Chapter 642: Han Xin's Northern Expedition (I)

The weather in the south is not as hot in the summer as in the north, and if you have a thermometer, you can see that the outside temperature is only about 25 degrees.

The weather is very mild, coupled with the long song of summer cicadas and the birds crying between the forests, it is a great scenery to look at the past.

Shadows appeared in the distance, their speed seemed fast, and when they were nearer, the roar of horses' hooves resounded in the wilderness, and bands of horsemen galloped across the widened road.

The hundred cavalry led by Han Xin was naturally one of these cavalry, they had been ordered to march from Nanling as early as a month earlier, stopped at Shen in Chenjun for a short rest, and then continued to march northeast, and after a four-day trek, they finally approached Xiangxian where General Ji Bu was stationed less than ten miles.

No matter what direction the troops marched north, they would basically stop at Wei or the territory of Korea for a short period of time, and some people said that it was to knock on Wei and Korea, which had not been very peaceful recently, and more people did not agree with such a statement.

Wei and South Korea, whose land area has only increased once in four years, have each added enclaves within a radius of 100 li in the Lingnan region, and this is the reward for Wei and Han sending troops to participate in the elimination of the natives of Lingnan.

Almost five years have passed since the restoration of the country, Wei and Han have always maintained that half-dead situation, after all, the territory is small and the population is not much, and there is no corresponding potential to toss something, they rely on the protection of the Han State to get a stable life, and it is very questionable whether the loss of the Han State's protectorate Zuo can be kept, it should not be so irrational to provoke the Han State to be unhappy.

Of course, it's all random speculation, and no one knows what is going on, but there will be no wind in the air, and something must have happened to cause such a rumor.

After the state of Chu was destroyed by the Han, the state of Wei and Korea were indeed frightened. They had always believed that the Han state led by Lü Zhe had no intention of competing with other countries, and that the conquest with the Chu state was only due to the Xiang's repeated invasions and conspiracies. It should be the honor of the nations that will not be destroyed.

Wei and Korea are too stupid and naïve to think like that, aren't they? However, it was not without reason for them to think so, because the aggressiveness expressed by Lü Zhe at that time was only aimed at Yu Baiyue, if Lü Zhe wanted to expand his territory, not only Wei and Korea could be extinguished at any time, but after the first battle between Lü and Xiang in Huizhang County, Lü Zhe also had the ability to go straight to Huiji County to destroy Chu and did not do that. Once or twice is nothing, there have been many times when Lu Zhe has been able to annex Wei Han and destroy the weakened Chu State without much effort, but he has never done so, and the illusion has caused many people to miscalculate.

The demise of the Chu State was a wake-up call, and it finally made the Wei State and Korea see that Lu Zhe's hideousness was not only aimed at Baiyue. Of course, they will be afraid, so all kinds of small actions will not be avoidable.

In the face of a crisis, different people will make different choices, a considerable number of people will choose to tie up with the Han state in advance, and some people will choose to resist in advance, and the officials of Wei and South Korea will naturally divide themselves into two factions.

The Han State, which had to go north in advance because of the change in the situation, naturally would not tolerate Wei and Han getting in the way at this juncture, and it was natural to beat it if necessary, and also took out the original oath treaty, requiring Wei Han to send troops to follow the suzerain's northward war.

What kind of trouble inside Wei Han needs to be described at a long length. In view of the fact that these two countries do not have a significant influence on the general situation, there is really no need to describe them in detail, and can only briefly mention the result, that is, the armies of the two countries left behind the garrison to protect the royal capital. Basically, he had gone north with the Han army to participate in the war.

Han Xin and their cavalry were followed by 30,000 Han troops and 50,000 Wei troops, another 100,000 Han troops, and the rest were more than 200,000 people recruited by Wei and Han and more than 300,000 auxiliary soldiers from the Han side to escort the baggage.

Truth be told, the army is not just a matter of soldiers going out to fight. National warfare naturally requires soldiers to fight bravely, but it is also important to support national strength. The so-called national strength is actually quite complicated, including the subsequent source of troops. Sufficient supplies, all of which require manpower, are never too small in the scale of a national war to directly serve the war.

In the first stage of the Han army's northward march, the first and second legions in the Wehrmacht sequence had already gone north, and the auxiliary soldiers serving the 100,000 soldiers were 300,000.

Han Xin's so-called Fifth Army Corps sequence, the corps under the large structure of the National Defense Force is the cavalry corps, which has just been reorganized a month ago, and the first cavalry corps and the second mixed corps have been marching north early during their reorganization.

In fact, it should not be said that it is a local battle, it can only be said that it is the nature of some scout wars, and individual scout battles are because there are more people gathered by the Qi, Yan, and Zhao coalition armies, and the Han army naturally has to call for helpers, so the thousand-level battle broke out.

The war between Han and Qi, Yan and Zhao can not be called a war, it can only be said to be a local friction, so far Huaxia still pays attention to the declaration of war, and by extension, it is a war that is famous for the division, only after a certain king between the two sides writes a declaration of war and submits it to the king of a certain country, the two sides can be regarded as officially entering a state of war, and the scale of the war will be larger.

Looks naïve? Actually, it's not! This is because the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were many countries standing side by side, and countries always had to take care of face and pay attention to some credit...... Well, in fact, the movement of a large army can never be absolutely secretive, and the movement of a large army by a certain country is almost known by the surrounding countries, unless it is a country that is hopelessly dull, otherwise there is basically no possibility of a large-scale surprise war. Furthermore, now is not an era of self-consciousness, the division always needs a name, one is to give the soldiers a reason to fight hard, the other is to use that name to harvest the fruits of the labor of the domestic leaders, is to improve the morale of the army is also to accumulate materials, if the prelude to do is small, the lack of morale can be inspired, the lack of scraped materials will let the soldiers gnaw grass to fight?

Han Xin only entered the army after the age of sixteen, and was assigned to Minnan County as a garrison at the beginning, when he first entered the army, he was a small soldier, and he did not receive any too high treatment because of his special relationship with Lu Zhe.

The Han State of Minnan County has occupied it for four years, and there has been no war with the natives in the past four years, but the natives have hardly stopped attacking the Han garrison and the head of Qian, and the Han army has never stopped clearing the natives, killing each other and not knowing how many people are lying on that land.

Han Xin, who is familiar with the art of war, naturally has a lot of military knowledge, but because he has studied military books for a long time, he naturally does not have much time to practice martial arts, but there are more or less teenagers who exercise and practice martial arts. So to be honest, he is a very high theory, without practice, his own force value can be 60 is considered high.

Of course, Lu Zhe knew that Han Xin's force was not very good, if Han Xin had enough force value, Lu Zhe actually wanted Han Xin to go to the Southern Expeditionary Army, so that Han Xin could be trained in the relatively fierce battle of the Ou Kingdom battlefield.

Considering that Han Xin's three-legged cat kung fu is a bit difficult to deal with the regular army of Ou Yuguo, Lu Zhe can only follow the way of playing the game, and first throw Han Xin to a place with a relatively low difficulty value to exercise, after all, there are fewer and fewer remnants of Baiyue people in Minnan County, and they are about to return from the Stone Age to the Wood Age under the long-term slaughter, whoever puts on armor to face such an opponent, unless he doesn't want to live, otherwise it is really not so easy for a guy with sixty force values to cooperate with Pao Ze to die, What's more, Lu Zhe also secretly arranged two armor soldiers to protect him to protect Han Xin.

Han Xin's experience in Minnan County was just to adapt to military life, and he carried out some low-difficulty bloody battles, and he didn't have any opportunity to use the knowledge of the art of war he had learned, so for this child, although it was a good experience to repeatedly participate in the garrison's counterattack and encirclement of Baiyue, the garrison life in Minnan County was extremely boring and depressed.

It is simply that Han Xin did not ask for anything special because of his relationship with Lu Zhe, nor did he write to Lu Zhe to ask for any special treatment, otherwise Han Xin would probably be left by Lu Zhe in Minnan County until he was old, until he realized that there was no special shortcut in the army.

After Han Xin's military merits were accumulated and promoted, his days of hiding in the forest and fighting back and forth with savages were finally over, and the process of his transformation from soldier to chief took less than two months, among which Lu Zhe naturally arranged him in a relatively fierce fighting area to accumulate military merits, and the other part was also because his military knowledge was enough to have enough ability.

Han Xin, who became the chief, was transferred to the Dantu of Huiji County, a county seat adjacent to Donghai County of Qi State, and this time he became a chief of the waiting sequence.

Han and Qi were not enemies at that time, on the contrary, because Qi needed to support the relationship between Yan and Zhao, and the trade with Han was very frequent, it can be said that it was in a relative honeymoon period, but the intelligence reconnaissance on the border between the two sides was very frequent, and the scouts of the two countries encountered each other when they reconnoitred the terrain and did not fight for their lives.

After that, Han Xin, who had been a scout for about half a year, took advantage of systematic learning, repeatedly recorded the terrain rigorously, and painted topographic maps professionally, and because of the accumulation of merits, he was promoted from Shi Chang to Tun Chang, and was temporarily transferred to Wei to participate in a hunt for giant thieves, and used his knowledge and practice to complete the task very simply, and was finally qualified to be promoted to a hundred generals, and when he returned to Nanling Tong Guò to become a hundred generals, he was thrown by Lu Zhe into the Fifth Cavalry Corps under the reorganized National Defense Force sequence...... (To be continued......)