but if you want to continue on this road, you have to try your best to integrate into this group.
No matter which group you integrate into, it is bound to be a difficult process, not to mention that most of Li Xingchen's group are proud soldiers.
"General, the general has been in Yong'an for more than ten years. There are still people under his command who are loyal to the general. The general will select ten people, led by a general. They do not carry weapons and obey Chen and Wang.
The general's dispatch." Dai Cai raised his hands and said in a deep voice, "General, please trust me."
Chen Zhishen, Wang Chang and others looked at each other subconsciously, and the hostility on their faces dissipated a lot.
"Zidong (Dai Cai's cousin name), it's not that I don't believe you," Li Xingchen's expression softened and he smiled slightly, "Don't think too much, the cities are scattered among the Bashu mountains, and I want to capture the city, right?
Dong Ke has many places to rely on.”
Li Xingchen no longer called him "Captain" as before, but called him by his first name, which naturally showed his closeness and trust to Dai Cai. Dai Cai suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and respectfully held his hands in his hands: "The last general will never be defeated."
Disappointing the general's trust."
Li Xingchen then turned to look at Chen Zhishen and Wang Chang: "Do you two have anything else to say?"
Chen Zhishen and Wang Chang were not stupid either. They hurriedly handed over their hands at the same time: "The last general will definitely live up to his command."
Li Xingchen nodded slightly: "The key to this battle is to fight quickly. Only by attacking when the enemy is not prepared can we capture these places."
Dai Cai also followed up and said: "As far as the general knows, Linjiang City is adjacent to Ba County and has more troops, probably about a thousand, while Nannan County and Wanchuan County are not as good as Yong'an City, with a total of only
Hundreds of old and weak soldiers and dozens of government officials."
Chen Zhishen and Wang Chang glanced at each other subconsciously. This was a very important piece of information. Of course, they would not take the enemy lightly because of this, but they estimated that this battle should be much easier than imagined.
Li Xingchen stood quietly and watched Chen Zhishen and Wang Chang turn and leave. In any case, this was the first time that these two generals acted alone. Without Li Xingchen's command and the cooperation of more troops, Li Xingchen didn't know what he would get.
A victory or a defeat, but he must train these generals and let them grow faster in the blood and fire.
After letting the other generals retreat in advance, Li Xingchen turned to look at Dai Cai, the only one left behind: "Zidong, I have one more thing."
Dai Cai was startled for a moment: "General, it doesn't matter if you say so."
Li Xingchen rubbed his chin and said in a deep voice: "You must also know, Zidong, that I, Da Chen, are fighting hard against the barbarians in Jingzhou. Therefore, except for the seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses brought by a certain person, the court should have a hard time
Give X more help.”
Dai Cai only heard this and already understood what Li Xingchen meant: "General, do you want soldiers and horses?"
Li Xingchen was silent for a moment and nodded solemnly.
It is true that he is anxious to solve the problem of food and grass, but what really troubles Li Xinchen is not the food and grass, but the source of troops.
People will die in war, but for the whole of Nanchen, the most critical thing now is the shortage of soldiers and horses. Where can he find so many soldiers to supplement his losses and further control the entire Bashu region?
Dai Cai smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid this will disappoint the general. Since the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, Bashu has lacked management for many years. In addition, there have been many conquests, so the people's livelihood has been in decline. Just looking at the situation in Baidi City, the general will probably know something.
2. As for the Bashu defenders, there are even many who were left behind when Yu Chijun attacked Bashu, otherwise they would not be so vulnerable."
Li Xingchen paced back and forth in front of the desk. He had expected this situation. In fact, not only after the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, first Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, and then Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition. During the Shu Han period, the entire Kingdom of Heaven was almost completely destroyed.
, in the subsequent struggle between the north and the south, the focus was on the line from Huainan to Jingzhou, and there was naturally a lack of attention and management for Bashu. Therefore, it is reasonable for the once-rich Tianfu to become like this.
The Nanchen army lacked enough young men, and the entire leadership was biased towards aging. In fact, this problem did not exist in the Northern Zhou Dynasty?
In recent years, the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty have been fighting endlessly, and there have been conflicts with the Southern Chen Dynasty. There have been a lot of casualties among the soldiers. Compared with the Southern Chen Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty also has Bashu, which belongs to the semi-rear area, so it can still be used by constantly recruiting young people.
The Bashu garrison came to make up for the army's losses and continued to gain the upper hand.
It's just that this supplement method tastes like drinking poison to quench thirst, so the Bashu defenders now in front of Li Xinchen have almost no power to fight.
Dai Cai's subordinates, Li Xinchen, had also seen it, and only two or three hundred people could be selected to join the army. The rest would be used as government servants or laborers at most. Li Xinchen would not dare to lead such an army on the battlefield.
Dai Cai changed the subject: "General, in fact there are very few people in Bashu, just Han people. I wonder if the general has ever heard of the White Ming Soldiers?"
How could Li Xingchen, the White Soul Soldier, not know that this was Liu Bei's personal guard unit during the Three Kingdoms period? Which one of Zhao Yun, Chen Dao and others who led this unit was not famous? In fact, the White Soul Soldier really had a complete structural framework, or was it in
After Liu Bei entered Shu and stabilized.
At that time, the source of troops of the White Army was similar to that of another legendary army of the Shu Han Dynasty, the Wudang Fei Army. Neither of them came from the Han people. Or in other words, in the era of the Three Kingdoms when the population of the Han people dropped sharply, the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, especially in remote areas
In fact, the main sources of soldiers of Shu and Wu are not Han people. The soldiers of Wu are from Shanyue, and the soldiers of Shu...
"You mean the Ba people?" Li Xingchen frowned.
To put it nicely, they are called "Ba people", but according to the more common saying in this era, they should be called "barbarians".