Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 90
At the edge of the dense forest, Gao Chu was leaning against a big tree and taking a nap with his eyes closed.

It was already noon the next day, and the main force of the Chu army had turned in again after resting for a whole night, but the Nufeng Battalion stayed temporarily and was in charge of breaking the rear.

Suddenly, the sound of a dead branch snapping reached Gao Chu's ears.

Gao Chu opened his closed eyes suddenly, and saw the lush forest in front of him, and he couldn't see anything. However, the one who dared to enter the forest at this time would definitely not be the woodcutter or the hunter, it could only be the scout cavalry of the Han army !Last night, these scout cavalry didn't dare to act rashly after suffering a loss, but now, they finally couldn't hold back anymore.

In an instant, the iron tire bow had come to Gao Chu's hand, and the two spiked arrows had been clasped between the bronze fingertips.

At the same time, dozens of nearby Nufeng longbowmen had also heard the sound, and they unloaded their longbows one after another, and took out feather arrows from their quiver to buckle on the string. Further away, hundreds of longbowmen The archers came out of the shadows in the woods one after another, and each of them had already unloaded the longbows from their shoulders.

Soon, the sound of dead branches snapping became more and more frequent.

Faintly, you can also hear the rustling of horseshoes stepping on the fallen leaves.

A faint murderous intent had already appeared from the corner of Gao Chu's mouth. The next moment, Gao Chu stood up silently. At the same time, his hands suddenly exerted strength. As the shade fell, the arrow clusters of the two spiked heavy arrows immediately reflected a palpitating cold flame.

Ahead, a bush suddenly swayed slightly, and then two scouts from the Han army separated from the bush and appeared in Gao Chu's field of vision. The two spiked heavy arrows on the ground roared out immediately, and about 20 steps away, the two scouts of the Han army screamed and fell off their horses.

These two screams seemed to sound the horn of Nufeng Battalion's attack. The next moment, Nufeng's longbowmen drew their bows and released their arrows. Hundreds of spike arrows drew icy tracks in the forest. They fired continuously and densely towards the thick bushes in front of them, and the next moment, there were continuous screams and neighing of horses.

Immediately, a distraught voice sounded: "There is an ambush, damn it, retreat!"

Soon, behind the dense bushes, there was the sound of horses neighing, and the sound of horseshoes. The ambushed cavalry quickly turned around and fled out of the woods in a hurry.

Gao Chu smiled slightly, put away the iron tire bow and walked behind the big tree.

Behind the big tree was a horse tethered impressively, Gao Chu got on the horse and led it forward with an iron tire bow, and said loudly: "Go!"

The next moment, hundreds of Nufeng longbowmen also got on their horses one after another, and followed Gao Chu and swarmed forward into the deep forest.

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In the evening, the main force of the Chu army successfully entered a small fishing village on the west bank of the river.

Since the area between the east bank of the Huan River and the west bank of the river is densely forested and sparsely populated, the beacon fires that had been chasing the Chu army like maggots a few days ago finally disappeared. Without the guidance of the beacon fires, It will not be so easy for the Han army to bite the Chu army's tail, so the Chu army's march today seems to be quite easy.

The fishermen in the small fishing village have already run away, and now, the reputation of the "Han Army" in Zhaodi is already extremely bad.

Qin Yu and more than a hundred female soldiers have entered the fishing village and are busy cooking water and cooking, but the [-] troops can only camp on the river beach. It's late May, and the weather has already turned warm. No matter how hard the conditions are, it will never be more bitter than a few months in the Dabie Mountains.

Of course, vigilance is necessary, and the remaining forty scouts have all been sent out.

After setting up the army, Xiang Zhuang called Huan Chu and Ji Bu to the front, and said: "You two, lead your own troops, go east and west to collect nearby fishing boats, the more the better!"

"Promise!" Huan Chu and Ji Bu agreed with a bang, and immediately mobilized their troops to collect fishing boats.

There was nothing to say all night, and when the next day was about to dawn, Gaochu's Nufeng camp had horses to travel, and finally caught up. When the sky was bright, Huan Chu and Ji Bu, who had been sent to collect fishing boats, also returned. The soldiers looted dozens of fishing villages and towns within a radius of a hundred miles, and seized more than 300 large and small ships.

Going up to Xiang Zhuang, Huan Chu bowed his hands and said, "General, it's a good luck not to disgrace your life!"

Looking at more than 300 large and small fishing boats lined up on the river beach, Xiang Zhuang nodded and said: "Although it is still a little less, it is almost enough."

Huan Chu said again: "General, why do we need ships?"

"Of course it's for crossing the river." Xiang Zhuang said, "Let's go back to Qi."

"Ah?!" Huan Chu, Ji Bu, and Yu Ziqi's expressions suddenly changed.

Back to the ground again?Doesn't that have to face Han Xin's army of more than 30?Han Xinbing is unparalleled, and if he is entangled by the Qi army, it will not be a joke.

Xiang Zhuang didn't say much, but turned around and told Gongsun Sui: "Blow the trumpet, the whole army is assembled and ready to cross the river."

"The general has an order. The whole army is assembled and ready to cross the river!" Gongsun Sui gave the order, and the horns sounded continuously on the river beach.

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In the dense forest, tens of thousands of Han troops are searching forward tremblingly.

In the evening of the day before yesterday, the two armies of Zhou Bo and Mei Yan had already crossed the Huan River from Jipu, preparing to pursue the Chu army, but soon, news came from the front that the cavalry sent by Mei Yan was ambushed by the Chu army in the dense forest, causing casualties. After halfway through, he no longer dared to enter the forest to search, and immediately lost the whereabouts of the Chu army.

Until now, the Han army has not found any trace of the Chu army.

However, the four elite troops of Wang Su, Fu Kuan, Li Shang, and Xiahou Ying have already circumvented the upstream and downstream of Huan River, and are preparing to pinch the Chu army from east and west, because the distance between Huan River and the river is about a hundred miles wide. , In the forest area about five hundred miles long, unless the Chu army crossed the river and entered Qidi again, they would definitely be caught in the trap of the six-way Han army.

As for the land of Qi, Zhou Bo and Mei Yan were not worried. King Qi's 30 troops had already opened their pockets and waited for a long time!

It was almost noon, but no trace of the Chu army was found in the forest. Zhou Bo and Mei Yan had to order the army to rest and prepare to eat. , Last night, the Chu army sent troops to ransack several fishing villages hundreds of miles ahead, and took away dozens of fishing boats.

"The Chu army took the fishing boat?" Mei Yan frowned and asked Zhou Bo, "What does General Zhou think?"

"Of course the Chu army snatched the fishing boat not for fishing, but probably for crossing the river." Zhou Bo pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Could it be that the Chu army really intends to flee into Qi?"

"Hmph, let's save our worries." Mei Yan sneered, "The 50 troops of King Han, King Qi, and King Liang have already laid down their pockets on the east bank of the river, waiting for the Chu army to sneak in." Zhang Liang's Four Straights, Six Oddities, and Ten-sided Nets are weak in Zhao, but strong in Qi. When the Chu army enters Qi, they are really doomed.

"This is a bit weird, I still have to go and see." Zhou Bo still didn't believe it.

"Alright." Mei Yan also felt that what Zhou Bo said was reasonable, and said immediately, "Then go and have a look."

At that moment Zhou Bo and Mei Yan didn't care about rest and eating, they got on their horses and mobilized five thousand elite soldiers and went straight to the looted small fishing villages on the west bank of the river.

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On the west bank of the river, more than 150 large and small boats are mooring quietly on the river beach.

The river near here is extremely wide, and the narrowest point is more than [-] li. It took four thousand Chu troops and nearly a thousand horses to cross most of them after a long time. When it was the last wave, Xiang Zhuang ordered Half of the boats crossed the river first, and the remaining half stayed on the river beach to meet the Nufeng Battalion that had been sent out to guard.

Nufeng camp has not returned for a long time, but Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao seem very leisurely.

Wu She, however, was already in a hurry, and while pacing back and forth anxiously, he complained: "This senior, I usually do things very quickly, why are you so procrastinated today? It's been more than half an hour, and the Nufeng camp has been busy again. Riding a horse, even if it is more than 100 miles away, it should be back, why haven't we arrived yet?"

"Sir, don't worry." Xiang Zhuang shook his head and said, "I was the one who prevented Nu Fengying from coming back."

"Ah?" Wu She was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked in confusion, "General, why is this?"

Xiang Zhuang smiled lightly, and said lightly: "Because the person who saw us off hasn't arrived yet, so let's leave in no hurry."

"This..." Wu She couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Xiangzhuang's gourd, and when he was about to persuade a few more words, there was a chaotic sound of horseshoes on the distant river beach. When he looked back anxiously, he saw more than a hundred people. The "Han Riders" had already galloped along the river beach from the west like wind and clouds. Wasn't the first rider just Nu Feng Xiaowei Gao Chu?

Wei Liao stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "General, the person who saw us off has arrived."

In less than a moment, more than a hundred riders from the Nufeng Battalion had rushed to the river beach, and immediately began boarding the boat in a panic.

In the effort of a bag of cigarettes, Xiang Zhuang, Wei Liao, Wu She, Xiandengying, Nufengying and other Chu soldiers who crossed the river for the last time had already sailed into the depths of the river slowly with the sound of oars. When it was more than a stone's throw away from the west bank of the river, there was another tidal sound of horseshoes on the west river beach, and hundreds of "Han cavalry" had emerged from the river beach.

In the first place were two large flags fluttering in the wind, with the words "Zhou" and "Mei" embroidered on them.

Xiang Zhuang immediately raised his arms and shouted: "You guys who went to the camp first, those who are in the Nufeng camp, shout with me... General Zhou Bo and Mei Yan, please stay and send them away without trouble."

"General Zhou Bo and Mei Yan, please stay and send them away without trouble!"

"General Zhou Bo and Mei Yan, please stay and send them away without trouble!"

"General Zhou Bo and Mei Yan, please stay and send them away without trouble!"

More than 500 soldiers from the first boarding camp and the Nufeng camp immediately shouted, and the huge sound waves suddenly rose to the sky, and could be clearly heard for more than ten miles on both sides of the river.

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