Having learned the lesson of the failure of the last run, Xiang Yu became much calmer after crossing the chasm, even if he had decided to fight the Guangwu camp of the Han army first, and did not give his cousin the opportunity to steal chickens and dogs, Xiang Yu did not act impulsively, and recklessly rushed directly to the Guangwu camp with the army to find Xiang Kang desperately, but first set up a strong camp on the bank of the chasm ten miles downstream of Guangwu, and then started to make various offensive weapons, and patiently made full preparations before the war.

During this period, the Han army organized manpower twice, from Aocang to rush grain to Guangwu camp to hoard, Xiang Yu only sent troops to intercept and rob, and did not send troops to set up camps between Aocang and Guangwu camps, gritting his teeth and not giving his cousin the opportunity to exploit loopholes.

Because Xiang Yu knows too well the character and temper of his cousin who lacks virtue, he likes to come to Yin the most in war, as long as he shows a little flaw, he may seize the opportunity to be pitted, only with a dignified and upright momentum, not to covet the advantage of his cousin who lacks virtue, can he have no chance to take advantage of it, and there is no hole to drill.

At the same time, Xiang Yu also knew very well that the main force of the Western Chu army was indeed stronger than the main force of the Han army in field battles and array battles, but if the Han army fully guarded the well-fortified Guangwu camp, he would not plan to dream of creating a miracle and quickly take the camp of the main force of the Han army, so his best way was to sharpen his knife and not chop wood, first prepare all kinds of offensive weapons, and then launch a strong attack from the front with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, so as to restrain the shameless tricks and despicable tricks of his cousin.

Xiang Yu's steady tactics also made Xiang Kang very uncomfortable, he knew very well how much pressure the main force of the Western Chu Army would bring to him after being fully prepared, Xiang Kang of course wished that the Western Chu Army would attack when it was not well prepared, so that he would have the opportunity to continue to frustrate the spirit of the Western Chu Army, but the Western Chu Army did not let himself get his wish, and Xiang Kang could only sigh in vain.

At this time, the battlefield of Hanoi County, where the Han army was located, the situation also changed suddenly, the capricious Zhao Xie and Zhang Er saw that after the Western Chu army launched a large-scale attack on Sanchuan County, they shamelessly betrayed the Han army again, and suddenly fell to the side of the Western Chu army. Together with Xiang You and Xue Gongsuo's divisions of the Western Chu Army, who had previously captured Chaoge, they prepared to launch an attack on the hinterland of Hanoi County of the Han Army.

The distance is relatively close, and the road between the Xiuwu front line and Ao Cang and Guangwu is controlled by the Han army, Xiang Kang of course knew about this situation one step earlier than Xiang Yu, and in this regard, Xiang Kang, who had been mentally prepared in advance, was not in a hurry, he just asked a question, "Did I send out the beautiful woman that I asked Hanoi County Shou Bao Kua to give to my brother?" ”

"Back to King Han, it has been sent." Chen Ping replied: "Under the pretext of begging Xiang You to treat the people of Hanoi County well, Bao Junshou secretly sent two beauties and a sum of money to Xiang You, although Xiang You did not give any reply, but he did not return the beauties and money sent by Bao Junshou, and also detained the messenger of Bao Junshou in his army. If the subordinates expected it to be true, Xiang You should be suspicious of Bao Junshou's words, and plan to take advantage of it first. ”

"Sure enough, nothing has changed." Xiang Kang snorted coldly, calculated a little, and said: "The thief army of the Zhao State has shamelessly defected, Xiang You has no worries, and he will definitely make a move soon, send our battle plan to Long He and Zhu Jishi, and let them act according to the plan, first destroy the partial division of the Western Chu thief army, relieve the pressure on our northern front, and then let our partial division free up their hands to return to the main force." ”

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As Xiang Kang expected, after meeting with the capricious Zhao army, Xiang You quickly reached an agreement with Zhang Huang and Chen Ze, who commanded the Zhao army, that is, they decided to join forces to launch an attack on the large and small Xiuwu established by Zhu Jishi, the Han army's partial division, and put further pressure on the Han army's partial division with superior forces, so that the Han army's partial division could not withdraw from the south to reinforce the main force.

After making up his mind about this idea, Xiang You, who perfectly inherited the temperament and character of Master Xiang Boxiang, immediately proposed to let the Zhao army be responsible for containing the main force of Zhu Jishi, which was stationed in the major Xiuwu, and let the Western Chu army be responsible for containing the weaker Xiaoxiuwu defenders. It's a pity that Zhang Huang and Chen Ze are not stupid, and they immediately excused themselves on the pretext that the combat effectiveness of the Zhao army was inferior to the Western Chu army, and they must in turn let the Zhao army be responsible for dealing with the Han army's Xiaoxiuwu defenders.

Of course, Xiang You didn't want to suffer losses, and continued to talk with Zhang Huang and Chen Ze, saying that in addition to dealing with Zhu Jishi, the Western Chu army was also wary of Long Ji, who was stationed in Wude, and the Zhao army should share some pressure for the Western Chu army. Zhang Huang and Chen Ze argued with reason, saying that the Zhao army also had to guard against the threat of Long Ji, and insisted on letting the Western Chu army, which had stronger combat effectiveness, pick up more heavy burdens, and compete with Xiang You.

In the end, it was Xue Gong, the deputy recommended by Old Man Fan to Xiang You, who couldn't stand it, and stood up to help Zhang Huang and Chen Ze, saying that since the Western Chu Army was the main force attacking the Han Army, it should take on more responsibilities to deal with the Han army defenders who overhauled the martial arts, Xiang You was helpless, and had to reluctantly agree to Zhang Huang and Chen Ze's request. However, after Zhang Huang and Chen Ze said goodbye and left, Xiang You immediately complained to Xue Gong: "General Xue, why are you so stupid? The Han thieves have 12,000 defenders in the big Xiuwu, and only 6,000 defenders in the small Xiuwu, why do you want us to give up the easy and the difficult, and go to the big Xiuwu to gnaw hard bones? ”

"General, now is not the time to worry about this, is it?" Xue Gong asked angrily, and said: "The order given to us by the king is to tell us to contain the Han thieves' partial divisions, so that they have no way to free up their hands to reinforce the main force of the Han thieves. The thief army of Zhao is capricious, and when it arrives at the battlefield of Xiuwu, it must not be able to work, and if the dragon stationed in Wude has no pressure to see the size of Xiuwu, and suddenly crosses the river to the south to reinforce Sanchuan, how can we explain to the king? ”

Xiang You didn't dare to let his cousin lose his temper, so he could only sigh and say: "The wood is already in the boat, it's too late to say anything now, go down and prepare to send troops, and set off tomorrow to go south and march to the big and small Xiuwu." ”

Xue Gong sang a promise, and said vigilantly: "General, the two beauties that the Hanoi County Guard gave you, you'd better leave them in Chaoge, we go south to cultivate martial arts, and we may start a war with the Han thief army at any time, with a woman by our side, I'm afraid it will miss our big event." ”

"You don't have to worry about this general, I have my own arrangements."

Xiang You's answer was ambiguous, but when he set off for the south the next day, what made Xue Gong crooked his nose was that Xiang You not only took the two beauties that Bao Kua, the county guard of Hanoi, quietly gave him, but also selected ten beautiful women from Chaoge City to bring them into the army, and let them serve their own food and daily life. Xue Gong objected, and Xiang You said confidently: "What is this? My brother King Xichu is in the barracks, and there are not beautiful women to serve him at any time, what happened wrong? ”

It was really impossible to disobey Xiang You, but Xue Gong, who was only Xiang You's deputy, had to swallow his mouth and shut his mouth, and honestly assisted Xiang You to lead the troops south, and it took only three days to advance to the area of large and small martial arts, and the result was quite surprising to Xiang You and Xue Gong, seeing that the Western Chu army and the Zhao army were coming, and the strength was still more than 60,000 people, Zhu Jishi actually dared to lead 8,000 troops out of the camp and take the initiative to meet the attack, Xiang You and Xue Gong hurriedly led the troops to meet the battle, and at the same time told Zhang Huang and Chen Ze who were walking behind, and asked them to speed up and come over to help.

There was not much suspense in the battle, the Han army just relied on the advantage of waiting for work, and occupied a little upper hand at the beginning of the war, and once suppressed the Western Chu army to the point that it could only be held in formation, but as the Western Chu army gradually eased up, the balance of the battlefield quickly tilted to the side of the Western Chu army, and then when the Zhao army rushed to reinforce, Zhu Jishi could only hurriedly lead the army to retreat, and the two armies of Zhao and Chu took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and achieved a victory, and drove the Han army that dared to go out of the camp to fight back to the camp to hold.

The matter was not over, when the Western Chu army began to set up a camp, the Western Chu officials who were responsible for interrogating the captives reported to Xiang You, saying that it was the Han army prisoners captured by the soldiers of the Western Chu army who confessed, saying that the reason why Zhu Jishi led the army to meet the attack was because Zhu Jishi asked Long He to send troops north and join hands with the Zhao Chu coalition army to launch a decisive battle, but Long He refused, so Zhu Jishi took the risk of fighting. Xiang You and Xue Gong were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure?" What's going on? ”

"Sure." The Western Chu official in charge of interrogating the captives replied truthfully: "We have captured more than 30 Han thief captives and confessed together, saying that Zhu Jishi explained the situation to them before leaving, and asked the Han thief soldiers to fight for him to win a battle, so that Long He knew that he was right." ”

"Okay, there is discord within the thief army, we have a chance." Xiang You rubbed his hands excitedly, and suddenly remembered a major event, and hurriedly said: "I almost forgot, when I set off, Brother explained that I wanted to use the relationship between Brother and Long He to try to persuade Long and Pifu to surrender." This matter can't be delayed any longer, Xiuwu is not far from Wude, so immediately send someone to contact Long Ji to see what kind of attitude he has. ”

This matter is indeed Xiang Yu's confession, of course Xue Gong did not dare to object, Xiang You also immediately wrote a letter to Long Ji, using the old relationship between his brother Xiang Sui and Long Ji, and tried his best to persuade Long and Yi Zhi to surrender, and also promised an official reward for Xiang Yu to Long Ji, and on the same day, he sent someone to rush south to Wude with a letter and a generous gift, and secretly contacted Long Ji. However, what Xiang You never dreamed of was that after his handwritten letter was delivered to Long Ji, Long He actually laughed out loud and laughed wildly: "There is such a coincidence in the world?!" ”

After laughing, Long He discussed with a few henchmen, and decisively accepted the generous gift that Xiang You gave to him on behalf of Xiang Yu, and asked Xiang You's messenger to bring back a message, saying that he had never forgotten Xiang Sui's kindness to him back then, but Xiang Kang was also quite good to himself, and he couldn't bear to betray, so he also prepared a return gift for the messenger to take back and give to Xiang You. Then naturally, after learning Long Ji's reply, Xiang You was really excited, clapped his hands and smiled: "There is a door for this matter, and Long and Pifu may be won over by us." ”

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On the same day that Xiang You received Long He's reply, after sufficient preparations, Xiang Yu finally led the main force of the Western Chu army and launched a fierce passage to the Guangwu camp where the main force of the Han army was located.

Still on the same day, the 20,000 Guanzhong rear army led by the old man Fu Kuan and the ram also successfully arrived in Henan County, but the Han army recruited by Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi in Guanzhong did not continue to advance eastward, and directly rushed to the Aocang battlefield to reinforce the main force of the Han army, but chose to go north to Pingyin to cross the river, and secretly arrived in Hanoi County......

Early the next morning, the real test of the main force of the Han army came, and the main force of the Western Chu army, which had opened the way to enter the army, took turns to go into battle, and attacked the Han army camp from morning to night, and successfully rushed to the wall of the Han army camp many times, threatening the safety of the main camp of the Han army. Fortunately, the main force of the Han army had sufficient troops, and the reserves were dispatched in time to rescue the emergency, and relying on repeated fierce battles, they still held the main camp and did not let the Western Chu army attack the camp.

On the third day, it was still the same, the Western Chu army was still storming the main camp of the Han army, Xiang Yu and Xiang Kang, two cousins, also came to the front line to command and supervise the battle together, leading the soldiers of the Chu and Han armies to fight bloodily, fighting in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark, and at the critical moment in the afternoon, when the soldiers of the Chu army were able to step on the corpse and rush directly to the Han army camp, Xiang Kang was also forced to dispatch the Han army's heavy armor soldiers out of the camp to counterattack, and finally repelled the fierce attack of the Chu army and re-stabilized his position. In the end, both sides suffered heavy losses, both sides lost, and ended in a draw.

On the night of the third day, the Han army stationed in Xiao Xiuwu was bold, and in the case of an absolute disadvantage in the army, it took the risk to send the main force to attack the camp of the Zhao army, and the Zhao army sentinels found the Han army's attempt in time and immediately issued an alarm. The Zhao army took advantage of the situation to take Xiao Xiuwu and captured a considerable amount of grain and grass and military supplies, and the main force of the Han army Zhu Jishi stationed in Da Xiuwu was also in danger of being isolated.

On the fourth day, the main force of the Western Chu army still stormed the main camp of the Han army, and at the same time, on the battlefield of the overhaul of the martial arts, the Western Chu army also captured two messengers sent by Zhu Jishi to ask for help from the dragon. At the same time, he once again sent a secret envoy to the south to contact Long and continue to persuade Long and Yi to surrender.

On the same day, the main force of the Western Chu army has been attacking until the second watch, seeing that there is always no hope of breaking the camp, so he has no choice but to withdraw the troops, because the casualties are too heavy, Xiang Yu not only regretted that he did not choose to fight the Han army's Aocang camp first, but also had to hope that he pinned his hopes on the battlefield of Hanoi's partial division, and said secretly: "Xiang You, Xue Gong, even if you can't destroy the Han thieves, you must entangle them to the death for me, and you must not let them have the opportunity to cross the river to the south to reinforce the main force of the Han thieves, otherwise, the battle on the side of Sanchuan will only be more difficult to fight." ”

On the same day and night, the Han army Zhu Jishi suddenly gave up the overhaul of the martial arts, and retreated to Wude and Longhe overnight, Xiang You immediately launched a pursuit, and some of the results were obtained, and at the same time successfully won the overhaul of the martial arts, and captured a lot of military grain and grass.

The successive victories made Xiang You's mind begin to flutter, and the day after winning the overhaul, he couldn't wait to start discussing with the Zhao army to take advantage of the victory to enter the martial arts, but Zhang Huang and Chen Ze were also confused by the good situation in front of them, and they agreed without thinking about it, and the two armies of Zhao and Chu also set off south at noon on the same day, and rushed straight to Wude to kill.

On the same night, the messenger of the Western Chu Army who was sent to contact Long He secretly on the first day brought back the good news, saying that Long He had promised to surrender to the Western Chu Army, but Long He was worried that the generals would not accept it, and Zhu Jishi made trouble, and he had to wait for the two armies to face each other, so Long He could start to cooperate with the Western Chu Army and dedicate the Han Army's martial arts camp to the Western Chu Army.

Long You's reply made Xiang You ecstatic, in order to surprise everyone and monopolize the miracle feat, Xiang You not only concealed this matter from the Zhao army, but also did not even inform Xiang Yu of the deputy Xue Gong sent to him, and urged the army to speed up the speed of the south, ready to rush to Wude and Long Ji as soon as possible to join forces and annihilate the Hanoi division of the Han army in one fell swoop.

Xue Gong did make General Xiang You annoyed, seeing that Xiang You didn't care about it, he just urged the Western Chu army and the Zhao army to speed up the south, and even opened his mouth to persuade: "General, be cautious, the enemy situation of Wude is unknown, and we are so reckless and direct to kill it, I am afraid that it will be too dangerous." It's best to be cautious and send more scouts to check the surrounding situation, so as to prevent accidents. ”

"General Xue, remember that you are not so timid?" Xiang You's voice was full of mockery, and said: "How can you still probe Wude's enemy situation?" Didn't we figure it out a long time ago, Wude's side only had less than 20,000 troops on the Han Thief Dragon and the department, we had as many as 30,000 troops, and there were 30,000 Zhao troops behind to help, and we were afraid of the Han thieves? ”

"General, be careful." Xue Gong persuaded: "Our detailed work is a report on the enemy situation of Wude, but that was already a report of the enemy situation a few days ago, and we don't know if there has been any change in Wude Han Thief recently." Also, the Zhao army is not reliable at all, and they will definitely move forward in a tailwind battle, but in an adversity, they will definitely only escape faster than anyone else, and besides, it is still early, even if we go south at a normal speed, we can easily reach Wude in the afternoon, there is no need to waste the strength of the soldiers, and use the speed of a rapid march to Wude south. ”

The confident Xiang You didn't listen at all, insisting on just urging the army to move forward, Xue Gong had no choice but to let him go, and the Zhao army behind did not need to obey Xiang You's orders, in addition to refusing to launch a rapid march on the grounds that there were many military supplies, and following behind the Western Chu army, Zhang Huang and Chen Ze also laughed behind their backs: "Hurry to grab the filial piety hat? And no one is urging you, so what's the hurry? ”

According to Xiang You's request, at noon, the Western Chu army, which had been traveling all the way, finally arrived at the outskirts of Wude City, but before the soldiers of the Western Chu army could take a breath and Xiang You and Xue Gong found a suitable camping site, in the sound of the horn, the Han army Long He and Zhu Jishi had already rushed out of the camp, quickly completed the assembly, and strode towards the Western Chu army. Xiang You saw it and said, "The thief is not small, he dares to send troops to fight us?" ”

"General, our army is tired in a hurry." Xue Gong hurriedly said: "Hurry up and form a formation to prepare to meet the enemy, and when the Zhao army arrives, we will launch a counterattack." ”

Xiang You nodded, and immediately ordered the Chu army to form a formation and prepare to meet the enemy, but before the words fell, there was already an uproar in the ranks of the Chu army, and at the same time, Xiang You's own soldiers also hurriedly pointed to the west and shouted: "General Xiang, General Xue, look, there is another thief army coming!" ”

Xiang You and Xue Gong quickly turned their heads together, and then they were immediately stunned to see that behind the hills and woods to the west, there were indeed countless Han soldiers pouring out, marching towards the location of the Western Chu army, and behind the huge number of Han infantry, there were countless Han cavalry!

"The thief from here?" Xiang You screamed miserably, "Our meticulous work has long been clear, there are only less than 20,000 Han thief troops on Wude's side, how can there suddenly be so many?" And so many cavalry? ”

"Hit the mark!" Xue Gong wailed in pain and said: "The Han thieves deliberately lured us to the decisive battle of Wude, in addition to the advantage of waiting for work, there are also reinforcements who have already arrived and are waiting for us to fight a decisive battle, and our battle is dangerous!" ”