Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 487
If it weren't for Master Xiang Boxiang's full help, and Liu Laosan's own strength, there would basically be no way to persuade Xiang Yu to take advantage of it and run away, crossing Surabaya first and taking the main road to retreat to Pengcheng.

It is also thanks to Master Xiang's covetousness and fear of death that are far superior to ordinary people, and he tried his best to help Liu Laosan persuade Xiang Yu. In addition, no one else objected, and Xiang Yu sent people to the north to contact Xiang Zhuang several times, but they never returned. The well-developed Xiang Yu vaguely felt that the situation was not good, and after careful consideration, Xiang Yu accepted the kind advice of Master Xiang and Liu Laosan, and decided to cross Surabaya suddenly at dawn on the third day after defeating Zheng Bu, and take the lead Withdrew to Pengcheng, and let the Chuji allied forces who lost contact find a way to break out and escape.

It's not bad, because the main force of the Western Chu Army did not intend to stay in Huling for a long time before, the Western Chu Army's retreat this time does not need to be as troublesome as the last retreat in Puyang, and it only took one day to prepare for departure However, for the sake of safety, try not to give the Han army the opportunity to come and make trouble after receiving the news. With the help of Wenwu of the Western Chu Army, Xiang Yu formulated a fairly careful retreat plan, and decided to pull out the camp at the fourth watch and raise troops at the fifth watch. , It took two hours to cross Surabaya, so that even if the Han army received the news and dispatched urgently, it would be too late to cause too much trouble to the Western Chu army.

But even so, Liu Laosan, Kuai Che and other sensible people still have a layer of worry. They are afraid that the Han army will send troops to Laozhai in the evening to rush to build a camp like the first two days, and take advantage of the distance to discover Xichu prematurely. The army retreated across the river, and the result was not bad. After the sky was completely dark, the last team of Western Chu army scouts returned to the camp to report, confirming that the Han army had not dispatched troops until the sky was completely dark. Only Liu Laosan, Kuai Che and others relaxed He breathed a sigh of relief, completely relieved.

When the fourth day of the night was corrected, according to the original plan, all the soldiers of the Western Chu Army with a strength of about 12 got up and prepared, hurriedly ate some dry food made during dinner, and then immediately started packing the tents and luggage. Before the correction, all the tents and luggage were loaded into the vehicles, and they assembled with torches in line. Xiang Yu also quickly gave an order to let the Western Chu army cross Surabaya in batches in order.

It was only after the retreat order was issued that Xiang Yu, who had just fought two hearty battles, said with regret: "It's all the fault of that stupid brother in Xiangzhuang. If he can get in touch with us, let us know the identity of the traitors on the northern front." Probably, this king is really reluctant to take the initiative to retreat like this."

"Your Majesty, for the sake of safety, don't be so sorry." Master Xiang Boxiang rarely expressed a correct opinion, and said: "It will take time for us to withdraw from the deep ditch and high fortress of Pengcheng. We only need to withdraw to Pengcheng first and build a strong fortress that can last for a long time. , we can remain invincible, and if the Han bandits with long food roads show any flaws, we can immediately send troops to fight back."

Xiang Yu nodded regretfully, looked at the direction of Yutai Pavilion upstream of Surabaya with one eye, and snorted coldly: "Little Zhuzi, let me let you be proud first, if you have the guts, don't wait for Uncle Zhou, cross the river at dawn Chase, let's see how I deal with it..."

Sighing coldly, Xiang Yu couldn't keep humming anymore, because his one eye suddenly saw that the upper reaches of Surabaya under the moonlight seemed to be ignited with a few fires. When I looked at the situation upstream with one eye, I was tongue-tied and confirmed that not only was I not mistaken, but there were indeed some fires in the upper reaches of Surabaya, and the number of fires was increasing rapidly!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Dangdangdangdangdangdang! Enemy attack! The traitors are coming! The fire rafts of the traitors are coming!"

At this time, in the upper reaches of Surabaya in the west, the sound of a gong alarm and the shouts of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army suddenly came. Everyone even screamed, "How is it possible? We have just started crossing the river, why did the fire rafts of the Chinese bandits come to burn the pontoon bridge?"

No matter how much you screamed, it was useless. Driven by the river, hundreds of bamboo rafts loaded with already lit firewood went down the river, and quickly rushed to the ten pontoon bridges built by the Western Chu Army on the Sishui River. Night Breeze Supporting the combustion, the fire on the fire rafts of the Han army burned bigger and bigger, and gradually turned into huge fireballs floating on the water, flowing unstoppably towards the pontoon bridge of the Western Chu Army. The soldiers of the Western Chu Army on the pontoon bridge were also completely in chaos. Flying across the river, some people hurried back to the north bank of Surabaya, fearing that the pontoon bridge would be burnt by the raft and fall into the river.

"Stop crossing the river! Form your formation immediately and prepare for the battle! The Chinese bandits are coming soon!"

After all, he has been struggling on the battlefield for many years. As soon as he came to his senses, Xiang Yu immediately understood that the Han army's surprise attack was coming, and he also decisively ordered to stop crossing the river, and gave priority to preparing for the upcoming Han army enemy.Then, as Xiang Yu expected, the Western Chu army had just stopped crossing the south and retreated, and before the main force of the Western Chu army was ready to face the battle, the upper reaches of Surabaya were already thundering with hooves, and countless Han cavalry shouted with torches kill.

Fortunately, the fire raft of the Han army dispatched prematurely gave the Western Chu army a certain amount of contingency time. The rear team of the Western Chu army in charge of the rear had already made emergency preparations for battle, and shot the Han army cavalry with random arrows in time. The opportunity for the cavalry to defeat the rear of the Western Chu Army.However, just as the Han cavalry took the initiative to retreat, countless torch lights appeared in the upstream direction of Surabaya, and countless Han infantry rushed forward.

At this time, Liu Laosan also rushed to Xiang Yu, and yelled as soon as they met: "My lord, it must have leaked the news in advance, or some traitors first reported the secret to the traitors, otherwise the traitors would never come. So fast!"

"Is it up to you to say that?" Xiang Yu yelled angrily, and ordered decisively: "Uncle Ji, you, Xiang Xiang, Xiang You and the others stay at the ferry, carefully protect the military supplies, and the rest of the generals follow the king to the west to meet the enemy! "

"Your Majesty, don't be fooled!" Liu Laosan quickly objected: "The Han thieves are so anxious to do something, they deliberately released a fire raft to burn the bridge when we just started crossing the river. The purpose must be to entangle us and prevent us from crossing the river smoothly! We Don’t let the traitors get what they want! The best way is to fight on the spot, protect the pontoon bridge with all your strength, wait until the rafts of the traitors burn out before resolutely crossing the river, and get rid of the entanglement of the traitors as soon as possible!”

"Fart!" Xiang Yu cursed and roared: "The traitors dare to come to your door to die. How could this king be willing to miss such a good opportunity? Go west immediately and kill all the traitors for this king!"

Not daring to disobey Xiang Yu's order, the generals of the Western Chu army could only obey the order obediently, and immediately returned to their respective teams to lead the troops, and then marched westward under Xiang Yu's personal leadership, facing the initiative to kill without hesitation. The Han army team that came, although Liu Laosan knew that Xiang Yu was in the trap, he still had no choice but to act like this with everyone.

It was almost the same as Liu Laosan's estimation. After seeing the Western Chu army attacking in a big way, the Han army's cavalry retreated at the slightest touch, and quickly retreated towards the way they came. Wan's Western Chu army pursued them in stride, and vowed with red eyes that they would kill all the Han troops who took the initiative to send them to the door. They roared early: "Chasing! Don't be afraid even if there is an ambush! As long as the ambushes of the Han bandits dare Come out, let me kill them all together!"

Just as Xiang Yu had expected, after chasing nearly [-] li to the west, the dense forest to the north was indeed full of killing noises, and a large number of ambushes of the Han army suddenly shouted and rushed out, assaulting the waist of the Western Chu army, before fleeing westward The Han army's infantry also turned around decisively and fought back, attacking the Western Chu army from both sides.Fortunately, the Western Chu army was well prepared for this. Not only did they not panic at all, on the contrary they decisively launched a counterattack, launching a two-way scuffle with the Han army in the darkness before dawn.

This is also the largest field battle opportunity that Xiang Yu got after the Chu-Han War started. What made Xiang Yu extremely proud was that under his command, even if the Western Chu Army was ambushed by the Han Army, they still relied on their fierceness. The incomparably powerful counterattack killed the Han army so hard that it was difficult to parry. Not only did it not take any advantage at all, but it also gradually showed signs of defeat when the sky was just dawn.

What made Xiang Yu even more ecstatic was still to come. When the first rays of sunlight finally shone on the top of the Western Mountain, Xiang Yu's single eye could still clearly see that the Han Wang Banner, which was disgusting at first glance, appeared in front of the scumbag cousin. On the Laozhai Highland not far to the west!Overjoyed, Xiang Yu disregarded that the old village highland was already lined up with Han soldiers, pointed his spear at the old village highland, and yelled wildly: "Kill it! Who can get the head of Xiang Kang's traitor, this king and He divides the world equally!"

After Xiang Yu, who was notoriously stingy with rewards, was finally generous, the already strong and brave main force of the Western Chu Army exploded with unbelievably powerful combat power. The Han army ambushed and fled back to the mountain forest to the north, and then strode forward, forcibly attacking the highland of Laozhai with a thunderous force, smashing the cavalry of the Han army who were blocking the front in a moment, and rushed to the side of the highland of Laozhai .

Looking down at the unstoppable and fierce offensive of the Western Chu Army, even Xiang Kang and the generals of the Han Army have experienced hundreds of battles, so they couldn't help but be amazed by it. Xiang Kang also had to sigh sincerely, "As expected of My overlord brother is indeed invincible! Peerless!"

No matter how much you sigh, it is in vain. In order to entangle the main force of the Western Chu Army to buy time and survive, Xiang Kang can only order the Han Army soldiers to stick to the high ground and try their best to drive the Western Chu Army back. However, let Xiang Kang and the generals of the Han Army What is shocking again is that even though the Han army has a part of the condescending geographical advantage, the soldiers responsible for protecting Xiang Kang are all elite Han soldiers who have experienced many battles, and they were rushed back again and again by the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu. The entire infantry phalanx was forcibly broken by the Western Chu Army.

Seeing this situation, Xiang Kang could only quickly order the generals of the Han army to shrink their positions, trying to block the crazy attack of the Western Chu army with dense troops, but in the end, this only had a partial effect, delaying the failure time of the Han army and killing the red army. The Western Chu army still kept on attacking, smashing the horizontal line of the Han army in front of them one after another, like a flood, slowly and unstoppably approaching Xiang Kang's flag formation.

Seeing this, even Long Qie, Xiang Kang's number one fierce general, began to panic and had to say like Xiang Kang: "My lord, if the situation is not right, please let the last general be in charge of the rear. You don't need to pay attention to the situation of the last general. Withdraw to the Yutaiting camp to ensure your safety."

Xiang Kang nodded, accepted Long Qi's kindness, and said to himself, "I hope we don't get to that point, otherwise, we will suffer a great loss."

It was contrary to expectations, when the fierce battle was nearly halfway through, the front team of the Han army still could not stop the crazy attack of the Western Chu army, and was completely collapsed under the impact of Xiang Yu's own army, and was forced to run for his life the way he came, yelling, Xiang Yu was excited Roaring wildly, he led the Western Chu army to directly attack the Han army's position where Xiang Kang was located. The soldiers of the Western Chu army also took the lead bravely, and the roaring sound spread far and wide, "Kill! Capture Xiang Kang alive! Capture Xiang Kang alive!"

Shaking his head helplessly, Xiang Kang, who didn't want to die in vain, had no choice but Long Qi, who had already started urging him to escape, said: "General Long, I'm begging you to be the queen! Remember, you must come back alive to see me !"

Long Qi solemnly clasped his fists and agreed, and then Xiang Kang turned his horse's head and quickly fled into the rear army. For the first time in his life, he left the army and ran for his life first. The heavy armored soldiers of the Han army led by Zhang Zhong followed closely and were ready at any time Assuming the identity of the second rear team that covered Xiang Kang's retreat.Seeing Xiang Kang's commander-in-chief fled westward, Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army roared like thunder and charged like fire, "Chasing! We must not let Xiang Kang's traitor escape!"

The Han army rear team led by Long Qie only bought Xiang Kang a moment, and after quickly killing a bloody path among the Han army crowd, Xiang Yu led the soldiers of the Western Chu army to run around like flying, roaring and chasing after Xiang Kang. The commander-in-chief did not let go. During this period, the cavalry of the Han army led by Guan Ying came to cover them from the side, but they were also quickly defeated by the morale of the Western Chu army.

Seeing that the Western Chu army was chasing too closely, Xiang Kang really had no choice but to adopt the kind suggestion of Xu Ji and others, and for the first time in history lowered his commander-in-chief while fleeing, letting Xiang Yu and the Western Chu army It was difficult for the soldiers to find out where they were, but even so, the Western Chu army still clung to the Han army brigade where Xiang Kang was located, and never gave Xiang Kang a chance to escape calmly. The rear troops of the Han army forcibly chased after them, but they did not force Xiang Yu and the Western Chu army to turn back and fight.

Fortunately, Laozhai is only more than 20 miles away from the Yutaiting camp of the Han army. Xiang Kang, who escaped on horseback, did not need to run a long distance to escape back to the camp. However, when he could see the Yutaiting camp from a distance, Xiang Kang Then he suddenly considered a dangerous possibility, so he had to shout like Zhang Zhong who was always following behind him: "Zhang Zhong, you bring the heavy armored soldiers and stay in the rear of the palace! Buy me time! Otherwise, if the bandits from Western Chu take advantage of the momentum and follow Once we're in our camp, it's all over for us!"

Zhang Zhong didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately led Xiang Kang's only [-] heavy armored soldiers of the Han army to turn around, and rushed directly to where Xiang Yu's commander-in-chief was. When his spear was not able to pierce the armor of the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army, Xiang Yu immediately understood the situation, and roared: "Okay! I don't even want your heavy armored soldiers for the sake of escaping! Okay, I want to see it today." Let's see if it's your armored soldier or this king who is the best!"

Roaring, Xiang Yu resolutely stabbed and smashed the heads of the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army with a wave of his spear, and also relied on his unrivaled power to lift mountains and smash the heads of the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army that Xiang Kang regarded as treasures. They were knocked unconscious, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army behind took the opportunity to rush to kill, or stabbed the unconscious heavy armor soldiers to death with spears and swords, or quickly overwhelmed the heavy armor soldiers of the Han army who were forced to fight on their own by Xiang Yu's charge. .

It is a pity that although Xiang Yu is unparalleled in supernatural power, the spear in his hand is limited by the durability. After he knocked out more than a dozen heavy armored soldiers of the Han army, he suddenly broke it. At this time, Zhang Zhong, a world-renowned martial arts expert in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, also rushed in front of him. The steel spear in his hand pierced out of the gap, and even directly pierced Xiang Yu's lower abdomen, and directly pierced the bronze armor on Xiang Yu's body. The skin on Xiang Yu's lower abdomen was broken!

"God help me too!"

Under the secret joy, Zhang Zhong, who was also outstanding in strength, hurriedly stabbed with all his strength, trying to stab Xiang Yu to death with a single spear, but Xiang Yu had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and decisively threw the broken spear, grabbed Zhang Zhong's steel spear that had already stabbed himself with both hands, and not only pulled out Seeing the steel spear that was about to pierce his lower abdomen, he lifted Zhang Zhong up to the ground with both feet, and jumped into the air. Zhang Zhong, who had never seen such a strange force, screamed unbelievably loudly, but Xiang Yu swung his hands violently, wearing steel armor all over his body. Zhang Zhong hit the ground directly, then grabbed the steel spear in Zhang Zhong's hand, and hit Zhang Zhong's helmet heavily with the handle of the spear, blood and brains spurted out from Zhang Zhong's face shield together.

After forcibly killing Zhang Zhong and snatching the unbreakable steel spear, Xiang Yu became an invincible existence in the chaotic army. Regardless of the fact that his lower abdomen was already bleeding, he waved the steel spear like a demon god descending into the world. The heavy armored soldiers of the Han army rushed forward one after another, smashing and knocking down one after another, and their roars directly overwhelmed the noise on the battlefield, "Who else! Who else!"

No one can stop Xiang Yu in this state. Under his personal charge, all [-] heavy armored soldiers of the Han army including Zhang Zhong, the famous general of the Han army, died in this battle, and none of them were spared!

Fortunately, Zhang Zhong and the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army did not sacrifice in vain. Relying on their sacrifice, Xiang Kang, who was greedy for life and fear of death, finally escaped back to the Han army camp and joined the Han army soldiers who stayed in the camp. After receiving many defeated Han soldiers and returning to the camp, he shot the Western Chu army's pursuers led by Xiang Yu with dense feather arrows, and did not give the Western Chu army a chance to enter the Han camp. Xiang Yu roared angrily outside the camp , Xiang Kang also had lingering fears in the center of the Han army camp, and sighed: "It's so dangerous! I definitely don't want to encounter such a situation a second time."

He was shot back by the Han army's arrows three times in a row. Seeing that he couldn't break into the Han army's camp, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up the attack and reorganize his team, while ordering the soldiers of the Western Chu army to pursue them with all their might before they could escape back to the camp. The defeated Han army hurriedly bandaged his abdominal wound stabbed by Zhang Zhong, and after taking off his armor, Xiang Yu fought a cold war for the first time—the wound stabbed by Zhang Zhong could already see him Own intestines!

Seeing such a situation, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army all screamed, including Liu Laosan who had just arrived, and hurried up to help Xiang Yu bandage his wound. Xiang Yu tried to calm down and said with a smile: "It's nothing , a small injury, it will not affect this king to continue killing the enemy!"

"Brother..., Your Majesty! Your Majesty! My Majesty, why are you also injured? Does it matter?"

A very familiar voice suddenly entered Xiang Yu's ears. When Xiang Yu looked up subconsciously, he saw his cousin Xiang Zhuang rushing forward with blood and sweat all over his face. He hurriedly said with a forced smile: " It's okay, it's just a small injury..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiang Yu suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly yelled at Xiang Zhuang and asked, "Brother, why are you here? When did you come?"

Xiang Zhuang didn't answer immediately, but just knelt down on Xiang Yu's knees with a plop, and said with tears: "Brother, my younger brother is incompetent. You handed over to my army. I only brought back less than 1000 people. The rest were all killed by the Han army." The thieves were wiped out. The king of Jibei, Tian Da, was also killed."

"Where did the traitor from the north go?" Xiang Yu hurriedly shouted again, "Where is that bastard, Uncle Zhou?"

"Here, we're in Teng County." Xiang Zhuang cried and replied, "In the middle of the night yesterday, I finally fled back to Teng County with my defeated soldiers. The flag of the traitor, sent troops to intercept our defeated soldiers, when I rushed past him to intercept, the pursuers of the traitors also arrived."

Xiang Yu was stunned, and for the first time in his life, his face was completely pale, and he murmured after a while: "Have you arrived in Teng County? This means that in the middle of the night yesterday, the traitors on the northern line were already only four weeks away from us." Ten miles away."

"No wonder I can't get in touch with Zuo Sima and the others. It turns out that there is a problem in Teng County."

Liu Laosan next to him finally realized it suddenly, but after he realized it, Liu Laosan couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said to himself: "Okay, although we won this battle, in the end, it was worse than losing. We passed Surabaya first, so the situation will not be so passive!"

God played another huge joke with the poor Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu, and finally got the opportunity to fight the main force of the Han army in the field, and finally got his wish and finally fought a big victory, forcing Xiang Kang to let go of his life for the first time in his life. The commander-in-chief fled for his life, but before the Western Chu army returned to camp triumphantly, the main force of the northern line of the Han army, which was far superior to the main force of the Han army in the middle, suddenly appeared near the main force of the Western Chu army, and it also lasted several years. After that, for the first time, the main force of the Western Chu Army led by Xiang Yu himself was absolutely weak in front of the Han Army!

(End of this chapter)