Chapter 283: The Turtle in the Urn?
It's not like it, it's true!
Lu Zhe wanted to attack Xiang Liang front and back, that was based on the premise that Huan Chu had the power to fight, if Huan Chu was unable to fight again, what would he talk about before and after, at that time, Lu Zhe, who was in Huizhang County, was caught by three breads, who was fighting who at that time?
The more Xiang Liang thought about it, the more it made sense, the more he thought about it, the more excited he felt, and the more he looked at Chen Ping's gaze, the more he appreciated it, and suddenly shouted "Okay!" Good! Good! After the high-five, he laughed a few times, and then was strong and powerful: "Chen Ping's suggestions are meritorious, and the bounty is 100 yi!" β
"Thank you, Lord!" Chen Ping bent down to thank him, his voice was excited and happy, but his lowered head was very weird.
Chen Ping's words just now were just words that worried about Xiang Liang's sharp turn, but he didn't expect Xiang Liang to think so much when he heard it, and it seemed that he really felt that this was a great opportunity? He felt that Xiang Liang was in a hurry, grabbed the straw and tried it desperately!
Lu Zhe can develop and grow in just half a year, it is not like a stupid person, since he dares to lead the army deep into Huizhang County to outflank Xiang Liang's back road, it should not be without detailed thinking and deployment, Chen Ping guessed that Lu Zhe would not only rely on Huan Chu and a mere 50,000 reinforcements, just like Xiang Liang's 200,000 army, then there must be a backhand.
"Should I be reminded?" Chen Ping hesitated, "Meritorious service is only a reward for wealth, and the official title has not been promoted." Sure enough, it is difficult for non-Xiang clan relatives to get ahead in the Chu State, ......", he felt that he was not suitable to speak anymore, not only because Xiang Liang's reward was unknown, but also because Xiang Liang was on the rise, and he was still talking about the turtle in the urn just now, and changing his words to remind him would inevitably anger Xiang Liang, so he decided to shut up.
The civil servants of the generals and schools present were also thinking, and sure enough, no one thought about it a lot, and someone asked at the moment: "Lord, Lu Thief won't just send 50,000 reinforcements to support Huan Chu, right?" β
Xiang Liang is not stupid, of course he thinks that Lu Zhe will not only send 50,000 people to support Huan Chu, he smiled confidently: "I decided to launch a general attack on Huan Chu's camp, and this time 8,000 soldiers will also go together!" β
Reinforcements? Hehe! What about reinforcements in the back. As long as Huan Chu is completely defeated before new reinforcements come, then even if there are reinforcements coming again, there will be no place to stand.
Xiang Yu immediately stood up: "Uncle, nephew, please fight!" β
Xiang Liang didn't answer immediately, he was still thinking about how many troops to deploy to guard the rear, and at the same time, when Xiang Boneng would lead the reinforcements from Huiji County to arrive.
If you want to achieve a certain goal, there will be risks at any time, but risks often represent opportunities, Xiang Liang knows that it is dangerous to stay where he is, but it is not dangerous for Lu Zhe to lead his army deep into Huizhang County? He felt that a thief who was no more than twenty years old dared to take risks, he was the head of the Xiang family, the son of the dignified general Xiang Yan. Will they not dare to face the danger head-on?
It is a fact that Huan Chu's army was abolished, and it is unknown how much combat power the reinforcements sent by Lu Zhe will be, and it is also unknown how many troops will arrive. Xiang Liang knew that the army that Lu Zhe brought into Huizhang County should be about 70,000, but after attacking so many counties, the troops should be scattered, right? There will be about 50,000 reinforcements in Surabaya County that will go south, and 40,000 people in Huiji County will come over not counting the newly recruited recruits, and his main force will have 130,000, and the total will be 220,000.
Most of the 50,000 troops in Surabaya County were recruited and collected in Surabaya County, and the total number of Surabaya County was not 50,000, but 110,000. For a long time, the total strength of the Chu State was not counted in the troops of Surabaya County. The person who commanded Surabaya County was called Xiang Zhu, and he was the fifth son of Xiang Yan.
220,000 against Lu Zhe's 120,000? No! It should be more than 120,000, but what does it matter?
The state of Chu needs to gather troops, doesn't Lu Zhe also need to gather troops? There are at least 130,000 around Xiang Liang. The troops led by Lu Zhe were only 70,000.
"Blockade the Yangtze River...... "We must try our best to block the Yangtze River, Xiang Liang no longer hesitated, he wanted to gamble, gambling that he could trap Lu Zhe in Huizhang County." He also sent someone to inform Xiang Le, who was on the side of Yihu Song, and asked him to convince the chiefs of Baiyue within ten days no matter what! β
Xiang Le, Xiang Yan's third son. He has always been on Baiyue's side, in order to maintain contact with Baiyue, both to stabilize the south of the Chu State and to persuade Baiyue to continue to attack LΓΌ Zhe, but Song has not agreed to send troops all along.
The total population of Baiyue is only more than one million, and the tribes of Baiyue are also divided, and they have not been able to form a rope for a long time. Nanjun and Qianzhong County lost nearly 80,000 young people in several battles, and for Baiyue, who only had a population of more than 1 million, the loss of 80,000 young people could really be said to be very heavy, so the Song Dynasty hated Lu Zhe but did not dare to invade the north again.
Xiang Quan, Xiang Yan's fourth son, he and Han Xin (Han Wangxin, not that Han Xin) were on the side of the Xiongnu, and this time the head man was preparing to invade the south because he was bewitched by Xiang Quan, Han Xin, Chen Yu, Tian Guang and others.
The Xiang clan has been plotting, like a poisonous snake hiding in the shadows staring at the Qin State, but it is a pity that the principal Fan Zeng is dead, and the power of the many arrangements without the leader has not been revealed, otherwise the situation should not be like this.
In addition to Xiang Liang, Xiang Bo, Xiang Zhu, Xiang Le, and Xiang Quan, there is also a Xiang Ji who is running around, but Xiang Yan's eldest son Xiang Chao (the father of Xiang Yu and Xiang Zhuang) died in the battle with Xiang Yan.
The Xiang family is really full of talents in some aspects, and it should have had a good situation after the army, but how can it accept such a situation now?
"Attack, Yu'er, you are the vanguard of the main army, Xiang It (Xiang Le's son) and Xiang Lai (Xiang Zhu's eldest son) are with Yu'er." Xiang Liang took out enough courage: "Eight thousand soldiers, 20,000 regular troops, the three of you will lead the central breakthrough with you!" β
Xiang Yu was overjoyed, and the sixteen-year-old Xiang It and the eighteen-year-old Xiang Lai also stood up together and responded to "No!" βγ
Why is Xiang Yu younger than Xiang He and Xiang Lai? In the same clan, children who are a few months old are in their teens, twenties, and thirties, and elders abound, so what is it strange that Xiang Yu was born a few years later?
The reason why Xiang Liang dared to send Xiang Yu to fight was not because he was stupid, Xiang Yu liked to leave the army and kill by himself when he fought, yes, it was a sharp awl, and he would miss a big thing when no one was around to assist him in the past. He sent Xiang Yu to fight, and he would command the army in the back, so it didn't matter if Xiang Yu didn't command the troops, what he needed was Xiang Yu's best to rush and kill!
Over there, Xiang Liang was arranging for the battle, and on the other side, Ji Bu was also discussing things with Huan Chu.
At this moment, Ji Bu really felt unbelievable, Huan Chu and Xiang Liang were out of more than 30,000 troops in four days, and there were mutinies in the back, so that Huan Chu could continue to fight, so that Ji Bu didn't know whether to think that Huan Chu was powerful or that his subordinates had no way.
War mutiny, this is enough to make an army collapse from the inside, Huan Chu can resist Xiang Liang in the continuous mutiny, can it be said that Huan Chu is incapable? But how can there be mutinies in the capable army all the time? It's really hard to judge.
Huan Chu has bitterness and can't say it, the establishment of the Chu army is like this, those right leaders fight more fiercely than anyone else when they fight downwind, and it is common to resist military orders in order to preserve their strength when they encounter disobedience, Xiang Liang's continuous attack has long been afraid of the sharpness of those right leaders, and Huan Chu continues to toughen the right leaders to lead the troops to fight, and cut off the right leaders who do not obey orders, can it not cause a mutiny?
"In other words, there are only more than 13,000 soldiers under Duke Huan, and the rest of the people are not only not helping, but may also turn back at any time?" Ji Bu also has a reason to be stunned, he is also a Chu person, but there are many Chu people in Lu Zhe's army, and there has been no such thing as resisting military orders, so there is no need to think about the change of soldiers in the army.
It has nothing to do with who it is, it's not that Chu people will be like this, but the relationship between the system, Ji Bu may not have understood it before, he has been in the Qin army model army with strict military discipline and strong constraints for a long time, but now Ji Bu understands it as soon as he thinks about it.
Huan Chu's face was not good-looking, he felt that it would cause this kind of result and it was not the source of Ji Bu's delay in leading the army? If there were reinforcements early in the morning, although the war might still not go well, at least it would not cause many of his subordinates to have a psychological breakdown. But he couldn't say anything, so he could only nod stiffly with a stiff face.
Mustard, there is really a mustard, Huan Chu thinks that Lu Zhe wants to weaken his lineage, so as to pave the way for controlling himself and truly mastering Lujiang County in the future, especially after talking with Huan Ying for a while, this idea is even more convinced, but now no one is allowed to do too much care, he can only choose to go all the way to the dark.
"That'...... What should Huan Gong do with those troops who may turn back at any time? Gibb asked the most crucial question.
"Huh?" What can Huan Chu do? Only pacification. He looked directly at Ji Bu with sharp eyes: "What should Commander Ji do if he wants Chu?" β
"For the sake of today...... how could Ji Bu not see that Huan Chu was very unhappy? But he should still say: "We have to deal with Xiang Liang, who may attack at any time, and we have to beware of more than 20,000 people who may rebel at any time. β
"What!?" Huan Chu thought that Ji Bu would throw those people out and send them to death, but he didn't expect to retreat. He looked at Ji Bu strangely: "Didn't Duke Lu lead the army deep into Huizhang County?" If Xiang Liang does not pursue, and the Chu army that returns to the aid of Huiji besieges Lu Gong, you ......are a subordinate."
"Duke Huan, Bu's loyalty to the Lord cannot be questioned!" Ji Bu didn't let Huan Chu continue to say those heart-wrenching words, he said: "The troops who came to aid Huan Gong are not only this one, there are 50,000 on the way to Fanyang, now we are staying here, under internal and external troubles, we are not Xiang Liang's opponents, and the temporary retreat is to be able to deal with Xiang Liang more effectively." β
"Where's Gong Lu?" Huan Chu was puzzled: "What if Xiang Liang returns to the army to attack Lu Gong?" β
It's not that Huan Chu has anything to do with Lu Zhe, but that Lu Zhe can't have anything to do now, once Lu Zhe dies, no one in the south can compete with the Xiang clan anymore, and in the end, Huan Chu will be unlucky.
"Lord?" Ji Bu smiled: "The Lord dares to go deeper, then naturally there is a follow-up arrangement." β
Huan Chu was stunned for a long time, he seemed to think of something, "Good courage, use yourself as bait to lure Xiang Liang to ......", he understood, Lu Zhe must have some difficulty that can't consume too much time, so he risked his life to create a battle-level battle, and winning or losing will end in a short time! (To be continued......)