There are not many opportunities in the world to make a choice willingly, and quite a lot of choices are a kind of helplessness, and the choices faced in war are more out of necessity.

At the time of the war, under the unfavorable conditions of the war, it was already a situation where it was impossible to see anything clearly, and it was not a matter of judgment at all to run where to go, and it was the norm to panic and cover your head to run around.

What Lu Zhe talked about for Han Xin are basically some classic battles, and the history of military warfare will only record classic battles, but the reason why a certain battle has become a classic is enough to show that it is not so easy to fight, and classic battles are often not carefully planned, and the coincidences in them actually account for the majority. Therefore, from the moment the military chess deduction appeared, the Western war chess had dice to represent the uncertain factors to determine luck, and the East used some brands as the fate that would occur.

How many classics are there in human history? It is more of a hard regret to fight, so after the outbreak of war between countries, it is basically only possible to rely on national strength and manpower to determine the most basic war normal, and at the same time, the production of famous generals is basically forced out, that is, the weak side has to find ways to rely on certain strategies to equalize the obvious disadvantage, because it is rare to be praised, and most of them are defeated tragic heroes as a curtain call.

Han Xin may not understand so much for a while, just as he doesn't understand why the enemy would run to such a dead place in the valley.

The length of the valley is about a mile, and the slopes on both sides are covered with dense vegetation and trees, and the most strange thing is that there are unusually many rocks in the valley.

It is common sense that it is rare to have a large number of stones on the grassland, which is also the reason why it is difficult to build a city on the grassland, and as for why there are so few stones on the grassland, the reason is complicated.

Out of the valley, a thousand men paused to reorganize their formation, dispersed in the valley to prevent possible ambushes, and when they arrived outside the valley, they should maintain a relatively strict formation and march.

At the other end of the valley, it was a flat place. And if Zhong Liyi and Han Xin are not mistaken, at a glance, the flat terrain is basically grassland vegetation, and there are almost no large forests, and some are also some low bushes that are relatively scattered.

"You can see the flatness at the end of the earth!" Zhong Liyi pointed to a distant place: "That direction is the camp, right?" ”

Han Xin looked at the people in sheepskin jackets who were not far away, and beckoned to them.

At present, every Han army that moves on the grassland, as long as it reaches a certain level, will have the Hu people as guides, these Hu people will not be from the same tribe, and the guides are as much as possible to arrange two groups of Hu people from more than two hostile tribes together, which is naturally to avoid the Han army being brought into the swamp and other dead ends as much as possible.

Don't think that the grassland is very peaceful, and each tribe is friendly to each other. In fact, there is no peace in the grassland at all, and the tribes often kill each other in order to compete for pastures, and the living environment is far more cruel than that of the ethnic groups living in the land of China.

The Hu people who were greeted over introduced the situation ahead with a "twow-wow-wow" introduction, while Zhong Liyi and the other officers needed to wait patiently for the interpreter.

It is not very professional to say that it is a translation, and many times it is necessary to repeatedly verify it before you can guess the approximate meaning.

In fact, to be honest, there are more than one or two languages in China, and each region has a set of dialects, and many times even the accent of the same language is different. It's a hassle to communicate with your own people.

There is no shortage of people from the north in the Han army, but after looking for a long time, there are many Qin people and Zhao people who border the grassland border, but there are not many people who can speak the Hu language. What about the other thing. The Hu people do not have only one language, they also have the same linguistic differences as the Chinese, such as the difference in pronunciation and slang words.

"Wait, if there is no translation error. They mean that the front is all flat grassland. They didn't count the words and couldn't tell how much of such terrain was covered. ”

What is this, Zhong Liyi really wants to pat his head!

But it's okay. Knowing that the terrain near them was indeed flat grassland, they were able to walk in a straight line and reach the camp of the Han and Zhao joint garrisons without any detours.

"Han Xin, check Sinan, compare the map, don't deviate."

"No."

Sinan is a kind of simple compass made by Lu Zhe, as long as there is an iron needle rubbed to generate magnetism, and then placed in a bowl-shaped container, the end of the iron needle that is rubbed with magnetism will slowly swing to the direction of the south.

"That thing may not be reliable, remember to prepare a few more sets to repeat it."

"Got it, Wait."

Indeed, after all, it is a simple way to make zuò, and it is a handmade iron needle rubbing against a magnet, and God knows if there is any difference in the process of making zuò.

Several tests were carried out in a row, and most of them pointed in the same direction, then the direction of the march was confirmed.

Sinan was originally prepared by Lu Zhe to give the navy a nautical application, and the army went north to enter the grassland to equip by the way, after all, in many things, the grassland and the sea face the same situation, and there is no obvious landmark to identify the direction.

The walk was about three miles, because the terrain was flat, and Zhong Liyi and his party could already see the camp with smoke from a distance.

"That is, the nearby enemy troops have not been cleared, otherwise this large-scale burning smoke is not extremely revealing itself?"

"Is there a difference? You can find a camp if you can see the smoke, even if you don't have the smoke, you can find the camp on this flat terrain. ”

"Huh? Ha ha! That's right! ”

Zhong Liyi smiled heartlessly, but Han Xin on the other side was thinking about how the combat methods on the grassland would be different from those in the mainland.

Once you see the other party on the flat grassland, then the other party must have discovered you, and there is almost no possibility of an ambush, so that the means of engagement in the Huaxia region are not so applicable in the grassland.

"Fortunately, we have a large number of cavalry," Han Xin pointed out: "If the infantry army comes to fight in the grassland, unless the enemy army is willing to engage in battle, it is impossible for the infantry to catch up with the Hu people who have the high-speed mobility of war horses." ”

"Yes, even if it is the same cavalry, the battlefield is too large and too wide, and the roundabout area of the fight will be unimaginably large," Zhong Liyi sighed: "Once there is a slight mistake, the enemy army seizes the opportunity to break away, and then it depends on the speed and endurance of the galloping horses of the war horses on both sides." ”

As they spoke, the camp in the distance began to sound the horn of "Woo-woo-woo-woo-", and then about a hundred rode out of the camp.

Zhong Liyi's department, which was approaching the camp, naturally sounded the horn in response, and then entered the camp under the guidance of the cavalry who came out of the camp to avoid the trap.

"You also want to set up a permanent martial city here, right?" Stopping the war horse, Zhong Liyi, who turned over and dismounted, asked questions to the garrison soldiers who came up.

The person who came to greet him was a soldier of the Zhao army in a purple battle robe, and the person next to him was an officer of the Han army.

The officer of the Han army was a tun commander, and he was also the highest-ranking officer in the Han army in this camp.

Zhong Liyi's accent was Wu Chu's, and the military officer of Zhao State obviously didn't understand.

A rugged-looking burly man spoke with a relatively soft accent, and the soft Wu Chu accent changed his tone because he wanted to express his boldness, which has to be said to be really strange.

This is not to blame Zhong Liyi, in fact, the accents of the Chu people are so soft, so even if a strong warrior speaks with a Wu Chu accent, he obviously looks very fierce, but as soon as he speaks, he is a bad dish, and he can't be brave.

Have you ever seen that the communication between the Chinese ethnic groups still needs to rely on translation? This situation was not at all surprising before the popularization of a universal language, Zhong Liyi's words were translated by Han Xin, and then Han Xin translated the words of Zhao Junjun Marquis to Zhong Liyi.

It is true that a martial city is going to be established here, but whether it can become a permanent base depends on whether there is a need for it.

This area is a key point connecting the east, and the nearby valleys are in the east and south directions, and the valley where Zhong Liyi walked is only one of them, and there are three other valleys, one that is longer than the one they walked through and the terrain is also in the east, and the other two valleys that are about two miles long are in the south.

"It's really necessary!" Zhong Liyi's basic military knowledge is not a lot at all: "Holding zhì here is equivalent to having a lookout outpost, and there is a stream within three miles nearby that can provide a water source, which is a good base for combining advance and vigilance." ”

Zhong Liyi said very reasonably, but it also exposed that he did not understand the characteristics of the grassland, the water system on the grassland is not fixed, especially the small water system such as the stream is often changed lanes, maybe the stream water near here will be gone when the next season changes.

In addition, the four valleys near the place are not because of mountains or anything, in fact, they are related to the basins of some regions, to put it bluntly, there are mountains near the Hetao, but because of the altitude relationship of the nature of the large area, even if there are mountains, they are small hills, and the valley must be formed because of the low terrain there.

So far, there are not too many people who really understand the topography of the Hetao area, and they can only wreak havoc on this territory when most of the Hu people are going south.

"We're only going to stay here for one night, and we're going to continue tomorrow morning." Zhong Liyi thanked the military marquis of Zhao Jun, turned his head and said to Han Xin: "Sima of the other department, arrange for the soldiers to eat, and also supervise the soldiers to rest early." (To be continued......)