Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 443

The Royal Forest Army retreated?Want to protect Liu Bang to break through?But it was too late!

Bi Shu smiled lightly, raised his right hand again and clenched it into a fist, and said: "Command, heavy cavalry... attack!"

At this time, Liu Bang made the Yulin army in front retreat, but he committed a taboo on the battlefield. Doing so would only make the defeat of the Han army more thorough and faster!Of course, the defeat of the Han army has been decided, and it is meaningless for Liu Bang to lose a moment early and a moment later, so it is reasonable to transfer back to the Yulin army to protect him from breaking out.

Tieniu suddenly turned around and howled sharply: "The general has an order, the heavy cavalry... attack!"

Following the raising of a scarlet triangular flag, groups of heavy cavalry, both men and armor wrapped in black iron armor, slowly walked out of the forest of banners behind the Chu army. These were the heavy cavalry of the Chu army. up.

The Chu army's light soldiers and heavy armored infantry who stood in front of the heavy cavalry immediately retreated like a tide. Meng Keng pulled out his horizontal knife and pulled it forward, and the two thousand heavy cavalry behind him began to move forward slowly, tapping their iron hooves. The dull sound of hitting the ground changed from sparse to dense. In less than a moment, the Chu army's heavy cavalry began to sprint at a high speed.

Then, the heavy cavalry in the front row lowered their long lances!

Zhou Bo realized the danger in an instant. Although the formation of the Han army was basically in disarray, he still made the greatest effort possible. While the [-] Imperial Forest Army turned around and retreated, he transferred the other two heavy-armored phalanxes to the rear. Straight ahead, trying to block the stabbing of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army, he yelled at Liu Bang: "My lord, let's go!"

Liu Bang looked panic-stricken, turned around and wanted to leave, but was held back by Chen Ping.

"My lord, wait a moment." Chen Ping grabbed Liu Bang, then took off the bright yellow brocade cloak that Liu Bang was wearing, which symbolized the nobility of the King of Han, and handed it to Zhou Bo, saying solemnly, "Taiwei, I will leave everything to you." gone."

Seeing this, Zhang Liang was awe-inspiring, Chen Ping wanted Zhou Bo "Qiao Zhuang" King of Han to stay here as a scapegoat?

Zhou Bo took the bright yellow brocade cloak without hesitation, and put it on his shoulders without hesitation, then waved to Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, and shouted: "Two military advisers, take the king away, go!"

Zhang Liang and Chen Ping cupped their hands at Zhou Bo at the same time, and then surrounded Liu Bang and got out of the nest car.

The three monarchs and ministers had just climbed down the rope ladder, and Uncle Sunying, the general of Yulin Zhonglang, was already approaching. At that moment, Chen Ping ordered Uncle Sunying to say: "General Shusun, quickly put on the armor of ordinary soldiers for the king. !"

Uncle Sunying didn't understand what he meant, but still ordered a Yulin soldier to exchange armor with Liu Bang.

Liu Bang has completely lost his mind at this meeting, like a puppet at the mercy of Chen Ping and his uncle and grandson. After a while, Liu Bang had changed into the robes of an ordinary soldier, and then "followed" his uncle and grandson to break out of the encirclement, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping also changed into the robes of the imperial army, and broke out among the imperial army.

At this time, the Han army had completely collapsed, and the Sirius army and Xiaocai army had also completed intercepting the Han army's rear. The entire conical formation of the Han army was surrounded by the geese formation of the Chu army and the two forbidden troops In the middle, for a while, the Han army on the left ran to the right, and the Han army on the right fled to the left. The front retreated, and the rear squeezed forward. It was completely messed up!
The most tragic thing is that the two heavy armored phalanxes of the Han army on the front were almost crushed by the heavy cavalry of the Chu army!

Only the Han and Hu cavalry on both sides of the battlefield were spared because they were fighting with the Chu cavalry. This would see the entire Han army collapse, and the Yuezhi, Xiutu, and Hunxie turned around and ran away. Then he took fifty thousand Han cavalry to turn around and fight back, trying to rescue Liu Bang from the ten thousand troops, but how could the Chu cavalry make them do what they wanted?
Besides, Liu Bang rushed out following his uncle and grandson Ying, and a group of Chu army cavalry suddenly rushed over from a diagonal stab. The leading general of the Chu army was especially brave. Fortunately, the elite cavalry of the Chu army did not love to fight, and they rushed straight ahead after the slightest contact.

Liu Bang looked back in shock, and saw Zhou Bo was wearing his bright yellow brocade cloak, waving his sword and howling loudly on the towering nest cart in the distance. Under the nest cart, countless Han soldiers were running back and forth, howling loudly There were screams, curses, and howls, and the fine cavalry of the Chu army just now was obviously heading there.

While fleeing in a hurry, there were fewer and fewer Imperial Forest Army around Liu Bang, and the general Shu Sunying of the Imperial Forest Zhonglang didn't know where he rushed to. Zhang Liang and Chen Ping also disappeared, but they didn't know whether they were dead or alive?Liu Bang was really tired from running away, and was about to hide in a clump of wormwood to rest for a while, when another group of Chu army scouts came out of the diagonal stab.

"Ha, there is an old soldier who is alone here!" The leader of the Chu army's scout captain rushed forward, and without any explanation, he slashed at Liu Bang's neck. Liu Bang stared straight at the dazzling ball with dull eyes. The cold light slashed down in the air, although he wanted to dodge, but his whole body seemed to be frozen, unable to move.

Seeing that Liu Bang was about to fall to the ground, a spiked arrow struck like lightning, piercing the throat of the Chu army scout captain, who fell headfirst from his horse without saying a word. Then, more than a hundred cavalrymen of the Han army rushed over from the slanting stab, and the remaining ten scouts of the Chu army turned around and fled when they saw this.

A knight riding a horse came to Liu Bang, and asked sharply, "Old soldier Wuna, have you ever seen the king?"

Liu Bang raised his head in a daze, and couldn't help but say happily, "General Guan Guan Guan Ying, is that you?"

"Your Majesty?!" Guan Ying turned pale with shock, immediately rolled off his horse and helped Liu Bang onto his own mount, then he held a short halberd to protect Liu Bang, and headed north all the way.

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"Kill!" Huyan roared angrily, and picked up a Han general in front of him and flew into the air.

Although this guy was shot with several arrows on his back, he returned to the army and asked the wounded doctor to take the arrows and iron a few iron bars, and he returned to the battlefield alive and well. In less than half an hour, they had penetrated into the hundreds of thousands of Han troops, and rushed all the way to Zhou Bo's command nest car.

Hu Yan picked out the overthrowing Han general, then looked up at the old figure on the nest cart covered in bright yellow brocade, laughed and said, "Haha, old Liu Bang's head is mine now!"

"That's not necessarily the case!" A cold voice suddenly came from the front.

When Hu Yanji took a closer look, he saw that Meng Jie had already led the elite soldiers of the Xiao cavalry to charge from the other side. Although the Han army crowded under the nest cart tried their best to resist, they couldn't stop him at all. He had already entered under the nest cart, Hu Yan became anxious when he saw this, he kicked the horse pedal with both feet, and the whole person immediately flew into the air.

How can you be willing to fall behind if you are killed over there?At the moment, he kicked the horse pedals vigorously and rose into the air.

The figures of Meng Ji and Hu Yan landed on the rope ladder almost at the same time, and then climbed up with all their strength with their hands and feet, and they got on the nest cart almost at the same time, but they were all dumbfounded when they got on the nest cart. The guy wearing the "Great Cloak of the King of Han" is not Liu Bang at all, but Zhou Bo, the Taiwei of the Han Dynasty!

"Old General Zhou Bo?" Meng Ji was stunned, "Why are you?"

"Where's Liu Bang?" Hu Yan looked around and said sharply, "Where is old Liu Bang hiding?"

"Hahaha..." Zhou Bo didn't pay attention to the two of them at all. He just looked up to the sky and let out a long, mournful laugh. Then he suddenly turned his sword sideways and stabbed his own neck. The entire neck was cut open, and the old general's eyes dimmed in an instant amid the splash of blood.

"Old general, have a good journey!" Meng Ji bowed his hands, and bowed deeply towards Zhou Bo's body.

But Hu Yan was furious, immediately he raised his precious carved bow, took out a spiked arrow from his quiver, shot and killed more than a dozen Han generals at the nest cart, his anger still lingered.

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The Han army camp has fallen into a riot.

Because the Chu army took the initiative to attack, the battlefield of the Chu-Han battle was extremely far away from Mianshui and the Chu army's camp, but it was very close to the Han army's camp, almost within sight. Knowing that the Han army had been defeated, if Wang Xi hadn't tried his best to restrain them, the [-] Han army would have scattered and fled.

"Open the door, quickly open the gate!" Chen Ping, who was ashamed, came to the gate under the protection of more than a hundred imperial guards.

Seeing that it was Chen Ping, the guard Wang Xi didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly ordered the gate to be opened, and while welcoming Chen Ping into the camp, he asked, "Deputy military advisor, where are the king and the military advisor?"

Chen Ping didn't answer, but went straight to the supply camp.

When he arrived at the supply camp, Chen Ping ordered the removal of the isolation fence in the corner, and released hundreds of wounded soldiers who had been imprisoned in the dozens of tents. In the opened tent, there was a strong stench coming out. It seemed that there were still many people lying in it.

"Deputy military division, what's going on?" Wang asked with a frown, covering his nose.

Chen Ping covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, turned around and walked quickly, and said to Wang Xi: "General Wang Su, our army has already been defeated, and the king and the military adviser were also lost in the army. The county meets, you should hurry up and follow me to Rang County with the army." Finally, Chen Ping said, "It is really not suitable to stay here for a long time."

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden overwhelming sound of killing from the direction of Yuanmen.

Immediately, a small school came to Wang Xi in a hurry, bowed his head and reported: "General, the Chu army has entered the camp!"

"Damn it, the Chu army came so fast!" Wang Xi hurriedly got on his horse and shouted sharply, "Send the order to burn down the camp, and the whole army will retreat to Rang County, quickly..."

"Wait!" Chen Ping hurriedly stopped, "It's enough to retreat, but there is no need to burn the camp!"

"Why?" Wang Xi was puzzled and said, "There is still a lot of food and supplies in the camp, how can it be cheap for the Chu army?"

Chen Ping frowned, and said without doubt: "This is the king's edict, does the general dare to disobey the king's order?"

"Huh?!" Wang Xi's expression froze, he immediately reined in his horse and turned around, shouting sharply, "Let's go, let's go!"

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PS (the number of words below is not counted): I found that many readers questioned the battlefield with a radius of more than ten miles. What I want to say is that the war in the era of cold weapons is different from the era of hot weapons. In the era of hot weapons, due to the lethality of weapons The distance between the infantry and the infantry is extremely large. In a war of millions of people, the battle line may stretch to tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers long, and the depth is at least tens of kilometers. However, cold weapon warfare is another matter. The thing is, in a cold weapon war, soldiers have to squeeze closely together in order to form a formation, so that they can form a joint force. A simple calculation, an area ten miles long and ten miles wide is 25 square kilometers, divided by 100 25, it is 25 square meters to each soldier's head. Such an infantry interval is simply unimaginable in the cold weapon era, especially for heavy armored infantry, [-] square meters should squeeze in more than [-] people.

Of course, considering that there must be intervals between each army, each battalion, each department, and each song, and there must be a passage for interspersed and transposed positions, such a large average interval is still possible.

Of course, the combat area in the book only includes the main battle infantry. The auxiliary cavalry on both sides are too fast and come and go like the wind. It is impossible for them to encircle the battle area within a radius of more than ten miles.

(End of this chapter)