Chengqiu, which Peng Yuejun attacked in the first battle of the comeback, is very important, located at the throat of land and water, connecting the two counties of Dongxue, and tightly choking the water and shipping, which is the only way for the rear of Western Chu to contact the main force of the Western Chu Army, and it is also an important transfer node for the rear of the Western Chu Army to supply materials, grain and grass to the front line, even if it is only destroyed, it will greatly affect the logistics supply of the main force of the Western Chu Army.

However, compared with Zou County in Xue County, the importance of Chengqiu can only be said to be trivial, because Zou County, which is located at the three-way intersection of Chi Road, is not only the necessary way for the rear of Western Chu to contact the main force of the Western Chu Army, but also the only way for the rear of Western Chu to contact the Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army. Not only will the main force of the Western Chu Army on the chasm battlefield be affected, but the newly formed Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army will also be greatly affected!

It is precisely because of this that the Xue County Shou Zhan Yong appointed by Xiang Yu will leave the county for a long time, and personally go to Zou County to sit in the town, helping the senior officials of Western Chu who came from Pengcheng to preside over the transportation of grain, grass and military supplies, even if Peng Yuejun had made a lot of trouble around Juyeze before, and attacked Zhang County and Wuyan in the north of Xue County several times, Zhan Yong did not dare to lead the army to the north to suppress it, and honestly just stationed in Zou County, and did not dare to let Zou County have the slightest mistake.

But it's a pity that although the high-level of the Western Chu Army attaches great importance to the safety of Zou County, Zou County is too far away from Juyeze, where Peng Yue is active, almost three hundred miles away, and Zou County has never been threatened, plus the Western Chu Army that escorts grain and grass and military supplies has been coming and going, and the bandits and thieves don't dare to approach Zou County at all, so after a long time, the Zou County garrison still inevitably has all kinds of lax and careless situations, either the sentry naps and sleeps during the vigil, or the scouts find a place to lazy rest when they go out to investigate. Came back and talked nonsense.

This day was no exception, because the sun was too good, the Zou County scouts who were ordered to the northwest to explore the movement of the path, just left the camp less than ten miles away, and found a cool place with dense trees to lie down and rest, during which in addition to getting up and shooting an arrow and shooting a hare to engage in barbecue, he never took care of the slightest situation on the northwest path, or when the sun set, he returned to the camp to report to the sentinel that everything was normal, and the sentinel did not ask much, waved his hand and ended today's mission.

The same is true at night, although there are also generals who symbolically take a turn around the camp and look at the sentry guards, but as soon as the boss has left, the sentry of the Western Chu Army in front of the sentry tower camp is to sit and sit, lie down, or chat and fart, or hum a lewd little mediation boredom, and then have no interest in paying attention to the movement outside the camp, and then before the second watch, these sentries have already fallen asleep, snoring loudly than sleeping in the military tent.

When it was almost the third watch, the camp gate officer who was awakened by urine woke up for a while, and saw his men sitting by the camp gate sleeping like a dead pig, and the camp gate officer who yawned for days rarely remembered that he still had a heavy responsibility to do, so he kicked a few of his subordinates awake and scolded: "Wake up, wake up, get up and stand up for Naion, and you are not allowed to sleep during the vigil." ”

One by one, sleepy-eyed and barely stood up, but they were still yawning and even fighting under the eyelids in the sky, and the camp gate officer saw that he was angry, so he scolded again: "It's all for Lao Tzu to stand up, don't be lazy to sleep anymore, being seen from above, even Lao Tzu will be beaten with a military stick, and Lao Tzu can't spare you!" ”

"Don't worry, big brother, it will definitely not affect you." A brave doorman retorted: "Now that one or two of them are sleeping with a woman in their arms, who would come to check the sentry in the middle of the night?" ”

"Fart! Li Ying slept with them last month, and was not caught by our Zhan County guard? The camp officer scolded angrily, and said: "Cheer up, the army guarded by Gan County has left, and our army is stationed here in Zou County, be careful!" ”

The soldiers agreed helplessly, and all of them scolded their bosses in their stomachs for tossing and turning, but fortunately, the spirit of beating was reluctant to be loyal to their duties for a while, and their superiors and camp officers still hid in a sheltered place to sit down and take a nap.

If these guards slept a little later, then they would definitely be able to find that in the dark night, a group of sneaky figures were quietly touching the gate of the camp they were guarding under the cover of night, but unfortunately these guards slept too deeply, not only did they never find such a dangerous situation, but even those figures had touched the front of the camp, moved away from the activities in front of the door, and even removed the latch, they were not aware of it......

"What's wrong?"

Or was the camp gate suddenly pushed open, leaning on the camp gate to sleep on the door of the camp several soldiers were opened by the camp gate, they suddenly woke up in their sleep, but before they could make a new reaction, more than 20 black shadows had already rushed in, unceremoniously waved sharp blades and spears, fiercely stabbed into their chest and abdomen, so that they didn't even have time to shout for help, so they went directly down to the underworld to see Emperor Dongyue. In the end, when almost all the guards were killed, the camp gatekeeper who was hiding in a hidden place and napping was awakened, jumped up and rushed into the camp while shouting, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! Hit the gong! ”

The enemy's movements were too fast, and before the sentries on the sentry tower and the patrol in the camp rang the gong to give the alarm, countless black shadows had already rushed into the camp gate of the Western Chu army with shouts, just like a tide rushing, directly rushed into the interior of the camp of the Western Chu army, and killed the big tent of the Chinese army of the Western Chu army in the middle of the camp, and then the enemy who entered the camp extended directly to the two wings, while using the bonfire in the camp of the Western Chu army to set fire to the military tent, while frantically slashing and killing the soldiers of the Western Chu army who hurriedly went out of the tent to check the situation, At the same time, he pulled to the camp tent, pulled to the tent, pressed the Western Chu soldiers who were still asleep at the bottom of the tent, raised their spears and stabbed them indiscriminately.

It happened too suddenly, the Western Chu army was caught off guard from top to bottom, of course, there was no way to immediately organize effective resistance, and many Western Chu soldiers could only run for their lives without even having time to put on their clothes, shouting and fleeing everywhere, not only making it more difficult to assemble into an army and lining up to meet the battle, but also causing the Western Chu army camp to be more chaotic and panicked. smashed the command center of the Western Chu Army.

Xue Jun Shou Zhan Yong, who also deserved the West Chu Army, was unlucky, after hearing the shouts in the camp to kill the big rise, knowing that the situation was not good, Zhan Yong, who was sleeping with the maid in his arms, hurriedly got up and put on his clothes, and rushed to the Chinese army tent with his personal army to organize the army to respond, but before he finished half of the road out of the sleeping tent, his Chinese army tent had already risen on fire, and at the same time there was a team of enemies shouting fiercely to kill, Zhan Yong did not dare to fight with the enemy, he could only turn around and run, but the enemy was too fast, and he caught up with him in the blink of an eye, His own soldiers also scattered and fled with great unrighteousness, so that the enemy directly found Zhan Yong, who was wearing conspicuous armor and cloak, and rushed directly at him with cheers.

"Shaft, protect the old man! Protect the old man! ”

Roaring and before he escaped ten steps, a battle Ge had already hit Zhan Yong's shoulder, and in the middle of the momentum, Zhan Yong fell to the ground on his back with a scream, and then Zhan Yong simply wanted to shout surrender and save his life, but before his words could be shouted, more spears had already stabbed him one after another, and in a blink of an eye, he was stabbed into honeycomb coal, making him die with blood and flesh in his chest and abdomen, full of bloody holes, and extremely miserable.

The commander was killed by the enemy in seconds, and the Western Chu soldiers in the camp were of course even more hopeless, except for a few people who held weapons and resisted stubbornly, most of them rushed out of the camp to save their lives, and the enemy entered the camp one after another, killing all the Western Chu soldiers who resisted stubbornly or fled a little slowly, and almost set fire to the entire Western Chu army camp, and then quickly seized the military transfer warehouse next to the Western Chu army camp, killed the Western Chu army officials who supervised the transfer, and dispersed the people. Captured untold amounts of military ration and grass.

The matter is not over, that night after taking the camp of the Western Chu army outside Zou County, when the sky was light, the main force of Peng Yuejun's rear team also rushed to the scene, and joined the front army, and then sent people to Zou County to persuade surrender, while using the captured Western Chu army materials to make various siege weapons, and then the persuasion to surrender was just refused, Peng Yuejun decisively launched an attack on the county seat of Zou County.

There is still no suspense in the battle, Zou County is just a small county town, the city wall is only three zhang high, the defenders in the city are only a few hundred county soldiers, and the morale is pitiful, no matter how Peng Yue's army is a rabble, the number is as many as 16,000 people, and there is a military genius like Peng Yue in command, so the battle is only more than an hour, Peng Yuejun relied on the temporary flying ladder to get to the city, and then crashed open the gate of Zou County, directly into the city, most of the defenders in the city surrendered, The county commander who refused to surrender because he was afraid of being held accountable by Xiang Yu committed suicide, and Peng Yuejun also easily took the county seat of Zouxian, which was crucial to the Western Chu army.

It was also at this time that Yue Yucai, the representative of the Han army, apologized to Peng Yue with a sincere salute, and frankly admitted: "General Peng, the lower official must ask you for the guilt, the lower official was really disrespectful to you before, the general's clever calculation is like a god, and he was able to predict early that the West Chu thief army in the East China Sea would not be stationed in Zou County, but would only go east directly, not stop in Zou County, and decisively seize the fighter plane to attack Zou County. It is by no means an exaggeration to be an exaggeration, among our army, the only ones who can compete with you in terms of using troops are probably General Zhou Shu and our king, who captured Wei Bao in the first few days. ”

"Yue Xingren is polite, what virtue and how can the last general be able, how dare to compete with our king?"

Peng Yue smiled slightly, he still knew the sense and modesty of proportion, but the old man of the young marshal army, Yue Mash, was from the bottom of his heart, and still insisted that Peng Yue's ability to accept Xiang Kang's solicitation was definitely the luck of the Han army, and after a few polite words, Yue Mash remembered one more thing, and hurriedly asked Peng Yue again: "General Peng, then what should we do next?" Do you want to withdraw to Konozawa as soon as possible? ”

"I can't go back to Junozawa for the time being." Peng Yue gave an answer that surprised Yue Moro, and then explained: "The Western Chu thief army has already set its sights on Juyeze, and the Western Chu thief army of Dongjun, Xue County and Donghai County has all concentrated in the area of Juyeze, and we have withdrawn to Juyeze, not only do we have to fight head-on with the Western Chu thief army, but it is also difficult to intercept the grain and grass of the Western Chu thief army as we like, and share the pressure for our king in the chasm battlefield." ”

"Where are we going, then? It's impossible to stay in Zou County for a long time, right? Yue Mo asked in surprise.

"Zou County definitely can't be stationed here for a long time, and it has to be abandoned as soon as possible." Peng Yue replied: "Gan Ji Pifu has not been gone for a few days, and he will definitely turn around and come back after receiving the news, but we don't have to be too afraid of his army, if the thief army of Dongjun and Xue County follows, then we will definitely be in trouble." Therefore, the best way is that we should move in other directions as soon as possible, take the Ganji puppet in circles, so that he has no way to join forces with the other thief army, and then find a way to kill him, and then break the remaining thief army individually. ”

"Big brother, let's go north." The cronies and generals hurriedly said: "The thief army of Xue County is empty, and their county guards were also killed by us last night, and we are empty when we go north, maybe even Xue County's county Zhilu County has hope to take it!" ”

is also worthy of being a guerrilla genius, although he is a little excited, but after just a little thought, Peng Yue dispelled this tempting idea and said: "You can't go north, going north is a galloping road, the road is wide and flat, and we are easy to be caught up by the Western Chu thief army." And if we continue to go north after passing Lu County, it will already be the territory of Tiandu, even if we completely destroy Xiang Yu there, we will not feel distressed, and we will not be able to share the pressure for our king. ”

"And to the east?" Hu asked tentatively, and reminded: "But it's the same to go east, it's also a flat and open galloping road, and we are still easy to be caught up by the Western Chu thief army?" ”

Peng Yue didn't answer, and crossed his legs and carefully calculated, it was the old man who followed Peng Yue when he was still fishing in Juyeze, he was very clear about his habits, and when he saw his expression, he couldn't help but feel a little drumming in his heart, and couldn't help but ask cautiously: "Big brother, you can't go north, you don't want to go east, it's even more impossible to go west, should you want to go south?" ”

Peng Yue still didn't rush to speak, and it was only after a while that Peng Yue suddenly smiled and smiled at Hu Yu: "It is worthy of being my old brother, and he really knows my temper." ”

"Wouldn't it?!" Hu Yu and Yue Mo screamed at the same time, and then Hu Yu hurriedly said, "Big brother, are you joking, you really want to go south?" Don't you know that Pengcheng in the south is the capital of the Western Chu thief army, and there are heavy troops of the Western Chu thief army stationed there, and they are all elite and strong soldiers. ”

"Just don't get too close to Pengcheng." Peng Yue sneered and said: "We go south, not only can we surprise the expectations of the Western Chu thief army, but also can directly threaten the capital of the Western Chu thief army, even if it is just a bluff, grab a handful and run, it can also make the whole territory of the Western Chu thief army shake, mobilize all kinds of soldiers and horses to reinforce Pengcheng, and even send troops from the front line of the chasm to help their hinterland, which can not only share the pressure for our king to the greatest extent, but also help us to see the needle in the future, mobile combat, and stir up the hinterland of the Western Chu thief army even darker." ”

"But what should we do if the Western Chu thief army draws troops from Pengcheng to attack us?" Hu Yu hurriedly asked.

"Run." Peng Yue replied confidently: "With the current situation of our army, who would be stupid and fight head-on with the elite of the Western Chu thief army?" They took the initiative to send troops to meet us, can't we just run? Pengcheng is located in the plain, there are roads in all directions, there are few thieves there, can we just run there? ”

Hu opened his mouth and stammered, and he couldn't believe that he would follow such a crazy boss, leaving the enemy's empty north and east sides, but going to the enemy's strongest south to make peace. Peng Yue is a person who will not change his mind if he has made up his mind, and quickly said: "Just do it, clean up the affairs here in Zou County, let's go south immediately, take the Western Chu thief army around in circles, look for an opportunity to break them all, and by the way, scare the Western Chu thief army in Pengcheng!" ”

Seeing that Peng Yue had made up his mind, even his absolute henchmen were useless, and Yue Moro, who had no power or ability to restrain Peng Yue, had no choice but to resign himself to preparing to follow Peng Yue to continue to take risks, but when he was studying how to go south, Yue Mo suddenly remembered another task he was shouldering, and hurriedly said to Peng Yue: "General Peng, if you must go south, then the lower officials will not object, but when you go south, if you have the opportunity, can you take the time to take the army to pass by Fengyi City in Surabaya County?" ”

"Why?" Peng Yue asked strangely.

"Because of the defenders there, there is hope that we may win it over."

Yue Mo replied, and then carefully said Xiang Kang's request to try to recruit Fengyi's guard Yongya, Peng Yue nodded when he heard it, but he didn't rush to agree to try to cover Yue Mo to run to Fengyi, after thinking for a while, Peng Yue also asked Yue Mo again: "Yue Xingren, since our king named you to surrender that Yongya, and said that he is our king's old friend, so our king and that Yongya should have a good relationship?" ”

"It's not very clear what happened below." Yue Mo replied: "But since our king named him to surrender to him, and promised him the position of marquis, I think there should be a good friendship between that Yongya and our king. ”

Peng Yue nodded slowly and said meaningfully: "If this is the case, then this Yongya may be able to help us a lot." Okay, as long as I have the opportunity, I will definitely send someone to send Yue Xingren to Fengyi for a run. ”

In Zou County calmly rested for more than a day, in addition to the West Chu Army's grain and grass in Zou County was burned clean, Peng Yue also organized manpower to completely raze the city wall of Zou County to the ground, so that Zou County has no city wall to guard, when everyone asked the reason, Peng Yue answered very directly, said: "Zou County is located on the road, the location is extremely important, we may come to attack again in the future, now the city wall is destroyed first, if there is really that day in the future, we can be much easier when we come to fight Zou County." ”

After sincerely admiring Peng Yue's foresight, before the Western Chu army returned to rescue Zou County, Peng Yue took his guerrillas to set off south, holding high the red banner of the Han army and going straight to Teng County, and shouted the arrogant slogan of smashing Pengcheng early, so as to bluff, intimidate the enemy, and lure Xiang Yu to transfer troops from the front line of the chasm to help the rear, and try his best to share the pressure on Xiang Kang on the main battlefield.

Peng Yue's hand also succeeded in receiving the effect he expected, and learned that Peng Yue's army had boldly gone south and killed directly in the direction of Pengcheng, the whole city of Pengcheng, the capital of Western Chu, shook, and Xiang Sheng and Xiang It who stayed in Pengcheng were shocked, in addition to immediately organizing the army to prepare for the battle and discussing whether to send an attack, they also had to send an emergency messenger to Xiang Yu, asking Xiang Yu to make a decision.

There are exceptions, among Peng Cheng, at least one person was not only not surprised or panicked by the arrival of Peng Yuejun, but on the contrary, he was a little excited and excited, and quietly clenched his fists and said secretly: "Is it really my brother's army?" If it's really my brother's army, it's a good opportunity, and if it goes well, my brother-in-law and nephews, as well as my brother's parents, wives and children, who are civil and military generals, can ....... ”