"Lord, the enemy's offensive is too fierce, the defenders of the first line are killed and wounded, and the defense line is almost overwhelmed!"

"Hold on, reinforcements will arrive in a moment!"

"It's ......, No!"

A military intelligence report that can be heard in almost every defensive battle, Huan Chu can't stand it according to the damage of two-tenths of the troops on the front line, which sounds funny, but it is definitely not nonsense.

How can we define the limits of what an army can afford to lose? It depends on the tenacity of each army. The tenacity of each army is different, and it depends on the degree of training of the unit in peacetime, and more importantly, whether the unit has an ideal that is shared by the collective, and how many people share this ideal.

The reason why there is the name rabble, in many cases, does not mean that such an army has no structure, weapons, etc., but that it has not been trained, and more importantly, it means that it is a group of collectives without ideals. Such a collective cannot be called an army, but can only be said to be an armed force with a low centripetal force.

The army under Xiang Liang's command attacked fiercely, and their losses were heavier than Huan Chu's troops, and the first wave of attacking troops probably lost about three-tenths, but Xiang Liang did not receive the military information that the troops in front were about to collapse. The new establishment of the state of Chu is the time when the centripetal force is the strongest, but there will also be a limit, and it depends on the situation to determine the critical point.

There was almost no formation in this offensive and defensive battle, and the tactics and the like were not reflected at all, and some were two waves of people huddled together and fighting each other. In this case, the courage of the military has become quite crucial, and this is also the mainstream of most of the military after the troubled times have not been trained for a long time.

Huan Chu was waiting for reinforcements, and Xiang Liang was also waiting.

Lujiang County is a county extending in all directions in the south, it can even be said that the southern counties are cut in half, as long as the Xiang family gets Lujiang County, the overall situation will be formed, and the Xiang family will immediately take the initiative, so Huan Chu can believe that Lu Zhe will not let the Xiang family get Lujiang County, which is the source of his confidence that Lu Zhe will definitely send reinforcements.

Of course. It is precisely because of the importance of the geographical location of Lujiang County that whoever gets Lujiang County will inevitably form a pattern of being threatened in multiple directions. Huan Chu knew how much strength Xin Chu had, and he also knew how much strength Lu Zhe had.

Although the Xiang clan has long had a plan, but I don't know why they only got two counties, and recently because of Xinzhao's concession, they got Surabaya County, and the strength of Xinchu with Huizhang, Huiji, and Surabaya is not bad.

Lu Zhe occupied Nanjun nine months ago due to fate, and after more than four months of development, he occupied Qianzhong County, and then laid Hengshan County. But what is puzzling is that Lu Zhe doesn't know what method is used. In just nine months, it has the strength to decide the ownership of the South.

Huan Chu didn't know a lot, the Xiang clan did not have no plans for other counties, but the deployer was also the executor Fan Zengyi, who died, except for Huizhang County and Huiji County, where the Xiang clan was located, the arrangements of other counties and counties failed in a short period of time, and that was the moment when the turmoil broke out.

Lu Zhe's rise is an accident and an acquired effort, and it is said that it is accidental because he has been the master of Yiling. It was precisely because of his kindness to the remnants of the Six Kingdoms in the early stage, and the harshness of the people sent by Tu Sui after he was imprisoned in the later period, that the Yiling Rebellion was the starting point.

How many of the remnants of the original Six Nations were relocated to Minami-gun? It should be about 400,000. Later, Lu Zhe got the remnants of the Six Kingdoms with more than 200,000 young and strong people as the capital to start, and with the first force, there were also enough troops to clear the Baiyue and disobedient people in Nanjun.

What did Lu Zhe do after he got Nanjun? He should be an "authentic" "man". Presumably, they were either as preoccupied with expanding their territory as some of the leaders of the army had done, or they were struck down by famine in the county. But he is not a "present person", he is an "outlier", especially after the capture of Qianzhong County, he got the food needed for development. The development of Nanjun has entered a jaw-dropping period, and in just three months, there have been twenty-six more cities in Zhijincheng, and the number of Yuecheng in the entire Nanjun has increased to thirty or forty!

People's livelihood and economy have developed rapidly because of the unique regulation and control of the "Celestial Empire". When the rest of the leaders of the army were short of clothing, food and weapons, the 100,000 troops under Lu Zhe could have poles and spears in their hands at worst. Today, nine months later, in addition to the armor of the heavy infantry, the equipment of the troops such as the rattan armor soldiers, the Pu sword soldiers, and the jumping soldiers are all ready.

Huan Chu didn't know too much, but it didn't prevent him from understanding the reason why Lu Zhe would develop so quickly from another angle, and he regarded Lu Zhe's ability to have such a powerful force in less than a year as having luck, which was the so-called mandate of heaven or something.

Naturally, what Huan Chu was thinking was not that Lu Zhe would eventually become the lord of the world or something, he judged from all aspects, and confirmed that Lu Zhe would definitely be a tyrant in the south, and since he didn't want to be with the Xiang family, then with Wu Rui's Zhuyu in front, he could only take refuge in Lu Zhe in the south.

While Huan Chu was considering whether to retreat from the second line, Xiang Liang on the other side was also considering whether to withdraw the troops of the first attack sequence and replace them with new forces.

The troops currently engaged in the fight between the two sides are about 20,000 in Huan Chu and 30,000 in Xiang Liang, and the place where the real fight is actually carried out is also limited to the first camp of the Huan Chu military camp.

In other directions, Huan Chu still has two battalions with 10,000 soldiers each ready to fight, they are on the left and right sides of the small hill and pond about three miles away from the main camp, Huan Chu needs to consider when to let the left and right wings of the battalion send troops.

Xiang Liang deployed more troops as an attacker, and while the 30,000 troops on the front attacked the first camp of Huan Chu, the forces on the left and right flanks on the one hand, on the one hand, contained the camp of Huan Chu's entire corner, and on the other hand, they could pounce on the camp that was being attacked at any time.

At the same time, Xiang Liang later transferred out 30,000 soldiers to adjust the formation before their own camp, 8,000 of these 30,000 soldiers were dressed differently from others, most of them wore leather armor in addition to the khaki battle robes, and a few wore iron armor, and the most special thing was that there were 2,000 people with iron swords and a simple shield in their hands.

These 8,000 people are the "subordinate soldiers" that the Xiang clan has secretly trained for a long time, and those soldiers with iron armor and iron weapons should be the elite trump cards in Xiang Liang's hands?

Ironware, this is a product of the era that is one level higher than bronze, and it has been installed, so Xiang must have mastered a more mature iron-making technology?

Almost, the Chu people were indeed the first country to use iron weapons during the Warring States Period, and the history of their use of iron weapons can be traced back to the Five Hegemons period, when iron tools were called evil gold, because iron things were too easy to rust. However, later, the Zhao State, the Qi State, the Wei State, and the Yan State also followed the footsteps of the Chu State and began to use iron weapons, and the Qin State became the most special country in the late Warring States period, and it has always used bronze weapons.

At that time, in a few countries that used iron tools, were they really able to mature the production of iron weapons? No, this is not necessarily, although the iron weapons of the Warring States period were sharper than bronze, they still had disadvantages such as brittleness and cracking.

Now, what about the weapons in the hands of the iron soldiers armed by the Xiang clan?

Huan Chu stood high and saw far away, and he saw again that there were about 30,000 troops pressing on Xiang Liang's side, and ordered: "The defenders of the first line retreat." ”

In the second line, the Huan Chu army lined up early, and they also changed obstacles such as horse rejection and wooden fences by absorbing the mistakes of the first line of defense, so that the entire defense line should finally be able to block the enemy's attack.

The soldiers under Huan Chu rely on blood and courage to fight, fighting not collective strength but individuals, basically there is no tactics since the start of the fight, what kind of results will such an army have if they get the order to retreat?

Yes, no matter what you shout "slowly retreat" and "fight and retreat", it is useless, the soldiers who can't stand it for a long time when they hear the sound of Ming Jin immediately put aside their feet and run back, they can't manage a lot, especially after the collapse of the defense line, a large number of robes were killed, and many people felt that the weapons in their hands were in the way and immediately threw them away, and escaped from that ...... It may not be appropriate, but it is.

Huan Chu didn't seem surprised by the retreat of the first line of defense? He didn't even blink his eyes, he just kept scanning the Chu soldiers on the left and right flanks.

After the Huan Chu army of the first line of defense collapsed, the Chu soldiers chased and killed for a distance, but they were also shouted to stop and retreat by the Ming Jin sound behind them.

It's not that Xiang Liang doesn't know what the momentum of covering up and killing is, but the soldiers in the first attack sequence are just like that, they have been fighting for half an hour without being physical, not to mention, these soldiers are not the kind of soldiers of the Qin army, in the final analysis, they are a group of "three no" troops who are not organized, undisciplined, and collective, and the most likely result of covering the past is to be blocked by the second line of defense of Huan Chu, and then because they are too sudden and fall into the encirclement and are eaten.

You must know that both of them are generals of the old Chu, and they are considered to be the same kind of system, even if individual clans have their own "secrets" in the use of troops by the generals of Chu, but there are only a few things to count, Huan Chu knows Xiang Liang's use of troops, and how Xiang Liang does not understand Huan Chu's methods.

Seeing that the Chu soldiers also withdrew their troops, and the Chu soldiers on the left and right flanks did not take the opportunity to attack, Huan Chu did not feel happy and reacted a little disappointed.

The central breakthrough also depends on the actual situation, Huan Chu knew that the soldiers of the first line of defense would collapse when they received the order to retreat, and still did so, just to let those soldiers who collapsed lead the Chu soldiers into the encirclement of the second line of defense, but Xiang Liang was very calm and not fooled.

What about Xiang Liang? He was also relieved to see that the second line of defense in Huan Chu's camp was moving, he just saw the movement of the flag and found that something was wrong, and now Huan Chu mobilized his troops again to show that he had really laid a trap just now, so the move to withdraw the tired army was correct.

The soldiers under his command fought each other, and the commanders of the two armies used their brains to pick up and fill in the gaps, and regardless of the plots and calculations outside the battlefield, one defense and one attack on the battlefield really looked like a chess opponent? (To be continued......)