Han Xin was extremely excited at this time, he had been at the border for several years and finally waited for this day!
The position of Marquis Chee and King’s title was just around the corner!
Soon, a group of messengers dispersed in all directions, and all the Qin troops scattered over the grasslands moved quickly.
Preparing an army for war is not that easy, even if the food and provisions and so on have all been prepared in advance.
Even if the food and provisions had been prepared in advance, it would take a few days for them to be transported to the front line.
This is still because of the grassland horse many, if inland just transport grain and grass and so on to spend a lot of time.
A few days later, Zhou Bo and Lu and the others also came to the frontline camp of the Qin army, and according to the latest rules of the Qin army, they also happened to do a pre-war mobilisation and planning, the
Han Xin was talking to a few people about the news he got these days.
“I’m sure you’ve all known about Liu Bang’s movements over the past two years, and now dozens of small states throughout the western region have been nominally linked together, all under Liu Bang’s control. ”
“Their army is claimed to be 100,000 strong, plus they have traded a lot with our army in these two years, so their equipment is not bad. ”
“We only have 20,000 men today, can we be confident?”
The trade with the other side was mainly that Great Qin bought into the other side’s a thing called oil by the Crown Prince.
They had also hoarded quite a lot of it on the frontline, only that it was extremely difficult to store and somewhat troublesome to transport.
But with the average crossbow, the effect of using it is extremely good.
It’s just that this time, they don’t have a lot of all kinds of implements, there’s no way the border is still too far away.
The large unoccupied grassland in the middle caused a great burden to the supply transport.
So in addition to the two Flying Ink Lanterns that could be disassembled and folded for transport, they also had less than a hundred large crossbows.
The main force was still their cavalry.
But cavalry attacking a city was instead a disadvantage.
Lu said in a deep voice at this time that
“General, these city-state armies, most of them are slaves, even if they are well-equipped, I am sure that I will be able to bring them down in a single drum!”
The slave armies of the western region’s city-states, he also sort of understood them, and they were still decent when they fought each other within the city-states. The slave armies of the western region’s city-states, he also sort of understands, fighting each other within the city-states, and still in a decent manner.
However, these people had no military heart or morale to speak of at all, and it was impossible for these people to hold back the charge of 20,000 Great Qin elite cavalry!
Han Xin, however, shook his head slightly and
“Not to mention whether or not these people will engage us head on on the battlefield, even if they give it a chance, without enough infantry in front to cover them, a head-on charge, our casualties will be high. ”
“Zhou Bo what do you think?”
He is rushing for the position of the King’s Marquis this time, this is a battle that he must win, and the casualties can’t be too high.
Otherwise, if he takes a disastrous victory, he won’t have the face to ask for a throne with His Highness the Crown Prince.
Zhou Bo, however, did not directly answer the other party’s question, but revealed a smile and said.
“General has a plan in mind, so why make it difficult for the last general? ”
Hearing this, Han Xin immediately revealed a smile and said with a bit of self-satisfaction that
“Not bad, this general indeed already has a plan, it’s just that His Highness the Crown Prince said that we have to discuss with each other in order to improve each other. ”
“Zhou Bo just say something. ”
Zhou Bo spoke up then.
“Then the last general will offer, nowadays, although the countries in the western region have been united in name,, but they are not ironclad,, claiming to be 100,000 troops, but the ones that can really be gathered together are only 50,000 only. ”
Han Xin also nodded, the situation was indeed like this, the
“But even if it’s 50,000, if it’s used to defend the city, our army will be difficult to take it down easily.”
Cavalry attacking a city was originally using one’s own shortcomings against someone else’s strengths, plus they knew what the oil was used for, and of course the other side knew it as well.
Even if the other side didn’t have long range bows and crossbows like Great Qin, it still wouldn’t have any problems being used for defence.
Attacking strongly, their losses would be very high.
Zhou Bo continued at this time and said.
“In my opinion, this time, however, our army can use the Huns’ method of warfare. ”
“My 20,000 Qin army iron cavalry will be divided into twenty thousand-man teams to go deep into the interior of the Western Regions and co-operate with each other. ”
“When we find small cities with low walls, we will gather and destroy them, and when we scatter, we will cut off the cities.”
“In this way, their union will inevitably falter, and the allied forces will naturally fail. ” “In this way, their union will inevitably falter, and the allied forces will naturally not break through. ”
“As long as they withdraw from the city, our army will be able to wipe them out in a movement! ”
After listening to Zhou Bo’s words, Han Xin also glanced at the other party with slight surprise, he didn’t expect the other party to actually coincide with him, Xiao He was right, the other party is really a talent.
Speaking quickly.
“This plan has a good chance, there is just one drawback. ”
“If there is no manpower on the front battlefield to hold the other side back, the results of the raid might not be too good if the other side is prepared for it.”
Hearing this, Zhou Bo purposely revealed a few admiring looks and said.
“General is wise! The last general is far inferior! ”
Hearing the compliments, Han Xin nodded slightly self-satisfied and quickly said that
“So this time, Zhou Bo, this general gives you 1,000 elite cavalry, and 4,000 herdsmen folk, so that you can hold the other side of the city can you be sure?”
Hearing this, Lu Du on the side froze for a moment, using this point of people to hold back a city of the other side, isn’t this a joke?
But Zhou Bo at this time revealed a smile back to.
“Understood!”
Han Xin didn’t hesitate and ordered that
“In that case, let’s go our separate ways!”
After saluting, Zhou Bo and Lu left the tent and
Lu quickly said to Zhou Bo that
“Brother Zhou, why did you promise just now? One thousand elites and four thousand men, how are you going to hold that one city?”
The opponent’s main citadel garrison must have 40,000 to 50,000 men, if not 100,000 men.
If you really want to be bold, it wouldn’t be hard to eat Zhou Bo’s five thousand men.
The two of them still had a good private friendship and didn’t want the other side to just lose it.
Zhou Bo also smiled and comforted.
“Don’t worry brother Lu, 5,000 people is enough.”
“General Han’s order was to hold these people back, who said we should engage them?” “General Han’s order was to hold these people back, who said to engage them?”
“Just give me all those tents in your army when the time comes.”
Lu frowned as he listened.
“You’re only five thousand men, what do you need so many tents for?”
Zhou Bo asked at this time that
“Brother Lu how do you usually count the number of enemy troops? ”
Lu quickly said.
“Look at the queues, count the earth pits and stoves left behind, and the tents…”
Before finishing his sentence, Lu stopped, and then said, with some excitement.
“You want to pretend that the manpower is all here!”
Zhou Bo nodded with a smile and
“Exactly, anyway, we don’t need to pretend for too long, this raid, I think we can see the results in as long as a month, or as short as half a month. ”
“And don’t forget, I still have nearly a hundred crossbows in my hands, and flying ink lamps, the other side wouldn’t dare to act rashly.”
Great Qin cavalry is not short of horses now, one person and two horses without the slightest problem.
So the raid won’t take long.
Seeing that Zhou Bo was prepared, Lu breathed a sigh of relief, but with a little curiosity he asked.
“That Liu Bang stayed well, how come he suddenly dared to find trouble with us? ”
Hearing the question, Zhou Bo also shook his head slightly and
“I don’t know.”
Even if the western countries were a bit arrogant, how did Liu Bang dare?
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Inside a city-state in the Western Region, Liu Bang is, yelling at the crowd.
“How did you all dare to mess with Great Qin! Don’t you want to live the good life anymore!”