Chapter 243: Lien battles and victories
In Hanoi County, Fusu was very satisfied with the start of his attack on Chu. After two months of silence, they quickly took down the three counties of Dong, Chen and Dang at lightning speed.
They have many more choices, and the door of Chu State has been opened to them after these three counties fell into their hands. So the next thing they have to do is to formulate a plan on how to enter Chu, so as to use the smallest force
He wanted to take over the Chu territory without losing anything. After all, Fusu’s enemies still included the Huns in the north.
Sitting high up on it, Fusu glanced at the generals sitting below and saw that all of them had smiles on their faces. After all, the continuous removal of Chudi City in the past few days had made all the generals very nervous.
He was happy. Fusu finally said: "Everyone, this great victory was due to the unity of our army and the dedication of our soldiers. Therefore, I have decided to reward all the soldiers after returning to the court, regardless of whether you went or not."
Those three counties." All the generals hurriedly stood up to express their gratitude. Fusu motioned for them all to return to their seats, and then continued: "But don't forget, those three counties are actually the land of our Great Qin, and they are not the foundation of the Chu people.
Therefore, for them, losing three counties is a dampener, but it will not hurt their fundamentals. The Chu army we have to deal with is still very difficult to deal with. Although they have lost several battles, their strength is
There are still nearly a hundred thousand, so we must not take it lightly." All the generals were busy saying that.
At this time, an anxious general suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, we have now occupied three counties, how should we use our troops next? The morale of the soldiers is high now, and it is a good time to attack with victory." His voice said.
As soon as he fell, some other generals also claimed to be right and echoed what he said.
Fusu glanced at the important ministers around him and signaled that they would answer the question. In the past few days, Fusu had discussed with Zhang Liang and others how to continue the attack. But before Han Xin and others could
When he opened his mouth, Lord Canghai on the other side spoke first: "In my humble opinion, we should use these three counties as the starting point to launch an attack on Si River, Jiujiang and Xue County of Chu State at the same time, so that we can take them down as soon as possible.
Chu land, then our Huns in the north will have no opportunity to take advantage of it."
Fusu looked at Tian Ba and asked, "How could the general think of dividing his troops into three groups?"
Lord Canghai said without hesitation: "Didn't the Chu army use this method last time to attack our country, the Qin Dynasty? The general just learned their method." He scratched his scalp as he spoke.
Fusu smiled and said: "But the general seems to have forgotten one thing, that is, the Chu people were defeated in our hands in the end. Weakness when divided by strength. If the troops and horses are divided into three groups, it will definitely give the enemy a chance to defeat them one by one.
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Lord Canghai shook his head and said: "I don't think so. The reason why the Chu people failed in dividing their troops was because they didn't have enough men and horses. But our Qin Dynasty now has an army of 200,000, which is enough for three groups to attack at the same time. And at this time, the Chu people are bound to
They will be a little panicked because of the loss of three cities, and when they see us advancing in three directions, their military morale will be even greater, so I thought we should advance in three directions."
Fusu could not have imagined that Lord Canghai, who had never been good at using soldiers, would actually come up with such a plan today, and it was somewhat feasible according to his analysis. However, he had thought of this plan a long time ago and rejected it.
Because this is too risky. As he said, the strength of the Chu people cannot be underestimated. This strategy can only be used when there is a huge difference in strength between the two sides. So Fusu asked: "
What do the other generals think?"
Han Xin spoke at the right time: "I believe that our current military strength is still limited, so we must not forget about the temporary gains and underestimate the strength of the Chu people. It is true that the three-pronged advance can make it difficult for the Chu people to take care of the head and tail, but they are very large."
We can focus on one place to attack our first army. Even if we take down the other two places, the third army will be seriously damaged. At that time, the Chu people will be able to fight with us with the power of their new victory.
Yes. Therefore, the three-way march method cannot be used."
The other generals just heard what Cang Haijun said was very reasonable, and they all thought it should be like this. However, after hearing a few words from Han Xin, they felt that doing so was indeed risky, so they started talking again. After they calmed down, Han Xin
Then he continued: "In my opinion, the city walls in Chu are not as thick as those in the city to the north of me, so we can attack them one by one. With the strength of the Chu army, we will definitely not dare to gather all the troops in one place and give up."
There are several other cities, so I suggest that we attack Xuejun, Sishui and Jiujiang counties as quickly as possible as if we were attacking Dongjun and other cities."
Fusu nodded: "This is a safe way. I wonder if the generals have any other opinions?"
At this time, everyone had already seen that this method was approved by Fusu. Perhaps this strategy was discussed by Fusu and the others. Since the emperor participated in the planning, they naturally would not object, so everyone praised it.
Seeing that everyone agreed with his method, Fusu said: "Then I will order Han Xin and Meng Tian to quickly attack Xuejun with 50,000 troops, and I will take the other troops and rush to Surabaya with all 200,000 troops.
After the troops take Surabaya, Jiujiang will definitely not be able to hold it either."
Han Xin and Meng Tian immediately stepped forward to take orders. After resting for a few days, the Qin army finally began to attack the Chu people. For a time, the entire Hanoi County was full of busy Qin soldiers, seemingly attacking people.
It foreshadows the importance of this war.
At this time, on the grassland in the far north, Mao Dun was listening in surprise to the news that had just been sent. It only said that the Qin army had all rushed to the Chu land in the south, but there was no information about when they left the northern border area.
There is no record at all. This is also the reason why the Huns do not pay attention to intelligence. In fact, they do not need to place any spies in the Central Plains area, because the Huns cavalry have always attacked the Central Plains to plunder things, and the Central Plains people can only expel them at most, and
When the Huns attacked the Central Plains, they relied on flexible cavalry, which did not give the Central Plains people a chance to counterattack, so there was no need for any spies in the Central Plains.
But this time the situation is a little different. Modu now has an opponent on the grassland that is not too powerful, but is also very difficult to deal with - Dadubu, Yeke, and he also learned from the Central Plains caravan.
He found out that the Qin people had colluded with the Dadu tribe, so he was worried that the Central Plains people would take the opportunity to harm him. So he sent people to the Central Plains to inquire about the information. These people were quickly sent
received the first intelligence, that is, the Qin army had already arrived at the edge of the grassland, and seemed to be about to launch an attack on itself. This made Mao Dun really nervous for a while. Then they sent the Chu army to attack.
After hearing the news from Qin, the Qin people withdrew some troops and rushed to rescue, which made Mao Dun think that God was helping him. Then those spies stopped sending news, and Mao Dun thought that they had been captured by the Qin people.
At that time, the third news also came. It turned out that the Qin people had mobilized all the troops to attack Chu. At this time, the battle between Qin and Chu had already begun.
"Why did you send the news so late?" Mao Dun angrily asked the spy who brought the news.
The man glanced at Maodun timidly and then said: "We don't dare to get too close to the passes of the Central Plains. We will only know when they mobilize a lot of troops. The Qin people's momentum was very huge in the past few times.
So we all know their movements clearly, but this time they were very careful in mobilizing troops and did not let us know at all, so..."
"Then how come you know it now?" Moton asked, glaring at him.
"It's just because we caught a hunter who came to the grassland and learned from his mouth that there are currently less than 50,000 troops in the border town, so we hurriedly came to report to Shanyu."
Mao Dun waved his hand and said, "Go down." After he left, Mao Dun looked at Ji and said, "Mr. Ji, do you think this is true? The Qin army has really rushed to Chudi?"
Ji Du pondered for a moment and said: "I think this should be true. I was wondering why the Qin people were so slow to move their troops to the edge of our grassland. Now I understand. It turns out that their purpose is not us but
The Chu people in the south sent troops to the north just to lure the Chu people to attack."
Mao Dun said angrily: "That's unreasonable. They're just putting on a show, so that I don't dare to fight the Dadu tribe with all their strength. Otherwise, the Dadu tribe and the people from the small tribes who support him would have been killed by me long ago."
The army has been wiped out. Send my order to all the troops to attack the Dadu tribe, and we must defeat them all within two months!"
Ji Du could only smile bitterly on the side. This time, the Qin people's actions were even concealed from themselves. If it weren't for the spies who happened to catch a Central Plains man, I'm afraid they would still be on guard against the Qin people's encounter with the Dadu tribe.
He was attacking himself from both front and back.
As the news became public, the original delicate balance on the grassland was finally completely broken, and the biggest war on the grassland began.
At this time, Han Xin and others had already captured Xue Commandery. Xue Commandery's defense was unexpectedly weak by Han Xin and others. After two days of attacking with 50,000 troops, the city was breached. Han Xin walked on Xue Commandery's side.
On the street, he said to Meng Tian: "It seems that the Chu people are indeed suffering from low morale. Our 50,000-strong army has already taken down this city before we could do our best. If the Chu people are really so helpless, the Chu country will be defeated in less than a month."
They will all fall into the hands of our Great Qin."
Meng Tian's face was not relaxed. He heard this and said: "I always feel that the Chu people are hiding their strength. Didn't you see that there were not many Chu troops defending the city? And they did not stay for a while when the city was broken.
, and immediately fled south, I'm afraid there is a large Chu army waiting for us ahead."
After hearing this, Han Xin woke up from his complacency and nodded deeply: "I have seen that Xiang Yu before. He is very good at using troops. He will not be defeated by us like this. But now we can't take down this place."
Chapter completed!