The battle between Sima Xin and the vanguard of the Chu army was a situation of no hurry or delay from the beginning, and the two sides fought four times, and then they maintained a kind of repeated temptation to fight and make trouble.

Each time, nearly a thousand people were testing the area, and almost all of them immediately retreated when they were close to the range of the crossbow, basically to find out how many crossbowmen the enemy army had.

The whole army of Chu did not launch a strong attack? Sima Xin, who was waiting for the defensive line, was on the defensive side, so naturally he would not counterattack without having an advantage in troops, and the battlefield situation was maintained in a relatively calm confrontation stage, which really made the generals on Lu Zhe's side feel a little bad.

"The enemy is too calm." Li Heng looked at Shao Ai.

"yes, it's so calm." Shao Ai replied.

In fact, it is not calm, but it is just that the enemy's offensive is not as fierce as imagined, and there is no urgency at all, and it is precisely because of this that it is obviously abnormal.

"Just now the enemy army slaughtered a group of people in the woods," Li Heng didn't seem to understand why the Chu army wanted to kill his own people, "It's those who are dressed in colorful costumes." ”

Without relevant information, Shao Ai couldn't solve Li Heng's puzzles, and he couldn't guess it himself.

"This war ...... It's a bit messy. Until now, the troops have been moving, and the main forces of the two armies have not had any contact, the main force of the Chu army Xiang Liang fought with the people on the other side of the Lujiang River, and the Zhengnan generals fought with the Huizhang garrison of the Chu army. "Li Heng really can't understand this war," I ...... We lost 100,000 in Lujiang County and wiped out about 30,000 Chu troops in Huizhang County. This? ”

The word "we" is still a little unaccustomed to the Qin generals, and it is really difficult for them to regard the rebels in Huan Chu as their own.

Shao Ai lowered his voice: "The second general (Sima Xin) said that Zhengnan will be intended to let Xiang Liang eliminate Huan Chu's men and horses, so as to prepare for the recovery of Lujiang by Great Qin in the future." ”

"Huh?!" Li Heng didn't believe it: "Zhengnan is not that kind of person, right?" He didn't embarrass us (the Qin generals), Huan Chu took the initiative to join ......"

"A thief army is a thief army after all." Shao Ai is more inclined to Sima Xin's statement.

Li Heng wanted to say something, and the herald sent from the Chinese army conveyed the summoning order.

Sima Xin was now worried, believing that the strange behavior of the Chu army was making his side unfavorable.

The main force of each army is not too far from the vanguard, usually at intervals of about three hours. This is to ensure that the vanguard can play a role in opening the way and can quickly support the past in times of distress.

Long and his personality is flamboyant, but he is relatively safe in commanding the army, and it can be said that there is a great sense of contradiction. He is arrogant but not reckless, seeing that it is difficult to eat the enemy army blocking the way for a while, in fact, even if he can eat the vanguard under his command, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

If the loss is too heavy, the vanguard will lose the ability to fight again, and Long He feels that it is better to understand the enemy forces in the way, and wait for the arrival of the main force to destroy the enemy army with absolute superiority.

The vanguard of the Chu army decided to maintain stability, and Sima Xin's life was not easy. They only had 30,000 troops, and after a few battles with the Chu army, they lost some, and the remaining combat strength was probably only 27,000. These forces faced the attack of more than 200,000 Chu troops. They can't just get out of the way.

"Have you contacted Ji Bu's Lujiang Army?" Sima Xin's confidence in blocking the Chu army came from the presence of reinforcements.

The troops on the Lujiang side were not a corps-level formation, and Sima Xin's call it a legion was just a habit of the Qin army.

Yi Jia, who was in charge of this aspect, immediately replied: "We have already contacted them, they are twenty miles southwest of our army, and about fifteen miles away from the Chu army. ”

"Hmm." Sima Xin's face was pensive, he was still struggling with how to cheat.

Maybe there is no need for fraud at all? The more stable the Chu army is, the more dangerous the battle they will face, and now they are thinking about how to cooperate with Ji Bu's subordinates to carry out Lu Zhe's plan to lure the enemy to the greatest extent.

Long He also reported to Xiang Liang in the rear that Lu Zhe left the broken troops to block the army that he led the army to "escape", and now the distance between Xiang Liang's headquarters and Long Ji's headquarters should be ten miles.

Xiang Liang has not yet received a report from Long Ji. However, he had already discovered that there was a force hanging far behind in the direction of the Lujiang River.

In the first battle of Lujiang, Xiang Liang was very convinced that he had destroyed the army under Huan Chu, and those hanging far away could only be the follow-up troops sent by Lu Zhe to Lujiang. He was actually surprised when he first discovered the army that was following behind, the enemy troops they had eliminated in Lujiang were about 100,000 in any way. And Lu Zhe's troops in Huizhang County and Jiujiang County should also be about 100,000, he originally thought that Lu Zhe's troops would be greatly damaged after the battle with the Qin army, but now it seems that this is not the case? He began to wonder how many troops Lu Zhe had and how many troops he would devote to this battle.

"The enemy army of 70,000 people in Lujiang. When our department stopped, they stopped, and when they forced it in reverse, they retreated, always keeping a distance of fifteen miles...... "Xiang Liang didn't think it was simply watching. There must be some kind of scheme," Lu Zhe's headquarters retreated to Danyang, and there was an enemy army hanging here. There's definitely something connected here! ”

Lu Zhe commanded the troops without a certain routine, and Xiang Liang had already discovered this. Xiang Liang compared the route of Lu Zhe's march with the direction of his troops countless times, but he was unable to deduce what Lu Zhe's intentions were.

Attacks? There is this possibility, but the possibility is a bit small, as early as when Xiang Liang attacked Huan Chu's department, Lu Zhe's flanking attack had already been formed, and at that time, Lu Zhe was able to flank and did not do so. Now, Lu Zhe is retreating with his headquarters, and no matter how Xiang Liang looks at Lu Zhe, it doesn't seem like he is deploying a flanking attack. So what does Lu Zhe want to do?

"General, General Long He sent someone to tell you."

"Huh? Lu Zhe left behind the broken troops, and led the army to rush in the direction of Danyang? ”

Lu Zhe's move was in line with one of Xiang Liang's previous guesses, Xiang Liang was not too surprised by Lu Zhe's behavior, but Xiang Liang would have done so when he encountered such a predicament.

"In this way, Xiang Zhu's attack on Danyang was discovered." Xiang Liang felt that Xiang Zhu should be about to capture Danyang, otherwise Lu Zhe would not be so anxious. He pondered: "According to the distance, Lu Zhe should be blocked by those Qiantou?" ”

Recently, some people have been spreading the evil deeds of the Chu army in Lujiang County, and Xiang Liang has heard of it although he is in the army. He arranged for the gentry and clan to incite the head of the Qiantou to go to contain it, but in fact, before the speech was spread, in order to create speech, but it seemed that Lu Zhe took the lead?

Lu Zhe didn't care what kind of means he used to deal with Xiang Liang, the head of the Qianshou of Huizhang County, it was naturally best to delay Lu Zhe's retreat, if not, no matter what Lu Zhe did, Xiang Liang could make up all kinds of "stories" to make up Lu Zhe's reputation, and strengthen the hatred of the head of the Qian, such as Huizhang and Huiji, towards Lu Zhe under the rule of the Chu State.

The whole country has the same hatred, this speech inducement is from the Warring States Period Qin Xiaogong, it is very able to gather people's hearts and strive for the same goal, Xiang understands the importance of speech, but there is a lack of opportunity to twist the hearts of the people in Chu into a rope, and it is an attempt to bewitch Qianshou to go against Lu Zhe.

According to Xiang Liang's judgment of Lu Zhe, Lu Zhe is definitely not a figure who drags mud and water, so it has become inevitable to order the army to kill and injure the head of Huizhang Qian.

"It won't take much time...... Xiang Liang began to be a little on Xiang Zhu's side, "120,000 to 10,000, even if Lu Zhejun will rush to support later, it should be able to take Danyang?" ”

Xiang Liang and Xiang Zhu have been cut off for four or five days, and Yiqiē can only rely on guesswork.

Gongao firmly believes that Gongwei will do what the letter says, so he has been more active recently. He saw Xiang Liang's eyes glancing over, thinking that he was going to ask about the lieutenant: "My son lieutenant should be marching into Nanjun now." ”

"Huh?" Xiang Liang was stunned, he was just thinking about things and looking at things casually, and he didn't specifically want to see anyone.

"As long as my son waives the army in Nanjun, the rear of the Lu thief will be in chaos......" Gong Ao is gushing.

"Huh." Xiang Liang smiled kindly and did not respond.

Gongwei will not rebel against Xiang Liang I don't know, he is doing so much to play with Lu Zhe from many directions, in order to make trouble for Lu Zhe.

To be honest, Xiang Liang didn't look forward to the Gongwei successfully seizing military power, and he didn't even think that the Gongwei would wave his troops to force Nanjun, if they really believed that Gongwei could succeed, they should now march to Nanjun, instead of leading the army towards Danyang.

Anyway, it was a prince who had risen and grown within a year, and if Lu Zhe's army was so easy to rebel, then Lu Zhe would not have made that kind of multi-way army scattered action deployment.

Obviously, Gongao didn't figure out the situation at all, and he didn't see from the direction of the army that Xiang Liang didn't take that thing seriously, and kept jumping and raising his profile.

Xiang Le, Xiang Quan, and Xiang Bo looked at each other a little, they were all the core figures of the Xiang family, so they naturally knew Xiang Liang's mentality, and they were a little disdainful when they saw that Gong Ao had not yet figured out the situation.

The army rolled forward, and the Chu army, which was close to 200,000, was stretched back and forth for at least ten miles, and its marching posture was that the soldiers of the two armies of Huizhang and Huiji were monitoring the Lujiang people.

The number of Lujiang people accounted for half of the whole army, and the Chu army collected the Lujiang people when they were marching, and waited for them to consume before they sent it down, which shows that Xiang Liang also understood that what he did made the Lujiang people hateful.

"Something is wrong, really wrong!" Xiang Liang took the lead in riding his horse to the side, he looked at the mighty army, his eyes were not focused, obviously pondering: "Lu Zhe entered the Huizhang at the beginning, but he formed a flanking attack but did not attack, either he was unable to fight again because of the depletion of troops in a battle with the Qin army, or he had a bigger plan. ”

Xiang Liang thought about it, it was impossible for him to be unable to fight again, if he really lost Yan Zòng at all and Lu Zhe entered the guild at all, then there was a bigger plan!

There is no routine in the use of soldiers, and it is impossible to learn from the history of war, which is the reason why Xiang Liang feels that Lu Zhe is difficult to deal with, so he has always regarded Lu Zhe as a great enemy.

"Wouldn't Lu Zhe know that Danyang had become an important town? Naturally, it is clear that Danyang has become the only way to retreat, so why is only 10,000 garrisons arranged? Lujiang chased after 70,000 ......" Xiang Liang combined all sorts: "Lu Zhe didn't stay for a long time, and the troops waited for eighty miles to approach Danyang before staying, which is too strange!" (To be continued......)