Qin Official

The system of the Warring States Period: Generals go on expeditions, and their actions are unpredictable. The place where they are located is for governance, so it is called "Mofu", and because most of them are tents, it is also called "Shogunate".

As the general of the Southern Expedition, Changnanhou was naturally qualified to set up a shogunate. He could easily appoint officials in the shogunate, such as the governor of grain management, the chief official, the chief minister, the chief minister, etc. However, the tribute city rent in Lingnan was , all imported to the shogunate as military expenses for soldiers.

The shogunate is like the brains of the three armies of the Southern Expedition. There are really not many people who can be called into the shogunate by Changnanhou overnight.

Han Xin was lucky enough to be one of them, which had to be surprising. He immediately followed the messenger to the shogunate camp. He saw six banners and two incisor flags erected in the camp. The general had 4,000 personal guards, three inside and three outside. Protected airtight.

Han Xin was searched three times by the group of short-haired guards, who even stabbed him with a knife before he could enter. The tents inside also have their own functions. On the right is the festival hall for military discussions, and on the left is the handsome tent where Changnan Marquis lives. Hundreds of tall halberd warriors stand holding halberds. Han Xin can feel their gazes as he passes by.

"It's so majestic..."

Han Xin couldn't help but sigh, and was a little envious. At this time, he finally walked through the halberd path and entered the handsome tent. He saw that the place was extremely spacious. The Marquis of Changnan was sitting on the tiger skin couch in front, wearing casual clothes. The case was piled with documents. He was busy He signed it with a pen and handed it to the owner on the left, Bo Lujia, and then signed another one.

Han Xin took two steps forward, bowed and said:

Heifu kept writing in his hand and raised his eyes to look at Han Xin: "Here? Sit aside, don't be restrained."

Han Xin accepted his promise and sat down on the side of the tent. There was also a person in front of him. It was Quji, the military commander of Wuchang camp, who was nodding and smiling at Han Xin.

Seeing this situation, Han Xin had some idea why the Marquis of Changnan had summoned him tonight.

"It must be Lord Ji's recommendation that made Marquis Changnan think of summoning me to see him."

He couldn't help but be extremely grateful for Qu Ji. At this time, Heifu finally finished what he was doing, pointed at Han Xin and said to Lu Jia:

"This is Han Xin who, with his heavy troops and civilians, defeated more than a thousand Yue people, beheaded two hundred people, and was promoted to two levels in a row. He is from Huaiyin, but he is your fellow countryman."

Lu Jia held a stack of thick documents and said with a smile: "Yes, Lu Jia is from Shouchun and lives by the Huaihe River. Leader Han, you and I both grew up drinking the water from the Huaihe River. We are indeed fellow villagers. We should keep in touch with each other from now on."

The familiar accent of Huainan made people feel cordial. After Lu Jia said a few words, he hurriedly left with the documents in his arms. Panyu was restored, and everything was waiting to be done. As Heifu's secretary, he was very busy.

Heifu also directly stated his intention: "Han Xin, I called you here because I want to ask about the baggage situation at the rear."

Han Xin hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Han Xin is just a small hundred commander under Captain Xiao. I don't know the general situation. If you want to ask about the baggage at the rear, you should ask Captain Xiao's son, Xiao Cangyu."

But Hei Fu shook his head and said: "Although Xiao Lu has the ability to manage warehouses, he has no understanding of the overall situation. Quji said that you understand the art of war and military strategy, so I want to hear your opinion."

After all, Han Xin was young. He felt a little overwhelmed by being praised like this. He didn't know there was a pitfall in it, so he said: "Now the Lingnan army is concentrated in Panyu and Guilin. They all need supplies from Changsha County. Xiao Duwei is in charge of Xiangxian County and is in charge of Cao Cao. There is no shortage of food for the army, and if there is any damage to the soldiers, Lieutenant Xiao can always make up for the deficiencies, which can ensure that the king and the nobles have no worries in the rear."

"With Xiao He here, I really don't have any worries. If I don't take Cao Shen and Chen Ping with me, I have to ask Your Majesty for him."

Heifu continued: "In your opinion, if I want to conquer all the Yue and conquer Lingnan, what should I do next?"

"How dare Han Xin, a mere petty official, dare to discuss military affairs?" The topic suddenly changed. Although Han Xin was humble, he could not hide the eagerness in his eyes.

Who can truly hide the sword without revealing it?

At this time, Qu Ji said: "Han Xin, on the way to Lingnan, you gave me advice on the king's strategy on the boat. You were right about attacking Beijiang in the Ming Dynasty and crossing the South China Sea secretly. Why, now in front of the king But you don’t dare to talk about it?”

Heifu also slapped the table and shouted: "How can a man be so pretentious as a little girl? Anyone who can enter the shogunate knows everything and tell it quickly!"

"promise!"

Seeing that the Marquis of Changnan was angry, Han Xin said: "Xin secretly believes that now the general wants to raise his tired troops and attack Xiou and Luoyue. If he wants to fight, he may be unable to hold off for a long time. He will see that the situation is too weak and the food will be exhausted. , but if the Yue people are dissatisfied, escape into the mountains and forests, and attack our army, it will be difficult to succeed."

He glanced at the tiger talisman on Heifu's desk: "Now it's the general's plan. It's better to suspend the troops and camp in Panyu..."

Then, Han Xin talked about a lot of great principles in the art of war, such as "Those who make good use of soldiers will no longer serve in the army, and their food will not last for three years; if they are used for the country, because the enemy is in need of food, the army will have enough food."

He believed that these more than 100,000 people gathered in Lingnan. Even with the water conservancy of Lingqu and Beijiang, so many mouths were fed by Xiao He's canal transportation of grain. I am afraid that the entire Jianghuai River would be exhausted. This was not a long-term solution, and it would still be necessary. Become self-sufficient.

"Lingnan is a vast land with few people and two crops a year. As long as a piece of forest is burned, it can feed the army without intensive farming. In addition, it can also prevent the escaped Yue people from attacking our army by taking advantage of the bamboo cover in the mountains and forests."

Heifu kept nodding, but he felt a little bored in his heart.

Almost everyone in the three armies knows that if you want to be appreciated by the Marquis of Changnan, in addition to meritorious service in battle, you can also rely on two things, one is sanitation, and the other is farming, and what connects these two things is Public toilets, accumulated feces...

Heifu's old tricks have been figured out by his subordinates. Even if they call the most reckless Dongmen Bao and Gong Ao, they will realize the importance of farming.

Therefore, although Han Xin's question was correct, it was quite satisfactory and could not make Heifu's eyes shine.

But this is no wonder to him. The situation in Lingnan is really not something that can be played out.

However, Heifu still underestimated Han Xin, but he heard that he was a little stuttered at the beginning, and he became more and more fluent as he spoke:

"When the people are working in the fields, they can send their boatmen upstream and set up sentinel towers along the Yushui River. They must be high and strong, with troops ranging from a hundred to a thousand. They can occupy the flat areas along the coast to prevent the Vietnamese from planting rice. , once the Yue people attack, they will be hurt."

"In this way, we can slowly advance westward. When the earthen forts are spread all over Yushui (Pearl River), Lishui (Lijiang River), and Tanshui (Liujiang River), then Xiou can be obtained!"

"As for places far away from the main rivers, such as Dongjiang, Hepu and other places in Nanyue, they should be abandoned and not taken. The prince can send people to lure the princes and chiefs of the tribes, promising that they will have their own land in their lifetime, and that they will not interfere with our army's wells and rivers!"

Heifu was a little surprised now, and thought to himself: "Isn't this the bunker tactic I've been thinking about?"

He was thoughtful and learned the lessons of the first war. The Southern Corps no longer carried out a large-scale expansion, but only moved upstream along the tributaries of the Pearl River. It was content to control the traffic arteries and concentrate the Vietnamese in the rice fields. area, this is Heifu’s plan. In this way, troops can be concentrated, and strongholds along the river can support each other.

As for the "barrier" mentioned by Han Xin, Heifu thought that it could be built with the "three combined soils" that he and Zhang Han worked out together during the second attack on Chu more than ten years ago during the confrontation between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan: The loess, fired mirage ash, and river sand are mixed together to form triple soil, which functions like concrete and can make the earthen castle strong and high.

Soil and river sand are readily available along the Pearl River, and the important material for bonding them, "mirage ash", can be mined from limestone and fired. There are also countless "shell mounds" around Panyu, with mountains of conch and oyster shells. , it is spectacular. These are the remains of South Vietnamese people eating clams and oysters for thousands of years. If you burn them with fire, you can get a lot of mirage ashes.

During the first war, the Qin army had burned a lot of coastal forests. With predecessors paving the way, it would be much easier to occupy and build fortresses.

A Qin army's encirclement and suppression campaign against Ouyue was plotted within this curtain.

Han Xin's suggestion coincided with Heifu's, which cheered him up and said in surprise: "You are quite familiar with the geography of Lingnan."

The young military officer explained: "It's Captain Xiao. He collected the pictures and books from the last expedition to Vietnam. He often stayed up late at night to read them. He also pointed at the rivers in the city and taught me how to know them."

This poor young man from Huaiyin had extraordinary learning ability. He had been taken by Xiao He for a year, and he had been influenced by his ears and eyes, so he already knew about the situation in the mountains and rivers of Lingnan.

"Old Xiao, Old Xiao, you really have hidden a huge treasure." Hei Fu said secretly.

He then asked Han Xin: "If it is as you said, Xiou has lost the land for growing rice, and there are only two ways. One is to disperse and retreat into the mountains and forests, and the other is to move west to join Luo Yue and join forces with King Luo. "

In the first war, the Xiou people did this. In the end, they relied on the long distance to defeat the Qin army. As a result, Lao Tu was killed by a poisonous arrow on the way, and the main force of the Qin army had to retreat.

Although the 10,000-strong partial force arrived at Luo Yue's base camp: Linchen (Chongzuo, Guangxi), known as the "Land of All Things", in that battle, the Luo people and the Ou people formed an alliance, rode on elephants to join the battlefield, and broke up. The Qin army's array led to that terrible defeat and the death march that resulted in almost all deaths.

"There are many mountains between Luoyue and Xiou, and the currents are turbulent. Our army cannot easily build barriers and advance. However, His Majesty has ordered that before October, all the Yue must be defeated and the frontier will be opened to the north. So what should we do?"

This is a problem that even Hei Fu has not thought through. The time has come to test Han Xin’s true ability...

Han Xin was full of confidence: "By then, the fighting opportunities will be mature. Our army is strong and the Ou people are hungry and tired. We should lure the Yue people into a decisive battle and complete our victory in one battle."

Heifu shook his head: "The Yue people are cunning and know that frontal confrontation is their shortcoming. Whenever the Qin army attacks, they will flee into the deep mountains and forests and will not fight me."

"Faith has a way of making it meet the challenge."

Han Xin raised his head. Just now he had advised Heifu to securely cultivate the fields and build forts, and he could not be more correct with his military skills. At this moment, there is a strange and dangerous madness in the eyes, in which a glimpse of a fighter plane is caught in the blink of an eye!

"Advance separately and attack together, drive straight in, and penetrate deep into Xiangdi alone. When Xiou and Luoyue see that we are outnumbered and the others are large, they will be inspired to fight the Qin army!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Hei Fu was surprised, but also Qu Ji, who was supporting Han Xin, changed his color, stood up and reprimanded:

"Han Xin, don't talk nonsense. This is a strategy to kill a general and kill his army. Do you want to cause the prince to make the same mistake again?"

Unexpectedly, Han Xin was not afraid to laugh back.

"That's right, we have to do the same thing again!"