On Li Mu's letterhead, the words of Chun Shenjun and Gongzi Qi during their private meeting in the courtyard at night were densely written.

Gongzi Qi thought that he and Chun Shenjun were chatting secretly in an open and uninhabited place, but he didn't know that the so-called Pulsatilla with no bones left in the water was Lin Zhen, the prime minister of the Qin State. The people of Pulsatilla are also all spies of the Qin State.

The letter in Li Mu's hand will probably be sent to Prince Chu of Qin.

Li Mu had a slight impression of Gongzi Qisheng.

People who can see Zhu Xiang's situation and feel that King Qin is unfair to Zhu Xiang, Li Mu will have some good feelings towards him.

Li Mu had already discovered this matter.

Zhu Xiang must have known it himself, and then he deliberately made himself withdrawn.

How could there be a relative of the King of Qin, who had been in Qin for nearly ten years, and had never participated in a banquet of any nobles of the Qin State, nor had he held any banquet at home to entertain outsiders?

How can anyone endure nearly a decade without making new friends? Are you a stranger to all the nobles of the Qin State?

When Zhu Xiang was still a concubine, and when he was still a guest for Lin Xiangru, he was able to make many new friends.

He was by Lin Xiangru's side, not as long as he had been in Qin. But he got acquainted with the leaders of the Mo family and the peasant family, became a master and apprentice with Xunzi, "recruited" Zichu and Cai Ze, and also met himself through Lian Gong.

Isn't there anyone in Qin that Zhu Xiang is willing to get acquainted?

Even Han Fei and Li Si, two people who Zhu Xiang often praises their talents, Zhu Xiang deliberately kept a distance from them and asked Zheng'er to befriend them.

Because Zhu Xiang said that these two people would enter the court of the Qin State sooner or later.

"So Zhu Xiang really won't be jealous of any King of Qin." Li Mu raised his hand, and the letter flew into the river, disappearing among the waves in an instant, "Hope Zheng'er...... Zheng'er succeeds to the throne, and Zhu Xiang will do the same. He chose it himself. ”

Zhu Xiang didn't want the difference between the monarch and the minister to damage his relationship with Zichu and Zheng'er, so he would try his best to avoid this possibility.

When the world is unified and Zhu Xiang farms all over the world, I'm afraid it will be better. Li Muxin said.

I am afraid that there will be some years before the world is unified, but if the matter of Chu is quickly ended and Zhu Xiang leaves Xianyang, Zhu Xiang's life will be better, and there is no need to always go around three or two people.

And Xue Ji also misses Zhu Xiang and wants to reunite with Zhu Xiang.

"General, I see the other side. They didn't seem to be guarding against us. The soldier at the helm came to report, "Are we rushing straight over?" ”

Li Mu nodded.

In 250 BC, in the autumn of the year when the Qin prince Chu ascended the throne, the Qin general Li Mu landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, occupied a number of cities, and completely pocketed the Yangtze River Delta.

Because the state of Chu was in civil strife, Li Mu's move was unresisted.

After that, Li Mu transported his troops and horses to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and took the north bank of the Yangtze River Delta as a stronghold, leading a light cavalry to attack the city of Chu.

Li Mu's cavalry was very peculiar, completely different from the other Qin troops on the battlefield.

They took a city with lightning speed, and did not defend it, but only changed horses to raise food, and then distributed the rest of the food to the people. When the people of Chu wanted to recover the city, they opened the door and went to the next city.

Their marching route was extremely tortuous, as if they were constantly turning back on the Jianghuai Plain.

Meng Wu and Zhang Ruo also crossed the Yangtze River and entrenched themselves on the north bank.

Every time Li Mu turned back, he could find supplies on the north bank, and the Chu State could not encircle and suppress them at all.

After Li Mu returned to the stronghold, the location of the next troop dispatch was also unpredictable.

He would always leave the place where the troops were sent by boat, and then go ashore along the Yangtze River without knowing where to go, and he didn't know where to continue going.

Unless the state of Chu pulled a defensive line horizontally along the north bank of the Yangtze River, it could prevent Li Mu's surprise attack.

If the state of Chu is still in harmony now, it may be possible that multiple feudal lords will send troops together, and they can barely cope with Li Mu's surprise attack. At least they could find out where Li Mu had landed, and then the chariots and cavalry chased Li Mu.

But now that the state of Chu is in chaos, at least half of the feudal monarchs of the state of Chu cannot be sent.

They could only watch Li Mu's light cavalry, as if no man's land on the Jianghuai Plain.

Not only the Chu State, but the other five countries originally wanted to get a piece of the pie in the civil strife in Chu, but now Li Mu sent troops this time, which also confused them.

No one could have imagined that this battle could still be fought like this, and the cavalry could still be used like this.

It turns out that you don't need a large army to press the border, you don't need siege equipment, you just need to grab the speed to capture the city?

It turns out that you don't need to occupy the city, you just need to disrupt the order of the other party, and you can make people tired?

Not to mention the Five Kingdoms, the generals of the Qin State are also reviewing Li Mu's battle, hoping to learn something from it.

Then they learn and learn, and they can only sigh with emotion, no.

"If you want the cavalry to exert its speed, you have to be in a flat place with few water nets. In this world, it seems that only the hinterland of Chu is like this now. ”

"How do these cavalrymen know which city to go to? Did Li Mu keep the map of the entire Chu State in his heart? Won't he get lost at all? ”

"They can also show such superb riding skills in exchange for the horses of the Chu people in the territory of the Chu State? How were these cavalrymen trained? ”

"Distribute food directly to the Shuren? What's the use of this? What was Li Mu thinking? If you want to destroy the granary of Chu, why not burn it down? Isn't that more effortless? ”

"I heard that Li Mu personally led the troops to raid. He himself is superior in force, and I am afraid that he is even more powerful than Bai Qi. ”

"Isn't Li Mu the general of the boat division? Why do you still lead cavalry? ”

The person who said this was turned to stared at by the others.

The man wondered, "Isn't it?" ”

An older man took a deep breath and said, "Li Mu was once a Zhao general who guarded Yanmen County, and became famous for defeating more than 100,000 cavalry from Beihu. That was before he entered Qin. ”

Although the Qin State and Rong Di were mixed, the first cavalry unit to be formed was the first to be created by King Wuling of Zhao.

Li Mu, as the general guarding Yanmen, is the person who knows how to use cavalry the most in the world.

To the west of the Chu State, the Hanshui Basin, the triangle between the three cities of Jingmen, Jingzhou and Tianmen in later generations is a plain area. Wang Jian annexed it here, eyeing the state of Chu.

When Li Mu sent out the army, Wang Jian also got the news of Li Mu's "strange soldier".

In the past, when we said "odd soldiers", we meant unexpected soldiers. Li Mu's "strange soldiers" are "strange" and "peculiar" soldiers.

Wang Jian spread the map on the table in front of him, frowning and thinking.

King Chuwei built Jinlingyi, and Li Mu was the first to occupy Jinling.

Starting from Jinling, Li Mu's cavalry went all the way north, across half of the Jianghuai Plain, conquered large and small cities along the way, and reached Zhongli on the south bank of Huaishui, and on the way to beat a few of Chunshenjun's fiefdoms.

Chun Shenjun immediately returned to defense, and Li Mu turned back to the south and returned to Guangling. Guangling had been firmly controlled by the Qin army, and the Chu army could not conquer it. The civil strife in Chu was not settled, and Chun Shenjun had no choice but to collect troops and return to Chendu to defend the king of Chu.

Li Mu sent troops for the second time, taking a boat from the waterway to Chaohu, and then the cavalry went ashore to attack all the way to the vicinity of Shouchun, and returned to Chaohu after encountering a large army. Chu Jun looked at the lake and sighed.

The third time, Li Mu's cavalry set out from Guangling, was intercepted by the army of Jing and Zhao, retreated to the coastline, and ran away on the Qin sea ship that had been waiting for a long time. Calmly retreated under the cover of the crossbow arrows, trebuchets, and thunderbolts of the Qin ships.

After that, Meng Wu and Zhang Ruo crossed the Yangtze River together, landed on the north bank, and went down the river to connect the large and small cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the Kechu Kingdom, echoing with Li Muyao and receiving Li Mu's cavalry.

The state of Chu could not take care of the head and tail, and could no longer send a large army to stop Li Mu's cavalry, so he could only let Li Mu gallop on the Jianghuai Plain east of the state of Chu.

"The city chosen by Li Mu will always be all biased towards the line of the King of Chu or the rebels, so the King of Chu and the rebels cannot work together, but wait for Li Mu to disturb the other party so that they can take advantage of the situation to attack." Wang Jian shook his head and said depressedly, "My heavy cavalry has just been trained, don't you have a chance to use it?" ”

Wang Jian laughed at himself and ordered the soldiers to form a team.

Joke, now is the time for him to send troops.

He took a deep breath. The outcome of this battle will almost determine his future.

As a general of the same country as Li Mu's contemporaries, the pressure is really great.

Chapter 162: Li Mu's Name

Wang Jian saw Li Mu's strategic intentions, and Bai Qi also saw it.

Zi Chu, who didn't know anything about fighting, and Ying Xiaozheng, who claimed to be Li Mu's only disciple but didn't know anything about it at all, obediently came to listen to Bai Qi's lecture who was sick in bed.

Bai Qi spread the map on his lap covered with bedding, and said in an old and weak but very clear and calm voice: "Li Mu's intention in this battle is not to conquer the city, but to destroy the young and strong forces of the Chu army like I did at the beginning. ”

Zhu Xiang looked at the line that Bai Qi had drawn on the map, and almost blurted out a word.

Four crossings of Chishui!

The three crossings of Chishui, that is, the martyrs in order to preserve their strength and get rid of the encirclement, the 30,000 troops lasted three months, traveled to the borders of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, interspersed with the enemy's 400,000 troops, annihilated a large number of the enemy's living forces, changed the passive to the active, and survived the battle in a desperate situation.

This is one of the top sports warfare textbooks in history.

What Li Mu is using now is sports warfare!

Unlike the West, ancient China has always relied on infantry as the main force. This is not because the hinterland of China cannot raise horses, but because the terrain is complex and the waters are numerous, the cavalry cannot be used as the main force in many places, but can only be used as an auxiliary.

There were already mounted cavalry in the Warring States period, but the same is true for the reason why it did not become mainstream. If the Han Dynasty had not been for the conquest of the Xiongnu, it would not have raised 180,000 cavalry.

Most of Western Europe is plains, and the place where the Huns and other Hu people live is the grassland, so that the cavalry can run up and give full play to the cavalry's complete combat power.

Li Mu guarded Yanmen County, and his opponents were the Hu people in the north, including the Xiongnu. His elite forces have always been dominated by cavalry.

When Zhu Xiang built a stirrup and horseshoe for him, Li Mu's cavalry became more and more powerful, and he continued to sharpen it in the difficult terrain over the mountains and mountains.

The Jianghuai Plain is a rare terrain in the hinterland of the Central Plains that can be galloped by cavalry.

When Jing Kang was ashamed in later generations, it was the Northern Song Dynasty that was driven all the way south by the Jin soldiers, and the commanders of the Jin army were a little stunned.

Now Li Mu gave the people of Chu a little cavalry movement shock before the Jin Guotie cavalry ran up.

The state of Chu is now in civil strife, with at least five or six hundred thousand rebels and the army of the king of Chu plus logistics troops, and many towns guarding the city.

Li Mu was interspersed between the rebels of Chu and the army of the king of Chu, often passing by each other, and when the other party probed Li Mu's cavalry, Li Mu had already run away.

The Chu soldiers chased after Li Mu, from the south to the north, from the north to the south, and they also had to be vigilant against any city on the Yangtze River, and the north-south, east-west front was extremely long.

The army of the king of Chu and the rebels were already wary of each other, and they could not send a large force to pursue Li Mu. But they can get together at least 100,000 people each.

Li Mu completely gave up logistics, the cavalry was all elite, and the supply depended on attacking the city to be self-sufficient. In such an extreme situation, they were able to intersperse freely among the more than 200,000 pursuing troops, and they could always storm the city to complete rest and supply.

The Chu army that encircled and suppressed Li Mu's cavalry always arrived late after Li Mu had rested for two or three days, giving Li Mu time to fully replenish.

Expand the battlefield by constantly marching, lengthen the battle line, force the enemy to disperse the battle line, run behind him, and then turn around and concentrate superior forces to fight the enemy who has been scattered and exhausted, so as to achieve victory with less, eliminate the enemy's living forces, and seize the initiative on the battlefield. This is the war of movement.

The reason is simple, every time the route of the march changes, the ability of the leader is tested. Therefore, those who dare to use sports warfare are definitely the top generals.

In the timeline where Li Mu didn't know Zhu Xiang, he used sports warfare against the Qin State.

Li Mu defeated the Qin army in two battles, one was the Battle of Fei and the other was the Battle of Fanwu. The Battle of Fei was an ordinary defensive counterattack, and the Battle of Fanwu was when Li Mu used the mobility of the cavalry to concentrate his forces to break through each and defeat the Qin army.

After getting to know Zhu Xiang, when Zhu Xiang helped Li Mu improve the cavalry, he bragged with Li Mu about cavalry tactics and later movement battles.

If these tactics are directly copied and 100% fail, I am afraid that the hat of talking on paper will fall on Zhu Xiang's head. But Li Mu learned a lot from Zhu Xiang's bragging, which was not very realistic.