Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

About half an hour later, the whole sheepskin was peeled off.Li Chen threw the sheepskin to another gang leader, and said to him: "After removing all the wool, apply a layer of oil on the outside, and then put it on the fire to dry. Apply a layer of oil and dry it until it is completely dry. Until it's clear."

"Remember, keep away from the fire when baking, so as not to hurt the sheepskin."

Greasing the sheepskin and baking it is nothing technical, as long as you are careful when baking it.

Li Chen called a lot of team leaders to help peel and bake the sheep skin together, the whole camp was busy for a while.

The generals in the battalion heard that King Qin was looking for a cook to build a ship, and they all felt that this was a very new thing, so they all gathered to watch the fun.

Tonight, it was rare for Li Chen to rest, so he stared at it abruptly all night.When it was almost dawn, the skins of these dozens of sheep had been dried.

"Tie the hooves and the neck firmly!" Li Chen instructed his subordinates.

After the soldiers under him tied up the sheepskin, they handed it over again.Li Chen signaled to hand over the sheepskin to Cheng Yaojin.

"Bite gold, it's time for you to make meritorious service! Inflate this sheepskin with air." Li Chen told Cheng Yaojin.

"King Qin, my old Cheng doesn't want to take credit for this. How about you change someone?" Cheng Yaojin said embarrassingly.

Why did Cheng Yaojin say that he didn't want to give credit for this? This sheepskin is a ram. After the four hooves and the neck were pierced to death, what was left to blow air into it didn't happen to be that place.This made Cheng Yaojin how to get rid of it.

Cheng Yaojin is a lucky general, let this kid handle any unsure things, maybe it will bring some blessings.Li Chen also made this sheepskin raft based on the memory of his previous life, so it's hard to say if it's too specific.

Therefore, letting Cheng Yaojin brag about the first sheepskin is also to borrow this kid's blessing.

"No, you are our lucky general, this first sheepskin, you must come!" Li Chen said with a straight face.

After the King Qin's order was issued, Cheng Yaojin had to blow it up if he didn't want to, so he bit the bullet and blowed up the sheepskin.

Cheng Yaojin is a general. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. His lung capacity can be said to be very large. His cheeks are bulging, and the sheepskin raft is bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chapter 369 Qin Jun likes to eat sheep

Cheng Yaojin's lung capacity is really big, he didn't have much time to inflate the sheepskin to the full.The whole sheepskin was bulging, Li Chen hurriedly greeted his subordinates, and stuck the air inlet firmly.

"Oh!"

Li Chen took the inflated sheepskin from Cheng Yaojin's hand, threw it on the water, and said to Cheng Yaojin: "Baijin, sit on it and try!"

"I come?"

"King Qin, my old Cheng has the weight, not to mention a piece of sheepskin. Even a live sheep will have to sit on my butt to die by my old Cheng!" Cheng Yaojin scratched his head and said.

Cheng Yaojin, like his horse, the tiger with a big belly, has a big belly. Cheng Yaojin estimates that it weighs more than 200 jin, close to [-] jin.The long one is five big and three thick, and the hands on the body are also strong.

Let's just describe Cheng Yaojin like this, that's a big fool.His weight is in the army, and there are few people bigger than him.If this inflated sheepskin can support Cheng Yaojin, then most of the people in the army can support it.

"If you are told to go, go, there is so much nonsense!" Li Chen glared at Cheng Yaojin, and said viciously.

"Pfft!"

Cheng Yaojin jumped into the water, just in time to ride on the sheepskin.Needless to say, after this sheepskin is full of energy, it is more than enough to entrust the energy to bite the gold.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

"Don't tell me, this thing can really carry my old Cheng. Your Highness Qin Wang, can we just ride this sheepskin to land?" Cheng Yaojin said while riding the sheepskin.

"Come up!"

"You will know how to use this sheepskin later!" Li Chen said to Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin went ashore with the bulging sheepskin in his arms, and he couldn't put it down right now.He never imagined that he could sit on the buttocks of a live sheep to death, but this sheepskin could actually carry him in the river.

"Military Master, the buoyancy of this sheepskin is amazing after it is inflated. After one piece of sheepskin is inflated, it is close to one meter. We can tie a dozen or even dozens of inflated sheepskins together. Then use The wooden rafts are fixed to make a sheepskin raft."

"This sheepskin raft, the smaller one can carry dozens of people, and the larger one can even carry more than a hundred people. The most important thing is that these sheepskin rafts are very simple to make. As long as there are enough sheep, we can carry them in just a few days. It can be enough for the army." Li Chen said to Liu Bowen.

After listening to Li Chen's words, Liu Bowen was shocked.Liu Bowen said in his heart, King Qin is really powerful.Although this sheepskin raft is simple to manufacture, how did King Qin think of such a thing?

"Quick, don't be idle, let's help blow together!"

"Take advantage of this time, let's make a sheepskin raft and try!" Cheng Yaojin yelled, and he picked up another sheepskin and began to blow.

As the saying goes, there is great strength in numbers, and these generals of the Qin Army helped blow the sheepskin one by one.When the sky just dawned, a sheepskin raft made of more than 60 sheepskins was ready.

"Come on!"

"Brothers, tell me how many people can be carried on this sheepskin raft." Standing on the sheepskin raft, Cheng Yaojin waved to the generals.

It was a breeze for this sheepskin raft to board 30 people first.Immediately afterwards, another 30 people went up, but it turned out that it was not a big problem.

In the end, another 20 people went up, and the draft of the sheepskin raft was slightly deeper.In the end, it was concluded that the sheepskin rafts made of sixty sheepskins could fully carry eighty sailors.

Seeing this scene, all the soldiers in the army were overjoyed, they finally found a way to cross the river.

"Tell our men to buy me sheep within a radius of a hundred miles, and buy all the sheep around." Li Chen ordered to his men.

Come on, with Li Chen's order, the generals of the Qin Army sent dozens of soldiers, thousands of good people, to find villages along the river to buy sheep.Anyway, if you have sheep in your home, you will buy them at a high price.

On this first day, the soldiers sent out were scrambling to buy sheep, for fear that they would not be able to buy sheep if they were too late.

On this first day, the effect was very good, and more than 1 sheep were bought.However, the effect was not so good on the second day. The nearby sheep were all bought, and there was no sheep to buy.

Moreover, the people along the river are all rumored that the soldiers of the Qin army like to eat mutton.Buy sheep during the day, and eat barbecue in the barracks at night.

In fact, Qin Jun was eating barbecue at night, they were clearly drying sheepskin overnight.

"King Qin, it's not enough!"

"Today, we bought [-] sheep. In this way, we can only have [-] sheepskins, and we can transport [-] soldiers if we die." Liu Bowen said with a look of embarrassment.

In this era, ordinary people's families could not afford to raise sheep, and those who could raise livestock were rich and landlord families.Now, not to mention the sheep with a radius of a hundred miles, even the sheep with a radius of two or three hundred miles have been bought by Qin Jun.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Now there are good ways, but there are not enough sheep.It is not impossible to buy far away, but it is really delaying things to go back and forth.

"My lord, the sheep are gone, can cows and horses do it?"

"I was thinking, isn't this sheepskin and cowhide and horseskin the same? If we can't buy sheep, how about we buy cows and horses?" Cheng Yaojin asked Li Chen.

Needless to say, although Cheng Yaojin is usually confused, he is really not confused when it is critical.Reminded by Cheng Yaojin, Li Chen thought of it.There are sheepskin rafts on the Yellow River, and there is also a special kind of water craft in Lanzhou, Qinghai, called cowhide rafts.

In Qinghai and Lanzhou, there are not many sheep farmers, most of them are cattle farmers.If you want to trade these local specialties, it is very inconvenient to transport by land, so you also need to use more waterways.

Therefore, people in Qinghai invented a kind of cowhide raft.This cowhide raft is different from a sheepskin raft, the sheepskin is delicate and the cowhide is rough.Moreover, the hardness of this cowhide is much greater than that of sheepskin.

This person can blow and inflate sheepskin, but there are not many people who can blow cowhide.

However, the command of this working people is unlimited.Although cowhide cannot be blown, it can be made into leather tires.This leather tire is to cut open the cowhide, and then stuff it with cow hair, wool, and hay soaked in tung oil, which has a high buoyancy.

The following steps are the same as making sheepskin rafts, tie up the cowhide tires and fix them with wooden rafts.The volume of this cow is much larger than that of a sheep, and a few cows can be tied into a raft.

Li Chen thought, since cowhide can be made into leather tires, so can this horsehide.The reason why no one uses horse hide is because the horse itself is a kind of transport power, and its value is relatively higher than that of cow hide, so no one uses it.

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"Bite gold is right. Cowhide and horsehide are also useful."

"Military Master, since you can't buy sheep anymore, let's order people to buy cattle and horses!" Li Chen ordered to Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "King Qin, cattle and horses are different from sheep. Sheep are just food, while cattle and horses are animal power, which can be used to plow land and pull carts."

"These people, I'm afraid they won't easily sell their cattle and horses!"

Li Chen pondered: "If you don't sell it for double the price, you can triple it, quadruple it, or even ten times it. Now is not the time to worry about money. Everything must be fought first. If you take down Jiangdong, you will have everything."

Li Chen gave the letter of approval, and Liu Bowen was convinced. All in all, no matter what the cost, we must gather enough sheepskin rafts and cowhide rafts that can transport at least 5 people.

Liu Bowen ordered his subordinates to continue to buy cattle and horses. The price was not a problem. As long as he was willing to sell and ask for a price, he would buy them for him.

In this day and age, it is illegal to slaughter and buy and sell farm cattle privately.However, now that Jiang Dong was about to be acquired by Li Chen, the law naturally couldn't control him.Or, in Li Chen's words, that is the new law.

As the saying goes, the major events of the country are only sacrifices and military affairs.In other words, for a country, the most important things are sacrifices and wars.Today, everything has to serve the war.

Cows are a rare thing in this era, and a village may not be able to have a few cows. It can be predicted that even if the subordinates are asked to buy them, it is difficult to gather enough cowhide and sheepskin for 5 people to cross the river.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Chen ordered Cheng Yaojin: "Pass on my order, except for the horses necessary for the cavalry in the army. All other poor horses, mules and horses will be slaughtered."

The horses and mules in the army are used to transport weapons and equipment, food and grass, etc.Simply put, it is the horse that pulls the cart.Li Chen ordered all the horses pulling the cart to be slaughtered, and it cost him a lot of money.

But still the same sentence, everything is in wartime first, as long as Jiangdong can be defeated, it will be worth the big price.

While ordering people to buy cattle and sheep around, they slaughtered the poor horses and mules in the army.On Li Chen's side, he finally managed to gather enough sheepskins to transport soldiers.

After roughly estimating, after all the cowhide, sheepskin, and horsehide were tied into a raft, it would be able to transport more than 5 elite soldiers.Adding the net shuttle boats and chain boats of the Qin army, this first wave can rush up to about [-] Qin army soldiers.

On the front line of Chanling, Zhou Yu deployed 10,000+ soldiers of the Wu army, and [-] soldiers of the Qin army rushed forward. The strength of the two sides was about two to one, three to one.

After all, this kind of force is not too disparate. With the ability of the Qin Army's land warfare, it should be able to gain a foothold on the shore in the first place.

Now the Qin army is ready for everything, the only thing left is to make rafts. It only takes two or three days to tie all these sheep, cows and horseskins into rafts.

However, just as the battle situation on Li Chen's side had just turned around, bad news came that Liu Bei had attacked Xiao Pei.

Qin army camp, meeting hall.

Today, the entire ceremony hall is extraordinarily lively.Usually, the army is not used, so the army trains on the shore, and the generals of the navy hold meetings.

This one is different. The Qin army is now on the side of the navy and the army, all of which have arrived.

On the navy side, there are Zheng Chenggong, Qi Jiguang, and Gan Ning.On the army side, it was extremely lively, with Chen Qingzhi as the leader, followed by Yuwen Chengdu, Pei Yuanqing, Zhao Yun, Cheng Yaojin and many other generals.

"Everyone, have you heard the news?"

"Liu Bei, the King of Shu, is now leading his army to attack Xiaopei while our main force is dealing with Jiangdong. Zhang Liao has only about [-] men in Xiaopei, and he is probably hard to beat. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, etc. The four generals."

"Everyone, are we going back to the army now, or not?" Li Chen asked the generals under his command.

At this moment, Li Chen's face was extremely gloomy.This kid Liu Bei really let him snatch all the bamboo shoots on the mountain.The sneak attack on Xiaopei at this time really put Li Chen in a dilemma.

It is not true that Li Chen is withdrawing his troops now, nor is he not withdrawing.

"King Qin, we cannot withdraw our troops at this time!"

"No one in the army can move. According to the original plan, after the successful landing of [-] elites. As long as we stand firmly on the shore, we can use this as a foundation to transport troops back and forth."

"At that time, when our hundreds of thousands of troops enter the country, we will be able to directly take the land of the six counties in Jiangdong. At this time, once we withdraw our troops, we will very likely fall into a stalemate."

"King Qin, at this time, we have to fight faster. Once the entire territory of Jiangdong is conquered, we can turn our heads and deal with Liu Bei!" Army chief Chen Qingzhi clasped his hands and said.

Chen Qingzhi is good at fighting blitzkrieg and can be said to be the originator of blitzkrieg. Therefore, his propositions are generally full of risks.

As soon as Chen Qingzhi finished speaking, Qi Jiguang stood up and said, "King Qin, the general thinks what Chen Shuai said is right. If we withdraw our troops now, it would be a small loss."

"General Zhang Liao is also a rare general. He has [-] soldiers and horses in his hands. In addition to the high walls and thick walls, he may not be able to defend Xiaopei."

"In other words, even if Xiaopei is lost, as long as Xuzhou is not lost, after we take down Jiangdong, we will not be afraid of Liu Bei."

Qi Jiguang's opinion is the same as Chen Qingzhi's. Now that he has been fighting Jiangdong for so long, if he withdraws his troops, it will be a waste of all his previous efforts.Qi Jiguang and other naval generals are naturally the main battlers.

After Chen Qingzhi and Qi Jiguang's persuasion, Li Chen himself made up his mind to continue fighting Jiangdong.As the saying goes, wealth and wealth are sought in danger, and there is no such thing as a sure thing when marching and fighting.

"Ha ha!"

"King Qin, don't worry, the siege of Xiaopei is not unsolvable."

"Now that Yuan Shao is conquering Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have been liberated. Since Liu Bei was able to attack our Xiaopei while our army was away, Cao Cao can also take advantage of Liu Bei's army to confront us in Xiaopei. Counterattack Zhuojun." Liu Bowen laughed loudly.

Li Chen thought for a moment, then asked with a serious expression: "Military Master, can Cao Cao help us?"

"If Cao Cao would rather let me bear the people of the world than let the world bear my character, it would be impossible to watch us grow bigger."

"And if we captured the six counties in Jiangdong, we would become the number one prince in the world. It stands to reason that Cao Cao would not help us. However, I can't convince Cao Cao, but I can convince Guo Fengxiao."

"King Qin, if I go to Xudu as an envoy, I will definitely be able to persuade Cao Cao to send troops." Liu Bowen said confidently.

"it is good!"

"In that case, the military adviser will be sent to Xu Du." Li Chen nodded in response.

"After I leave, the king of Qin can't be left alone, so let's transfer Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe from Luoyang!" Liu Bowen suggested to Li Chen.

Since we want to capture the six counties of Jiangdong as soon as possible, we have to use some extraordinary means. Jia Xu is much better at this kind of means than Liu Bowen.

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Chapter 371 Liu Bowen Visits Guo Fengxiao