Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 495
The old and new grudges made Xiang Yu's blood surge, and at the same time, the remaining rationality told Xiang Yu that the time left for him was running out, his injuries were getting worse, and his camp had not been fully built. Day and night, even if the generals of the Western Chu Army were able to hold the camp, he himself would have to be exhausted by the Han Army, and if he fell, the Western Chu Army would be completely wiped out.

Therefore, Xiang Yu had no choice but to grit his teeth and make up his mind. He temporarily decided to launch a decisive battle at the Surabaya Pavilion, which was no less famous than Gaixia.

Out of personal interests, Liu Laosan still bit the bullet and chose to support Xiang Yu in making this decision even though he knew that there was little hope. For this reason, he did not hesitate to offend Xiang Zhuang and others who were closely related to Xiang Yu, and blocked another road. I have fewer and fewer ways to retreat, and at the same time, Liu Laosan had to make up his mind early on. He decided that as soon as he saw the situation was not good, he would quickly flee south with his little friends from Pei County. Huainan, Jiangdong and other places continued to look for hope of a comeback.

To Liu Laosan's surprise, when he returned to his army and arranged for the soldiers under his command to go out for a decisive battle, he hurriedly told Han Xin about Xiang Yu's decision. , Initiating a decisive battle at this time, our hope of winning may be even greater."

"Do you think there is hope for us?" Liu Laosan obviously lacked confidence in asking this question.

"Of course there is hope, and it's not too young." Han Xin replied immediately: "First of all, Zhou Shupifu has led the Han bandit army that participated in the battle last night to retreat back to the camp to rest. It will definitely be difficult to make a comeback in a short time. The traitor Xiang Kang, within a certain period of time, we can concentrate on dealing with the traitorous army of the traitor Xiang Kang, without worrying about the threat of Zhou Shupifu's reinforcements, and we can also avoid the superiority of the Han traitors invisibly."

"Secondly, no matter how treacherous Xiang Kang's traitors are, it's definitely hard to imagine that they just spent a day and a night fighting with us with wheels, and they actually forced our king to launch a full-scale decisive battle. We suddenly sent troops to a decisive battle, and we will definitely be able to kill Han. The thief was caught off guard and took the psychological advantage."

"Thirdly, the terrain around the Sishui Pavilion is beneficial to us." Han Xin went on to say: "The narrow and long terrain makes it difficult for the Han bandits to deploy their troops, and also limits the space for the Han bandits to move. The main force of our Western Chu army is best at launching Assault attack, that is to say, as long as we smash the front team of the Chinese bandits, we can expel the defeated soldiers of the Han bandits as the vanguard, attack the squadron and rear squadron of the Han bandits, and go straight to the bandit formation of the Han bandits."

"As long as we succeed in doing this, we will be able to destroy the flag formation of the Han thieves at the worst, make the Han thieves completely defeated without a leader, and win a big victory in the field. If we are a little bit lucky, we can directly take off the head of the traitor Xiangkang and reverse the situation in one fell swoop. The situation in the world is not hopeless."

Hearing what Han Xin said was reasonable, Liu Laosan felt a little more confident, nodded and said, "I hope so. Do you have any good tactical suggestions for this decisive battle?"

"Yes!" Han Xin replied firmly, and then continued: "Pei Gong, you have to try it anyway. I advise the king to just make preparations for the decisive battle first. Don't rush to lead the army out of the camp. You have to wait." The Han bandits lined up first, and when we sent troops to attack our camp, we suddenly sent troops to meet them, entangled the front team of the Han bandits, and lured the Han bandits to send troops for reinforcements, and then rushed out of the camp to set up an assault formation. In the end, we will launch a decisive battle with the traitors."

"Why?" Liu Laosan asked in amazement: "Since we are going to assault the Han bandits' flag formation, why do we have to let the Han bandits line up first? Wouldn't this make our assault more difficult?"

"Pei Gong, it seems that you have been smart all your life, and you were confused for a while." Han Xin said with a smile: "Since the Han bandits are here to attack the camp, the formation must be mainly offensive, and they will not use the main force for frontal defense. We launch a frontal assault. But if we are the first to send troops to the formation, the traitor Xiang Kang will definitely understand immediately that our king has jumped the wall, and will definitely let the Han thief army take a defensive position to buy time for his rear reinforcements. Bad for us?"

"That's right! That's the reason. For the convenience of attacking the camp, Xiang Kang's traitor will definitely not take a defensive position when setting up his formation!" Liu Laosan suddenly realized and applauded, and then said quickly: "There is another advantage to doing this, that is, Xiang Kang's traitor We will definitely not send someone to contact Zhou Shupifu immediately, and let Zhou Shupifu immediately take the Han thief's rear army south for reinforcements, which can buy us more time to fight the Xiangkang traitor alone, and increase our hope of victory. "

"More than that." Han Xin said with a smile again: "When we leave the camp suddenly, not only can we immediately entangle the Han bandits' attacking front team, but Xiang Kang's traitor will definitely increase his troops immediately in order to buy him time to change the formation. , At that time, as long as we defeat the front team of the Han bandits, we will be able to drive out more Han bandits as vanguards, and attack the Han bandits' positions more effectively."

"I'll go see the king right away." Liu Laosan made a decisive decision and immediately ordered: "I will leave the military affairs to you, Zhou Bo, Cao Shen, Fan Gouer, you all follow Han Xin's arrangement, and there must be no mistakes!"

After all, Liu Laosan, who didn't dare to waste time, rushed to the camp of the Chinese army to persuade Xiang Yu to adopt Han Xin's tactical plan to launch this decisive battle. "Traitor Xiang Kang, I heard that after being taught by Xiang Liang personally, your combat skills have improved a lot. You are no longer afraid of battles like you were when you first started the army. Today I want to take a look. You How much has the ability to command battles improved?!"

Let’s go to Liu Laosan’s side. After successfully meeting Xiang Yu, who has become more and more trusting in him, Liu Laosan immediately told Xiang Yu about Han Xin’s suggestion. Not to mention, Xiang Yu was impulsive in other aspects, He is very talented in battle and assault, so after listening to Han Xin's suggestion, Xiang Yu just made some calculations, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "That's it! Don't rush out of the camp, wait for that traitor Xiang Kang to line up first." Let's talk about the offensive formation!"

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It's time to take a look at the situation on the Han army's final boss, Xiang Kang. It's not bad for the Han army, although Xiang Kang and the decision-makers of the Han army really didn't expect that the Han army's wheel battle tactics only took one day and one night. The poor Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was forced to launch a decisive battle, but for the sake of caution, Xiang Kang, who has a strong army and is afraid of death, still brought in 15 troops this time to replace Uncle Zhou and continue to attack the camp, of which more than [-] The army is still the new force of the Han army that did not participate in the battle yesterday, so the Han army not only has an advantage over the Western Chu army in terms of strength, but also has a clear advantage in terms of soldiers' physical strength.

However, Xiang Kang's next choice was indeed expected by Han Xin. After leading his army to the vicinity of the Western Chu army camp, Xiang Kang really chose an offensive-oriented army battle formation for the convenience of attacking, and let 11 troops fight in the Western Chu army. Ten square formations of 1 people were arranged five miles to the north of the army camp. The first six and the last five were divided into two military formations arranged in a staggered manner. Attacking fortifications is the main force of the Han army to attack the battalion.The remaining [-] troops were arranged in the shape of a field at the back, responsible for protecting Xiang Kang's flag formation, and serving as the general reserve of the entire army.Generally speaking, the offense is stronger than the defense, but it is not careless to underestimate the enemy, but because of terrain constraints, there is not much room for maneuver.

After the formation was arranged, Xiang Kang still let the [-] troops in the center of the front team be responsible for preventing the Western Chu army from attacking from the middle gate, and asked the [-] troops in the most left and right positions to send [-] infantry to carry bows and crossbows. The long shield stepped forward and set up temporary fortifications far away from the left and right gates of the Western Chu Army's front camp, covering the crossbowmen's arrows to suppress the enemy on the base, and then formally launched the ant attack, continuing to storm the left and right gates of the Western Chu Army's front camp. Road side door.

Xiang Kang was indeed a bit careless. After the banner was issued, the infantry of the Han army who attacked from left and right had just marched forward with long shields, bows and crossbows. Zuo Che and others greeted: "Everyone, sit down and wait. There is no need to stand. In a while, our Ant Possession will be very difficult to get."

Zhang Liang and Chen Ping agreed with a smile, and soon sat down to chat with Xiang Kang, but Li Zuoche refused to sit down, and continued to look at the Western Chu army camp with his hands behind his back. After a while, Li Zuoche, who was good at tactics, returned Noticing something unusual, he hurriedly said: "My lord, the situation seems to be a bit wrong. Our long shield team has almost entered the position. Why hasn't the Western Chu bandit army sent more troops to the base? Remember our long shield team yesterday. It’s just been dispatched, and the Xichu bandit army has already begun to increase troops and build a wall?"

Glancing at the situation in the camp of the West Chu Army, and seeing that there were indeed no soldiers running up the base wall of the West Chu Army, Xiang Kang also felt a little surprised, and said, "The commander has changed? Or my elder brother?" Hold your breath, and plan to wait for our ant-attached army to dispatch before adding more troops to build the wall?"

"Your Majesty, be careful." Li Zuoche kindly reminded: "After all, the Western Chu bandits are centipedes. They are dead but not dead. We'd better not carelessly underestimate the enemy."

Of course, Xiang Kang has never underestimated the enemy. When he felt that something was wrong, Xiang Kang quickly stood up again and walked to the gate of the flag formation to check the enemy's situation side by side with Li Zuoche. In the Western Chu army camp, there was loud drumming. The left and right gates of the Western Chu army’s front camp, which had been closed for a whole day and night yesterday, opened at the same time, and an army from each charged out, attacking the long shield of the Han army who had just entered the range of the defenders’ crossbows and crossbows. The long shield team of the Han army, which was caught off guard, was also in a panic.

"Under the banner, the second and fifth teams in the front line will go forward to catch the troops from the Western Chu Army and cover our long shield team's retreat!"

Xiang Kang's reaction was once again expected by Han Xin. Seeing that the Western Chu Army sent troops to attack, Xiang Kang really made a well-regulated choice, and immediately ordered the two ten thousand troops in the front to fight, covering the relatively weak long-distance combat ability. The shield team retreated in an emergency, and also tried to entangle the enemy troops who came out of the camp, and won the opportunity to wipe out the enemies outside the camp.

Immediately afterwards, if the Western Chu army and the Han army were entangled on the two wings, and the Western Chu army suddenly opened the middle door and went out to attack, then it goes without saying that with Xiang Kang's command level, he must be the first in the middle of the front without hesitation. The third team and the fourth team stepped forward to fight, and gradually fell into the tactical trap that Han Xin helped Xiang Yu arrange for Xiang Kang!

At the critical moment, Gou Xiangyun stood by Xiang Kang's side, Xiang Kang's order had just yelled out, and Li Zuoche, who volunteered to serve as Xiang Kang's tactical staff, hurriedly shouted: "Don't worry! King, don't worry, the enemy's situation is unknown , we'd better not act rashly, it's easy to cause confusion!"

"Then what should we do?" Xiang Kang, who had only read the crash course in battle, asked quickly - there is no shame in this, Xiang Kang has not received systematic military education after all, and Liu Laosan's maximum commanding limit in history is only With 10 people, it is not uncommon in history to see coaches who command too many troops but are in a hurry and full of loopholes.

"Let our long shield team fight on their own, even if there will definitely be losses, it is nothing to us." Li Zuoche said with a sneer: "I bet that the Western Chu army's initiative to attack this time is definitely not aimless. There is a big conspiracy! As for the reason, it is also very simple. The Xichu bandit army must be very clear. Even if they make a surprise attack and kill some of our crossbowmen and long shieldmen, they will not be able to reverse the situation of the battle. On the contrary, they will only give We took the opportunity to eliminate their chances of sending troops out of the battalion."

After hesitating for a while, Xiang Kang, who had a lot of money, nodded, and withdrew his previous order to let the second and fifth teams in the front line go out to fight. The Long Shield Squad, even though the Long Shield Squad, which was weak in melee combat ability, was quickly killed by the Western Chu Army into chaos, they calmed down and ignored it.

Seeing this scene, the battle genius Xiang Yu and the soldier Han Xin both gasped at the same time, and said: "How is it possible? That traitor Xiang Kang is standing still? It shouldn't be. We finally took the initiative to leave the camp. He should be here immediately." Is it right to increase troops to step forward?"

What made Xiang Yu and Han Xin even more surprised was that they were still behind. Not long after, the long shield troops of the Han army who came forward from the left and right were quickly killed by the commandos of the Western Chu army who rushed out from the left and right because their weapons were not smooth enough and their melee combat ability was slightly poor. After being forced to flee, the Han army still did not take any action, allowing the shield team of the commander of the army to be chased and killed by the commandos of the Western Chu army and fled. After gaining a firm foothold, they still resolutely stood still, as if Xiang Kang had suddenly become blind. It was not seen that the soldiers of the long shield team of the Han army had been killed and injured by the Western Chu army at all.

Of course, if Xiang Yu and Han Xin have clairvoyant eyes and ears, and can see and hear the current situation in the Han army flag formation, then they will not be surprised—at this moment in the Han army flag formation, it is Li Zuoche who is quickly covering it. Xiang Kang’s mouth was blocked, and Xiang Kang’s order to let the first team and the sixth team of the Han army come forward to respond—as for why Xiang Kang wanted to issue this order, it was because Xiang Kang had already seen it at this time. , The strength of the Western Chu Army that fought out from the left and right is all about 3000 people. With the rear troops of the first and sixth teams in the front line alone, they are completely sure to deal with it.

"Your Majesty, please wait a little longer. The enemy's intentions are unknown. We'd better stay the same and change everything. Wait for the Western Chu bandit army to take the next move, and then adapt to the situation."

Li Zuoche tried his best to persuade Xiang Kang to keep calm, but Xiang Yu could no longer hold his breath. In order to create an opportunity to turn defeat into victory, Xiang Yu decisively ordered Zhou Lan, a general of the Western Chu Army, to lead 6 Western Chu troops to attack from the middle gate. Directly raid the front of the Han army, trying to use the weakness of the scumbag cousin who is not good at battle, to lure the Han army to launch a counterattack.At the same time, except for the more than [-] soldiers who were mostly wounded who were preparing to stay in the camp, the remaining [-] soldiers of the Western Chu Army were all ready to go out of the camp in an emergency!

Xiang Yu and Han Xin's attempt almost succeeded again. Seeing that the central gate of the Western Chu Army suddenly opened wide, and when a large number of Western Chu Army rushed out in a row, Xiang Kang, who had a strong force in his hand, also subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to give an order, so that early arrangements could be made. The third and fourth teams of the front line of the Han army, which were in charge of dealing with the central gate of the Western Chu army, stepped forward to fight.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang still learned the lesson. After swallowing the order forcefully, Xiang Kang quickly turned to Li Zuoche and asked, "Mr. Guangwu, what do you think?"

"My lord, it's still the same sentence, calm down, let our front line stand firm, and fight on our own." Li Zuoche replied calmly: "Standing still, at most we just missed the opportunity to weaken the enemy outside the camp, but the victory In terms of security, the Xichu bandit army is at the end of its rope, we must prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry and launching a decisive battle earlier than we expected."

Rubbing his fingers to calculate, considering that battle has always been his weak point, but Xiang Yu's strongest point, and Han Xin, the soldier fairy, is also in the Western Chu army at the moment, Xiang Kang still made a wise move. Choose, order decisively: "Give the banner to the front line, take a firm stand, and fight on your own!"

The wise choice and the phalanx with both offensive and defensive capabilities helped the Han army to avoid the trap set by Xiang Yu and Han Xin for Xiang Kang again. Although the Western Chu army led by Zhou Lan attacked fiercely, it was defeated by the Han army who resolutely stabilized its position. After the soldiers fired their bows and crossbows, even if they rushed to the front of the Han army at any cost, they only slightly disrupted the third team in the front of the Han army, and did not give the West Chu army and their own army a scuffle. Chance, even if they were at a disadvantage on the scene, quickly offset the momentum of the West Chu army's charge and quickly brought the battle back to a stalemate.The remaining units of the Han army resolutely stabilized their positions, ignoring the third team in the front line that was attacked by the Western Chu army.

Seeing this scene in the Western Chu army camp, Han Xin's face changed for the first time, and he said in a low voice: "Oh, it seems that I underestimated the ability of Xiang Kang's traitor in battle. I can't think of this traitor who only likes to win by surprise It will improve so much in battle.”

At the same time, Xiang Yu's face also turned ashen-blue, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Western Chu army had no way out, so Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Beat the drum, let's all go!" The army is out of the camp, and the awls are lined up!"

With the sound of war drums, more than 6 soldiers of the Western Chu Army who had followed Xiang Yu for many years divided their soldiers into three groups, and rushed out of the camp from the three gates of the front camp of the Western Chu Army at the same time at the fastest speed. cone array.And when he saw Xiang Yu's banner of the king of Western Chu rushing out of the camp of the Western Chu army, there was an uproar in the battle formation and flag formation of the Han army, and Xiang Kang roared like a pig, "Decisive battle! My brother wants to fight!" Fight to the death with us!"

"Your Majesty, don't waste time." Chen Ping, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, quickly reminded: "You should immediately send an order to General Zhou Shu to lead the rear army to reinforce us!"

Xiang Kang didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered the guards to fly back to the camp, and authorized Uncle Zhou to control all the middle and rear troops of the Han camp, and asked Uncle Zhou to lead the rear army to reinforce him immediately!After the guards flew away, Xiang Kang hesitated again, and said to Li Zuoche: "Mr. Guangwu, it's lucky to have you here today, and it's up to you. I'm not good at battles. This decisive battle, Let you command for me!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust." Li Zuoche clasped his fists to Xiang Kang and said solemnly, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely not disappoint your trust."

History and Bingxian Han Xin made a big joke. He managed to get Xiang Yu to obey him once through Liu Laosan. He adopted his correct advice at the moment of the decisive battle concerning the fate of the Chu and Han armies, but he did not read the almanac when he went out. He happened to run into Li Zuoche who had a chance to easily defeat him in history.

To make matters worse, what Bing Xian Han Xin met this time was not Chen Yu who was self-willed and refused to listen to Li Zuoche's harsh advice, but Xiang Kang who knew his own weaknesses and flaws and decisively handed over the command to Li Zuoche!

(End of this chapter)