Chapter 229 Give Meng Tian a little shock from Han Xin
Liu Bang's army stopped in Nanyang. Even in such an urgent situation, he still built a high platform for Han Xin. In front of the entire army, he handed over the military token symbolizing military power and his sword to Han Xin.
Liu Bang's old brothers in Fengpei were naturally dissatisfied because here came an outsider who had a higher status than us.
It would have been fine if he was a descendant of the Luo family, but it was indeed inappropriate for him to have such a low status.
But now this person is just an ordinary person, and his status is directly higher than that of Luo’s son. We can’t accept it!
Fortunately, Liu Bang still had enough prestige in the Fengpei Group. Especially after Xiao He and Han Xin talked, he also began to appease the old people in Fengpei. After all, he was recommended by Luo Yi.
So the old people in Fengpei reluctantly accepted Han Xin, but in his spare time, Xiao He always felt that he had lost something when looking at Han Xin.
After Han Xin took over the army, he immediately began to adjust the army, retrain and deploy it, and proposed a plan for Liu Bang: "recruit soldiers in one month, train in three months, and win in one month."
Although Han Xin had previously said that there were too many new recruits in Liu Bang's army, it was dangerous, but when it came to him, he continued to increase the number of new recruits. According to Han Xin, "I said before that new recruits were dangerous because their biggest problem was not their combat effectiveness, but their discipline.
Even those who have served in the military before still need retraining to regain their obedience to discipline once they enter a new military organization.
This is a very difficult thing, most generals can't do it, but Xin can, so there is no problem recruiting new soldiers now."
In short, what Han Xin meant was that only he could use this method because he was good at training new soldiers, and if anyone else used it, they would be seeking death.
The Nanyang Basin has been the granary of the Chu State for hundreds of years. Since the chaos and collapse, it has been one of the keys to Chen Sheng's advance. After Chen Sheng's collapse, part of it was still controlled by the rebel army, and Fusu was of course made a king here.
After Liu Bang entered the Nanyang Basin, he fought several battles which were not very difficult and won quite a few victories. He even captured the county seat of Nanyang County and killed a Qin Dynasty Marquis Che in battle, from which he obtained a lot of food and fodder.
Han Xin's goal was to train his troops during the confrontation with Meng Tian in Nanyang, and then fight Meng Tian in Nanyang, Luoyang, and Xinyang, the old lands of Han and Chu, to completely defeat Meng Tian's army, or at least force Meng Tian to lead his troops away from Liu Bang's army.
The Nanyang Basin is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with only a few passages in and out. This strategically located place is the favorite place for commanders like Han Xin to deploy troops, he pointed to the geomancy map and said to everyone.
“Although Meng Tian was a famous general during the reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, he spent a lot of time in the north defending against the Xiongnu, where the environment and terrain were very different from those in the Central Plains.
From the several battles he fought after returning to the Central Plains, it can be seen that he is still not quite used to the wars in the Central Plains, especially in Nanyang, which is a complex environment even in the world. This is Meng Tian’s weakness that has not been noticed. "
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Meng Tian led the Great Wall Corps towards Nanyang. Half of the elite troops of the Great Wall Corps were under Zhang Han, cooperating with the kings and princes in the battle in the Central Plains.
Meng Tian went through Henan, won at first but then lost, and then suddenly discovered that Liu Bang's rebel group had taken a detour through Nanyang, which made Meng Tian a little angry.
Before, when Fusu conferred titles on many princes and made him the King of Linzi and Zhang Han the King of Handan, he was still at the top of the list of rewards and was slightly superior to Zhang Han.
But later, Zhang Han directly defeated the Zhao-Chu coalition forces, and the Chu thief Xiang Liang was seriously injured and died. He made great contributions and was only one step away from being named King of Zhao.
However, he had made no progress and had even suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Chu army, which was unacceptable to him.
It's not just the throne of King of Qi that is far away. The key is the reputation of the Meng family. They are the number one military family in Qin and are ranked above the Wang family. They really can't afford to lose this person.
Zhang Han, under the order of the emperor, commanded the princes and the army of the entire empire in the Central Plains. Meng Tian was originally prepared to cooperate with Zhang Han to attack the rebels, but the appearance of Liu Bang woke him up.
If this army broke into Guanzhong, it would be all over, so he quickly led his army to hunt down Liu Bang.
Han Xin looked at all the routes leading into Nanyang and finally selected Xinyang as the location for the initial ambush.
This passage is very famous in history. In the past, the king and his minister, Qingji and Sun Wu, broke into the capital of Chu State, Yingdu, from here.
That war brought the State of Wu to its most prosperous period in history. Eventually, after a joint discussion involving the State of Luo, the State of Wu and the State of Chu divided the southern land of the Xia Dynasty equally at the Dabie Mountains.
Meng Tian led the army here. This is the fastest and widest passage. Han Xin wanted to do what ordinary people could not do and think what ordinary people did not think.
Although Han Xin was equally invincible when commanding a large army head-on, he still preferred to use strategies when possible.
The advantage of Han Xin's large-scale recruitment of new soldiers soon became apparent. The greatly expanded number of troops allowed Han Xin to have enough men to set up two or three ambushes.
During this process, he discovered that Liu Bang's subordinates were truly full of talented people, and among Liu Bang's old men in Pei County, many were able to lead tens of thousands of soldiers.
You have to know that it is a natural talent to reach this level without a lot of practice.
After being tempered by war, such a person will have no problem leading tens of thousands of soldiers and becoming the commander of a small army.
In short, Han Xin was overjoyed. With these generals who could lead a small army, it would be much easier for him to command them.
Fan Kuai and others were dissatisfied with Han Xin before, but Han Xin's military training in recent days shocked them greatly. When they were about to fight Meng Tian this time, these people were convinced once the ingenious plan was put forward.
When Zhou Bo, Fan Kuai and others were drinking, Xiao He said with emotion: "How wise is Pei Gong, is it possible that the people he values are incompetent?
Because we were born in Pei County and have a close relationship with Pei Gong, we think that others are inferior to us. This is not conducive to Pei Gong's great cause and should be corrected. "
So everyone went to Han Xin's camp to pay their respects. Han Xin actually didn't care about these things. What he wanted was for these people to be obedient on the battlefield.
If anyone dared to disobey military orders and caused defeat, Liu Bang would not give him face even if he wanted to, and would definitely deal with him according to military law.
However, under Luo Cai's guidance, Han Xin still had a good chat with these people, and they expressed their determination to cooperate sincerely and jointly create a great cause.
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Xin was appointed a general and wanted to lead his army to fight against the Qin general Meng Tian in Nanyang.
The generals relied on their old friendship and therefore believed him easily. They said, "We are Pei Gong's countrymen, so how can we be inferior to the market men?"
Anyang said: "The generals look down on him, what can you do?"
The letter said: "How can a sparrow know how high a roc can flap its wings? Let's wait for the future."
When Xin showed the plan to the crowd, all the generals were shocked and ashamed and accepted it.
Xin then held a sword in hand and ordered his generals to follow him. All of them followed his orders. - "Records of the Grand Historian: The Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin"
(End of this chapter)
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