The cavalry team is the fastest to find out that something is wrong Lu Zhejun, when they are cruising to hunt the Baiyue people, the Baiyue team from the north first retreats to the south with a small amount of spoils, and the number of the Baiyue team is more and more, when the number of Baiyue encounters exceeds 10,000 people and more than one, even if it is sluggish, they realize that something is wrong.

The cavalry general Tang Jie immediately reported the situation to the Chinese army, and the cavalry, which had been more or less reduced in strength after several days of fighting, gave up the attack of more than 10,000 people and more than 100 Yue troops, and turned to harassment and attack.

These days, the 20,000 cavalry have eliminated at least 30,000 Baiyue people, and their own losses have been nearly 1,000. There will be such losses not because of how fierce the resistance of the Baiyue people is, but because these cavalry are not elite, they are good riders selected by Lu Zhe, but they don't have much time to train, and the losses caused are basically that the cavalry themselves accidentally fell off their horses and fell to their deaths.

In fact, in the era when there were no stirrups and saddles, it was not easy to control a good war horse just by relying on the reins and its own balance, and the cavalry not only needed to sit on the back of the horse safely, but also needed to fight with weapons in hand, and a careless sway would really fall off the horse. When the cavalry is fighting, it will also produce resistance with the swing of the weapon and hitting the enemy, whether it is psychologically prepared or not, the knight's waist strength and leg strength are highly tested.

At this stage, Lu Zhe does not have too many extravagant hopes for cavalry, and the large-scale southern transfer campaign also wants to use Baiyue people to hone, after all, Baiyue people are not much of a strong opponent, and they are definitely a good whetstone for military training.

The first person to receive information from the cavalry was not Lu Zhe's department, which was still at the level of seniority, but Zhou Dang and others who had been steadily advancing.

As the second group of troops, this force, with 5,000 heavy infantry, 10,000 crossbowmen, and 30,000 light soldiers, was used by Lu Zhe as the main force for head-on combat.

It's been six months since the heavy infantry was formed, and it's definitely time to take it out and check its combat power. Compared with the cavalry unit that has been formed for less than two months, Lu Zhe has deep expectations for the heavy infantry that has been trained for half a year, and the combat power displayed by the heavy infantry in the next southern campaign will also affect Lu Zhe's choice of the structure of the troops under his command. If the heavy infantry does not live up to hope, the formation of the heavy infantry will be expanded, and if the heavy infantry does not show satisfactory combat power. Lu Zhe had no choice but to abandon the idea of heavy infantry expansion and pay attention to other troops.

To tell the truth, Lu Zhe has been worried about not having his own ranch and wants to build cavalry and not talking about the cost of wealth, and the source of the war horse is not in his own hands and is suddenly stuck, so the construction of the cavalry must be suspended. The construction of cavalry troops is too restrictive, and the establishment of large-scale cavalry is delusional, and what should we do if there is no large-scale cavalry in the future war in the Central Plains and the possible northward attack on the steppe Hu people? It can only be compensated by building a class that can confront the cavalry.

The victory rate of the Southern Song Dynasty's foreign wars has always been maintained at 70 percent, which is 48 percent higher than that of the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars. The reason for this is that although the Song Dynasty army had a high victory rate, it lacked cavalry and killed and wounded too few enemy troops when it won.

If the Song army won and was unable to kill more enemy troops, it was equivalent to a blank victory. The enemy army did not suffer many casualties and regrouped, but still had a strong living force, and no matter how much such a victory was, it still had little effect on the balance of strength.

The Tang Army's victory rate in foreign wars was low, but the Tang Army had no shortage of cavalry, and every time it won a victory, it was always able to destroy a large number of enemy troops in the pursuit battle, and even if the number of such victories was small, it also destroyed the enemy's living force on a large scale.

What is the war fought? In addition to national strength is people, but people are the most important part of national strength, no matter how rich the materials are without people, how to fight, so killing more enemy soldiers in a state of war is the main goal, and attacking cities and seizing land is only incidental in some cases. After all, the enemy is gone, and no one wants to regain the lost land, and there is no ability to do so.

If you save people and lose land, people and land will survive, and if you save land and lose people, people and land will be lost. The great man summed up this conclusion from history, and Lu Zhe has also read the works of the great man, and he has his own understanding of this.

Of course, Lu Zhe's understanding is not to say that space is exchanged for time. What land is not important, people are more important. He thought that the best way to take the land was to destroy more enemies, and when the enemies died, the enemy's land would be his own.

If you want to conquer the Central Plains, you can't do without war horses. No war horse in the Central Plains will be difficult, in the face of the grassland cavalry is a more tragic situation, Lu Zhe has not forgotten what is the outcome of Liu Bang's high-spirited army to the north after the unification of the Central Plains, the Han army can unify the Central Plains no matter how soft the shrimp can not go, as a result, hundreds of thousands of strong troops in the Central Plains were completely miserable when they encountered hundreds of thousands of grassland cavalry, and finally relied on the tribute of the beauties to relieve the siege of Baideng.

Before the lack of an effective method against the cavalry, Lu Zhe did not think that the army he had formed in the south could be much better when encountering the steppe cavalry, after all, no matter what good strategy must have the strength of facility strategy.

Southern Expedition, part of it is that Lu Zhe thinks that he does not have the ability to play any Central Plains hegemony for the time being, after all, the time for their rise is too short and too short, this time Lu Zhe went south just to divide the troops into four ways, and there were not enough generals at hand, at that time Lu Zhe's head almost crashed, and he sat stunned for a long time and finally sighed long.

Generals are not able to be conjured up in a moment, they need to be trained and trained in war, and even if there is training and training, there may not be an expected general, Lu Zhe lies down every night and thinks about the worries about the lack of generals, and he really realizes that having a lot of money, sufficient food, and a wide supply of soldiers does not mean that he is strong, and only when he has enough generals can he be considered truly strong.

It is really a good idea to use Baiyue people to train troops, and Lu Zhe is extremely looking forward to digging out more talents in the battle of the Southern Expedition, so the Peixian system, the subordinate department, and the surrender department, as long as they feel that they are slightly reliable, they will be transferred south.

If you want to take Minyue, Nanyue, and Lingnan, then the battle of the Southern Expedition will be fought for a long time, and Lu Zhe does not believe that the generals he needs will not emerge during this period. Before there are enough generals, he doesn't want to enter the Central Plains at all, even if a certain country is expected to unify the Central Plains, he will only play the side ball and will never go into battle with his bare arms.

The Baiyue people around Luo County retreated south, and Lu Zhe, who knew this information, still had no idea of moving in Zishui, and if he wanted to train the generals under his command, he couldn't go into battle in person in everything, otherwise if he personally commanded every time, those generals would not be able to carry out orders, and there would not be many opportunities for substantive training.

"Let Su Lie, Mei Kai, Xu Zhi, Tang Jie and the others play," Lu Zhe replied when he faced Kuaitong's request.

The Baiyue people are not strong, they are really not strong at all, and Sima Xin has already consumed the elite of Baiyue on the side of Luoxian County, if the generals of several roads are still unable to win in this situation, then Lu Zhe should consider building a comprehensive defense system, don't think about anything like sending troops to the Central Plains, build a turtle shell and start a luxurious life until he dies.

Kuaitong didn't quite understand what Lu Zhe meant, it was the established strategic goal to wipe out the Baiyue people in Changsha, and if anything went wrong without Lu Zhe's personal command, the whole layout would not only be done in vain, but it would also be a fatal blow to them going north to the Central Plains.

"What I need to do is to cut off the back road of the Baiyue people, and make sure that even if the Baiyue people escape, they can only escape a small part." Lu Zhe was determined to let the generals play freely: "The head-on battle with Baiyue is handed over to the generals to complete." ”

Kuaitong could see that Lu Zhe's attitude was resolute, and he was only a little confused and relieved.

As Lu Zhe as a reliant minister, as the chief military advisor of the army, Kuai Tong may not have shown the essence that an important minister should have, but he knows absolutely less than anyone else, and he has always been aware of Lu Zhe's worries about the lack of generals.

Even if the forces lacking generals are strong, they will have considerable limitations, and they will even encounter the crisis of extinction after waiting for more wars, these are all things that Kuai Tong understands, and he is extremely happy that Lu Zhe discovered the weakness of his forces early on, just using such an important battle to train the generals, is it too risky?

"Don't take risks, although there are accidents in the layout of the battle of Changsha County, for example, Yi Hu Song doesn't know why he retreated immediately after capturing Luo County, but for us, the completion of the layout is already a great advantage. For this war, what is missing now is not for me to go to the frontal battlefield to personally command, but to check the most important step of the entire battle situation. Lu Zhe smiled at Kuaitong and continued: "Is there anything more important than cutting off the retreat of the Baiyue people? Does Mr. think that in the face of the defeat of less than 300,000 remnants of the Baiyue army, those generals will still lose in a head-on battle? ”

Kuaitong didn't have a score in his heart, there were too many new generals appointed by Lu Zhe in the Southern Expedition this time, and Su Lie was not a general who could control the battle no matter how he looked at it, and it was full of too many unknowable factors for them to preside over a general battle of more than 400,000 people.

Facts have proved that Kuaitong's worries are well-founded, and less than an hour after Su Lie's troops and the second batch of troops completed the rendezvous, when the cavalry heard the large-scale southward retreat of Baiyue, Su Lie had turned from the joy of easily capturing Linxiang to a high degree of nervousness.

"Three, three hundred thousand...... Above? Su Lie, who was facing this situation for the first time, swallowed his saliva, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly: "So much? ”

It was more than 300,000, and they had less than 100,000 men, and the cavalry was not yet where they were.

Su Lie's unreliable reaction was seen by the generals, and his heart immediately hung in the air. (To be continued......)