Zhou Yin Zhou Da Sima's soldiers were strong and strong, and when he retreated, he walked in front, but he could not take the Han Army Zhou Shu's corps in his eyes, but Tian Xin, the general of Jibei who commanded the Jibei Army, definitely did not dare to be so easy, because the 50,000 Jibei Army under his command was not only obviously inferior to the Han Army Zhou Shu's Corps in terms of strength, but also was walked behind by Zhou Yin Zhou Da Sima, as long as there was a slight difference, no one dared to predict the consequences.

It is precisely because of this that the Jibei Army of course withdrew very carefully, in addition to carefully maintaining the distance from the Northern Line Corps of the Western Chu Army, it also paid great attention to the retreat formation of its own army, and always maintained a strict queue to the south, and beware of the sudden pursuit and killing of the Han army at any time, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to closely monitor the movement in the rear and both sides of the road, and did not dare to have any carelessness against the enemy.

Fortunately, Dongyuan and Julu's gallop road is located in the North China Plain, and at the same time far away from the Taihang Mountains in the west, the terrain is quite open, and the retreating Jibei army in the south does not have to worry about the enemy arranging ambushes on the side of the road, just be careful that the Han army is interspersed from the flanks, and the pressure is not so great that it is unbearable. At the same time, the Han army was obviously on guard against the sudden retreat of the anti-Han coalition army, whether it was deliberately luring the enemy, and did not dare to rush out troops to pursue, or after walking more than 40 miles south, Tian Xin received a scout report, saying that the Han army finally sent troops to launch a pursuit.

Carrying too much military baggage to the south, the distance of about forty miles is of course not safe enough, so in order to prevent accidents, Tian Xin can only quickly send someone to send the movement of the Han army to the front to report to Zhou Yin, but fortunately, Zhou Yin also quickly gave a clear answer, telling the Jibei army to retreat with peace of mind, if the Jibei army is really caught up, he must send troops to reinforce.

"I hope you still keep your word as before, and don't put me together at a critical moment."

After muttering quietly, Tian Xin could only continue to lead the Jibei army to retreat to the south, and when it was dark and sleeping in the open, he personally arranged the night defense of the camp, used ropes to thread the baggage vehicles through the company, formed a temporary camp fortification, and arranged reliable generals to lead the elite army to take turns to be on duty at night, and then let the soldiers rest for the night. However, even so, when it came to the third watch, Tian Xin worked tirelessly, personally got up and led the army to patrol the camp, and fulfilled his duty as a qualified general.

It was still good, there was nothing to say all night, and then it was close to noon the next day, when the Jibei army retreated south to the vicinity of Yuanshi, there was a scout report from the north, saying that the Han cavalry had chased closer, and there was a large group of Han infantry behind, Tian Xin did not dare to slack off, in addition to ordering the army to prepare for battle, he sent someone to contact Zhou Yin early, and asked Zhou Yin to be ready to send troops to help his own army.

After noon, the number of about two thousand Han cavalry first chased behind the Jibei Army, the Jibei Army immediately stopped retreating and formed a formation to meet the battle, just saw the Han cavalry approaching, immediately suppressed with a strong bow and crossbow salvo, the Han cavalry on horseback did not dare to rush the infantry of the Jibei Army, can only avoid the front of the Jibei Army's position, to the open east roundabout, looking for the weak point of the Jibei Army's battle formation, fortunately the Jibei Army's formation is tight, the array is neat, and there is no flaw in the flanks and back, Therefore, the detour of the Han cavalry also became a futile effort, wasting the physical strength of the war horse in vain.

After a while, the Han infantry brigade of about 8,000 also chased to the front, under the command of Ling Jing, the general of the Han army, who led the pursuit of the army, and launched a tentative attack on the position of the Jibei army very unceremoniously, and then quickly concentrated its forces to attack the right flank of the Jibei army, and at the same time the Han cavalry also killed from the side, respectively from the northeast two directions to the right flank of the Jibei army, the soldiers of the Jibei army resisted bravely, and the Han army was inseparable, but because it was on the defensive, it was at a disadvantage on the scene.

Seeing that the Han army invested 5,000 infantry to storm the right flank of the army, leaving only 3,000 troops to suppress the formation, and through scout reconnaissance, it was confirmed that the main force of the Han army was still far away, and it was impossible to rush to the battlefield quickly, Tian Xin, who was also a veteran of the battlefield, decisively made adjustments, ordered the soldiers on the left flank to step forward, attacked the rear of the Han army to contain the enemy, and mobilized the Chinese army to reinforce the left flank battlefield, and soon reversed the battlefield situation into the main attack of the Jibei Army and the main defense of the Han Army.

After such a fierce battle for a while, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the south of the battlefield, more than 3,000 Western Chu iron horsemen rode horses to reinforce them, and the Han army, which was already on the defensive, saw that the situation was not good, so they could only quickly ring the golden cymbal and ordered the retreat, and the Han soldiers fled together, and fled to the north in a mess, and the Han cavalry was also forced to provoke the heavy responsibility of the palace, and the Jibei army took advantage of the situation to pursue, and the cavalry of the Western Chu army also accelerated the speed of the charge, and joined forces with the Jibei army to chase and slash the despicable rats of the Han army who could not run.

After all, it was on the way to retreat, and at the same time, the main force of the Han army must be coming south, so after chasing five or six miles, Tian Xin decisively ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but did not dare to chase them to the end, but the cavalry of the Western Chu Army, which only joined the battlefield later, chased them out of fifteen or sixteen miles in one go, and then collected their troops and withdrew. At the same time, what made Tian Xin secretly relieved was that during this period, the main force of the Western Chu Army not only stopped retreating south, did not abandon the Jibei Army, but also sent an infantry brigade to reinforce after the cavalry, which was absolutely benevolent and righteous to the Jibei Army.

There is also something that makes Tian Xin happy, after the war, a count, the Jibei Army only killed a total of more than 300 soldiers before and after the battle, but there were more than 700 Han army heads, and at the same time, many weapons discarded by the defeated soldiers of the Han army were also captured, and a victory with great returns was achieved.

The cavalry of the Western Chu Army also made gains, and when they withdrew to the front of the Jibei Army, many of the cavalry of the Western Chu Army had their heads hanging from their waists, not to mention, the cavalry general of the Western Chu Army who led the troops, Lai Guang, also had a snowy handguard saber in his hand, and his smile was extremely bright, "I finally grabbed a saber for the Han thief cavalry, and it will be much easier to fight cavalry battles in the future." ”

After saying happily, Lai Guang said to Tian Xin again: "General Tian, you can rest assured this time, right?" Our Western Chu Army is what we say, and we promise not to leave you alone, so we will definitely do what we say. ”

"Thank you, General Lai, for your hard work." Tian Xin thanked him from the bottom of his heart, and said: "Please also ask General Lai to thank Da Sima for his subordinates, and say that our Jibei Army will definitely do its best to block the Han thieves' pursuers, and will never give the Han thieves the opportunity to attack your back in front." ”

Lai Guang agreed, and then happily led the Western Chu cavalry back to his own team to hand over the order, and Tian Xin also hurriedly led the Jibei Army to continue southward, and retreated in the direction of Julu with the Western Chu Army one after another. After this incident, seeing that the Han army was not as terrible as imagined in the field battle, and seeing that the Western Chu army was so aware of the righteousness, they immediately turned back to save it when they were in danger, and the military heart of the officers and men of the Jibei Army was also greatly settled, and the morale was greatly boosted, and the complaints that were still common before suddenly disappeared a lot.

In the evening of the same day, the Han army Lu Kuang's division that rotated forward caught up with the Jibei army again, and fought a contact battle with the Jibei army, but because the Jibei army quickly formed a formation and fought, the impact of the Han army still failed to succeed, and it never shook the position of the Jibei army, and then when the Western Chu army divided its troops back again to reinforce, the Han army could only quickly retreat and escape, and did not dare to stay to die.

The next morning, the Han army that refused to give up made a comeback, caught up with the Jibei army for the third time, and the Jibei army also hurriedly lined up for the third time to meet the battle, and the Han army pursued the army to the west of the current Gaoyi, the result made the Jibei army excited that this time, it was not waiting for the Western Chu army to come to reinforce, they relied on a counterattack to directly defeat the Han army, the Han army abandoned the flag and rushed away, and the high-spirited Jibei army immediately launched a pursuit.

"Mingjin!"

At the critical moment, Tian Xin, who had a cautious personality, saw that something was wrong, and immediately and decisively ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, but after the Jin Gong rang, the soldiers of the Jibei Army could only stop helplessly, and the generals of the Jibei Army next to him also asked Tian Xin very strangely: "General, we have obviously won the battle, and we are about to take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results, why did you order Ming Jin?" ”

"The thief lost too quickly this time, and it was obviously fraudulent." Tian Xin explained, and said: "Do you remember the way from the north? Ten miles to the north, there are many hills and woods on both sides of the road, and it is relatively easy to arrange ambushes, and if we take the risk of pursuit, we may fall into an ambush by the Han thieves. ”

The general woke up, and quickly praised Tian Xin's wisdom and martial arts, and then the Western Chu army who came to hear Tian Xin's explanation also quite agreed, but to Tian Xin's surprise and embarrassment, the Jibei army scouts who monitored the Han army's northward escape also quickly sent a report, saying that the Han army blindly fled north after the defeat, and did not turn back to lure the enemy, and at the same time, the Jibei army scouts also quickly confirmed that the dangerous area in the north that may have ambushes was actually empty, and there were no ambushes hiding a single soldier.

In this regard, of course, the generals of the Jibei Army did not dare to say anything, after knowing the situation, Zhou Yin, the commander of the Western Chu Army, sent someone to complain about Tian Xin, saying that Tian Xin should not be too cautious and timid, and should not miss it at will when a fighter appeared, and also said that Tian Xin should only kill the enemy with confidence, even if it is in danger, the Western Chu Army will definitely go all out to save it, and by the way, fight a field decisive battle with the haunted Han Army, and teach Uncle Zhou a lesson who does not know the height of the sky. Tian Xin was full of shame, and could only agree.

It's a pity that Tian Xin has no chance to save face, because of the successive defeats in the pursuit, the Han army did not dare to catch up with the Jibei army that day and sent it to death, and did not dare to appear in front of the Jibei army again at night, fortunately, Tian Xin himself did not care much about this, and also carefully arranged the defense work at night, and then dared to lie down and rest.

It has been three consecutive days of worrying and fearing, and there has been no good rest, after finally lying down, Tian Xin of course quickly fell asleep, and because of this, Tian Xin did not find out, because of the successive victories in the past few days, the Jibei Army has been greatly relaxed psychologically, and the spirit is no longer so nervous and vigilant, so it didn't take much time, not only did the officers and soldiers of the Jibei Army who did not need to be on duty at night generally snore, but even the soldiers of the Jibei Army who were wearing armor and were always ready for war also fought with their eyelids and quietly slept over.

In the face of such a situation, there were still some loyal generals of the Jibei Army who were in charge at first, but as time went by, the night became deeper and darker, and even these generals of the Jibei Army couldn't help but take a nap - after all, the rats of the Han army were not vulnerable at all, and the invincible soldiers of the Jibei Army did not need to be so nervous and careful.

Heaven has no eyes, it is natural, in the second half of the night, a group of black shadows sneakily touched the vicinity of the camp of the Jibei Army, and also relied on the cover of the night, directly touched the side of the camp convoy of the Jibei Army, and almost silently cut the rope through the heavy vehicle with a knife - don't tell me why don't you use iron chains, in terms of steel smelting technology and production capacity in this era, even the Han army that uses strip steel weapons can't afford to use so many iron chains.

After cutting the rope, it is of course much easier to push away the baggage vehicles, and what is even more outrageous is that because they slept too soundly, the group of black and hard people had already pushed away more than a dozen or twenty baggage vehicles, and opened a big hole more than ten zhang wide in the campsite of the Jibei Army, and none of the officers and soldiers of the Jibei Army found out about this situation. The group of black shadows struck while the iron was hot, and took the opportunity to push away more baggage vehicles......

"Boom!"

The sudden loud explosion of gunpowder woke up many of the sleeping soldiers of the Jibei Army, and then, before these soldiers of the Jibei Army who were awakened understood what was going on, the shouts of killing had already risen to the sky, and countless Han cavalry wrapped in cloth hooves galloped wildly, holding high the swords of the snowy saber, and directly entered the camp of the Jibei Army from the gap opened before, slashing and killing the soldiers of the Jibei Army who were caught off guard like chopping melons and vegetables.

A large force of cavalry rushed directly to the front, the soldiers of the Jibei Army who had just been awakened were of course not the opponents of the Han cavalry, many people did not even have time to see the appearance of the enemy, or their necks had been cut open by the sabers of the Han cavalry, or they were directly knocked down and trampled by the horses of the Han cavalry.

This is not counting, under the leadership of Yang Xi, the general of the Han army, the cavalry of the Han army still went straight to Tian Xin's banner in the chaos, Tian Xin, who had just hurriedly mounted the horse, was shocked and quickly ordered the troops around him to form a formation to intercept, but before the Jibei army in the chaos lined up in a dense formation, the Han cavalry had already rushed to the close, almost effortlessly dispersed the Jibei soldiers who were still in a hurry, and rushed to Tian Xin's front in a blink of an eye.

At the moment of life and death, even Tian Xin, who had a calmer and cautious personality, lost his mind, in order to survive, Tian Xin didn't even have time to issue the order to retreat, so he immediately turned his horse's head and fled to the south of the camp where there was no enemy, and also escaped directly from the camp of the Jibei Army in extreme panic, giving up the control and command of the Jibei Army on his own. Because of the lack of light, although the cavalry of the Han army failed to catch up with Tian Xin, who fled on horseback, they easily cut down Tian Xin's flag bearer, making Tian Xin's handsome flag fall to the ground and disappear, and also made the soldiers of the Jibei Army completely lose their backbone.

The experienced Han cavalry took the opportunity to disrupt and follow Yang Xi's banner in the Jibei army camp to rush left and right, such as entering no man's land, killing the Jibei soldiers and soldiers to the devil crying wolf, and the corpses were all over the ground, and they continued to use the bonfire in the camp to set fire to the heavy grain carts of the Jibei army, and the crowd of soldiers and soldiers who tried to resist was scattered one after another, and the soldiers and soldiers of the Jibei army who tried to resist were scattered and broken one after another, and the soldiers and soldiers of Jibei were scattered one after another, and the defeat was already completely doomed.

In such a situation, countless Jibei soldiers and soldiers have of course begun to flee out of the camp for their lives, shouting and screaming to drill into the black ground where no one is around, the number is still increasing, and the soldiers of the Jibei Army who dare to stay in the camp to resist are also becoming fewer and fewer, the Han cavalry took the opportunity to step up the attack, frantically slashed and killed the Jibei soldiers who had not yet left the camp, set fire to more grain and grass baggage of the Jibei army, and then charged out of the camp, pursuing the enemy's large group of defeated soldiers outside the camp, desperately expanding the results.

At this time, Tian Xin, who escaped from the camp first, had gradually calmed down, and when he looked back and saw the defeated soldiers of the self-army who had fled from the camp, Tian Xin couldn't help but give himself two slaps in the face, scolded himself for being a coward, and then plucked up his courage and shouted at the defeated crowd of the Jibei Army frantically, "I'm Tian Xin!" I am your general Tian Xin! Draw on me! Draw on me! Hold on, the Western Chu Army will come to our rescue soon! Will come to our rescue soon! ”

People shouted and neighed, the sound of killing shook the sky, Tian Xin's shouting was of course like a handful of sand in the sea, and it couldn't turn up much wind and waves at all, only a small part of the rout gathered to his left and right, and more of the Jibei army rout rushed past his neighborhood. What's worse is that because of the largest number of routs of the Jibei Army in this area, the Han cavalry that went out of the camp to pursue them also came directly to this side.

"General, let's go! Go to the Western Chu Army for help! ”

Several soldiers pulled Tian Xin and shouted, Tian Xin wanted to hold on at first, but when he saw the Han cavalry killing close to the front and rear again, Tian Xin could only yell unwillingly, and then turned around and fled for his life in the direction of the Western Chu army camp in the south, crying as he ran, "What's wrong with me?" What's wrong with me? If I had persevered, how could we have lost so badly? How could it be so badly defeated? ”

At this time, seeing the fire on the side of the Jibei Army camp, Zhou Yin, the commander of the Western Chu Army, immediately understood that the Jibei Army was in danger, and quickly ordered Xiang Guan to gather 20,000 steps to ride out of the camp, and hurriedly came to the Jibei Army camp more than ten miles to the north for reinforcements, and soon bumped into Tian Xin, who fled on horseback.

The invincible Western Chu army is always unstoppable in the field, even the morale of the Han cavalry is no exception, as soon as the Western Chu army is engaged, the Han cavalry who do not want to fight head-on immediately turns around and leaves, Xiang Guan urges the army to pursue with all his might, and his red eyes must avenge the friendly army, not only directly chased to the Jibei army camp that was already full of fire and smoke, but also directly crossed the camp and continued to pursue the Han cavalry.

"Kill!"

After the sudden change rose again, after chasing out of the camp of the Jibei Army for seven or eight miles, in the last darkness before dawn, the torches on both sides of the road suddenly looked like stars, and countless Han infantry killed from both sides of the road, blocking the waist to cut off the foot and horse connection of the pursuers of the Western Chu Army, and the Han cavalry who had fled faster than rabbits before also turned around and killed back, and joined forces with the ambush soldiers to attack the pursuers of the Western Chu Army on three sides. The Western Chu army was suddenly in chaos, and Xiang Guan yelled in disbelief, "There are ambush soldiers? How can it be? The thief was so calm, obviously there was an army ambush nearby, but he never entered the battlefield? ”

Put a long line to catch a big fish, the hard work and patience of the Han army ambush finally paid off, relying on the surprise attack, the Han army cavalry in the north of the Jibei army camp eight miles away again defeated the Western Chu army pursuers, the north pursuit of 20,000 West Chu army annihilated most of the half, the Xiang family children last left Xiang Kang's side Xiang Guan was injured in the battle, can only escape from the battlefield from the east with a few hundred horses, the rest of the West Chu army defeated soldiers scattered and fled, the Han army did not pursue, but quickly withdrew before the main force of the Western Chu army sent reinforcements again, did not give the angry Western Chu army any chance to take revenge.

The news of the victory in the surprise attack and ambush battle, of course, soon reported that the main force of the Han army was hiding in front of Uncle Zhou and others in the distance, hearing the good news, the Han army next to him was all overjoyed, and the fierce general Worm Da couldn't wait to say to Uncle Zhou: "General, the West Chu thief army must be crazy now, or take advantage of this opportunity, let's hurry up and launch a decisive battle with the West Chu thief army, kill the main force of the West Chu thief army in a battle, and then go south to join forces with our reinforcements to kill the remaining thief army!" ”

"Don't rush." Uncle Zhou shook his head with a smile and said, "With our current strength, we are indeed sure to fight head-on with the Western Chu Thief Army." But in front, there is a place that is more suitable for us to have a decisive battle with the Western Chu thief army, and it can also give us a greater certainty of killing the main force of the Western Chu thief army at the minimum cost, such a good battlefield we can't miss, so we have to wait for the Western Chu thief army to withdraw there, and then it's not too late to fight with them. ”

"Where?" Worm quickly asked.

Uncle Zhou smiled and pointed his finger on the map in front of him at random, and when Worm Da and the others hurriedly looked at it, they saw that the place that Uncle Zhou pointed out was a small township called Bai Ren, and next to Bai Ren, there was also a small river called Huanshui, which cut off the southward retreat road of the Western Chu army.

PS: On the historical map of the Western Han Dynasty, in the north of the river, there are two rivers called Jishui and Hushui that can cut off the southward road of the Western Chu army, but on the map of the Qin Dynasty mastered by the author, Jishui and Hushui do not exist, considering that the frequent earthquakes in the Western Han Dynasty changed the direction and flow of many mountains and rivers, so the author uses the map of the Qin Dynasty, and the geography is set to Jishui and Hushui as non-existent, or just small rivers that do not need to be considered.