Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 156 Ambush
The night was dark, and a lone moon was hanging high in the sky.

Under the bleak moonlight, Gao Chu slowly drew out the horizontal knife and lifted it up in the air lightly. From the deep wormwood bushes behind him, dense numbers of armored soldiers of the Chu army appeared like ghosts. These armored soldiers of the Chu army were all wearing black scales and holding A double-edged sword, the sharp blade reflects a piece of cold light under the moonlight, which is icy cold and chilling to the point of suffocation.

Ahead, about a thousand steps away, you can already see dots of fire.

Needless to say, that must be the old camp of the Aries Tribe. After searching for several days in the desert, I finally found this damn old camp of the Aries Tribe. Murderous intent, the general ordered that if the Aries old battalion is broken, all men and women, regardless of age, will be beheaded!
Gao Chu drew the horizontal knife forward again, and the armored soldiers behind him began to move forward slowly.

Amidst the rustling footsteps, two thousand armored soldiers slowly approached outside the old Baiyang camp.

When the distance was less than fifty paces, Gao Chu drew his bow and set his arrows, only to hear a shriek, and the two barbarian sentrymen on the guard tower in the distance fell headfirst, one arrow after another. , Gao Chu shot and killed two barbarians!
Gao Chu's arrow immediately blew the horn of the Chu army's attack. In an instant, two thousand armored soldiers roared up to the sky like wild beasts, raised their double-edged swords one after another, climbed over the low wall, and swept in like a tide. After arriving at the old camp of Baiyang, the old and young women and children of the Baiyang tribe were awakened from their sleep one after another. However, what was waiting for them was...

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In Jiuyuan, the barbarians have been besieging the city for more than ten days.

King Lou Fan is not stupid, he knows that Jiuyuan City is high and deep, and he also knows that the old Qin people have sharp weapons. Let the Baiyang tribe and the Linhu tribe guard the west and south gates respectively, preparing to trap the old Qin people alive in Jiuyuan City.

At noon that day, King Loufan summoned King Baiyang and King Linhu to have a banquet again in the big tent.

The three Hu kings were half-drunk, and watched several Hu girls' singing and dancing. They were in high spirits, and when they each embraced a Hu girl and were about to vent their animal desires, a bloody, disheveled Hu man staggered in. In the big tent, seeing Queen Aries, the barbarian knelt down on the ground, and said tragically: "Your Majesty, the old camp, the old camp has been attacked..."

Aries King suddenly startled, and said sharply: "What did you say, the old camp was attacked?"

The Hu man nodded again and again, and said in a mournful voice: "Your Majesty, the old Qin people, it was the old Qin people who did it!"

"Old Qin people?!" Aries King gasped, and lost his voice, "It's too bad, no, I have to go back to the old camp quickly, otherwise, our Aries tribe will be finished."

After all, King Aries turned around and was about to leave.

King Lou Fan hurriedly got up to block the way of King Aries, and said unhappily, "King Aries, we agreed to besiege Jiuyuan together, and now the battle is starting, how can you leave as soon as you say it?"

King Lin Hu also said: "Yes, what's the matter with you leaving now?"

The Aries King said anxiously: "This king is different from you. Your Loufan tribe and Linhu tribe have cattle, sheep, women and children in the army, but my king's old and young women and children stay in the old camp. If the old camp is lost, I will The Baiyang Tribe is over, no, this king has to bring the army back to the old camp, Lou Fan Wang, get out of the way!"

Seeing Aries King's ferocious expression, obviously really angry, Lou Fan King had no choice but to get out of the way.

Only then did King Aries let go of his right hand that was clenched on the handle of the sword, and hurried away from King Loufan.

Watching Aries King leave, King Lin Hu asked nonchalantly, "King Loufan, is Jiuyuan still encircled or not?"

"Siege, of course!" Lou Fan Wang snorted angrily, "Without the Baiyang tribe, we can still fight this battle. Moreover, when Jiuyuan City is destroyed in the future, the women, children and slaves in the city, as well as the old Qin people The equipment is nothing to his Aries tribe, all the women, children, food, grass and equipment, you and I will share equally!"

King Lin Hu snorted twice and stopped talking.

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Xiang Zhuang stood majestically on a small hill facing the wind, trying his best to identify the surrounding environment.

When he was a soldier in his previous life, Xiang Zhuang went deep into the Hetao several times to participate in field training, and he had a good understanding of the terrain of the entire Hetao, but now, he can hardly find the topography and landforms in his memory. , the ecological environment is very different from that of later generations.

At this time, there is almost no desert in Hetao.

Standing on the top of a low mountain and looking around, all you can see are rolling hills, under the mountains are lush virgin forests, and between the primeval forests are large stretches of rivers, water, and grasslands. Just by looking, you can see Knowing that this is an extremely fertile land, it is no wonder that the Huns were so sad when they lost the Hetao.

Wei Liao took two steps forward and stood behind Xiang Zhuang, not without emotion, he said: "It's a pity, it's a pity."

Of course Xiang Zhuang knew what Wei Liao was regretting, and Wei Liao was regretting it. If the 10,000+ households of Kwantung soldiers and civilians who were forced to fill the Hetao by Qin Shihuang did not go back, and if the [-] Great Wall Legion left by Wang Li to Mengxuan was still in the Hetao, then the Chu army would There is no need to travel thousands of miles back to Jiangdong, just gain a foothold in Hetao.

However, Xiangzhuang is very clear that even if 10,000+ households of Kwantung soldiers and civilians are still there, even if the [-] Great Wall Legion of Mengmeng is still there, the Chu army may not be able to gain a foothold in the Hetao, because the south of the Hetao is the Guanzhong Plain, while the north is the Hetao. The increasingly powerful Huns, at this stage, neither Liu Bang nor Modu can compete with the Chu army.

While speaking, a fast horse had rushed to the top of the hill like a storm.

"General." The soldier on the horse got off the horse, cupped his hands and said, "The barbarian is here!"

"Understood." Xiang Zhuang nodded, then turned his head and told Jin Xiang, "Command all the troops, get ready!"

"Promise!" Jin Xiang promised loudly, and then turned around to give an order, and a dozen cavalry soldiers had already parted ways.

After a while, Jin Xiang suddenly pointed to the low mountain ridge to the northeast, and said to Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao, "General, military advisor, the barbarians are here."

Xiang Zhuang turned his head when he heard the sound, and he saw a horse suddenly appearing from behind the mountain ridge.

Immediately afterwards, dense crowds of Hu Qi emerged continuously from behind the mountain ridge, swarmed down along the mountain ridge, and then swept towards this side along the river valley. It was already full of densely packed Hu Qi, but behind the mountain ridge in the northeast direction, Hu Qi continued to climb up.

Soon, there was no other sound between the sky and the earth, only the sound of rumbling horseshoes remained.

According to intelligence, the Aries Tribe has at most ten thousand cavalry, but it seems that there are one hundred thousand cavalry!
Looking at the Hu cavalry rushing forward in the valley below the mountain, Xiang Zhuang even had an illusion that the rushing Hu cavalry turned into a first-class gray torrent, and the mountain bag under his feet became an isolated island in the torrent.

Xiang Zhuang suddenly realized that when Liu Bang was trapped on the mountain, the Huns might have only [-] cavalry!

Because the distance between the cavalry ranks is much greater than that of infantry, a square formation of 40 cavalry is almost the same size as [-] infantry. The Aries tribe only has more than [-] cavalry, but it gives people the feeling that there are more than [-] cavalry. Liu Bang on the battlefield will definitely have the same illusion, and without accurate information, it is easy to mistakenly believe that there are [-] Huns cavalry.

This can also explain why the Huns surrounded Baideng Mountain for seven days and seven nights, but they still could not attack. After the Han army's follow-up infantry continued to arrive, the Huns also took the initiative to retreat. Otherwise, with Maodun's heroic demeanor, If he really had 40 cavalry in his hands, how could he easily let Liu Bang go?

While meditating, Hu Qi had already entered the river valley completely.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang turned around and told Jin Xiang, "Jin Xiang, raise the fire!"

"No!" Jin Xiang agreed abruptly, then turned around and waved suddenly.

A dozen or so soldiers who had been waiting for a long time threw the torches in their hands onto the dry wood pile in front of them.

The pile of dry firewood that had been doused with heavy fire oil immediately burst into flames, and the rolling flames roasted the wolf dung on the top, and soon a puff of wolf smoke rose into the sky.

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Half a person deep in the wormwood bushes, two thousand Chu soldiers are hiding in it.

Xiao Kai knelt down on one knee, bent over and lay down in the grass, with a serious expression on his face.

Through the thick grass, black cavalry are swarming from the river valley in front, the frontmost cavalry is less than a hundred steps away from Xiao Kai's hiding place, Xiao Kai can even clearly see the faces of those Hu cavalry, this For a moment, Xiao Kai's ears were completely drowned by the sound of horseshoes, and he couldn't hear any other sounds.

Suddenly, a striking beam of wolf smoke rose from the top of the mountain on the left.

Xiao Kai immediately stood up, pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, and slammed forward!
The two thousand soldiers of the Chu army who were about to suffocate jumped up one after another, picked up the hemp ropes from the grass as fast as they could, and pulled them back with all their strength. The sharpened wooden fence at the top stood up abruptly from the grass, and the rows of sharp wooden stakes slanted towards the Hu Qi who swept forward.

When Hu Qi at the front realized something was wrong, the distance was already too close, and it was too late to react.

The next moment, hundreds of Hu Qi rushing to the forefront slammed into the rows of sharp wooden stakes, and then they were nailed to the stakes together with their riders. Only a handful of Hu Qi with excellent riding skills The riding horse jumped high and avoided the wooden fence in the front row, but was soon nailed to death by the wooden fence in the back row.

Hu Qi in front was blocked and stopped suddenly irresistibly.

But the Hu Qi in the back didn't know it, and they were still rushing forward. Although these Hu people lived on horseback since they were young, and all of them were excellent in riding skills, they became hasty and couldn't react one by one. In a short while, tens of thousands of Hu Qi had already collided fiercely, and even a group of people turned their backs and screamed.

(End of this chapter)