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Returning to the flame and Kaqi: It's not that the combat power of the army formed later is equal to the orthodox Qin army, but the opponents encountered are different, and the combat effectiveness cannot be judged by organized fighting or unorganized.

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Lu Zhe has been paying attention to the dynamics of the surrounding counties, and it is not arrogant to send only 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliary soldiers to attack, but Deng Zong's entire attention is on Anfeng's Qin army, and there are not many troops left in places such as Yi County in the rear. There is another thing, he also realized that it is impossible for the army to train elites only without actual combat, and the matter of cultivating generals under his command is also imminent.

The cultivation of an army is not simple, and it goes through a process of running-in. The troops who initially understand what it means to carry out orders and prohibitions, their next training is combat skills, so that the soldiers know how to use the weapons in their hands, and the next step is to drill the military formation.

The Qin army attached great importance to the military formation, and the army that could not be arrayed could not be called qualified, and it often took a very long process for an army to get an order to immediately form a formation.

Now is an extraordinary period, the population and depth of Nanjun are at a disadvantage, and there will not be much time for Lu Zhe to train the troops with peace of mind. In his mind, the terrain in the south is mostly mountains and forests, and there is almost no environment for fighting in formations, and the training of troops is mainly based on tactical squads of ten, fifty, and hundred.

In the south, if you want to have a large-scale battle, you need to have a rare opportunity, for example, in Namgun, you can only have a battle in the plain between Yineung and Gangneung, and other places simply cannot accommodate the hundreds of thousands of troops of the two sides. And once an army of more than 100,000 people cannot be accommodated, can such a battle still be called a battle?

It was a bit difficult for the southern geography to conduct large-scale battles in the plains, as can be seen from the previous cases of the Qin army invading Lingnan without success, and the Baiyue people did not engage in a battle with the Qin army at all.

The Baiyue people used the terrain to wander and sneak attack, and the territory occupied by the Qin army was larger under this tactic. The more serious the threat to the food routes. At the same time, the Qin army also faced a dilemma, the territory occupied without garrison is equivalent to not occupying, and the allocation of garrisons will suffer from never-ending sneak attacks, some losses may be acceptable, and the annoying sneak attack is the most fatal. No one can be mentally stressed all the time, can they?

Lu Zhe checked the case file left by Nanjun about the first invasion of the Qin army in the south, and saw a lot of battle examples, any motive of the Qin army to try to fight a battle was defeated, and the Baiyue people seemed to know their disadvantage as long as the Qin army advanced on a large scale and entered the deep mountains and old forests to avoid the battle.

Without a decisive battle, it will be a long and protracted war, and I don't know when it will be fought. Infiltration warfare will become a kind of mainstream, and this kind of war will not only be extremely long and consume a lot of materials, which Lu Zhe does not want to see.

Worried that he was about to fall into the quagmire of war with Baiyue, Lu Zhe had no doubt that the troops of Nanjun, who had been caught in a long battle, would be transferred to the south all the time, which would make the forces in the county weak.

The surroundings of Nanjun are not a stable environment, once Nanjun's troops become empty, it will be a piece of fragrant bun for those rebels who are short of food, and everyone will want to take a bite.

It has become imperative to find a target to stand up, in fact, even if Sha Xian is not attacked. Lu Zhe will also create some incidents to find someone to operate,

Most of the plundering from Qianzhong County has been brought back to Nanjun, and the thirteen new granaries in Gangneung have been filled, and more grain will be brought back from Qianzhong County in the future. There is food in your hand, and you don't panic in your heart, so you should move.

The other counties in the south are in chaos, and only the internal construction of the south county is stable, not to mention what will happen to the south after the completion of those large and small projects. If more than 3,000 acres of land are reclaimed, the prosperity of Nanjun will surely rise several steps.

In addition to the plains between Yiling and Jiangling, several counties such as Wu County, Pin County, Yidao County, Zuoyunmeng County, Youyunmeng County, and Linfu County are also planning. It is estimated that it can add about 30,000 acres of land to Nanjun.

If these acres are really developed by Lu Zhe, although they cannot be compared with the grain production of the vast plains of Guanzhong and Shuzhong, Nanjun will become a large grain-producing county on the Yangtze River.

What does development depend on? In this day and age, it would be laughed to death when it was said that business would be laughed at, but it would definitely be widely accepted to say that it relied on sufficient food. With sufficient food, the rate of human reproduction will increase exponentially, and with sufficient labor force can all kinds of construction be invested.

Furthermore, what is the war fought? To put it bluntly, it's grain and grass!

He said to Xu Zhi: "I was originally worried that the morale was not enough, but now I see the cart of grain coming, and then look at the excitement on the faces of the soldiers because of the abundance of food and grass, and I know that we will win this battle." ”

Hearing this, Xu Zhi thought in his heart: "The scout reported that there are only 10,000 rebels in Yixian County, and in the past few days, our army has built the necessary siege equipment, and there is enough grain and grass to stabilize the morale of the army, if it will be defeated, it will be the responsibility of the commander of the army!" ”

Both of them are from the orthodox Qin army, although the official rank is not high, but the number of siege battles they have experienced is a lot, they are no strangers to siege warfare, and there are craftsmen sent by Lu Zhe to build equipment, it can be said that the revenge against the rebels in Hengshan County has not yet begun to appear full of confidence.

"It's a pity, there are only 2,000 archers, if there are tens of thousands......" Yi Kane said that every time the Qin army attacked a city, it would definitely use the advantage of bows and arrows to deter the defenders.

In the battle of Handan, the Qin army sent more than 3 million arrows to Handan City, and every burst of fire would empty a wall, and after a few arrows, the entire city wall section became like a hedgehog, and the scene looked extremely shocking.

Xu Zhi said slowly: "Most of the counties give priority to the development of melee soldiers, and it seems that the county lords of the long-range combat arms are ......."

Yi Kane knew that Nanjun was developed from one empty and two white, and it would take a process to think that the orthodox Qin army would have absolute advantage from the bow and arrow. However, he didn't understand that Nanjun had been engaged in those never-before-seen troops for the past two months, and suspected that Lu Zhe didn't pay much attention to crossbowmen, so he made a statement.

Where is the lack of development of crossbow soldiers, but Nanjun does not have a mature crossbow manufacturing technique, and the range of some imitation crossbow machines is far less than that of the orthodox Qin crossbow, and the immature development of the technique is a waste of resources, and Lu Zhe also feels that the jungle environment in the south cannot exert the power of long-range troops. Of course, there will be a focus on the development of melee soldiers.

"Not only the crossbowmen, but the county lord doesn't seem to pay much attention to the spearmen, and his mental strength is mainly in the jumping soldiers and vine armor soldiers...... And the one called Mo Knife Hand. "Yoshikane has never seen these classes in actual combat, and it is normal to distrust the arms that have not been in actual combat.

Shaxian is seventy miles away from Yi County, and there is a Han River in the middle, so it is difficult to cross without corresponding preparations.

The next day, the materials specially transferred from Qianzhong County to build the pontoon bridge and the corresponding auxiliary troops arrived, and the 30,000 troops finally set off from Shaxian.

The dispatch of the army has always been mighty, and the intention of Nanjun to concentrate troops in Shaxian has been well known under Lu Zhe's deliberate propaganda, as the target of the upcoming attack, Deng Zong immediately withdrew his troops from Anfeng after learning the news. The intention is to return to Fangyi County urgently, but it will obviously take some time to rush back.

Under Deng Zong's order, the 10,000 defenders of Yi County could not hold on, and they were urgently reinforcing the city defenses, and it became the norm to force strong Ding, and the number of such defenders increased from 10,000 to 30,000 in a short period of time.

Yi Jian and Xu Zhizhi, who were always paying attention to the movements of Yi County, said that the increase in the defenders of Yi County was not only not in a hurry but relaxed, they knew too well that the army did not rely on numbers, and the temporary strengthening of the strong Ding before the war would not only not increase the combat effectiveness, but would make the ranks chaotic.

The reason why an army is an army. It is that it has a perfect structure, there are linked classes at all levels, and there is a mature set of military discipline that can restrain the soldiers, and it is not that people are together to be an army.

On the first day, the army of Nanjun traveled fifty miles. Yi Kane made a move according to the scout's return, and asked Xu Zhi to lead 2,000 archers and 10,000 auxiliaries to continue to advance, and ordered to arrive at the Hanshui River to build a pontoon bridge overnight, while the rest of the troops stayed in a plain twenty miles away from Yi County.

Xu Zhi led his troops to Hanshui, and it was already approaching evening. He personally inspected the location where the scouts reported that it was suitable to build a pontoon bridge, and waited for the scouts who had crossed the river earlier to report that no enemy troops were found around, and then ordered the spears, armed with 3,000 auxiliaries, to cross the river.

It took some time to transport the soldiers back and forth by boat. By the time all the 3,000 soldiers had come ashore, it was already three quarters of the night.

The crossing of the river by these 3,000 auxiliaries was actually a temptation, and after all of them had passed, they were already cutting down trees to build a barracks, so it was confirmed that the scouts were spying on the army, and there were indeed no enemy troops around.

"A rabble is a rabble, and it shrinks all its forces to hold on." There is a reason why Xu Zhi looks down on the rebels in Yi County, who will give up the opportunity to attack halfway through with a little military knowledge?

In fact, it was a rebel army in Yixian County, who knew that the basic military was taken to Anfeng by Deng Zong, and the people who stayed behind were basically people from the villagers, otherwise they would not have been so blind as to attack the Qin army in Anfeng while attacking Nanjun, which had been standing still.

With the experience of building the Yangtze River, Lishui, and Yuanshui, it was not difficult for the auxiliary troops transferred from Qianzhong County to build the Hanshui, which was only less than 500 steps wide, not to mention that this section was carefully selected.

From about 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock in the morning, a pontoon bridge across the north and south banks has been preliminarily built.

After the so-called preliminary construction is completed, it is naturally impossible to walk the carriage, but there is no problem for people to walk at all.

The three-meter-wide pontoon bridge was completed, and the follow-up troops led by Yoshikane also arrived, almost as the first group of jumping soldiers crossed the river, and the scouts were returned in advance, and the city gates of Yixian were wide open, and about 10,000 rebels were rushing here.

According to the footsteps, the distance from the current location is only fifteen miles, so the rebels of Yixian County will arrive in about half an hour?

Xu Zhi and Yoshikan glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of mockery.

After a night of spies in Yixian County, they found that the Qin army appeared in the upstream position, and I don't know if the rebels had no combat experience or were too careless. If they were an orthodox Qin army, a rebel army like Yixian would be annihilated in the wilderness in one day, not to mention 10,000, even 20,000.

"The armor of the vine armor is strong and floating, and it can temporarily untie the armor and pull the rope to cross the river. Now is it time to let the archers or the swordsmen go first? "Yoshikan was not nervous at all because there were 10,000 rebels in Yi County.

Armor is very rare in the chaotic army, and Xu Zhi is naturally the archer.

In the sound of a horn, the troops who had crossed the river in advance received orders and began to prepare for battle, and 2,000 archers quickly crossed the river from the pontoon bridge, and those rattan armor soldiers untied the rattan armor as buoyancy and crossed the water really smoothly.

The riverbank was not suitable as a battlefield, so after crossing the river, Yoshikan checked the terrain and brought the troops to an open space about a mile away from the pontoon bridge, while Xu Zhi stayed behind to supervise the auxiliary troops to build a new pontoon bridge.

Counting the 3,000 auxiliaries who crossed the river last night and the jumping soldiers who just passed. There were already 6,000 troops on the south bank, and it was with these 6,000 men that Yoshikane planned to engage the enemy first, and then let the rattan armor soldiers and archers who crossed the river behind outflank the 10,000 rebels who had been completely annihilated.

The terrain of Hengshan County is actually similar to that of Nanjun, which is basically mountainous and forested, and there is even a mountain range of more than 200 miles in the county.

In this kind of terrain, it is impossible to see the enemy from a distance, so the enemy's movements need to be reported in the form of scout relays.

Yoshikane listened to the scout's report that "the enemy army is close to ten, nine, and eight miles ......" to go down, and when the scout reported that the enemy army had five miles left and turned around, Yoshikane, who was ready for battle, jumped directly to his feet.

There is a low mountain between the two places, and I think it was the enemy army on the high ground who saw that the Qin army was already lined up for battle and retreated?

Xu Zhi, who was crossing the river behind, heard the rebels in Yixian County turning around and running. said: "My headquarters has crossed the river, why don't you catch up and cover up for a while?" ”

Yoshikane looked at the topographic map, passed the low hill and was relatively flat, and nodded: "It's okay." He said and ordered to the herald next to him: "Order Shangxian to lead the headquarters to climb the mountain." Although the enemy army retreated, the necessary defense still had to be deployed, after all, there were still corresponding siege equipment behind the city that had not yet crossed the river.

Shangxian was a military marquis of the vine armor soldiers, and he was only a hundred generals before. In the battles against Guiyue, Ouyue, and Minyue, he was promoted to military marquis.

But then again, as long as there are people who are not dead among the 3,500 soldiers, the worst is now a hundred generals, and it is these people who are the backbone. Nanjun's army had a skeleton to build so quickly.

The 500 cavalry under the leadership of Xu Zhi directly chased up, and they bypassed the small low mountain and saw an enemy army retreating towards Yi County without any formation to speak of.

Previously, Xu Zhi was worried that it was the rebels who were in a suspicious formation, and he was a little cautious when he bypassed the low mountain. The terrain that was now a plain saw that the enemy army six miles ahead was in disarray, and there was no front, middle, or rear army, but they were just gathered together, and in an instant, the contempt in my heart reached a certain level.

The reason why the army is divided into the front army, the middle army, and the rear army is not for the sake of looking good, but because the troops need to be divided into levels. In the attack, the front army was in the vanguard. In many cases, the Chinese army and the rear army exist as reserves, and they can mobilize troops and put them into the required positions according to the battle situation. When retreating, the role of the rear army is to temporarily block the enemy in the event of an attack, so that other troops have time to react.

"Rush up," Xu Zhi pulled out the long sword at his waist, pointed at the enemy army in front of him who had no level to speak of, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

The rebels did not seem to have reserved the knowledge of scouts, and it was not until the sound of galloping horses' hooves that they discovered that the Qin army had caught up.

Finding that the cavalry of the Qin army was coming, the 10,000 rebels rushed to shout one by one.

In this noisy environment, it has become a luxury for the people who lead the troops to issue any orders, and the entire 10,000 rebels can't do anything at the moment except shouting.

The scramble should not have been described as shouting, but the 10,000 rebels did not react except shouting and stopping in place.

Xu Zhi, who was galloping, immediately frowned when he saw the enemy staying in place, he only had five hundred cavalry, and he was only suitable for chasing behind to cover up.

When approaching Sili, Xu Zhi did not issue an order to urge the war horse to accelerate, and the enemy troops were crowded together to let the cavalry charge into battle or something, but they were looking for death. Just as he was contemplating a roundabout turn or retreat, the 10,000 rebels were stunned.

The 10,000 rebels were frightened by the sudden appearance of the Qin cavalry, and instinctively stopped and watched. As the Qin cavalry got closer and closer, the panic in their hearts became stronger. Before they could figure out what to do, they found that the banner of the Qin army was floating on the low hill not far away, and they immediately recovered from the horror, and subconsciously felt that the small number of cavalry chasing was the vanguard, and more Qin troops would be killed later. One was the first to break away from the group and run, followed by more people who ran with their legs, and 10,000 people fled in all directions like heavenly maidens.

Xu Zhi has fought an old battle for several years, and it is not unheard of to see a more ridiculous scene than this. He saw the enemy troops in front of him shouting like headless flies, and immediately ordered the cavalry to speed up.

It was a battle that had nothing to describe, nothing more than cavalry chasing after and slaughtering, the process of which was that the cavalry caught up with a sword or thorn from behind, or drove the horse to crash or step on it.

Waiting for the troops sent by Yoshikane to arrive at the battlefield, he saw the corpses stretching forward, and chased a short section of the cavalry that had turned around, and the horses of these cavalry were covered with bloody heads on both sides.

"The number of enemy troops entering the city will not exceed two thousand, and the rest will either die or flee." Xu Zhi's face was a little red, and the five hundred cavalry defeated the 10,000 enemy troops, and said that it was a very long face: "If the rebels in each county are like this......

Yi and cut off: "The elite of the rebels in Hengshan County have all been transferred to attack Anfeng, and they must not be underestimated. But in fact, he looked down on the rebels very much in his heart.

Xu Zhi was a little disapproving: "Deng Zong has an army of 100,000, and the Anfeng defenders, who are besieging only 10,000 and have no city walls, have not been able to enter for more than two months, so it can be seen that there are just a lot of people and combat power...... Hehe! ”

They concluded that the defenders of Yixian County would not dare to go out of the city to fight again, and after deliberation, it was decided that Yijian would lead 3,000 jumping soldiers, 2,000 rattan armor soldiers, 1,000 archers, 1,000 spearmen, and 10,000 to the outskirts of Yixian County to deter the enemy, and Xu Zhi led 1,000 Mo swordsmen, 1,000 archers and the remaining auxiliaries to stay in place to guard the pontoon bridge.

When Yoshikane came to the outskirts of Yi County, it was a low city wall at a glance, the height of the wall was no more than four meters, and judging from the different colors of the rammed earth on the wall, it was obvious that it was raised by the rebels.

"Vulnerable rebels, low city walls......" Yoshikane mocked contemptuously, and when he turned his head to look at the troops under his command, he was about to laugh out loud, and seemed to think of something The smile froze on his face: "Vulnerable? That's right! The rebels are so vulnerable, wouldn't it be easy to recover the Central Plains, Nanjun really has two years? (To be continued......)

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Returning to the flame and Kaqi: It's not that the combat power of the army formed later is equal to the orthodox Qin army, but the opponents encountered are different, and the combat effectiveness cannot be judged by organized fighting or unorganized.