Qin Official

"Military strife is an advantage, and military strife is a danger."

Meng Wu vaguely remembered what his father said to him many years ago when he was young and asked his father Meng Ao for advice on the art of war.

"Wu'er, the way to use the army is to be the first. When a general accepts the emperor's order, from gathering the army, setting up camp, to marching to the battlefield to confront the enemy, there is nothing more difficult than being the first to seize the opportunity to win."

He cited the example of Jinyang's rebellion in the first year of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, Jinyang surrendered first and then rebelled back to Zhao, but Li Mu had not yet had time to take over. The local Zhao people believed that Hedong and Taiyuan were two hundred miles apart, and the round-trip journey , it will take at least ten days. By then the city of Jinyang has been repaired and all the armies are ready.

However, it only took Meng Ao three days to lead troops from Hedong to Jinyang, catching the local Zhao people off guard and putting down the rebellion before Li Mu sent troops from Yunzhong Yanmen to take over. Established his position in the military.

However, this kind of military struggle to gain the upper hand is carried out day and night, and it has both benefits and dangers.

As the Art of War says, if you are fighting for a hundred miles, you will capture three generals. The strong one will go first, and the tired one will follow. The method is eleven. Soldiers who can only walk thirty miles a day will be exhausted physically and mentally if they walk more than three times the distance day and night, let alone join the battlefield. It would be good if only one-tenth of the people can arrive. The others will be tired and lying on the ground. Halfway up the road, such an army will most likely be defeated by people waiting for work, and the whole army will be annihilated.

With this in mind, Meng Wu, after crossing the Ying River, even though Wang Jian was rushing him, he could only move forward at a speed of fifty miles a day. On March 15, he arrived at the forty miles south of Qicheng. In the place where they were, they set up camp and waited for the follow-up troops. Because of the fifty-mile struggle for profit, only half of the army could arrive in time. Nanyang's 30,000 soldiers were still far behind!

From the beginning to the end, the Nanjun soldiers who were always at the forefront as the vanguard of the heel army were undoubtedly the Nanjun soldiers. This made Meng Wu look at him with admiration, because in the last war, the Nanjun soldiers were treated as a miscellaneous army by his son Meng Tian. It has only been a year since we defeated the enemy and defended the city. Why have we become so elite?

One reason is that Li You has trained well this year. The other reason is that Nanjun soldiers are generally equipped with "gaiters". When those Nanyang soldiers who are not used to gaiters beat their sore legs and moan, the Nanjun soldiers finish picking out the blisters on the soles of their feet. After a short rest, you can continue on your way.

Even at the temporary camp, Meng Wu also learned about the battle ahead: General Wang Jian sent a message saying that the Chu army continued to harass the Qin camp last night and must want to fight today, so that Meng Wu could fight to reach ten miles southwest of Qicheng today. battlefield!

It is not difficult to march thirty miles to attack, but they had just packed up when the scouts came again to report that a Chu army of 20,000 people had also separated from Xiang Yan's army, advanced ten miles away, formed a formation, and stopped Qin On the only road that the army must pass...

"Xiang Yan is indeed going to have a decisive battle today."

Meng Wu laughed, after half a year of hard work and half a month of pursuit, the winner was finally decided at this moment!

As far as he knew, the Qin army led by Wang Jian was almost the same in number as the Chu army that Xiang Yan had been leading to avoid fighting. However, the Chu army was in danger and fighting in distress, so the Qin army might not be able to take advantage too much.

Therefore, the outcome of this battle will be determined by when the Qin Army's northern and southern armies arrive on the battlefield!

If the Chu army with the word "Jing" stopped Meng Wu, and the Northern army would not arrive until several days later, then even if Wang Jian won, it would only be a miserable victory. If Meng Wu quickly defeated the Chu army in front of him, arrived at the battlefield, and attacked the Chu army in tandem with Wang Jian, then this battle would probably be the last battle between Qin and Chu!

Thinking of this, Meng Wu felt a little high-spirited and was about to order the more than 30,000 people who had already arrived to attack the enemy. One of his staff advised him: "General, now is a good opportunity to overwhelm Wang Jian!"

"What do you mean by this?"

Meng Wu narrowed his eyes and looked at this Qi Ren staff member who had been serving Meng since his father.

The staff said: "The general traveled fifty miles yesterday, and now he has only reached 30,000 soldiers in the camp. It will take half an hour for the 30,000 Nanyang soldiers to arrive. General, why not use this as an excuse to slowly confront the Chu army. Wait for the Nanyang soldiers to arrive. , and then annihilate them all, so that they can be beheaded. At the same time, observe the battlefield situation in Qicheng, and wait until both the Qin and Chu armies are exhausted before joining the battlefield. In this case, Wang Jian suffered a lot of casualties, and it was all thanks to the general to turn the tide of the battle. Wang Jian asked for 600,000 troops before the war, but failed to achieve success for half a year. Now there are more casualties, and he will surely lose the king's heart..."

"Is this your clever plan?"

Meng Wu looked at this staff member coldly and said: "Do you think Meng Wu is a selfish person? If the Qin army is defeated because of my delay for an hour, or if Xiang Yan is allowed to flee again, he will miss the opportunity to completely annihilate Chu. What should I do if the opportunity for the army is delayed? If the king knows about such a delay in the military aircraft, how will he regard Mengshi?"

The eldest son Meng Tian had been expelled by the King of Qin to lead troops on the border of Shangjun because of the previous war. Meng Wu endured the pain of the old wound and went to the battlefield again, just to win another chance for the Meng family.

But it is never obtained in this way.

"In the Battle of Yique, Lord Wu An used 100,000 troops to fight against the 240,000 allied troops of Han and Wei. Han General Bao Yuan and Wei General Gongsun Xi both felt that this battle was bound to win. They both wanted to preserve their strength and let the other side and the Qin army consume them, so they fought against each other. Waiting and watching, no one wanted to attack first, but they were defeated by Wu Anjun one by one, and the whole army was wiped out."

"Now, do you want me to be Baoyuan and Gongsun Xi?"

After repelling the short-sighted staff, Meng Wu also had a clear countermeasure in his mind.

"Pass my general's order!"

He quickly wrote an order on the wooden slip, stamped his seal, and ordered: "Order the thirty thousand Nanyang soldiers to speed up and join me, and follow me to defeat the Chu army in front of me."

"As for the troops of Nanjun Li Youbu, when I personally lead the troops to fight with the Chu army, they can prepare and set off, bypass Jing's defense line from the west, and go straight to the battlefield! Rush to the aid of General Wang!"

The Nanjun soldiers were asked to rush for reinforcements not only because they were equipped with leggings and could move quickly, but also because there was a grudge that Meng Wu wanted to cancel.

"In the last battle, my son Meng Tian let Li You die, which resulted in Li Si and his son being criticized. In order to appease Li Si, the king demoted my son to Shangjun and no longer used him. Now I give Li You a share of the credit, which may make him The Meng and Li families have settled all their old grudges..."

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In the northwest corner of the Qinnan Army camp, after receiving Meng Wu's order, Li You was overjoyed. Like Meng Wu, he was choosing his vanguard officer. Because of the continuous rain and the many streams in this area, hundreds of Nanjun soldiers were I'm afraid it won't be as fast if you ride a chariot. To deal with such complex ground conditions, you still have to rely on infantry.

"Meng Jia!"

The county lieutenant of Fuxian County led his commander Meng Jia to go out, but Li You asked: "It's thirty miles to the battlefield. How long will it take the soldiers of Fuxian County to go?"

Meng Jiayi hesitated and said: "Two...two hours..." This was already twice as fast as a normal march.

But Li You was very dissatisfied: "Now that the end of the world is coming, you have to walk for two hours to get to the market (from 15:00 to 17:00)?"

Li You was very dissatisfied and called another person: "Heifu!"

"The official is here!"

Heifu stirred and took a step to answer the call.

"What about you, how long will An Lubing be gone?"

Hei Fu bowed down and said, "We can arrive as soon as the captain wants me to!"

"Is it possible to arrive at the battlefield within an hour and place my general's flag behind the Chu army?"

There are three hundred steps in Qin Dynasty, one step is 1.38 meters, one mile is about 400 meters, thirty miles is 12 kilometers... The walking speed of ordinary people in later generations is about 5 kilometers per hour. On this rugged and muddy road, a Walking seven or eight kilometers is pretty good.

But Heifu still gritted his teeth: "Yes!"

"good!"

Li You was very happy and had already decided on the candidate.

"Heifu will be my vanguard, clear the way for our army, fight through thorns and thorns, and repel the Chu army's mounted scouts. If we can arrive at the battlefield on time! I promise that after this battle, thousands of people from Anlu will discuss their merits first!"

Soon, Meng Wu had ordered the other 20,000 troops to move forward, and they fought fiercely with the Chu army and the Jing clan soldiers who were blocking the road. The winner would not be determined for a while, but it also bought Heifu and the others time to march westward.

When Hei Fu said goodbye and went ahead, Li You called to him again, gave him his military chariots and horses, and encouraged him:

"Heifu, after the war, whether you can enter Xianyang as an official and enter the king's eyes depends on this battle!"

…

Although the carriage and horses Li You gave Hei Fu were good, they were of little use. After only a few miles, they got stuck on the muddy road and couldn't move.

"This damn weather, this damn traffic."

The current road is already a thoroughfare in Huaibei, but it is only equivalent to the village-level roads without cement in later generations. It becomes muddy when it rains.

"Leave the car behind."

Heifu simply dismounted, stepped on the soil that had not yet dried up, and ordered: "Abandon all unnecessary things, carry only armor and weapons, and move forward lightly!"

In Heifu's eyes, this march was nothing. You must know that in later police academies, there was also a "10-kilometer cross-country" event. Generally, the collective results were recorded, and individual soldiers were equipped with equipment. The last place was eliminated within an hour. It is considered qualified if it reaches the end point within...

They walked 12 kilometers in two hours, which was very easy. Any army in later generations could easily complete it.

But in this era, it is already extraordinary to be able to reach this speed. After all, the army these days takes thirty miles as a meal.

The road conditions were sometimes dry and sometimes muddy. In the muddy places, although Lixian and a group of people laid planks in front of them, they still had to walk one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the speed was like a turtle crawling.

Looking up at the sun, Heifu found that half of the time had passed, but they had only traveled less than fifteen miles...

In this case, there is no way to arrive at the battlefield on time!

"You can't just walk, you have to run, trot!"

Heifu set an example, loaded his equipment on his back, and trotted forward from the middle of the team, with Hei carrying the flag behind him.

So, a thousand Anlu soldiers were surprised to see their leader running past them with his sword and shield behind him and a heavy armor on his head!

While running, Heifu also asked Ji Ying and several messengers to convey his message to the soldiers.

"Second and Third Son, this battle is under the command of General Wang. If we fight against the Chu army's defeated divisions, we will definitely win!"

"Li Duwei promised that after the war, the vanguard would be given priority in judging merits, so I went through all the hard work to win the vanguard flag for us. Therefore, as long as I can arrive on the battlefield in time, I will be the first to rush to the rescue of General Wang. One branch, and each person has a first-level title, what’s the point?”

Ji Ying shouted in a very down-to-earth manner: "Of course, the front is not a battlefield, but a patch of good farmland and houses!"

"The road under your feet is not a road, it is a ladder to climb to the throne!"

"Title! Land!" Five Hundred Lord Dongmen Bao shouted at the right time.

In the team, Shiwu Wanggua opened his short legs and began to move forward gritting his teeth. Guizhou Mallow also felt that there was endless power under his feet!

Thinking of the title and the land, everyone burst out with infinite strength, shouted in unison, and started to trot under Heifu's example.

In the past six months, in addition to playing ball, everyone was urged by Hei Fu to run around the camp, so there was no need to worry about physical strength. For a time, the speed of the troops accelerated a lot.

At this moment, Heifu had moved from the middle of the team to the front! Xiao Tao led a hundred personal guards with bows, crossbows, swords and shields, and followed Hei Fu closely. The only scout who still had a horse, he also struggled to get past the soldiers, scattered around to search for the enemy, and eliminated the Chu army halfway. There is a possibility of setting up an ambush.

However, at this moment, the Chu army, which had been fighting fiercely with the Qin army for two hours, could only believe that the Jing brothers could stop all incoming enemies. Where could there be any extra troops to stop them?

Thousands of people in Anlu left a series of footprints on the muddy road. They stepped through ravines, trampled spring flowers and trees, scared away the elk and wild foxes, and finally heard a distant sound beside a hill a few miles away from the battlefield. The one who comes is shouting to kill!

Amidst the faint clash of weapons and shouts, they also heard a faint singing voice...

"Captain, there is singing!"

Li Xian, who had led his men to pave another ravine, raised his head and looked at Hei Fu with some confusion.

Hei Fu's expression also changed.

People from Nanjun and Anlu understand this song. It is a familiar yet unfamiliar sound to them.

Familiar because this is the Chu sound, the Jingchu dialect they also speak.

It's strange because since Anlu returned to Qin, Guizhou leaders had almost no chance to hear it from birth to death.

That was the roar of tens of thousands of people! So they can even hear the words clearly.

"Fuck Wu Ge, he was beaten by a rhinoceros, his car was in the wrong position, he was caught in close combat!"

Hei Fu inspired everyone to move on, and he climbed up the hill covered with thorns and looked up.

The sky was gloomy and cloudy, the ground was muddy and green, and a few miles ahead, a vast battlefield stretching for more than ten miles, like a magnificent oil painting stained with red and black, suddenly appeared in front of him!

The red is blood, red soil, and the color of the Chu army’s march.

The black is stone, mud, and the color of the Qin army's battle formation.

Because they were too far away, Heifu couldn't see the flags of Wang Jian and Xiang Yan, nor could he see the specific details of the battle. He could only see red and black, fighting inextricably in the center of the battlefield...

And the loud singing they heard was coming from behind the Chu formation. It was cheering for the charging Chu people, and its sound shook the whole world!

"The sun is blocked by the sun, and the enemy is like clouds; the arrows are falling, and the soldiers are fighting for the lead!"

Heifu heard it, this was "National Sorrow", the war song of the Chu people!

Accompanying Chu Ge's song, Heifu saw waves of red waves surging again, rushing towards the black reef from east to west!