The Eastern Chu army was defeated and retreated.

At the same time, due to the annexation of Deng Tuo's troops and the defeat of Xi Juan and Wang Su, the situation of thieves and robbing trade routes in the Yunmengze area has finally changed greatly.

Although there are still scattered small groups of robbers in chaos, the Qin army's naval division is now strong, with more than ten hazy rushes captured from the Eastern Chu army, plus Deng Tuo's subordinate troops, the Qin army's naval division has become an almost invincible existence in Yunmeng Daze from being weak and only able to deal with small bandits.

Those who know the practice are Junjie.

In this troubled world, there has never been a shortage of speculators.

Deng Tuo's appearance at the Zuihou stage of the war between the Qin State and Eastern Chu made Zhou Cheng's wish to retreat in vain. In fact, if Zhou Cheng knew a little more about Deng Tuo's past, he might understand that Deng Tuo was not a staunch anti-Qin activist in the first place.

Deng Tuo's shili was inherited from his uncle Deng Zong, and this former general of Chen Wangsheng's Southern Route Army, after attacking Yingchuan and Nanyang, surrendered to Qin when he saw that the situation was not good. It's just that later, Deng Zong was executed by the murderous Zhang Han, which made Deng Tuo and others have to flee to Yunmengze and become robbers.

To be a thief, Deng Tuo was forced to do it.

Therefore, under the slightest co-optation of the Qin State, Deng Tuo was shaken, and the previous troops did not move, but his judgment of the outcome of this battle was not clear, and when Li Yuan appeared in Yingdu and the news of the defeat of the Eastern Chu army came back, Deng Tuo understood that his opportunity had come.

In front of Li Yuan, show his strength and skills, only in this way can Deng Tuo be reused, and he will not be used as a tool by other Qin generals to invite merit.

Deng Zong was killed after surrendering, and there was an element of Zhang Han wanting to kill people, and more importantly, it was. Deng Zong's ability was not recognized by the Qin court at that time, or Zhang Han, the general of the Qin State, felt that people like Deng Zong had no other use than killing and deterring thieves.

Yingcheng.

Deng Tuo walked into the heavily guarded county government with a nervous mood, and this trip to Yingdu was not only a journey of rebirth for him, but also a gamble of life and death.

Was it the same as his uncle Deng Zong, who was beheaded?

I was lucky to be a member of the unification of the Qin State. Zuihou glorious ancestors, glorious return to his hometown?

Successfully recovering Nanjun, Li Yuan then set up a banquet in the county government, banqueting the generals who had made meritorious contributions to quelling the rebellion and the local officials of Nanjun.

If it weren't for the officials in charge of the local government to mobilize the people to move the county town inward, so that the Eastern Chu army would have no food and no firewood, Zhou Cheng would not have been in such a hurry to attack the city. As a result, the army was in turmoil.

In the banquet hall, Li Yuan sat in the center, Yan Le and Li Zhongxiang were separated on the left and right, and Feng Xuan, Luo Xian, and Chen Xian, the generals, sat on one side. On the other side was the local officials of Nanjun, and as soon as Deng Tuo entered, he was at a loss for a while when he saw such a situation.

"General Deng. Let's sit down this way. Fortunately, Feng Xuan saw Deng Tuo's embarrassment at a glance, and quickly stood up and pulled Deng Tuo to his seat.

The banquet begins.

One by one, the generals and officials of the Qin army began to toast each other. At the same time, he also bowed to Li Yuan in the middle and begged, and when Feng Xuan arrived, this young Qin general, who was in the limelight in the battle of Nanjun at this time, pulled Deng Tuo forward together.

"Yingchuan Deng Tuo, see Wuhou." Deng Tuo approached, and when he saw Li Yuan's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but be taken aback, although he heard that the Shenwu Marquis of Qin State was very young, but he really didn't expect that Li Yuan's appearance was only about twenty-four or five, and he was even a few years younger than himself.

"Deng Tuo, I heard that Panlong City, where you are stationed, is located between the Han River and the Great River, and if you talk about the situation south of the Great River, you and the generals must listen to it." Li Yuan smiled slightly and asked.

Deng Tuo heard Li Yuan's question, and suddenly his cowardice came to his senses, if he wanted to talk about the situation in the southern area of Yunmengze, whether it was the water situation or the scenery, there was indeed no one who knew better than him.

"Yuwu Hou, the south of the river, the old Chu Yi land, Chu Zhuang King ten years, in the south of the river, set up Changsha, Yunmeng, Hengshui and other cities, and moved Yingdu around the residents of 20,000 people in the south, these immigrants after several generations of reproduction, now the number of people has been impossible to verify. In the south of Zhucheng, it is also called Lingnan, which is inhabited by many Yi tribes such as Shanyue, Fanyi, and Nanyue——! Deng Tuo told the story, and through his description, he presented the customs and customs south of the Yangtze River to the generals of the Qin army one by one.

With the smooth flow of Yunmengze, the obstacle to the south of the Yangtze River in the Qin State has been gone, in the contact between Lu Jia and Lingnan Zhao Tuo Shili, Zhao Tuo's attitude towards the new Qin has also begun to change from indifference to concern, in the latest round of negotiations, Zhao Tuo has proposed that the Qin army attack from the north, and the South Vietnamese army attack from the south, and the two sides are flanked by the Changsha State in the middle and the Meijuan Shili in the Wuling area, Zuihou will meet the division.

Li Yuan was still very interested in this strategic concept.

Whatever Zhao Tuo's real thoughts were, at least one of the benefits was real, that is, to connect a passage from Lingnan to the Central Plains, thus laying the foundation for the development of trade between the north and the south.

After Deng Tuo caused a wave of discussion, this celebration banquet of the Qin State gradually turned into a pre-war analysis meeting to discuss the possibility of going south.

In order to strengthen the military liliang in the area of Nanjun, Li Yuan not only incorporated Deng Tuo's troops into the navy this time, but also ordered Chen Xuan's troops to attack Hengshan County in Eastern Chu to the east, so as to cooperate with the ongoing Jiangdong war of the Western Chu army.

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Koto.

The peace of the past is gone this spring.

Yingbu's arrogance finally made him pay the price, and after Zhou Cheng led the army to the west, the overlord Xiang Yu, who had been silent for a long time and had been recuperating from injuries as a cover, secretly arrived on the north bank of the river.

Xiang Yu's arrival made the more than 50,000 soldiers of the Western Chu Army excited, Xiang Yu then took Xiang Zhuang as the vanguard, Zhong Liwu and Ji Bu as the deputy generals, crossed the river in the Moling area, and was in a weak position in terms of troops, and was also indulged in sexual desire under the carelessness of Yingbu, and was defeated by the Eastern Chu army in a battle.

Subsequently, Yingbu, who retreated to Qu'a, tried to mobilize troops to counterattack, but he didn't want to wait for him to divide the victory and defeat on the front line, and the generals who were defending the city in the rear heard that Xiang Yu had been killed and rebelled.

In a fit of rage, Yingbu had a frenzied attack, and he couldn't care about entangling with the Western Chu army anymore, and the main force of more than 20,000 troops of the Eastern Chu army composed of thieves killed all the way from Qu'a to Wu County and Huiji County, slaughtering all the cities along the way, and his move aroused the Jiangdong children who were already dissatisfied with Eastern Chu.

March 1.

The Eastern Chu army was surrounded by the Western Chu army and the Fanren troops from Huiji on the edge of Taihu Lake in Wu County, Yingbu was furious, and led his generals to a decisive battle with the Western Chu army.

This civil war between the two Chu regimes lasted for more than ten days.

Yingbu really lives up to the name of the king of murder and the butcher, under the repeated attacks of the generals of Western Chu such as Zhong Liwu, Xiang Zhuang, Ji Bu, etc., he still performs remarkably.

However, Yingbu is no longer strong personally.

It is also difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, compared to the comprehensive national strength gradually gathered by the Western Chu army, Yingbu's Eastern Chu army has an empty shelf, but there is no support, the generals under him, like Zhou Cheng, are already good, and if Zhou Cheng is against Shang Jibu or Xiang Zhuang, the result can be imagined.

March 11.

The Eastern Chu army was divided and surrounded by the Western Chu army, of which nearly 5,000 elite soldiers led by Yingbu were besieged by nearly 30,000 Western Chu and Fanyue coalition troops, and in another battlefield, Zhou Cheng, the general of the Eastern Chu army, had lost his fighting spirit and ordered more than 10,000 soldiers under his command to lay down their arms and surrender to Western Chu.

Same defeat, different results.

Zhou Cheng did not have much resistance to surrendering to the Western Chu army, in fact, before Yingbu did not rebel and become independent, Zhou Cheng and others were members of Xiang Yu's Chu army.

On March 13, the officials of the Eastern Chu State, Zhang Budo, Ben He, and others, who had retreated to Jiujiang County, surrendered to Yu Ziqi, the general of Western Chu, who had attacked Jiujiang County, at the behest of Lu Xu, Lu Yuan and others.

Lu Xu and Lu Yuan only have lust for Yingbu and have no feelings, but the woman who really has feelings for Yingbu is Wu Ji, who has been snubbed by Yingbu for a long time.

The daughter of Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, after hearing that Yingbu was surrounded and the people of Eastern Chu had betrayed her relatives, lit firewood in the cold palace and burned herself to death.

Fifteenth.

Under the continuous escape, only more than 800 people remained, and this bandit leader who galloped across the river and the number one general in the former Chu army also came to the end of his life. Yingbu, who tried to launch a decisive charge, was stabbed under his horse by Xiang Yu, who was holding a halberd in his left hand, during a charge by Zuihou.

Yingbu's head was raised by Xiang Yu above the halberd, Jiangdong, and returned to Western Chu.

In this battle, Xiang Yu seemed to have regained his former state of being brave and invincible on the battlefield, and the broken mutilation of his right hand also made him more ruthless on the battlefield.

Sixteenth.

The Qin general Chen Xuan's troops seized the western part of Hengshan County and Jiujiang County, and the Western Chu army did not make many radical moves against the Qin army's breakthrough into the Jiangnan area.

The situation in the world, in the spring of the seventh year of the new calendar, has changed from complex to simple, and the relationship between Qin and Western Chu, the two shili groups, has also become more and more subtle in the collision again and again. (To be continued......)