Xiang Yu named the current more than 80,000 Chu troops Huben to distinguish them from new troops recruited in the future.
At present, most of the military systems of the world's heroes inherit the Qin system, with recruiting and capturing strong men as the only source of force.
When there is war, they gather together to fight, and when there is no war, they go back to farming.
Of course, we have been fighting in the past few years, and there is no such thing as farming, so there is no difference between a standing army and a militia.
At this time, Xiang Yu was convening a military meeting with the generals in the Huben camp of the Chu army on the banks of Jinling City.
The top priority is to repel the encirclement and suppression of 700,000 enemy troops.
This is also the second main task of the system.
Xiang Yu introduced Xia Yue to the generals, and he said that Jinling City and the soldiers and horses in the city were secretly planned by the Xiang family in the early years.
Only Xiang Yu and the dead Xiang Liang knew this.
The generals naturally had doubts and would not question the Overlord.
Then he asked Xia Yue to tell everyone about the military soldiers Rui Shi crossing the river for reconnaissance.
Han Xin's 300,000 Qi troops have arrived on the opposite bank of Jinling City.
Liu Bang and Pengyue joined forces with Liu Jia and Zhou Yin's troops to garrison Wujiang with a total of 350,000 troops.
Guan Ying was advancing towards Guangling.
Yingbu is the only enemy force operating on the southeast bank of the river, and is advancing along the river towards Moling.
"Can you burn the ships in Jiangbei according to your plan?"
Xiang Yu asked Xia Yue.
"Your Majesty, I led 400 warriors in two directions to infiltrate and search along the river for 800 miles.
All the ships I saw, large and small, were burned by our army.
All the small groups of enemies I encountered were also attacked and killed by our army."
Xiang Yu nodded approvingly and asked Xiang Zhuang: "How is the collection of ships?"
"Report to your Majesty, in the past ten days, our army has collected more than 500 large and small boats on the south bank of the river, with nearly 10,000 boatmen and fishermen.
In addition, Your Majesty's order to ban navigation has been announced in various towns along the river."
"Well, have you told these boatmen and fishermen that when the boat crews are recruited and used, they will be given food and salary."
"I have followed the king's will and explained it to them."
Xiang Yu cleared his throat and revealed his plan.
Xiang Sheng was ordered to lead the first division of his headquarters to go north to Guangling to support the local county soldiers in fighting the Guanying tribe.
The Overlord personally led a troop of soldiers and horses up the river to stop Wang Yingbu of Jiujiang.
The remaining troops were on alert in Jinling, Moling and the two wings to prevent Han Xin and Liu Bang from crossing the river and infiltrating.
Before the meeting was over, Xiang Yu once again told Xiang Sheng: "Guangling is the last fulcrum of our Chu army in the north of the Yangtze River.
If it is lost, the other side will be able to cross the river in this section of the river with a small force and infiltrate our Jiangdong area.
Once across the river, there is a vast area of Zhenze, and the Wusong area will inevitably lead to us falling into the same predicament as "Peng Yue and Chu".
The experience and lessons learned in the past few years are that we need a stable rear. " Everyone looked at Overlord in unison.
The word "experience and lessons" did not exist in Overlord's vocabulary before.
Over the past few days, Overlord's changes have been obvious to all, although everyone thought that this may be due to age and failure.
The change brought about by setbacks, but this change is also too great.
Xiang Sheng said loudly: "But please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will never disappoint Your Majesty."
"Well, you go to the Jinling City workshop to get a thousand heavy crossbows and 20,000 arrows.
They are specially prepared for you.
When you get to Guangling, don't go into battle easily.
You must stick to it."
Xiang Sheng was overjoyed.
He had a thousand heavy crossbows with arrows in them.
This was a good thing.
After years of general war, the craftsmen of the various official workshops of the original Qin Empire have long been scattered.
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And because arrows are consumed very quickly on the battlefield, the training period for archers with qualified archery skills is very long, making crossbowmen very uneconomical.
Arms.
Therefore, the proportion of bows and crossbows deployed by various princes is very small.
There is no record of a large number of crossbows being used in battle during this period, whether in official or unofficial history.
Xiang Yu reviewed the army that was about to go out with him on the campus of Huben Camp.
It was named Kuaiji Division, and the Huben Army was named after the name of the county or place.
The Kuaiji Division is the first fully equipped division.
However, it has only been trained for more than ten days in combat skills and formations, and it is just getting started.
The proportion of spearmen has decreased compared with the previous era, accounting for only 40%.
There are more than 4,000 spearmen in the division.
There are 4,000 shield and sword heavy infantry.
Each soldier is equipped with iron ring armor similar to a lobster carapace and a bronze helmet.
The characteristic is the large arched composite shield that is four feet high and two feet wide.
It tries its best to ensure the protective area and protection capability without being bulky.
The attack weapon is an iron sword that is only two feet long but has a very wide blade.
Each man also carries two javelins four feet long behind his back.
The rest were archers.
Due to insufficient training time, Xiang Yu temporarily asked them to fight with arm crossbows instead of using composite bows with faster firing rates.
The Overlord led the Kuaiji division, two thousand elite cavalry, and five hundred warriors and warriors to advance southward along the river.
Because this road has mountains on the left and the river on the right, only the middle one is relatively flat, with an average width of about twenty miles. corridor, so they will inevitably encounter Yingbo's army.
At the same time, Xiang Yu was forbidden to display his own banner, and he did not wear Xiang Yu's unique outfit, and his euphorbia was also covered with linen.
He was afraid that Yingbu would see that he was leading the troops himself, and he was too frightened to move forward.
The whole army had no baggage, and Xiang Yu was determined to resolve the battle quickly within five days.
Jinling was still facing huge pressure from 600,000 enemy troops, and it was impossible to delay on this front for long.
When the troops arrived in Tongling, the scouts in front brought intelligence that the Yingbo army had been found, only thirty miles away.
Since his scouts have discovered the other party's traces, the other party has probably also discovered him.
Xiang Yu immediately surveyed the terrain of Tongling and soon had a tactical plan.
Jiujiang Wang Yingbu has also already received information from his own scouts.
There is a Chu army of more than 10,000 people in front of them, and they seem to have discovered themselves.
Although the opponent could not be Xiang Yu's headquarters, Yingbu did not dare to take it lightly and ordered the entire army to march in battle formation.
Soon, the forward encountered the opponent's small force of about 500 people.
The opponent quickly retreated before engaging in battle.
Ying Bu ordered all his troops to follow him in order to find the opponent's main force.
He was naturally worried that following this unit would lead to an ambush, but after surveying the terrain, he believed that there was no possibility of an ambush in this area.
The opponent's retreat path is flat, the nearest mountainous area is more than ten miles to the east, and it is also ten miles away from the river in the west, so it is impossible for the opponent to ambush or outflank you by water.
There are several river channels scattered on a plain with sparsely grown reeds half as tall as a man.
These river channels are no more than ten meters wide and can only be used by small boats.
They are no deeper than chest level and soldiers can pass through them.
This is a very common terrain on the banks of the Yangtze River.
Unless the water ghost lurks underwater, there is no way to hide the ambush
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