Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 93
In the second half of the night, the water surface of the river (Yellow River) was calm.

Amidst the sound of "wow", "wow" and "wow", more than 150 large and small ships are slowly heading towards the north bank. On the first large ship, Xiang Zhuang stands standing with a sword in his hand, and behind him stand Wei Liao, Wu She and Huan Generals of Chu.

Only two days after crossing the river for the second time, the Chu army was about to cross the river for the third time.

Although this is not as good as the great man's Sidu Chishui, it is not too bad.

General Huan Chu was so confused by the two-day back and forth, he immediately asked: "General, the last general is really confused, we crossed the river with great difficulty two days ago, why do we have to do it again today?" Crossing the river back to Zhao? If I knew this, wouldn’t it be better to just hide in the old forest in the west of Hexi? It can save more than 300 miles.”

Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao looked at each other and smiled, but ignored Huan Chu, it was useless to talk to this reckless man.

But Wu She explained patiently: "General Huan Chu, if our army didn't run back and forth like this, how could we transfer the Han troops from Zhaodi to the east bank of the river?"

"Is this useful for birds?" Huan Chu was not so polite to Wu She, and immediately retorted in a low voice, "The Han army was transferred to the east bank of the river today, and if they can't find us tomorrow, won't they chase after the west bank again? Come? When the time comes, don't we have to be chased here and there like rabbits?"

Wu She was furious all of a sudden, thinking that there was nothing he could do with Huan Chu, a reckless man.

"Huan Chu, don't be rude to Mr. Wu She." Xiang Zhuang scolded Huan Chu, and then said to Wu She, "Sir, now you should know why you had to wait until Zhou Bo and Mei Yan arrived before crossing the river. ?”

Wu She nodded, and sighed in admiration: "The general is far-sighted, and I bow to you."

Huan Chu scratched his head, and couldn't help but asked Wu She: "Mr. Wu, why did you have to wait until Zhou Bo and Mei Yan arrived that day before crossing the river?"

Wu She said: "Because we didn't cross the river until Zhou Bo and Mei Yan arrived, so they could see that we only had a hundred boats to cross the river. After more than a hundred ships on the periphery, they will not continue to search deep in the forest, so that the ships hidden in the deep forest will be kept."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Huan Chu acted like he had suddenly realized, but in fact he didn't understand anything at all.

Captain Nufeng Gao Chu said, "Sir, the general must wait until Zhou Bo and Mei Yan arrive before crossing the river. His intention should be more than that, right?"

"Of course." Wu She nodded happily, "What you just said is just one, and there is another."

Having said this, Wu She deliberately paused, and waited until the eyes of the generals Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Xiao Kai, and Jing Qian all focused on his face, and then said: "The second intention of the general's move is to Yes, even if the Han army finds out that General Ziqi's troops are not the main force of our army, they will never think that we have already entered Zhaodi again!"

Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao looked at each other again and smiled, Wu She's words hit the point.

Because, after the Han army crossed the river to the east, they had burned all the boats, including those collected by the Han army themselves, and those hidden by the Chu army on the outer edge of the forest. A total of more than 1000 fishing boats, large and small, had all been burned. On both sides of the river, within hundreds of miles upstream and downstream, there are probably only a handful of ferries that can be found.

The Han army's move was obviously to prevent the Chu army from rushing into Zhao's land again!
Therefore, even if Yu Ziqi's five hundred suspects were spotted by the Han army, no one would have guessed that the Chu army actually crossed the river for the third time and entered Zhao's territory for the second time!Neither can Zhang Liang. Although Zhang Liang is very wise and close to a monster, his vision and insight must be based on information and facts after all.

At that time, most of the Han and Qi armies would be looking for the Chu army in the ravines and deep mountains and old forests in Xuejun, Dongjun, and Jishui counties, and the Chu army had already raided Huguan and attacked Guanzhong. !
Of course, this is not Xiang Zhuang's credit, the plan to escape the golden cicada was contributed by Wei Liao.

This time crossing the river to the west, the Chu army no longer has to worry about the Han army's chasing and intercepting, but the beacon towers all over Zhao are still a huge trouble. From Jipu to Ye County and then to Huguan, they must pass through the hinterland of Zhao. It is absolutely impossible to drive there in an organized way, and the only way is probably to pretend to be a hungry person.

Speaking of which, there are quite a few hungry people fleeing from Wei to Zhao.

More than 4000 Chu troops gathered together to pretend to be hungry people is too exaggerated, and it is not so conspicuous to divide them into more than a dozen groups.

Of course, in order to look more like hungry people, it is necessary to collect some old, young, women and children before entering Zhao's land.

As for the remaining more than 300 good Bei Mink horses and more than 400 mules and horses carrying military rations, they can also be bought by Hu Shangqi to pass through Zhao land in a grand manner. At worst, Zhao Jun intercepted some of the horses on the way. As long as most of the horses can pass through Zhao, Xiang Zhuang doesn't care about this small loss.

If this still doesn't work, then there is no other way but to force the army to attack Huguan!
It's just that in this way, the Huguan defenders will definitely know the news, and it is absolutely impossible to sneak attack.

Fortunately, Zhou Bo, Mei Yan and other Han troops who were chasing and suppressing the Chu army in Zhaodi have now been transferred to the east bank of the river by the Chu army. Liu Bang wants to send a large army into Zhaodi to intercept the Chu army. It is absolutely too late, because the ferry boat has almost been burned out, and it will take at least ten days and a half months to build a pontoon bridge!
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Pang Yu's face was dark, and he was carrying a stone weighing at least five hundred catties (Han Jin) to the tower.

More than half a month ago, Xingyang was captured by the coalition forces of Lu Ze and Peng Yue. Chen Xi's general Man Qiuchen was killed in battle, and Jin Bo, an old family member of the Great Wei Dynasty, also died in the rebellion. Pang Yu and Jin Xiang led more than 200 remnants to fight After breaking through the siege, about ten days ago, Pang Yu accidentally intercepted and killed a Han army flying cavalry. Knowing that Xiangzhuang was in Zhaodi, he and Jin Xiang took the remnants of their troops north to cross the river to join him.

Unexpectedly, when Pang Yu and Jin Xiang rushed to Anyang County with more than 200 remnants pretending to be hungry people, the Chu army had already crossed the river again and returned to Qidi. Xiangzhuang, but at this moment, Pang Yu, Jin Xiang and more than 200 remnants were surrounded by Zhao Jun.

At first, Pang Yu was a little flustered, thinking that Zhao Jun had seen through their identities, but soon he found that Zhao Jun hadn't found anything, because more than 5000 hungry people were arrested at the same time as them, and the hungry people were arrested. It was divided into several groups, one group was sent to the city to carry the rocks, another group was sent to dig trenches, and the other group was sent to quarry stones.

Because of his grown stature and strong strength, Pang Yu was responsible for carrying the boulders to the top of the city.

Up to now, Pang Yu has served five days of hard labor, and moved at least 200 catties of boulders to the top of the city. Even Pang Yu is strong, and he can't bear it. The remnant soldiers launched a surprise attack at night, and then incited the hungry people to take advantage of the situation to revolt, and it is still very possible to capture Anyang County.

But there is no rush, and I have to talk to Jin Xiang first.

Although Jin Xiang was only a child under the age of 16, most of the 200 remnant soldiers were members of the Jin clan. Without Jin Xiang's nod of approval, it would be impossible for Pang Yu to mobilize the [-] remnant soldiers.

Pang Yu was thinking about what to say to persuade the little boy Jin Xiang at night, but he slipped and fell on the horse path.

The boulder weighing more than 500 kilograms that was originally carried on Pang Yu's shoulders fell to the ground immediately, and then rolled down along the sloping horse path. An old man happened to be walking up with a basket of gravel on his back. Just as he was about to be crushed by a huge boulder, a big hand like a cattail leaf fan suddenly protruded out, holding down the tumbling boulder at once.

When Pang Yu looked again, he found that the man who saved the old man's life was also a tall and strong man.

The sturdy man was more than eight feet tall, and he was also very strong. He suddenly had a large stone weighing four to five hundred catties on his back.

Pang Yu was looking at it when he was suddenly hit with a leather whip on his back.

Immediately, a broken gong-like curse sounded from behind: "Don't be lazy, hurry up and work!"

Pang Yu almost exploded on the spot, and it took a lot of effort to finally restrain the burning anger, then snatched off the horse path and carried the boulder up again, while lowering his voice and said to the strong man: "Thank you, brother." I don't know Is it an illusion, Pang Yu always feels that this strong man is not like an ordinary person.

"It's just a matter of raising your hands." The strong and strong man replied lightly, and walked away.

This strong man is indeed not an ordinary person, he is not someone else, he is Jing Qian, a mighty general of the Chu army!

Xiang Zhuang decided to pretend to be hungry people to pass the test, so he divided more than 4000 people into ten groups. horses", and the rest of the armies were divided into nine groups, with more than [-] people in each group, and Qiao Zhuang's hungry people went to assemble outside the Huguan Gorge.

The Chu army originally planned to kidnap the old and young, women and children, because they were all strong and strong men, and they did not look like hungry people.

In the end, there was no need at all, because there were too many hungry people on the way westward, and the Chu army casually took out some dry food, and tens of thousands of hungry people followed them, with more than 400 people on each road. When a man is surrounded by tens of thousands of hungry people, he will not be so conspicuous immediately, and almost no one will be suspicious.

Of course, weapons such as heavy armor, longbows, large shields, and javelins must never be carried.

In fact, in order to hide themselves as much as possible, each Chu army soldier only carried long swords and ring knives, and his armor and battle robes were replaced with ragged clothes. In the dense forest, Xiang Zhuang can be said to have put all his eggs in one basket. If he fails to attack Huguan this time, the consequences will be disastrous.

Jingqian led one of the Chu troops, more than 400 military soldiers, and more than 5000 old, young, women and children, all the way westward, and just arrived in Anyang County this morning. As a result, they met a group of Zhao troops outside the city, and arrested them without any explanation. They came to do hard labor, but more than 5000 women and children were placed in starvation camps outside the city. #################################################### ################PS: Thank you: Walking in a Lonely Rainy Night, ★Carefree and Romantic★, Pure Love Piglet, A Woman’s Husband, Love Without Limits, Story of the Starry Sky, Don’t Look at Fangyuan, Kendo The first ancestor, the crybaby Xiaozi, the evil maple leaf, the quiet gentleness, and other book friends for their generous rewards, thank you very much.

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