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 set up officials in the shogunate, such as the governor of grain management, the chief official, the chief minister, the chief minister, etc. However, the tribute in Lingnan was rented from the city.
, all of which were imported into the shogunate to provide military expenses for the 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, two incisor flags, and four thousand general guards, three inside and three outside.
Protected airtight.
Han Xin was searched three times by the group of short-haired guards, who even stabbed his body, before he was able to enter. The tents inside also have their own functions. On the right is the festival hall where military discussions are held, and on the left is where Changnan Hou lives.
In the handsome tent, hundreds of tall halberd warriors stood holding halberds. Han Xin passed by and could feel their gazes.
"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 stepped into the handsome tent. He saw that the place was extremely spacious. The Marquis of Changnan was sitting on the tiger skin couch in front of him, wearing casual clothes. His desk 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 copy.
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 you come? Sit aside, don't be restrained."
Han Xin accepted his promise and sat down on the side of the tent. There was another person in front of him. It was Qu Ji, the military commander of Wuchang camp. He was nodding and smiling at Han Xin.
Seeing this situation, Han Xin had an idea of 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 the cure. 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 thick stack of 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 of 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 friendly. After Lu Jia said a few words, he hurriedly left with the documents in his arms. Panyu was restored, and everything was waiting for improvement. 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 Xiao Duwei's command. I don't know the general situation. If you want to ask about the baggage at the rear, you should ask Xiao Duwei's son, Xiao Cangpeng."
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. I want to tell you 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 gathered in Panyu and Guilin. They both need supplies from Changsha County. Xiao Duwei is in charge of Xiangxian and is in charge of Cao Cao.
There will be no shortage of food for the army, and whenever there is damage to the soldiers, Lieutenant Xiao will always be able to make up for the deficiencies, thus ensuring that the rulers and princes have no worries in the rear."
"With Xiao He here, I really don't have any worries. If I don't take Cao Shen with me, Chen Ping will have to ask Your Majesty for him."
Heifu said again: "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 carries a sword and can truly hide it without revealing it?
At this time, the man on the side said quickly: "Han Xin, on the way to Lingnan, you gave me advice on the king's strategy on the boat, and 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 yelled: "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. Luo Yue wants to fight for a long time. He may not be able to pull it out. He sees that the situation is too weak and the food is exhausted.
, but 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 that 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, the enemy will have enough food for the army."
He believes that these more than 100,000 people are gathered in Lingnan. Even though there are Lingqu and Beijiang water conservancy, so many mouths are fed by Xiao He's water transportation of grain. I am afraid that the entire Jianghuai River will be exhausted. This is not a long-term solution, but it still needs to be done.
Achieve self-sufficiency.
"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 Leopard 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 it’s no wonder that he is there. The situation in Lingnan is really not something that can be played out.
However, Heifu still underestimated Han Xin, but after hearing that he was a little stuttered at the beginning, 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 sentry 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 Vietnamese come to attack, they will be hurt."
"In this way, we can slowly advance westward, and when the earth forts are spread all over Yushui (Pearl River), Lishui (Lijiang River), and Tanshui (Liujiang River), then Xiou can be captured!"
"As for places far away from the main rivers, such as the Dongjiang River in Nanyue, Hepu and other places, 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 the future, and our army will not interfere with the water of the river!"
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.
This is Heifu's plan. In this way, troops can be concentrated, and the 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 build 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, where conch and oyster shells pile up into mountains.
, it is spectacular. These are the remains of the oysters that the South Vietnamese have eaten 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 already 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. He cheered 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, and he was taken by Xiao He for a year. He was deeply 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 thought to himself.
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 migrate westward, join Luo Yue, and join forces with King Luo.
"
In the first war, the people of Xiou 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 a partial force of 10,000 people 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 and joined the battlefield on elephants, and they were separated.
The formation of the Qin army 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 water flow is fast. 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 Hei Fu to securely establish the fields and build forts, and his military skills could not be more upright. At this moment, his eyes were filled with the strange and dangerous madness of catching a glimpse of a fighter in the thousands of seconds!
"Advance separately and attack together, drive straight in, and penetrate deep into Xiangdi and Xiou. When Luo Yue sees that we are outnumbered and the others are numerous, he will be inspired to fight the Qin army!"
As soon as these words came out, not only Hei Fu was surprised, but Qu Ji, who was supporting Han Xin, also 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!"
