Velocity.

It is the advantage that the Huns rely on the most.

Zhou Lan was helpless in the face of the annihilation of the grain transport troops sent out one after another, and the logistics and supply of the Chu army were in trouble. In the face of one failed emergency report, Zhou Lan's pale face gradually showed despair, all his thoughts were occupied by fear, and his mind was not thinking more about how to defeat the Hun rangers, but how to escape with his life and return to his home in Pengcheng.

The Chu army was in turmoil.

And what is more urgent is that the danger encountered in the back road, located on the first line of the Hunhe River, Xiang Yu understands, but does not pay too much attention to it, with his thoughts, the attack is only a partial division of the Huns, with the strength of nearly 20,000 people under Zhou Lan, it may not be possible to eliminate a wandering army without a foundation for a while, but there will be no problem in protecting the baggage.

Chu Jun's new five tiger generals, although Zhou Lan ranked last, but also followed him Xiang Yu through many vicious battles such as giant deer, and there is no doubt about his ability, but what Xiang Yu didn't expect was that after Zhou Lan was promoted to the five tiger generals, he gradually lost the motivation and goal to move forward, and the death of his best friend Huan Chu made him have deep doubts about the future.

What do people live for?

Isn't it just to be able to one day be crowned a wife and a son, and to be able to enjoy the privileges brought by high-ranking officials? Now, he Zhou Lan has climbed to the position of the general of the Chu State, and there is no possibility of going up, and if he continues to stay on the battlefield full of dangers, he will only become a headless cold corpse like Huan Chu, as soon as he thinks of this, Zhou Lan feels cold all over his body, and the whole person will tremble uncontrollably.

Early July.

When another team of baggage sent from Pengcheng was plundered by the Xubu Hun Division, Zhou Lan, who couldn't bear Xiang Yu's severe reprimand, was disheartened, and unexpectedly led 10,000 people from his headquarters to leave Jixian County and retreat to the Qidi area.

Zhou Lan, who was wandering, finally made a decision to follow the example of Zhong Liwu, who was independent and independent, and looked for a remote county on the edge of the sea in Qidi to live her own small life.

This order of his caused disagreement within the Chu army in Jixian County. Not all the Chu army guards obeyed Zhou Lan's orders, and more than 4,000 Chu troops in the city chose to continue to defend the city, and the reason why they stayed was mainly to hope that Xiang Yu's martial arts on the battlefield could continue and lead them to win more glory and merit.

The generals who followed Zhou Lan were mostly disappointed and dissatisfied with the current war situation, and like Zhou Lan, they only wanted to find a safe and stable place, marry another woman, and reproduce their offspring.

The abnormal changes in Zhou Lan's Chu army made Xu Buhun, who had been looking for fighters in the outskirts of Jixian County, overjoyed. In fact, the Chu army was very harassed by the attack, and Su Buhun's life was actually not easy.

Storming cities is not the strong point of the Hun cavalry. And dealing with a foot soldier who has no long-range strike ability in the field is the favorite job of the Hun cavalry.

Six thousand rangers.

There were not many real battle losses, but a quarter of them fell due to illness, and these men from Wuhuan Mountain and Mobei suffered a sharp reduction in combat effectiveness in the hot and humid weather of summer.

Youyan is not Mobei.

After more than 200 years of reclamation and development in the Yan Kingdom, the land here is more used for cultivation than grazing. The people here are also accustomed to the farming culture of the Central Plains, and have always had a hostile attitude towards the nomadic people of the steppe. Helplessly endure the bites of mosquitoes in summer.

Contagious diseases are one of the more terrifying things in this era than war. The medical skills of the Huns can only be described by a few words of primitive obscurantism, in desperation. Subhun had no choice but to order the sick soldiers to be deceived into a deserted valley with no people, and then, in the form of mass slaughter. Help them relieve their pain.

Waiting is an extremely painful thing, especially watching his companions scream and die day by day, unlike Zhou Lan, who has no desires, for the position of the Right Xian King, Xu Buhun must grit his teeth and persevere, even if he reaches Zuihou's soldiers, he will have to wait until the moment when Mao Dun defeats the Chu army.

In the process of retreating, Zhou Lanbu was constantly bloodied by the Huns, and although the losses were not much, they had an extremely important impact on morale.

July 10th.

Zhou Lan was surrounded by the Huns on the north bank of Yishui, and in desperation, the general of the Chu army launched a suicidal attack, and the result was very tragic, trying to avoid Zhou Lan who was cut off by the Huns, Zuihou could only become the latest one in the crotch drowning weapon of the Hun Zuogu Liwang.

Of the 10,000 Chu army's baggage troops, only 1,000 people did not cross the river from the shallows of Yishui and fled to the territory of the Qin State, so they escaped the interception and killing of the Huns.

Hearing the drastic changes in the rear army, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up the confrontation with the Huns on the front line of the Hunhe River, and instead retreated the defense line to the area of Jixian County, and Mao Dun learned that after the success of the division of Xu Buhun, he immediately led the army to pounce with all his strength, trying to attack from the north and south, and surrounded and annihilated the Chu army in Yandi in one fell swoop.

Northern.

The storm has changed dramatically.

July 12th.

The state of Chu urgently sent an envoy to the city of Handan of the Qin state, where he met Han Xin, the chief general of the Qin army in the area of Handan County and Dai County.

Last year, Kuaiche was defeated in the political struggle for the dominance of the Chu State, and was subsequently thrown into prison by Xiang Tuo, his teacher Shusun Tong fled the Yan State, An Qisheng was unjustly killed, the alliance's foreign relative Yu Liliang was also marginalized, and the new Shili group that rebelled against Xiang was completely defeated in the struggle for power.

After nearly a year in captivity, Quicher bowed his head.

As a wise man who is good at vertical and horizontal arts, it is stupid to give his life in vain like this, in Zuihou's letter of guilt to Xiang Yu, Kuaihou did not say much about his merits and claims, he just repeatedly stated that Chu State currently lacks good arguments, and he still has the sincerity to serve the overlord.

As for the previous differences, it was just an internal battle of righteousness, and it was over when it passed, and I hope that the overlord and the lord of Xiangguo will not care about it.

This time, the Chu army was in danger of being completely annihilated by the Huns, and Xiang Tuo, who was sitting in Pengcheng, decided to send an envoy to Qin to lobby after learning of the defeat of the Yandi Zhou Lan army. At the same time, Wei Bao, the king of Wei, Zhong Lifu, the marquis of Changshan, Wu Rui, the king of Changsha and other princes, Xiang Tuo also sent envoys to go.

Things are different now.

At present, the biggest enemy of the princes is no longer the Qin State, but a huge threat from the north: the Xiongnu.

In the face of as many as 300,000 or 400,000 Hun cavalry, relying only on the broken rammed-earth Great Wall on the border line and relying only on the strength of one country, it was impossible to stop Maodun, who was determined to sweep the Central Plains.

Other princes, candidates are easy to choose, as long as they can speak well, but the envoy sent to Qin made it difficult for Xiang Tuo, originally Xiang Bo was the right person, and the last time Cheng Gao would be a coalition was also made by Xiang Bo's lobbying, but this time, Xiang Bo went to the north with Xiang Yu.

Among the officials who stayed in Pengcheng, there were very few who had a relationship with the Qin State, among them, the children of the Xiang family had nothing to do with the Li Yuan branch of the Qin State.

In his early years, Kui Che once defected to Wei Wangbao, and had several acquaintances with Han Xin, the general of the Eastern Front of Qin, and the last time he went to Qin, he got along very well with Chen Ping, Guan Yue and others in the Qin Dynasty.

Daishire.

In the past, the hometown of Zhongshan Kingdom is located in the south of Yishui and the north of Taihang Jingcheng, bordering Yunzhong County in the northwest and Changshan Country in the southeast, and its northeast is the jurisdiction of Yan Kingdom.

After the outbreak of the Chu-Hungarian War, Han Xin's imminent location continued to move northward, and the main force of the Qin army's eastern front also moved north at the same time to guard against possible mutations.

The many scouts of the Qin army were active in the Guyan region this summer, and the continuous entanglement between the Xiongnu division and the Zhou Lan division of the Chu army made Han Xin surprised by the combat strength of the Huns, but also worried about the predicament that the Chu army was about to face.

Did he take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the emptiness in the rear of the Chu State to take advantage of the gap to enter and destroy the Western Chu State? Or is it based on the overall situation of resisting foreign invasions, and send troops to unite with the Chu army to fight against the Xiongnu?

In terms of the grand strategy related to the national policy of the Qin State, Han Xin is only the main general of one side, and the real decision-making power must be decided by Li Yuan, what he can do is to truthfully feedback the battle situation of Yandi to the Shenwu Marquis Mansion. (To be continued......)