Chapter 490: Pioneer Unsheath (First Update)
Here Xiang Yu just said that he asked his guards to call Han Xin, over there Han Xin had already entered Xiang Yu's big tent by himself, as soon as he saw Han Xin's expression, Xiang Yu knew that this kid should have been waiting here for a long time, although there was still a little bit of regret in his heart, but Xiang Yu didn't say anything, just let Han Xin's sit down opposite him, and sent his guards out.
"It was so hard last night, but what useful news did you hear from the mouth of that Mauryan Clan?" Han Xin was very impatient, and when only the two of them were left in the big tent, Han Xin hurriedly asked.
"Although I did get some news from this person's mouth last night, but this time for you and me, I'm afraid it's not as easy as I imagined before, many strategies, I'm afraid I have to think about it in the long run."
When such words came out of Xiang Yu's mouth, Han Xin knew that it was likely that things were really in trouble, and his brows furrowed at that time.
Xiang Yu sighed and continued: "According to this person, although he has not really seen the capital of the Mauryan Empire, nor has he seen the monarch of the Mauryan Dynasty, but he knows that the capital is not far from here, and pointed out the general direction, in my opinion, the capital must not be far from the mountain range, but it is very far from the sea. Because I can't know when the two armies on the sea will arrive, and if the two of us are late, the two armies will face hundreds of thousands of Mauryan defenders unsuspectingly, which will be even more vicious. ”
Xiang Yu's ability, that's really not blowing, although it took several times, and I made mistakes several times, although I didn't ask anything else useful, but at least I understood one thing, that is, the capital of the Peacock Dynasty is not far from here.
According to Xiang Yu's estimate, if he and Han Xin really started attacking each other, it was estimated that in a few days, the capital of the Peacock Dynasty would know about this and then send their army.
According to the previous understanding, even if the population of this dynasty is slightly less than that of Great Qin, there must still be an army of three or four hundred thousand, in case the family really sends several times as many enemies, and there are I don't know how many elephants, this battle will undoubtedly be very difficult to fight.
Xiang Yu is indeed not afraid of the enemy's strength, but if he loses a lot of money because of his bad plan, it will not be his intention. Therefore, according to the situation he has now, he will work with Han Xin to exchange the smallest loss for the greatest result.
"If this is the case, this will be different from your previous prediction, and we will have to change our plan according to this difference, otherwise, the pressure on you and me will be very great."
Han Xin is a smart person, what Xiang Yu is worried about, of course he understands it very well, and he had already foreseen it in the exchange with Yinggao, this expedition is impossible to carry out completely according to his own ideas, and there will definitely be some situations that are different from what he expected before, but Han Xin didn't expect such a situation to appear so quickly.
Both knew that the difficulty posed by such a problem was that they didn't know how to determine when to attract the attention of the Mauryan army.
According to the original plan, when they attracted the Mauryan army to their side, the capital city on the opposite side was taken out by the other two naval armies, so that the army would be in a dilemma, and both Yinggao and Han Xin believed that they would definitely return to rescue their capital and monarch.
In this way, Daqin's three-way army will form a three-sided encirclement of the Mauryan Dynasty's army, coupled with the mobility of 100,000 cavalry, the initiative will be completely in the hands of Han Xin and Xiang Yu.
And now, if it is early, they may fall into the entanglement with the army of two or three hundred thousand, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to form a three-sided encirclement, but if the troops are not sent out for a long time, when Peng Yue and Sima Xin have hit the hinterland of the people, you will invade the surrounding counties and counties, and the main force of the people will not come, and it will not be the army of the Mauryan Dynasty that will be exhausted, but their cavalry.
In this way, if you do it inside and out, the advantages of these three-way armies will obviously be gone, which Yinggao does not want to see, and it is also what Xiang Yu and Han Xin do not want to see.
The two looked at each other's eyes, and they both saw something in each other's eyes, the two of them are actually a kind of person in their bones, and in the face of such difficulties, what people like them can think of is never to retreat, but to move forward.
In the end, it was Xiang Yu who took the lead in opening his mouth, he saw the same thing as himself in Han Xin's eyes, but he also knew that there were some things that had to be said by himself, and what Han Xin said seemed to be not proactive.
"In my opinion, we naturally can't rely on guessing to wait here, in that case, although it will not be discovered by the people of the Mauryan Dynasty in the short term, but it is not a good thing for this war after all, you send a team of people to different villages to capture another people, if the location of the capital of the Peacock Dynasty that he knows is the same as the previous person, we should be able to take action."
"What does Shan Yu mean that I will no longer wait for those two water armies and start our plan directly?"
"Yes, since the general led 30,000 horses to be the vanguard, he naturally wants to give the Mauryan Dynasty a dismount, according to yesterday's man's statement, there should be a relatively large city near these villages, you lead 30,000 horses to raid it, whether you can attack the city or not, you must create a momentum to let the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty know, if they send tens of thousands of horses to destroy you, wouldn't it become a turtle in the urn between you and me? At that time, they found that there were 100,000 troops here, and I am afraid that our two-way army was about to arrive! ”
Speaking of which, Xiang Yu's plan is already obvious, that is, no matter what, use Han Xin's 30,000 vanguard army to make a wave first, and the result is not important, the main thing is to tell the people in power of the Peacock Dynasty that we are here to do you.
According to Xiang Yu's idea, a cavalry of 30,000 people suddenly appeared in the rear of his country, although it would shock the monarch of the Peacock Dynasty, but in such a big dynasty, 30,000 people would not frighten them, but they would send 50,000 or 60,000 men and horses to destroy Han Xin at most, and in this way, Xiang Yu and Han Xin's goal was achieved.
At that time, it will not be a situation of 50,000 or 60,000 against 30,000, but a situation of 560,000 against 100,000, plus there is no intention, if Xiang Yu and Han Xin can't handle such a battle, then even the two of them will not be able to forgive themselves.
For Xiang Yu's proposal, Han Xin naturally raised his hands in agreement, he knew that among the 100,000 people, the Hun cavalry accounted for 80,000, and from a strategic point of view, Han Xin was also cooperating with the big plan designated by Yinggao, and everything was mainly to realize Yinggao's big plan.
So among the 100,000 people, Han Xin is the pioneer, Xiang Yu is the boss, and the strategy Xiang Yu said is indeed very consistent with what Han Xin imagined, so of course Han Xin has to choose to listen to Xiang Yu's opinion, and then implement his accusation as a pioneer.
After agreeing to Xiang Yu's strategy, Han Xin naturally did what he said, and as soon as he went back, he sent his own three-person team and ordered them to capture another citizen of the Peacock Dynasty within two days.
This time, because these people also had a lot of experience, Han Xin put forward more requirements for them, asking them to capture a common man with a little status this time, and not to capture a guy like a homeless man like last time, such a guy is likely not very familiar with the question of where the capital of the Peacock Dynasty is.
After sending this three-person team, Han Xin wrote another letter, informing Yinggao of the situation learned here and the plan he had with Xiang Yu, and then summoned the 20,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 Hun cavalry temporarily under his command, and told them that they must recuperate enough in these two or three days, and about three days later, the war will begin.
Han Xin was not too worried about the combat effectiveness of the Hun cavalry, the only thing he emphasized to the Hun cavalry was that this attack must be quickly resolved, and it must not be greedy for killing, and kill the people in the village for no reason, if it does, it will definitely have a big impact on their future plans.
If this was placed under the rule of Mao Dun before, Han Xin would have looked like a fart to them when he said this, and they would definitely not have listened to it.
But now, because Xiang Yu said long before the expedition, their purpose is a large area of fertile land, and the people on that land are very likely to become their own subjects or slaves in the future, so it is strictly forbidden for the unarmed people of the Hun cavalry to kill for no reason, of course, if the people take the lead in attacking, they will be killed.
It is a little different from what Han Xin imagined, for his own teachings, the Huns' cavalry did not have any resistance mood, which made Han Xin slightly relieved, his 20,000 people as the vanguard, it is really a bit not enough, and if these 10,000 Hun cavalry become an unstable factor, in the case of Xiang Yu behind, his methods are really not much, fortunately, from the current situation, these Hun cavalry are still very obedient.
Two days later, the three-person team really lived up to expectations, they brought back a neatly dressed and neat hair bun from the Peacock Dynasty, according to them, this guy should not know where to get drunk, and he staggered in the middle of the night, which fell into their sight, and then was brought back by them unconsciously.
Han Xin didn't have the slightest interest in studying gestures and language, so he still threw this person directly to Xiang Yu, he believed that Xiang Yu's ability in this area, in one night, would definitely be able to verify the things that had been found out before.
Sure enough, after a night, without waiting for Han Xin to go to Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu went directly to the pioneer camp.
According to him, there should be a big river in the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, and this capital is in a place in the lower reaches of the river, and the general direction is not far from the south of the river, so you can take advantage of the night to march all the way south, and leave the village alone, once you find a large-scale city, you will storm it, if you find that the guards in the city are very tough, don't hit it hard, As long as they know about the existence of you, such a major event will definitely be transmitted to the capital not far away as soon as possible. ”
Although he knew that Han Xin's thoughts might not be much less than his own, Xiang Yu still actively told Han Xin, and Han Xin nodded again and again when he heard it, although he had already thought about these things.
"Tomorrow night I will set off with an army of 30,000 people, and when I reach the foot of the city, I will attack it according to the situation, and if I capture the city, your army will also quietly enter the city......"
After confirming some details of this operation with Xiang Yu, Han Xin said goodbye to Xiang Yu. Although he didn't think that there would be any big difficulties in attacking a small city, but after all, this was the first time that Daqin's army set out in the territory of the Peacock Empire, and he wanted to make this mission complete beautifully, after all, there was Xiang Yu behind him watching, if it was unfavorable, it would not only be his face that would be lost, which would mean that in Xiang Yu's eyes, he might still be the kid who only knew how to talk on paper.
After several surveys, the three-person team has basically determined the location of several villages scattered around this area, Han Xin wants to take advantage of the night to take 30,000 people around these villages, as far as possible without being discovered to find a city of similar size, and then raid it, this thing does not sound difficult to do, but Han Xin knows that there are a lot of accidents that may be encountered in the middle, after all, he is carrying a full 30,000 cavalry, not 300 people, and the target is really a bit huge.
On a night when the north wind was howling, although the wind was biting, Han Xin set off with his men and horses.