More and more Chu troops set up a large camp in the north of Xi County, the north wind blows, the banners inside and outside the camp are spread for more than ten miles, and the military appearance is prosperous, and it can be seen that people are high-spirited and reprimanded. However, the general Xiang Yan, who was in Chaoche, knew that the army under his command had been taken away by the Qin people - when he took over, all the divisions and battalions were stationed in the south of Huaishui, and no county division dared to stay on the north bank of Huaishui. Because it was too close to the Qin army. This kind of thing is not something to say, but Xiang Yan has no choice but to personally lead Xiang Shi to settle in the north of the city for five miles, so that the Chu army can cross the river one after another and camp in the north of Huaishui.

This makes it even more difficult to detect the enemy.

The Qin army had the advantage of horses, except for a few horses, most of the horses of the Chu army were inferior to the Qin army. Reconnaissance of the enemy all rely on cavalry, and thousands of martial knights of the Qin army are waiting for the cavalry of the Chu army, as long as there are reconnaissance cavalry to the north, there is a chance that they will not come back. Even if they came back, they didn't dare to approach the enemy camp, which was equivalent to running empty.

Xiang Yan, who had no choice, had no choice but to order the chariot to detect the enemy, and two of the three people in the car were holding bows, so that some news could be detected, but the chariot was not as good as the war horse, and the Qin military knights often shot the horse, and once the horse was all dead, the chariot would be scrapped. The army has a limited number of vehicles, and the 100,000 vehicles are only a thousand times, and when the vehicles are exhausted, the Chu army will only have infantry.

From the beginning of the use of chariots, horses are the most important reliance of the army. Sima Sima, the division is a horse, not a person, otherwise it should be called a division. If the horse is not good, the battle will not be won, and the situation of the Chu army in such a situation only makes those in the know worried.

"General, look, our scouts are back." He was also in the nest chariot, and Cheng Tong pointed into the distance, where the land was full of hoarfrost, and two of his own chariots that had gone to detect the enemy came in a hurry.

"There is the Qin army." In Lu Li's mirror, Xiang Yan saw his own chariots, but he also saw the Qin army's military knights, who were chasing these chariots, releasing arrows while chasing. "Quick, the Rider of the Swift Rider will meet the enemy."

"The general has an order, and the chariot rider quickly picks up the enemy." The five-zhang high nest car sent the commander shouting directly to the ground, the snare drum and horse beat up when they heard the order, the whole army immediately shook, the armor soldiers hurriedly went out of the tent to be on guard, and some generals also climbed high and looked far away to know the enemy's situation.

Maybe it was too close to the Chu people, not long after the Chu camp beat the drums, the martial knights of the Qin army, who had been pursuing for more than 30 miles, shouted and rode their horses back after putting the arrows in the crossbow, and one or two of them were angry and one or two of the bold Qin horsemen were rushing towards the Yuanmen, probably wanting to shoot the arrows in the crossbow directly on the erected wheels, but fortunately, the archers of the Chu army sent arrows to warn, and the two of them turned around.

"How are the Qin people?" Beating drums and gathering generals, Xiang Yan, who got off the nest car, sat in the shogunate and asked the Chu army scouts who were wounded.

The scout of the "Qin ......" was full of wind and frost, and he lost his voice as soon as he opened his mouth, so that Xiang Yan endured eagerly: "Give him wine." ”

There was a gurgling sound, the big bowl was drained, and the scout's face was a little bloody, and he shouted without waiting to wipe his mouth: "The villain thanks the general for the wine." ”

"What happened to the Qin people?" Xiang Yan asked again.

"Qin people...... General, the Qin people are increasing their troops. "The scout seems to be savoring the strength of the wine, and his Adam's apple is stirring." The villain hid in the forest, and saw a column of Qin people going to Yiyi, counting them for two days and one night, and there were no less than 30,000 Qin people going east. The road was bumpy, and the villain only realized that there was a bag of glutinous grain missing when he entered the forest, and he wanted to stay in the forest for another day, but how could he ......"

For two days and one night, he was in danger all the time, and the scouts were eager to tell the general who had won a great victory over the Qin people about everything. Jun Sima Peng Zong coughed and interrupted him: "What kind of weapons do the Qin people hold?" Can there be cavalry? How many rides does it take? ”

"Qin Ren ......" scout's eyes first went up, then to the left, and then said half-loudly: "General: The villain didn't see the chariot, only the sword cavalry, probably... Counted...... There were three or four thousand riders,"

"Three or four thousand rides?!" The generals muttered for a while, the previous 5,000 cavalry had already taken their own lives - the battle of Jiangyi was the last retreat of the 5,000 cavalry blocking the right army, and now there are three or four thousand more cavalry, which is worth it.

“…… The Qin people have a lot of weapons, and they have all spears and halberds, that's right! The scout suddenly remembered something, and he gestured: "Qin crossbowmen... The crossbow on the back of the crossbowman is different from usual, it looks as long as a bow in the past, but there is still a machine on it, it is still a crossbow. ”

"It's a stumbling block." Peng Zong was the first to react, this was originally something equipped by the Han army, but he didn't expect the Qin army to have it.

Xiang Yan naturally knew about the stumbling, and he asked, "How much is this kind of crossbowman?" ”

"General, there are no less than five thousand crossbowmen of this kind." The figure of 5,000 made the generals here smack their tongues. The Tension is no match for a crossbow, and its range is even farther than that of a longbow. The two armies faced each other, and 5,000 arrows kept flying from a hundred and fifty paces away, and the army formation was about to collapse again. The last time the Qin people broke the formation, they first concentrated their crossbows and fired, and then rushed with dense vehicles. The right army's formation was as thick as forty-five people, but it couldn't withstand such a blow, and it was broken by the Qin army in an instant.

"You go down first." All the questions that should be asked have been asked, and now what we need to discuss is how to resist the Qin army that has increased its troops.

"Our army is less than 120,000, how can we fight again?" Yin Guan of Yingdu City said by the spread of his hands, he has been recommended by Huang Xie as the general of Yingshi. Along the Huaishui line, Shouying has the largest population, reaching 400,000 people, and Shouying's division is more than 40,000, which is the most powerful Chu army on the southern road.

"Yes, our army is less than 120,000, and the Qin people are 100,000, so there is no chance of victory." Some generals echoed the words, they are all small divisions with thousands of people, and the master said that there is no chance of winning, so naturally there is no chance of winning.

"What does Ziyu think?" Xiang Yan didn't speak, Peng Zongdai asked first.

"Although our army has 400,000 people, the division west of the three passes cannot wait, half of the division of Ludi needs to be prepared, and the soldiers who can fight in the west are only 350,000. It is these 350,000, and the division of Huaibei is gathered in Cai County, which is more than 200 miles away from me, so that the two roads are less than 200,000. Any way our army goes to Yiyi, the Qin army can divide and conquer it. For today's plan, we should move the division of Cai County to rest, and then wait for the division of Jiangdong to come. After our army gathers 200,000 people, we can fight with the Qin army. ”

Although the previous words are very unpleasant, they are also true. As in the past, the assembly of the Chu army with a vast border was a natural and stubborn disease, and now it is still assembled into two routes, north and south. Although Yiyi only has 100,000 Qin troops, the Chu army does not have an absolute numerical advantage over it all the way, and as long as they advance, they will be annihilated by these 100,000 Qin troops. But we have to join forces......

"Assemble the Chu army...... It's not time to catch it! Xiang Yan lightly said the reason why he couldn't join forces.

"The division of Jiangdong has arrived in Yingdu, and Yingdu has only been fifteen days so far; Xincai is closer to rest, and the army can be mobilized in ten days. Can't the general even wait for ten days? "I was very puzzled when I asked each other.

"Ziyou, Chengyang came to report yesterday, and all the crossbow arrows were exhausted. The general was worried that Chengyang would be lost, so he planned to fight quickly. Military Sima Peng Zong added Xiang Yan's unfinished words.

"What about the repeater? What about crossbow arrows? "After all, Guan You is Yin of Yingdu City, and he knows how effective the crossbow is in defending the city.

"Chengyang is an important town in the west of our country, so the Qin people disregarded life and death, and the offensive was like a tide, and even crossbow arrows and bows and crossbow arrows were exhausted." Peng Zong said again. "Once the Qin army builds a new Linche and attacks the city again, Chengyang is in danger."

"Can't you send a boat to make up for it?" There was silence in the shogunate, and Cai Chi, the lieutenant of Xia Cai County, asked.

"No, you can't. In winter, the Huaishui water is shallow, and five days ago, the Qin people had cut off the copper lock under the narrow water, and sent boats to patrol day and night, and the traffic in Chengyang had been cut off. Peng Zong sighed. It is Feixun, and it is also intermittent, and the first Feixun station out of Chengyang is forty miles away from the city. ”

The generals were listening carefully to Peng Zong's talk about the situation in Chengyang, and they didn't want the sergeant outside the tent to shout: "Da Sima Zhi." ”

"Great Sima, please!" Xiang Yan immediately got up to greet him, but before he could leave the account, Nao Cunning came in.

"Yingdu Feixun is broken." Nao Cunning came from Xixian County, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was bad news.

"Yingdu?!" Xiang Yan was stunned, could it be that the Qin army's martial knights sneaked for more than 400 miles and hit Yingdu. "When did it break?"

"Danming." Nao stood in the middle of the big tent, looked around at the generals after speaking, and finally said: "The king is gone,"

"The King...... Huh?! "There are very few people who know about the fall of the king of Chu, and as soon as Nao's words came out, the entire shogunate was in chaos. But he wasn't done yet. "The king is gone, the eldest son is young, someone must take advantage of the emptiness of Yingdu to try to kill the eldest son in order to stand on his own. General, I order you to send the whole army to gallop to the rescue of the whole army......"

Nao's cunning words were almost drowned in the surprise of the generals, but Xiang Yan didn't miss a word. He waved his hand to calm the generals first, and then said: "Da Sima, forgive me, the last general thinks that the rescue of Chengyang cannot be delayed, and the troops should be quickly marched to ...... with the Qin army."

"Xiang Yan!!" With such an expression, he shouted loudly, and the sword was quickly pulled out with a choked sound, and he couldn't help but put it on Xiang Yan's neck. "Do you send troops?!"

"Chengyang is in danger, and the last general can't be sent." The generals in the shogunate were all stunned, and no one expected that Da Sima would draw his sword and threaten him without saying a word. Although the armor soldiers inside and outside the tent were holding the guns, no one dared to act rashly, and only confronted the short-handed soldiers brought by Nao Cunning. In the cold military curtain, there are more and more people sweating.

"Do you want to send it?!" Nao's cunning face was already distorted, as if Xiang Yan was the initiator of the rebellion. He even laughed angrily, "You have a plan with that Huang Xie?" ”

The strength of the sword was so heavy that the blood was cut, and Xiang Yan's expression was still indifferent. "The last general only knows about the war, not the rebellion. It is reported that Chengyang ran out of all arrows yesterday, and the Qin army was reluctant to build a temporary car day and night. He said and laughed: "Da Sima, I ordered the whole army to rush to the aid of Yingdu, are the divisions willing to go?" ”

"Chengyang can't be lost, and the eldest son can't be lost!" Nao Wei no longer looked at Xiang Yan, but at the generals in the tent. But in addition to Yiyangjun, Zhouhou (west of Fengyang County, Anhui), Liujun (Lu'an County, Anhui), ? Jun (north of Lu'an County, Anhui), ? Jun (Anhui Anfengtang) The five feudal monarchs nodded to him, and the rest of the generals and Shouling Jun all turned their eyes away, and they couldn't help but be sly.

"Da Sima, Xixian to Shouying four hundred and fifty miles, even if you take a boat to the east, it will take five days, these five days, these five ......days, these five days" Peng Zong took the opportunity to say, he just wanted to put down the sword in his hand cunningly.

"Da Sima, they don't want to save the eldest son, so why don't they say more. I am willing to listen to the dispatch of Da Sima, that is, to fight to the last person, and I will also save the eldest son and support my Da Chu Xinjun! Yi Yangjun stood up, his eyes were blazing, but he didn't look at others, including Xiang Yan.