As mentioned above, after losing contact with the Nanyang army Xizuo lurking in the Xingyang area, and then discovering that the Han army had tightly sealed the Sanchuan border, for the sake of caution, the intuitive Nanyang army Yingchuan County Shou Zhou Chang was uneasy, in addition to arranging for the Xinzheng area to bypass the Songshan Mountains to the north to investigate the enemy's situation, he also wrote a letter about the situation, and sent a fast horse to Xincheng to inform Han Xin of the matter, so that Han Xin, who had the right to control himself, also knew about the situation.

Coincidentally, in the afternoon of the next day, Zhou Chang's messenger finally came to the gate of Han Xin's camp, and it took some time for the soldiers guarding the camp gate to verify their identities, so that they could enter the outer camp of Han Xin's army and come to the front of the Chinese army camp. Emergency military intelligence! Get out of the way! Get out of the way, everybody! ”

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the outer camp who led the messenger of Zhou Chang to come here had no choice but to quickly pull the messenger of Zhou Chang back a few steps, and said apologetically: "Sir, forgiveness, this is the rule of our general, if our scouts return to the camp with a red flag, everyone must give him priority." ”

The messenger of Zhou Chang was not in a hurry, of course, he smiled and expressed his understanding, and let the scout preemptively negotiate with the gatekeepers of the Chinese army camp before him, and was led into the Chinese army camp one step ahead of him, and at the same time he was curious in his heart, "What's the matter?" Can there be such a hurry? ”

It's still a coincidence that in the Chinese army's tent at the same time, Han Xin, who has rare leisure, is playing Liubo with Zhou Bo, and although Lu Jia and Xi Juan and other Nanyang army civil and military forces are all on Zhou Bo's side, watching chess is not gentlemanly and desperately giving Zhou Bo a move, Zhou Bo also couldn't parry Han Xin's fierce offensive on the chessboard, and finally had to push the plate to admit defeat, and shouted helplessly: "Admit defeat!" General, you still don't want to show mercy at all, I've known you for so many years, and I've never won a game with you! ”

"Playing chess is like fighting a war, of course, you can't show mercy." Han Xin's tone was still proud, and he said, "On the battlefield where the two armies are facing off, how can it be possible to show mercy to the enemy's subordinates? ”

Zhou Bo refused to be convinced, and immediately proposed to have another game with Han Xin, but Han Xin was too lazy to waste time with an opponent of Zhou Bo's level, and immediately made excuses, but Zhou Bo said that he would have another game, but when Han Xin and Zhou Bo were entangled, the soldiers outside the tent finally sent an urgent report, saying that the scouts who went to Henan to investigate the enemy's situation had 100,000 urgent important military reports, Han Xin took the opportunity to get out and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly pass it in." ”

Before the words fell, the Nanyang army scouts who had been guarding the front of the big tent had already rushed in, and while hurriedly saluting, they played loudly: "General Qiyu, our army is lurking around Henan County to make an urgent report, last night, Henan Han thieves suddenly dispatched a large number of people to grab a pontoon bridge on the Luoshui River, as of close to dawn, Henan Han thieves have built six pontoon bridges on the Luoshui River!" ”

"Grab the pontoon?" Han Xin's eyebrows raised, and he said suspiciously: "Why did the Henan Han thieves rush to build the pontoon bridge overnight?" In addition to grabbing the pontoon bridge, did we find any other anomalies in our detailed work? ”

"Back to the general, no." The scout replied.

Han Xin's face was a little gloomy, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know when the Henan Han thieves started to grab the pontoon bridge last night?" ”

"It's ......." The scout was embarrassed, and hurriedly replied: "The general forgives the sin, the villain came in a hurry, and forgot to ask this question to our fine work, but our fine work should not know, because our fine work was in the second half of the night, and accidentally found that there were torches everywhere at the Henan ferry, and then he found that the thief was rushing to build the pontoon bridge, so he should not know when the thief started to build the pontoon bridge." ”

Fortunately, Han Xin is a very reasonable person, and after a little calculation, he said: "We were able to find the Han thief snatching the pontoon bridge in the second half of last night, and our fine work has done a good job. ”

The scout sang the promise, and then said goodbye and left, and Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and others were also surprised and said: "General, what the hell are the thieves doing?" Why rush to take the pontoon bridge overnight? ”

"Of course not a pontoon bridge for us." Han Xin didn't think about it and said: "There is only one possibility, that is, the Han thieves are about to send troops south and launch a counterattack against us." ”

"Counterattack?" Zhou Bo and Lu Jia were shocked together, and they both said, "Could it be that the reinforcements of the Han thieves are about to arrive?" ”

"Only this explanation, counting the time, the reinforcements of the Han thieves should indeed arrive." Han Xin replied quietly: "But don't worry, the number of reinforcements from the Han thieves will not be much, otherwise, the Han thieves will not only build six pontoon bridges on the Luoshui River." Extrapolating from the number of pontoon bridges, the reinforcements of the Han thieves should only be between 20,000 and 30,000, and they only have the strength to fight in front of us, but they are not sure that they will be able to win. ”

When Lu Jia, Zhou Bo and the others breathed a sigh of relief, the voice of Zhou Chang's messenger asking to see came from outside the tent, and then after learning the news that the Han army had tightly sealed the Sanchuan border, Han Xin, who had a sharper intuition, vaguely noticed that the situation was not good, and said secretly: "Why did the Han thief do this?" Covering the main force of the Han thieves to return to aid Sanchuan? But no, there are only six pontoon bridges on the Luoshui River, so it is impossible for too large an army of Han thieves to cross the river quickly? ”

Soldier Immortal Han Xin is also worthy of being Xiang Kang's most vigilant opponent, just by relying on his sixth sense to find that the situation is wrong, Han Xin made a decisive decision and ordered: "Pass the order, the whole army immediately pull out the camp and move the camp to the south bank of Yishui to set up camp, the sooner the better!" ”

"Why?" Zhou Bo hurriedly asked: "General, the specific enemy situation is still unknown, why did we move the camp to the south bank of Yishui so quickly?" ”

"Don't ask." Han Xin didn't bother to explain to Zhou Bo, and said: "For the sake of prudence, it is best for us to move to the south bank of Yishui immediately, so that no matter what happens, we have plenty of options for contingencies." ”

Zhou Bo, who was asked to be obedient by Liu Laosan, had no choice but to hold his fists and agree, and immediately went out of the account to personally organize the army to move to camp, and Lu Jia next to him hurriedly reminded: "General, what should I do about the Western Chu army?" They are also stationed on the north bank of Yishui, do you want them to move to the south bank of Yishui as well? ”

"You personally go to the camp of the Western Chu Army." Han Xin replied quietly: "Tell Liji what happened in Henan County last night, and say that according to my analysis, the Han thief is likely to have a big action, and ask him to move the camp to the south bank of Yishui immediately for the sake of safety, just like us, so that no matter what happens, we can deal with it calmly." ”

Lu Jia agreed, hurriedly went out of the tent and went to the camp to see Liji, and persuaded the Western Chu army to also hurry over Yishui to set up camp, leaving Han Xin to think hard in the Chinese army's tent, "What do the thieves want to do?" Judging from the number of pontoon bridges they grabbed, even if they had reinforcements, they would not have a lot of troops, so why did they still put on a posture of taking the initiative to attack? Is it the Han thief general who led the troops back to Henan to be greedy for merit and underestimated the enemy, ready to fight us to the death? Or is there something else going on? ”

Without God's perspective, the intelligence support obtained is quite limited, Han Xin of course can not see through the true intentions of the Han army, and can only make up his mind to withdraw Yishui as soon as possible, and make preparations for the convenience of slipping away, but after a period of time, when the Nanyang soldiers were still pulling out the revenue account, the news of Liji's visit suddenly came from outside the tent, Han Xin complained bitterly, knowing that it must be Lu Jia who persuaded Li Ji to be disobedient, Li Ji not only refused to listen, but also came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, but there was no way, but he could only order a meeting.

Sure enough, after rushing into Han Xin's Chinese army tent, Liji's monstrous anger almost burned Han Xin's Chinese army tent directly to ashes, yelling and screaming, while demanding that the Nanyang army immediately stop moving the camp, while yelling at Han Xin and questioning, asking Han Xin why he was so afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and before the enemy appeared, he was so frightened that he hurriedly moved the camp, and shouted insightfully: "What if the Henan Han thieves suddenly built six pontoon bridges on the Luoshui River last night?" With only six pontoon bridges, how many thieves can cross the river immediately? There is no need for our scouts to probe again, just by the number of pontoon bridges of the Han thieves, General Ben can be sure that even if the Han thieves have reinforcements, the number will definitely not be too much! In that case, what else do we have to fear?! ”

"General Leigh, I'm also here for safety." Han Xin explained in a deep voice: "We hurriedly moved to the south bank of Yishui to set up camp, no matter what happens, we can deal with it calmly, we can defend it, and if we can't defend it, we can also rely on Yishui to temporarily block it, quickly transfer to the south, and it is not easy to be caught up and bitten by Han thieves." ”

"So how do we fight back?" Li Ji roared and asked a key question, "The Han thieves grabbed the pontoon bridge, clearly preparing to take the initiative to go south, from the number of pontoon bridges of the Han thieves, even if the Han thieves have reinforcements, the strength will not exceed 30,000 at most, we have a full 50,000 troops (after capturing Xincheng and Liang County and other places to add some), not only do not have the upper hand, but also have the advantage of troops, and we are fully sure to take this opportunity to clean up the Han thieves!" Why are we still so conservative, taking the initiative to withdraw from Yishui and take the initiative to give up the position on the west bank, how can we quickly march into the army and fight to the death with the Han thieves? ”

Of course, Han Xin also knew that his choice was a little too conservative, but there was no way, but his intuition told Han Xin that this matter would never be so simple, so after thinking for a while, Han Xin could only swallow his anger and said: "General Li has learned a lesson, but I have already given the order to transfer the camp, and the soldiers of our Nanyang Army are already pulling out the revenue account, otherwise, let's cross Yishui and set up camp first, if the reinforcements of the Han thieves arrive, there is really a chance for a decisive battle, and we must immediately lead the troops to cross the river, Help you fight the thief to the death! ”

"No way!" Li Ji categorically refused, stared at Han Xin's eyes again, and said viciously: "Because General Ben can't trust you!" Do you remember? When you were in Cheyuan Pavilion, you cheated and slipped away, leaving our Western Chu Army's General Gongao to fight alone, and almost killed General Gongao's entire army, and General Ben doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past! ”

I never thought that the Xiang that Liu Laosan pulled out would hit his head at this moment, Han Xin was completely speechless, and then it was still a coincidence, at this time, another scout entered the account and shouted to Han Xin: "General Yu, Henan Ferry Emergency, during the midnight this morning, there was a group of Han thieves who returned to the division from Chidao to Henan City, and immediately crossed the river to the south!" ”

"Who is the general of the Han thief who commands the army?" Han Xin hurriedly asked.

"How many troops do the thieves have?" Liji is more concerned about this issue.

"Returning to the general, the master of the Han thieves who came to lead the army will be Long Ji." The scout answered Han Xin's question first, and then bowed his hand to Li Ji and said, "General Yuxi Chu, the strength of the Han thieves is probably between 20,000 and 25,000, judging from the number of banners, it will definitely not exceed 25,000. ”

"Did you hear that?" As soon as Li Ji heard the great joy, he immediately said to Han Xin: "Did you hear it, the strength of the Han thieves will not exceed 25,000, and there are only more than 20,000 Han thieves, are we still afraid of birds?" As long as we strive to destroy this group of Han thieves, we will make a great contribution to the king of Western Chu, and even if the Han thieves return to help in a big way, we are forced to retreat south, and the king of Western Chu will only praise us for doing the right thing and doing a good job, and some will reward us heavily! ”

"It's that easy." Han Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Although the dragon and that puppet have always been brave and unscrupulous, it is not difficult to deal with, but if the thief has other actions, ......." ”

"Then act on the opportunity!" Li Ji interrupted Han Xin rudely, waved his hand and shouted: "The dragon and the horseman are coming from afar, the soldiers are tired, and the fighters are rare, we must not miss it!" Tell your soldiers to stop moving and prepare to fight the dragons and puffers to the death! Otherwise, you're responsible for all the consequences! ”

Han Xin was still extremely hesitant, but Li Ji was overstepping his behalf, yelling at Han Xin's personal soldiers, forcing Han Xin's personal soldiers to immediately order to stop moving the camp, and the personal soldiers looked at Han Xin in embarrassment, but Han Xin weighed the pros and cons for a long time, before he nodded slowly, agreed to withdraw the order to move the camp, and said in his heart: "The dragon and the puppet are not afraid, as long as I give me a little time, it is not difficult to break him, this puppet looks like a greedy merit, find a way to solve it as soon as possible." ”

By the way, Han Xin is really not afraid of being behind Long and behind him, there are reinforcements from the Han army, because at that time, even if Li Ji is stupid, he will agree to withdraw his troops immediately, not to mention, the road from Xincheng to the hinterland of Yingchuan is still full of terrain along the way, there are many mountains, forests and rivers, and there are good places for ambushes everywhere, which is also the ideal battlefield where Han Xin can give full play to his tactical advantages, even if Xiang Kang personally leads the troops to pursue, Han Xin is sure that he can draw Xiang Kang all over the ground to find teeth! Full of flowers!

In this way, because of the strong opposition of Liji of the Southern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army, Han Xin, whose status and strength were below Liji, could only swallow his anger and withdraw the order to move the camp, and the officers and men of the Nanyang Army, who had already collected half of the tents, could only re-establish the military tent and arrange the camp defense, but fortunately, the civil and military forces of the Nanyang Army also knew that the army did not dare to offend the Western Chu Army and could understand Han Xin's hardships, so everyone did not complain much.

During this period, Han Xin and Li Ji naturally had to send a large number of scouts north to investigate the situation of the Han army, and soon confirmed that the suddenly arrived Han army Long and his troops would definitely not exceed 25,000 people, and at the same time they were still lightly armed, and the grain and grass were all supplied by the two cities of Luoyang and Henan. After Li Ji knew these situations, of course, he was even more relieved, and Han Xin was also a little relieved, and quickly began to think about how to take advantage of the opportunity that Long He came from afar, and quickly killed Long He who was sure to be able to clean up.

Then needless to say, the idea of robbing the camp at night quickly appeared in Han Xin's mind, but unfortunately, Long He, who was notoriously lacking in strategy under Xiang Kang's account, was very cautious this time, and after crossing Luoshui, he just rushed south for forty miles, and immediately stopped twenty miles north of the new city, plus when the Nanyang army scouts confirmed this situation, the time was already dark, and the Nanyang army had no time to prepare for the night attack, so Han Xin had to dispel this idea.

"Why don't you take the initiative to go north tomorrow for a decisive battle? Long and that puppet has a noisy personality, not as brazen as Xiang Kang's traitor, even if he refuses to fight, as long as we use some insulting and provocative means, there is still hope to provoke him to a decisive battle. If we succeed, how can we ensure victory? ”

Racking his brains, there were pro-soldiers outside the tent to report, reporting that Zhou Chang had sent an envoy to contact Han Xin, Han Xin did not hesitate to hear it, and immediately ordered a summons, and then in a moment, the second Zhou Chang messenger who arrived within a day was led to Han Xin. Han Xin was still a little worried at first, for fear that it would be some 100,000 urgent bad news, but after seeing Zhou Chang's messenger's expression as usual, Han Xin put his heart back in his stomach and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"General." Zhou Chang's second messenger replied respectfully while presenting the letter with both hands: "Zhou Junzun asked the villain to report that there was a Han thief army that suddenly entered Kou Xinzheng, and we, Zhou Junzun, have decided to lead the Yingchuan army to withdraw to Yangzhai for the sake of prudence, so we specially sent the villain to inform you." ”

Although Zhou Chang's messenger replied politely, but after Han Xin heard it, he jumped up directly in surprise, personally rushed to Zhou Chang's messenger, snatched Zhou Chang's letter and opened it to take a closer look, and when he saw Zhou Chang's report that it was the Han army general Zhong Liwu who led 10,000 troops to attack Xinzheng, Han Xin's face turned pale for the first time, and he was so angry that he stomped his feet heavily, and shouted wildly: "A few horses!" General Ben was killed by you——! ”

"Quick, go and spread the word that Zhou Bo and Lu Jia are coming to see me! Besides, I sent someone to contact Liji, and he said that there was a hundred thousand urgent military information, and told him to come to me immediately no matter what! ”

In accordance with Han Xin's order, Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and others were soon summoned to the Chinese army's big tent to meet Han Xin, and then Han Xin was not polite, and immediately shouted: "Immediately send the order, load the grain and grass weapons overnight, abandon the camp and go south, and return to Yingchuan!" ”

"Abandon the camp overnight and go south?"

Zhou Bo and the others almost didn't think they had heard it wrong, and hurriedly asked Han Xin for the reason, but Han Xin didn't answer, but just handed the Zhou Changjun newspaper they had just received to Zhou Bo and Lu Jia and others to read, but unfortunately, Zhou Bo and Lu Jia and others were too far away from Han Xin in this regard, and after reading Zhou Chang's letter, it was even more inexplicable, and then Lu Jia asked extremely strangely: "General, even if the Han thieves attack Xinzheng, what's wrong?" Xinzheng is nearly 300 miles away from Xincheng, even if the Han thieves take Xinzheng, they will not be a threat to us, can they directly abandon the camp and retreat urgently? ”

"It's too tiring to talk to you dog slaughterers!" Han Xin was unprecedentedly angry and shouted, "You still can't see such an obvious intention of the thief? The Han thieves suddenly attacked Xinzheng, and at the same time let Long He suddenly march to the battlefield of Xincheng to entangle us, the purpose of course is to take advantage of the situation to kill into the hinterland of our Yingchuan and directly attack our grain and grass hoarding camp Xiangcheng! Then as long as the thieves take Xiangcheng, they can not only rob us of the precious grain and grass we have hoarded in Xiangcheng before, but also cut off our retreat back to Nanyang! At that time, it will be even more difficult for us not to fail miserably! ”

"Rushing to Xiangcheng? How dare a thief take such a risk? Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and the others were full of disbelief, and they all said: "Zhongli's 10,000 lonely troops dare to go so far into the hinterland of Yingchuan and directly attack Xiangcheng? ”

"Why don't the thieves dare?" Han Xin roared angrily and asked: "Our main force on the northern front is far away in Xincheng, and it has been bitten by dragons and horses, and the retreat speed is not fast!" The main force of Zhou Chang's county soldiers is in Yangcheng, and the withdrawal of troops will definitely be bitten by the Han thief's Cheyuan Pavilion garrison! Our Yingchuan hinterland is now extremely empty, from Xinzheng to Xiangcheng is full of open plains, all the way unimpeded, why don't the Han thieves dare to enter alone and directly attack Xiangcheng?! ”

"That's not all!" Han Xin smashed the case in front of him in pain and said: "Behind Zhong Li's puppeteer, there must still be the main brigade of Han thieves led by Xiang Kang's traitor, only Xiang Kang's puppet can drive a thief general like Zhong Liwu as the front and rush for him!" Only Xiang Kang, a traitor, can suppress the Han thief generals who are not subordinate to each other, such as Long and Zhong Li, after the Han thieves meet! ”

Thinking of the terrible consequences after the fall of Xiangcheng, the faces of Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and others also began to turn pale, but after thinking about it, Lu Jia asked extremely strangely: "General, then why did you say so conclusively before, insisting that the Han thieves would not give up the fat of Qidi that was already at their fingertips because of a small loss, and now launch a large-scale southern expedition?" ”

Lu Jia's words made Han Xin stunned, and also made Han Xin finally remember the problem of his negligence when he was too nervous just now, why did Xiang Kang let go of the dying Qi Di and not fight, why did he delay the fighter plane, throw cattle and sheep, and come to settle accounts with himself? Did he accidentally dig up Xiang Kang's ancestral grave? Stepped on Xiang Kang's tail?