Relying on the barrier of Wenshui, Feng Zhongjun finally won another day's rest, so that the tired soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, but the Zhou Lan Department of the Western Chu Army, who was afraid to go west, found a ferry to cross the river downstream, and was even more afraid that the Jibei Army would send troops to intercept after receiving the news, and it was only at dawn the next day that Feng Zhongjun could only quickly set off to the north, and fled to Suiji in the north according to the original plan. Buy time for the retreat of the main brigade.

During this period, Ding Gu, who was afraid of being questioned by Xiang Yu, also used boats and rafts to launch a rush to cross, fortunately, Gangting was remote, the boats were scarce, and the raft was inconvenient to operate, and the Western Chu army was difficult to invest troops on the north bank, relying on the stubborn resistance and heroic fighting of the soldiers, the Feng Zhongjun team led by Xu Ci still gritted their teeth and repelled the rush of the Western Chu army, and insisted on taking the initiative to abandon the ferry after Shen Shi in the afternoon, and went north to chase the main force, Ding Gu also immediately led the army to cross the river and launched a crazy pursuit again.

On the evening of the same day, the messenger sent by the Western Chu Army also sent the news that Feng Zhongjun had fled north into the territory of Jibei County, and sent it to Boyang City, the capital of Jibei State, and the result was good for Feng Zhongjun, although Xiang Yu's canonized Jibei Wang Tian Du was quite annoyed that Feng Zhongjun's Tai Sui was breaking ground on his head, and he dared to flow into his own territory, but because he did not have too deep a grudge with Feng Zhongjun, he was not very anxious to kill Feng Zhongjun, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that Tian Du sent his subordinate Tian Jiao to lead an army of 5,000 to the west, to help the Western Chu army encircle and pursue Feng Zhongjun.

The slow reaction of the Jibei army gave Feng Zhongjun the opportunity to successfully capture Suiji, and the next afternoon, when the Jibei army was still on the way west to Suiji, Feng Zhongjun's front team had already killed Suiji, and easily took this township that was only protected by a soil enclosure, opening the way for Feng Zhongjun to continue northward, and also seized some food and materials to supply the army.

However, the more severe test is still to come, this area of Suiji is already sparsely populated, the road is narrow, and it has been repeatedly destroyed by the war, the road from Suiji north to Lu County is even more seriously damaged, bumpy and difficult to walk, and the time is in a hurry Feng Zhongjun soldiers have no time to repair the road surface, resulting in most of the road sections, the Han army's family members can only get off the car and walk forward, which seriously slows down Feng Zhongjun's marching speed, plus there are too many old and weak among the Han army's family members, so that when they get to the back, Feng Zhongjun's soldiers can only take turns carrying the Han army's family members to march on the road, The burden of the soldiers was even heavier.

Fortunately, there are disadvantages and advantages, narrow roads and complex terrain provide an ideal ambush position for Feng Zhongjun, when Feng Zhongjun's rear team, which was bitten by the Western Chu army, was about to catch up with the main force, Feng Zhong, who had accumulated a lot of battlefield experience, took advantage of such terrain to fight a beautiful ambush battle, and preemptively ambushed the army at the dangerous places on both sides of the road. The Western Chu army was defeated and fled, and opened the distance between itself and Feng Zhong's army.

After the ambush was successful, Feng Zhongjun, who was chased by the Western Chu army, in addition to a certain morale boost, also successfully rotated the army of the palace, and Wang Fang, another young marshal, led the army to the rear of the palace, so that Xu Ci's tired army got a chance to breathe. At the same time, Feng Zhong also adopted Li Shiqi's suggestion, chose another position suitable for ambush, and planted false flags in the woods on both sides of the road, intimidating the enemy behind with suspicious soldiers, and buying time for the army to move north.

When he pursued Feng Zhongjun's suspicious position, he saw the Han army flags planted in the woods on both sides of the road, and the Western Chu army, which had already suffered a loss, really did not dare to continue the pursuit, and chose to take the initiative to stop and wait for the rear army brigade to come to reinforcements, but when Ding Gu arrived at the scene with the Western Chu army brigade, Feng Zhongjun had already gone far after finding out that Feng Zhongjun was just bluffing, and the Western Chu army once again wasted nearly two hours of precious time, Ding Gu jumped like thunder, While scolding the generals who commanded the front team to the blood, he hurriedly led the army to continue the pursuit, trying his best to catch up with the target before Feng Zhong's army crossed the Jishui.

If Feng Zhongjun's front team can successfully take the dock in Luxian County and capture enough boats to build a pontoon bridge for the army to cross the river, then needless to say, Feng Zhongjun can not only get a peaceful rest time, but also use Jishui to open up the distance between him and the pursuing soldiers again. But if Feng Zhongjun's front team failed to kill the enemy in Lu County and did not capture enough boats to cross the river, then it is needless to say that Feng Zhongjun's army ended up in a complete rout at the lightest.

Still on the same day, the news that Feng Zhong's army fled north into the territory of Jibei County was also sent to Xiang Yu, who was personally leading the army to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of Peng Yue's army, and learned of this situation, the grumpy Xiang Yu of course roared angrily, scolding Ding Gu and Zhou Lan who were not pursuing effectively, and then Xiang Yu angrily sent fast horses, and went north along the gallop road to personally give an order to Tian Du, the king of Jibei, asking Tian Du to help the Western Chu army to encircle and suppress Feng Zhong, the number one traitor of the Western Chu army, and also threatened that if Feng Zhong slipped out of the territory of Jibei County, Then it must be good-looking!

When Xiang Yu sent someone to send this order, Feng Zhongjun's front team Wei Bugen's troops also rushed to the city of Lu County, and rushed to the dock to collect the civilian ships at the first time, although the Jibei Army in Lu County County did not have time to know why the Han army fell from the sky, but out of duty, it still hurriedly sent troops to block it, and fought fiercely with Feng Zhongjun's front team at the dock outside the city.

Of course, it was a hard battle, although the combat experience and weapons and equipment were above the Lu County of the Jibei Army, but because of the serious decline in physical strength, Feng Zhongjun still fought very hard in this battle, at the critical moment, the old man of the young marshal army Wei Bugen also personally rushed to the front line with his own soldiers to fight fiercely, and with great effort, and paid a considerable price, it was not easy to kill the enemy in Lu County, captured more than 60 civilian boats, and used these ships to immediately start to grab the pontoon bridge.

On the morning of the next day, when Feng Zhongjun's brigade was about to arrive at the dock, the hateful Lu County defenders not only went out of the city again to block it, but also directly attacked the pontoon bridge that Feng Zhongjun had just built, in a vain attempt to destroy the pontoon bridge to prevent Feng Zhongjun's brigade from crossing the river.

After tearing up Wei Bugen, who was in a coma due to blood loss, on the stretcher, Feng Zhong once again personally led the army to take on the task of the palace, until the rear team led by Wang Fang also rushed to the ferry to cross the river, Feng Zhong was the last to withdraw from Jishui in the cheers of the Han army soldiers and the unwilling roar of the Western Chu soldiers, and with the help of the huge flow of Jishui, once again temporarily blocked the pursuit of the Western Chu army, as well as the Jibei army that was about to follow.

Just like in Wenshui Surabaya, he had just personally supervised the soldiers of the self-army to cut the pontoon bridge, Feng Zhong immediately sat on the dock on the north bank of Jishui, panting heavily, but with a relieved smile on his face, "It's finally here, and you can rest for a while." ”

Li Shiqi also came to Feng Zhong's side again, sat down on the ground like Feng Zhong, and admired the chagrin of the chasing soldiers of the Western Chu army on the other side, and then Li Shiqi suddenly said: "General Feng, don't blame the old man for speaking ominously, the old man always has a bad premonition, the Western Chu thief army that was advancing west on the south bank of Wenshui before may be interspersed with the front of our west to fortify and block, and wait for us to take the initiative to go west to die." ”

It was already an old sparrow on the battlefield who had crawled out of the pile of dead people countless times, and Feng Zhong was of course extremely worried about the movements of Zhou Lan's department of the Western Chu Army, and said with a pant: "Even if it is, there is no way, we have no choice but to go west." ”

"What the old man means is that for the sake of safety, it is best for us to rely on Jishui to stop the pursuers for a while." Li Shiqi proposed: "During the period, send scouts to the west first, go to Pingping and Dong'a to investigate the enemy's situation, and wait until the enemy's situation is clear." ”

"Unrealistic." Feng Zhong's wisdom was not as good as Li Shiqi's, but his actual combat experience was far surpassing, so he immediately shook his head and said: "Liping and Dong'e are too far away from here, even if our scouts go back and forth quickly, it will take at least three or four days, after so much delay, Xiang Yu's thief army must have already collected enough ferries to cross the river, and even if Liping and Dong'e have no enemies, it will be difficult for us to get rid of the pursuit of the Western Chu thief army." ”

Li Shiqi's thin old face was full of gloom, and he said after a while: "Can it only be a blind man riding a blind horse who continues?" Trying your luck heading west? The old man is not afraid of death, but the princess and the princess are ......, if they fall into the hands of Xiang Yu's husband again, I am afraid that the end will be miserable. ”

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Li Shiqi and Feng Zhong were worried on the west bank of Jishui, but they didn't know that Ding Gu, the general of the Western Chu Army who led the army to pursue them, also scratched his ears and cheeks on the east bank of Jishui, beating his chest and feet, in addition to regretting that he still let Feng Zhongjun escape Jishui, he was even more worried that he had made a wedding dress for others, and he had worked hard, but in the end he cheapened his colleague Zhou Lan in vain - especially when Zhou Lan had just offended General Ding Gu, of course, General Ding Gu was even more reluctant to let Zhou Lan pick Feng Zhongjun, a ripe peach.

"Do you really want to cheap Zhou Lan's little shaft for nothing? If Feng Zhong, the horseman, continues to go west, he must pass through Dong'e, with his current situation, he met Zhou Lan's shaft in Dong'e, which is equivalent to sending fat meat into the mouth of that little shaft! The old man has worked hard for so many days, suffered so much, suffered so many crimes, and finally cheapened the little man who dared to be disrespectful to the old man, is the old man worth it?! ”

Thinking that the great merit of annihilating Feng Zhongjun and capturing all the Han army's family members was very likely to be cheaper for others, the old general Ding Gu was so painful that he wanted to grab the ground with his head, regretting that he did not insist on grabbing the beauty difference of the westward advance, Ding Gu suddenly moved in his heart, and said secretly: "Wait, can the old man think of another way, so that Feng Zhongpifu does not go west, don't go cheap Zhou Lan's little shaft?" As long as Feng Zhong doesn't go west, whether he goes east to south or north, the old man has hope to catch up with him again and catch all the thieves and their families back! ”

Such a thing, if it is replaced by someone else, it must be extremely absurd, but who is the old general Ding Guding, the maternal uncle of Ji Bu, the general of the Western Chu Army? During the Pengcheng War in history, Xiang Yu and Xiang overlord beat Liu Laosan to the ground, and General Ding Lao was the first to lead the army to catch up with Liu Laosan, and he only needed a knife to end the Chu-Han War in advance and let Xiang Yu get the world, but it was because Liu Laosan shouted "How bad are the two sages" when he was cornered! General Ding Lao got into the water in his head, led the army to retreat, let Liu Laosan have a way out, and gave Liu Laosan a chance to make a comeback!

Maybe because he was born as the head of the clay-legged pavilion like Liu Laosan, at the most critical moment, Feng Zhong, the former chief of the Shiling Pavilion, also encountered such a good thing, but after a little hesitation, the old general Ding Guding gritted his teeth and crossed his heart, and his anger rose from his heart, and the evil was born to the side of the bold, in order not to dare to offend his junior Zhou Lan in vain, and in order to leave an opportunity to establish a miracle for himself, he suddenly asked his soldiers to bring a silk pen, wrote a letter on the spot, and then sent someone to take a small boat and cross the Jishui with a white flag. The letter was sent to Feng Zhongjun on the other side......

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Feng Zhong's side, seeing that the Western Chu army suddenly sent people to cross the river with white flags, Feng Zhong and Li Shiqi and others were of course inexplicable, and they couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the old general Ding Guding, but out of curiosity, and because of the habit of the two countries competing with each other in this era, Feng Zhong still did not let his corporal release arrows to stop him, and let the small boat of the Western Chu army dock on the dock on the west bank of Jishui, and the letter written by the old general Ding in the name of persuasion was quickly presented to Feng Zhong and Li Shiqi.

Time was in a hurry, and General Ding didn't have time to polish the text, the letter was written in the vernacular, and the full text is as follows: "Brother Feng Zhong, how long do you want to be stubborn?" Do you think that you will be safe after Jishui, and you can take the family of the Han thief to meet Xiang Kang, the traitor, and then go to Guanzhong to enjoy the glory and wealth with peace of mind? Let me tell you the truth, Zhou Lan took the army to the west in Wenshui before, just to prepare to go to Dong'a to block you from running west, and if you go west at this time, it will be a sheep into the tiger's mouth, send the rest of your army and the family of the Han thief to Zhou Lan, let him kill if he wants, and slaughter if he wants! ”

"Don't be stubborn, surrender to the old man, you don't know who the old man is, you surrender to me, hand over the family of the thief to the old man for meritorious service, can the old man treat you badly? is still the same sentence, as long as you hand over the family of the thief to the old man, the old man promises to at least leave you a root! Think about it for your son. Ding Gu worshipped. ”

After quickly reading the letter written by Ding Guhasao, Li Shiqi and Feng Zhong looked at each other, and then Feng Zhong said suspiciously: "What's the matter?" Why is this old man Dinggu like he is deliberately telling us that Zhou Lan is already waiting for us in Dong'e? What does he want to do? ”

Wisdom and scheming were above Feng Zhong, and after thinking about it for a while, Li Shiqi came to a conclusion and said: "Two possibilities, the first is that Ding Gu's old puppet is lying and threatening, trying to scare us and prevent us from retreating westward. The second is that Ding Gu's old puppet is greedy for merit, and deliberately tells us the deployment of the Western Chu thief army, so that we don't go to the west to cheapen others, and choose to break through in other directions, leaving him a chance to monopolize the great achievements. ”

"Then Mr. Li, which one is more likely to be bigger?" Feng Zhong hurriedly asked.

"This ......." Li Shiqi was extremely embarrassed and said: "The old man doesn't know much about Ding Gu, but he has heard of his name, and he also knows that he is Ji Bu's maternal uncle, and he doesn't know what his personality and temper are, so he can't judge." ”

"Ding Gu's old puppet has a ...... temperament." Feng Zhong, who had dealt with Ding Gu a little, tried hard to recall, and said hesitantly: "I don't have much contact with him, I only know that this old man is a little arrogant, he likes to rely on the old and sell the old, bullying his colleagues whose official positions and qualifications are not as good as his, and his popularity is not very good." Also, there seems to be some selfishness ...... being a human being. ”

"To what extent is selfishness? Are there any examples? Li Shiqi hurriedly asked.

"When you encounter a tough battle, you will never take the initiative to ask for battle, but when it comes to fighting a good battle, you always rush faster than anyone else." Feng Zhong recalled and said: "I remember when I was in Handan County, I pursued the Tyrannical Qin army with him, and the Tyrannical Qin army behind the palace stopped fighting to the death, and I rushed up with the army to fight desperately with the Tyrannical Qin army, because the Tyrannical Qin army resisted too stubbornly, I failed to succeed in the battle several times, and sent people to ask him for help, he found an excuse and refused to help, but when I finally defeated the Tyrannical Qin army, he immediately rushed to my front, and the number of beheadings was more than mine." From that time on, I felt that this old man was particularly selfish. ”

"The situation that Zhou Lan, the thief general of Xichu, has arrived in Dong'a, and it is true nine times out of ten." Li Shiqi immediately said: "The first is that since the old man Ding Gu is selfish, the selfish person must be greedy, and for the sake of greed, he deliberately tells us the deployment of friendly troops, and he can definitely do such a thing." The second is that the Western Chu thief army advancing west on the south bank of Wenshui will definitely have a destination, as long as the Western Chu thief army is familiar with the geographical road, it is very likely that it will choose to fortify Dong'e through which we must retreat westward. ”

Feng Zhong nodded slowly and said: "It's probably like this, now that I think about it, when Ding Gu, the old horseman, was in Wenshui, he reminded me that Zhou Lan had gone directly to Xuanqiu, and it was because he was greedy for merit and didn't want Zhou Lan to take advantage of it, so he deliberately told me the situation." ”

Li Shiqi agreed, and also suspected that when he was in Wenshui, Ding Gu deliberately reminded Feng Zhong that there was already a Western Chu army in the west because of greed. Feng Zhong asked again: "Mr. Li, if Dong'e is really a dead end, do we have any other way?" ”

Li Shiqi hesitated, and said after a while: "Then there is only one last choice, continue to go north, take advantage of the fact that the Jibei thief army has not had time to fully react, take advantage of the void to rush to the plain to cross the big river (Yellow River), and enter the Zhao State west." ”

"The circle is getting bigger and bigger." Feng Zhong laughed bitterly and asked again: "The Zhao State is also our enemy, after entering the Zhao Kingdom, do we still have hope?" ”

"Yes, it's slim, but it certainly is." Li Shiqi replied: "The current situation we have is that our Han army has broken through the Jingcheng Heavenly Danger and entered the hinterland of Zhao State in the east, and the Zhao army must have poured its nest north to meet our northern army. In addition, we also confirmed that our Han King's army has annihilated the Western Chu thief army in Hanoi, broken through the flood danger, and may also take the opportunity to advance eastward to share the pressure on our army on the northern front. If this is the case, we may be able to make contact with our allies in the territory of Zhao. ”

Just analyzing and speculating, Feng Zhong certainly didn't dare to pin all his hopes on the ethereal and distant reinforcements, but after careful consideration, Feng Zhong found that in the current situation, only by continuing to venture north could he hope to avoid the enemy's blockade and interception, and win the opportunity for his army and the Han army's family to continue to survive......