Chapter 423: Choosing the Battlefield
In the dead of night, Han Xin was still writing in the big tent.
In the more than a month since the confrontation between the two armies, Han Xin has not been idle, but has been writing the manuscript of the military book "Han Xin's Military Strategy" day and night.
Perhaps it was the cruel fact that Shou Yuan was about to die invisibly spurred Han Xin, so the process of "Han Xin's Military Strategy" was very fast, and in just over a month, he had already written sixteen manuscripts, basically finishing his experience in the art of war and strategy, and then next, Han Xin was going to write the battle command, which would be the top priority of the entire military strategy.
Han Xin closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and was about to write when the closed curtain was suddenly opened.
Han Xin couldn't help frowning, and when he looked back again, he saw that the crown prince Han Xin had already walked in in a hurry, first waved at Han Xin, and then said excitedly: "Father, something happened to the Chu army camp!" ”
"Something's wrong?" Han Xin's heart jumped when he heard this, and he threw his pen and got up.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Han Xin hurriedly climbed the sentry tower on the side of the gate under the support of Han Qi and Zhao Yan, the Chu army camp and the Qi army camp were separated by less than five miles, so standing on the guard tower could take in the movements of the entire Chu army camp, Han Xin looked down from the sentry tower, and saw that the Chinese army camp of the Chu army was brightly lit, and the figures were building, as if something had really happened.
At that moment, Han Xin found a small colonel Qi Jun with excellent eyesight and asked, "Can you see the situation over there?" ”
Colonel Qi Jun carefully observed for a long time, and said uncertainly: "King, it seems that they are quarrelling." ”
"Quarrel?" Han Xin and Han Yan were stunned when they heard this, but Zhao Yan was overjoyed at the same time, and said urgently, "King." Most of the rumors have played a role, and the generals of the Chu army are forcing Bi Shu to fight! ”
Han Xin's eyes lit up for a moment. Hurriedly instructed the junior colonel of the Qi army: "Bring a team of cavalry." Go grab a few live mouths and come back! ”
"Whoa!" The junior colonel of the Qi army responded violently, turned around and got off the guard tower, and ordered a team of cavalry to take advantage of the cover of the night to ghostly hide in the dark outside the camp.
But. It is not so easy to catch the live mouth of the Chu army scouts.
It wasn't until dawn the next day that Colonel Qi Jun came back in disgrace. Of the more than 100 cavalry he brought, there were less than fifty cavalry left, but he finally caught two seriously wounded Chu army scouts and escorted them into the tent. The Qi army didn't even dare to be too rough. Lest one accidentally make a mistake, these two Chu army scouts swallowed their breath.
At this time, Yingbu and Kuaiche had also rushed to Han Xin's big tent after hearing the news.
Yingbu couldn't wait to ask the two Chu army scouts: "Say, did you mutiny in your camp last night?" ”
The short Chu army scout didn't raise his eyelids, but the tall one glared at Qi Bu viciously, and opened his blood plate and spit out a large mouthful of blood at Yingbu, who was furious. Said viciously: "Damn it, believe it or not, let people cut off your heads now?" ”
The tall Chu army scout said coldly: "I can't ask for it." ”
"You ......," Yingbu became more and more furious. Just as he was about to draw his knife and get up, he was stopped by Han Xin.
Han Xin stopped Yingbu, smiled faintly, and said to the two Chu army scouts: "You don't say that the widow actually already knows that last night Jin Xiang, Yu Ziqi, Zicheshi, Xi Qilie and other generals in the army went to Bi Shu Theory and asked Bi Shu to start a war as soon as possible, but Bi Shu did not agree. ”
The tall Chu army scout said coldly: "Do you know and ask?" ”
Han Xin smiled, waved his hand at the moment, and said, "Drag it down, cut it." ”
At that moment, the forbidden army entered the account and dragged the two Chu army scouts out of the tent, although they were dying, but the Chu army scouts did not say a word from beginning to end. ..., Yingbu couldn't help but sigh: "Chu soldiers, all tigers and wolves are also soldiers." ”
Han Xin was also silent when he heard this, and he must also admit that the soldiers of Chu were stronger than the Qi army in terms of equipment and training, but what was really feared by the Chu army was the kind of belligerent factor that they revealed, I heard that the Qin army had this kind of belligerent factor back then, but Han Xin had never seen it with his own eyes.
But no matter what, the Chu army will definitely be defeated this time!
This is because the Chu army met him Han Xin, he Han Xin fought horses all his life, fought more than 100 battles, and never had a defeat, and this Huainan War will never be an exception.
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Jin Xiang, Yu Ziqi, Ziche Division, Xi Qilie and dozens of generals in the army came to Bishu's big tent again, and Tie Niu did not dare to stop him, so he had to let him go.
The generals entered the tent, only to see Bi Shu leaning on the cushion with his back to the tent door to sleep, and a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War was dropped at his feet, as if he was awakened by the footsteps of the generals, Bi Shu got up lazily at the moment, and said unhappily: "Why are you here again?" It's early in the morning and you can't let people sleep, huh? ”
The eyes of the generals focused on Yu Ziqi, Yu Ziqi coughed lightly, first waved his hand at Bishu, and then said: "General, since the king has issued an edict, we should still obey it." ”
Things have to start from last night, last night Yu Ziqi came to find Bi Shu, originally wanted to take the initiative to ask Ying, led a partial division to go to Linzi for a long distance, in order to force the Qi army to retreat from Huainan, but Bi Shu fell asleep while reading, Yu Ziqi originally planned to come back the next day, but before leaving, he accidentally saw a secret letter on Bi Shu's desk.
Yu Ziqi looked at it for a while, and it turned out to be an edict from the king to Bi Shu, ordering him to send troops to fight the enemy as soon as possible.
Yu Zi period was in his heart at that time, and after going back, he told Jin Xiang and others, where can Jin Xiang and others hold on, and immediately found Bi Shu and asked for an immediate war, Bi Shu naturally shirked in every possible way, until Yu Zi period was broken, Bi Shu had to admit that he had indeed received Xiang Zhuang's edict, but he still refused to agree to send troops.
Last night it was noisy until late at night, and finally everyone broke up.
Seeing that Yu Ziqi moved out of Wang Zhao again, Bi Shu frowned and said, "Outside, the king's order is not affected!" ”
Jin Xiang snorted and was about to speak, but Bi Shu picked up the talisman from the desk and said coldly: "General Ben is still the same sentence, as long as the king does not issue an edict to take back the general's talisman for a day, you must unconditionally obey the general's reprimand, if you continue to mess around and coerce the general, then don't blame the general for turning his face and not recognizing people!" ”
Tie Niu also stood behind Bi Shu at the right time, holding Xiang Zhuang's Wang Jian in his arms.
The generals of Jin Xiang, Zicheshi, and Xi Qilie were immediately silent, the Chu army was strictly disciplined, and Bi Shu refused to obey the king's edict, and they were helpless, after all, acting cheaply was originally the power of the Zhentai generals, and the generals had to leave Bi Shu's big tent with a black face.
Yu Ziqi was the last to leave, and before leaving, he proposed: "General, why don't you lead a partial division to attack Linzi to force the Qi army to retreat?" ”
"We'll talk about that later." Bi Shu couldn't help but say, and directly sent away the Yuzi period.
Although Bi Shu had just rejected the generals' request to go to war, Bi Shu knew in his heart that this was just acting, and Bi Shu's original intention was nothing more than to hold back this group of proud soldiers, so that when the final battle came, this group of proud soldiers and fierce generals would be like tigers that had been locked up for a long time, and they would become unprecedentedly ferocious.
The final decisive battle with Han Xin is imminent, and a little more troops will have a better chance of winning, at this juncture, how could Bi Shu agree to divide the troops?
Yu Ziqi left unhappily, Bi Shu got up to wash up at the moment, and when he was finished, he instructed Tie Niu: "Tie Niu, hurry up and ride eight hundred fine horses, and go out with this general." "...", Tie Niu was stunned and said, "General, you want to leave the camp?" ”
Bi Shu nodded, grabbed the cold rice ball on the desk and nibbled on it.
"Whoa!" Tie Niu clenched his fists and went out of the tent with confusion to gather the cavalry.
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Half an hour later, Bi Shu appeared in the wilderness northeast of Pengcheng under the escort of 800 elite horsemen.
The scout cavalry of the Qi army and the Huainan army soon discovered this cavalry of the Chu army, and followed from a distance, and when Tie Niu was about to lead his troops to drive away, he was stopped by Bi Shu.
Bi Shu shook his hand and said, "Leave them alone, let them follow." ”
Tie Niu snorted, and said, "General, what are we going to do in this wilderness?" ”
Bi Shu smiled, he naturally wouldn't tell Tie Niu that he was choosing the battlefield.
Bi Shu took eight hundred horses to wander in the field for more than half an hour, the sky suddenly rained, at this time Huainan has entered the rainy season, the last three or five days have been raining almost every day, don't look at the rain is not big, but only a moment of effort, everyone's robes are soaked.
Tie Niu stepped forward immediately and persuaded: "General, go back?" ”
"Turn around again." Bi Shu shook his hand, wiped the rain on his face again, and then inadvertently turned his head, and a low-lying land with wide grass appeared in front of his field of vision, this low-lying ground is actively wide, not to mention it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, the depression is covered with dense thatch, and there seems to be water in the grass.
Bi Shu's eyes lit up in an instant, this was exactly the battlefield he was looking for!
At that moment, Bi Shu hit the horse and rushed to the low-lying land of Guangmao, the iron bull did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly chased after it with eight hundred horsemen, and after a while, Bi Shu rushed into the low-lying land under the escort of eight hundred fine horsemen, and found that the water inside had submerged the horse's hooves, but the action of the war horse was not greatly affected.
"Woo ......" Bi Shu gently drank the war horse, then turned over and jumped off the horse.
The iron bull and the eight hundred horsemen who accompanied him also drank their horses, looked at Bi Shu in confusion and put his hands into the water, and then took out a handful of soil with grass roots from the turbid water plants, Bi Shu carefully rubbed the soil in his hands little by little, and finally raised his head to the sky, squinted at the dark sky and fell into a long contemplation.
Tie Niu never dared to disturb Bi Shu, so he had to cheer up and wait in the rain.
After a full quarter of an hour, a faint smile finally bloomed on the corner of Bi Shu's mouth, and he squatted down again and put his hands into the muddy water to wash, then turned over and waved to Tie Niu and shouted, "Go, go back to the camp."