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On this day, the calm Jiujiang County began to boil. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info╔╗/

The army of the State of Chu, which was originally scattered throughout Shouchun for training, began to converge towards Shouchun from all over the country. Although there was no official announcement, everyone felt a strong pressure from the mountain rain and the wind all over the building.

Today, there are nearly 400,000 people in the army of Chu. There are still many strong men who have been temporarily captured and can only be used to defend the city, not counting.

Among the more than 600,000 people, nearly 300,000 belong to Xiang Liang's lineage. Among these descendants, there are nearly 150,000 Jiangdong soldiers, 100,000 Baiyue barbarians under Wu Rui, and nearly 100,000 strong men captured from the people of Surabaya, Chen County, and Dangjun who were captured by Xiang Liang.

The remaining nearly 150,000 people belong to the three major families of Zhaoqujing.

Of the more than 150,000 people, 50,000 are stationed in Shouchun City, the capital of Chu State, and 50,000 people are stationed in various dangerous locations outside Shouchun City. The remaining 50,000 people were stationed in the vicinity of Shouchun, such as Anfeng, Quyang, Lu'an and other counties.

Among them, the 50,000 people stationed in Shouchun City were all equipped with the Qin army's standard armor provided by Ziying, and they could be regarded as the most sharp people in the army controlled by the Zhaoqujing three clans. ╔╗

Of course, their Jing Rui is only in terms of equipment.

At least in Xiang Liang's opinion, he only needed 10,000 Jiangdong disciples to be able to defeat these 50,000 troops on the plain, who were also equipped with Qin's standard armor and weapons.

However, it was precisely because these 50,000 troops occupied Shouchun City first that Xiang Liang did not tear his face with the three clans of Zhao Qujing. Shouchun Castle guarded by 100,000 troops. Even if Xiang Liang can break through. also needs to pay a considerable price, not to mention that Xiang Liang has no intention of completely tearing his face with them now, he is waiting, Xiang Liang has enough patience now.

Xiang Liang's army of more than 300,000 people, the real Shangjing Rui can be counted, that is, there are only more than 250,000 people who can go into battle and fight. Of the more than 100,000 strong men arrested, nearly half of them can only fill the number of people, which Xiang Liang knows very well.

Therefore, in Xiang Liang's vision, Xiang Yu will lead the most sharp 100,000 Jiangdong soldiers, leading Zhang Liang, Long and Yingbu. ╔╗ From Jiujiang Yinling County (later Anhui Dingyuan northwest) directly into the East China Sea Xuyi (later Huai'an City south) County, and then from Xuyi across the Huai River to the north.

Xiang Liang himself led 50,000 Jiangdong soldiers, 100,000 Baiyue barbarians, and 50,000 Jing Zhuang selected from the strong men and the rest of the Baiyue barbarians who were temporarily transferred from the number of people to cross the river from the lower reaches of Shouchun to meet the army of Feng Zai and Han Xin, who had been stationed on the other side of the Huai River for a long time.

Hei Tie, as well as the more than 1,000 Xuanniao battalion soldiers who followed Xiang Liang's army into Jiujiang, are all jing strong. At the behest of Black Iron. Except for the more than 100 Xuanniao Battalion soldiers who stayed outside, the remaining more than 1,000 Xuanniao Battalion soldiers were all mixed into Xiang Liang's army when Xiang Liang caught the strong men, and became a member of the Chu army.

There is no need to question the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Xuanyao Battalion. Soon, they stood out in the compilation and training in various places. Among the hundreds of thousands of people captured by Xiang Liang, there were not a few people who wore the Qin dialect, so the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Xuanniao Battalion did not attract the attention of Xiang Liang's army at all.

What's more, among the hundreds of thousands of troops, more than a thousand people are just a drop of water in the sea.

Black Iron also entered Xiang Yu's army. ╔╗However, there is a unique scar on his face, which can also be said to be a brand. Branded on it is a clearly visible word "punishment".

Not only Heitie, but all the other Xuanniao battalion soldiers who entered Xiang Liang's army as soldiers of the Chu army were also branded with the same big or small "punishment" brand on the left or right side of their cheeks.

Under normal circumstances, more than a thousand convicts with imprints on their faces at the same time would definitely attract the attention of Xiang Liang and others. However, this is in Great Qin or Tyrannical Qin.

In the eyes of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, of course, this is indeed the case, countless Jing Zhuang were arrested and imprisoned for a trivial matter, and various marks were branded on his face to show his identity as a prisoner, which is also one of the reasons why the remnants of the Six Kingdoms called Great Qin a tyrannical Qin.

Prisoners. In fact, many times it represents the core force that hated Great Qin the most.

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Xuanniao Battalion, after being inspected, were transferred to the Jingrui troops in Xiang Liang's army, and some even became chief and other positions, and Heitie became a hundred generals.

The reason why all the Xuanniao soldiers who entered the Chu army were branded on their faces. ╔╗ In fact, it is just to facilitate each other's identification in confusion. Heitie and the others are well aware of their mission.

Last time, it was because of the dereliction of duty of the Xuanniao Battalion that the emperor was almost trapped in Chengwu County. The emperor didn't say anything afterwards. He didn't even blame it, but both Heitie and ordinary Xuanyao Battalion soldiers were actually ashamed in their hearts.

They were called by the emperor as the sharpest soldiers of Great Qin, and they were the first regiment of Great Qin to be awarded the flag by the emperor. Although the entire legion is only a few thousand.

In an army of hundreds of thousands, if there is chaos at that time, without special markings, it is likely to hurt their own people. It is precisely for this reason that Black Iron immediately adopted the most convenient and recognizable method.

Black Iron may not know that his unintentional actions today will become a unique mark of the soldiers of the Xuanyao Battalion in the future. Of course, at that time, it was no longer a brand, but a tattoo of the same Xuanniao Battalion.

Jiujiang's intelligence black iron would sneak out of the camp every once in a while, combined with the information collected by the Xuanniao soldiers who did not enter the Xiangliang camp, and transmitted it to Xianyang with a letter eagle.

Therefore, although Hu Hai did not leave Xianyang, even if Xiang Liang can't say that he knows everything about his every move, at least some of the general things are very clear. Even the direct break between the three clans of Zhaoqu Jing and Xiang Liang, as well as the assistance of the children of Nanyue to the weapons of the Chu State, was also known clearly in the routine report of Heitie on the eighth day of September.

Hu Hai even knew that Ziying was transported by water, and after the more than 100 ships brought in armor and weapons, they did not return to Nanhai County, but stayed in Xinchu.

More than fifty ships are cruising near the current capital of Chu State, Shouchun, and the remaining dozens of black iron ships are still exploring. However, in Hu Hai's opinion, it should be on the Yangtze River near the hometown of Jiangdong of the Xiang family.

The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops is obviously not something that can be completed in a short period of time. If you add grain, grass, baggage and other things, it will take at least ten days, but fortunately, the place where Xiang Liang is going is on the opposite side of the Huai River, and Tongshou Chun is only separated by a Huai River.

What really needed to be prepared was the grain and grass that Xiang Yu needed to prepare for the 100,000 army that was going north from the East China Sea. However, fortunately, Jiujiang is already overcrowded today, especially near Shouchun, where nearly a million people have gathered, and if you add the soldiers gathered, it is far more than a million.

This action can be said to be the absolute secret of the Chu State. Except for more than ten people in the palace of the king of Chu, no one else knew. With the current status of Heitie and the others, it is impossible to get a specific target for the mobilization of Xiang Liang's army.

However, intuition told Heitie that if Xiang Liang wanted to move, then no matter which target it was, he must first cross the Huai River. And if you want to cross the Huai River, then the brunt of it is the army of Feng Zheng on the other side of the river and the army of Han Xin, which is only fifty miles away from Feng Zheng's army.

As for the arrangements of the imperial army, Heitie was not very clear, but he knew that the imperial army would arrive today. Because the post-canonization ceremony will be held after the fifth day, at that time, His Majesty the Emperor will leave Xianyang and go south to drive the imperial expedition in person.

The only thing that can be explained is that Xiang Liang obviously received the news that the Great Qin army was about to arrive, so he wanted to strike first. Then whether the goal is set or not, the Qin army on the other side of the Huai River will face a big battle.

Heitie didn't know that the movement of the army near Shouchun and the generals of the Qin army on the other side of the Huai River would not find out. He couldn't leave the camp at all now, but he believed that the soldiers of the Xuanniao Battalion who were in charge of the response outside the camp and had not mixed into the Chu army would know how to behave.

Soon, Black Iron received the news. More than 300 soldiers of the Xuanniao Battalion were transferred to the large camp east of Shouchun, and the remaining 700 or so soldiers of the Xuanniao Battalion, including Heitie, were gathered in the large camp near Shouchun.

Could it be that the Chu army is going to divide its troops and move?

A hint of mockery flashed in Heitie's eyes.

was in the Chu army camp, and at the same time stayed in the Bashang camp for more than three months. It was only at this time that Hei Tie understood how clever the method used by the emperor to train the soldiers of the Bashang battalion was, of course he would not know that the method used by Hu Hai had been summed up by countless soldiers over hundreds of years.

It is precisely because of this that while Hei Tie is amazed by the emperor's eloquence, he is also more aware of the gap between the seemingly Jing Rui Chu army and the Ba Shang battalion Jing Rui. If the only difference is that many of Xiang Liang's army have seen blood. And the soldiers of the big battalion in Bashang, although they have gone through countless exercises, and some people have even died in the exercises, they rarely see blood.

However, even so, the gap between the Chu army and the Qin army is not something that can be made up by quantity.

The division of troops, in Heitie's view, is completely Xiang Liang's move to find death.

Near Shouchun, 50,000 Zhuangding who were picked by Xiang Liang were transferred to Anfeng, and together with the 20,000 soldiers belonging to the three clans of Zhaoqujing who were originally stationed in Anfeng, they were stationed in Anfeng to defend the west gate of Shouchun.

These 50,000 strong men who went to Anfeng soon mixed into more than ten Xuanyao battalion soldiers. There are too many people, not to mention the idea of Xiang Liang and others that more people are more powerful. But he didn't know that in the face of an absolute war machine, the number of people could only add a sum to the Qin army's military exploits.

This arrangement shows that Xiang Liang has not forgotten the Qin army, which is said to have only tens of thousands of people all the way from the south of Wuguan. In Xiang Liang's mind, Anfeng, who has 70,000 troops stationed there, and Shouchun, who is only less than 100 miles behind, has more than 100,000 troops, which is basically equivalent to foolproof.

At the same time, Xiang Liang also transferred the 15,000 soldiers stationed in Lu'an back to the suburbs of Shouchun and Anfeng, so that they could meet Anfeng City at any time. rs