Chapter 105

Although Han Xin won on the sand table!

There is ultimately a gap between real combat and sand table duels.

Take Zhao Kuo, for example; he was a master of the sand table, with no equal across the entire Zhao Guo.

Neither Lian Po nor Li Mu were his match.

Yet, he still lost!

He lost because he was too impatient, wanting to defeat Bai Qi quickly to make a name for himself in one battle!

As a result, he buried the forty-thousand-strong army of Zhao Guo!

Recalling all this, Wang Wang Jian sighed again and again!

But at this moment, he was even more eager to play another game with Han Xin!

Sigh!

Wang Wang Jian sighed once more!

But at this very moment, he was not idle; he began to simulate the upcoming Neishi battle!

And it was not just Wang Wang Jian who was simulating!

In the barracks, Han Xin was also simulating!

But what Han Xin was simulating was not Xiang Yu’s forty-thousand-strong army fighting Meng Wu’s thirty-thousand-strong army!

It was... Li Li Yuanba alone against Xiang Yu’s forty-thousand-strong army!

"Hiss... how is this supposed to be fought!"

Han Xin’s scalp tingled.

He truly could not think of any chance of winning!

It was not that Li Li Yuanba had no chance of winning!

It was that Xiang Yu had no chance of winning!

Are you kidding me!

That is Li Li Yuanba; Ying Su told him clearly that Li Li Yuanba has the strength to fight a million-strong army alone!

If what Ying Su said is true!

Then Xiang Yu will definitely lose this battle!

Because... no matter what formation Han Xin used, he felt he could not deal with Li Li Yuanba!

Unless... the arrowheads were coated with deadly poison, or perhaps a large pit was dug to bury the man alive!

But... these methods were all useless!

Li Li Yuanba is not a fool; would he be buried alive by your pit?

Coating the arrowheads with deadly poison wouldn't work either!

Because... Ying Su said that Li Li Yuanba has another unique skill: he is impenetrable to water!

It is those two hammers; when swung, not even water can splash inside!

Could an arrow fly in?

Han Xin did not believe it!

But he was still looking forward to this battle.

He wanted to see if Li Li Yuanba was truly as Ying Su said, capable of fighting forty thousand alone!

If he won, then Ying Su did not lie, Li Li Yuanba is truly formidable, and when he fights the Xiongnu, he must make good use of Li Li Yuanba!

He had even... already begun to simulate how to use Li Li Yuanba to wipe out the Xiongnu within two months!

Han Xin was very excited!

But what if Li Li Yuanba lost...

Sorry, Han Xin would only be excited!

Because... in this battle, he, Han Xin, could finally take the field!

Just kidding, real combat!

He had long been looking forward to the arrival of real combat!

Now, with the war drawing near, Han Xin had long been unable to restrain himself!

Neishi!

This place was an ancient salt pond from years past!

Even before Great Yu controlled the floods, the salt production here was extremely high!

It almost nourished all the people of Hedong!

Even the salt from this place was transported to all parts of the country!

But... following an earthquake, the salt pond collapsed!

Much of the salt was buried deep underground and could not be excavated!

And with the erosion over the long years.

This place had long since become barren!

In the past, a capable person once said that if it could be irrigated with fresh blood and buried with rotting flesh, this place might turn into fertile fields!

Thus, battles between various states in the salt pond area would default to choosing this location!

For example, the Qin-Jin battle during the period of Duke Mu of Qin!

Or the Qin-Wei battle during the period of Duke Xian of Qin!

Or the Qin-Han battle during the period of Duke Xiao of Qin!

Many, many battles were fought in this place!

All for the sake of these thousand miles of fertile land!

Yes!

Who wouldn't want a thousand miles of fertile land?

And fighting a war means people will die!

After people die, fresh blood and rotting flesh purify the saline-alkali land; this is the best way!

Ying Su choosing to let Li Li Yuanba fight in this place was also for this purpose!

As for whether it would work...

To tell the truth, Ying Su did not know either!

But... it is a fact that irrigation with fresh blood and burial with rotting flesh can promote the growth of crops!

For example, the mass grave from the Battle of Changping in the past!

Or the mass grave discovered in later generations where Xiang Yu buried twenty thousand Qin soldiers.

Before these places were excavated, they were all fertile fields!

The crops here grew much better than those in other places!

Heaven and Earth nourish all things, and all things return to Heaven and Earth after death.

Endless cycles!

This is the essence of Daoism!

And not far from the salt pond area.

At this very moment, a large army was marching!

The army wound along, and the line alone stretched for twenty miles.

It could be said that the end was not in sight!

Indeed, this was Xiang Yu’s army!

Coming here from Julu, it was far more than a thousand miles!

After more than a month of long-distance trekking, finally, they had arrived!

And according to the deductions of Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang, if Wang Ben was not a fool and if Ying Zheng was not brain-damaged, they would definitely turn this war to attack Xianyang into a field battle!

After all, a field battle does not harm the people!

And if they really fought in Xianyang City, regardless of who won or lost, Xianyang City would suffer huge destruction!

Therefore, a field battle is the best!

Sure enough, not long after they started marching, they heard a report from a spy!

The thirty-thousand-strong army led by Meng Wu, Meng Tian, and Wang Ben was heading toward the salt pond!

"Hahahaha... Uncle, if we wipe out this thirty-thousand-strong army in this battle, the army in Xianyang City will only have fifteen thousand left!"