Chapter 698: Fighting the Huns (2)

Qin can now be called a general only five generals: the general of Zhengbei, the general of Zhengdong, the general of Zhengxi, the general of Zhengnan, and the general of Lantian, Meng Tian is the general of Zhengbei, Xu Yan is the general of Zhengdong, Feng Zai is the general of Zhengxi, Meng Yi is the general of Lantian, and the general of Zhengnan was originally Lu Zhe, but after Lu Zhe became the king of Han, the general of Qin's Zhengnan was also vacant.

There is no one who can be called a general on the Han side, the highest military general title is Tai Lieutenant, but the various corps commanders under it are the position of Zhonglang General, and below Zhonglang General is a partial general, a humble general, and a military position slightly above the general, and then there are middle and lower military positions such as captain, military marquis, and Sima.

Lu Zhe did not appoint anyone as a general, not to do anything special, in fact, the history of the Han army is too short, and according to the accumulation of military merits, no one has yet met that requirement. The most important thing is that if Lu Zheruo sets up a general, according to the current system, that is, there are four generals in the east, south, west, and north, and there are already a few senior generals who can be appointed as generals, but the system of the Han army is based on 50,000 people as a corps, and the limit of the corps commander is to the position of Zhonglang general, and after the appearance of the general, it should be divided into a corps larger than the size of the corps. In Lu Zhe's plan, after dominating the world, he would integrate it again, form several corps, and then set up four generals in the east, south, west, and north, and the initial plan was to use five corps to become a corps, and each corps would appoint another general.

Of course, when the general was appointed and a new corps was formed, it was time for Lu Zhe to extend his hand beyond the "world", when the corps under the command of General Zhengdong would target the area of Donghu, the goal of General Zhengbei would be placed in the grassland, the direction of attack of General Zhengxi was in the Western Regions, and General Zhengnan would continue to expand to that area of South Asia.

The eastern, southern, western, and northern corps will still be allocated to the National Defense Force sequence, but in Lu Zhe's plan, the establishment of the four corps will definitely appear, but it will not always maintain a full posture. After all, if it is fully staffed, it is a standing army of 1 million, plus the corresponding auxiliary troops, at least to maintain a total strength of 3 million, the burden of finances cannot be sustained, and it is not a matter for so many people to stop production for a long time.

The communist lieutenant came to Qindi to lead the army to help in the war, and he knew very well that it was an opportunity for meritorious service given by the object of allegiance, so that he could justifiably serve as the general of a certain corps in the future.

"At such a juncture...... "the co-captain looked puzzled: "They made such a request...... Is it appropriate? ”

Although there is no scientific and technological content, but the cavalry of the Han army relies on stirrups and horseshoes to maintain combat effectiveness for a long time.

Obviously, the army in the north of the Qin State still maintains a high combat effectiveness. However, after Xu Yan of the Central Plains Army began to resist the orders of the Xianyang Center, the army loyal to Fusu was left with only the Great Wall Army in the hands of Meng Tian.

Fusu only has the Great Wall Army in his hands, and the national strength of the Qin State has also declined again with the old Qin people ignoring the orders of the Xianyang Center, and the current Qin State is not only dependent on the Han State in terms of military strength, but also depends on the Han State in terms of materials and finances, and at the moment when nearly 300,000 Xiongnu, Qi, and Yan allied troops are approaching Xianyang, can't they see the general trend?

"Zhonglang (general)," Li Liang got out of the tent and quickly caught up with the lieutenant: "The commander of the Hun cavalry who detoured to the west is Mao Dun." ”

The lieutenant didn't stop: "It's Maudun." The tone is also a bit strict.

Maudun's fame was not known before. The Huaxia side still knew from the mouths of some captives that the Xiongnu had such a prince. Mao Dun was once sent to the Yue clan as a hostage, and he was very unpopular with the Xiongnu Shan Yu Touman, and this information was also learned from the captured Hu people one after another.

The Xiongnu went south, and the name Mao Dun was known to the Qin army for the first time. It was on the battlefield south of Yinshan Mountain, Mao Dun took 10,000 cavalry on a detour, and easily defeated a 30,000-strong Qin army's foot soldiers.

Since then, Maudon has been active on the battlefield. There were no major battles before and after, but he led the cavalry to constantly harass and cut the battlefield, and the trouble he brought to the Qin army was simply impressive.

The Han army did not go north to enter the Qin region to help in the war. Meng Tian was disturbed by the wandering cavalry of Mao Dun, and paid a great price to lure the cavalry led by Mao Dun into the ambush area, but the ambush was only to bite off the small tail of the cavalry led by Mao Dun, not to mention that the Qin army failed to successfully encircle and annihilate the thousands of cavalry of Mao Dun, and the statistics after the war were less than 1,000 heads.

Mao Dun had a keen sense of war, and his command of the cavalry seemed to imitate the Han army, but under his leadership, the Hun cavalry was far more slippery than the Han army.

The combat mode of the Han cavalry also has a hard-hitting mode of the Chinese ethnic group, how is the Hun cavalry led by Mao Dun slippery? It was the decisiveness of Maudun who did not hesitate to take most of the cavalry away from the battlefield once he sensed that the situation was unfavorable, even if he left a part of the cavalry to die!

There was another thing that impressed the Qin army even more, that is, Mao Dun dared to fight with the soldiers of the enemy and us, and then gave the order to cover the arrow rain. And the order to shoot arrows together regardless of whether they are enemies or enemies may be because Mao Dun felt that the Qin army killed was a little more than the Hun soldiers.

The Han army also fought against Maudun, but only once. That time was a surprise attack by the cavalry led by Mao Dun on the way to the Han army, but fortunately, the Han army's long-term "obsession" with the array allowed them to maintain their position even in a marching posture. When discovering that there were unknown cavalry approaching, the Han army paused, and Mao Dun only sent a thousand cavalry to probe, and found that the Han army was not in a chaotic formation and had strong bows and crossbows when it was charged by the cavalry.

The person who commanded that operation was Li Liang, and he had specially reported to the lieutenant later.

Li Liang still remembered that the lieutenant had commented on Mao Dun at that time, saying that Mao Dun was a wolf-like person and a person who was very sensitive to the rhythm of war.

The Qin army was jealous of Mao Dun, and what Li Liang wanted to say now was that Meng Tian and other Qin army generals might not be trying to do anything, such as mastering the secrets of stirrups and horseshoes to deal with the Han army, but they were forced by Mao Dun's roundabout to have that kind of inappropriate behavior.

"You see, the Central Plains Army has leaned towards the king, and the old Qin people have also written a letter of allegiance to serve the king." Li Liang thought with a face: "The Qin army led by Wang Ben even accepted the king's order to join the Zhao army led by Sima Ang, and waited for us to liberate the army on the Qi side and rushed to the Yinshan area to fight, and the situation was completely favorable to us......"

How could the lieutenant not understand? The Han king LΓΌ Zhe was surprisingly generous, and had already made it clear that as long as Fusu and other Qin civil and military forces were willing to accept the conditions to merge into a large empire, then there was no need to use swords to fight, and as long as they were smart, they would not have any malicious thoughts.

The actual conditions are also like that, no matter how you look at it, the Qin State is divided by itself, from the national strength, military strength, and territory, all of them show that as long as Lu Zhe is willing, then the Qin State will at most struggle and will die, and they also accept Lu Zhe's willingness to merge and form a great empire, now is it time to work together to annihilate the Xiongnu, is it necessary to do something else that will obviously make people suspicious?

"What do you mean is that Meng Tian is really worried that the logistics line will be cut off, and then he will threaten Xianyang again, forcing Meng Tian to divide his troops to ensure the logistics line and ensure the safety of Xianyang while also dividing his forces to ensure the safety of Xianyang?" The co-lieutenant asked.

Li Liang kept nodding: "Prince Qin has transferred most of the Qin troops who are willing to accept orders to the front line of Dingyang to maintain the defensive line, and Xianyang only has 50,000 defenders left. That ......" wanted to laugh and held back: "The Qin State is unstable internally, and the people's hearts are also in chaos, if Mao Dun really leads his troops to approach Xianyang, is it possible that there will be a riot because of panic, and then there will be an accident that leads to the fall of Xianyang?" ”

Seem...... It seems like...... Possible...... Qin Guo, no, is the situation facing Fusu really terrible? And this is also because Fusu has no prestige relationship between the people and the military?

If you go farther, there will be such a situation that is extremely troublesome to Fusu, isn't it the bitter fruit of the First Emperor himself? Prestige needs to be managed, but unfortunately Fusu has never had the kind of conditions that can form prestige or gain prestige, and the result is that the first emperor goes, and then Fusu does not have enough majesty, except for the Montessori lineage, the other factions of the Qin State do not take Fusu seriously.

"Without the permission of the king, I do not have enough authority to reveal the secrets of the stirrups and horseshoes to the Qin army." There is a reason for Gongwei's politeness to Li Liang, after all, Li Liang is Lu Zhe's sworn brother no matter how he says, and it is not surprising that he will have a good future. Therefore, the lieutenant always had a smile when he spoke: "Looking at the map of the mountains and rivers, there is a lot of room for the cavalry of Maoton to make a detour, but there is a key point that must be passed if you want to form a detour. ”

"What Zhonglang (general) means is that the Qin army does not have a large-scale heavy infantry formation that can withstand the cavalry, and our army has?" Li Liang fell into some kind of thought, and his eyes lit up as if he thought of something: "We can ask the Qin army to assist in the necessary carriages and horses, rush to the point where the cavalry led by Mao Dun must pass, and block the cavalry of Mao Dun?" ”

The lieutenant laughed for a long time, and after stopping, he grimaced: "Since the general understands the intention, then it is up to you to negotiate with the Qin army." ”

Li Liang saluted and responded, "No!" He stopped where he was and waited for the lieutenant and his colleagues to walk away, shook his head to think of a statement, and then walked slowly towards Meng Tian's big tent. (To be continued......)