Chapter 224: What to do if the road is dead
Early the next morning.
Han Xin walked into Zhexian with a gloomy face.
Last night, the army camped on the border and sent 3,000 men to meet outside the city of Zhexian County.
The original plan was that if they could break through, 3,000 men would be enough to hold out all night, and then wait until the early morning of the next day when the army would come back and completely take Zhexian.
However, what I didn't expect was that there was no fighting here at all.
The 3,000 men sent by Han Xin ended up just going into the city to help maintain order......
How could this Han Shin be happy?
After being busy, tired and tired, and working in vain?
The credit for winning a county was given to the scout for nothing, and his brother could only get a hard job?
"General, I am a scout of the hundred generals and Miao people of Zhexian County!" Seeing Han Xin entering the city, Miao Ren stepped forward to greet him with excitement on his face.
No matter how confident you are before you start, it is impossible to be like after success, and the mentality of the two is different.
Now the Miao people can finally breathe a sigh of relief, this credit belongs to him, and belongs to the Scout Zhexian Branch.
"Not bad! You're good! Han Xin glanced at Miao Ren and almost gritted his teeth in praise.
"General, this is the former Zhexian County Cheng Yu Cong, and he also made great efforts to kill Zhexian Ling, Cheng, and Wei this time." Miao Ren introduced again.
"Well, since there are people in the city to govern, General Ben is also relieved!" Han Xin nodded.
Although he was a little angry, he didn't have to turn his face with the scout headquarters for the sake of a county seat.
Although the Miao people can't represent the scout headquarters, how can Han Xin, who has a lot of life experience, not see that this could be a pandemic?
The scouts are deep behind enemy lines, and there is no chance to make great achievements on weekdays, and now that the main force is here, will they continue to endure it?
If it were his own, Han Xin felt that there was a high probability that he would not bear it.
I just hope that in the counties behind, those scouts won't be like the Miao people.
And if this is the case, Han Xin feels that he may attack it forcibly, it is too special to bully people.
"Zhexian grain and grass geometry?" Han Xin asked directly.
"General, this autumn harvest has just begun, and only more than 100,000 stones have been stored." Miao Ren hurriedly replied.
Knowing that he had robbed Han Xin of the credit, Miao Ren didn't dare to be tough with Han Xin at this time, and of course he would continue to be a grandson after getting the benefits.
Now I don't have the qualifications to speak to Han Xin.
"Not enough!" Han Xin said with a straight face.
"General, if all of them are put into storage this year, there will be about four or five hundred thousand stone ......," Miao Ren explained.
This time point is very embarrassing, and the Chu army plans to send troops when the Han army is harvesting in the autumn.
And at this time, the Chu State is in the autumn harvest, and it has even completed about two percent, while the Han State has not yet started.
For the sake of this war, the State of Chu even ordered to seize it in advance.
It is hoped that there will be a time difference, at the cost of losing a certain amount of food, in exchange for a relative future of the Chu State.
But Chu didn't expect the Han army to be the first to send troops.
"That's only enough for a month's worth of soldiers and horses in the general's headquarters!" Han Xin directly interrupted Miao Ren's words.
Of course, food must be eaten, and the ration standard set by Han Xin is four stone per person per month.
It was twice as much as an ordinary chengdan, one and a half stones more than the army left behind in the Han Kingdom, and half a stone more than the other armies that went out to fight.
Without supplementary food, Han Xin had to increase the speed of the march and ensure the combat strength, so he could only use food to pile up.
Four stones, that is, one hundred and twenty catties in later generations, even now, a soldier has to eat almost the same amount of food as his weight in a month.
Under the new tactical requirements, this food rationing is naturally not a problem.
But what the Miao people did made Han Xin very unhappy, and although there was no way to reprimand him on the surface, Han Xin didn't plan to make the Miao people's life better.
"This general has a heavy task, and he needs a lot of soldiers and horses, I heard that there are 3,000 defenders in Zhe County?" Han Xin asked.
"Yes...... There are three thousand ...... "Miao people are sweating profusely, and those who are scouts are not as alert as they are, and he has already realized that he has made Han Xin unhappy.
"This general took away 2,000 people to replenish the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and you recruited a new batch here, and if you have food, all these generals who are now in the warehouse will be taken away, and the rest will be transported by the people as soon as possible, and the general will not take much, Zhexian County will produce 400,000 stones, which is enough for the army to eat for a month!" Han Xin said with a gesture of luck to you.
"General...... This ......" Miao people looked confused.
If you take away so many people and food, what else will Zhexian play next?
Don't look at the four or five hundred thousand stones in the warehouse, this is the income of the entire county in a year.
In addition, after removing all expenses, there is not much left over at the end of the year.
If something happens, maybe you will have to take out the next year's inventory to fill the hole.
"Jagu, go pick up the soldiers!" Han Xin is lazy to take care of the Miao people.
"No!"
"Zhu Chong, go transport grain and grass!"
"No!"
"Do a good job of catching up with the army as soon as possible!" Han Xin instructed the two of them again, and immediately turned around and left Zhexian County with his own soldiers.
He didn't want to stay here for a moment, first, because he was unhappy about what the Miao people were doing, and second, it wasn't his own territory.
According to the combat goal, Han Shin was going to attack Surabaya County.
However, the Han Kingdom did not have a territory bordering Surabaya County.
Therefore, following the infant to the east, Han Xin led his soldiers and horses south when he was in Yongqiu.
Zhexian was the first county he had to face, and this belonged to Chen.
The next target is still Ku County in Chen County, and then it will go east, take the Qian County of Dang County, and after taking the Qian County, and then go south, and then go south, and then reach Surabaya County.
Therefore, Han Xin's marching route is Zhe County, Ku County, Qian County, and Chengfu.
It is tantamount to forcibly drawing a straight line between the junction of Chen County and Dang County, so that Zhang Han and Guan Ying can come to these relatively distant places without having to send troops, but the future governance will still be under their jurisdiction for the time being.
"Miao Baijiang, what should I do next?" Looking at Han Xinyuan's distant figure, Yu Cong looked at Miao Ren with a sad face.
"Do as you are told!" Miao Ren sighed.
"General Miao Bai, if you really do what this general asks, there will be chaos in Zhexian County in the next year!" Yu Cong was a little anxious.
He will be the county commander, although the Miao people are only a hundred generals, but his promise to the Han State should not be denied.
In other words, in the first year of his defection to the Han Kingdom, there was chaos in the county under his rule, so can you still imagine your career and reputation in the future?
"During the war, the Han Kingdom took the protection of the needs of the army as the first priority, and everything had to be leaned back, and if you dared not to obey orders, not only you and me, but many people would be implicated." Miao Ren explained speechlessly.
"Then you can't watch Zhexian die!" Yu Cong was really panicked, but he was the one who came to the end of the pit.
Miao Ren thought for a while, sighed and said: "Forget it, I'll report the situation to the top, and the words of the people should be as consistent as possible with the Han people, so that your pressure will be reduced sharply......"