The light soldiers of the Qin State were founded during the reign of Qin Xiangong, when the Qin State had not yet undergone the Shang Dynasty Reform and was only a poor border country in the Western Regions. At that time, among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, the Qin State was the least heroic country, and it was beaten back again and again by the Wei army that dominated in the early days, and even the Hangu Pass and the land west of the river were all lost.

At that time, Wei relied on its elite hoplites to dominate the world, and when it advanced on the battlefield, it was as unstoppable as a giant mountain, and the Qin state, which lacked troops and poor armor, could not form a decent army to fight against this heavy armoured army. As a last resort, Qin Xiangong had no choice but to organize the heavy death row prisoners held in the Qin State prison into a death army, telling them that as long as they could resist the offensive of the Wei army, they would not only be pardoned for capital crimes, but also receive rich military rewards, and even if they died in battle, their families would be supported by the government.

Since the founding of the Qin people, they have been entangled with Xirong Beidi for hundreds of years, and finally defeated and fused them, so the blood of the Qin people has the mania and bloodthirstiness of Rong Di, which is very different from the Central Plains civilization in the Kanto region, and is contemptuously regarded by the Kwantung countries as a country where Ru Mao is a blood-drinking king. Although the Qin army at that time was poorly equipped, it was known for fighting bravely to the death on the battlefield. These light soldiers composed of death row prisoners and felons are even more outlaws, because they were originally sentenced to death, so they are fearless in life and death, and the Qin army has relied on their brave impact to repeatedly reverse the decline and hold on undefeated.

As the name suggests, light soldiers are poorly equipped light infantry, because each time they undertake the arduous task of nine deaths, the loss of light soldiers is also extremely amazing, and even often the whole army is wiped out until the last person dies in battle. On the battlefield, they had no armor and no backup, so they relied more on strict discipline and organization, and put the interests of the group first on the battlefield and could not take care of personal safety, so they became the three strongest armies of the Warring States with the hoplites of Wei and the elite rangers of Zhao.

After the Qin State Shang Yang changed the law, the national strength became stronger and stronger, and it was no longer the Qin army that was poorly equipped and fought to the death with a decisive heart. The light soldiers were no longer composed of death row prisoners who were felons, but were composed of rangers and soldiers with high martial arts. They enjoyed extremely high salaries in peacetime, eating and using several times more than ordinary soldiers, and the number of heads they had won in wartime was also doubled, and they still undertook arduous tasks with huge losses.

After Han Xin took power in Xianyang, he learned of the existence of this ancient 'special forces' and found a treasure. Because the Qin State has rarely needed this kind of strong infantry campaign since its unification, the size of the light army has gradually shrunk, and now there are only less than 1,000 people left.

Han Xin specially brought this unit to Hanzhong this time, in order to play the important role of the vanguard in the raid on the Han army. Flying lock climbing is not something that ordinary soldiers can do, but it may not be an impossible task for these light soldiers with agility and martial arts.

This elite light soldier really lived up to Han Xin's high expectations, in the process of climbing, the military discipline was strict, and the action was consistent, even if he accidentally fell to the bottom of the cliff, he did not make a sound until he died, and the soldiers behind him silently watched the comrades who fell down urgently need to climb. In less than two hours, more than 700 light soldiers climbed over the flying lock under the leadership of Yingbu, lurking at the bottom of the cliff on the opposite bank and patiently waiting for the opportunity, while more than 300 people remained in the deep stream forever.

According to Han Xin's observation over the past few days, the Han army was stationed at night in two shifts, and the soldiers on duty in the second half of the night replaced the soldiers on duty in the first half of the night. At this time, the soldiers on duty in the first half of the night returned to the camp and fell asleep with their heads exhausted, while the soldiers who had just wanted to take over the post were still in a deep sleep and were unusually slow to react, which was the time for Yingbu to wait patiently.

More than 700 dead soldiers of the Qin army in black clothes and covered their heads quietly touched the cliff, killed several sentry posts one after another, and finally alarmed the patrolmen. The panicked patrol let out a rapid scream before he died, and there was a commotion in the Han camp, and the gong of the alarm was sounded.

Seeing that his deeds had been revealed, Yingbu waved his big hand and shouted, 'Do it', and then took the lead in the Han military camp with a big sword.

The wolf-like Qin army killed soldiers into the Hanzhong camp, holding sharp blades to see people killed, and the panicked Han soldiers ran out of the camp in a panic, but were hacked to death by the oncoming Qin soldiers. There was originally a deep stream between Qin and Han that was insurmountable, but these Qin soldiers attacked the Han army camp like divine soldiers, how could this not make the Han army flee in all directions in horror.

The defender of the Han army was a brave general, who woke up from his dream and saw the Qin army attacking, and immediately ordered the beacon to be lit and asked for help from the camp. At the same time, he hurriedly ordered his own soldiers around him to line up, so as to gather hundreds of rout soldiers who fled in a panic and counterattacked towards the Qin army.

It's a pity that he met Yingbu, who was killing naked, and Yingbu held back for half a year after being captured, and his heart was already desperate for the bloody battlefield. The big knife in his hand flew up and down, and the oncoming Han soldiers kept screaming and beheading in different places, and when he saw a large number of soldiers in the Han army rushing under the leadership of a general, he was not surprised and rejoiced, and he jumped up with a roar and slashed down at the head of the Han general who was in the lead.

The general of the Han army is also a person with strong martial arts, and when he saw Yingbu's broadsword flying, he hurriedly drew his sword and raised it high to block, but he only felt a huge force on his arm, and then there was a 'click', and the fine steel sword was broken, and it was split in half by Yingbu with a huge force from his shoulder.

Yingbu brandished a big knife and laughed wildly, ignoring the blood and internal organs sprayed on his body, and jumped into the Han army like a hungry tiger pounced on a sheep, killing more than 100 people in less than a moment, all of whom were cut in two by his bravery.

Seeing that Yingbu was so brave, the Han army, who could still afford to resist, shouted and turned around and ran, for fear of being killed by Yingbu after falling behind. Yingbu did not stop the Han army from escaping, but ordered his subordinates to quickly clean up the camp and collect weapons to prepare to meet the enemy, while he himself led dozens of people to the edge of the cliff and pulled the rattan from the bottom of the cliff to the opposite bank.

The Qin army on the other side of the river quickly responded, and more than ten rattan strips were enveloped together, forming three chains with the thickness of an arm, and the Qin army holding torches high lit up the lights on both sides of the strait, and a large number of craftsmen rushed to the edge of the cliff to move the wooden planks that had been prepared long ago, and laid and fixed them on the temporary chains, which were actually to build a rattan rope bridge.

This is Han Xin's plan, he wants to send the elite people who drive the dead to use the zipline to cross the stream to sneak attack and occupy the Han army's camp, and then with the cooperation of the other side, a temporary rattan rope bridge will be built in the air. Although the weight of this rattan rope bridge was limited, it continued to cross the soldiers to reinforce, thus firmly holding the other side in the hands of the Qin army.

But this also has two fatal flaws, one is that the number of Qin troops who used the zipline to smuggle past is limited, and whether they can capture the Han army camp in a short time before Zhou Bo's army comes to help. The second is that it takes three hours to build the rattan bridge at the earliest, which means that the Qin army on the other side of the river must hold on for three hours under the onslaught of 10,000 Han troops under the siege of no matter what.

Zhou Bo's Chinese army camp was only less than five miles away from the garrison on the edge of the cliff, and at this time he was sleeping in the arms of two women.

Zhou Bo sat up on the collapse, only to feel dizzy for a while, and when he heard the military situation reported by his own soldiers, he was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, where did he still have the courage to delay for half a day. pushed away the beautiful woman beside him, hurriedly jumped up, hurriedly put on his armor and rushed out of the tent.

After all, the Han army was not as well-trained as the Qin army, and less than half of the soldiers reacted to the assembly in the middle of the night, and Zhou Bo did not have time to wait for the whole army to assemble and rushed to the cliff with more than 3,000 soldiers to reinforce, leaving his lieutenant general to order him to gather the rest of the troops and then arrive.

Zhou Bo led the army to the edge of the cliff in a hurry, but met the defeated Han soldiers, so he incorporated them into the army and swooped towards the cliff.

On the top of the cliff, Yingbu saw a large number of Han troops rushing under the mountain, and the ranks of the team were extremely panicked, so he put the big sword on his shoulder and laughed at the Qin soldiers behind him; "The generals of the Han army are afraid that our military merits will not be enough, so they will not send us thousands of heads, brothers, do you have the courage to follow me Yingbu to take these heads."

The Qin soldiers behind him held their breath one by one and replied loudly; "Why don't you dare?"

Yingbu laughed again, "Okay, it's really Daqin's Zheng Zheng man, but I, Yingbu, underestimated you, I will definitely toast you one by one when he returns to Xianyang." ”

"Brothers, follow me into battle to kill the enemy, kill!" As soon as the welcome ended, Yingbu strode out of the camp, followed by six hundred screaming brave men.

Zhou Bo had already learned from the mouth of the defeated army that the Qin army was not much, only less than a thousand people, so he expected that the Qin army must have sent a small force to cross the mountain stream by some means. He originally thought that the Qin army would only wait for reinforcements, but unexpectedly, Yingbu did not cooperate with his idea at all and led his troops to kill, and was caught off guard by a head-on killing.

The Han army was already in chaos in the darkness, and the Qin army rushed out of the camp, and the whole army was in chaos. The wolf-like light soldiers of the Qin army rushed into the flock like hungry tigers, killing the Han army head-on, and forcibly killing the Han army six times their own and retreating again and again.

Zhou Bo saw that the army was so vulnerable, so he was so angry that he took his own army to personally supervise the battle, and killed the soldiers who retreated without authorization one by one, which barely stopped the momentum of the rout of the Han army, and the Han soldiers who lost their retreat had to turn around and fight with the Qin army head-on. Yingbu also discovered the existence of this group of Han troops, and saw that they were holding a person who seemed to be the main general in the army, so he turned around and led his guards to fight all the way in the direction of Zhou Bo.

Zhou Bo saw from a distance that a team of centaurs was struggling towards him, and one of the leading generals was even more brave, and the big knife in his hand flew up and down, and there were almost no opponents under him in a round. After seeing Yingbu's appearance clearly by the light of the fire, Zhou Bo was suddenly frightened, he had followed Liu Bang in the Chu army for many years, how could he not know the famous Yingbu under Xiang Yu.

In the Battle of Julu that year, Yingbu relied on 30,000 soldiers to defeat Zhang Han's 200,000 army to defend himself, which gave Xiang Yu the opportunity to encircle and annihilate Wang Li with all his might. Through the battle of Julu, Yingbu's prestige has already spread all over the world, and he has become the strongest military general recognized by the Chu army after Xiang Yu.

Zhou Bo was by no means Yingbu's opponent, and seeing that his subordinates couldn't stop Yingbu's onslaught, he thought that if he was entangled by Yingbu, there would be only a dead end. He didn't have time to think about how Yingbu could appear in the Qin army, so he spread his legs and turned around and ran, just wanting to stay away from this killing god and save his life.

The Han soldiers who didn't know why next to him saw the commander flee suddenly, and they didn't have time to think about it, so they turned around and ran away. Yingbu did not pursue, but ordered all the prisoners to be slaughtered, and then led the army back into the camp, waiting for Zhou Bo's next round of attacks.

After Zhou Bo retreated to gather the remnants of the army, he joined more than 5,000 people brought by the deputy general, and the 7,000 troops continued to force towards the edge of the cliff. This time he learned wisely, the army walked slowly but was well arranged, and no longer gave Yingbu any chance to impact, and Yingbu saw that the Han army's formation was not chaotic and did not retaliate.

After the army gained a foothold, the Han army lit bonfires everywhere, illuminating the entire cliff as if it were daylight. More than a thousand archers rushed out and shot long shots towards the camp.

This is the weakness of the Qin army, because he went to the so-called unarmored and without a bow and arrow, he could only passively hide in the camp and be beaten. Fortunately, the visibility at night was not high, and the Han army's accuracy was limited, so they could only close their eyes and shoot indiscriminately. But Rao was like this, and there were many dead and wounded in the Qin army, and the rest of the people were clinging to the defense line to avoid the rain of arrows by means of shelters, and they did not dare to move at all.

As if venting their anger, the Han army poured their arrows on the defensive ground of the Qin army, and shot for nearly half an hour, until the archers retreated contentedly after all the arrows hidden in the army were shot. Zhou Bo let the army rest for a while, and then thousands of halberd-wielding soldiers lined up in a phalanx and swarmed up in a neat pace, hoping to annihilate the Qin army in one fell swoop by charging.

This camp was originally built by the Han army on the edge of the cliff, both because of the natural unevenness of the cliff side and a lot of gravel, the halberd soldiers stepped on the potholed ground all the way, and the team gradually became a little messy during the run, and when they rushed into the camp and were blocked by the roadblocks, they were even more not a phalanx. Seeing this, Yingbu was overjoyed, so he led the army to rush up and meet the Han army.

The Qin army carried swords with short blades, which were very suitable for hand-to-hand combat, while the Han army held long halberds suitable for charging in formation, and it was passive everywhere in the intercourse of short arms. This light soldier is a selection of martial arts in the Qin army, which is naturally far superior to the Han army's individual combat ability, although the number of only 400 remains, but it is comparable to the more than 3,000 Han soldiers.

Seeing this, Zhou Bo suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly ordered the follow-up troops to replace with swords and other hand-to-hand combat soldiers to step forward to reinforce, but the terrain at the mouth of the cliff was originally limited, and it was suddenly impossible to squeeze more than 8,000 Qin and Han soldiers, and only by relying on the advantage of numbers to consume the limited strength of the Qin army little by little.

Yingbu killed all the way to the left of the Hanzhong army, and his bravery was abnormal, and the Han soldiers in front of him dodged and did not dare to fight, for fear of becoming the soul of his sword. However, as time went on, the disadvantage of the Qin army's insufficient numbers became more and more obvious, and the continuous casualties forced the Qin army to retreat step by step, abandoning half of the camp and defending the place where the rattan bridge was built.

The fierce battle lasted for more than an hour, and at this time, two hours had passed since the Qin army had succeeded in the sneak attack on the camp, and the sky was gradually brightening. Zhou Bo originally saw that the Qin army camp on the other side was brightly lit and didn't understand what the Qin army was doing, but after the sky dawned, he was horrified to find that the originally unclimbable Flying Eagle Stream Mountain had an extra rattan bridge out of thin air, and as much as two-thirds of it had been built. Immediately understood why the Qin army was attacking and defending, and hurriedly ordered all the follow-up fresh forces to be put into the attack, and they must recapture the cliff before the rattan bridge was successfully built.

He was a high-level general in Hanzhong, so he naturally knew what it would mean to Hanzhong once Baogukou was lost, and the Qin people would send a steady stream of troops into Hanzhong through the plank road, and there was hardly a single soldier north of Nanzheng who could defend it. If the Qin army drove straight into and captured Nanzheng, then Liu Bang's army, which was waiting to ambush the Qin army under the city of Luoyang, would be cut off, and the main army of 80,000 would face annihilation.

Zhou Bo originally had luck in his heart, thinking that this might just be a tentative attack by the Qin army, and when he saw the Qin army on the other side of the river, his mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

This Han Xin is indeed cunning and abnormal, false and real, real and false, true and false, true and false when pretending to be true, inaction sometimes there is and there is nothing, completely playing with the opponent between applause.

At this time, the remnants of the Qin army were only less than a hundred people left, and they were all back to back under the pressure of the Han army to form a very small semicircular defense line, although it looked precarious, but the Han army could not attack it for a while. And the Qin craftsmen on the rattan bridge also worked hard to build, and from time to time someone screamed and fell into the deep stream, but the follow-up people did not hesitate to meet the head.

Finally, when the sun rose in the sky, the first reinforcements of the Qin army stepped on the camp on the opposite bank along the vine bridge and immediately threw themselves into supporting the right army. Then the second and third 、......, a steady stream of Qin troops along the vine bridge to kill the Han army.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zhou Bo had no choice but to order the army to retreat, and led the remnants of more than 5,000 people to retreat to the nearby county town of Baozhong, and at the same time quickly reported to Luoyang and Nanzheng.

Han Xin did not immediately go south to attack Hanzhong, but patiently waited for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements to gain a firm foothold. In fact, this rattan bridge could only be used by small groups of troops to cross the stream, and it was not built in a hurry, and it was impassable for the large army's baggage. Therefore, after gaining a foothold on the other side, the Qin army started to build plank roads from both sides, and the process was very smooth because there was no interference from the Han army.

Five days later, the plank road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong was finally rebuilt, and the army and grain and grass that had been continuously reinforced from Guanzhong arrived in Hanzhong along this road.