Chapter 29: Two Strategies

"The north wind is cool, and the rain and snow are cold. Hui and good me, hand in hand. Is it false? Both urgent and ......"

As the weather approaches November, taking a bamboo slip in the palace room where the fire is lit and reading a poem "North Wind" will only make people feel warmer. "North Wind" is a poem of Wei Ren, Wei Guo is in the north of Chu State, between Zhao and Wei, no wonder it is so cold. In the Chu Palace, the princess Mi Qian didn't understand the implicit meaning of Weiren's "North Wind", so she could only grasp the bamboo slips and think about the cold winter of defending the country, in the rain and snow, and flee with her sweetheart, otherwise the disaster would fall from the sky......

Although she is the daughter of Concubine Yue, she was born and learned to be the customs of the Chu people, no broken hair and no feet, curly skirts, coiled hair and plugs, sixteen years old is the most delicate age, Mi Qian is the most beautiful princess of Chu State. No matter where she goes, the eyes of the temple maids always follow her like a shadow. At this time, she was reading according to the case in the dim room, like a pearl that would shine, bright and delicate.

"Sister Qi, the queen mother said that Brother Wang has won again." Mi Xuan trotted in with a smile on her face, and before she entered the room, she talked about the news of the victory at the front, this is the second time, and yesterday was 'Brother Wang's retreat from the Qin soldiers'.

"Won again?" Mi Qian put down the bamboo slip and smiled, her clear eyes laughing like the moon in late autumn.

"yes. Everyone said that Brother Wang was a saint who came into the world and blessed our Chu State, and after losing his mother, he was still worried about Zhao State sending troops to save our Chu State every day. It seems that as long as Brother Wang is there and shouts to the Qin people, they will be so frightened that they will run back to Xianyang. "After the death of my father, it was rare to have a smile in the palace, but since yesterday, 'the king retreated from the Qin soldiers', and the people in the palace maid temple have laughed constantly. Mi Xuan is no longer accustomed to being a woman, and she walks around the palace every day, especially running to Mi Xuan.

"Hehe......" Mi Xuan, who was not as good as Xuan, was still naΓ―ve, compared with Mi Xuan, she looked a little fat, her face was red, and she spoke with a little Zhao Yin, and the action of scolding the Qin people made Mi Xuan laugh even more. Brother Wang is smart, heroic and martial, I don't know which country the princess is deeply blessed by Shaosi's life, and can have a good husband like him. ”

The words spoken by the woman are naturally different from those of children. Mi Xuan didn't notice her sister's abnormality, and said, "By the way, I heard that those Yue people still sang and sang to Brother Wang, singing ......" The news from the front line was quickly transmitted back to Yingdu through the flying message, and the song sung by the Yue people when Xiong Jing inspected the whole army also came back, but the Chu army fought on the third line, and the news sent to the queen by the Great Sima Mansion was not translated, and what Mi Xuan saw was still in Yue instead of Chu. The Vietnamese language was difficult to understand, and she stammered for a long time before she relayed a few words.

The two princesses in the Chu Palace said the song of the Yue people with a smile, and in the Great Sima Mansion, a highest-level military memory was underway, and the eyes of the people sitting there were completely red - Xiang Yan adopted the tactics used by Dou Lian in the Battle of Lu, not all of them were the result of the deliberations of the strategists in the army, and the Operations Bureau of the Military Command Department of the Great Sima Mansion was also involved in this. Feixun, for the first time, realized the front line and rear together with the temple plan.

"Before the start of the war, the array of our army was as follows: Left Army: Sleeping Division, Chen Division, with Cai Division's general Pan Wuming as the general, totaling 20,000 people; Chinese army: Yingshi, Xixian, Qisi, Tate, Xiyang, Xiacai, Juchao, Zhongli, Feiling, Shuxian, Jianyang divisions, with the generals of Yingshi as commanders, totaling 80,000 people; Right Army: Wu Division, Yue Division, with the rate of Yang Xu, the general of the Yue Division, totaling 20,000 people......

The number of Qin troops is unknown, but as seen in yesterday's array, its array is 12 miles wide, 20 lines in depth, 40 lines in depth, and another part is Youque, which is about 6 miles wide and 40 lines deep, and there are 200,000 people. Another 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry troops seized Jiangyi, and their army was about 23 to 240,000.

In yesterday's battle, the left and right armies of the Qin army each had 40 lines, and the middle army had only 20 lines. The sharp men were in his right army, and at dawn they attacked our left army at dusk, beheading six hundred and fifteen men and wounding three thousand and eighty-one; Its right army also lined up in 40 lines, 500 paces away from our army, and did not receive troops. If the Qin people line up like this again tomorrow, the two divisions of the left army and Chen may not be able to balance each other......"

The restructuring of the Great Sima Mansion has revitalized the lifeless strategists, but their reports are very boring because they pay great attention to numbers and logic at Xiong Jing's request. Nao, who had withdrawn from the affairs of Chen and Lu's defense, Yingdu's public security, government production, and grain transportation, couldn't help but interrupt. He said: "Since Xiang Yan has ordered the whole army to deploy in the battle of Lu, it is impossible to make changes again. Jiangyi was pulled out by the Qin people, and the only way to send knights from Xi County to take advantage of the night camp was to send a messenger. Now that it is the time to hang the car, what is the best way to speed up the second and third sons. ”

Although there is paper, the report of the War Bureau is still a thick stack, very long, I am afraid that I will not be able to read it for an hour, and it cannot be transmitted after dark, and these summaries cannot be transmitted to the front line, so what is the use of reading them?

"Da Sima," Mr. Li had to speak. "I'll wait all night to deliberate, but there are only two options."

"Sir, please." Nao nodded and waited for the following.

"First, when the Qin army is not allowed to enter, it is known to break the formation with a chariot, and our soldiers should prepare more thistles. Horses trampling on thistles and chaos, and the rush of the chariot is not available. I heard that nine years ago Qin, Zhao, Wolf and Meng battle, the Zhao army in front of the battle had many rejection horses, after the battle, the corpses were all over the ground, and the front of the battle was the pawn of Zhongshan, wearing iron armor and holding an iron staff, the Qin army soldiers fought hard and could not break, so they made people remove the rejection of the horse, remove the corpse, fill the ground and then charge the battle with a chariot, and the Zhao array was defeated.

Therefore, the rejection of horses cannot be used, the ditch and ridge cannot be sustained, and the Qin people do everything to break the formation. In order to prevent the car, our army should be equipped with enough tribulus terrestris, if the Qin army moves away the corpse and fills the battlefield, the car can be thrown when the car rushes and startles the horse. ”

Mr. Li's words, everyone nodded when they heard it. Everything else is secondary, and preventing the Qin people from breaking the formation is the main thing. Ruishi has no choice, but there is still a way to deal with the car rush.

"Remember, remember." Nine years ago, in the battle of Wolf Meng, Nao Cunning knew that the Qin people had captured 37 cities such as Zhao Wolf Meng and Yuci, but he didn't know that the Qin people broke the Zhao army with a chariot. The battlefield must be leveled, and the cautious generals will personally walk through the battlefield before the battle, but this is hundreds of years ago. After the Jin Kingdom was divided into three points, the Rong Chariot that couldn't stand the bumps and couldn't turn when running was no longer used in the battle, and it was just a command vehicle as a pawn commander during the war.

"Second, the cavalry of the Qin people must be equipped." Mr. Li said again. "It is reported that five years ago, King Zhao ordered Li Mu to attack Yan and seize Wusui and Fangcheng of Yan State. In this battle, the knights under Li Mu formed a team to hook up the right army of the Yan army, but the Yan army was unguarded and retreated. ”

"Zhao Guo, Li Mu?" Compared with the cunning door strategists, the strategists of the Great Sima Mansion can be said to be well-informed, but this news made Nao Sly very puzzled, and he said: "Where did Mr. know the details of this battle? ”

"......" was not only cunning and puzzled, but the staff of the combat bureau also looked at Mr. Li, wondering where he heard the secrets, only to see that Mr. Li first closed his mouth and did not answer, and then said for a long time: "In the wine shop." And the Qi State has long had a saying that the Wenqi broke Rong Di. ”

"Wine... In the middle of the rage. Nao wanted to laugh, but in the end he held back. Even if what Mr. said is true, this is Zhao Jun. ”

"No, no, no." Mr. Li shook his head, "The marquis of Qin has all the countries, I can know that Qin can also know it, and as long as the world's cultivation and war plan is in the world, the Qin people will take it, and the matter of the Great Yeshi Ou Chou is a clear proof." ”

Nao Cunning didn't take what Mr. Li said seriously, but as soon as Ou Chou was mentioned, he immediately changed his attitude towards this matter - eight days ago, Ou Chou, the great master of Jutie Mansion, actually disappeared in his residence. Although this incident did not cause a sensation in Yingdu, it shocked all the courtiers and officials. Many people don't know who Ou Chou is, but who doesn't know what Ju Iron is? Nao Qian immediately ordered all counties to investigate thoroughly, but there has been no news so far. Nao had already guessed that this was done by the Qin people, but he didn't know how the Qin people did it, and he didn't know whether Ou Chou was dead or alive now, and where he was.

Suppressing the anxiety of Ou Chou's disappearance, Nao asked slyly: "Sir, do you think that the Qin people's martial knights will also hook the flank of our army like the Zhao army?" ”

"Exactly." Mr. Li said. "If the Qin army does not break through my left and right armies, it will use the method of the Zhao army to hook my flank with knights. The general only placed 10,000 archers on the left and right armies to resist the Qin cavalry, which may be useful in normal times, but may not be effective in fierce battles. ”

"If the Qin people attack me with knights, what should our army do to break it?" Nao asked again while letting people record.

"It's just the car formation." This time it was no longer Mr. Li who answered, but someone else in the Battle Bureau. "Mr. Li's intention is to leave the two armies, and even to Youque, and to protect each other with chariots and heavy vehicles......"

"Our army has never had so many trucks and heavy vehicles? Yes, what about the heavy grain loaded? "The front of the army is fourteen or fifteen miles, and the rear should not be less than this, plus the two sides, the required vehicles are about two or three thousand.

"Please tell the general about this, how to deal with it, the general will weigh it himself." After Mr. Li finished speaking, the battle bureau thought about it all night, and the most important thing was these two, and the rest could only depend on luck.

Yingdu Da Sima Mansion, taking advantage of the last ray of light, the news was transmitted to the Xixian Feixun Station in time. Xixian did not delay, and the untranslated message was immediately copied by several riders, and hurriedly drove into the night to deliver it to the Chu army camp. And in the Chu army camp on the north bank of the Qingshui River dozens of miles away, Xiong Jing fell asleep after bargaining with the divisions and Xiang Yan for half a day without eating dinner. Today, the Qin army came urgently, and camped three miles away, and the decisive battle should be tomorrow, he had to put down everything and sleep well, perhaps, this would be his last sleep in this world.

The king was asleep, and the close ministers, attendants, palace armor, and sanitation generals looked at each other, full of sadness - in the afternoon, the general Xiang Yan finally agreed to the king's request: before the battle, the king would stand in front of the Chinese army array, so that the Qin people could storm the Chinese army......

"After this battle, if you don't kill Xiang Yan, you won't be a person!" Gong Armor Chang Yan stood up violently, he took out his newly worn cavalry knife, and cut off the bundle of hair with a single sword.