Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 364

Roaring and ordering the whole army to assemble and wait for orders, Zhou Yin, who hadn't slept all night last night, completely forgot about his fatigue and sleepiness. First he hurriedly put on his armor, and then hurried to the central army tent to dispatch troops. Prepare to launch the decisive battle of your dreams on the Northern Front.

When they came to the big tent of the Chinese army, more than half of the civil and military soldiers of the Western Chu army had already rushed to the tent to wait for orders, and they were still whispering to each other about the issue that the Uncle Zhou Corps of the Han army finally had the courage to launch a decisive battle. Zhou Yin was excited when he saw it Excited again, he ignored everyone's salutes, just walked quickly to the commander's seat, and couldn't wait to look at the clepsydra, complaining in his heart to those soldiers who were still unable to come to wait for orders.

Then, Xiang Guan, an important general in the Northern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army, and a soldier who reported the report entered the account almost at the same time. It is confirmed that the Han bandits have about 8000 troops in the camp, of which the number of cavalry is close to [-]."

"So many have been mobilized?" Xiang Guan rushed to speak, and said in surprise: "The total strength of the bandit army is only about [-], and they mobilized nearly [-] in a decisive battle. Zhou Shupifu is not small this time. How dare he dare to fight?" Don't hold back, put all the bets on?"

"This is the best!" Zhou Yin said with a smirk, "If it goes well, within today, we can wipe out all the Han thieves on the northern line!"

Smiling grimly, Zhou Yin first waved his hand to let the soldiers go down, then quickly glanced at the clepsydra in the corner of the tent, and said angrily, "Why haven't they all arrived yet? Ask the knife and axe to prepare, and there is no one within a stick of incense." Anyone who comes here to wait for orders, no matter who they are, will be killed immediately!"

Fortunately, although the mass discipline of the Western Chu Army is corrupt, the military discipline is very strict. All the generals rushed to the Chinese Army's tent on time to be ordered. What surprised everyone was that the Xiang family's children had the best reputation. Xiang Sui was the last general to come to command the army. As soon as he entered the account, he asked Zhou Yin: "Dear Sima, the bandit army is making a big move, and you asked our army to gather and wait for orders. Could it be that you want to send troops to fight the bandits?" Army decisive battle?"

Seeing that Xiang Sui has always supported him, Zhou Yin didn't care about Xiang Sui's questioning, and asked back with a smile: "Is there any need to ask? Uncle Zhou finally wanted to fight us to the death with dignity, how could the commander miss such an opportunity?" ?”

"The final general opposes!" Xiang Sui's loud answer stunned Zhou Yin and everyone else, and then Xiang Sui hurriedly said: "If it were in normal times, the final general would definitely support taking the opportunity to launch a decisive battle, but not today, we absolutely cannot Adventure battle!"

"Why?" Zhou Yin asked holding back his temper.

"Because our preparations for the decisive battle today are seriously insufficient!" Xiang Sui said immediately: "Yesterday we mistakenly thought that the Han bandits would come to rob the camp, and we didn't prepare our soldiers for a full-scale decisive battle. Most of the main soldiers last night Not having a good rest will definitely affect the physical strength and morale of the soldiers. The Han bandit army is completely opposite to ours. Not only did they feast on the soldiers yesterday, but they also got a full rest at night. The physical strength and morale of the soldiers are at a peak. Peak. This is the ups and downs. If we send troops to a decisive battle at this time, the situation will only be against us, so the general thinks that we had better not take the risk of a decisive battle with the traitors today!"

Zhou Yin's complexion darkened immediately, but he was concerned about the background behind Xiang Sui, so he could only continue to suppress his temper, and said kindly: "Brother Xiang Sui, the commander-in-chief is aware of all the situations you mentioned, but the fighters It’s rare and fleeting, if we don’t seize this opportunity to fight to the death with the main force of the traitors, I’m afraid it will be very difficult to have such an opportunity in the future.”

"Big Sima, it's better to have no chance than to take risks." Xiang Sui cupped his hands and said, "Forgive me for speaking bluntly. Uncle Zhou deliberately took the initiative to send a letter yesterday to make an appointment to fight, and he disturbed our camp twice at night. His purpose may be It is to let us only focus on night defense and not to prepare for today's decisive battle, and to consume the physical strength and morale of our soldiers. Now that his sinister intentions have basically been achieved, if we continue to send troops for a decisive battle, I am afraid that he will fall into his hands. "

Xiang Sui's analysis was very clear and reasonable, and Zhou Yin was not so reckless that he could not be cured. After listening to Xiang Sui's persuasion, he was unavoidably shaken, and Xiang Sui hurriedly said: "Grand Sima, the general knows that you have long wanted to fight the Han bandits to the death. In fact, the final general also hopes to wipe out the main force of the Han thieves on the northern front as soon as possible and completely reverse the situation in the Central Plains. Therefore, the general thinks that it is better for us not to take any risks, and we should take a defensive position temporarily, avoiding the edge of the Han bandits, and wait until the Han bandits' spirit is frustrated, and then try to defeat the enemy at a later date."

Zhou Yin hesitated to make a decision, and said after a long while: "If we don't fight this decisive battle today, what should we do if the Han thieves refuse to fight us in the future? There is a river blocking the way to the south of us, we can't withdraw, and we have no way to fight. What should we do? it is good?"

"No problem!" Xiang Sui replied decisively, and said: "We just need to endure for a day and avoid the current unfavorable situation, and tomorrow we can safely send troops to settle accounts with the Han thieves. If the Han thieves don't fight, we will attack their camp by force. In one day, it is absolutely impossible for the traitors to build their camp so strong, we are still sure that we can take it down! Take ten thousand steps back and say, even if we fail to capture the camp of the traitors, we don’t have to worry, 屦The water is not far from the giant deer, and our supply of food and grass is easier than that of the traitors, even if we confront each other, we will consume more food than the traitors with a long road!"

Zhou Yin hesitated even more, but at this moment, another soldier from outside the tent reported, clapping his hands and playing: "Da Sima, the Han thieves sent dozens of cavalry, ran outside our barracks to fight loudly, saying it was Da Sima. Sima, you promised to send troops to a decisive battle today, if you don't keep your word, you are..., you are..."

"What is it?" Xiang Guan next to him asked curiously.

"The villain dare not say it." The soldier replied with a mournful face.

"It belongs to the maidservant girl!" Zhou Yin said with a dark face: "This commander told the Han thief envoy yesterday that whoever breaks his promise today and reneges on his promise, whoever belongs to the maidservant girl!"

Even Xiang Guan didn't dare to say anything, but Xiang Sui looked calm and said: "Grand Sima, soldiers never tire of deceit, a joke, why take it to heart? Enduring a momentary humiliation, in exchange for our army to remain invincible. Why not?"

Zhou Yin's expression was incomparably complicated. After contemplating for a long time with his bluish face, Zhou Yin still gritted his teeth and shouted: "Order the whole army to guard the camp, and no single soldier is allowed to fight!"

Xiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly bowed his hands to thank Zhou Yin, and comforted Zhou Yin so that he didn't have to take yesterday's promise to heart, but Zhou Yin's face turned darker and blacker, and he couldn't listen anymore, he just waved his hands and told the generals to go down and go their separate ways. The commander guarded the camp, and kept saying to himself: "A man can bend and stretch, endure, endure, must endure!"

Want to hold back?Is that easy?When the main force of the Han army advanced several miles to the south of the camp, and seized the favorable terrain in advance to line up the formation, seeing that the Western Chu army still had no signs of sending troops to a decisive battle, Uncle Zhou just raised his mouth, and immediately there were dozens of cavalry surrounded A soldier dressed as a maidservant came out of the battle, beat his horse and ran outside the Xichu army camp to insult and fight, and a funny drama was soon staged in front of the West Chu army's camp gate.

Under the eyes of everyone, the soldier of the Han army in the clothes of a maid cocked his head and posed coyly. He claimed to be the mother of Zhou Yin, the great Sima of Western Chu. Humiliated and ridiculed in every possible way, the other cavalrymen of the Han army laughed and cursed Zhou Yin at the same time, and threatened that as long as Zhou Yin stood up and admitted that he was a maidservant, the Han army would immediately retreat and return to the camp. Zhou Yin's promise yesterday.

People in this era value dignity very much. Seeing the generals of the Han army insulting him in the camp, Zhou Yin was of course trembling with anger. Several times he wanted to call the generals of the Western Chu army to send troops for a decisive battle. Fortunately, Xiang Sui was also prepared. , From the beginning to the end, he insisted on staying by Zhou Yin's side, holding Zhou Yin tightly, which prevented Zhou Yin from taking the risk of fighting on impulse.

After tossing around like this for more than half an hour, seeing that the Western Chu army still had no sign of sending troops, even Zhou Shu, the old man Shangshan, who was accompanying the army, was a little worried, and couldn't help but said to Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou, If Zhou Yinpifu endures this and insists not to fight us today, what shall we do?"

Uncle Zhou didn't say a word, and after a while he smiled wryly and said, "Then I have no choice but to admit that I underestimated Mr. Zhou Yin. I didn't expect him to be so calm."

"Calm down, wait a little longer, the generals brought out by Xiang Yu are more irritable than the other, even if they are calm for a while, they may act impulsively at any time." After comforting the old man Shangshan, Uncle Zhou added in his heart One sentence, "I hope so."

It's a pity that at the same time in the Western Chu army camp, Zhou Yin had been forcibly pulled back by Xiang Sui to the central tent of the Western Chu army. He could neither hear the insults and provocations from the Han army, nor could he see the Han army disguised as a woman. The soldiers performed outside the camp, although their faces were still pale and terrible, but their anger was controlled a lot, and Xiang Sui also took the opportunity to persuade him: "Da Sima, that's right, the Chinese bandits are so unscrupulous in provoking you to fight, it shows that they We are already in a hurry, as long as we hold back our breath, the initiative on the battlefield will definitely return to us by tomorrow."

Zhou Yin nodded sullenly, and Xiang Sui persuaded again: "Da Sima, you didn't sleep all night last night, why don't you take a rest, there is a general in the camp watching, everything will be fine, if there is anything..."

"Report——!" The soldiers who came in quickly interrupted Xiang Sui's patient persuasion. While kneeling down on one knee to salute Zhou Yin, he presented an urgent military report with chicken feathers on it to Zhou Yin, loudly Said: "Report to Da Sima, Julu's urgent report, it was sent by Zhao Xiang Zhanger."

Feeling extremely unhappy, Zhou Yin of course snatched the emergency report delivered by the guards in a very angry manner, but when he opened it to read the contents of the military emergency report, Zhou Yin opened his mouth wide all of a sudden, full of anger. His face was full of unbelievable shock, and Xiang Sui, who was next to him, saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly came up to watch it together, but in the end, he only read the general content of Zhang Er's emergency report, and Xiang Sui was completely dumbfounded...

After a long time, Zhou Yin suddenly asked Xiang Sui: "Brother Xiang Sui, do you still object to my sending troops to a decisive battle?"

Xiang Sui was silent, and after a long while he replied in a gloomy voice: "We can only fight, take advantage of Zhou Shupifu's time to know, and try our best to win the decisive battle with him."

In this way, due to the sudden change in the battle situation, without adequate preparations, the main force of the Western Chu Army's Northern Front Corps suddenly mobilized. Under Zhou Yin's personal leadership, [-] troops were dispatched to the north in one go. , came aggressively to find the main force of the Zhou Shu Corps of the Han Army for a decisive battle.At the same time, at the request of Zhou Yin, Tian Xin, the leader of the Jibei Army, also bit the bullet and led [-] troops out of the camp, and joined forces with the Western Chu Army to march northward to help the Western Chu Army and the Han Army in a decisive battle.

Without God's perspective, after receiving the report that the Western Chu Army finally dispatched, Uncle Zhou certainly believed that the insults and provocations of the Han Army soldiers had played a role, and ordered a heavy reward for the Han Army soldiers who went to fight outside the Western Chu Army Camp.However, before the Western Chu army arrived on the battlefield, Uncle Zhou still warned the generals of the Han army: "The Western Chu bandit army came here in anger this time, and the initial offensive must be fierce. If our army launches an attack rashly, it will definitely suffer a lot." Loss. Therefore, in this battle, we must first take a defensive position, wait until the morale of the Western Chu bandit army is exhausted, and the soldiers are exhausted, and then launch a counterattack, only then can we be sure of winning!"

Because the time for dispatching troops was too late, the Western Chu Army and the Jibei Army joined forces and slowly marched to the vicinity of the battlefield until nearly half noon. After quickly observing the terrain of the battlefield, seeing that the terrain was open and it was easy to deploy troops, Zhou Yin immediately decided Fighting the decisive battle on the northern front with the geese formation suitable for giving full play to the superiority of troops, but when considering how to deploy the troops, Zhou Yin suddenly remembered the letter written by Uncle Zhou to Tian Xin, the leader of the Jinbei Army yesterday. ...

"Be careful, the Jibei Army is not very reliable in the first place, it's better to guard against them."

After this thought quickly flashed through his mind, Zhou Yin immediately made up his mind and ordered: "Lie geese march, Brother Xiang Guan, you lead an army of [-] to the west of our left wing, and give Tian Xin an order to lead The Jinbei army is arrayed on the east side of our right flank, and the rest of the army is under the command of the commander himself. The central army is lined up. Brother Xiang Sui, you are in charge of the front team of the central army, and the main force of the chariots is also under your command. All armies act according to the banner. There must be no mistake."

All the generals clasped their fists together and chanted promises, and Xiang Sui hurriedly clasped his fists to accept the order. After hesitating for a while, Xiang Sui cautiously reminded: "Grand Sima, is it dangerous for the Jibei Army to line up on our right wing alone? The fighting power of the Northern Army is not very reliable."

"I did it on purpose." Zhou Yin replied directly, "You will understand the reason after a while."

Seeing Zhou Yin's refusal to answer, Xiang Sui, who had contradicted Zhou Yin many times today, did not dare to continue asking. He could only honestly organize the troops to line up in front of the Chinese army's position and act as the main force of the Han army's central army. With the important task of confronting head-on, another Xiang Guan, who was reused by Zhou Yin, soon led his army to the west left wing of the Western Chu Army. Although Tian Xin, who was in command of the Jibei Army, knew that his own army would line up alone, he would definitely become a leader. The Han army focused on taking care of the target, but they didn't dare to say anything, they could only swallow their anger and obey orders.

On the side of the Han army, Zhou Yin's formation arrangement had just begun to take shape, and Uncle Zhou already understood his tactical intentions, and couldn't help but praise: "No wonder Zhou Yin has been desperately seeking a decisive battle with our army. It’s a bit of a skill, not to mention everything that should be considered, and even set up a trap for me to take advantage of, this battle has to be fought, and it won’t be possible to tell the winner until it’s completely dark.”

"General, can you tell me what trap Zhou Yin has set for us?" Zhou Shu, an old man in Shangshan who didn't understand battles, asked curiously.

"The Jibei bandit army lined up alone on their right flank is a trap set up by Mr. Zhou Yin." Uncle Zhou pointed directly at the Jibei army to the east and said, "The Jibei bandit army is not as powerful as the Western Chu bandit army. Their position is also the position where we are most likely to break through, and Zhou Yinpifu deliberately arranged them on the right flank in order to lure us to send troops to attack the bandit army in Jibei, attract our troops, and create opportunities for him in the center and left flank."

"In addition, the Western Chu bandit army and the Jibei army lined up on the east and west wings respectively. There is also a great mystery in it." Uncle Zhou pointed to the sun in the sky and said: "It is already noon, and the sun will gradually set in the west soon. Zhou Yinpifu ordered the Western Chu bandit army to line up to the west. When attacking the Western Chu bandit army on our right flank, we can gain the advantage of the light with our back facing the sun, and put our right wing army at a disadvantage in fighting against the light. "

Zhou Shu tried his best to appreciate Uncle Zhou's advice, and then said: "So, the Western Chu bandits want to outflank our flank and defeat us by attacking from west to east?"

"I have this plan, but Zhou Yinpifu didn't bet all his bets on our flank." Uncle Zhou replied: "His real murderous intention is still in the front of our central army, and he will attack our right wing in a while. It's just to force us to increase our troops on the flanks and create fighters for him on the frontal battlefield of the Chinese army."

After finishing speaking, Uncle Zhou smiled again and said: "Fortunately, his arrangements are all within my expectations, especially the fact that he let the Jibei Army line up on the east flank alone must be because Our letter against Tian Xin played a role, so he dared not trust the Jibei Army completely, and deliberately used the Jibei Army as a bait."

"Then what should we do?" Zhou Shu hurriedly asked again.

"Of course we should defend first." Uncle Zhou replied very directly, and then ordered to the soldiers next to him: "Go and give orders to General Chongda on our right wing, saying that the Western Chu bandits will definitely attack his position with all their strength. He will stick to my position and not take a step back! Also, tell him clearly that I have no reinforcements for him. His first task in this battle is to defend our right wing. As long as he can persist to the end, I will give him the first credit !"

As expected by Uncle Zhou, after the formation was formed, to the sound of war drums, the Western Chu army indeed dispatched troops from the left wing first, and took the lead in attacking the right wing position of the Han army. General Chong Da of the Han army who had received Uncle Zhou's order also knew My own responsibility is heavy, so I hurriedly commanded the soldiers of the Han army to stabilize their positions, and used their strong bows and crossbows to attack the advancing army of the Western Chu army head-on. Behind the long shields of the Han army in the row, countless spears were stabbed straight at the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were shouting to kill...

"Take a firm stand! No one is allowed to take a step back!" The middle-level generals of the Han army on the front line shouted one after another.

"Kill! Kill all the Han thieves!" The general of the Western Chu Army who led the charge roared even louder.

At the same time, in the banner formation of the Western Chu Army, Zhou Yin, the commander of the Western Chu Army, ignored the western battlefield at all, but turned his gaze to the east of the battlefield, and secretly gritted his teeth and said, "Uncle Zhou, my commander asked the Jibei Army to line up alone. You are allowed to fight on the right wing, such a good opportunity is in front of you, you must seize it."

(End of this chapter)