Chapter 187: Fire in the Valley
The army of Daming Mansion and the army of Guannai did not deal with each other. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
One is the local army in various border areas, and the other is the regular army in the border area. In fact, there are quite a few prejudices between each other. The troops in the border area thought that they were superior to others and did not wait to see the rabble that had been temporarily put together from above, while the troops in various places on the border pass thought that they were the main force stationed at the border pass, and the army in the border area was just sitting back and enjoying its success.
This contradiction has existed for a long time and is almost irreconcilable. Therefore, when Li Han, the leading general of the Guannei Army, wanted to take charge of the command of the whole army, he was stunned by Shangyang, the leading general sent by the Daming Mansion.
Of the 40,000 border pass local troops, almost no one paid attention to Li Han's orders, they just walked on their own, if it weren't for the same route, Shang Yang didn't even want to take the same road with this group of officials.
Li Han ordered not to move the local army, so he was naturally angry, and could only advance on his own with more than 50,000 troops in the pass. Fortunately, he was familiar with this valley place, otherwise it would have been difficult to get to this hiding place.
After three or four days of departure, the two armies finally came to the vicinity of the valley, which was now less than a dozen miles away.
"Someone!" Li Han was irritable and shouted to get up. "Go and tell me the hillbillies, and tell them to speed up the march and rest in the valley. If that guy in Shangyang shirks it, tell him that if he delays the fighter, Lao Tzu will join him in the main hall of the dynasty!"
"Yes, General. The herald nodded, and then rode out.
This Shang Yang's Yin and Yang violations along the way made Li Han fed up, this is almost to the valley, he really doesn't want to be with this old slippery head and wrong, so he can only force the other party to speed up. If it weren't for the other party's great delay, I'm afraid that the Guannai army would have arrived at the valley a day earlier.
"If it weren't for the Liu family to support with this group of local rabble, Lao Tzu said that he would not gather with these hillbillies. Li Han felt unhappy for a while, "Also, the young handsome man named Lu Xun mentioned by everyone Liu was actually driven away by Zhou Chengling of Daming Mansion. It's just a mouse's eye to the extreme. ”
The role of a military adviser is not weaker than that of an army. Especially in the period when the soldiers of the Chu State were preparing to unify the Three Kingdoms, such a military advisor would not refuse to come, otherwise why would Kaiwenshan choose talents?
Zhou Chengling, however, turned away such a talent because of some merit, which is ridiculous.
However, Li Han sent a letter to everyone Liu as soon as he learned about it, and with the connections of everyone Liu, it shouldn't be a problem to find this talented person who left disappointed.
I still feel a pity in my heart, I knew this earlier, what he said he would arrange for someone to go first This Lu Xun found it, although he was qualified as a general, but there was no military talent in this part he carried, if he could accept such a talent, the combat ability of his army would at least be able to go to a higher level.
Thinking like this, Li Han slowly raised his head and looked, only to see in the distance, bursts of black smoke rising, as if some mountain monster had come out of the ground, it looked extremely strange.
Of course, there are no youkai in this, and even if the night soul is counted as a youkai, this thing will not appear near the well-developed valley.
Since he was not a monster, Li Han could only think of one possibility, and this possibility made him instantly pale.
"Fire? This is a fire? No, there can't be such a big movement in a fire. This is deliberate arson!The army of the Xia Kingdom has already entered the deep valley!" Li Han reacted immediately, his face fused.
His adjutant naturally saw the scene in front of him, and looked at Li Han in horror, "General, here, I'm afraid we're a step too late!"
"What's the delay!" Li Han shouted in hatred, "Blow the trumpet immediately! The whole army will march in a surprise attack! The main force will take the lead, and the logistics force will follow behind. Act now!"
Shouting, Li Han rode his horse and galloped, and the adjutant and guards around him immediately followed, and the entire Guannei army moved in an instant.
The valley was attacked, and now it is being set on fire. There is only one possibility, that is, the other party knows that the reinforcements are about to arrive, so they burn all the grain and grass that they can't have time to move. This is a ruthless move to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.
Li Han's side, including the troops of the local army, did not carry much supplies, and the most important thing was to rely on the grain and grass in the valley to fight. Now, if the grain and grass in the valley are completely burned, then these two armies will have to face an extremely serious food problem in the future.
It is impossible to count on Han Hu, a stingy old general of the border army, who also has an army under his own hands, and there is no need to think about the behavior of distributing military rations.
In order to keep the reinforcements out of this time, they didn't inform Han Hu's side, and now Li Han even regretted it a little, this valley and Han Hu's army were very close, it was better to tell Han Hu the news that Xia Guo was preparing to attack the valley at that time, at least let him take precautions, it was much better than the current situation.
In fact, each of the three countries has a vast territory and a political system that is not much different. The autonomy of the local legions is very high, so the communication is not very good. All along, the three countries have wanted to centralize military power, but the long-standing problems of decentralization of management and autonomy are very serious and stubborn, and they will not be solved at all for a while.
Xia took advantage of the opportunity of the change of the lord of the country to set up the cabinet elder system, separate the administrative power, and concentrate the military power in the hands of the princess regent. Such a division made the majority of the people follow the executive power, and the command of the local army and the main internal army corps was reduced to the royal power. It can be regarded as the concentration of military power in another sense. This method has also been studied, and he has accumulated knowledge from the other two worlds, and this method is very feasible.
But Chu State is different, even if he has the position of marshal, Xue Changhai can only fully control the internal army. It was because of this that Xue Changhai arranged his nephew to the Han Hu border army, just waiting for Han Hu to retreat and let his nephew take over the border army, so that he could grasp part of the military power close to the border of Chu State.
Now, Xue Lanxi is dead, and everything is in vain. Han Hu is even more uncontrollable, and he takes care of himself. The Guan Nei army could not put the order on Han Hu's head and control the other party, so he could only discuss as much as possible, and it depended on whether the other party agreed or not. This greatly reduced the efficiency of the Chu State's operations. This time the troops were dispatched for the sake of secrecy and efficiency, and Li Hancai deliberately ignored the announcement from Han Hu's side, making the enemy's attack on the valley smooth and abnormal.
The original plan to defeat the invasion of the Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop now seems to have become a fantasy, how can Li Han not be in a hurry?