Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 301 Return of the main force
In the face of Xiang Yu's strong attack, even Liu Laosan plus Chen Ping and Zhang Liang couldn't defend Xingyang City in history. The soldiers of Western Chu finally entered the city of Xingyang, cut the bar and locked it, and opened the gate of Xingyang city.

As the Western Chu Army poured into Xingyang City like a tide, the nightmare also fell on the innocent people of Xingyang. They were all filled with soaring rage, and after entering Xingyang City, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army would of course kill any man they saw, and rob them whenever they saw a woman. No one who ran into them could escape the murderous hands.All of a sudden, the city of Xingyang was full of blood and blood, and there were screams of dying men and horrific women, interspersed with cries of old people and children.

He had already done his best, and after the city was broken, Luo Xian, the Xingyang guard of the Han army, had no choice but to rush out of the city with the remaining soldiers of the Han army, but Li Yao, the county magistrate of Xingyang who had surrendered to the Han army before, was at the end. Moment hardened himself, and led his whole family to burn himself to death in the county temple, unexpectedly fulfilling his promise to perish the city and everyone.However, Luo Xian and the others also failed to escape. They had just left the city from the west gate, and were immediately surrounded by the red-eyed soldiers of the Western Chu Army, and then all of them were cut to pieces.

The massacre was still going on, and the Western Chu soldiers, who had pent up their anger, blocked every exit from the city, beheaded all Xingyang men who could arrive early, regardless of age, and captured all the young women in the open space of the city. Concentrated, there are still many Western Chu soldiers who directly tore the clothes of the captured women in the streets and alleys, raped and humiliated them. For this reason, disputes and quarrels occurred from time to time.Xiang Yu didn't bother to care about his military discipline at all, he just asked the soldiers not to set fire to the house, and didn't ask anything else.

The Western Chu army's beastly behavior in the city continued until midnight, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army and Henan soldiers lined up outside the city were all looking forward to it, hoping that Xiang Yu would issue an order to enter the city earlier so that he could enter the city too. Go vent some robbery.But it is a pity that Xiang Yu is not good at other things, but he has never been ambiguous when it comes to fighting. He has always been calm and did not rush to order to enter the city. Luan stabbed Zijun from behind.

Facts have proved that Xiang Yu's vigilance is right. In the early morning, when the sky is about to dawn, when a normal person is the most sleepy after staying up all night and wants to rest the most, relying on the last cover of night, a Han army of about 600 people The cavalry suddenly rushed out from the darkness, wielding their sabers and rushed towards the Henan army lined up outside the city. They also used primitive grenades to clear the way, disrupting the Henan army's formation. With such a charge, it was natural that there was immediate chaos, and he was quickly chopped down by the cavalry of the Han army and fell to the ground, screaming and screaming.

Fortunately, Xiang Yu had been prepared for this, and just pouted at the battlefield. Xiang Guan, the former cavalry commander of the Young Marshal Army, immediately led [-] Western Chu cavalry to charge forward, and calmly killed the Han army, which was far outnumbered by his own army. The cavalry, but the cavalry of the Han army were very cunning. Before Xiang Guan's troops could get close, they turned their horses and retreated northward. tail.

Seeing this scene, Li Zuoche, who also hadn't slept all night, sneezed and reminded Xiang Yu: "My lord, the Han bandit cavalry will retreat as soon as they touch it. It seems that they are deliberately luring the enemy. Please be careful, your lord."

"You don't need to teach me, if this king can't even tell that the Han thieves are trying to lure the enemy, he won't have the face to call himself the overlord of Western Chu." Xiang Yu snorted coldly, then pouted at Feng Jie, the cavalry general of Western Chu, and ordered casually: " Take your troops to respond, if there is any unusual movement from the traitors, report to me immediately."

On Xiang Guan's side, after the Han army cavalry quickly withdrew from the battlefield, they fled directly to the northeast of Aocang. It took less than a quarter of their time to flee directly to the northwest of Aocang Mountain, which is far away from the Han army. The Aocang camp was not far away, Xiang Guan just ordered to give up the pursuit, never thought that the Han cavalry would turn their horses around again, and yelled at the Western Chu cavalry, Xiang Guan was furious, and immediately waved his troops to meet him, never thought that just and Han cavalry The army cavalry joined the formation, and there was a loud noise of killing in the darkness on both sides. Each Han army infantry rushed out. At the same time, the Han army cavalry was also surrounded by torches, and a Han army team also rushed out.

His subordinates are all cavalry, and the terrain is quite open. Of course, Xiang Guan is not very afraid of the ambush circle set up by the Han army with infantry. Surprised, he blurted out a call to Uncle Zhou—it turned out that it was Uncle Zhou who personally led the Aocang garrison of the Han army to attack, and came to ambush the Western Chu cavalry who were chasing them!
"Chance!"

These two words suddenly flashed in Xiang Guan's mind, and then Xiang Guan didn't think about it, and immediately led the Western Chu cavalry to turn around and leave, fighting and retreating to lure the Han infantry brigade away from the Aocang camp. Sure enough, he fell into the trick, shouting slogans of revenge and pursued him, and was lured ten miles away from the Aocang camp in a short time.

At this time, as Xiang Guan expected, Xiang Yu, who has never been ambiguous in battle, sent Feng Jie to lead [-] cavalry to meet him. advantage, detour from the flanks to cut off Uncle Zhou's return, and create a decisive battle opportunity for our own army.Feng Jie comprehended, and immediately acted according to the plan. Immediately, he led his cavalry in a detour, rushing to the back of the Han army to intercept.

At the critical moment, Uncle Zhou was also confused. It was only when Feng Jie had already intercepted him that Uncle Zhou wanted to turn around and attack Feng Jie's queue to protect the retreat route and prevent the Western Chu army from launching a decisive battle.And when things got to this point, how could Feng Jie be willing to miss the opportunity to make great achievements for Xiang Yu?Of course, he led his troops to form a formation in a hurry and tried their best to intercept the Han army. Xiang Guan also sent someone to report to Xiang Yu urgently, and at the same time led the army to charge at any cost, trying his best to share the pressure for Feng Jie.

When the news reached Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was of course so surprised that he couldn't believe his ears. After repeatedly confirming that Xiang Guan and Feng Jie had already entangled Zhou Shujun, Xiang Yu decisively ordered Sima Ang to immediately lead the Henan Army Brigade to go north for reinforcements. At the same time, he hastily recalled the army to gather in the city, intending to seize this opportunity to launch a decisive battle with Uncle Zhou, and wipe out the main force of Aocang of the Han army in the field, so as to relieve the pressure on the next fortified battle of the own army.

In a short while, apart from the [-] troops who cleaned the battlefield, the Western Chu cavalry who had entered the city to fight quickly withdrew from the city, and mounted their horses even more quickly to form an army. Xiang Yu roared excitedly, and immediately led the remaining ten thousand Western Chu cavalry to attack Go north and rush to the battlefield south of Aocang for reinforcements as quickly as possible.But what surprised Xiang Yu was that when he led his troops to the scene, nearly [-] Han infantry and cavalry who had left the camp to fight had already formed a fairly tight defensive circle, and the Western Chu cavalry and the Henan army were blocked. Wandering outside the formation, and being shot by the dense rain of arrows from the Han army, it was impossible to get close at all.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu, of course, went up to greet the Marquis Xiang Guan and asked, "What's the matter? Haven't you already entangled the Han bandit army? How can you give them the opportunity to form an formation and fight?"

"Brother, forgive me." Xiang Guan replied helplessly: "The Han bandits are too cunning. Seeing that the situation is not good, they suddenly threw a lot of thunder bombs that would make a loud noise. Our horses ran away in fright. They took the opportunity to form a circular formation."

"Fortunately, Xiao Wang's army arrived in time." Sima Ang, who was next to him, quickly took the credit and said, "Otherwise, the Han bandits would have taken the opportunity to slip away. Fortunately, Xiao Wang's army had already arrived nearby, so the Han bandits didn't dare to attack." If you risk your life and escape, you can only form an formation in a hurry.”

"Hurry up and form the formation?" Li Zuoche, who came with Xiang Yu, raised his eyebrows, glanced at the Han army's circular formation very strangely, and said, "Why are there so many long shields protecting the outer circle of the Han bandits? Does this look like a formation in a hurry?"

It was Li Zuoche's reminder that Xiang Yu vaguely realized that something was wrong-the infantry circle formed in a hurry, where did they suddenly get so many long shields to protect the periphery?This shows that the Han army has prepared well in advance, and has long been preparing to use the defensive circle to fight a decisive battle with the self-army in the wild?

It doesn't matter if you find something wrong, what Xiang Yu is most afraid of is the enemy fighting in the field, and immediately asked the generals around him: "Who dares to lead the army into the battle and open the way for our army to enter?"

Looking at the well-organized and long-shielded Han army circle formation, several Western Chu generals did not dare to say anything. It was only when Xiang Yu's face began to turn dark that Xiang Zhuang bravely came out and said, "The last general wishes Past."

"Be careful." Xiang Yu turned his anger into joy, and said: "Break through the circle of Han thieves, this time I will mark your first achievement!"

It is a pity that Xiang Zhuang's charge this time surprised Xiang Yu and others. Seeing the Western Chu cavalry rushing in groups, the well-prepared Han soldiers first shot directly with crossbows and then with bows and arrows. The Chu cavalry killed so many people on their backs, with many casualties, and when the Western Chu cavalry finally rushed to the vicinity, they suddenly threw primitive grenades to scare the horses. There was no way to pose a threat to the tight battle formation of the Han army. The soldiers of the Han army took the opportunity to shoot arrows continuously, abruptly repelling the charge of the Western Chu cavalry, and also injured Xiang Zhuang with arrows in the melee.

Seeing that Xiang Zhuang fled back wounded, Xiang Yu was furious and planned to lead the army to charge in person, but fortunately Li Zuoche and Xiang Zhuang stopped him firmly, saying: "My lord, the strange weapons of the bandit army have too much influence on our horses. , It is very difficult to succeed by charging with cavalry, not only is it very dangerous for you to charge in person, but if you miss, it will definitely have a huge impact on our morale, so we should find another way to break the formation."

He had already suffered a big loss in Aocang before, and he would revisit the old place. Of course, Xiang Yu didn't dare to take too much risk. After a little calculation, Xiang Yu still adopted Ding Gu's suggestion, and let Sima Ang lead the cannon fodder of the Henan Army to go At the same time, let Feng Jie lead the cavalry of the headquarters to attack the Aocang camp of the Han army, and put psychological pressure on the soldiers of the Han army by avoiding the real situation and attacking the weak - cut off your retreat, see what you do Back to camp?

Uncle Zhou also made some moves. He just saw the Western Chu army splitting up to attack the Aocang camp. Uncle Zhou immediately ordered someone to light the hay pile prepared in advance in the middle of the Han army circle, and released wolf smoke to signal, and then saw Zhou At the signal sent by Uncle Zhou, General Chong Da of the Han Army immediately led [-] troops out of Guangwu City and lined up to reinforce Uncle Zhou.

"Uncle Zhou, actually dare to fight to the death with this king?!"

Xiang Yu's voice was full of astonishment and surprise, and then Xiang Yu didn't think about it, and immediately waved Ding Gu to lead the army to attack, and took the initiative to meet Chong Da for a decisive battle.However, Li Zuoche's expression changed slightly, and he said to himself, "What's so crazy about Uncle Zhou? Although we fought fiercely late last night, and the soldiers didn't rest for almost a night, and their physical strength dropped drastically, he still doesn't have much chance of winning? Why risk a decisive battle?"

At this time, the serious decline in the physical strength of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army also began to appear. The Henan Army's cannon fodder that charged forward was not fast. Forced to shoot back.Seeing this, Xiang Yu was furious. In addition to ordering Sima Ang to urge the army to attack again, he also sent out a cavalry to attack the Han army's circular formation from the flank.

The situation on the other side is roughly the same. Just now seeing Ding Gu leading the Western Chu cavalry to attack, Chong Da also immediately made his army form the most powerful defensive circular formation, densely gathering the arrow rain and the Western Chu cavalry with infantry. The cavalry confronted, gritted their teeth and rode on foot, and faced the Western Chu cavalry head-on.

As a result, the fierce battle became fierce. On the left and right battlefields, the cavalry of the Western Chu came and went like the wind, and the infantry of the Henan Army fought head-on, fighting hard with the infantry of the Han Army who were fighting in formation. It was also shouting and killing, and the Western Chu cavalry who forcibly attacked the camp also fought fiercely with the Han infantry who stayed behind in the camp.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang was not in a hurry to invent Takahashi saddles and stirrups. Only then did the infantry of the Han army have the capital to face the cavalry of Western Chu head-on. , Repelled the charge of the Western Chu cavalry many times, and fought fiercely for nearly a morning without giving the Western Chu cavalry a chance to break through the self-army circle.Xiang Yu was naturally even more furious when he saw this, and he couldn't help but once again thought of leading the army to charge in person. However, when Xiang Yu was about to take action, Li Zuoche who was next to him suddenly grabbed him and said in a nervous voice: "Xi Chu Wang, don't be impulsive, the situation is not right, we may be tricked!"

"What trick have we fallen into again?" Xiang Yu subconsciously put on another word.

"Foreign ministers don't know yet, but the situation is too wrong." Li Zuoche quickly replied: "Yesterday, the day before yesterday, Chen Liu and Daliang's bandit army came here on their own initiative to die, and they gave us their heads for nothing. Today Zhou Shupifu suddenly launched a decisive battle, fighting a tough battle that he is not sure of winning, it is very likely that he has other intentions! So we had better not act impulsively, let alone rush to put all our troops on the battlefield, and leave a little spare power Take precautions!"

Li Zuoche's blocking saved Xiang Yu and countless Western Chu soldiers. When Xiang Yu was carefully calculating Li Zuoche's analysis, several Western Chu army scouts rushed from the southeast direction. Li Zuoche saw with sharp eyes, He hurriedly said: "My lord, look to the southwest, you have scouts coming back to report the situation, it seems that something happened!"

Xiang Yu hurriedly turned his head to look to the southwest direction. Seeing that the several self-army scouts who rushed over were indeed in a state of distress, he was startled. He patted his horse and took the initiative to meet them, and asked loudly, "What's the matter? Are you in such a hurry?"

"My lord! The traitor! The traitor! The traitor is here!"

The crying roar of the Western Chu army scouts made Xiang Yu's face change color, and then, the sound of horseshoes came faintly again, and then the crimson Han army flags appeared on the horizon one after another, and countless Han army cavalry held high Holding a sharp saber, he charged forward with a shout, like a crimson tide, rushing towards him violently!

"Long live the King of Han! Long live the King of Han! Long live the King of Han!"

Thunderous cheers reverberated on the battlefield. The besieged troops of Uncle Zhou of the Han Army, the troops of Chongda of the Han Army who were fighting Ding Gu, as well as Guangwu Mountain City and Cangcheng on the top of Aocang Mountain, countless The soldiers of the Han army cheered and shouted to celebrate the arrival of reinforcements from the self army, and their morale suddenly increased to the extreme.

On the contrary, seeing the cavalry of the Han army rushing in like a tide, the faces of the Western Chu army and the Henan army all changed color, screamed, and countless people yelled in disbelief, "How is it possible? How did the traitor come so fast?"

The situation on the battlefield also reversed abruptly. More than half of the Western Chu Army and Henan Army, whose physical strength had been severely reduced, had already been entangled by the Han Army, and they were unable to retreat and gather, let alone form an formation to fight. There were only more than 3000 mobile troops left around Xiang Yu. On the battlefield where flowers are blooming everywhere, you can't save the west if you can't save the east!

Fortunately, Xiang Yu was here. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Xiang Yu decisively made the most correct choice. While ordering all the Western Chu cavalry to leave the battlefield and come for reinforcements, he led the remaining 3000 cavalry to launch a countercharge, trying to kill the first Arrive at the cavalry of the Han army, and then lead the army into an organization to transfer and retreat.And Li Zuoche also acted decisively, and immediately patted his horse and rushed to Sima Ang's side. He pulled Sima Ang and said loudly: "My lord, hurry up, our army is almost all infantry, there is no hope of withdrawing from the battlefield, first take our cavalry across the chasm Besides! Otherwise, even if the traitors spare us, the head of Guizhou in Sanchuan will not spare us!"

Xiang Yu is always brave and invincible on the battlefield. Even with only more than 3000 cavalry, Xiang Yu still killed a bloody path from the crowd of tens of thousands of Han cavalry during the charge, and returned unscathed. Guan Ying and Yang Xi of the cavalry were extremely cunning, they did not go head-on with Xiang Yu at all, and after brushing past Xiang Yu's army, they rushed directly to Ding Gu's troops of the Chu cavalry who had hurriedly withdrawn from the battlefield without hesitation. Relying on the advantage of the saber, Ding Gu's army was killed with a single charge, causing countless casualties. When Xiang Yu turned around and came to kill him, the Han cavalry had already gone far, and they made a detour and rushed towards the enemy who had just lost contact with Uncle Zhou. Other Western Chu cavalry units.

The cavalry of the Han army completely turned into a wandering dragon on the battlefield, firmly grasping the opportunity that the cavalry of Western Chu had just withdrawn from several battlefields, avoiding Xiang Yu's sharp edge and specifically picking other cavalry of Western Chu, resolutely using the saber to make all The cavalry of the Han army has the advantage of being able to fight on horseback, leading Xiang Yu's pursuers to rampage on the battlefield, hacking and killing many cavalrymen of Western Chu who even had to dismount to fight. He deliberately brought Xiang Yu close to the Han army's circle formation many times, and the Han infantry also took the opportunity to attack the Western Chu cavalry one after another, shooting arrows at the Western Chu cavalry one after another.

In the end, after paying the price of countless casualties, Xiang Yu managed to gather the cavalry of Western Chu into a group, and did not give the cavalry of the Han army a chance to defeat his army one by one. However, before Xiang Yu could breathe a sigh of relief, he even Mostly the Han infantry had already appeared in the distance of the road. Seeing this, Xiang Yu was furious. He quickly pointed his spear at the crowd of Han infantry and shouted, "Rush up and kill them all!"

"Brother, it's useless. The traitors came in formation. Before we could get close, they formed an formation! When the cavalrymen of the traitors came from behind again, we couldn't stop them!"

Xiang Zhuang quickly dissuaded him, and said: "Also, our soldiers have not rested for more than a day, and we have fought several tough battles in the middle, if we continue to fight, the situation will only become more and more unfavorable to us, so we should leave quickly. "

Looking at the exhausted soldiers under his command, and the cavalry of the Han army who were staring at the tiger in the distance, Xiang Yu, who was not yet stupid to the extreme, roared helplessly, and hurriedly retreated to the Honggou Ferry with the cavalry of Western Chu. The cavalry of the Han army followed closely, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the cavalry of Western Chu to cross the river, they suddenly charged and drove the rear troops of the cavalry of Western Chu down the river. The cavalry rushed and fell into the water countless times, screaming loudly, Xiang Yu was so angry that his chest almost exploded, and even wanted to cross the river again to launch a counterattack, Xiang Zhuang held him tightly, and said: "Brother, calm down! Calm down! Brother's main force has returned If we cross the river and go back, we will die in vain, we will die in vain!"

With a slap, Xiang Yu slapped half of Xiang Zhuang's cheek swollen, and shouted with red eyes, "He is not our brother! He is our enemy! The enemy of our Xiang family!"

Of course, Xiang Yu's roar could not save the complete defeat of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army. Almost all of the more than 1 Henan Army were buried on the west bank of the chasm. People fled to the east bank of the chasm, and the water of the chasm was densely packed, almost all of them were corpses of cavalrymen from Western Chu. Had to flee again in defeat.

On Xiang Kang's side, after returning to the scene with the main force of the Han army, he saw with his own eyes the devastated and corpse-strewn Aocang battlefield in Xingyang. Urgent to save the family members, why did Uncle Zhou and the others fight so hard here?"

(End of this chapter)