Time turned back slightly, and the picture also returned to Xiang Kang, who had just personally led the main force of the Han Army's Zheng Bu Corps to the battlefield.

Xiang Kang is a careful person, after entrusting the battle of the Qi army camp to Uncle Zhou, because the Han army soldiers needed to reorganize their teams, assigned offensive weapons to prepare for the attack, and did not be able to attack the Western Chu army camp that had restored the basic order in the first time, but Xiang Kang was not idle, and saw that the dead bodies and seriously wounded of the soldiers of the Han and Qi armies were lying outside the Western Chu army camp, Xiang Kang in addition to sending an army forward to search and rescue the wounded Han army who were still breathing, and ordered: "Among the wounded of the Qi thief army, if there are still people who can speak, also rescue them, and hurry up to interrogate them to see if they know what happened in the camp of the Western Chu Thief Army just now. ”

According to Xiang Kang's order, a team of 1,000 Han soldiers quickly stepped forward to clean up the battlefield with torches, and soon rescued some seriously wounded Han soldiers who were still breathing, as well as more than a dozen wounded soldiers of the Qi army who could still speak.

"King Qiyu, I have interrogated those Qi thieves and wounded, according to their confessions, it is because among the generals of the Western Chu Thief Army, it seems that someone led an army to attack the Chinese camp of the Western Chu Thief Army, so there was chaos. Later, after the Qi State thief army sent someone to mediate, it was found that it was just a misunderstanding, so they reconciled again. ”

The information provided by the grassroots soldiers of the Qi army was very general, but as one of the culprits behind the scenes, Xiang Kang quickly came to a conclusion and immediately said: "Ninety percent of it was done by my brother Xiang Guan!" Among the generals of the Western Chu Thief Army, only he dared to lead the army to attack the camp of the Chinese army, and only if he did such a thing, the Qi State Thief Army would choose to mediate, and Zhou Yinpifu could only agree to reconcile with him and replace it with someone else, this matter would definitely not be so easy to give up! ”

"Mr. Chen Ping's clever plan!" Zhang Liang praised sincerely: "I thought that the plan would only work in three steps, but I only took the first two steps to receive such an effect, and I really admired it." ”

"Mr. Ovary has won the award." Chen Ping was modest, and said: "It's a pity that it didn't work completely, the Western Chu thief army reached a settlement at the last moment, and didn't give us the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to take the camp of the Western Chu thief army." ”

"There's still a chance." Xiang Kang didn't even blink his eyelids and said: "The Western Chu Thief Army has just ended the fire, even if a reconciliation is barely reached, the contradictions between each other will not be completely eliminated, can Mr. Chen Ping think of another way, taking advantage of the fact that we still have a little time, let the Western Chu Thief Army rejoin the fire, so that we can take the camp of the Western Chu Thief Army at the lowest cost?" ”

"This ......." Chen Ping was embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "King, I'm afraid this is very difficult, we don't know the details of the fire and situation of the Western Chu thief army, what is the performance of Zhou Yin and Xiang Guan during the period, and how they reconciled, we also don't know anything, we don't know the enemy's situation, how can our subordinates use tactics to fight the enemy?" ”

The most important prerequisite for the discord plan is that it is necessary to grasp the internal situation of the enemy, and now the Han army can grasp the Western Chu arms and the situation is pitiful, so naturally it is impossible to adapt measures to local conditions, and then use tricks to separate the enemy, so even if he is also a master of the enemy, after listening to Chen Ping's words, Xiang Kang will inevitably be a little worried, and he does not know how to strike while the iron is hot and re-intensify the enemy's internal contradictions.

Fortunately, when Xiang Kang and Chen Ping felt embarrassed together, Zhang Liang, who was not good at this aspect, suddenly had an idea and came up with a very direct solution, saying: "King, is this okay?" Since we can basically be sure that General Xiang Guan provoked the Western Chu army, and also confirmed that he led the army to attack the Chinese army camp of the Western Chu thief army, then there is no doubt that his fire and the target must be Zhou Yinpifu. ”

"That being the case, then why don't we send a messenger to come forward and shout directly under the camp of the Western Chu thief army, and ask the Western Chu thief soldiers on the wall to bring news to Zhou Yin, and ask Zhou Yin to initiate an internal response to our attack on the camp of the Western Chu thief army, General Xiang Guan will definitely be suspicious when he knows it, even if he doesn't dare to fight with Zhou Yin's puppet when we attack the camp, he will definitely be careful to prevent Zhou Yin's puppet from answering us, and there is no way to use all his strength to defend the camp, so that we can attack the camp of the Western Chu thief army much easier."

"Brilliant plan!" Chen Ping clapped his hands and said: "This will definitely work, because the Western Chu thief army guarding the outer camp is definitely not Zhou Yin's direct army, and the content of our shouting is difficult to reach Zhou Yin's ears, Zhou Yin's puppet did not take action to answer us, and Xiang Guan will definitely think that Zhou Yin does not know the situation, so he did not dare to do it immediately." In this way, Xiang Guan and Zhou Yin Pifu are destined to only go further in the same bed and different dreams, and it is more difficult to truly reconcile, and work together to defend the camp of the Western Chu thief army. ”

Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly discussed it with Chen Ping, who lacked virtue in the Five Elements, and prepared some shouting content that was most likely to cause Xiang Guan to be suspicious, and then immediately arranged for a loud messenger to come forward and ask him to come directly outside the Western Chu military camp under the protection of the long shield with a white flag, shouting loudly to shake the enemy's military heart and mislead Xiang Guan's judgment.

"Brother of the Western Chu Army on the base, you listen well, please bring a word to your great Sima Zhou Yin, that is, the conditions he proposed to our Han king, our Han king has all agreed, and asked him to immediately launch an internal response to meet our attack on the camp. Among you, who can report these words to Zhou Yin Da Sima, and after the camp is broken, our Han King will reward a thousand gold! A thousand gold rewards! ”

"Brothers, here's your chance to get rich! As long as the words are brought to Zhou Yin Da Sima, it will be said that our king has agreed to his conditions, let him immediately launch an internal response, accept our attack on the camp, and after the matter is completed, our Han King will reward a thousand gold! Be sure to cash in! ”

After answering the envoys of the Han army, of course, the soldiers of the Western Chu army shot dense feather arrows one after another, and after shouting and ordering the soldiers to shoot away the envoys of the Han army with arrows, the generals of the Western Chu army who were in charge of this walled battlefield roared angrily: "Pass the order, who dares to send the words of the Han thief envoy to the camp of the Chinese army, and they will not be forgiven!" Also, report this situation to the adjutant general immediately! ”

The simpler and more direct the method, sometimes the easier it is to work, after the content of the Han army's envoy's shout was reported to Xiang Guan, Xiang Guan, who was already suspicious, was inevitably even more suspicious, in addition to ordering the news to be strictly sealed, he also gave Xiang Sui's brother-in-law Pang Yan an order, telling him to step up surveillance of Zhou Yin in the Chinese army camp, strictly forbidding Zhou Yin from contacting outsiders, and at the same time, as Chen Ping expected, completely broke off the idea of further reconciliation with Zhou Yin.

At this time, the Han army has also hurriedly completed the final preparations before the attack, and then in the case of serious lack of light, but also in the case of very hurried preparations before the battle, with the sudden beating of the war drums, the Han army's offensive was officially launched, two thousand Han soldiers carried ladders and trench vehicles shouted forward, and rushed at full speed to the Western Chu army camp that was still intact, and the Western Chu army on the wall was soon fired with random arrows, splitting their heads and covering their faces to shoot at the Han soldiers who rushed head-on.

The seriously poor line of sight greatly reduced the hit rate of the bow and arrow of the Western Chu army, but there must be gains and losses, and the seriously insufficient light greatly reduced the charging speed of the Han army, and gave the Western Chu soldiers the opportunity to put more feather arrows to cover, many Han soldiers died on the way to charge, including the Han general Fang Zilian, who led the army to charge, was injured in the cheek by the bow and arrow of the Western Chu army, and immediately bled all over his face.

However, the real test of the Han army soldiers is still ahead, when rushing to the side of the Western Chu army's guard trench, because of the lack of light to see the ground situation clearly, more than a dozen Han soldiers actually fell into the trench, and were stabbed by the spikes in the trench or killed or injured, screaming and shaking the sky, and then when building the trench bridge car, I still thought that it was difficult to see the object, the Han army's trench and bridge car was not only difficult to build, but also three trench and bridge cars fell into the trench one after another, and the progress was far worse than during the day. And the soldiers of the Han army who directly attacked the door of the Western Chu military camp were even more bloodstained by the strong bows and crossbows of the Western Chu army, and they fell to the ground continuously, making it difficult to advance an inch.

There is really hope for the Western Chu army.

There is only hope, although it is very difficult to invest troops and build bridges, but with the efforts of the Han army officers and soldiers, no less than ten trench bridge cars have been built on the Western Chu army's camp protection trench, and the Han soldiers carrying the flying ladder stepped on the bridge, and after successively putting the flying ladder on the head of the Western Chu military barracks wall, they immediately shouted and climbed the ladder upwards, and rushed towards the top of the Western Chu military barracks wall.

It was too far away, and the light was poor, Xiang Kang and the others in the flag array could only rely on the light of the torches to barely confirm that the soldiers of the self-army had launched an ant-attached attack, but they couldn't see the situation of the self-army at all, but even so, Xiang Kang still did not hesitate to put two thousand troops into the front, taking advantage of the opportunity that the front army had contained part of the enemy's strength, and replenished the troops to the front as quickly as possible to strengthen the offensive, and then Xiang Kang said very helplessly: "There is no way to see the situation ahead, The next thing can only be relied on by our soldiers themselves. ”

Under the dark night sky, with the pitiful light of torches, the officers and soldiers of the Han army could only rely on courage to fight, risking the danger of stumbling at any time to rush through the narrow trench bridge car, and it was very difficult to put the flying ladder on the Xichu military camp more than two zhang high, and the stone and wooden ladders attached to the hail raindrops were attached to it, during which it was not only very difficult to invest troops, but also fell into the trenches and ladders continuously, the casualties were far greater than usual, and the offensive was also very difficult to strengthen. The defenders of the Western Chu army, who were occupied by the geographical advantage, suffered heavy casualties.

At the critical moment, among the soldiers of the Han army who attacked with ants, I don't know which one came up with a very vicious but effective idea, and even called on his companions to carry the corpses of the Qi soldiers who had been left outside the Western Chu military camp before, and put them into the rain protection trench of the Western Chu army to pave the road, and immediately received the response of other Han soldiers, and in a hurry, these Han soldiers not only threw the corpses of the Qi soldiers into the trench, but also threw the remains of many Han soldiers who died into the trench to pave the road......

This situation was quickly reported to Xiang Kang, but Xiang Kang, whose conscience had not been eaten up by the dog, did not say a word and did not make any statement, and Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Zheng Bu, Zhong Liwu and others next to him were also silent, because Xiang Kang and others knew that if they ordered to stop this inhumane behavior, it would definitely only make the soldiers of the Self-Army pay more casualties during the attack on the camp......

With the acquiescence of Xiang Kang and others, relying on the corpses of the soldiers of the Han and Qi armies, the soldiers of the Han army soon paved two solid and spacious roads outside the Western Chu military camp, and the speed of the Han army to the enemy's base has been improved, and the offensive has finally come up violently.

At this time, the Qi army also helped the Han army, and when the outer camp had been hit hard, the Qi army, which was not strong enough, decisively chose to abandon the camp and break through, and took the initiative to withdraw from the highland battlefield in the northeast suburbs of Julu City, not only giving up the eastern flank of the camp of the Western Chu army, but also directly hitting the morale of the Western Chu army, causing many soldiers of the Western Chu army to scream again and again, "The Qi army has run away, we have no helper!" ”

On the contrary, the morale of the Han army was also sharply improved, seeing the enemy's allies choose to flee, the Han army immediately burst into cheers, and the Han soldiers who fought hard in the front were also greatly increased, and they rushed to kill more fiercely and resolutely, and there were constantly situations of successfully rushing to the enemy's camp, and the progress of the attack was suddenly accelerated. At the same time, the 16,000 Han soldiers under the command of Uncle Zhou were also able to free up their hands and return to the division to help the Han army's Zheng Bu corps attack the Han army camp.

Without the Qi army making trouble behind his back, Xiang Kang of course ordered Uncle Zhou's corps to attack the flank of the East Gate of the Western Chu Army, in addition to immediately sending someone to send a large number of flying ladders to Uncle Zhou, he also casually ordered, "Tell General Zhou, just say that the south gate is to fill the trench with the corpses left on the battlefield to open the way." ”

After Xiang Kang's guards brought the words to Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou also understood, and immediately ordered his soldiers to carry the corpses of the Qi soldiers to the front and go to the east gate camp of the Western Chu Army to fill the trench to protect the camp.

Then, when Zhou Shu's army also launched an ant-attached attack on the Western Chu army camp, the pressure of the Western Chu army to defend the camp naturally multiplied immediately, and Xiang Guan, who had snatched the command of the outer camp from Zhou Yin, was forced to be helpless, and he could only hurry to the two battlefields in the southeast to strengthen his troops, relying on the location of the camp to defend desperately, gritting his teeth and blocking the fierce offensive of the Han army.

The battle has already entered the white heat, in the shouting, the Han soldiers roared and continued to step up the ladder, the tenacious repeated impact has already crowded the enemy's Western Chu military camp, as long as they can rush to the top of the wall, they will immediately wave their weapons and the enemy in close combat, risking the danger of dying at any time, frantically beckoning the weapon to the enemy, and from time to time there is a situation of rolling down the wall with the enemy. Those who were not able to rush to the barrier, after falling from the ladder, as long as they could still move, immediately struggled to get up again, and climbed up to the wall with both hands and feet, as tenacious as a group of moths fighting fire.

Although the morale of the army has been greatly affected, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army also showed amazing tenacity and courage, nailed to the top of the narrow wall, and constantly used various weapons to frantically greet the soldiers of the Han army.

At the same time, after successfully containing the defenders on the base by relying on the ant-attached attack, the Han soldiers used several siege vehicles brought by the army to directly attack the camp gate of the Western Chu army, but correspondingly, the Western Chu army also immediately gathered a large number of troops to guard the camp gate, while holding the camp gate to the death, while constantly stabbing spears and arrows at the Han soldiers outside the camp through the gap in the camp gate, as long as the Western Chu soldiers on the wall can free their hands a little, they also try to throw arrows and stones at the Han soldiers outside the camp gate. Therefore, the Han army still did not make good progress, and it was impossible to break open the door of the Western Chu military camp and directly enter the Western Chu military camp.

At this point, even Xiang Kang, Zhou Shu and others didn't dare to say that the army was sure to be able to take the camp of the Western Chu army, because the strength of the Western Chu army in the camp was still very sufficient, and the speed at which the Han army put troops into the wall was too slow, and the method was too simple.

There is really hope for the Western Chu army.

But there is also hope for the Han army, and the hope is greater than that of the Western Chu army!

At the same time, in the military camp of the Western Chu Army, Zhou Yin, who had actually been deprived of military rights, had always had a gloomy face, and his heart had always been at war between heaven and man, and he had the idea of wanting to take the opportunity to take advantage of the incident and respond to the Han army to enter the Western Chu military camp, but considering Xiang Yu's trust in himself, as well as his parents, wife and children in the rear of the Western Chu Army, Zhou Yin was unsure of this determination - after all, when Zhou Yin decided to surrender to Liu Laosan in history, his family was by his side, and he did not have so much to worry about.

While feeling conflicted, Zhou Yin has been wondering about a question, that is, since Xiang Guan claimed that he had Xiang Yu's warrant in his hand and could take over his military power at any time, he definitely didn't have the courage to forge Xiang Yu's warrant, so why did he refuse to let his own soldiers see Xiang Yu's warrant and chose to buy his own soldiers to lie and make false reports?

Under the suspicion in his heart, and he couldn't interfere in the war in the outer camp and was bored, Zhou Yin simply called his loyal personal soldier in front of him and asked him carefully about the specific details of the mysterious warrant, but unfortunately the personal soldier only replied that he only saw the back of the warrant, not the text of the warrant, Zhou Yin still couldn't figure out what was going on, and couldn't help but say to himself, saying: "Strange, in this way, that warrant should really exist, why doesn't the crown let you see the text?" ”

"The little ones don't understand either." The loyal soldier also said that Zhou Yin was asking himself, so he said casually: "But the villain guesses that there must be something unfavorable to you on that warrant, and maybe there is a possibility that General Xiang Guan wants to kill you, so General Xiang Guan doesn't dare to let the villain see the words on the warrant." ”

"Let Xiang Guan kill me?" Zhou Yin blurted out, "How is it possible?" How could the king give such an order? ”

"Da Sima, the villain is a blind guess, don't blame you for making a mistake." The loyal soldier said honestly: "The villain thinks that if the king didn't let General Xiang Guan kill you on the warrant, General Xiang Guan would have eaten the leopard's gall, and he wouldn't dare to let General Wu assassinate you for him?" ”

Wake up the person in the dream with a word, and suddenly remember the assassination of Xiang Guan's sworn friend Wu Su, Zhou Yin suddenly realized, and suddenly laughed wildly, and said with a wild laugh: "So that's the case!" Why haven't I figured it out all this time? If Xiang Yu Pifu hadn't ordered me to kill me, he would have borrowed a hundred guts from Xiang Guan'er, and he wouldn't dare to let Wu Su assassinate Ben Shuai! No wonder the crown child didn't dare to let me see the warrant, it turned out that the reason was here! ”

After laughing wildly, Zhou Yin suddenly stood up violently, the gloom on his face and the hesitation in his heart were suddenly swept away, replaced by incomparable firmness and ruthlessness, and said word by word: "Very good!" Xiang Yu Pifu, Xiang Guan Xiaoer, since you are unkind, don't blame Ben Shuai for being unjust! Come on, immediately call in the thousands of people directly under Ben Shuai! ”