It was not surprising that Meng Tian had defeated the enemy forces in his way in less than three days, and victory was a matter of time before any army with strong organization and sufficient supplies faced with a group of enemy forces that were not even well organized internally.

"It's not easy to annihilate them all, but to do the simplest defeat, as long as you show the strongest side, that's enough."

Meng Tian just led a prepared army from all sides to defeat a group of rabble, the whole process was simple and outrageous, the army was a frontal advance, encountered the enemy was covered by a premeditated advancing chain of arrows, with endless arrow feathers covering the sky and destroying the morale of the enemy army, followed by cavalry pressing on it.

"If the enemy is not willing to accept defeat, then repeat the last move."

Zhang Liang was completely stunned, the war he understood should not be like this, it should be a confrontation full of all kinds of wisdom, uncontrollable accidents, and then a bloody battle to achieve the final victory.

Although Meng Tian's previous understanding of war was different from Zhang Liang's, it was basically the same, but after realizing that he had misunderstood the combat methods of the Han army, he had a new perspective and no longer understood war as a complicated thing.

In the final analysis, there are only three types of war, the first is controllable war, the second is uncontrollable war, and the third is fog war.

A controllable war is not complicated, because it takes place under a violent confrontation that has a pulse to follow, and the side has made full preparations and plans in terms of troops, consumable logistics, army organization, logistical replenishment in the later stage, and expected operational objectives.

An uncontrollable war is a bit more complicated, not only is it not fully prepared for it, but the enemy army is not much better. Under the premise that both sides are not fully prepared, the key to determining the outcome of the war lies in the strength of the generals to carry out the commander's orders, and also depends on whether the rear can ensure logistics and supplies. Which side of the manager is wise and has plenty of luck. The soldiers can complete more tasks entrusted by the boss, and the material delivery from the rear can also keep up, which side will win the final victory.

Fog wars rarely happen, they are the kind of wars in which you don't know what enemy you are facing, how many enemies there are, where they are coming from, and what direction the enemy will attack from, and you don't know anything.

Meng Tian was facing a controllable war, they had already prepared for the war before the war, and on the premise of having multiple advantages, they only set the goal of the battle to defeat the enemy army. It's like a game master has played a game through countless times, and when he re-played, he only chose the simplest mode, and naturally he passed the level without any problems.

"If the combat goal is to completely annihilate the enemy army," Zhang Liang, who came back to his senses, didn't know what was wrong, as if he had an inexplicable resistance mentality: "What does the general think will happen?" ”

"Annihilation of the enemy?" Meng Tian knew Zhang Liang's hostility to the Qin State, and even more knew that Zhang Liang was a kind of literary and young criminals who belonged to the literati, so he hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Does Changshi think that we should completely annihilate the enemy army?" ”

Do you need it? If Meng Tian was facing an enemy army led by Touman, the answer would be yes.

Do you need it? Meng Tian was facing a patchwork of enemy troops, and Touman was not there. The elite of the Huns was not there, and when it came to completing more important operations, the answer was - no.

Yes, there's just no need to waste time with a bunch of messy guys. Use the most effective and cleanest way to achieve the goal, and defeat it directly.

Realizing the tactics of the Han army, Meng Tian was only helpless in his heart at that moment. It was a way of warfare in which the rear decided the front, and as long as the rear could continuously provide a steady stream of qualified troops and sufficient supplies, even a defeat would be nothing. The final victory in the war is nothing more than a matter of great or small losses.

"It's changed, everything has changed, according to the king, the final result of the compulsory military system is to form a qualified 'assembly line', soldiers are like weapons produced from the assembly line, and the country's production plays the role of arming soldiers," Meng Tian doesn't care whether Zhang Liang understands it or not, and whether Zhang Liang is listening or not: "Work hard to give birth, have a larger population, constantly train soldiers, constantly arm, and then have officers in military academies, unless there is something internal disintegration or the supreme power loses interest, Otherwise, no one can stop the expansion of the empire. ”

Lu Zhe, who owns the Yangtze River basin and the south of the Yangtze River, was already laying out when he had the above-mentioned chassis, and obtaining the Central Plains, Liaodong, and Qin was just to make the scope of the layout wider, just like what he hoped and worked hard, and the most fulfilling thing to achieve was not to become the emperor of the world, but to open up more living space for the ethnic group.

Lu Zhe has worked hard and laid out for ten years, and a set of existing cycles has been slowly forming, but the person who Lu Zhe didn't expect the most was that the person who discovered this would be Meng Tian who was far away on the front line in the north, and the reason why Meng Tian found out was because of a reflection on the normal combat situation of the Han army.

"What the king is thinking about now, it is estimated that he is thinking about how to ensure that the internal is not disintegrated...... Meng Tian ended his self-talk, compared to Zhang Liang, who was dazed when he heard it, his eyes had an inexplicable firmness: "It's really caught up with an incredible era!" ”

Most of the time, Zhang Liang was in a state of confusion, but it was very strange that he actually understood Meng Tian's last emotion, and he thought in his heart: "General Meng has found a reason to follow and fight for it." ”

Three days, only three days to defeat the enemy forces in the way, followed by a one-day delay due to the necessary rest, and then Meng Tian simply divided the cavalry of the first colonel to the west to pursue the routs who fled faster than rabbits, and the rest of the troops marched straight in the direction of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment.

It was probably the day when Meng Tian rested, and after thinking that there was no hope of defeating Meng Tian, Touman led his army in the direction of Woye.

The final destination of the Hu army heading north was not the fertile wilderness, just like one of Meng Tian's guesses, the ultimate goal was the desert that could be easily walked out, and they wanted to avoid the pursuit of the Han army from here and finally return to the grassland, but unfortunately they were at least forty miles away from their final destination when they received bad news......

"What? Discover the existence of Han army scouts?! When Touman heard the news, it was like hearing a thunderclap: "Is it the Han army over there, or the ......", subconsciously asked, and stopped by himself halfway through speaking. I was stunned for a while. His face turned a little blue: "We are still more than one hundred and eighty miles away from Woye, it can't be the Han army on the other side of Woye, then Meng Tian sent troops to intercept it in advance." ”

What do the Hu people hate most about fighting against the armies of the Huaxia ethnic group? It is not that the Huaxia ethnic group is leading in many technologies, but that some generals of the Chinese ethnic group seem to have the ability to foresee, and they can always guess in advance what the Hu people want to do, and then arrange the first move or conspiracy.

"It can't be revealed on purpose, right?" I don't know who muttered something in a low voice.

Touman probably thought about this possibility as well, but he quickly vetoed it.

Mao Dun wants to become the new Shan Yu, but Mao Dun can only defeat or kill Touman with his own hands, and he can't rely on borrowing a knife to kill his competitors, otherwise even if the previous Shan Yu dies. The steppe people, including the Xiongnu themselves, would not obey the new Shan Yu at all. This is the law of competition on the steppe, and it is also the nature of the steppe people who are accustomed to obeying and following the strong, they worship the strong, not the conspirators.

"We ......" He Sui Kui Nie didn't see who was talking just now, if he knew that he would cut off the person who said that kind of thing at this moment. He suggested to Touman: "Maybe we should travel light? ”

Tou Man hesitated, he didn't know how many Han troops were blocking the road in front of him, and he didn't know if the Han army knew what they wanted to do. It wasn't that he didn't think about abandoning anything that hindered the speed of the march and moving quickly, and if he was slightly entangled in a light rush, he could leave some troops behind, but he was worried that once the Han army realized their purpose. Because of the limited supplies he carried, he could not fight for a long time, and he could only be destroyed.

He Sui Kui Nie saw Tou Man's hesitation, gritted his teeth and asked, "Shan Yu, even if we are fighting the Han army head-on." Will you be able to win the eventual victory? ”

It was the final victory, not a question of whether he could get a victory, Touman didn't want to deceive himself, he didn't see any hope of victory in this battle. Even if they can defeat the Han army once or twice, as long as they can't break through to the grassland, they are not considered victorious, and they are trapped outside the grassland and defeat the Han army once and continue to face the Han army. In the end, even consumption will be consumed.

"I've decided!" Since being trapped in the south, Touman has never been so resolute as he is now: "Abandon anything that can be discarded, go to the intended location as fast as possible, and we will cross the desert and return home, back to the blue sky and white cloud meadow, the land that belongs to us!" ”

There was a silence at first, then a sudden burst of cheers, the cheers of the generals and the leaders of the tribes were heard, and the words of the head man were also conveyed, and then the cheers spread to the whole army, and the cheers gradually became two words, then "Go home".

Cattle and sheep that were still carried were slaughtered on the spot in large quantities, and many people cut off the thighs of slaughtered animals and tied them to both sides of the horses, and all limbs except the thighs were discarded everywhere, and the blood of the slaughtered animals was collected as much as possible.

The blood of animals is not packed in the leather bag to be drunk as a backup water, and the fresh blood pressure root does not have the effect of quenching thirst, but drinking blood will cause thirst, after all, the salt content of blood is very high, and anyone who thinks that blood can quench thirst is absolutely stupid, just like thinking that sea water can quench thirst. According to their experience, the food after the blood has been boiled is very nutritious, and because it is packed in a leather bag, it is easy to carry, so you can eat it when you want to eat it.

Some of the Hu people were also discarding the treasures or cloth and other things they had stolen from the land of Zhao or Qin, and these people understood their situation at a glance, and they knew very well what they were going to face.

More of the Hu people looked strangely at the loot they had so hard to loot, and they watched with incomprehensible eyes, but no one came out to explain.

There are also those who look at those who discard the spoils of war with the eyes of fools, and do they not know that when their demeanor is discovered, those who discard the spoils of war look back with the eyes of the dead.

"Squart, didn't you say you were going to exchange those things for cattle and sheep when you returned? How to throw it away. ”

“……”

"We are from the same tribe, my wife is your uncle's daughter, don't you want to tell me why?"

The Hu man, who was called Squbal, was rudely tugging at the chest of his uncle's daughter's husband, and just when the onlookers thought the two were going to make a move, it became a whisper of Squart's voice.

Next, Hu Ren, who got the answer, first showed a surprised expression, then his surprise turned into doubt, and his suspicious expression finally turned into pain, and he also began to organize his things, except for the things he thought were necessary, and discarded all the things he thought were necessary.

On a small slope about two miles away from Touman's headquarters, several Han soldiers wearing irregular grass-green cloaks were watching the Hu army that suddenly stopped.

The so-called irregular grass green cloak is regarded as an alternative camouflage, its appearance is an inevitability, no matter how Lu Zhe is from modern times, how can he forget the camouflage color, but unfortunately the current process can not make camouflage, can only use the most rudimentary and primitive color adjustment, they are made to specially equip the scout class of scattered cavalry, which is also a product that has only recently appeared.

Both men and horses wear cloaks with natural background colors, so unless the horses suddenly neigh or the scattered cavalry jumps out to die, it is basically impossible to be discovered, and the Han army is equipped with a cloak with a rudimentary camouflage nature, and the losses will drop geometrically.

At this moment, there are not only scattered cavalry of the Han army lying on the ground motionless and observing, but also scattered cavalry crawling backwards. Those who were lying on the spot had to keep an eye on the movements of the Hu army, while the scattered cavalry moving backwards had to retreat to the other side of the slope and ride back to pay a farewell.

"Once again, they are slaughtering animals in large numbers, and they are even collecting their blood. There are usually only two situations when we collect livestock, one is to collect them in an alternative way before the winter, and the other is to travel long distances. ”

Please note that the Han army who spoke was using the word "we", and if you lifted the cloak covering his head, it would definitely look like a non-Chinese five-senses race, he was a Hu man from outside Yanmen, but now he was serving the Han army.

In fact, there are not many Hu people who are now serving the Han army, most of them are slave servants, and only a very small number of Hu people are absorbed into the Han army. Regardless of whether they were recruited into the Han army as a servant army, there was usually no resistance, but rather an almost immediate acceptance of a new identity, which the Chinese civilization called "those who know the times", and the steppe people regarded this behavior as the worship of the strong...... (To be continued......)