Chapter 406: Fight a war of attrition
When he returned to the camp in the afternoon, Han Xin's face looked ugly.
For a whole morning, the Qi army and the Huainan army provoked and scolded in front of the Chu army camp in every way, and even sent a large number of soldiers to unload their armor in front of the Chu army camp and rest openly.
Battle-free cards? Bi Shu and Chu Jun actually hung up the war-free card?!
Could it be that Bi Shu already knew that he only had six months left to live at most? However, Han Xin quickly denied his inference, even if Bi Shu was an immortal, it was impossible for him to know about it, so the only explanation was that the Chu army had discovered the fact that the Qi army and the Huainan army were short of food, so they were ready to fight a war of attrition with the coalition army.
In a war of attrition, it will definitely be the coalition forces that cannot hold it in the end.
Thinking of this, Han Xin couldn't help but sigh lightly, how good would it be if the result of the Fuli battle could be reversed? In this way, not only can the problem of lack of food in the Qi army be solved, but the Chu army will also fall into passivity because of the lack of food and grass.
After thinking about it, Han Xin had already strode into the big tent of King Qi.
Yingbu, Han Qi, Zhao Yan, Kuaiche, Xue Ou and others rushed in, and they were divided into left and right seats, although Yingbu was also ranked among the princes and kings, and Han Xin's status was similar, but he really didn't dare to sit on an equal footing with Han Xin, just like Han Xin in front of Liu Bang, he had never been qualified to sit on an equal footing, and there was also a distinction between the princes and kings.
Yingbu entered the table and arched his hand at Han Xin again. He said worriedly: "King Qi, it seems that Bi Shu'er is planning to fight a war of attrition with us. That's not good. ”
Next to him, Han Qi, Zhao Yan, Kuai Che and others also looked solemn.
The coalition forces really can't afford to spend it, since they were sacked by the Xiangzhuang cavalry three years ago. Qi Guo has already hurt his vitality. Before the Great Army Goes on the Expedition. Han He's methods were exhausted and only collected more than a month's worth of military rations, and the situation in Huainan was not much better.
If you don't find a way as soon as possible, it will be more than half a month at most. The coalition forces will run out of food!
Xue Ou suddenly knelt down and stood up, and asked Han Xin to take the initiative to ask: "King, the minister is willing to lead an elite army to cross the river and go deep into Jiangdong, and raise military rations while attacking Chudi, so as to solve the urgent needs of the coalition army. "Xue Ou wants to emulate Peng Yue. Another time Xue Ou scratched Chu, of course, in his bones. Xue Ou also wanted to get rid of Han Xin and establish himself as king.
Yingbu's heart suddenly moved slightly, this is a good idea.
In the battle of Xingyang in Chu and Han dynasties, when Liu Bang was about to be unable to continue because he lost the grain of Aocang, it was Peng Yue who led the army deep into Chu and wantonly burned, killed, plundered, and greatly restrained the strength of the Chu army and weakened the national strength of the Chu State.
Han Xin shook his head coldly, Peng Yue can be effective if he scratches Chu, that is because Peng Yue has that ability, and he has a large number of tiger and wolf generals such as Liu Kou under his command, and can Xue Ou compare with Peng Yue? Not to mention anything else, just the Yuzi Period, Ziche Division, and Xi Qilie under Bi Shu's account, the ability to lead the troops is not under Xue Ou.
At present, the scouts of the two armies have spread all over Huainan, and every move of the coalition army is under the supervision of the Chu army.
The most important thing is that there is still Zhong Lifu's sailor in Wujiang, even if Han Xin personally led the army, he was not sure that he would be able to cross the Wujiang River, let alone Xue Ou's partial division? Therefore, letting Xue Ou divide his troops to attack Jiangdong will have no other effect than further weakening the strength of the Qi army. ..., Xue Ou looked a little stunned, thinking that Han Xin had guessed his selfishness.
Zhao Yan also said: "At present, the strength advantage of the coalition army compared with the Chu army is not obvious, and the equipment and training are quite inferior. Saying this, Zhao Yan said again, "At this time, we must be prepared with both hands, on the one hand, let the prime minister urgently collect food from the country in case of emergency, and on the other hand, build ordnance and prepare to storm the Chu camp!" ”
Han Xin bowed his head happily and said, "Zijin's words are very reasonable, and you are fully responsible for these two things." ”
"Whoa!" Zhao Yan hurriedly knelt down and sat up, responding respectfully, but there was a sigh in his heart, and then he turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw a trace of displeasure on Han Yan's face.
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The Huainan battlefield was temporarily silent, while the Jingxiang battlefield was still undisturbed.
Since the first day of the encounter between the Chu and Han armies broke out in front of the fierce battle between the two armies, the two armies have invariably chosen to remain silent, the Han army is stationed in the west of Deng County, and the Chu army is encamped on the north bank of the river, the two armies are less than ten miles apart, and even the sound of drills every morning can be heard clearly.
The two armies of Chu and Han did not move, but it did not mean that the entire battlefield was calm.
In fact, it is just the opposite, since the two armies formed a confrontation posture in Deng County, the scout rangers on both sides have launched a desperate battle within a radius of 100 miles, whether it is day or night, as long as the scout rangers on both sides encounter, it will immediately be a situation of endless death, and until one side is all dead, the battle will never stop.
Liu Bang and Xiang Zhuang did not know about the desperate strangulation between the scout cavalry, because whether it was the Chu army or the Han army, the strength of both sides was more than 400,000, and the cavalry was also more than 50,000.
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Bai Spear is a native of San'in County, Huiji County, and has been selected as a government soldier for five years.
Three years ago, the white spear was selected into the cavalry army, in the military system of the Chu State, the status of the forbidden army is significantly higher than the government soldiers, and within the government soldiers, the status of the cavalry is the highest, the white spear still clearly remembers the scene when he was selected into the cavalry, after three years of hard training, the white spear has become an excellent cavalry.
Because of his excellent riding skills, the white spear was promoted to the rank of chief before he set out on the expedition.
At this moment, White Spear was wandering the wilderness with his nine cavalry cavalry.
The crescent moon is like a hook, the cold moonlight is sprinkled on the rolling hills, making the nearby scenery vaguely discerning, the white spear is full of eyes to search the surroundings, a pair of beckoning ears are listening carefully to the subtle sound from the night wind, the white spear is very clear, the surrounding darkness is hiding endless killing opportunities, the slightest negligence, his scout team will be wiped out.
Suddenly, the white spear heard a faint abnormal sound, this strange sound is very light, and it is easy to take it as a noise at night if you don't distinguish it carefully, but the white spear can distinguish it with its keen hearing, this is clearly the sound of the horse's hooves trampling on the grass, although it is light, it will never be wrong, it must be the sound of the horse's hooves!
There are only their Chu army scouts nearby, so it must be the Han army scouts.
The white spear raised his right hand and made a gesture, and the nine horsemen behind him scattered silently, forming a fan shape in the direction of the white spear's fingers, and in an instant, ten wolf tooth arrows had been buckled on the bowstring, and Leng Sensen's arrow cluster had also been aimed at the low slow hill in front of him, and the faint sound was approaching from behind the slow hill.
A moment later, a group of cavalry slowly emerged from behind the slow hill, without any hesitation, the white spear released the bowstring at once, only to hear the sound of "sigh", the front horse screamed and fell from the horse's back, almost at the same time, the nine horsemen who fanned out also released the bowstring, and on the slow hill, two more horses screamed and fell off the horse. ..., "Damn Chu Guoyan, fight with them!" The Han scouts were suddenly ambushed, and they lost three horsemen at once, but the remaining six or seven horsemen did not flinch, but instead rushed towards the white spear with their double-edged swords, and the cold moonlight shone on the double-edged sword, and suddenly reflected a cold cold glow.
The white spear did not move, and fired two arrows again, and two more Han scouts turned over and fell off their horses.
Then the white spear pulled out the ring head knife and urged the horse to rush towards the remaining five-cavalry Han army scouts on the opposite side, and almost at the same time, the nine-cavalry Chu army scouts who were fan-shaped and scattered also quickly surrounded them.
The fierce battle only lasted less than half an hour before it ended, among the remaining five cavalry Han army scouts, two horses were cut off the horse by the white spear, and the other two horses were surrounded by the nine cavalry Chu army scouts, hacked to death with knives, and the remaining one horse tried to escape, and was shot by the white spear with an arrow, so far, the Han army scout team was completely wiped out, and only two people in the white spear team were slightly injured.
The white spear cut off six heads and hung them on the horse's neck, which immediately attracted the angry and envious eyes of the nine horsemen under his command.
"Don't look at me like that, who made you too slow? Lao Tzu didn't have the intention of grabbing the merits of the war. Catching up with the envious gaze of the nine horsemen under his command, Bai Spear snorted, and said angrily, "If you have this kung fu to envy others, it is better to hurry around and patrol again, if you are lucky, you may be able to meet another group of Han army scouts." ”
With that, the white spear gently reined in the horse's head and galloped up the slow hill.
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When Zhou Guanfu strode into Lu Tai's big tent, Lu Tai was eating breakfast.
Seeing Zhou Guanfu's angry appearance, Lu Tai was surprised and said, "Shengzhi, what's wrong with you?" ”
Zhou Guanfu sat down on the seat opposite Lutai, picked up the pot of white wine on the desk and poured two sips, then wiped his mouth and said angrily: "Of the fifty scout teams sent out last night, nine of them did not come back, and it seems that most of them were hunted by the scout team of the Chu army." ”
Lu Tai frowned and asked, "What about us, how many Chu army squads have been hunted?" ”
"Only two." Zhou Guanfu didn't have a good breath and said, "It's really his grandmother's angry person." ”
"Nine to two? There is such a huge difference in battle damage?! Lu Tai frowned and said, "Shengzhi, from today onwards, each scout team will be strengthened to twenty horsemen, and then thirty horsemen will be transferred to form a scout team of fifty horsemen, isn't it just a war of attrition?" We have more cavalry than the Chu army, and General Ben wants to see who can outweigh whom. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )