Chapter 308 Breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat (End)(1/2)
Dangdangdang.
The sound of weapons fighting was constantly heard in the sky, and dozens of figures were fighting in the air. From time to time, people fell from the air. It was obvious that they could not survive, depending on the situation.
"Xiaoyaozi, it seems you still don't give up." Zhengang stood on the Suzaku in the Mechanism, and Zhengang's sword pointed directly at Xiaoyaozi in front of him. Xiaoyaozi was also standing on the Suzaku in the Mechanism.
"You and I have fought several times, and now it seems that the Six Sword Slave is just like that." Xiaoyaozi said lightly.
"I hope your sword is the same as your mouth." As Makoto said, his body jumped, and Makoto's sword slashed straight down.
"You will learn it." Xiaoyaozi also jumped up.
"Zhang Liang from the three masters of Qi and Lu didn't expect that his martial arts skills were not very good, but his sword was good." Wuliang held two swords and looked at Zhang Liang not far away with a sneer.
"I heard that you are the weakest martial arts among the Six Sword Slaves. I don't know if it's true." Zhang Liang smiled gently.
"It's worthy of being Confucianism, and it's very sarcastic." Zhang Liang's words made the monster angry and rushed towards Zhang Liang at that moment.
roar.
With a roar like a fierce tiger, a powerful tiger-shaped sword energy directly shattered a Suzakui with one blow. A middle-aged man with a scar on his eyes looked coldly at Wu Kuang who was falling in front of him.
After losing the Zhuque under his feet, Wu Kuang could only fall from the air unwillingly. At the same time, the middle-aged man immediately jumped off Zhuque and chased him. Luowang's new first-class killer, Hu Po.
"Second brother, the eldest brother has already solved it, don't waste time." Another person on the Vermilion Bird, a thin middle-aged man shouted to the man on the Vermilion Bird on the left.
"Then let's fight quickly." The man on the left is a strong giant man, and the same is true for his opponent, Juque Shengqi.
"Juque, known as the supreme sword, really wants to see it." The giant man looked at Sheng Qi coldly, and the sword in his hand turned, and the blood-colored sword energy flashed over the sword. At the same time, the sky next to the giant man suddenly darkened.
"Cross the Sun." Shengqi stared at the Giant Man fiercely, and the sword in his hand. The powerful true energy kept urging the Giant Gu in his hand.
boom.
With the collision between Juque and Jari, the powerful sword energy made the surrounding Zhuque have to avoid the center of Juque and Jari collided.
"I will definitely win next time." After leaving this sentence, Shengqi immediately fell to the ground quickly.
"Next time is your death." The giant man reached out and grabbed a chain that was thrown over, jumped onto a Suzaku, and said to Shengqi, who could only see the shadow.
In the battle in the air, as Shengqi and Wu Kuang left the battlefield, Zhang Liang and others immediately began to retreat. The empire just looked at the retreating Zhang Liang and others coldly, and did not chase after him.
This is not the first time they have fought. Since Ye Wuji burned down the food and supplies of the anti-Qin forces in a huge fire, they will fight almost every few days.
"Let them come here." Zhen Gang turned his hand and inserted his sword behind him. With a wave of his hand, a net assassin immediately fired a fire meteor into the air, notifying the people behind that the battle was over.
Not long after, a large number of huge hot air balloons emerged from the rear and slowly rushed towards the place.
The hot air balloon contains a large amount of food, grass, weapons and equipment, and abandons the traditional transportation of vehicles and horses. The empire uses the method of Suzaku and hot air balloons to send logistics equipment to the front.
The powerful air transport capability made the anti-Qin forces' plans that originally wanted to destroy the empire's logistics, but they were still alive before they could be implemented.
According to the plans of Zhang Liang, Tian Yan, Han Xin, Fan Zeng and others, the empire must not react in time for the sudden rebellion. Even if the empire has enough logistics equipment, the manpower needed to be transported to the front line is something the empire cannot provide at all.
In a battle in this era, there were even more logistics personnel, sometimes than soldiers fighting on the front line.
Like Wang Jian's army of 600,000 to attack Chu, the civilians used more than one million laborers. Basically, ordinary civilian adult men were forced to participate in the war.
Ying Zheng destroyed the six kingdoms in such a short time, and almost consumed all the food and grass accumulated by the empire using the Zheng Canal. Han Fei's exhaustion of Qin's plan was actually Ying Zheng's plan.
If there were no large amount of food and grass produced by the Zheng State Canal, even if Ying Zheng could only destroy the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei at most, he would have to face insufficient food and grass.
In ancient times, when a war was fought, there would definitely be several years of smooth time, because food and grass were insufficient to support continuous wars.
In the Battle of Changping that year, even if Bai Qi was not assassinated, Qin would not have destroyed Zhao, nor could Zhao, because this war had almost exhausted Qin's food and grass, and it was not enough to support a major war.
If it were just a pure destruction of Zhao, Qin could do it, but at that time, Qin was not only facing Zhao, Han, Wei, and Chu. After the Battle of Changping, they were also ready to go. They would not allow Qin to annex Zhao.
Because Qin was originally barren and had accumulated several generations of savings, he could only fight a battle of Changping. Zhao was different. Most of Zhao was on plains and had abundant grain and grass production. If Qin obtained Zhao, a major grain-producing country, it would be a disaster for other countries.
In the Battle of Changping, most of them only know that Bai Qi killed 400,000 yuan and Zhao Kuo’s talk on paper, but in fact, the battle of Changping was so wide that others imagined.
Qin State was using Bai Qi and Wei Liaozi to win the battle.
According to Zhang Liang and others' calculations, Meng Tian's 300,000 Golden Fire Cavalry, plus a large number of auxiliary soldiers in the Yinshan grassland, and the Wang clan's 300,000-match armor-piercing soldiers were in the Chu State. Although there were no auxiliary soldiers, Qin State lost one million people in this calculation.
In addition, there are also the Quanrong tribe and the Anxi Town Army also need a lot of people. Ye Wuji can call only the Dragon and Tiger Cavalry, this imperial guard, plus a small number of local troops, and new recruits from the Blue Mountain Camp.
When Ying Zheng destroyed the six kingdoms, Qin had suffered heavy losses. When removing these people, Ye Wuji could not provide enough logistics to the front line even if he was powerful. Even if the empire had enough logistics, no one would send these logistics to the battlefield.
Unless Ye Wuji was desperate to push all the remaining Qin people to the battlefield, but in this way, Zhang Liang and the others would not have to take action, and the empire would mutiny.
It is precisely this calculation that allows them to see Ye Wuji's super powerful force and have full confidence to destroy the empire. No matter how strong you are, it will not help you rule the world.
But when they saw the Empire's new logistics transportation method, they immediately fainted. They had never expected this transportation method.
At the beginning, Zhang Liang and others were preparing to use the Vermilion Bird to intercept these logistics, but the Empire didn't know why, but they could always find the route they intercepted. Either they turned around in advance to rescue them or there were a large number of masters waiting for them.
No matter how powerful Zhang Liang and others were, they would not be able to block the entire air. In the end, Zhang Liang and others had to give up intercepting the empire's food and supplies.
Speaking of which, if there weren't hot air balloons, Ye Wuji would have to be a logistics staff himself and transport food and grass to the front line.
Just as Zhang Liang and others calculated, Ye Wuji also knew the difficulties faced by the empire, even more clearly than Zhang Liang knew.
After years of war in the empire, the residents of Qin had long been complaining. If Ying Zheng's prestige had not suppressed them, they would have been in chaos long ago.
Why did Ying Zheng accept the surrendered soldiers even though he knew that they would not be truly loyal to the empire and still accepted them? Ying Zheng also knew this problem. In fact, this problem is also very simple. It only takes a few years of cultivation, but the problem is that there is no time.
Under such a problem, Ye Wuji certainly could not collect civilians and labor to transport food. They had already contributed enough to this empire.
The empire and the anti-Qin forces were both calculating each other's logistics, but in the end Ye Wuji was ahead of him.
It was not until after their food and grass were destroyed that they were ready to rob the empire's logistics again and supplement themselves, but unfortunately they did not succeed in one time.
Even when the first time he started, Zhang Liang and others chose several top experts to take action at the same time, but they did not succeed. The empire's hot air balloon logistics found them far away and turned around and ran away.
Although Zhang Liang, Tian Yan and others were very puzzled about how the Empire discovered them, their plan did not stop and they were constantly patrolling the air, hoping to find the Empire's logistics.
Unfortunately, Zhang Liang and others did not find the logistics of the empire. They were found by the assassins of the net. After that, the two sides continued to fight in the air.
Zhang Liang and others found several top masters from somewhere, plus Xiaoyaozi, Shengqi, Wu Kuang, and seven or eight top masters.
But the empire's reinforcements also arrived, and the first-class assassins of Luowang's Tianzi continued to join, causing the anti-Qin forces to gain no benefit.
If he accidentally gains the upper hand, the Luowang Assassin will immediately escape with the Vermilion Bird and make a comeback next time.
"Damn it, I didn't expect that there were so many masters in the empire, and even the three Tie brothers were trapped in the network." Zhang Liang, who had retreated, was very unwilling. This time they mobilized more masters, but the same was true for the empire.
"Three Tie brothers, who are they?" Tian Yan and others looked at Zhang Liang unexpectedly. Zhang Liang obviously knew more than them about the three newly appeared first-class masters of the empire.
"They are Baiyue people, and each of them is a top master." Zhang Liang slowly told the origin of the three Tie brothers.
The three heroes of the Tie family, Iron Tiger, Iron Leopard, and Iron Wolf, are said to be gifted when they were born. Tianze was ready to conquer them, but they were not successful.
Now they are the tiger souls of the Imperial Net, the Anri, and the Jingyu, these three famous swords belong to them now.
"Since that's the case, even if it's all right, I just wanted to use this as a guise to attract the attention of the empire so that we can hide it from the world." I have to say that there are no military strategists who don't know about the thirty-six strategies now.
"Since you're ready, prepare to do it." Zhang Liang nodded.
It is better to be able to take away the empire's logistics, but it cannot be taken away, and it can also make the empire's people think that they have ended up in the end. They can only use this method to overcome difficulties, conceal their true purpose and implement the plan to burn the boat.
To break the boat is a tactic of becoming a good person if you fail. It is not the simple tool for cooking as mentioned in the book, and only a few days of food and grass can be left.
If a commander really thought it was so simple, then what awaited him was the mutiny of the soldiers. Ordinary soldiers could think so far.
There are many reasons why Xiang Yu's destruction and boat success were successful in history. The military strategy involved was not simple. The destruction and boat expansion was well proposed by Xiang Yu, but it was perfected by Fan Zeng. Of course, Xiang Yu's courage was also an inevitable factor in victory.
"Report to General, there is something wrong with the enemy." In Yingchuan County, a young deputy general reported the situation observed from the front to Bai Qi, who was sitting in the commander's tent.
"Are you going to take a gamble?" Bai Qi looked at the map on the wall with a sneer. This tactic might not be able to be seen through if it were someone else. Unfortunately, the opponent met Bai Qi. He had used this tactic to defeat Chu Du in one battle. Qu Yuan jumped into the river and committed suicide because he was defeated by Bai Qi in this battle.
Many people know that Qu Yuan is a great poet, and there is also the connection between him and Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival. Few people know Qu Yuan’s family background, and Qu Yuan is a disciple of a noble family.
It may be ironic, but if you carefully study famous people in history, you will know that basically none of these people are real civilians, at least they are all rich people.
There are very few truly poor disciples from poor families.
Even if a poor family has talented geniuses, they will be submerged in a mediocre life. The most basic thing for those who can do literature in ancient times is to have no worries about food and clothing.
But this is also normal. While you are still worried about your survival, they are already considering the future, not to mention that they are not talented and have much better conditions than you.
"You can come out." Bai Qi said to the screen after the deputy general left.
Following Bai Qi's words, two figures walked out from behind the screen. These two people were Li Mu and Zhang Han.
"Since the other party has taken action, it's time for us to take action. We will completely defeat them this time and we will not give them a chance to turn over." Bai Qi said coldly.
"Yes." Zhang Han and Li Mu responded at the same time.
In terms of status, Zhang Han and Li Mu are not worse than Bai Qi, but Bai Qi has a dragon-shaped military talisman representing His Majesty the Emperor, which means that Bai Qi can control the entire empire's army.
"Are you attacking three routes?" Bai Qi stood on the city wall, looked at the dust rising from three sides, and said with a sneer.
"Kill." In front of him, Shao Yu led all the troops of the Xiang clan and rushed towards Yingchuan County like a tide. At the same time, on the left and right were Han Xin, the peasants and other forces, and on the right were Wang Li, with 200,000 armour piercing soldiers.
If such an offensive was replaced by the previous defense of Yingchuan County, even if Bai Qiye could not defend it, the gap in strength would be too big.
"It's really hateful to actually cooperate with the Xiang clan." The young Wang Li looked at the direction of the Xiang clan with disdain. If it weren't for the shortage of food and grass and the attack on Baiyue was seriously frustrated, how could they cooperate with the Xiang clan to attack Yingchuan County?
In Wang Li's view, the so-called three major legions of Chu were just waste, all of which were defeated by his Wang family's armour-piercing soldiers.
It was too wasteful to attack Yingchuan County with so many people, but he had no success in so many days. If it were his armour-piercing soldiers of hundreds of battles, he would have been able to capture Yingchuan County in one day.
Mr. Bai, in Wang Li's opinion, was just that the empire could not find good generals and pretended to be mysterious and fooled people.
To be continued...