After Zang Yan was seriously injured and fell into a coma, the vacant position of the commander of the Yan army was temporarily represented by his brother-in-law Li Lao. But fortunately, Li Luo knew very well that the reason for the Yan army's last fiasco was mainly that Zang Yan was too greedy for merit and had little to do with the Han army, so after taking the position of temporary commander, not only did he not complain and mutter, but he also respected Uncle Zhou very much like Zang Yan, and continued to work hard to maintain the current friendly relationship between the Yan army and the Han army.

Because the Yan army was only a servant army of the Han army, although the Han army had the right to dispatch and command the Yan army, but did not have the right to inquire about the specific internal affairs of the Yan army, and finally crossed the Jishui River that had made the Han and Yan coalition forces pay a heavy price, according to the habit of the princes of this era when they joined forces, the Yan State was still a single independent camp on a high ground about eight miles away from the Han army camp in the east, to avoid accidents caused by inconsistent orders, flags and formations, By the way, he also temporarily took on the task of monitoring the defenders in Licheng City led by Tian Ji, the general of Qi State.

As a reward for his loyalty and obedience to the Yan army, of course, Uncle Zhou also took a lot of care of the Yan army, in addition to giving as much food and grass as possible, and trying his best to cover the generals of the Yan army, he also specially gave the Yan army a batch of good iron weapons smelted by the Han army using the technology of later generations, to help the Yan army, which is still mainly equipped with bronze weapons, to improve its combat effectiveness. During this period, he also inquired about Zang Yan's recovery from his injuries.

Because of this, Li Scoop also knew the good news that 120,000 Han army reinforcements were rushing to Licheng on the day of the incident, and envied the Han army's foundation and rich capital, Li Scoop no longer put the reinforcements of the Western Chu Army that arrived later in his eyes, and after receiving the scout report that the Western Chu Army reinforcements arrived at the Jinjiling battlefield, Li Scoop sneered proudly: "It's good, you are just 80,000 troops, and we have 120,000 more troops, so we can still bully you with more soldiers!" ”

Of course, learning from Zang Yan's lesson of greedy merit and underestimating the enemy last time, Li Lao still did not relax his vigilance because the reinforcements of the Han army were about to arrive, in addition to sending more people to closely monitor the enemy in Licheng opposite him, he did not need Uncle Zhou's instructions and instructions, so he organized the Yan army soldiers to build the camp very strong, not counting the deep ditches and high bases, and it was not too troublesome to bury dense stakes in the trenches at several key positions, fearing that he would repeat the mistakes of the past, and be overshadowed by the Chuji coalition army that refused to give up.

In the second half of the night on the third day after the reinforcements of the Western Chu army arrived at the Licheng battlefield, three Yan soldiers who were forced to surrender to the Chuji coalition army when the Yan army was defeated, took advantage of the darkness of the night to escape from the ranks of the Chuji coalition army, and after dawn on the fourth day, fled into the defense area of the Yan army and asked to return, and said that there was an important military situation to report to the Yan army.

After verifying that these three soldiers were indeed old soldiers of the army, the Yan army naturally sent officials to learn about the situation from them, but the three Yan soldiers actually reported that there were rumors in the camp of the Chuji coalition army, saying that Xiang Zhuang and Tian Da had made a decision to withdraw their troops and return to Boyang overnight because they confirmed that the Han army would have reinforcements arriving, and it was possible to withdraw suddenly within these two days.

Upon learning of this situation, of course, the Yan officers did not dare to slack off, and quickly reported the news to Li Scoop, and Li Scoop knew that the news of the imminent arrival of the Han army reinforcements was true, of course, he immediately believed it, and in addition to deciding to send additional people to monitor the movements of the Chuji coalition army camp, he immediately sent people to the Han army camp to report this important situation to Uncle Zhou.

What happened next almost didn't hurt Li Scoop's nose, and after a while, another Yan army general hurriedly came to report, saying that one of the three old Yan army pawns who had just returned suddenly defected, leaving aside his companions and informing him, admitting that they were actually deliberately let go by the Chuji coalition army, and received Xiang Zhuang's heavy reward and came back to report false news to the army of the old country. Li Scoop was furious when he heard the report, and immediately summoned the soldier who took the initiative to inform, and at the same time asked the remaining two renegades to be immediately taken down for interrogation.

After being brought to Li Scoop, the soldier who took the initiative to tell the whistle not only took the initiative to hand over the money rewarded to him by the Western Chu army, but also admitted that the secret retreat of the Chuji coalition army they had reported before was false news, and it was Xiang Zhuang who ordered them to report so, and at the same time, the other two soldiers also told the truth under torture, admitting that they had indeed received the benefits of the Western Chu army. Li Lao, who was almost deceived, was even more furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered the two traitors to be beheaded and went to the rear of the text to investigate their family members for joint and several responsibility, and then just after a little calculation, he hurriedly rushed to the Han army camp to ask Uncle Zhou for his guilt, and took the initiative to explain the truth.

Li Scoop was not afraid of losing face and took the initiative to confess, of course, in exchange for Uncle Zhou's praise and kind words of comfort, Li Scoop was a little relieved in addition to being ashamed, and then asked Uncle Zhou with great curiosity: "General, what is the purpose of the Chuji thief army sending people to deceive the last general?" ”

"Of course, you want to mislead me through you, so that I can't judge the real change in the enemy situation, and expose the flaws for them to drill." Uncle Zhou smiled and said: "Because the Chuji thief army knows very well that with General Li, your loyalty to our Han King, when you hear such important news, you will definitely report it to me as soon as possible, as long as you deceive you, it is equivalent to deceiving me." ”

After listening to Uncle Zhou's disguised praise, Li Luo, who really had no dissent, was of course quite comfortable, but at this time, the Han army guards suddenly entered the account and reported to Uncle Zhou: "General Yu, our army scouts have come to report that the amount of cooking smoke in the Chuji thief army camp they stole is thirty percent more than yesterday and the day before yesterday, and the duration is more than half an hour longer than the first two days yesterday. ”

"Got it, keep probing, be sure to continue to steal the number of dinner cooking cigarettes from the thief army." Uncle Zhou replied quietly.

The guard sang the promise and left, but Li Scoop next to him heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly said to Uncle Zhou: "General, the Chuji thief army has quietly increased the cooking stove and extended the cooking time, could it be that they are rushing to make dry food, what despicable intentions?" ”

"That's the only way." Uncle Zhou nodded, and after thinking for a while, Uncle Zhou ordered: "General Li, after you return to the camp, immediately let your army prepare for night battle, prepare more dry food and torches, and double the night army tonight, and be careful to prevent the enemy's night attack." ”

Li Lao immediately clenched his fists and sang a promise, but Uncle Zhou told him uneasily: "Remember, no matter what happens, you must pay attention to the safety of your camp, and you must leave enough troops to guard your camp." ”

Li Scoop agreed again, and seeing that Uncle Zhou had no other instructions, he hurriedly took his leave and went back to organize the army to prepare for the night battle. After Li scooped away, Uncle Zhou immediately ordered again: "Order, each battalion should prepare more night battle torches, and distribute the biscuits and food we prepared in advance before nightfall, and distribute the amount for two days." In addition, tonight's dinner will be added to our soldiers, and the troops and sentry posts on duty at night will be doubled. ”

Or after the guards went out of the tent to pass the order, Zhou Shucai, the old man of Shangshan on the other side, asked curiously: "General, what does the thief army want to do?" ”

"I don't know yet." Uncle Zhou replied quietly: "But if nothing else, the Chuji thief army will definitely make a big move tonight, because they only need to calculate the time to know, and our reinforcements should arrive as soon as the day after tomorrow, and there is not much time left for them." ”

Zhou Shu nodded, but he felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Uncle Zhou's arrangement, but what was wrong there, Zhou Shu, who didn't know much about the army, couldn't say why.

After returning to the camp of the army, Li Lao immediately sent orders to the battalions of the Yan army according to Uncle Zhou's request, so that the battalions of the Yan army could seize the time to prepare for the night battle, and decided to arrange the most effective generals to lead the army to be on duty at night, and more cautiously decided to arrange for 5,000 soldiers to wear armor at night, ready to prevent any eventuality.

Quickly arrange the preparation room, the day passed quickly, and at night, the very conscientious Li scooped in addition to personally leading the team to patrol the camp, but also refused to take off his clothes and armor and fell asleep directly with his clothes, the results proved that the Yan soldiers were not just tossing, when the second watch was about to pass the halfway, an unknown number of enemies took advantage of the cover of the night, suddenly touched the door of the Yan army camp, tried to steal the camp door and directly entered the Yan army camp, fortunately the Yan army soldiers were well guarded, and the alarm was sounded before the enemy touched the camp gate, The soldiers of the Yan army, who were on strict guard, immediately rushed to the front of the camp and fired a volley of arrows, and Shengsheng shot back the enemy who tried to destroy the camp gate, and the other Yan soldiers also quickly got up and gathered out of the tent, and quickly prepared for battle.

After several shocks were repelled by the Yan army's random arrows, the enemy outside the camp saw that the Yan army was well guarded, so he could only quickly retreat and flee to the direction of Licheng, the general of the Yan army asked Li Scoop whether to send troops to pursue, Li Scoop hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "The enemy retreats too fast, there is a possibility of luring the enemy, and it has just arrived in the second half of the night, the situation outside the camp is unknown, be cautious, don't chase." ”

In accordance with Li Scoop's order, continued to closely monitor the movement outside the camp for a period of time, seeing that there was no new situation, the enemy who had sneak attack before also fled back to Licheng City with torches, the Yan army was released from the guard, and the Yan soldiers who did not take up the night duty returned to their tents to continue to rest, leaving the night duty army to continue to guard against the enemy, Li Scoop repeatedly told the night watch army to be careful, and then returned to his sleeping tent to continue to rest in clothes.

After a period of time, Uncle Zhou sent someone to contact Li Lao, with a message saying that the enemy was cunning, and he wanted to prevent the enemy from pretending to fail in the first half of the night, so that the Yan soldiers would take it lightly, and in the second half of the night, they would make a comeback and really launch a sneak attack on the Yan army camp. Li Scoop listened to it and thought so, and once again told the generals on duty to be careful to prevent the second half of the night.

This night, the weather that has plagued the Han army for many days is still not very good, there is no starlight on the dark night sky, and the field outside the camp is even darker, and it is difficult to see the five fingers when you stretch out your hand. However, the problem of biological clock is difficult to overcome after all, and when the fourth watch is about to pass the fifth watch, many Yan soldiers on duty at night still can't resist the obscenity of the sleeping demon, and gradually fall asleep with yawns, and even many sentry posts are like this.

was expected by Uncle Zhou, when the fifth correction had just arrived, sure enough, a group of black shadows quietly touched the door of the Yan army camp, and took the opportunity of the Yan army sentry to be exhausted, and successfully touched the door of the Yan army camp, until he went to get the door latch was discovered by the Yan army soldiers, and quickly raised his weapon to stop it, and at the same time hurriedly rang the gong to alarm, and the Yan army camp soon entered the combat state urgently for the second time in one night.

The Chuji coalition army really came this time, even if it was discovered by the soldiers of the Yan army, they still waved their sharp axes to frantically cut down the door of the Yan military camp, and at the same time used several flying ladders brought by the army to expand the ant attachment, climbed the fortress wall and tried to enter the Yan army camp, almost really split the door of the Yan army camp directly. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Yan Army on duty still maintained a certain vigilance and quickly dispatched reinforcements, which blocked the crazy attack of the Chuji coalition army.

But the Chuji coalition army still refused to give up, after changing the sneak attack into a strong attack, the Chuji coalition army successively launched rockets and threw straw bundles into the Yan army camp, and really ignited some Yan army's camp tents and wooden fortifications, Li Scoop was furious when he saw this, and immediately sent the army to assemble next to the camp gate, ready to reinforce the camp gate battlefield at any time, and also ready to go out of the camp to counterattack at any time.

The attack of the Chuji coalition army lasted for nearly half an hour, or after seeing that the Yan army had all been dispatched, the Chuji coalition army gave up the attack when it saw that there was no hope of success, and hurriedly reorganized the team and retreated to Licheng, and when retreating, he also shouted at the Yan army camp, and the words were contemptuous of the Yan army's team. Let Zhang Gu lead an army of 3,000 to pursue! Give the Chuji coalition army a lesson and let them know that we Yan people are not easy to bully! ”

As soon as the order was issued, Zhang Gu, the general of the Yan army, who had already held back the fire in his belly, immediately led three thousand elites out of the camp to pursue, and killed the Licheng enemy who repeatedly harassed and despised his own army with red eyes, and the Licheng enemy who was retreating also quickly accelerated his pace to lure the Yan army away from the camp, but when the Yan army was about to chase to the bottom of Licheng City, the dark place in the west suddenly killed loudly, and a team of Chuji coalition troops shouted to kill, and at the same time the enemy in Licheng also turned around and killed back.

"There is an ambush! Evacuate! ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, and in the dark night before dawn, he didn't know how many ambushes the enemy had, Zhang Gu could only quickly order a retreat, and quickly retreated to the way with the Yan army soldiers, but the Yan army was still behind by surprise, and when they were about to retreat to the front of the camp, the northwest actually killed a Western Chu army again, and all of them were cavalry and horses, and they were killed in front of them with lightning speed, and immediately disrupted their queue, and the Yan soldiers did not dare to fight in panic, so they could only flee to the camp in chaos, Under the cover of the bows and arrows of his comrades on the base, he quickly entered the camp and fled for his life.

At this time, Han Xin's real killer weapon finally appeared, when the Yan soldiers in a state of chaos hurriedly returned to the camp, more torches suddenly appeared in the northwest of the Yan army camp, and countless Chuji allied soldiers carried flying ladders and trenches and shouted with torches to kill, the number of torches was dense, and it was impossible to judge how many enemies were coming, and at the same time, the Chuji allied army that was the first to dispatch was also charging one by one, assaulting at the fastest speed, and posing the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity for the Yan soldiers to return to the camp to take advantage of the situation to kill the Yan army camp.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Yan army could only hurry up and return to the camp even more desperately, but fortunately, the Yan army retreated in time before it, and somewhat widened some distance from the enemy, and finally fled back to the camp when the enemy pursued the soldiers about fifty steps in front of the camp gate, and the Yan soldiers guarding the camp gate also hurriedly closed the door......

"Kill ——!"

Accident and life, has fled into the camp of the Yan army soldiers, suddenly rushed out of nearly a hundred soldiers, brandishing sharp steel knives and iron knives to kill the Yan army soldiers who were closing the door, Yan army soldiers were caught off guard, and were immediately killed by this group of enemies wearing Yan soldiers' uniforms, the camp gate that was about to close was also reopened, and the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army, who had chased close to the place, took the opportunity to speed up, and under the response of the soldiers who were mixed into the Yan army, they seized the camp gate that was crucial to the Yan army in one fell swoop......

"How is that possible?" Li Scoop screamed loudly from the height of the Chinese army's camp, and continued to roar angrily, "What does Zhang Gu do for food? The thieves of the Chuji thief army have infiltrated our army, why didn't he notice it at all? ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Gu, the general of the Yan army who made a big mistake, also exclaimed near the camp gate, "When did the thieves get into my army?" I haven't been in contact with the rest of our armies before, have I? Why did they get involved unconsciously? ”

After recalling for a while, Zhang Gu suddenly screamed again, hammered his chest and said, "I was too careless!" I am sure that when the thief cavalry killed us, the thief soldiers in our uniforms also came on horseback, and when we were in chaos, they mixed in! ”

Of course, it was too late to find out that it was strange, the Chuji coalition army had successfully captured the entrance to the camp gate, and also destroyed the camp gate at the first time, forcing the Yan army officers and soldiers to quickly dispatch the Saimen knife car to fill the leak, and at the same time desperately stepped forward to block the enemy from entering the camp, and the Chuji coalition army fought near the camp gate in the dark, and Li Scoop had no choice, except to immediately send someone to Zhou Shu to report the emergency, and hurriedly sent an order to the camp gate, requiring the Yan army officers to defend the camp gate with all their might, and absolutely not let the Chuji coalition army rush into the depths of the camp camp.

On the side of the main force of the Chuji coalition army, in fact, as early as the fifth watch, when the front army of the Chuji coalition army started to attack the Yan army camp for the second time, the main force of the Chuji coalition army had already begun to assemble out of the camp, and it only took less than half an hour to complete the assembly of the whole army to prepare for the war, and then under the command of Han Xin's staff and Xiang Zhuang, the Chuji coalition army immediately sent an army to the Yan army camp to reinforce the battlefield, and immediately strode forward with torches, and the Yan army camp was overwhelmingly ready to participate in the battle.

During this period, the cavalry of the Yan army, which successfully covered the comrades-in-arms to blend into the enemy's situation, of course, quickly reported the good news that they had successfully fished in troubled waters to Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Zhuang and Liu Laosan and others were overjoyed when they heard the news, and hurriedly urged the army to speed up their advance and rush to the Yan army camp as soon as possible to prepare for a decisive battle. Han Xin, who likes to pretend to be cool, also showed some rare smiles and muttered:

"Uncle Zhou, I know that you will definitely expect us to attack the Yan army camp first and force you to fight a decisive battle, but you must not have thought that I would attack the camp of the Yan country thief army in such a way? The plan is going well, the camp of the Yan State thief army is in an emergency, now it depends on whether you send troops or not? ”

With a cruel smile here, Han Xin smiled again and added in a low voice, "I know that you have a lot of money, even if you lose the camp of the Yan State Thief Army, and even let the Yan Country Thief Army suffer a heavy blow, you will not feel distressed, but if you don't save you when you see death, will the Yan Country Thief Army bow down to you in the future?" Look at the princes outside the Guan, who still dares to die for you thieves. ”

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At the same time in the Han military camp, the old man of Shangshan, who had already come to the big tent of the Chinese army to help Uncle Zhou with military affairs, suddenly remembered that what he found during the day was wrong, and hurriedly said to Uncle Zhou: "General Don't blame, during the day, you instructed General Li to strengthen his guard at night, why didn't you remind General Li to send troops out of the camp no matter what happened?" ”

It was Uncle Zhou's turn to pretend to be cool like Han Xin, and replied with a blank face: "Mr. Luli blamed me so much, I was careless during the day and forgot about it. ”