General Qin

On the second day when he learned of Li Xin's strategy to defeat Chu, Zhao Tuo stayed in his camp and asked a few two or five hundred masters under his command to train soldiers outside.

He leaned on the table, stroked his chin, and kept thinking in his head.

"Li Xin's surprise attack strategy is too risky. Although Meng Wu is allowed to hold his banner outside Xiangcheng to confuse and contain the Chu army, but as soon as Li Xin attacks Pingyu, the news will definitely leak out, and Xiang Yan will know. A surprise army of the Qin army circled behind him."

"Even if Mengwu stormed Xiangcheng to cover him, Xiang Yan would definitely react. The Chu army in Xiangcheng cannot move and needs to resist the main force under Mengwu's command. But Xiang Yan will definitely mobilize Chu troops from other places to besiege and block Li. letter."

"Li Xin is galloping with elite chariots, and his speed must be faster than that of the Chu army. As long as the journey goes smoothly, he will be able to reach the city of Shouchun before the Chu army intercepts him."

Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo smiled wryly.

Under normal circumstances, the first half of Li Xin's strategy is not a big problem.

As long as the Chu army did not prepare in advance for the surprise attack by chariots and riders, it is very likely that he would pass through the empty Huaibei land as planned and drive directly to the city of Shouchun.

This is where the real problem lies.

Even if, as Li Xin said, the Qin army relied on robbing food to maintain supplies all the way, but what about at the city of Shouchun?

As the capital of Chu today, Shouchun has been continuously reinforced for more than ten years. Its walls are high and its defenses are absolutely solid. According to what Li Xin said, if he can frighten the courage of Chu people with a surprise attack and break the city in one battle, that would be great.

This directly took out the old background of the Chu State, broke the Chu capital, captured the King of Chu, and the winner would be determined in one battle.

His name, Li Xin, will resound throughout the world, and he can be compared with Bai Qi, the former Wu'an Lord.

Even thousands of years later, the strategies and tactics Li Xin used in this battle will be written in military textbooks for countless people to study and worship.

But what if the raid fails?

Thirty thousand chariots and riders stopped at the city of Shouchun, and the lone army went deep, how to supply food and fodder?

If the attack on Shouchun is not broken for a long time, the Qin army will be in a dilemma.

After receiving the order, the reinforcements of the Chu army will also follow, and the 30,000 men under Li Xin's command will be surrounded by the enemy in an instant. If the army came to attack from inside and outside, wouldn't it be a big defeat on the spot.

Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo began to break out in a cold sweat.

Li Xin is playing a stud!

Either make a great contribution to the world and destroy Chu in one battle.

Either suffer a shocking defeat and just finish the game.

"With General Li's current arrogance, even if we give him an analysis of the situation, he will not care if he thinks about it, and maybe he will say that he can defeat the chasing Chu army one by one."

Li Xin's passionate face appeared in Zhao Tuo's mind. This is Li Xin's character.

And Zhao Tuo probably guessed why Li Xin came up with this plan.

"When Wang Jian destroyed Zhao, he took hundreds of thousands of people to Zhang and Ye, while Li Xin led his troops out of Taiyuan and Yunzhong to flank Zhao."

"Wang Jian destroyed Yan and led his army to fight against the coalition forces of the Yan Dynasty in the west of Yishui. Li Xin led his troops to attack the Great Wall of Yishui and copied the Yan army's back route. Later, after chasing the battle of Yandan, Li Xin followed my strategy, Detour west of Liaoxi to intercept and kill Lord Yan."

In the two battles of annihilating the country, Li Xin led a partial division to attack from the side, and made great achievements in both!

Li Xinxin was used to riding strange soldiers, used to surprise attacks with partial divisions, he didn't pay attention to the rigid siege battle at all, and disliked the dull and slow style of fighting, which made it difficult to make extraordinary achievements.

Even when he became the commander of an army of 200,000 soldiers, Li Xin still used his previous experience of leading a partial division to apply rote, not realizing that his duties were different from those of the former general of a partial division.

Coupled with Lord Changping's so-called "internal response" to help, Li Xin was extremely proud and looked down on Chu State at all, so he came up with such a strategy similar to gambling.

A bet will win or lose!

I, Li Xin, will definitely win!

"And there is a ghost inside."

Zhao Tuo narrowed his eyes slightly, the above deduction is based on normal development. If the participation of ghosts in the army is added, the ending may be even worse. Maybe Li Xin will be blocked by Chu people before he can escape to Shouchun City.

Zhao Tuo didn't know if Li Xin's attack on Chu in history was like this. Anyway, the battle he was about to participate in, judging from the current situation, was sure to lose and never win.

"I can't persuade him anymore, we can only see if Meng Wu can persuade him when the final decision is made. All I can do now is to control this trilogy well."

Zhao Tuo sighed, stood up, and walked outside the tent.

The future is uncertain, and if he wants to seek more chances of survival in this uncertain war, he must firmly grasp the 5,000 people under his command.

This army is the capital of his survival.

"Military officer."

Zhao Tuo walked out of the tent, and the five hundred short soldiers standing at the door, Xiqigu, immediately bowed their heads and said hello.

"I haven't been back in the camp for a short time. I don't know what the soldiers think about this attack on Chu, and do they have any complaints?"

Zhao Tuo glanced at the 5,000 soldiers who were training in the distant school field. He needed to understand the hearts of these soldiers.

Xi Qigu thought for a while, and then said: "Mr. Jun, the soldiers complained. After all, we just finished the battle in Weidi. Everyone has made a lot of contributions. More or less, the titles have been promoted. The second and third sons are thinking about it." Go home as soon as possible. Or want to see if your family has been assigned the corresponding land after your title is promoted, or miss your relatives and children at home, thinking that you have not heard from me for a long time, and your family must be worried about their life and death. Some people worry I have not been home for a long time, and the newly married woman at home will not be able to restrain her loneliness..."

Zhao Tuo suddenly asked: "Then do you want to go home?"

Xiqigu was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes. I also want to go home."

Zhao Tuo nodded, this is indeed human nature. These 5,000 people went out after the spring plowing, and now they have passed the autumn harvest. They have traveled far away for nearly half a year. How can anyone not miss their relatives at home.

After the war of destroying Wei, they already had the idea of ​​going home, but they didn't wait for the news of returning to their hometown, but were recruited here again to participate in a new round of war of destroying the country.

Such a situation, who is not bored.

The homesickness has no place to vent, so that the soldiers can only live like a year, daydreaming all day long, which makes them lose their fighting spirit and become more war-weary.

This is the homesickness of the old soldier, and the morale is low!

Such soldiers went to the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness was very limited.

This is a problem that needs to be solved.

Zhao Tuo paced outside the tent, thinking about ways to improve morale.

Now he has 5,000 people under his command, and just after the war in Weidi, basically everyone has won the title. After the Daliang City was broken, everyone got some money more or less.

In this case, the effect of material rewards is not great. If you want to boost the morale of the army, you can only start with the spirit.

I miss my loved ones.

Zhao Tuo raised his head and looked to the west.

In the distant Xianyang Palace, there is no one whom Zhao Tuo misses.

When he was in Xianyang, he rarely met the princess, and he could only use letters to express his affection. The girl who lives in the deep palace often writes down various emotions of her daughter's family in letters to let him know.

letter!

Zhao Tuo had an idea.

Have!

"Gu, tell all the soldiers in the army that I want them to write letters home! Report to their families that they are safe, and express their heartfelt heart, so as to ease the pain of missing them!"

"ah?"

Xiqigu blinked and asked five thousand people to write letters home?

But most people can't read at all!

Seeing Xi Qigu's expression, Zhao Tuo knew what he was thinking, so he explained: "Call all the literate military officials in the army. Let the soldiers who want to write letters go home to prepare wooden slips, and then the soldiers dictate, and the military officials represent Write, in this way, the speed will be fast enough to finish before the army departs."

"Then I will ask General Li to send their family letters back through the official road, so that their respective families can receive their letters and know everyone's situation. In this way, everyone's homesickness will be relieved, and everyone It can make the second and third sons in the army feel at ease. Although I, Zhao Tuo, can't take everyone home immediately, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it."

Hearing this, Xi Qigu's eyes were blurred, he knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Xi Qigu knows that all the soldiers in the army are homesick. It is a great kindness for the army to be like this. I am the first to represent Quanqu soldiers, thank you Military waiting."

"Go."

Zhao Tuo said lightly.

Xi Qigu got up and immediately ran to the school grounds.

After a while, as the news spread, cheers erupted from the entire school grounds.

"Marquis Zhao!"

"Great kindness, Marquis!"

"I love the Marquis!"

...

There were bursts of cheers, and even though a letter from home hadn't been written yet, this news alone was enough to boost the morale of the army by a small amount.

Zhao Tuo watched the scene where everyone was jumping for joy, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even high-ranking officials like She Jian and Hei Hip were all excited.

Among them, who doesn't want to go home?

"The heart of one person is the heart of thousands of people."

Zhao Tuo sighed lightly.

Then his expression darkened again.

"I don't know how many of the letters sent back this time will become their suicide notes in the end."