"Fifteen miles back every day...... Was this helpful? Xiong Jing raised an eyebrow. Xiang Yan's method seems simple, but it has an indescribable meaning.

"King Yu: The last general heard that there were guards in the Qin army, and this time the escort was Lu Buwei's guest Sikong Ma. Raising troops to attack Chu is the reason why Lü Buwei admonishes him. As soon as our army retreats, Sima Kong will strictly order the main general Meng Wu to fight with me......" Xiang Yan also relied on Yang Wenjun's news and strategists to come up with this strategy, but Xiong Jing, who didn't know the inside story, was confused.

"What are the Protectors?" Xiong Jing asked, "And why did Lü Buwei want to attack the Chu State, and when did my Chu State offend him?" ”

"King Yu: The protector is the responsibility of supervising the army on behalf of the King of Qin, and the protector is under the jurisdiction of the military camp, with tens of thousands of soldiers. If the protector thinks that the main general is fighting with the enemy, he can immediately take down the main general and withdraw the talisman. Xiang Yan explained carefully, Peng Zong's eyes next to him were dry, but he blinked and blinked, he was afraid that in the future, the Chu State would also follow the example of the Qin State and practice this kind of protector system.

"So disgusting?" As soon as Xiang Yan said that the overseer Xiong Jing understood the meaning, isn't this the ancient overseer. "Sikong Ma is a eunuch?"

"King, Sikong Ma is not a eunuch, but a guest of Lü Buwei. The king of Qin wanted to replace Lü Buwei as the prime minister of Qin with the right prime minister Changping Jun, so Lü Buwei made Chu so that Changping Jun asked the king of Qin to withdraw his troops. The power struggle within the Qin State Xiang Yan expressed it very unpleasantly, but fortunately, he basically explained this relationship clearly, although it was not entirely correct.

"King, Changping Jun is my Chu people." Xiong Jing said that the disgusting of the guards made Peng Zong's heart feel a little better, but he saw that Xiong Jing was still puzzled, so he said more.

"I know, Changping-kun is my brother-in-law." When Xiong Jing was the crown prince, his father Xiong Yuan told him the identity of Changping Jun. He was silent for a while before he said: "Because Changping Jun is a Chu person, and Qin Wangzheng is suspicious, so Lu Buwei wants to force Changping Jun to ask King Qin to withdraw his troops in order to keep his position as a prime minister. ”

"That's what the last general knows." Xiang Yan said, "The last general has also sought verification everywhere and discussed with everyone, which is not unreasonable. ”

"No, no, Lu Buwei doesn't want to keep the position of Xiangbang, he wants to save his life." Xiong Jing didn't know the internal logic of everything, but he knew that Lu Buwei was dismissed afterwards and moved to Sichuan where he drank poisoned wine and died, just this year and next year.

"The general thinks that if our army retreats, then the prison army will rush to Mengwu to fight with me?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"Exactly. The Qin army and the war are all beheaded and knighted, although our army is numerous, it is actually weaker than the Qin army, and the Qin army is newly victorious, and will be willing to fight with me. However, if our army retreats fifteen miles a day to avoid battle, the Qin army will be in a hurry. Fifteen miles in one day, thirty miles in two days, forty-five miles in three days, sixty miles in four days, and nearly seventy-five miles in five days. The Qin army had long harbored the will to fight, and would never let our army retreat to Xixian again, and Meng Wuding was reprimanded by the protector Sikong Ma, who did not dare to fight because he was afraid of the enemy. ”

Xiang Yan rarely elaborated on his decisive strategy of retreating first, which was also the result of his collective discussion with all the strategists in the military curtain. As the saying goes, buy up or down, and definitely don't buy when the price of your favorite thing falls, but if you are sure that it will rise in price that day, it is inevitable to rush to buy.

For the Qin army, the enemy to be eaten has already run to his mouth, and if he is not completely ready, of course, he has to wait, anyway, it is in front of him. But at this time, the enemy suddenly retreated, and day by day, it was natural to immediately eat up the logistics limit of land transportation there, rather than to break the blood to attack Xixian, it is better to annihilate the main force of the Chu army here.

This strategy is actually a gamble on psychology: the Three Kingdoms are horizontal, Xiang Yan does not take the precarious situation in his eyes, and does not take it as a hurry; The Qin army was not anxious about beheading and conferring knighthoods, and the guards were not anxious about Lü Buwei's resignation. Whoever can't help it first will take the initiative to fight.

Xiong Jing was persuaded by Xiang Yan's decisive battle strategy, and he nodded and asked: "When did the general decide the decisive battle, and why did our army fight?" ”

"This ......" Xiang Yan looked at Peng Zong and said, "It is inconvenient to talk about it here, please follow the king to the shogunate." ”

The place on the nest car is small, and it is inconvenient to talk about it in detail. When I arrived at the shogunate, I saw a chip full of chips. The chip can only be regarded as a primitive sand table, with no rivers, mountains, roads, just a square board to arrange troops. This is related to the prevalence of chariot warfare in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the chariots must be on the plain before they can run, so both sides of the war will find a place that is as flat as possible. The terrain is like a board, and the chips are used to indicate the strength of the troops, the chariot is multiplied, that is, a pawn is a chip, and the two sides raise red and black, each occupying one end.

Without waiting for Xiang Yan to explain, Xiong Jing saw that the red side was divided into four formations, and the three armies were parallel to each other, with a small gap between them. The left army has 60 chips, the middle army has 80 chips, the right army has 70 chips, and after the three armies is the rear army of 50 chips, which is equivalent to the reserve of later generations, but in the wartime terminology of the Chu army, this is called 'You Que', You is the meaning of swimming, and Que is missing, which means: where the army is missing, swim to where to fill the gap.

Thinking of Lian Po's saying that 'the way to defeat is nothing more than two', and then seeing that the Chinese army composed of 80 chips is all in a single line, while the left and right armies have few chips, but there are three to four lines, and I immediately understood the tactical intention of this array.

"This hook is also a hit." Xiong Jing couldn't help but say it, which surprised Xiang Yan and Peng Zong.

"The king is wise, our army is about to perform the method of hooking in this battle." Xiang Yan's gaze at Xiong Jing was different, and the art of war seemed to him to rely on understanding, but he didn't expect that Rong Ma's lifelong Lian Po had already simplified the complex, and summarized the tactical intentions of all offensive battle formations into two types: either hit or hook, and nothing else.

"The Chinese army is so wide...... Can you hold it? "The eighty chips of the Chinese army are only lined up, although I don't know the actual thickness of the array, but thinking of what Lian Po said about the Qin army's sharp soldiers are good at breaking the formation, Xiong Jing couldn't help but ask.

"The King...... Ahem," Peng Zong spoke, and he was completely in a tone of battle. "The Great King knows the battle of you?"

"The battle?" It was one of the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty in the Hanshui Valley, and the specific location was north of Xiangyang, and the war here should have taken place hundreds of years ago. Xiong Jing didn't think of the battle when he searched his intestines and scraped his belly, so he had to say truthfully: "I don't know, please teach me Junsiao." ”

"The last general will not dare!" The king said, 'Please', Peng Zong's face turned red, and he immediately bowed to show that he didn't dare. He said briefly: "When the first king and king Wu, my Chu division and Ba division fought with Deng Jun, in this battle, our army took Dou Lian as the commander, the chariot was eighty times, the Ba division was one hundred times, and the commander of the Deng army was the doctor's nephew and nephew, and the chariot was one hundred and fifty times, and there were still one hundred and twenty times. In the first battle, the Deng division did not defeat the Ba division, and the Ba division did not defeat the Deng division, and the fighting Lian ordered the Chu division to cross the formation between the Ba division......"

Peng Zong said as he set up a formation on a smaller chipboard, of course, this formation was not as strict as the big array, but the two military formations were extremely similar, and they were also extremely thin in the middle and extremely thick on both sides.

“…… Deng Shi attacked me, and our division feigned defeat and ran north. Master Deng thought he was victorious and chased me. Ba Shi ...... "Peng Zong's hands have not stopped, and with his narration, the black chips representing Deng Shi gradually penetrated into the middle of the red chips, and then the red chips listed on both sides were urgent. “…… The Ba division should be attacked by its back. Deng Shi was defeated. ”

"This is the battle." Peng Zong put down the black chips in his hand surrounded by red chips, and then pointed to the big chips and said: "This battle is also like a battle, when the battle is fought, the Chinese army feints defeat and goes north, the Qin army chases me, and the left and right armies should attack it." ”

Xiong Jing suddenly felt a little dizzy at this time, he felt that this battle was very similar to the battle between Carthage and Cannae in ancient Rome, and Hanbani, who commanded this battle, is therefore regarded as the father of strategy in the West. What he didn't expect was that more than 400 years ago, the Chu army also had this kind of classic battle in which the Chinese army feinted defeat and retreated, and the two flanks were surrounded and flanked.

It seemed that he felt that he was too profound, and his king was incomprehensible for a while, and when Peng Zong was about to say more, Xiong Jing asked: "The Chinese army is feinted to the north, how to stop it from forming a formation?" I heard that the formation of the Qin army has always been thin and thick, and the sharp soldiers are unparalleled, how can the left and right armies resist the sharp soldiers of Qin? The Qin army has nearly 10,000 martial knights, and they are arrayed on the left and right of the formation with their usual elements, if the Qin army also hooks my left and right flanks, how to resist the enemy? And also...... What about trebuchets, where are they placed? Why not. ”

can see the intention of the Chu army's battle array, Xiang Yan and Peng Zong immediately looked at each other, thinking that their king was rough in the art of war; Listening to Xiong Jing's questions again, I was even more surprised, this is not a rough level, at least it is a house. However, the tone of the trebuchet is still a bit childlike, and it is endearing.

Xiang Yan, who had a straight face, smiled rarely, and he said after a moment's notice: "This battle is the most difficult to rank after a feint, and the rest is easy."

There are nearly 10,000 warriors of Qin, and the sharp soldiers are unstoppable, but our army's bows and arrows are all placed on the left and right armies to drive away the warriors of Qin; The strongest division is listed on the left and right, especially the weak right army: the division of the feudal monarch is good at fighting, and the Yue people dare to die, but they are stupid, and they only know how to retreat, which may not be inferior to the Qin army.

And the Chinese army feinted defeat and fought again...... Wu Zi said: 'Qin has a strong nature, its land is dangerous, its politics is strict, its rewards and punishments are trusted, and its people do not let it, all of them have a fighting spirit, so they disperse and fight themselves. To strike this way, we must first show it to benefit and lead it away, and the soldiers are greedy for gain and leave their generals, take advantage of the obedient hunting, set up ambushes and speculation, and they will be desirable. ’

Although this has been said for more than 100 years, the habits of the Qin people have not changed at all for more than 100 years. In order to confer the title of land, a little bit of its benefits will be like ants attached, not avoiding water and fire. During the battle, our Chinese army was defeated at the first touch, and retreated without fighting for a long time. The Qin people followed, and the Chinese army marched fifty steps north, but it was not only blocked by Youyan. You Yan is dominated by the two armies of the king and the Xiang division, and if the Chinese army is defeated, it may be able to stabilize the position. ”

After briefly answering Xiong Jing's question, Xiang Yan suddenly waved again: "There will be an indecent invitation at the end." ”

"Speak." Xiong Jing was still imagining the battle deduction diagram described by Xiang Yan in his mind, and he didn't know what he was going to ask.

"This battle is dangerous, and the outcome is unpredictable. Please find a small official to pretend to be the king and the honor guard will stay in ......"

"Rude!" Before Xiang Yan finished speaking, several rudeness burst out from behind Xiong Jing with anger, and in addition to the left and right histories that were being recorded, there was also the old servant Ge.