If it weren't for the full help of Master Xiang Boxiang, with Liu Laosan's own efforts, there would be no way to persuade Xiang Yu to take advantage of it and run away, and take the road to retreat to Pengcheng across Surabaya first.

Thanks to Master Xiang's greed for life and fear of death is far greater than ordinary people, he tried his best to help Liu Laosan persuade Xiang Yu, plus no one else objected, and Xiang Yu sent people north several times to contact Xiang Zhuang and never returned, so that the overdeveloped Xiang Yu vaguely felt that the situation was not good, and after careful consideration, Xiang Yu accepted the kind advice of Master Xiang and Liu Laosan, and decided to suddenly cross Surabaya at dawn on the third day after defeating Zheng Bu, and retreat to Pengcheng first, so that the Chuji coalition army that had lost contact could find a way to break through and escape for their lives.

It's not bad, because the main force of the Western Chu army did not plan to be stationed in Huling for a long time before, the retreat of the Western Chu army this time does not need to be as troublesome as the last time it retreated in Puyang, and it only took one day to prepare for departure, but for the sake of safety, try not to give the Han army the opportunity to run to make trouble after receiving the news, Xiang Yu still formulated a rather careful retreat plan with the help of the Western Chu army's civil and military forces, and decided to pull out the camp on the fourth watch, raise troops on the fifth watch, and cross Surabaya in two hours, so that the Han army can urgently dispatch even if it receives the news, and it was too late to cause too much trouble to the Western Chu army.

But even so, Liu Laosan and Kui Che and other people still have a layer of worry, afraid that the Han army will be like the first two days, send troops to Lao Qi in the evening to rush to build a camp, and take advantage of the distance advantage to find the Western Chu army crossing the river and retreat too early, the result is not bad, after the sky is dark, the last team of Western Chu army scouts back to the camp report, confirming that as of the end of the day, the Han army has not sent an army, Liu Laosan and Kui Che and others quietly breathed a sigh of relief and completely relieved.

At the time of the fourth correction of the night, according to the original plan, all the officers and men of the Western Chu army, who had a strength of about 120,000, got up and prepared, hurriedly ate some dry food made at dinner, and then immediately began to pack up the camp tent baggage, and also very smoothly rushed to load all the camp tent baggage before the fifth correction, and assembled the queue with torches, Xiang Yu also quickly gave an order, so that the Western Chu army crossed Surabaya in batches in order.

Still after giving the order to retreat, Xiang Yucai, who had just fought two happy battles, said with regret: "It's all to blame on that stupid brother of Xiang Zhuang, if he can get in touch with us and let us know the general situation of the Han thieves on the northern front, this king is really reluctant to take the initiative to retreat." ”

"For the sake of safety, don't be so sorry." Master Xiang Boxiang rarely expressed a correct opinion, and said: "It will take time for us to withdraw to Pengcheng deep ditch and high fortress, as long as we withdraw to Pengcheng first and build a strong fortress that can be held for a long time, we can be invincible. ”

Xiang Yu nodded with great regret, and then looked at the direction of the Yutai Pavilion in the upper reaches of Surabaya with one eye, and snorted coldly: "Little Zhuzi, let you be proud first, if you have the courage, don't wait for Uncle Zhou's horseman, cross the river at dawn to pursue, and see how this king cleans up ......." ”

Humming coldly, Xiang Yu couldn't hum anymore, because his one-eyed suddenly saw that the upper reaches of Surabaya under the moonlight seemed to have ignited a few fires, and after suspecting that he had made a mistake and quickly rubbed his eyes, Xiang Yu carefully used his one-eyed eyes to look at the situation upstream, and then he opened his mouth to confirm that not only did he not see it wrong, but not only did there indeed appear a few fires in the upper reaches of Surabaya, but the number of fires was also increasing rapidly!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

"Bell, bell, bell! Enemy attack! The thief is coming! The thief's fire raft is coming! ”

At this time, in the upper reaches of Surabaya in the west, there was also a sudden sound of gong alarm and the shouts of the soldiers of the Western Chu army, and the Western Chu army, which had just begun to cross the river, was also in an uproar, and Master Xiang and Kui Che and others around Xiang Yu were even more shocked, "How is it possible?" We have just started to cross the river, why did the fire raft of the thieves come to burn the pontoon bridge? ”

No matter how much you scream, it is useless, under the impetus of the river, hundreds of bamboo rafts loaded with firewood and grass that have been lit down the river, and quickly rushed to the ten pontoon bridges built by the West Chu army on the surface of the Surabaya River, the night wind fueled the fire, and let the fire of the Han army raft burn bigger and bigger, and gradually turned into a huge fire ball floating on the water, unstoppably flowing to the West Chu army pontoon, the West Chu army soldiers on the pontoon bridge were also completely chaotic, some people rushed across the river, and some people hurriedly retreated to the north bank of Surabaya, for fear that the pontoon bridge would be burned by the fire raft and let themselves fall into the river.

"Stop crossing the river! Assemble and get ready for battle! The thief is coming! ”

After all, he was a person who had been stumbling on the battlefield for many years, and as soon as he came back to his senses, Xiang Yu immediately understood that the surprise attack of the Han army was coming, and he decisively ordered to stop crossing the river and give priority to preparing to meet the upcoming Han enemy. Then, as Xiang Yu expected, the Western Chu army had just stopped crossing the river and retreated south, and before the main force of the Western Chu army was ready to prepare for battle, the upper reaches of Surabaya were already thundering, and countless Han cavalry were shouting and killing with torches.

Fortunately, the Han army raft that was dispatched too early gave the Western Chu army a certain amount of time to respond, and the rear team of the Western Chu army in charge of the palace had urgently prepared for battle, and shot the Han cavalry with random arrows in time, not giving the Han cavalry a chance to defeat the rear team of the Western Chu army. However, as soon as the Han cavalry took the initiative to retreat, countless torches appeared in the upstream direction of Surabaya, and countless Han infantry rushed quickly.

At this time, Liu Laosan also rushed to Xiang Yu's face, and shouted as soon as they met: "King, there must have been a leak of the news in advance, or there was a traitor who preemptively told the Han thief first, otherwise the Han thief would never have come so quickly!" ”

"Do you still have to say that?" Xiang Yu scolded loudly angrily, and then decisively ordered: "Uncle Ji, you, Xiang Xiang, and Xiang You stay at the ferry, carefully protect the military quartermasters, and the rest of the generals will follow this king to the west to meet the enemy!" ”

"Don't be fooled, my lord!" Liu Laosan hurriedly objected: "The thief was in such a hurry to do it, and deliberately released a fire raft to burn the bridge when we just started crossing the river, the purpose must be to entangle us and prevent us from crossing the river smoothly!" We must not let the thieves get their wish! The best way is to face the battle on the spot, protect the pontoon bridge with all your might, and wait for the thieves' raft to burn out before resolutely crossing the river, so as to get rid of the entanglement of the thieves as soon as possible! ”

"Fart!" Xiang Yu cursed a swear word and roared: "The thief dares to take the initiative to send him to death, such a good opportunity, how can this king be willing to miss it?" Immediately go west and kill all the thieves for this king! ”

Don't dare to disobey Xiang Yu's order, the generals of the Western Chu army can only act obediently according to the order, and immediately return to their respective teams to command the troops, and then stride westward under the personal leadership of Xiang Yu, and do not hesitate to meet the Han army team that took the initiative to kill.

It was similar to Liu Laosan's estimate, after seeing the Western Chu army slaughtering in a big way, the Han army's foot cavalry really retreated at the slightest touch, and quickly retreated towards the way it came, Xiang Yu, who liked field battles, of course pursued closely, roaring and leading more than 70,000 Western Chu troops to chase in stride, and swore with red eyes that all the Han troops who took the initiative to send to the door were slaughtered and killed, and roared early: "Chase!" Don't be afraid even if there's an ambush! As long as the ambush soldiers of the Han thieves dare to rush out, they will kill all the kings together! ”

It was also similar to Xiang Yu's expectations, after chasing nearly twenty miles to the west, there was really a killing sound in the dense forest in the north, and a large number of Han army ambushes suddenly shouted and killed, and the surprise attack hit the waist of the Western Chu army. Fortunately, the Western Chu army had been prepared for this for a long time, not only did not panic in the slightest, but on the contrary, they also launched a decisive counterattack, and launched a two-way melee with the Han army in the darkness before dawn.

This is also the largest field opportunity that Xiang Yu has ever had after the start of the Chu-Han War, and what made Xiang Yu very proud was that under his command, even if the Western Chu Army was ambushed by the Han army, it still relied on extremely powerful counterattacks to kill the Han army to the point that it was difficult to parry, not only did not take any advantage at all, but also gradually showed defeat when the sky was just dawning.

What made Xiang Yu ecstatic was still to come, when the first ray of sunlight finally shone on the top of the West Mountain, Xiang Yu's one-eyed eye clearly saw that the banner of the Han King, which was annoying at first glance, of the scum cousin, actually appeared on the Laoqi Heights not far to the west! Overjoyed, Xiang Yu ignored the fact that the Lao Qi Heights were already lined up with Han soldiers, pointed at the Lao Qi Heights with his spear, and shouted frantically: "Kill it!" Who can obtain the head of Xiang Kang's traitor, this king will share the world equally with him! ”

After Xiang Yu, who was notoriously stingy with rewards, finally gave a generous hand, the main force of the Western Chu army, which was already strong and brave, broke out with incredibly powerful combat effectiveness, first quickly defeated the Han army ambush from the north, forced the Han army ambush to flee north back to the mountains and forests, and then strode forward, forcibly impacting the Laoqi Heights with a thunderous momentum, and in a moment they defeated the Han army infantry that was blocking the frontal block, and rushed to the side of the Laoqi Heights.

Looking condescendingly at the unstoppable offensive of the Western Chu army, Rao is Xiang Kang and the generals of the Han army have already experienced a hundred battles, and they can't help but be speechless, Xiang Kang also had to sigh sincerely, "It is worthy of my overlord brother, he is really invincible!" Be unparalled anywhere in the world! ”

No matter how much he sighed, it was in vain, in order to entangle the main force of the Western Chu army to gain time, and in order to survive, Xiang Kang could only order the soldiers of the Han army to stick to the high ground and strive to retreat the Western Chu army, but what shocked Xiang Kang and the generals of the Han army again was that even if the Han army had some condescending geographical advantages, the soldiers responsible for protecting Xiang Kang were all the elite of the Han army who had experienced a hundred battles, and they were still rushed back again and again by the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu, and several infantry phalanxes were forcibly defeated by the Western Chu army.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Kang could only hurriedly order the soldiers of the Han army to shrink their positions, trying to block the crazy impact of the Western Chu army with dense troops, but this only had a partial effect, delaying the defeat time of the Han army.

Seeing this, even the number one fierce general under Xiang Kang's command, Long He, began to tremble, and had to say like Xiang Kang: "King, if the situation is not right, please let the last general be in charge of the palace, you don't have to pay attention to the situation of the last general, and first withdraw to the Yutai Pavilion camp to ensure your safety." ”

Xiang Kang nodded, accepted Long Ji's kindness, and said to himself: "I hope it won't come to that point, otherwise, our losses will be great." ”

It backfired, and the fierce battle reached nearly half of the time, the front team of the Han army was still unable to block the crazy attack of the Western Chu army, and completely collapsed under the impact of Xiang Yu's personally led the army, shouting and being forced to flee for his life to the way he came, Xiang Yu roared excitedly, and led the Western Chu army to kill directly to the position of the Han army where Xiang Kang was located, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army were also brave to take the lead, and the roaring voice spread for miles, "Kill!" Capture Xiang Kang alive! Capture Xiang Kang alive! ”

Shaking his head helplessly, Xiang Kang, who was unwilling to die in vain, had no choice but to be Long He, who had already begun to urge him to flee for his life, and said: "General Long, Your Highness will please leave it to you!" Remember, be sure to come back alive to see me! ”

Long and solemnly clenched his fists and agreed, Xiang Kang also turned his horse's head and quickly fled into the rear army, for the first time in his life, he threw down the army and fled for his life at the time of the battle, and the heavy armor of the Han army led by Zhang Zhong followed closely, ready to take on the identity of the second team of the palace to cover Xiang Kang's retreat. As a result, seeing Xiang Kang's handsome banner fleeing westward, Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army roared like thunder, rushing to kill like fire, "Chase!" Xiang Kang must not be allowed to run away! ”

The team behind the palace of the Han army led by Long He only bought Xiang Kang a moment, and quickly fought a bloody way in the crowd of the Han army, Xiang Yu led the soldiers of the Western Chu army to run like flying, roaring and chasing after Xiang Kang's handsome banner, during which the Han cavalry led by Guan Ying killed from the side to cover, and was also quickly defeated by the Western Chu army with high morale, and the team of the Western Chu army was like a dragon out of the sea, constantly rushing westward.

Seeing that the Western Chu army was chasing too closely, Xiang Kang really had no choice, so he could only adopt the kind advice of Xu Ji and others, and put down his handsome flag in the flight for the first time, making it difficult for Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army to find out where their position was, but even so, the Western Chu Army still bit Xiang Kang's Han army brigade to the death, and never gave Xiang Kang a chance to get out calmly, and even if Long He forcibly followed after the Han army rear team that could still be restrained, it did not force Xiang Yu and the Western Chu army to turn back to face the battle.

Fortunately, Lao Qi was only more than 20 miles away from the Yutaiting camp of the Han army, and Xiang Kang, who fled on horseback, did not need to run long distances to escape back to the camp, but when he could already see the Yutaiting camp from afar, Xiang Kang suddenly considered a dangerous possibility, and had to shout like Zhang Zhong, who had always followed behind him: "Zhang Zhong, you take the heavy armor soldiers to stay behind the palace!" Buy me time! Otherwise, if the Western Chu Thief Army takes advantage of the situation and follows us into our camp, we will be all finished! ”

Zhang Zhong didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately led the only five hundred Han army heavy armor soldiers around Xiang Kang to turn around, and rushed directly to Xiang Yu's handsome banner, Xiang Yu didn't care at first, but when he was stunned to see that his spear was not able to pierce the armor of the Han army's heavy armor soldiers, Xiang Yu immediately understood the situation, and roared: "Okay! In order to escape for your life, you don't even want your heavy armor! Okay, this king wants to see if you are a powerful heavy armor soldier or a powerful king! ”

Roaring, Xiang Yu decisively stabbed for smashing, brandishing a spear to smash the heads of the Han army's heavy armor soldiers, and also relied on the peerless divine power of pulling out the mountains and covering the world, knocking down and stunning the Han army's heavy armor soldiers who Xiang Kang regarded as treasures, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army behind took the opportunity to rush to kill, or stabbed to death the heavy armored soldiers who had passed out with spears and sharp swords, or quickly drowned the Han heavy armor soldiers who were killed by Xiang Yu Chong and forced to fight separately with their numerical advantage.

It's a pity that although Xiang Yu is incomparably powerful, the spear in his hand is limited by durability, and after he smashed more than a dozen Han army heavy armor soldiers one after another, he suddenly folded, and what is even more unfortunate is that at this time, Zhang Zhong, a well-known martial arts expert in the world in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, also rushed to him, and the steel spear in his hand stabbed out quickly, and it directly stabbed Xiang Yu's lower abdomen, and directly pierced the bronze armor on Xiang Yu's body, and pierced the skin of Xiang Yu's lower abdomen!

"God help me!"

Under the secret joy, Zhang Zhong, who was also outstanding in strength, hurriedly stabbed with all his strength, trying to directly stab Xiang Yu to death with a spear, but Xiang Yu was quick with his eyes and hands, decisively threw away the broken spear, grabbed Zhang Zhong's steel spear that had already stabbed himself with both hands, not only pulled out the steel spear that was about to pierce his lower abdomen, but also lifted Zhang Zhong to the ground on his feet and rose in the air, Zhang Zhong, who had never seen this kind of strange power, screamed loudly in disbelief, but Xiang Yu waved his hands violently, and smashed Zhang Zhong, who was wearing steel armor, directly to the ground, and then snatched the steel spear in Zhang Zhong's hand, Slammed the hilt of the spear into Zhang Zhong's helmet, and blood and brains spurted out of Zhang Zhong's face protection.

After forcibly killing Zhang Zhong and snatching the steel spear that would not break, Xiang Yu became an invincible existence in the chaotic army, regardless of the fact that his lower abdomen had begun to bleed, wielding the steel spear like a demon god descending into the world, smashing and knocking down the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army who forcibly rushed one after another, and the roar directly overwhelmed the noise on the battlefield, "Who else!" Who else! ”

No one can stop Xiang Yu in this state, under his personal leadership of the army to kill, in this battle, including the famous general Zhang Zhong of the Han army, all five hundred Han army heavy armor soldiers were killed, and none of them were spared!

Fortunately, Zhang Zhong and the heavy armor soldiers of the Han army were not sacrificed in vain, relying on their sacrifice hall, Xiang Kang, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, finally escaped back to the Han army camp smoothly, and the Han army soldiers who stayed in the camp were united, and after receiving many Han army defeated soldiers back to the camp, they shot the Western Chu army chased by Xiang Yu personally with dense feather arrows, and did not give the Western Chu army a chance to take advantage of the situation to enter the Han army camp, Xiang Yu roared angrily outside the camp, Xiang Kang also had palpitations in the center of the Han military camp, and sighed: "It's so dangerous!" I don't want to encounter this situation a second time. ”

Three successive impacts were repelled by the Han army with arrows, seeing that it was really impossible to rush into the Han army camp, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up the attack and reorganize the team, while ordering the soldiers of the Western Chu Army to chase down the defeated soldiers of the Han army who had not had time to escape back to the camp, while hurriedly bandaging his abdominal wound that was stabbed by Zhang Zhong, and then after taking off his armor, Xiang Yu fought an unprecedented cold war - Zhang Zhong's stabbed wound could already see his own intestines!

Seeing such a situation, of course, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army next to him were also shocked, including Liu Laosan, who had just arrived, they all hurried up to help Xiang Yu bandage his wounds, Xiang Yu forced his composure and said with a smile: "It's okay, a small injury, it won't affect this king to continue to kill the enemy!" ”

"Brother...... King! King! King, why are you injured too? Does it matter? ”

A very familiar voice suddenly came into Xiang Yu's ears, and when Xiang Yu subconsciously looked up, he saw that it was his cousin Xiang Zhuang who rushed to the front with a face covered with blood stains and sweat, and hurriedly smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a small ......injury." ”

Before he finished speaking, Xiang Yu had suddenly come back to his senses, and hurriedly yelled at Xiang Zhuang and asked, "Brother, why are you here?" When did you come? ”

Xiang Zhuang didn't answer immediately, but just knelt down on Xiang Yu's knees with a plop, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, junior brother is incompetent, you handed over to my army, I only brought back less than a thousand people, and the rest were annihilated by the Han thieves." Tianda, the king of Jibei, was also killed. ”

"Where are the thieves from the north?" Xiang Yu hurriedly shouted again: "Uncle Zhou, where is it?" ”

"It's here, it's time to Teng County." Xiang Zhuang cried and replied: "In the second half of the night yesterday, I finally fled back to Teng County with the defeated soldiers, and the county commander Wang Long who had thought of Teng County rebelled, and suddenly raised the banner of the Han thief and sent troops to intercept our defeated soldiers. ”

Xiang Yu was stunned, and for the first time in his life, his face turned completely pale, and he muttered after a while: "You have already arrived in Teng County?" That is to say, in the second half of last night, the Han thieves on the northern line were only forty miles away from us. ”

"No wonder I haven't been able to contact Zuo Sima and them, it turns out that there is a problem in Teng County."

Liu Laosan next to him finally came to his senses, but after coming to his senses, Liu Laosan couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to himself: "Okay, although this battle was won, in the end, it was worse than losing." Even if we pass Surabaya first, the situation will not be so passive! ”

God made a huge joke with the poor Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu, and finally got the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Han army in the middle, and finally won a big victory as he wished, forcing Xiang Kang to put down the handsome flag and flee for the first time in his life, but before the Western Chu army returned to the camp triumphantly, the main force of the northern line of the Han army, whose strength was far above the main force of the Han army's middle road, had suddenly appeared near the main force of the Western Chu army, and after several years, for the first time, the main force of the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu himself, In front of the Han army, they are absolutely weak!