For a rainy day.

After Li Yuan occupied Luoyang and defeated the Chu army, he began to turn his attention to the hometown of Zhao (the Yellow River), which was separated by a large river.

Occupying the western part of Sanchuan County, with the plains around Luoyang, would allow the Qin army to have a buffer in the eastern part of the Kanto region for respite and recuperation. This first step has been largely successful.

The Qin army entered Zhao.

This was the second step that Lee had envisioned to penetrate his tentacles deep into the heart of the Kanto region.

The six countries of Kwantung really can compete with the Qin army in terms of soldier quality and tactical literacy, except for Zhao, there is no other second choice.

Now the strength of the Chu army is more based on several famous historical figures such as Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, Chen Sheng, etc., once there is no support from these famous figures, the real combat effectiveness of the Chu army will be greatly reduced, which can be known from the early establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's performance in the siege of Baideng.

Fan Xu, Cao Shen, Guan Fu and other generals claimed to have the courage of 10,000 enemies, and the invincible Han army in the civil war was defeated in the face of the Hun cavalry, and Zuihou had to flee to the mountains to beg for reinforcements, which really lost the face of the dignified Central Plains man.

Expanding the existing territory of the Qin State from the west to the east of the Great River, occupying the homeland of the Zhao State, which was once the same ancestor, and continuing the practice of King Wuling of Zhao "Hufu Cavalry Shooting", so that the Qin army has more powerful combat capabilities and mobility capabilities than in history, so as to gain the first opportunity in the decisive battle with Maudun in the near future, this is Li Yuan's real purpose.

Zhongmu.

Located in the area where the three rivers are connected by the Great River and the Zhangsui River, it is not a large place, but it is located in the core area of the Kanto region, and once it occupies this area, it will also choke the throat of the countries.

From the time of occupation by the Seven Heroes in the late Warring States period. It should belong to the southern homeland of the Zhao State. But. This place is located at the junction of Wei, Zhao and Han, and there has always been no fixed number of ownership, and who is strong is occupied by whom, after the decline of Han and Wei one after another. As the mainstay of Zhao to resist the strong Qin, Zhongmu naturally belonged to the name of Zhao.

In the midst of chaos.

Li Yuan Shili entered Zhao with Han Xin's Northern Expedition, and after Han Xin's army crossed north from Pusaka, he passed through Pingyang and other places along the way. Zuihou confronted the Chu army in Zhongmu.

Late August.

The cold wave that is customary in the north hit for the first time, and the Qin army camp in the twilight was silent, only the torches at the gate were still burning, shining and guiding the direction.

The weather in Hebei gradually turned cooler, and the young soldiers of the Qin army, who were still wearing summer short shirts and armor, couldn't help but hug their bodies tightly and stomped their feet several times to relieve the cold that soaked into their bodies at night.

Gan Rokuro leaned his body tightly on his horse, and the wound on his back brought out by the sharp arrow became more and more painful. Let his consciousness gradually blur.

Under Han Xin's promotion, Gan Liulang's position has been promoted from a general to a military marquis. And he is also the most important scout soldier, Han Xin also admires this clever and resolute young man. In him, Han Xin saw his own youth.

The news of Zhang Er's entry into the Chu camp, the Qin army scouts only found out a day later, this is a kind of torment that must be endured to fight in a foreign land, without the guidance of familiar people, no matter how strong the Qin army is, it is impossible to fight with its eyes closed.

"Quick, take me to the general." Gan Liulang opened his eyes and saw the flickering word "Qin" that was getting bigger and bigger, and finally fell down obliquely.

The soldiers on patrol were in a hurry, took the torches and looked carefully, and some familiar soldiers immediately recognized Gan Liulang's identity and hurriedly rushed to report to Han Xin.

"Zhang Er's army was defeated and surrendered to Chu, and Chen Yu's army went south!" Han Xin muttered to himself, his expression gradually becoming grim, and now the beard under his chin had grown, making him look a lot older than his actual age.

The military emergency report sent back by Gan Liulang made Han Xin feel helpless that he was in a fog and couldn't find a way out for a while, could he really only return in vain, and returned from crossing the river with regret, Han Xin paced back and forth in the tent, and spent the whole morning pondering without saying a word.

The generals under his command are mostly young generals.

Gan Liulang was already one of the best, and there were very few others who could give Han Xin feasible advice on grand strategy, and this was not a problem for Han Xin's army, but a problem that the entire rebuilding Qin army was facing.

The Warring States were in turmoil.

The hometown of Zhao State, located in Hebei, is also chaotic, and the heroes are rising together. In the storm at the end of Qin, although Zhao Di's resistance was not as fierce as that of Chu Di, its momentum was violent, so that the Qin army did not dare to underestimate it. In the past, after Zhang Han won the battle with Xiang Liang, the reason why he switched to Zhao Di was because he judged that Zhao Di's anti-Qin Liliang was strong.

Qin and Zhao were from the same ancestor and had been fighting each other for many years, and the Zhao people were indeed bloody and brave, which made the Qin people feel afraid. From the general inference, there is no problem with Zhang Han's judgment, but he ignores one point, it is not the Zhao people who led the Zhao people against Qin, but two Wei people: Zhang Er and Chen Yu.

Heroes of the world.

can share hardships and hardships, but cannot be rich and noble, Zhang Er and Chen Yu are the two most famous.

Once a friend of the neck, Zuihou's fate was to fight each other with swords and kill each other, Zhang Er was considered to have a good death, he defected to Liu Bang in history, and finally sent his old friend Chen Yu to the guillotine with the help of the Han army's liliang.

It is a pity that among the heroes who competed for hegemony at the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were very few heroes of Zhao Guo who had a name and surname.

Zhang Er and Chen Yu are all from Daliang, and they are not from Zhao Guo, the only one with a name left is Zhao Xie, but Zhao Xie's ability is really insufficient, and he was set up like puppets by Zhang and Chen, and the result of zuihou was to die in the war.

In addition to Zhao Xie, among the descendants of the famous generals of Zhao State, there is one person who shows extraordinary military talent, but unfortunately, his background is not very good.

Li Zuoche, the descendant of Li Mu, a famous general of Zhao Guozuihou. This famous man of Zhao Guo, who defected to Han Xin, did not get any chance to play his talents throughout his life due to problems with the owner he worked for.

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When the butterfly flapped its powerful wings again and again, when the Qin army won again and again on the battlefield, people's encounters and decisions were also quietly changing.

Because the area of Henan was occupied by the Qin army, Zhang Er, who was driven out of the fief Changshan by Chen Yu, had no way to cross Li Yuan with the defeated army and join Liu Bang, if that was the case, Li Yuan would naturally not be polite, Zhang Er has always been Liu Bang's hardcore ally, and if he can destroy him, it can be regarded as cutting off the wings of the old Liu who has become angry again.

Zhang Er, who was not the same as the Qin army, finally chose to defect to the Chu army, and after the Chu general Zhong Liwu led the army north from Xingyang, he garrisoned Yu Zhongmu.

Chu Ying.

Zhong Liwu, the general of the Chu army, did not sleep.

A few days ago, the overlord Xiang Yu had urgently sent Xiang Tuo as a messenger, ordering Zhong Liwu to quickly get out of Zhao Di, and lead his headquarters to return to Pengcheng to assist the main force of the Chu army to completely eliminate Yingbu.

The infighting of the Chu army made Zhong Liwu tired, although Yingbu was not a general who had always followed Xiang Yu, but they had fought side by side for many years, and there was always friendship, but now, it was to the point of meeting each other.

Infighting.

For an army, it is a turning point from prosperity to decline.

After defeating nearly 400,000 Qin troops, Xiang Yu's prestige also reached the pinnacle of his life, and at the same time, the shortcomings of his character began to be slowly exposed.

In fact, it was not only Xiang Yu who exposed his shortcomings, but Fan Zeng, who was respected as the father of the nest, also began to step down from the altar, and the pattern was too small and his vision was not broad, which was Fan Zeng's biggest problem as a strategist.

The sub-feudal system planned by him caused chaos in various parts of the Kanto region, and the princes complained about Xiang Yu, and the root of Fan Zeng's short-sighted strategy was in Fan Zeng.

Zhong Liwu was undecided.

Originally, according to Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng's assumptions, Zhong Liwu was required to fight all the way west to Pubandu and threaten the Qin army's rear route, but after Han Xin's army went north, Zhong Liwu changed his strategy from attack to confrontation, and his contingency strategy formed two different views within the Chu army.

One of them is that the strategist and Lang Zhong headed by Fan Zeng believed that Zhong Liwu was stubborn and hesitant in the case of superior strength, which was an extremely wrong approach, and he could not give up his ethics and beliefs as a general of the Chu army because he had an old relationship with Han Xin.

The second is to take Ji Bu, Zhou Lan and a large number of middle- and lower-level generals of the Chu army as one side, these soldiers who have a deep relationship with Xiang Yu and Zhong Li who come in the wind and go in the rain, are disgusted with Fan Zeng, who has always been boastful, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and Zhong Li's decision to judge the situation is much stronger than Fan Zeng's old guy's assumptions.

This dispute exacerbated the division within the Chu army, under the suppression of Xiang Yu, at the Guan Jian Junction where Pengcheng was surrounded by Yingbu's army, both sides maintained considerable restraint, this time Xiang Tuo was clearly here to comfort the army, but secretly he came with Xiang Yu's Zuihou to spy on him, and also gave Zhong Liwu a step.

Xiang Yu's meaning in the letter is very clear, everything is fine if he agrees to return to the army, and if he disagrees, then Zhong Liwu, like Yingbu, will be separated from the Chu army sequence.

This made Zhong Liwu feel very uncomfortable.

Overlord, he is no longer the Chu army general who drinks wine and eats a piece of meat with the soldiers on the bank of Zhangshui, when did he become so intolerant.

Maybe it was when he became the leader of the princes! The specific time, Zhong Liwu can't say.

If it weren't for Zhang Er's arrival and confrontation with Han Xinjun, Zhong Li's decision might still be to obey Xiang Yu's orders, return to Pengcheng, and still become a member of Xiang Yu's generals.

But now, Zhong Liwu didn't want to do it.

Zhao Di Qianli is the battlefield where heroes compete, and the incisiveness of leading the army independently makes Zhong Liwu feel the freedom and uninhibited after being unshackled, which is what he wants. (To be continued.) )