Chapter 02: The Battle of the Castle (Part II)

In front of the two armies, a sharp-eyed Chu army soldier suddenly shouted: "Retreat, Qi army retreat!" ”

When everyone looked up in a hurry during the battle, they saw that the purple daqi of the Qi army had turned and was slowly retreating.

"Haha, Han Xin'er can't resist anymore!" Xiang Yu couldn't hide his excitement, and said to Xiang Zhuang, "Third brother, Daxu has given an order, all armies will step up their attacks and defeat the Qi army in one fell swoop!" ”

"No!" Xiang Zhuang gave the order as he said, but secretly shook his head again.

Although the Qi army is retreating, the Qi army has not collapsed because of this!

Han Xin was using his superb command skills to weave hundreds of thousands of Qi troops into a bouncy bow and crossbow, and the retreat at this time was just for a strong rebound in the near future.

Xiang Yu thought that the Qi army would not be defeated and retreated, but he was very wrong.

If someone else leads the troops, even if it is the former Qin famous general Bai Qi, under the thunderous onslaught of Xiang Yu and the Chu army, the Qi army is afraid that it will be impossible to escape defeat, but if it is replaced by Han Xin, it is another matter.

General Han Xin, the more the merrier, this is not nonsense.

In the era of cold weapons, whether it was in ancient China or the Western world, Han Xin was the only one who could command and dispatch tens of millions of people to advance and retreat freely in the battle formation, attacking and defending in an orderly manner!

This is by no means nonsense, throughout ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, there are countless examples of winning more with less, defeating the strong with the weak, and there are also many examples of showing the enemy weakness and luring the enemy to wear down the enemy, but in the case of commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to defeat the outnumbered, in the case of the first defeat, and can turn the situation back and finally win, except for Han Xin, there is really no second one!

In the sound of the majestic horn, the offensive of the Chu army was even more fierce, the Qi army fought and retreated, although it was chaotic but not as good as the rout, and time was quietly passing in the fierce battle between the two armies.

"Dead open!" Xiang Yu roared, the big iron halberd in his hand struggled to pick up, and the Qi army soldiers in front of him were suddenly provoked into the air, and screamed and tumbled and fell more than a dozen steps away, the nearby Qi army soldiers were all shocked, but none of them retreated half a step, and soon two more soldiers rushed forward bravely and blocked the gap again.

Xiang Yu finally stopped moving forward, and gasped violently with a halberd!

From the morning to now, Xiang Yu has been fighting for nearly half a day, he can't remember how long he has broken forward, let alone how many Qi troops he has killed, but the Qi army in front of him is still too many to count, Han Xin's purple daqi is not far ahead, as if it is within reach, but it can't be touched!

When the battle came to this, Xiang Yu also faintly felt that it was not easy to defeat the Qi army.

However, Xiang Yu was arrogant by nature, and he never took the heroes of the world in his eyes, let alone admitted his tactical mistakes, so he was never willing to order the withdrawal of troops at this time.

Xiang Zhuang knew that the Chu army must not attack forward again!

After half a day of fierce fighting, the formation of the Chu army has been opened, the left army and the rear army have been left behind, the middle army and the right army are gradually unable to keep up with the footsteps of the front army, if you attack again, the distance between the various departments of the Chu army will continue to widen, as a traverser, Xiang Zhuang knows very well that Han Xin did not do his best, he also left a back hand, Kong Xi and Chen He led the two armies are watching on the side, and they may crush up at any time to cut off the Chu army.

If the Chu army continues to attack, the famous battle of Qixia in history will definitely be staged, and the 100,000 Chu army will be completely defeated, and the number of people who can finally follow Xiang Yu to withdraw to the camp will not exceed 20,000!

"Brother Wang, you can't attack anymore!" Xiang Zhuang followed Xiang Yu and persuaded loudly, "The Qi army is tenacious enough, how easy is it to defeat it?" Moreover, our army's formation is too long, once Han Xinbu has an ambush, our army is likely to be cut off by the waist, and then our army will be difficult to take care of, even if you want to, you can't go. ”

"Shut up!" Xiang Yu was not moved at all, and said coldly, "Xiang Zhuang, it's not your turn to teach Gu how to fight!" ”

Xiang Zhuang suddenly closed his mouth in despair, if he wasn't a member of the Xiang family's descendants, he really wanted to turn around and leave.

After scolding Xiang Zhuang sharply, Xiang Yu raised the big iron halberd high in the air, and immediately shouted: "Order, Daxu forward, continue to attack, and defeat the Qi army!" ”

"Daxu forward, defeat the Qi army!"

"Daxu forward, defeat the Qi army!"

"Daxu forward, defeat the Qi army!"

The soldiers of the Chu army, who had survived the battle, shouted in response, and once again lifted their spirits and continued to attack.

Behind the sharp soldiers of the Chu army, the 20,000 Chu troops formed a larger attack arrow, and under the guidance of Xiang Yu's yellow daxuan, they converged into a torrent of steel, rolling forward with an unstoppable momentum, and in the distance, the tens of thousands of Chu troops in the middle and rear armies gradually couldn't keep up with the offensive rhythm of the front army, and the tens of thousands of Chu troops in the left and rear armies had long been left far behind.

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A hundred paces away, Han Xin's Chinese army was slowly retreating backwards with the purple daxu.

Under the encouragement of Xiang Yu, the Chu army broke out with the last sharp spirit, the offensive became more and more fierce, and the defense of the Qi army also felt obviously difficult, and more and more troops were scattered, defeated, and crushed, but with the absolute superiority of the troops, with Han Xin's timely and spicy battle array command, the Qi army stubbornly persevered.

No matter how the Chu army attacked, the Qi army just retreated slowly at its own pace.

On horseback, Han Xin, who was in white robe and white armor, was still so indifferent, from his face, there was not the slightest hint of tension at all, the battle of hundreds of thousands of people seemed to be just an insignificant game in his eyes, and hundreds of thousands of casualties were just a meaningless number in his eyes.

Only the pro-soldiers who were most familiar with Han Xin knew that King Qi was actually just as nervous.

Han Xin was indeed very nervous, but he did not form it outwardly, although he tried his best to despise Xiang Yu in front of people, but deep down, he did not have the slightest contempt for Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was able to lead 50,000 rabble, in the battle of the giant deer to defeat the well-trained and well-equipped 200,000 elite Qin army, the courage of its battle formation, inspired the three armies of the sharpness, can be described as the pinnacle, unparalleled in ancient times!

In a confrontation with a strong general like Xiang Yu, the slightest carelessness will be the end of the rout of the whole army!

However, Han Xin is Han Xin after all, under Xiang Yu's thunderous onslaught, he led the Qi army to fight and retreat, although there was a local rout, but it did not form a rout of the whole army, and with the passage of time, the distance between the various units of the Chu army has been significantly widened, and the situation is evolving in the direction of the Qi army, and the final victory is already close at hand!

Behind Han Xin, Guan Ying, Cao Shen, Li Zuoche and other generals all looked solemn, and if they were replaced by any of them to lead the army, it would never be possible to be like Han Xin, dispatching all armies like an arm, even in the face of the fierce attack of the Chu army, they could also fight and retreat, calmly and without collapse, Han Xin's ability to lead the troops, although Sun Wu was not as good as the reincarnation!

Before you know it, noon has passed, and the sun has begun to set in the west.

Suddenly, Han Xin turned his horse, raised his right hand lightly, stretched out his index finger and pressed forward, and said lightly: "Daxu sent an order, all armies and departments stopped retreating, turned back to attack on the spot, and then raised fire in the rear formation, and ordered Kong Xi and Chen He to lead their troops to attack and intercept the Chu Chinese army, making it difficult for them to take care of each other. ”

"The king has an order to annihilate the Chu army, and it should be today!"

"The king has an order to annihilate the Chu army, and it should be today!"

"The king has an order to annihilate the Chu army, and it should be today!"

Hundreds of orders flew away, Han Xin's general order quickly spread throughout the whole army, and the various units of the Qi army that were fighting and retreating immediately changed their rear teams to the front teams, and turned around to launch a counteroffensive, and the various departments and songs that had been defeated by the Chu army also regrouped in the rear under the reprimand of the generals, regrouped, and immediately put into the final counterattack.

At the same time, two eye-catching wolf smoke had also risen from the rear of the Qi army.

In an instant, the wasteland on the north and south sides of the wasteland rose with overwhelming shouts.

In less than a moment, hundreds of thousands of Qi army foot soldiers had emerged from the horizon and rushed towards the waist of the Chu army formation from the north and south.

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Seeing the Qi army ambushing the surging soldiers, the officers and soldiers of the Chu army all changed color.

Ambush, the Qi army really has ambushes, and it is really desperate to be ambushed at this time.

In front of the two armies, Xiang Yu still maintained the composure that the commander should have, but in his pair of terrifying tiger eyes, there was already a look of anxiety that could not be concealed: the cunning Han Xinxiao really set up an ambush, and the Qi army launched an ambush to intercept the Chinese army of the Chu army at this time, which was really fatal.

The situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse, and Xiang Yu had to return to the position of commander.

In less than a moment, the flying cavalry reported a lot of unfavorable news to Xiang Yu, at this moment, the connection between the front army led by Xiang Yu and the rear army and the left army has been completely severed, and the middle army and the right army have also fallen into a heavy siege.

Xiang Yu pondered for a moment, and then shouted categorically: "Daxu retreats and responds to the Chinese army!" ”

Xiang Zhuang almost fainted on the spot when he heard this, when he shouldn't have attacked before, Xiang Yu chose to attack, and when it was not appropriate to retreat at this moment, Xiang Yu chose to retreat again, it seems that after a series of defeats, Xiang Yu has obviously messed up his mind, Xiang Yu at this time is no longer the overlord of Western Chu when the Qin State was destroyed at the beginning and the world was divided.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang didn't care about touching Xiang Yu's scales, and hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him: "Brother Wang, don't you order a retreat at this time, isn't it just Han Xin's calculation?" At this time, only by taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qi army to return to engage in the battle can we move forward bravely, break through the Chinese army in one go, seize the Chinese army, and kill Han Xin, so that it is possible to turn defeat into victory in this battle! ”

The fierce general Huan Chu also echoed loudly: "Yes, the king, fuck it!" ”

Xiang Yu was not moved at all, and insisted on going his own way and brazenly issued an order for the whole army to retreat.

After the order was given, the Chu army, which was already at the end of the crossbow, collapsed in an instant, Han Xin or not as good as Xiang Yu's three armies, but when it came to commanding a million troops, Xiang Yu couldn't catch up with Han Xin, so Han Xin could lead 300,000 Qi troops to fight and go, rout but not defeated, and Xiang Yu led 100,000 Chu troops from advance to retreat, but collapsed in an instant.

The battle of Qixia, due to Xiang Yu's insistence, was finally staged truthfully according to the script in history!

The 100,000 Chu army was defeated again and again, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and in the end, there were less than 20,000 people left who could follow Xiang Yu back to the camp, and the remaining more than 80,000 people were all annihilated!