Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 1903: Building the plank road openly, secretly destroying Chencang

An elite battalion like the Xianzhen Camp with only a few hundred people is naturally not a big deal, but the Golden Fire Cavalry with a strength of 5,000 and the Black Cavalry with a strength of 25,000, these two forces cannot but be regarded as legions!
Even if it is a trap camp of several hundred people, if it is used at the critical moment and in the critical place, it can be a powerful force.

Not to mention the thousands of Golden Fire Cavalry, or even the tens of thousands of Black Cavalry, elite troops of this size are a deterrent as soon as they appear.

They don't need to be used at critical moments or in critical locations like the Xianzhen Camp. Elite troops of this size only need to appear to directly influence the outcome of the battle.

At least, although the size of the Black Cavalry is only half of the size of the Flying Feather Corps, one of the five major field armies, its combat capability is definitely not inferior to the entire Flying Feather Corps. In fact, if it is in a plain terrain, the combat capability of the Black Cavalry is not inferior to any main corps.

Of course, not all of the 25,000 Black Knights participated in the Southern Expedition.

The Black Cavalry did initially have a force of 30,000 soldiers, divided into three groups of 10,000 each.

However, considering the numerous wars in recent years, especially the Black Knights served as the main force in several bloody and dangerous battles, resulting in a large amount of damage.

For example, when Wang Yu first broke into the capital of Dongyi, Xue Rengui's Black Cavalry was almost wiped out. Although they were replenished by the Black Cavalry reserves, this part of the Black Cavalry became the weakest among the three Black Cavalry, far inferior to its peak period.

On the Hedong Shanyang Road, the Black Cavalry also served as the main force in various battlefields, especially during the process of Zhang Liao's blockade of the central mountain range, which once again resulted in tragic casualties.

Moreover, after a series of attacks, the Black Knights' reserves have been exhausted. If they continue to fight like this, with such casualties again, they will not be able to replenish their manpower in a short period of time.

Another consideration is that because a large number of reservists have been added to the main Black Cavalry force in recent years, the Black Cavalry's combat effectiveness has declined significantly.

Therefore, at the same time when Ye Jiyang took over as the new commander of the Black Cavalry, Wang Yu also reorganized the Black Cavalry, selecting the 5,000 weakest Black Cavalry horses from various units and putting them back into the reserve to ensure that the number of reserves could be replenished and keep up.

At the same time, actively screening out these relatively weaker Black Knights is to ensure the combat effectiveness of the remaining Black Knights.

When nine soldiers with a combat effectiveness of ten cooperate with one soldier with a combat effectiveness of six, let alone exerting a combat effectiveness of one hundred, it is very likely that they cannot even exert a combat effectiveness of ninety-six, or even ninety or eighty.

The various tactics of the Black Cavalry require coordination. Except for troops like the Red Blood Soldiers who rely entirely on risking their lives, the remaining elite troops are strong in many aspects, including the strength of the soldiers, the strength of their equipment, and the coordination of tactics.

These soldiers with poor quality may directly affect the coordination between the various units of the Black Cavalry. This is the factor that has the greatest impact on the combat effectiveness of the Black Cavalry.

Therefore, Wang Yu would rather cut off these people and send them back to the reserve as a supplement for the Black Knights after the losses in the future, rather than continue to maintain the complete organization on the surface. The superficial strength is far less meaningful than the real strength in reality.

In addition, an assessment mechanism has been established for the Black Knights, with the best being promoted and the worst being demoted. Some who fail to meet the standards will be sent back to the reserve, while those with outstanding abilities among the reserves will be regularized ahead of schedule.

The original three Black Knights have now become five Black Knights, with a three + two distribution, with each unit having five thousand people.

The first three, like the five main field armies, are mobile troops that can participate in the battle at any time.

As for the remaining two divisions, one is stationed in Tianlang Pass, and the other is stationed in the imperial capital Yecheng. The first three divisions and the last two divisions are rotated from time to time.

Therefore, nominally 500,000 troops were mobilized, but the number of troops actually involved in this battle was more than 500,000.

There are even hundreds of thousands of potential troops behind them.

On Blue Star, when a war breaks out, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. To boost morale, they claim to have an army of 100,000 or even a million. After all, there are only tens of thousands of regular soldiers and horses, but along the way, the able-bodied civilians who are mobilized to ensure the combat effectiveness of these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses may be several times the number of soldiers and horses.

But in Apocalypse, even if some civilians need to be mobilized during war, only a small number of them are needed to meet the demand. The most important thing is to transport food, which can rely on troop carriers to meet at least 70% of the demand.

Therefore, the labor cost is greatly reduced.

And in Apocalypse, if he claimed to have an army of 100,000, he must have at least 80,000 troops. Even 120,000 or 130,000 soldiers can be called an army of 100,000, but it is much more realistic.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Black Cavalry and the Flying Feather Corps that Gao Huan is so worried. The surrounding terrain is all plains, and the Black Cavalry and the Flying Feather Corps have completely deprived them of the ability to fight in the field. Even once the enemy army officially attacks, the various units will be extremely passive when mobilizing with each other.

In Henan Province, Hulugu had only 30,000 vanguard troops, but with various strategies, he easily captured Hutou Mountain, which was a good start for this southern expedition.

After that, Huangfu Guyuan's support army and Wang Yu's main force also arrived at the front line one after another.

At the same time, Meng Tian's 100,000 barbarian troops, plus 20,000 Feiyu troops, under the leadership of Han Xin, headed towards Guangyin.

Guangyin, although this place is not as rich as the Four Rivers, but this place and the Two Qings are also the second only to the Four Rivers. Especially the Two Qings, because of the coastal reasons, the commerce and salt industry are developed, to some extent, even better than the Four Rivers.

However, Guangyin is also a place that has suffered a lot of devastation in recent years.

When the Three Kings first started the rebellion, the troops of the Three Kings and the imperial guards of the imperial court fought a long battle in Guangyin, and both sides suffered from the trauma of war.

After that, the battlefield where Prince Jing Huangfu Guyuan and Prince Wei Huangfu Guhan and the Tianshi Dao Alliance were in confrontation was also pulled into Guangyin after the Heyang Road was lost.

Now, it is about to be destroyed by war again.

Han Xin personally led the troops, which made Jiang Shuihan, who was the general of the Zhenjun Army at the time, very nervous.

When they joined forces to fight against the court of Huangfu Mingzhao, Han Xin was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and Jiang Shuihan was theoretically also under the command of Han Xin at that time.

Because of the many contacts at that time, Jiang Shuihan knew more about Han Xin's terror. Hundreds of thousands of troops were at his disposal like his own fingers.

In the entire alliance of forces at that time, no one else had such ability except Han Xin.

Even Yang Su and Xuanyuan Huang did not have this ability. If they were given hundreds of thousands of troops and were asked to command them, they would find it difficult and would not be able to do it as easily as Han Xin.

One hundred thousand soldiers and horses, this is already a large-scale battle between legions. And a battle between hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses can be said to be a battle between super-large-scale legions. It is impossible for ordinary god-level commanders to achieve this. Those who can do it relatively easily are considered advanced among god-level commanders.

Among all the god-level commanders, Han Xin is the one who is best at commanding large-scale legion operations.

Seeing such an opponent about to attack them, Jiang Shuihan felt a chill all over his body. Han Xin's troops were still on the way and had not really attacked them yet. The battle had not really started yet, but he already felt the tremendous pressure.

Just as Jiang Shuihan was actively mobilizing his troops and preparing to fight Han Xin under great pressure.

However, before Han Xin's troops actually arrived, he received news that Huangfu Guhan in Qingbei had been attacked by Han troops.

The first year of Yuanshi.

On May 21st, Meng Tian, ​​the supreme general of the Han Dynasty and commander of the Barbarian Bear Legion, led 20,000 soldiers and 5,000 golden fire cavalry and brazenly charged into the Qingbei area.

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In this battle, the troops mobilized were not just these 25,000 soldiers, but also half of the Fierce Whale Legion.

In fact, in the first battle, it was not Meng Tian's 25,000 soldiers who fought, but the Fierce Whale Corps. After the turbulence on the sea, Meng Tian's troops were almost falling apart by the time they came up, and there was not much combat power left.

Therefore, in this first battle, only the Fierce Whale Legion can be used as the main force.

Meng Tian's 25,000 troops, under the escort of 30,000 Yanbei navy led by Mo Peng, the commander of the Liejing Corps, took the sea route and officially entered Qingbei.

After the news of Meng Tian's invasion of Qingbei spread, Han Xin's army immediately changed its original direction, turned around, returned to Yannan, got on the troop transport vehicle, and headed eastward to Qingbei.

Instead, the Yannan Prefecture army, which had originally pressed towards Qingbei, established a defense line along the river, forming a defensive posture.

Wang Yu's order to Han Xin was to take Guangyin and threaten the eastern direction of Henan Road. As for Qingbei Road, he should take it if possible, and if there was a chance, he should take it directly.

Han Xin's understanding was that, naturally, he should take down Guangyin and Qingbei together.

Since we have to take both, it’s just a matter of which one to take first and which one later!
In Han Xin's opinion, although King Wei Huangfu Guhan occupied the northern part of Qing, half of the southern part of Qing, and a small part of Heyang, the total number of troops in all places was as high as 250,000.

However, among the 250,000 soldiers, many have only been in the army for a few years and their combat effectiveness varies.

The most crucial thing is that King Wei was at his weakest at this time.

He clearly had 250,000 soldiers at his disposal, but when he helped Tianshi Dao fight against Huangfu Guyuan, he was only able to dispatch 50,000 soldiers at most. This shows how weak he was at that time!
Huangfu Guhan, who has 250,000 soldiers, is much easier to deal with than the 150,000 soldiers of the powerful King Huangfu Guyuan in Guangyin and Heyang.

Therefore, Han Xin made this plan of repairing the plank road in the open, secretly passing through Chencang, openly attacking Guangyin, but actually taking Qingbei. He opened up the situation at the fastest speed without any intention.

He was well aware of his deterrent power among the various forces in Da Cang. As long as he led his troops to appear head-on, he would be able to draw the attention of the forces in Guangyin, Heyang, Qingbei, and even the Tianshi Dao of Tunghai Dao.

In particular, when Wang Yu's main army had already marched southward, no one would doubt that Han Xin had set Guangyin and Heyang as his targets.

At this time, if Meng Tian separated a small part of his forces and, under the escort of the Liejing Legion, took the sea route to attack Qingbei Road first, he would have great potential.

Especially when the troops of Qingbei Road are mainly concentrated in the west and south, the east is at its most empty. Although the number of these tens of thousands of soldiers may not sound large, they will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort in this situation.

It was precisely because Han Xin's deterrent power was so great that, with Han Xin in the front, everyone ignored the existence of Meng Tian.

Even though these two men were both the main commanders of a legion, during the six months since Han Xin came to Yannan, even Meng Tian unconsciously put Han Xin first in everything.

Han Xin was brilliant and talented as soon as he appeared on the stage. He stood out in a short time and even surpassed his predecessors one after another. In a very short time, he stood ahead of those old men.

Later, in a battle in which several forces jointly attacked the court of Huangfu Mingzhao, he was officially pushed to the peak.

On the other hand, although Meng Tian was born the longest, he was only about 16 years old when he was born. Compared with Han Xin who was at the peak right after he came out, he grew up step by step over the years.

He did not have any great achievements like Han Xin, nor any extraordinary feats like him, but he relied on the accumulation of small achievements over the years, plus his qualifications as one of the earliest few people, to get to where he is today step by step.

Therefore, among the several legion commanders, Meng Tian himself is the one who is least likely to attract attention. At this time, with Han Xin in the front, it is easier for him to withdraw and avoid the real situation.

The eastern coastal area had just experienced an incident, and when Huangfu Guhan received the news, he could only mobilize troops to provide support. With the convenience of troop transport vehicles, the first batch of troops could be there in six or seven days.

But at this time, he also received the news that Han Xin's troops were coming back to attack. Also because of the convenience of the troop transport vehicles, Han Xin's troops could arrive in six or seven days.

For a time, people in King Wei's small court were in turmoil.