Chapter 102: The Southern Jungle

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The first chapter at eight o'clock in the morning on Monday was advanced to twelve o'clock tonight.

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Pre-war deduction is something that every person in charge of the army will inevitably do before starting a war, and although Lu Zhe has no experience in leading the army, he also knows this.

This will be his first time leading a battle, and there's no reason not to be nervous. After repeatedly deducing in his mind, he found that it was not intuitive, so he found a white cloth and called the scout, and began to draw the topographic map according to the description of the scout, and after repeating the correction and modification to confirm that it was correct, he stared at the topographic map all day long, and gestured on it with his hands.

It is common sense that the terrain in the south is mostly mountainous and forested, and it is difficult to achieve large-scale corps operations in such a natural environment. In fact, in almost the entire area covered by the primeval forest, there is basically no possibility of a battle of a communal nature.

The battle of hundreds of thousands of people is basically only suitable for carrying out in a wide area, and in the mountainous and forested terrain environment, it is only possible to rely on contact and fighting again and again to slowly grind out the results, and it is possible to solve the opponent at one time unless the command center of the hostile camp collapses, but this possibility is almost impossible.

Do Baiyue people have a so-called command center? Apparently not. Tu Sui wants to rely on the whole line to advance this strategy to invade, it cannot be said that this strategy is wrong, it is that the consumption of logistics by such a strategy has reached a number of days, and the current Great Qin obviously does not have such logistics strength in the south.

Logistics is one of the most effective ways to restrain the army, and Lu Zhe is currently also troubled by logistics, so that there is no way to implement the plan of sending troops.

According to the historical realistic war examples, in the planning, the defeat of a hundred Yue tribes of about 1,000 people only needs an equal number is enough, and it takes about 5,000 troops to annihilate, and the strength of the own side cannot be less than 10,000 if it is encircled and annihilated.

Lu Zhe thought about it, the first battle could not be fought too small, too big and not enough logistics to support, so he could only compromise.

Yiling's logistics staff are those old and weak women and children, they have made 4,000 short spears in a month, and the number of Teng Dun is 3,000, and the quality of the arrows is relatively high, but they can't do it if they want to, they can only rely on the support of Jiangling. Recently, they were arranged to make rice balls wrapped in banana leaves.

No one received an order to go to war, but making rice balls meant that the battle was about to go, and the old and weak women and children knew this very well.

Around the beginning of the rainy season in the south, Lu Zhe considered that the power of bows and arrows would decrease in rainy weather, so he simply stopped seeking supplies of arrows from Jiangling. After leaving twenty of his own soldiers to take care of Yiling's affairs and report to Gangneung, he disappeared into the depths of the forest with five thousand selected men and related supplies.

The first time he led his troops out was an exciting and apprehensive new journey for Lu Zhe, and in this mood, caution was the first plan to deal with any situation, so he did not choose any way to march in parallel, but to join forces in one place.

Walking in the forest, there is green everywhere you can see, and in addition to the sound of your companions trampling on plants, you can hear the chirping of strange animals and insects.

Unspoiled and unspoiled, there are many trees that require several people to hug each other, and their foliage is so dense that it can even be described as overwhelming.

In this environment, it is almost impossible to see the sky through the dense foliage of the sky when you look overhead, and the sunlight through the branches and leaves of the trees is not so strong that even the light of the forest in the middle of the day is still dim.

There are almost no gaps in the branches and leaves on the top, and the environment on the ground is even more complicated.

The forest floor is full of plants that can be called and cannot be called, and they occupy almost every space that can be occupied. There are some plants with longer leaves that almost all have one thing in common, which seems to be to grow towards the sky in order to be able to get the nutrients of the sun.

Plants that are cleared of the ground will not reveal dirt soil, but rotten mud. When a person's feet step on this kind of ground, they will sink a little, and the sound of walking becomes strange, as if they were walking in the mud.

The march in the forest is a very difficult thing for any army, because there is no such thing as a road, and the choice of direction is extremely dependent on the guidance of the scouts.

As mentioned earlier, Daqin used troops against Lingnan more than once, and the team led by this army was the soldiers who had experience in the forest march, and many of them had participated in the conquest of the Baiyue people more than once and survived, and it was also because of the existence of these people that Lu Zhe dared to send troops.

Lu Zhe was not at the forefront of the march, in fact, that was not what a leading commander should do.

For an army, the commander can not be brave, and it can even be said that there is no need to have too much strategy, as long as the commander can honestly stay in the safest place and issue orders that are not too wrong, and can prepare the corresponding materials before the battle, then the soldiers have nothing to complain about.

Lu Zhe, who crawled out from the grassroots level, of course knew what kind of army leader the soldiers needed when they were not familiar with each other. He also showed the appearance of an officer that the soldiers wanted to see, and there was no reason to play any maverick at all.

Shigeru was a scout, and he and his three companions were speeding through the green realm. The three of them are the leaders of the entire team, responsible for finding the way and marking the way, but also preventing one from colliding with the Baiyue people.

In fact, Mao, who was almost forty years old, was a scout in the Chu army before, and after the destruction of the Chu state, he was captured and once escorted to the north to become a member of the road construction army.

It may seem strange to say, but Mao knows Lu Zhe, and this understanding is not a traditional "understanding". It's that he didn't know such a person until Lu Zhe took over Yiling. Mao had met Lu Zhe as early as a year ago, it was at the junction of Shangjun and Neishi County in the north, and Lu Zhe was just a tun chief at that time.

The reason why Mao was able to recognize Lü Zhe a year later was entirely because Mao was sick during the rainy season in the north at that time, and Lü Zhe was the only officer in the Qin army who took prisoners of war from the Six Kingdoms to cut grass to make up for the leakage in the shack.

Of course, Lu Zhe didn't recognize Mao, so he didn't mention any special care, but this didn't prevent Mao from having a good impression of Lu Zhe.

Many of the southern Xinjiang refugee groups in Yiling were taken to the south from the road construction army, and in addition to Mao, there were many people who had an impression of Lu Zhe. They will naturally talk to others about Lu Zhe's deeds.

It is the existence of these people, after Lu Zhe took over Yiling, he did not make too much trouble without the pressure of the garrison, in fact, it is not entirely because Qingzhuang was centrally controlled, on the one hand, Lu Zhe's management method is indeed very fair, and a large part of it is the reason why these people spread Lu Zhe's original good deeds.

Lu Zhe, who planted trees and fruits, didn't know this at all, and he didn't need to know the Tao.