Chapter 354: Returning the Favor
"Absolute strength, overwhelming on all sides?"
General, this is too rude.
Zhao Tuo looked surprised, he thought that Wang Jian would have some high-level tricks in the face of the Chu army's geographical advantages, but he didn't expect it to be so simple and rude.
However, after thinking about it, Wang Qian's strategy seems simple, but it really exerts the advantages of the Qin army to the extreme.
The advantage of the Chu army was geographical advantage, and the advantage of the Qin army was the number of people.
Since it was difficult to attack the swamp occupied by the Chu army from the front, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.
Then don't entangle with the other party here, but take your eyes back from this local battlefield, look at the larger battlefield situation, and readjust the strategic deployment of the Qin army.
For the general, the pattern must be large.
The Qin army was two to three times larger than the Chu army, and even if it was attacked separately, in every battlefield, in the face of the defending Chu army, the Qin army still had a numerical advantage. The Chu army needs to defend everywhere, and its forces will inevitably be scattered, and it will appear overstretched and somewhat insufficient.
Although the Qin army's tactics may cause great casualties, even 800 enemy casualties and 1,000 self-inflicted losses.
However, since the loss of the Qin army, as long as there is a breakthrough in any battlefield, it can completely change the situation of the battle and win the final victory. On the other hand, the Chu army, with few and few people, defended everywhere, even if it won in several places, as long as there was a mistake and the Qin army broke through into the heart of Huaiyin, it would be all over.
Once Huaiyin is breached, even if Shandao is protected by Shuize, it will be surrounded by the Qin army on all sides and become a real dead city Jedi.
Even if the Qin army is in a good situation, it can also besiege Huaiyin without attacking, lure out the Chu army in Shuize, come to a siege point to send reinforcements, and annihilate it in the plain.
"It seems simple and crude, but in fact, it is clumsy and clumsy, and it breaks the game with force. The general's army is really grand. ”
Just when Zhao Tuo sighed in his heart, Wang Jian finalized the tactics of using troops this time, and did not delay, and immediately arranged all the soldiers and horses.
"Feng Wuxuan has gone to the area of Xiapi and Xiaxiang, and asked people to send orders to Huaibei to him, asking his troops to give up attacking the cities in Huaibei, turn around and go south, and look for opportunities to cross the Huaishui from the east and go south, and take Huaiyin directly."
"At the same time, an order was issued to the direction of Shouchun and Huaiyang, except for the necessary transport ships, all the rest of the ships came here to fight, and first swept and destroyed all the Chu boats on the Huaishui River, and controlled the control of the Huaishui line."
"Assign a boat to Feng Wuxuan's department to use in Huai. For the rest, I will send 10,000 men to use as sheep attacks. Let his Chu people burn everywhere along the Huaishui line, no matter how fast the Chu army on the road runs, is it not that my boat along the river is faster? ”
"The general is wise, this truth is false and real, and the enemy cannot prepare for it."
The generals were immediately impressed.
Even Zhao Tuo secretly praised in his heart, Wang Qian's trick really used the combination of virtual and real to a wonderful point.
First use the superior naval army to kill the Chu people's boat on the Huaishui, so that the Chu army lost the ability to reconnoiter the Huaishui, so that the Qin army occupied the absolute initiative, when to cross the Huai, where to cross the Huai, the Chu army can not know, can only send additional troops to patrol the coast.
At this time, the Qin army pretended to cross the Huai with sheep soldiers to attract the Chu army on the shore to gather, mobilize it and exhaust it, and could not achieve a comprehensive defense. Feng Wuxuan's troops on the north bank of Huaishui could avoid the real and take advantage of the void, directly cross the Huaishui from the emptiness of the Chu army, and insert it into the rear of Huaiyin in one fell swoop, directly digging into the enemy's heart.
Of course, Feng Wuxuan's troops are limited, and coupled with the Huaishui natural danger, the number of people crossing Huai cannot be too large, so it will require the cooperation of Qin troops from other aspects.
"The fast horse sent an order to Yang Yuan, who was deep in the river, to lead the troops to detour north."
In the past, when Wang Qian's army was on an eastward expedition, he had sent two Qin armies to the south, among which Yang Yuan led a strange army to go deep into the river and want to attack the rear of the Chu army, which is now just in handy.
It's just that this Qin army is too long because it is deep in Chu and the supply line is too long, so the number is not large, only about 10,000 people, and the road is difficult and dangerous, although it can be regarded as a surprise soldier, it cannot play a decisive role.
It really plays a big role, and it should be another way.
"This road is partial to the division led tens of thousands of troops, detoured to Dongyang, avoided the large area of water swamp in the north, and inserted Huaiyin from the southwest. This force, when cooperating with Feng Wuxuan's troops, should complete the attack on Huaiyin. I wonder who in the account can do this? ”
Wang Jian opened his mouth and asked about the candidate for the main general.
Qiang is overjoyed, this road deviation teacher can make great contributions.
Xiang Yan led the Chu army to face the enemy in Shandao, and the puppet king Xiong Qi was very likely to sit in the rear in Huaiyin City.
Qiang was about to stand up and say, "Who else should I be".
Unexpectedly, someone had already spoken: "Not only to lead the surprise army to raid Huaiyin, but also to guard against the Chu army attacking the grain road, the master of this road should be brave and strategic." General Zhao Tuo used to fight in Chu with strange soldiers, and this year he broke through the Qi people with a partial division and went south to break through Shouchun, which is difficult for us to compare. The last general thought that in today's military tent, only General Zhao Tuo can take on this important task. ”
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Tuo was stunned, at the moment of such great achievement, someone actually took the initiative to recommend me instead of asking for meritorious service?
He turned his head to look and found that it was a general named Bai Meng, who was nearly forty years old, from the Bai clan in Pingyang, and was a descendant of Bai Qi, the former Wu'an Jun.
After Bai Qi's death, although some people held the position of generals in the army, there was no such independent general, and it has been surpassed by the Wang family, Montessori and other generals, showing a trend of decline.
Therefore, the Bai family often shows friendship with potential Qin generals, for example, when Li Xin was in the limelight before, the Bai family sent a woman to Li Xin in order to get married. How do you know that the investment overturned, and now you can only find another target and aim at Zhao Tuo.
This time, Bai Meng recommended himself, I'm afraid he has the intention of making friends.
Before Zhao Tuo could respond, he listened to the generals in the account and echoed him.
"General Zhao is brave and strategic, and he will definitely be able to take on such a big responsibility."
"Of course, I also think that General Zhao can take on a heavy responsibility."
Hearing the unanimous echo of the generals, the words came to his lips and swallowed back Mao Sui's self-recommended words, and his face was flushed.
Zhao Tuo was surprised, looked at the faces full of friendly smiles, and understood in his heart.
In addition to showing goodwill, the generals are also reciprocating.
After Zhao Tuo broke through Shouchun before, he left the Chu Palace alone, waited for the arrival of the army, and shared the credit for the destruction of the country to these generals, and they were grateful in their hearts.
The so-called vote for me with a peach, repay it with a plum.
No matter what era it is, it is a humane society after all.
This time, the candidate for the main general has the opportunity to capture the puppet king Xiong Qi's great merit, which is the favor that the generals return to Zhao Tuo.
"Zhao Tuo, all the generals think that you are the only one who can take on this important task, are you willing to accept the order?"
Seeing Wang Jian smiling and asking.
Zhao Tuo took a deep breath, and in the gentle eyes of the generals and the resentful gaze of Qiang, he got up and raised his head and said: "Since the generals trust Zhao Tuo, Zhao Tuo will definitely go all out to live up to his mission!" “
"Good. In this case, this partial division will be led by Zhao Tuo, and I will give you another 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, so that the troops will not be tight. “
Speaking of this, Wang Jian looked at Meng Tian, the general of the guilty in the tent.
He smiled and said, "Meng Tian, after you gather the soldiers and horses of your headquarters, you will serve under General Zhao Tuo." “