Chapter 457 [1]

After sending Bai Pu's envoys, Yang Zilu, who had been in Ruomu City for nearly half a month, also mobilized enough boats, plus fishermen caught nearby, and rewarded him heavily. Finally, at a section of the river near Wakaki Castle, the water depth was measured, and three pontoon bridges across the east and west banks of the Han River were built.

The scale of the Han army's construction of pontoon bridges is naturally quite a lot, and it is even more impossible to hide it, and the Chu State, which has always paid attention to the movements of the Han army. After Ye Gong learned the news for the first time, he also had the intention to sabotage the Han army to build a pontoon bridge. But Ye Gong has lost too much to eat Yang Zilu, and Ye Gong is also afraid that this will be Yang Zilu's trick to lure the enemy? After all, Yang Zilu can afford to fail, but he Ye Gong can't afford to fail.

In this case, although Ye Gong had the intention to sabotage the Han army's plan to cross the river, Ye Gong finally resisted this impulse, sighed, and retreated in Quanxian County, watching the Han army calmly cross the river.

After crossing the Han River, Yang Zilu looked at the direction of Quanxian County, and couldn't help but shake his head and said: "Ye Gong's courage has been broken, and the most important thing in defending the city is morale." Ye Gong's morale has weakened before the battle, even if this city could have been held for a year, now it can be held for nine or ten months. ”

Hou Xiong laughed and said: "Actually, don't laugh at Ye Gong, when you meet the lord like a soldier saint, Ye Gong dares to take risks." Being able to endure it and not coming out is already considered to be Ye Gong's ability. ”

"Okay, don't talk about Ye Gong, where is Han Jiading," Yang Zilu said.

"The minister is here," Han Jiading said.

"You lead three thousand people, with the assistance of Jing Ziqi, to block Ye Gong here. The widow doesn't want you to capture Quanxian, as long as you let Ye Gong and the army under his command can't get out of the city. Is there confidence? Yang Zilu asked.

Han Jiading glanced up at Yang Zilu in some surprise, but he still held back the doubt in his heart, nodded his head and said, "The minister has orders"

Han Jiading couldn't help but didn't ask, but the black bear on the side couldn't help it, and asked angrily: "Lord, aren't you going to attack Quanxian?" The rest of the soldiers are going to attack there, huh? ”

With someone taking the lead, Hou Xiong couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, and said: "Yes, if the lord doesn't capture Quanxian, how can he cut off the north-south traffic of Chu State."

Yang Zilu said with a smile: "Why can you cut off the north-south traffic of Chu State only by capturing the ministers?" If the widows want to besiege Zaiying and surround Zaiying, it will be tantamount to making the court of Chu lose control of the counties and counties in Chu, which is better than capturing Quanxian County."

The black bear's eyes widened when he heard this, and he nodded and said, "It seems to be the same truth."

When Hou Xiong heard this, he was so angry with the black bear's words that he couldn't cry or laugh, and his 'ally' turned against him really not very quickly. Hou Xiong thought for a while, and said: "Your lord, what you said is not wrong, but what if Shen Baoxu and them lead the army south to King Qin?" In this way, I'm afraid I won't even have time to stop Shen Baoxu and them, turn back and counterattack, or even retreat."

As soon as the black bear heard this, what Hou Xiong said was more reasonable than the lord, and he turned against him again, nodded and said: "The lord, what Hou Xiong said makes sense, the minister still captures Quan County, and then go to fight Zai Ying, anyway, Zai Ying can't run."

For the 'ally' of the black bear, the latter bear has completely died. But now, Hou Xiong can't help but be a little impressed by the black bear, and I can't imagine that the black bear will also say something that makes sense

Yang Zilu said confidently: "What you said makes sense, but you didn't expect that the soldiers were fast and unprepared. If the war drags on, we will not fight on our own soil, and the soldiers will get tired of it, they will be satisfied with what they have achieved, and their morale will become more and more low. And the state of Chu will also have more and more preparations, they will adapt to our offensive, they can recruit more soldiers. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zilu paused and said: "In addition, there is food, none of you thought that it would continue to fight, the Chu State is not finished yet, and our Han State has already starved to death." And now, including you, will think that the widows will attack Quanxian, if the Han army suddenly appears outside Zaiying City. What do you say will happen to the Chu soldiers in Zaiying City? Caught off guard, as long as our offensive is fierce enough, we can completely attack the outer city of Yingzhou in one fell swoop. It's not good, the current King of Chu is like his father, King Chu Zhao, when he saw the Wu army approaching the city, he immediately fled by boat. ”

Although King Chu Zhao got the good nickname of Zhao, in Yang Zilu's opinion, it was only thanks to the fact that the Chu State had capable ministers like Zixi and Shen Baoxu, otherwise the Chu State would have perished a long time ago. This kind of Lao Tzu really makes Yang Zilu not pay much attention to his son.

When they heard it, they also felt that what Yang Zilu said made sense. Although Ye Gong was ruthless and burned the food and people's hearts, from the perspective of the Han army, it also had a great impact on the Han army, so that the Han army's original intention of eating the enemy had to die.

It must be known that the current Han army is more powerful than the original Wu State, but it also needs to transport more grain. Not to mention anything else, now the Han army plus the allied forces, the Han soldiers who came later, and the Chu soldiers who surrendered. The number of troops in Chu has reached nearly 200,000, how much food supply do these 200,000 people need? How many people are needed to transport the food, and how much does it cost to deliver it on the way?

Especially as the battle line dragged on longer and longer, Hanshui was now located in central China, and Yang Zilu's Guangling City was located in southeastern China. It also means that the grain route spans half of China, and its pressure is not much worse than when the husband went north to Huangchi. Even in terms of the distance of the grain road, it is better than the grain road of the original Huangchi Zhihui Wu State.

Before, because of the proximity to the Huaishui grain road, there were several countries such as Song and Lu to provide food, but they didn't have much feeling. But now it's different, and suddenly it's rushing to Wakaki Castle. Moreover, the water potential of the Yangtze River is not relatively gentle compared with the Huaishui, and transporting grain from the Yangtze River is much more difficult than transporting grain from the Huaishui.

Yang Zilu continued: "As for Shen Baoxu as you said Houxiong, does he have the ability to go south?" Don't forget, the Qin army still has 5,000 Xirong Hu cavalry, although these Xirong Hu cavalry are not as powerful as our Han army's iron cavalry, but they are still very useful to cover up. Especially since there are so many soldiers under Shen Baoxu's command, it is not impossible for Shen Baoxu to turn into a rout as soon as he orders a retreat."

When Hou Xiong and other generals heard this, they were puzzled in their hearts, and they admired Yang Zilu more and more. There is no longer any opposition to Yang Zilu's order to attack Zaiying.

After solving the internal problems, Yang Zilu did not immediately send troops to carry Ying. First, it is to confuse the Chu State, and secondly, Yang Zilu also has to make some preparations. After Yang Zilu arrived in Quan County, he first pretended to besiege the city of Quan County, and cut down trees, built siege equipment, and built a camp in the south of the city.

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