The strongest devouring system in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 212 Expedient Measures

When the district infantry battalion that I had trained advanced to within fifty meters again, black dots appeared in the sky again. Looking around, there were at least twenty or thirty of them!

Has Liu Bei gone mad?! Sending so many men in a suicidal attack!

"Does he think he's a kamikaze pilot?!" Chen Er shouted, completely ignoring the astonished looks of the soldiers he had trained around him. What was their lord saying? They couldn't understand a word he was saying.

Liu Bei was actually pushed to the limit. If it weren't for the immense pressure from Chen Er's cannons and Cai Mao's incompetence, he wouldn't have used the still-developing glider in defense.

Those glider operators are not so easy to train, and such an attack was clearly a losing proposition, like throwing meat buns to a dog. If it weren't for the fact that the first attack successfully destroyed several artillery pieces, it would have been a disaster.

Liu Bei would never launch a second attack under any circumstances. "Well, exchanging a few dozen men for the enemy's artillery, this deal should still be worthwhile," Liu Bei thought to himself, looking at the gliders in the sky.

Chen Er was also anxious. He quickly ordered everyone in the rear to fire at full force as soon as the enemy gliders entered their maximum range! They had to shoot down the enemy's gliders and prevent them from attacking their artillery.

Fortunately, the gliders equipped by Liu Bei were not flying too high at this time, so there was still a chance to hit them with muskets. This allowed the artillery to immediately move to a new position.

While ordering his soldiers to fire at the air with all their might, Chen Er thought about how urgent the need for air combat units was. He replied to Yu Yang that the arsenal must develop air units that could be used in actual combat as soon as possible, otherwise he would fall behind!

What does it mean to be behind? It means being attacked. Just like the enemy's glider suddenly appearing, it directly caused the district soldiers, who had been fighting smoothly, to lose four cannons and one cannon that was temporarily unable to be used in the battle.

Such casualties were achieved at the cost of only five enemy soldiers. It was necessary to deal with them, and it had to be done as quickly as possible. Chen Er thought to himself that relying solely on musket fire into the air was only a temporary measure.

Chen Er felt he was falling behind and decided to let Liu Bei make trouble in the south first. It would be more advantageous for Chen Er to have Liu Bei and Sun Quan as counterbalances. Only after he had fully absorbed the new territory in his own region would it be time for him to march south and completely eliminate Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

What? Chen Er promised not to launch an attack on Jiangdong? Do you believe that? I certainly don't. Besides, who can vouch for that? Words are worthless! Talking nonsense will get you your tongue pulled out.

Through years of training, Chen Er has gradually transformed from a novice into a qualified organizer, and then from an organizer into a politician. For Chen Er, his identity as a politician now outweighs that of an organizer.

Organizational matters are subordinate to politics. As someone who has been influenced by modern ideas, Chen Er naturally understands this principle. Therefore, he does not want to continue the attack now, which provides room for possible cooperation with Liu Bei in the future.

As for whether Liu Bei would cooperate, Chen Er believed that as an organization leader in the Republic of China era, Liu Bei's code of conduct would definitely prioritize interests. Otherwise, it would be difficult for someone who only knew how to fight to become a successful organization leader. Only those who know how to compromise can survive better.

However, things don't always go as planned. Although Chen Er had given the order to retreat, Zhao Yun was unaware of it. He had circled around and had no idea that Chen Er had given the order. By the time he received the order, Zhao Yun's cavalry had already launched an attack on the retreating Liu Bei's forces.

When Zhao Yun's cavalry appeared, Liu Bei's few remaining, well-organized infantry companies were immediately scattered. Looking at the cavalry general galloping across the battlefield, Liu Bei kept shouting in his heart, "That should have been my cavalry unit!"

However, Liu Bei could only shout in his heart that Zhao Yun now belonged to Chen Er!

Moreover, Zhao Yun in this world is no longer the white-robed, silver-spear Zhao Yun, but a general wielding a saber and flintlock pistol. Liu Bei, who was being protected by his personal guards during his retreat, knew in his heart that his defeat was not unjust, even though his troops had also received advanced training.

However, compared to Chen Er, he arrived in this world two years later, and his initial strength was much weaker. If it weren't for his advanced knowledge of this world, he might not even be as good as Liu Paopao in history.

After a series of defeats, Liu Bei was left with only 8,000 soldiers, including the 2,000 men left to guard the main camp. More than half of these 8,000 soldiers were wounded. The Jingzhou organization did not mock the soldiers of Ba County.

As organizers themselves, they knew that the Pakistani organization had done its best, and that the Pakistani organization was performing much better on the front lines than they were; at least they had inflicted considerable casualties on the district organizations they were managing.

As for our side, we were simply too embarrassed to speak up.

Of course, Liu Bei was able to retreat to the main camp with so many men not because they ran fast, but because Zhao Yun received Chen Er's order to withdraw halfway through the pursuit, and was the commander of the area he was in charge of.

Zhao Yun was absolutely obedient to Chen Er's orders. He immediately abandoned the pursuit of Liu Bei and led the organization back.

As for the task he was given before, Zhao Yun did not complete it.

When he found the platform where the Pakistani organization had released the glider, he discovered that the glider was no longer there; only an empty platform remained.

Half an hour later, the casualties of this battle were tallied. The five regiments involved in the battle suffered a total of more than 2,400 dead and more than 3,000 wounded. Some of the seriously wounded were beyond saving and had to be abandoned. Although Chen Er was reluctant, with the current medical conditions, these seriously wounded were beyond saving.

Chen Er has been working very hard to develop the medical system in the district he governs, but due to the limitations of the times, although the medical level in the district he governs has been greatly improved and a large number of doctors have joined the organization and local areas in recent years.

However, due to the limitations of the era, there was still no way to treat those wounded who were hit in vital areas, especially since wound infection was a major problem.

Although Chen Er came from the modern era and knew about antibiotics, he didn't know how to prepare them. Alcohol disinfection was the most effective disinfection method he knew. The rest depended on the wounded's willpower and physical condition.

As the enemy's firepower against the district organization he was in charge of increased, the casualty rate of the district organization he was in charge of also increased. Chen Erzhi was able to get his subordinates to do their best to rescue the wounded.