"Slow down!" Bai Qi interrupted the scout's report with a wave of his hand. He glanced at the soldiers on the side and said, "Where is the map?"
Knowingly, he immediately lifted up a map. On a wooden stand that was as tall as one person, there was a piece of gray-white brocade silk tightly wrapped with twine. He used charcoal pen as ink and traced it as carefully as possible on the flat silk book. It reflects the vertical and horizontal landscape and the vastness of heaven and earth.
Unfortunately, limited by the primitiveness of the production tools, no matter how superb the techniques are, they cannot show the battlefield as vividly as Zhao Kuo's sand table. Especially in the depiction of length and length, there is often only the general shape and distance, which is not the same at all. It cannot be quantified even slightly.
However, even this vague map was obtained by countless Qin soldiers who risked their lives to explore it carefully. It was precisely with this rough map that Bai Qi forcibly fought one annihilation battle after another.
Bai Qi's ability and the sharpness of the Qin army can be seen.
Standing up, taking three steps and two steps at a time, Bai Qi came to the map. The surrounding Qin army generals, including the scouts who were reporting, also gathered around.
I saw Bai Qi writing with his hand, carefully touching the map according to what the scout just said.
Immediately, he nodded and said: "The Zhao army going south has an obvious goal. It must be to transport grain from the Daliang Mountain. As for the troops going north, if they are to attack, three thousand people are slightly insufficient, so they will be used as auxiliary."
After Bai Qi thought for a moment, he said firmly: "If the Zhao army wants to cross the Dan River, it must first lower its water level to facilitate the passage of its troops and horses. These three thousand soldiers must go to the upper reaches of the Dan River to cut off the Dan River. With this, There are two things that can be said about Zhao Jun. First, Zhao Jun’s attack is imminent, and if it goes well, it will happen in the next few days; secondly, Zhao Kuo, the leader of Zhao Jun, is indeed a person who is familiar with the art of war.”
As soon as he finished speaking, one of the generals on the side started talking and asked: "General! Now that we know that he wants to cut off the Danshui, we can only send five thousand troops to kill them all who want to cut off the water."
"How can the Zhao army turn from defense to attack if they are all wiped out?" Another general immediately denied: "Looking at the future, we can cut off the water source first, and then when the main force of Zhao army crosses the river, we can kill them in a large scale." If the army releases the Dan River and goes south, it will definitely achieve a wonderful victory."
Hearing this, Bai Qi shook his head slowly, his expression even a bit angry.
General Wang Lu couldn't stand it anymore and said immediately: "The general said that the general of the Zhao army only knows how to read military books. How come you, a man who has experienced hundreds of battles, are like this?"
Wang Lu pointed towards the top of Danshui and said: "Since the beginning of summer this year, has there been heavy rain or mud and rock floods? With the current amount of water in Danshui, it is difficult for anyone to drown. Do we need to cut it off? That little bit of water, even if you save it for three days and three nights, and then put it down all at once, how much impact will it have?"
"The last general will realize his mistake!" the two generals admitted their mistake immediately.
Bai Qi did not blame him, but said with some encouragement: "There are no mistakes or omissions in the discussion before the war! But you can express your ideas, and the tactics of war are slowly improved from correcting mistakes over and over again." Two people Don't worry, General, I will look forward to better advice in the future."
"Yes!" The two of them immediately accepted the order as if they had been granted amnesty.
"I am old. This battle may be my last battle. In the future, the Qin Dynasty will be handed over to you." After saying that, Bai Qi looked around again and said hopefully: "Generals, you should think more. Be a consultant.”
"I obey Jun's order!" all the generals replied in unison.
To be honest, Bai Qi was a little dissatisfied with the two generals who just spoke.
If a captain said such words, he would be happy, because it means that a captain who should focus on combat command has begun to think about strategic matters. This is a good message.
If such a mistake was made by a captain, Bai Qi would be able to accept it. After all, he had just entered a high-level position in the Qin army. Being able to think proactively and dare to express his thoughts in military discussions was worthy of encouragement. If such a mistake was made when he was a captain, it would not have much impact on the army, but would accelerate his growth.
However, Bai Qi couldn't accept such words from the mouths of the two generals.
General Bi can be the leader of a partial division of a brigade!
In other words, they are people who already have the ability to stand alone, and may even be sent out to lead an army by themselves at any time. With such qualities, it is obviously incompetent to stand alone.
What makes Bai Qi most uncomfortable is that this situation is probably not unique among the Qin army. To put it simply, although the Qin army is still elite enough to make the countries in Shandong fearful, there have been obvious gaps among the middle and high-level generals.
The seemingly prosperous Qin army actually has a lot of hidden dangers.
Yes, although there are indeed many middle- and high-level generals in the Qin army who can really fight - Bai Qi, Sima Cuo, Wang Lu... and other candidates, it can be said that the momentum of the fire is cooking, but if you look carefully, However, it can be found that each of these generals is almost 20 years old, and they have lived a long life in the Warring States period when there was a shortage of medical treatment.
If you dig deeper, you will easily find that Qin has no named generals of the Qingzhuang faction.
Historically, after Bai Qi won the Battle of Changping, he was ordered to commit suicide by the King of Qin. Immediately afterwards, the seemingly invincible Qin State was actually defeated and retreated to Hangu Pass under Wei Wuji's offensive just a few years later. Although the reason for this was the excessive consumption of the Changping Battle, we have to admit that the Qin Army was unable to fight against the enemy. Problems also play a big role in this.
It was not until the emergence of "Meng Ao" that the Qin State ended its dilemma of having no generals despite its elite troops. This period was also the most chaotic and dangerous time before Qin unified the six kingdoms. Unfortunately, Zhao, the only country capable of fighting Qin alone, had his backbone broken in the Battle of Changping.
Then the Wang father and son, and the Meng brothers came out one after another, truly pushing Qin Shi Huang to the highest throne in ancient and modern times.
Although Bai Qi is already somewhat aware of this problem, due to his already great achievements, if he continues to vigorously cultivate general talents in the army, what will King Qin think?
I'm afraid that before a successor has been trained, I was sent back by King Qin first.
Therefore, vague reminders and subtle teachings are the only things Bai Qi can do. Among the generals present, even Wang Lu might not be able to truly understand what Bai Qi meant.
But that's not important.
There's still time! At least that's what Bai Qi thinks.
After briefly mentioning the generals present, Bai Qi focused his attention on the map again.
"Have you ever found out who the generals of the two Zhao armies are?" Bai Qi asked the scout.
