The physique is perverted, even if the wound stabbed out by Zhang Zhong can be seen directly in the intestines, the blood loss is quite serious, and it was not long before it was completely bright, and Xiang Yu, who had been asleep for most of the night, had already woken up from the car on the way south and regained consciousness. Then, seeing that the sky was already full of light, and seeing that the soldiers of the Western Chu Army were still marching in formation, Xiang Yu's first sentence was to ask: "How is the situation on the rear army?" Have you ever been hunted down by a thief? ”

"Back to the king, so far, there is no news from Master Xiang's side." It was Xiang Yu's chief guard Lu Matong who answered the question, and said very respectfully: "But this should be a good thing, at least it shows that there is no danger on Master Xiang's side, and there is no need to send someone to report to us." ”

The blood loss was still a little excessive, Xiang Yu looked a little tired when he nodded, and asked Lu Matong again to learn that the army had been marching all night and had not stopped to rest, and Xiang Yu, who knew how to cherish the soldiers, ordered: "Pass the order, let the army suspend its advance, and rest and eat on the spot." ”

The order was conveyed, and the officers and men of the Western Chu Army, who had just fought a battle yesterday and immediately retreated, quickly stopped and rested on the spot, or took out dry food and chewed it, or ran to the Surabaya River in the west to replenish drinking water, and more people directly lay down on the ground and fell asleep, up and down showing fatigue, Xiang Yu also relied on the support of Lu Matong and other guards to get out of the car, and sat next to the car to rest on the spot.

When he drank a gourd of water to replenish his water, and forced himself to eat dry food to recover his strength as soon as possible, Xiang Zhuang, Ji Bu, Kuai Che and Liu Laosan and other major civil and military officers of the Western Chu Army also came to the car to visit Xiang Yu's situation, and greeted Xiang Yu's injury with great concern, Xiang Yu forced a smile and said in a relaxed tone: "It's okay, I looked at it just now, there is no blood, even if I go back to battle now, there is absolutely no problem." ”

The mouth was said easily, but after saying this, a sudden sharp pain in the abdomen made the muscles on Xiang Yu's face twitch, and after quickly gritting his teeth and holding back, Xiang Yu changed the topic and asked, "Where are we now?" ”

"Back to the king, I'm about to go to the Dasha River in Pei County." Liu Laosan immediately replied: "Two or three miles further on the road is Dasha Pavilion, the high ground next to it is called Zhuangtai, there are seven or eight small lakes in the east, the terrain is very complicated, there are small roads that can lead directly to Qi County." ”

"How do you know so well?" Xiang Yu asked in some surprise.

"Because twelve or thirteen miles further on, it is the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County." Liu Laosan's smile rarely became a little bitter, and said: "Your Majesty has been the pavilion chief of the Surabaya Pavilion for more than ten years, and he came here to go back to his home, so he is very familiar with the terrain in this area. ”

"It turns out that this is Pei Gong's hometown." Xiang Yu smiled, and then asked, "If this king is not mistaken, it seems that next to the Surabaya Pavilion is the Surabaya Ferry in Pei County, how is the situation there?" Is it suitable for our army to quickly cross the river? ”

"Returning to the king, if our rear army can temporarily get rid of the Han thieves, and the Han thieves do not bring the raft to make trouble, and use the boats of the Peixian ferry to grab the pontoon bridge, we should be sure to cross Surabaya within two and a half hours." Liu Laosan replied truthfully, and said: "But Your Majesty thinks that it is best for us not to cross Surabaya to Pei County, and continue to take the road on the east bank of Surabaya to the south, which is the best policy." ”

"Why?" Xiang Yu immediately asked.

"There are two reasons for this." Liu Laosan immediately replied: "First, the terrain on the west bank of Surabaya is open, which is suitable for Han thieves to deploy troops, and once we are caught up by Han thieves, we are in danger of being surrounded by Han thieves taking advantage of their military superiority. Second, after passing Surabaya, if the situation is urgent, we will not have the opportunity to divert to Fuyang and move to Donghae County. ”

Xiang Yu, who was reluctant to give up Pengcheng directly, was silent, and said after a while: "Whether to change the route to Fu Yang, we can only wait later, let's continue to go south first." ”

Liu Laosan, who knew that Xiang Yu was reluctant to Pengcheng, nodded helplessly, and then asked worriedly: "King, is there any news from our Royal Highness Army?" Have you ever been caught up by a thief? ”

"Not yet." Xiang Yu shook his head, and said casually: "But it's okay, our rear army didn't participate in the battle yesterday, we have abundant physical strength, and our combat effectiveness is also reliable, even if we are caught up by the thieves, we can definitely stop it, and we don't need to worry about them." ”

Of course, Liu Laosan also knows very well that the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Western Chu Army is strong, even if the front-line army of the Han Army with the same strength can guarantee that it will not fall behind, plus Xiang Bo did not send someone to ask for help, which indirectly proves that the rear army has not encountered danger, so Liu Laosan is not too worried, on the contrary, he also misses his old man in Surabaya Pavilion, and said secretly: "I don't know if Wang Yuan and Wu Cheng are still selling wine in Surabaya Pavilion?" Can they invite this king to a few more drinks after a while? I remember the last time I left Pei County, it was Qiu Yue's little erector who replaced me as the head of the Surabaya Pavilion, I don't know if it's him now, if it is, he must be asked to slaughter his dog, and invite me to eat dog meat ...... again. ”

"There's a situation in the back!"

The sudden loud noise from the rear team interrupted Liu Laosan's memories of the past events in Surabaya Pavilion, and when Liu Laosan and the others hurriedly turned around to look at the way they came, they were extremely surprised to see that on the road to the north, there was a group of Western Chu soldiers who had lost their armor and fled in embarrassment, and shouted loudly from a distance, "The Han thief is coming!" The thieves are coming! Help us, save us! ”

"What's going on?!" Xiang Yu was the first to scream and shouted, "Could it be that our rear army has been defeated? How can it be? Our rear army is 46,000 men, how can it be defeated by the thieves overnight? ”

Soon, the crimson banner of the Han army that followed the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army clearly told Xiang Yu the answer, and also proved to Xiang Yu with ironclad facts that his more than 40,000 elite rear troops had indeed been defeated and defeated by the Han army's pursuers overnight.

Fortunately, relying on the strict training and strong military discipline constraints in peacetime, even if the incident happened suddenly, the main force of the Western Chu Army quickly formed a formation in a short period of time, and did not give the Han army pursuers any chance to assault, and at the same time, the Han army pursuers saw that they had caught up with the main force of the Western Chu army, and they also quickly stopped and took the initiative to retreat, did not dare to continue to venture forward, and did not fight with the main force of the Western Chu army. However, the large group of defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army cried and shouted, and rushed back to the rear of the Western Chu army directly after rolling and crawling, and then they fell to the ground and gasped for breath, glad that they finally escaped alive and were rescued by the main brigade.

After a cursory glance at the crowd of defeated soldiers, seeing that this group of defeated soldiers had almost lost their banners, and I didn't know that all the generals had fled, Xiang Yu could only hurriedly order Xiang Zhuang: "Brother, go over and take a look at the situation, and ask where our Uncle Ji is?" What's going on now? ”

Xiang Zhuang agreed, and hurriedly led Xiang Guan, Xiang Han and other Xiang family disciples to rush over, and just rushed into the crowd of defeated soldiers, he casually grabbed a grassroots general of the Western Chu Army wearing the uniform of the commander, shouted at him and asked, "What's wrong?" Is Master Xiang back? ”

I don't know why, Xiang Zhuang grabbed the middle-aged tun chief of the Western Chu army and quickly twisted his head away, not daring to look at Xiang Zhuang head-on, and quickly pointed to the defeated crowd of the Western Chu army, and said in a panicked tone: "Master Xiang, General Xiang You, and General Xiang Xiang are all back, just over there, please go find it yourself." ”

Knowing that the elders and brothers were fine, Xiang Zhuang immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but when he just let go of the middle-aged tun chief, Xiang Zhuang moved in his heart, and quickly grabbed the middle-aged tun chief with his backhand, and forced him to face him, and after a closer look, Xiang Zhuang also blurted out: "It's actually you!" ”

"General Xiang ......." The middle-aged chief's voice was obviously trembling, and he said, "After so many years, you still remember the villain." ”

Not only did Xiang Zhuang remember this middle-aged chief, but Xiang Guan and Xiang Han next to him also recognized the middle-aged chief almost at the same time, and couldn't help but roar together: "Shan Chang Shan Right Captain!" You're not dead yet? ”

Seeing that he had been recognized, Captain Shan, who had a deep hatred with the children of the Xiang family back then, had no choice but to quickly fall to his knees, and said again and again: "General Xiang spare his life!" Several generals spared their lives! Please read that the villain has no merit or hard work for Xichu all these years, and spare the villain's little life. ”

As the so-called good people do not live long, the scourge will be left for thousands of years, and the right lieutenant Shan You, who has survived for many years at the grassroots level of the Western Chu Army and the children of the Xiang family, is indeed very lucky, at this time, Xiang You and Xiang Xiang happened to come to Xiang Zhuang and others with Xiang Boxiang Master Xiang, and Master Xiang also asked very strangely: "Virtuous nephew, what are you doing?" What happened to this puff? Why do I want to kowtow to you? ”

"Major General, help! Major General Help! Lieutenant Shan also saw the savior immediately, and hurriedly walked a few steps forward to hug Xiang You's thigh, and cried and begged with a handful of snot and tears: "Major General, General Xiang Zhuang, they recognize me, please save my life, save my life, I have been under your command all these years, and there is no merit and hard work!" (For details on the matter of Captain Shan and Xiang You, see Chapter 114 of this book.) ）

I didn't expect such a situation, and I also knew that if I didn't save Shan Youwei, Shan Youwei would probably shake out the ugly thing of selling his hands and feet in public, Xiang You had no choice but to say to Xiang Zhuang and the others: "Brother, so many years have passed, don't care about the past, for the sake of my face, I also think that this puppet has followed us from birth to death over the years, spare him." ”

"Brother, what do you mean by that?" Xiang Zhuang immediately heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Xiang You: "Listen to your tone, you already know that this puppet has been hiding in our army?" Looks like you've been putting him under you? ”

Xiang You replied without a face, he could only nod silently, and when Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Guan and the others were furious, Master Xiang Boxiang, who was full of confusion, shouted: "What are you talking about? Why can't the old man understand? Where is the king? When is it now, don't you know what is light and what is heavy? ”

Still drunk by Master Xiang, Xiang Zhuang and the others remembered that they had more important things to do, and hurriedly asked Xiang Yu about the situation that Xiang Bo and others encountered last night, but Master Xiang Bo and Xiang were reluctant to answer directly, but asked Xiang Zhuang and others to take themselves to see Xiang Yu immediately, Xiang Zhuang and others did not dare to force it, so they could only agree obediently, but when leading Xiang Bo to see Xiang Yu, Xiang Guan, who was more hot-tempered, grabbed Shan Youwei and dragged him to see Xiang Yu together.

Then, after rushing to Xiang Yu and bowing down, Master Xiang Boxiang talked about the situation last night with a handful of snot and tears, saying that after the army of the palace of the Western Chu Army led by himself was caught up by the Han army, although he and his baby son Xiang You led the army to fight to the death, he almost killed the Han army, but the generals Wu Dian and Qi Jin and others were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they were afraid of the enemy like a tiger and led the army to flee on the battlefield, and also disrupted their own Chinese army flag array, which led to the collapse of the morale of the Western Chu army, and the Han army took the opportunity to attack fiercely, So I suffered a defeat.

Needless to say, before Master Xiang Boxiang's words were finished, Xiang Yu was already so angry that he roared like thunder, and he couldn't wait to pull Wu Dian and Qi Jin and other scum of the Western Chu army into front of him and chew them alive, but it happened that at this time, the scouts of the Western Chu army rushed to report again, saying that the Han army chased soldiers on the way to the north and stopped a group of defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army, and Xiang Yu, who was fighting less and less, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and lead the horse!" This king will personally lead his army to meet our defeated army! ”

The guard hurriedly brought Xiang Yu's black horse, but when Xiang Yu raised his leg and got on the horse, he found that he had a sharp pain in his lower abdomen.

Seeing this scene, don't say that the Western Chu army hurriedly persuaded Xiang Yu not to take risks, and Xiang Yu, who had suffered similar losses before, did not dare to insist on going into battle anymore, so he was forced to change his words and roared: "Give Zhou Lan an order, tell him to immediately take his headquarters to meet our defeated soldiers, and he must save all the soldiers who can be saved!" ”

The guards took the order and left, and Zhou Lan, the general of the Western Chu Army, also hurriedly took more than 10,000 troops under his command to hurry north, and returned to the way to pick up the remnants of the rear army that were already invaluable to the Western Chu army, but Xiang Yu had just sat down with the support of the guards, and the mutation was born again, and the single right lieutenant who was pulled here by Xiang Guanqiang saw Xiang Guan draw his sword, and immediately understood that his life was at stake, and quickly rushed to Xiang You's back to seek protection, crying and begging Xiang You to protect himself.

It was only at this time that Master Xiang Boxiang, who had been baffled by Shan Youwei before, finally knew the ins and outs of the incident related to Shan Youwei in the mouth of his precious son - of course, it was to delete the modified version. In addition to very cleverly modifying the enlistment time of Shan You, so that Shan Youwei became the Western Chu Army under his command after Xiang Yu and Xiang Kang turned their faces, Xiang You also naturally concealed the situation that he helped Shan Youwei assassinate the Xiang family's brothers, and insisted that he hated Xiang Kang for betraying Xiang Yu, so he accepted Shan Youwei, who only had a grudge against Xiang Kang.

In fact, there is another loophole in Xiang You's fabrication, that is, when he found Shan Youwei in Qin Jiajun's captive crowd, Master Xiang Boxiang also happened to be present, and he vaguely felt that Shan Youwei seemed to be a little familiar, but of course Master Xiang Boxiang would not expose his precious son. So after the ghost talked about it, Xiang You pleaded with Xiang Yu with confidence and boldly: "King, this Shan Chang really deserves to die, but he only made a feud with our Xiang family brother because he once wanted to kill Xiang Kang's traitor." And he has worked hard without credit in the past few years, please read this point and spare his life. ”

Xiang You's plea played a role, and after learning that Captain Shan had made a feud with his brother because he wanted to kill Xiang Kang, who he hated the most, Xiang Yu immediately made up his mind and said: "Okay, since he made a feud with our Xiang family because he wanted to kill Xiang Kang, the traitor, then forget about it." Raise him to the rank of Hundred Chiefs, and let him continue to serve under your account. ”

As soon as Captain Shan heard the great joy, he hurriedly thanked Xiang Yu again and again, and Xiang Guan and Xiang Han, who fought to the death for Xiang Kang and Captain Shan, were of course unwilling, and they all said: "King, this lady is despicable, shameless in doing things, and can't stay!" ”

"Shut up!" Xiang Yu, who was in an extremely bad mood, roared angrily and roared: "This king said that if he spares him, he will spare him!" He was only close to killing Xiang Kang's traitor, and with this, even if he committed a heinous crime, this king could spare him! ”

Xiang Guan and Xiang Han had no choice but to shut up, and retreated to Xiang Zhuang's side dejectedly, watching Captain Shan thank Xiang Yu for his kindness, and even ran back to the defeated crowd to return to the team, Xiang Zhuang also had a gloomy face, and peeked at Liu Laosan, who was standing next to him without saying a word, and made up his mind several times, and said secretly: "I can't delay any longer, no matter what, I must find out the truth of that matter as soon as possible." ”

Not to mention, because of the serious decline in the physical strength of the Han army led by Feng Zhong, Zhou Lan, the general of the Western Chu Army, led the army north to respond, and really rescued a lot of defeated soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were lucky enough to avoid the pursuit of the Han army, but what caught Zhou Lan off guard was that when he continued to go north to rescue the remaining defeated soldiers, the Han army general Lu Kuang suddenly came with 30,000 troops to reinforce Feng Zhong, and also joined forces with Feng Zhong to defeat him with the advantage of troops, forcing him to quickly flee back to the Dasha River with the defeated army to join the main force.

Knowing this situation, of course, the hot-tempered Xiang Yu wanted to immediately send troops to counterattack, but this time even Master Xiang Boxiang didn't dare to continue to follow his temperament, and took the initiative to join forces with Liu Laosan, Kuaiche and others, begging him not to turn back to fight with tears, coupled with his own abdominal wound bursting and serious blood loss, there was really no way to continue to fight and kill the enemy, Xiang Yu could only yell against his will: "Order the whole army, immediately reorganize the team, and let Ding Gu lead the army to continue to retreat to Pengcheng!" ”

Without the cover of the rear army, of course, the main force of the Western Chu army had no chance to retreat calmly, because they had just set off, and the insatiable Feng Zhong and Lu Kuang were immediately like two hungry wolves that smelled blood, and soon led the army to catch up, biting the tail of the main force of the Western Chu army and dragging down the retreat speed of the main force of the Western Chu army.

During this period, Feng Zhong also said to Lu Kuang with his eyebrows: "Brother Lu, if the Western Chu thief army dares to disconnect from front to back and back, and leave the rear team to retreat first, we can only rest assured that we will assault!" Because now the old puppet of Ding Gu, who is behind the palace of the Western Chu thief army, is exactly the same as the old puppet of Xiang Bo! The most greedy for life and afraid of death and the most afraid of fighting a tough battle, seeing Xiang Yu let him be sent to death, as long as we launch an assault, he will definitely be like Xiang Bo's old horseman, he must run! ”

When Lu Kuang, who had already picked up countless cheap ones, nodded his head, another Han army general, Li Shang, beat his chest beside Uncle Zhou, screamed in annoyance, and roared wildly: "I knew that Uncle Xiang was this kind of virtue!" Yesterday, I should have taken the opportunity of Xiang Yu still in Yutai Pavilion to attack the Huling Ferry with all my might! Why did I miss such a great opportunity? Why did I miss it? I'll fuck him, if I had joined the Young Marshal Army earlier, I would have had the opportunity to meet with Uncle Xiang in advance! If I had known that he could be wasted to this point, I would have made an all-out assault yesterday at any cost! ”

"Oh my God! O earth! Such a good opportunity, why did I miss it in vain——?! ”

In the end, Li Shiqi, who still couldn't listen to it, gave his younger brother a slap with his own hands to make Li Shang close his mouth, but even so, Li Shang still regretted his intestines and burst his belly.