After sending Zhang Liang to contact Chen Len, Luo Cheng stopped marching in Linyi.

It was not that Luo Cheng had decided that Chen Ling would surrender, but that Linyi now has gathered three troops, more than 70,000 people, and tens of thousands of civilians recruited.

Such a huge army and civilians, it is very terrifying to eat horses and chew.

Luo Cheng's army came from Liaodong to cross the sea expedition. When he arrived in Linyi, Luo Cheng faced the problem of not being able to keep up with the supply of food and grass, so he could only temporarily delay the march and wait for the food and grass to be mobilized later.

In recent years, the Central Plains have been destroyed by war, and the land in Shandong is not much better. The plain counties on the canal to the west are originally grain-producing areas, but they are the most severely damaged by war, with population loss and barren fields.

In the central Shandong region, they are all mountainous areas. The Donglai Peninsula is relatively stable, but the area is narrow and wide, so it is difficult to support itself.

Over the past year, Shandong has raised tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. After that, Luo Cheng has sent troops southwards and now he has led two armies to land. Therefore, this small Shandong now has six soldiers and as many as 150,000.

Relying on the mountainous areas of Shandong and Donglai Peninsula, where is it available?

So Luo Cheng had to transport grain from Liaodong across the sea, which was a huge burden. When Yang Guang conquered Liao, he recruited millions of civilians to transport grain to Liaodong, but now Luo Cheng had to transport grain back to Shandong.

Although the number of troops was only more than 10% of Yang Guangchu's conquest of Liaodong, this was also a major project.

While waiting for the food and grass, Luo Cheng simply asked his three troops to start farming on the spot. Anyway, he was idle and trained while garrisoning.

He also adjusted the three armies, so that the Zuo Shenji Army, which was originally the weakest, had supplemented many experienced Liaodong officers and veterans of the Zhongwu Army.

The city is full of fire.

The people's livelihood has collapsed.

"Indeed, Li Yuan went north from Jiangdu and plundered all the counties of Jiangdu, Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Donghai. Otherwise, we could go south to fight for food because of the enemy's food. But now all the counties in the south are empty. If we go there, we will not only not get supplies, but also have to save food to those hungry people."

It doesn’t take Chen Le’s need to make a strong wall and clear the world. Li Yuan has plundered it once and it’s very clean.

The most important thing in this war is food and grass.

The bigger the army, the more afraid of insufficient food and grass.

Even a war god-level figure like Luo Cheng has an army of more than 70,000, and it is difficult to move without food.

"At this time, I really envied Dou Jiande and Li Mi. These two people, one occupied Li Yang Cang and the other occupied Xingluo Cang. These were all the savings of the Sui Dynasty for decades. Now they rely on these foods to do whatever they want, and they are desperate to grab territory everywhere. We can't do it. I have worked hard in Liaodong for several years. This time, Du Ruhui explained that he could support it for half a year at most, and would collapse in half a year."

Guo Xiaoke, who had just replaced Xue Wanjun as the deputy envoy of the Zuo Shenji Army, smiled and said, "After all, the soldiers are not iron-clad. If they don't die on this day, they have to eat and drink. Besides, they have to consume weapons when fighting. Not to mention anything else, just the war horses and pack mules in the army, I don't know how much food and grass they have to chew away in a day."

"That's why I envy Li Mi and the others even more."

From this perspective, Luo Cheng has to say that Li Mi is actually quite good at a certain level. He decided to go north to attack Luoyang, but in fact he had a good vision. He successfully seized Luokou Cang, and then there was a situation where there was constant violence in the future.

"Master, Li Mi's life is not easy now. Li Yuan went west, broke into several counties, robbed countless money and grain, and even forced countless people to enter the pass when he left. This was considered as stabbing Li Mi with a fierce stab. However, the most cruel ones were Wang Shichong, Pei Renji, Wei Wensheng and others, who killed Li Mi off guard, and failed to defeat Dou Jiande."

Luo Cheng shook his head.

"It's not until Li Mi finished, this old boy is smart. He and Dou Jiande were going to fight to the decisive battle, but after only a few battles, they each hurt tens of thousands of people. But as soon as there intervened, he immediately took the initiative to quit the war with Dou Jiande and shook hands and made peace. Not everyone has this decisiveness."

Although Li Mi suffered some losses, she had not yet hurt the truth. So what if Li Yuan destroyed some of his counties and robbed his population? Li Yuan could only rob and ran away, and Li Yuan could not stay and occupy his territory, so this loss had little impact at all.

At best, it can only be said that Li Mi missed a great opportunity to solve Li Yuan and get rid of future troubles. If he waited for him to defeat Dou Jiande and then turned around, Li Yuan might never be able to go back to Guanzhong.

As for Wang Shichong, although he didn't know how to persuade Wei Wensheng from Guanzhong to come to help, in the entire battle situation, he could not change much of his disadvantages.

After being beaten by Li Mi for so long, what's the use of a sneak attack and counterattack? He didn't take down Luokou Cang, nor did he break through the Hulao Pass. He just ruined Li Mi's good things and helped Li Yuan run away. There was no change for him.

Originally, Li Mi wanted to defeat Dou Jiande first and then attack Shandong. As for Luoyang, she just planned to continue to trap him to death. Now, Li Mi was angry and shook hands with Dou and spoke out. Li Yuan ran away. Luo Cheng didn't bother to intercept him. Now he is fighting back to Luoyang with all his might and wants to destroy him first.

"What I really have to finish is Dou Jiande. He went to Henan and went through a lot of trouble. He didn't take any advantage, but he lost more than 10,000 troops. Now he still has someone to take a chance on the way out." Luo Cheng said with a smile. He is waiting for good news from Hebei every day.

I hoped to break Dou Jiande's old nest, Hejian Leshou, as soon as possible. In this way, Dou Jiande, the king of Hebei, would be almost the same.

At that time, he will wipe out Huainan, Siye and others will wipe out Hebei, and then they will join forces to attack Luoyang. No matter who can win, Wang Shichong or Li Mi will be unable to survive under his attack from the north and south. This is the grand strategy.

Regardless of the gains and losses of a city and a place, it is a Go layout and killing the dragon.

Hejian.

Leshou, Jincheng Palace.

"It's over!"

The left-behind Gao Junya, Dong Kangmai, Wang Xiaohu and other Xia Army generals were all in panic.

"Luo Siye captured Qingyuan City in northwest of Hejian!"

"Rosmo captured Xiongxian!"

"Feng Xiaoci captured Lucheng in the northeast, Changlu."

"Report!"

"Guo Xuan attacked Lucheng, Xindu County from Hengshan County and Wuqiang County from Wenli County, and has reached the south of our Leshou, and stationed troops on the north bank of Zhangshui River."

"Leshou has been surrounded by all sides!"

Dong Kangmai asked with a trembling trembling, "Where is Your Majesty, where is Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty's forward Liu Yamen just crossed Qinghe, and Your Majesty is still in Guantao!"

The generals' faces became even more ugly now.
Chapter completed!