Three days after the Battle of Xingleshui, when Han Xin arrived in the south of Linxiang City with a new victory and a high-morale army of 10,000, he had already led the vanguard cavalry troops to pursue Li You's Licang and personally went out of the camp.

As the leader of the second generation of the old department of the black party, Li Cang changed his previous confusion about Heifu's appointment of Han Xin as the commander of the enemy, and greeted him with a smile.

"Captain Han, Licang is convinced."

It turned out that on that day, after Han Xin realized Li You's suspicious plan, he first moved his camp to the east bank of Xingle Water, occupied a favorable location, and chose the battlefield in advance.

Xiao He has been in Changsha for two years, and has long been familiar with the topography and roads of the county, he said, Xingle Water and Xiangjiang River confluence upstream for dozens of miles, and stand two small hills, forming a canyon, the river passes through here and narrows sharply, forming a throat area that is only more than ten zhang wide, which is the most suitable for building a dam to control the water.

Therefore, Han Xin asked Xiao Tao to lead people to use the method of Nanhai County to control the tide of the Pearl River, put sand and soil in the bag, and poured it on the Xingle River, so that the water accumulated in the gorge. Immediately, when Li You's army first arrived and did not have time to go more than ten miles upstream to investigate, he led the army to half cross, but he was defeated and took the east bank, inducing Li You to send a Thai army to pursue.

And at this moment, and released the army to communicate the news of the artifact "glowing lantern", when a string of bright lights rose into the sky, Xiao Tao according to the agreement, broke the sand sac, in the canyon full of river water embankment.

For a time, the flood was so great that Li Youjun's army was cut off by the waist, and thousands of people were caught in the water, Li You's headquarters on the west bank could not cross the river, and thousands of people on the east bank were besieged by three times his own people, and the formation was in great chaos, and most of them were driven into the water, with heavy casualties.

Li You saw that the defeat was decided, so he had to evacuate north with the remnants of 5,000 people.

Han Xin was not in a hurry to chase, and only let Li Cang take the car and ride urgently, increasing the loss of enemy casualties. After he left, he crossed the Hunan River on a bamboo raft and surrounded the suspicious soldiers left by Li You in the east, and the 3,000 Changsha soldiers were all locals, and they didn't want to start a war with the Southern Expeditionary Army.

In the end, Xiao Tao cleaned up the battlefield and guarded thousands of prisoners at the same time, while Han Xin and Xiao He marched north, arriving in Linxiang on the last day of February.

Right now, Li Cang is full of praise for Han Xin's clever plan:

"The lieutenant first feinted defeat and retreated, in order to lure the enemy to cross halfway, guide the enemy to surrender, and then break the water, divide and annihilate the enemy, and do it in one go, controlling the enemy to death. The ancients only knew how to attack half-crossing, but they didn't know that they could lure the enemy half-crossing and attack in this way! The art of war clouds, where the first battlefield and treat the enemy, and then the battlefield and tend to fight, so the good fighter, to the people but not to the people, the captain, you are also a good fighter, no wonder the prince is so optimistic about the captain! ”

Han Xin is not a sociable person, and he is proud and shy, and he was a little embarrassed by Licang's praise, so he only said: "I was born on the waterfront, so I know the ...... of water."

He was born in a water town, and he has seen the terrible summer floods, the entire Huaiyin has become a terrible country, and he has also seen the convenience brought by the canal, and even the surging of the embankment, so he has always thought that if water can be used well, it should be no less than a wonderful weapon of fire!

The attacker is bright with fire, and the attacker is strong with water, this is Han Xin's comprehension.

Li Cang bowed: "That's why Captain Han dared to say that "Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War" is missing a water attack. ”

"Actually, Sun Wuzi has also used water attacks."

Han Xin said: "Sun Wu attacked Xu for the king of Wu, which is now the prime minister of Donghai County, not far from my hometown Huaiyin, Sun Wu defended the mountains and rivers to irrigate Xu, and after a few months Xu Cheng was broken, Xu Jun surrendered to ......"

After that, similar flooding irrigation cities were constantly being used, such as Zhibo's decision to flood Jinyang, almost drowning Zhao Wuxian, but because of his complacency and arrogance, Wei Han counter-flooded his army.

The more famous water attack in modern times is undoubtedly the irrigation of Yancheng by Baiqi water, and the irrigation of Liang by Wang Ben, which played a decisive role.

However, it is still too monotonous, and due to the restrictions of the times, Sun Tzu is a military strategist who prefers to "go to the army to fight and strategize, then to fight the enemy, then to attack the army, and then to attack the city", and tends to move the war and try to avoid siege warfare, so he did not list a separate article "water attack".

And Han Xin is still the first person in the Central Plains since the beginning of the war!

If Sun Wu was alive, he would be surprised to see that Houxue had such a great talent......

However, this conversation reminded Li Cang, and he pointed to Linxiang, where the city gate was closed behind him, and said, "Han Duwei, can this Linxiang City be irrigated?" ”

A few days ago, Li Youbu's chariot cavalry troops were annihilated on the east bank by Han Xin's water attack, and his army did not know that this was Han Xin's strategy.

Li You could only retreat in a hurry with 5,000 people, and was chased by Licang all the way, panicked, and lost a lot, and finally escaped into Linxiang with only more than 4,000 people, and resisted stubbornly with the county guard and the lieutenant.

After all, it is the capital of a county, Linxiang is located on the east bank of Xiangshui, which is near Changsha Wuyi Square in later generations, on the bank of Orange Island, Yuelu Mountain on the other side of the river, and Liuyang River in the north.

After a long journey, the southern expeditionary army in the north also suffered considerable losses in the battles of the previous days, and the strong attack was bound to suffer heavy losses.

So Han Xin took a boat to the west bank, boarded the Yuelu hill, and after overlooking the terrain, he saw the Liushui that obliquely joins the Xiangshui in the northeast of Linxiang, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I have heard the prince say that in the past, Qin Wu'an Jun rose to attack Chu, built an embankment to store water at a hundred miles west of Yancheng, and built a long canal to Yancheng, and then opened a canal to irrigate the city, and the water entered the city as an abyss, and the northeast corner of Yancheng was soaked and collapsed by the river, and the city was broken."

"If the old trick is repeated, build an embankment in Liushui to store water, or it can also turn Linxiang into a Ze country, damage its city, and make our army win without a fight!"

Both he and Li Cang thought it was a good idea, but Xiao He, the commander of Sosu who had escorted the military rations to this place later, did not approve of this approach.

"Don't irrigate until you have to!"

"Bai Qi irrigated Yan, Wang Ben irrigated the beam, the city was killed and wounded heavily, and still complain about the Qin people, if we irrigate Linxiang, it can make Li Youjun hang the cauldron for cooking, but it will also make the people in the city die, Linxiang is the most populous city in Changsha, and it is very friendly to the Southern Expeditionary Army, if it is made to be enemies with us, it will be unfavorable for a long time."

Li Cang said: "Then according to Captain Xiao, how to break the city?" If we want to go north, we must get Linxiang, especially the rice and millet of Changsha in the warehouse, otherwise within half a month, the three armies will be hungry! ”

Xiao He smiled: "Maybe you can surrender without a fight." ”

Although his status is high now, Han Xin still respects Xiao He very much: "Please also ask Xiao Jun to teach him." ”

Seeing Han Xin's defeat of Li You and the sudden change in the situation in the south, Xiao He also changed his worries a few days ago and began to actively make suggestions for the Southern Expeditionary Army.

"The Southern Expeditionary Army has been stationed in Changsha for two years, and the people are friendly, General Wei ordered the soldiers, and did not commit any offense against the people, and sent people to help Linxiang to rectify the city, so that the military doctor taught the local people medical skills, so that the bell doctor led the Southern Expeditionary Army, walked in Changsha counties to do good deeds, and treated the soldiers and conscripts of Changsha as kind as the township party."

"Therefore, the people of Changsha like the southern expeditionary army, and do not like Li Youjun, although they are now coerced by Li Youhe and the guard, the captain is closed, and the city is closed, but his children are all captured by our army, and more than 10,000 people in the city will not really help Li You defend the city!"

"It's better to pretend to build an embankment to irrigate the city, and at the same time spread the news, according to the words passed back by the prince, so that everyone in the city knows that the first emperor has collapsed, Li You is the party of traitors in the court, and the southern expeditionary army is a righteous army, and with the help of ghosts and gods, it has been defeated, so that people's hearts will fall, and the inside and outside should be combined, so that they can win Linxiang with the least loss!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao He added: "This is also what Tao Duwei meant. “

"That's all it takes......"

Han Xin and Licang both wanted to quickly overcome Linxiang and go north to support Heifu, but from Changsha to Wuchang, it was six or seven hundred miles, and when they seized the city and then arrived at Dajiang, it would be at least a month later.

"Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and now you can only fight on your own, what you can do is to fight steadily, take Linxiang and Changsha counties for the princes, recruit manpower, hoard grain, and wait for the other roads of the southern expeditionary army to converge in the north."

Xiao He thinks that Han Xin and Li Cang are still too young, can Heifu do this thing in a short time? You must plan ahead and prepare for the long term!

This is also what he is best at, Xiao He feels that now he can rely on this skill to compete for the position of one of the best civil officials in the Heifu shogunate.

Lingnan is too wild and barren to be counted on at all, and the population of Changsha is less than one-tenth of the large counties of the Central Plains, but after a hundred years of development by the Chu people, it has a vast territory and nine counties, which can be used as a temporary base camp.

"Plan for the worst, even if General Wei makes unfavorable progress in the north, at worst, he can retreat to Jiangnan, occupy Changsha, Yuzhang, and Lingnan, and then take Qianzhong, rule across the river, and sit and watch the changes in the Central Plains!"

However, what Xiao He is most concerned about is how to bring his clan to the south......

……

Xiao He, who acted more conservatively, did not know that at this moment, the small boat that Heifu was riding had crossed the vast Yunmengze and approached a remote, reed-filled lake shore in the south of Anlu County......

The paddled boat broke through the fog and slowly approached the shore, but Heifu refused the support of his fellow boatmen, stepped on the mud on the edge of the river, and stepped on the shore with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The sun dispelled the fog, and he pushed aside the reeds and walked forward, seeing a familiar plant.

It was thick and large, and it grew in the dirt.

It is a yellow-skinned wild sugar cane.

Hauff drew his knife and slashed one, skillfully peeling off the outer skin, and threw a juicy stalk into his mouth, and immediately smiled.

"When I was young, I felt bitter."

"Now it feels sweet."

That's what hometown tastes like......

"Who is it? Hugh has to come back again! ”

At this moment, a warning sounded in front of him, and before Heifu could give an order, more than a dozen short-range guards had quickly stepped forward, and with a few screams of pain and muffled snorting, the sound stopped.

When Heifu walked to the front, he found that there were shacks like refugee camps in the reeds, where hundreds of men, women, and children had gathered, and a few young men had been subdued by short soldiers, but many more people, hearing the news, picked up the guys, and wanted to fight the wicked people who broke into their shelter!

It was the Anlu people who were reluctant to leave their hometowns, helped the old and the young, and fled to Yunmengze to avoid disasters under the condition that Feng Jingbu of the Qin army was in the whole county, and there were a few old people who felt that the black man was kind......

"Stand down!"

With a loud shout, Heifu stepped forward, he did not wear the dress of a prince today, nor did he wear the armor of a general, only wearing the rough brown clothes and even the flat bun of many years ago, when he walked on the bank of Yunmengze on foot, and went to Anlu to serve in the army.

The soldiers let go of their hands and retreated to the side, a few young men who wanted to protect their families looked at the black-faced man vigilantly, and there were two bold children, who looked at each other even more, and wanted to hijack this master empty-handed - they grew up listening to the legend of Marquis Wuzhong, and heard the story of him subduing three bandits with his bare hands in Zebian, although Marquis Wuzhong has passed away, his spirit will be inherited by every son of An Lu!

In order to protect the family, everything is spared!

The young people didn't know that the old men behind them, the old men, looked at the appearance of the black man, and showed surprised eyes, and as he got closer and closer, everyone involuntarily stood up, and their hands trembled, and they immediately grabbed the impulsive child......

The blackman, dressed as a leader, had walked to the center of the clearing and slammed down on everyone.

"An Lu's father, brothers, and brothers, Heifu, are home!"