Chapter 242: Go up and set a fire
Han Xin constantly used words to stimulate his soldiers.
It's not okay not to do this, because Han has a bit of a square in his confidence.
Although Wang Buxing also used this trick back then, he was very strict in controlling the number of people.
Although it may not seem like many people at first, it turns out that the original choice was extremely correct.
At first, thousands of people, through several months of running-in training, gradually formed rules, condensed combat effectiveness, and then further expanded.
And these first few thousand people played a big role in the subsequent expansion of the army.
But Han Xin doesn't have this opportunity now, and he only has a thousand personal soldiers under him, which can be regarded as a veteran among veterans.
Of the nearly 80,000 people down there, less than 5,000 have previously spent more than two months in a barracks.
Coupled with the method he adopted, it was destined that the path he took could not learn from Wang Buxing's experience.
As the army advanced, there were more and more scouts of the Chu army around.
Everyone has the scout class, but no one has ever played so thoroughly and far away like the Han army.
Of course, the scouts of the Han army are strictly divided into two categories.
One is the scouts that are now rumored outside, and the other is the scouts in the traditional sense.
These scouts don't get too far away from the army.
Depending on the situation and the needs of the situation, the scouts should keep a distance of one to three days from the main force.
In extreme cases, it will be released farther, and according to the scout's ability to maneuver, it is about 100 to 140 miles a day.
No matter how far you go, you can run, but you can't always go to the upper limit of everything, so the probability of problems will become greater and greater.
In addition to this, the use of traditional scouts is also very learned.
In order to ensure the relative safety of the army, it is necessary to cast the scouts out like a net.
Scouts are not only tasked with scouting the enemy's terrain, but also engage in skirmishes with enemy scouts.
Therefore, those who can serve as scouts are the elite of the army.
And at this moment, Han Xin's scouts are the personal soldiers around him.
Han Xin sent five hundred soldiers out to serve as scouts in one go, and he didn't need them to run too far, because it was completely unnecessary, and they couldn't use it for a day, and they would be able to run to the Chu army camp.
This means that he has at least half a day to prepare for whatever comes next.
"General, the enemy army has made a defensive posture, and sent people to the north and south directions, we chased for a while, but we didn't catch up!" When he was still about twenty miles away from the Chu army's camp, Han Xin received a report from the scouts.
"Is there a camp?" Han Xin asked.
"Yes, it is tall and strong, and the enemy army relies on the camp for defense, and with our current preparations, it is not easy to capture the camp." The scout said.
"Hmm!" Han Xin nodded.
There is a camp, and I know this situation.
But ideally, the opposite side is pulled out of the field.
But the fact is, the other side is not a fool, why give up ready-made bunkers and run out to fight you in the field?
There are not many troops, and the morale is not high, what is the difference between running out and sending them to death?
"Speed up the march, and you will be under the enemy camp in half an hour!" Han Xin ordered directly.
At a distance of twenty miles, half an hour, the strength of this march is not weak, not to mention that the army is still carrying a large amount of supplies at the moment.
Of course, without considering the material, there is no problem with half an hour and twenty miles.
One mile in the Qin Dynasty is about 415 meters, and twenty miles is 8,300 meters.
But now, it can be regarded as a forced march.
Compared with the two, in terms of nutrition, there is no way to compare it with later generations, although people eat more now.
What's more, the future generations will not let you ten kilometers every day.
This is a march of tens of thousands of people, not that you set off, you get to the point, and the card time is over.
And Han Xin's request is obviously aimed at the whole whole.
The additional requirement for twenty miles in half an hour is to be able to go into battle immediately.
"No!" Everyone agreed with a tangled face.
Although they also want to say, isn't the intensity too high?
But there are naturally rules in the army, Han Xin is the general here, and what he says now is a military order.
And the consequences of disobeying military orders on the battlefield are known to them without Han Xin popularizing them.
All families in the world are still very consistent in this regard.
What followed was the arduous journey of tens of thousands of disheveled Han soldiers.
One by one, under the urging of the officers, they kept speeding up the pace under their feet.
For a while, he left the supplies behind.
But none of this matters, the battlefield is less than forty miles away from the city father, and this distance is nothing on the battlefield.
If something really goes wrong, the army will be able to kill it back in half a day.
Therefore, bringing supplies is not to consider that the back road will be cut off, but simply not to run back and forth, it's as simple as that.
When there were still ten miles away from the enemy camp, Han Xin began to issue military orders continuously.
First, the outflanked armies broke away from their positions and rushed towards their respective combat positions.
In the end, there were only 20,000 men left in the main formation, and Han Shin began to order the march to assemble the battle formation.
This situation is not often used, but Han Shin does not want to give up.
Gathering a battle formation during the march will slow down the march, but it will also avoid having to assemble a battle formation once you have reached the position.
This allows for instant action without giving the opponent more time to disrupt their build-up.
As for the march and fighting, the two sides agreed on the location, set up the formation, and then gave an order before the battle began.
It's pure.
Only a fool would play with you like that.
But any general in his right mind will order the troops to attack when he sees you unhurriedly arranging the formation in front of you.
At this time, the side that is deploying the formation basically has no combat effectiveness, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a one-hit collapse.
Therefore, the general routine is to stop and set up a formation ten miles away from the battlefield, and if the opponent has cavalry, this distance will be farther.
Then the army advanced in a full combat formation plane.
Now the turtle camp on the opposite side does not dare to come out, so Han Xin does not need to worry about other problems.
It just so happens that you can also take this opportunity to hone the troops, and in order to improve the combat effectiveness and execution of the troops as soon as possible, Han Xin also spent a lot of brain cells.
When it was five miles away, the Han soldiers could already clearly see the camp of the Chu army.
And when he saw this camp, Han Xin smiled......
I'm afraid that even the Chu army himself would never have thought that he would bring people to attack them.
Therefore, the camp set up by the Chu army is just an ordinary camp.
So, Han Xin waved his hand and ordered: "Shield array, go up and put a fire ......"