Fan Zeng said: "I thought that the Chinese army's big tent would be moved to the western camp, and the general would return to guard the southern camp to prevent the Qin army from attacking the western camp nearby." Tomorrow we will continue the siege and see how the Qin army reacts. ”

When Xiang Liang heard it, he felt that it made sense: "Okay! The order was immediately ordered to be carried out in accordance with the instructions of the military division. ”

In the city of Langxie County, Zhang Han and the others are also confused: what is going on with this reinforcement? The earth-shattering tossing and turning all night disappeared, and the Chu army did not take any action today.

Zhang Han gathered the generals in the shogunate to discuss: "My Great Qin's reinforcements have arrived outside the city, and they have fought with the rebels all night last night, but now they have suddenly disappeared for more than a day, what is the way for the generals to contact the reinforcements, and we can join forces to break the enemy inside and outside?" ”

Wang Wei came out and arched his hand: "General, can we break through from the West Gate?" In this way, you can join forces with reinforcements, so that you can be more sure of breaking the enemy. ”

Zhang Han directly vetoed: "No, now that the city is strong and has enough grain and grass, we can hold the siege of 200,000 rebels, once our army breaks through, it will be heavy casualties, and the city will be ceded to the rebels, and our army will attack the city in turn, and it will pay an incomparably big price." Now that our Great Qin is suffering from internal and external troubles, and the number of troops is seriously insufficient, we must first reduce the casualties of the soldiers. ”

All the generals bowed their hands together and said: "The general is merciful, and the blessing of Great Qin is also." ”

Zhang Han saw that everyone had no good plan, so he moved his gaze to the always witty Mengzhi: "What is the good plan of General Mengzhi to break the enemy and hurry up?" ”

The shogunate generals who had been silent for a long time saw Zhang Han ridiculing Mengji, and instantly burst into laughter, including Wang Wei.

Meng Zhi's face was flushed from being teased by everyone, but he still insisted on saying his thoughts: "The last general has no good strategy, but the reinforcements sent by the general are haunted outside the city, and the enemy army did not dare to attack the city yesterday, so it must be very taboo for reinforcements to attack." If necessary, the general will definitely contact us, and the last general will advise our army to defend to the death, and when we see reinforcements attacking the enemy's camp, we will go out of the city to cooperate with the battle. ”

Zhang Han saw that although Mengzhi's strategy was not clever, it could only be like this at present. He put away his smile and said solemnly: "The generals will listen to the order!" ”

The generals immediately stood solemnly and waited, and Zhang Han said: "According to the proposal of General Mengzhi, the gates of each city are strictly guarded, and no matter which direction they see reinforcements attacking the enemy camp, they will go out of the city to assist in attacking the enemy army. ”

"No—" The generals went out with a smile, and Monji and Wang Wei walked out of the shogunate side by side to inspect their respective city gates.

Xiang Liang moved the big tent of the Chinese army to the west camp, and after a day of searching, he still found no more, and was about to have dinner, when he suddenly came to the horse to report: The Qin army buried the pot and ate half an hour in the evening, and then lined up to go out of the camp to kill our west camp.

When Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng heard this, they were shocked at the same time, and hurriedly gathered to discuss countermeasures, and ordered all battalions to be on strict alert and defensive.

After the generals arrived one after another, they listened to Fan Zeng's brief explanation of Tanma's reprimand. Then Xiang Yu said: "The Qin army has already tried to attack the east and the west the night before, and it must be the same tonight, we only need to guard in the west camp and then wait for the opportunity to pursue, and we will definitely be able to break the enemy." ”

Long He was once tossed by Han Xin's nose all night, and felt that it would not be so simple, so he said anxiously: "The enemy army is full of conspiracies, it will never be so simple, our army should not have arranged for a mobile rescue force to be ready to reinforce another battalion at any time, and it is absolutely impossible to go out of the camp in the dark to pursue it in case of a plan." ”

Xiang Yu chased Ji Bu into a disdain on the eve before, and disdained Long Ji's caution: "Why has the once brave General Long become so timid at this moment? Ben chased the enemy the night before and fled without a place. ”

Xiang Liang saw that the two were about to fight, and hurriedly stopped: "Okay, don't quarrel, what is the strategy of the military advisor?" ”

Everyone looked at Fan Zeng, and Fan Zeng said respectfully: "Zhong Liwu withdrew the army of the eastern camp and stationed them in the north and south battalions to strengthen the defense, and the north battalion drew 10,000 troops to the west camp to strengthen the defense. ”

Xiang Yu shouted: "By all means, our army has finally surrounded the Qin army in the city, how can we let it go?" ”

Xiang Liang also said: "Yes! How can the military advisors let go of the enemy forces that we are surrounding? Once the Qin army joins forces, it will be more difficult to annihilate. ”

Fan Zeng blushed and argued: "My more than 200,000 troops have surrounded the city, and there must be no contact between the enemy and the inside and outside, our army only needs to block the reinforcements and find fighters to annihilate them, and re-besiege the city, and the enemy will not dare to break through." ”

After listening to Fan Zeng's explanation, Xiang Liang still couldn't accept it, so he asked Fan Zeng slowly, "Does the military advisor have any other strategies?" ”

Fan Zengjian couldn't persuade Xiang Liang, so he said: "The general immediately went to guard the east camp, the old man and Zhong Liwu guarded the west camp, the major general still guarded the north camp, General Long He guarded the south camp, and the second battalion in the north and south was ready to support the west camp at any time." ”

Xiang Yu originally wanted to insist on attacking, but he could only reluctantly accept Fan Zeng's arrangement.

When night fell, the Qin army, as the night before, rumbled the war drums and began to attack close to the western camp, still shooting bows and arrows against the defenders of the western camp of the Chu army, and feinting.

At the time of the third watch, the northern and southern camps of the Chu army were attacked, and Xiang Yu of the northern camp did not comply with Fan Zeng's requirements, and directly led the army out of the camp to pursue the Qin army. The dragon of the southern camp strictly followed the general's order, and contacted the situation of the western camp while defending.

Mengzhi at the head of the city of Langxie County saw a rocket shooting down in the sky outside the enemy's west camp, so he went to ask for an order to lead the army out of the city, this time Zhang Han sent Wang Wei to lead an army of 20,000 to attack the west camp, and arranged for Meng Zhi to lead an army of 30,000 to pay close attention to the situation of the enemy army in the south camp.

Over there, Han Xin sent troops to storm the west camp of the Chu army, but there was no progress, and the west camp was a little rioty after the Qin army in the city came out to flank the attack. Seeing that there was no chance to annihilate the enemy, Han Xinnai ordered Meng Xin to move the cavalry and main force to Nanying to attack.

After hearing that the Qin army in the city sent troops to attack the western camp, he immediately handed over to the deputy general to defend the camp tent, and he led 20,000 troops to reinforce the western camp.

As soon as the dragon army left, Monji in the city discovered his attempt, excitedly led the army out of the city, and sneaked close to Nanying.

As soon as Han Xin's main infantry attacked Nanying, Meng Zhi also attacked from inside the city, and this tactic of flanking before and after worked, and soon created a zone for the cavalry to rush back and forth.

Han Xin immediately withdrew the infantry army and went to meet the army of Ziying in the west, and handed over the rest to Meng Xin to kill. After the western camp of the Chu army was attacked by the Qin army, Fan Zeng asked for help from the northern and southern battalions respectively. But as soon as he heard that Xiang Yu had attacked, he jumped up angrily and scolded: "Shaft, it's a big deal for me!" ”

Fortunately, Long He led the army to reinforcements, but after fighting for nearly an hour, he found that the Chu army was fighting with the Qin army that came out of the city, and the Qin army outside was just crossbow arrows.

Fan Dacheng was fooled and ordered Long to hurry back to guard the southern camp.

At this time, Xiang Liang of the eastern camp paid close attention to the situation of the second battalion in the north and south, and heard that Xiang Yu of the northern battalion had attacked, and the southern battalion was attacked by the internal and external attacks of the Qin army, and there were cavalry rushing to kill, so he hurriedly led an army of 30,000 to aid the southern battalion.

When Long He led the army back to the southern camp, Mengxin's cavalry had already rushed the southern camp into a mess, and Mengzhi also came to slash and kill very happily. After they met, they exchanged orders from the imperial court and instructions from Han Shin.

Seeing that Long He had returned to help, the reinforcements of Dongying (Chu Army) also arrived. Seeing that there were too many enemy troops and were not sure of victory, both sides organized an orderly retreat.

When Long Ji saw that the camp was attacked by the enemy, he was very chaotic, but after all, he did not lose the camp, but ordered the army to kill the enemy troops who entered the camp.

In less than half an hour, Long Ji's army was counterattacked and killed more than 10,000, but the Qin army suffered few casualties and withdrew from its position unharmed.

When Fan Zeng killed Wang Wei back, he was about to turn around and deal with the Qin army outside, but found that there were many more Qin troops on the west side of the camp, and he did not dare to rush out of the camp to pursue. Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Qin army retreated safely on all fronts.

Xiang Yu's pursuit was exactly the same as the night before, the Qin army ran directly, taking turns to shoot crossbow arrows in different positions, and none of the Qin troops encountered it, so they had to retreat.

After a night of fierce fighting, Han Xin's army suffered almost no losses, and Mengxin's cavalry rushed and killed more than 10,000 Chu troops in Nanying.

On the Xiying side, only Wang Wei and Zhong Liwu's army fought head-on, the Qin army lost more than 1,000, and the fighting quality of the Chu army was not as good as the Qin army, losing more than 2,000.

Fan Zeng ordered each battalion to send scouts to collect information about the enemy, and was soon rewarded by the scouts: only a few Qin troops retreated to their camps, and the rest of the Qin troops disappeared......

After hearing this, Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng were very shocked, and immediately gathered to discuss countermeasures and how to find fighters.

Xiang Yu was teased twice in a row by Qin Jun, and was very annoyed: "Why are you so suspicious? Xiang is willing to lead the army to take the Qin army camp directly, beat them up, and see what conspiracy they can play! ”

Fan Zeng saw that Xiang Yu did not obey the military order at all, and if he led the army to help last night, he might be able to eat Wang Wei's 20,000 soldiers and horses. Since there is no way to find out the reality of the Qin army now, it is better to let Xiang Yu disturb the Qin army's camp, and it is not impossible to try.

Fan Zeng was about to give an order for Xiang Yu to attack the Qin army's camp, and the herald sent a report that the Qin army's envoy had sent a war letter.

The generals were shocked, and Xiang Yu was even more angry: "What else do you want to read?" Rush over and beat them! ”

Xiang Liang hurriedly stopped Xiang Yu: "Nationality, don't be reckless!" Let's take a look at the situation of the Qin army's war book first. ”

Fan Zeng opened the golden silk war book and saw that it was written: Five days later, twenty miles outside the west gate of the city of Langxie County, the two armies of Qin and Chu discussed the art of war together. The payment is Hanxin.

Xiang Liang said after reading the war book: "Qin Jun is ghostly, and he is missing at the moment, but he sent the war book, I am afraid there is a conspiracy." ”

Fan Zeng thought for a moment: "The old man estimated that the Qin army was short of troops, and wanted to delay time and wait for reinforcements. The Qin army made an appointment to fight, and we should accept it, but we did not compete with the enemy army in the battle formation. From now on, the army at the east gate attacked the city day and night, and the other three battalions made a feint to interfere with the enemy's line of sight. ”