"Military struggle is for profit, and military struggle is dangerous."

Meng Wu vaguely remembered what his father had said to him many years ago, when he was young and asked his father Meng Fu for advice on this paragraph.

"Wu'er, the way to use soldiers is to compete for the first. When a general accepts the king's order, from gathering his army, setting up camp, to going to the battlefield to confront the enemy, there is nothing more difficult than taking the lead in winning the battle. ”

He gave the example of the Jinyang rebellion in the first year of the reign of King Qin, when Jinyang surrendered first, and then rebelled back to Zhao, but Li Mu had not yet had time to receive, the local Zhao people believed that Hedong and Taiyuan were two hundred miles apart, and the round trip would take at least ten days, and the city of Jinyang had been repaired at that time, and all the armies were ready.

However, it only took three days for Meng Fu to lead his troops from Hedong to Jinyang, which caught the local Zhao people by surprise, and quelled the rebellion before Li Mu sent troops from Yunzhong Yanmen to receive it, thus establishing his position in the army.

However, this kind of military struggle in order to gain the first opportunity, rolling up the armor, day and night, and doing both the same thing, has both interests and dangers.

Just as the art of war says, a hundred miles and fight for profit, then capture the three generals, the strong first, the tired later, and the eleventh of the law. A soldier who can only walk thirty miles a day, if he walks more than three times the distance day and night, he is already physically and mentally exhausted, let alone joining the battlefield, among the people, it is good to have one-tenth of them, and the others are tired and lying on the halfway, such an army will most likely be defeated by people and the whole army will be wiped out.

Remembering this, Meng Wu, after crossing Yingshui, even though Wang Jian was in a hurry, he only advanced at a speed of fifty miles a day, and on March 15, he arrived at a place forty miles south of Qicheng, and then set up camp to wait for the follow-up troops. Because of the fifty miles of competition, only half of the army can arrive in time, and the 30,000 soldiers in Nanyang are still far behind!

From beginning to end, he has not fallen behind, and he has always been at the forefront as the forward of the heel army, which is the Nanjun soldiers, which makes Meng Wu impressed, because in the last war, the Nanjun soldiers were also used by his son Meng Tian as a miscellaneous army to do things like luring the enemy and defending the city, and now it has only been a year, why has it become so elite?

Li You's training in this year is one of them, and the Nanjun soldiers are generally equipped with "leggings" is the second, and when the Nanyang soldiers who are not used to the leggings are beating their sour legs and wailing, the Nanjun soldiers can continue to go on the road after picking up the blisters at the bottom of the footboards and resting a little.

It was at the temporary camp that Meng Wu also learned about the battle situation ahead: General Wang Jian sent a message that the Chu army continued to harass the Qin camp last night, and it must be to fight a decisive battle today, so that Meng Wu could reach the battlefield ten miles southwest of Qicheng today!

It was not difficult to march thirty miles in a hurry, but they had just packed up, and the scouts came to report that a Chu army of 20,000 people had also broken away from Xiang Yan's army, advanced to ten miles away, lined up in formation, and stopped on the road that the Qin army must pass......

"Xiang Yan is really going to fight a decisive battle today."

Meng Wu laughed, half a year of hard work, half a month of pursuit, and finally had to divide the victory and defeat at this time!

As far as he knew, the Qin army led by Wang Jian was almost the same as the Chu army that Xiang Yan had been taking away from the battle, and the Chu army was in danger of dying, and the Qin army might not be able to take too much advantage.

Therefore, the outcome of this battle is determined by when the northern and southern divisions of the Qin army will arrive on the battlefield!

If the Chu army with the word "Jing" stopped Mengwu, and the northern army would not arrive until a few days later, then even if Wang Jian was victorious, it would only be a miserable victory. If Meng Wu quickly defeated the Chu army in front of him and arrived on the battlefield, and attacked the Chu army with Wang Jian one after the other, then this battle was likely to be the last battle of Qin and Chu!

Thinking of this, Meng Wu was a little high-spirited, and was about to order the more than 30,000 people who had arrived at hand to drive the enemy forward, but one of his staff persuaded him: "General, now is a good opportunity to overwhelm Wang Qian!" ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Meng Wu narrowed his eyes and looked at this Qi staff member who had been serving the Meng clan since his father.

The staff said: "The general traveled fifty miles yesterday, and now he has only reached 30,000 in the camp, and the 30,000 Nanyang soldiers will not arrive in half an hour later, so the general might as well use this as an excuse to slowly confront the Chu army." After the Nanyang soldiers arrive, they will be completely annihilated, so that they can be beheaded. At the same time, observe the situation of the Qicheng battlefield, and wait until the Qin and Chu armies are tired before joining the battlefield, in this way, Wang Jian suffered a lot of casualties, and it was all thanks to the general to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop. Wang Jian asked for 600,000 troops before the war, but it was useless for half a year, and now there are many casualties, and he will lose the king's heart......"

"That's your plan?"

Meng Wu looked at this staff member coldly and said, "Do you think Meng Wu is a person who forgets his public affairs for personal reasons? What if the Qin army was defeated and retreated because I was an hour late, or if Xiang Yan was allowed to flee again, and missed the opportunity to completely annihilate the Chu army? With such a delay in the military plane, the king knows about it, what will he think of Montessori? ”

The eldest son, Meng Tian, had been expelled by the King of Qin from the border of Shangjun because of the last war, and Meng Wu endured the pain of the old wound and went to the battlefield again, just to win another chance for the Mengshi clan.

But by no means in this way.

"In the battle of Yique, Wu Anjun with 100,000 against Han and Wei 240,000 allied troops, Han General Storm Kite, Wei General Gongsun Xi both felt that this battle would be won, and they all wanted to preserve their strength and let the other party and the Qin army consume, so they watched each other, and no one was willing to attack first, but they were broken by Wu Anjun and fell into annihilation."

"Do you want me to be a violent kite and Gongsun Xi now?"

After repulsing this short-sighted staff, Meng Wu also had a clear response in his mind.

"Pass me the order!"

He quickly wrote an order on the wooden tablet, stamped his seal, and ordered: "Order 30,000 soldiers from Nanyang to speed up and join me, and defeat the Chu army in front of me with me." ”

"And Li Youbu, a soldier of Nanjun, when I personally led my soldiers to fight with the Chu army, I could set off in full gear, bypass the Jing defense line from the west, and go straight to the battlefield! Rush to the aid of General Wang! ”

Let the Nanjun soldiers be in charge of galloping to help, not only because they are all equipped with leggings and have a fast journey, but also because there is a grudge, Meng Wu wants to write it off.

"In the last battle, after my son Meng Tian let Li You break off, the result made Li Si's father and son quite criticized, the king in order to appease Li Si, demoted my son to Shangjun and no longer recounted, now I give Li You a credit, or let the Meng and Li families release their previous suspicion......s."

……

In the northwest corner of the camp of the southern army of Qin, after receiving the order of Mengwu, Li You was overjoyed, but also like Mengwu, he was choosing his own vanguard officer, because it was rainy for days and many streams in this area, so the speed of the hundred chariots of the Nanjun soldiers may not be fast, and they still have to rely on infantry to deal with this complex ground situation.

"Meng Jia!"

The county lieutenant of Yanxian County led the commander Meng Jia out of the ranks, but he heard Li You ask: "How long will the Yanxian soldiers walk for thirty miles to the battlefield?" ”

Meng Jiayi hesitated: "Two ...... Two hours ...... "This is already twice the speed of a normal march."

But Li You was very dissatisfied: "Now that the time is coming to an end, you have to walk for two hours to go down to the market (15 o'clock to 17 o'clock) to arrive?" ”

Li You was very dissatisfied, and called another person: "Heifu! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

Heifu was a thriller and took a step to answer the order.

"What about you, how long will An Lubing be gone?"

Heifu bowed: "As long as the captain wants me to arrive, we can get there as long as we want!" ”

"Arrive at the battlefield in an hour and plant my flag behind the side of the Chu army, is it possible?"

Qin is 300 steps in one mile, 1.38 meters in one step, 400 meters in one mile, and 30 miles is 12 kilometers...... In later generations, the walking speed of ordinary people was about 5 kilometers per hour, and on the current rugged and muddy road, walking seven or eight kilometers in an hour is already good.

But Heifu still gritted his teeth: "Yes!" ”

"Good!"

Li You was very happy, and the candidate in his heart had been decided.

"Heifu will be my vanguard, open the way for our army, overcome obstacles, repel the Chu army's ranger scouts, if you can reach the battlefield on time! Captain Bendu promised that after this battle, thousands of people in Anlu will be given priority to merit! ”

Soon, Meng Wu had ordered the other 20,000 troops to move forward, and fought fiercely with the soldiers of the Jing clan of the Chu army who blocked the way.

When Heifu took his leave, Li You called out to him again, gave him his chariot and horses, and encouraged:

"Heifu, after the war, can you enter Xianyang as an official, and enter the eyes of the king, you will be here to fight!"

……

Although Li You's carriage and horses for Heifu were good, they were of no use, and after only a few miles, he fell into the muddy road and couldn't move.

"This ghost weather, this ghost traffic."

At present, the road is already a thoroughfare in Huaibei, but it is only equivalent to a village-level road without cement in later generations, and it is muddy when it rains.

"Leave the car behind."

Hefu simply dismounted, stepped into the undried dirt, and ordered: "Throw away all superfluous things, take only armor and weapons, and go lightly!" ”

In Heifu's eyes, in fact, this march is nothing, you know, in the later generations of police academies, there is also a "10 kilometers cross-country" project, which generally records collective results, with individual equipment, and the last place is qualified within an hour to the finish line......

They walked 12 kilometers in two hours, which was already very easy, and any army in later generations could easily complete it.

But in this era, it is already very difficult to reach this speed, after all, the army in this year is a meal of thirty miles.

The road conditions are sometimes dry, sometimes muddy, and in the muddy places, although Li Xian led the group to lay the planks in front, they still had to pass one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the speed was like a turtle crawling.

Looking up at the sun, Hefu saw that half of the time had passed, but they had only walked less than fifteen miles......

In this case, you will not be able to reach the battlefield on time!

"You can't just walk, you have to run, trot!"

Hefu led by saddling his gear and trotting forward from the middle of the line, carrying the banner behind him.

Then a thousand An Lu soldiers were amazed to see that their commander, with his sword and shield behind his back and a heavy shackle on his head, ran past him like this!

While running, Heifu also asked Ji Ying and a few heralds to convey his words to the soldiers.

"Second and third sons, this battle is under the command of General Wang, and the army of Chu has been repeatedly defeated, and it will be won!"

"Li Duwei promised, saying that after the war, the vanguard will give priority to meritorious service, so I have worked hard to win the banner of the vanguard for us, so as long as I can rush to the battlefield in time, I will become the first one to be rescued by the old general Wang, and each person will have a first-class title, what is the way?"

Ji Ying shouted very down-to-earth: "However, the front is not a battlefield, it is a piece of good land and houses!" ”

"The road under this foot is not a road, it is a ladder to climb to Gongjue!"

"Knighthood! Land! The five hundred Lord Dongmen Leopards also shouted at the right time.

In the team, Shiwu Wang Gua opened his short legs and began to grit his teeth to move forward, and Qianshou Dongkui also felt that infinite strength had been added to his feet!

Thinking of the title, thinking of the land, the crowd burst out with infinite strength, shouted in unison, and under the example of Heifu, they also began to trot.

In the past six months, in addition to playing ball, everyone has been urged by Heifu to run around the camp, so there is no need to worry about physical strength, and for a while, the speed of the troops has accelerated a lot.

At this moment, Heifu has run from the middle of the line to the front! Xiao Tao took a hundred short guards with bows and crossbows, or swords and shields, and followed Heifu to the death, and the only scout who kept the horses also crossed the soldiers with difficulty, scattered to seek the enemy, and ruled out the possibility of leaving people in ambush halfway for the Chu army.

However, at this moment, the Chu army, which had been fighting with the Qin army for two hours, could only believe that the Jing brothers could block all incoming enemies, where would there be extra troops to intercept it?

An Lu Qianren, leaving a series of footprints on the muddy road, they stepped through the ravine, trampled on the spring flowers and trees, scared away the elk and wild foxes, and finally heard the sound of killing in the distance by a hill a few miles away from the battlefield!

Amid the faint clash of swords and shouts, they also heard a faint singing......

"The rate is long, there is a singing!"

Liham, who had paved another ravine with the people, raised his head and looked at Heifu with some surprise.

Heifu's face changed.

The people of Nanjun and Anlu can understand this song, which is a familiar and unfamiliar voice for them.

is familiar because this is Chu Yin, and it is the Jingchu dialect they are also speaking.

is strange because of this song, since An Lu returned to Qin, the Qianshou have almost never had a chance to hear it from birth to death.

That's a roar of tens of thousands of people together! So they can even hear the words clearly.

"Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and short-handed!"

Hefu stirred up the crowd and let them go on, and he climbed the thorny hill and looked up.

The sky was gloomy and cloudy, the ground was muddy and green, and a few miles ahead, a vast battlefield that stretched for more than ten miles appeared in front of him, like a magnificent oil painting stained with red and black!

Red is blood, red clay, or the color of the Chu army.

The black is the stone, the mud, and the color of the Qin army's battle array.

Because it was too far away, Heifu couldn't see the handsome flags of Wang Jian and Xiang Yan, nor could he see the specific details of the operation, he could only see red and black, which were in the middle of the battlefield, and the battle was difficult to solve......

And the loud singing they heard was coming from the rear of the Chu array, which was cheering for the charging Chu people, and its sound shook the four fields!

"The sun is like a cloud, and the arrows are falling for the first!"

Heifu heard it, this is "National Martyrdom", it is the war song of the Chu people!

Accompanied by Chu Ge's song, Heifu saw that bursts of red tide surged again, slamming towards the black reef from east to west!