Qin Official

Ahead, more than a dozen bamboo rafts had rushed into the Beijiang River from the tributaries, and crashed directly into the leader Xiaoyi, like wolves pounced on the buffalo to bite. Dozens of Yue people used their hands and feet, holding weapons in their mouths, to climb up the wings and fight hand-to-hand with the Qin soldiers above.

Han Xin, who was on the second ship, only saw that after his commander kicked a Yue into the water, he was outnumbered and killed by two other enemies. The Yue warrior with exaggerated patterns on his body skillfully cut off the village. He raised his long head high and shouted this way in demonstration!

"This is an ambush."

Jun Zhengcheng quickly understood the seriousness of the matter. He looked towards the left and right sides of the river. There were hundreds of Yue people rushing out of the forest. They were carrying simple rafts and after throwing them into the water, seven or eight people They crowded together, supported on bamboo poles, and rowed towards the fleet...

They may have noticed that the Qin army's grain ships passed by here every day, and hid in the forest for a long time, waiting for their prey to take the bait.

There are more than ten ships in the entire fleet, but only three are small-wing warships. The rest are flat-bottomed and wide-barreled grain ships. Except for the twenty corvees rowing the boats, each ship has only one soldier.

Under Han Xin's call, the crossbowmen on the boat quickly shot at the Vietnamese bamboo rafts rowing from the side. However, even if they were lucky enough to shoot down one or two people, it was still to no avail. Seeing that the rafts were getting closer and closer, there were neither wooden walls nor wooden walls. The grain ship that hit the corner had no power to fight back...

Xiao Lu hurriedly walked out of the cabin at this time, when a Yue man on the bamboo raft on the side raised his bamboo spear and threw it towards the boat, thrusting it into his side, startling Xiao Lu.

Looking at the scene in front of him, he turned pale and blurted out:

"Quickly let the corvee row the boat and rush over!"

"no!"

Han Xin interrupted Xiao Lu's words: "There are many bamboo rafts among the Yue people. Even if Xiaoyi can rush over, the grain ship behind them has a lot of cargo and is slow, so I'm afraid I won't be able to escape."

"What should we do?"

Xiao Lu was a little confused. The attack happened too suddenly. The Qin ships stretched into a long queue, and the Yue people rushed from the left bank on stilts. This meant that the five Qin soldiers on each ship had to deal with enemies several times their own...

"I have an idea."

Han Xin pointed to the right bank where there were fewer people, where the gentle river sand accumulated.

"Send the flag to the ship behind me and follow me to the shore!"

"You're crazy!"

Xiao Lu was shocked: "Do you know how many Yue people are around here? Once the ships run aground, they will easily be unable to launch, and Yue people are coming from everywhere. We can't wait..."

Han Xin said in a hurried tone: "The Yue people are good at boats, but each of our ships fights independently. We use short attacks to attack the long ones. We are outnumbered and the enemy is numerous. We are unprepared and our enemies are well prepared. We will definitely lose."

"But it's different on shore!"

Han Xin pointed to the river beach that could accommodate hundreds of people, and his eyes flashed with the light of finding a fighter plane: "When we get to the shore, even the rowing corvee can leave the boat and join the battle formation. Once the formation is formed, our army will have free time to prepare for the battle. No matter how many people there are, we can still be one against ten!"

"Crazy, crazy." Xiao Lu was in a dilemma, but he couldn't think of a better idea, so he still said with luck:

"It's better to rush over. How will you know if you don't try..."

"Xiao Cangpu!"

Han Xin changed his color: "Even if our little ship can escape, the more than ten grain ships behind it, which can feed ten thousand soldiers for a month and more than ten thousand stones of grain, will be lost!"

He looked at Qu Ji: "Jun Zhengcheng, is this a serious crime?"

"Sin deserves death!"

Quji gritted his teeth and said: "With more than a hundred people, if there is a battle, go north, defend and surrender, leave the ground and flee, the order is called 'military bandit', and you will die and your family will be disabled!"

Han Xin nodded: "That's right. Now that things have happened, if we don't want to be executed by the king for being soldiers and thieves, we have no choice but to fight to the death!"

At this point, he no longer cared about Xiao Lu's opinion. Before the Yue bamboo raft came up, he asked the pawn at the stern to wave the flag to the boat behind, with the tip of the flag pointed directly at the right bank!

"dash forward!"

"promise!"

The sailor turned the rudder, and the servants in the cabin also speeded up the rowing, and the bow of the ship gradually deflected.

Xiao Lu closed his eyes in despair. He didn't understand why Han Xin, who had always been timid and knew how to get into people's crotches, was so crazy today.

Qu Ji also quickly hugged the mast to avoid being thrown out during the impact. At this time, he found that Han Xin was trembling.

"Is Han Xin actually very scared?" Qu Ji thought.

As everyone knows, Han Xin is a little scared, but more importantly, he is uncontrollably excited!

He knew that today, he would face his real first battle!

The Art of War says: I am dedicated to one, and the enemy is divided into ten, so use ten to attack one. If we have an outnumbered enemy, and if we can use our numbers to attack the outnumbered, then we will have an agreement with the warrior. This means that no matter what the situation is, we must avoid defeating the enemy with a small number. Even if the total strength of our army is small, we must be dedicated as one.

Han Xin understood this, but he didn't know how it would actually be used.

"Zhu Zongman learned how to slay dragons in Zhiliyi, and lost his daughter's family. He completed the skill in three years, but failed to use his skills, so he was laughed at by everyone."

Han Xin's trembling became more and more violent, and he had to pinch the tiger's mouth to calm himself down.

"But if a sword that has been sharpened for ten years cannot kill a snake, then slaying a dragon is just wishful thinking!"

"If that's the case, it's better to just leave it here!"

The next moment, accompanied by the shouts of the people on the boat, Xiaoyi rushed to the river beach with thick white sand at an extremely fast speed!

…

"How careless."

After receiving the news from the pavilions and obstacles along the way, Anpu, the "Captain of the Three Passes", immediately took his people by land and rushed to the place where the fleet was attacked twenty miles upstream. Along the way, he couldn't help but secretly regret in his heart.

I thought that Beijiang Road would be safe enough after the large army cleared it by land and water, wiping out the Yue tribes along the way. However, I didn’t expect that the Yue people were so bold. They came back so quickly and launched an attack on the grain ship. .

If that batch of food is lost, it will be a huge loss. You must know that every grain of grain is transported from the Jianghuai counties to Wuchang and Changsha for accumulation. Then it is carried by oxen, horses, mules and donkeys to Chenxian County, and then carried by countless civilians across the Five Ridges. Huangxiguan, then load the ship and set off.

Coupled with the loss of so much human and financial resources, the price per stone of grain is equivalent to ten times that of the Central Plains!

If these ten ships and ten thousand stones of grain fell into the hands of the Yue people, even the Marquis of Changnan would feel distressed...

In comparison, five hundred people died, but it was nothing.

But when Anpu, who had given up hope of the fleet's survival, arrived at the fork of the river, he saw a shocking scene:

A dozen boats were lined up in a row, lying quietly on the river beach. The Vietnamese had long since disappeared, leaving only corpses and blood on the ground, as well as abandoned rafts by the river, proving that a tragic event had occurred here. fighting.

Seeing the friendly troops coming, Jun Zhengcheng came over with a smile on his face and held his hand towards Anpu: "Captain An, I never thought that our last team who was guarding the grain could also get a small victory!"

"Xiaojie?"

Quji pointed at the soldiers and corvees who had chopped off their heads and piled them up by the river: "We were able to defeat thousands of people and behead two hundred people. The soldiers and civilians suffered less than fifty casualties. Isn't this a victory? When these ships are launched again, there will be nothing left except food." , I’m afraid I’ll have to use a special ship to hold the heads!”

After saying that, Quji asked Han Xin to come over and introduced:

"Leaving the boat to land, forming a formation and fighting, this is all the result of Han Baichang."

An Pu looked at the tall but young centurion in front of him and couldn't help but be surprised: "You relied on less than a hundred people to block the attack of thousands of Yue people? And you beheaded two hundred people!"

Han Xin cupped his hands and said: "It's more than a hundred people. Including the rowing corvee, there are also five or six hundred people."

He pointed to the stranded fleet and explained the previous battle process to Anpu: "After rushing ashore, everyone united into one. Those holding bows and crossbows stood on the boat, and the rest formed a circle for protection. They stood in the water or on the shore with shields. If you use your spear and halberd to block the Yue people, you will have the advantage."

"And those rowing corvees, although they don't have bows, crossbows, spears and halberds, they do have machetes for chopping wood. They heard that the South Vietnamese are cannibals, and they are afraid, but they can fight to the death to defend my position. Even if they get more and more The people were brave and numerous, but extremely scattered. They were divided into ten, and they took turns to attack, but they were still like moths rushing to the flames. They were repulsed several times when they pounced on them. After suffering heavy casualties, they retreated..."

Han Xin only did not say that while supervising the felling of these civilians at Wuchang camp, he also used them as guinea pigs, divided the ranks, and practiced military formations. Although some people secretly called him a "crotch coward". However, with the example of the corps commander who had his head chopped off by Han Xin, no one dared to disrespect the explicit orders, so although they were not as good as the regular army, they were still somewhat orderly.

I never thought that it would come in handy today.

After Anpu heard this, he was secretly surprised and asked Han Xin: "What is your name?"

"Han Xin..." The young man lowered his head and whispered.

An Pu was a little displeased: "Why do you speak so softly, a dignified man of eight feet? How did you give the command just now?"

He didn't know that Han Xin was shouting at the top of his lungs when he was commanding...

But I don’t know when, maybe as far away as the streets of Huaiyin, or maybe in the Qin camp, Han Xin always lowered his voice unconsciously when he announced his name.

Because Han Xin knew that this name has always been associated with "the people under the crotch are poor and have nothing to do", which attracted others to laugh...

Although Han Xin once said that it would be okay to let others know about this matter, he still cared about it in his heart.

But today, the eyes of everyone around him were no longer contempt and contempt, but respect. Because of him, Han Baichang fought a good battle, using his own decision-making to save the lives of five or six hundred people in the midst of lightning and flint. .

Quji, who knew Han Xin's past, came over and encouraged him: "After today, the generals in the army will know your name, and your deeds will even reach the ears of the Marquis of Changnan. When the time comes, the Marquis of Changnan will ask you, you must learn from it." , report it loudly."

That's right, after today's battle, this name was accompanied by more than just humiliation.

"My name is Han Xin."

Han Xin raised his head and said loudly:

"Huaiyin Han Xin!"

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