Chapter Seventy-Seven: Attacking the Heart
It was not the first time that Eule had proposed to postpone the decisive battle, but like all of his proposals, it was immediately rejected by the generals. The veto of the generals was only a disagreement with values, and the veto of the shogunate advisers was a rational veto.
The elite soldiers of the Qin army are only 200,000, and even so, the more Qin troops will gather in Weinan every day after the postponement. The garrison in his own city has been reduced to a minimum, and it is 150,000 Wei troops defending the cities defended by the Chu army before. If the Wei army is defeated, Nanyang and Nanjun will be in danger, and if Li Xin divides his troops to plunder the eastern land of Chu, it will be a disaster.
It is impossible for the Qin army to have no food. Guanzhong is a dense place of cities, and any county has a warehouse, even if the warehouse is insufficient, there is also grain in the Qianshou family. In the Battle of Changping, King Qin Zhaoxiang personally went to Hanoi County, 'giving the people all ranks, and the age of more than 15 years learned about Changping', these fifteen-year-old teenagers did not transport grain from the rear, but grain from their own families.
There are still two or three months before the autumn harvest, and every household has a surplus of grain. With the population density of Guanzhong, the grain within a hundred miles is enough for hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers to eat for a month. And the Chu army will fasting the horses after five days, and the whole army will starve after half a month. The Qin people in the counties near Xianyang have been fortified and cleared, and even if they send soldiers to collect food, it will be difficult to support them for long. In this case, the decisive battle is as fast as possible, not as late as possible.
The generals of Ele didn't care, only Xiong Jing looked at him and smiled. He knows that he is not tolerated by the generals, he is not embarrassed or discouraged, and one day, he believes that he is right and everyone else is wrong.
"This battle should be the battle of crossing Wei." Zhuang Wudi pointed to the five-mile open space in Weinan and said with certainty. "If our army crosses south, the Qin people will attack me halfway through, and their boat divisions will also attack the east and west of Weishui, or crash into the pontoon bridge, or set fire along the water, so as to cut off our army and annihilate it. Therefore, the ministers and others thought that in this battle, when the reinforcements of Dongye Ao fought first, the Qin army suffered from the enemy on its back, and when the army's morale was in turmoil, our army crossed the Weishui again, and attacked from the front and rear......"
"No, no, no." The shogunate's battle plan was well thought out, but he didn't expect Xiong Jing to oppose it before he could finish listening. Zhuang Wudi was deeply puzzled and didn't understand why Xiong Jing objected.
"If the king wants to fight first, he should avoid its edge and cross south on one side, so that the Qin army will not be able to deal with it......" Zhuang Wudi said again, if you don't want the Chu army led by Dongye Gu to attack the Qin people first, then you can only go to the edge of the sword, not from the Qin army reserved a trap of five miles long and twenty miles wide to cross the Weishui, but from outside the trap, the west of the West Gate of Xianyang City Duyou crossed the Weishui.
"No, no, no." Xiong Jing interrupted Zhuang Wudi's words again.
His voice was not loud, but his determination was unwavering. Zhuang Wudikou waited for a while before he said, "Dare to ask the king what he wants?" ”
"No, I will cross Wei head-on and attack Qin head-on." Xiong Jing said, his voice was extremely calm.
Zhuang Wudi, Dou Chang, and E Le were all taken aback when they heard this, and Dou Chang said: "This is the next step!" The Qin people spent several days to complete this formation, and if the adults crossed the Wei head-on, they would also be in their plans. ”
"It's not a plan to ask for the people of Zhongqin." Xiong Jing was still calm, but his words made everyone stunned, but fortunately, he said again: "The time, the place, the people, the Qin people all have it, but our army is still broken, what about the Qin people?" ”
Everyone was speechless for a moment. Xiong Jing said again: "Don't attack the place alone and attack the people, the strategy of the Qin people is also." Bai Qikeng killed 450,000 Zhao people, no food? No, it is against others; The military exploits of the Qin army are all profitable, the field battle is not 2,000 levels, and the siege is not 8,000 levels. Is this an attack? Or also, this is also a strategy to attack others. The Qin people can attack their people, but our army can care? ”
Speaking of which, Xiong Jing looked at everyone present, except for Ele, the other generals bowed their heads. The Chu army has never had the habit of beheading and remembering merits, and there is no way to develop such a habit. If this is really the case, then at least half of the heads of 600,000 people in Xianyang City will be cut off to mark their merits, has the Chu army done it? They can't even kill artisans.
This is the urine nature of the aristocracy, and Xiong Jing, who is a royal family, has this sentence in his heart. He has become more and more aware that people must keep their duties. Since you are an aristocrat, don't learn the wisdom of the common people. The common people live just to live, and the nobles except for reproducing children and worshipping their ancestors, everything else is for the honor of the clan, and honor needs to be watered with blood.
"The Qin people can attack their people, but our army can't." Xiong Jing looked at the general who bowed his head and said. "However, our army does not attack its people, but it can attack its heart." Xiong Jing's words made some of the generals raise their heads, and they all looked at him.
"What does it mean to attack their hearts?" Xiong Jing asked himself. "It is to completely crush the will of the Qin people to war, destroy the spirit of war of the Qin people, and make the Qin people afraid of me, afraid of me, afraid of me, and afraid of me. Qi people are afraid of tigers, although the tiger is dead, it is a living, and our army must do the same.
Therefore, the battle with the Qin people requires a dignified battle. The time, location, and people are all obtained by the Qin people, but they are invincible. In this way, the Qin people will become frightened birds, and they will fear me like a tiger in the future. Otherwise, the Qin people will attack their people, and I can't attack their people, in the long run, our army will be less and less, and the Qin army will be more and more, how can we win? Defeat also. ”
The duty, the duty of the nobles was interpreted by Xiong Jing in this way, and everyone was enlightened for a while, and suddenly realized. Zhuang Wudi originally did not approve of fighting like this, and Ele did not approve of Xiong Jing's approach, but the fact is that the Chu army can only fight like this.
The Qin army can continuously destroy the enemy's material strength through the strategy of attacking its own people, so as to achieve the goal of increasing its own army and reducing the enemy's army, since the Chu army cannot do this, it can only destroy the enemy's spiritual power to achieve the purpose of deterring and frightening the enemy. Although the means of the two armies are different, their goals are the same.
You get it and you pay the price. The Qin army doesn't care about honor, they only need the head, whether the head is cut down by themselves, or someone else cut it down and grabbed it by themselves, as long as it is the head; If the Chu army pursues honor, it will inevitably take the risk of Song Xianggong, go to the soup and fire, be born and die, and fight in a noble way.
The people on the city wall were speechless again, but everyone was excited. The war is imminent, and everyone will inevitably suffer from gains and losses, but Xiong Jing helped the Chu army point out the way, the path of the aristocratic army.
"King, during the war, the minister is willing to lead the division to cross the Weishui first!" The fastest responder said.
"The minister is also willing to lead his division to cross the Weishui River first during the war!" Cheng Tong, Pan Wuming and the others took a step slower and rushed to the road.
"The king, the ministers are also willing to ......" except for Ele, the other generals bowed over.
"It is up to the shogunate to decide who crosses first." Xiong Jing handed over the matter to Zhuang Wudi and others, and the shogunate must formulate a feasible battle plan, rather than a swarm of bees to force the Weishui River.
"Respectfully obeyed." Zhuang Wudi and Dou Chang leaned towards Xiong Jing, although they were excited, they were worried in their hearts, worried about the casualties of the battle.
"Again," Xiong Jing continued, "when and how to fight, let Zhao Zheng be informed. ”
Xiong Jing's request shocked everyone again, but soon everyone was relieved. Since it is a dignified battle, of course, it is necessary to make an appointment at a time and place, and fight in a dignified manner. It is certain that the Qin army will attack halfway, but so what? When the Qin army used all their tactics to no avail, and was finally defeated by the Chu army and fled, or the whole army was wiped out, then the seeds of fear were planted.
Three days later, in Weishui, a small boat braved the scorching sun to cross, the boat carried a cart, two horses, two people, after the boat people pushed the cart ashore, the emperor rode to the Qin army camp five miles away. The Chu army had Lu Lijing, and the Qin army also had Lu Lijing, and before they reached the Qin army's gate, there were scouts to stop the car.
"Who's coming?" Two groups of cavalry outflanked from the left and right, and the cavalry general at the head asked.
"Bad people fight often, on the orders of the king of Chu, please see the king of Qin." Dou Chang was dressed in naked, and he waved slightly at the rider.
"What is the matter with the king?" The rider looked at Dou Chang, especially his head.
"The king of Chu will fight in Weinan in two days, and he will come here to tell him." Only then did the cavalry see that Dou Chang was holding a silk book in his hand, which should be a letter handed over by the king of Chu to the king. He didn't dare to slack off, but he didn't dare to let Dou Chang go any further, so he had to go to the shogunate in person to report the news.
The scorching summer heat affected the morale of the Qin army not because of the lack of food, but because of the increasingly serious epidemic disease in the army. Every time he went into battle, he died of illness more than he died in battle, and although Wei Yi set up the military in advance by setting up camp, he had to pay the corresponding price.
Eight rivers surround Chang'an, the east of Chang'an is Chanshui, Bashui, the west is Fengshui, the north is Jingshui, Weishui, the south is waterlogging, waterlogging. Although there are many waters, they all walk around the Qin army barracks, not through the Qin army barracks. Wei Yu was worried that the Chu army would spy on the truth and forbade the Qin army to go to Weishui to get water, so the Qin army could only draw water from Bashui Chanshui, which was twenty miles away to the east, Fengshui from forty miles to the west, and waterlogged and waterlogged water thirty miles away to the south.
In addition to the difficulty of drinking water, the barracks arranged in the form of military formations were not ventilated. The Qin army's guard level was extremely poor, the camp was not only hot, but also foul-smelling, mosquitoes everywhere, and the old and weak soldiers were weak, so the epidemic inevitably spread. The military medical officers and doctors were helpless against this, not because they didn't know how to treat it, but because there was no medicine to treat it - all the medicines were in Xianyang City, and the drugs in the camp were only enough for Zhao Zheng and other generals. When Zhao Zhengzheng in the shogunate was bored with listening to the reports of Wei Yu, Zhao Yong and others, Hou Ren reported to the Chu envoy to meet him.
"Jing Envoy?!" Everyone was amazed.
"Why did the envoy come from?" The shogunate can't compare to Xianyang Palace, and Zhao Zheng under the thick curtain is covered in sweat.
"He carried a silk book, saying that King Jing would fight with our army in Weinan in two days." The rider relayed what Dou Chang said, and he couldn't believe it was true. No country fights like this.
"God help me!" Zhao Zheng shouted, he raised his hand and said hurriedly: "Summon, summon it quickly." ”
"The king must not!" Wei Yi also said urgently. "This Jing man wants to explore my reality. I will take his silk and books, and drive them back to the north. They must not be summoned to the camp, knowing that there are many epidemics in our army. ”
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