Chapter 421: A River of Blood
The battle began in the early hours of the morning.
Xiang Zhuang rarely waited patiently until the Qin army scouts patrolling the camp were the most sleepy.
The most lethal thing in the battle of night attack is not how many enemies you kill, but how many enemies you accidentally fall into the enemy's trap. Xiang Zhuang's army swooped up from the mountains and forests. They had been dormant for most of the night, their expressions were hideous, their mouths were screaming at some unknown sound, and their bodies were even more muddy, like ghosts that had escaped from the mountains.
The tired Qin army scouts showed enough tenacity in the face of the sudden blow, and the second team of Qin troops facing Xiang Zhuang's army sent one person back to the camp to report the news, that is, under the command of the team leader, they fearlessly launched a reverse charge against the other party.
Charge and counter-charge.
The two torrents were swaying rapidly, shouting and drinking, just like boiling hot water, only one was huge, but the other was tiny, Xiang Zhuang's eyes narrowed, and the two teams of Qin troops in front of him made him feel familiar as in the past, once upon a time, on the battlefield of the Central Plains, when Xiang Chujun first met Li Yuan's new Qin army, the situation was the same as today.
"Don't think that by being brave, by not being afraid of death, you can stop us-!" Xiang Zhuang sneered and ordered to leave a group of Qin army scouts who were going to fight hard, and the rest of the main force continued to attack the Qin camp without stopping.
Time.
For raiders, it's invaluable.
Xiang Zhuang is nearly thirty years old, and more importantly, after a series of changes, he has grown from a reckless and reckless general who thinks little to a leader with independent thinking ability and his own firm beliefs.
Xiang Yu was defeated and died.
Xiang vanished.
The former family elders, brothers and relatives are all gone. Only Xiang Zhuang is alone, still walking lonely on the road of anti-Qin Fuchu.
You only get one chance.
The opportunity is here.
Xiang Zhuang did not hesitate to personally lead his troops to attack Ji Bu's Chinese army camp, and only by destroying the center of the Qin army in the shortest possible time could his surprise attack achieve the greatest results.
In the Qin camp.
Soldiers who hastily woke up from their sleep. One by one, they were kicked and urged by the army commander and the chief, and when they ran out of the camp in a daze, they found that the entire military camp was already a sea of fire.
Xiang Zhuangjun had already burst in.
In order to create even greater chaos, Xiang Zhuang divided his troops, and under the leadership of an old soldier of Xiang Chu, launched an attack on the Qin camp's baggage dumping place and the place where the wounded and sick were treated, while he himself continued to charge and fight fiercely towards the location of Ji Buzhong's army.
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Jibu had just fallen asleep.
The unfavorable first battle made him feel a lot more depressed, and the little pain on his body was compared to the stalemate of the war. It's nothing at all.
A soldier can die for a confidant.
As a general of the Chu State, Ji Bu was under Li Yuan and received the greatest freedom and power that he did not receive under Xiang Yu.
Overlord Xiang Yu may be unique in this era in terms of personal bravery, but in terms of how to command and coordinate an army, or how to distribute the power of his subordinate generals, so that each of their strengths can be brought into play, Xiang Yu's achievements are unqualified.
This is also Xiang Yu's four-year Chu-Han War with Liu Bang. One of the reasons why the initial dominant side eventually became the losing side.
In contrast, Li Yuan's employment strategy is bold and incredible, employing people without suspicion and suspicion. In almost every battle, a new person will emerge in the Qin army, whether this newcomer is a native of Guanzhong or a new Qin from the land of Kwantung. Or simply generals like Ji Bu and Ji Xin.
Abandon the confinement of birth, and only talk about heroes based on human talents.
This kind of concept is unimaginable to the people in power in various countries who have always been centered on scholars and doctors since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. And the failure of Xiang Yu's Chu State in employing people, in addition to the fact that the Xiang family is dominant, the more important reason is that Xiang Yu, the descendant of Xiang Yan, the general of the Chu State, attaches too much importance to his background.
In the midst of tossing and turning, Ji Bu was still thinking about what to do tomorrow when he suddenly heard a shout outside, and then the tent door was lifted, and a halberd man rushed in in panic.
"General, it's not good, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Zhuang has been killed."
"Xiang Zhuang-!" This name made Ji Bu violently hit a spirit, and for the cousin of the overlord Xiang Yu, Ji Bu couldn't be more familiar.
Xiang Zhuang's bravery.
Among the generals of the Chu army, it is famous.
What worries Ji Bu even more is that Xiang Zhuang has been holding high the banner of Fuchu in the past two years, and it can be said that he has been defeated again and again, and he has been defeated again and again, no matter how the Qin army encircled and hunted down, it did not make Xiang Zhuang obey his orders, from this point of view, Xiang Zhuang's tenacity and persistence can not help but be impressive.
"Order, Tianlei Army, gather in the direction of the Chinese army, and the rest of the troops, block the incoming enemy, and those who withdraw without an order will be killed." Jibu shouted a command.
What will Xiang Zhuang do?
Ji Bu guessed that Xiang Zhuang would definitely kill his Chinese army directly, and if he wanted to stop Xiang Zhuang's attack, as far as the current Qin army was concerned, only the mysterious army left by Li Yuan, the power of the heavenly thunder would have a surprising effect. It's just that after being used in tonight's night raid, all the reserved hole cards of the Qin army have also been used up, and if there is any unexpected situation in the future, it can only fight to the death with a stream of blood.
The night is like ink.
Only on this high hill on the bank of the Ganshui River, fires erupted everywhere, and the sound of tearing and killing and explosions rang out.
More than 300 soldiers of the Tianlei Army, around Ji Bu's Chinese army tent, formed a small circular formation, on their side, Ji Bu's personal soldiers are responsible for protecting these Jishu troops, every time the enemy approaches, they will rush up desperately, entangle the opponent, so that the Tianlei soldiers can smoothly return to their own military formation.
Xiang Zhuang can kill sexually.
Less than a hundred steps ahead, that is, Ji Bu's Chinese army camp, but this hundred steps, Xiang Zhuang's army was extremely difficult, the kind of desperate clay pots that popped up from time to time in the enemy formation, again and again made the brave soldiers fall in a pool of blood, and the strong shock wave generated by the explosion made groups of soldiers feel terrified.
"What is this?"
"Is it a holy object that the Qin people asked for from the gods?"
Chu was born between Jiang Ze, and his belief in the gods of heaven and earth was innate, and in this era dominated by cold weapons, the Qin army suddenly sacrificed this new weapon that could deter the opponent without physical contact, and suddenly broke up the heart of Xiang Zhuang's army, which was already a patchwork piece.
"Qin Dog, damn it! Great Chu soldiers, follow me to kill. Xiang Zhuang hissed angrily, ignoring the dissuasion of the soldiers beside him, and rushed towards the smoke with one arrow step.
The smoke chokes people's noses.
The fragments of the clay pot flew around irregularly, and in the face of such danger, Xiang Zhuang resolutely put life and death aside, and his move also boosted the morale of the Chu army generals.
At this moment, Xiang Zhuang in front of them has become the incarnation of the overlord Xiang Yu.
If the number of archers is large, it can be formed into three rows to prevent the enemy from attacking with continuous dense bullet rain, but this time, the number of three hundred people can only form a thin line array, and Xiang Zhuang risked a rush to kill, just choosing the right time.
Seeing that the Chu army pounced, Ji Bu's personal soldiers did not slack off, and immediately greeted him, and the two sides started a hand-to-hand battle of life and death on this slope.
Ji Bu also didn't care about the injury on his shoulder, picked up an iron sword, and fought with the Chu army, at this time, the test was no longer tactics and stratagem, but liliang and courage.
"Jibu, you traitor, you can't imagine that there will be today." Xiang Zhuang shouted wildly, strode forward, raised his sword and fell, and immediately cut off one person, and none of the Qin soldiers in front of him were his opponents.
"Xiang Zhuang, do you think that with this little bit of yours, you will be able to recover Chu? Be careful of falling into the trap of the Yue people? Ji Bu snorted coldly, the Tao is not the same, Xiang Zhuang's dedication to Fu Chu is something that no one can dissuade, and Ji Bu does not think that with his nod to Xiang Zhuang, he can let him put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot.
"Haha, trap, tonight, I'm going to kill a river of blood for you traitors to see, when the time comes, I will send your Ji Bu's head to Chang'an, and show it to the invincible King Qin Wu, this is the fate of defecting to him." Xiang Zhuang said triumphantly.
Xiang Zhuang and Ji Bu each led a team of soldiers to fight in one place, the single martial arts of the two people were originally comparable, Ji Bu was able to rank third among the five tiger generals of Chu State, and he was also quite capable, but the disadvantage was that Ji Bu's left shoulder had just been injured, and he couldn't do anything.
With only one right hand, it became much more difficult for Ji Bu to defeat Xiang Zhuang.
With the passage of time, the two sides of Qin and Chu have been completely torn apart, and there is no advantage in distance, and the power of the Tianlei Army is also unable to exert itself for a while, and even some soldiers of the Tianlei Army have no choice but to pull the pottery bomb on their bodies after all the soldiers they protect are killed, and they die with the enemy.
The power of the explosion sent limbs flying in all directions.
Gradually, many Chu soldiers began to deliberately avoid the soldiers of the Tianlei Army, and chose to find some ordinary soldiers of the Qin Army who were easy to deal with as opponents, and their avoidance made more Chu soldiers follow suit.
Xiang Zhuang's expression began to become impatient.
The tenacity of the Qin army in front of him did not make him expect, and what was agreed with Mei Juan at the beginning, when Xiang Chu's army entered the Qin camp, Mei Juan's troops would also be killed from the city, and Jihua who surrounded and annihilated the Qin army in one fell swoop, for some reason, after Xiang Chu's army had broken into the Qin camp for an hour, Mei Juan still disappeared. (To be continued......)