Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 299 Late Snow
The Han army camp built on the back of Guangwu Mountain can only be outside the west camp gate for the enemy to deploy troops. In order to protect the camp, the Han army soldiers dug four deep and wide camp trenches outside the camp, and built a Three repelling horse antlers and a wall of sheep and horses were built, but these outer fortifications are now dilapidated and can no longer provide a buffer for the walls of the Han army camp.

Most of the four ditches have been filled up. Apart from firewood bundles of earth and rocks, there are countless corpses of soldiers and ordinary people used to fill the ditches. Xiang Yu, who likes to kill innocent people at every turn, learned from one of his vicious cousins ​​this time. On the one hand, with bloody knives and guns, all the people in Sanchuan who could be caught were forced to carry bundles of earth, rocks and firewood to open the way for the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army. Soldiers and soldiers used local materials and threw the corpses of civilians and companions into trenches to pave the road. Countless poor civilians who were still dying screamed and struggled in the deep trenches. The scene was horrible.

The sharp antlers and the horses were almost completely burned. On many blackened wooden stakes, there were also corpses that were also blackened and smelly. On the other hand, there are countless corpses of soldiers from both sides in the war, as well as countless damaged flying ladders, broken feather arrows, mutilated weapons and flags, and many places are billowing black smoke.

The attack of the Western Chu army still did not stop. The war drum had just sounded again, and thousands of Henan soldiers with blood and mud on their bodies charged again with flying ladders. The arrows on the wall of the Han army camp were like rain, but But there is no way to stop the Henan soldiers from charging, because behind the Henan soldiers is a team of Western Chu army supervisors carrying axes. No matter who it is, as long as they take a step back, the supervisors will not hesitate. They cut off their heads, and many axes were already stained with blood, and the blades were curled and cut out.

The Western Chu army is not an army that can only fight with cannon fodder. The Henan army has just rushed to the vicinity of the Han army camp wall, restraining the Han army soldiers on the barracks wall, so that they have no time to draw their bows and arrows. The warriors of the Chu army had already charged forward, carrying weapons such as flying ladders and crashing cars, and launched an attack on the Han army camp again. The attacking queue was as turbulent as sea waves.

Numerous feathered arrows rose from behind the wall of the Han army camp. Under the command of the watchman on the wall, they adjusted their shooting heights, covering the heads of the soldiers of the Western Chu army as accurately as possible. Many soldiers of the Western Chu army screamed in pain. Even fell to the ground directly, but the soldiers of the Western Chu Army did not dare to take a half step back, because the supervisory team behind them not only killed the Henan soldiers who retreated before the battle, but also mercilessly killed the Western Chu Army who retreated and fled for their lives. Soldiers.

If it weren't for the serious lack of strong long shields of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army, there was no way to build temporary fortifications near the camp wall to cover their companions and shoot arrows to contain the defenders on the wall. Perhaps the Guangwu Camp of the Han Army had been destroyed during the last fierce battle. It was broken by the enemy, but even so, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army continued to rush up to the towering and solid camp wall, which was far less than the city wall, and fought with the soldiers of the Han Army who were defending against the wall.

At any time, soldiers from the offensive and defensive sides could be seen rolling down the camp wall. Needless to say, the soldiers of the Han army who rolled outside the wall would be smashed into pieces by the red-eyed Western Chu army and Henan army soldiers, and fell to the Western Chu army inside the wall. The same is true for the soldiers of the Han army or the Henan army. In a short while, they will be cut to pieces by the Han army reserve team behind the camp wall, without any exception on both sides.But at this time, no one paid attention to these things. Both sides in the war were red-eyed, and they were fighting for the space on the top of the wall almost inch by inch, and the blood was flowing.

Lu Xi, the famous strong general of the Western Chu Army who had followed Xiang Yu to defeat the Qin Army in Julu, was killed first, and then Wu Xing, an old man who had served under Xiang Kang's command, was also beaten by a Han soldier wearing a Western Chu army uniform. Ge pecked his head and increased the number of killed generals of the Western Chu Army by 11 people.Five thousand generals of the Han army have already died on the battlefield. Uncle Zhou's favorite general Li Bi was injured for the second time, and his left hand was almost cut off by a halberd.

After being wounded again, Li Bi categorically rejected the kind persuasion of his subordinates to take down the camp wall for treatment, and held a machete made of steel like a mad tiger on the camp wall, chopping down three or four pioneer warriors of the Western Chu Army one after another. However, the fierce offensive of the Western Chu Army was still unacceptable, and Xiang Yu also decisively increased his troops to the front line again, swearing with red eyes that he would not break the Han army camp this time, and would never withdraw his troops.

With the follow-up troops of the Western Chu Army entering the battlefield, the concentration of soldiers on both sides on the front line has also reached a terrifying level. The disadvantage is that the top of the wall is narrow, and it is difficult for the reinforcements of the Han army to immediately replace the exhausted front line army after a long battle. The defense line of the camp wall of the army also began to show signs of shaking. At least three or four hundred warriors of the Western Chu Army had rushed to the top of the wall.

At a critical moment, the right door of the West Camp of the Han Army suddenly opened, and five hundred warriors of the Han Army wearing bronze armor rushed out of the camp roaring, attacking the flanks of the Western Chu Army to share the pressure on the frontal battlefield. He rushed to the vicinity of the Han army's camp and besieged the dead soldiers of the Han army who came out of the camp, hacking and hacking, and the offensive was extremely fierce.

In the end, relying on the bloody battle of the dead soldiers who went out of the camp, the generals and soldiers of the Han army finally managed to stabilize the line of defense, and seized the opportunity to rotate into a new force to continue to hold on. All of them were killed, and none survived.Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu was also extremely proud, and sneered and scolded: "Uncle Zhou, let's see what tricks you can do!"

Uncle Zhou really couldn't play new tricks. Of the [-] troops left by Xiang Kang, he arranged for [-] to be stationed in Xingyang City, [-] to guard Aocang, and of the remaining [-] troops, Another four thousand were stationed in the newly built Guangwu Mountain City (now Hanwang City). Some of the troops were already at an absolute disadvantage, and their individual combat effectiveness also caught up with the carefully selected elite Western Chu Army. It is too huge, even if Uncle Zhou has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, he will not be able to play any new tricks.

General Chong Da of the Han Army who led the army stationed in Guangwu City sent someone to contact Uncle Zhou for the third time, asking Uncle Zhou to allow him to lead the army out of the city to reinforce the defenders of the Han Army camp, but Uncle Zhou flatly refused without hesitation. Tell the messenger sent by Chongda that if there is no order of his own, even if Chongda sends a soldier out of the city to join the battle without authorization, he will be killed without mercy!Then Uncle Zhou shouted to Li Bi who had just withdrawn from the front line: "Li Bi, you and the envoy of Chongda enter the city, and your army is temporarily handed over to your deputy!"

"No!" Li Bi resolutely refused, clutching his bleeding left hand, and said with red eyes, "General, even if you kill me, I will not hide in the city. If I die, I will die with you!"

"Zhuzi!" Uncle Zhou scolded angrily, but he waved away the envoy of Chongda, and shouted at Li Bi: "If you want to die, I will fulfill you, but first wrap up your wound!"

Li Bi agreed, and then asked the military doctor to take the time to bandage his wound. Uncle Zhou looked at the sky again and said to himself: "It depends on whether we can last until it is completely dark. As long as we can last until then, we There is still hope."

"General Zhou, don't blame the last general for his unlucky words." Li Bi hurriedly said, "The bandit army is attacking so violently, they will definitely attack overnight. Even if we persist until dark, the bandit army may not retreat."

"Of course I know that."

Uncle Zhou's face was gloomy, and he didn't explain to Li Bi why he hoped to last until dark. He just ordered a reserve team to dispatch immediately, poured oil on all the military tents in the camp, piled up grass bundles and prepared to burn them, and then He called the remaining several thousand generals to the front, showed a lottery tube, shook it, and said in a hoarse voice: "There are three red lottery inside, whoever gets the red lottery will be in charge of leading the army at night. In the future, you should have I promise to deliver the rewards to your family members."

Including the several thousand generals who had just been promoted by the fire line, they all stepped forward silently and took out a bamboo stick. The three thousand generals who were in charge of leading the army behind the palace were also quickly selected. Uncle Zhou told them Saluted solemnly as a token of gratitude, and then ordered: "After the sky is completely dark, use the general attack drum as a signal, and you will lead your troops out of the camp at the same time, launch a counter-charge against the enemy's position, and cover the rest of our main force to retreat to Aocang."

No one asked Uncle Zhou why he retreated to Aocang, because all the generals of the Han army present knew that although the newly built Guangwu Mountain City was strong, the space in the city was too small to accommodate the four thousand troops of Chongda. At the limit, let alone allowing the Han soldiers outside the city to return to the city to garrison, only the Aocang Cangchang, surrounded by mountains and ridges on three sides, has space for the Han soldiers to garrison.

"General Zhou..."

Only Li Bi hesitated to speak, but closed his mouth when he reached the point of his mouth. Uncle Zhou saw what he was thinking, and said, "Do you want to ask, three days ago, before the Western Chu bandit army launched an attack, Why didn't I transfer the army to Aocang early?"

Li Bi nodded quickly, and Uncle Zhou said: "It doesn't matter if I tell you. Although Ao Cang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the front line is too long and it is too difficult to defend. As long as the enemy breaks through our mountain ridge position, we are safe in the warehouse. Defending is like fish on an anvil. If we stick to the Guangwu camp, although we will definitely lose, at least we can win a certain amount of time, and we can also consume a lot of the enemy's strength, and then transfer to Aocang to continue to hold on. Gain more time and consume more power of the enemy by relying on the defensive battle, so that when the king brings our main force back to the division to save Sanchuan, it will be much easier."

Li Bixing nodded, and a thousand-man general who had drawn a red lottery reminded: "General, the bandit army will definitely prevent us from abandoning the camp and retreating to Aocang. You have to be careful."

"Of course I know this, and I will try my best to solve this problem." Uncle Zhou sighed and said, "It's a pity that Li Zuoche's old fox is by Xiang Yu's side. I really don't have any confidence in whether I can fool him. .”

After all, Uncle Zhou tried his best to quickly arrange the retreat plan of abandoning the camp that he had planned before, and then he had no choice but to silently pray that his army would last until the sky was completely dark, and His own strategy can temporarily hide from Li Zuoche.

Relying on the bloody fighting of the soldiers of the Han army, the Guangwu camp of the Han army barely lasted until night. The result was just as Li Bi worried. Numerous torches were placed in the posture of continuing to attack at night.The Han army also made adjustments. First, Uncle Zhou's flag suddenly disappeared from the camp, and then soon appeared on the top of Guangwu Mountain City, announcing that Uncle Zhou had transferred his headquarters into Guangwu City.

Seeing this scene, the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army were of course full of cheers. They all knew that this was a signal that the Han Army was about to collapse. Singing the famous song of Qin...

"Would you say no clothes? In the same robe as your son. Wang Yuxing master, repair my spear, and share the same hatred with your son! Do you say no clothes? I have the same lust as my son. Wang Yuxing master, repair my spear and halberd, and work together with my son! Said no clothes? I wear the same clothes as my son. Wang Yuxing master, repair my armor, and walk with my son!"

Fighting the Qin army for many years, Xiang Yu, Sima Ang and others are of course very familiar with this military song. Combined with the situation that Uncle Zhou has withdrawn to Guangwu City, and seeing the continuous fire in the Han army camp, Xiang Yu and Sima Ang immediately blurted out: "The bandit army is ready to fight to the death!"

"It's not preparing for a deadly battle, it's preparing for a breakout and transfer!" Li Zuoche also saw through Uncle Zhou's plan at a glance, and immediately said: "King of Western Chu, the death battle of the bandit army is fake, and the breakout transfer is real. Higher-level guarantee, Zhou Shupifu is still outside the city, and he wants to take his remnant army to the north to break through and transfer to Aocang to lure us to continue to attack the fortifications! Please send an army immediately, go north first to intercept, and don't give the thief army An opportunity to break through and transfer to Aocang."

Although he was skeptical about Li Zuoche's analysis, but with a large reserve force in his hand, Xiang Yu did not hesitate to send out an army to go north first, and intercepted on the road from Guangwu Camp of the Han Army to Aocang.Seeing the transfer of the Chu army, Uncle Zhou also sighed helplessly, and murmured, "As expected of Li Zuoche, he really saw through my real plan at a glance."

Sighs are sighs, the matter has come to this point, Uncle Zhou has no choice but to ride on the horse, raise the spear, hold the spear and bow to the sky three times, prayed a few words silently, and then shouted: " Drum! Break out! Transfer to Ao Cang!"

Hundreds of cowhide drums sounded at the same time, and the four gates of the previously closed Guangwu camp of the Han army opened to the sound of the war drums. The three thousand soldiers of the Han army who had drawn the red lottery will lead their troops out of the west camp first and head westward. The Chu army and the Henan army launched a suicide charge, and the Western Chu army and the Henan army immediately urged the troops to fight.Then, before the Han army's rear army could fight the enemy, Uncle Zhou, under the banner of Li Bi, led the Han army soldiers to abandon the camp and move to the north of Aocang to break through the encirclement.

There is no way to describe the tragedy of the scene. The three Han armies who initiated the suicide charge were less than a thousand-strong team. As soon as they took over the battle, they were immediately surrounded by the large number of Western Chu Army and Henan Army soldiers. Killing fiercely and mercilessly, not taking any prisoners, the soldiers of the Han army who were surrounded had no way to go to the sky and nowhere to go to the ground. When dying, also pull an enemy back.However, the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army is too strong. Without the geographical advantage, usually three or four or more generals of the Han Army can fight off an elite soldier of the Western Chu Army, and they are quickly defeated by the soldiers of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army. The corpses were scattered all over the field, and the blood flowed into puddles.

The situation on Uncle Zhou's side was not as good as there. He managed to rush out of the camp, and was immediately blocked by the Western Chu army and chased after him. When the cavalry deployed in advance by the Western Chu Army intercepted them, the barely condensed army was dispersed in a blink of an eye, and fell into the predicament of fighting hard on their own.

At this point in the matter, Uncle Zhou, who had put on ordinary soldier clothes ahead of time, was unable to use any strategy, so he could only wield his spear and fight the enemy desperately, charging towards Aocang with a roar, and soon His clothes were full of blood and wounded, but no matter how Uncle Zhou and his personal troops fought, the Western Chu cavalry in front of him seemed to be endless, and they kept appearing in front of him.

"Brother Zhou, hurry up!"

Li Bi suddenly led a team of Han cavalry to charge nearby, desperately fighting the enemies around Uncle Zhou, roaring and urging Uncle Zhou to leave quickly, Uncle Zhou also knew that love would be a good intention, so he gritted his teeth and charged with his horse. Under the cover of the enemy, he rushed out of the siege of the Western Chu cavalry, and fled towards Aocang with tears in his eyes.However, Li Bi, a young general of the Han army who refused to take off his armor and cloak, was surrounded by cavalry from Western Chu, and never had any chance to break through.

"Xichu thief, die! Die!"

Shouting, Li Bi waved the spear in his hand like a whirlwind, and knocked off the Western Chu cavalry one after another. After dozens of wounds, he still refused to give up. The Han cavalry around him also fought less and less. He was the only one left surrounded by the Western Chu cavalry regiment. Li Bi, who had already made up his mind to die, had no fear, and still roared and thrust out with a spear, piercing the chest of a Western Chu cavalry. However, at this moment, A spear handle suddenly swung out and hit him heavily on the head. Li Bi's eyes went dark, and he couldn't hold on any longer, and immediately fell off his horse...

When Li Bi woke up, he found that he had been carried in front of a large number of civil and military personnel from the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army. A silver-armored general without a right eye was still looking at him with a sneer, and said, "Zhuzi, you alone killed him." I have a dozen elite cavalry?"

"Xiang Yu." Li Bi recognized Xiang Yu's identity in a weak voice, and asked hoarsely, "Where is General Zhou? Has he arrived in Aocang?"

"What do you think?" Xiang Yu said with a sneer: "Almost all the bandit troops you left the camp were wiped out by the king's army. If Zhou Shupifu is so lucky, he can still escape to Ao Cang and continue to serve as a military commander. Turtle?"

"Heaven has eyes." Li Bi smiled confidently and said with difficulty: "I believe that General Zhou will be able to reach Aocang, definitely."

It was also a coincidence that at this time, a cavalryman from Western Chu rushed forward and clasped his fists on the horse and said: "Report to Your Majesty, Uncle Zhou's flag has appeared on the city of Aocangcang!"

"what?!"

Xiang Yu yelled in disbelief, but Li Bi burst into laughter as if he had been injected with a booster, "I just said, the sky has eyes, the sky has eyes, and our General Zhou has indeed retreated to Aocang." !"

Responding to Li Bi, it was Xiang Yu who kicked him up with his own hands, punched him hard on the cheek, knocked out half of his teeth, and roared with red eyes, "Zhuzi, laugh again if you have the guts!" One sound!"

Li Bi didn't smile, it wasn't that Li Bi didn't have the guts, it was that Li Bi suddenly saw a strange thing, and raised his hand with difficulty, spread his five fingers, and caught a white thing falling from the sky. melt into water.When the faces of the Western Chu Army and Henan Army Wenwu were together, Li Bi laughed wildly again, "It's snowing! It's snowing! Xiang Yu, it's snowing! What do you do this time? I see it." What do you do? Hahahahahaha!"

With a bang, Xiang Yu's fist directly smashed Li Bi's bridge of nose, and with another punch, Xiang Yu knocked out one of Li Bi's eyeballs. With the third punch, Xiang Yu knocked off Li Bi's remaining teeth and the upper lip of his chin, making Li Bi The mouth kept spurting blood.But no matter how Xiang Yu beat him, even smashed Li Bi's skull, he still couldn't stop the happy laughter from Li Bi's throat, let alone stop the auspicious snow from the sky...

At the same time, on the city of Aocangcang, Uncle Zhou also knelt down on the ground with a plop, shouted at Ruixue falling from the sky, and roared with tears in his eyes, "It's snowing! It's snowing! It's finally snowing! But the old man God, why didn't you snow one day earlier? Why didn't it snow one day earlier? Otherwise, why would our loss be so great? How could it be so miserable?!"

That night, the Han army camp was broken, and only more than 1000 of the more than [-] defenders escaped to Aocang by chance. The rest were almost killed. The star, the young general Li Bi, was beaten to death by Xiang Yu himself after being captured.

On the same night, snow fell across the Central Plains, and the temperature dropped sharply again. The soldiers of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army who had no military tents to keep out the cold also fell into the dilemma of having to fight with the soldiers of the Han Army and the severe ice and snow at the same time.

(End of this chapter)