Destiny Only Han

Chapter 232 My third son Liu is back!

It snowed heavily for fifteen days.

To the north of the Huaihe River, almost all places are covered with snow, and the snow is knee-deep.

For families who have accumulated millet and stored enough dyes, it will be over after a while.

But for the vast majority of those who had no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies, the winter of the third year of the Han Dynasty was a matter of life and death for them.

If you survive, you may have the hope of surviving.

But if you can't make it through, death will come today.

After the heavy snow gradually stopped, because the weather was too bad, Liu Bang, who was sure that the Chu army would not attack the city, dispatched half of the soldiers in Xingyang City to various places in Sanchuan County to rescue the people who were hit by the snow.

This is not buying people's hearts, but what a king should do.

When the Han army was busy in the heavy snow, the soldiers of the Chu army in Aocang, located in the north of Xingyang City, were also sweating profusely.

When Zhou Bo abandoned Ao Cang, although he set fire to it, he left too hastily after all, and there was continuous snowfall from the sky.

Therefore, only the topmost layer of grain in the Ao granary was completely burned, and there was still a small portion of barely edible grain below the grain storage.

However, the food they dug up here was not for their own food, but for feeding the horses.

With the advent of winter, the logistics transfer of the Chu army once again became insufficient.

Unlike the Han army, the supplies of the Chu army were collected in Pengcheng first, and then sent to Xingyang city in a unified manner.

Using the geographical analogy of later generations, the Han army transported grain from Xi'an, Shaanxi to Luoyang, Henan, while the Chu army transported grain from Xuzhou, Anhui, to Zhengzhou, Henan.

The extra distance in the middle is the extra burden on the Chu army.

Basically, whenever they sent a catty of grain to the front line, at least [-]% of it was consumed on the way.

After all, the folks who transport food are not daily disposable consumables. Whether they travel from Pengcheng to Xingyang East, or from Xingyang East to Pengcheng, they all have to eat along the way.

Therefore, although the Chu army had enough millet, the fodder used to feed the livestock, especially the tens of thousands of war horses kept in the Chu army, these large animals could eat as much as several adult men.

The weather is cold and the grass is withered. The horses of the nomadic people are suffering during this period, while the horses raised by the farming people are fattening during this period.

After all, after the autumn harvest, there was no shortage of fodder or food.

Therefore, these Qin horses who are used to eating and drinking in winter and bullying the weak horses of the grassland people in spring made the cavalry of the Chu army who raised them feel so worried that they could not sleep all night.

Because the volume of forage is too large, it is not cost-effective to transport it by vehicle, so in the past, the Chu army used the chasm water to transport forage and part of the grain.

The Honggou was built in the tenth year of King Hui of Wei, drawing water from the Yellow River as its source, connecting the Ji, Pu, Bian, Sui, Ying, Wo, Ru, Si, He and other waterways between the Yellow River and Huaihe River, forming a huge canal system.

But winter has come, and the water level of the Yellow River has dropped to freeze, which means that the border water transport has stopped.

Thus, the opportunity to make a fortune was presented to Peng Yue again.

Still the same position, still familiar words.

Holding a Thirty-refined Ring Saber in his hand, Peng Yue stared coldly at the Chu army's train carrying food and grass in front of him.

He doesn't have the courage to fight the Chu army head-on, but he still has the courage to stealthily grab the Chu army's supplies and food, and it is very big!

But this time, he was destined to touch the great white shark.

It is said that one learns one's wisdom. After being robbed by Peng Yue many times in a row, Chu Jun was holding his breath and preparing to take revenge.

And this time leading the team, it was Xiang Yu who had conquered Aocang before!
Yingbo was rebellious, Pu Gucooked, and Jibu Zhongli could not beat Peng Yue. There was no choice but to become the captain of the firefighting captain Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.

When the signal for help from the Chu army's heavy team sounded in the distance, Xiang Yu, who was careful to avoid Xingzang, immediately led the elite Chu cavalry behind him to charge.

In the vast snow, people's detection range is limited, which gave Xiang Yu a chance to squat against Peng Yue.

Da da da!
Horses stepping on mountains and rivers.

Although there were less than [-] Chu cavalry in this battle, these elite Chu troops who were used to charging and cavalry battles had an overwhelming momentum.

"withdraw!"

With a strange cry, Peng Yue called the water bandits behind him to turn around and run away.

In fact, as early as the sound of horseshoes sounded, the water bandits led by Peng Yue had already started to slip away before him...

Brother Yunlong, who did not want to be named, said it well.

What is tradition?
Tradition is a character and a temperament!This tradition and character are determined by the character and temperament of the first military chief when the army was formed.

And under the influence of Peng Yue, who was born as a water bandit who took advantage of the advantage and ran away when he had no advantage, his army obviously possessed the same personality as him.

Peng Yue, who was just cursing and running away, had a smile in the corner of his mouth.

The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind.

The Chu army's supply team is the tree trunk, Peng Yue is the cicada, and Xiang Yu is the praying mantis, so the oriole should be on the way.

In order to avoid the cavalry of the Chu army, Peng Yue's army ran wildly. In the place that seemed to be buried in the thick snow, a group of Han soldiers with strong crossbows suddenly emerged.

And farther to the north, the sound of long horns sounded, and Guan Ying and Jin She led a small number of Langzhong cavalry respectively, and the newly formed Yanzhao Rangers began to outflank from the two wings.

After Zhao was destroyed, Han Xin led a small army, pretended to be a large-scale offensive, and forced Yan Wang Zang Tu to surrender.

As for Cao Shen Guanying and others, they sent their troops to the south and stationed on the Xiuwu line north of the river.

The seizure of Ao Cang was a trivial matter, but the fact that Zhou Bo was bullied by Xiang Yu was unbearable.

Therefore, they directly brought back Han Xin, who had gone north to Yandi, and planned this act of revenge against the Chu army.

If Peng Yue fails to fish, he will earn a lot of food.

There is a saying in military strategists, if you eat an enemy for one minute, it will take you twenty minutes.

The interruption of the food road meant that the life of the Chu army in Xingyang City, which was not rich, became worse.

Successful fishing means that Zhou Bo can take a good breath of anger!
The grain is ripe once a year, sowed in spring and harvested in autumn.

But it takes at least ten or 20 years for a person to learn to fight with a sword in his hand from being born to the ground!

There are only so many elites in the Chu army, one death is one less!
And the Han State, which owns Guanzhong, Bashu, and the entire north of the river, has completely crushed the Chu State in terms of manpower.

Under the ebb and flow, the battle became smoother and smoother.

As a result, the rushing Chu army ran into the crossbowmen of the Han army who were raining arrows.

Although the snow on the ground gradually melted, what followed was muddy.

Under such road conditions, it is no problem for the cavalry to chase down the defeated army, but if they attack the infantry front, it is no different from courting death.

After all, because there were no stirrups in this period, when a person sat on the horse's back, he needed his legs to be clamped on the horse's belly to fix himself.

In this way, these cavalrymen only wore half body armor, and there was no protection below the waist.

After all, when a man and a horse are united, there is nothing to be separated by a layer of cloth. If there is a layer of armor between the two sides, the horses will stand up in pain and throw the knight off the horse... …

Well, in fact, until the period of Wei, Jin and Three Kingdoms, cavalry still wore half body armor.

For example, Zhang Xi, who is both a pillar of the Four Courts of Hebei Province and a good general of the five sons, has been on the battlefield for many years, until he was shot in the knee with an arrow, and he was gone...

On the battlefield, the Chu army's long battle formation is not just talk.

When the front team was covered by the rain of arrows, the rear team immediately separated like water waves, and after drawing two perfect curves, they turned around and ran away.

Facing the infantry with repelling horses in front of them and already in formation, even if they were as strong as Xiang Yu, they also chose to temporarily avoid their edge.

And Guan Ying and others also chose to withdraw their troops after leading the crowd to chase them for a few miles.

After all, just as Xiang Yu feared that there would be thousands of troops behind them, they also worried that there would be a yellow bird behind Xiang Yu.

In this battle, the Chu army took tens of thousands of stones of food and grass, and killed nearly a thousand of its elite, which is already a big result!
Therefore, Guan Ying and the others only took enough food and grass for their own food, as well as the heads of the Chu army. As for most of the remaining luggage, according to the agreement, they left it to the eager Peng Yue.

Most of the water bandits were unwilling to work hard, and after Peng Yue was incorporated by Liu Bang, it was not easy for them to make a living as before.

Sitting under the sky, the only option is to rob the Chu army's grain road.

The retaliation against the Chu army is not limited to the food road here.

Ao Cang.

After several days of hard work, the charred grain was separated from the edible grain and was ready to be transported back to the camp. A fine vibration came from the ground in the distance.

Then, the sound of war drums rumbled, and the sound of shouts of killing soared into the sky.

The Han army began to launch a full-scale counterattack.

On the chariot on the left side of Huangwu, although Liu Bang's nose was red from the cold, he was full of energy.

He, Liu Laosan, is back again!
Facts have proved that without Xiang Yu's command and spiritual support, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army has declined particularly seriously. It is hard to believe that this scene completely defeated Zhou Bo's army in just half a day. Chu Jun.

In the distance, under the command of Fan Kuai, the daredevils rushed left and right with Zhou Shi Chen Bi as the forward, as if entering a land without people, and the corpses of the Chu army were strewn everywhere they passed.

Seeing this, Ji Bu loudly commanded the Chu army, which still retained its organizational system, to throw away their supplies and retreat while fighting.

The Chu army has worked hard for many days, and their physical strength is far from the opponent of the Han army who has been recharging their energy for a long time.

So Ji Bu's idea is very simple.

It is to withdraw as many people as possible for the time being, and then stick to it, and wait until Xiang Yu, who hunted Peng Yue, arrives, and then teach Liu Bang on the opposite side to be a man!
(End of this chapter)