Destiny Only Han

Chapter 214 Net Fish
Above the city of Xingyang, seeing the Chu army retreating hastily, the Han soldiers guarding the city burst into deafening cheers.

Last time, they repelled the Chu army in a field battle, and now, they repelled the Chu army again in the city defense battle!
A strong army in the world is nothing more than that!
And Liu Bang, who was on the watchtower, saw that the large siege equipment of the Chu army had been destroyed in sevens and eighties, so he felt relieved, and walked down the tower with Lu Wan shoulder to shoulder.

Xingyang City is a strong city, and there are not enough siege weapons, so the soldiers can only attack the city with ants.

At that time, the whole city will turn into a huge flesh mill, crushing any enemy who comes a hundred steps closer to the city wall!
So as long as he doesn't relax here and is not attacked by Xiang Yu, then this place will be a barrier for the entire Han country.

Guard his people, and guard his loved ones.

Moreover, in Guanzhong, Yunyang, Lantian and other counties that are close to the water flow, have developed agriculture, and have a large population, workshops are being erected one after another.

It won't be long before the soldiers of the Han Dynasty will be able to have a pair of iron armor.

Wearing strong and sharp, holding a long spear and a crossbow.

Such an army does not need too many, a hundred thousand people is enough to conquer the world!

Therefore, it is best for the Chu army to besiege here without attacking, which will waste time in vain.

Because time is on Han's side.

Every day that passes, the strength of Han will grow stronger.

After the truce between the two sides, it was time for the auxiliary troops to dispatch.

Their mission was to take back the crossbow arrows that had been fired and the horses of the Chu army that had been shot. The former was of course to recover the arrows, while the latter was to reward the army.

In fact, the taste of horse meat is very good.

And for those who don’t eat meat very much, as long as it’s clean and has no peculiar smell, it’s the top grade for the Teeth Ceremony!

Under the city, the auxiliary soldiers hanging down quickly rushed to the other side of the ditch under the amazed eyes of the civilian husbands who were captured by the Chu army and reworked as coolies under the city wall, cutting the horse's legs with the butcher knife in their hands. A place for a piece of meat.

On the city wall, after cheering, the Han army suddenly became salivating.

While the Han army in Xingyang was waiting to eat stewed meat, Han Xin, who was far in the north in Wu County (now Jiexiu County, Shanxi), was leading more than 1 Han cavalry in a mighty march.

They were one with two horses, chewing the tough meat strips like dried old wood, and took a big gulp from the water bag on the horse's back from time to time.

Nothing but salty.

In order to keep the meat strips from rotting for a long time, they are covered with a thick layer of salt before being dehydrated and air-dried.

This way of eating now is actually a helpless choice.

The best way to eat this kind of meat strips is to bury them in the pot for cooking, throw them into the boiled rice porridge, absorb water and expand them again, and then throw in a handful of wild vegetables after the meat strips become soft.

In this way, a pot of risotto with meat, rice and vegetables is ready.

Well, this is an upgraded version of the military ration pack that Liu Ying made when she was in Hanzhong.

Prior to this, whether it was the Qin army or soldiers from other countries among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, they would carry some ration packs for instant food on their backs when marching.

This ration package is mainly composed of rice sticks, tempeh, and vinegar cloth.

Among them, rice sticks are made of corn and a stone, which are cooked to remove impurities, dried in the sun, and then cooked again, and so on, and finally made into something similar to compressed biscuits, which can be eaten dry or soaked in hot water Eat with it, this is used to replenish carbohydrates.

Douchi is made of three liters of boiled beans, five liters of salt, mixed evenly, mashed into a paste, and twisted to make a jujube stone-sized meal.

This is mainly used to replace electrolytes lost due to profuse sweating.

For the vinegar cloth, prepare 1 foot of coarse cloth and 1 liter of vinegar.Soak the coarse cloth in the vinegar, wait until the coarse cloth fully absorbs the vinegar, and then dry it in the sun until there is no liquid vinegar left, the vinegar cloth is ready.When eating, cut off a little bit with a knife, it can be used with rice, and it can also be used in the mouth when marching to refresh the mind.

In addition, there are oilseed and ebony for quenching thirst.

But this way of eating, soldiers can barely eat enough, but they are unable to cope with sudden encounters.

When marching, usually after encountering the enemy, they immediately set up camp, built barriers, and waited for the main reinforcements from the rear.

Well, in fact, the enemy on the opposite side is also like this.

The reason is that they eat less meat.

Therefore, when the army is marching, they will prepare a lot of livestock to pull the carts, and when they lose weight on the road, or die suddenly due to long-distance marching and lack of rest, they will wash and eat meat.

It can be said responsibly that cattle and horses are food reserves.

It's just that in Liu Ying's view, such a method is too wasteful.

A fat and strong cow or a skinny cow, which side produces more meat, is a matter that even a fool understands.

Therefore, he followed the example of the Mongols and slaughtered the livestock when they were at their strongest to make meat strips for food during the urgent march.

And good steel is used on the blade.

When Han Xin set off, although the army carried a lot of meat strips, he never took them out as army food.

The reason is actually very simple. When the Western Wei Dynasty was attacked before, there were people everywhere along the way. As long as they paid, they didn't have to worry about not being able to get livestock for the soldiers to eat.

At this moment, Han Xin led the elite cavalry in the army and the Langzhong cavalry under his temporary command to the north after sending a memorial to Liu Bang requesting additional troops.

His goal, of course, is the Dai Kingdom in the north.

After Chen Yu helped Zhao Wangxie to take back Zhao Guo, Zhao Wangxie, in order to thank Chen Yu, enfeoffed his own land to Chen Yu as a fief, and set up an altar to tell the world, recognizing Chen Yu as the acting king.

But Chen Yu was worried that Zhao Wangxie was still young and could not deal with the arrogant soldiers in the army, so he stayed in Zhao State and took up the post of Taifu to deter dissidents in the country.

As for Daiguo, Chen Yu canonized his confidant Xia Shuo as the prime minister of Daiguo to replace him in Daiguo.

It's just that Xia said that Nai was born as a civil servant, and he is very good at handling government affairs, but when it comes to commanding troops and fighting, he knows all the seven orifices and knows nothing about it!
What Han Xin had to do was to take advantage of Chen Yu, who was far away in Zhao, before he could react, to conquer Dai first, and destroy the bureaucratic system that Xia Shuo had established for Chen Yu.

In this way, the civil officials of the old Qin Dynasty who came from the Guanzhong area can quickly grasp everything about the country.

Just like when Xiao He took control of Guanzhong and captured the Western Wei Dynasty before, one was divided into three, with three counties and 52 counties.

Well, because the land of the Western Wei Dynasty was not the main battlefield of the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the population did not lose much.

According to the rules of the Qin State, more than [-] households should be assigned to the township, more than [-] households should be assigned to the second township, more than [-] households should be assigned to the third township, and more than [-] households should be assigned to the fourth township.

Each of these 52 counties is almost a large county with four townships.

Calculated based on 52 households in each township, there are 110 households in one county, and 600 million households in [-] counties, with a population of about [-] million!
In other words, Han Xin defeated the Western Wei Dynasty in one battle, almost doubling the population of Han!
After he conquered the more populous state of Zhao and Qi, he would naturally come up with other ideas and want to go further.

Tragedy also arises from this.

But at this moment, Han Xinxin didn't have any other thoughts. He was concentrating on one thing, which was to receive the information sent back by the scouts, and then outline the enemy's situation and our situation in his mind.

Han Xin's so-called fairy battle is actually to accurately judge the enemy's movement after collecting all the information, and then lie down, let the enemy sit up and move by himself...

Well, take a chestnut.

It is what some people call the machine gun squad to move forward 50 meters because he knows that the enemy will pass by here next.

Others ordered the machine gun squad to move forward 50 meters, in addition to showing that they were better than their subordinates, because he felt that the enemy should pass by here.

If you get it right, it is naturally a good opinion.

If wrong...

Anyway, if you dare to blind Bibi, he will be a special...

With the high-speed calculation of Han Xin's brain, he can almost be sure that in half a day at most, the news of his large-scale attack will be known to Xia Shuo in Guangwu County.

And the first battle between the two sides will inevitably break out here.

In order to be sure to win, Han Xin even calculated the opponent's retreat after the defeat.

Yan and.

There is the place where Zhao She, the former general of the State of Zhao, defeated the Qin army.

For this reason, just like the last time he ordered Ding Yi to outflank and capture Anyi City first, he also sent troops to Yanyu.

The net has been opened, and now, just wait for the fish to get in by itself!

…………

In Guangwu County, the sky has completely dimmed.

On the top of the city, from time to time, the curses of the soldiers guarding the city could be heard.

Today, according to the calendar, it should be the seventh day of September, but at this time, there seems to be something missing in the sky.

moon!

The crescent moon that should have appeared is gone!
In fact, in ancient China, mistakes in the calendar were actually a very common thing.

After all, things like astronomical calculations require instruments accurate to milliseconds in order to be as error-free as possible.

It is normal to have errors when observing with the naked eye.

Well, not only the ancient Chinese calendar, but all the calendars calculated based on the moon phases have errors to varying degrees. It’s just that people in some countries are constantly striving for perfection, while the calendars of some countries have an error of up to As many as eleven days!
In this way, many customary festivals will appear in different seasons after a few years...

As the night was getting darker, when the soldiers guarding the city were drowsy in the tranquility and were about to find a place to take a nap, a grapple hook was still attached to the shadow under the city wall.

Although the grapple made some noises, it happened to be hidden in the sound of footsteps and the impact of armor plates on the soldiers' patrols.

So, when this group of soldiers continued to move forward without knowing anything.

Below the city wall, black shadows quickly moved upwards. After turning over the top of the city, they tiptoed towards the patrolling soldiers.

After a while, the wooden city tower was burning with raging flames.

The quiet night was broken by earth-shattering shouts and rumbling horseshoes.

Guangwu County is broken.

(End of this chapter)