In Heyangyi, 5,000 elite Han troops have assembled outside the city and are on standby.

After the hour, three eye-catching black smoke rose from the beacon tower in the southeast and northeast almost at the same time, and the Han military captain in charge of the solid immediately reported loudly to Li Zuoche: "General, there is wolf smoke rising in the southeast and northeast, and the Chu army has begun to cross the river at the same time in Puhan and Pishi, and the wolf smoke is three, and the Chu army has crossed the river with more than 10,000 people!" ”

Li Zuoche stroked his beard and smiled: "The Pi clan is a suspicious soldier, and Pu Han is the real target of the Chu army!" ”

After that, Li Zuoche immediately turned around and instructed the deputy general Xiahou Zaodao: "General Xiahou, give an order to the whole army and rush to the aid of Pusaka at a rapid marching speed!" ”

"Whoa!" Xiahou Zao suddenly responded, and then turned his head and shouted, "The general has an order, gallop to the aid of Pusaka at a rapid marching speed!" ”

The Han army suddenly sounded the passionate marching war drums, and in the drumbeat of the rain suddenly, a group of Han army armor soldiers with helmets and armor began to turn around, and then lined up in a ten-way column towards Pu Han in the direction of the mighty march, and the galloping road made of loess soon raised billowing smoke and dust, soaring up to the sky...... Pi's, the assembly place for crossing the river.

Not far away, on the river's beach, a raft, rafts, boats, and large urns have been laid out along the east bank of the river.

Gao Lang turned his head back to Xiang Zheng to ask for advice, Xiang Zheng bowed his head slightly, Gao Lang strode up to the point platform with his sword, his sharp gaze only swept down the stage, and the two thousand Chu soldiers gathered below were silent.

Facing the burning eyes of the two thousand dead soldiers, Gao Lang said loudly: "I have a great Chu Ten Route army to fight the Han, and there are more than 500,000 soldiers, but there is only one Han country, and there is only one war merit. ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Two thousand dead men responded feverishly.

Under the reward mechanism for military exploits, the Chu army's desire to fight is unquestionable. Because military exploits mean higher titles, as well as more rewards, higher titles mean more abundant survival resources, which means that they can win a better living environment for their wives and children and become nobles in the true sense.

"The prince has an order!" Gao Lang didn't talk nonsense much, and directly opened the reward, "The first one to set foot on the east bank of the river will be promoted to the third level." Reward 1,000 taels of gold! ”

"Whoa......"

The two thousand dead soldiers in the audience suddenly screamed like wild wolves, and the crowd was furious.

On the colonel's field not far away, the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Chu Army who had gathered separately showed envy in their eyes, and the knight was promoted to the third level and the gold thousand taels was not an ordinary reward!

"Now, it's time for the Han army to see the majesty of our Great Chu Jian'er." Gao Lang suddenly pulled out his horizontal knife, pointed at the west bank of the river with the blade, and raised his head to the sky and howled hoarsely, "Kill!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill, kill......" The two thousand dead soldiers responded with the slash of Gao Lang's horizontal sword. One by one, like wild horses on the leash, they rushed to the river beach furiously, and then pushed the raft, raft or boat to the center of the river as fast as possible, when the raft, raft or boat galloped away from the riverbank. They jumped on the raft and began to row hard across the river.

For a time, more than 500 cowhide rafts, rafts tied to large urns and small boats shot like arrows from the string to the west bank of the river, and before the Chu army fleet crossed to the center of the river, hundreds of Han archers who had long been guarding the west bank of the river began to draw their bows and release arrows, and waves of arrows fell from the sky like rain, and from time to time there were dead soldiers of the Chu army who fell in a pool of blood.

However, it takes a lot of physical effort to pull the bow, and it is even more physical work to pull the infantry hardwood longbow, after shooting more than 20 arrows. The more than 500 Han archers were almost out of order, and they found that the arrows shot on the other side of the river began to become sparse......

Wave after wave of trumpets, a small boat ran aground first. The Chu army standing at the bow of the boat led the first to jump off the boat, but before he could wade through the shallows and step onto the riverbank, six or seven Han army halberders had already swarmed up, and the Chu army was nailed to the shallow river beach at once. …,

The second Chu soldier jumped off a raft and was immediately crucified by the Han army.

The third deceased soldier of the Chu army capsized in the river and swam over. Only a few steps away from the river bank, he suddenly surfaced, however, when he was about to step on the river bank, a heavy arrow of wolf teeth suddenly shot at him, and it pierced into his cheek, and the dead soldier of the Chu army screamed, and fell backwards into the muddy river water...... The 5,000 Han troops stationed in Heyangyi were well-trained elite veterans, and they arrived in less than two hours from Heyangyi to Pusaka for more than 50 miles.

The march of the ancient cold weapon army and the march of the hot weapon army in later generations are completely different things, because the hot weapon army uses firearms, unless it enters the meat battle during the battle, it only needs to hook the fingers, so all the physical strength can be used to march without reservation, but the ancient cold weapon army is not.

The ancient cold weapon army not only had an extra heavy load (armor), but also had to retain at least half of the physical strength to fight, otherwise, you could only be sent to death if you rushed over, so the marching speed of two hours and fifty miles was already very powerful, and I am afraid that the thousands of remnants of Xiangzhuang back then could be more powerful than them.

However, when Li Zuoche panted and rushed to the Han army fort on the other side of Pusaka with 5,000 elite soldiers, he found that there was silence on both sides of the river, and from a distance, there were only thirty or fifty cowhide rafts and boats on the east bank of the river, and more than 100 Chu troops were killed on the beach on the west bank of the river.

"What's going on?" Li Zuoche wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked the captain of the Han military academy who came to greet him.

"General, the Chu army has been driven back by us." The captain of the Han military academy said excitedly, "Just now, three or four hundred dead soldiers of the Chu army tried to force the crossing, and the two armies fought for more than half an hour, and finally we killed more than 100 people, and the rest of the Chu army all shrank back, and it is estimated that more than 100 people were washed away by the river, hehe." ”

"Three or four hundred Chu troops?" Xiahou Zao said sharply, "Just like that, you dare to light three puffs of wolf smoke?" ”

The wolf smoke used by the Han army to communicate is subject to extremely strict regulations, one wolf smoke, the number of enemy troops is thousands, two wolf smoke, the number of enemy troops exceeds five thousand, if there are three wolf smoke, the number of enemy troops exceeds 10,000! And the color of the wolf smoke is also exquisite, black smoke rises, there is an enemy attack, white smoke rises, it means that the war is unfavorable.

The captain of the Han army said calmly: "General Xiahou doesn't know, although the Han army that crossed the river just now was less than five hundred, but there were at least tens of thousands of Chu troops gathered on the other side of the river, and the last general also saw the big Xu of Xiang Zheng, the prince of Chu!" ”

Xiahou Zao was also a little uncertain, and looked sideways at Li's left lane: "Old general, look ......?"

"It's going to be bad, it's going to be bad! To be bad!! Li Zuoche suddenly came back to his senses, and then paused and said, "The old man is in Xiang Zheng's little plan, this is really a goose all day long, but he was pecked by the geese, hey, I think the old man has been in the army for many years, and he has experienced countless wars, and he never thought that he was careless and fell into Xiang Zheng's trick." ”

Xiahou Zao and the Han military captain looked at each other, and neither of them reacted at once.

At this time, three eye-catching white smoke had risen from the beacon tower in the northeast, and a sharp-eyed Han army soldier suddenly pointed to the northeast and shouted: "Look, there are three bundles of white smoke in the northeast!" ”

Xiahou Zao and the captain of the Han military academy looked at each other in shock, there were three bundles of white smoke in the northeast, and the meaning could not be more obvious, which showed that Xiang Zheng, the prince of Chu, did not lie at all, he said that he was going to cross the river in Pi's, and the result was really to cross the river with all his strength in Pi's, but General Li Lao made a false and real thing, and the result was that the elite of the five thousand Han army pounced on it.

"Old general, let's quickly retreat to Liyang!" Xiahou Zao was the first to react, once the Pi clan was broken through by the Chu army, once the river was lost, Liyang would become the last barrier to protect the eastern part of Xianyang. …,

"No, you can't retreat to Liyang." Li Zuoche shook his head categorically and said, "If our army retreats to Liyang, the Chu army will go south to attack Tongguan!" If Tongguan is lost, the army of Gao Chu, the general of Chu, will join forces with Xiang Zheng, the prince of Chu, and there is no danger to defend from Tongguan to Xianyang, what do we use to resist Xiang Zheng and Gao Chu's 100,000 iron armor? ”

Xiahou Zao frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "What does the old general mean?" ”

"Retreat to Linjin!" Li Zuoche said in an unquestionable tone, "Behind the side of the screen." ”

"What if Xiang Zheng doesn't take Linjin and takes Xianyang directly?" Xiahou Zao said, "What about it?" ”

"Xiang Zheng, he doesn't dare." Li Zuo lane, "It is a taboo for soldiers to attack the hinterland of the enemy country by hanging their divisions alone, if Xiang Zhengxiaoer really dares to lead the army to take Xianyang, the old man will cut off his back road, so that he will die without a place to be buried...... The Han army crossing on the other side of Pishi had been completely captured by the Chu army.

With the passage of time, wave after wave of Chu army soldiers have crossed to the west of the river, when the number of Chu troops ashore exceeded 5,000 people, the Han army on the west bank of the river finally completely collapsed, more than 5,000 Han troops gathered on the river beach died more than 1,000 in battle, and the remaining more than 3,000 people scattered in a hurry, most of them fled back to Xiayang.

Inspired by their exploits, the soldiers of the Chu army pursued and killed endlessly, and the forwards were about to chase down Xiayang City.

At this time, the Chu army had just crossed the river and went ashore, but the Chinese army suddenly sounded the sound of the gold, hearing the crisp sound of gold, although the officers and soldiers of the Chu army were unwilling, they could only pack up their ambitions and start to return to the west bank of the river to reorganize the team.

More than a dozen Chu army colonels came to Xiang Zheng and Gao Lang, and said with their hands in full swing: "Prince, general, the military spirit of the Han army has been dispersed, and Xia Yang in front can break through it with one blow, isn't this urging the army to attack the city?" ”

"Attack Xia Yang?" Xiang Zheng and Gao Lang glanced at each other, shook their heads with a smile, and said, "No, we don't have time to entangle too much with the Han army in Xiayang. ”

Gao Lang raised his horizontal knife and shouted loudly: "Pass my general's order, the whole army will go around Xiayang and take Xianyang directly!" (To be continued) RQ