Huaibei Yangcheng, the camp of the Qinzhong army, the general Qiang came to Wang Qian's big tent with the military information sent from the northern army, and his face was happy.

"The general's strategy is really clever! Fengpei has been captured by the Northern Army, and has made a posture of attacking Pengcheng, and the Dongjun garrison has also been ordered to attack Ludi, thinking that Xiang Yan has received urgent warnings everywhere. ”

Wang Jian was very satisfied: said with a smile: "The state of Chu is difficult to attack, because of its vast territory, if tens of thousands of people enter its territory, it will be like a fish into the sea, easy to ambush." But the state of Chu is easy to attack, and because of its large country, if its main force is hung here, then this thousand-mile border is full of flaws. ”

In February, after discovering that "soldiers are available", Wang Jian gave instructions for combat, and nearly 200,000 combat troops of the southern army and the Chinese army still did not move, but let the northern army led by the general Feng Wuxuan launch an attack on Fengpei and other places where the defense of Chu was weak, and it was easy to succeed.

He did this not to conquer the city, but to make Xiang Yan hesitate and make the Chu army upset.

This is what the Art of War says: I don't want to fight, draw the ground and defend it, and the enemy can't fight with me, so he can do what he wants. And I want to fight, although the enemy has a high base and a deep ditch, those who have to fight with me will be saved if they attack it!

"What do you think, how should the Chu army respond?"

Qiang Qi is also a general, and after pondering for a while, he pointed to the map and said: "The best strategy of the Chu army is that Xiang Yan saw through the general's intentions and sent troops to fight against me, gambling on a chance to survive!" ”

Wang Jian nodded: "If it was in the winter last year, when the Chu army had just assembled and the morale was high, Xiang Yan might dare to do so, but now the Chu army has been here for several months, the armor is full of lice, the swallows are in vain, and the soldiers do not return, and the food is becoming more and more scarce. ”

Qiang Qi said again: "The middle strategy is to give up the eastern land, shrink the front, and retreat a little east to protect it; The next strategy is to divide the troops and defend them, and want to cover everything. ”

"Since the Chu army has lost the morale to fight our army here, I guess Xiang Yan will take two strategies. As far as Lu Di is concerned, it is dispensable, and maybe the king of Chu will let Xiang Yan abandon it to defend Huaibei. But Pengcheng and Surabaya, he didn't dare to abandon ......"

Pengcheng was originally the ancient Great Peng country, after the Spring and Autumn Period, became the eastern capital of the Song State, after the fall of the Song State, it was seized by the Chu State, the Gangluan Mountains and Mountains in this place are encircled, the Biansi exchange, the north goes to Qi, Lu, the west passes Liang, Song, and the south is adjacent to Jianghuai, which is also a vital place. When King Yan of Song Dynasty was in power, he also took advantage of the topography of Pengcheng to seize 300 miles of land north of Huaibei in Chu State. Therefore, the gains and losses of Pengcheng, the prosperity and decline of the north and the south, if Pengcheng is lost, it is the loss of Huaibei, and even if Xiang Yan blocks Wang Jian here, the Huaibei in the rear will also be driven straight into by the Qin army, and it will be eroded.

Wang Jian firmly picked up the red chess piece representing the Chu army on the map and moved it from the front line to the east to the east of the chasm.

"Xiang Yan is now in a dilemma, weighing the pros and cons, he can only retreat east to shrink the front, and then send tens of thousands of soldiers over, trying to keep Pengcheng ......"

The enemy can work, be hungry, and be able to move, why not? Attacking it will be saved! Wang Jian put the Chu army in a difficult situation and demoralized through a few months of stalemate, and through a simple southern attack on the north, the Chu army had to make a strategic move.

Thinking of this, the old general picked up the black chess piece representing the Qin army and slapped it heavily on the red owl!

"When the Chu army retreats eastward and the camp is unstable, it is the time for our army to attack!"

"If so, then the Chu army will be defeated!" Qiang was very excited, and after months of waiting, this battle was finally going to be fought in earnest.

Wang Jian looked at Qiang Qi: "The vanguard of the Chinese army, two out of ten, has it been selected?" ”

This is a trick used by Wang Jian in the battle between Yan and Fame more than ten years ago, selecting two out of ten people, and then using this elite as a blade. For the past few months, Qiang has been in charge of selecting soldiers, and has these elites use "pawn balls" to move their muscles and bones and practice the art of assault and trapping.

"Of the 150,000 soldiers of the Chinese army, 30,000 elites have been gained!"

"What about the Southern Army?" Wang Jian also asked: Although the Chinese army from Guanzhong and Sanchuan was the main force in this battle, the strategic tasks that the southern army had to undertake were not light.

"General Mengwu sent a report to him, saying that he had decided to take 10,000 Nanjun soldiers with the highest morale as his heel army!"

"Nanjun Soldier ......"

Wang Jian couldn't help but think of the fierce competition in those games, and when he boarded the car, he said loudly: "We want to fight" soldiers, as well as Li You, Heifu and other military officials......

"I only hope that the Nanjun soldiers can be more brave on the battlefield than on the field!"

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In the early morning of February Xinsi, when Dongfang was only showing a little white, in a military camp located in the eastern suburbs of Shangcai, thousands of An soldiers got up early, or wiped their blades, or helped each other put on their armor.

Everyone stayed in this place for almost five months, although they didn't have to worry about food and clothing, there were games such as Keju to play, and Du Wei and Heifu also organized everyone to write a letter to their families, but in the end they were uncomfortable, and many soldiers even began to think that it was better to go anywhere, even if they were to be dragged to the battlefield and lick the blood from the knife edge, it was better than staying here!

Finally, they finally waited for the general's order, and in February, the southern army attacked!

At this time, the leader Heifu finally returned to the camp, he almost didn't sleep all night last night, and the Nanjun soldiers got the task of the forward heel army, Heifu can be described as both happy and worried.

The joy is that the forward has received greater credit than the average army, and the worry is that once the war does not go well, the forward is also the most casualties.

Therefore, Heifu simply went up to the corner tower of the fortress, and together with Zhang Han, he looked at the Chu army fortress almost parallel to the Qin wall twenty miles away, and there was a little fire on that side, but under the stars and moon, most of the places were pitch black......

According to the scouts, the Chu army has not been restless in the past few days, and the army has some commotion, and even in a certain camp tent, there has been a camp roar caused by a fire, and people and horses are roaring, but it was quickly quelled, and the Qin army was not given a chance. In recent days, although there are many banners on the barrier, no one has come to challenge them.

"The general expected that the Jing people were already preparing to retreat and shrink the defensive line to the east of the chasm, so he ordered the army to attack."

During the military discussion yesterday, Li You also told them the truth, and asked all the leaders to motivate the soldiers and prepare for war after they returned!

As a result, in the entire Nanjun military camp, the relaxed atmosphere was swept away, and when the sky was about to dawn, everyone had gathered outside the tent, gathered together, and stood in a neat phalanx!

"Really, so much......"

Xiao Tao, a hundred short-handed soldiers beside Heifu, couldn't help but speak, because whether he looked left or right, he could only see dense people.

Although the Nanjun soldiers only have 10,000 combat troops, they feel that there are too many to be in it, and the entire Nanjun army led by Mengwu has 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, and it is even more full of the inside of the endless barrier.

"A hundred miles away, the number of Chinese troops can be twice as many."

Heifu said, this huge amount, while bringing some psychological comfort to himself, should also be able to cause huge pressure on the other side, right? With more than 200,000 men launching an attack, what a huge scene!

Three drums tend to eat, four drums are strictly distinguished, and five drums are fine. As the drums beat to the fifth round, after the army had finished eating, they began to walk out of the wall door in order, and Zhang Han was still standing on the corner tower and bowed goodbye to Heifu.

"I wish you a long and successful return!"

Although Zhang Han kept saying that he liked the position of military secretary, he still had some envy in his eyes when he watched the army set off, after all, it was easy to make meritorious contributions by decapitation in real combat.

"Borrow Shaorong's auspicious words!" Heifu stood on the chariot and bowed his hand to Zhang Han.

In front of them, there were 2,000 "Xingjun", almost all of them were flexible chariots and horses, and their outfits were exactly the same as the "cavalry figurines" in the terracotta army: they wore short armor on the upper body, tight-fitting trousers on the bottom, long riding boots on their feet, small round hats on their heads, buckles on their hats, and bows and arrows on their backs.

Once the Xingjun discovered the enemy's situation and transmitted the information to the rear, the heel army had to quickly step forward and cooperate with the Xingjun army to defeat it and open up a smooth road for the army.

When Heifu and the others could see the barrier, the Xingjun had already completed the reconnaissance of the Chubi area for dozens of miles, and the commander of the Xingjun personally came back on horseback to tell Li You: "Captain Li, there seems to be something strange in the Chu camp!" ”

"What's wrong?"

Li You's heart tightened, this was the first time he had received the task of the forward heel army, and he was ready to fight to the death, and he didn't want any accidents.

"When we approached, the scouts of the Chu army did not come to stop them, but quickly withdrew. When we got closer, after Chu Bi found out about us, although he also beat the golden drum and lit fireworks to warn, the movement inside was surprisingly small, and the sharp-eyed people even saw that there was a black on the Chu camp curtain! ”

The cavalry general of the Xingjun said solemnly: "This piece seems to be an empty wall!" ”

Li You was more cautious, let the Xing army probe again, and by noon, the heel army had arrived at Chubi, and when they set up wall-breaking equipment, the counterattack of the Chu army on the fortress and corner tower was few, and even stopped completely after a while.

Li You hesitated for a while, and sent people back to ask Mengwu to send 20,000 people to meet on the flank, and then ordered everyone to attack!

The barrier that was unguarded was no different from an ordinary courtyard wall, and the Heifu team quickly broke through the barrier and entered the Chu military camp.

Inside, there was no Chu army array that they imagined, waiting for them to lure themselves into depth, nor did they encounter a drum beat and thousands of soldiers and horses pouring out.

There was only the empty road in the camp, and the crows croaking in the tent curtains......

The entire Chu army camp is almost empty!

Hefu had the camp searched for miles to the left, and looked at the ruts, horses' hooves, and footprints on the ground that were densely packed eastward, and the ashes left behind by the burning of the torches, and understood what had happened.

He didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief to avoid a tough battle, or to regret the withdrawal of the Chu army at the last moment?

"Go back and tell the Captain."

Heifu said to the herald Ji Ying: "Master Chu has escaped at night!" ”

The southern army is definitely going to fight for nothing, but I don't know how the Chinese army is doing? After all, it's hundreds of thousands of people, but it's not like they will be withdrawn!

……

At the same time, east of Ruyang, a brutal battle has just come to an end.

"With 30,000 elite pursuits, only 10,000 Chu troops were retained, and 30,000 people were captured?"

Listening to the military report sent back by Qiang, Wang Jian frowned, but then stretched out again, and said with a smile:

"In the battle of Yanling, the princes made many drums, and the night army was defeated; After the princes rescued Zheng, Chu Shi escaped at night; In the battle of the corner, Chu Shi escaped again...... Chu Jun is really an expert at night escape, and even I was fooled. ”

Laughing and laughing, Wang Jian couldn't help but admire in his heart, Xiang Yan made a move that even he didn't expect, not only retreated eastward, but also retreated extremely quickly, so that the Qin army only had time to catch their broken tails and avoid the doom of being served in a pot.

Indeed, if the Qin army suddenly attacks, the Chu camp is mixed with poorly ordered people, I am afraid that it will fall into chaos, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, and now, Xiang Yan calmly withdraws, and will let the people and the army go two ways, luring the Qin army to pursue the people, Xiang Yan will repeat the trick of defeating Li Xin, and attack the rear......

But this trick is useless for Wang Qian!

Because he is not a lone soldier of Juan Ai, but a thousand forces to the top of Mount Tai!

"Order the Chinese army to be in the north of Yingshui, closely follow the Chu army, and then let the southern army break through in the south of Yingshui, in front of the Chu army, if the Chu army wants to cross the water, wait for it to cross halfway and attack it! I want to see how far Xiang Yan wants to involve the strength of my army, but how far he can retreat! ”