Chapter 306: Qin Generals
"What are you going to do?" The object of Lu Zhe's questioning was Sima Xin.
Of the 80,000 troops that penetrated into Huizhang County, 30,000 were Qin soldiers, and Sima Xin may have been in charge of the army again to bring himself to contain Xiang Liang's army, so that Lü Zhe could take the rest of the troops to Danyang as soon as possible.
With 30,000 people to resist 230,000, it was difficult for Lu Zhe to judge where Sima Xin's confidence came from.
"General Zhengnan, what he knows is that Xiang Liang's corporal soldiers are basically strong men who were forcibly recruited from Lujiang County, and less than 90,000 of the 230,000 people are Xiang Liang's old foundations. Looking at the previous battles, except for the subordinate soldiers, the Chu army did not have any outstanding features. Sima Xin's words were detailed, but he knew that this would not convince Lu Zhe, and then said: "Now Danyang is the top priority of our army, and the general Zhengnan wants to speed up, but he can only leave someone to block the chasing Xiang Liang Division. As long as Danyang is stable, Zhengnan will be able to return to the army and fight again with the Xiangliang headquarters. Moreover, there are still 70,000 of our troops in the direction of the Lujiang River, and with the cooperation of the two, they have the confidence to resist. ”
Sima Xin called Lü Zhe the general of Zhengnan, that is, according to the tradition of the Qin State, only people from the Nanjun family would call Lü Zhe the master.
Lu Zhe looked at Sima Xin with scrutinizing eyes. To tell the truth, he is a person who has directly confronted Sima Xin, and there is a saying that "the one who knows himself best will not be himself, but the enemy", and the military talent he knows about Sima Xin can only be said to be mediocre, and he is a little unconfident that Sima Xin will stay to resist Xiang Liang.
Refuse? Sima Xin is the first time to express the desire to fight, this desire will not be himself, it should be said that the generals of the Qin department have begun to be belligerent after such a period of silence, if they refuse, it will not only hit the spirit of the generals of the Qin department, but also break the originally calm internal atmosphere.
The generals of the Qin Department were not so happy under Lu Zhe, after all, there had been battles, and both sides had paid casualties, if there was no mustard, it would have been impossible at all.
Lü Zhe immediately marched east to fight the Chu army after the battle with the Qin army, and the Qin generals were actually a little surprised. The reason is that the image of Lu Zhe is too difficult for people to figure out. It stands to reason that if it is like the rumors that Lu Zhe wants to betray the Qin State, then now that the Qin State is the enemy of the whole world, the most important thing to do is to set up a pit for the Qin army to kill the Ba, Shu, and Han regions where the army is empty, but Lu Zhe did not do that, but led the army to fight the Chu State.
With an ambivalent mentality, the Qin generals watched for a long time, and what they saw with their own eyes was that Lu Zhe's troops and the Chu army fought quite fiercely. What a person who deliberately rebels should do is to accumulate strength, and even if he has a secret agreement with the Chu State, the intention of attacking the Chu army will be fine. It shouldn't be the consumption of taking out the family funds regardless of the cost, otherwise the strength is weakened in the battle, what kind of rebellion can we talk about?
These Qin generals who had just gone south didn't know much about the situation in the south, how could they know that there was no possibility for Lu Zhe and Chu to be reconciled, what they saw was that Lu Zhe was trying his best to fight each other with Chu State, so their resistance to Lu Zhe in their hearts became smaller and smaller. The generals of the Qin family should not be so silent, they need military power to have the possibility of meritorious service, and now the opportunity has finally come.
"Tell me about your plans." Lu Zhe did not agree or refuse.
Sima Xin couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart when he saw that Lu Zhe didn't refuse immediately, what he was most afraid of was that Lu Zhe refused without any reason, so that the generals of the Qin Department would have no chance of coming out in the south.
There are 70,000 on Ji Bu and Huan Chu's side. Sima Xin inquired around and learned that among the 70,000 veterans, 30,000 were the soldiers who were grouped later, and the other 40,000 were also auxiliaries transferred from the northern border of Nanjun.
Not to mention the 30,000 Qin soldiers in Huizhang County. Many of them are veterans of the war of reunification, and they are fully organized and gradually adapted to the environment of the south, unlike when they first arrived, after they were not accustomed to the water and soil, and implemented those so-called sanitary regulations. The possibility of recurrence of the disease should be minimized.
30,000 elite Qin soldiers, as long as there is no accident, even if Sima Xin is incompetent, he can stabilize the front with the assistance of the rest of the Qin generals. So it is estimated that it will not be a big problem to withstand the Xiang Liang army, which seems to have strong troops but is not good or bad, for a few days, and besides, isn't there still 70,000 reinforcements from the direction of Lujiang County that can echo from afar?
"Huh?" Lu Zhe suddenly found that Sima Xin was not talking empty words, Sima Xin's plan to block the enemy was very feasible, and what he cared about was that Sima Xin was not arrogant enough to say that he would always resist Xiang Liang with the cooperation of Ji Bu and Huan Chu, but said a conservative five-day number.
What was in front of Lu Zhe was no longer whether Sima Xin could resist Xiang Liang for five days, but whether he should let the generals of the Qin Department regain control of the army at this time.
The Qin troops have only been under Lu Zhe's command for about ten days, and Lu Zhe's army has not had time to implement the system of checks and balances and military discipline in the Qin army, and these Qin soldiers have no family to live in Nanjun, so it can be said that they have not received any favor from Lu Zhe, so these Qin soldiers will not be as binding as the rest of the troops under Lu Zhe's command.
"Perhaps, I originally thought that after this battle, I would make adjustments to the army and then let them take charge of the army, but now I have to change it slightly." After thinking to himself, Lu Zhe looked at Sima Xin cautiously: "Five days." ”
Great joy, Sima Xin's heart is extremely happy, and now he is taking the first step in the southern legion: "I will live up to the high expectations of the southern generals!" ”
Lu Zhe did not intend to completely leave the Qin troops, and of the 30,000 soldiers he allocated, 15,000 were from the Qin family, and 15,000 were from Nanjun. In terms of generals, among the 30,000 troops left behind, half of the six lieutenants were from the Qin Department and the Nanjun Department, with Sima Xin as the main general and Tang Jie from the Nanjun Department as the second general.
This time, Lu Zhe also left Yijia behind, this old friend's personality has changed since he came to the south, and he is no longer as free and easy as before, and has become a little silent. Lu Zhe didn't want to restrict Yijia's development because of his relationship with his sister, and he didn't want Yijia to be a pro-soldier and military marquis forever, so he should always be appointed to go out to fight so that he could build up his achievements.
Yijia has a special identity, although he is a military marquis, he is Lu Zhe's cronies, and it is very meaningful to have him left.
"When your troops are fighting, the Lujiang County Headquarters will not come to support immediately. It was really impossible to resist the fact that the six-pillar wolf smoke should be lit a day earlier, and the Jibu scouts would speed up when they saw it, and before that they would only wander away from the battlefield. "That's a signal that has been agreed on a long time, and Lu Zhe must have an explanation.
Sima Xin clasped his fists and saluted: "Hey! ”
Lu Zhe obviously had finished speaking, he took a map of the mountains and rivers, and pointed at the southeast of Lujiang County: "There is still a force of 70,000 people here. ”
Sima Xin's face changed greatly, it was too close to Huizhang County, it seemed that the distance from Ji Bu's department was only one day, and the distance from Xiang Liang was two days, and it seemed that the 70,000 people had never been mentioned, and it was obviously the Tibetan soldiers who had been ambushed by Lu Zhe early.
The battle situation has reached this point, Lu Zhe is still hiding 70,000 troops, Sima Xin is shocked by Lu Zhe's forbearance, the situation has become unfavorable and a large army has not moved, it can be seen that Lu Zhe has been setting up a situation, and when this hidden army should move, it must be the moment when Xiang Liang walked into the trap.
"Nine-pillar wolf smoke, three shapes." Lu Zhe stared at Sima Xin's eyes with an unprecedentedly stern expression: "Don't mobilize this army unless you have to." ”
What do you mean as a last resort? Sima Xin hesitated for a moment and asked, and he had to ask.
"It's time for the whole army to be wiped out." Lu Zhe is actually still very reluctant, he has spent so much effort to make a layout, it is really not easy to get to this point, that army should have been the killer weapon to annihilate Xiang Liang's department, but now the situation is changing confusingly, and the killer weapon has become a bargaining chip to save the war, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to continue to hide.
Sima Xin's mood was suddenly a little complicated, and he couldn't understand Lu Zhe as a person anymore. He thinks that if he is an ambitious person, he should take this opportunity to bury these Qin generals in the south, after all, it is they themselves who ask to stay and break the queen, and these will be drawn and retained on the copy of the military order for a record, even if they are all dead, the Qin State has nothing to say. They were still betting on whether Lu Zhe would let them all die on the battlefield in the end, so that they could truly control the merged army, but now it seems that they are a little jealous of the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.
Lu Zhe was not so magical that he even knew everything about what others were thinking, and he didn't know that Sima Xin's mentality had been changing in a short period of time. His intention in doing this is to be worthy of the lord of an army, whether it is the Qin family or the Nanjun family, they are all soldiers under his command, and what he thinks is to avoid the soldiers under his command from being consumed meaninglessly.
"Don't dare to live up to the expectations of the general!" Sima Xin's address to Lu Zhe has changed again, which is to express a gesture of joy and sincerity.
"General?" Lu Zhe is no longer the person who is at a loss for today's people, the generals he knows are the names of generals in an army who are loved by generals, and the generals of the Qin army are called so because they really want to serve under their command.
Kind of an unexpected surprise, right? However, Lu Zhe didn't take it too seriously, as long as the Qin generals led by Sima Xin could fight with their hearts, the role of this battle would definitely be of great significance, as for wanting them to completely surrender, I don't know how long it would take to go this road.
"You can still fight and retreat, and it's better to move the battlefield to the Yangtze River." Lu Zhe explained to Sima Xin the military example of the half-crossing attack: "At that time, I will also leave the necessary countermeasures there. ”
Half-crossed? That is the history of the king of Wu Lu raised troops to crusade against the state of Chu war example, occurred in 506 BC, the initiator Sun Wu is not a nameless, it is precisely Sun Wu in Chinese history is a very famous military strategist, although Sima Xin has not read Sun Wu's art of war, but the paragraph is not completely impressed.
Leaving Sima Xin and Tang Jie as the main and secondary generals, and then Yijia as the military Cao, 30,000 people began to build a defense line on the spot, while Lu Zhe led 50,000 troops to start to Danyang day and night. (To be continued......)