Chapter 279: The Game
Huan Chu didn't know that reinforcements were close at hand, and he committed suicide by resisting the military order.
There are not many mutinous soldiers, basically the cronies and relatives of the right Linggu, but as soon as more than 30 people break out on their own front, the third line of defense carefully arranged by Huan Chu will naturally cause chaos.
The military judge immediately ordered the surrounding troops to cooperate in the suppression of the mutinous soldiers, and although the mutiny was quickly suppressed, the result was that Xiang Liangjun seized the opportunity to enter the third lane.
The mutiny is like a cancer, the people are already panicked and the first mutiny, Huan Chu's subordinates are even more panicked, if it weren't for Huan Chu's personal coming to the third line of defense to lead the army to participate in the battle, it is likely to be killed by Xiang Liang's army to the last line of defense.
After all, Huan Chu had just started the army for seven or eight months, and although he tried his best to reorganize the army and give the troops a basic structure, the lack of officers was not something that could be cultivated in a short period of time by a few policies.
Whether an army has qualified officers or not is more important than anything else, and the absence of qualified officers means that it is difficult to carry out the military orders conveyed by the superiors, so there is no way to talk about forming a formation or anything. At the same time, it is also important for an army to have qualified officers for the centripetal force of the troops.
Repelling the Chu soldiers who broke into the third line of defense, Huan Chu personally killed a number of enemy soldiers was really bloody, he pushed away the soldiers who wanted to come over to wipe the blood stains on his armor, his eyes swept over the third camp that was broken, and the bitterness in his heart became stronger and stronger.
"Rebuild the defensive line," Huan Chu returned his sword to the sheath, "order someone above the right leader to come and see me." β
The military system of Chu has always been a bit chaotic, Huan Chu adopted the military system of Chu State, he has 70,000 troops, if there are 5,000 people like the Qin army and a captain for a school, then there are only 14 captains, but the chaos of the Chu system makes the 70,000 troops have at least 30 right leaders.
The number of troops under the command of each right leader varies, some may be in the thousands, while others are less than a thousand. In fact, to admire the generals of the unified army of the Chu State, they can actually remember how many soldiers there are under the command of which right leader. Can't remember? If the wrong right leader is sent during the battle, and as a result, the one who should have sent more people will become the one with fewer people, and then it will really end miserably.
In the state of Chu, the soldiers under the command of the right leader are generally his clansmen or slaves, such as the right leaders of the army under Xiang Liang.
In the Huan Chu army, many of the right leaders were the leaders who surrendered or gathered in the process of conquest, so the number of relatives was small, which was why Huan Chu dared to kill the right leader Gu. If it was in the orthodox Chu army, Huan Chu not only did not dare to kill but even pacified. Otherwise, a sequence of right leaders will never only have about thirty people to rebel, but all the soldiers of the entire right leader will rebel.
When Xiang Liang received the third attack sequence and entered the third line of defense of the Huan Chu army, he carefully asked about the passage, and he learned that there was a mutiny in the Huan Chu army, and there was a burst of "hahaha" laughter: "The two armies are attacking, and people are falling all the time, and the most important thing to fight is blood courage and internal stability." Now Huan Chu's subordinates are about to break out, which means that they are already unstable internally. β
Only Chen Ping, who was counting the battle damage, was in the tent, and he said yes very cooperatively, and continued to write with a pen after speaking.
Xiang Liang was purely happy and emotional, he stood up and walked out of the tent.
When Chen Ping saw that there was only himself in the tent, he put down his pen and knocked on his somewhat stiff neck. He is the person responsible for counting military merits and recording battle losses, and in the establishment of the Chu army, this kind of position is called Fa Cao, and the lack of a "army" means that it is not a military position.
Within four days, not counting the losses just now. Xiang Liang's 150,000-strong army has lost more than 14,000 casualties, nearly 10,000 seriously wounded or disabled, and some of those who have been injured or lost their combat effectiveness are counted as more than 50,000 since the dispatch of the army.
As Xiang Liang's staff. Chen Ping clearly remembered that a 50,000 troops led by Xiang Ji would arrive, but three days had passed, and the 50,000 follow-up troops that should have appeared had not appeared. Guessing from Xiang Liang's words, 50,000 people should be near the battlefield?
The Xiang clan is a clan system, which means that it is difficult to become the core without blood relations, and Chen Ping's ability is not bad, Xiang Liang naturally knows this, but he has not promoted Chen Ping, and there is even a vague sense of vigilance.
Who is Chen Ping? Well, I don't mention what he did in history, but he is Chen Ping, how can such a person not understand what happened to him? He also felt that he might not be able to be a long history in the army, but he definitely shouldn't be a position like Fa Cao, who was just a staff member, and was not even a formal official position.
"Xiang Gong attacked very eagerly and fiercely, except that it was not suitable to fight at night, and he began to send troops to attack as soon as the sky turned white, which was forcing Huan Chu to keep asking for help." Chen Ping is actually not familiar with the military, but he understands people's hearts, "Xiangji's 50,000 follow-up troops are hidden in order to target Huan Chu's reinforcements." But it's been four days, and Huan Chu is getting more and more in crisis day by day, and the reinforcements sent by Lu Zhe have not appeared in the rumors......"
Xiang Liang's strong attack on Huan Chu was to seduce the reinforcements sent by Lu Zhe, and it was obvious that the generals sent by Lu Zhe were also waiting for an opportunity?
Chen Ping knows that the game is not a game when fighting on the battlefield, and there are many things that are also part of the game in addition to the fight on the battlefield. He was thinking, always thinking, what would change the course of the war.
Xiang Liang came back not long after he went out, and he saw Chen Ping coughing in a daze.
βοΌβ Chen Ping immediately picked up the pen and wrote again.
To be honest, Xiang Liang admires Chen Ping very much, but the blame is only that Chen Ping followed Song Yi first, and then when he saw that the situation was not right, he wanted to escape and was arrested as a spy.
Chen Ping has a good eloquence, saying that the person who captured him will carry people to see Uncle Xiang who returned to Wu County.
Xiang Bo is a person who likes talents, seeing that Chen Ping is eloquent, and getting the savings accumulated by Chen Ping in Song Yi, it turns out that he is not a spy and recommended Xiang Liang here.
Of course, things are not as simple as a few words, but Chen Ping was accepted by Xiang Liang as a staff member by virtue of eloquence, and because Chen Ping was sensitive to numbers and wrote well, Xiang Liang also gave Fa Cao, who was not an official position.
"I have something ......," Xiang Liang sat down and took a sip before speaking.
Chen Ping put down his pen and saluted respectfully, maintaining a leaning posture and waiting for Xiang Liang to continue.
ββ¦β¦ Never mind. Xiang Liang originally wanted to ask Chen Ping why he found out that he wanted to deal with Song Yi, and how he decided that Song Yi must not be his opponent, so he actually let Chen Ping escape.
Chen Ping saw that Xiang Liang didn't ask again, and then picked up the pen and wrote again.
"Huan Chu's third camp will soon be breached, and Lu Zhe's reinforcements still don't show up at this critical moment, do you think there's anything special about it?" Xiang Liang said that he was asking rather than talking to himself, he had been following his original plan, and it was more smooth to attack Huan Chu, but I don't know why there was always a little panic in my heart.
Chen Ping naturally couldn't speak, he looked at Xiang Liang with a pensive face out of the corner of his eye, and thought to himself: "It's obvious that it's also hidden left and right, and the situation is too weird." There are two most likely things, one is that Lu Zhe did not defeat the southbound Qin army as rumored, and the other is that he must have opened up a new battlefield if he did not come to the battlefield. β
Xiang Liang stood up suddenly, making Chen Ping think that Xiang Liang had always figured it out, but it didn't seem to be like that?
"Attack, invest more troops, since Lu Zhe doesn't come, then eat Huan Chu completely!" Xiang Liang walked out quickly after talking to himself.
Chen Ping saw Xiang Liang go out and stopped writing again, he felt that Xiang Liang was not a stupid person, he could think of two reasons why Lu Zhejun didn't come, how could Xiang Liang not think of it?
"Could it be that Xiang Gong has determined that the defeat of the southbound Qin army by Lu Zhe is fake news, and the reinforcements that Lu Zhe can send are only those 50,000 people?" The more Chen Ping thought about it, the more reasonable he felt.
The news of LΓΌ Zhe's merger with the southbound Qin army will not come out, but he will lead the army to retreat but it cannot be hidden, so he will definitely release some true and false news, which people usually call information warfare. Of course, it is not the kind of information warfare with electronic interference, but a kind of targeted war fog that the enemy cannot judge because there is truth and falsehood.
There was a huge cheer outside the tent, and Chen Ping was very curious and wanted to go out and have a look, but he held back, stabilized his mind and picked up the pen to write.
Xiang Liang was really ruthless, he did not replace the troops of the third sequence, but personally led the men and horses of the fourth sequence to attack together.
When the 30,000 men in the fourth sequence joined the frontal attack, Long Ji on the left flank also led 20,000 men to attack the Huan Chu camp on the north side of the corner, and on the right flank, a man named Zhou Yin led 10,000 people to contain another army camp of Huan Chu.
This is a posture of all-out attack, Huan Chu saw Xiang Liang put up this battle and immediately knew that the critical moment had come, he shouted to the right leader and the generals who were summoned: "If you want to live, rise up!" β
is very pale language, General Yu's face is firm, and they can become General Yu, which means that they are Huan Chu's henchmen. However, the thirty or so right collars are just not so resolute, and many of them have flickering eyes.
"No!" 's response is neat, but what will happen to the execution, Huan Chu also knows in his heart.
The generals were about to go out after their answers, and a long "report" was heard in the distance, and a herald opened the curtain and almost crawled in.
"Tell the lord, the troops were found in the rear of our army five miles, and the banner was from Nanjun, they, they are coming!" The herald was excited.
It seems that because he was surprised, Huan Chu didn't react for a while?
The people in the tent also seemed to be stunned, they looked at each other for a while, and Huan Chu above finally reacted.
"It's time to come......" Huan Chu's voice didn't fall, and there was a herald shouting something outside, it sounded like something "five hundred miles expedited"?
Five hundred miles? Huan Chu was not stunned this time, but he knew what five hundred miles meant, and his face became very strange in an instant. (To be continued......)