Chenggao is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the climate and scenery are different from those in the south of the Yangtze River.

The breeze was cool, blowing from the water, with a slight earthy smell, and this slightly familiar smell made the eyes of the Chu soldiers holding torches begin to redden.

The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years.

From the moment they left their hometown to cross the Yangtze River in the north, the lives of these young Chu pawns were involuntarily, and they handed over their young lives to this tall and mighty man in front of them, hoping that he could take them back to their hometown one day in fine clothes, and one day return to their hometown, zaijian Gaotang.

Xiang Yu, can you do it?

Four years ago, the answer was yes.

And now, everything is unknown.

The person who led to this confused result was approaching step by step, and under the reflection of the firelight, Li Yuan.

Xiang Yu looked coldly at the Qin army team that was getting closer and closer in the dark, this was the enemy army covered in black armor, like a thick fog that could not be dissolved, so that he could not see the truth clearly, and could not find the weak point.

Rigorous battle formation.

Soldiers such as the halberd sword beryllium standing in the forest. There are also terrifying homogeneous faces that are silent, which makes people feel the powerful shock power from these Qin soldiers.

"That's it, Li Thief really has a set, let him go tonight." Xiang Yu sighed lightly, waved his hand at the rear formation, and signaled his generals not to act rashly without receiving orders.

Li Yuan's guess is not bad, Xiang Yu's character is indeed stronger than Liu Bang, however, there is another thing he didn't guess, Xiang Yu did take the opportunity to test Li Yuan's meaning by talking secretly at night, the two elites of Chu and Qin fought at close range at night, and the battle of wits and courage between the two main generals was what Xiang Yu liked to do.

"Li Wuhou, you're finally here, haha, Xiang still thinks that you don't dare to come to see you?" Xiang Yu hahadaxiao came out with a cone of the horses. One person and one ride, like the iron tower mountain, the long halberd and heavy sword, it looks majestic.

Li Yuan came out without hurry, sweating and disdainfully glanced at the ugly black guy opposite, raised his proud and beautiful head high, and hissed a long "Herod".

This provocative gesture of the sweaty horse made the black cone horse immediately angry, and he kept kicking the ground with his front hooves to show his anger. However, it attracted more and more severe involvement from the master, and Xiang Yu, who focused on Li Yuan, was obviously not interested in the emotions of the war horse under his crotch.

"Overlord, invite me tonight, Li is only here for the life and death of my Great Qin prisoner, the Ming people don't say dark words, what conditions does the overlord have, please speak up." Li Yuan said indifferently.

"Okay, happy, it's a man. Li Yuan. The combat strength of the cavalry under your command is good, and Xiang Mou is hot-eyed, but unfortunately my Dachu is located in the south, and it is not easy to raise horses. How's the deal, one Hetao horse for twenty captives? Xiang Yu said loudly. The heavy pupils shone with a glint of hope.

Li Yuan was silent.

Xiang Yu finally said the true purpose, all the alliances and negotiations. And the anger on the high platform, etc., are just a means to hide their attention, when. Xiang Yu, who has always been straightforward, has also learned to use these tactics, although he is still a little rusty in the methods used.

The state of Chu lacked horses.

This is a congenital disadvantage, in history, Xiang Yu in a difficult situation, still formed a group of 5,000 light cavalry, in the battle of Pengcheng Liu Bang's princes coalition army of 500,000 people defeated, it can be said that Xiang Yu in the use of cavalry raid tactics, is an expert.

If Xiang Yu's request was agreed, in order to redeem as many as more than 100,000 prisoners, the Qin State would need to pay the Chu army 5,000 horses, a number that surprised Li Yuan.

With 5,000 healthy horses in hand, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army has increased by more than one grade, and it can be said that the addition of 5,000 elite cavalry will make the entire Kwantung region become Xiang Yu's attack range, which is unbearable for the Qin State, which is currently very scattered. As for the treaty of peace talks to stop the war or something, Li Yuan would not believe it, and Xiang Yu was the same.

"Overlord, what do you want in exchange for a war horse?" Li Yuan let out a long breath and continued to ask quietly.

"Haha, Li Wuhou is really a very smart person, Xiang heard that the Qin army is equipped with a saddle that allows soldiers to rest on horses, if Wuhou agrees, it is better to deliver it to me with a saddle and a horse, how, as for the price, we can talk about it in detail." Xiang Yu said triumphantly.

From Li Yuan's hesitation, he sensed the other party's ambivalence towards the prisoners, as long as Li Yuan was concerned, he had the hope of negotiating this deal, thinking that it would be possible to form a cavalry army that would dominate the world in the future, Xiang Yu's heart suddenly became fanatical.

"The overlord has a good calculation, using a group of captives in exchange for a sharp weapon to gallop the world, if this deal spreads, my Daqin will inevitably suffer too much." Li Yuan said coldly.

"Haha, Wuhou's words are not right, Xiang's idea, in fact, was reminded by Wuhou, I heard that Liu Bang spent a lot of money and grain in order to redeem the prisoners, otherwise, where would Qin have the financial resources to build the capital of Chang'an. Today, I'm just drawing a gourd like that. Xiang Yu said with a smile.

Li Yuan's transaction to squeeze money from Liu Bang became known to more and more people with Liu Bang's defeat, and Xiang Yu knew about it, and it was natural for Xiang Yu to know about it. However, he was able to transplant it quickly, and made the initiator Li Yuan a forced trading partner, which is really impressive.

"What if I don't say yes?" Li Yuan stared at the arrogant and presumptuous Xiang Yu and said word by word.

"If Wuhou doesn't allow it, of course he can't help it, but those prisoners who are loyal to the Qin State will be miserable, come and send a team of Qin soldiers up to show Wuhou." Xiang Yu sneered.

With Xiang Yu's order, Xiang Ying, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, raised his whip high and slapped it fiercely on a group of hungry and panicked prisoners who only relied on a little hope to stand.

Ma Jin's lowered head slowly raised, and there was only one name in his heart that kept shouting: Wuhou, Wuhou. Even if he was trapped in the enemy country, Li Yuan's name still made the prisoners feel hope, it was he who led a team of Qin generals to defeat one strong enemy after another in a desperate situation, it was he who recaptured the lost capital, and drove those Kwantung bandits who shouted slogans against the tyrannical Qin out of Guanzhong.

Now, it was him again, defeating Liu Bang, Chen Yu, Sima Mao and other opponents one after another, and expanding the territory of Great Qin from the west of Hangu Pass to the border of Chu.

"Smack!"

The whip struck straight at Ma Jin's face, and immediately exploded a deep blood groove that could be seen in the bones, Ma Jin narrowed his eyes, did not wipe the blood on his face, and stared in a daze at the young Qin general dressed as an ordinary Qin military captain not far away.

"Xiang Ying, kill him." Xiang Yu's heavy pupils flashed, and he casually pointed at one of the prisoners. Unfortunately, when all the captives bowed their heads, Ma Jin, who raised his head, became the target of everyone.

"Overlord and optimistic." Xiang Ying sneered, put away the whip and took the sword in his hand, and was about to stab at Ma Jin.

"Brothers, fight." In desperation, Ma Jin shouted, and out of nowhere, a burst of strength burst out of nowhere, and crashed into Xiang Ying, who was caught off guard.

"Look for death." Xiang Ying had just pulled out his sword, but when he saw Ma Jin himself sticking forward, he couldn't help but have a teasing smile on his face. A captive who was so thin that he was only skinny and bones, even if he had a little strength, could not do anything to him on a horse.

Ma Jin shouted with blood on his face, bowed down and hit Xiang Ying's war horse sideways, this person collided with the horse, according to common sense, people must not get anything cheap, but this time it was very surprising, although Ma Jin was knocked out and ejected far away, but Xiang Ying's war horse also seemed to be seriously frightened, from the neck of his flank horse, a hot horse blood was like an open water dragon, flowing down the strands.

Centaur Wars.

The one surnamed Ma eventually defeated the brute force animal with his wisdom. In the collision just now, the broken pottery shard in Ma Jin's hand cut open the neck stem artery of Xiang Ying's mount.

The horse that had lost too much blood fell to its knees with a bang, and flipped Xiang Ying off the horse, and the prisoners were still a little nervous, but now when they saw Ma Jin's successful blow, they immediately surrounded them with enthusiasm, trapping Xiang Ying in the center.

"Wuhou, Wuhou!"

"Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains, blood will not be drained, and death will not be truce!" In the ranks of the captives, I don't know who it was, hummed the low and desolate war song of the Qin army, which was sung by the prisoners, and added their hardships in the past few years of struggling to survive, which made the listeners all sentimental.

"Ready, all the pit killing!" Xiang Yu's face changed drastically, and he shouted angrily, he didn't expect that these prisoners who had been secretly living in Pengcheng for four years like ants had not lost their fighting spirit until now, and this shame of being resisted by ants made Xiang Yu lose his mind all of a sudden.

At this moment, Xiang Yu returned to the previous kind of fierce general of the Chu army who turned a blind eye to everything and devoured and killed the belligerent, and was no longer the overlord of the Western Chu State.

"Overlord, the quid pro quo of the mill, do you still have to count?" Li Yuanchang took a breath and shouted at Xiang Yu.

"What is not counted? What did you say? Xiang Yu's raised hand stopped in mid-air, and he realized what Li Yuan meant halfway through his words.

"Overlord, we can talk about exchanging prisoners for war horse saddles, if you kill them, then my Qin State and Western Chu really have nothing to talk about." Li Yuan replied solemnly.

The resistance of the group of Qin army captives in front of him made Li Yuan's thoughts fluctuate and it was difficult to calm down, these Qin soldiers to be honest, he didn't know any of them, and the Qin army that failed tragically in Julu and Thorn Plains had no intersection with Li Yuan.

But today, Li Yuan was moved by them.

The shouts of "Wuhou" and the battle songs were soaked with the desire for life of these Qin prisoners, although they did not know each other, they were the same as the Qin army behind Li Yuan, they all wore the same armor and held the same weapons, and they also had the same name: Great Qin. (To be continued......)

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