In the early hours of the night, the first batch of troops of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment came to the camp two quarters of an hour earlier than the scheduled time, what Wang Ben saw was Zhong Liyi's song, he was actually a little surprised when he saw that there were only 1,000 vanguard troops, but he didn't have a face on his face, he should have been constantly doubting in his heart that the so-called reinforcements would not be only 1,000 people, right?

This is to blame for the vagueness of the military information transmitted later, and the letter only stated that the reinforcements would arrive in the early hours of the morning, and the number was not clearly written. As long as the team is in batches, they all go on horseback, but some are regular cavalry and some are mounted infantry.

Wang Ben was apprehensive in his heart, and began to wonder why he wanted Xu Zhi to take away 10,000 troops and thin the strength of the defensive line, and he was also thinking about how to use wired troops to consolidate the defensive line, and Zhong Liyi over there was already explaining.

"Tell the commander, we are the vanguard of the 5th Cavalry Regiment and the 11th Cavalry Division. About five miles behind us is the whole division of the 11th Cavalry Division, two miles behind the 11th Cavalry Division there is the 12th Cavalry Division under the same corps, and the Fifth Cavalry Corps is followed by part of the Second Mixed Regiment and part of the Zhao Army. Zhong Liyi said this, and he could see that Wang Ben's frowning brows were relaxed, and then he continued: "Here is an order from the king from Guangyang County. As he spoke, he took out a wooden box from his bosom and handed it over respectfully: "Please check the sealing wax of the lord." ”

Check the sealing wax is a necessary process, what is represented is that the wooden box has not been opened, in addition to the integrity of the wooden box to check the sealing wax balls inside, if in the process of inspection, the person who received the order suspected that the military order had been opened and seen, and called the military judge to verify that it had indeed been opened, and the person responsible for the transmission in addition to his own beheading, his relatives and three clans must be razed, which can be regarded as a very strict thing.

Therefore, after Zhong Liyi handed over the wooden box, he kept watching Wang Ben check intently, and there was an inexplicable nervousness in his eyes. I was afraid that a sentence would suddenly come out of Wang Ben's mouth: "Someone! And then he should die ball, even if it turns out that Wang Ben was wrong, he was wronged, but if he died, it would be considered a vain death.

"Someone!" Wang Ben's call almost scared Zhong Liyi enough, but Wang Ben didn't want to talk about whether the military order had been dismantled, but paused and waited for others to come before continuing: "Lead your comrades to rest first." ”

Zhong Liyi's heart finally let go of the moment he raised, he bowed respectfully and slowly retreated, and soon disappeared from Wang Ben's sight.

The follow-up troops continued to arrive at Camp Wo until the deadline was approaching. The entire corps of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment is considered to have completed the military order, and all the military orders have arrived.

"General," the person who spoke was called Dong Xun, who was a lowly general, and was a close confidant that Wang Ben had relied on. He said: "They traveled for four or five days in a row, walking at least 80 miles a day, but they did not expect to be able to guarantee the appearance of the army. ”

It must be emphasized again that the straight-line distance between Yunzhong and Fertile Field is more than 400 miles, but it is impossible to really walk in a straight line, and the actual distance must be counted as detours. Therefore, it is extremely incorrect to use the straight-line distance on paper to determine how many days to walk.

The troops of the Western Front, marching from the clouds in the direction of Woye, had not walked for more than four or five days, and if the normal pace of the march from the front, that is, fifty miles a day, they had already walked for six days before receiving the order to speed up. After receiving the order, they walked more than 80 miles a day, but in fact the total distance they traveled was definitely more than 1,000 miles.

Dong Xun said that the reinforcements that came later could ensure that the army was clean and tidy, but that the weapons and armor of those troops were intact, and they were not lost because they were in a hurry. It can also ensure that more than ninety percent of the soldiers arrive. There is a very important reason why he said those words, a troop that has traveled thousands of miles can ensure that it is fully armed, and it can also ensure that more than ninety percent of the soldiers will not be left behind. That's definitely what an elite army can look like, if you let an army with poor discipline and poor discipline go a thousand miles, it is definitely not a strange thing to lose armor and leave behind the vast majority of soldiers, and usually this kind of team is insulting the title of the army, which can only be described as a rabble.

"yes." Wang Ben agreed with Dong Xun's words very much, he said: "Otherwise, how could we expand the territory of thousands of miles in the south and almost kill the Baiyue people, and how could we destroy the Qi and Yan countries after going north." When Wang Shang was in the north, he had already shown his ability to train troops, and after his rise from Yiling, he attached great importance to the construction of the army. ”

There are not many people who can train soldiers in these years, each of them is a baby bump, and those who can train elite soldiers are even more important treasures of the country. The Qin State was able to conquer the six countries with the strength of one country at the beginning, precisely because of the existence of the Lantian battalion, and also because there were many generals who could train in succession, but the other countries did not have a training base, even if there were generals who knew how to train soldiers, they were not given the greatest effect, otherwise whether the Qin State could dominate the world had to be said separately.

The Fifth Cavalry Corps has arrived, and there are some other troops in the future, Wang Ben also knew the approximate strength of the reinforcements from Wei Han, and it seems that these are not all reinforcements, and there is a steady stream of reinforcements coming later.

"Wang Shang is now personally leading the forbidden army to attack Guangyang County and Hengshan County where Tian Jian is entrenched, and so far he has recovered the entire territory of Hengshan County, and the troops are all the way to Zhuo County, where Tian Jian is located," Xu Zhi was pointing to the map, and he pointed to a bit more directions: "These locations have troops coming from the mainland, except for the Third Mixed Legion, which will arrive in two months, waiting for the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth ...... In the fifteenth legion, some officers replaced the original several legions, and the legions of the previous sequence of the seventh would rush to the north. ”

Each legion of the Han army has an establishment of 50,000 soldiers, and at present, Lü Zhe has organized 15 legions, so it has 750,000 soldiers. In addition to the soldiers, each legion also needed auxiliaries, and the number of auxiliaries was related to the intensity of the battle, ranging from 30,000 to 100,000. In addition, the Han army now has the number of three cavalry corps, and the number of auxiliaries required by the cavalry corps is the largest and must be matched when it can be matched.

750,000 soldiers and more than a million auxiliaries, and the Han State has only been seven years since its establishment, and the establishment of such a mobilization system in seven years is actually due to the foundation laid by the Qin State's earlier rule, so that Nanjun and Hengshan County are the counties with the strongest mobilization capacity and the most populous counties. Later, the more mobilized counties were the other counties, the worse ones were the counties recovered after the Han army went north, and some were not yet in the scope of mobilization, such as Linzi County, Jibei County, and the entire Yandi where the Han State only extended its military tentacles into it and the administrative officials did not arrive.

If Qi Yan's territory is included, the population under Lü Zhe's current rule should be about 23 million, the total number of mobilized soldiers and auxiliaries exceeds 1.5 million, and the number of hired soldiers is around 800,000. I have to say that the source of the people is basically in Qi and Yandi, and Zhao Di has also hired some.

In order to achieve this goal, the materials and wealth accumulated a few years ago were spent like flowing water, and Lu Zhe spent a lot of money to mobilize so many people to go north, because he really wanted to annihilate the Hu people who invaded the south. However, this time it was limited to annihilating the southbound Hu people in the land of China, and regardless of whether or not they succeeded in achieving the strategic goal, the military operation would be temporarily stopped, and troops would not be sent deep into the grassland immediately. If you want to send troops deep into the grassland, Lu Zhe cautiously thinks that at least you should do a good job in internal affairs first, but you must fully complete a well-off society or something, but you must accumulate a million troops for at least ten years of materials and finances, and if you don't have that kind of reserves, don't talk about sending troops deep into the grassland on a large scale, after all, the grassland is like that, many times you want to fight to support the war, where do the Hu people go to grab it? It's not like a farming people, and the grain is planted in the field and can't be moved.

In fact, Lu Zhe's strategic deployment was to continuously attack and harass the grasslands with small forces, on the one hand, to combat the war potential of the Hu people, and on the other hand, to cultivate a group of officers who understood the grasslands and were adapted to the grassland operations, and such military operations would last for at least ten years if there were no major changes.

In addition, if Lu Zhe does not go deep into the grassland, it does not mean that there will be no other actions, but he has thought about the first step to enter the Western Regions, and the number of troops marching does not need to be too exaggerated, only 150,000 well-prepared troops are estimated to be able to grab a foothold area first, and then slowly fight over.

There is such an idea because of Lu Zhe's consistent thinking, that is, the country's army cannot be allowed to become an ornament, even if it is to cause trouble, it is necessary to find a target for the army to fight, otherwise the army will not fight for a long time, and the combat effectiveness will decline too quickly, and the speed of corruption is also amazing. What he can be sure of is that once the soldiers are not used for a few years, not only will those generals be drunk and die, but the soldiers of the army will also forget how to fight. The main thing? It was he who also wanted to use the material needs needed for the war to stimulate the economic construction of the country, and if he wanted economic construction, he could not always rely on his own "farming", and the most rapid thing was to rob the wealth of foreign people.

"Therefore, our goal now is to trap the main forces of the Hu people to death first, as long as we can't make them unable to return to the grassland, even if we let them wander in the Northland region for a few years, it will be beneficial for us to further weaken the grassland," Xu Zhizai explained to Wang Ben the strategic thinking from Lu Zhe, he had already said for a while, but it was only a rough idea, what the future development strategy of the Han Kingdom should be, and Wang Ben needed to listen to Lu Zhe in person. (To be continued......)