Chapter 169: Han Xin mentions the seal of the halberd

Zhang Han fled back to the camp and immediately closed the camp gate, not daring to fight again. Xiang Yu saw that Zhang Han was retreating, and he didn't chase after him, so he hurried back to the army to visit his father. Xiang Yu came to Ya's father's car, and saw that his wound was still bleeding, so he quickly helped him out of the car, and then ordered the military doctor to treat him. Xiang Yu looked at Fan Zeng with concern and said, "Father Ya's injury is the fault of my nephew!" Fan Zeng said with a smile: "Just an arrow wound, why worry about it?" Today's matter is still the old man's inconsiderate thought, if it weren't for the general's timely arrival, it would almost delay the big event. Xiang Yu said: "My father is seventy years old, and he still serves the country, it is really difficult for you." When the battle is over, I will declare your exploits to King Huai. Fan Zeng said angrily: "Baili Xi is eighty and worships the prime minister, Jiang Ziya is only a general in his ninety, and the former sages are still like this, not to mention that I am only seventy years old, how can I rely on the old and sell the old?" Help me up, and I'll plan the next battle for you. Xiang Yu helped Fan Zeng to sit down. Fan Zeng first asked about Zhaoping's injury. Chen Ping said: "General Zhao is also an arrow wound, it is not a big problem, it has been bandaged." Fan Zeng asked how the Chu army's military formation was. Chen Ping said: "I have followed your instructions and asked the two generals, Huan Chu and Yu Ying, to reassemble a new array. Fan Zeng nodded slightly when he heard this, and ordered all the injured soldiers to be sent to the rear for treatment.

At the same time as the Battle of Thorn Plain, Su Jiao also reassembled his team to fight Yingbu because he wanted to repair the Yongdao. Before leaving, he said to the soldiers: "Yongdao is the lifeline of our army, and if you don't kill Chu Kou, you won't be able to eat food." You must fight hard today and defeat the thieves once and for all! After speaking, he led 15,000 soldiers and killed the Chu army. When Ying and Pu heard the news, they immediately went out of the camp to fight.

The two took turns fighting in front of the camp and fought for a long time, regardless of victory or defeat. Su Jiao was excited, and roared like thunder: "You two thieves will come together, and I'm not afraid!" Ying and Pu glanced at each other and stepped forward together. Su wrestled with the two generals, without fear. The two sides fought dozens of rounds, but Ying and Pu fled in defeat. Su Jiao saw that Chu was defeated, so he waved his army to cover the past. Ying and Pu Er walked while fighting, leading the Qin army all the way to Yan'er Bay. Seeing that the Qin army was about to catch up, they burrowed into the valley of Yan'er Bay. At this time, Han Xin was already standing on Yan'er Ridge and calmly commanding the Chu army to fight.

Wu Ming and Xu Cha saw that General Chu suddenly disappeared, so they said to Su Jiao: "General, the terrain ahead is complicated, and the thief general has suddenly disappeared, are they tempting us?" Su Jiao said very smugly: "Chu Kou has lost consecutive battles, he is not my opponent, how can he be tempted?" Then he ordered a quick pursuit. Wu Ming said: "I heard that Yan, Qi and other countries also stationed their military camps in the southwest, maybe Chu Kou has already contacted them. When Su Jiao heard this, he smiled dumbly and said, "You don't say that I don't understand it yet, it's right now!" Chu Kou must have wanted to escape to them. I had already sent spies to monitor the movements of the coalition forces, and I heard that they were holding on to their camp and did not dare to come out. Pass on my command, speed up, and those who retreat will be killed! "Suddenly, the military detectives sent to report that the coalition forces had fled from the village. It turned out that since the coalition confronted Zhang Han, they were afraid that Wang Li and Zhang Han would be attacked and the enemy would be burdened with the enemy, so they returned to the camp in the northeast, while Chen Yu stayed in Xiang Yu's army to fight. Su Jiao laughed wildly when he heard this: "The princes' army is so bold, how dare they fight?" Now that Xiang Yu is here, I will kill him without leaving a piece of armor! Then he waved his army and gave chase. The Qin army followed Su Jiao and turned left and right, and all of them entered the valley of Yan'er Bay. Wu Ming saw that the terrain was complicated, there was a faint murderous aura, and he smelled a pungent smell, so he said in horror: "General Su, what kind of smell?" So they stopped and looked at it, and they all said it was the smell of sulfur. Before the words fell, a cannon rang out, and then rockets rained down from the sky, and the flaming arrows pierced directly into the position of the Qin army. In just a split second, a fire broke out on the entire position.

It turned out that Han Xin had already prepared, he asked the sergeant to sprinkle sulfur, vegetable oil and other flammable materials on the grass and trees in advance, and then climbed Yan'erling to command. Now these flammable materials ignite as soon as they encounter fire, and it is the fire that borrows the wind, and the wind helps the fire, and in an instant the flames rise to the sky. Seeing this, Su Jiao was shocked and hurriedly ordered to withdraw from the valley. However, there were many Qin troops, coupled with crowding, and people and horses trampled on each other, and it became a pot of porridge after a while. Su Jiao was helpless, so he took some of the sergeants and retreated. As soon as they arrived at Taniguchi, another burst of rockets were fired from both sides. Su Jiao's body was also on fire, and in addition, black smoke was coming out everywhere, his eyes couldn't be opened, and people and horses were also burning. Su Jiao turned around and saw that most of the people had fallen into the valley and couldn't get out, so he had to run away with a few people, and he shouted in grief as he ran: "Does God want me to die here?" How so? As soon as he finished speaking, he was killed head-on. Su Jiao was caught off guard, and was stabbed to death under the horse by a halberd, and then his head was cut off.

It turned out that after Yingbu and Pu General introduced Su Jiao into the valley, they went around from other directions according to the route indicated by Han Xin, and then came to the valley mouth again to wait, and happened to meet Su Jiao, the Qin general who rushed out, and killed him. General Pu also captured many Qin troops. In this ambush battle, Han Xin stood on a high place and commanded, the general of the Qin army, Su Jiao, was killed, and the army was almost completely annihilated. This is also the first Qin general killed by the Chu army after coming to Julu. Yingbu killed Su Jiao, and also seized a lot of horses and equipment, so he joined forces with Han Xin and returned with victory.

In the camp of the Great Wall Army, because the road was destroyed, the sergeants could not eat, and they all kept shouting. Wang Li summoned all the generals to discuss the way to break the Chu army, and overheard: "Report! General, General Su went to save Yongdao and fight with the thieves, but he mistakenly fell into the enemy's ambush and was already killed in Yan'er Bay, and only a few dozen soldiers escaped back. When Wang Li heard that Su Jiao was killed, he screamed and almost fell. Wang Li was shocked by this sudden news, he never expected that one of his generals would die like this. If you compare Shiruma to his left arm, Su Jiao is his right arm, how can he not be shocked when he loses an arm now? At this moment, he already faintly felt that there was an ominous attack on him again, so he said bitterly: "General Su has been with me for many years, galloping through the desert together, and has made a lot of meritorious contributions for the country, and now he is suddenly martyred, is it that God wants to kill my Great Qin State?" Now that the road has been destroyed and there is no food in the army, how can you fight the rebels? ”

At this time, another general, Shima, asked Wang Li: "General, do you want to attack the city with all your strength now?" Wang Li shook his head and said: "Even if you take the city, there is no food to eat, maybe the siege is a mistake!" After saying that, he got up and said hatefully: "Now if you want to turn defeat into victory, you must attack the Chu army from the north and south, and only by defeating the Chu army, everything will be easy to do!" Shima hesitated: "But general, Zhang Han was also defeated by the Chu army today?" Wang Li pondered: "Our army has no food, if we don't fight, the consequences are unimaginable!" Shiruma asked what to do. Wang Li said decisively: "Now while Xiang Yu is not here, we should contact Zhang Han and jointly attack the Chu Zhao camp, if we can win, we will kill the Thorn Plains in one fell swoop and eliminate Chu Kou." There are 300,000 troops in the north and south of our army, are you still afraid of Xiang Yu? Meng Fang and other generals also said: "The general is right, if you don't attack overnight, the Japanese soldiers won't be able to eat tomorrow, and I'm afraid they will mutiny!" When Wang Li saw that everyone thought the same as him, he immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to send it to Zhang Han.

Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng were discussing things in the camp, and suddenly reported that Yingbu and others had won a great victory. Xiang Yu was very happy and immediately got up to greet him. When Yingbu came to the army, he described in detail the whole process of burning Su Jiao, and said that this strategy was Han Xin's masterpiece. Fan Zeng saw that Han Xin had made another meritorious service, so he told Xiang Yu about building a car. Xiang Yu listened to the statements of the two, walked up to Han Xin, nodded slightly, and said, "Although you are talented, you have no power to bind the halberd, and you can't be a general!" "Just mention Han Xin as a halberd thrower in person, which means that he will exercise his arm strength with a big guy with weight. The halberd bearer, also known as the halberd Langzhong, belongs to the military position, that is, a tiger guard in the Chinese army camp, and his duty is to defend the general. Although Han Xin disdained this position, he stood out from then on, and began to step out of the lowest level of soldier status, and he was still very satisfied with seeing the general and Fan Yafu every day.

Suddenly, Xiang Bo walked in with a person and said, "General, I was inspecting the items in the rear camp, and the patrolling sergeant caught a Qin soldier and searched for a letter from his body. As he spoke, he handed the letter to Xiang Yu, and Xiang Yu handed the letter to Fan Zeng after reading it. It turned out that Wang Li agreed to attack Chu Zhao's camp. Zhang Han agreed, and wrote a reply letter, in which he said that he sent his younger brother Zhang Ping to come at the third watch tonight, led 10,000 soldiers, and sent a batch of military rations, and then raised fire as a signal to defeat the rebels. Xiang Yu looked at Qin Jun, sneered, and ordered him to push him out and cut him left and right. Fan Zeng hurriedly stopped, then approached Xiang Yu and whispered a few words, and handed the letter to Qin Jun. Xiang Yu sneered: "Hmph! Even if you flank the Chu army, will I be afraid? Go back and tell the king to leave the house, and say that I am waiting for him. Hum! Then he commanded the right and left sticks to be beaten. Qin Jun took the letter and ran back to report it. However, because the sergeant was afraid that Wang Li would punish him, he did not dare to say anything about being caught by the Chu army.

Afterwards, Fan Zeng said to Xiang Yu: "Since Wang Li has asked Zhang Han to attack our army, this is also a reasonable thing. Wang Li took the initiative to fight, it must be because of the lack of food. Why don't we just do it? Xiang Yu said: "What is the high opinion of the father? Fan Zeng pondered: "We took this opportunity to dispatch a large army overnight to break through the Great Wall Army in one fell swoop. Xiang Yu said: "What do you mean?" Fan Zeng said: "Wang Li's camp is still very strong, and it can't be broken if it doesn't go in." Tonight, only by intercepting Zhang Han's grain cart first, and then capturing some equipment and flags, you will go to Julu under the banner of the Qin army. We will inform Ji Bu in advance, and as soon as your military horses arrive, you will take advantage of the situation and enter Wang Li's camp. Wang Li must come out to respond, you can capture him, this opportunity is very rare! If Wang Li is captured, the Great Wall army will collapse without a fight, and the siege of Julu will also be solved. Chen Ping added: "You can also ask the coalition general to send another war letter to Zhang Han, so that Zhang Han will definitely not dare to come out tonight." Xiang Yu listened to the words of the two and said impassionedly: "Okay, defeating Wang Li is tonight, I must capture Wang Li and lift the siege of the giant deer!" "I immediately sent someone to inform Chen Yu and the generals of the coalition army, and asked them to go together to issue a war letter to Zhang Han.

An hour later, the sergeants sent back to report that only Chen Yu had written a war letter, and no one from Yan, Qi and other countries dared to write a war letter. Xiang Yu asked where they went. The sergeants replied, "I heard that they have returned to their old camp." Xiang Yu heard that the generals of the coalition army didn't even dare to write the war book, and he was extremely angry. Chen Ping said with a smile: "General, don't worry, anyway, Zhang Han is afraid of the Chu army, and he is not afraid of them, so it doesn't matter if they can't get their battle book." Xiang Yu had no choice but to sneer.

In the camp of the Great Wall Army, after the death of the general Su Jiao, and the two days of cooking, the morale was already very low. Wang Li was sitting on pins and needles, and was meditating hard, when suddenly the sergeant sent back to report that Zhang Han agreed to flank the rebels, and also said that he would raise fire as a signal to break through the Chu Zhao camp in one fell swoop. Wang Li was very moved when he saw Zhang Han so righteous, so he immediately summoned all the generals to discuss the matter of the attack.

In the daytime, the head of Julu City was shrouded in a bleak and bleak sunset, showing a decaying and withering scene everywhere. At this time, Zhang Er and Zhao General Sima Mao patrolled the city together, and when they came to the south gate, suddenly an arrow came and shot right on the red pillar of the watchtower. Zhang Er was shocked, and saw that there was still a letter tied to the arrow branch, so he and Sima Wei hurriedly took the letter and watched, the letter said that the Chu army was going to attack Qin on a large scale tonight, and asked the Zhao army to break through according to the situation and prepare in advance. After reading the letter, Zhang Er was so excited that he burst into tears, so he asked Sima Wei to guard the city, and he took the letter and hurriedly reported the good news to King Zhao.

That night, after the Chu army had dinner, Xiang Yu summoned the generals, gathered the team again, and then issued an order: "Soldiers, we have crossed the Zhanghe River for four days, and now everyone knows that we have no way out!" Tonight's battle is a duel between the Chu army and the Qin army! Wang Li has 100,000 troops besieging the city, and in order to lift the siege of the giant deer, he must first destroy them! However, I heard that the generals of the coalition army would pee their crotch when they heard Wang Li, just because the Great Wall Army was the border guard of the Qin State and belonged to the elite division! As soon as Xiang Yu's words were finished, they caused a round of laughter. Xiang Yu gestured with his hand to be quiet, and then continued: "Qin Jun is not terrible, it is us who are terrible!" If every Chu person is determined to die in battle, then the Qin army will definitely be defeated at the hands of the Chu people! More than ten years ago, Wang Jian destroyed the state of Chu. Tonight! I want to capture Wang Li alive to avenge the fall of the Chu State! Grandfather Xiang Yan's hatred of defeat! Please try to cooperate with me and see if what I say will come true. The soldiers of the Chu army let out a thunderous cry: "We must win!" Win! ……”

At the same time, in the camp of the Great Wall Army, Wang Li was also discussing with the generals about the attack on the camp of Chu Zhao. Suddenly, a member of the generals ran in and reported: "General Wang, the soldiers are going to slaughter the war horses because they are hungry. Wang Li hurriedly came out with the generals to inspect, and sure enough, he saw a group of soldiers tying a war horse to the ground. Wang Li said angrily: "Bold! How dare you be so presumptuous? When the sergeants saw that the king was leaving, they said, "General, everyone is hungry, how can you have the strength to fight without eating?" Wang Li said, "I know you haven't eaten today, but I'm just like you." If you kill the war horse tonight, what will you do to fight? The sergeants said, "It's not that we haven't eaten today, we haven't eaten a full meal for two days, and we're really hungry!" Wang Li said: "This is all to blame on the hateful Chu army, it was they who destroyed the grain route and robbed the grain." But please hold on for another night, General Zhang Han sent troops to flank the enemy tonight, as long as this battle is fought well, there will definitely be food tomorrow. Defeat the thieves tonight! War horses are our life, the whole battalion will not be able to eat, not only you, as long as everyone can survive tonight, everything will change, please believe me! At this time, a soldier suddenly climbed down and hugged the horse's neck and cried: "Actually, we can't bear it! When Wang Li saw this, his nose was sour, and he held back his tears.

When Wang Li returned to the big tent, he instructed Shijian: "As soon as Zhang Ping and Sima Xin arrive tonight, they will definitely attack from the middle, and we will take care of the left and right, you will attack the left wing, I will attack the right wing, and we must defeat the thieves." Chu Kou is our nemesis, as long as we defeat Chu Kou, we will definitely be able to protect the great cause of the First Emperor! Shibu said categorically: "Obey the general's orders!" Wang Li said to the eight generals besieging the city: "You must besiege the city with your heart, no matter how fierce the battle of the camp in the south of the city is tonight, you must not leave without permission, otherwise the military law will be engaged!" Wu Ming and the other eight generals accepted the order impassionedly, and then went to their respective camps.