In the middle of August of the 36th year of Qin Shi Huang, the boat that Han Xin was riding was sailing on the turquoise water of Jinnan Water, dozens of boats lined up in a row, rowing a long wave, the crocodiles in the water floated and sank, the ancient trees on both sides of the river towered to the sky, and the sound of apes continued.

Jin Nanshui, that is, the left river of Guangxi in later generations, this water is nearly 100 steps wide, and the fleet can be driven without worry. The former is a paddle steamer with a fast speed, which is at least the technology of the Tang and Song dynasties, the paddle blade plus the paddle wheel trampling and turning, the speed of going against the current is not reduced, and it can travel dozens of miles a day.

Most of the veterans on the boat were veterans who had participated in the last war, and they had gone deep into Luo Yue's territory, and the people in charge of the army at that time could even remember the direction of the river......

"The husband can be angry. With righteous anger, a hundred battles can be raised. ”

Han Xin couldn't help but sigh when he looked at this group of veterans who were still afraid of the forest a few days ago and had not yet come out of the trauma of the war, but now they had overcome their fear and were willing to be the guides of the army.

A good general can indeed turn decay into magic.

"A soldier is impermanent, and he is impermanently cowardly; If there is air, it is real, if there is no air, it is empty, and if it is empty, it is cowardly. The Marquis of Changnan collected the corpses of the deceased, so that the dead and wild ghosts had a place to live, and compensated with the immortality of the name, which not only allowed the dead to rest in peace, but also inspired the living. ”

The army gathers the crowd, and the task is to stimulate the spirit, and Heifu's set of qi stimulation techniques is really just right, whether it is a new soldier or a veteran, a Guanzhong person or a Chu person, they all share the same hatred of the enemy.

"I also want to learn from Changnan Hou."

Han Xin is proficient in the art of war, especially at the tactical level, and can be called a genius, but he knows very little about people's hearts, although he can deduce the situation and strategy, but when he zooms in to the entire world situation, he is confused again.

However, in Chang Nanhou's operation, there are also things that Han Xin can't understand.

For example, the Marquis of Changnan urgently issued a series of prohibitions, strictly prohibiting the soldiers, especially the generals who were to be sent to attack Luo Yue, to say three words:

"Hit the northbound households for the New Year."

"After the war, I will go back to my hometown and get married."

"Destroy this eclipse."

The reason why the Marquis of Changnan forbade these words was: "Those who say this often lose the army and die in battle." ”

After more than a year of building momentum, Heifu's prestige in the Southern Expeditionary Army has reached its peak, and his words are like a golden rule in the south of the Five Ridges, although the soldiers are puzzled, but they still obey the order, and the optimistic speech in the army suddenly disappears.

Han Xin disagreed, and secretly slandered: "I didn't expect that Changnan Hou also believed in the words of the Yin and Yang family!" ”

Many years ago, those old soldiers who taught Han Xin the art of war once said that soldiers are divided into four types: soldier yin and yang, soldier skills, soldier situation, and soldier power strategy.

Han Xin is more appreciative of the military situation, the situation, the thunder, the first to come, the clutch and the homeland, the change, and the enemy with light diseases. If it weren't for Yu Lin's devastation of Ouyue, Han Xin would have only fought one battle in the strict sense, but he knew the taste of the marrow and believed that the way to win was to combine Qi Zheng and win by surprise.

As for the soldiers of the Yin and Yang family, it is to go with the times, push the punishment and morality, and fight with the fight, because of the five victories, the fake ghosts and gods think they are helpers. In other words, it is to engage in feudal superstition, before or during the war, play divination, astrology, sacrifice, prayer and curse, disgust with victory, etc., to curse the enemy and pray for the victory of our army!

For another example, the soldier Yin and Yang family also believes that you can't take a woman with you in a war, and if you bring a woman, you will lose your teacher, and if you are a boat master, you will capsize.

And it is also their way to emphasize the taboo of saying certain things before the war.

However, in Han Xin's view, the role of the Yin and Yang family of soldiers is not to really please the blessing of ghosts and gods, but to stabilize the morale of the army and improve morale.

However, the Marquis of Changnan has already inspired the spirit of the three armies by paying tribute to the dead, and if he engages in this set again, it will be a bit of a snake......

"Although there are shortcomings, but the Marquis of Changnan uses the orthodox army, uses the soldiers with odds, calculates first and then fights, and the situation, including yin and yang, and uses skills, he can be called the most comprehensive military conspirator among the soldiers!"

Han Shin's evaluation of Heifu is very high.

In short, with this group of veterans as the guide, the march was very smooth, coupled with the width of the Nanshui River is nearly 100 steps, the natural drop is not large, suitable for shipping, it only took three days, the Qin army fleet walked one hundred and fifty, and it was only two days away from the old battlefield of Linchen (Chongzuo, Guangxi)!

While lamenting the convenience of the waterway, the Lou ship Sima who is in charge of this fleet, Heifu's nephew Wei Yang, also said:

"The captain of the land route, I'm afraid he has only walked less than a hundred miles, right? For several days, although Ou Luo had been sending people to monitor the forest, even if he deliberately stopped the ship to reveal his flaws, he did not attack us, and I wonder if he pretended to be infected with the epidemic and retreated according to the order of the prince. ”

Han Xin was more patient: "The Yue people walked in the forest on foot, even if they ran to tell each other, the news spread slowly, just wait." ”

The two of them went here to implement the "old trick repeated" strategy that Han Xin offered to Heifu more than half a year ago: to use the two armies to advance westward, and defeat one way, so that the Yue people thought that the other side was a lone army and launched an attack, while the Qin army took advantage of its own military formation and equipment to complete its work in one battle!

Everyone knows that this may be the last battle of the Southern Expedition, and in order to compete for the qualification of the main attack general, Heifu's cronies are fighting fiercely.

Just when everyone thought that the candidate was either Gongao or Dongmen Leopard, Heifu unexpectedly ordered Han Xin, who had a lower title and had just been promoted to an official doctor, and handed over this important task to him, and Gongao was the bait.

And the boat division that carried the army westward was, undoubtedly, commanded by Wei Yang.

For Wei Yang, everyone has nothing to complain about, since Heifu sent him to the building ship a few years ago, Wei Yang has been conscientious, accumulating credit little by little, before he was promoted to a middle-level officer.

But what is Han Shin? A young man who has no line in Huaiyin, a coward who got into his crotch, is extremely appreciated by the prince, and although the old departments such as Gongao and Dongmen Leopard will not doubt the decision of the Marquis of Changnan, they are still quite dissatisfied.

So, all the lieutenants said that Wei Yang was Heifu's nephew, and Han Xin was Heifu's godnephew, jokingly saying that this battle was "nephew's expedition to the west......

Of course, Heifu knew these rumors, but when Han Xin went to say goodbye, he smiled and said:

"Then tell them with the battle record, and tell everyone that Han Xin has real skills."

Han Xin was a little flattered, but Heifu said that there was a consideration for making Han Xin the general of the main attack on the waterway: he had defeated the South Vietnamese who plundered grain ships at the water's edge, and cooperated with Wei Yang to defeat Ouyue at Yulin, and was familiar with the landing battle of the boat division.

"When a general is appointed, he must first anticipate people, know the courage and cowardice of his material strength, and the sophistication of his artistic ability, so that everyone should have his part, and the good governance of this army is also."

"The reason why Ben Hou uses you is because you are the most suitable, use people without doubt, don't say anything, and go!"

Not only that, Heifu also personally sent Han Xin and Wei Yang on board, threw his gold belt hook into Jin Nanshui, and swore:

"Benhou's double dragon flag is planted at the intersection of Yushui and Jinnanshui."

"If it is the corpse of the Luo people that floats downstream, I should He Ru and others end this battle, make great contributions, and win the name of victory."

"If the blood of the Qin army's shield floats downstream, then General Ben, even if this forest is burned alive, he will open a way to bring you back."

"Life or death!"

These words moved Han Xin to a great extent, and when he thought about it at the moment, he was still embarrassed.

"The Marquis of Changnan raised Han Xin among the soldiers, did not suspect me in the name of cowardice in the past, gave me the seal of Sima, and used thousands of soldiers to listen to and calculate......"

Han Xin is only 22 years old this year, and a year and a half ago, he was still drilling people's crotches on the streets of Huaiyin, and everything he got today is like a dream.

For Han Xin, Xiao He is a Bole who sees that he is a talent.

And Heifu is like the king of Yan Zhao who is a horse bone in Qianjin City.

Although I am grateful to Bole, Maxima, after all, has to be used by a big man like King Yan Zhao, so that he can make the best use of his talents, display his talents, and leap thousands of miles!

For a while, Han Xin forgot about Heifu's strict order in the barracks: "No optimism", and said secretly:

"The people who ride in the car carry the troubles of the people, the clothes of the people have the worries of the people, the cannibals and the deaths, whether it is for himself or for the grace of the prince's knowledge, this battle, Han Xin must win! And play beautifully! ”

The retribution came quickly, Han Xin had just finished thinking about it on the front foot, and on the back foot, several ships moving in front of him slammed down, and the speed of the ship was greatly reduced!

Wei Yang soon reported with a black face:

"Han Sima, something happened, the paddle wheel on the ship has stopped!"

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The problem was soon discovered, and the reason why the paddle wheels of the more than a dozen ships ahead were difficult to turn was because of the continuous flow of aquatic weeds, vines and thin branches floating down from the upstream.

"How can there be so many branches?"

Chen Ying, as a guide, felt strange.

"It's a monkey."

Wei Yang inherited the humor of his middle father, and when everyone was surprised, he explained with a smile: "Luo Yue monkey." ”

Perhaps it was the Ouyue people's relay, and after peeking on both sides of the strait for a long time, the Locke people discovered the weakness of the paddle steamer so quickly: the reason why it drove freely against the current was because the paddle wheel of the pedal increased power, but once a branch of water and grass was involved in the wheel, it was stuck and difficult to operate.

Do you want to go into the water to repair it? There are also some difficulties, from time to time a big crocodile emerges in the water, although the soldiers hit the water to intimidate, and shoot it with crossbows, but they do not have the courage of the leopard in the east gate, the craftsmen look at the crocodile's white teeth, and say that they will not go into the water to repair.

Han Xin, as the commander, fell into deep thought, and after a while, he became optimistic again.

"Our frustration is not necessarily a bad thing, but a good thing. The second and third sons thought, Luo Ren Ou people are trying to slow down our army, you think, what do they want to do? ”

Wei Yang's eyes lit up: "The land route of the Gongdu Lieutenant has been defeated?" Did the lone strategy work? ”

"Yes, yes."

Han Xin said: "There is no need to repair, and let the fleet slow down, it will be the intention of the other generation, so that they have the opportunity to gather their troops, catch up and attack us!" ”

That night, Han Xin once again asked people to camp and stop by a winding river beach, which was deliberately exposing the flaws to the Luo and Ou coalition forces, but they were still not fooled.

So Han Xin thought of another way, sent someone to dig through the bottom of the two boats, and the next day not long after they hit the road, they were immersed in water and sank, although people rescued them, but the boats full of "grain" sank to the bottom of the river. For a time, the rice flour drifted everywhere, and Han Xin let the fleet dock again, tinkering, and did not sail for a whole day.

All this was seen by the Luo people in the forests on both sides of the river......

On the third day, they were not far from Linchen, but they made the fleet stop several times, and sent people to collect the fruit to eat in the place where the wild fruit was not completely rotten......

This undoubtedly gave the Luo people and the Ou people a signal: the Qin army is running out of food.

On the fourth day, Han Xin came to make a move, and after arriving in Linchen, seeing that the Luo people settlement here was empty, he immediately asked the fleet to turn around and drive downstream, which was the rhythm of withdrawal......

Sure enough, it was night, and when I stopped at a flat river bay, the scout reported that the number of Vietnamese people moving around had increased dramatically!

"This group of fish has finally taken the bait!"

But these fish, just circling around the side of the bait, still do not bite.

After nightfall, Han Xin asked the whole army to be ready for battle, but the Luo people just kept gathering and did not rush to attack, after the first war, and the lessons of Xiou, they have understood that attacking the Qin army's camp barrier is just killing themselves!

It wasn't until the Qin army pretended to pull out the camp and demolished the simple camp that the soldiers were scattered and the forest far away from the river beach suddenly made a big bang!

The Luo people and Ou people, who had been hiding from Han Xin for many days, finally showed their shadows, they were covered in green mud, squatting in the grass and blending in with the background, and at this moment they came out of the forest, but it seemed endless......

"I'm afraid there are as many as 30,000 people." Wei Yang was a little worried, because the number of ships was insufficient, and the total number of lone troops that the Qin army finally invested was only 5,000, far less than the "10,000" expected by Han Xin.

It's okay to have one enemy and three enemies, six, can you win?

Even though the number of enemies was several times that of the Qin army, Han Xin was not afraid of rejoicing, and he stopped the cook who had just started to cook on the fire.

"Stop the spread and let the people assemble."

He even said to Wei Yang very optimistically: "Today, we should fight on an empty stomach, and after breaking the Yue people, it will not be too late to eat!" ”

"Han Sima, you can't say this!" Wei Yang was shocked and admonished repeatedly, this is a taboo that is strictly forbidden by the Marquis of Changnan!

But what he didn't expect was that Han Xin intensified and committed a bigger taboo - a taboo that even Wei Yang knew!

"Wei Sima, please pretend to be panicked, and leave in a hurry with the fleet without waiting for us to board the ship, and drive as fast as possible......"

Immediately, he looked at the Luo people and Ou people warriors who were pouring out in the distance, and his face was resolute and resolute.

"All the soldiers, back to the water, array!"

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PS: Moving to a new house, a busy day, only one chapter, 8102 goodbye, 9102 Hello, happy new year everyone, strive to finish the last battle of the Southern Expedition tomorrow.