Xiang Yu's army went north to Julu, and the two Qin troops immediately discussed the method of dealing with the battle.

Zhang Han took Sima Xin and Dong Peng, Wang Li took Shijian and Su Jiao, and the two main generals and four deputy generals met for a whole day in the Jiuyuan Army Shogunate. Among the six generals, only Zhang Han did not ignore Xiang Yu's Chu army. Although Zhang Han despised Xiang Yu, he advocated a cautious battle in the implementation of the tactics, and he was not as confident as Wang Li. After the Battle of Dingtao, Zhang Han once heard the captured Chu army Sima say that Xiang Liang sighed before committing suicide: "It's a pity! If my family Xiang Yu is here, he will be defeated! At that time, Zhang Han laughed out loud: "The way to survive with a brave force has not been heard!" Xiang Liang is undefeated, and there are soldiers in heaven! "Although neither the Prisoner Army nor the Jiuyuan Army have ever met this Xiang Yu and his Jiangdong soldiers on the battlefield, Zhang Han has long been familiar with Xiang Yu's cruelty and might. Xiang Yu moved to the Central Plains, repeatedly attacked the county and county seats, slaughtered the city many times, and can be described as a notorious fierce god. From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Han has always been contemptuous of the murderers and generals who only know how to fight and kill. These characters who are based on their personal combat strength, despise the way of war of soldiers, and are extremely unscrupulous about the art of war, are the most unwarlike and are known as famous generals. When Wu Qi led his troops to fight, Sima held the sword weapon in front of Wu Qi, but was thrown to the ground by Wu Qi. Wu Qi said that the position of the general is in the Golden Drum Banner, not in the work of fighting. Later, "Wu Zi's Art of War? "On Generals" is more cloudy: "Mortals talk about generals, and often observe Yong." Courage is a few parts! The brave man will be lightly combined, and he will not know the benefits of the light, and he will not be able to! "If in the world of the Warring States with many famous generals, Xiang Yu can only be regarded as a last-class general at best. Even in terms of combat strength, the courage of this kind of "lightly combined" generals who contempt the soldiers and unite in a crowd is extremely limited. If the Qin army of the year set up a large array, Xiang Yu's personal fighting strength and a little Jiangdong soldiers would be at best just a mountain and a handful of loess, and a wild wave and a small boat. Zhang Han could confidently say that just his bow and crossbow battalion was in formation, and he could kill most of Xiang Yu's army in a moment, and the rest would be quickly swallowed up by the Qin army's array. After more than 100 years of tempering, the Qin army's sharp soldiers have completely put an end to the battlefield vice of vain personal blood and bravery, and everyone understands the way of respecting the "overlap" of the group, but when they go to the battlefield, they always fight in formation. No one would take Xiang Yu's personal collision with a thick iron spear to heart, neither fearing nor being contemptuous, just resolutely letting you fall to the ground for a few rounds.

Of course, Zhang Han has also heard all kinds of rumors about Xiang Yu: he cherishes the soldiers, and will shed tears for the tragic appearance of the wounded soldiers, so he has the heart of the soldiers; cherish the war horse, and take care of your beloved god every day; Take the lead, and personally charge into battle in every battle; is talented, and his strength is as great as Meng Ben's Wushu; has a violent temperament and a very soft ear, and often wavers in making decisions about major events; Pity his beloved woman, several times to bring a beautiful woman named Yu Ji into the army, but was stopped by Lao Fan Zengshengsheng, so Xiang Yu often rushed back to Pengcheng, sang for this woman, and confixed with this woman...... All of this gradually accumulated in Zhang Han's heart into a mixed and unknown and extremely hideous and terrifying Xiang Yu, on the one hand, he is murderous like a demon, and on the other hand, he is a soft mother-in-law, and he is really an incredible monster!

Unfortunately, the times have changed, and in the face of a fierce beast that was not difficult to fight, the hunter is now extremely difficult.

"In the old man's opinion, you and I have to change positions."

When Wang left the shogunate to discuss the method of warfare, Zhang Han prudently proposed that the Jiuyuan army and the prisoner army would fight in exchange positions. The Zhao army was surrounded and the Chu army went north, and the Qin army would inevitably face internal and external attacks, and if the other four vassal armies that rushed to help the other four princes rushed to help, the Qin army was obviously less numerous than the entire enemy army. The original pattern of the Qin army was: Zhang Han's army surrounded Julu City in the south, and Wang Li's army blocked the Zhao army camp outside the city in the north; Xiang Yu's army marched north, and the Qin army that was responsible for intercepting and killing was Zhang Han's army. Zhang Han estimated that this was a vicious battle, and for the first time, he was deeply worried about the combat strength of the prisoner army, and after thinking about it repeatedly, Zhang Han proposed a transposition strategy: use Wang Li's Jiuyuan army against Xiang Yu's army, and use the prisoner army to deal with Julucheng and Chen Yu's army and the rest of the princes' army. Zhang Han's reason is: Xiang Yu's army and Wang Li's army are comparable in strength, and their combat strength is generally comparable, as long as they can withstand a few formations, the battle situation will change; The strength of the prisoner army is more than 200,000, although it is not as large as the total strength of the three enemy armies, but most of the troops and horses of these three parties are combined into an army, and their combat strength cannot be compared with Xiang Chu's army; Sure enough, the battle began, and Zhang Han's army would defeat these three weak brigades first, and then immediately respond to Wang Li's main army.

"The key point in this battle is to defeat Xiang Yu's department." At the end, Zhang Han reiterated.

"Good! My Jiuyuan Army and Xiang Yujun are up and down! Wang Li smashed the case with a punch, and said angrily, "The old general does not worry, although the main force of the Qin army is embarrassed, and the fighting spirit is not as good as before, but when the country is in trouble today, it will definitely fight to the death!" ”

"The grain and grass are hoarded in the Thorn Plains Warehouse (1), although it is not a full warehouse, it is not a big deal to support this war." Zhang Han pointed to the map and said, "It's still the previous law, the old man will deliver grain to your department from Yongdao, and he will be escorted by the elite of the prisoner army." ”

"As long as the grain and grass are smooth, Xiang Yu will not come back!"

Zhang Han Wangli didn't expect that Xiang Yu's army's offensive would come so quickly and violently.

It is common sense that when an army crosses a river and treks to the battlefield, it must rest for three or two days before going into battle. For this reason, there is often a tactic of taking advantage of the exhaustion of the enemy's army from afar and immediately attacking to win. Zhang Han valued the combat strength of Xiang Yu's army, and insisted that he should not attack and kill rashly, but should use the strength of the Qin army to win the battle. Therefore, the Qin army did not have the strategic preparation to raid Xiang Yu's army at all. However, Zhang Han Wang Li would never have thought that Xiang Yujun would dare to go the other way, and the whole army drove to the south of Julu City without stopping, and immediately attacked and killed like a tide. The Qin army's deer soldiers had just seen an earthy red banner flying in smoke and dust, and they were still laughing at the Chu people for camping and roaring like monkeys going up the trees, and Xiang Yu's army had already swept over like a tide. By the time the soldiers reported to the shogunate, Wang Li was still in doubt, and the earthy red waves had already broken through the deer and swept into the camp. Rao is Qin army was severely punished, and it was also swept away by this sudden wave of raids. When Wang Lifei got on his horse and began to charge with the hastily gathered Chinese army horse team, the golden drum ordered Sima Daqi to disappear, and he couldn't command the whole army at all, and there was only one way to fight and fight. The banner of Shima Sujiao was also drowned in the camp battlefield filled with smoke and dust for shouting and killing, and for a while the various armies did not know the direction of approaching, so they had to fight separately. Fortunately, the Jiuyuan Qin army has been in battle for a long time, and is very familiar with this kind of field rush similar to the Hun flying cavalry, and the unattacked troops quickly retreated without waiting for the general's order, retreated a few miles away, reorganized the army and horses, and roared back. After two hours of fierce fighting, it was not until the sun waned that the Qin army gradually gathered and retreated in an orderly manner, and the earthy red tide stopped whistling and shouting.

The first battle was embarrassing, and the Qin army was greatly shocked. The various departments hurriedly counted and gathered in the shogunate, and in the first battle, more than 20,000 knights were killed, more than 10,000 were seriously wounded, and countless were lightly wounded. Wang Li was so angry that he jumped like thunder, and scolded Xiang Yu for being a wild boar and a wolf. Zhang Han, who rushed to hear the news, comforted him repeatedly, and Wang Li gradually calmed down and began to discuss countermeasures with Zhang Han. In the middle of the night, the Qin army quietly withdrew more than ten miles, stationed in a relatively hidden valley, and began busy preparations for another battle.

Zhang Han informed Wang Li that Chen Yujun and the army of the princes of the Four Routes did not dare to make a rash move, and it was expected that there would be a big battle in the future. Zhang Han was very heavy, and tried to say that the Jiuyuan Army had a lot of casualties, and its strength was already less than that of Xiang Yu's army, so it was better for him to lead the prisoner army to deal with Xiang Yu. Hearing this, Wang Lijian and Su Jiao and the three of them attacked Zhang Han together, and filmed the case properly, saying that this was the old general's teasing of the Jiuyuan Army, and no one expected it to fight in a hurry, so why should they change the Jiuyuan Army! Zhang Han didn't say a word, and quietly listened to the angry episodes of the three. At the end, Zhang Han got up and bowed deeply: "The three young generals have no fear of fighting, and the old man is very pleased!" Originally, with a solemn remark, Wang Li couldn't help laughing: "The old general was afraid that we would be cowardly!" The old Qin people are happy when they hear the war, and they are cowardly to fight the old Qin people! Su Jiao also beat the case again and again: "Fight with Xiang Yujun!" The dog's day is fiercer than the Huns! Just fight such a tough battle, it's worth dying! Zhang Han said: "The old man only reminded the three generals that Xiang Yu should not be treated with the usual law. The old man expected that Xiang Yu would not rest and would come to fight tomorrow! Wang Li gritted his teeth and said, "I know." Tomorrow's veteran general will hear it. ”

In the early morning of the next day, the sun had just come out of the mountain, and the valley where the Qin army camp was located was still half bright and half bright, and Xiang Yu's army came like a tide. The soldiers of Chu outside the mouth of the valley were in chaos, and their shouts shook the valley: "The Qin army is scared!" Duck into a ravine! Kill! Destroy Qin in a war! In the midst of this shouting and killing all over the mountain, the Qin army's mountain pass suddenly thundered and thundered, and the bow and crossbow arrays on both sides of the valley mouth were launched together, and the thick long arrows roared towards the Chu army like a storm. When the Chu army was slightly ebbing, an iron cavalry from Taniguchi held high the banner of the word "king" and slaughtered like a black hurricane. At the same time, there was also an iron cavalry on each side of the mountain pass that rumbled out and flew towards the back road of the Chu army, which was the left and right flanks of Shima Sujiao. Obviously, the three iron cavalry wanted to take revenge with the tactics of "breaking through the center, cutting off its rear road, and encircling and gathering annihilation". Xiang Yujun fought yesterday, arrogant, and today the odds are full of victory to destroy the main force of the Qin army, but he didn't expect that the Qin army was not as panicked as expected, but was prepared to kill, and its momentum was far from being comparable to yesterday, and it was a little caught off guard for a while. Fortunately, Xiang Yu was fierce, and immediately led the Jiangdong soldiers to meet Wang Li head-on, and ordered Long and Huan Chu to meet the two wings, and a thrilling bloody battle immediately launched in the narrow valley basin.

The Qin army was furious, the morale of the Chu army was booming, and the combat strength of the two armies was equal. However, the main force of the Qin army is compared to the elders of Xiang Yu's Chu army, not only are the knights all mighty and powerful, but also the three cavalry, five cavalry, ten cavalry, hundred cavalry, thousands of cavalry, and thousands of cavalry are fighting in a row, which is obviously less than the Chu army in total number, but it is advantageous to fight everywhere. The Chu army was a mixed army of half infantry and half cavalry, and the cavalry was slightly inferior to the Qin army, while the infantry was able to compete with the cavalry. Xiang Yu's 8,000 Jiangdong soldiers are all cavalry, and they have always claimed to be invincible, but today they have nowhere to focus on. No matter where Xiang Yu roared and roared with the "Ten Thousand Enemies", there were boundless shining long swords chasing and surrounding Xiang Yu's horse team. For a whole hour, Xiang Yu had not been able to kill ten Qin army knights, but a large number of Jiangdong soldiers had already fallen around him...... The fierce fighting lasted until sunset, and for more than five hours, the battlefield shouting gradually turned into boundless gasps and short roars, and no one could shout anymore. Finally, Xiang Yu, who was covered in blood red, raised a move of 10,000 enemies, and the Chu army retreated to the edge of the battlefield. The sound of gold sounded immediately in the Qin army's mountain pass, and the wild horses all stopped the pursuit together.

Qin Chu nine battles, this is the second battle. This time, the Chu army suffered a big loss, and also left more than 20,000 corpses. The Qin army showed its power in a formation, and only a thousand people were killed in the battle, and it was a draw with Xiang Yu's army in one fell swoop. On this day, Zhang Han's army also launched a surprise attack on the four-way princes' army who hesitated to wait and see, and successively captured more than ten barriers of the princes' coalition army. That night, King Zhang Han left the meeting to discuss the military situation, and Wang Li's three generals blamed themselves for not being able to gather and annihilate the Chu army in a battle. Zhang Han said: "Three young generals, don't think so. The Chu army was full of shame and wanted to avenge the battle of Dingtao, and Xiang Yu was ruthless, and it was a great battle. When our army is in a difficult situation, we should deal with it with the heart of a protracted war. The old man's intention is that when the troops are increased by 100,000 from Jiuyuan again, this battle has a chance of winning. Wang Li shook his head and said: "The Jiuyuan battalion scout reported that the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan Yu had already gone south with the whole army, and they were going to plunder Yin Mountain in early summer, and the Jiuyuan army could no longer move." Besides, according to today's battle, my current army and horses have a chance of winning Xiang Yu's army, and there is no need to increase troops. Shima Su Jiao also said in unison that there is no doubt that the old general is not worried. Zhang Han stopped talking, after all, the biggest mission of the Jiuyuan Army was to fight against the Huns, and Wang Lineng personally led 100,000 iron horsemen to the south was already a "private move".

Just like the first time the Qin army encountered the surprise attack of the Chu army, this time the Chu army was also greatly shocked, and deeply felt that the Qin army could still have such power in such a predicament, and it was indeed worthy of its reputation. When discussing the military situation, Xiang Yu, Long and Huan Chu and other Jiangdong generals spoke in unison, and unanimously decided that the Qin army should be attacked and killed continuously without a break. Xiang Yu said ruthlessly: "Wang Li killed more than 20,000 elites in my first battle, and this revenge will not be avenged!" People say that the Qin army is durable, and Xiang Yu fights with him every day to see how many days he can last! Lao Fan Zeng dissuaded and said that it was time to take a break now, and to find out the weakness of the Qin army and fight again, it was inappropriate to consume too much in such a continuous fierce battle. But everyone in the generals was eager, and none of them wanted to truce. Xiang Yu roared like thunder: "All the princes in the world are in Hebei, this battle is a vicious battle for survival!" The Chu army waded into the sea of blood, and it was also going to destroy the Qin army! Old Fan Zeng thought about it and stopped talking. Xiang Yu immediately deployed: Dangyangjun and General Pu were recalled from the Chen Yu barrier overnight, and the bow and crossbow battalions were purged overnight to participate in the battle, trying to compete with the Qin army's crossbow fire.

In the middle of the night, at noon the next day, Xiang Chu's army launched a fierce attack again. The Qin army was also exhausted by the whole army, fighting hard and bloody, and the two armies fought fiercely for two hours, although each had casualties and no counts, but no one showed signs of collapse. In terms of the skillful combination of tactics and combat power, it is still the advantage of the Qin army. When it was getting dark, the two armies finally stopped fighting. For four consecutive days, the Chu army attacked and killed fiercely every day, and mad demons rushed to the battlefield. The Qin army was also red-eyed and faced the battle every day. When the two armies met, there was no battlefield etiquette, and the black and red tides whistled and blended together. After the six battles, the Qin army still had a slight advantage, and the Chu army suffered slightly more casualties, and the general trend of the battlefield was always a tie.

"Major General, you can't kill so blindly." Old Fan Zeng blackened his face this time.

"What is the good plan of the Father?" Xiang Yu's voice was hoarse, and his whole body was covered with blood.

"As long as the Qin army continues to have food and grass, the Chu army will eventually be defeated."

"What does it mean for my father to destroy my ambition!" Xiang Yu suddenly became angry.

"The young general insisted on such a tactic, and the old man had no choice but to retire." Old Fan Zeng gave up his hand and left.

"Father ......" Xiang Yu grabbed Fan Zeng, "Father said, how to fight?" I am from the Father! ”

"The old strategy, cut off the Qin army's grain road again."

"The Hanoi Yongdao has been cut off." Xiang Yu looked dazed.

"The old man is saying, cut off the battlefield food route. Zhang Han's army delivered grain to Wang Li's army, and there was a battlefield road. ”

"Here? There are also corridors on the battlefield? Xiang Yu was even more dazed.

"The young general, only relying on the power of attack and killing, is not a famous general."

"The battlefield grain delivery is also built on the road, and the old thief of Zhang Han can also think of it!" Xiang Yu scolded viciously.

"Zhang Han can be the Minister of Economy of the Royal Family, which is by no means an ordinary general." Fan Zeng obviously didn't want to say more.

"Good! I immediately sent troops and ruined this road! ”

Xiang Yu became more and more impatient with Fan Zeng's admonition. Isn't it just a road? The scout didn't report, how can I, Xiang Yu, know? Fighting in the dark all day long, do I Xiang Yu have time to ask such trivial news? Yafu is really ignorant, fighting wars, fighting wars is killing! If you kill someone, you have to attack and kill, if you don't attack and kill, can the Chu army defeat the main force of the Qin army six times? Although Xiang Yu regarded the six battles as six victories, he did not destroy the Qin army after all, and he was a little annoyed and angry. If it weren't for Lao Fan Zeng's retreat from coercion, Xiang Yu would have been determined to continue this bloody battle every day. Xiang Yu didn't believe that his invincible name could lose his luster in front of the Qin army's horses! However, after all, the old Fan Zeng was a strange man with a rebellious temperament, and if he really left, Xiang Yu really didn't care about many major things for a while, so he had to stop caring about it, and immediately deployed and sent troops to destroy the Yongdao, which was good for the Chu army, and Xiang Yu had no choice but to do so.

There was no battle for ten days, and the king was in great trouble with the Qin army.

Xiang Yu raided Yongdao in the middle of the night, and the army of the Dao Protectors did not retreat, and more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded in two hours of melee, and they were finally defeated by the Long and Chu army. When Zhang Han heard the news, he immediately launched a large-scale attack and kill, but was intercepted by the main force of the Chu army led by Xiang Yu. In the melee between the two armies, the dragon and the army dug the embankment of the mainland and flooded the Yongdao with a large amount of water. Zhang Han saw that the road had been destroyed, and the prisoner army really couldn't withstand Xiang Yu's army's attack and killing, so he had to endure the pain and quit the army. The next day, Zhang Han had no choice but to send 50,000 prisoners to take the secret path to deliver food to Wang Li's camp. Unexpectedly, Xiang Yu sent the newly arrived Dubu army from Hanoi to intercept and kill the Qin army to deliver grain, and the two armies fought for half a day, and the battle was a dead battle, but the grain and grass of the prisoner army were all plundered by the Chu army. Zhang Han immediately informed Wang to leave the camp and join forces with the prisoner army to station. But as soon as Wang Lijun drove out of the camp, Xiang Yu's army immediately rushed to intercept and kill, and after all, he couldn't get closer to Zhang Han's camp.

After two battles (the seventh and eighth battles), the food and grass for the king's army was denied. As early as after the Hanoi Yongdao was cut off, the Qin army's grain and grass had fallen into a difficult situation. The last grain and grass mainly came from two ways: one was a small amount of grain and grass urgently requisitioned by Wang Li's troops in the counties that had not fallen in Hebei; The second is that when Zhang Han transported grain from Ao Cang in Hanoi before, he hoarded some grain and grass in Hebei. After the commotion of the convict army in the winter, Zhang Han had high hopes for Wang Li's army to be requisitioned in Hebei counties, or even expected Wang Li's army to send grain to the convict army. But the result was a big disappointment, the largest giant deer warehouse in Hebei was in the hands of Zhao Jun, and the rest of the county warehouses had already been looted by Hu Hai's edict. The people fled in chaos, and it was even more impossible to collect grain and grass from households. If it is levied from the land west of Hexi or the Taiyuan area of Lao Qin, a considerable amount of grain and grass may be obtained, but there are Chu troops attacking thousands of miles away, and it cannot be transported to the front of the army in any case. With the convergence of these factors, Wang Li's army ran out of food, and Zhang Han's army was also unsustainable.

"Our army is in a desperate situation, so we must fight with all our strength and join forces with Zhang Han's army to break through!"

In the dark masonry shogunate, Wang Li, armed with a long sword, gave the final military order to the two generals and ten lieutenants of Shima Sujiao. None of the two generals and ten lieutenants shouted in response, but they all nodded solemnly. General Shibu said in a hoarse voice: "The food has been out for a few days, and the breakthrough is actually the last battle. The major general should clearly inform the soldiers and place the disabled. Those who are alive are also kind enough to go to the battlefield without worry. Shibu said very calmly, and Su Jiao and the lieutenants were not surprised, almost just nodded almost numbly. Wang Li only said yes, and then picked up the long sword and left the shogunate.

It was dusk, and the valley was dark and quiet. Without the sound of Yingtao, without the smoke of cooking, if it weren't for the big banner that hunted and flew at the mouth of the valley, no one would have thought that this dead and silent valley was the camp of the Qin army, the main force. The soldiers of the Qin army in the past were either lying on the grass on the hillside, or leaning on the stone slabs by the mountain stream, quietly closing their eyes, no one looking at anyone, and no one talking. Those who had the strength to open their eyes only looked at the fiery Yuntian dementia. Wang Li led the generals and captains through the hillsides, constantly clasping his fists at the soldiers. Although the soldiers sat up one after another, none of them spoke. Sima of the Chinese army, who accompanied him, probably didn't have the strength to shout, so he only waved a flag with the word "Wang" in his hand all the way, repeatedly signaling that "the whole army is gathering on the school field". The so-called school field is an open field that must be available in front of the military camp shogunate, and the old camp that has been stationed for a long time has been repaired and cleaned up, and the school field is just an empty grassland with green grass still in the newly built camp. Before inspecting the entire camp and returning to the shogunate, the soldiers were already sitting in the school yard. When General Wang Li and his lieutenants walked up to the central rammed earth platform command platform, the soldiers of the entire school field stood up with a clean bang.

"Brothers, sit down! ......" Wang Li choked suddenly.

"Major General, drink a few sips of water and speak with strength." Zhongjun Sima handed over a water bag.

"No, you don't." Wang Li pushed away the water bag, steadied his sword, and calmed down a little.

"Soldiers, fathers and brothers," Wang Lijin's voice drifted through the vast twilight, "at present, our army has no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and it is already in a desperate situation. If the Jiuyuan army comes to the rescue, the Yin Mountain will be empty, the Xiongnu will move south, and the whole of China will be in trouble! In the Great War of the First Emperor to destroy the Six Kingdoms, the Jiuyuan army was firmly nailed to Yinshan and did not go south! Today, our 100,000 horses have accounted for more than 30% of the Jiuyuan army, and we can't make the Jiuyuan army divide again! With such a decision, adhering to the lifelong ambition of the first emperor, Wang Li has a clear conscience! Otherwise, even if we are rescued and defeat the Chu army, we will regret it for the rest of our lives! The Chinese people, etc., are all of our race, and the Qin army would rather lose to the Chu army than the Xiongnu! ”

"Hooray——! The soldiers who had lost their strength when they opened their eyes actually roared in the audience.

"As for the Xianyang Imperial Court, it will not send troops to rescue. The emperor is in a wasted government, the traitor is in charge, and the survival of Great Qin is already on the front line! This line is the Jiuyuan Army! Only in this way, at the moment our army has only one last battle! If he was able to break through, he joined forces with Zhang Hanbu and went south to Xianyang to ask about the government of Yasukuni. If you can't break through, then the Jiuyuan Qin army will not surrender to the Chu thieves! There is only one way for us to wait: swear to fight to the death and live and die with Daqin! ”

"Fight to the death! Live and die with Daqin! The audience roared again.

"Right now, there are only 40,000 people in our army." Wang Li's angry voice calmed down, "Among the 40,000, there are still more than 8,000 people who are seriously injured and unable to walk, and more than 2,000 people are sick from freezing and starvation. Our army can still fight the last battle, at most 30,000! In the battle of life and death, the Qin army has always placed the disabled brothers first, and Qin Feng has been in the wind for thousands of years, and it is still the same today. Wang Li consulted with the general and lieutenant and decided to settle the wounded, sick and disabled soldiers overnight (2). The method of resettlement, the Qin army became an example: the disabled soldiers changed into peasant cloth clothes, and were escorted out of the mountain pass by the soldiers of each department, and scattered to escape at night, or hide the farmer's hunters, or form a group to survive temporarily, and then they could try to go to the Jiuyuan camp, or they could go home. On the day our army broke through, Wang Li definitely sent men and horses to find all the fathers and brothers! ......" Suddenly, Wang Li cried loudly.

"When the Qin army fights, don't cry!"

A wounded soldier roared suddenly, holding a wooden stick to support one leg, and said in a loud voice with a dark face, "Old Qin soldiers, who is not a few generations of military service." My clan joined the army, and I am the fourth generation. What's so scary? What is there to cry about? If the warrior does not die, who is called to die? Major General, although he led all the living soldiers to break through the bloody battle, Mo was distracted by our wounded, sick and disabled brothers. I'm waiting for a way out, and I don't want an escort. ”

"That's right! Don't escort! ”

"Afraid of a bird! Dead a few times! ”

"All living brothers, fight a good fight! Teach that Xiang Yu to learn! ”

In an impassioned shout, Wang Li stopped crying and bowed deeply to the disabled soldiers, and Shima Su Jiao and the lieutenants also bowed deeply...... On this night, the valley camp of the Qin army did not have any of the excitement before the war, and even the war horses did not neigh, but only waited quietly beside their master and sniffed lightly from time to time. The camp under the moon fell into boundless silence, only the spring breeze swayed the mountains and forests, sending a strange snoring into the deep blue night sky. In the middle of the night, Wang Li suddenly sat up, grabbed his long sword and rushed out of the bedroom.

"Major General, it's not dawn yet!" Sima of the Chinese army was surprised.

"If there's something, let's go." Wang Li hurriedly left the shogunate. Sima of the Chinese army grabbed the general's crest and cloak on the wall, and hurried out of the shogunate to catch up, and before he put on the bronze coat for Wang Li, he saw a black shadow suddenly fly over and cry: "Major General, all the disabled brothers are self-defeating!" ......" Shibu stumbled, and before the words fell, he fell to the ground. Wang Li's whole body trembled suddenly, and he jumped on his horse and flew towards the waning moon in the sky.

The valley that Wang Li had suddenly appeared in his dream was strangely dead in the pale moonlight. One by one, black shadows sat solemnly, standing solemnly, vaguely stone statues, vaguely in the pine forests of Xianyang Beihan. The warriors carried the crossbow machine with their long swords, held their spears and shields, everyone opened their eyes, and Sen Senran lined up a huge phalanx, except for the fact that there were no war horses, and the flesh and blood barrier of the Jiuyuan Iron Cavalry was alive......

Standing in this forest and pine forest for a long time, Wang Li wanted to cry without tears and without words. Wang Li couldn't know exactly how these disabled warriors had gathered in this hidden valley and how they had committed suicide in this way. However, Wang Li understood a long-standing custom of the old Qin people's military family: live without humiliation, and die without tiring the army. The heroes and generals of the empire, starting from the suicide of Fusu Mengtian and Mengyi, most of them ended themselves in various ways. Yang Duanhe, Xin Sheng, Ma Xing, Li Xin, Yao Jia, Hu Wujing, Zheng Guo, Feng Quji, Feng Zheng, etc., including Li Si's eldest son, Sanchuan County Shou Li You's battlefield suicide, everyone is an old Qin man who lives without humiliation. Death does not tire the army, and it is even more common on the battlefield. The Qin people were happy when they heard the war, but the disabled in the country were rare, because of the long-standing custom of sacrifice of "dying without tiring the army". The old Qin people originated from the East and fled to the West, and in the long life-and-death struggle in the western grasslands, there were countless desperate battles that were difficult to take into account the wounded soldiers. As a result, the willingness to commit suicide became the fashion of the whole army, and unexpectedly became a custom along the way. It is not a military law, it is better than a military law, this ancient custom of sacrifice rooted in the temperament of the old Qin people, has always been indispensable.

The ranking officials paid attention to the fact that in the world of the Warring States War, the heroism of the Chinese ethnic group was stirring and vigorous, and it was the best in history. In the entire history of the Warring States for more than 200 years, during the period of danger when the army was defeated and the country was destroyed, a large number of martyrs who generously died to the death emerged, and the seven major warring states all had heroes who could sing and cry. In terms of military style, the Qin army's sacrifice is the most intense. Looking at the historical materials of the Warring States Period, the Qin army was defeated in battle, and it was rare to be captured, and it was rare to surrender to the enemy, but the whereabouts of those who were unknown after the defeat in a desperate situation were the most. The so-called whereabouts are unknown, that is, those whose historical materials are unknown. Where have they gone? Needless to say, martyrdom committed suicide. For more than 200 years of the Warring States Period, there was only one clear record of the defeat of the Qin army and surrender to the enemy: after the Battle of Changping, King Qin Zhao killed Bai Qi and forcibly attacked Zhao twice, and Zheng Anping's army was defeated and surrendered to Zhao. The remaining defeats, such as the battle of Qin and Zhao, the defeat of Meng Fu in the battle of Xinling Junhe's rescue of Zhao, and the defeat of Li Xinjun's army in the battle of Xiang Yan's army, were all extremely serious casualties and the whereabouts of the disabled are unknown. The final bloody battle of Hebei, the fierce ending of the three generals of Jiuyuan and the main force of the Qin army, is the last swan song of the ancient legacy of the Qin army. General Zhang Hansan was forced to surrender to Chu due to the special involvement of the prisoner army, and treated it as a separate case.

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In the early morning, the blood-red sun hung on the top of the mountain, and the Qin army's horse team was all dispatched.

The morning sun breaks through the fog. The Giant Deer Fortress showed a simple and majestic outline, and the vast water surface of the mainland was fading a faint veil, and gradually appeared in the mountains and fields.

The reinforcement camp of the four princes in the northern wilderness of Julu City, the camp of Chen Yu and Zhao in the mountains on the banks of the mainland, the camp of Zhang Han Qin in the south of the city, and the camp of Xiang Chujun in the mountains of Jiuyuan Qin Army, with the Julu Castle sandwiched in the center as the axis, intertwined into a magnificent picture scroll in the faint clouds and mist. In this vast picture scroll, only the mountain camp of the Qin army in Jiuyuan did not have any flags, no military camp signs such as cloud car watchtowers, only a pale yellow and green mountain against the background of a black horse team rumbling in the field. The horse team did not gallop, but calmly lined up three phalanxes of ten thousand horsemen, about a stone's throw apart from each other, and thousands of horses marched towards the familiar valley battlefield with a pace almost as that of infantry armor.

Suddenly, the mournful horn and the roaring war drums sounded together, and Xiang Yu's army was overwhelmingly pressed in the red and yellow morning mist. Almost at the same time, Zhang Han's prisoner camp exploded, and he rode out of the camp and pounced on the rear field of the Chu army. Immediately afterwards, Chen Yu's army on the mainland and the reinforcements of the princes of the four routes also opened their camps and rushed to the rear of Zhang Han's army. Immediately afterwards, the gate of Julu City was opened, and the defenders in the city shouted and pounced on the flank of Zhang Han's army. Obviously, all parties have seen through it, today's battle is the final decisive battle, either the princes of the world will put out the fire, or the Qin army will be wiped out.

Wang Lijun and Xiang Yujun collided violently. The Chu army swept into the field and shouted to kill the heavens, and the Qin army fought silently, and the bizarre battlefield fighting had never been seen for eternity. After eating and resting, the Chu army was determined to win, and its morale was as fierce as fire. The hungry Qin army condensed the last of their hearts, cherished their last physical strength, and maintained the last dignity of the Qin army's sharp soldiers with a mortal heart. Rao was like this, after this strange battle lasted for an hour, the black iron flow of the Qin army was still swirling heavily and slowly, and it still did not seem to be dispersing. At this time, Zhang Han's army had been blocked and killed by the two Zhao armies and the remnants of Fan Zeng's Chu army, and was trapped in front of a small river in the rear of the Chu army, and it was impossible to get close to Wang Liqin's army. The princes of Zhao were greatly relieved, and they stationed a few of their men and horses on the spot, standing on the high mountain camp, and everyone watched the decisive battle of Qin and Chu with anxiety.

"Jiangdong disciples! Follow me to kill Wang Lizhongjun——! ”

Xiang Yu saw that this silent hungry army was still not dispersing, and in a fit of rage, he personally led the most elite eight thousand Jiangdong disciples to rush towards the horse team in the center of the Qin army like thunderbolts. These 8,000 Jiangdong elite soldiers are also all flying horses, each of them has a curved Wu hook and a Sensen spear, and carries an arm and a crossbow machine, which can be described as the real elite soldiers in the late Qin period. The special combat power of this elite soldier is in this spear on the horse. During the Warring States period and even the Qin Empire, long weapons were only used in infantry and chariots. With it, the cavalry group battles are all swords, bows and crossbows, and the long soldiers are unheard of. Immediately the general went into battle with long soldiers, starting from Xiang Yu. Only Xiang Yu's long soldiers often saw their power, so they immediately imitated in the Jiangdong department, and each person had a spear. At this time, eight thousand spears were like a forest, roaring and shouting to condense into an invincible iron stream, and rolled towards the banner of the word "king".

The soldiers of the Qin army fought for more than an hour, and most of them had already died. At this time, there were more than 10,000 knights left, and all of them were wounded and bloody, and the smoke and dust were shouting and screaming, and no banner or order could effectively coalesce. The two generals of Shijian and Sujiao, who were originally the rising stars of the Jiuyuan Army, were both iron cavalry captains when the Mengtian army attacked the Huns, and their battlefield experience was richer than that of Wang Li. The so-called scattered cavalry formation is a tactic created by Bai Qi, but it is actually a tactic in which three cavalry and five cavalry form a formation to support each other in a melee that cannot connect the army. Wang Li is brave and fierce, but he has never experienced a big battle, and has always been in a formation with the Chinese army horse team, and has not been separated from the scattered cavalry formation, so he is particularly eye-catching on the battlefield. Of course, the traditions and laws of a large army also play a role at this time: Wang Li is the commander of the Nine Plains, and if the commander is captured or killed in battle, the guards will die together. Therefore, the Chinese army horse team has always fought to the death around Wang Li, and the casualties are the most serious and do not take a step back. When Xiang Yu's spear horse team rushed in, Wang Li's more than 10,000 Chinese troops were almost only two or three thousand people.

"Look at Xiang Yu! Kill ——! ”

Seeing that a spear roared from Sensen, Wang Li roared with all his might, and the horse team swept over with a long sword. However, before the knights of the two sides could get close to their horses, the knights of the Qin army fell off their horses in the spears that flew over. Wang Li's war horse let out a long neigh, and suddenly stood up, trying to leap out of this spear forest, but was nailed by more than a dozen spears that shot out. The horse's horse fell to the ground with a bang, but it still avoided the side that might have crushed its master, causing Wang Li, who had been hit by the spear, to roll down to the back of the horse. Wang Lishang was in limbo and his horse was lamented, Xiang Yu had already rushed over like a hurricane, and a big spear of 10,000 enemies was pointed directly at Wang Li's throat, but it suddenly stopped.

"Wang Li! You are a prisoner of war for Xiang Yu! Xiang Yu yelled.

Wang Li patted the dead war horse, got up with difficulty, straightened the disorganized armor cloak, smiled coldly at Xiang Yu, suddenly grabbed the spearhead with both hands, and pounced with all his strength with a loud laugh. When a stream of blood spurted out, the spearhead had already pierced Wang Li's chest and abdomen...... Xiang Yu was excited, and suddenly raised Wang Li's corpse tall and shouted: "Wang Li is dead!" Kill all the Qin army! He violently threw down Wang Li's body and swung his army to kill the rest of the Qin army.

At this time, Su Jiao, the general of the Qin army, and his subordinates had all been killed. Only the general Shima led the rest of the troops to do the final fight. Gradually, the knights of the Qin army, who had not eaten for several days, were exhausted, and they could no longer lift the long sword weighing nearly ten catties. Knowing that the last moment had come, for a while, the knights of the Qin army all reined in their horses, stopped fighting, glanced at each other, and calmly wiped their long swords against their necks...... Shima, who had been numbed by anger and hatred, saw Xiang Yu rushing towards him, raised his sword with all his strength and roared, but he fell down the horse silently......

When he woke up, he saw a flying and jumping fire in front of him. In front of the continuous bonfires, the cheers of the Chu army shook the mountains and rivers, and the smell of wine and meat of the Chu army filled the world. Shizuma drooled, but closed his dry eyes again. Suddenly, a thunderous cheer rang out in Shiruma's ears, long live the general. Immediately, heavy footsteps and the familiar Chu Yin came to his side: "This Shima is the only living prisoner of war today." Don't let him die, let him surrender! Shima could hear that this was the voice of Xiang Yu, who was called a butcher by Zhang Han. Shibu lay quietly and crouched, condensing the last strength of his body, when suddenly a roar flew up to the ground, and he plunged into the raging fire pit like an arrow. A body of oil-soaked cowhide armor burst into flames, shrubbing shrieks and screams, writhing wildly, and dancing in the flames.

The soldiers of the Chu army fell silent suddenly.

The flying flames were gone, and the strong scorching stench lingered in the field......

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(1) Thorn Plain, Zhanghan Army Camp, a highland in Julu County in the Qin Dynasty. "Collected Explanations" quotes two sayings, one cloud is in the south of Zhangshui, and the other cloud is in the south of Julu City. According to the actual battlefield, from the latter point of view, Thorn Plains should be the high ground in the south of Julu City.

(2) Warrior, Warring States Qin Chinese, see "Historical Records? Xiang Yu Benji": "All Chu soldiers take one as a ......"