Elegy for the Third Night of the Wujiang River (1)

It was the early morning of the twelfth day when the Eastern Navy took the Hengduan Pass, and after a short three-day rest, in the middle of the night of the 14th day of the Eastern Continent time, the dreamer was once again out of the dream of power, and the peaceful uprising that violently left the pass was born after Thursday night.

After a lackluster day in the "real" world, after nightfall, the Tokai team once again entered the dream of war.

Because of the agreement with the Tianshan team, the people in the Sui and Tang main lines were "internally determined" to Zhan Musi, so the Donghai team, which was on par with it in the Li Tang camp, did not plan to enter this main line again this week, leaving enough space and time for the Tianshan team to swing freely.

In fact, Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi both knew that this was just a way to lead the way to the east or to protect themselves, and the East China Sea team did not want to face more enemies who were eyeing each other.

So tonight's dream was that Xiaofeng fell asleep first and headed towards the main line of the North and South Dynasties. However, the dream world was unwilling to let the people in the dream control their fate so easily, so they had to stick a horizontal stick, once again causing the Tokai team to deviate from the intended goal.

The era in which they appeared was the era of the struggle between Chu and Han, and this time it was not Sima Fuqiang, an expert in war history, who made a judgment, but two people who had participated in the Battle of Julu.

When Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei just woke up, they felt that the military uniforms and slightly rudimentary weapons on their bodies were a little familiar, and the so-called never eaten pork had seen pigs walking.

Sima Fuqiang looked at the two of them with interest, wanting to hear how they would deduce the specific battle and time.

Zhang Wei didn't like to use this brain, so he completely handed over this work to Huang Zhi to be responsible.

Huang Zhi thought for a moment, and immediately had an answer, "The last time we entered the era of the Chu-Han conflict was the Battle of Julu, although I don't remember the specific year, but one thing is certain, in the same historical period, the war dreams we experienced must be carried out in order, and we usually don't change sides at will. ”

Sima Fuqiang nodded, Huang Zhi's argument is no problem, and there have been no exceptions so far. Listening to his reasoning, in fact, the final answer has been revealed.

"So it's either the Battle of Xingyang that defines the 'Chu River Han Boundary', or the Battle of Xiang Yu's last battle." Huang Zhi still did not have an accurate conclusion, but oscillated between the two options.

Seeing that Huang Zhi was worried about choosing one of the two, Sima Fuqiang had to remind, "The Battle of Xingyang lasted for two years, and it was a famous tug-of-war in history, in fact, there was no fierce battle, it was nothing more than a passing scene connecting the Battle of Pengcheng and the Battle of Qixia, and the reason why it was so famous was because of the allusion of the 'Chu River Han Boundary'." ”

"Ah, I forgot that there is still a battle of Pengcheng......" At this moment, Huang Zhi was a little blind.

Sima Fuqiang shook his head helplessly, it seemed that Huang Zhi had no way to get rid of the entanglement, so he had to take over his analysis work, "The battle of Xingyang is impossible, the dream world has never chosen such a long and protracted battle as our war dream. The Battle of Pengcheng was born in the summer of 2o5 BC, when Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang's Han army at Pengcheng, and then Liu Bang retreated to Xingyang. The two armies fought a tug-of-war in Xingyang for two years, and in the autumn of 2o2 BC, the exhausted Chu army had to negotiate peace with the Han army and set an agreement that "the chasm is the boundary". ”

Huang Zhi listened to the captain's analysis and finally understood that the weather was quite cold at this time, the military uniforms on their bodies seemed too thin, and everyone was trembling, it was definitely impossible to be born in the summer of the Battle of Pengcheng.

Seeing Huang Zhi's enlightened expression, Sima Fuqiang said with certainty, "That's right, so we entered the Battle of Qixia, which was born in December of the fifth year of Emperor Han Gao, that is, in 2o2 BC. ”

"The Battle of Xia......" Huang Zhi was silent when he heard this, remembering that he had just experienced the life and death with Zhang He on Monday night, but he didn't expect to send away Xiang Yu, the most famous Western Chu overlord in China for 5,000 years.

Almost all the battles in Xiang Yu's life were fought with fewer enemies, but he only tasted one defeat, but the price of this defeat was too huge, so he didn't have a chance to do it again.

In 209 BC, the twenty-four-year-old Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang assassinated Taishou Yintong in Wuzhong. In this battle, Xiang Yu killed nearly 100 guards under Yin Tong alone, and appeared on the historical stage with a mighty attitude.

In June 208 BC, the twenty-five-year-old Xiang Yu accompanied Xiang Liang to fight Li You, the son of Li Si, in Yongqiu, and Xiang Yu killed Li You among the ten thousand troops, breaking the 30,000 Qin army.

In the battle of Julu in 207 BC, Xiang Yu broke the 400,000 army under the command of the Qin general Zhang Han with less than 50,000 men and horses.

In the Battle of Pengcheng in 205 BC, Xiang Yu bravely broke through the 560,000 troops of the princes' coalition army with 30,000 elite soldiers and drove Liu Bang back to the front line of Xingyang.

After the Battle of Xingyang, in October 202 BC, Liu Bang, at the suggestion of Zhang Liang, tore up the peace agreement of "the chasm is the boundary", and led an army of 200,000 to pursue the 100,000 Chu army that retreated after running out of food, but was attacked by the angry Xiang Yu, killing nearly 20,000 Han troops. Liu Bang had to retreat into Chenxia to hold the fortress, and at the same time split the ground and sealed the marquis, asking for reinforcements from Han Xin, the king of Qi, and Peng Yue, the king of Liang.

Finally, in December 202 BC, the 100,000 Chu army, which was exhausted and hungry and cold, had to face a total of 700,000 Han troops on the Fifth Route Army. Even so, in the face of Han Xin, who was known as the "Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty", "Soldier Immortal", "God of War", and "Peerless Warrior", Xiang Yu still led 100,000 Chu troops to inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on the other side, although he was defeated, he was still glorious.

In the dream, when the people walked out of the camp tent, it was early in the morning, and the 100,000 Chu troops in the camp were already busy, picking up the bark and grass roots to fill their stomachs, and they couldn't even talk about being full, let alone eating well.

A strange and familiar face suddenly appeared in front of Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei, and the two recalled for a while before they asked, "Brother Fan Yong, you have become thinner." ”

This big man named Fan Yong was met by them during the Battle of the Giant Deer, and when they met for the first time, the big man pitifully held a can of soybean soup and asked the two if they wanted to eat something. When we met again, the big man had become thin into a bamboo pole, holding a handful of grass roots in his hand, and swallowing the snow water indiscriminately.

Fan Yong smirked, and replied in a similar manner, "Two brothers, the Overlord of Chu is looking for you to discuss today's war." ”

Huang Zhi patted him on the shoulder helplessly, the weapon bag and medical kit of the person in the dream couldn't carry rations, otherwise he really wanted to get him some food.

Zhang Weiqiang endured his sadness and turned his head, for fear that if he looked at him more, he would shed tears, and the soldiers were not afraid of bloodshed or sacrifice, but they couldn't see their comrades-in-arms suffer like this.

The two casually chatted with him for a few more words, and then rushed to Xiang Yu's big tent.

Seeing Xiang Yu again, the overlord of Western Chu has also lost a lot, he is only thirty-one years old, he looks like he is forty years old, and he no longer sees the spirit of the year, replaced by the vicissitudes of life.

After the death of Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng, it was not easy for him in the past two years, but this military genius was a political imbecile who repeatedly made mediocre decisions. Even if he can have someone by his side to help him share these things, I am afraid that the dispute between Chu and Han will present another situation, and history will be rewritten.

Seeing the two entering, Xiang Yu didn't say anything gossip, and directly straightened up his own arrangements, "I want to fight Liu Bang'er to the death today, I need to lead the cavalry to break through the middle road, behead Liu Bang under the horse, and ask the two brothers to lead the infantry army for me and then follow up." ”

"Don't you even have the last chance to fight side by side?" Huang Zhi looked at the overlord of Chu again and again, and the sadness in his heart was even worse.

Xiang Yu didn't know what he was thinking, he just thought that the two brothers had agreed to his arrangement, so he left a talisman for them and left the big tent in a hurry.

When the two came back to their senses, they could no longer catch up with Xiang Yu, and he had already taken the cavalry out first.

Huang Zhi summoned his teammates who were waiting outside the tent, and followed up with the already prepared infantry army.

All the way forward, I saw that Xiang Yu's cavalry left countless corpses in the middle of the road, most of which were Han soldiers, which showed that he was extremely brave. However, the infantry army led by the man in the dream did not have such strong combat effectiveness, and soon faced the interception and encirclement of the Han army.

There were 300,000 Han Xin's army in the middle lane, and although he adopted a buffer defense line of layer by layer, he still could not intercept Xiang Yu, who was advancing frantically, and the defense array was chiseled through dozens of layers. However, after the cavalry of the Chu army passed, these arrays gathered from both sides to the middle, filling the gap that had been chiseled, which was fatal to the infantry army with weak impact.

1st, 2nd, 3rd floor...... No matter how hard the dreamer tried to rush and kill, he could never keep up with the pace of Xiang Yu's cavalry, and watched them disappear into the distance.

"The infantry army will be completely wiped out" Although he was very reluctant to attack Huang Zhi, at this time Sima Fuqiang finally spoke.

"Why?" Although he was stupid, Huang Zhi couldn't help but ask such a question.

Han Xin's tactics opened the formation of the Chu army, making the Chu army disjointed. At the same time, he asked Kong Xi and Chen He's left and right armies to encircle our infantry in a roundabout way, and by the afternoon, the entire encirclement would be completely formed, and the Chu infantry would be surrounded and annihilated. Sima Fuqiang is not so much analyzing the situation as he is expounding a historical fact.

Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei fell silent at the same time.

"If we can, it's time for us to retreat." This is what Sima Fuqiang really wants to say.

Zhang Wei, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke, "Do you think these Chu soldiers will back down?" ”

Everyone looked around when they heard this, although those Chu soldiers were hungry and skinny, their eyes were still so stubborn and proud. They would rather die in battle than have the slightest idea of retreating.

Sima Fuqiang added, "I'm talking about us, not including the Chu army. The battle of Qixia was bound to lose, even if the person in command on the opposite side was not Han Xin, in the face of so many difficulties, the Chu army had no chance of winning. Even if I am familiar with this history, I still can't think of a way to change the fate of the Chu army. ”

"But if we don't keep up, Xiang Yu will be fine?" What Huang Zhi really reluctantly is the overlord of Chu who has fought side by side.

"Can you keep up?" Sima Fuqiang asked rhetorically.

As early as an hour ago, the last cavalry of the Chu army had disappeared from Sima Fuqiang's sight, and even if he used the ability to "climb high and look into the distance", he could not see a standing cavalry of the Chu army. Everyone could only see among the bloody corpses under their feet, and those Jiangdong disciples who had been liberated one step ahead of their overlord.

What Sima Fuqiang is discussing with them now is not the battle itself, but the safety of the people in the East China Sea team's dreams. Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei must make a decision, should they be willful or responsible for the lives of their teammates?