Chapter 191: Encirclement and Suppression
Once they form a combined army, not to mention whether Zhao Zhe's army will be surrounded and fall into a vicious battle. Even if they are not surrounded, it will be difficult to eat any of their armies. After all, according to the current strength, even if any two armies are combined, it will be difficult for Zhao Zhe to eat. Now, the reason why they did not encircle is because they are confident that any army will not be eaten by Da Zhao, but can eat any of them can eat Da Zhao's army.
It was by virtue of the illusion that the enemy was small that Zhao Zhe had this opportunity today. If it can be used well, it can at least abolish any of the two countries of Tatar and Queen. Compared with the Tatar Kingdom, Zhao Zhe was more afraid of the Later Jin. After all, in his original time and space, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by this Golden Tartar. It also ruled China for two or three hundred years.
First destroy and then gold, the Tatars have nothing to fear. After Zhao Zhe finished integrating the intelligence, his first reaction was to take advantage of the situation to eliminate the living force of Houjin and strangle this powerful country that would rise in the future. After the merger, there were 700 Huya troops and more than 140,000 cavalry troops. Like a sharp knife, sharp enough to pierce anyone's heart.
In fact, at this time, Zhao Zhe's army was only about 800 miles away from the Boton army of the lord of the Later Jin Kingdom. The Bolton Army, not only of the four armies, should be the worst in strength. It's still the closest one in a straight line. Although it has two difficult grandmasters in charge. However, it does not change the fact that at least half of Bolton's 150,000 troops are recruits who have not been trained for a long time. Although the Houjin people are fierce, any person is a good fighter. But veterans who have been tempered by the army and have been on the battlefield for a long time are definitely not comparable to these newcomers. Whether it's their combat experience, morale, or blood name, a recruit is just a recruit.
The distance of 800 miles would take only three or four days to reach it if you wanted to march quickly, and the Bolton army was also marching in this direction, and the two sides could meet in about three days. And the rest of the army is pulling a big net as they go. It's at least a thousand miles away.
Zhao Zhe looked at the map, just in the middle of the two armies, about five hundred miles away from Zhao Zhe's side, there was a small mountain range. Around the mountains, most of them are plains. But on the north side, there is a large river running through it. Of course, this large river flows from west to east, and neither army needs to cross the river, so it is impossible to use the other side to cross the river to kill the enemy. But at least the river can seal off an escape route. It's already the beginning of February, and it's almost April for the solar calendar. Even in the northern country, some of the frozen rivers have mostly thawed, and even if they have not completely thawed, it is impossible for people and horses to trample on them casually.
It's not a place where you can take advantage of the dangerous terrain to ambush you. In fact, everyone is an army of more than 100,000 troops, and when they march all over the mountains, they will have a large number of scouting activities. It's a joke to find some kind of dangerous ambush like a mountain pass. What's more, Zhao Zhe thought to himself that according to the current strength under his command, it would be easy to defeat the Bolton Army. It was not a good place for ambushes, but the large plains were the best places for decisive battles. The terrain and topography that are not sinister can also reduce the vigilance of the Houjin army, so why not?
The reason for the selection of those 500 miles is that the time of the situation is the most important determining factor. In five hundred miles, the army of Da Zhao can be reached in about two days if it marches in a hurry. But the Boton Army, estimated to be a mixed army of cavalry and infantry, although much closer, may not be able to reach it without three or four days' march. Zhao Zhe could just take advantage of the rapid march to arrive at the decisive battle place he had decided on his own initiative, rest for a day or two to rest and wait for work, and meet the Boton army.
On the one hand, it is an advantage to wait for work, but on the other hand, it can pull a certain distance from other armies. It would be best if they could deceive their own marching routes. After all, the Zhuole Army and the Bolton Army were like big pincers trying to attack Zhao Zhe on both sides, and the distance between the two sides was currently more than 1,500 miles.
It would be best if this side could quietly kill the Bolton Army, and the Drower Army didn't know about it. But that's going to be extremely difficult. Basically, if there is a battle with the Bolton army here, the Zolle army will be able to know the situation here in six or seven days at most, and the other armies will also know it successively. The two Tatar [***] teams do not talk about them, according to the distance, unless they can fly, otherwise it will be too late to die. But the Dzole army will definitely leave the slow march of the infantry and run alone with the cavalry to support his king. The vast majority of the Zolle army were veterans and cavalrymen. You can be on the battlefield in seven days at the earliest. In other words, Zhao Zhe had to count from the day of the beginning of the war and spend thirteen days to destroy the Boton army. When the elite cavalry of the early 100,000 Zholle army arrives, all advantages will disappear. It is even possible to be entangled by the two armies, and even if you escape, you will lose a lot.
But if he kills Bolton within thirteen days, and he doesn't suffer much damage, then he will save a great advantage for Zhao Zhe. The reinforcements led by Nadrow will become unjust ghosts who are hurriedly sent to the door to find death. If you swallow Zhuo Le's 100,000 cavalry in one bite, the Houjin Kingdom will be completely finished. Under the whole country, it will be extremely difficult to pull out any more combatable soldiers. And the entire Houjin Kingdom will also become the bag of Da Zhao.
Of course, all of this is the smoothest calculation, and if something unexpected happens, there is no way to do it. Zhao Zhe's army began to march rapidly in the direction of the Boton army. In this way, Zhao Zhe's army has a great advantage over others, that is, the Huya army is too suitable to be a probe horse. Every war horse under the crotch of the Huya sergeant is a metamorphosed war horse that has been nourished by the best aura for more than forty months, and a grain of Guiyuan Dan has been poured every month.
Let's just say that Zhao Zhe stepped on the snow under his crotch, and the degree of perversion made Zhao Zhe a little unimaginable. Without any weight, a distance of 100 meters, it takes less than three seconds to sprint up. It's much faster than an arrow flying in the air. Even Zhao Zhe himself, a grandmaster, no, he was even a powerful existence among a grandmaster, and he didn't run so fast at full speed. And the physical endurance of the war horse has been fully grown. With strong physical support, you can run at a fast speed and at a constant speed for a whole day before you need to rest. If the 700 Huya Army wants to march alone, the distance of 500 miles can be reached in a day's time. This is also due to the unfamiliarity of the road and the result of various bad paths. However, these perverted war horses do not have such high requirements for road conditions, because they can sometimes jump over a river that is not too narrow, as if they are driving clouds. The rest of the horses were much worse, okay on the plains, and if the road conditions were bad, the speed would have slowed down a lot.
I believe that if it was on the highway in Zhao Zhe's era, the speed of running in the snow would not be inferior to that of a car. If you run in some places with bad road conditions, most cars can't outrun it.
With such an advantage, the rapid marching distance of these two days can make the Huya Army jump back and forth. The seven hundred men were divided into several groups, and after going out to explore the way, the march of the army was much faster. On top of that, it's possible to avoid some tribes that you don't want to meet. It's easy to exterminate a tribe, but it's easy to get heard. Moreover, the Huya army went out to explore the horses and encountered some small groups of nomads, or hunting and the like, which could be quickly cleaned up. lest the Great Zhao army be seen marching, and those wanderers rode their horses and ran to report to Bolton overnight. After all, the speed of the march of the army and the running of a single person are completely different concepts. Even Zhao Zhe, the 140,000 ace cavalry, is well-trained and has good horses. There is no baggage, and the march of 500 miles in two days has already reached the limit. But if any of them were hard, they could go 500 miles away in a day.
The Huya Army played a great role in this march, not only in the work of finding the way, but also in clearing the enemy and keeping it secret, so as not to leak the route of the march in a short period of time. Even, there were already five grandmaster-level tiger tooth soldiers, who left the team with a hundred tiger tooth soldiers, and hurried to this target assembly place to understand the topography of that place first. After all, maps are just maps, and it's good to know more. Those five grandmasters, three more, as the top scouts in the world, will continue to move forward to investigate the march of the Bolton army.
With so many grandmasters doing horse exploration, it is estimated that only Zhao Zhe in the world has this honor. Only he would be so extravagant. Everything is in Zhao Zhe's plan. Even this march was half a day faster than expected. By the time they reached the vicinity of the hill, the whole army was already sleepy. And they set up camp according to their establishment. Zhao Zhe and his Huya Army are naturally in the middle position.
Thanks to the one hundred and five Huya troops sent by Zhao Zhe, they arrived in advance for one day, within the time of this day. These one hundred and five people have quietly cleaned up the surrounding two small tribes and a medium-sized tribe. This time was different from the previous mercy of his subordinates, it was related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of troops, and because this battle would affect the trend of all surrounding countries in the future, those tiger tooth soldiers did not show mercy to their subordinates and completely cleared the field.
And when the army was resting, there were constantly Huya soldiers and some elites of various armies mixed with secret patrols within twenty or thirty miles of the surrounding area, setting up secret sentinels. All those who wander here unintentionally will be cleaned up and there will be no room for error.
After a day's rest, the vast majority of the army had regained their spirits. And the three grandmasters who went to explore the Boton Army had also rushed back and brought back extremely important information to Zhao Zhe.
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(To be continued)