With a bang, a gray feather arrow was nailed in front of Xiang Kang, rubbing the tip of Xiang Kang's shoe and piercing the ground, it was a pity that it was only a few centimeters away from nailing Xiang Kang's instep or directly ending Xiang Kang's sinful life.

"Protect the King! Protect the King! ”

Xiang Kang's guards led by Xu Ji shouted one after another, raised the shield with all hands and feet, and covered Xiang Kang from head to toe behind the shield.

Xiang Kang, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, did not refuse the kindness of his guards, but his expression seemed very calm and calm, and he was quite interested in pulling up the stray arrow of the Western Chu army that almost hit him to watch, or after carefully seeing the situation of the stray arrow, Xiang Kang's eyes flashed a trace of melancholy, because the sticky feather arrow glue of this feather arrow has been completely dried, and there are still slight cracks, it is obvious that it is not a temporary feather arrow, which means that the Western Chu army is still using the feather arrow brought by the army, Didn't use the last few days to recover the arrowhead and recraft the new arrows.

These days, the main force of the Western Chu army has taken turns to go into battle, and the Guangwu battalion of the Han army has been continuously stormed by more than one of the Han army, and the number of bows and crossbows used is hundreds of thousands, but even if it has reached this point, the main force of the Western Chu army is still fighting with a large number of old arrows brought by the army, and the huge residual strength and potential naturally exceed Xiang Kang's pre-war imagination, and also let Xiang Kang thoroughly understand that the real test of the army is still ahead, whether it can hold on until the main force of the Western Chu army retreats from exhaustion, It's still an unknown.

At this time, there were a few warriors of the Western Chu Army roaring and rushing to the Han army barracks, but the Han soldiers on the wall were accustomed to this, except for the Han soldiers next to them immediately pounced on the fight to expel them, the remaining Han soldiers were still desperately throwing arrows and hitting the ladder, blocking more Western Chu soldiers from taking the opportunity to go to the base, the shouting and killing sound up and down the wall was deafening, the sound spread for several miles, the inside and outside of the wall were horizontal, everywhere were the corpses of the Han soldiers and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army, and the blood gathered into a depression, forming a large area of dark red.

There were many feathered arrows flying towards Xiang Kang's location, it was obvious that the soldiers of the Chu army outside the wall had found that Xiang Kang had once again come to the front line to boost morale, and they all wanted to seize this opportunity to create a miracle and shoot Xiang Kang, a treacherous thief who deserved death, and the guards begged Xiang Kang to retreat and take refuge for the time being, but Xiang Kang turned a deaf ear, and just sent someone to give an order, so that the reserve team was ready to attack and rescue the southern section of the wall at the west gate of the camp at any time.

As Xiang Kang expected, after a fierce battle for a while, the section of the wall where the shouting and killing was most fierce Sure enough, many Western Chu soldiers and soldiers successfully rushed to the wall and successfully seized a position on the top of the wall, fortunately, the Han army reserves had already noticed that position, Xiang Kang's guards just waved the order flag, and more than 1,000 reserves immediately rushed forward, rushed to the top of the wall to fill the leakage and put out the fire, and also successfully rushed to the rear of the Western Chu army before a large number of reinforcements on the wall, all the enemies who were successful in the base were eliminated or expelled from the wall.

The reserve team saved the emergency again, but Xiang Kang was not happy, because this wave of fierce attacks of the Western Chu army still showed no signs of retreat, and more Chu soldiers were also rushing towards the Han army camp, when would they be able to completely repel this wave of attack of the Western Chu army, Xiang Kang did not know, and the soldiers of the Han army who sacrificed their lives on the front line did not know.

Xiang Kang was worried in the Han army camp, and his overlord cousin Xiang Yu also looked gloomy in the Western Chu army flag array outside the camp, because so far, Xiang Yu also did not see any hope of success in breaking through the Han army camp, and the dawn of victory in defeating the main force of the Han army had to regret once again that he had made a wrong choice and first picked the hardest bone of the Han army's Guangwu camp to gnaw first.

In the past eight days, nearly 200,000 Western Chu troops took turns to go into battle, and successively launched more than 20 fierce attacks on the Guangwu camp of the Han army, and more than 32,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and the corpses were piled up three times to almost as high as the camp wall of the Han army, but the Han army camp was always standing, and failed to let the Western Chu army rush into the Han army camp even once. So much so that Xiang Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "Even if the camp wall of the Han thieves is cast in iron, I'm afraid it should be pierced, right?" Why can't we break it all the time? ”

Of course, if Xiang Yu could know that the number of casualties of the main force of the Han army had exceeded 14,000, perhaps it would not be so strange, on the contrary, he would be proud of the heroic and good fighting of the soldiers of Western Chu - there is no geographical advantage in attacking the fortified battle, and the casualty ratio is infinitely close to two to one, which is not something that ordinary armies can do, especially the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Han army is not weak, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary princes' armies.

The wall is not high enough and not thick enough to doom the Han army to suffer heavy casualties, and the Great Wall of flesh and blood must be used to block the onslaught of the Western Chu army, correspondingly, the tenacity and tenacity of the Han army also made the Western Chu army pay the price of blood, many of the main forces of the Chu army were directly disabled, and countless Western Chu soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles fell forever under the camp wall of the Han army, and the losses were so heavy that many Western Chu generals cried for it. On the side of the Han army, Xiang Kang also ran to the front line more than once to cry and mourn the unfortunate soldiers of the Han army. The main forces of the Chu and Han armies suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the blood flowed.

The Guangwu war has also entered the stage of the two army commanders competing for perseverance and ruthlessness, Xiang Yu can not retreat no matter how much he regrets it, the main force of the Western Chu army has been injured in the Guangwu battlefield, and has lost countless elite soldiers, at this time to give up attacking the Guangwu camp of the Han army, it will inevitably seriously affect the morale and morale of the army, and then attack Xingyang or Aocang must also start over, the loss is destined to be greater, so Xiang Yu has no choice but to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Han army to also suffer heavy losses and the fortifications of the Han army camp are destroyed, Keep going on the onslaught!

Xiang Kang has no way to retreat, give up at this time, and transfer to Xingyang or Aocang with the main force of the Han army, the main force of the Western Chu army, which has already killed the red eye, will definitely pursue and intercept it with all its might, so that the main force of the Han army will pay a unimaginable price, and the area of Guangwu Mountain City is too small to accommodate so many troops, so Xiang Kang has no choice but to grit his teeth and continue to fight hard, and keep the Guangwu camp at any cost.

Although the Western Chu army had paid the price of thousands of casualties in the daytime battle, Fan Zeng, Cao Ji and Ji Bu and other henchmen also persuaded Xiang Yu not to hold on several times, but when it was slightly dark, Xiang Yu still did not hesitate to order the soldiers to light torches and replenish the new force to continue to storm the Han army camp. Xiang Kang's face was gloomy when he saw it in the camp, but there was nothing he could do.

In addition to Xiang Yu's reluctance to give up, Xiang Yu keenly discovered that the physical strength of the Han soldiers had obviously begun to decline, even if it was a newly replenished reserve, it was obvious that the Han troops in the Guangwu camp had already taken turns to participate in the battle, and there was no real new force available, so Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and was determined to continue to persevere.

In fact, the continuous fierce battles have seriously reduced the physical strength of the Han soldiers, and Xiang Kang does not have a real new force available in his hands, and after finding that the army has shown fatigue, Xiang Kang can only make two arrangements, one is to mobilize the defenders in Guangwu Mountain City to go out of the city to participate in the battle, and the other is to make Guangwu City ready to ignite, so that they can ask for help from the Han defenders in Xingyang and Aocang at any time.

During the second watch, the worst situation that Xiang Kang was worried about finally appeared, accompanied by a huge cheer, a group of Western Chu soldiers finally rushed into the Han army camp, excitedly roaring to the camp gate, ready to receive the friendly troops outside the camp into the city, the morale of the Western Chu army was greatly boosted, but the morale and fighting spirit of the Han army soldiers were greatly hit. Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiang Kang had no choice but to order the defenders of Guangwu Mountain City to attack and rescue the emergency position, and at the same time order to ignite and send a signal.

The defenders of Guangwu City, who were full of physical strength, only quickly surrounded the enemy who entered the camp and did not give them a chance to open the camp gate from the inside, but the Western Chu army was still on the wall in an endless stream, and the Han army camp was still extremely dangerous. Fortunately, after seeing Xiang Kang's signal for help, Ding Ji, who was guarding Aocang, and Zhong Liwu, who was guarding Xingyang, both decisively sent troops, killing the main force of the Western Chu army from the north and behind respectively, and encircling Wei to save Zhao to share the pressure for the main force of the Han army.

Xiang Yu was most eager for the Han army to go out of the camp for field battles, and after an order was issued, Xiang Yu first sent the Western Chu general Zhong Gong to lead the army to the north to meet the Han reinforcements from Aocang, and then sent Xiang Zhuang to lead the army to the west to intercept the Han army Zhong Liwu who was killed from Xingyang. However, to Xiang Yu's surprise, the final prince successfully stopped the Han army's Ao Cang rescuers, but Xiang Zhuang's troops were very unexpectedly defeated by Zhong Liwu and were forced to retreat and flee back.

"My brothers, none of them let me worry!"

After roaring angrily, Xiang Yu decisively ordered the cavalry to assemble, and decided to personally lead the army to meet Zhong Liwu, and let Cao Ji temporarily command the army to continue to storm the Han army camp for himself. On the side of the thief army in Xingyang, just send another general to intercept it. ”

"Itchy hands! This king first went to clean up the reinforcements of the Han thieves, and then turned around to deal with the main force of the Han thieves! ”

Categorically rejected Kui Che's kind dissuasion, Xiang Yu insisted on taking the main cavalry force to the west, and only used one charge as he wished, and killed the Xingyang Han army who came to save the main force of the Han army at any cost, and escaped everywhere, Xiang Yu roared excitedly, and chased with all his strength with the Western Chu cavalry, Leng is directly pursued to Xingyang City, and almost took Xingyang City. But when Xiang Yu returned to the main position with a happy smile, he was extremely dumbfounded to see that the Western Chu army, which had been on the wall in large numbers before, had been almost completely expelled from the city by the Han army, allowing the Han army to regain its foothold, and at the same time, there was no longer chaos in the Han army's camp, and it was obvious that the Chu army that had entered the camp had been completely wiped out by the Han army.

"What's going on? This king has only been away for such a short time, why did he fight like this? ”

Cao Ji had no face to answer Xiang Yu's angry question, and the old man Fan next to him could only quickly explain for Cao Qi: "King, you can't blame Cao Sima, the main thing is that after you left, the Ao Cang Han thieves suddenly exerted their strength and defeated the general of the final prince, Cao Sima was forced to divide his troops to rescue, and Xiang Kang's rebel thieves took the opportunity to send his invulnerable ironclad soldiers out of the battalion to counterattack, and the situation became like this." ”

"You're ......!"

Pointing at Cao Zhi with his finger, Xiang Yu was so angry that his whole body trembled, almost wanting to tear Cao Zhi apart on the spot, Cao Ji also quickly knelt down to ask for guilt, admitting that his command was not effective, and he ruined the good situation that the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army had fought hard. Kuaicher next to him muttered in his heart, and said secretly: "There is also a face to blame others, just now I advised you not to deal with the Han thief reinforcements in person, what can you do if you don't listen?" ”

After all, Cao Yu is Xiang Yu's most trusted confidant and commander of the army, and he has a great favor to the old Xiang family, after his chest rose and fell violently for a long time, Xiang Yu still barely suppressed the anger in his heart, and yelled instead: "Beat the drum, continue to attack!" ”

Everyone was frowning, but no one dared to say a word against Xiang Yu's decision, but at this time, a scout of the Western Chu Army suddenly galloped to the vicinity of the flag array and dismounted, and quickly came to Xiang Yu's front to play: "King Qiqi, the Aocang Han thief sent a messenger with a white flag to send us a package, saying that he wanted to ask the king to see it in person. ”

After that, the scout of the Western Chu Army hurriedly presented a package, Xiang Yu took it casually and tore it open, and saw that the package contained a flag of the Western Chu Army, so he couldn't help but take a pinch and said, "Our military flag?" The flag of our army? ”

As he spoke, Xiang Yu hurriedly unfolded the military flag and took a closer look, and then after just one glance, Xiang Yu roared, "Xiang You's military flag!" ”

"General Xiang You's military flag?!" The Western Chu civil and military forces present were all shocked, and when they went up to look at the military flag together, they saw that the Western Chu military flag with arrow holes was indeed clearly written with the two big characters 'Xiang You', and there was also Xiang You's official title next to it.

"You'er ——!"

Master Xiang Boxiang cried, pulled out his sword and stomped his feet at the Guangwu camp and cried loudly, "Little evil animal! You're so ruthless! Xiang You is your cousin, and you can't bear to do such a poisonous thing to him! Don't pull me, don't pull me, the old man is going to fight with that little evil beast! Avenge my son! Don't pull me——! ”

Crying and stomping his feet, Master Xiang Boxiang really stepped forward several times, rushed to the Guangwu camp and the Han army desperately to avenge his baby son, but unfortunately in addition to his own soldiers, the Xichu Wenwu present did not step forward to pull and stop - many people still hope that Master Xiang Boxiang will do what he says, and really fight to the death with the soldiers of the Han army.

In the end, Li Zuoche next to him couldn't stand it anymore, so he said: "Master Xiang is calm, the old man can be sure that General Xiang You has not been killed, otherwise, the Han thief will either send his body, or send his soldier talisman seal, and now the Han thief envoy just sent General Xiang You's military flag, which is enough to show that General Xiang You just suffered a defeat in Hanoi, but he himself should not be in any danger." ”

Master Xiang's crying stopped abruptly, and he immediately burst into laughter, nodded desperately and said: "That's right, it must be the case, if You'er was really killed, the Han thief envoy would definitely send his body, but now the Han thief envoy just sent his military flag, which means that You'er must be fine." That's fine, as long as You'er is alive! ”

"But what's the difference?!" Old man Fan, who had always been at odds with Master Xiang, roared angrily and said, "Our partial division even the commander's handsome banner was captured by the Han thieves, which means that our partial division must have suffered a big defeat in Hanoi, and it must be a big defeat with extraordinary losses!" Without the containment of our partial division, the Hanoi partial division of the Han thieves, and their Guanzhong rear army, we can rest assured that we can reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield, and we will definitely fight more difficult than we are now! ”

Master Xiang's face quickly turned gloomy, but he didn't expect Xiang Yu next to him to suddenly roar angrily, "Incompetent!" 30,000 partial divisions lost so much that even the commander-in-chief Shuai Qi was captured by the Han thieves! How did Xiang You fight in Hanoi? How exactly is it fought? Can you fight so humiliating?! ”

Even Master Xiang didn't dare to answer this question, so he could only quickly think about how to intercede for his precious son in his heart, never thinking that at this time, in the Guangwu camp of the Han army in the distance, there was a huge cheer sound one after another, the sound was like thunder, even if it was a few miles away, it could be heard clearly!

"Xiang Kang's traitor already knows the situation." Kui Che came to a conclusion and said: "It must be the Han thief messenger who sent the news to their Guangwu camp, and Xiang Kang, in order to boost the morale of the army, told the Han thief soldiers the good news of their victory in Hanoi at the first time. ”

With an uproar, Xiang Yu tore Xiang You's handsome flag in half, and said with a blue face: "Step up the attack, take advantage of the fact that the Han thief's division has not had time to return to the Sanchuan battlefield, and you must take down the Han thief's Guangwu camp for me!" ”

Continuing to attack has no effect, after the dawn of victory that was finally seen before was extinguished by the Han thieves, the morale of the Western Chu army has been greatly affected, and now the main force of the Han thieves has been greatly boosted because of the victory of the partial division, and the tired and sleepy Western Chu army of course has no way to take the main camp of the Han army, even if it was stormed overnight until the sky was bright, the Western Chu army failed to enter the Han army camp again, on the contrary, the total casualties of the main force of the Western Chu army directly exceeded the 40,000 mark.

In the end, when there was really nothing to be done, Xiang Yu could only order Mingjin to withdraw his troops with a black face, and retreat to the camp with the main force of the Western Chu army with heavy casualties to rest, leaving many Western Chu soldiers and corpses piled higher than the Han army's fortress wall.

After the main force of the Western Chu army retreated and left, there was little cheer in the Han army camp, and countless Han army soldiers just saw the West Chu army walking away, and immediately collapsed on the position, snoring loudly and fell asleep directly, Xiang Kang himself was the same, and finally insisted until it was confirmed that the main force of the Western Chu army returned to the camp to rest, Xiang Kang also sat on the ground with a butt, and it took a long time to say weakly: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, let the soldiers on the front line go back to their tents to rest, and let the army in Guangwu City go to the base to guard." ”

Xu Ji waited for the guards to agree, and hurriedly conveyed Xiang Kang's order, Xiang Kang also struggled to get up and prepare to go back to the tent to rest, but he didn't think that a soft little hand suddenly stretched out next to him, helping the guard to support Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang turned his head a little unexpectedly, but saw that it was the Han army lady who should have lived in Guangwu City, Zhu Xu Mozhi came to her side at some point, and helped the guard pick himself up. Xiang Kang smiled reluctantly and said, "Thank you Xu Taizhu, there are dead bodies everywhere outside the camp, if you are afraid, Taizhu, you should go back to the city first." ”

"Your Majesty is not so timid." Xu Mo smiled, his ordinary face became very charming, and said with a smile: "Even more terrible things have been seen by His Majesty, let alone dead corpses?" ”

Xiang Kang smiled, and didn't bother to ask if this goddess stick had seen anything more terrifying, just nodded and thanked her for her kindness, and walked back to the big tent by himself. Xu Moying looked obviously hesitant, and suddenly gritted his teeth, quickly caught up with Xiang Kang, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty knows that you don't believe in ghosts and gods, but Your Majesty still has to remind you out of duty that your complexion today is a little wrong, I'm afraid that something bad will happen, please be careful." ”

"Thank you Xu Taizhu for reminding me, I'll be careful." Xiang Kang smiled reluctantly again, and said secretly: "Okay, I believe you once, I want to see if there can be anything bad." ”

Facts may prove that the famous Xu Mozhi may really be a swaggering goddess stick, because Xiang Kang has just returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, Chen Ping, who stayed in the tent, immediately greeted him, and said to Xiang Kang quite excitedly: "My lord, I just received accurate news, in order to show his sincerity, Shen Yang, who surrendered to us, not only rejected the request of the king of Western Chu to send troops to attack the hinterland of our Sanchuan, but also personally led the army south to meet the northbound army of Liu Ji, the puppet king of Nanyang. ”

The allies refused to help Xiang Yu because of their righteousness, and they also got involved with Xiang Yu's servant army, which was of course a great news for the Han army, but after hearing this good news, Xiang Kang's face immediately changed, and he exclaimed: "What?" Shen Yang personally led his army south to meet Liu Ji's northbound army? ”

"Not bad." Chen Ping hurriedly nodded and said, "In addition to asking Shen Yang to send troops to attack our Sanchuan hinterland, Xiang Yu also ordered Liu Jitun to attack Ye County and force Shen Yang to obey. Shen Yang refused Xiang Yu's request, and of course he would personally lead his army south to crusade against Liu Ji, who dared to threaten his southern front. ”

"It's broken!" Xiang Kang shouted bitterly, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, quickly send someone to contact Shen Yang, and tell him to retreat to Yang Zhai immediately, only defend the city and not fight!" Tell him clearly, just say that he will not betray us, I will definitely repay him twice in the future, but please don't risk a decisive battle with Liu Ji, as long as he helps us defend Yangzhai and does not give Liu Ji the opportunity to enter the hinterland of Sanchuan through Yangzhai and Yangcheng, I will definitely thank him in the future! ”

"King, Shen Yang's strength is not weaker than Liu Ji? You're so dismissive of him? Chen Ping asked in surprise.

"You'll understand later." Xiang Kang sighed, and after a little calculation, Xiang Kang hurriedly said: "Again, give Li Shang and Cang an order to them to send 20,000 troops urgently recruited by us in Bashu, Hanzhong, to the north and hand them over to Zheng Bu as commanders, and by the way, Uncle Ya and Chao Zhi will prepare military food and grass for Zheng Bu as soon as possible, so that Zheng Bu can lead the army out of the customs at any time and reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield!" ”

I had never seen Xiang Kang so nervous, and even prepared to mobilize more reinforcements to reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield early, Chen Ping didn't dare to slack off, so he could only hurry up to write for Xiang Kang, and write a letter to Shen Yang according to Xiang Kang's intentions. And after Xiang Kang hurriedly pondered for a moment, he suddenly muttered, "It's really a crow's mouth." ”