Time turned back slightly, back to before Uncle Zhou said I forgot, back to the moment when the Chuji coalition army sent troops to attack the Yan army camp for the second time in one night.

Just received the report from the guards, Uncle Zhou, who had also not slept for almost a night, immediately sat up straight, but the first thing Uncle Zhou asked was not whether the Yan army camp was in danger, but asked without thinking about it: "What time is it?" ”

"Back to the general, the fifth correction has just arrived." The guard replied immediately.

"Five corrections?" Uncle Zhou was a little surprised that the Chuji coalition army was late, but after a little calculation, Uncle Zhou immediately understood the enemy's sinister intentions, and said with a sneer: "The time is just right, it will be dawn in less than an hour, and when the light is sufficient, it is already suitable for the decisive battle of the large army." At this time, it is of course best to be able to break through the Yan army camp, even if you can't, you can lure me to send troops to rescue the Yan army camp and win the opportunity to fight in the field, and at the worst of all, I can immediately launch a frontal attack on the Yan army at dawn, without giving the Yan army time to rest and adjust. ”

After sneering and guessing the intentions of the dangerous opponent Han Xin, Uncle Zhou made a little calculation, and immediately ordered: "Beat the drum, let all our soldiers get up and prepare for battle, and let the men of each battalion hurry up and make food." ”

After sending guards to convey the order, Uncle Zhou immediately put on his clothes and got up, he didn't even have time to freshen up, and went directly to the big tent of the Chinese army to preside over the overall situation, and when the main civil and military forces of the Han army rushed to wait for his life, he came to the high place in the camp to look at the enemy situation in the east, and judged the changes in the battle situation in the Yan army camp by the light of the torches.

After waiting patiently for a while, Yao Yao saw the Chuji coalition army retreating to the direction of Licheng for the second time, and saw that there was an army in the Yan army camp attacking with torches, and Uncle Zhou, who had been mentally prepared for this, immediately understood that the Yan army really did not lose his breath, and then Uncle Zhou did not dare to hesitate, and immediately instructed Yang Xi, the cavalry general under his command: "Yang Xi, immediately lead our cavalry out of the camp from the east gate, and assemble in front of the camp to wait for orders, but don't panic to light torches." ”

After Yang Xi immediately followed the order, after a while, the enemy who was ambushed near Licheng suddenly killed, forcing the Yan army to turn around and retreat, and then the Chuji coalition cavalry ambushed in the southwest came out and suddenly killed the retreating Yan army. And probably after seeing this situation, Uncle Zhou was still a little confused for a while, and said secretly: "What kind of reputation is the thief army doing?" It stands to reason that their second ambush should be straight to the camp gate of the Yan army and cut off the retreat of the Yan army? How did you kill directly to the Yan army? ”

In the end, when he saw the fire in front of the Yan army's camp from afar, Zhou Shu vaguely understood that the enemy's intention was likely to take advantage of the chaos to seize the camp gate and seize a road to enter the Yan army's camp, so as to reduce the difficulty for the main force of the Chuji coalition army to attack the Yan army's camp. Then after careful consideration, Uncle Zhou quickly made up his mind and ordered: "Give Yang Xi an order, immediately lead our cavalry to attack, reinforce the Yan army camp gate that was attacked by the Chuji thief army, and cover the Yan army to hold the camp gate at any cost!" Tell Yang Xi to remember two points, if there is an enemy ambush on the road that suddenly kills, don't pay attention to it, rush through the enemy's interception position at full speed, and the second is to help the Yan army defend the camp gate, and immediately retreat, without the slightest delay! ”

"General, it's still too dark, and the enemy situation is unknown, so it's a bit risky to send all our cavalry over?" Li Shiqi asked worriedly.

"You have to take a risk." Uncle Zhou replied: "Otherwise, once the Yan army's camp is opened by the thief army, we will only be more passive after dawn." Fortunately, our cavalry can fight on horseback, maneuver much faster than the enemy, and even if there is any danger, there will not be much loss. ”

After the order was conveyed in place, Yang Xi immediately led the eight thousand Han troops under his command to trot out, and then raised their hooves and charged, killing at full speed towards the south gate of the Yan army camp that was being attacked by the enemy, and then as Zhou Shu expected, on the way to the Han cavalry charge, not only in the dark place in the south, there was an unknown number of enemy ambushes to kill, and the Chuji coalition army, which had been exposed before, also killed head-on, in a vain attempt to stop or even entangle the Han cavalry.

If it was replaced in peacetime, Yang Xi, who had stabbed Xiang Yu with a spear, would definitely be interested in fighting head-on with the Chuji coalition army, but unfortunately Uncle Zhou's order was very clear, and he directly explained that he was not allowed to entangle with the enemy, and he must reinforce the Yan army camp at full speed, so Yang Xi led the Han cavalry to launch a face-to-face charge with the enemy cavalry facing the front, and in the case of certain casualties on both sides, he continued to charge at full speed towards the Yan army camp, and the cavalry of the Western Chu army was shocked when he saw it, so he could only quickly turn around and chase after him, The ambush of another Chuji coalition army, which was a little slower, also quickly changed direction and chased after the friendly army to help.

The cavalry of the Han army, which resolutely reinforced the friendly army, of course, helped the Yan army a lot, even if the cavalry combat effectiveness of this era was not very strong, but after more than 7,000 cavalry charged to the Yingmen battlefield where the fierce battle was raging, it still caused great pressure to the Chuji coalition army here.

The Yan army is also very able to seize the opportunity, seeing that the reinforcements arrived in addition to the morale boosted, they also immediately strengthened the counterattack, like a tide to the enemy who had rushed into the camp of the army, roaring and frantically brandishing all kinds of weapons to stab the enemy, pushing the emergency Saimen knife cart forward with all his might, and also taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's follow-up strength to temporarily weaken, forcibly suppressed the enemy near the camp gate, although he had not had time to expel all the enemies from the camp, but also successfully resolved the crisis that had burned his eyebrows, Won the hope of blocking the camp gate on his own.

At this time, the cavalry of the Western Chu Army has also pursued to the back of the cavalry of the Han Army, and joined forces with the infantry to attack the cavalry of the Han Army before and after, Yang Xi saw that the situation was not good, and he did not dare to be greedy for merit, so he quickly led the cavalry to rush and break through, and opened a bloody road from the weak point of the enemy's strength, and charged to highlight the encirclement, without continuing to entangle with the enemy, the Western Chu cavalry then chased after him, and Yang Xi did not turn back to fight, but led the Han cavalry to circle with the cavalry of the Western Chu Army on the plain, while observing the enemy's situation, While looking for an opportunity to storm the camp gate battlefield again.

Yang Xi really seized such an opportunity, and after gradually re-aiming the horse's head to the west in a circle, seeing that the enemy's infantry had once again strengthened the offensive against the Yan army camp gate, Yang Xi decisively led the army to attack again, and once again stabbed the Chuji coalition army that was attacking the camp in the buttocks, forcing the enemy to turn around again to face the battle, and then ran wildly when the cavalry of the Western Chu army chased over, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

In this way, the pressure on the Yan army was naturally greatly reduced, and while stubbornly blocking the enemy, he seized the time to plug the gap with all kinds of debris, and also set fire to these debris very cleverly, igniting a fire to force the enemy to retreat, and the fire was raging, so that the Chuji coalition army could not get close, and finally temporarily blocked the enemy's attack. Yang Xi saw this situation in the fierce battle, and quickly retreated back to the camp with the Han cavalry, not daring to stay outside the camp to be besieged by the enemy.

In the course of more than an hour, more than 1,200 of the 8,000 Han cavalry stayed outside the camp forever, and they were able to return to the camp to eat the breakfast that the Han soldiers had made for them, and the losses were quite heavy. Fortunately, the Han cavalry did not die in vain, relying on their full rescue, the Yan army not only expelled all the enemies from the camp, but also temporarily blocked the gap with fire, shattering the dream of the Chuji coalition army to open a gap in the Yan army camp before the main force arrived.

Of course, the Yan army has only temporarily survived the crisis, at this moment, the main force of the Chuji coalition army, which had already been assembled out of the camp at the fifth watch, has already rushed to the junction of the Yan army camp and the Han army, and at the same time, the Chuji coalition army, which was temporarily forced back by the flames, has also quickly completed the reorganization, just waiting for the fire at the gate of the Yan army camp to stop, and will immediately attack again.

Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Chuji coalition army had not yet had time to completely cut off the contact between the Yan army and the Han army, Li Lao, the acting commander of the Yan army, sent a fast horse to get the last contact with Uncle Zhou before the war, and as a result, after Uncle Zhou roughly understood the current situation of the Yan army's camp, he immediately instructed the messenger sent by Li Lao: "Go back and tell you General Li, tell him to hurry up, while increasing the fire at any cost, temporarily blocking the enemy to buy time, and at the same time immediately digging a trench behind the destroyed camp gate, Use the excavated earth to build a sheep and horse wall behind the trench, and then defend the camp with all your might! ”

"And!" Uncle Zhou said loudly again: "Defend to the end, and defend the camp for me at all costs!" When the situation is critical, I will naturally find a way to share the pressure for you! ”

The envoy of the Yan army clenched his fists and sang a promise, and hurriedly got on his horse and galloped back to the camp to convey Uncle Zhou's order, Uncle Zhou refused to rest assured, and immediately arranged a team of his own guards to escort the envoy back to the camp to deliver the order, and then turned his eyes to the main force of the Chuji coalition army in the southeast, and said to himself: "It's time to prepare, you and I are ready, come on." ”

At this time, the sky was gradually bright, and when the first rays of sunlight slanted to the top of the Taishan Mountains in the southwest, the main force of the Chuji coalition army finally appeared in front of the officers and soldiers of the Han and Yan armies. Then just by looking at it, Uncle Zhou immediately understood that the Chuji coalition army was exhausted by the main force this time, and he would force himself to fight a decisive battle with them at any cost.

The Chuji coalition army is indeed the main force, not counting the night battle before the army guarding outside the Yan army camp, just the main force of the Chuji coalition army in the southeast of the Han army camp, the strength has reached an astonishing more than 90,000 people, the spear is like a forest, the flag is like a sea, dense and can not be seen at a glance, at the same time, the Chuji coalition army has obviously carried out the pre-war mobilization encouragement, the loud military song has never stopped from the beginning, and the morale of the army is very strong.

Seeing this scene, although the Han army was not afraid, it also knew that the Chuji coalition army was not good this time, and today would inevitably be a bloody day, so they hurriedly asked Uncle Zhou how to deal with it, but Uncle Zhou smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, let the thief army show off its majesty to the fullest, we will have breakfast first, and only when we are full will we have the strength to go into battle to kill the enemy, first consume part of the strength of the thief army, and then facilitate us to annihilate the enemy in the next step." ”

Uncle Zhou was calm in the Han military camp, and his real opponent this time, Han Xin, also looked as usual in the banner formation of the Chuji coalition army, and then the battle formation had just been established, and Han Xin said to Xiang Zhuang: "Zuo Sima, you can enter the camp of the Yan thief army, whether we can force out the Han thief decisive battle today depends on whether we can break through the Yan thief camp." ”

Xiang Zhuang nodded, turned to Tian Da next to him and said, "King Jibei, please, the Yan thief camp will be handed over to you, and my army over there will also be temporarily assigned to your command." ”

Tian Da returned the salute, left the flag array without saying a word, and led the Jibei Army to rush to the outside of the Yan army camp to take over the attacking army, and then urged the army to launch an attack without hesitation, and attacked the Yan army camp from the southwest and two directions at the same time.

The pre-war mobilization work of the Chuji coalition army was very good, and the Jibei army, which was responsible for attacking the Yan army camp, knew from top to bottom that this battle could not be lost, so even if the Yan army camp was built very strongly, it still immediately felt the huge pressure, and was overwhelmed by the enemy who attacked at any cost.

Relying on the raging fire ignited by the continuous accumulation of debris, although the Yan army temporarily blocked this gap, it also burned so that the Yan soldiers could not accommodate themselves in the nearby wall section, and could not release arrows to block the enemy's approach, and the well-prepared Chuji coalition army took the opportunity to fill the trench with sandbags and debris, open a wide road to the army, and then when the fire at the camp gate stopped for a while, suddenly shouted and charged, opened the way with sandbags to extinguish the fire, and directly attacked the Yan army camp again.

The trench in the camp dug by the Yan soldiers against time played a huge role, and many of the officers and soldiers of the Chuji coalition army rushed in with fire and smoke could not clean up, and fell directly into the trench that had just been dug. It was like a moth throwing fire into the dense rain of arrows of the Yan army.

In the end, after listening to the report of the soldiers who escaped by luck, Tian Da understood the current situation of the Yan army's camp, and while scolding the Yan army for being cunning, Tian Da had no choice, not only did not hesitate to continue to invest troops in the front, but also threw several elite troops under his command into the front line without hesitation, and frantically stormed the Yan army camp with a height of less than two feet.

Historically, in the Chu-Han War, it was only soy sauce, of course, the Yan army did lack in terms of combat effectiveness, plus it was tossed a lot last night, the physical strength of the soldiers generally declined, and the combat effectiveness was naturally reduced, so under the continuous strong attack of the Chuji coalition army, the Yan army camp was still inevitably in a hurry everywhere, and was beaten by the Chuji coalition army without hesitation, and there was no power to fight back, so that not to mention the ordinary Yan army soldiers, even the acting commander of the Yan army, Li Luo, was also so anxious that his head was sweating, and he kept complaining in a low voice, "General Zhou, why don't you send troops yet? Still not sending troops? ”

At this moment, the time is only half of the day.

The distance is not very far, and the terrain is also higher, of course, the Han army can see the situation of the Yan army camp more or less, and vaguely see the dark green banner of the Western Chu army constantly appearing on the Yan army base, Li Shiqi and Zhou Shu and others are all anxious, and they also keep reminding Uncle Zhou: "General, the situation on the Yan army's side is critical, should we take some action?" Although even if the Yan army is wiped out, we can not feel distressed, but we still have to consider other issues in the future. ”

"Don't rush." Uncle Zhou replied with a smile: "Let's talk about it until half past noon, as long as the Yan army can hold out until more than half of noon, there is hope for our battle." ”

The reason why Uncle Zhou is so confident is, of course, that he understands very well in his heart that the longer the Yan army lasts, the more anxious Xiang Zhuang, Tian Da and others will be, and the easier it will be to expose their flaws in the noise. As Uncle Zhou expected, as time went by, although his real opponent Han Xin had always maintained a calm and calm mentality, Xiang Zhuang and the other senior generals of the Chuji coalition army were all becoming more and more anxious, constantly looking left and right at the camps of the Yan army and the Han army, and kept saying in his heart: "Why don't the Han thieves send troops?" Still not sending troops? ”

In the end, relying on the limited geographical advantage, the Yan army still gritted its teeth and persisted until more than half of noon, after twelve o'clock at noon, but at this time, the Yan army camp was already full of enemies, and the defense line could collapse at any time, and the Han army and civil and military who were watching the battle from a distance were also panicked, for fear that the Yan army would be careless, so that the Chuji coalition army would break through their defense line in one fell swoop.

It was only at this time that Uncle Zhou beckoned the young general of the Han Army, whom he had promoted, Zhong Gnat, to the front and whispered in his ear. Then when the east gate of the Han army camp finally opened, and the first Han army flag rushed out of the camp, not only did a burst of cheers erupt from the Yan army camp in the far east, but also a burst of cheers broke out in the tight battle formation of the Chuji coalition army, "The Han thieves have finally sent troops!" ”

Let the Chuji coalition army fall through the glasses, the Han army only dispatched 10,000 troops, and then stopped sending troops, and then under the leadership of Zhong Gnat, the Han army rushed directly from the north of the Chuji coalition army to the Yan army camp battlefield, attacking the back of the Chuji coalition army that was attacking the Yan army camp. Seeing this scene, Xiang Zhuang of course subconsciously opened his mouth and gave an order, asking 10,000 troops to go north to intercept it, but Han Xin hurriedly stopped: "Zuo Sima, don't worry, wait until they get close to the camp of the Yan State thief army." ”

"Why?" Xiang Zhuang hurriedly asked.

Han Xin was about to explain, but Ji Bu next to him sneered, "Zuo Sima, do we listen to you, or do we listen to this General Han?" Do we have to consult General Han before we can carry out the order you issued? ”

Xiang Zhuang looked at Ji Bu angrily, but Ji Bu sneered even more, his face was full of fearlessness, Liu Laosan next to him was busy persuading, and asked Han Xin: "Why can't you rush to send troops?" Let the Han thief reinforcements get close to the camp of the Yan State thief army, even if there is no fighting, it will cause a lot of pressure on the side of the king of Jibei? ”

"We must guard against this as a decoy thrown by Uncle Zhou's husband, luring us to send troops to intercept it, and then take the opportunity to lure us to fight near his camp." Han Xin replied.

Quite a surprise to Han Xin, after approaching the camp of the Yan army, the Han army out of the camp did not hesitate, and immediately sent troops to attack the back of the Chuji coalition army, the Chuji coalition army that was attacking the camp was forced to turn back to face the battle, the pressure on the Yan army was greatly reduced, and the morale was greatly boosted, Xiang Zhuang did not dare to have any hesitation, and quickly ordered 10,000 troops to go north to attack the flank of the Han army.

Immediately after that, just after seeing the natural extension of the Chuji coalition army column in the north, surrounding the circle formed by the Han army's Zhong Gnat, the east gate of the Han army's camp was opened again, and another 10,000 troops quickly walked out of the camp, and immediately went east to reinforce Zhong Gnats after quickly completing the assembly. Seeing this scene, Han Xin was stunned at first, and then immediately understood Uncle Zhou's vicious intentions, and immediately scolded, "Uncle Zhou, you shameless villain, you don't have the courage to fight to the death with me in a dignified manner, compete for battle changes, and even play this game for me!" ”

At the same time in the Han military camp, Uncle Zhou smiled again and again, and said to himself: "If nothing else, my plan will definitely not be hidden from you for long, but what is the use of you seeing through it?" Who told you to be so daring, afraid that I would take advantage of the situation to attack your Jinjiling lair, leaving 30,000 troops to guard the camp? Let's continue to consume and see who can consume whom. ”

In the era of cold weapons, if the strength of the two warring sides is about equal, the most important thing in frontal battle is the change of formation, Sun Tzu's eight formations are mutually reinforcing, and the mystery is endless, a clever commander can usually take advantage of objective conditions such as terrain, arms and distance, and adopt various formation means to create an advantage in the local area to fight more and fight less, gradually weaken the enemy, and finally give the enemy a fatal blow.

Of course, Han Xin, the soldier immortal, is an incomparably clever commander, in history, the overlord of Western Chu won a hundred battles, and the field battle was invincible, and the princes of the world were terrified, but when he met Han Xin, he was defeated by Han Xin's array.

Of course, the military genius Uncle Zhou is also a master in this area, even if he confronts Han Xin head-on, Uncle Zhou may not really be afraid of Han Xin, but this time, Uncle Zhou suddenly became like a rookie who had just learned the art of war and fought with a war book, not only did he not muster up the courage to test the formation with Han Xin head-on, but on the contrary, he also adopted a most stupid tactic to fight Han Xin.

Although Uncle Zhou had just sent the second army out of the camp, Han Xin immediately understood the tactics he was going to adopt, but Han Xin not only did not feel the slightest pride and joy, but his heart began to chill, because even Han Xin couldn't think of any way to crack Uncle Zhou's clumsy tactics......