Chapter 9 Different Paths to the Same End Eighty-Nine The beginning of the Great War of Chu and Zhao
Just when Xiang Liang was preparing to take Yingshou in one go, the rainy season came unexpectedly, and the obscene rain was not conducive to fighting, so Xiang Liang had to let the army retreat to the suburbs of Yingshou 100 miles away, preparing to wait for the rainy season to end, and then attack the city.
In the two months since crossing the river, the Chu army has not tasted a single defeat, and Xiang Liang has gradually begun to be careless, he drinks and recreations in the camp every day, and even throws all military discipline behind. Up and down, the 200,000 Chu army was also happy to be at ease, and for a time, there was a wind of arrogance and laziness in the entire Chu army camp.
Zuo Shi Song Yi was quite worried when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but walk into the big tent of the Chinese army, and bluntly admonished Xiang Liang: "The king crossed the river to this point, repeatedly defeated the Zhao army, and his prestige is growing!" However, there is no joy today, and there is no fear of today! The ministers taste it, and defeat the arrogant and lazy. Today, the pawn is lazy, and the main force of the Zhao army is nowhere to be found, and the ministers are afraid of it. ”
Xiang Liang couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Mr. is too worried!" Zhao Jun has been defeated and retreated repeatedly, how dare he come again? In the case of heavy rain in the middle of the day, the roads are muddy, and most of them are iron horses and heavy armor, how can they attack me? As soon as the sky is clear, I will be the whole army to recover Yingshou and point the sword at Handan! ”
Song Yi still wanted to persuade again, but he didn't want Xiang Liang's face to gradually darken, Song Yi felt a chill in his heart, knowing that whatever he said now was just superfluous, so he frowned and thought about it: "The general has recovered Pengcheng last month, but he is still standing still, and the minister asked for orders to go to Pengcheng to urge the general to lead the army west and encircle Yingshou." Song Yi knew that if this continued, Xiang Liang would die in a few days and there would be no place to be buried, and he was not willing to accompany Xiang Liang to be buried here.
Xiang Liang was also tired of Song Yi's endless chatter in front of him every day, and when he saw that he took the initiative to leave, he naturally couldn't ask for it, so he nodded and agreed without saying a word: "It's so good, I don't know when Zuo Shi will set off?" ”
"Without further ado, the minister will set off immediately!" Leave early and be safe early, Song Yizhen didn't want to stay longer for a moment, after he hurriedly resigned to Xiang Liang, he didn't even bother to pack his luggage, and went straight to the east to leave the camp......
At this time, the 50,000 flying cavalry of the Zhao army had also secretly completed the assembly in a dense forest not far from the Chu army camp.
Deputy General Li You stepped on the mud everywhere, walked to Zhao Kuo's side with difficulty, and reported in a low voice: "The scout has come to report, the generals of the Chu army are arrogant and lazy, and they are completely defenseless!" The fighter plane is fleeting, please make a decision quickly! "The continuous heavy rain has drenched all the soldiers and soldiers of Zhao who are lurking in the depths of the dense forest, and if they do not attack, the combat effectiveness of the Zhao army will be greatly reduced.
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Kuo wiped the rain from his face and said lightly: "It's still early, warn the soldiers to wait patiently and wait until late at night before attacking!" ”
"No." Li You bowed his hand and turned to leave.
"Sister Xue, how is this rain?" The big war was imminent, Zhao Kuo closed his eyes and listened to the wind and rain, trying to calm himself down.
"Legend has it that when King Wu was fighting, it rained heavily from the sky, and it was horizontal. San Yisheng was suspected of being a demon elephant, but King Wu said, the sky washed the soldiers! Today's heavy rain is the rain of washing the troops, and it should be regarded as an auspicious omen of our army's victory! Ji Xue said with a smile.
"What a rain wash!" Hearing Ji Xue say this, Zhao Kuo's originally anxious mood suddenly eased a lot, and when he looked up at this annoying heavy rain again, he couldn't help but feel a little interested.
Boundless darkness gradually covered the land, and the rain began to fall heavier.
"General, the time has passed, do you want to attack?" Li You came to Zhao Kuo again.
Zhao Kuo didn't speak, just nodded silently, Li You understood in his heart, and immediately took the order.
After a while, only to hear the shouts outside the Chu camp to kill the heavens, the Chu soldiers woke up from their dreams, and the Zhao army's flying cavalry had swept into the Chu army camp like a hurricane, and it didn't take long for the Chu army to be divided into countless battle groups, large and small. The Zhao army took a team of 1,000 people, each fighting for itself, cutting people when they saw them, stabbing them when they encountered horses, and the soldiers of Chu were so frightened that they were scattered, and they only hated their parents for having one leg less, and occasionally a few people who barely stepped forward to block them with weapons, but they only used their mantis arms as a car, and they lost their lives in vain.
Xiang Liang, who was drunk, was woken up by the guards with cold water, and just wanted to get angry, but heard shouts of killing from outside the tent. Frightened, Xiang Liang hurriedly put on a regular robe, and fled out of the tent in a panic with a short sword in hand. Unexpectedly, a team of 1,000 people from Zhao Jun happened to pass by, and the two sides suddenly started a fierce hand-to-hand fight, and in less than a moment, there were not many of the five hundred guards left around Xiang Liang.
Facing the red torrent surging towards him from all directions, Xiang Liang was completely desperate: "Heaven is dead, my great Chu is also!" Xiang Liang let out a long cry of sorrow, and then inserted the short sword in his hand into his abdomen......
A few days later, Xiang Liang's troops gathered under the city of Pengcheng one after another, and there were about 20,000 people at a cursory glance. Looking at the group of listless and unmotivated soldiers downstairs in the city, Xiang Yu's heart suddenly cooled in half.
"Uncle, where is my uncle?" Xiang Yu staggered down the city tower and grabbed a soldier who had just entered the city.
"Big ...... The king died in battle......" The soldier was caught by Xiang Yu and hurriedly replied.
"Impossible!" Looking at the soldiers covered in black blood stains in front of him, Xiang Yu shook his head into a drum in disbelief, "Uncle is a hero, it's impossible!" It is impossible to break ......"
"Please mourn the General's Day!" Seeing Xiang Yu's terrifying expression, the surrounding soldiers hurriedly bowed their hands and comforted in unison.
In the persuasion of the soldiers, Xiang Yu was even more excited, and suddenly he actually cried. Infected by Xiang Yu's emotions, the three armies were moved for a while, and the entire Pengcheng was shrouded in a cry of pain.
"General, now is not the time to be sad, the Zhao army is coming at any time, if we don't do a strategy to defend against the enemy, our army will inevitably be wiped out!" The general reminded in a low voice.
"The officers and men of the three armies live or die, all in the hands of the general! Please put the big picture first! Right Sima Long also choked and knelt down, seeing the dragon and kneeling, all the soldiers also knelt down, "Please take the overall situation first!" ”
Xiang Yu sighed, turned around and left without saying a word, leaving only the soldiers who knelt on the ground, looking at each other.
In less than three days, Zhao General Wuchen led a forward force composed of 30,000 cavalry to rush in a mighty manner. But what Wuchen didn't expect was that the huge Pengcheng City was actually open, and at a glance, the streets in the city were also empty, and it seemed that there was not even a single figure.
"What is Xiang Yu's move?" Faced with such a scene, Wuchen is really in a dilemma.
"Xiang Liang is dead, Xiang Yu naturally fled from the wind!" It was Zhang Er, a Wei man who had just defected to Zhao not long ago, who spoke.
"What Mr. Zhang said is reasonable, but ......" his intuition told Wu Chen that there must be something strange in this Peng City, but for a while he couldn't say why.
"Xiang Yuding didn't go far, he was willing to lead an army to stay in Pengcheng, stick to it, and wait for reinforcements, and General Wu can lead the army to chase and destroy the remnants of the enemy!" Zhang Er couldn't help but urge, in his eyes, Xiang Liang died in battle, the Chu army was already a group of dragons without a leader, and if they wanted to be caught up by the Zhao army, they would naturally be vulnerable and collapse at the first touch.
Wuchen pondered for a long time, and didn't seem to come up with any better idea, so he allocated 5,000 soldiers and handed them to Zhang Er, and then personally led the rest of the 25,000 cavalry to bypass Pengcheng and chase straight south.
But what Wuchen never expected was that all this was a plan set by Xiang Yu in advance, and the Zhao army had just passed less than three hundred miles from Pengcheng before being ambushed by the Chu army. Wuchen's department was not the main elite of the Zhao army, and in the face of the brave and good fighting 8,000 Jiangdong disciples, in less than half an hour, most of them were killed and wounded.
Seeing that the momentum was not right, Wuchen hurriedly ordered the whole army to fight and retreat, moving closer to Pengcheng. But when the Wuchen army finally retreated to the city of Pengcheng, with the earth-shattering shouts of killing, countless banners of the Chu army were instantly erected on the city tower. It turned out that there were also Xiang Yu's ambush soldiers hidden in the city, and the five thousand Zhao troops who had entered the city before had already been killed.
Still in a daze, Xiang Yu had already covered up from behind, and under the offensive of the Chu army's front and rear attacks, the Zhao army's forward was actually annihilated, and the military ministers had no way out, and they also became prisoners of the Chu army.
"Go back and tell Zhao Kuo that Zhao Guo will not be destroyed in this life, and Xiang Yu will not be a man!" After cutting off the nose of the martial minister, Xiang Yu ordered him to be released and sent back to Zhao Kuo's army.
When the bloodied warrior appeared in front of Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but be furious, and he immediately urged the army to march towards Pengcheng. But by the time the Zhao army rumbled to Pengcheng, the Chu army had already crossed the Huaishui south and disappeared without a trace.