Chapter 364 The more the better
The enemy is in front of you.
However, there was a disharmonious voice within the Chu army. Xiang Zhuang and Zhongli Mei, the two generals of different camps, had fierce conflicts in the next step of military strategy implementation due to different opinions.
Since the Qin army arrived at the Ji River, there have been constant small-scale conflicts between Xiangzhuang and Li Yuan. The two armies have fought thirteen times, and the Chu army has achieved a record of ten wins and three losses. In a recent large-scale war, Xiangzhuang personally led more than 5,000 central troops in the headquarters to cross the Ji River north, killing Han Xin's central troops into a panic and fleeing.
If Zhonglimei's Changshan army had not been too unsuccessful and could not intercept Han Xin as soon as possible, Xiang Zhuang even felt that he could wipe out Han Xin's partial Qin army's division.
A proud heart means arrogance.
While Xiang Zhuang was proud, he did not consider whether this was Han Xin's arrogant plan. In his opinion, a mere Qin general Han Xin was not a famous opponent at all. Even though Han Xin had participated in the war against the Huns as the leader of the Qin army who aided Chu, Xiang Zhuang still believed that Han Xin was just lucky and met Li Yuan and Ji, who appreciated him.
Has Han Xin fought any famous battle? Xiang Zhuang has no impression.
This is not because he is ignorant or does not understand the situation of Qin, but because Han Xin has not made impressive contributions. Qin can send intermittently to spy on the military situation of Chu. Correspondingly, Chu is also in secretly lying in Qin.
Since Han Xin returned to Qin, the first battle was the Battle of Shaohua Mountain in Wugong County. As a result, he was surrounded by Han general Chongda and others on Jueling. If it weren't for the sacrifice of his life to save his brother Han Si, Han Xin's life would have been lost early. The second battle was several battles against the enemy Liu Bang, but Han Xin did not have much chance of excellence. Next was some sporadic battles in Zhao and Yan. At this time, the power of Qin was already strong enough. It was a skill to deal with miscellaneous princes like Chen Yu, who were simply bullying the weak with the strong and bullying the small with the big.
Due to the unpleasant past with Han Xin, Xiang Zhuang inevitably brought some subjective elements when examining Han Xin's achievements. However, Zhonglimei was familiar with Han Xin and knew Han Xin's true skills and had a deeper view.
In addition, if we were fighting with other countries, Zhonglimei would probably choose to be tolerant. After all, even if there was a little deviation in strategy, it would not affect the overall situation. However, Qin was different. At the beginning of this decision to attack Wei and attack Qin, Xiang Yu summoned several trusted generals to discuss in detail.
The one who lives in the same age.
They all followed Xiang Yu to fight south and north, and all the bloody storms. Among them were Zhonglimei, Zhou Yin and others. Xiang Yu was not unclear about the current dilemma facing the Chu State, but now he has been tied tightly to the Xiang family's interest chain.
Now, the internal affairs of Chu State are controlled by the Prime Minister Xiang Tuo. Before Ya's father Fan Zeng passed away, Xiang Yu could still rely on Fan Zeng's wisdom to fight against Xiang Tuo. After Fan Zeng's death, Xiang Tuo had no opponent.
Two years ago, Kuai Che joined forces with his relatives Yu family to try to share power with Xiang family. In the end, Kuai Che, Shusun Tong, An Qisheng and others were plotted by Xiang Tuo to go to the sky. An Qisheng, who was known as an old god, died in prison. After being detained for nearly a year, Kuai Che took advantage of the opportunity of being on a mission to Qin State to escape from Shengtian, Shusun Tong was dismissed from his official position and finally ran to Yandi to live in seclusion.
Even Yu Ziqi and Yu Ji, such as the relatives who had close ties with Xiang Yu, were disintegrated under the attack of the beautiful women with ulterior motives of Xiang's family. Until Xiang Yu went on this expedition, there was no sign of ease in the cold relationship between Yu Ji and Xiang Yu.
Power is undermined.
The trusted people betray one by one, and the beloved people are gradually moving away.
Xiang Yu's trust in the Xiang family was also declining again and again, from the beginning to the doubts and distrust, which was even more deeply disappointed. Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were kindly raised. However, Xiang Tuo and others did not have such deep feelings except for the blood relatives of the clan.
The battle with Qin was an attempt by Xiang Yu to decide to regain power in Chu. He hoped to re-establish his invincible name through military victory and once again let the Chu people follow him with admiration. Only in this way can a group of trustworthy people gather around him.
Unfortunately, Xiang Yu was too late to wake up.
The military adventure did not bring a turning point for Xiang Yu. On the contrary, when facing Li Yuan, who was more experienced in planning and stronger overall national strength, Xiang Yu not only suffered a crushing defeat, but also lost his life.
The Chu army generals were in conflict.
After persuading Xiang Zhuang for several times but failed, Zhonglimei stopped talking. The so-called "Dao" is different and they do not plan for each other. With Zhonglimei's qualifications, he naturally refused to hand over the Changshan army established by one to Xiang Zhuang. Without the support of the army, his fate would be the same as Ji Bu.
Xiang Zhuang stared at Zhong Limei's back fiercely, and couldn't help but feel frustrated. Others didn't know the grudges between him and Han Xin, but Zhong Limei knew them very well. If Zhong Limei hadn't tried his best to tell Han Xin about Xiang, this rogue boy of a humble background might have been punished by Xiang Zhuang long ago, so how could he have the glory he has now?
Xiang Zhuang returned to the camp in anger, and a staff member who followed him to please him and asked, "Major General, Zhong Limei is so evading the battle and ruling, maybe he has already contacted Han Xin. We must be careful not to be cheated by them."
This strategist's surname is Zhong, like Xiang Zhuang, who is from Wuzhong County in Jiangdong. The Zhong surname was inherited from Zhongyong, the elder brother of Wen Wangchang of the Zhou Dynasty. It is also considered a major clan.
Wuzhong is close to Taihu Lake, and most of the people here make a living by fishing. In addition, the weather has been good over the years. This scholar with the surname Zhong also has a good family background. He has learned from several great scholars who live in seclusion, which is also considered to be a bit of bragging. Of course, if he is real, Zhongsheng will definitely not have much of his ability, otherwise he would not have fallen into the position of working for Xiang Zhuang.
"What you mean is-!" Xiang Zhuang narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhongsheng and asked.
"Major General, Zhong Limei has never taken you seriously because he is an old man from the Chu army. He and Ji Bu are two nails in the Chu army. If you don't remove them, it will be really not easy for you to take over the position of the Overlord." Zhong Sheng smiled sinisterly and pulled out quietly.
"You need to say this. As long as you are not a brain-related person, you can see it. Let me first talk about how to deal with Zhonglimei. Don't tell me. Kill him into his camp and take his life directly?" Xiang Zhuang sneered and said.
"Major General, don't worry, my subordinates have a plan to make Zhonglimei surrender. We might as well do this-!" Zhongsheng followed suit a few steps and whispered to Xiang Zhuang.
Han Xin's "slight" behavior made Xiang Zhuang no longer able to curb his anger, and Zhonglimei's questioning made Xiang Zhuang lose his due rationality.
The lessons of the fall of Hangu Guanzhong and Luoyang's defeat in Luoyang once awakened Xiang Zhuang, but as time went by. As the struggle between the two factions in Chu intensified, Xiang Zhuang's nature was impetuous again.
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North bank of Jishui.
Shuanghekou.
The river near the two Ji River tributaries has a small market at the intersection. Here, there is a dense water network and boats are crisscrossing. The passing ships provide great transportation conditions. Most of these small markets have spontaneously emerged due to the convenience of transportation. Perhaps at a certain period of time, it gradually became deserted due to the diverting of the river channel.
No one would have thought that after Han Xin dispersed his troops, he led more than 1,500 Qin troops here. This Qin army was not large in number, only the size of a captain. Therefore, after secretly reaching Shuanghekou, it did not attract much attention.
The contact person in charge of contacting here is Peng Yue's deputy general, Luan Bu.
Judging from the appearance, this is a middle-aged man with a slightly rich face and looks very rich, and he is no different from other vendors coming and going.
In fact, although Luan Bu is secretly Peng Yue's right-hand man, his external identity is a vendor.
Luan Bu was also from Wei and was a playmate of Peng Yue when he was a teenager. When Han Xin was governing Yan land, Luan Bu, as a representative of Peng Yue, had many contacts with Han Xin.
Thieves.
The main source of income is to sell the robbed goods. This is because some goods do not have much practical use for thieves. If they are kept there, then there will be more and more unutilatory goods in Peng Yue's warehouse. Once these things are stored for a long time, they may deteriorate, rust or simply lose their value.
Therefore, Peng Yue and others must have a channel to sell stolen goods. Originally, they could also contact Jiang Yu of Sanchuan County and conduct some secret transactions. However, in this transaction, Sanchuan County and Juyeze are adjacent to each other, and the goods are basically the same. In addition, Qin and Chu are harmonious some time ago, which makes things from Chu almost impossible to sell at a very good price when they arrive in Luoyang.
However, Yan is different. In the south, the goods from Chu State are profitable several times or even dozens of times when they arrive in the north, especially once they are traded to the Huns.
Luan Bu is undoubtedly an expert in this regard.
Han Xin was a general who was guarding Yanbei. Without his permission, Luan Bu was unable to sell a single piece of cloth to the Huns. Of course, while Han Xin was opening the net to Luan Bu, he also followed the ban on not sending copper and iron to the Huns to the Huns. As for luxury goods such as tortoiseshell in the ocean, there were no restrictions.
Inside a house on the river.
Be on high alert.
This is a stronghold in Peng Yue.
"General Han, this place is surrounded by reeds, and our people are patrolling from afar. The Chu people would never have thought that the general was under his nose, hahaha. In addition, there are our secrets in the Chu camp, including Xiangzhuang's personal soldiers, and our people." Luan Bu smiled with a smile proudly.
Han Xin also changed into a dress of brocade, like an ordinary businessman. He was holding a teacup and asked with a faint smile: "Mr. Luan, please tell me in detail about the situation of the Chu army opposite Jishui, don't make any omissions."
Peng Yue was able to remain undestroyed for many years. In addition to the support of Qin, he also had his own set of methods. Han Xin did not ask who was the darkness. He only needed to get the exact information of the Chu army from Luan Bu.
Luan Bu did not hide it, and informed the inquiry one by one that the dispute between Xiang Zhuang and Zhonglimei was also recorded truthfully in secret and summarized on Han Xin's desk. Now Peng Yue and Han Xin are both generals of Qin, and they have nothing to guard against each other in the same enemy.
"Mr. Luan, please go to Juyeze quickly and inform General Peng Yue, asking him to pretend to be the Chu army and intercept the food, forage and supplies of the Chu army. However, don't intercept too much every time-!" Han Xin pondered for a while and ordered.
"No! I will leave now." Luan Bu responded with confusion. He obviously did not understand Han Xin's intention to do so, but he did not continue to ask.
After Luan Bu left, Han Xin continued to unfold the pile of bamboo slips on his desk and looked carefully. These bamboo slips from all over Qi recorded the situation of the Qin army scattered to various counties and the situation behind the pavilion. What made Han Xin happy was that the number of troops in multiple troops was expanding rapidly.
The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.
Qin and the six Kanto countries are the opponents of life and death.
However, there are differences among the six countries. For example, Zhao, Chu, Yan, Han, and Wei all fought fiercely with the Qin army in the Battle of Unification. Among them, people like Zhao were buried alive in the Battle of Changping, causing every household to carry white clothes and everyone to cry. The country was almost destroyed by the casualties of men over 14 years old.
In comparison, Qi seems quite alternative. Due to the fact that Qin has always adopted a foreign policy of diplomatic relations and near-level attacks, and the inconsistent understanding of Qin in Qi, Qin and Qi do not really meet each other for war. Sometimes the two countries even have tacit understanding to fight against several countries living in the cracks.
Even the final battle between Qin and Qi was the king of Qi, because the king of Qi decided to give up resistance and led his people to surrender to Qin, which did not suffer much robbery in Qi. Therefore, the Qi people did not actually resent the Qin people like people from other countries. In the later anti-Qin storm, only Qi among the princes did not participate in the battle to fight against Qin.
With these foundations and a series of infiltrations before, Han Xin's purpose of dispersing the Qin army to Qidi has become clear. He hopes to quickly form a large number of troops through this short-term "violent soldiers" to form an overwhelming advantage over the Chu army.
Han Xin commands the army, the more the better.
This is different from Li Yuan's usual elite military strategy. In the Qin State, Han Xin also had to take into account the logistics supply issues after the army was larger. In Qi, there was no need to worry about this issue. The Qin army formed by Qi people could completely replenish the supply on the spot without spending anything.
After the news sent back from the bamboo slips, the strength of the Qin army units has improved considerably. To sum up, Han Xin's troops have expanded from more than 10,000 when they entered Qi to nearly 20,000. If there is a little more time, Han Xin believes that the number of people will double.
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