Compared with ordinary military generals and military talents, they are different.

Zhao Xie nodded in affirmation: "Guangwu Jun is right, it is impossible for Han Xin to wait for our army to come to fight in the same place. ”

"Du Zhen, Meng Tong."

"The end will be."

"You will lead 10,000 troops, go to today's combat site early tomorrow morning to observe the enemy's situation, and bury the remains of our soldiers in a centralized manner!"

"No!"

Du Zhen and Meng Tong received their orders together.

This was the first time they had received an order from King Zhao, and Du Zhen calmly received the order, while Meng Tong did not want King Zhao to order him, but he had to obey.

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More than ten miles on the west bank of the Mianman River, this is the location of Han Xin's camp before crossing the river, and he returned after the failure of the strategy.

When Han Xin conquered the Wei State, Kuaiche always followed. In the early hours of this morning, Han Xin led his army across the Mianman River and stayed behind in the camp by Kuaicher.

As soon as Han Xin returned to the barracks, Kuaiche found him.

Kui Che got straight to the point and said: "General, your battle plan did not succeed, it is surprising, you have met a real opponent!" ”

Han Xin unsheathed his sword, put it heavily on the desk, was very depressed in his heart, and asked, "Tell me, who is my real opponent?" ”

Kui Che said calmly: "Li Zuoche knows the military affairs and has a strategy, but Chen Yu doesn't listen, you can implement the original plan, if Chen Yu temporarily wakes up, it is impossible to go to war." There is only one conclusion, and that is that someone from Xiangguo has sabotaged your plan. In the current Zhao Kingdom, except for Li Zuoche, there has not yet been a person with a strategic mind, and the person who sabotaged your plan must have appeared recently. ”

Han Xin then looked at the topographic map of Zhao Kingdom hanging in the tent, and if he wanted to enter Zhao Kingdom, the best way was to go through the Jingcheng Post Road. If the mouth of the well is guarded, there are other remote roads that can be climbed over the Taihang Mountains.

To take the Zhao State, the key point is not how to enter the Zhao State, but to try to eliminate the main force of the Zhao army, set up a backwater array, lure Chen Yu to attack, and capture the Zhao army's camp with surprise soldiers, which is for this purpose.

This is not completely risk-free, if the backwater array does not block the Zhao army, if the Zhao army stays in the camp too many people to prevent the surprise soldiers from capturing, this will lead to failure, and it is precisely because Han Xin predicted that the odds of victory will not be less than eighty percent, so he dares to take the risk of doing so.

Originally, Han Xin brought only 30,000 soldiers and horses, but today he lost more than 8,000 people on the east bank of the Mianman River, and lost more than 700 cavalry in the sneak attack on the Zhao army camp, and there were only 21,000 people left.

Kui Che said again: "General, if you can't find a way to break the enemy in the past few days, you can only withdraw first." ”

Han Xin can take the initiative to attack the Zhao army, and the Zhao army can also attack the Han army, and the Han army has traveled a long distance, if it forms a confrontation with the Zhao army, the Zhao army can send cavalry to attack the grain road, so that Han Xin will become more and more passive.

After Liu Bang captured Guanzhong last year, by the beginning of this year, the army had expanded to 200,000, and later united with other princes and kings to take Pengcheng, the capital of Chu State, Xiang Yu personally led 30,000 cavalry from Qi State to return quickly, and the coalition army was caught off guard, Liu Bang fled back to Xingyang in embarrassment, so he lost tens of thousands of people.

Before the Battle of Jingcheng, Liu Bang had a total of 140,000 troops. Among them, 30,000 stayed in Guanzhong, 60,000 confronted Xiang Yu on the Xingyang front, and 20,000 stayed behind to defend Wei and Dai, which had just been captured, and could only give Han Xin 30,000 troops to attack Zhao.

The Han army had just captured Wei and Dai, with a population of more than two million, and it was no problem to recruit more than 100,000 soldiers, but it would take several months to practice, Liu Bang in order to seize the northern region as soon as possible, form a strategic advantage over Xiang Yu, and let Han Xin attack Zhao after seizing the two countries.

Militarily speaking, in today's battle, the Han army lost more than 30,000 people to the Zhao army at the cost of 9,000 men, even if it did not complete the goal of destroying the main force of the Zhao army, it could not be regarded as a defeat, at least it could be regarded as a draw.

But in Hanshin's mind, failure without success is failure.

Han Xin was unwilling to retreat like this, he looked at the map while meditating to see if he could find another opportunity to defeat the enemy with less.

Kui Che Zhengse said: "General, let's wait for the news first, and see who is the person who sees through your plan." ”

In Xiangguo, the capital of Zhao State, there are spies of the Han State lurking.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can set a coping strategy, and Han Xin can only wait for a few days.

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Zhao Jun camp.

In the handsome tent, the generals dispersed, Chen Yu was arranged to another place, and the handsome tent was repacked and vacated for Zhao Xie to live.

There were only Zhao Xie and Li Zuoche at the scene.

Zhao Xie wanted to talk to him in detail about combat countermeasures and fully understand his talents.

Zhao Xie sighed and said: "When I learned that the Han army was coming, the widow should adopt your suggestion and let you be the commander, so that more than 30,000 people would not be lost in vain like today." ”

Although this is not caused by Zhao Xie now, he is still heartbroken about it.

Li Zuodao: "King, it was Chen Yu's insistence that led to this ending." If you turn the tide, you will be able to lift the morale of the army. ”

Zhao Xie got up from his seat, walked to Li Zuoche, and said sincerely: "How to go next, I hope you can speak freely." ”

In addition to the accumulation of more than 2,000 years of knowledge more than the ancients, Li Zuoche in front of him is currently the biggest reliance.

Li Zuoche felt the sincerity of King Zhao, and was relieved in his heart, and said: "Today's battle shows the cleverness of Han Xin's army, his plan to destroy the main force of our army has failed, if you dare to send people to enter our country from other trails, it will be beneficial to our army to fight in the territory." However, the superiority of our army's military strength is only temporary, and in today's battle at the Mianman River, I carefully observed the Han army, which was extremely well-trained, and even if the morale was comparable, our army's infantry would still be at a slight disadvantage if it fought head-on with it.

If the Han army is not in a hurry to quickly seize our Zhao State and withdraw its troops to recuperate, it will soon be able to recruit 120,000 soldiers from the Wei State. Han Xin is not only good at using soldiers, but also has a hand in training soldiers, as long as he is given a few months, he can train an elite army, if he leads hundreds of thousands of well-trained soldiers and horses to kill at that time, the trend of strength and weakness will be reversed. ”

Zhao Xie also thought of this, but he had to fully listen to Li Zuoche's opinion, and it was better for the two of them to find a way than to find a way by themselves.

Li Zuoche continued: "King, to solve the unfavorable situation for our country, there are three strategies. ”

He paused.

Zhao Xie asked, "Guangwujun, you can speak freely. ”

Li Zuolane: "When the situation is today, it is Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who are competing for the world. What strategy Zhao adopted depended on the king's foothold. ”

At this point, he paused again. He has three strategies, and which one to adopt depends on what kind of person the monarch is.

Zhao Xie was aroused by him, and urged: "The widow has said it, although you can speak freely, the widow listens." ”