It is an old trick of the Chu State to think of themselves as barbarians at every turn.
The speaker's name is Zhihuan, and his presence is not strong at all. He is currently Lang Guanling of the Yuan Kingdom.
What is Lang Guan Ling? To put it bluntly, it means the commander of the bodyguards.
The bodyguards and the palace guards are two different identities. The bodyguards will follow Zhiyao everywhere, and the palace guards mainly guard the palace. If you look at it more carefully, the palace guards belong to the military, but the guards are not.
Zhiyao learned from the practice of the Western Han Dynasty and set up Langguan as a talent reserve, and then recruited a number of heroes.
Therefore, Lang Guan is either a second-generation nobleman or a second-generation official, and does not include people from ordinary backgrounds.
It’s not that Zhiyao is discriminating, the key is that ordinary families in this era cannot produce talented people.
Ordinary families don't even have three meals a day. They don't need to think about enlightenment. If they are illiterate, they can't absorb further knowledge for nutrition.
It does not rule out that there are talents among the illiterate, but Zhiyao has never encountered one so far.
Ziqi knew that Zhiheng was retaliating against his rudeness, so he was silent for a moment before saluting Zhiyao and saying, "Send greetings to Uncle Zhi on behalf of my king."
In the Yuan Kingdom, Lao Huang was used to bury and eliminate the king of the Chu Kingdom, but he was just a viscount?
Ziqi can tell you what kind of background Zhi is.
The Yuan people at the scene immediately glared at Ziqi, as if they were about to swarm him at any time.
Sun Wu said: "What's the use of showing off your power of words? It only makes the world laugh at you. I wonder what the Lord of Chu wants to say when he sends his men here?"
Of course Ziqi recognized Sun Wu.
It should be said that even if the dignitaries of Chu State had not seen Sun Wu in person, they would have heard of Sun Wu's name and deeds.
They were so afraid of Sun Wu that Ziqi recognized Sun Wu without making any more "beeps" and said, "My king invites you to go hunting in Xinzheng."
I don't know who laughed first in the tent, causing a burst of "haha" laughter.
The purpose of the Chu army going north and the Yuan army going south was to create a fight.
This is no longer an era for gentlemen's wars. Considering that the Chu army marched northward with more than 300,000 troops, and then invited the original troops to the preset battlefield, it is true that they would consider themselves barbarians at every turn.
Zhiyao said: "Tell Mr. Chu that I must go."
After achieving the purpose of his mission, Ziqi didn't waste any time. He turned around and walked away without even saying a single courtesy.
When Zhi Xuwu saw it, he said angrily: "The Chu people are really barbarians!"
Sun Wu said: "It just angers me."
The current situation is that the Chu State is expected to send more than 300,000 troops from the south to the north. There are already more than 200,000 Chu troops entering the territory of Zheng State. At the same time, the Qin Army and the Dai Army have a combined force of about 60,000 to 70,000 troops, and may have already launched a war against Jing.
Water line attack.
If nothing else goes wrong, more than 200,000 Chu troops are stationed around "Xinzheng". Zheng Guo should have given up on Chu. But I don't know to what extent Zheng Guo will participate in this war.
So, the countries that will definitely participate in this war include Qin, Zheng, Dai, and the half-dead Lu in the Chu camp. Yuan has no apparent ally.
Judging from the military strength, the combined forces of the Chu State must exceed 350,000 troops. Once the Zheng State cannot withstand the pressure, the total military strength used to fight the Yuan Kingdom may reach about 400,000?
On the Yuan Kingdom's side, Zhiyao led an army of 70,000 to the south, with about 60,000 troops in the west and about 20,000 in the north. Not counting the local garrisons, the first batch of Yuan Kingdom's troops that went into the war totaled 150,000.
"The Chu army is coming in great strength. It is the right way to fight head-on." Sun Wu was talking about the plans of the kings and ministers of the Chu state.
Of course Zhiyao knew, and said with a smile: "The 70,000 men under my command are enough to compete with the 300,000 coalition forces."
The standing army of the original country is the most well-equipped!
Three thousand heavy infantrymen basically wear three layers of armor, two layers of leather armor on the inside, one layer of cloth armor on the outside, and a shield in each hand. The weapons include long weapons, short weapons, bows or crossbows.
Each of the 1,500 regular infantrymen has a cloth face armor and one long weapon and one short weapon.
The remaining five hundred are the Rangers who have not been seen yet. They are also equipped with cloth face armor, a lance, a saber, a small buckler, a horned bow, and the war horse has a breastplate.
There is only a standing army of 6,000, against 30,000 to 50,000, or even if the terrain permits, there is no reason to be afraid of twice as many enemy troops!
There is also a fully-equipped army heading south, all equipped with cloth armor. The rest of the equipment is slightly inferior to that of the standing army, and the level of training is also insufficient. However, there is absolutely no problem with 37,500 soldiers against 890,000 enemy troops.
Ten thousand cavalry? It may not be feasible to engage in a head-on battle, but it is always possible to contain 30,000 to 50,000 enemy troops, right?
The rest of the troops from the Zhong family, the Fox family and other families, all of them are armed with a set of cloth armor, and their weapons are mainly fighting guns. How can 20,000 soldiers be able to withstand an enemy army of about 40,000 to 50,000?
Zhiyao has the ability to effectively utilize all the troops at hand.
Who on the coalition side can effectively command an army of more than 300,000 people? If there are no such talents, the number of troops in the coalition is not the key. The real key is how many troops can be effective!
Three days later.
Zhiyao led his army to the northeast about five miles away from "Xinzheng".
During this period of time, the Chu army seemed to be worried that the original army would not come to keep the appointment, and did not make any small moves from beginning to end.
Twenty miles and three days of walking? No.
Zhiyao spent two days in camp cutting and collecting wood, and one day was spent marching.
This is a lesson that someone once cut down the woods around the battlefield and taught the world a lesson. All the generals in charge of the army will stock up on wood appropriately along the way, so as not to be speechless when they see the bare trees everywhere.
At the same time, we have to face a very real boss problem.
The two armies can see each other five miles apart. The sight here does not mean seeing the facial features and flags clearly, it is simply because there are so many people on each other, and the dark mass is difficult to ignore.
After the original army entered the Chu army's sight, the sound of war drums sounded from the Chu army's camp, and a large group of infantry chariots rushed out in about two-quarters of an hour.
"The people of Chu came to invite a hunter, and then they acted like this. The new king of Chu is very similar to Duke Zhuang of Chu." Sun Wu said.
This was the Chu army taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the original army had come a long way and consumed a lot of energy during the march.
Zhiyao had just reacted and dispatched 5,000 cavalry to attack, while the rest of the troops hurriedly prepared their armor for battle.
They were definitely not fully armed during the march. This is why some troops were ambushed when marching on the plains. It was not a sneak attack within the range of arrows, but simply a lack of time to penetrate armor and line up, and it was difficult to resist without forming a formation.
The soldiers are not in an armed state and have no formation? They will definitely suffer heavy losses in a confrontation. The most likely thing for the commander of the troops is to shout "We are ambushed, retreat" or something like that.
Zhiyao had guessed that the Chu army would do this, so why not let the soldiers march fully armed? Just because marching fully armed is really exhausting!
"How do the Zhao cavalry compare with the original cavalry?" The person asked by Ziguo was Zhao Bolu.
Zhao Bolu was now on the side of the Chu army as an envoy of the Qin State. Hearing this, he showed a surprised expression and said, "Bolu is a minister of the Qin State, not a minister of the Zhao Dynasty."
Some of the boundaries in the south will be blurred, while in the middle, the rules will be more adhered to.
For example, if they serve different countries, even if they are from the same family, they will actually develop independently of each other.
Ziguo was from Chu, and he did not believe that Zhao Bolu had completely severed ties with Zhao Daiguo, and said: "Now that the war is about to begin, why should Dr. Zhao be cautious in his actions and words?"
Zhao Bolu smiled bitterly and replied: "Bolu really doesn't know the details of the Zhao Dynasty and Zhiyuan cavalry. If there is a difference between the cavalry under the command of the emperor and the Zhiyuan cavalry, Bolu may be able to give some answers."
Of course, the Qin State had cavalry, and there were quite a lot of them. Especially after the loss of the Jingshui River, most Qin people were forced to live a nomadic life again, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of cavalry that the Qin State could recruit.
However, the cavalry of the Qin State is not the same concept or level as the cavalry of the original state or the Zhao cavalry.
Let's put it this way, even if stirrups and saddles are no longer a secret, the original cavalry's ration rate for stirrups and saddles has reached 100%, the Zhao cavalry may reach 70%, and the Qin cavalry may even have 100% rationing.
Can't even reach forty.
The difference in the equipment of stirrups and saddles is just that, not to mention other things, including horseshoes, which are currently only fully rationed by the original cavalry. Even if other forces discover the wonderful use of horseshoes, there will be no difference in the equipment of stirrups and saddles.
Installation faces the same problem, that is, there is a huge gap in productivity. As a result, even though we know what works well, it is impossible for all employees to install it.
At the same time, it is true that Yuan and Dai had cavalry, while Qin mostly had a type of mounted infantry.
Many Chu people have never seen the cavalry of the original country. Due to their geographical location, they are actually just as unfamiliar with riding a horse alone.
"shoot!"
Waves of bow strings rang out, and arrows rose into the air like locusts, and then they were shot at the Chu soldiers, whose formation was in chaos because they were in a moving state.
In an instant, screams or groans appeared one after another, and the Chu army, which was covered by arrows, fell in large pieces.
Among the more than 200,000 Chu troops stationed around "Xinzheng", the per capita armor rate may be less than 30%, and the vast majority of them will be wooden armor or bamboo armor.
Without armor and a shield? Facing the rain of arrows, they will definitely suffer. Apart from waving their weapons to try to get rid of them, the only option left is to hide.
The cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty were playing mounted archery. The only thing they needed to be careful about was to avoid the arrows fired by the Chu army in time.
The horn bow is the main equipment of the original cavalry, and its effective range is only fifty or sixty meters.
The range of the bow used by the infantry is definitely greater than that of the horn bow.
The crux of the problem is that most of the archers of the Chu army used bamboo bows, and most of their arrows were made of bamboo, so the effective range was difficult to exceed fifty meters.
In this way, an interesting scene appeared. The Yuan cavalry, who should not have an advantage in range, used horn bows to have a farther range than the Chu army who used bamboo bows.
The situation at the scene is that the Chu army only has a few wooden bows that can threaten the Yuan cavalry. The range of most bamboo bows is lost to the horn bows of the Yuan cavalry, causing the Yuan cavalry to shoot more effective arrows.
, forcing the Chu army to stop fighting.
Behind them, the Yuan cavalry even formed a circle. It seemed that the formation had become thinner, but they could continuously shoot arrows at the Chu army from all directions.
Most of the soldiers of the Chu army did not realize when they were surrounded. They only knew that arrows were being fired from everywhere. They saw that one of their companions would fall down from time to time, and they fell into a great panic.
If there were people from the Zhao family present, they would definitely admire in their hearts: "Good guy, I learned another trick!"
However, this tactic used by the original cavalry was actually Zhiyao's application of the tactics of the Mongolian light cavalry. The Mongols used this tactic to destroy the will of the armies of one country after another to resist.
"It's a pity that the main forces of the two armies are too close." Zhiyao said softly.
Zhikai, who was in the same car with Zhiyao, showed a thoughtful expression.
After Zhikai thought about it, he said: "Father, if the terrain is open, we can make way for the passage, then drive the enemy troops to flee, and then the cavalry will chase after them?"
Yes, that's what light cavalry is used for.
Using light cavalry to charge into battle? Unless absolutely necessary, otherwise only fools would do this.
Sun Wu, who was standing on the side of the chariot, said: "The Chu army has sent reinforcements."
More troops came out of the Chu army's camp. Most of them were horse-drawn chariots, and the number of infantry seemed to be about 16,000 or 7,000.
Zhiyao picked up the telescope and looked at it, and said: "The horse is wearing armor."
Telescopes have become popular among pawn leaders and above, but the lower the level, the production will be relatively rough. At the same time, reconnaissance cavalry and scouts also have equipment. Just from this point, the original army has more than one advantage against the enemy.
Half a point.
Sun Wu said: "In this way, the Chu army's march north was not just a whim."
Most of the chariots pulled by the Chu State were oxen, and whether they were pulling chariots, horses or oxen, they did not wear armor in the past.
Before Zhishi turned his family into a country, Zhiyao repeatedly used cavalry to target the chariots. Several cavalrymen shot at the chariot soldiers from different directions. After several more shots, the chariot soldiers were always killed, and the crew members were lost.
The chariot will only be pulled by the animals and bump around aimlessly. The unlucky ones must be the infantry following the chariot.
The original army had five thousand cavalry to buy time, and the remaining troops also had time to prepare for war.
After Zhiyao received the news that all the standing army was ready for battle, he ordered: "The new Chu army is the enemy."
Someone will naturally notify you of the order.
After about a hundred breaths, the six thousand standing army, under the command of Zhi Xuwu, broke away from the main group, set out their battle formations, and headed towards the new batch of Chu troops who came out of the camp.
The physical strength of the standing army did not seem to be affected by the rush?
In fact, the standing army usually carries out armed cross-country trips, carries a load of fifty kilograms and travels thirty miles, and then immediately goes into battle. Those who cannot do this have long been eliminated from the standing army.
Being able to do it and whether to march in full gear are two different things. If you can save your energy as much as possible, why do you have to play something special?
On the side of the Chu army.
This new king in the Chu army, who had just ascended to power this year, saw a group of troops on his side being trapped by the Yuan Kingdom's cavalry and shooting them repeatedly, and then the second batch of reinforcements bumped into the Yuan Kingdom's troops who also came up. He saw incredible things.
The picture is so blurry that the frequency of blinking becomes abnormal.