After leading the main force of the Han army to arrive at the battlefield of Chenliu, Xiang Kang, as usual, really gave birth to opportunistic thoughts.

This point cannot be completely blamed on Xiang Kang's temperament to be hopelessly bad, the main reason is that objective factors determine that Xiang Kang wants to play the evil of yin, one is that Xiang Kang personally led the main force to attack Pengcheng for thousands of miles, of course, he hopes for a quick victory, and is unwilling to be dragged into a confrontation by the enemy, wasting more precious time than gold.

The second is that Huan Chu built the fortifications too strongly, in addition to building various civil fortifications to cross the river at the chasm ferry, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a strong and abnormal camp, the camp wall alone is two zhang high, and three trenches were dug to protect the camp, the sheep and horse wall, the corner tower, the arrow tower, the guard tower and the antlers are all missing, even if the main force of the Han army is three times that of Huan Chu, and the equipment also has a clear advantage, Xiang Kang does not dare to guarantee that his army can break the enemy in a battle.

Of course, Xiang Kang did not use any despicable tricks such as diverting the tiger from the mountain, luring the snake out of the hole, or borrowing the corpse to return the soul, and after personally exploring the defensive deployment of Huan Chu on the spot, Xiang Kang aimed at the weakness that the chasm was an artificial canal and the water flow was relatively gentle, first commanded the Han army to fight a battle to rush the crossing, pretended to feint to attack the ferry position of the Huan Chu army's key defense, and sent a partial division to grab the ferry from the slow flow ten miles downstream, and set foot on the other side of the chasm.

Huan Chu also really hit the plan, and hurriedly sent the mobile troops in his hands to the east to fill the leak, to prevent the Han army from going to the upstream to attack his ferry defenders, Xiang Kang only then changed the feint attack as the main attack, and really attacked the gap ferry that was actually the most suitable for the main force of the Han army to cross the river, the West Chu army guarding the ferry could not resist, and was forced to ask Long He for help, Long He hurriedly led the army to come over for reinforcements, and the Han army with strong troops took the opportunity to increase the downstream battlefield, not only crossed the river quickly under the cover of the front team, but also gradually pulled the West Chu army into a decisive battle.

In this battle, the Han army only fought more difficult in the early middle and early stages, and with the continuous crossing of the Han army, gradually reversing the trend of superiority and inferiority of troops on the local battlefield, the Huan Chu army gradually could not parry, in order to preserve its strength, Huan Chu could only rush to the downstream battlefield collapse and take the initiative to retreat to the camp, the Han army fully crossed the river, and set up camp to ten miles southwest of Chenliu.

It was only at this time that Xiang Kang began to discuss with Chen Ping, Zhang Liang and others how to lure Huan Chu out of the camp for a decisive battle, and as a result, Chen Ping was worthy of being the number one bad breed in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, and soon gave Xiang Kang a bad idea, saying: "Great King, Huan Chu is a famous ranger in Jiangdong, and he regards himself as Qi Gao's favorite face, if you want to let him go out of the camp for a decisive battle, the best way is to humiliate him in public, let him lose his mind and act impulsively, so that there is hope for success." ”

Xiang Kang, who was more familiar with Huan Chu, applauded when he heard this, in addition to immediately starting to build all kinds of offensive weapons to prevent accidents, he also arranged for three generals, Long Ji, Ding Ji and Zhu Jishi, to take turns to fight outside the Huan Chu camp, and also selected dozens of loud scolders from the Han sergeants, and personally taught them some scolding words in later generations, so that they could go to the gate of the Western Chu army camp every day to scold and humiliate Huan Chu and provoke him to fight.

In this way, General Huan Chu's poor parents and relatives naturally fell into bad luck, in front of countless soldiers of the two armies, the Han army scolded and spitted at the mouth, opened his teeth and danced his claws, from the grandmother of the eighteenth generation of Huan Chu ancestors to Huan Chu's unborn grandson, the words were vicious, even if it was a slightly shameless pig, there was an urge to commit suicide after hearing it.

"Huan Chu Xiao'er! Turtle King Eight! If you have the ability, come out and fight us to the death! If you don't have the ability, hurry back to Jiangdong to find your old wife (mother) to feed! By the way, when she gave birth to you, why did she forget to give birth to your eggs together, so that you didn't even have the courage to come out and fight with us? ”

"Huan Chu Pifu! You handmaiden's wretch! A turtle slave who grew up in a brothel in a female lu! Your eldest mother (grandmother) and your tall mother (great-grandmother) sold herself to raise you so big, not so that you could hide in a turtle shell and not get out! If you still remember the hard work of your mother, you can quickly climb out and fight us to the death! ”

"Huan Chu Xiao'er! Have you ever seen an egg? I haven't seen it, come and see what an egg is! Weng knows that you don't have eggs, so you don't dare to come out and fight with us, so let you take a look! This scolder not only scolded loudly, but also really took off his hat in public, showed his work to the camp of the Western Chu army, and also poured a soak of urine on the camp of the Western Chu army by the way.

I knew for a long time that Xiang Kang would try his best to lure himself into battle, but Huan Chu never dreamed that Xiang Kang would use such vicious and shameless means to provoke himself to fight, and the result was just as Chen Ping expected, Huan Chu, who was born as a famous ranger, really shamelessly endured such humiliation, and ordered to gather soldiers and horses several times, and led the army out of the camp to fight to the death with the Han army! Fortunately, several of his generals were quite calm, desperately stopped him, and persuaded: "The general is angry, the general is angry, the purpose of the Han thief is nothing more than to provoke you to fight, if we are fooled, we will inevitably fall into the trap of the Han thief!" ”

"Calm down! Calm down! Be sure to calm down! Huan Chu also desperately asked himself to calm down in his heart, and said secretly: "Don't be impulsive, if you are fooled so easily, Xiang Kang Xiaoer will definitely be suspicious." In order to lure Xiang Kang into our hinterland, I had to calm down for a few days. ”

After finally forcing himself to calm down, Huan Chu wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't think that the sound of a Han army scolding his hand suddenly came into his ears......

"Huan Chu Pifu! Do you remember me? I'm your father! Come and see how much I look like you, forget your original fake man, come here with your relatives, and I'll buy you maltose (maltose) to eat! You unfilial wretch, why haven't you come out to recognize you, I'm going to be angry! It's really by you and me, the first thing I do when I go back is to your wife, and give you a few brothers and sisters! Brothers, you say, I should give Huan Chu Xiao'er a few younger brothers and sisters?! ”

The soldiers of the Han army who heard this all laughed wildly, and coaxed loudly, and many Western Chu soldiers couldn't help laughing, but Huan Chu couldn't bear it anymore and roared: "Blow the trumpet!" Gather the army and go out of the camp to fight to the death with the army of Han thieves! ”

"General, calm down!"

"Calm down, you Weng! The thief army humiliated me so much, I can't bear it anymore! Gather your army now and go out to fight a decisive battle! Those who violate the order will be beheaded immediately! ”

In this way, relying on the hard work of the Han army's scolding hands, Huan Chu, who originally wanted to endure for a few days and then pretend to be in the middle of the plan, couldn't bear it anymore, and on the first day of the Han army's agitation plan, he couldn't wait to personally lead the army out of the camp and fight a decisive battle with the Han army led by Long He outside the camp. And then don't say it, after the situation was reported in front of Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang not only did not suspect, but on the contrary, he applauded and laughed: "My brother really doesn't know how to use people as before, and sending a brave and unscrupulous puppet like Huan Chu to stop me from entering Pengcheng is no different from giving Peng Chengbai to me!" ”

After laughing, Xiang Kang, of course, immediately gathered troops and horses, and led the main force of the Han army to reinforce Long Ji, and when Xiang Kang personally led the army to the scene, the angry Huan Chu army had already fought fiercely with the Long and the army, and relied on the sky-high anger to gain a slight upper hand on the battlefield. Xiang Kang was even more overjoyed when he saw it, and he was busy sending troops to cut off Huan Chu's way back to the camp, while sending troops to attack the flank of the Western Chu army, and as soon as he came up, he dispatched the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army led by Zhang Zhong, and used the heavy armored soldiers as the vanguard to attack the battle formation of the Western Chu army.

There is no suspense in the battle, basically it can be regarded as invulnerable The heavy armor soldiers of the Han army have just been put into the battlefield, and soon the flank queue of the Western Chu army was disrupted, and a big hole was torn in the flank of the Western Chu army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Huan Chu first pretended to withdraw to the camp, or was killed by the Han army that came in a roundabout way, Huan Chu pretended to be invincible, and retreated to Yongqiu with his army, the Han army, including Xiang Kang, did not see that Huan Chu was deceitful and lured the enemy, in addition to taking advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the camp of the Western Chu army, and decisively divided the troops to pursue the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army, and chased and killed more than 30 miles in one go, until the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army fled into Yongqiu City in large numbers before withdrawing.

Chen Liu's great victory completely confused the judgment of the Han army's decision-making level, seeing that the army successfully defeated Huan Chu, and also successfully captured almost all the grain and grass of the Huan Chu army, and forced Chen Liu's Kaicheng to surrender on the same day, whether it was Xiang Kang or Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, all did not suspect that Huan Chu was deliberately losing this battle, and the main force of the Han army immediately moved to the east after quickly cleaning the battlefield, and killed Yongqiu.

Next, things are relatively simple for Huan Chu, more than 30,000 troops have lost most of them, and the grain and grass have lost a fine light, no matter how they retreat, they don't have to worry about being suspected by the Han army that the Western Chu army is deceitful and luring the enemy, so just after finding out the main force of the Han army to continue to advance eastward, Huan Chu decisively gave up the hometown of the Li brothers, Yongqiu City, and fled all the way east with the remnants of the defeated army, and even ignored Xiangyi on the way, and just fled to Suiyang. The Han army was like a bamboo, and it took not a single soldier to successfully land in the second city of Yongqiu Xiangyi, and it only took more than nine days to chase and kill Xiang Kang and the young marshal's army under the city of Suiyang, the county of Dangjun, which had been defended with their lives.

On the night of arriving at the Suiyang battlefield, Xiang Kang, of course, arranged for a secret envoy to come forward and secretly infiltrate the camp of the Suiyang defenders, and contacted Wan Yun, the chief general of the Suiyang defenders, who had taken the initiative to surrender before, and asked the old man of the young marshal army Wan Yun to fulfill his promise and lead the Suiyang defenders to surrender as soon as possible. Wan Yun's reply was that some of his generals were unreliable, and at the same time, Huan Chu's army had already entered the camp of the Suiyang defenders, and it was difficult to succeed in a hasty move, so he asked Xiang Kang to give him a little time to prepare and wait for his news.

In addition to setting up a strong camp to prevent the enemy from suddenly launching a sneak attack, he also took precautions to build siege and attack weapons, so as to start attacking when Wan Xun repented.

At noon two days later, Wan Yun, the old man of the young marshal army and Xiang Zhuang's former deputy, suddenly sent an envoy to the camp to meet Xiang Kang, saying that he was going to take down all the senior generals of the Western Chu army, including Huan Chu, at dinner, and asked Xiang Kang to prepare in advance. Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he hurriedly organized the army to secretly prepare for war, and arranged a very thorough plan, patiently waiting for Wan Yun to start an uprising.

Things were only slightly deviated, and in the evening, the scout suddenly reported that it was a great chaos in the Western Chu military camp, and there was a large-scale fire and merger incident, Xiang Kang also immediately understood that it must be Wan Yun's plan that failed to completely succeed, and there was a fish that slipped through the net to lead the army and the army loyal to Wan Xun to fight, and he did not hesitate to be overjoyed, and immediately personally led the main force out of the camp, all the way to Suiyang defenders' camp to take advantage of the fire and rob.

There was still no suspense about the outcome of the victory, and the Han army had just reached the camp of the defenders of Suiyang, and immediately an army opened the camp gate to welcome the Han army into the city, and loudly stated their position, saying that they were acting on the orders of Wan Xun. At the same time, after seeing that the Han army entered the camp, another Western Chu army opened the back door and fled out of the camp, obviously seeing that the general trend had gone, he was unwilling to stay and wait for death. The Han army entered the camp in a big way, quickly seized the Chinese camp of the Suiyang defenders, rescued Wan Yun, who was once surrounded by the enemy, and captured many important generals of the Suiyang defenders, and most of the leaderless Suiyang defenders laid down their arms and surrendered, and only a few escaped by night.

At this point, Xiang Kang of course had no doubts about the old man Wan Xun of the former young marshal, not only met with his old subordinate Wan Xun at the first time, but also gave Wan Yun a heavy reward in public, named the Marquis of Suiyang, and gave him thousands of households. And when Xiang Kang asked why Wan Yun's plan did not succeed, Wan Yun replied: "The king forgives the sin, and the last general doesn't know what went wrong, the last general just summoned all the generals in the army to the big tent of the Chinese army, and Huan Chu's puppet brought his army to attack the Chinese army camp of the last general, if it wasn't for the last general's Chinese army defenders were still quite effective, he was almost killed by him." ”

After saying that, Wan Xun hurriedly took the initiative to ask Ying: "But the king, please rest assured, the defenders of Li County, Dangxian and Mang County east of Suiyang are all subordinates of the last general, please allow the last general to lead an army to pursue, and you must not give Huan Chupifu a chance to enter the city to supply and station." ”

"No hurry, no hurry." Xiang Kang said with a smile: "Huan Chu Pifu is already a few thousand remnants of the defeated army, even if he enters the county town in the east, he can't make any waves, we still follow the old rules, first contain and reorganize the Western Chu army in Suiyang, and then continue to pursue eastward." ”

Wan Yun's eyes flickered a little, and he said secretly: "Sure enough, it hasn't changed at all, I'm still as cautious as before, I've already reached this point, and I even want to reorganize my army." But it doesn't matter, I don't believe it, I have done such a great service to you, you will not even give me the command of the army. ”

Xiang Kang finally had some carelessness this time, and the next day, after breaking up and absorbing more than 8,000 troops that surrendered with Wan Yun, Xiang Kang really allocated an army to Wan Xun to command, and the strength of the army still reached 8,000 people, and more than forty percent were the original Suiyang defenders, Wan Yun was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked Xiang Kang again and again, but Xiang Kang waved his hand with a smile and said: "You're welcome, this is what you deserve." ”

Wan Yun hurriedly thanked him again, and then wanted to open his mouth to speak several times, but his face was full of words and stopped, Xiang Kang saw the strangeness, and asked, "General Wan, what else do you want to say?" ”

"The King forgives sins." Wan Yun said cautiously: "The wife and children of the last general are all in Pengcheng City, and the last general is worried that if we ......, they may be in danger." ”

"Don't worry." Xiang Kang casually ordered: "Deal with the matter here in Suiyang, this king will lead the army east tomorrow to rescue this king and your wife and children." Go down and rest, get ready, and set out with the king tomorrow. ”

Wan Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly thanked Xiang Kang again, before leaving with his leave. Xiang Kang also turned to Zhang Liang and Chen Ping and said: "There is no problem here in Suiyang, and Huan Chu is not afraid now, and now that we are entering Pengcheng in the east, there is only Xiangxian as the last block." Shouxiang County is my brother Xiang Han, what do you think of him? ”

"King, this question should be asked to yourself." Zhang Liang replied politely: "General Xiang Han is your cousin and your former subordinate, no one knows his situation better than you, what kind of strategy to adopt against him, you should personally take the idea of the king." ”

Xiang Kang sighed helplessly and muttered: "I didn't expect that the reunion of our Xiang brothers would be on the battlefield, I really can't be ruthless to poison him." ”

After sighing, Xiang Kang thought about it again, and then said: "In this way, send a messenger to contact my brother, and tell him clearly that I entered Pengcheng this time just to welcome back my family, and I have no other intentions, please ask him to see it for the sake of brotherhood and affection, don't get in the way, and lead the army to leave Xiangxian as soon as possible." If he refuses to listen, I can only kill my relatives in righteousness. ”

Chen Ping agreed, and immediately picked up a pen to write a letter to Xiang Han for Xiang Kang, but at this time, a guard suddenly came to report outside the account, saying that there was a person who claimed to have a very important confidential letter, and he wanted to present it to Xiang Kang in person, and Xiang Kang, who had already tasted the sweetness, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered to summon him, and then after a while, a middle-aged man who was dusty was led to Xiang Kang, saluted Xiang Kang and said: "Xiao Ying, a personal soldier under the command of General Feng Zhongfeng, the general of Western Chu, has seen His Majesty the King of Han. ”

"Feng Zhong?!"

Before the man's words were finished, of course Xiang Kang immediately pricked up his ears, and when he quickly took a closer look at the person's appearance, he vaguely found that this Xiao Ying, who claimed to be Feng Zhong's personal soldier, was indeed a little familiar, as if he had seen it there. With more and more excitement in his heart, Xiang Kang hurriedly asked again: "Xiao Shishu, has this king met you?" ”

"The king has a good memory." Xiao Ying hurriedly smiled and said: "When the king was in Huaisi before, the villain did meet the king a few times with General Feng, but I really didn't expect the king to remember the villain, a nobody. ”

"What did my Brother Feng send you to do, tell me quickly?" Xiang Kang asked excitedly.

"Back to the king, General Feng asked the villain to bring you a letter and a map."

Xiao Ying hurriedly took out a letter and a map drawn on white silk, Xiang Kang personally left the table to take it, first took a cursory glance at the map, and found that it was also the Huaisi hinterland garrison map of the Western Chu Army, and quickly opened the sealed Feng Zhong's letter to take a closer look, and saw that Feng Zhong not only described his brotherhood with Xiang Kang more than his own brothers, but also said that he was extremely unhappy under Xiang Yu's account, always thinking about the good times when he fought side by side with Xiang Kang, and only wanted to return to serve under Xiang Kang's account. He also said that now the main force of the Western Chu army was stuck in the quagmire of Qidi, and Pengcheng was empty, and suggested that Xiang Kang seize the opportunity to enter Pengcheng and rescue his wife and children who were detained by Xiang Yu in Pengcheng, as well as Li Shiqi and others, and took the initiative to express his willingness to take on the internal response for Xiang Kang, and led the army of his headquarters to surrender at a critical moment, helping Xiang Kang easily take Pengcheng, the capital of Western Chu.

Behind the letter, Feng Zhong, who was born with mud legs, also added a sentence in a crepe - cry blood and worship white, don't be suspicious.

The letter is definitely Feng Zhong's handwriting, and Xiang Kang, who once wore a pair of pants with Feng Zhong, can be absolutely sure without looking for a comparison of previous letters and documents. However, looking at Feng Zhong's letter carefully, Xiang Kang's hands involuntarily trembled slightly, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cellar, and he couldn't help but scream in his heart: "I've been tricked!" This time I really hit the trick! ”