On this day, the calm Jiujiang County began to boil.
The Chu army, which was originally scattered in various places for training, began to gather towards Shouchun from all over the country. Although there was no official announcement, everyone felt a heavy pressure of the storm coming and the wind filled the building.
Now the Chu State military commander has nearly 400,000 people. There are many other strong men who are temporarily arrested and can only be used to defend the city.
Among these more than 600,000 people, nearly 300,000 belong to Xiang Liang's direct line. Among these direct lineages, there are nearly 150,000 Jiangdong soldiers, 100,000 Baiyue barbarians under Wu Rui's command, and nearly 100,000.
Ten thousand people were the strong men captured among the people of Sishui, Chen County and Dang County who were plundered from Xiangliang.
The remaining nearly 150,000 people belong to the common owners of the three major families of Zhaoqu and Jing.
More than 150,000 people, 50,000 were stationed in Shouchun City, the capital of Chu State, and 50,000 people were stationed in various dangerous locations outside Shouchun City. The remaining 50,000 people were stationed in Ru'an near Shouchun respectively.
Feng, Quyang, Lu'an and other counties.
Among them, the 50,000 people stationed in Shouchun City were equipped with the Qin army-style armor provided by Ziying, and they could be regarded as the most elite of the army controlled by the Zhaoqu and Jing tribes.
Of course, their elite are just in terms of equipment.
At least in Xiang Liang's opinion, he only needs ten thousand Jiangdong's children to defeat the 50,000 army of 50,000 troops on the plains, which were also equipped with Qin people's standard armor and weapons.
However, because these 50,000 troops occupied Shouchun City first, Xiang Liang did not break up with the Zhao Qujing tribes. The Shouchun City guarded by the 100,000 troops will be punished. Even if Xiang Liang can be broken, it will cost a considerable price, let alone Xiang
Liang had not planned to completely break up with them now. He was waiting, and Xiang Liang had enough patience now.
Xiang Liang's army of more than 300,000 can be counted as elite, that is, only more than 250,000 people can fight. Nearly half of the more than 100,000 strong men captured can only be counted.
Xiang Liang knew very well.
Therefore, in Xiang Liang's vision, Xiang Yu would command the most elite 100,000 Jiangdong soldiers, leading Zhang Liang, Long Qi and Ying Bu. He went directly from Yinling County, Jiujiang to Xuyi County, Donghai, and then crossed the Huaihe River from Xuyi to the north.
Xiang Liang himself led 50,000 Jiangdong soldiers, 100,000 Baiyue barbarians, 50,000 selected from the strong men and the rest of the Baiyue barbarians who were temporarily transferred to cross the river from the lower reaches of Shouchun and faced the opposite bank of Huaihe River on the other side of the Huaihe River
Feng Jie and Han Xin's army, who have been stationed for a long time.
Hei Tie and the more than a thousand Xuanniao Camp soldiers who followed Xiang Liang's army into Jiujiang were all the most powerful. With the instructions of Hei Tie, except for the hundred Xuanniao Camp soldiers who stayed outside to move, the remaining one thousand
When Xiang Liang was catching the strong men, all the soldiers of the Xuanniao Camp of the people in the Xuanniao Camp were involved in Xiang Liang's army and became members of the Chu army.
The physical fitness of the soldiers in Xuanniao Camp was not to be questioned. They soon stood out in the training of various places. Among the hundreds of thousands of people plundered by Xiang Liang, there were many people who spoke Qin's opera, so there were more than a thousand Xuanshu.
The soldiers of the bird camp did not attract the attention of Xiang Liang's army at all.
What's more, among the hundreds of thousands of troops, more than a thousand people were just a drop of water in the sea.
Black Iron also entered Xiang Yu's army. However, there was a unique scar on his face, which could also be said to be a brand. The word "suppression" was branded on it.
Not only the black iron, but all the other soldiers of the Xuanniao Camp who entered Xiang Liang's army as soldiers of the Chu army were all stamped with the same "suppression" brand on the left or right side of the cheek.
If it were under normal circumstances, more than a thousand prisoners with imprints on their faces at the same time would definitely attract the attention of Xiang Liang and others. However, this was in the Great Qin or the tyrannical Qin.
In the eyes of the surviving tribes of the six countries, of course, this is true. Countless elites were arrested and imprisoned for trivial matters, with various marks on their faces to show their identity as a prisoner. This is also the Six Nations
One reason why the remnants called the Great Qin a violent Qin.
In fact, criminals often represent the core force that hates the most for the Qin Dynasty.
More than a thousand soldiers from Xuanniao Camp were inspected and transferred to the elite troops of Xiang Liang's army. Some even took positions such as Shi Chief, and Black Iron became a hundred generals.
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The reason why all the Xuanniao Army soldiers who entered the Chu army had their faces was branded. In fact, it was just to facilitate the identification of each other in chaos. Hei Tie and others knew very well what their mission was.
The last time it was precisely because of the dereliction of duty in Xuanniao Camp that the emperor almost trapped in Chengwu County. Although the emperor did not say anything afterwards, he did not even blame him, but both the Black Iron and the ordinary soldiers of Xuanniao Camp were actually ashamed.
They were called the most elite soldiers of the Qin Dynasty by the emperor, and they were the first legion of the Qin Dynasty to be given a flag by the emperor. Although the entire legion was only thousands of people.
If there is chaos in the army of hundreds of thousands and there is no special mark, it may hurt one's own people. It is precisely because of this reason that Hei Iron has made a quick decision to adopt the most convenient and easy-to-recognize method.
Hei Tie may not know that his unintentional action today will become a unique mark for soldiers in the Xuanniao Camp in the future. Of course, at that time it was no longer a brand, but a Xuanniao tattoo like the Xuanniao Camp flag.
The Black Iron of Jiujiang's intelligence slipped out of the camp every once in a while, and combined with the information collected by the Xuanniao Army soldiers who did not enter Xiangliang's camp, they were transmitted to Xianyang by using the letter eagle.
Therefore, although Hu Hai did not leave Xianyang, Xiang Liang knew everything even if he could not say anything, at least some of the things were clear. Even including the direct break between Xiang Liang of the Zhaoqu and Jing tribes, as well as the assistance of Nanyue Ziying, the help of Ziying, Nanyue.
The matter of Chu's military equipment was also known clearly in the routine report of Black Iron on the eighth day of September.
Hu Hai even knew that Ziying transported armor and weapons by water. After transporting armor and weapons by more than 100 tower ships, they did not return to Nanhai County, but stayed in Xinchu.
More than fifty ships were cruising near the current capital of Chu, Shouchun, and dozens of ships remained exploring. However, in Hu Hai's view, it should be on the Yangtze River near the former Jiangdong site of the Xiang clan.
The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops is obviously not possible in a short time. If food, supplies and other items are added, it will take at least ten days. Fortunately, the place Xiang Liang is going to is opposite the Huai River, and it is only separated from Shouchun.
It's just a Huai River.
What really needs to be prepared is the food, supplies and supplies needed by Xiang Yu, who prepared to go north from the East China Sea. Fortunately, Jiujiang is now overcrowded, especially near Shouchun, where nearly one million people gather in a small place
, if the soldiers gathered together are added, it will be far more than one million.
This action can be said to be the absolute secret of Chu State. No one knows it except the more than ten people in the Chu Palace. With the current status of Hei Tie and others, it is impossible to get the specific target of Xiang Liang's army to mobilize.
However, intuition tells Hei Iron that if Xiang Liang wants to move, no matter which target it is, he must first cross the Huai River. And if he wants to cross the Huai River, then the first thing he is to be Feng Jie's army on the other side of the river and Feng Jie's army on the other side of the river will be Feng Jie's army on the other side of the river and Feng Jie's army on Feng Jie's army on the same bank.
Han Xin's army was only fifty miles apart.
Hei Tie was not very clear about the arrangements of the imperial army, but he knew that the imperial army would arrive today. Because the ceremony of the post-registration will be held five days later, at that time, His Majesty the Emperor would leave Xianyang and go south to the imperial army to personally fight.
In connection, the only explanation is that Xiang Liang obviously received news that the Qin army was about to arrive, so he wanted to take the initiative first. Then whether the goal was determined or not, the Qin army on the other side of the Huai River would face a big battle.
Hei Tie didn't know if the Qin generals on the other side of the Huai River were mobilized by the army near Shouchun. He could not leave the camp at all now, but he believed that the soldiers in Xuanniao Camp who were responsible for supporting the outside of the camp who did not intervene in the Chu army would know.
How to act.
Soon, Hei Tie received the news. More than 300 soldiers from Xuanniao Camp were drawn into the camp east of Shouchun, and the remaining more than 700 soldiers from Xuanniao Camp, including Hei Tie, were gathered in Shouchun.
In the nearby camp.
Is the Chu army going to divide its troops?
A hint of sarcasm flashed in Hei Tie's eyes.
He was in the Chu army camp and stayed in the Bashang camp for more than three months. It was only then that Hei Tie understood how clever the emperor used to train the soldiers of the Bashang camp.
Of course I don’t know that the method Hu Hai used was summarized by countless soldiers over hundreds of years.
It is precisely because of this that while Black Iron was amazed at the emperor's great talent, he also became clearer about the gap between the seemingly elite Chu army and the elite of the Bashang camp. If the only difference is that many people in Xiang Liang's army were bloody.
Although the soldiers in the Bashang Camp had gone through countless exercises, some even died during the exercises, they rarely saw blood.
But even so, the gap between the Chu army and the Qin army cannot be made up for by the number.
In Heidi's opinion, the division of troops was completely a move by Xiang Liang to seek death.
Near Shouchun, 50,000 strong men left by Xiang Liang were transferred to Anfeng. Together with the 20,000 soldiers from the Zhaoqujing tribes who were originally stationed in Anfeng, they stationed in Anfeng to defend the west gate of Shouchun.
These 50,000 strong men who drove to Anfeng quickly intervened in more than ten soldiers from Xuanniao Camp. Too many people, not to mention that Xiang Liang and others thought that a large number of people means a great power. But they didn't know that when facing the absolute
The number of war machines and people can only increase the Qin army's military achievements.
This arrangement means that Xiang Liang has not forgotten the Qin army, which is said to be only tens of thousands of people all the way from Wuguan South. Xiang Liang thought that Anfeng, with 70,000 troops stationed, and less than a hundred miles behind him.
There are more than 100,000 troops in Shouchun, which is basically foolproof.
Xiang Liang also transferred 15,000 soldiers stationed in Lu'an back to Tong'anfeng, the suburbs of Shouchun, to use them to connect with Anfeng City at any time.