The military situation is like an order, and the military order is like a mountain.

After Gongzi Pingguo and Uncle Xia received the order of Gonggong Chen, they immediately began to recruit the Chen army to assemble, and the herald spread Lord Sima's instructions to all the military camps and the leaders of the various clan forces.

Chen mobilized for this war, summoning more than half of all the troops, except for a small number of garrisons on the border of Cai and Zheng, which were basically transferred to the front line against the Chu army.

Of course, Chen Guo is not completely at ease with Cai Guo and Zheng Guo, in order to prevent these two countries from taking advantage of the chaos and robbery, Xia Yushu sent a large number of spies to these two countries, and at the same time, he also asked her to collect relevant information in a letter to Xia Ji to prevent trouble.

Uncle Xia Yu knows very well that this is a life-and-death battle related to the fate of the country, which can only be won and not lost.

On the third day, the summoned troops arrived, and after a brief mobilization for the war, Gongzi Pingguo and Xia Yushu led their troops to the jungles on the east and west sides of Dongyi, on the border with Chu in the south, to find suitable ambush sites.

After three days of rapid marching, the vanguard led by Uncle Xia rushed to a place not far from the border.

Uncle Xia Yushu was not familiar with the local area, and he did not have a topographic map or anything like that, so he had to find a woodcutter who was familiar with the local terrain to understand the local mountain road conditions, and at the same time sent spies to the border and the territory of Chu to inquire about the movements of the Chu army, and analyze the possible march route of the Chu army.

Based on the judgment of geography, topography and water sources, Uncle Xia finally found an ambush site called Majiapo.

It is about 80 miles away from the border, and it is the necessary place for the Chu army to march to Zhuye. According to the calculation of the best attack time and marching state of the Chu army, the Chu army's march here should be almost night, and it must rest, and this place is very suitable for camping, with grassland, gentle slopes, and water sources.

On the periphery of this piece of land, there are mountains that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and once the narrow pass is blocked, you can only rush forward or climb the mountain to attack the commanding heights to obtain a breakthrough, while it will be very easy for Chen's army to attack downward with stones on the mountain.

After inspecting the terrain, Uncle Xia immediately made a tactical layout for his subordinate troops, and sent the most elite troops to be stationed near the pass where the Chu army had entered, preparing to undertake the most arduous task of piercing the pocket after the Chu army entered the pocket formation.

This elite ambush near the pass was led by Xia Yuzhi, who led an army of 1,000 sergeants.

In order to achieve the effect of surprise attack, Xia Yushu scattered 12,000 soldiers and stationed them on the other side of the hill where the Chu army might be stationed on both sides of the mountain, and prepared a large number of stones on the top of the mountain and the hillside, waiting for the incoming enemy.

In addition, the remaining 8,000 sergeants were stationed as reserves in the rear of the Chu army's march to prevent the Chu army from breaking through the Chen army's defense line.

Another Chen army led by Gongzi Pingguo did not find a suitable ambush on the terrain, but found that they had to cross a river on the route that the Chu army passed.

There is only one section of this river that is shallow and flat, and it can be crossed by wading, and Gongzi Pingguo judged that the Chu army would definitely cross the river from this place.

Gongzi Pingguo decided to let the Chu army cross the river, dug a large number of traps in the open space around the tidal flat assembly area, inserted sharp bamboo sticks into the traps, covered the traps with thin wood chips and sprinkled with sand, while the Chen army lay in ambush not far away, just waiting for the Chu army to attack.

Uncle Xia Yuping and Prince Pingguo detained all outsiders who entered the ambush in the ambush place to prevent the news of the ambush from leaking. At the same time, the fire is also strictly limited to eating, so as not to expose the target with smoke, so as to ensure a surprising winning effect.

In the afternoon after two days of waiting, the Chu army finally entered the encirclement set by Uncle Xia.

As expected, this army of 30,000 people led by the third son of King Chu Mu drove into this place and found that it was very suitable for stationing, so he began to set up tents, dig pits and bury stoves, and make fires for cooking.

Seeing that there were mountains on both sides of the house, Gongzi Raft was confident that the sudden attack of the Chu army on Chen would make it difficult for the Chen army to organize effective resistance, but he still felt that he should be cautious, and sent two groups of sergeants to the left and right mountains to inspect the situation.

Before, Uncle Xia was preparing to launch an attack at night, and when he heard the spies in front of him tell that there was a Chu army team going up the mountain, he knew that once they came up, they would expose the target of the Chen army's ambush, so he immediately issued a battle order through the banner soldiers, so that Xia Yuzhi near the pass would occupy and close the pass, so that the Chu army would lose its way to retreat.

After Xia Yuzhi saw the banner order of the banner soldiers on the mountain, he immediately pushed down a large number of large stones above the pass, blocked the pass, and occupied a favorable defensive position above the pass.

Seeing that a large number of stones suddenly fell on the pass to block the pass, Gongzi Raft knew that the big thing was not good, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to move the big stone and attack the Chen army guarding the pass.

However, when these Chu troops who were moving stones did not get close to the pass, the dense arrows and stones above the pass flew down, killing and wounding these Chu troops, and only a few lucky soldiers fled and were defeated.

At the same time that Xia Yuzhi occupied the pass, Xia Yushu ordered the Chen army on the hillside to quickly rush to the top of the mountain and shoot the two teams of the Chu army who wanted to go up the mountain to find out the situation.

At this time, Gongzi Raft found that his 30,000 Chu army had been surrounded on both sides and the retreat route had been broken, and if he rushed forward, he didn't know if there was a bigger encirclement ahead and it was getting late, and the risk of taking the plunge was greater.

Gongzi immediately ordered his generals to lead 10,000 soldiers to attack the top of the mountains on both sides, trying to seize the commanding heights to seize the initiative.

Chen Jun had been prepared for a long time, when these Chu soldiers climbed to the mountainside, a large number of stones rolled down from the top of the mountain, and for a time there was a sound of flying sand and stones, and the Chu army was completely exposed to this dense flying stone attack, and was beaten to the point of crying wolf, with heavy casualties and embarrassment.

After this wave of attacks, the sky was already dark, and Childe Raft knew that attacking again would only suffer greater losses. The Chu army had no choice but to assemble all of them in the center of the clearing, light torches on the periphery and build a defensive line to wait for work.

Uncle Xia knew that the Chu army did not dare to attack upward, so he ordered most of the soldiers to rest and wait for the attack during the day tomorrow. At the same time, a small number of troops were sent to make a feint attack with great fanfare, beating drums and firing arrows in the distance, making it difficult for the Chu army to rest.

The Chu army was already very tired after a day's march, and the harassment of the Chen army made them nervous and unable to sleep at all.

After several feints, the Chu army's harassment of the Chen army became a little numb, and by the time of the third watch, the Chu army was exhausted to the extreme.

At this time, Uncle Xia sent more than 1,000 archers to attack, and the Chu army thought it was another feint, so they did not attack, but only a passive defense, but the difference between the above feints this time was that the archers wrapped the arrows with strips of cloth stained with igniting oil and shot at the Chu army camp, and immediately returned to the mountain to defend after shooting.

Many tents and wooden carriages of the Chu army were immediately ignited, and the fire became very fierce after a while, and the Chu army rushed out of the tent with a shout.

There was chaos in the Chu army camp, and the neighing of horses and the miserable cries of soldiers burned by fire were endless.

Due to the large number of fire points, it was impossible to extinguish them, and the Chu army had to watch most of the tents and carriages destroyed by the fire.