Chapter 129: Walking on Thin Ice

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After explaining concisely and clearly, Lu Zhe ordered someone to remove the long case.

The flag bearer holding the "Qin" military flag with white characters on a black background brought the flag up, and two armor-clad soldiers stretched the flag with great experience and waited for the so-called flag sacrifice ceremony to begin.

Lu Zhe looked at Fan Zeng, who was escorted up, and then looked at the executioner with a straight-shaped knife, and thought to himself: "Is it to turn the tide or to chase the world?" This is a question worth pondering! ”

It is not complicated to have such a question, people will always have such and such ambitions after having power, and Lu Zhe is naturally no exception.

People who don't know the outcome of history, they can't "see" the future, they can only be swayed by the situation, that is, as the saying goes, the current situation plays tricks.

Although it is not a detailed historical event of the end of the Qin Dynasty, Lu Zhe still knows the Tao of the Qin Dynasty. If he used to be struggling to survive, now he is confused because of various factors.

Was it the conversation with Fan Zeng that made him ambitious?

Is it because you have soldiers in your hands that you have that kind of thought?

Even Lu Zhe himself didn't know why Lu Dao thought like that, he was just looking at Fan Zeng who was kneeling in a daze.

As long as it's anti-Qin. Fan Zeng is willing to support, Lu Zhe believes this sentence.

The only thing that Lu Zhe didn't believe in was Fan Zenghui's wholehearted assistance, which had nothing to do with whether Lu Zhe was a Qin person or not. It's that the monarch and the minister don't have loyalty that comes for nothing.

How many times have the two met? When Fan Zeng ran against Qin, it was estimated that he had already chosen a good "Jun", because his life was threatened, Fan Zeng said that it was just an expedient measure to serve Lu Zhe, and Lu Zhe was convinced of this.

"Sacrifice the flag!"

With a wave of the thick-backed knife, a strategist who should have been remembered by history at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Fan Zeng was separated before he could stand out.

Blood sprayed from the headless corpse on the triangular military flag, the color of the black background was dyed purple, and the "Qin" on the white background turned into a dark red.

Two armor soldiers stepped on the blood stains on the floor and tied the flag to the flagpole about ten meters away. A deafening shout rang from below as it was erected high.

The sound was like a wave, rolling and sweeping out farther away.

Lu Zhe looked at Fan Zeng's corpse and had a very strange feeling in his heart. It seems to be curious about what will become of the Xiang clan without Fan Zeng's assistance. After losing Fan Zeng, will history develop like that?

Most of these cheerers only knew that the ceremony of worshipping the heavens had been completed, and it was time to pray for victory to the heavens, and it was not their concern who was the one who died.

A small number of people watched as the blood-stained pennant was raised high, and their eyes became twinkling. They were willing to obey Lu Zhe's orders and do nothing else. Just out of the threat of Qin repression. Now we should also count the Baiyue people who are about to attack.

If Lu Zhe can be convinced by everyone, it is simply impossible. In Yiling, it was the five thousand Qin troops who were most likely to unconditionally obey his military orders, because it was reasonable and legal for Lu Zhe to temporarily take over the position of general after taking out the token given by Tu Sui.

After the sacrifice of the flag, the army turned around in the continuous sound of horns, and the Qin army, which was the leader of the troops, slowly moved forward, and the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms, who were not in a military formation behind, were restrained to follow the Qin army in the growth snake formation in a three-type pattern.

Li Yuncong walked in the army, but he was confused in his heart: "Didn't you rush to help Jiangling?" How did it become to attack Baiyue! "He didn't attend the rest of the meeting.

Lu Zhe's answer to the five hundred lords was that it was necessary to destroy this group of Baiyue people in order to effectively rush to Jiangling. Otherwise, you will be flanked.

This explanation seems plausible at the moment.

Summers in the south are not hot, and the rainy season in spring has just ended. The cool breeze blows on the face, giving people a refreshing feeling.

The wind was blowing the grass, the trees of the forest were swaying in the wind, and the environment where insects were chirping became quiet as the troops marched nearer. This is not the effect of the killing atmosphere, but an instinct of insects.

Nanjun has been part of Great Qin for some time, but just like in previous dynasties of the Sui Dynasty, the authorities focused on the Central Plains and left the south undeveloped.

In the unexplored south, there are few traces of human activity, and nearly 20,000 troops can see three mountains surrounding Yiling in the distance as they walk along the way.

To tell the truth, Yiling has no strategic value in the eyes of many people, and this is based on the conditions of underdeveloped roads and undeveloped waterways. In addition, Yiling has only a small plain, which is still occupied by dense forests, which are not suitable for farming.

When the Qin State was still unified, it was not a chaotic era where the heroes were divided, and no one would spend too much effort to increase the grain production area of Yiling.

Lu Zhe has not had the opportunity to move around since he came to Yiling, and his knowledge of the terrain around Yiling is limited to the map. He rode on a war horse from Kansai and looked ahead, and as far as his eyes could see, he could already see the forest below the mountains, where smoke rose without hesitation, thinking that the Baiyue people were cooking something.

As the old saying goes, "Look at the mountains and run the dead horses", which means that the mountains can be seen from a long distance, but they are still far away.

A little visual inspection of the distance, the troops should need to walk for at least an hour to reach the place of battle.

There were less than 20,000 troops under Lu Zhe's command, and only 3,500 Qin soldiers could be counted as elite. He thinks that mountain soldiers who have gone through World War I can also come in handy, after all, six or seven hundred soldiers have already been completely organized and have been run-in in actual combat. The remaining 15,000 or so soldiers can only fight a tailwind battle, and if they are allowed to charge as ants, they will probably collapse.

is still the same reason, in the case that most of the troops under his command are not organized, Lu Zhe can't play any multi-way attack. At the same time, there is no ambush war, large-scale roundabout war or anything. It is an advanced tactic that can only be played under the condition of long-term training and a few qualified pioneer generals.

Since catching a Baiyue elder, after hearing about the "Spring and Autumn Law" from that tribe elder. Lu Zhe has a special understanding of the tactics of the Baiyue people. Not...... That is, there is no way to fight.

Can't play advanced actions from a tactical point of view, Lu Zhe can only respond to the battle, but this seems to be not much easier than playing advanced actions, you must know that the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms of Lu Dao can't understand the orders at all, and someone needs to convey the instructions of the commander to act.

Let's put it this way, convey the instructions from Lu Zhe, and convey it with the flag. The team leader received the instruction, how long has it been under the three steps, so is this instruction still appropriate?

It may not be appropriate to use a long way to go. But Lu Zhe now has such a feeling that if he really wants to make a difference, this battle is a beginning. If this battle is fought hard or lost, don't say anything to let the remnants of the Six Nations return. It is estimated that after the fall of Gangneung, he should have fled for his life. Otherwise, he was sent back by the Xianyang Center to cut off his head.

Urgency, anticipation, and all kinds of thoughts continued to arise in Lu Zhe's mind, and as the troops got closer and closer to the mountains ahead, the frequency of scouts returning was also increasing.

The news of the scout's report is a bit chaotic, most of them are reporting the movements of the Baiyue people in front, and more about which team of scouts was besieged by the barbarian brigade and suffered heavy losses.

Lu Zhe was very distressed by the large number of disappearances and battle losses of scouts, the cultivation of a scout was more difficult than that of cavalry, and qualified scouts basically climbed up from the sea of corpses after countless battles. But he couldn't help it. The Qin army scouts were also helpless, after all, they were coming to the south for the first time. It's too unsuitable for the terrain full of forests and streams.

"Tell the Lord, the barbarians are coming out of the forest!"

Hearing this news, Lu Zhe was overjoyed and excellent.

In response, he immediately sent a part of the troops composed of the soldiers of the Six Nations to disperse out of the city as a buffer. The scattered troops have only one function, and that is to act as an early warning of an attack.

The Baiyue people's understanding of the forest far exceeds that of the Central Plains people, and their combat advantage in the forest is very obvious.

Just now, Lu Zhe was still thinking about setting fire to force the Baiyue people out of the forest if they didn't leave the forest, but this was a next resort.

If you set fire to a mountainous and forested place in the south, once the fire spreads, the whole south will be eroded, and at the same time, there are too many forests in the southern water system, and the vegetation is too cute, and the vegetation is too wet, so it is not ordinarily difficult to set fire. Therefore, when it comes to fire attack or something, it is really not about setting fire to it, but also relying on the terrain and making adequate preparations in advance.

The fire attack is so easy to perform, then the cold weapon war should be the history of your fire attack and my fire attack. In history, there have not been many times that fire attacks have worked, and the most famous is the Battle of Red Cliffs, but that was a specific occasion.

"Baiyue people out of the forest?" Lu Zhe drove his horse to the side of the troops, and he took out the sheepskin topographic map, "That's the south side, and there is indeed a weedy field about five miles in front of that mountain ridge that is suitable for the battlefield. ”

What Lu Zhe needs to consider is, did the Baiyue people have the confidence to get out of the forest, or was there some conspiracy? He can't play now that the soldiers are coming to block the water and coming to the earth or something, and every step he takes will inevitably tremble like walking on thin ice.

A group of soldiers continued to advance from the side, and those soldiers who passed by almost always turned their heads to look at the main general who was stationed next to him, as if he wanted to judge from the expression on the face of the main general whether he was sure of winning the battle.

Lu Zhe didn't have much expression on his face, he put away the parchment roll and looked ahead, calculating the distance between the two armies in his heart, and at the same time he needed to know the close movements of the Baiyue people.

The scouts did not disappoint, and the news in return was that the Baiyue were occupying favorable terrain and seemed to want to stop where they were and wait for their force to come up on their own.

Favorable terrain? Small high slopes on the battlefield, upwind positions, difficult terrain ahead, and so on are all advantageous positions.

"All stopped!"

Flag-bearers kept galloping and shouting, and the troops slowly stopped.

Lu Zhe recalled the terrain reported by the scouts, combined with the drawings on the parchment, and he found that the location from west to south was really a scattered depression, so it was no wonder that the Baiyue people came out of the forest to occupy the favorable terrain.

The enemy army has 20,000 troops and is currently occupying favorable terrain, and this news made Lu Zhe almost laugh out loud.

"The order was given, three thousand five hundred soldiers were in the center, advancing in a horizontal formation; Again, in addition to the peripheral troops, the soldiers of this formation followed behind the soldiers in a horizontal line. ”

The Baiyue people have always been armed in the form of tribes. The army of the old Chu period was simply printed by Mozi. Because of this model, the old Chu army has not been able to effectively exert the combat power of the whole army, and the coordination efficiency on the battlefield is also low.

Can the army of the Baiyue people in the form of a tribe be comparable to that of Old Chu? Lu Zhe didn't know this. However, the enemy will inevitably disperse its troops because of the favorable terrain, which is an advantage and a flaw. Just look at whether the coordination of the Baiyue people is faster than that of the old Chu army.

Changing positions during the march was not something that could be done on the move, and a surprise attack by the enemy would inevitably throw the whole army into disarray.

But it doesn't matter now, the Baiyue people are seizing the advantageous terrain, and the small army is coming to attack to death, and the large army is coming to seize what terrain it is, that is, it is a direct battle.

It took about an hour, and Lu Zhe issued instructions to correct it several times. A much larger horizontal "two" echelon of marching appeared.

Three thousand five hundred soldiers marched in front, five hundred spearmen on the left and right sides each escorted three hundred archers, and in the center were five hundred spearmen. The remaining 1,000 spearmen followed behind the spearmen, and the 300 heavy infantry were intended by Lu Zhe to be used as firefighters.

There was no phalanx among the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms, they were simply divided into two shapeless teams, but more than 700 mountain soldiers were also left in the Chinese army by Lu Zhe.

The complex terrain constantly stretches and twists the "two" echelon. The pace of advancement is not fast. But there was no such thing as a mess.

The troops had not been attacked along the way, and the troops had stepped out of the complex, and the soldiers who were in the front had already seen the enemy forces in front of them, which were divided into five parts, and these enemy troops had indeed occupied the high ground that had been divided into battlefields.

Gathering the troops sent earlier as an early warning, Lu Zhe sent a few banner-bearers with war horses to investigate the battlefield, and the Baiyue people also sent a team to intercept when they saw that there were knights galloping out of the Qin army.

The speed at which the flag-bearers of a team of ten men galloped on foot was not something that could be caught up on foot, and occasionally when they were about to be surrounded by several enemy squads, the captain of the team would always take the lead in turning. If you can't dodge, you will pick up the trumpet on your waist and summon your allies.

Empty areas, even if there are depressions. The advantage of cavalry should not be underestimated.

Lu Zhe saw with his own eyes that when a group of ten people could not dodge, the flag-bearers would divide into a "one" shape and accelerate the charge, and the six-meter-long banner was like a horse spear being straight horizontally, and the enemy troops blocking the road under the knight's gallop were either scattered or would be pierced by the spear and knocked away by the horse.

The flag-bearer's six-meter-long spear pierced the enemy, and even the strongest knight immediately abandoned the spear, and then drew the bronze sword at his waist.

It is understandable that there is no stirrup now, and it is just a thin blanket on the horseback, and it is unstable to ride a war horse before the equipment of these cavalrymen, and it is necessary to have a strong balance and waist strength, and it is difficult to hold a huge gun when galloping, and there is a corpse of at least ninety pounds on the gun that is not abandoned.

As far as the eye can see, the knights and the enemy army on foot are dodging and chasing, and the knights have the advantage in skirmishes, but there are also losses.

Taking advantage of the fact that the flag bearer was attracting the enemy's attention, Lu Zhe once again asked the officers to correct the position of the troops, and the "two" echelon that had been distorted before the call to return the flag bearer was formed again.

Reporting and reporting losses, Lu Zhe had a general understanding of the fighting site, and the first contact between the two sides on the frontal battlefield ended with the loss of six flag-bearers and the killing of thirty-six people on the other side.

"There are more depressions in the west, and there is a stream in the west-east position."

The reward for paying the price is well worth it, at least Lu Zhe already knows where he should pay special attention to the number of troops invested.

"The number of the five enemy troops occupying the high ground is about 1,000 to 1,005, so it means that the Baiyue people will at least divide 5,000 people!"

The troops of the Baiyue people did not have any formation to speak of, except for those who had divided into the land to occupy the favorable terrain, and the edge of the forest was full of people.

Visually, Lu Zhe saw that there were more than 20,000 Baiyue people standing at the edge of the woods, and he didn't know if there were any hidden soldiers in the forest if they were too far away. However, no matter how you calculate the number of enemy troops that were detected in the early stage, it is wrong.

The drums of "dong dong dong" came from the opposite side, and Lu Zhecai, who was fighting more than 10,000 people for the first time, did not wonder how the Baiyue people could have war drums. In fact, the Yue people have always used cowhide drums as a war sounding device, compared with the Qin army, which likes to use horns on the battlefield, the Yue people are actually more like inheriting the habits of Chinese civilization, and the Qin army is like a nomadic army.

Leaning against the edge of the forest, the Baiyue people had a small force of about 100 men, and these people rode very short horses, holding a large banner. They are moving to the middle.

"Commander, it seems that the leader of the enemy army wants to 'answer' before the formation according to the law of spring and autumn."

Su Lie reminded him a little redundantly, Lu Zhe just didn't know the history of the Dao Qin period. It doesn't mean that you don't understand war.

Answering is a general statement, in fact, it is talking to each other to persuade each other to surrender or something.

The name Su Lie actually made Lu Zhe very entangled, because there was a very famous general named Su Lie during the Tang Dynasty, that is, Su Lie Su Dingfang. However, Su Lie's ability seems to be good, and the three hundred heavy infantry is led by him.

"Ho, drive!"

Lu Zhe naturally couldn't show weakness before the war, and drove the war horse forward. Behind him were ninety-four flag-bearers.

Nearly 100 cavalry moved like thunder, and the military flag and the flag of the flag bearer waving in the wind looked very spectacular.

The two groups of people slowly approached each other, and Lu Zhe could already see the outfits of the enemy soldiers. Those were some Baiyue people who were also wearing sackcloth and trousers, not the wild people who only covered their crotch with animal skins as they imagined.

The two sides stopped at a distance of two hundred meters, and the flag on the Qin army's side fluttered in the wind, but the Baiyue people's pole full of animal tails and feathers was hanging to the ground.

"Translation of the !!"

Suddenly there was a shout like that from the other side. Lu Zhe understood that he was reporting his name. No matter what it is called in the Baiyue language system, the transliteration is the three words "Yihu Ze". But he absolutely didn't know that the surname "Yihu" was actually the noble surname of the big clan of Ouyue, and the middle-aged man named Yihuze in front of him was the younger brother of Yihu Song, the chief of the Ouyue Tribal Alliance.

Lu Zhe whispered a few words, and after conveying them one by one, nearly 100 people shouted in unison: "Qin! Qin! Qin! ”

Later generations always thought that the Qin army would roar "gale" when fighting, but in fact, "gale" should be the war slogan taken from "Dafeng Song" by the Han army in the early Han Dynasty. The war slogan of the Qin people is very simple, and the word "Qin" is enough.

The other party was babbling again, and he didn't know what to say, but Lu Zhe didn't understand. The flag bearers were all Qin people who had just come from Guanzhong, and naturally they couldn't understand it.

What else is there in the battlefield dialogue, it is nothing more than mutual registration numbers. Let's talk about how strong our army is, you guys quickly surrender and so on.

"I am Lu Zhe, the commander of the Qin army!"

In fact, with his current official position, Lu Zhe is not qualified to report his name, but in order not to leave regrets, and regardless of whether the other side hears it or not, he shouted out anyway.

After reporting his name, Lu Zhe didn't bother to pay attention to what was shouting on the other side, and just used the distance to observe the troops on the other side. At first glance, most of the soldiers of the Baiyue people were armed with blunt weapons such as clubs, and the number of metal weapons was not many. After a serious look, he found that Baiyue people really have the habit of tattoos, and the more they wear animal skins, the more dense the tattoos on Baiyue people are.

Just as he was watching, out of the corner of his eye, Lu Zhe saw a bare-chested and muscular guy running out of the Baiyue people's team alone.

"Fighter?"

This year, the rising generals? Isn't that a romance thing?

"The demonstration is coming!"

In order to prevent a sneak attack and to sneak attack the commander on the opposite side, Lu Zhe asked a dozen knights with good archery skills to bring bows and arrows, and when the muscular guy approached about one hundred and fifty paces, he waved his hand and all the flag bearers with bows and arrows dismounted.

When the Baiyue man who was still shouting about wah was close to a hundred paces, a flag bearer opened his bow and set up an arrow, and when he approached seventy paces, the bowstring made a "boom" sound, and about five or six seconds later, the running Baiyue man fell to the head with an arrow.

"Wow-"

The noise came from the side of the Baiyue people, thinking that they were scolding "despicable and shameless" or something like that.

"It doesn't matter if you're fighting or demonstrating, let's kill you!"

Lu Zhe saw that he stepped forward to meet with the Baiyue people and turned their horses' heads, and as soon as the group turned around, a group of cavalry immediately rushed out of the edge of the forest, and they didn't know where to call the flag bearers to retreat.

When he returned to the formation, Lu Zhe had the opportunity to ask the flag bearer who was shooting the arrow just now: "What is your name?" ”

The flag bearer of the archery replied: "Xu Zhi, a hundred generals!" ”

Nodding in approval, Lu Zhe saw about five thousand soldiers on the opposite side slowly moving forward, allowing Wei Han to blow the horn.

"Woo-woo-"

The spearmen standing in the front line immediately lowered their waists and stepped forward with their right foot, and the sound of stomping on the ground was heavy and muffled, and the spears in their hands also stretched forward about forty-five degrees.

A flag-bearer next to Lu Zhe rode out, and the knight rode diagonally across his war horse in front of the spearman in front of the six-meter flag.

When the flag bearer galloped to the edge from left to right, the hundred generals who led the team saw the movement of the flag and shouted: "Hurry! ”

The spearmen in the first row raised the six-meter spear with their left arm slightly raised, and their right arm was brought close to their waists, and they slowly trotted up. They ran about five meters before the spearmen in the second row followed, and all the spearmen who were trotting would tilt their spears slightly into the sky.

Ten hundred-man formations formed a five-column stormtroop formation, the horizontal charge of two hundred people looked very weak, and the charging formation with a diameter of about three hundred meters looked thin in this wide battlefield.

There was another sound of horns, and the archers lined up on the left and right flanks moved, and they caught up with the spearmen who were trotting slowly, almost following closely behind.

About one hundred and fifty paces away from the Baiyue people, who were also rushing forward, the spearmen who lined up were already speeding up. After the acceleration was completed, the running officer, who was only seventy paces away from the enemy army, shouted "Hey! The archers in the rear stopped and opened their bows and arrows to shoot rapidly, and the arrows flew over the heads of the spearmen who were still accelerating, and these spearmen who were striding heavily gradually laid their spears flat, and a row of cold spears pointed forward.

The archers shot an average of about four arrows, and as soon as they had finished shooting, they turned and ran to the left and right of their formation, passing by the 1,000 spearmen who were charging forward in the second echelon.

"The whole army is pressing forward!"

Almost as soon as Lu Zhe's words fell, the arrows that were shot out in front of him lost their kinetic energy and were already falling to the ground, and the bronze triangular arrows relied on the speed of falling to break through the skin and bring blood.

Just now, the archers shot arrows from the Baiyue people is about one hundred and thirty paces, and when the Baiyue people rush forward, they get close to the distance of about one hundred steps, and the position where the arrows lose their kinetic energy and fall will inevitably hit the road of the Baiyue people's charge, and some of the people who rush past will naturally continue to rush forward, and the people who are frightened by the arrows behind will stop or be shot dead and wounded, so that the charging formation of the Baiyue people is cut off.

The spears pointed out in front of the running spearmen had formed a death parallel, and they were headlong into the oncoming enemy...... (To be continued......)

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