Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 84
Zhang Wen finally accepted Xiang Yu's suggestion and decided to divide the army into three parts. Because Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo were at odds, Zhang Wen asked Dong Zhuo to lead an army in Jingyuan City, which is farther to the east, while Sun Jian led an army in the far west. Xiang Yu led the army in Yuzhong City on the east side of Lanzhou City. At the same time, Zhang Wen himself stayed in Yuzhong City, but the main command of the troops was delegated to Xiang Yu.

The number of soldiers and horses in the three routes is not exactly the same. Among them, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo each lead a quarter of the total force, while Xiang Yu leads the remaining half of the force. This means that Xiang Yu has temporarily Obtaining the main command of this counter-insurgency team also means that he has gained the full trust of the coach Zhang Wen.

Of course, this kind of trust is more based on trust in Xiang Yu's ability, or because Zhang Wen gradually lost trust in Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo. In the following period of time, Zhang Wen would often talk to Xiang Yu , and exchanged with him some personal views and experiences on leading troops to fight, and Zhang Wen also discovered in the process that the young man named Xiang Ji in front of him had a keen insight into the battlefield situation beyond ordinary people, and what he did Some of the judgments made are profound and accurate, and they are very forward-looking.

And these abilities are undoubtedly the abilities that an outstanding general or even a coach needs to possess, but not all outstanding generals and coaches can possess these abilities at the same time like Xiang Yu, and Zhang Wen feels that Xiang Yu is still very young after all , the future potential is huge.

So Zhang Wen decided to reuse Xiang Yu and train him well, trying to win Xiang Yu to become his side in the future. Of course, Xiang Yu himself is not stupid. Through this period of contact, he has gradually figured out Zhang Wen's temperament and ability. It is obvious that Zhang Wen's ability to lead troops to fight in person is really not good, but some of his personal thoughts on leading troops to fight still touched Xiang Yu in a positive sense.

In fact, Zhang Wen himself has also studied many books on the art of war, and it can even be said that he is much better than Xiang Yu in the theory of art of war, but Zhang Wen's problem is that he lacks sufficient ability to apply these art of war, and many ideas are mere theory In addition, compared with Xiang Yu's ability to combine the contents of many military books with actual warfare, there is still a big gap.

The speed of building ships is slower than expected. It is difficult to find enough suitable wood along the Yellow River to make large ships. Therefore, we must obtain suitable wood from farther places, or we can only build small and medium ships. However, it is difficult for small and medium-sized ships to meet the needs of a large number of soldiers crossing the river at the same time, and the manpower and material resources required to make small and medium-sized ships will not be much less than those for large-scale ships.

On the issue of making ships, Xiang Yu himself has no say. In fact, they can't find particularly good shipbuilders in the army. The only ones are temporarily deployed from the Sanfu area or even the capital. People in the era didn't have much demand for shipbuilding, so the personal abilities of these shipbuilders were actually not outstanding.

Obviously, if this progress is followed, it will take a lot of time to transport the entire army, including soldiers, horses, logistics troops, weapons and equipment, and logistics supplies, across the Yellow River.

There is actually a very critical problem here, that is, they cannot send soldiers across the Yellow River little by little, because after all, the opposite side is the area controlled by Han Sui's rebels. If a part of the troops passed by, on the one hand, they would scare the snakes and let Han Sui know that they had started to cross the river, which would probably attract Han Sui's attack.

Obviously, Han Sui didn't want to let Zhang Wen cross the river smoothly, and would launch a fierce attack on Zhang Wen's troops crossing the river when they were still small in number. A group of troops is meaningless at all.

And after Xiang Yu raised this point, Zhang Wen also quickly recognized it, so under such circumstances, at least a certain number of ships need to be built to ensure that troops with certain combat effectiveness can be transported to the other side of the Yellow River in a relatively short period of time At least, this army can have a certain self-protection ability, so that they can avoid the situation of being wiped out immediately after being discovered by Han Sui.

, So Xiang Yu said, either wait slowly until enough ships are built, but this may take at least one or two months, or even longer, or a certain number of ships must be built first, Let Xiang Yu take some elite troops to cross the river first, and then rely on Xiang Yu's excellent command ability to use these elite troops to contain Han Sui's troops on the other side of the river, so as to buy enough time and space for more troops to cross the river behind.

Zhang Wen was a little hesitant about Xiang Yu's proposal at first, because he was obviously more inclined to the latter option from Xiang Yu's tone, but he thought about Xiang Yu's previous combat performance, and finally chose to believe that Xiang Yu could complete it. For this task, I didn't say anything more, and let Xiang Yu make his own decision.

On the other hand, Dong Zhuo naturally adopted a relatively passive strategy. When the shipbuilders from Sanfu and Jingshi areas came to the army, Dong Zhuo only served them with good wine and food all day long, and did not mention shipbuilding at all. The thing is, at the beginning, these shipbuilders thought that Dong Zhuo was very kind and took good care of them, but soon they felt something was wrong.

After all, they were brought here for the purpose of building ships for the army to cross the Yellow River. Logically speaking, they should be in a hurry, but now they don't mention this at all. Instead, they just let them come here to eat, drink and spend time. Quite weird.

Soon some of them couldn't bear it any longer and ran to Dong Zhuo to inquire, but Dong Zhuo said that the matter was not urgent. Since they wanted to build a boat to cross the river, they had to build a big boat so that it would be stable and able to hold more soldiers. Well, the wood for building a big ship is not easy to get, so let a few shipbuilders wait patiently, don't worry, when the wood arrives, they will naturally start building the ship.

Apparently, Dong Zhuo's statement didn't satisfy the shipbuilders. They felt that they were idle around here all day and felt very uncomfortable. Although Dong Zhuo was polite on the surface, he always felt that something was wrong, so he said to Dong Zhuo Big boats can't take care of it, so we can build some smaller boats first.

Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo turned his face immediately after hearing this, and yelled at the shipbuilders loudly, saying that they should not be ignorant of good and evil, he said he wanted to build a big ship, so he built a big ship, and it was not their turn to make irresponsible remarks. If they dare to speak more, they will pull out their tongues. Anyway, their craftsmen use their hands to build ships, and tongues are superfluous for them.

The few shipbuilders had never seen such a battle, and they were immediately frightened by Dong Zhuo and kowtowed like garlic, and they didn't dare to say more, so Dong Zhuo ordered the several shipbuilders to be locked up to prevent them from communicating with the outside world. No chance of contact.

(End of this chapter)