After all, it is an army under the command of Xiang Yu, even if the number of recruits is majority, but under the training and leadership of the Western Chu Army, the Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army, which was formed after the full-scale outbreak of the Chu-Han War, still showed a strong combat effectiveness beyond the ordinary princes' armies, as well as unusual morale and fighting spirit in the field battle.

The bow and crossbow feather arrows of the Han army are not violent, the crossbow team in the front row shoots in multiple rounds, and the archers in the back row are constantly under the command of the lookout, throwing the feather arrows to cover the heads of the soldiers of the Western Chu army, so that the soldiers of the Western Chu army who are charging with shields can not block the bows and arrows, and the crossbow arrows cannot prevent the bows and arrows, and the casualties are quite small, but even so, the arrow rain of the Han army still failed to stop the charging footsteps of the soldiers of the Western Chu army, like the wave-like charging queue of the Western Chu army, It was still unstoppable, and directly hit the dense infantry phalanx of the Han army.

According to the general's shouting and expectation, the long shield in front of the Han army was neatly erected, and the spearmen hiding behind the long shield struggled to poke out the spears from the gaps in the long shield more neatly, as if a row of sharp long thorns suddenly grew, and many of the Western Chu army soldiers were directly pierced through the body, but the round shield in the hands of many Western Chu army soldiers still hit the long shield heavily, and the huge impact force made many Han army long shield hands stand unsteadily, and were shaken and retreated, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army took the opportunity to cover it and stabbed the Han army long shield hand behind the shield next to him with a sword, The spear stabbed Ge Ge, killing and wounding many Han soldiers one after another, and almost the first impact directly shook the Han army's position.

Fortunately, even if it is also a majority of recruits, relying on the usual strict training, and after the baptism of the Jinzhong War, the Han army is not only not inferior to the soldiers of the Northern Line Corps of the Western Chu Army in terms of combat effectiveness, but also has a certain upper hand in terms of experience, the spearmen behind the shield roared and stabbed the spears one after another, trying to force back the Western Chu soldiers who followed behind, and the Han soldiers at the loose place of the shield array also tried to raise their shields to step forward and re-plug the gap, and some knife and axe hands were specially responsible for filling the leaks, cutting down and cutting down the Western Chu soldiers who were lucky enough to rush into the shield array, In the blink of an eye, he stabilized his position, and did not give the officers and men of the Western Chu Army any chance to disrupt the ranks of their own troops.

The situation turned into a stalemate against a war of attrition in the blink of an eye, the spearmen behind the shield were responsible for stabbing the spear to kill the enemy, and the long shield hand was responsible for gritting his teeth to hold the long shield, forming a copper wall in front of the soldiers of the Western Chu army.

Under the command of Xiang Guan, the three thousand infantry of the Western Chu Army also quickly detoured back to the west of the right wing position of the Han army, and attacked the flank of the right army of the Han army from west to east, and at the same time, the sun really crossed the middle of the sky and gradually went westward, and the sunlight directly hit the faces of the Han army's flank soldiers, interfering with the line of sight of the Han army's soldiers, and the Western Chu army was backlit to attack, with obvious advantages in light.

It's still okay, as early as when the formation was in place, the commander of the Han army, Uncle Zhou, had already taken this into account, and specially arranged for the famous general of the Han army, Worm Da, to lead the elite troops to line up on the right flank, and try to protect the right flank position that is most likely to be attacked by the enemy to the greatest extent, so even if the Han army is at a disadvantage in terms of light, they still rely on the quality advantage of the soldiers, and once again block the attack of the Western Chu army with a dense queue and a long shield, and also did not give the Western Chu army any chance to disrupt the ranks of their own troops.

But this is only the beginning, Xiang Guan, the last of the Xiang family's children to leave Xiang Kang's side, was originally known for his bravery, and the task given to him by Zhou Yin was to take the right flank position of the Han army no matter what, so before the insect army could kill the first wave of attack of the Western Chu army, the second round of the Western Chu army's charging soldiers had already shouted and killed, like two iron fists, one from south to north, and the other detoured from west to east, hitting the front and west of the Han army's position.

"Hold your ground! Hold your ground! ”

"Hold on! No one is allowed to retreat! Resist Lao Tzu! ”

The grassroots generals of the Han army roared hoarsely, and the supervising team with the Xueliang axe was also behind the battle, ready to slash and kill the Han soldiers who fled timidly, and the Han soldiers in the front rows were one after another, and the companions in front of them fell, and immediately stood up on the top of their chests, forming a steel defense line with flesh and blood, and resisted the crazy attack of the soldiers of the Western Chu army. In the dense crowd of Han soldiers, it caused a scuffle, and the fight was inextricable.

Zhou Yin, the commander of the Western Chu Army, also focused his attention on the right flank position of the Han army, and his eagle-like eyes were fixed on the tragic battlefield, hoping that the stalemate could be quickly broken, so that the officers and men of the Western Chu Army could disrupt the right flank of the Han army as soon as possible and directly establish a victory. However, to Zhou Yin's disappointment, the right flank position of the Han army was like an iron wall, always standing firm in the face of the onslaught of the Western Chu army, and there was no sign of loosening.

There is also something that makes Zhou Yin helpless, that is, even if he deliberately let the Jibei Army, which was slightly inferior in combat effectiveness, line up on his right flank, the treacherous Zhou Shu always pretended not to see it, refused to send troops to attack, and attacked the relatively easy to take the position of the Jibei Army, and has always been on the defensive, allowing the Western Chu Army to attack the right flank of the Han army.

Zhou Yin also vaguely understood Uncle Zhou's intentions, and knew that Uncle Zhou had completely angered him, and wanted to lure him into launching a full-scale attack, first taking a defensive position to consume his main soldiers and military morale, and then waiting for an opportunity to launch a counterattack to win. But it was useless to understand, although Zhou Yin was not completely angered by the Han army, but the sudden change was destined that Zhou Yin must seize the opportunity of the Han army to take the initiative to fight and strive for victory, and there was no longer the condition to confront the Han army and consume it.

"Do you want the Jibei Army to also rush forward and put pressure on the left flank position of the Han thieves?"

This idea once appeared in Zhou Yin's mind, and then considering that the combat effectiveness of the Jibei Army was relatively weak, and the certainty of forcibly charging into battle was very small, once the defeat was defeated by the Han army, it would definitely affect the morale of the Western Chu Army, which was not conducive to this important battle, Zhou Yin could only decisively dispel this idea, and carefully calculated for a moment before instructing his own soldiers: "Go and give an order to Tian Xin of the Jibei Army, telling him to send troops to fight and lure the Han thief's left-wing army to attack his army." ”

The Jibei Army was not sure that it could take the left flank position of the Han army alone, but if the Han army on the left flank attacked the position of the Jibei Army, the Jibei Army was at least sure that it would contain the Han army on the left flank for a long time, and even lured the Han army to increase the left flank, and made every effort to win the most promising position of the Jibei Army.

Just received Zhou Yin's order, Tian Xin immediately understood that Zhou Yin resolutely wanted to use the army as bait, although he was not very happy, but for the sake of the overall situation, Tian Xin gritted his teeth, and still sent a team of 500 people out of the battle, ran to the front of the Han army on the left flank and shouted and scolded the battle, in a vain attempt to induce the Han army on the left flank to send troops to meet the battle, take the opportunity to deceive the enemy, lure the Han army to rush into battle with victory, and complete the order that Zhou Yin gave to him.

is also a master of tactics, just saw the Jibei army take the initiative to send troops to fight, Uncle Zhou immediately understood Zhou Yin and Tian Xin's tactical intentions, after a slight smile, Uncle Zhou ordered to the soldiers next to him: "Go and give us General Wang Ling, who is in charge of the left flank position, give him an order, and tell him clearly that the Jibei thief army wants to lure him to attack the formation, tell him not to be fooled, and think of a way for me to try to lure the Jibei thief army to attack our left flank position." ”

Long gave birth to nine sons, each with a different background, if Liu Laosan received such an order, he would definitely send troops to meet him immediately, and then he was even more shameless to preemptively defeat first, and in turn lured the Jibei army to pursue with victory. Wang Ling was different, after receiving Uncle Zhou's order, Wang Ling just thought about it a little, and immediately called the love general Lou Fu (non-personal name, which was the honorific title for the marksman at that time, similar to the Mongolian Jebe) that he recruited when he was in Yanmen County, and instructed him: "Lou Fu, you go out alone and kill the five hundred leaders of the thief army for me!" ”

Lou Fu, who had a thick waist and round arms, didn't speak, just arched his hand, took a strong bow and got on the horse and went out of battle, and rushed alone to the five hundred people of the Jibei Army who shouted and scolded in front of the Han army, and the Jibei Army saw that there was only one person in the Han Army and one horse out of the battle, it was inevitable that there were some surprises, Lou Fu took the opportunity to bully into the 100 steps in front of the Jibei Army, and quickly found the 500 long Jibei Army standing in the front of the team, pulled the bow and arrow, and released an arrow, the feather arrow broke through the air, and the 500 long face door in the middle, the 500 Chang screamed and fell to the ground, killed on the spot, The soldiers of Jibei were in an uproar, and the Han army was thunderous with joy, and the morale was greatly boosted.

This is not counting, after an arrow shot the five hundred long of the Jibei Army, Lou Fu quickly released two arrows, and hit two Jibei soldiers one after another, the five hundred soldiers of the Jibei Army who went out of the battle were suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers fled in fear, and the soldiers of the Han Army were even more cheerful, and they continued to mock the Jibei Army.

Seeing this scene, even the commanders of both sides, Uncle Zhou and Zhou Yin, were taken aback, and Uncle Zhou was also surprised and said: "This Wang Ling, when did such a marksman come out under his command?" Awesome! ”

"Who dares to go out and kill that thief archer for me?!"

Tian Xin roared with a blue face, and as a result, there were also capable people in the Jibei Army formation, a sharpshooter who was quite famous in the ranks of the Jibei Army rushed out quickly, raised his bow and rushed to the nearest place to draw the bow and arrow at Lou Fu, Lou Fu was not in a hurry to release the arrow, and sneered with his hands on his chest, and let the Jibei Army archer release the arrow first, and then still shot an arrow from the Jibei Army archer, Lou Fu flashed sideways, and while avoiding the arrow, he grabbed the feather arrow shot by the Jibei Army archer and put it on his bow.

"Good!"

The Han army in the formation of cheers again, an arrow shot the Jibei Army shooter was full of shock, subconsciously turned around and ran, Lou Fu calmly aim, and another arrow was released, with the caught feather arrow an arrow shot the Jibei Army shooter's vest, the Jibei Army shooter stumbled down, killed on the spot, Lou Fu raised a bow to demonstrate, the Han army soldiers cheered more, but the Jibei Army was in an uproar, morale plummeted, on the other side of the West Chu Army formation was also a soldier whispering, morale was also greatly affected.

Seeing that the morale of the Jibei Army has been frustrated, not responding will definitely further affect the morale of the army, making the already unreliable Jibei Army even more unreliable, Zhou Yin can only change his mind, and send someone to Tian Xin again, ordering Tian Xin to urge the army to attack the left flank position of the Han army, and send someone to Xiang Guan to give an order: "Strengthen the attack, before three o'clock, be sure to give Ben Shuai to disrupt the right flank position of the Han thieves!" ”

Most of the children of the Xiang family are very reliable in fighting tough battles, Xiang Guan is also one of them, after receiving Zhou Yin's order, Xiang Guan just made a little calculation, and immediately ordered to recall the front army of the attacking formation, whose physical strength and morale have greatly decreased, and let them reorganize the queue, and then immediately rotated the two armies forward, and once again attacked the front and west of the right flank position of the Han army, and then just re-engaged with the Han army, and immediately invested a new new force to strengthen the offensive, using the advantage of the strength in their hands, The onslaught of the Han army, with only about 14,000 troops, continued on the right flank positions.

No, the right flank position of the Han army is too tenacious, even if the Western Chu army takes advantage of the strength advantage to take turns to charge the formation, it only forces the 500-person phalanx of several Han troops to change into a circle formation, and it can never shake the right flank of the Han army, on the contrary, it has paid a considerable price for this, and there are many casualties.

However, in comparison, Xiang Guan's army was already quite competitive, at least in the field of the advantage, on the other side of the Han army's left flank battlefield, the Jibei army, which sent 3,000 troops to the battle, did not fight for long, and it could not withstand the Han army's fierce counterattack and dense feather arrows, and was forced to withdraw to the distance to regroup. Zhou Yin was furious when he saw it, and immediately sent his own soldiers to rush to the Jibei army formation to reprimand Tian Xin, Tian Xin's face was also blue and black, and immediately sent someone forward, and killed the generals who led the army to charge ineffectively, forcing the front army to charge again, and then put 6,000 troops into the front, and the soldiers attacked the front and east positions of the Han army on the left flank in two ways.

The scale of the war is therefore further expanded, the Chuji coalition army attacked left and right, stormed the left and right flank positions of the Han army, and the soldiers of the Han army stood in formation, carrying the enemy's impact in a dense queue, the three soldiers were all vigorous spirits, using the strength of milk, desperately beckoning the weapons in their hands to the enemy, spears and swords constantly pierced the human body, Zhan Ge pecked through the armor, hooked down and overturned the human body, blood continued to splash, and feathered arrows continued to cross in the air, shooting and wounding the opponent's soldiers, and the fierce shouting of killing was deafening.

Among them, the most fierce is of course the right flank position of the Han army, the Western Chu army that stormed the right flank of the Han army not only has strong combat effectiveness, but also has a more resolute and firm attitude than the Jibei army on the left flank, from beginning to end it is pressing the right flank of the Han army, and with the continuous strengthening of the offensive force, it continues to infiltrate from the array junction of the Han army to the Han army, which directly threatens the safety of the insect Da team, and also forces the two thousand Han army right wing cavalry lined up behind the infantry phalanx to slowly retreat to avoid contact with the attacking infantry of the Western Chu army.

Fortunately, the right wing army of the Han army, which was attacked by the Western Chu army, was very reliable, no matter how the Western Chu army attacked wildly, the position was only slightly shaken, and there was no sign of collapse. On the other side of the left flank battlefield, the situation of the Han army's Wang Ling was much better, and it had twice forced back the rushing army of the Jibei army, not only did not fall behind at all, but also obviously had enough spare strength to launch a counterattack against the Jibei army at any time.

The time soon approached three o'clock in Shen, seeing that Xiang Guan's department still failed to disrupt the right flank position of the Han army, Zhou Yin gradually began to be anxious in his heart, and said secretly: "The Han thieves are prepared, they must have prepared a sufficient amount of dry food and torches, our army is not well prepared, and the soldiers did not rest well last night, the longer this decisive battle drags on, the situation will definitely be more unfavorable to us, and we must take risks." ”

With this idea in mind, Zhou Yin gritted his teeth and immediately yelled at the soldiers next to him: "Raise the banner, give Xiang Guan an order, and tell him to launch a general attack, no matter what, I will kill the right-wing thief army of the Han thieves for Ben Shuai!" ”

The command banner of the Western Chu army was raised, and Xiang Guan, who had already planned this intention, did not even blink an eyelid, and immediately shouted and ordered the war drums to be beaten, and personally led the rest of the army to launch a general attack on the right flank position of the Han army. Uncle Zhou didn't panic when he saw it in the Han army's banner array, and said with a smile: "I only started at this time, and I was quite calm, and I was replaced by other mediocre generals, I'm afraid I would have attacked my right flank with all my might." ”

It didn't take much time, the Western Chu army Xiang Guan's department had also been killed near the right flank position of the Han army, the right wing of the Han army saw that the enemy was not good, and did not dare to have any carelessness, immediately turned all the infantry phalanx into a circle formation of different sizes, with the strongest defensive circle to arrive at the enemy's offensive, the West Chu army was like a tide, quickly flooded the right flank position of the Han army, surrounded on all sides by the Han army's large and small circle arrays attacked more than once, and the right flank position of the Han army was forcibly torn apart with red eyes.

The situation on the left flank is still slightly better, although after seeing the Western Chu Army launch a general offensive on the right flank, the morale of the Jibei Army has been encouraged to a certain extent, and the offensive has also been strengthened, but the combat effectiveness of the Jibei Army has always been inferior to the Han Army and the Western Chu Army.

At this time, he first glanced at the right flank position of the Han army, and saw that although the insect army had been completely suppressed by the Western Chu army, it had also successfully contained the left flank army of the Western Chu army, so that Xiang Guan could no longer spare his hands to reinforce other battlefields, Uncle Zhou nodded with satisfaction, and said to himself: "It's time for Zhou Yinpifu to see a little hope." ”

After that, Uncle Zhou immediately ordered someone to play the banner and ordered the Han army on the left flank to launch a charge and counterattack the position of the Jibei Army, and then Wang Ling's army did not disappoint Uncle Zhou, and only a counterattack successfully defeated the charging army of the Jibei Army, and then shouted to charge the position of the Jibei Army.

"Uncle Zhou, you are finally willing to do it!"

After yelling excitedly, Zhou Yin didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately yelled: "Give Tian Xin a flag, tell him to hold his position, and don't take a step back!" Then give Xiang Sui an order, telling him to adjust the queue, let the convoy be in front, and prepare to charge! ”

Seeing that Zhou Yin's tactical intentions were finally no longer concealed, that is, to let the two wings attack and defend, let the Jibei Army, which was slightly weaker in combat effectiveness, take a defensive position, entangle the left flank of the Han army, let Xiang Guan, who is good at fighting tough battles, take the offensive and suppress the right flank of the Han army, and finally take the front with the most powerful chariot soldiers to attack the Chinese position of the Han army head-on, and then whether it is the left wing battlefield or the frontal battlefield, as long as there is a breakthrough in one battlefield, the Western Chu army can win the decisive battle!

Uncle Zhou, a master of tactics, also made a fatal mistake at this moment, even if he had clearly seen that the Western Chu army had made adjustments in the position of the Chinese army, and pushed the chariot soldiers equipped with sharp blades in front of them to the front to display them in formation, Uncle Zhou did not withdraw the left wing army to prevent just in case, and still allowed the left wing Han army led by Wang Ling to charge with all their strength and crashed headlong into the solid position of the Jibei army.

The Jibei Army really did not disappoint Zhou Yin, even if the quality of individual soldiers and the overall combat effectiveness were not as good as the Han army, they still relied on dense bows and crossbows and strong shield formations, gritted their teeth to withstand the fierce impact of the Han army on the left flank, and was not directly defeated by the Han army, even if the position was obviously a little shaky, it still temporarily contained the Han army on the left flank - this is also Zhou Yin's purpose, not to seek victory for the Jibei army, as long as they can temporarily entangle the Han army on the left flank, and buy time for the main force of the Chinese army of the Western Chu army!

"Heaven forbid, we must let our chariots break through the positions of the Han Thieves and open the gap for our infantry brigade."

Silently prayed in his heart, Zhou Yin decisively issued an order to let the front team of the Western Chu Army charge, and Xiang Sui, the general of the Western Chu Army, who was burdened with heavy responsibilities, also had a grim face, and first yelled at Li Shi, the general who commanded the chariots: "At all costs, even if you lose all the chariots, you must give me the front team of the Chinese army to break the Han thieves and open the way for us to enter the army!" ”

Li Shi solemnly bowed his hands in the car and sang loudly: "Please rest assured that if the front line of the Chinese army of the Han thieves is not broken and the general does not take action, the last general will also apologize for his crimes." ”

"Go ahead." Xiang Sui waved his hand on the horse, and then shouted: "Beat the drums, attack!" ”

The war drums sounded, and the heavy chariots of the Western Chu Army, which totaled more than 300 vehicles, set off first, first trotted forward, and then gradually accelerated, while Xiang Sui led the infantry brigade of the Western Chu Army to follow closely, striding towards the Chinese position of the Han Army with a solemn expression, a pair of sharp eyes, and staring at the Zhou Shushuai banner next to the north gallop road, and the murderous aura on his body rose to the sky.

At the same time, in the Han army array, seeing that the Western Chu army finally dispatched a chariot charge, Uncle Zhou also smiled slightly, then waved his hand, and ordered the soldiers next to him to play the flag, and then immediately on both sides of the Han army's Chinese army position, five hundred cavalry rushed out immediately, and rode their horses directly to the chariot convoy of the Western Chu army, which was at the forefront.

has been nervously watching the position of the Chinese army of the Han army, Zhou Yin of course discovered the movements of the Han cavalry at the first time, and quickly confirmed that the Han cavalry was coming towards the chariot queue of the army, Zhou Yin also took a puff, and then laughed wildly, and said: "Uncle Zhou, are you crazy or stupid, you want to rely on the cavalry to block the chariot of the commander?" Your cavalry and horses are made of iron, and they can withstand the impact of your commander's chariots? ”

Laughing proudly, Zhou Yin suddenly remembered an important question, his face suddenly turned pale as paper, his whole body was like falling into an ice cellar, and cold sweat even broke out directly on his forehead, and he couldn't help but say in his heart: "Won't it?" Is Uncle Zhou waiting for Ben Shuai to gather the chariot and charge into battle? If he uses that method, not only will my chariot soldiers die in vain, but they may even be able to ...... the other way around. ”