The Chu army buried the stove, and many people looked up at Xiang Ye from time to time while cooking, and most of them suspected that Xiang Ye would suddenly give the order to charge again.

This time, Xiang Ye did not give the order to attack, but called Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng to him, holding a branch in his hand and gesturing on the ground to discuss with them how to deal with the Qin army.

"Shi Lei, Xin Peng, come and see!" Xiang Ye first drew a straight line on the ground with a tree branch, and then drew a large circle outside the straight line. After drawing these, he drew a small circle a little farther away, followed by a large circle.

He first pointed to the straight line and said to Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng: "This is Puyang City, and the circle outside is Zhang Han's army. ”

Speaking of this, he moved the branch, pointed at the small dot and said, "This is us, and behind us is the main force of Da Chu." ”

Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng looked at the place where Xiang Ye's branch was pointed, although they nodded, but they were very puzzled in their hearts, and they didn't know what Xiang Ye was doing when he told them about these situations that everyone knew.

Xiang Ye used a branch to draw a line between the small dot and the big circle opposite, and said to Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng: "You see, we only have a thousand people, but we have nearly 50,000 Qin troops on the opposite side. With such a balance of forces, presumably our army is all warriors with one enemy and ten warriors, and it is impossible to win. Pei Gong's intention is obvious, he wants to use us as bait, and wait until the Qin army's camp changes, and the main force of our army will launch a general attack on them. This method of warfare is indeed foolproof, but it is a nightmare for a thousand of us, as long as the battle begins, we are the bait that is put at the front, and of course we cannot trap ourselves in it. ”

"What does General Xiang think?" Li Xinpeng usually behaves a little stupid, but when he arrives on the battlefield, he is unusually serious, he first carefully looked at the lines and circles drawn by Xiang Ye, and after a while, he raised his head and asked Xiang Ye.

Xiang Ye grinned at the two and said, "Zhang Han is not a stupid person, he can't sit on an army of forty or fifty thousand and let us harass him, I expect that it won't be long before he will definitely send troops to clear us." Before we set off, I heard that Bai Wuyi is now assisting in the defense of Puyang City, so let's not make a discordant plan and let them make trouble first, so that not only do we not have to fight the Qin army head-on, but the effect we get is much better than directly harassing them. ”

"Counter-plotting?" Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng looked at Xiang Ye with puzzled expressions at the same time and asked, "I don't know how to use this anti-intermediary plan?" ”

"Shi Lei, do you know how to write?" Xiang Ye didn't answer them directly, but looked at Shi Lei and asked.

Shi Lei shook his head, with an expression on his face that it was better to send him to the gallows than to let him write, and said: "I know the words, but I recognize them, and they don't recognize me." ”

"I will!" Xiang Ye glanced at Shi Lei, and was about to turn his head to ask Li Xinpeng, who was squatting aside, but Li Xinpeng took the first step and said: "I have learned to write, but I don't write very well, I don't know if I can do it?" ”

"Okay! Yes! As soon as he heard Li Xinpeng say that he could write, Xiang Ye nodded hurriedly and said to him: "You hurry up and get a piece of wood, carve some words according to what I said, after carving, the Qin army should have killed it, and when the time comes, we will leave the carved plank, if we can succeed, Puyang will be able to break through in a few days!" ”

After the discussion, they were busy looking for suitable pieces of wood and carving knives.

Lettering is much clearer on the bamboo than on the wood, but it is very difficult to find the bamboo at the moment, so you can only temporarily find a piece of wood to replace it.

Xiang Ye found a small tree nearby, he used a long sword to cut off a piece of wood with bark and handed it to Li Xinpeng, Li Xinpeng carved the words one by one under Xiang Ye's instructions, and when he carved the words, a soldier who was in charge of monitoring the Qin army ran over in a panic, half-knelt in front of Xiang Ye and said: "Report to General Xiang, the main formation of the Qin army suddenly came out of a group of people, the number of people is about twice that of us, is our army facing the battle?" ”

Xiang Ye raised his head and looked at the Qin army's camp, and sure enough, he saw a group of people pouring out of the Qin army, and that group of people was the same as their thousand people, all of them were cavalry, and they were riding their horses and galloping towards them, and where the horses passed, a cloud of smoke and dust rose into the sky.

"All on board!" Seeing that the Qin army was rushing towards them, Xiang Ye hurriedly stood up, threw the freshly carved wooden board to the ground, waved his hand to the whole army, and took the lead in turning over and jumping on horseback.

More than 1,000 people had already finished eating, and they were ready for battle, and when they saw Xiang Ye summoning, they thought that they were going to start a bloody battle with the Qin army, so they stepped on their war horses one after another, and stared at the Qin army who was rushing towards them with excitement on their faces.

"Retreat!" Xiang Ye gave an order, except for Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng, almost everyone was stunned, and the more than 1,000 Chu troops all looked at Xiang Ye in great confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Liu Bang sent them to disrupt the Qin army's camp, but Xiang Ye did not fight against the Qin army at all, and made a show before, but later ordered a retreat without fighting.

Although they were full of puzzlement, the officers and soldiers of Chu did not dare to disobey the military order, so they had to reluctantly follow Xiang Ye and retreat.

Bai Fu led two thousand Qin troops to kill the thousand Chu army led by Xiang Ye, and when he saw that the Chu army retreated without a fight, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, thinking that the Chu army was afraid of his bravery, so he led the army to chase Xiang Ye and them even harder.

Xiang Ye knew that Bai Fu was in hot pursuit, and he didn't look back, but just led the Chu army to retreat south.

After rushing up a low slope, Xiang Ye looked back and saw that Bai Fu was still chasing after him.

A playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, stopped the advance of the whole army, and ordered the army behind him: "Everyone dismount, put up a spear formation, and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

At the sound of an order, more than 1,000 people dismounted, and after they dismounted, they drove away the war horses, holding spears, and set up a spear formation along the hillside.

The officers and soldiers of Chu did not know why Xiang Ye wanted them to give up their horses, and chose to put out a spear formation to meet the enemy in a foot combat posture, the cavalry spear was slightly different from the infantry spear, the infantry spear was specially made for the spear formation, and the length was much longer than the cavalry spear.

After a group of Chu troops who were originally cavalry put out a spear array, they nervously stared at the Qin army who were charging up from the bottom of the slope.

Bai Fu brandished a spear and rushed to the front, and when he saw the Chu army abandon their war horses and use cavalry spears to form a spear formation, he couldn't help but secretly disdain the commander of the Chu army.

He rode forward and took the lead in killing the spear array of the Chu army.

"Capture him alive!" Seeing Bai Fu rushing over, Xiang Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, he still remembered the scene when Bai Fu shot a crossbow all the way in the previous sneak attack, if he could capture this person alive for his own use, it would definitely be a huge help in the future.

"Kill!" Bai Fu chased and killed all the way, and did not use crossbow arrows, he also had a calculation, he wanted to capture the main generals of this group of Chu troops alive, although Zhang Han gave him the order to completely annihilate this group of Chu troops, but he knew very well that the credit for capturing the enemy generals alive was greater than the killing.

Bai Fu doesn't attach much importance to merit, the reason why he wants to make meritorious service is that he wants Bai to see that today's Bai family still has generals who can break the army and kill generals, and there is no need to send it under the eaves of Zhang Han and be affected by Zhang's nest.

Rushing to the front of the Chu army, Baifu's spear was about to sweep towards the Chu army's spear array, but his spear had not yet swept out, and a grim reality was placed in front of him.

After Baifu rushed closer, the Chu army pushed the spear downward, the defect of the insufficient length of the spear was compensated for by the slope of the hillside, and the cavalry spear was slightly shorter, and the speed of stabbing was significantly higher than that of the infantry spear.

The war horse fell, Bai Fu hurriedly jumped up and wanted to jump off the horse, but the war horse was still galloping when it fell to the ground, and his body was thrown forward.

A row of densely packed spears was facing Bai Fu who was flying up in the air, and seeing that his chest was about to hit the spear wall, the spear array flashed open at this time, and two figures rushed out towards Bai Fu.

Seeing that the spear wall suddenly separated, Bai Fu was stunned for a moment, and the spear in his hand slammed into the ground, his body pointed upward, and he pulled it up a little higher.

He was about to leap upwards to avoid the two men rushing out, but with one hand he grabbed his armor and pulled him down.

"Peng!" With a muffled sound, Bai Fu's body fell heavily to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The grinning white man, who had just struggled to get up, stepped on his back with one foot, and then two swords rested on his neck.

It was only a matter of a moment that Bai Fu was caught, and when the Qin army he brought rushed up, the gap that the Chu army's spear array had dodged closed again.

The war horses of the Qin army rushed towards the Chu army wildly, and the war horses and knights who rushed in front were stabbed by spears, and the Qin army behind was smashed by Tong Ze who rolled down in front, and the small hillside was full of tumbling war horses and Qin officers and soldiers.

Due to the certain slope of the hillside, after the Qin army's war horses were stabbed overturned, few rolled forward, most of them fell to the side, and then rolled down the slope.

It was only at this time that the Chu army, who had been a little disgusted with Xiang Ye's order to abandon the horse and set up a spear array, understood that the spears in their hands were not all relied upon, and the hillside was the barrier they could really rely on.

The Qin army rushed towards the hillside in pieces, and then fell in front of the spear wall of the Chu army in pieces and rolled down the hillside.

"Kill!" The Qin army that surged up gradually found that the battle situation was completely unfavorable to their side, many people wanted to restrain the war horse, but their efforts were so powerless under the forward momentum of the charge of Tongze behind, the war horse that had just been strangled was arched by the war horse of Tongze behind, and then spread four hooves and hit the spear wall of the Chu army, and the war horses and human corpses in front of them gathered more and more, and the Qin army charging towards the slope had a feeling of being struggling and being slaughtered.