Chapter 5 Soldiers Descend on the City

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The reason why Feng Zheng and Han Xin moved their troops eastward in the dark of night was nothing more than to prevent Xiang Liang from suddenly crossing the Huai River when he learned that the Qin army on the other side had withdrawn. After all, as soon as Han Xin's 100,000 army left, there was only Feng Zheng's army on the other side of the Huai River, and there were only more than 100,000 people when it was full.www.biquge.info

What's more, although there were 200,000 people in the two armies of Feng Zheng and Han Xin, ninety percent of Feng Zheng's 100,000 troops were brought by Meng Tian when he rushed from Julu to support Hu Hai.

These nearly 90,000 soldiers are all the chaotic army that Li Zuoche had entangled in the Julu rebellion before, and then although Meng Tian trained in Julu for more than a month, he changed the armor and weapons of the Qin army, and even many of the middle-level generals in it were filled by the former Jiuyuan Army, but the combat power of this batch of soldiers is not to mention that compared with the five major legions that came out of the Bashang battalion, it is estimated that even the more than 100,000 Xianyang guards led by Wang Li before are far from the first.

After all, no matter what, the Xianyang guards under Wang Li's command were all the regular army of Great Qin Zheng'er. And many of them are veterans who participated in the Great Qin Unification War before.

Of course, this is just a comparison between Feng Zheng's 100,000 army and the two armies of Qinglong and White Tiger led by Xu Chuang and Du Teng. If you look at it from another angle, compared with Han Xin's 100,000 army, Feng Zheng is obviously much happier than Han Xin. β•”β•—

However, there is one point, Han Xin has 20,000 soldiers in his hands.

The material battalion, in fact, is equivalent to a non-commissioned officer school in Daqin. The material battalion, as the name suggests, is all talents, all scholars!

Under normal circumstances, the soldiers in the Caishi battalion rarely go directly to the battlefield, and only in the big war will these brave and good fighters act as the vanguard. Of course, this is also a kind of exercise for the soldiers of the material battalion.

Zhang Han and Zhao Tuo actually spent some time in the Caishi camp. Zhang Han is a former material officer general.

Han Xin's 100,000 army, except for the 20,000 soldiers of the Caishi battalion who came out of Xianyang with him, the remaining 80,000 soldiers were the remnants of Zhang Er Chen Yu who Wang Li had gathered in Chen County, that is, ordinary people, and the soldiers who were a little sharper were basically killed.

These 80,000 people were all left in Sanchuan Aocang when Li Xin withdrew from Chen County, and then they were all assigned to Han Xin's command with a wave of Hu Hai's big hand.

During the period of time when they were stationed on the north bank of the Huai River, Feng Zai and Han Xin were not idle. β•”β•—The two who had a gap because of Wei Bao's matter, even when they set up camp, still chose to lean on each other, but the two never interacted.

Both of them knew that if Xiang Liang took advantage of the loophole, neither of them would have good fruit to eat. However, although the two did not have any contact, they both observed the movements of the other party's camp and competed secretly.

The consequence of the competition was that the soldiers under the command of the two of them had been training the north bank of the Huai River for more than a month. Although it was done behind closed doors, it was much better than before. At least the ban can be barely done.

The two moved eastward, and no one expected that Xiang Liang would start crossing the river soon after the two left.

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There are more than 50 small building ships, and none of them can carry a maximum of more than 100 soldiers, 5,000 people at a time. Coupled with the simple bamboo raft built by secretly cutting down trees, more than 20,000 people can cross the river at a time.

Under Xiang Liang's strict orders, the entire process of crossing the river was carried out in the dark by the Chu army as if it were a thief. Many of the soldiers would accidentally fall into the river with one foot in the air. Fortunately, basically everyone in the Chu army knew how to water, except for a few unlucky ones who did not climb up and were washed away by the river, most of them were able to climb ashore alive.

Xiang Liang didn't think about finding a shoal and crossing the river directly, but Shouchun is located in the middle reaches of the Huai River, and if you want to find a shoal, you have to walk at least hundreds of miles to the upstream or downstream. β•”β•—

In this way, hundreds of thousands of troops walked hundreds of miles, not to mention whether the Qin army on the other side would find that the time spent on this rush alone would far exceed the time of directly crossing the river.

The Chu army can obviously hold on to Shouchun with hundreds of thousands of troops. Where the shallows of the Huai River are located above and below Shouchun, Xiang Liang has already sent people to guard them. If the Qin army wanted to take Shouchun, they must first cross the river. And to cross the river, the Chu army is at least better than fighting with the Qin army.

Therefore, Xiang Liang chose to cross the river in Quyang at night after careful consideration.

Xiang Liang discussed with Zhang Liang, Fan Zeng and others. With the fastest speed, before the arrival of the Qin army, the 200,000 Qin army vanguards on the opposite bank were wiped out. Then immediately retreated to the other side of the river, strictly guarded the banks of the Huai River, and waited for Zhang Liang and Xiang Yu's army to stir up Shandong and other places into a mess, and the Qin people would inevitably divide their troops to exterminate Xiang Yu's army.

There are more than 100,000 troops in the hinterland, and the harm that can be caused will definitely be divided unless the Qin people's heads are caught by the door. As long as the Qin people divide their troops, then Shouchun's crisis will be solved. β•”β•—

There is a Huai River moat, and it is also a defense of the Qin people who basically have no building ships and no naval army, if Xiang Liang can no longer block the Qin people, then he can really wipe his neck directly with a sword. The glory of the Xiang clan will be lost by him.

Everything is beautiful.

The crossing of the river by the Chu army was also unusually smooth!

From start to finish. There was no movement at all in the two large camps of the Qin army, and the scouts were only out of the camp for more than 20 miles. More than 100 miles away, how could it be possible to find the Chu army crossing the river downstream.

The 300,000 army, after tossing in the middle of the night, waited until all the Chu troops had crossed the Huai River, and the sky was already bright.

At this time, Hu Hai, who was far away in Xianyang, should have just gotten up, and the people of Xianyang were immersed in the excitement of the upcoming post-book ceremony.

After the army crossed the river, Xiang Liang, Wu Rui, Song Yi and other senior generals also followed, and all of them crossed the Huai River. Now the armies in Jiujiang, except for the soldiers of the three clans of Zhaoqu Jing stationed in Shouchun, the rest of the armies are under the command of Xiang Bo. β•”β•—

Xiang Liang even ordered Xiang Bo to personally sit in Anfeng City, the western gateway of Shouchun, and lead an army of 70,000 to strictly guard against Weng Zhong's 50,000 Xuanwu troops who were going south from Wuguan!

The army all crossed the river, and it was unusually smooth, so that Xiang Liang completely let go of a heart that had been hanging. After all, there are 200,000 Qin troops on the north bank of the Huai River, and if the Qin army finds that the Chu army crosses the river and intercepts halfway, the consequences can be imagined.

On a bright day, Xiang Liang only urged the army to move forward for less than thirty miles, and then ordered to find a hidden place to camp and let the army rest.

Now there are still more than 50 miles away from the easternmost camp of the Qin army, and hundreds of thousands of troops marching during the day will inevitably be discovered by the Qin army scouts.

Therefore, Xiang Liang still decided to let the army rest during the day, wait until it was dark, and attack the camp directly in the early morning. As long as a large camp of the Qin army is broken first, there are only 100,000 Qin troops left, and the army will inevitably be able to fall in one fell swoop with the momentum of a great victory.

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The first place where the battle took place was not on the bank of the Huai River, but at the gateway to Shouchun, the capital of Chu, Anfeng City.

Weng Zhong's army marched south from Nanyang County, and went straight to Anfeng on the west side of the Shouchun gateway along the eastern foothills of Dabie Mountain (in Shou County, Anhui Province in later generations). Weng Zhong arrived in Xiaohe Township, 50 miles from Anfeng City, on the evening of September 14 and set up camp in Xiaohe Township for a night's rest.

Xiang Bo himself did not have any military talent, and the reason why Xiang Liang sent Xiang Bo to Anfeng to sit in the town was actually to see his 50,000 "people's army" transferred to Anfeng.

In the news from the Jixia School Palace, there was no detailed introduction to the various legions of the Qin army, and Xiang Liang took it for granted that there were only 50,000 ordinary Qin troops. Although Xiang Liang had encountered the Xuanwu Army in Chengwu before, and had also fought with the Xuanwu Army, this did not attract Xiang Liang's enough attention.

In fact, a long time ago, there were heavy armored soldiers in Great Qin, and there were quite a few of them. Therefore, Xiang Liang took it for granted that he had encountered a heavy armored soldier who had often appeared on the battlefield in the past and used it as a fortified position, although the heavy armored soldier had changed to such a hideous weapon.

In the past, the heavily armored soldiers of Great Qin were wearing bronze armor, and the hardness and resistance to blows of bronze were obviously not comparable to Jing Tie.

Xiang Liang didn't pay enough attention to the Qin army on the West Road, plus Xiang Bo knew his ability very well, since the elder brother Xiang Liang sent himself to Anfeng, it was obvious that Anfeng was not in danger. This also directly affected Xiang Bo's anticipation of the Qin army coming south from the west road. So on the first day he came to Anfeng City, Uncle Xiang accepted the beautiful concubine sent by Anfeng County, accompanied by a beautiful woman, who still remembered what he came to Anfeng mainly for.

The Lord will be like this, not to mention the soldiers and generals below who are already a rabble.

Xiang Bo followed Xiang Liang's instructions and ordered the scouts to explore a radius of thirty miles, but the scouts who went out directly reduced the scope by more than half. Some scouts didn't even detect it at a distance of ten miles. When I got out of Anfeng City, I didn't know where to go to drink and hug the beauty.

The people of Surabaya, Chenjun and Dangjun who were captured by Xiang Liang had a difficult life, and it is conceivable that they left their hometowns to live in Jiujiang. Selling children and daughters just for a few meals is even more common. Even these people, who have become Chu Jun, also have the ability to buy prostitutes and young girls.

By the time Xiang Bo, who was sleeping in Anfeng City with his newly adopted concubine in his arms, received a report from his generals that the Qin army had arrived, the vanguard of Weng Zhongxuanwu's army had already approached less than ten miles away from Anfeng City.

This was not detected by the scouts, and the scouts who went out to investigate were all slaughtered by the scouts of the Xuanwu Army. Tens of thousands of troops marched forward, and it was still daytime, and it was impossible to hide their whereabouts, and Weng Zhong had no intention of concealing his whereabouts.

The captured Chu army scout, before he asked, had already poured beans into a bamboo tube to tell the current strength of Anfeng City, who the main general was, and even Xiang Bo accepted a concubine to drink and have fun in Anfeng City every day.

Weng Zhong has nothing to worry about!

How can a rabble of 70,000 people be able to stop the Xuanwu army that more than 50,000 emperors have spent countless efforts to establish?

By the time Xiang Bo got up from the gentle countryside and climbed to the head of Anfeng City tremblingly, 50,000 Xuanwu troops had already arrived in the city!

: I'm sorry to go back to my hometown to worship my ancestors! I'm also very broken, because I finally wanted to get a full attendance, and I lost full attendance again. Well, there will be more and more. I'm sorry everyone!!!