Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 1946: Han Xin selects the prisoners, the three great tricks of the military master

"Congratulations, General Meng. In the battle of Qingbei, General Meng made a stunning debut!"

Although they hurried along the way, they still received the news that Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao had captured Lin'an halfway through the journey.

However, after finally arriving in Lin'an, Han Xin still expressed his congratulations to Meng Tian.

Destroying the enemy's capital, slaughtering the enemy's leader, and annihilating the enemy's enemy, the significance of all this made Han Xin jealous.

However, since Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao were able to get it, it was also their own ability.

Han Xin is not a generous person by nature, but he is not a petty person either.

"General Han, you are too kind!"

"Compared with General Han, it's just a trivial contribution!" Meng Tian said modestly.

During the Qingbei War, he certainly made great achievements.

However, compared with Han Xin's experience in becoming famous, Meng Tian still had some idea in his mind.

"Although Dongcang has been destroyed, there are still remnants that pose a threat, and even a serious threat!" Han Xin shook his head.

Although Lin'an had been taken, Dongcang could almost be declared destroyed in just two months.

However, in Han Xin's opinion, their current situation was not as optimistic as they had imagined.

"Yes, General Han is right. After all, Yang Su took away a lot of troops from Qingbei!"

"Adding the troops from Heyang and Qingnan, Dongcang is now in name only, but it still has about 100,000 soldiers!"

"This force should not be underestimated!" Yang Yanzhao, who had just walked in, nodded in agreement.

"Not only that, the three northern counties of Qingbei have not been taken over after all!"

"We still need to take it down as soon as possible to avoid any more trouble." Meng Tian added.

However, regarding the three counties in the northern part of Qingbei, Meng Tian actually did not take it too seriously. There were no garrisons in this place at all. The garrisons from all over Qingbei were either concentrated under Yang Su or Zhang Daozon.

Now, they just need to send troops to take over.

What really worried Meng Tian and Han Xin was never these things.

"These are just minor problems!"

"The real threat is Xuanyuan Huang's Great Flame!"

"Xuanyuan Huang has raised an army of 100,000 and joined forces with Yang Su. If our army wants to win, it will not be an easy task!" Han Xin directly pointed out the problem that Meng Tian wanted to talk about.

Yang Su and Xuanyuan Huang, neither of these two people is easy to deal with.

If any one of them wants to defeat them alone, they will have to try their best to achieve it.

When these two people joined forces, they were not at a disadvantage at all even when facing Chu Xizhao.

Although, Han Xin rose to power by relying on Chu Xizhao.

However, Han Xin was very clear that he was able to win that round in large part because he had the Chu Jingzhong card in his hand.

"General Han, the worst that can happen to us is that we will have to confront him along the river for half a year!"

"It won't even take half a year before Xuanyuan Huang is sure to collapse without a fight!" Yang Yanzhao said confidently.

Dayan's situation is better because of Xuanyuan Huang, but it's not too bad. Compared with Dongcang, it's just half a catty to eight taels.

Yang Yanzhao was confident enough that as long as this battle became a protracted one, lasting at most half a year, the opponent would definitely not be able to withstand it.

In fact, he estimated this half year based on the most details. In all probability, they might not even need half a year. As long as they could consume the opponent, they could win without fighting.

Although this method is extremely time-consuming, it is indeed the highest principle of military strategy to defeat the enemy without fighting.

"It's not as simple as I thought!"

"There's news from Luowang that people from Dayan are in contact with people from Dawu!"

Because the matter they were discussing mentioned Luowang, Han Xin lowered his voice slightly when he mentioned this.

When Thetis asked Luo Wang to pass the message to Han Xin, he not only mentioned Xuanyuan Huang's navy, but also mentioned this point casually, and even said that the Tianshi Dao actually had more troops gathering in the rear.

Although Thetis did not say it explicitly, Han Xin knew very well that if the contact between Dayan and Dawu went smoothly, then the troops behind would not just gather, but would really press forward.

Then, that means that in the future, the number of troops that Dayan can mobilize may not be just 100,000.

"Don't forget, the task His Majesty assigned to us is to go south to Shanyin and threaten Henan from the side!" Meng Tian added.

This also means that they cannot use their main forces to deal with Dayan. After they take over Qingbei, their main task in the next stage will still be to focus on Guangyin.

"Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su, let me deal with these two people!"

"I will stay in Qingbei in the future and confront Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su along the river!"

Han Xin glanced at Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao, shook his head casually, and then said in high spirits.

Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su, although these two people are not easy to deal with. Moreover, his military strength will definitely be at a disadvantage next time, but this is the real challenge for Han Xin.

And in such a scene, it was not that Han Xin looked down on Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao, but he really thought that the two of them could not handle such a scene.

Both of them are good at fighting regular battles, but when their strength is insufficient, they not only need to fight with regular tactics, but also with unusual tactics, and the regular and unusual tactics complement each other.

This is not to say that these two people do not have the ability to use strange tactics, but if their ability to use strange tactics is used in the hands of people like Xuanyuan Huang or Yang Su, it is very likely to backfire.

"Then I wonder how many troops General Han needs to leave behind?" Meng Tian asked.

He did not try to exchange positions with Han Xin. As a famous general, the first thing he should do is to recognize the reality, not only the opponent, but also himself, and the difference in strength between the two sides. If it was just one of Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su, even if the troops would be at a disadvantage, he could give it a try. But if the other two were at a disadvantage and the food crisis of the other side could be alleviated, it would be disregarding the overall situation.

"Forty thousand Kwantung troops are enough!"

"If necessary, we will also have to add the Yanbei Navy of General Mo Peng's Fierce Whale Corps!" Han Xin said decisively.

Obviously, he had already thought about this issue!
He came to join the 50,000-strong Kwantung Army. After all, he had experienced the attack and defense of Lin'an, and now there are still 40,000 available soldiers.

If Han Xin had left these 40,000 men behind, it would mean that the troops that could march south to Guangyin tomorrow would include the entire Barbarian Bear Legion, nearly half of the Flying Feather Legion, and the Golden Fire Cavalry.

Even if the losses on the previous battlefield were excluded, the number of troops Meng Tian could mobilize was as high as 110,000.

Moreover, this does not include the 30,000 Yanbei navy that can support Han Xin or Meng Tian at any time on the river.

"General Han, Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su's troops will most likely have a force of 200,000 or even more than 200,000."

"Although the Guandong Army is powerful, but only 40,000 soldiers, isn't that too few?" Yang Yanzhao said with a trembling heart.

Whether it is Xuanyuan Huang or Yang Su, their ability to use troops is recognized throughout Da Cang, second only to Han Xin.

After all, these two also became famous through Chu Xizhao, but their fame was not as thorough as Han Xin's.

"Although I only left 40,000 Guandong troops, it does not mean that I will only use 40,000 people to deal with Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su."

Han Xin shook his head and continued, "Aren't there still 100,000 prisoners?"

"These 100,000 people are also a pretty good force!"

From the battle between Meng Tian and Zhang Daozon, and the fact that Yang Su voluntarily gave up half of his troops in order to leave smoothly, the Han army captured a lot of prisoners in total.

Moreover, among the 100,000 captives mentioned by Han Xin, as many as 60,000 originally belonged to Dongcang's regular army system.

The only remaining 40,000 people were the peasant soldiers that Meng Tian had surrendered from the time he entered Pingyuan County to the time he captured Lin'an.

Although those peasant armies had not been equipped with armor before, just because Dongcang did not have the conditions did not mean that the Han Dynasty did not have the conditions.

On the way to Lin'an, Han Xin, using his position as the Protector-General of Southern Yan, ordered the Governor of Southern Yan, Changsun Wuji, and the General of the Southern Yan Road, Lei Wanjun, to urgently send him a batch of armor.

Iron armor is definitely impossible, and even if there is iron armor, it will not be their turn. But even if it is not leather armor, they must at least have a batch of cloth armor or paper armor. They must be armed as soon as possible.

"General Han, activate the prisoners directly!"

"That's a full 100,000 prisoners!"

Both Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao were shocked by Han Xin's bold idea. They had thought of many things, but they had never thought that Han Xin would do this!
You have to know that Han Xin was only planning to leave behind 40,000 Guandong troops, which means that the number of these prisoners was more than the soldiers Han Xin could really trust, and it was not just a little more, but a full one and a half times more.

The number of captives was two and a half times the number of soldiers under the command. This was the first time in ancient times.

Meng Tian really couldn't imagine that it was possible to fight a war in this way!

You know, on a large-scale battlefield, if there is any trouble among these prisoners, it may directly affect the final outcome.

A simple chaos, once it affects the entire army, the final result will be catastrophic.

The use of so many prisoners is almost equivalent to mobilizing all the factors that may cause chaos at once.

There is no doubt that if he were Yang Su or Xuanyuan Huang, if he knew that Han Xin had used so many captives, he would definitely target them specifically.

"Everyone has something to ask for!"

"Same with these soldiers!"

"As long as this general satisfies their interests that Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su cannot satisfy, I will naturally be able to keep them firmly under my control, and Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su will naturally not be able to shake them!" Han Xin said confidently.

He never thought there was anything wrong with these prisoners. They were essentially soldiers, and to him, as long as they were soldiers, that was enough.

As long as they are soldiers, Han Xin can always find a way to make them serve him. Of course, even if they are not soldiers, Han Xin can just turn them into soldiers first.

And future facts also proved that these were just captives.

However, Han Xin relied on such an army composed mainly of captives and actually fought a battle with Xuanyuan Huang and Yang Su, two masters of military strategy.

Han Xin once again created a miracle in the near future.

In later generations, many people imitated Han Xin. When they were seriously short of troops, they wanted to organize their forces mainly with prisoners. However, countless bloody deeds in later generations also proved that there is only one Han Xin in this world, and there is only one military genius.

Not everyone can be as good as the Soldier God.

As we all know, Han Xin has three cheating skills: void-force explosion, group mind control, and perspective map opening, which makes him seem like cheating when fighting.

The idea of ​​creating troops out of thin air was simply outrageous in the ancient context. In the history of Blue Star, Han Xin had experienced rebuilding his troops three times in his life. Each time, he was able to create an elite army in a very short time even when his hometown was not nearby, the place was newly occupied, or there was a lack of teammates.

Those who are familiar with ancient military affairs should know how important hometown is. Basically, the team of famous generals are all from the same hometown, but Han Xin is not like that. Han Xin can always find a bunch of people wherever he goes.

In the early stage, it could be explained that Xiao He continuously provided him with logistical support from the rear, but he was stripped of his title of King of Qi and replaced by King of Chu. Logically, he no longer had any foundation, but he managed to raise an army in Chu, a place that had a great hatred for him. Chen Ping and Liu Bang's evaluation of this army was that it was so elite that even the Han army might not be able to sacrifice it in battle.

Compared with the countless generals who later achieved nothing after their personal soldiers were all killed, it is impossible to tell how Han Xin, who came in empty-handed, could develop such an outrageous mobilization capability in the agricultural era.

It is hard to imagine that Han Xin conquered the entire northern China in a short period of time with only 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers. In the end, it became an army of hundreds of thousands.

The skill of "group mind control" is even more outrageous. It is not difficult to recruit a large army in a short period of time by conscripting prisoners, capturing able-bodied men, or forcing refugees to surrender.

However, no matter how short the time Han Xin led his soldiers was, they were able to demonstrate an incredible level of organization in the agricultural age.

The skill of feigning defeat is very simple in novels, but in actual practice, it requires super elite troops. If the troops are not elite, they will collapse if you give the order to retreat. The Battle of Feishui is a typical example.

In Han Xin's battle examples, there are many scenes where he used ordinary troops to perform modern skills such as repeated reorganization.

Compared with these two, the perspective map opening is not so outrageous. That is, no matter how the game is played, Han Xin seems to know what the opponent is doing in advance and can give precise and targeted arrangements.