The summer chasm.

The amount of water is at its highest, and the surging flood peak from Yingshui enters the gentle and endless alluvial plain of the great river after passing through the valley at the junction of Chen-gun and Yingcheon-gun, which is mostly hilly.

Gully on both sides.

The millet planted by the Wei people has long been trampled by the Chu people, and the millet that has just burst out of the pulp has not yet matured, and it has been all picked, and these barely edible grains are also precious to the Chu army that lacks sufficient logistical supplies.

Generally speaking, the battle situation presented was that the Chu army launched several waves of offensives, and then the Qin army relied on the geographical advantage to counterattack, and the two sides turned into a war of attrition after a fierce battle.

In this contest of comprehensive national strength, the Qin army is the one who occupies the initiative, with two large granaries in Guanzhong and Bashu behind it, plus the sufficient supply of weapons and armor made by the Jinyang soldiers, so that even if the Qin army suffers one or two defeats, it will not hurt anything.

The Chu army is not, Xiang Yu, who is accustomed to relying on plunder rather than production, is far less capable of internal politics than his sense of smell on the battlefield, and after handing over the power of governing the country to Xiang Tuo, the Chu State has experienced the second war of the Yan and the crusade against Yingbu in a row.

Stalemate.

The Chu army couldn't afford to wait, and in order to break the main force of the Qin army in front of him in one fell swoop, Xiang Yu decided to take the three thousand warriors of the Fan clan as the vanguard, cross the chasm by night swimming, and then suddenly attack.

Swimming.

For people living in the area of the Jiangdong water network, it is an indispensable life skill, just like the men riding horses on the northern grasslands.

Among the main force of the Chu army under Xiang Yu, the children from Jiangdong accounted for nearly half, and among these children, the Fan clan of Wuzhong County and Huiji County was the most courageous. These Fan people, who have lived on the banks of the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, have a flamboyant and upright personality, and it is normal for them to draw their swords in anger and splash blood in five steps.

Speaking in detail, more than half of Xiang Yu's personality inherited the temper of the Fan people, because his mother was a woman of the Fan family.

The Fan people live in the hilly and mountainous areas of Huiji County and Wuzhong County, they have broken hair and tattoos, practiced martial arts, and lived a life of "rice and soup and fish" and "fire cultivation and water rake". When Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew raised troops from Jiangdong, they were in the rebel army when they crossed the river to attack Qin. There are many Fan people and Shanyue people, which is also the reason why Xiang Yu's troops are brave and good at fighting.

However, with the passage of time, the position of the Fan people in the Chu army was gradually replaced by the people of the Central Plains in the north, and the continuation of this situation also made the combat effectiveness of the Chu army no longer what it used to be.

After reoccupying Jiangdong, Xiang Yu learned from the pain, and then recruited 3,000 warriors from Jiangdong, and this new force joined. It also gave Xiang Yu new hope for defeating the "invincible" Qin army.

July 4th.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the faint crescent moon hangs high in the dark night sky, and everything in the four fields is shrouded in the night, as if hiding in the straw tent.

This night. On the surface of the river from south to north, from south to north, there are some debris brought from the Yingshui Mountains, among which there are either half-truncated logs, or a few pieces of floating objects that make it impossible to tell what they are, with the help of the cover of night and floating objects. The Fanren warriors in the Chu army began a special performance that belonged to them.

The general of the Chu army who led this army was the most courageous young warrior in the Fanren tribe, and Wuyu was born in the largest tribe of the Fanren tribe. This tribe lived in the mountains of the upper reaches of Huiji County, and lived mainly by hunting, picking wild fruits, and fishing and hunting.

The water nature of the rest is also the most haode among the people, he can go down with a fierce son, more than ten zhang before quietly poking out of the water for a breath, a small chasm for him, like a small river swimming across, no more than even appeared on the water, quietly approached the west bank of the chasm.

on the West Bank.

The outposts of the Qin army are patrolling the riverbank back and forth, and the generals of the Chu army have also learned a lot about the ability of the Chu army to fight water in the past few days, and the outposts who have long been instructed by the general to take five people as a team and ten people as a team, alternately patrolling along the riverbank line where the two armies are facing each other.

The lit torches will illuminate a section of the riverbank every quarter of an hour, and under such close inspection, there is less time left for the Fan people to hide, and for every Fan who tries to launch a sneak attack after swimming across the river, if they want to not be discovered, they must hide their figures below the water when the Qin army scouts arrive.

At the same time, in order not to be discovered early by the Qin army patrol, the movements of the Fan people on the water should be as light as possible, and it is best not to make big ripples.

For this, Wu Yu didn't worry too much.

He not only had confidence in himself, but also in the water nature of the army of the Fan people under his command, who had fought with Jiaolong in the great river south of the Yangtze River in the past, and their skills in the water were the same as those of the Huns on horseback.

"Squeak, squeak!"

At the night solstice, a few summer frog calls sounded in the silent night sky, and the Qin army on patrol led the team to pause, with a puzzled look on his face, but after listening for a while, this old Qin man from Guanzhong finally chose to believe in his own experience.

Smell frogs in summer.

This is quite normal.

A few days ago, frog cries also occurred from time to time near the chasm, but it was not as dense as tonight, perhaps, because the weather was too hot, even the frogs couldn't bear the loneliness, and took advantage of the cool night to run out to find their mates.

"When this battle is over, and one more meritorious service is made, it is enough to be qualified to apply for the fifteenth level knighthood, and when the time comes, when I return to the township, I can also become the previous county lieutenant, and no matter how bad it is, I can take my family to Hexi, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, and I heard that there are large tracts of fertile land that no one cultivates-!"

In the cool breeze and the incessant croaking of frogs, the Qin army led the imagination, but unconsciously ignored the danger from the dark shadow of the chasm.

As an experienced hunter, he waited for one companion after another to swim from the east of the river to the west of the river, and when the shadows close to the river bank were lined up with the black heads of the Chu army generals one by one, his eyes showed a light of longing and fanaticism. (To be continued......)