In fact, the Qin army also has a heavy infantry system, but it does not pay attention to this branch of the army with full protection and slow mobility, and in the process of building its troops, it is a small-scale elite samurai temporary arm.

For example, it is not enough for the heavy infantry to have a strong source of troops, so it is necessary to develop suitable armor, study the corresponding tactics, and then match it with suitable training, so that the arms can be formed. In addition to the formation, the necessary drills and confrontations must also be carried out, and there is a running-in process before the army can be regarded as a success. Forming an army is often only the starting point of the birth of a branch of the army, and if you want to make the branch of the army a normal class, you need to go through the test of the battlefield, and only after the test will you find out whether the branch is worth retaining.

What era is it? It was 215 B.C. Even if there is the "foundation" of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so far many arms are still in a stage of exploration, such as the Qin army's real yàn against the heavy infantry is one of them.

The Han army has completely eliminated the spearmen, but the spearmen, crossbowmen, Pu sword soldiers, sword wielders, heavy infantry, and of course cavalry, some of these troops have been there for a long time, and some of them were formed and trained by Lu Zhe through the "plug-in".

There are many types of troops formed by Lu Zhe, and the arms that the Han army still retains are considered suitable for the era, and they can be matched with the rest of the troops to stay, in fact, in addition to the existing arms of the Han army, there are not a few troops that have been formed and eliminated, such as the shield short spear soldier This one was eliminated.

That's right, all kinds of troops are to consider whether they can complement or cooperate with other arms, and it is not that the soldiers are equipped with corresponding armor and weapons, even if they are any arms, they must be systematically trained, and coordination between the arms is even more indispensable, and at least 500 large-scale confrontations have been held in four years through a large number of exercises.

"Huh?" Meng Tian was a little surprised and a little surprised: "Your army requests to be transferred to the Luoshui line in Diaoyin (twenty miles south of modern Ganquan)?" ”

Li Liang maintained a saluting posture: "Exactly." ”

"Indeed, Diaoyin is sixty miles west of Dingyang, because the east and west banks are separated from each other because of the relationship between Luoshui. At the present time, the Xiongnu's Maudun army could not cross Luoshui, and if they wanted to make a detour, they could only take the line of carving yin. Zhang Han stood in front of the map of mountains and rivers and looked at a certain area intently: "It's just ......" said and turned to face Li Liang: "There is the main point that the Hun cavalry will pass through, your army is an infantry army, and the enemy army is a cavalry, can you arrive and fortify before they pass?" ”

Li Liang lifted his salute posture and said, "General Meng and General Zhang, the line east of Diaoyin is the rear flank of Dingyang, didn't the Qin army deploy the necessary troops there to fortify?" ”

Zhang Han glanced at Meng Tian, and after receiving his signal, he said, "Naturally, there is a fortification. It's just that the terrain there is flat, and without a large corps to organize a defensive line, it is difficult to hold the plain that is more than 20 miles wide. ”

Yes? The width of that place is actually more than 20 miles long? Li Liang really didn't notice this, and the lieutenants must not know this, after all, they are not from Qin, and they can look at the map to distinguish the terrain and key roads, but their understanding of the actual situation will inevitably be negligent.

More than 20 miles, and it is all flat land, it really needs a large corps to be able to arrange a decent line of defense. And now, where do Meng Tian have extra troops in his hands? If they hadn't been forced to do anything, they wouldn't have turned their brains to testing the secrets of the Han cavalry.

Li Liang was stunned. On the other side, Meng Tian and Zhang Han looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

The army in the north is only 370,000 even if the Han army is added, and what they need is to hold a front of nearly thirty miles.

The reality is that at least 60,000 of the 300,000 troops in Meng Tian's hands are women. The Qin army really didn't have extra troops to protect the rear flank, and the 50,000 guards in Xianyang couldn't move, so he kept asking for help from the rear, and the reply given by Fusu was that the troops could not be mobilized.

"We have about 30,000 solo horses. There was a difference of 20,000 between the number and the Maudun legion. Zhang Han didn't use the word cavalry, in fact, in addition to the cavalry of the Han army, the Hu people of the Huns can only be regarded as riding alone. He walked over to the sand table, picked up a long stick, and pointed at an area: "They're here." The stick in his hand moved a short distance to the north side: "The 50,000 cavalry led by Maudon is here." ”

Li Liang looked at the sand table, the distance between the Qin cavalry and the Hun cavalry was twenty miles, and the Hun cavalry was in the area north of Gaonu (modern Yan'an).

Gao Nu is about seventy miles away from Diaoyin, and if you really want to catch up with the speed of the cavalry, it will take a day, no wonder when Li Liang said that the Han army could set up a defense line on the front line of Diaoyin just now, Meng Tian and Zhang Han's expressions were so strange.

How so? The Han army was an infantry army, and it took sixty miles to walk from Dingyang to Diaoyin. The foot soldiers marched sixty miles quickly, and when they walked fast, they should be exhausted when the army arrived, and how much combat effectiveness can be maintained by fighting with an exhausted army? Walk slowly...... By the time Maudun arrived, he had already crossed the main road and disappeared, so what was the point of going.

The tent was quiet for a while, and Meng Tian suddenly asked Li Liang: "The Han army went to the front line of Diaoyin, do you have the certainty of guarding the main road?" ”

If Meng Tian and Zhang Han hadn't reminded that there was a flat land with a width of more than 20 miles, Li Liang could still answer that he could hold it, but with more than 60,000 Han troops who wanted to hold the width of more than 20 miles, he was still facing high-speed and mobile cavalry, so he couldn't open his eyes and talk nonsense.

"What if 30,000 people ride a horse together?" Meng Tian asked again.

Obviously, the commanders in the north of the Qin army were really worried about the collapse of the front due to the cutting off of the rear route, and were thinking of all the means available to try to stabilize the battle situation.

Meng Tianhui had already expressed that if the Han army was sure that it could block the 50,000 cavalry in Maotun, he would let the 30,000 Qin troops ride alone and drag the Hun cavalry as much as possible, creating an opportunity for the Han army to go and arrange.

Can the Han army be more brave and good at fighting than the Qin army? In some respects, the current Han army is more belligerent than the Qin army, and its equipment and morale are better than and higher than the Qin army. In addition, from the point of view of the source of soldiers, the Han army is also better than the Qin army, which is mobilized to the age of thirteen, up to forty or fifty years old, and even women.

Regarding the fact that the Han army is currently stronger than the Qin army, Meng Tian and other Qin army generals are very aware of it, and they were originally interested in trying to let the Han army go to the rear flank to ensure the battle line.

However, there are many aspects that are always full of complexity, the most important thing is that the Han army is not the Qin army, Meng Tian cannot command the Han army like he commands the Qin army, and Meng Tian, as the commander, also has doubts about whether the army can fight to the death when the battle situation is unfavorable. He needs to know what the Han army thinks, and he also hopes to get a guarantee from the communist lieutenant, but why is the Han army here to help in the war, he can't treat the communist lieutenant like he treats the generals of the Qin army, right?

"Liang needs to go and negotiate with Nakaro (will)." Li Liang saluted a little awkwardly, and then withdrew from the big tent.

Waiting for Li Liang to leave, Meng Tian kept shaking his head, walking a few steps back and forth, stopping and smiling bitterly at Zhang Han: "The Han army has a high sense of war and guaranteed combat effectiveness, but sometimes it seems too arrogant and arrogant. ”

Zhang Han was also smiling bitterly, he agreed with Meng Tian that the Han army had a strong sense of war, which was the appearance of the Han army in the previous battle between Shangjun and Taiyuan County.

The Han army came to Qin to help in the war, it was a guest army, and it was normal for it to be more negative, but as soon as the Han army came, it took the initiative to go to the front line of the war, and it really threw itself into the battle against the Hu people.

Meng Tian said that the pride and arrogance of the Han army were also justified, and the Han army could fight, but it seemed to lack a sense of fear of the cruelty of war and awe of the unknown. It's like this time, the generals of the Han army don't understand the terrain of the Diaoyin line at all, and they want to use more than 60,000 infantry troops to defend.

"A maximum of 50,000 troops can be dispatched, together with 30,000 single horsemen and 60,000 Han troops, and the total strength of the rear flank can reach 140,000, but for a front 350 miles wide, 140,000 people are still too weak." Zhang Han frowned, his eyes kept scanning the sand table.

Meng Tian bowed: "At most, those troops can be drawn, and no matter how many frontal battlefields there are, they can't be maintained." ”

"What choice will the communist general make, you say?" Zhang Han's face was strict: "Actually...... It is best to let the Han army stay where it is, and we send troops back to Xianyang. ”

Meng Tian didn't know anything about this, but the Han army was helping the war, and everything could only be done in a consultative tone, and it was not a relationship between superiors and subordinates at all.

The two exchanged views on the development of the war for a while, and were discussing what would happen if Xianyang encountered the situation of soldiers approaching the city, and someone outside the tent was loudly asking for instructions to enter.

The person who came in was wearing a red robe and five small flags on his back, and he was the envoy of the Han Kingdom.

Meng Tian saw that the Hongling envoy of the Han Kingdom did not react a little, the Hongling envoy should go to the lieutenant, why did he come to his side?

"There is already a robe Ze who has gone to Zhonglang (General), and his job is to follow the king's order to come and ask General Meng to see him." The Hongling envoy said and made a gesture of handing out the wooden box: "My king sent a letter to General Meng, please check." ”

Meng Tian took the wooden box and checked the sealing wax on it, nodded to Hongling urgently, and signaled that the sealing wax of the wooden box was completed.

Waiting for Hongling to retreat, Zhang Han didn't mean to lean on the past, there are reasons for lack of outsiders here, after all, there are too many people from the Qin State who are close to Han Wangzhe, God knows what is written in the content of the letter sent by Han Wangzhe to send an urgent letter to Meng Tian, he is still not curious. (To be continued......)