When the main force of the Chu army learned the news of the battle of Kunyang, it was already two days later on the fourth day of November.

Xiang Rong, who had just recovered Pingyu, was still standing at the head of the city in high spirits, but when he heard the news that Hu Gong Douran and Yu Gong Sun Feng were defeated in Kuiyang, losing hundreds of soldiers, and that Douran was also captured, he was immediately furious.

"Defeated by a remnant army and captured by the enemy, it is really a shame for the Ao clan!"

As for Sun Feng, who is said to have abandoned Dou Ran and fled, Xiang Rong also planned to ask his father to cut off this person's fiefdom, and it was just a matter of being captured by Li Xin's army once, and now he abandoned his friends and fled, it seems that Sun Shuao's descendants have already become cowardly and are no longer worthy of being a feudal king.

"How many people are there in the Qin army that defeated Dou and Sun, and where did they go?" Xiang Rong asked.

Zhou Wenyu, who was in charge of the military intelligence report, reported: "According to the military officials who fled back, about 7,800 people are now missing, and they should have gone to the west, or to Cai, or to Rushui ......."

"If they don't go up to Cai with long eyes, they can just run into my army."

Although Xiang Rong couldn't swallow this breath, he also knew that he couldn't take care of this little Qin State joining the army, and he had more important things to do.

After the battle of Xiangcheng, the situation of the two armies of Qin and Chu has undergone great changes, first of all, Meng Tian gathered 30,000 defeated troops and retreated westward, while Xiang Yan personally commanded the main force of the Chu army to follow, but unfortunately he still did not catch up, so he could only break through Dunxian first, and then break Boyang and Ruyang, and advanced to Yangcheng at the speed of one city after another.

Xiang Rong, on the other hand, brought 20,000 partial divisions to attack Pingyu, and the Qin army had withdrawn to Shangcai, so he easily took the city.

"Next, the army will rush to Shangcai immediately!"

Now, because of Changping Jun's actions, Chen Ying has recovered, and if Shangcai and Yangcheng can be recovered again, Xiang Yan's plan will be perfectly achieved.

This is the most important thing at hand for Xiang Rong, as for the hundreds of Qin troops? If they throw themselves into Cai, they will just run into the forward of the heel army sent by them, and if they escape from the Rushui River to the west, they may collide with the 5,000 Huainan reinforcements from the north of Xincai!

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On the fifth day of the first month of October, the third day after the Battle of Liyang, one hundred and fifty miles to the southwest, at the fork in the Tu Road not far from Rushui, Zhong Liyi squatted on the ground, looking at the dense footprints and ruts leading to the west, and fell into deep thought......

"It's a half-hour mark."

A few months ago, Zhong Liyi, who had been advocating to march into Nanjun and open a second front in the Fortress of Doom, was disgusted by his superiors and simply transferred him to Xixian so that his ears would be clear.

Zhong Liyi's luck was not very good, he missed the most fierce moment of the battle between Qin and Chu in October, and it was not until a few days ago, after learning the news of General Xiang Yan's reversal of the war, Xixian sent 5,000 Huainan Chu soldiers to the north through Xincai, and wanted to cooperate with Xiang Rong, who wanted to cooperate with Pingyu, to attack Shangcai and regain the lost territory.

In this war, Zhong Liyi was transferred to the Xingjun Army, which was in charge of reconnaissance, as a "horseman".

The cavalry is different from the chariot and infantry, with five cavalry and one commander, ten cavalry and one officer, one hundred cavalry and one rate, and two hundred cavalry and one general. Although the cavalry is the same as the two Sima Yulu, in terms of the number of people under their jurisdiction, the number is even smaller, and the unlucky Zhong Liyi was demoted again.

Although he was a little at odds with his boss and the cavalry commander, Zhong Liyi still carried out the task conscientiously. At this moment, when he noticed that the fork in the road was abnormal, he was sensitive and immediately felt that something was wrong.

"This is a force of hundreds or thousands of soldiers, and chariots, and the rut marks are still very deep, I am afraid that it carries more than three people. In the army, it has always been forbidden to carry more people in the car, so it seems that they are either pulling grain, grass, ordnance, ......"

Zhong Liyi took a few steps forward, picked up a piece of cloth that had been stepped into the dust by his footsteps, and unfolded it to see that it was covered with dried blood, a cloth used to wrap wounds......

"Or the wounded!"

He threw the cloth: "Why didn't we hear anything about the transfer of such a large number of people in advance?" ”

After standing up, Zhong Liyi looked to the west, and from here to the west, there was a narrow road, flanked by ordinary fields, except for a few acres of winter wheat, the rest were bare and empty.

"I remember that ten miles west along this road is Rushui, and there is also a ferry that can be crossed to Ancheng Township, Shenyang County......"

"But all the armies of Huaibei and Huainan were ordered to be transferred to Shangcai, east of Rushui, to participate in the siege of the city, why did this army of soldiers and horses cross Ru to the west?"

The subordinate on the side took a sip of water and said, "Maybe it's a temporary dispatch to Ruxi to participate in the fortification?" Or were the people who were evacuated from Pingyu ordered to take the wounded to Ruxi to recuperate? ”

In their opinion, anyway, the general only asked them to reconnoiter to the north, and what is in the west, whatever!

These speculations are very likely, but Zhong Liyi still asked everyone to follow him, and he had to find out before he could rest assured.

A group of ten horsemen slowly walked along the road, during which those footsteps and rut marks continued, but on the road, Zhong Liyi did not find anything suspicious.

In a short time, a small ferry port called "Anseongdu" was in sight.

"There are really people crossing the water."

Everyone looked over, but saw a mile away at the ferry, there was indeed an army of seven or eight hundred people waiting, and when they got closer, they saw that their clothes were Chu, the armor was red, and the banner was also a clear Chu-style flag, among which there was a flag led by a thousand people, and five or six flags of a hundred people.

The chariot had untied its horses and stopped at the river's edge, and the men and horses continued to sail slowly toward the opposite bank in the only four or five small boats of the ferry, rocking their oars......

Looking at this posture, these people have spent at least half an hour here, and most of them have crossed the river, and only one or two hundred people are left on the east bank.

Seeing that it was indeed the Chu army, Zhong Liyi's subordinates were all relieved, but Zhong Liyi always felt that something was strange, and the feeling that this Chu army gave him was not the same as the ordinary Chu army, but from a long distance, he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Maybe if he got closer, he would be able to see the clue!

"Let's go and ask."

Zhong Liyi continued to fight his horse forward, and at this time, the whereabouts of several people in the group were also discovered by the other party, and they immediately sent a person to ride over.

"This rider."

From a distance, Zhong Liyi saw a young man riding on a horse on the opposite side, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, greeting him: "I don't know where you came from here?" ”

When his subordinates wanted to tell the truth, Zhong Liyi also waved his hand to stop them, and asked, "We are scouts of the army, and we have been ordered to investigate this area, where did you come from?" ”

The young man with the sharp mouth and monkey cheeks was a little embarrassed, looked at the group of people who were also walking here behind him, and said with a smile: "We are from Pingyu and have been ordered to take the wounded soldiers to Ruxi to rest and recuperate. ”

It was the same as Zhong Liyi's subordinates guessed, but Zhong Liyi frowned: "I heard that Pingyu has been conquered by our army, why don't you rest on the spot instead of going to Ruxi?" ”

A trace of surprise flashed in the young man's eyes, as if he didn't know about it, but he immediately covered it up, shook his head and said, "This has to ask the superiors, we are also acting on orders, maybe we want us to go to Ruxi to garrison on the spot." ”

But then, Zhong Liyi asked one after another, which army do they belong to? What is the rate chief called? After a series of successes, although the young people answered each other fluently, and Zhong Liyi did not know the situation of each Chu army in Huaibei, and could not find obvious flaws, he noticed another point.

Although this young man spoke the Western Chu dialect of Huaibei, he was obviously learned, and those words commonly used by the Huaibei Chu people could not hide his original accent, but unfortunately, Zhong Liyi couldn't remember where this accent was for a while

"Where are you from?"

The young man was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "I am from Chengyang." ”

Chengyang is the westernmost city of Chu State, close to Sui and Tang in the southern county of Chu State, and the accent is extremely similar to that side.

"That's ......"

Zhong Liyi didn't find any more suspicious points, and he still had to continue to ask, but he found that the young man was already sweating on his forehead, and then looked behind him, there were already more than a dozen heavily armed Chu pawns, led by a black-faced Chu State official, walking towards this side.

The black-faced man looked at Zhong Liyi, and Zhong Liyi also looked at him, although the two were separated by more than ten steps, they recognized each other at first sight.

At this time, Ji Ying was still trying to stabilize the Chu State rider in front of him, he pointed behind him and said with a smile: "This rider, if you have something, ask our captain, he ......"

However, before the words fell, Zhong Liyi pushed him violently, pushed Ji Ying off the horse, and then clamped the horse's belly and shouted: "Hurry up!" ”

When it was too late, the "Chu pawn" who was still walking towards them with a smile on his face, under the greeting of the black-faced man, either rushed forward with a sharp blade in his hand and stabbed a few riders in front of him, or showed his crossbow machine and shot arrows at Zhong Liyi's men who were stunned in place!

Things came suddenly, the riders were caught off guard, people kept being hit by arrows, and people were constantly falling off their horses, but Zhong Liyi couldn't care so much, he lay dead on the horse's back, and galloped forward!

That's right, no wonder the young man's accent sounds so familiar, isn't it Anlu dialect! The vernacular is unforgettable, and unless it takes a few years to deliberately correct it, it can be heard no matter how well it is covered.

As for the black-faced man, wasn't he in Anlu County, when he was in Anlu County, he once fought with Zhong Liyi with a black man who took care of the Huyang Pavilion!

"Why is he here?"

The next moment, Zhong Liyi didn't have time to think, only felt a sharp pain behind him, and an arrow hit his back impartially, and the arrow broke through the armor, minced the flesh and blood, and pierced deeply!

This is the crossbow bolt that Heifu personally shot after running forward for a while! Seeing Zhong Liyi's arrow, he smiled with satisfaction, but then the smile was put away again.

Because Zhong Liyi didn't fall.

The sudden sharp pain made Zhong Liyi almost fall off the horse, but he still staggered and stabilized his body, hugged the horse's neck, and rushed forward as if flying.

He must return to the large army and inform the general about this!

A Qin army actually disguised itself as a Chu soldier and shuttled through the Chu realm in a grand manner! 8)