Rainy day.

The range of the Huns' ox tendon poplar hard bow was greatly reduced, nearly half shorter than the normal range, and at the same time, the accuracy was also greatly reduced. This is because when the tendon is wet, the length that was originally shortened after drying becomes longer, which affects its tension and elasticity.

In order to ensure that the first blow was fatal, the Hun centurion slowly lurked in the middle of the team, trying to get closer to the target with the help of the cover of the surrounding soldiers, and then closer.

The tip of the halberd cuts the throat.

Xiang Yu's strong arm strength made the tip of the halberd continue to gain momentum after piercing the throat of the Hun centurion, and smashed heavily on the chest of a Hun soldier.

The unwilling Hun Wanfu covered his throat, shook his body a few times, and then fell into the muddy water with a "porphyr". At this moment, all the sweet dreams left him.

His defeat, in addition to underestimating Xiang Yu's counterattack power, was also due to natural force majeure. Although the Ox Tendon Poplar Bow could be fired in the summer rain, its power was greatly reduced, and it was this fatal limitation that cost the Huns their lives.

The blackcone horse hissed loudly.

The heroism of the owner made it feel extraordinarily proud, and the flying front hooves stepped heavily on the corpse of the loser, and while stepping on the broken bones, it also made the opponents who dared to offend retreat in fear.

Xiang Yu galloped on his horse, after rushing through this obstacle, the shadow of Xiang Zhuang's front army was not far away, as long as the two armies met, the Chu army was like Sun Xing who got into the belly of the Huns, no matter which direction he rushed to kill, it was enough for the Hun barbarians to bear, not to mention, in the periphery, there were two friendly armies of Xue Gong and Zhou Yin to support.

The Chu army, with its bravery, gained the upper hand in the first round of the battlefield, and the Huns began to scatter and flee after losing many generals in a row.

On the bank of the Hunhe River, Maodun, who sensed that the war was not good, had already set up a big tent in the high places of Hebei. Under his stern reprimand, the Xiongnu generals risked being swept up by the torrent and continued to throw troops on the south bank of the Hunhe River.

"Right general, your department continues to entangle Chu Man, the rear army, and send two more commanders across the river, tell them, I will make up for the tribe after fighting out, if you find that you are cowering and fleeing, just wait for the extinction of the clan." Maudun had a gloomy scarred face with a whiplash. shouted at the people around him.

Needless to say?

In the past few years, Mao Dun has spoken one thing on the grassland, and his prestige is unmatched, what kind of temperament he is, the people around him know that the chiefs and generals of those tribes are also clear.

After a while, the Huns woke up from the chaos and reorganized the encirclement one after another, trying to torture the sharp spirit of the Chu army. Annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

One side laid a net of heaven and earth.

One side swings a sharp spear.

It is a matter of who persists longer, who has more patience and determination to make the opponent's resistance disappear.

I have to admit it. In terms of battlefield smell, Xiang Yu and Mao Dun both have a natural acuity, at this point. Li Yuan's ability is more comprehensive.

In terms of the overall political situation and economic development, the Qin State is the leader of the Three Xiongs, and the Huns have an innate advantage in military strength, as for the Chu State. It is not outstanding in several aspects, but there is a fierce person like Xiang Yu, and the state of Chu is located in the rich east. So that the Chu army was not weaker than the other two opponents on the battlefield.

As night approached, this fierce battle, which lasted for a whole day, came to an end, and the result of the fierce battle between Chu and Hungary made both sides not very satisfied.

Win or lose.

Although Xiang Yu struck and rushed all the way, killing the Huns' formation in a mess, the subsequent weather changes were beyond his control.

In the afternoon, the thunderstorm gradually stopped, and the rainbow after the rain began to appear, so that the mood of the Huns also improved, as long as it did not rain, the bows and arrows of the Huns could exert greater power.

When the Chu army was exhausted, Xiang Yu saw that the war was fading, that is, the right was on the right and the left, and led the army to join Xue Gong's troops from the left flank.

Heavy rain poured down.

All the dirt on the ground was washed away, leaving only a washed and white corpse, piled up in a disorderly manner at the corners of the Hunhe River.

The yellow mud color is the corpse of the Huns.

The bright red color is the corpse of the soldiers of the Chu army.

At this moment, these former enemies hugged each other and intertwined together, like a pair of twin brothers.

Hunhe River Encounter.

In the calculations of the two sides, no one took advantage of it, it was a battle, the Chu army lost more than 5,000 people, and on the Xiongnu side, the number of tribes killed in the battle reached 11,000 people. As for the injured, there are even more innumerable.

In such a battle situation, although Mao Dun was not satisfied, he could bear it, because in terms of total strength, the number of Huns was twice that of the Chu army, and the Chu army was not.

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None.

The capital of the old swallow.

This city, which will become the capital in later generations, is now just a border city in the north, and even if it has been strengthened by Yan State, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, its city walls cannot be compared with the big cities such as Handan, Daliang, and Linlu in the Central Plains.

The Chu general Zhou Lan was ordered to be stationed here.

Inside the Yanwang Mansion.

Zhou Lan lazily reclined on the brocade couch covered in tiger skin, drinking the spirits of the North Land one by one, and the wine stains in a few places on the front showed that he was already seven or eight points drunk.

At the military meeting to attack the Xiongnu, Zhou Lan's cautious proposal was not adopted, and he was immediately placed in the position of the rearguard by Xiang Yu, which was a big blow to Zhou Lan, who was determined to make meritorious contributions.

And when the Chu army and the Hun cavalry met on a rainy night, and the news of a fierce battle came back to Jixian County, Zhou Lan panicked. Squad after team of wounded soldiers were brought back from the front, and they were able to come back, still belonging to the lucky group, and more soldiers were sleeping in the white mountains and black waters of the north.

"The overlord is too stubborn, if he followed my advice, he wouldn't have this result." Zhou Lan was disheartened and sighed again and again at her subordinates.

The mood of the main general also directly affects the morale of the Chu army in Jixian County, when the main force of the Chu army in front is fighting bloodily, in its rear, danger begins to approach.

In fact, when he went north, Zhou Lan's mood was just as high, the same confidence, and the same sense of honor that broke through the foreign captives and Guangzong Yaozong existed.

But Huan Chu's death made Zhou Lan's fanatical emotions seem to have been poured cold water, making him feel frightened and worried, in case of misfortune on the battlefield, the bride of the family has only been married for less than a year, it is the time when you love me strongly, if you die one day, what will happen to the surviving people, Zhou Lan does not dare to guess and conjecture.

Chu.

It is not like the Qin State, which has a relatively complete system of compassion, it relies more on power and blood relations to maintain the operation of the country, and the disadvantage of this method is that once the person at the top of the family has a problem, then the security system of the entire family will also collapse.

"General, something is wrong, the Huns' cavalry was found twenty miles outside the city?" Just when Zhou Lan was drowsy, the captain of the Chu military academy who was guarding the city rushed in to report.

"What Huns, and where?" Zhou Lan shook her head, and it took a long time to react.

"Just near Yanshan, twenty miles south of the city, a baggage team of our army transporting weapons and grain was sacked by the Huns, and 500 young men were killed."

"All dead, are they sure it's the Huns, won't it be the Qin?" Zhou Lan's face turned pale, and a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. Although the Qin army was an old rival, after Li Yuan's main army, the system of determining military merits by head was abolished, and although the revived Qin army was as brave as before, it was not as barbaric as before.

The Huns are not, these northern barbarians love to use the enemy's head as a drowning weapon, every time the thought of the dead Huan Chu's head will be filled with yellow and smelly urine, Zhou Lan feels that his whole person is going to tremble.

"It's a Hun barbarian, that's right, we went to inspect it afterwards, in addition to the headless corpses in one place, there are scattered arrows, and the marks on these arrows are the bone arrows of the Huns." Captain Chu's answer made Zhou Lan even more desperate.

"I know, you go down, don't spread this matter in the army, all the soldiers who know it, give me strict supervision." Zhou Lan commanded coldly.

The Huns, with the advantage of fighting immediately, could unexpectedly cut off the logistics supply line of the Chu army again and again, and for the Chu army, they could take care of this end, but they could not take care of that end, and it was difficult to maintain the supply of 40,000 or 50,000 troops on the front line.

Zhou Lan tried to maintain the low morale of the Chu army by concealing it, but this kind of deception method is actually the most problematic, and it may be possible to conceal it once or twice, and the next three or four such attacks occurred, when the companions of one team after another did not return, the people in the Chu army were panicked, and the military spirit was extremely turbulent.

The Huns who attacked the Chu army were none other than the Zuogu Liwang Xu Buhun who was ordered to return to the rear of the Chu army from the area of Liaodong County, and the Xiongnu division was actually not many in number, only about 6,000 people, but its strength lies in the fact that the 6,000 Hun cavalry were all one man and two horses, or even three horses.

The Huns relied on the speed advantage of healthy horses to attack back and forth in the vast area from Qi to Yandi, while the Chu army could only be beaten passively and could not find a way to defend themselves.

Originally, the Qin army's standard machine crossbow was the most suitable weapon to deal with the Hun cavalry. But these second-line troops of the Chu army obviously could not be equipped with this kind of weapons that required exquisite craftsmanship, and the wooden poles and spears in their hands could only be used as a tool to scare small groups of robbers. (To be continued......)