"This is the desert?"

"Don't ask me, it's the first time I've seen anything like this."

This is a slightly high dirt slope on the north bank of the Yellow River, from where you can see through the rushing water of the Yellow River, you can see a yellow scene dozens of miles away, no one knows what the name is, but it is a desert area with a width of at least twenty or thirty miles.

The current water of the Yellow River is not a river with a huge amount of sand, as the mother river of the Chinese nation, its water looks extremely clear.

The Yellow River has a long history of turbidity, which is generally explained because Guanzhong created too many dynasties, and the establishment of a dynasty must be to build palaces with tall buildings, no matter what dynasty it is, it has carried out large-scale felling of trees in the upper reaches of the Yellow River to cause soil erosion. In addition, it has always been a place where soldiers must fight for Guanzhong, and countless wars are also because of the construction of too many things, and the war is full of fire at every turn, and the destruction of the forest can be imagined.

At present, the area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River is still well preserved, the desertification zone is not so strict, whether it is on the banks or in the extended section, there are still a large number of forests, and the non-forest areas are mostly covered by grass vegetation, so that the ecological environment is not so bad.

The Fifth Cavalry Regiment rested in the camp in the clouds for half a month, and only after receiving an order from the king did they continue to march westward, and they had been walking for about ten days.

There was absolutely no problem in marching in the Heshuo area, walking fifty miles a day at the speed of cavalry, and it stands to reason that they should have arrived in the fertile field a long time ago, right? But it's one thing to look straight on a map, it's another thing to actually march, and never expect to walk in a straight line on the way forward, and don't expect the actual march to be judged by the imaginary time.

Even in modern times, once a road is a little distance, it is impossible to form a straight line, and the road is always winding. It's 215 B.C., and there are too many places that are primitive. The terrain is in some respects far more complex than modern times with developed transportation.

Therefore, if you see someone who travels more than 100 miles a day from historical texts, even if it is a 100-mile journey on horseback, it is considered to be watching a romance story, after all, the ancients have always been insensitive to numbers, and they like to exaggerate very much, such as "flying down 3,000 feet" or "10,000 tall buildings rise from the ground", which is just a decorative description. Otherwise, even a modern one foot has 33.33333333 centimeters, and 10,000 feet is 3,333.3333333 meters, is there such a waterfall in the Chinese region of Asia? Thousands of high-rise buildings...... That's a building of at least 10,000 meters or more, what kind of building should it be!

Walk for ten days. According to the distance, it is considered to have traveled about 500 miles, but in fact, the straight-line distance of the Fifth Cavalry Corps from the clouds to the fertile field has been shortened by nearly 250 miles, and it is not known how many miles it will have to walk in the actual distance.

Standing on the landform of Jiuyuan, at a glance, there are not many small soil slopes, and there are more forests and flat grasslands that can be seen, and some yellow areas under a piece of green are more conspicuous, or Zhong Liyi would not have looked at it for a while, and Han Xin was also very interested.

Today's wind is not strong, and you can't see the yellow sand being blown by the strong wind. In fact, it has to be really windy enough. The area where the wind blows the yellow sand will not be too wide, unless it is too rare to encounter a rare opportunity, otherwise it will be difficult for them to see the wind moving through the desert.

As in the past, Han Shin's formation, the 11th Cavalry Division, was assigned as the vanguard division. Shen Tujia's school is a vanguard of 5,000 people, and at the same time, Zhong Liyi's song is used as the vanguard song of the 11th Cavalry Division.

More than 1,000 people have long been accustomed to such tasks, anyway, since Han Xin belonged to them, the hardest and most tiring task was done by them. In this regard, there are many people who think that Han Xin is a drag on people, but there must be a lot of credit for being a pioneer for a long time, and most officers are promoted. No one has any problem with Han Shin anymore.

It's also true, when you enter the army and become a martial artist to fight with your life, who doesn't fight for a good future? It is not a matter of suffering and being tired, as long as there are more opportunities for meritorious service, it is too late to rejoice, who will dislike the many opportunities for meritorious service.

"All the way has been plowed by the vanguard corps, and not a single shadow of the enemy can be seen, this kind of pure march is really boring!" Zhong Liyi took off the water bag from his waist and drank it for a while, and pointed to the location in the west direction: "There are a lot of slopes over there, some areas are forests, and the scouts sent to explore the way have found the area where the Pioneer Legion has walked, but it is a small valley with a bulge on both sides, and there is news that the Pioneer Legion has fought an ambush battle like that, and it seems that it has eliminated more than 2,000 people, and the scouts have indeed found some traces of the battlefield in the valley." ”

The vanguard army that Zhong Liyi said was naturally the First Cavalry Regiment and Wang Ben's department, and he said that the slopes and forest terrain are also the most common terrain in the Hetao area at present, but the terrain such as valleys is rare.

What's weird? It was when Han Xin could often hear Lu Zhe recount the actual battle examples, and he attached great importance to the terrain of the valley, and in the history of military warfare, the valley in a certain combat area must be the most prone to ambush and ambush.

Han Xin didn't know that the history of military wars that Lu Zhe was talking about was about some "wars" that had not yet happened, and he didn't know if some of what Lu Zhe talked about was from novels. Now as soon as he heard that there were traces of war in some valley ahead, his interest immediately soared.

"Is this necessary? We'll go over when we're waiting for the follow-up troops to enter the position, so there's no need to go out of your way to see it now, right? Zhong Liyi would not understand why Han Xin was so interested when he heard that there was a war in the valley.

Han Xin thought about it too, so he couldn't wait to go to the field to check it out. As for reminding Zhong Liyi to send people to strictly guard the valley, or sending scouts to the other side of the valley to reconnoitre, those have already been arranged, and if they were deployed when the matter is approaching, then the Han army would have been ambushed thousands of times and eight hundred times.

In fact, the surrounding Hu tribes were basically cleaned up by the Han army, and there were countless Han army ranger squads in the Hetao area. Once a tribe of more than a few hundred people is discovered, those rangers will contact the surrounding Han army, either because they are also fellow rangers, or they can contact the friendly troops on the road, gather the corresponding manpower and rush towards the newly discovered Hu tribe.

Now it is almost impossible to discover the Hu tribe that was not aware of it before, unless there is a new Hu tribe moving south, and it must be a new Hu tribe that is going south and does not know that there is a Han army near the contract, otherwise who will come to send people's heads?

Before waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops, Zhong Liyi's Qu had already eaten dry food, meat and other food, and the war horses had also been fed with fodder and water.

The remaining 4,000 people from the same school came, and Zhong Liyi briefly reported the situation to Shen Tujia, and then asked the herald to blow the horn to continue the march, and then went away with the sound of horses' hooves.

Shen Tujia looked at Han Xin a lot of time deliberately, and he thought curiously: "Looking at what seems to be impatient, what aroused his interest?" ”

"There's a valley ahead, and the vanguard army once ambushed a Hu man there." A soldier who could see Shen Tujia's doubts could tell the answer.

Shen Tujia was just curious, and he smiled and did whatever he wanted.

Frankly speaking, who in the entire Fifth Cavalry Regiment didn't pay attention to Han Shin? After all, Han Xin was the apprentice of their allegiance, and in addition to the king's bloodline heirs, the younger generation belonged to Han Xin and their king the closest.

There is no need for unfounded rumors, which of the senior generals does not know that Lu Zhe has the intention to cultivate Han Xin, and when the generals of the older generation are in decline in the future, Han Xin will definitely be the main general of the Han army, which is already doomed.

The senior generals knew Lu Zhe's expectations for Han Xin, they were actually happy to see it, and many military arrangements were naturally deliberately added to Han Xin's burden, and at the same time, they were not without selfishness, they were kind when they got along with Han Xin, and they would not let go of being able to install juniors or favorite officers in the clan under Han Xin's Tong system, after all, Han Xin's future prospects are limitless, and it is an excellent thing to be able to hitchhike.

Will anyone have any opinions? Of course, some people think that Han Xin's "gold content" is too low, but more people know that even if Han Xin's rapid development is really due to his merits, although he was taken care of because of his special status, he was not promoted for no reason, after all, after the battle, the enemy army would not resist because of Han Xin's special identity and let him be killed lightly, Han Xin was in the same environment as his comrades when he was fighting.

"There is a camp fifteen miles ahead of us, and among the 2,250 garrisons there, since 2,000 soldiers belong to the Zhao army, only one tun and 250 people are our troops."

"Oh? Immediately, there will be no distinction between Zhao Jun and our army, and they will all be called the Imperial Army in the future, but the sequence and number are different. ”

"I mean, from the arrangement of the Zhao army as the main force in the station, it can be seen that this area has really been cleared, and it is more difficult to encounter the Hu tribe."

"Isn't that bad? Arrive at the fertile field safely and wait for the fight. ”

As he spoke, a thousand cavalry slowly crossed the valley in a scattered formation, and the valley was not actually a straight road as expected, and the valley was not even a flat terrain, and the forest part was cut down into a road about two feet wide.

"This kind of terrain is indeed suitable for ambushes," Han Xin scanned the environment of the valley and said slowly, "But ...... How desperate must you be to run into such a place? (To be continued......)