Chapter 242

The drums of war.

Resounding in the yellow-brown earth where the grass was growing, a thin weed was repeatedly trampled by the feet of the Han soldiers, and every time it tried to stand up, but before it could get up, it was trampled down again.

Liu Bang, who had made up his mind about the decisive battle, had red eyes, and a pair of big hands with exposed green muscles clenched the wheels tightly, and when a team of soldiers wore fiery red armor and carried a variety of weapons passing in front of its car, Liu Bang couldn't help but shout loudly.

"The wind, the wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and the warriors are guarding the four directions."

The desolate Chu dialect, and Liu Bang's hoarse voice, made this war song of the Han army spread rapidly, Xiahou Ying, Xiao He and Lu Juan and other Han army generals moved their lips, humming loudly along with the rhythm, and after a while, this song became the marching horn of the Han army.

Without a brave and fearless general, Liu Bang used war songs to boost morale, and this time the decisive battle, the Han army almost poured out.

More than 90,000 troops were divided into three divisions by Liu Bang, of which 50,000 were the Chinese army, which was personally led by him, and the actual command was handed over to the general Xiahou Ying.

The left wing of 20,000 people, commanded by the newly promoted young Han general Jin She, Jin She is from Langzhong next to Liu Bang, in terms of loyalty, it can be described as a red seedling, Liu Bang does not have to worry about whether he will use all his strength, nor do you have to think about whether Jin She's left wing will be timid before fighting.

Under the influence of Chen Feng's mutiny, Liu Bang became more and more conservative in employing people, which made a group of newly promoted generals of the Han army lose the most opportunity to prove themselves. The right wing of the Han army was handed over to Mei Juan, the Yue general from Wuling, and the barbarian Yue generals of the Mei Five Tigers brought a total of 3,000 people this time, plus more than 12,000 troops belonging to Mei Juan, and the Han army Liliang on the right wing also reached about 15,000 people.

Smashing pots and selling iron, just this one.

The heroic Liu Bang only left less than 1,000 old and weak guards to guard the barracks, and the rest of the generals each carried dry food for more than ten days, as well as their own personal valuables, and set foot on the battlefield of death.

Even Xiao He, a civilian official in charge of logistics. also followed Liu Bang's left and right, and Yingdu's internal affairs now don't need him to bother more.

In this battle, if the Han army wins, everything will be fine.

If he loses, Xiao He doesn't need to go back to Nanjun to face a series of headaches for him, in order to raise 100,000 troops of food, Xiao He can be said to have resorted to various methods, including intimidation, threats, promises and other shady means, after writing an unknown number of empty checks, and scavenging a little surplus grain from many local people in Nanjun in summer and autumn, Xiao He left with the chorus of the people of Nanjun.

As you can imagine. Regardless of whether the Han army wins or not, what awaits the people of Nanjun will be an unforgettable summer. When the time comes, starving corpses will be everywhere, and the sharp decline in the number of people will be an inevitable result.

You must know that in the four-year war between Chu and Han in history, in order to support Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops fighting on the front line, countless Qin people in the Guanzhong area were starved to death, and this point has not been clearly recorded in many historical books since the Han Dynasty, if it were not for the upright stroke of the great historian Sima Qian, who was punished by the palace. How the people of Guanzhong fared after the three chapters of the covenant will not be mentioned at all.

For the Confucian scholars who touted the Han Dynasty, what they liked to relish was the allusion to the three chapters of the covenant in the entry of Gaozu Liu Bang, as for whether this agreement was implemented, it was completely out of consideration.

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Downstream of Yushui.

Five miles east of Wollongong. It is a natural grassland with green grass and open terrain, which is close to Chidao and is in the center of the two armies of the Qin army and the Han army, so it has inevitably become the main battlefield of the decisive battle between the Qin and Han dynasties.

The early morning mist lifted.

Gan Yong held the bronze sword in his hand tightly. Somewhat uneasy, he commanded his troops to form a phalanx in front of the formation, and to his left, there was also a phalanx of 1,000 Qin soldiers. Further afield, the phalanxes of the Qin army were one after the other, as if they had been copied.

Qin general Han Xin served as the main general of the left army to meet the enemy head-on, and his Daxu was behind Gan Yong's department, which showed that Han Xin had unusual confidence in the army under his command.

Under the big curtain, Han Xin looked around, only to see a red sun rising in the sky, illuminating half of the sky and clouds red, and in the distance, the Han soldiers were also wearing red jackets, shouting and running closer.

The strong wind blew, making the battle flag of the Qin army behind Han Xin sound fiercely, and a whimpering horn sounded everywhere, making the upcoming battlefield look empty.

"Wuhou has an order, today's battle is related to the life and death of the whole army, all military generals and colonels must obey the order, if there is a violation, they will all be punished with military law." Sima, the supervising army that pierced between the various military formations, shouted loudly, and this voice was extremely clear against the heavy breathing of the Qin soldiers.

The center of the Qin army's military array.

Shenwu Marquis Li Yuan was carefully looking at the formation of the Han army, and from time to time, scout cavalry returned along the edge of the phalanx, and they brought back the Han army's deployment and formation.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

In this decisive battle, where no one could guess the outcome, Li Yuan was collecting as much information as possible in order to provide a reference for the immediate start of the war.

"Report, the former army General Han reported that the right flank of the Han army has approached less than a mile of our army's formation, and General Han asked whether to send a team of men and horses to meet the enemy."

"Tell Han Xin that he will be outside, and the military order will not be granted, let him make his own decisions." Li Yuan commanded without replying.

Han Xin is the former army commander, but also the main force of the Qin army's 50,000 southern expeditionary army, in terms of his personal ability, Li Yuan feels that he does not need to teach him anything, as for on-the-spot command, Li Yuan also believes in the self-judgment and intuition of generals at all levels, this intuition will affect the course of the battle in many cases.

Han Xin and Mei Juan.

The collision between these two generals opened the prelude to the decisive battle between the Qin and Han armies.

The arrogant Barbarian Yue people are good at running, so that the right-wing Han army dominated by them has gradually become the most prominent army, and the Barbarian Yue people, who are not very particular about military discipline, have excited eyes when they see the Qin army that is waiting for them, as if these Qin people are the Qin army of the Southern Expedition who was shot by them in the Lingnan jungle.

"Big brother, look at those Qin people, these past few years have passed, and they are still putting up those bullshit phalanxes, and they really haven't grown at all." Beside Mei Juan, a stout and powerful man shouted loudly.

"Plum calf, you go and rush it for a while, remember, when you encounter the crossbow troops of the Qin people, don't resist hard, come back quickly." Mei Juan, the chief general of the right wing of the Han army and the leader of the Yue people, is in his forties, not tall, but he looks very distinctive, his forehead is very prominent, his eyes are a little deep-set, and his appearance is not quite the same as that of the Central Plains. (To be continued......)

PS: Today's entertainment, dizziness, the plot is incoherent, that's all, make up tomorrow.