After the great victory, as usual, the time of harvest was calculated. This war finally made Li Zhe become a prince of the Three Kingdoms period as if he were decent and occupied a county in Runan.

As the territory is bigger, I worry more and the pressure in various aspects is greater. Fortunately, I finally have a few decent talents to join me and I can barely deal with it. Only with the lord of a celebrity under my command can I be called the Three Kingdoms!

Zhao Yun, Su Wu, Liao Hua, Gong Du, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, Sun Gan, Su San, Su Jiu, Han Zhong, these are all the well-known subordinates of Li Zhe now. Among them, Zhao Yun, Mi Zhu and Sun Gan are the most capable.

Not to mention Zhao Yun, after Liu Bei's death, he finally called Li Zhe as the lord. He was the only general under Li Zhe and the most reliable. His tactical execution ability was extremely powerful. Mi Zhu was also a capable man. Although he was not good at politics, he was a professional counterpart, and would be of great use in the future. As for Sun Gan, a diplomatic expert who was a great master of the Three Kingdoms period, these three people had their own characteristics and could be considered as one side. As long as they were placed in a suitable position, they could show their due glory.

As for Su Wu and Liao Hua, they are very potential. Su Wu's military power is no less than that of Pei Yuanshao, and he will develop towards Zhou Cang in the future. He grew up with Li Zhe's military system at the same time. It is the most suitable general for Li Zhe. As everyone knows, although Liao Hua is very ordinary at this time, he is still a well-known general in the late Three Kingdoms period. What's more important is that Liao Hua is a versatile person. He has read books and can recognize words, and even has a position like the chief clerk, which is quite promising.

Then there are the population soldiers. Now under Li Zhe's rule, he has actually controlled half of Runan County, six or seven counties, with a population of more than 140,000 (poor, only that little bit), but there are more than 20,000 soldiers. Of course, most of them can only be considered strong men.

These refugees were all survivors eliminated in the era of years of war, plague and famine. They were excellent in terms of physical and intellectual qualities. The age group was basically concentrated between 14 and 40 years old, and other people of the age group that disappeared can only be considered eliminated.

Historically, every period of suffering in mankind is a natural screening process of human society. Frequent wars and natural disasters are like ruthless razors, eliminating people with weak survivability in society in batches, leaving only the strongest survivability in the population.

This group of people has a strong body, a smart mind and excellent will, which is the most suitable part of the population to survive in harsh environments. Therefore, after every disaster period, this group of people can always develop rapidly on the ruins of human society and establish a new prosperous era. Circular and generational, this may be the inherent elimination evolution mechanism of human society itself.

What Li Zhe himself represents is a huge razor. In the future history of the Three Kingdoms, those who follow the flow will prosper, and those who go against it will perish. They screen these characters from the Three Kingdoms one by one, creating a new history and empire guided by Li Zhe's own wishes.

This war also exposed several problems, and Li Zhe needed to find a way to solve them.

The first is the number of soldiers. Li Zhe's army is too small. Although he has won many head-on conflicts, the size of the army is very limited, so the conditions for use are greatly limited.

This made Li Zhe unable to expand his results after winning the frontal battle, and could only adopt the method of chasing and expulsion to prevent Cao's army from being reorganized, thus turning the war into a long-term large-scale defeat and pursuit battle.

In this battle, Zhao Yun and Su Wu basically fought with more than 1,000 guards and 150 personal barracks that were originally trained. These elite soldiers ran hundreds of miles back and forth within a few days, chasing Cao's army, which made the battle not fail. Otherwise, if a little relaxed, the Cao army would recover, and the winner of the battle would not know who it was.

This long and frequent small-scale battles and marches almost exhausted all combat soldiers. They finally persisted with their religious fanaticism and extremely loyalty to Li Zhe. This also made this army, in this battle, honed a courage and strong fighting will, and could truly be called a strong army in this era.

In the future, Li Zhe must continue to expand the scale of this elite soldier without reducing his combat effectiveness.

The second is the issue of equipment. The Kevra body armor that Li Zhe placed on everyone's expectations can only be said to be acceptable in combat, but its shortcomings are still shown in frontal battles with long heavy weapons.

It turns out that the main material of Kevla bulletproof vest, Kevla fiber, is light weight, high density, strong toughness, and high tensile strength. It can disperse impact force well. Long-range attacks such as bullets and bows can greatly reduce the strength and make people suffer without death. However, blunt attacks on heavy weapons and puncture attacks on long weapons cannot show better defensive characteristics. This time, Li Zhejun's only dozens of casualties were killed by General Cao's army with long weapons.

Based on this feature, Kevra Bodyguard is very suitable for light-mounted elite infantry and light cavalry protective equipment. It has a weight of only two or three kilograms and does not affect the flexibility of movement. It makes him the most suitable for special protective equipment such as special forces scouts in almost all eras. In the era of cold weapons, it is a bit unrealistic to use it to equip heavy infantry or heavy cavalry in large arrays.

In the future, Li Zhe still needs to make some improvements in this regard.

There are many other areas that need improvement, such as the lack of heavy equipment troops, the lack of assault cavalry, the lack of siege weapons troops, etc. However, with Li Zhe's situation at present, the above two points are most suitable for correction. After all, everything you do needs to pay attention to the applicable environment and cost.

With the force that Li Zhe has to face at present, these two improvements are the most necessary.

Then, in addition to military issues, the biggest problem that troubles Li Zhe in government affairs is still food! Food! Food!

More population means more population consumption. The supplies seized by Li Zhe from Cao's army and the food obtained by Liu Bei's remnants were only enough for ten or half a month to consume. Even if the compressed dry food reserved by Li Zhe was added, it would only delay for two or three days. The large population was still a burden!

Li Zhe had to find a way to go to Jingzhou to buy food, but the current traffic situation and the social situation of bandits in Runan County were still as mentioned before. The so-called transportation can only be said to be a drop in the bucket and cannot play a big role. After all, the strong men who transported and protected the road consumed much less food than those transported back.

This prompted Li Zhe to temporarily launch a comprehensive large-scale project - the Food Lifeline Project.

Taking the original Li Zhejun army and the primary training strong men among the refugees in Yujiabao as the backbone, a large army of bandit suppression was formed, swept the way to Jingzhou, and all the bandits and forts around this road were suppressed or scrupulous, completely clearing and quieting, and creating a grain channel.

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Based on the rapidly expanding "Shenzhen" baggage troops, they absorbed refugees on a large scale and transformed them into professional transportation teams, heading towards Jingzhou. Even if these transportation troops could not transport a lot of food, as long as they could eat enough in this grain trade, it would be considered as solving Li Zhe's big problem.

It can be said that with a magical artifact like "Divine Car", many aspects are much easier to deal with.

These two-pronged approaches will undoubtedly consume Li Zhe’s large amount of grain reserves, but their effectiveness is also extraordinary. While reorganizing the army and transforming refugees, they can also solve the problem of grain transportation. If a safe transportation line with Jingzhou can be successfully opened, the problem of grain will be greatly improved in the future.
Chapter completed!