Chapter 315: Changes (Part II)
Lu Zhe used the most unexpected way to kill directly into Huizhang County from the water path, and Xiang Liang couldn't guess why Lu Zhe was willing to take a big risk from the very beginning. If it's just to form a flanking attack, then it's enough to select a general, why bother Lu Zhe to lead it?
The momentum of the flanking attack was formed, and Lu Zhe's headquarters was only thirty miles away from Xiang Liang's headquarters at one time, and it was the moment of the battle between Xiang Liang and Huan Chu. At that time, Xiang Liang set up a deployment to wait for Lu Zhe to attack the back road, but Lu Zhe unexpectedly did not come, but led the army to continue to attack the counties of Huizhang County.
If he did not go to flank the attack, it can be explained that Lu Zhe noticed that Xiang Liang had set up an ambush, and it can also be seen that Lu Zhe was borrowing Xiang Liang's hand to eliminate Huan Chu's troops.
Xiang Liang was more inclined to Lu Zhe afterwards to let Huan Chu withdraw from the southern chess game in advance, so he did not lead the army to come. The subsequent development of events is also very similar, especially when Lujiang County gets follow-up reinforcements later, Xiang Liang in order to prevent Lu Zhe from obtaining a Lujiang with a large number of people, and also to kill chickens and monkeys to make an example of all kinds of things in Lujiang County.
And it seems that Xiang Liang thought about it carefully, since the beginning of Lu Zhe's entry into Huizhang County, what he put on was a posture of cutting off the back road of the Chu army, and then it slowly evolved into a bait posture. Obviously, Lü Zhe's bait plan succeeded, and Xiang Liang wanted to encircle and annihilate Lü Zhe in Huizhang County, not only letting the Chu army in Surabaya County go south, but also pulling out the newly recruited recruit troops in Huiji County.
I don't know when Xiang Liang felt that he had been led by Lu Zhe all the time? For a war that will consume a lot of national strength, it is not a good phenomenon to be led by the nose.
"Could it be that Lu Zhe wants me to mobilize more troops? The reason why I didn't make contact with my main forces was to destroy the armies that were converging on the battlefield one by one!? Xiang Liang thought this guess was too amazing!
The Chu army of Surabaya County moved south, and the recruits of Huiji County were transferred, and Xiang Liang suddenly found that he had too many troops involved in this battle, and almost all the troops of the Chu State were pulled out.
"The scattered garrisons of Huizhang County have lost nearly 30,000 before and after, and they have lost another 90,000 when attacking Huan Chu......" Xiang Liang opened his mouth suddenly, "There are no more than 120,000, and there are no 120,000 in less than a month!" ”
There are only three counties in the state of Chu now. According to the statistics of the Qin State, the total population of Surabaya County, Huizhang County, and Huiji County together is more than 3.4 million people. Unlike Huizhang County and Huiji County, Surabaya County was not controlled by the Xiang clan without turmoil, and the population of Surabaya County would definitely be lost in the turmoil of the war. Huizhang County is wreaking havoc with Lu Zhe, being plundered and killed, and the population will definitely be reduced.
Xiang Liang didn't know what the correct number of people under the rule of Chu was, but there were no 120,000 young people in a short period of time, if it was enough for a country to face the situation of collapse during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, how could he not be surprised and heartbroken when he woke up?
Now it seems to have become a kind of big contention again, and the countries have been restored one after another, and they see that it is about to become a big situation where only Qin is strong. Whoever is young and strong means that there is a sufficient supply of soldiers. The loss of 120,000 young people for a time is a big loss, which may make the next competition face a lack of stamina.
In fact, whether it is Xiang Liang or other newly restored countries, they have not yet thought of destroying Qin, and they are striving to restore the pattern of the Warring States, and it is precisely because of this idea that they deceive each other and do not do their best to support the relatively dangerous Zhao State.
Xiang Liang can expect that if the war continues, there will definitely be losses, and he is worried that he will lose too much in the future competition. For a while, I regretted that I had competed with Lu Zhe too early.
Once there are bad thoughts, they will always think of more, and Xiang Liang, who began to feel that something was wrong, did not think that Lu Zhe was a stupid person. Even if Lu Zhe is really a fool, he should treat Lu Zhe as an extremely smart person. so as not to turn into a stupid guy himself.
It's not an afterthought, it's purely that Xiang Liang is afraid in his heart, Lu Zhe uses a posture to give people a posture of pinching back and forth, but it is not normal to pinch without hitting itself. Later, he risked his life to become a bait, which is even more abnormal.
"Yes, it must be taking advantage of my desire to get rid of him!"
That said, though. But things haven't developed to a certain point, and who can deduce the ins and outs of the future before it happens? Usually only after something has happened, when there is a pulse to be found, will the clues be detected, and Xiang Liang is obviously the case now.
Danyang is very important, everyone can see this, so it is impossible for Lu Zhe to negligently leave only 10,000 garrisons in such an important position, so it is deliberately attracting the troops that Xiang Liang may send.
"Where's his back?"
Is it Lu Zhe's headquarters? No, Xiang Liang is very sure that it is not, if so, how to explain it has been forming a kind of if-and-leave, until it is close to Danyang eighty miles before suddenly accelerating.
Xiang Liang looked at Gong Ao, who was still boasting to Xiang Bo over there, and thought, "Gong Ao of Hengshan County? I have already divided the relationship between Lu Zhe and the co-captain, does Lu Zhe dare to let the co-captain continue to lead the army? ”
As long as any superior person feels that there is a possibility of betrayal by his subordinates, even if the possibility is negligible, it is impossible for the superior to let him lead the army again, right?
However, that ploy only fermented after Lu Zhe went deep into Huizhang County, and it is not ruled out that Lu Zhe could not react at all after hearing the rumors spreading, so it depended on what the co-lieutenant wanted to do.
"Will the Lieutenant rebel? Can you rebel? Constantly asking himself, Xiang Liang still insisted that the communist lieutenant would not do anything, if the communist lieutenant was really so easy to rebel and succeed, Lu Zhe would not be able to go this far.
In Xiang Liang's thoughts, the lieutenant had only two choices, either to really rebel, or to leave the troops and go to Lu Zhe alone to explain. But no matter how you look at it, whether the communist commander leads the army or not is only likely to temporarily paralyze Lu Zhe's army, not let that army collapse on its own.
"The necklace is in danger!"
It's not that it's dangerous, but that Xiang Zhu's department has collapsed, and only 20,000 of the 120,000 troops fled to Huiji County, and the rest were either captured by Mei Kai in the countryside or fled on their own.
The commander of the unified army is most afraid of falling into the dead circle of his own ideas, and he is most afraid that the coach will not make adjustments even if he knows that something is wrong.
"Bai!" Xiang Liang, who was startled by himself in a cold sweat, called Xiang Bo loudly. Waiting for Xiang Bo to come over, he asked, "How many troops did Lu Zhe bring to fight against the southbound Qin army?" ”
Xiang Bo seemed to be a little stunned, he saw that his brother didn't know why he was sweating profusely, and his heart was also suddenly, he thought about it carefully, and replied: "There are about 200,000 troops that have been mobilized. ”
"Two hundred thousand?" Xiang Liang's eyelids jumped: "Do you know how much Lu Zhe consumed in the battle with the Qin army?" ”
After Fan Zeng's death, Xiang wasted a lot of effort to restore the previous intelligence system by Xiang Bo, and Xiang Bo's trip to Lujiang was not entirely for Huan Chu, but also to restore the connection between the nearby fù and the previously lurking chess pieces in Nanjun.
At the beginning of the Qin army's southward movement, the overall situation was quite unfavorable to Lu Zhe at that time, and the Xiang family's chess pieces lurking in Nanjun were more diligent in contacting Xiang Bo. Later, I don't know what the relationship is, at least Xiang Bo doesn't know, Nanjun's chess pieces are actually very strange and suddenly cut off contact for a period of time one after another, and then at a certain point again. Because of the suddenness, Xiang Bo naturally sensed that something was wrong, but the news that came later was confirmed to be true, and he forgot about it.
"Most of the chess pieces under Lu Zhe are not of high status, and they can't access the core secrets, and the information collected from all sides, Lu Zhe's loss should be between 80,000 and 100,000." Uncle Xiang honestly said what he knew. Of course, that number jù is not correct.
"Huh?" Xiang Liang felt that it was wrong, before the Qin army went south, the total number of Lu Zhe troops he knew was about 190,000, even if Lu Zhe recruited another 80,000 later, it would be 270,000. Now that he has obtained the information, there are 130,000 Lu Zhejun in Cangwu County, and more than 150,000 have appeared on the battlefield, and this number cannot be correct.
How could Hengshan County and Nanjun have about 100,000 garrisons, did Lu Zhe really dare to transfer all of them to participate in the war? Xiang Liang did not dare to say that the army was empty in the stable rule of Huizhang County and Huiji County, and Lu Zhe had ruled the counties under his rule for less than a year, and Xiang Liang did not believe that Lu Zhe dared to empty the army.
"Second brother, what ...... you ask this?" Xiang Bo was a little afraid of the ominous expression on Xiang Liang's face.
"190,000, 410,000, the difference between this number is too big, how did Lu Zhe have more than half of his troops out of thin air?" Xiang Liang's face became worse and worse, he felt as if he had been wrong from the beginning, not only did he make a mistake in calculating Lu Zhe's total strength, but he also miscalculated Lu Zhe's boldness, and he didn't expect that Lu Zhe would either not come, and it would be unprecedented and reckless when he came. He murmured: "The situation in the world has not been clear, how can he dare to fight to the death?" Isn't this self-destructing the Great Wall? Isn't he afraid that after the great loss of strength, the Qin State or the Shandong States will send troops to fight!? ”
"Second brother?" Xiang Bo felt very bad, very bad, Xiang Liang's mental state was too amazing.
Xiang Liang turned his head to look at Xiang Bo suddenly: "Bai, you take someone to go to Yu'er quickly," Speaking of this, he called out loudly to Xiang Le, who was not far away, and when the others came, he said, "Le, I have something important to entrust to you!" ”
Xiang Le also saw the difference in Xiang Liang's mental state, and he hurriedly got closer.
After a burst of whispering, Xiang Liang's expression was stern, and Xiang Le's expression became more severe the more he listened.
Xiang Quan, Gong Ao and others, who gradually came over, also found that the atmosphere here was strange, and they felt as if something big had happened.
"Le understands, he will not live up to his brother's trust!" Xiang Le was unusually cautious, almost gritting his teeth and clenching his fists.
Gong Ao was very blind, he was not a member of the Xiang family, and others should not have asked if they were secretive, but he asked out loud.
No one paid attention to Gong Ao, Xiang Liang whispered to his brothers one by one, and the Xiang brothers also rode out one by one, making Gong Ao, who felt embarrassed by being left out in the cold, unhappy for a while.
"My son is a soldier in his hand, and he is about to make a great contribution to Da Chu, and they are so contemptuous of me?!" Gongao's dream continues. (To be continued......)