Uncle Zhou was a little conservative in the psychological analysis of the enemy this time, underestimating the desire of the Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army to fight, and also said that the Western Chu Army would not easily make up his mind to dare to fight head-on with the Northern Front Corps of the Han Army because Zhao Qilian had already taken the lead in reinforcing the Southern Front, and would make other choices when the Northern Front Corps of the Han Army launched a decisive battle, so he chose the established battlefield on the Bairen Huangshui Battlefield, which was difficult for the Western Chu Army to retreat, so that the Western Chu Army had no choice but to fight to the death with itself.

Without God's perspective, what Uncle Zhou didn't know was that Zhou Yin, the commander of the Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army, who happened to have the same surname as Zhou, would actually look down on himself so much, even if there was no Zhao army and Qi army as cannon fodder, he was still eager to fight the Han army head-on, especially after suffering a big loss in the face of Uncle Zhou's shameless tricks twice, Zhou Yin was even more eager to pull the army into the field immediately, fight to the death with the shameless rat Han army, and avenge the soldiers of the Western Chu army who unfortunately died under the despicable methods of the Han army.

The key is that the Chu-Ji coalition army still has the upper hand in terms of troops, the Western Chu army still has about 120,000 people, and the Jibei army also has about 40,000 people, and the Han army is because of the need to seize the surrounding cities along the way to protect the grain road, and the army that has been pulled out to the Bairen battlefield is only about 80,000 people, and the strength is at an absolute disadvantage. In addition, the Han army had always been conservative and avoided war, and never dared to fight head-on with the Western Chu army from beginning to end, so of course Zhou Yin looked down on Uncle Zhou, who had the same surname, and also believed that he was sure of victory in the decisive battle.

What worries Zhou Yin the most is whether the Han army will be like on the Dongyuan battlefield, has been hiding in a strong camp and holding on without fighting, but fortunately, after the failure of the camp robbery, the scouts of the Western Chu army soon found that although the Han army repaired the camp fence that was destroyed yesterday, it did not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a strong wall, but only divided part of the forces to dig a trench to protect the camp and establish antlers to resist horses, and the camp was no longer as impregnable as the Dongyuan camp, so Zhou Yin also made up his mind early, decided that even if the Han army still couldn't hold out, he would unceremoniously launch a frontal assault and directly attack the Han army's camp.

At noon, a personal soldier suddenly came to report outside the tent, saying that the Han army had sent an envoy to bring a war book to invite the Western Chu army to fight to the death in the wilderness between the camps of the two armies the next day, but Zhou Yin of course suspected that his ears were wrong, and hurriedly asked: "The Han thief envoy took the initiative to invite us to a decisive battle?" Really? Did you hear it wrong? ”

"Back to Da Sima, the villain can be sure that he heard correctly." The soldier who entered the account said truthfully: "That's what the person sent by our battalion officer said to the villain. ”

"The sun is coming out of the west today!" Zhou Yin came to a conclusion, and then he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately ordered: "Quick, bring in the Han thief messenger!" ”

The soldiers sang the promise and immediately rushed away, and then after a while, a messenger of the Han army who was served by a scribe was led to Zhou Yin, first saluted Zhou Yin according to the rules, and presented Zhou Yin with the book of war he brought, Zhou Yin couldn't wait to take it, and secretly opened it excitedly, but saw that Uncle Zhou wrote very directly on the book of war:

"The book presents General Zhou Yin of Western Chu, the general is highly expected by the Western Chu army, leading the people of Western Chu to enter the Zhao realm in the north, when Si Pi is stubborn and stubborn, and the early decision is male and female, Zhou is also entrusted by the king of Han to raise troops to confront the general, in order to repay the great grace of the king of Han, live up to the hope of the three armies, determined to make an appointment with the general, and fight a decisive battle in the wilderness outside the camp tomorrow, and hope that the general will not guard the soil nest, avoid the sword, approve the tactics, and go to war on schedule!"

Just after reading Uncle Zhou's letter cursoryly, Zhou Yin laughed directly, and said to the envoy of the Han army in an extremely mocking tone: "Your Han thief's Uncle Zhou's face is really thick-skinned, and he is sorry to persuade General Ben not to guard the soil nest and avoid the sword, if he really has this guts, when he was in Dongyuan before, why did Ben Shuai send envoys to fight three times and five times, and he didn't dare to agree?" ”

"Back to Da Sima, because there were too many friendly troops in your army at that time, and our army responded to the battle with a few enemies, which was an unwise move with no chance of winning, so our General Zhou did not dare to accept your army's appointment to fight." The envoy of the Han army replied more directly, and immediately said: "But now the situation is different, the armies of Zhao and Qi have moved south, and the difference between the strength of your and our armies is not large, so of course our General Zhou Shu has the courage to dare to fight with you head-on." ”

After that, the envoy of the Han army also added with great courage, saying: "Da Sima, without the help of Zhao Qi's army, you wouldn't have the courage to accept our appointment to fight, right?" ”

Zhou Yinyi laughed and said: "It's not a small courage, being alone in our army camp, and actually having the courage to speak out and provoke this commander?" Okay, for the sake of your gang of thieves finally gaining some guts, Ben Shuai agreed, tomorrow we will fight to the death outside the camp, if anyone dares to break the promise, who is a maid girl! ”

"Please rest assured!" The envoy of the Han army immediately replied: "Our general Zhou asked the little envoy to promise him that if he fails to make an appointment tomorrow, he will definitely kill himself to thank the world!" ”

Zhou Yin laughed again, and immediately approved the four words of the decisive battle in the coming day in Uncle Zhou's appointment book, and threw it back to the Han army envoy, who was overjoyed when he saw Zhou Yin's instructions, and hurriedly thanked Zhou Yin, and then immediately left, leaving Zhou Yin in the tent, and couldn't wait to start fantasizing about the beautiful scene of the Han army being killed by himself tomorrow, and even more impatiently summoned the generals in the army, and made the good news of Uncle Zhou's envoy about the battle public, so that the generals of the Western Chu army could prepare for tomorrow's decisive battle.

Knowing that the Han army, which was more slippery than a loach, finally had the courage to fight head-on, the generals of the Western Chu army, who had long been full of anger, applauded loudly, and rushed to say that they would let the Han army know how to write dead words on the battlefield tomorrow, but the two cousins, Xiang Guan and Xiang Sui, were full of solemnity, and Xiang Sui also said directly: "Da Sima, don't blame the last general for pouring cold water on you, we are afraid that we will be happy too early." ”

"Why?" Zhou Yin asked in amazement.

"Because my brother Xiang Kang has always been cheating and playing tricks on the issue of decisive battles, and he will never really agree to the appointment." Xiang Sui replied: "And he also has a habit, is to invite the enemy to fight a decisive battle the next day, and at the same time send troops to attack the enemy's camp that night, Uncle Zhou is his confidant and favorite general, and his style of using troops is almost the same as his, and it is likely that he will be like him, while taking the initiative to send troops to make an appointment, he will send troops to attack our camp this night." ”

"It's not possible, it's for sure!" Xiang Guan shouted: "Uncle Zhou's puppet is more insidious than our brother, if he really fights us head-on, I don't believe it first!" ”

In the end, after listening carefully to Xiang Guan and Xiang Sui's introduction, and knowing Xiang Kang's good habit of sending troops to sneak attack the night before every time he took the initiative to make an appointment, Zhou Yin faintly began to regret it, but after thinking about it, Zhou Yin immediately turned his worries into joy and said: "It's okay, since the Han thief has such a shameless habit, then we will just plan it, make an ambush in advance tonight, and kill the Han thief who dares to sneak attack us without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

Xiang Guan and Xiang Sui immediately nodded their heads together, both thinking that it should be arranged in this way, and then Zhou Yin hurriedly discussed with the Western Chu army, and quickly arranged a tactical plan to ambush the Han army at night and rob the camp, and arranged for the general to lead the army to implement it. But just after waiting for Zhou Yin to make arrangements, a personal soldier hurriedly entered the report outside the tent, saluted and said: "Qiqi Da Sima, our army scouts have come to report, and the Han thieves sent people to fly white flags and contact Tian Xin's corporal in front of the Jibei military camp, but I don't know what I did." ”

Zhou Yin immediately raised his head, his expression changed slightly, but Xiang Sui and Xiang Guan snorted coldly together, and said: "Sure enough, I came, I deserve to be the general under the command of our brother, and I really learned the usual methods of our brother." ”

Xiang Kang's bad reputation for liking discord and rebellion has long been well-known in the world, so there is no need for Xiang Sui and Xiang Guan to waste saliva to introduce it carefully, Zhou Yin immediately guessed the approximate purpose of the Han army envoy, and immediately turned to Yu Xiang, a powerful scribe next to him, and ordered: "Yu Xiang, you go to the Jibei Army camp to see what the situation is, if the Han thief has a letter to Tian Xin, bring back the original letter." ”

Yu Xiang sang a promise, hurriedly rushed to the camp of the Jibei Army to understand the situation, and then after a period of time, Yu Xiang came back and reported to Zhou Yinyu: "Da Sima, the lower official has asked about the situation clearly, the envoy of the Han thief did not meet with General Tian Xin, but only handed over a letter written by Uncle Zhou to General Tian Xin, and then said goodbye and left. General Tian Xin also handed over the original letter to the lower officials, and asked the lower officials to bring a message, saying that he asked Da Sima to rest assured, he was willing to swear by the big river, no matter how the Han thieves bought and lured, he would never betray our king of Western Chu and their king of Jibei. ”

Of course, Zhou Yin would not easily believe Tian Xin's promise, but immediately took the letter brought by Guo Xiang and read it carefully, but saw that the letter was written by someone else, and Uncle Zhou signed and sealed, and the content was to bewitch Tian Xin in Uncle Zhou's tone, listing the situation in the world and pointing out that the Western Chu army was already defeated, and persuaded Tian Xin to abandon the secret and turn to the light, and took the Jibei army to turn against him, and suddenly stabbed Zhou Yin in the back, helped the Han army kill the northern line of the Western Chu army, and promised to let Tian Xin replace Tian Du as the king of Jibei after the matter was completed. He also promised to give Tian Xin 500,000 gold, 3,000 pieces of jade, 100 gold beads, and half of the captured booty of the Western Chu army.

After reading the letter over and over again for a long time, Zhou Yin threw the letter on the case in front of him, and said with a sneer: "Shameless thief, red mouth and white teeth don't come out of a penny, just with a letter, I also want to separate the intimate relationship between Ben Shuai and the Jibei Army, and I think it's beautiful!" ”

"Marshal, General Tian Xin swore not to rebel, and calmly handed over the letter of the Han thief plotting against him, should we show a little?" Yu Xiang proposed: "The lower official thinks that it is best for the marshal to send someone to carry a reward to the camp to reward General Tian Xin, so that General Tian Xin can be more loyal to us." ”

Zhou Yin nodded, but changed his words and said: "You can go and verbally praise Tian Xin for Ben Shuai, there is no need to reward him, if he is rewarded because he is in contact with the Han thief, won't he like to contact the Han thief more in the future?" Later, when he sends the head of the thief's envoy, it will not be too late for us to reward him. ”

"And." Zhou Yin added: "By the way, tell Tian Xin about the Han thieves sending envoys to make an appointment, and clearly tell him that the habit of the Han thieves is to send troops to attack the night while making an appointment, so that his army will also be prepared for prevention, lest the Han army take his camp." ”

Yu Xiang agreed, and went to the Jibei Army camp to verbally reward Tian Xin for Zhou Yin, and also notified Tian Xin to prepare for night defense by the way, and after this episode, Zhou Yin was of course more wary of the shameless tricks of the Han army, in addition to making up his mind to strictly defend tonight and not give the Han army a despicable sneak attack on the camp of the own army, he also sent a large number of scouts to closely monitor every move of the Han army's camp, and did not dare to take it lightly.

To Zhou Yin's surprise again, it didn't take long for a scout outside the camp to report, saying that they had found that the Han army was killing sheep and pigs in the camp, preparing for a feast, and the soldiers of the Han army kept clamoring to kill the Western Chu army tomorrow, how to look at it as if a decisive battle would be launched the next day. Zhou Yin was surprised when he heard the report, and said suspiciously: "Could it be that the Han thief really plans to fight us to the death tomorrow?" ”

"This is the usual trick of the Han thieves, and they can use any means to cover up their sneak attacks at night. Therefore, the more the thieves seem to be fighting tomorrow, the more we have to be careful today. ”

This is the unanimous conclusion reached by the brothers Xiang Guan and Xiang Sui, and it is also based on their familiar understanding of Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou, the unscrupulous pair, and then it is precisely because of this conclusion that Zhou Yin categorically dispelled the idea of killing pigs and sheep to boost morale - tomorrow's decisive battle will not be able to fight, and now it is a war and chaos, and pig and mutton are more expensive than gold, and it is a pity to waste it in vain.

In this way, a very rare situation appeared, in the case of the decisive battle on the second day, when the sun set, the soldiers of the Han army, like all the troops before the decisive battle, everyone ate good food and good food that can only be eaten during the New Year's holiday, delicious meat that can replenish physical strength to the greatest extent, and morale and fighting spirit are inevitably improved. The Western Chu Army, which is famous all over the world for its decisive battles, is unusual, ordinary soldiers and middle-level generals are still chewing rough meals with wild vegetables and beans, and many soldiers with a large amount of food have not yet been able to fill their stomachs, and their morale and fighting spirit are still not much different from usual.

This is not counting, after nightfall, the two Western Chu army teams had to quietly go out of the camp and ambush them to the fields on both sides of the camp to feed the mosquitoes. More officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army continued to wear armor and fight according to the order, sat down in line outside the tent, and took a nap to prepare for battle, which was also very hard.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army did not wait in vain, and when it was more than half of the second watch, there was a sudden loud noise outside the Western Chu military camp, and several primitive grenades were suddenly thrown into the Western Chu military camp and exploded, and it was extremely quiet in the dark night, and the explosion of the primitive grenade was of course extremely clear, and it woke up the entire Western Chu army camp at once, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were always ready for war quickly got up and held their weapons, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were ambushed outside the camp also hurriedly forced themselves to wake up, held their weapons tightly and waited for the Han army to attack.

Immediately afterwards, there were several loud noises from the camp of the Jibei Army, and of course the Western Chu Army was even more vigilant, even the officers and men of the Western Chu Army who did not carry out the ambush mission hurriedly got up and put on their armor, picked up their weapons and prepared for battle. The same is true of the Jibei Army, which has been explained by Zhou Yin before, and the whole army has urgently entered a state of combat readiness.

In the whispering, the imaginary shouting and killing never came, and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army inside and outside the camp all widened their eyes, but they never saw half of the Han soldiers attacking their camp, and Zhou Yin himself was the same, he came to the Chinese army's tent early to meet with the Western Chu Army's civil and military forces, and stretched his neck to look at the scene outside the camp - but unfortunately, there was no new movement.

Still waited for nearly half an hour, Xiang Sui said with a gloomy face: "We were fooled again, this is our brother's good disturbance tactic, Uncle Zhou must have guessed that we would definitely prepare to ambush his camp army tonight, so he deliberately sent a few cavalry to disturb us with palm thunder, so that we could not rest in peace." ”

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Xiang Guan said: "Uncle Zhou has always been treacherous, when he was in Suiyang, he came up with the idea to let the young marshal army at that time first pretend to fail to rob the camp, and deceived the tyrannical Qin army into thinking that they could rest at ease, and then in the second half of the night, they neglected their precautions, and then suddenly sent troops again, really launched a robbery camp, and killed the 50,000 tyrannical Qin troops led by Dong Puff and fled. ”

"It's also possible." Xiang Sui didn't dare to deny this possibility, and said: "Uncle Zhou's best tactic is to sneak attack at night, first fake and then true to suddenly kill us by surprise, he can definitely do such a thing." ”

Zhou Yin nodded slowly, then gritted his teeth and said: "Give us an order to the ambush soldiers outside the camp, tell them to continue to lurk, and the thieves will come to sneak attack again!" In addition, send someone to contact Tian Xin and tell him the situation, telling him to continue to be careful and vigilant, and don't be taken advantage of by Uncle Zhou's husband! ”

Zhou Yin's order was resolutely implemented, and the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army lurking outside the camp also continued to stay in the field to continue feeding mosquitoes, and the soldiers in the camp who thought they could rest also yawned for days, and continued to insist on preparing for war outside the tent at all times, and not a single soldier returned to the warm military tent to rest, of course, the same is true for the Jibei Army, so there is no need to repeat it here.

Uncle Zhou's shameless methods really failed to deceive Xiang Sui and Xiang Guan, who were familiar with his temperament, and when the fourth was more than half, there was a loud explosion from the Jibei Army camp, and then immediately after, the explosion of the primordial grenade sounded again in front of the camp of the Western Chu Army, and Zhou Yin, who was awakened by the loud noise, and Zhou Yin, who was napping in the Chinese military tent, immediately jumped up, gritted his teeth with a hideous expression and said: "Sure enough, it's here!" ”

No, after the Western Chu army entered the state of combat readiness again, the land quickly returned to calm, and the camps of the Western Chu army and the Jibei army were still empty, and they never saw a single soldier of the Han army appear, Xiang Guan and Xiang Sui opened their mouths, but Zhou Yin was so angry that he drew his sword and slashed the case, and shouted: "Fooled, the Han thieves are just to disturb us, and they don't plan to really attack our camp at all!" ”

"Marshal, just send troops to fight the camp of the Han thieves!" A general of the Western Chu Army with black circles under his eyes roared angrily: "Let the Han thieves also taste the taste of not sleeping well!" ”

"Are you stupid?" Xiang Sui scolded angrily: "It's almost five watches, and when our army arrives in front of the camp of the Han thieves, not only is it already dawn, but the thieves have already cooked and finished breakfast, and we are hungry all night The soldiers went to storm the camp of the Han thieves, didn't we send them to death?" ”

The general of the Western Chu army who proposed to attack was silent, while Zhou Yin looked at the leaky pot in the big tent of the Chinese army, and saw that the time was indeed almost five watches, even if it was a rapid march, it was impossible to rush to the door of the Han army camp before dawn, so he could only reluctantly order: "Tell our army outside the camp to come back, the whole army will make food and prepare breakfast." ”

The order was conveyed, and the officers and men of the Western Chu Army who had been lurking all night in vain could only honestly return to the camp to wait for their lives, and at the same time, the men of the battalions of the Western Chu Army also began to make fires to make food, and when the breakfast was delivered to Zhou Yin and others, the sky was indeed faintly white, and then they were played by the Han army.

Zhou Yin forgot, but his Uncle Zhou didn't forget, not long after Zhou Yin returned to the sleeping tent and lay down, his personal captain suddenly shook him awake and said loudly: "Da Sima, wake up, wake up, the scouts are coming, the Han thieves have sent troops, Uncle Zhou personally commanded the troops out of the camp and came to fight with us!" ”

"What?" Zhou Yinteng jumped up, asked loudly for details, and confirmed that Uncle Zhou really led the main force of the Han army out of the camp, Zhou Yin immediately had a hideous face, gritted his teeth and said: "It's really here, it's good!" ”

"Command the whole army to prepare for war immediately! Ben Shuai will personally lead the army out of the camp and fight to the death with the Han thieves! ”

"Don't forget the Jibei Army, ask them to send troops to help us too!"