Seeing that everyone was embarrassed, Fan Zeng said again: "The Qin army insists on a decisive battle with our army, which is exactly what I want. Our army had the advantage of strength, just by destroying the enemy in a decisive battle, and then besieging and killing the enemy in the city. ”

After listening to Fan Zeng's analysis, the crowd applauded! But Xiang Yu still didn't follow the general's order, and after returning to Beiying, he immediately ordered a crazy siege of the city, Zhong Liwu of Dongying was ordered to attack the city, and the Qin army in the city was a little overwhelmed in the face of the Chu army attacking day and night outside the two city gates.

The next day, General Zhang Hanju discussed countermeasures: "Now that the rebels are frantically attacking the east gate and the north gate, my Great Qin's crossbow arrow advantage cannot be brought into play, and it is extremely difficult to defend the city, what is the best strategy for the generals to deal with it?" ”

Everyone was silent, and Meng Zhi saw Zhang Han looking at him, and said: "There is a way for the general to ask the general for forgiveness." ”

Zhang Han was puzzled for a while: "How can there be a crime if you have a strategy?" Come on. ”

Meng Zhi came out of the column and arched his hand: "We will demolish the inner corridor at the head of the city, form a ladder with the bricks and stones of the inner corridor at the head of the city and the arrow stacks on the outer corridor, and arrange a crossbow arrow array under the city, there are more than 600,000 crossbow arrows in the city of our army, put the enemy on the city, the hit rate of crossbow arrows will be greatly improved, many of the enemies who are shot down will fall into the city, and the crossbow arrows can also be reused, and the advantages of our army's Qin crossbow can kill and injure a large number of enemies." But it's very risky, if the enemy comes in, we will be annihilated......"

Before Meng Zhi could finish speaking, Wang Wei on the side interrupted angrily: "Bastard boy, you can think of all the bad ideas for letting the enemy come up, hurry up and get twenty military sticks." ”

Zhang Han, who has always fought with heavy weapons, also knows the power of Qin's crossbow and iron cavalry, but Mengzhi's bad idea reminded him and stopped Wang Wei: "General Wang doesn't have to blame General Mengzhi, the general thinks that this method is feasible, at least the Chu army can't come up with a way to crack it in a day, and the day after tomorrow is the decisive battle time agreed between General Han and Fan Zeng." Our army only needs to drag on for twelve hours before they can go out of the city and fight the enemy. ”

Zhang Han paused and said: "A rocket array is arranged in front of the crossbow arrow array, all the rockets are thrown out of the city to shoot, and the crossbow arrows are aimed at the enemy troops on the city wall, and the alternate shooting cannot be stopped. ”

The generals were ordered to set up defenses, and within half an hour, the Qin army at the head of the city fired a burst of crossbow arrows, forcing the Chu army to retreat a little before withdrawing from the city.

Xiang Yu and Zhong Liwu saw the Qin army at the head of the city withdrawing from the high cloud cart, and hurriedly ordered the army to move the cloud ladder over and climb up to the top of the city.

Xiang Yu, who was full of anger, was even more excited to go to the city to slash and kill in person, but fortunately, the deputy general was struggling to hold him. Before the Chu troops who had climbed to the top of the city had time to shout and slash, they were shot by the whizzing crossbow arrows on a step at the top of the ladder.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Chu army climbed to the top of the city one after another, the rocket array of the Qin army immediately threw rockets in the corresponding direction to the outside of the city. The Chu soldiers who swarmed under the city were burned and wailed by the rockets fired from the air, and those Chu troops who climbed up to the top of the city were killed by the Qin crossbows.

Xiang Yu and Zhong Liwu watched the rear army for nearly an hour, and found that their soldiers kept climbing up the city, but there was no sign of success, so they had to report the situation to Xiang Liang.

As soon as Fan Zeng heard Xiang Liang talk about the offensive situation of the North Camp and the East Camp, he quickly understood: "General, the Qin crossbow and the Great Qin Iron Cavalry are the sharp weapons of the Six Kingdoms of Ping, and the Qin crossbow can't be intertwined and shot at the head of the city, but they can shoot in formation when they retreat from the city, giving full play to their advantages, but why doesn't our army use the inner corridor of the city head to dodge the arrows?" The general immediately went to Beiying to stop the major general from attacking the city, and ordered his whole army to rest and wait for a decisive battle with the Qin army. ”

Xiang Liang went to Beiying to stop Xiang Yu, who was embarrassed and angry, and Fan Zeng also watched Zhong Liwu on the cloud car in Dongying for a long time and still didn't understand, and also ordered to stop the attack.

After all, this Qin crossbow is expensive to manufacture, and the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the Six Kingdoms do not have the kung fu to make it, and Fan Zeng also does not understand how to give full play to the maximum power of the Qin crossbow. He didn't want to think about it if he didn't understand it, so he withdrew the army and rested well, preparing for a decisive battle with the Qin army.

At noon on the fourth day agreed in the war book, Ma Xing's 50,000 soldiers and horses arrived at the Qin army camp, and Ma Xing brought General Li Wen, who strongly requested to go on the expedition.

Han Xin also brought the Qin army out of the dense forest in the south and placed it in the camp. He made a detailed division of labor among all the army's combat tasks, and replaced the big banner of the word "win" with his own general flag "Han." He also ordered to dismantle all the enclosures of the deer antlers and other camps, unload all the grain and grass transported to the Mengxin cavalry camp in the far west, and pull all the grain wagons to the Han Xin camp in front and arrange them into a formation according to Han Xin's instructions.

Han Xin immediately ordered: Ji Bu led 5,000 shield light infantry to detour according to the route of the large array; ordered Li Wen to command a special array of crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, and rockets in the area surrounded by grain carts, and shoot according to the coordinated shooting method created by Bai Qi earlier, with a total of 25,000 soldiers and horses; Ling Mengxin led 5,000 cavalry to attack on the north side of the large array according to the instructions of the order banner; Ma Xing led 35,000 soldiers and horses composed of a mixture of crossbow arrows, spears, shields, and heavy infantry, and the chariots brought with the army, and placed a large array similar to the grain carts one mile outside the grain carts, surrounding the grain cart array, and at the same time commanding a special route for movement in battle; Han Xin himself and his son and his son led 5,000 cavalry to command on the high mountain south of the grain and grass camp in the rear.

All the generals in the big tent were very surprised, firstly, they had never seen such a formation, and secondly, they did not expect that the flags in this largest camp were originally for the purpose of setting up the formation. Setting up a formation in the camp, neither the enemy nor us expected that Han Xin would lead the generals to rest after the large array was arranged.

On the day of the decisive battle, before dawn, Xiang Liang received two letters from Han Xin's envoys, one was an invitation to come to the decisive battle from the large battalion that pointed out the Qin army's formation; The other is a letter of persuasion, and the words are all agitated.

After Xiang Liang circulated the two letters to the generals, Xiang Yu was furious and immediately raised troops to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army. Fortunately, Xiang Liang forcibly ordered to obey Fan Zeng's scheduling arrangement, and cooperated to break the formation and besiege the Qin army.

When the Chu army left the camp in an orderly manner and walked three miles away from the Qin army's large array, Fan Zeng and Xiang Liangzhong set up a cloud cart on the nearby high slope and watched the Qin army's large array carefully. ”

Fan Zeng suggested: The Chu army was led by Xiang Yu to kill the Chinese army from the middle, and Long He and Zhong Liwu led the army to advance at a distance of one mile. He also specially told Xiang Yu not to be provoked by the enemy generals and venture into the cover of the two wings. Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng led an army of 50,000 to advance in the north to block the cavalry formation north of the Qin army.

Fan Zeng completed the deployment of the battle plan, full of confidence: "With the same strength, the formation has an advantage, and now our army is far more than the Qin army, and our army only needs to push and kill directly, so that its formation cannot be displayed." ”

The generals roared to lead the order, rumbled and beat the war drums, and killed the Qin army.

Han Xin saw that the Chu army had been tricked, and the banners waved separately, and the big array moved instantly, and the original Bagua array turned into a large inner circle in less than a quarter of an hour, and countless small circles outside, killing the Chu army neatly behind Ji Bu's five thousand motorized light infantry.

Xiang Yu saw Ji Bu's light infantry coming over, and immediately waved his spear, and the front army immediately moved forward. Ji Bu saw the enemy troops on the opposite side rushing towards him, scattered the phalanx and ran to the left and right.

This kind of tactics that neither engaged nor retreated, and only ran to both sides made the captains of the Chu army very strange, but Xiang Yu urged him to rush forward and kill from behind, so he could only run forward, not daring to chase left and right.

When Xiang Yu's Chinese army rushed to a distance of 300 paces from the Qin army's grain and grass cart circle, the Qin army's circle did not advance, but threw crossbow arrows into the air.

The Chu army raised their shields to block the arrows, the first round of crossbow arrows of the Qin army had no effect, and in an instant, the Chu army was within two hundred steps, and the Chu army shot arrows at the Qin army.

The archers of the Qin army began to shoot rockets, and when the Chu army raised the shield again, they found that the shield was about to catch fire. Just as the front army of the Chu army was chaotically dealing with the rockets, the Qin crossbow sounded again, and the Chu army had to deal with it in confusion, and the ground fell one after another.

The Qin army's military formation slowly moved backwards, and the grain carts facing the Chu army's charge began to build a city wall in the shape of a ladder, but the crossbow arrows did not slow down in the process, and the Chu army continued to fall. The flanks of Zhong Liwu and Long He's army respectively slaughtered the "Bagua Array" on the outside of the Qin army.

The changes in the Qin army were even more strange, the chariot formations on both flanks retreated one after another, after the chariots on the south side retreated to the south, and after the chariots on the north side retreated to the north, they all retreated to the periphery.

Immediately after that, the Changge soldiers and shield soldiers kept coming out of the gap in the chariot, and they formed an arrow-shaped formation to kill the Chu army, killing for a while and retreating for a while, and these Changge soldiers and shield soldiers all retreated to the rear.

Zhong Liwu and Long He took advantage of the situation to advance and kill, but the Qin army retreated for a while and did not fight hard with the Chu army, so the casualties on both sides were very small.

After Han Xin saw on the high slope to the south that two-thirds of the two wings of the Chu army had entered the main formation, he waved the flag, and the military formation instantly changed like a rolling jade plate.

The chariots and soldier walls that had just retreated outside suddenly advanced forward and arranged them in small circles, and the Changge shield infantry who were retreating didn't see the Changge soldiers, and all the shield soldiers in front of them were all shield soldiers.

Long Ji and Zhong Liwu were about to enter the front row of the Qin army's banner when they heard the sound of the Qin crossbow whistling.

They all faintly saw a big banner with the word "horse" waving on the high slope behind the Qin army, and the big flag with the word "Li" in the grain cart formation of the Qin army was also waving. Behind the Qin army's chariots, grain carts and shields were all fired with thousands of crossbows, and the Chu army fell in a large area in an instant, and the whole army began to be chaotic.

When Xingyang was fighting his troops, Long He ordered the army to rush forward, but he was hit by Han Xin's pocket formation, and he had palpitations. This time he immediately ordered the army to retreat and at the same time to the south.