Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 307

With a bang, a gray feathered arrow was nailed in front of Xiang Kang, rubbed Xiang Kang's shoe toe and pierced into the ground. It was a pity that it was only a few centimeters away from nailing Xiang Kang's instep, or It is to directly end Xiang Kang's sinful life.

"Protect the king! Protect the king!"

Xiang Kang's guards headed by Xu Ji shouted one after another, and hurriedly raised their shields, covering Xiang Kang from head to toe behind the shields. , in order to show his loyalty, he insisted on standing up in front of Xiang Kang, and used his body to build another shield for Xiang Kang.

Xiang Kang, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, did not reject the good intentions of his guards, but his expression was very calm and calm, and he was quite interested in pulling up the arrow of the Western Chu army that almost shot him, and he was still watching carefully. After learning about Liu Ya's situation, Xiang Kang's eyes flashed a trace of worry, because the feather arrow glue of this feather arrow has been completely dried, and there are still some cracks. It is obviously not a feather arrow made in a hurry, that is to say, The Western Chu Army is still using the feathered arrows they brought along with them, and has not spent the past few days recovering the arrowheads and rebuilding them.

Seeing the leopard in the spot also made Xiang Kang very worried. These days, the main force of the Western Chu army took turns to attack the Guangwu camp of the Han army. At this point, the main force of the Western Chu Army is still using a large number of old arrows brought with the army to fight. The huge spare power and potential naturally exceed Xiang Kang's pre-war imagination, and it also makes Xiang Kang fully understand that the real test of the self-army is yet to come. In the future, it is still unknown whether the main force of the Western Chu army can persist until the main force of the Western Chu army retreats.

At this time, a few more warriors of the Western Chu Army roared and rushed to the Han army camp, but the Han soldiers on the wall were already accustomed to this. The soldiers of the army are still throwing arrows into the ladder desperately, preventing more Western Chu army warriors from taking the opportunity to go up the base. The shouts and kills from the top and bottom of the base wall are deafening, and the sound can be heard for several miles. The blood of the corpses of the soldiers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army pooled into puddles, forming large swathes of dark red.

Many more feathered arrows flew towards Xiang Kang's position. It was obvious that the generals of the Chu army outside the wall had discovered that Xiang Kang had once again visited the front line to boost morale, and they all wanted to seize this opportunity to create a miracle. The guards begged Xiang Kang to step back and take refuge temporarily, but Xiang Kang turned a deaf ear to the treacherous villain who was dying. He just sent someone to order the reserve team to be ready to attack and rescue the southern section of the west gate of the camp at any time.

As expected by Xiang Kang, after fighting fiercely for a while, many Western Chu soldiers successfully rushed up the wall at the section of the wall where the shouts of killing were the most violent, and successfully seized a position on top of the wall. He had noticed that position a long time ago, Xiang Kang's guards just waved the command flag, and more than a thousand reserve troops immediately charged forward, rushing to the top of the wall to fill in the leak and put out the fire. Those enemies who have successfully climbed the barrier are all wiped out or driven off the wall.

The reserve team rescued another emergency, but Xiang Kang was not happy, because the fierce attack of the Western Chu army still showed no signs of retreating, and more soldiers of the Chu army were also rushing towards the Han army camp. Xiang Kang didn't know that it was time to completely repel this wave of attack from the Western Chu Army, let alone the soldiers of the Han Army who were fighting with their lives on the front line.

Xiang Kang was worried in the Han army camp, and his overlord cousin Xiang Yu was also gloomy in the Western Chu army banner outside the camp, because so far, Xiang Yu also did not see any hope of success in breaking the Han army camp. With the dawn of victory for the main force of the Han army, I had to regret once again that I had made a wrong choice. I first picked the hardest bone of the Han army's Guangwu camp to gnaw first.

It is also inevitable that Xiang Yu will regret it. In the past eight days, nearly 20 Western Chu troops took turns to fight, and launched more than 20 violent attacks of various scales on the Guangwu Camp of the Han Army. The number of soldiers killed and injured has exceeded 3 Thousands of people, the corpses piled up almost as high as the camp wall of the Han army three times successively, but the camp of the Han army remained standing still, and the Western Chu army failed to rush into the camp of the Han army even once.So much so that Xiang Yu couldn't help exclaiming, "Even if the camp wall of the Han bandits is made of iron, I'm afraid it should be pierced through? Why can't we break through?"

Of course, if Xiang Yu could know that the number of casualties of the main force of the Han army had exceeded 4000, perhaps it would not be so strange. On the contrary, he would be proud of the bravery and skill of the Western Chu soldiers-there is no advantage in the battle. Being able to achieve a casualty ratio infinitely close to two to one is not something that ordinary armies can do, especially the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Han army is not weak, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary princes' armies.

The walls that were not high enough and not thick enough meant that the Han army suffered heavy casualties. The Great Wall of flesh and blood was necessary to block the onslaught of the Western Chu army. Correspondingly, the tenacity of the Han army also cost the Western Chu army blood. The main force of the Chu army was directly disabled, and countless battle-hardened soldiers of Western Chu lay down forever under the camp walls of the Han army. The heavy losses caused many generals of Western Chu to cry for it.On the side of the Han army, Xiang Kang also ran to the front line more than once to cry and cry, paying homage to the soldiers of the Han army who unfortunately died in battle.The main forces of both the Chu and Han armies suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the blood flowed quietly.

The Guangwu war has also entered the stage where the two armies' commanders compete for perseverance and ruthlessness. No matter how regretful Xiang Yu is, he can't retreat. The main force of the Western Chu army has already been wounded in the Guangwu battlefield and lost countless elite soldiers. At this time, he gave up attacking the Han army. The Guangwu camp will inevitably seriously affect the morale and morale of the army. If you go to attack Xingyang or Aocang, you will have to start from the beginning. With the fortifications of the Han army camp being destroyed, the opportunity to bite the bullet and continue the onslaught!

Xiang Kang was even more hopeless, so he gave up at this time and moved the main force of the Han army to defend Xingyang or Aocang. The price of imagination, Guangwu mountain city is too small to accommodate so many troops, so Xiang Kang has no choice but to grit his teeth and continue fighting hard to keep the Guangwu camp at all costs.

Competing with vicious hearts, of course Xiang Kang can't compete with the overlord of Western Chu. Although the Western Chu army has already paid the price of thousands of casualties in the daytime battle, Fan Zeng, Cao Jiu and Ji Bu and other confidantes also beat around the bush several times to persuade Xiang Yu not to fight. Keep going, but when it was getting dark, Xiang Yu ordered the soldiers to light the torches without hesitation, and replenish the new force to continue to storm the Han camp.Xiang Kang's face was gloomy when he saw it in the camp, but there was nothing he could do.

Xiang Yu didn't blindly let his soldiers die in vain, and insisted on attacking overnight. In addition to Xiang Yu's reluctance to give up, Xiang Yu keenly discovered that the physical strength of the soldiers of the Han army had obviously begun to decline, even the newly added reserve team. In this way, it is obvious that the Han army in the Guangwu camp has taken turns to participate in the battle, and there is no real new force available, so Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and was determined to continue.

The fact is exactly the same. The continuous fierce battles have seriously reduced the physical strength of the soldiers of the Han army. Xiang Kang did not have any real fresh troops to use. After finding that his own army was already showing signs of fatigue, Xiang Kang could only make two arrangements. , One is to mobilize the defenders in Guangwu Mountain City to go out of the city to participate in the battle, and the other is to prepare Guangwu City for ignition so that they can ask for help from the Han defenders in Xingyang and Aocang at any time.

At the second watch, the worst situation that Xiang Kang was worried about finally appeared. Accompanied by a burst of cheers, a group of Western Chu soldiers finally rushed into the camp of the Han army, roaring excitedly and rushed to the camp gate, ready to meet the friendly troops outside Entering the city, the morale of the Western Chu army was greatly boosted, but the morale of the Han army was severely hit.Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiang Kang had no choice but to order the defenders of Guangwu Mountain City to attack and rescue the urgent positions, and at the same time ordered to ignite and send out signals.

The vigorous defenders of Guangwu City only quickly surrounded the enemies who entered the camp without giving them a chance to open the camp gate from the inside. However, the Western Chu army continued to attack the wall, and the Han army camp was still extremely dangerous.Fortunately, after seeing Xiang Kang's call for help, Ding Ji, who was guarding Aocang, and Zhong Limei, who was guarding Xingyang, both decisively dispatched troops to attack the main force of the Western Chu army from the north and behind respectively, encircling Wei and saving Zhao to share the pressure for the main force of the Han army.

Xiang Yu couldn't wait for the Han army to go out to fight in the field. After giving the order, Xiang Yu first sent the general of Western Chu to lead the army northward to meet the reinforcements of the Han army from Aocang, and then sent Xiang Zhuang to lead the army westward to intercept the enemy from Xingyang. The incoming Han army Zhongli Mei was under his command.However, to Xiang Yu's surprise, Zhong Gong successfully stopped the Han army's Ao Cang to rescue the soldiers, but Xiang Zhuang's troops were unexpectedly defeated by Zhong Limei and were forced to retreat.

"None of my brothers can make me worry!"

After a roar, Xiang Yu decisively ordered the cavalry to assemble, and decided to personally lead the army to meet Zhongli Mei, and let Cao Jiu temporarily command the army to continue to storm the Han camp for him. Kuai Che who was next to him hurriedly stopped him and said, "My lord, we have already seen the breakthrough. The hope of the Han bandit camp is over, at the decisive moment, you'd better not leave our main force yourself. Just send another general to intercept the bandit army in Xingyang."

"My hands are itchy! This king first went to clean up the reinforcements of the traitors, and then turned around to deal with the main force of the traitors!"

Flatly rejecting Kuai Che's kind dissuasion, Xiang Yu insisted on leading the main force of the cavalry to the west, and got his wish. With only one charge, he killed the Han army in Xingyang, who had come to rescue the main force of the Han army at any cost, to pieces. It was everywhere, Xiang Yu roared excitedly, and led the Western Chu cavalry to chase after him with all his strength. He directly pursued to the bottom of Xingyang City, and almost took Xingyang City by taking advantage of the situation.However, when Xiang Yu returned to the main position with a happy smile, he was extremely dumbfounded to see that the Western Chu army, which had already climbed the wall in large numbers, had been driven down by the Han army, allowing the Han army to stabilize their position again. At the same time, there was no more chaos in the camp of the Han army. It was obvious that all the Chu troops entering the camp had been wiped out by the Han army.

"What's going on? This king has only been away for such a short time, why did he fight like this?"

Cao Jiu didn't have the face to answer Xiang Yu's angry questioning, and the old man Fan who was beside him could only quickly explain for Cao Jiu: "Your Majesty, you can't blame Cao Sima entirely. General Zhonggong, Cao Sima was forced to divide his troops to rescue him, and the rebel Xiang Kang took the opportunity to send his invulnerable armored soldiers out of the battalion to charge back, and the situation became like this."

"you……!"

Pointing at Cao Jiu, Xiang Yu was so angry that he trembled all over his body, he almost wanted to tear Cao Jiu's mind away on the spot, Cao Jiu also quickly knelt down to plead guilty, admitting that his poor command had destroyed the soldiers of the Western Chu Army. Great situation.Kuai Che next to him muttered in his heart, secretly said: "You still have the face to blame others, just now I advised you not to deal with the reinforcements of the Han thieves yourself, what can you do if you don't listen?"

After all, Cao Jiu is Xiang Yu's most trusted confidant and commander of the army, and he has great kindness to the old Xiang family. After his chest heaved violently for a long time, Xiang Yu managed to suppress the anger in his heart, and instead shouted: "Beat the drum, continue!" attack!"

Everyone was frowning, but no one dared to make a sound and opposed Xiang Yu's decision. However, at this moment, a scout from the Western Chu Army suddenly galloped to the vicinity of the flag formation and dismounted, and quickly came to Xiang Yu to play Report: "My Majesty, the Aocang Han bandits sent us a package with a white flag in their hands, saying that they want you to see it for yourself, Your Majesty."

After saying that, the scout of the Western Chu Army hurriedly presented another package, and Xiang Yu took it casually and tore it open. Seeing that the package contained a flag of the Western Chu Army, he couldn't help being stunned, and said: "Our military flag? Our military flag? The flag of that army?"

As he said that, Xiang Yu quickly unfolded the military flag to take a closer look, and after only one glance, Xiang Yu roared, "Xiang You's military flag!"

"General Xiang You's military flag?!" All the civil and military officials of Western Chu who were present were shocked. When they went up to look at the military flag together, they saw that the Western Chu military flag with the arrow hole clearly said "Xiang You" Two big characters, next to Xiang You's official title.

"Yuer—!"

Master Xiang Bo cried and roared, drew out his sword and stamped his feet at the Guangwu camp, crying and shouting, "Little beast! You are so cruel! Xiang You is your cousin, and you have the heart to hurt him!" Such a vicious hand! Don't pull me, don't pull me, this old man is going to fight that little bastard! Avenge my Youer! Don't pull me——!"

Crying and stomping, Master Xiang really stepped forward several times, rushed to the Guangwu camp and the Han army desperately to avenge his precious son, but unfortunately, except for his personal soldiers, none of the Western Chu Wenwu present Pulling forward to block - Many people still hope that Master Xiang Boxiang will do what he says, and really go to fight with the soldiers of the Han army to the death.

In the end, Li Zuoche next to him couldn't stand it any longer, so he said, "Master Xiang, calm down. I can be sure that General Xiang You hasn't been killed yet. Otherwise, the traitors would either send his body or his body." Soldiers seals, and now the envoys of the Han rebels only sent General Xiang You’s military flag, which is enough to show that General Xiang You was defeated in Hanoi, but he himself should not be in any danger.”

Master Xiang's crying stopped abruptly, and he laughed through his tears immediately. He nodded desperately and said, "Yes, it must be so. If You'er was really killed, the Han thief envoy would definitely send his body, but now the Han The envoy of the thief just sent his military flag, which means that You'er is definitely fine. That's fine, as long as You'er is still alive!"

"But what's the difference?!" The old man Fan, who had always been at odds with Master Xiang, roared, "Our partial division and even the general's commander-in-chief's flag were captured by the Han thieves, which means that our partial division must have suffered a big blow in Hanoi." The defeat must have been a huge defeat with extraordinary losses! Without the containment of our partial division, the Hanoi partial division of the Han thieves, and their Guanzhong rear army, they can safely reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield. We will definitely only compare Now it's even harder!"

Master Xiang's face quickly darkened, and Xiang Yu, who was next to him, suddenly roared, "Incompetent! Thirty thousand partial divisions, and even the commander-in-chief's flag was captured by the traitors! How did Xiang You fight in Hanoi? How did you fight? Can you be so embarrassing?!"

Even Master Xiang didn't dare to answer this question, he could only quickly figure out how to intercede for his precious son in his heart, never thought that at this moment, in the distant Guangwu camp of the Han army, suddenly there was a loud noise one after another. The cheering sound was like thunder, even if it was miles away, it could be heard clearly!
"Xiang Kang's rebels already know about the situation." Kuai Che came to a conclusion and said, "It must be the messenger of the Han rebels who sent the news to their Guangwu camp. The good news of Hanoi's great victory was told to the Han bandits."

With a bang, Xiang Yu tore Xiang You's commander-in-chief flag in half, and said with a livid face: "Step up the attack, take advantage of the fact that the Han bandits are part of the army, and it's too late to return to the Sanchuan battlefield, so I must take the Han bandits' Guangwu camp!" Down!"

Continuing the strong attack has no effect. After the dawn of victory that was finally seen before was extinguished by the Han bandits, the morale of the Western Chu army has been greatly affected. Of course, the sleepy Western Chu army had no way to take down the main camp of the Han army. Even if the sky was full of light after a strong attack overnight, the Western Chu army failed to enter the Han army camp again. On the contrary, the total casualties of the main force of the Western Chu army The number directly broke through the [-] mark.

In the end, when there was nothing he could do, Xiang Yu could only order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops with a dark face, and retreated to the camp with the main force of the Western Chu army who had suffered heavy casualties, leaving behind many dead bodies of Western Chu soldiers who were higher than the walls of the Han army. .

After the main force of the Western Chu army retreated dejectedly and left, there was very little cheering in the Han army camp. Countless Han soldiers just saw the Western Chu army go far away, and immediately collapsed on the ground, snoring loudly and fell asleep directly. Xiang Kang himself also The same is true, after finally persevering to confirm that the main force of the Western Chu Army returned to the camp to rest, Xiang Kang also slumped on the ground, and after a long time he said weakly: "Clean the battlefield quickly and let the front-line soldiers go back to their tents to rest. Let the troops in Guangwu City stand guard."

Xu Ji waited for the guard to agree, and hurriedly conveyed Xiang Kang's order. Xiang Kang also struggled to get up and prepare to return to the tent to rest. Unexpectedly, a soft little hand stretched out from the side, helping the guard to support Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang turned his head in surprise, but saw that it was Zhu Xu Moling, the female mistress of the Han Army who was supposed to live in Guangwu City, who had come to him at some point and helped the guards to lift him up.Xiang Kang forced a smile, and said: "Thank you, Xu Taizhu, there are dead bodies everywhere outside the camp, Taizhu, if you are afraid, you should go back to the city first."

"I'm not that timid." Xu Mo smiled sweetly, his ordinary face became very charming, and said with a smile: "I have seen even more terrifying things, let alone dead bodies?"

Xiang Kang smiled, and didn't bother to ask the goddess stick what more terrifying things she had seen, but nodded and thanked her for her kindness, and walked back to the big tent with energy.Xu Mo negative looked obviously hesitant, and suddenly gritted his teeth, quickly caught up with Xiang Kang, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I know that you don't believe in ghosts and gods, but I still want to remind you out of duty. , your complexion today is a bit wrong, I'm afraid something bad will happen to you, please be careful, Your Majesty."

"Thank you, Mrs. Xu, for reminding me, I will be careful." Xiang Kang forced a smile again, and secretly said: "Okay, I will trust you once, and I will take a look to see if anything bad happens."

Facts may prove that the well-known Xu Mo negative may really be a swindling goddess, because Xiang Kang just returned to the Chinese army tent, and Chen Ping, who was staying in the tent, immediately greeted him, and he was very excited to meet Xiang Kang. Kang said: "Your Majesty, I just received accurate information. In order to show his sincerity, Shen Yang, who surrendered to us, not only rejected the request of the King of Western Chu to send troops to attack the hinterland of our Sanchuan, but also led his troops southward to meet the Nanyang Puppet King Liu Ji. of the Northward Army."

The allies were loyal and refused to help Xiang Yu, and even fought with Xiang Yu's servants. This is of course great news for the Han army, but after hearing the good news, Xiang Kang's face immediately changed. He screamed and asked, "What? Shen Yang personally led the army south to meet Liu Ji's northward army?"

"That's right." Chen Ping nodded quickly, and said, "In addition to asking Shen Yang to send troops to attack our Sanchuan hinterland, Xiang Yu also ordered Liu Ji to station troops in Ye County to force Shen Yang to obey. Shen Yang rejected Xiang Yu's request, of course he must lead The army is going south to attack Liu Ji who dares to threaten his southern front."

"It's broken!" Xiang Kang cried loudly, and quickly ordered: "Hurry up, send someone to contact Shen Yang, tell him to retreat to Yangdi immediately, only guard the city and not fight! Tell him clearly, just say that he will not betray us , I will repay him twice in the future, but please don't take the risk of a decisive battle with Liu Ji. As long as he helps us defend Yangdi and doesn't give Liu Ji the opportunity to enter the hinterland of Sanchuan through Yangdi and Yangcheng, I will definitely give it to him in the future. Thank you very much!"

"My lord, isn't Shen Yang weaker than Liu Ji? Is that why you don't like him?" Chen Ping asked in surprise.

"You will understand in the future." Xiang Kang sighed, and after a little calculation, Xiang Kang said quickly: "Also, give Li Shang and Cang an order to send them away, and ask them to take the troops we urgently recruited in Hanzhong Bashu Allocate [-] troops to go north and hand them over to Zheng Bu to lead, and by the way, ask Uncle Ya and Chao Zhi to prepare the military supplies for Zheng Bu as soon as possible, so that Zheng Bu can lead the army out of the customs at any time and reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield!"

I have never seen Xiang Kang so nervous, and even prepared to mobilize more reinforcements to reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield. Chen Ping didn't dare to neglect, so he could only rush to draw up a pen to write for Xiang Kang, and give Shen Yang according to Xiang Kang's intention. write a letter.After Xiang Kang thought about it for a while, he suddenly muttered, "It's really a crow's mouth."

(End of this chapter)