Sima Xin was ordered to hold out for a day and then retreat. He guessed for a moment that it was estimated that the crisis in Danyang would be resolved, and Lu Zhe would issue such a military order.

Many people don't know what happened in Danyang, but because Lu Zhe came from the Yangtze River, Danyang, which was originally an inconspicuous county, had its strategic value increased infinitely for a while.

If you can come from the waterway, you can also retreat from the waterway, Xiang Liang led the army from the direction of Lujiang County, so it is destined that Lu Zhe can only retreat from the Danyang ferry, and whether Xiang Liang can successfully block Lu Zhe depends on who is in Danyang's hands.

Sima Xin didn't really know Lu Zhe's deployment, but let him cheat? There are almost no two words in the dictionary of the Qin army, they never win or lose in wars, and they do not have as many strategies as the Shandong countries. Sima Xin was a little distressed after receiving the order to deceive, it is much more difficult to deceive than to win, not only to ensure that the troops under his command will not really collapse, but also to convince the enemy that many troops are really defeated when they are defeated, which is really a bit difficult to do.

Sima Xin felt that there was a clear difference between the Southern Xinjiang Army led by Lu Zhe and the rest of the Qin army, not that it was a difference in structure, but a different combat style, which tended to be a kind of deployment strategy, not the Qin army's seemingly stiff but actually a rigid and tough tactic.

"Is this a test?" Sima Xin asked himself if he had finally returned to command of the army, and he didn't want anything to go wrong in the first battle of the Southern Xinjiang Army. And it seems that Lu Zhe left him to carry out some tests, and the military order issued later should be to see if he can adapt to Lu Zhejun's combat style.

Half of the troops left behind were the Qin soldiers who had originally gone south, and Sima Xin naturally knew them very well, but the other half of them were soldiers formed by Lu Zhe himself.

Sima Xin has undergone special research, such as rattan armor soldiers, Pu sword soldiers, and shield-wielding sword soldiers, which are unique to Lu Zhe's troops, and he basically understands what kind of positioning these troops should be arranged. But one thing is distressing, and they don't line up.

The Qin army likes to fight in formation, using the advantage of formation to crush the enemy army in a dignified manner. There is such a force that will not be arrayed, Sima Xin wants to say that he is a little melancholy, or he is at a loss, he really didn't think clearly whether he should put those troops into battle as soon as possible, or as a free army or reserve.

The reserve team is easy to understand, and the free troops are to pull those troops out of the main battlefield, maybe to hide and ambush, and of course to let them carry out roundabout attacks.

Xiang Liang didn't give Sima Xin much time to think, and more than 200,000 Chu troops came in a mighty way.

Lu Zhe left the troops behind, and it was impossible for Xiang Liang not to notice it. As Lu Zhe guessed, Xiang Liang's first thought when he got the scout's reward was that Xiang Zhu on Danyang's side should be fighting smoothly, and Lu Zhe should have known that Danyang was besieged and jumped off the wall in a hurry.

Survival is a common tactic in the military, and leaving the broken troops to resist the pursuers has proved countless times that most of the army can indeed escape. Xiang Liang thought about it, in other words, he knew that his back road was about to be cut off, and there were pursuers behind him, so he would not hesitate to leave the broken troops and retreat quickly, or flee immediately. Or trying to support the rear of the crisis.

Now Xiang Liang is constantly thinking about whether Lu Zhe should retreat directly or lead the army to support Danyang. To be honest, Lu Zhe is a character who suddenly appeared, and no one can tell what his personality is. Xiang Liang could only guess from Lü Zhe's few limited battle examples, and could not infer the style of his leader according to Lü Zhe's character.

The posture of the more than 200,000 Chu troops marching was not very good, and the whole army rushed up at different speeds, and the ranks were stretched. The Chu army that walked in front was the unit that Xiang Liang brought out from Huiji County. There are 50,000 of them, which is the vanguard of the entire army, and the people who lead the army are dragons and the mainstay. Xiang Yu, Zhou Yin and others are assisted.

The Long family and the Xiang family have an extraordinary friendship, and the Long family is the main one who finances the Xiang family's troops, providing a large amount of military funds, grain and grass for the Xiang family, not to mention, about three-tenths of the weapons in the Chu army are built by the Long family, and the armor is all from the Long family.

In Huiji, the Long family is a huge family, and because of a large amount of funding, Xiang Liang will let Xiang Yu live under Long He as a deputy general, otherwise in the Chu army controlled by Xiang Liang, it is impossible for the Xiang family to become the main general.

Sima Xin was halfway through the construction of the defensive line, and Long came with 50,000 vanguard troops.

"Heh, look, Lu Zhejun actually hung up the banner of the word 'Qin'." Long He looked at the enemy troops building the defensive line from afar, and pointed to the flags that were waving in the wind and shouted with some amusement.

People in the south stubbornly believe that Lu Zhe has sentenced Qin to be self-reliant, and some time ago Lu Zhe had a big battle with the Qin army that went south, but now he sees that Lu Zhe's army has the word "Qin" in the flag, and he can't help but feel very ironic.

Although Xiang Yu and Long He are a little different in age, the two are close friends. Xiang Yu saw the dragon and laughed with a bad expression on his face, and asked sullenly, "Is there anything strange about it?" Lu Zhe had not removed the flag before, and the uniforms of the sergeants had not been changed. ”

"That's why it's funny!" Long He smiled very heartily, with that water chestnut face, he had a heroic temperament. He waved his horsewhip: "Since he has rebelled and stood on his own, and has not removed the flag and changed his battle robe, doesn't that mean that Lu Zhe is a coward with a thief's heart but not a thief's courage?" Heroes and heroes should be above board, and if they are sentenced, they will be sentenced, and they will be husbands if they put on a new flag and change their uniforms as soon as possible. Like now, it's like a woman, without any responsibility. ”

It's a bit of an exaggeration, right? Xiang Yu didn't think that not changing the flag and not changing the robe under his command was a lack of responsibility. Although he is young, he is from a clan, no matter how much he doesn't like it, he understands the composition of a force, the army's banner is easy to change, and the number of battle robes is often hundreds of thousands, and there are still a large number of soldiers in the Chu army who do not have battle robes, they are still like this, how long has Lu Zhe been rising, can it be said that he can be changed?

"It's really reproachful that the flag shouldn't be raised." Xiang Yu whispered.

Lu Zhe is the great enemy of Chu in the south, how good can Xiang Liang's propaganda about Lu Zhe be? Not only Long And, but many people in the Chu State, especially Lu Zhe of the Xiang family, are both hateful and slanderous, so it is strange that there can be anything good.

Xiang Yu glanced at his mouth secretly, he had specially looked for Lu Zhe's sergeants and officers who had surrendered, those captives had great respect for Lu Zhe, and the person who could make his subordinates reverence would be such an unbearable person? Xiang Yu was skeptical.

The young Xiang Yu's personality has not yet been finalized, but his love-hate distinction includes respect for those who deserve his respect, and he has a preliminary concept. He had not directly fought with Lu Zhe, but he learned from the mouth of the prisoner of war that Lu Zhe was a person who took good care of his subordinates. A leader who is sympathetic to his subordinates, no matter how much criticism he has, will not be unbearable. Besides, there was no result in this battle yet, and he didn't want to say much until the victory was scored.

Lu Zhe has not had a defeat since he led the army, Xiang Yu is more concerned about this, and he will not say anything to slander Lu Zhe before defeating Lu Zhe. This is the pride that belongs to Xiang Yu.

"The enemy army is building a defensive line," Zhou Yin was older, and felt that the verbal confrontation was meaningless, and what he should do now was to face the enemy: "It's time to take advantage of the enemy's defense line to not completely build an attack, right?" ”

A large part of the 230,000 people under Xiang Liang's command were strong men forcibly recruited in Lujiang County, and those strong men who were forcibly pulled during the march often fled. From Fanyang to the territory of Huizhang County, 230,000 people fled along the way, and in order to deter deserters, some were killed, and when they entered the territory of Huizhang County, there were actually only about 210,000 left.

Among Long Ji's 50,000 troops, 10,000 were strong men from Lujiang County, and he said a little cynically: "Then let those Lujiang people go first, which can be regarded as a test of the enemy army." The rest of the people stepped up their time to rest. ”

Zhou Yin had nothing to say, the army rushed all the way over and really needed to rest, so he used the forcible Lujiang County to test that he would die and die, so he agreed immediately.

The Lujiang people in the Chu army still have colorful clothes on their bodies, and the guys in their hands have everything. When they were brought out of the ranks by men in khaki robes, and when they were about to be the first to attack, the panting Lujiang people showed a resentful expression towards the Chu soldiers in khaki clothes.

Lujiang people were forcibly pulled more than 100,000, all the way from Lujiang to Huizhang County, many of their relatives and friends were deterred by someone running away and being implicated and killed, and some relatives died in the hands of Chu soldiers, how could they not be resentful? It's not that they haven't tried to riot, but how can a group of unorganized and undisciplined leaders confront the army, in exchange for more deaths, so they can only endure it all the time.

"If you dare to run away on the battlefield, one of the troops will run and kill the whole army, and the whole army will be executed if they run away, and a hundred people will be killed if they can't do anything." There were officers of the Chu army who were giving stern warnings.

Zhulian, once one of the atrocities used by the Six Kingdoms to propagate the violent Qin, is now quite justified in the Chu army.

"They want us to keep each other accountable." The people of Lujiang understood in an instant.

Lujiang County was also a part of the Chu State before, and Xiang Liang's looting and massacre in Lujiang County had already caused a lot of mourning in Lujiang, but now they are also Chu people, but there is no mercy to talk about.

10,000 Lujiang people, about 2,000 Chu soldiers from Huizhang and Huiji counties, among them Lujiang people were supervised by Chu soldiers from the two counties, and they issued a cry of charge.

Sima Xin, who had been waiting for a long time, was originally a little nervous when he saw the Chu army attacking, and felt that since the Chu army dared to attack, it must be elite soldiers, but what he didn't expect to see was a group of people in colorful clothes, and looking at the mess in his hands, not to mention the formation, he didn't know how to adjust the body, he should have been happy but with a wry smile: "A group of rabble." Fraud? ”

If the Chu army is decent, it can be realistic, if the Chu army is such a rabble, and Sima Xin himself doesn't believe it when he is defeated, then how can he make Xiang Liang, who has a reputation for cunning, believe it? (To be continued......)