Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 305

Having learned the lesson from the failure of the previous raid, Xiang Yu became much calmer after crossing the chasm. Even though he had decided to attack the Guangwu camp of the Han army first, and not give his wicked cousin a chance to sneak around, Xiang Yu did not act impulsively. Recklessly led the army directly to the Guangwu camp to find Xiang Kang to fight for his life. Instead, he first established a strong camp on the bank of the chasm ten miles downstream of Guangwu, and then started to build various offensive weapons. Prepare for battle.

During this period, the Han army organized manpower twice to grab grain from Aocang to Guangwu Camp for hoarding. Xiang Yu only sent troops to intercept and snatch it, but did not send troops to set up a camp between Aocang and Guangwu Camp. , gritted his teeth not to give his wicked cousin a chance to take advantage of his loopholes.

Because Xiang Yu is too aware of the character and temper of his wicked cousin, and he likes to come to hell the most in war. As long as he shows a little flaw, he may seize the opportunity to cheat him. Only because of the cheapness of the wicked cousin can he have no chance to take advantage of and no holes to exploit.

At the same time, Xiang Yu is also very clear that the main force of the Western Chu army is indeed stronger than the main force of the Han army in field battles and battles. However, if the Han army defends the well-fortified Guangwu camp with all its strength, he should not plan to dream of miracles and quickly take down the Han army. The camp of the main force of the army, so the best way for me is to sharpen the knife and not miss the woodcutter, first prepare all kinds of offensive weapons, and then launch a strong attack from the front with the momentum of Mount Tai, in order to restrain the shameless trick of the wicked cousin , dastardly trick.

Xiang Yu's prudent tactics also made Xiang Kang very uncomfortable. He knew how much pressure the Western Chu Army's main force would bring to him when they were fully prepared. Continue to frustrate the fighting spirit of the Western Chu Army, but the Western Chu Army refuses to let him do what he wants, and Xiang Kang can only sigh in vain.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield in Hanoi County, where the Han Army's partial division was located, suddenly changed. Zhao Xie and Zhang Er, who were capricious, saw that after the Western Chu Army launched a large-scale attack on Sanchuan County, they shamelessly betrayed the Han Army again. Suddenly they fell to the side of the Western Chu army. Zhao Wang, Zhao Xie, and Zhao Xiang Zhang Er not only flatly rejected Xiang Kang's request that they send troops to pay the vote, but also ordered Zhao Jun Zhang Wei and Chen Ze, who had withdrawn to Handan County, to return to Handan County. The Suo Department once again entered Hanoi County, and joined forces with Xiang You and Xue Gong's Department of the Western Chu Army who had captured Chaoge before, preparing to launch an attack on the hinterland of Hanoi County of the Han Army.

The distance is relatively short, and the roads between the Xiuwu front line and Aocang and Guangwu are controlled by the Han army. Of course Xiang Kang knew about this situation one step earlier than Xiang Yu. In a hurry, I just asked a question, "Have you sent out the beauty I asked Bao Kua, the prefect of Hanoi, to send to my brother?"

"Reporting to the King of Han, it has already been sent." Chen Ping replied: "Junbao Bao used an excuse to beg Xiang You to treat the people of Hanoi County well, and secretly sent two beauties and a sum of money to Xiang You. Although Xiang You did not give No reply, but he did not return the beauties and money sent by Governor Bao, and detained the envoy of Governor Bao in his army. If the ministers expected it, Xiang You should be skeptical of Governor Bao's words and intend to Let's take advantage of it first."

"Sure enough, it hasn't changed at all." Xiang Kang snorted coldly, and after a little calculation, he said, "Zhao's bandits have turned their backs shamelessly, and Xiang You has nothing to worry about. He will definitely take action soon and send our battle plan to the Long Qi and Zhujishi, let them act according to the plan, first destroy the partial division of the Western Chu bandit army, relieve the pressure on our northern front, and then let our partial division free up their hands to return to the main force."

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As Xiang Kang expected, after joining forces with the capricious Zhao army, Xiang You really quickly reached an agreement with Zhang Wei and Chen Ze, who were in command of the Zhao army, and decided to join forces to attack the Han army's partial division Zhujishi. The large and small Xiuwu established by the Ministry of Defense launched an offensive, using superior forces to put pressure on the partial divisions of the Han army one step closer, making it impossible for the partial divisions of the Han army to withdraw and go south to reinforce the main force.

Dogs can't change Chixiang. After deciding on this idea, Xiang You, who perfectly inherited the temperament and character of Master Xiang Boxiang, immediately proposed that Zhao Guo's army be responsible for the containment and overhaul. Wu's Zhujishi main force, let the Western Chu army be responsible for containing the relatively weak Xiaoxiu Wu defenders.It's a pity that Zhang Wei and Chen Ze were not idiots. They immediately excused that the fighting power of Zhao's army was not as good as that of the Western Chu army, and they must in turn let Zhao's army be responsible for dealing with the Han army's small Xiuwu defenders.

Of course Xiang You didn't want to suffer, so he continued to talk nonsense with Zhang Wei and Chen Ze, saying that in addition to dealing with Zhujishi, the Western Chu army was also distracted from guarding Longqi stationed in Wude, and that Zhao's army should be mostly Western Chu troops. Chu Jun shared some of the pressure.Zhang Wei and Chen Ze argued hard, saying that Zhao's army should also guard against the threat of Long Qi, and insisted that the more powerful Western Chu army should take on more burdens, and it was a joy to fight with Xiang You .

In the end, Xue Gong, the deputy recommended by Old Man Fan to Xiang You, couldn't stand it anymore, and stood up to Zhang Wei and Chen Ze, saying that since the Western Chu Army is the main force to attack the Han, it should take more responsibility to deal with the Han army defending Daxiuwu. Xiang You had no choice but to reluctantly agree to Zhang Yan and Chen Ze's request.However, after Zhang Yan and Chen Ze left, Xiang You immediately complained to Xue Gong: "General Xue, why are you so stupid? The Han bandits have [-] defenders in the Great Xiuwu, but only [-] in the Xiaoxiuwu." Defender, why do you want us to give up the easy and take the difficult, and go to Daxiu Wu to gnaw hard bones?"

"General, isn't it the time to worry about this?" Xue Gong asked angrily, and then said: "The order given to us by the king is to restrain the side divisions of the Han thieves, so that they can't spare their hands to reinforce the main force of the Han thieves. Zhao Guo's bandit army is capricious, and they will definitely not work hard when they arrive at the Xiuwu battlefield. If the dragon stationed in Wude sees that the big and small Xiuwu are not under pressure, and suddenly crosses the south to reinforce Sanchuan, how can we explain to the king?"

Xiang You didn't dare to let his cousin lose his temper, so he could only sigh and said, "It's done, it's too late to say anything now, go down and prepare to send troops, and set off tomorrow to go south, marching to the big and small martial arts."

Xue Gong sang promises, and said vigilantly: "General, the two beauties given to you by the governor of Hanoi, you'd better leave them in Chaoge. We will go south to practice martial arts, and we may fight with the Han bandit army at any time." Go to war and bring a woman by your side, I'm afraid it will miss our important event."

"You don't need to worry about this matter, I have my own arrangements."

Xiang You answered ambiguously, but when he set off to the south the next day, what made Mr. Xue angry was that Xiang You not only took the two beauties quietly given to him by Hanoi County Governor Bao Kua, but Chaoge City selected ten pretty women to bring into the army and asked them to serve him in daily life.Xue Gong objected, but Xiang You said confidently: "What's the matter? My elder brother, King Xichu, is in the barracks, and there are beauties around at any time, so what happened?"

I really couldn't resist Xiang You, Xue Gong, who was only Xiang You's deputy, had no choice but to swallow his anger and shut his mouth. He honestly assisted Xiang You in commanding the troops to go south, and it took only three days to advance to the Xiaoxiu Wu area. Gongdu was quite surprised when he saw that the Western Chu army and the Zhao army came together, with a strength of more than [-] troops. Zhujishi dared to lead [-] troops out of the camp and took the initiative to meet them. Gong hurriedly led the troops to meet the battle, and at the same time called out to Zhang Wei and Chen Ze who were walking behind, telling them to speed up and come to help.

There was not much suspense in the battle. The Han army only relied on the advantage of waiting for work, and had a little upper hand at the beginning of the battle. At one time, it suppressed the Western Chu army and could only form an formation. However, as the Western Chu army gradually calmed down, the battlefield The balance of the situation quickly tilted to the side of the Western Chu army, and when the Zhao army came to reinforce, Zhujishi could only lead the army to retreat in a hurry. The fighting Han army drove back to the camp and stood firm.

Before the matter was over, when the Western Chu army started to build the camp, the Western Chu officials who were in charge of interrogating the prisoners reported to Xiang You, saying that it was the prisoners of the Han army captured by the soldiers of the Western Chu army who confessed that Zhujishi led the army to meet them. , because Zhujishi asked Longqie to send troops to the north, and joined hands with the Zhao-Chu coalition forces to launch a decisive battle, but was rejected by Longqie, so Zhujishi took the risk of going out to fight.Xiang You and Xue Gong were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure? What's the specific situation?"

"It's certain." The Western Chu official who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners replied truthfully: "We have captured more than 30 Han bandit prisoners and confessed together, saying that Zhujishi explained the situation to them before departure and asked the Han bandit soldiers to fight for him. Fight a victory in one breath and let Long Qi know that he is right."

"Okay, there is a discord among the bandit army, we have a chance." Xiang You rubbed his hands excitedly, then suddenly remembered a big event, and hurriedly said: "I almost forgot, brother told me when I set off that I should use brother and Long The relationship between the two is to try to persuade Long Qie to change his flag and surrender. This matter cannot be delayed any longer, martial arts are not far away from martial arts, and immediately send someone to contact Long Qie to see what kind of attitude he has."

This matter was indeed Xiang Yu's confession, of course Xue Gong did not dare to object, and Xiang You immediately wrote a letter to Long Qie, using the old relationship between his brother Xiang Sui and Long Qie to try his best to persuade Long Qie to surrender He also promised Longqie an official reward for Xiang Yu, and sent someone to take a letter and a generous gift to the south to Wude on the same day, and secretly contacted Longqie.However, what Xiang You never imagined in his dreams was that after his handwritten letter was delivered to Long Qi, Long Qi laughed loudly, and laughed wildly: "There is such a coincidence in the world?!"

After laughing, Long Qi discussed with a few of his confidants, and decisively accepted the generous gift that Xiang You gave him on behalf of Xiang Yu, and asked Xiang You's messenger to bring back a message, saying that he had never forgotten what Xiang Sui had done to him all those years ago. It's just that Xiang Kang treated him very well, and he couldn't bear to betray him, so he prepared a gift in return for the messenger to take back and give it to Xiang You.Naturally, after learning Long Qie's answer, Xiang You was really excited, clapped his hands and smiled and said, "There is a way to do this, and Long Qie may be won over by us."

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On the same day that Xiang You received Long Qie's reply, after sufficient preparations, Xiang Yu finally led the main force of the Western Chu Army and launched a violent attack on the Guangwu Camp where the main force of the Han Army was located. Xiang Kang was overjoyed, but the battle was still extremely fierce. In the end, after paying a considerable price, the Western Chu army filled up the guard trench dug by the Han army and opened it up so that they could directly march under the Han army camp. path of.

Still on the same day, the [-] Guanzhong Rear Army led by the young commander-in-chief Fu Kuan and Gong Yangtong also arrived at the foot of Henan County. However, the Han Army Rear Army recruited by Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi in Guanzhong Instead of continuing eastward, they rushed directly to the Aocang battlefield to reinforce the main force of the Han army, but chose to go north to Pingyin to cross the river, and secretly arrived in Hanoi County...

Early the next morning, the real test for the main force of the Han army came. The main force of the Western Chu army, which had opened the way to advance, took turns to attack the Han army camp from morning till night. The security of the main camp of the army.Fortunately, the main force of the Han army was sufficient, and the reserve team was dispatched in time to rescue the emergency. Relying on repeated fierce battles, they still held the main camp and prevented the Western Chu army from attacking the camp.
On the third day, it was still the same. The Western Chu army still stormed the main camp of the Han army. Xiang Yu and Xiang Kang, two cousins, went to the front line to command and supervise the battle together, leading the soldiers of the Chu and Han armies to fight bloody battles. In the critical moment of the afternoon, when the generals of the Chu army were able to step on the corpses and directly rushed to the Han army camp, Xiang Kang was forced to dispatch the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army out of the camp to fight back, and finally killed the soldiers of the Chu army. This wave of fierce attack regained its footing.In the end, both sides suffered disastrous losses, and both sides suffered losses, ending in a draw.

On the night of the third day, the Han army stationed in Xiaoxiuwu was so bold that they took the risk of dispatching the main force to sneak attack on the camp of the Zhao army when their forces were at an absolute disadvantage. The whole army was dispatched to fight back, Xiaoxiu's Wuhan army was defeated and left, and was forced to abandon Xiaoxiu's city, and fled to Wude overnight to join the Han army's Longqie.Zhao Guo's army took advantage of the situation to take Xiaoxiuwu, and seized a considerable amount of food, grass and military supplies. The main force of the Zhujishi Division of the Han army stationed in Daxiuwu was also in danger of being isolated.

On the fourth day, the main force of the Western Chu army continued to storm the main camp of the Han army. At the same time, on the Daxiuwu battlefield, the Western Chu army also captured two messengers sent by Zhujishi to ask for help from Longqie. Immediately asked Zhao Guo's army to come to help him, intending to take Da Xiuwu by storm.At the same time, secret envoys were sent south again to contact Long Qie and continue to persuade Long Qie to surrender.

On the same day, the main force of the Western Chu Army continued to attack until the second watch. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking the camp, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops. Because of the heavy casualties, Xiang Yu regretted that he did not choose to attack the Aocang camp of the Han Army first. I pinned my hopes on the Hanoi battlefield, and secretly said: "Xiang You, Xue Gong, even if you can't destroy the Han bandits, you must entangle them to death. Don't let them have the opportunity to cross the river and go down to reinforce the Han bandits." The main force, otherwise, the battle on Sanchuan's side will only be more difficult."

On the same day and night, the Zhujishi Division of the Han Army suddenly gave up Daxiu Wu, and withdrew overnight to Wude and Longji to meet up. Xiang You immediately launched a pursuit after hearing the report, and gained some results. There is little military supplies and food.

The consecutive victories made Xiang You's mind start to flutter. On the second day after winning the Great Xiuwu, he couldn't wait to start discussing with Zhao Guo's army to take advantage of the victory and march into Wude. As a result, Zhang Wei and Chen Ze were also confused by the great situation in front of them. Without even thinking about it, they readily agreed, and Zhao and Chu's two armies also set off southward at noon that day, heading straight to Wu De excitedly.

God is indeed kind to General Xiang You. On the same night, the messenger of the Western Chu Army sent to secretly contact Long Qie the day before brought back good news, saying that Long Qie had agreed to surrender to the Western Chu Army. The general refused to accept, and Zhujishi made troubles. He had to wait for the two armies to confront each other before Long Qie could cooperate with the Western Chu army inside and outside, and sacrificed the Han army's Wude camp to the Western Chu army.

Xiang You was overjoyed by Long Qi's answer. In order to surprise everyone and make a special achievement, Xiang You not only concealed the matter from Zhao's army, but even Xue Gong, the deputy Xiang Yu sent to him, did not tell the truth. Early in the morning of the second day, the army was urged to go southward at a faster speed, preparing to rush to Wude and Long Qie as soon as possible to cooperate with the inside and outside, and annihilate the Hanoi partial division of the Han army in one fell swoop.

Xue Gong was indeed disliked by General Xiang You. Seeing that Xiang You didn't care about it, he just urged the Western Chu Army and the Zhao Guo Army to go south quickly, and even persuaded him: "General, be careful. The enemy's situation in Wude is unknown. We are so reckless." I'm afraid it's too dangerous to kill them directly. It's better to proceed cautiously and send more scouts to investigate the surrounding situation, so as to prevent any emergencies."

"General Xue, remember that you are not so timid?" Xiang You's voice was full of sarcasm, and said: "Wu De's enemy situation, how do we need to detect it? Didn't we figure out the details of Wu De a long time ago? There are only Han bandits on the side with less than [-] troops, we have as many as [-] troops, and there are [-] Zhao troops to help behind us, so we are afraid of Han bandits?"

"General, be careful." Xue Gong persuaded: "Our detailed work is a report on the enemy's situation with Wude, but that is already a few days ago. We don't know if there has been any change in the Wude Han bandits recently. .Also, Zhao's army is unreliable at all. They will definitely go forward in a favorable situation, but in an adversity, they will definitely escape faster than anyone else. Besides, it is still early. Even if we go south at a normal speed, we can still In the afternoon, it is easy to reach Wude, there is no need to waste the strength of the soldiers, and go south to Wude at a rapid march speed."

The confident Xiang You didn't listen at all, and insisted that he just urged the army to move on. Xue Gong had no choice but to let him go, but the Zhao army behind him didn't have to obey Xiang You's order, except for the large number of military supplies. After refusing to launch an urgent march, Zhang Wei and Chen Ze still followed behind the Western Chu army, laughing at their backs: "In a hurry to grab the filial piety hat? No one is urging you, so why are you in such a hurry?"

According to Xiang You's request, at noon, the Western Chu Army, which was rushing all the way, finally arrived at the outskirts of Wude City. However, before the soldiers of the Western Chu Army took a breath and found a suitable camping place with Xiang You and Xue Gong, the horn sounded At that time, the Longqie and Zhujishi troops of the Han Army had already filed out of the camp, quickly completed their assembly, and made great strides to greet the Western Chu Army.Xiang You was taken aback when he saw it, and said, "The Chinese bandits are so courageous, how dare they send troops to a decisive battle with us?"

"General, our army is exhausted from the haste." Xue Gong hurriedly said: "Hurry up and prepare to meet the enemy. When Zhao's army arrives, we will launch a counterattack."

Xiang You nodded, and immediately ordered the Chu army to prepare to meet the enemy, but before the words finished, there was already a commotion in the Chu army, and at the same time, Xiang You's soldiers quickly pointed to the west and shouted: "General Xiang, Xue General, look quickly, another bandit army is coming!"

Xiang You and Xue Gong quickly turned their heads together, and then they were also stunned to see that behind the hills and woods to the west, there were indeed countless soldiers of the Han army pouring out in an endless stream, lining up towards the position where the Western Chu army was. Come on, and behind the huge number of Han infantry, there are countless Han cavalry!
"Then are the traitors here?" Xiang You screamed, "Our secret work has been found out for a long time. There are only less than [-] traitors on Wude's side. How could they suddenly appear again? So many? There are so many cavalry?"

"It's been tricked!" Xue Gong wailed in pain, and said: "The Han thieves deliberately lured us to the decisive battle of martial arts. In addition to the advantage of waiting for work, there are reinforcements who have already arrived and waited for our decisive battle. Our battle is dangerous. Already!"

(End of this chapter)