Infinite War Begins with Cao Thief

Plans are not as fast as changes.

When Li Si and other envoys returned to various countries to report on the results of their missions, and when Jia Xu and others were planning the war in the north and south, Dayu's western front had already achieved significant results.

The commanders of Qin's Nanjun and Wujun were not as strategic as the Dukes Gungun at the center of Qin.

The governor of Nanjun directly ordered the county magistrates and county lieutenants from all over the country to mobilize the army to rescue Yingdu.

The reason is very simple. Yingdu is not only an important town that controls the middle reaches of the river, but also the county government of Nanjun. The main officials such as the county guard, the censor, the county captain, and the county magistrate are all in Yingdu!

The butt determines the head.

As long as they can defend Yingdu until the main force of the Qin Dynasty arrives, they will still have merit even if other places are lost. On the contrary, if Yingdu is lost, then even if they survive, they will probably be punished.

In this case, Xiling (Yiling) of course had to send troops.

Shortly after the few main forces in Xiling left the city, Gan Ning's troops took advantage of the naval advantage to maneuver to the vicinity of Xiling and launched a sneak attack on Xiling at night. Xiling, which was almost empty, could not resist and was captured by Gan Ning.

After capturing Xiling, Gan Ning's troops worked non-stop. With the cooperation of Zhou Tai's navy, they used the east wind borrowed by Zhuge Liang to go upstream again. With the help of sharks and navy porpoises, they safely crossed Xiling. Gorge, entered the Wu Gorge, and troops came to the Wu County of Qin State to govern Wu County.

The defenders of Wu County were shocked.

Since Bai Qi won the Battle of Yanying, Wu County has actually become the rear area of ​​the Qin State. It is not that the armaments are depleted, but there are really not many soldiers and horses, and this time the people transported by Dayu are One hundred thousand people.

Wu County does not have that many military formations, and there are not many generals who can form military formations casually. In this case, even if Gan Ning only leads 100,000 space troops, he is still very threatening.

The Wu County garrison and the Yingdu garrison made the same choice, requesting reinforcements from various counties and sent a letter of request for support to Bajun.

Naturally, the surrounding counties could only mobilize their troops to rescue Wu County.

Then, they were surrounded by Gan Ning for reinforcements, and finally surrounded Wu County, which became an isolated city.

When Gan Ning attacked Wujun, Zhang Ren's troops of the Dayu Army, who were best at ambushes, and Wang Ping's troops, who were good at mountain warfare and commanded the Wudang Fei Army, also marched into Qutang Gorge and set up camp with the support of the navy.

The location of the camp corresponds to the location of Baidi City in later generations.

It is located on the north bank of the river at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, on Baidi Mountain, facing Kuimen to the east, Baiyan Mountain to the south across the river, Hanguan to the west, and Jigong Mountain to the north. It is located at the entrance to the west end of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. It is a mountain city and river. The defense system integrating heart and island will be a battleground for military strategists in later generations.

At this time, there was only one small fishing village.

However, because of the world map, Jiangxin Island is also larger and can completely build a military fortress independently.

After occupying this place, Jia Kui, who was good at building cities, and brothers Huo Du and Huo Jun, who were good at defense, immediately took action and commanded the army to build city defenses and water fortresses.

The Dayu army planned to build two strongholds here to guard the Qin army's way out of Bashu.

Zhang Ren, who was quite enterprising, also tried to attack the defense gate.

However, due to the nature of defending the pass as an important military location, it was already an important pass for the Chu State when the Chu State was at war with Bashu. At this time, there was no need to send troops like many counties under the direct jurisdiction of the county guards, and the terrain was indeed easy to defend. It was difficult to attack, and in the end Zhang Ren had no choice but to give up.

But in any case, after occupying Baidi City, the connection between Wujun and Bashu was completely cut off, and the Qin army's Bashu soldiers would face huge challenges if they wanted to move eastward.

The main force of the Qin army had just been assembled and had not yet left the border. The decisive battle in Yingdu was far from officially started. The Yu army took advantage of its naval superiority to make a big maneuver. It not only locked up Wujun, but also directly blocked the Qin army from sending Bashu to support Ying. All possible.

This operation was obviously different from Dayu's previous strategic concept, but Dayu was not the emperor of the Zhao family, and had to give the frontline generals a formation map before the war began. The frontline generals of Dayu's army had absolute autonomy.

This strategy was jointly formulated by Xi Zhicai, Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun after discussion and based on actual conditions.

During the battle with the Qin Army and the barbarians in Qianzhong County, Zhuge Liang discovered the fact that the Yu Army's space soldiers could not even defeat the military formations of the Qin Army's county-level garrison.

Although Qianzhong County is considered a border area, the troops stationed in the border areas are naturally stronger than ordinary county soldiers, and some are even from the Central Army. However, the space soldiers also have the bonus of generals. If they can't defeat them head-on, it will be very difficult. Explain the problem.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's suggestion is to use strengths and avoid weaknesses, that is, to give full play to the powerful advantages of Yu's navy and navy, and not to fight head-on if possible.

Xi Zhicai obviously had the same idea, and Xi Zhicai liked to use strange tactics, while Zhuge Liang had a very strategic vision. Both of them felt that the best way to deal with Yingdu was to besiege Yingdu without attacking it, and to establish a long-term siege and build a siege. The dikes were used to divert water to the city, and at the same time, they dug deep fortifications at a favorable position outside Yingdu City, built strong walls and cleared the fields, waiting for the Qin army to attack.

Since the Qin army is powerful in field battles, but our army's military formation is not yet perfect, we should defend first, and at the same time develop the jungle. Once developed, we can then fight with the Qin army in the field. Now we focus on a strict defense.

Siege warfare is the most difficult to bring into play the role of military formations, and it is also the easiest to consume enemy troops.

However, as long as the Qin army wants to rescue Yingdu, it can only attack by force, otherwise Dayu can slowly wear out the Yingdu defenders.

This is a conspiracy. For Dayu, the biggest problem supporting this strategy is the consumption of grain and grass.

In order to reduce the pressure on grain and grass, Dayu had to send all the auxiliary troops to Jingnan to work in the fields. They can still harvest another season this year.

In addition, the work of persuading the Southern Barbarians to surrender went very smoothly. Although Dong Huang did not personally take action, Queen Zhu Rong, Zhuge Liang, Samoko, Wu Tu Gu, King Mulu, E Huan and others had too high affinity towards the barbarians. Samoko, in particular, was like a fish in water among the barbarians in Qianzhong County.

The barbarians in Qianzhong County are actually the Wuxi Barbarians of Samoko in later generations, and they can barely be regarded as the ancestors of Samoko.

Although the world is different, we are all barbarians, and our customs and languages ​​are basically the same. Let Wu Tu Gu lead the Wanxiang soldiers around, kill a few thorns, and have a few drinks, and everyone will start to have fun. .

Everyone once again boasted about Dong Huang's merits, and Zhuge Liang, Queen Zhu Rong, King Mulu and others pretended to be clever. The barbarians believed this in the first place, and when they saw Wu Tu Gu defeating all the tribe's challengers, they all expressed their disapproval of Dong Huang. Huang was convinced and naturally became more convinced.

Now these barbarians are also preparing to provide soldiers. If it were not for the shortage of food and grass, Dayu would be able to raise hundreds of thousands of troops immediately.

At this time, Dayu's army could only reluctantly accept 50,000 barbarian elites and tens of thousands of barbarian girls.

The elite barbarians entered various barbarian legions and Zhuge Liang's Wudang Flying Army. A few barbarian kings joined directly and could lead the army independently; the barbarian women originally wanted to be sent to the palace in accordance with the "law, filial piety and direct evaluation of the southern barbarians" policy, but were killed by Zhu Rong The Queen cuts off her beard.

Although the barbarian army did not dare to ask for more, the Yu army had a lot of money. They generously gave exquisite gold and silver products, gold bars, ingots, and various pearls, tortoise shells, corals, etc. from the East China Sea to each tribe, so that each tribe could The nobles of the tribe were grateful.

At the same time, the Dayu Army also purchased meat from various tribes fairly, which not only satisfied the meat needs of the Dayu Army to a great extent, but also won the favor of the barbarians and further established trust.

The Dayu Army also invited people from various tribes to send people to the Holy Land of Haojing to meet with the great Emperor of the Dayu Empire, the father of the Japanese slaves, the father of Goryeo, the King of the Southern Barbarians, and Tian Khan, and promised not to harm the interests of the allied barbarians.

In short, the situation in Jingnan is excellent. Now the barbarians in Wuxi and Xiangshui areas have been basically pacified, and they are now dealing with the barbarians further south.

All in all, the rear is stable, the auxiliary army and various captured cities are also working hard to farm, and with the support of Jiangdong, the Western Front Army can still compete with the Qin Army in one or two years.

Since the problem in Yingdu is not that big, it is time to consider how to expand the results.

Except for Yingdu, the other northern cities in Nanjun are not easy to fight. The main reason is that the Yu army does not have absolute confidence to defeat the Qin army in a field battle. If it cannot annihilate the Qin army in large numbers, it will not be able to defend it. In this case, the only target that can be attacked is Bashu.

Zhuge Liang and Xi Zhicai made a plan to seize Wu County, and asked sharks, finless porpoises, etc. to investigate the hydrological conditions, and finally made a final decision.

Although Wu County has not been captured yet, in fact, Wu County has become a turtle in the urn, and it is only a matter of time before Gan Ning captures it.

At this point, on the map, Dayu's territory basically forms a long snake formation along the river. This is actually a very dangerous layout, but because of Dayu's absolute naval superiority, Dayu can calmly ensure the safety of the long snake. .

And now the place that poses the greatest threat to the long snake is Yingdu.

Dayu's actions made the entire Qin Dynasty extremely angry.

The loss of two counties in succession was an unprecedented loss since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, but these two places were beyond the reach of the Qin Dynasty. Qianzhong County was basically hopeless, but Wu County had to be rescued.

Therefore, Meng Wu was asked to enter Bashu as soon as possible, prepare an army in Ba (Chongqing), and recapture Wu County as soon as possible.

Wang He and Duke He were also asked to send troops quickly.

Wang He and Hegong had a total of 300,000 troops, including 50,000 warriors, and an army of government beasts. There are millions of auxiliary soldiers.

The warriors of Qin were the strongest elite soldiers of all the countries in the Warring States Period, and Qin also spent a lot of money this time.

It is worth mentioning that most of these auxiliary soldiers are soldiers of Qin's war agents.

Qin's war agent was unlucky.

Most of the war agents in other countries can become small lords or something, and they have quite a lot of autonomy and can bring their own soldiers and horses to fight. However, Qin does not allow the lords to have a large number of soldiers and horses of their own. The feudal lord will not be allowed to lead his own troops to become an organic unit of the Qin army. What's more terrible is that if the Qin State wants to send troops, it will directly require who to perform military service.

Most of these war agents had titles. As a result, most of the war agents who did not find a strong enough backer were forcibly recruited and became grassroots officers of the Qin army. They were often the kind of officers who could not defeat their subordinates.

This means that once there is a war, these war agents who have previously been arrogant and high-ranking officials must charge into battle like ordinary grassroots officers of the Qin army, and they are not protected by their own generals and soldiers, so the risk increases sharply. .

However, every loss has its own gain. Because these people are incorporated into the regular army, they can comprehensively and systematically study the grassroots military formations of the Qin Army. Although they start from the most basic unit of the army, the opportunity for this kind of systematic learning is not Very rare.

There is no doubt that if you achieve military success and get promoted in the future, you can even comprehensively and systematically learn higher-level military formation combinations.

The smart war agents immediately tried every means to get their generals and natural soldiers to join the Qin regular army, even if they were scattered. Their space soldiers were also sent to the auxiliary army as much as possible.

Smarter war agents cut off their own hands and feet before the conscription came, creating a disability and thus evading conscription, and then sent their men into the army.

The smartest ones became the disciples of ministers and military generals, and also sent their subordinates into the army.

All in all, because of Qin's special system, it not only "digested" the army of war agents to a certain extent, but also stimulated the fighting spirit of war agents to the greatest extent.

Because theoretically, as long as you make enough achievements, you can even learn the military formations of Qin's elite soldiers.

Just imagine, even if the Qin State only has 10,000 war agents and only sends 5,000 military generals into the Qin army, it will also add 5,000 talents to the Qin State who can command at least several thousand troops.

What's more, there are only a lot more people joining. If you add in the War Agent and the fact that the War Agent cannot have only one military general under his command, the Qin State has at least 30,000 to 50,000 more generals with good military command skills joining. These people besides In addition to not being able to form a military formation and not being particularly powerful in terms of strength, he is excellent in terms of command level, strategic vision, and fighting skills.

Coupled with the large number of seventh- and eighth-level soldiers and natural persons accumulated by various war agents, as well as the emergence of tens of thousands of war agent cities, it is conceivable that the Qin State has been strengthened.

Compared with Qin, the use of war agents by Chu and Yan was child's play. Yan directly turned against each other, while Chu turned war agents into petty princes.

The small princes seem to have more weight than Qin's war agents, but they are also less likely to be able to learn powerful military formations.

Comparing the two, it's hard to say which one is better.

But being able to systematically learn military formations is definitely the dream of a war agent.

If the generals who joined the Qin State as war agents could fight all the way and survive until Qin Shihuang completed the unification, then they would probably be able to become intermediate or even senior generals, and even learn Qin Ruishi's military formation. How powerful they would be by then, but Just imagine.

And this path may be the most orthodox way space arranges for war agents.

This mission space is actually mainly for training generals.

The war agents at this stage are actually not at the level of competing with the indigenous people. Close cooperation with the indigenous people is the best way out.

Da Qin, which can maximize the potential of the war agent, is absolutely terrifying. Because their auxiliary troops are actually not much different from the space troops of Dong Huang's army. In other words, the auxiliary troops under Wang Lu can correspond to the main force of Yu's army. And Gao Shun's 150,000-strong military formation, which was initially effective, could not defeat the 300,000 elite Qin troops, including 50,000 warriors.

This time Zhuge Liang and the others were on the right track, and they were really on the right track.

When the Qin army finally left Wuguan and entered Nanyang County, and sent a partial army to march in the direction of Chu Fang City, the Chu State finally reached an agreement with South Korea. Chu State transferred the fifteen cities in Chendu and Chu Fang City. , and hundreds of small towns and military strongholds were given to South Korea.

The reason is that Wei, South Korea, and Qi really sent troops.

South Korea's military front was directed at Chendu; Qi State once again launched an attack on Li Yuan's army, intending to seize the entire Huaibei. Wei Wuzu defeated Chu's border guards, and his military front was directed at Juyang, the new capital of Chu State.

Can Ju Yang, with the king's soldiers coming out in full force, be able to stop Wei Wu's soldiers?

the answer is negative!

The King of Chu did not bother to annihilate the remnants of Lord Chun Shen, and could only choose to lead his elite troops to cross the Huai River again to rescue Juyang.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Qin State from attacking Guo on false roads, and to gather the army as much as possible and stabilize the basic market, the King of Chu finally had no choice but to trust the sincere King of Han and reached a deal with South Korea.

On October 3rd, the Korean general "Ji Wuye" accepted Chu's remaining western defense fortifications and deployed local defenses in Chufang City. In the same month, the Korean general "Bai Yifei" entered Yingdu and supported the Chu army with some grain, grass and weapons. .

On October 5th, Qin pretended not to recognize the Korean flag on Chu Fang City and attacked Chu Fang City, but was repelled by Dian Wei.

The generals of the Qin army were furious, but Dian Wei relied on the fortifications to forcefully push back.

The Qin army considered that they could not fight on three fronts, so they suffered a dumb loss and continued to go south. At this time, the main force of the Qin army going south received the news that the Chu State was going to send Jingling.

Wang Lu thought that this must be the result of the negotiation between Li Si and the Chu State, so he sent Duke He to lead 10,000 sharp soldiers and 40,000 regular troops to rush to capture Jingling. He also sent young general Yang Duanhe to lead 20,000 regular troops and 100,000 auxiliary troops as backup to assist Duke Lin in capturing the Jianghan Plain.

The jingling refers to the jingling of the mausoleum, that is, the mountain mausoleum ends here.

This place reaches Dahong Mountain in the north, borders the Han River in the south, has mountains and rivers at its back, and guards the Jianghan Plain and the mouth of the Han River. Controlling this place will prevent the Dayu navy from going north along the Han River, thereby further ensuring the security of the Han River Basin of Qin and the safety of millions of troops. Grain Road.

However, what Wang Lu didn't know was that Dayu's army learned of the Chu army's retreat even earlier than Chu's, and Cheng Yu had already informed him of the agreement reached between Han Wangan and Chu under his control.

Dayu's army also made preparations early.

When Hegongsuo's troops were crossing the Han River, the Yu army attacked halfway across the river. The naval forces of Jiang Qin, Han Shizhong, and Sancai plunged directly into the river, easily crushing the small escort navy of the Qin army and cutting off the Qin army. The floating bridge along the river divided the unprepared Qin army into two parts.

The more than 40,000 men under the command of Duke Lu were divided on the east bank of the Han River, while most of the Qin army's baggage was isolated on the west bank of the Han River.

"Formation, formation!"

Regardless of how the Yu navy army could appear here at the right time, Duke Hui's first reaction was to command the army to form a formation to defend against the enemy.

However, the Qin army had not yet formed an effective formation. Yue Fei, Yang Zaixing, Niu Gao, Yue Yun, Gao Chong, Zhang Xian, etc. led 30,000 Beiwei troops and 50,000 cavalry to rush over.

"Cavalry charge?"

Duke Heng sneered.

This semi-imaginary world actually had stirrups. Even if they didn't originally, so many war agents have been here for three years, and they have forced stirrups. Moreover, Zhao's Hufu cavalry and archery are also famous, and the Qin army has no regard for cavalry. Not unfamiliar, even aware that the other party may shoot a wave.

But this kind of shooting was just a drizzle in front of Qin's heavy armor formation.

Duke He was not afraid at all.

But the next performance of Dayu Army directly defeated the Qin Army.

Dayu's army did not directly charge into the Qin army's formation, but took out Zhuge's serial crossbows and various strong bows and crossbows.

As we all know, Zhuge's crossbows are not precious. What is precious are the Zhuge's crossbows and crossbow arrows produced by Space.

For a fifth-level Zhuge Company Crossbow Soldier, a box of ten arrows will cost ten war points. For an eighth-level Zhuge Company Crossbow Soldier, a box of ten arrows will reach one hundred and twenty war points. Ten thousand crossbows fired at once will cost ten battle points. There are 1.2 million war points. After a battle, you will have to start with tens of millions of war points.

It's definitely a waste of money.

If it was the Yu army during the Battle of Jiangdu, they might consider the issue of cost-effectiveness, because Zhuge Liannu's performance in that battle was not outstanding, and even a bit disappointing. But now that Zhuge Liang has retrained and upgraded after reaching the peak of the first level of mythology, the Zhuge Liannu soldiers and Zhuge Liannu are completely different.

Dayu's army now has a total of 30,000 Zhuge Liangnu soldiers, and this time they brought out 10,000.

The Zhuge Liannu carried by the remaining soldiers and horses are imitations. Due to the upgrading of the world and the advancement of materials, the imitation Zhuge Liannu has 60% of the power of the genuine Zhuge Liannu, which is also impressive.

Ten thousand genuine Zhuge Liannu, 20,000 pirated Zhuge Liannu and other crossbows, a salvo of 350,000 arrows, all of which are armor-piercing heavy arrows, some shoot straight and some projectile, directly forming firepower Covering, even if the Qin army was in the military formation, maximizing the power of the military formation, and many of them were protected by shields, it still caused five to six thousand casualties to the Qin army.

However, the Qin army's counterattack arrived quickly.

Since Bai Qi defeated the Korean crossbow formation, the Qin army has cracked the secret of the crossbow formation. Now Qin's crossbows are the most powerful among the seven countries.

Qin's counterattack also caused three to four thousand casualties to Dayu's army.

But Yue Fei was not surprised but overjoyed, because the Qin army had exposed the location of their crossbowmen. Next, all the arrows fired by Dong Huang's army were concentrated at that location, which immediately caused a huge damage to Qin's crossbowmen. of casualties.

"Cavalry, rush over and drive away the Yu army! Follow up with the infantry phalanx, cover with crossbowmen at all costs, chariot soldiers, seize the time to assemble!"

Duke He issued a cold order.

He knew what it meant to have a small number of cavalry in the formation at this time, but for the current plan, only by quickly assembling the cavalry formation would there be a chance of survival.

More than 3,000 Qin cavalrymen immediately took orders to attack. Yue Fei, who knew the weakness of his army, would not fight the Qin cavalry head-on. Instead, he directed Zhuge's crossbowmen to fire volleys at the cavalrymen.

After two rounds of volleys, the Qin Army's three thousand cavalry suddenly collapsed. However, the Qin Army's remaining crossbowmen also caused certain losses to Yue Fei's troops, and the Qin Army's crossbowmen who were exposed again suffered a disaster.

"Retreat!"

After another wave of arrows, Yue Fei ordered the entire army to retreat.

"No more charging? I think the Qin army is nothing more than this."

General Yang Zaixing was a little eager to try.

"I think the enemy seems to be preparing something. They may have a back-up plan. Don't worry. Anyway, the enemy is a bunch of remnants without supplies, and they can't cross the Han River. Their only escape route is to go north to Yan (Yicheng, Hubei). Along the way We have been prepared for a long time.”

Yue Fei said confidently.