Chapter 71 10. Strange Soldiers and Wonderful Battle

The Han army advanced to thirty miles away from Jingxing, and Han Xin sent an order to set up camp.Then the Han army built a stove and lit a fire, and after cooking and eating, they all fell asleep.Sleeping in the middle of the night, Han Xin suddenly raised his tent, called two sleepy-eyed cavalry generals, gave each of them two large piles of red flags, and said: "You two, don't sleep anymore, and immediately lead a thousand light cavalry and set off with the red flags. .Walk up the trail and monitor the movements in Zhao Jun's camp at the foot of the mountain. When you see Zhao Jun swarming out and chasing us, you must rush down the mountain and rush into Zhao Jun's camp with lightning speed. , and then plant our red flags all over the camp. Do you have the confidence to complete the task?"

The two cavalry generals asked ignorantly: "General, why did you ask us to do such inexplicable strange things?" Han Xin: "Why don't you care about it, but the military order is like a mountain, and if you violate it, you will be executed. Have you heard of this?" The two cavalry generals: "...well, we didn't say anything." The two of them groaned and set off with a thousand cavalry each in the middle of the night. No one knew what medicine Han Xin was selling in the gourd. Then Han Xin ordered the lieutenant general to deliver dry rations to the generals and soldiers, saying: "Don't show off for breakfast, just deal with it. After the defeat of Zhao Jun, we will have a dinner together. Bring your own drinks and unlimited beef. Feel free to eat." Cao Shen , Guan Ying, and Jin She are holding dry food, you look at me, I look at you, I feel that Han Xin's brain has gone wrong.But they have followed Liu Bang for a long time, and have learned a lot of experience. They don't rush to say anything, but don't say what they mean, and pretend to say: "Okay, firmly listen to the leader." escape.

Han Xin called another general and said, "I order you to take ten thousand people as vanguards, go out of the pass, go to the opposite side of the Zhao army's camp, and line up with your back against the river." The general said: "Resolutely obey the leader's arrangement, but I'm afraid I won't be able to complete the task assigned by the leader." Han Xin asked, "Why?" The general said: "General, you clearly know that the Zhao army has 200,000 soldiers, several times more troops than ours, and they have already held their forts. You let me go to the river through their camps. The Zhao army is not dead, so I will be safe. Walk over without incident? Before I get to the river, they will rush out and kill me."

Han Xin said, "Why did they rush out and beat you to death?" General: "Why... why didn't they rush out and kill me?" Han Xin said: "The Zhao army didn't rush out to attack you, that's because the Zhao army was much larger than ours. What they hoped most was to wait for our main force to come and wipe them out together. If they beat your vanguard, they would wipe out all of them." The plan will come to nothing. So you just walk over in a big way, Zhao Jun will pretend not to see you." General: "There will be such a thing?" He went there half-believing, trembling and trembling through Zhao Jun's barracks. Sure enough, Zhao Jun turned his face away and pretended not to see them.So this vanguard arrived at the river smoothly, and immediately built a camp by the river.

After a while, Han Xin ordered to play the banner of a general, and led the drummer band, beating all the way to challenge Zhao Jun.Zhao Jun opened the gate of the camp, rushed out and beat Han Xin violently.Han Xin and Zhang Er led the Han army, and fought with the Zhao army.After fighting for a while, the Han army was obviously out of support, so Han Xin and Zhang Er fled first, and the rest of the Han army also chased them desperately, and chased them to the vanguard camp of the Han army by the river. The vanguard army by the river hurriedly opened the gate of the camp to let Han Xin's Zhang Er and the defeated Han army come in quickly, and then closed the gate, and the Zhao army outside rushed up like a tide and began to attack the Han camp.At this time, the two Han armies who set off in the middle of the night with red flags saw Zhao Jun rushing out of the camp, rushed down the mountain, rushed into Zhao Jun's camp, pulled out all Zhao Jun's battle flags, and replaced them with Han army's red flags.

Zhao Jun didn't know it, and continued to attack the Han army camp by the river. Han Xin and Zhang Er fought desperately inside, but Zhao Jun couldn't beat them no matter what. Don't be in a hurry if you can't fight, forgive the Han army and can't fly out.So Zhao Jun Shi Shi ran back to the camp for lunch. Before reaching the camp, he saw his own camp, and all the red flags of the Han army were flying.The Han army inside shouted at them: "Hey, I have good news for you. Your King Zhao and Prime Minister Chen Yu have all been captured. There are still a few empty beds in the prisoner-of-war camp. Do you want to move here? "

At this moment, Zhao Jun was all scared out of his wits, dropped their weapons immediately, and fled in all directions.Zhao's generals tried their best to stop them, and even killed some fleeing soldiers, but it didn't work at all. The soldiers fled more and more, and the mighty Zhao army just collapsed. The Han army from the two battalions rushed out aggressively, chasing and killing the collapsed Zhao soldiers.Chen Yubao and Zhao Wangxie also fled among the defeated soldiers, fled to a river, and were chased by the Han army. Chen Yu was killed, Zhao Wangxie was captured, and was soon ordered to be killed by Liu Bang, becoming the ninth delisted One king—in less than two years, half of the eighteen kings in the world that Xiang Yu entrusted to him have died.

With the great victory in Jingxing, Zhang Er, Cao Can, Guan Ying, and Jin She all came to congratulate Han Xin: "Congratulations, general, congratulations, general. The general does not follow the law of war in every battle, and twists his strength with the laws of war. You shouldn't fight like this, but you want to do it like this." Fighting. It’s really unreasonable to be able to win like this.” Han Xin said: "Talking nonsense, why didn't I follow the art of war? I fought according to the art of war." Everyone said: "The general is nonsense. The law of war clearly states that the formation of the army should rely on the mountains on the right and the water on the left. General, you want everyone to build a camp with their backs. How can this be called following the law of war? Also, you said you won the battle." Just having dinner, how do you know that you can definitely win? The general must have a wonderful art of war, so let us see and see."

Han Xin said with a smile: "You guys, you've made your brains stupid when you read... By the way, in fact, you don't read books at all. Although you don't read books, you have managed to do it successfully. Have you forgotten that in the art of war, there is the saying "in death you can live, in death you can survive"? What's more, I'm not familiar with all of you, and I've only known you for a few days. You guys have already fled separately, who the hell cares about me? In short, I have to find a way to tie you and me together, so that you have nowhere to run if you want to run, and work together to defeat Zhao Bing."

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and said in unison: "The general's move is really brilliant, he actually tricked us all, admire, admire."