"Since the Heavenly One, the ...... of the military system" The handle of the axe was placed in Meng Tian's hand, Zhao Zheng shouted.

Not in Huai County, but in Shahai, the seat of the Qin army's shogunate in the northwest of Daliang, on the towering rammed earth platform, Zhao Zheng worshiped the right general Meng Tian as a general. The axe turned around in Zhao Zheng's hand, he held the handle of the axe, and put the head of the axe in Meng Tian's hand, and shouted: "From now on, whoever goes down to the abyss, the general will control it!" ”

Meng Tian didn't move, only listened to Zhao Zheng, who was holding the handle of the axe, say again: "If you see it, you will advance, and if you see the truth, you will stop." Don't underestimate the enemy with the three armies, don't take orders as the most important and die, don't be noble and cheap, don't disobey the people with unique opinions, and don't take arguments as inevitable. Don't sit if you don't sit, don't eat if you don't eat, and the cold and heat will be the same. In this way, the people will do their best. ”

"Minister... Wen Guo cannot be ruled from outside, and the army cannot be controlled from the middle. Meng Tian was stunned for a moment before he was ordered to worship, and said what he should say at this moment: "You can't be a king with two hearts, and you can't be suspicious of the enemy." Since the minister has been subject to the previous authority, the power of the banner and axe, the minister has not returned the invitation. I only hope that the king will give his order to the minister, the king will not allow it, and the minister will not dare to be a general; If the king agrees, he will do it. ”

Zhao Zheng stared at Meng Tian who was worshipping on the stage, unlike Wang Jian who was full of white hair, Meng Tian, who was in the prime of life, had black and shiny hair and was meticulously combed. Under the gaze of the ministers and soldiers on the stage, he was silent for a while before he said: "What Qin Zhi harms the world is like Jing, Jing Cun will cause Qin to die, and Jing Death will cause Qin to survive, and it is impossible to stand apart." Jing people want to avoid moving to Penglai in April, but the boat division is unstoppable, but the general quickly raises troops to punish him, destroy his country, capture his king, and prevent him from moving. ”

Meng Tian bowed again, repeating this command loudly: "The Jing people avoided moving to Penglai in April, and the boat master could not be stopped. The king ordered his ministers to quickly raise troops to punish the Jing people, destroy their country, capture their kings, and prevent them from moving. Respectfully ordered also! ”

In a word, it is the most important order given by the king to the general in front of the ancestors of the gods, and it is also the last order given by the king. After this fate, 'the country cannot be ruled from outside, and the army cannot be ruled from without'. If the king wants to change his previous command, both parties must negotiate it. If the general does not agree, it means that 'the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it'.

Meng Tian was instructed to take over the axe that represented the king's power, the talisman that dispatched the army, the flag decorated with colorful feathers, and finally the drum and bronze cymbal that commanded the army to advance and retreat.

The generals of the Qin State, if you ask the soldiers which general they would like to be soldiers in, it is estimated that nine out of ten Qin soldiers will say Wang Qian; If you ask which general is willing to be under the command, it is estimated that nine out of ten will say Wang Qian. The generals of the whole army like Wang Jian so much, it is difficult to accept the sudden change, and even if they accept it, they cannot immediately adjust from the mentality of long-term confrontation to the mentality of immediate decisive battle.

Meng Tian asked Zhao Zheng to set up a platform to worship the generals in the Shahai, in addition to establishing his own prestige, but also to let the whole army know what the king's order was and why he was so eager to fight a decisive battle with the Jing people. The general can be replaced, but the general is ordered by the king to worship the general. The king's command, the whole army must obey.

The generals in the audience cheered long live the king, but when they saw a free cavalry hurriedly rushing into the gate and approaching the shogunate, he bowed to the ground and shouted: "The king, the general, the Jing people retreat!" Jing people retreat!! ”

"Jing people retreat?!" The ministers and soldiers on the stage were all stunned. Zhao Zheng was also at a loss, not knowing whether to be happy or worried. Only Meng Tian and Meng Heng felt a pang in their hearts and understood that this was Jing Ren's retreat. Once the Jing people retreat, the battlefield can only be chosen by the Jing people, and the original plan will be nullified.

"The power of this king!" Zhao Gao was the fastest to see, and shouted before the others could react. Following him, all the ministers and generals turned to Zhao Zheng: "The power of this king!" Soon, the generals in the audience shouted Long live the king and also inserted a sentence "King Weiye", and the momentum of the shouting was better than before.

"Why does the general think the Jing people are retreating?" When he stepped down to the shogunate feast, Zhao Zheng finally asked this sentence. In the tent, one side is sitting Wenchen, and the other side is the general. Wenchen was headed by the right prime minister Wang Juan, and the general was headed by the general Meng Tian.

Zhao Zheng asked, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes suddenly looked at Meng Tian, wondering how he would answer.

"Jing people are afraid of the king." Meng Tian made no secret of it, even in front of Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng froze instantly when he heard this, he thought that Meng Tian would tell the truth to himself like his father Meng Wu, but he didn't expect him to tell lies. Fortunately, Meng Tian's words were not finished, and he said again: "This is also a plan to lure the enemy into the depths. The battle is in Kaifeng, if the king goes to Kaifeng in person, the morale of our army will rise greatly, and the morale of the Jing people will disappear. If we retreat into the Chu realm and stay away from Huze, our army will be inconvenient, and the Jing people will have the will to fight. ”

Except for sycophancy, Meng Tian still told the truth, but he said it very tactfully, and he needed to distinguish carefully to know which ones were true and those were falsehoods that had to be said. Zhao Zheng pondered for a while and then asked: "Why is it inconvenient to stay away from Huze and our army?" The soldiers and the Jing people fought on land, not in the lake, and the boat division fought with the Jing people in the lake. ”

"The king doesn't know." Meng Tian said humbly. "There is no lake, our army has 600,000 soldiers, walking on land, like a long snake, its head is in Chencheng, and its tail is still in Daliang. Jing people can be attacked, and Li Xin's defeat will be defeated by the length of the army, and the army formation will not be completed. If there is a lake, all the captains can land together, and the landing will form an array, but there will be no lake......"

The more soldiers, the bigger the army. The larger the army, the more inconvenient it is to command. It takes days or more than ten days to change from a camping state to a marching state, and it takes several days or more than ten days to assemble a marching state. The large number of people does have an advantage, but if the large number of people is not fully deployed, it is easy to be caught off guard by the enemy. In this sense, there are also advantages to having fewer people.

The side with more people fights the side with fewer people, and the defeat often lies in the gap between the two armies but not fully formed, and the two armies engaged but did not fully engage the troops. At this moment, it is as if the machine is deformed, and it will be struck suddenly when it is not changed, breaking those fragile couplings and brackets, and the whole machine will damage itself due to the huge dead weight. But if the transformation is completed, the previously briefly exposed couplings and brackets are hidden by the heavy iron, and the side with fewer people will definitely lose.

The plains are convenient places for hundreds of thousands of troops to deploy, while mountains and forests and rivers are not conducive to the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops. The biggest problem facing the advisors of the Mengtian shogunate was not how to fight, but how to line up safely.

Meng Tian mentioned Huze, because the wide Huze allowed 600,000 Qin troops to form a queue on the water and then charge and land. The Chu army, which was only one-sixth of the Qin army, could only block some people, but could not stop everyone. It is worth paying the price of even 200,000 soldiers to die in exchange for another 400,000 men to be in the army.

Now that the Chu army has retreated, the best option for the 600,000 Qin army is to advance south in a straight line along the chasm. The width of the chasm determines the width of the marching column, the width of the marching column determines the length of the march, and the length of the march determines the reaction speed of the whole army, that is, the time required for the formation.

The Qin army did not have enough three-oared war boats or three-oared transport boats, and even if there were, based on six three-oared war boats side by side, more than 2,700 three-oared war boats would have to list a long march path of more than 70 miles. In addition, there are baggage, grain, logistics, and soldiers, plus the long diameter of these boats, and it is not far from the girder if it does not reach the girder.

It took about half a moment for Meng Tian to tell Zhao Zheng in his own words what the so-called long march path was in later generations. Marching-camping, camping-marching, this is the real basic skill of the general, representing the degree to which the general can control the army freely. The battle after the battle is only a side show of the degree of control of the general over the army.

After listening to Meng Tian's tirade, Zhao Zheng's opinion of Meng Tian changed a little, and he felt that his new general did have a family education, so he immediately asked: "What does the general think can march so that the Jing people can't attack me?" ”

The minister thought, "Before worshipping the general, you must first bathe for five days, and the shogunate has already negotiated something in these five days." "Fight with Jing people, not too many people, but few."

"And when less?!" Zhao Zheng was taken aback, and the ministers were also surprised, but the generals present nodded a little and pondered.

"Yes, yes." Meng Tian nodded affirmatively. "The minister thinks that 300,000 dead people are enough. It's so easy to march and easy to line up. If I am defeated, there will still be 300,000 people, and the Jing people will not dare to attack me if they are afraid of me. ”

"Dare to ask the general," Wang Ben, who was sitting at the end, stood up. Wang Jian said that he was sick and returned to his hometown, but he still had to serve in the army.

"Please." Meng Tian didn't think that Wang Ben would stand up and speak, so the public could only let him speak.

"Does the general want to choose 300,000 elite soldiers to fight against the Jing people?" Wang Ben asked. Without waiting for Meng Tian to answer, he said: "These 300,000 people are the last elite soldiers of my Great Qin, and the rest are all weak pawns. These 300,000 people died in a battle, what if Great Qin? ”

"There are only 100,000 Jing people, and 300,000 people can fight without a fight? Even if there is no war, how many Jing people are left? This is one of them. Meng Tian replied. General Wang said that he could only fight with the Jing people next year, which was to frustrate the spirit of the Jing people, and the disadvantages would be old; The second is to train the soldiers, so as to become elite. However, if the training is not successful today, how can they fight? This is also the second.

King Jing knew that he was about to die, so he sent the princes, craftsmen, and boys of Jing to avoid Penglai. If I don't die in Jing Country quickly, I will raise tigers and leave myself in trouble. ”

"Good!" Meng Tian's words were completely in line with Zhao Zheng's intentions, and what Zhao Zheng was most worried about was raising tigers and leaving himself in trouble. After agreeing with Meng Tian, he looked at Wang Ben again: "If General Xiao Wang is unwilling to fight with the Jing people, he can not be a general, and train soldiers here." ”

A general can't go into battle to kill the enemy, but can only train soldiers, what kind of general is that. Zhao Zheng obviously helped Meng Tian to establish his authority, and anyone who questioned Meng Tian would be punished.

"Minister......" Wang Ben took a deep breath, he always regarded himself as an old Qin man, and he was as worried as his father that the old Qin soldiers would be ruthlessly consumed. Zhao Zheng's attitude made him feel cold, and he stiffened his neck in his chest and said, "The minister is willing to train soldiers here." ”

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