Seeing that Liu Bang not only did not get angry, but was extremely lenient to himself, Xiahou Ying was ashamed and grateful, and immediately waved at Liu Bang, and said proudly: "King, the minister will lead the army to chase and kill the remnants of the Chu army, this time it is to chase to the ends of the earth, and the minister must also personally cut off the head of Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er." ”

This will, Xiahou Ying really hates Xiang Zhuang, this kid is too arrogant, in the face of the pursuit and suppression of the two armies of him and Lishang, and also the interception of the Ninth Han Army and more than 30 allied forces, he didn't think about how to escape, and even dared to sneak attack the king's camp in turn, and almost let him succeed, it really doesn't make sense!

"No, no chase." Liu Bang shook his head unexpectedly.

After experiencing the horror of the first battle just now, Liu Bang suddenly understood a truth, the dog will really jump off the wall when it is in a hurry, and now if he insists on fighting, he can kill it, but he will inevitably be bitten by it.

Moreover, being bitten by Xiang Zhuang's wild dog is really painful!

In other words, Xiang Zhuang Xiaoer is really not ordinary brave, and he is cunning enough!

The thousands of remnants under the command of Xiang Zhuang Xiaoer are a group of vicious dogs, they are simply not human!

Liu Bang doesn't want the previous horror scene to be repeated again, Chu Jun is already so terrible when he runs desperately in a hurry, if people come prepared next time, then what's the matter? Xiahou Ying is not early or late this time, the general will arrive, but next time he can arrive in such a timely manner? Liu Bang can't think that he will have such good luck next time.

Moreover, it is too late to chase it now, and the remnants of the Chu army are afraid that they will already run away in the forest.

Therefore, it is better to lock up this group of wild dogs first, starve them for a few months, and when they are so hungry that they have no strength, they can be quietly cleaned up.

Zhang Liang and Chen Ping next to him couldn't help but glance at each other, and at the same time showed a wry smile on their faces.

It seems that this time the king of Han was really frightened, depending on the situation, the king of Han is planning to withdraw all the troops out of the mountain, so that even the armies of the princes of all walks of life do not plan to stay, there is no doubt that the king of Han does not believe in the princes of all walks of life, let alone think that they will spend their strength to kill the Chu army, it is better to withdraw all the troops outside the mountain, so that they can save some money and food.

"Huh? Why don't you chase it? Xiahou Ying, a reckless man, didn't know Liu Bang's thoughts, and said in surprise at the moment, "The king suffered such a big loss this time, and he was frightened, how can he just forget it?" No, you must not let Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er go like this, let alone let go of the group of remnants under him, the king, you can't be careless! ”

"Hey, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, it's nothing." Liu Bang waved his hand and said, "However, Gu Ke didn't say that he wanted to let Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er go, as well as the group of remnants under him, but we have to change this strategy, in this deep mountain and old forest, it is not easy to deal with the Chu army, let's go outside the mountain, block all the intersections, and starve them to death!" ”

After saying this, Liu Bang said again: "You have to set fire to them, it is best to burn them to death." ”

"Set fire to the mountain?" Xiahou Ying said with a bitter face, "King, there are so many mountains, this can't be burned." ”

Zhang Liang smiled quietly and said: "General Xiahou, how much can be burned, no matter what, the mountains and forests of dozens of miles outside must be burned, especially the artemisia grass, which must all be burned out, otherwise, the Chu army will suddenly kill out under the cover of the forest, and when the time comes, our army will not be able to respond to it, so let them run away!" ”

After another moment, Li Shang, Jin She, Fu Kuan, Li Zuoche and other Han generals also led their troops to arrive one by one, and after that, reinforcements sent by Han Xin, Yingbu, Peng Yue, Zhang Er, Zhou Yin and other princes also arrived.

Peng Yue's fierce general Liu Kou's 3,000 reinforcements even encountered the remnants of the Chu army on the way, but because of the small number of soldiers, coupled with Liu Kou's eagerness to rush to the aid of the Han King's camp, he did not dare to act rashly, and the remnants of the Chu army were eager to break through, and did not attack rashly, and the two armies finally passed by without incident.

Liu Bang didn't have the heart to pay attention to these now, and asked people to gather the routs that were scattered by the Chu army, reorganize the camp, and then hold a feast to entertain all the princes and generals from all walks of life.

As soon as the wine feast ended, Liu Bang ordered all the princes and lords of all walks of life to raise a large army, and stationed outside the mountain, and then let Xiahou Ying do his best to scout and start to set fire to the mountain, although Dabie Mountain is located in the humid climate of Huaisi land, the mountains are also mostly evergreen trees in all seasons, but now it is winter after all, the grass and trees are yellow, once the mountain fire burns, the momentum is still quite huge.

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The night was deep, and the remnants of the Chu army were zigzag forward in the moonlight.

Xiang Zhuang woke up from his slumber, only to feel that his mouth was dry and bitter, so he wanted to find some water to drink, and Gao Chu, who was accompanying the guard next to the stretcher, said with concern: "General, what do you want?" ”

"Is there any water?" Xiang Zhuang said in a low voice, "I want to drink water." ”

Gao Chu hurriedly untied the bamboo jar on his waist and indirectly handed it to Xiang Zhuang's mouth.

Xiang Zhuang drank a few sips of cold water and asked again, "Gao Chu, where is this?" ”

"I don't know." Gao Chu shook his head and said with a wry smile, "I've only been running away for the past half a day, how can I remember the direction?" After saying this, Gao Chu scratched his head and said, "However, how can I run hundreds of miles, I have already broken out of the encirclement network of the Han army and various coalition forces, general, you can rest assured, they can't catch up." ”

"Then let's set up camp, and the wounded soldiers should also take care of their wounds."

As soon as the words fell, the pro-soldier carrying the stretcher suddenly stumbled, and Xiang Zhuang, who was lying on it, snorted.

"What do you kid eat?" Gao Chu immediately slapped the back of the soldier's head and scolded, "If you are hairy, you can't carry a stretcher." ”

This stumble, but it touched the wound on Xiang Zhuang's left shoulder, and the white cloth tied to the shoulder oozed red blood, speaking of which Xiang Zhuang's injury was also extremely serious.

Gao Chu hurriedly asked his soldiers to put down the stretcher, and sent someone to give the order.

The order soon spread throughout the army, and the remnants of the Chu army, who were originally strong fighting spirits, sat down on the ground one after another, and when they were desperate with the Han army during the day, these remnants were all fierce dragons and tigers, just like wolves, but now, they are all exhausted, in the final analysis, they are also people, not machines after all.

Soon, bonfires were lit up in the mountains, and the exhausted remnants of the soldiers gathered around.

Some leaned on the fire to get the fuss, some took out dry food and put it on the side of the fire to barbecue, and some people found a few branches, and then put the iron helmets they picked up from the Han army camp on them to boil hot water.

One hundred and ten military men who knew a little about medicine became more and more busy.

The first to receive treatment was of course Xiang Zhuang, but the so-called treatment was actually to use a red-hot double-edged sword to burn the wound on the chest and back, while burning the skin and flesh, it also destroyed the capillaries, and the blood stopped, and such a scald, even the bacteria burned to death, and it could also prevent wound infection.

Xiang Zhuang was so hot that he bared his teeth, and he endured it so that he didn't scream.

Today's Xiang Zhuang, but the general of Great Chu, and the god of war in the minds of the remnants of the Chu army, how can he care about this little pain?

However, the other wounded soldiers don't have so many scruples, they don't have Xiang Zhuang's endurance, when they were burned wounds, they all screamed like pigs, and in an instant, there was a continuous scream in the dense forest, if someone passed by nearby at this time, they would definitely be scared half to death, this fucking shouldn't be into the eighteenth layer of hell, right?

After scalding the wound and bandaging it again, Xiang Zhuang struggled to stand up, and while instructing Jing Qian to assign scouts, he began to patrol the camp accompanied by Gao Chu.

Everywhere Xiang Zhuang went, the remnants of the Chu army stood up one after another to salute.

Even the seriously wounded soldiers who had just treated their wounds struggled to stand up, and now Xiang Zhuang's prestige among the remnants of the Chu army is not ordinarily high, it is no exaggeration to say that Xiang Zhuang is now the god of war, the god of war in the hearts of all the remnants of the Chu army, although Xiang Zhuang was also seriously injured today, but it did not affect his prestige at all.

Because Xiang Zhuang killed the general of the Han army within the two combinations, this is very important.

As for the wounded, charged, who can come out unscathed? Isn't King Xiang often injured?

Inspecting the entire camp, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but feel a little heavy, although this time he sought victory in danger and survived in death, although the expected results were basically achieved, he Xiang Zhuang did take the remnants of the Chu army to highlight the encirclement of the Han army, but under the repeated fierce battles, the remnants of the Chu army still lost a large number of elite veterans!

When they first entered the mountain, the remnants of the Chu army numbered more than 5,500 people!

After breaking the five-way Han army in a row, the remnants of the Chu army also had more than 4,600 people, and then they were attacked by the Han army, Xiao Gongjiao and most of the five hundred trilogy were killed, only less than 50 people were rescued, and more than 200 people were killed on the way to break through, and finally raided Liu Bang's camp, although the Han army was frightened, but also lost more than 300 people!

By now, there were only more than 3,600 people left in the entire Chu army, and nearly half of them were still wounded.

Fortunately, the loss of the Chu army is not worthless, because the loss of the Han army is getting more and more heavy, counting those who were killed, those who took the opportunity to escape after being defeated, and those who ran into the mountains and got lost and disappeared, I am afraid that the total number has exceeded 20,000, which is almost ten times the battle loss of the Chu army.

Moreover, although Liu Bang, a scoundrel in the market, is extremely politically minded, and can also be described as a thick black grandmaster, he is also greedy for life and afraid of death, and after witnessing the remnants of the Chu army today, I am afraid that it is unlikely that he will continue to stay in the mountains, right?

Xiang Zhuang was thinking about Liu Bang, and suddenly saw many Chu soldiers getting up one after another, pointing to the point in the distance.

When Xiang Zhuang turned his head to look back, he saw that the flames had already broken out on several mountains in the east, and the flames pushed the billowing smoke upward, almost reflecting half of the night sky.

"Phew!" Gao Chu spat out thick phlegm fiercely, and said with great disdain, "Liu Bang Lao'er is really stupider than a pig, and such a big group of mountains in Dabie Mountain also want to burn us?" Dream about it. ”

"Liu Bang Lao'er doesn't want to burn us, but to prevent us from going out of the mountain." Yu Ziqi next to him suddenly interjected, and said to Xiang Zhuang lightly, "General, the Han army has withdrawn, and they have withdrawn from the mountain." ”