At this time, the troops led by Lu Zhe were still more than 120 miles away from Danyang, but the distance between them and Xiang Liang's troops was only 80 miles.

How long the distance depends on the terrain to determine how much time can be taken what trip, the northern part of Huizhang County is mostly plain, the southern part of the mountains are more mountainous, the distance between Lu Zhe and Xiang Liang is deliberate, either side wants to get close to the other party, even if the person being chased does not move, it will take at least a day and a half to catch up.

Lu Zhe continued to act as a decoy, his plan was to attract Xiang Liang firmly, and wait for the results of the battle on Danyang's side to confirm the next direction.

At this point in the war, the most critical battlefield is no longer Lujiang County, nor is it Lu Zhe himself and Xiang Liang, the protagonist has become the headquarters of Hengshan County.

There is a very elaborate plan to maintain a posture of imminent departure with Xiang Liang's army, and Lu Zhe's intention in doing this is to create an opportunity for his Hengshan County to eliminate or severely damage the Chu army in the south of Surabaya County, and after winning the battle, the next goal is of course to firmly attract Xiang Liang's headquarters.

And it seems that Xiang Liangxin's move is also to drag Lu Zhe, expecting that the troops going south from Surabaya County can take Danyang with the reinforcements of Huiji County, so that he himself led the army to block Lu Zhe's retreat route from Lujiang County, and Lu Zhe also lost the ferry when Danyang took the waterway, and Lu Zhe was a turtle in an urn at that time.

The war situation is in a confusing stage, both of their plans have been different, Lu Zhe did not expect that the Chu army of Surabaya County would quickly move south by water, and the 50,000 Chu army of Surabaya County would meet the 70,000 Chu army of Huiji County, and quickly pounce on Danyang, which had only 10,000 garrisons, with a surprising speed; Xiang Liang didn't know that Lu Zhe left behind, that is, the 70,000 troops of Hengshan County, as well as the 50,000 troops of Su Lie and Shu's family, and thought that Xiang Zhu's 120,000 people would easily take Danyang and cut off Lu Zhe's back road from the waterway.

When Lu Zhe was retreating in the direction of Danyang, he found that the small group of Chu troops encountered on the road seemed to be a bit too much? These Chu troops are those troops that were scattered in front, and now they run out from time to time to block the way, and these small groups of Chu troops don't know what the reason is, they know that they can't win and run to die. It was clearly an attempt to slow them down.

"How about the marching speed on Xiang Liang's side?" The person Lu Zhe asked was naturally Wei Han, the scout officer, and he began to feel that something was wrong.

Wei Han replied, "It has been continuing to close the distance with our army," after a pause, as if thinking something, he continued, "According to the current trend, it will be closer to our army to sixty-five miles before sunset tomorrow." ”

Constantly sent small groups of troops to harass, each time the harassment would make Lu Zhe's troops have to stop to deal with it, what Lu Zhe thought was that Xiang Liang slowed down his speed to catch up and fight, but it was not magical enough to find that Xiang Liang dragged them in order to give Xiang Zhu more time to capture Danyang.

"Sixty-five miles?" Since Lu Zhe chose this retreat route, he naturally familiarized himself with the terrain, "If there are small groups of Chu troops to harass all the way." Within three days, Xiang Liang would be able to catch up with us. ”

The 80,000 troops who were retreating were about 120 miles away from Danyang, and considering the need to cross the river, three days was exactly the time when they arrived at the city of Danyang.

Lü Zhe arranged for the rangers to constantly hunt down the heralds of the Chu army, and Xiang Liang naturally sent people to intercept the heralds of Lü Zhe's army. If this kind of hunting and killing between each other is willing to pay a big price, although it is impossible to completely stop all the heralds of the other party, it will still delay the speed of the heralds' transmission of the message.

After all, Huizhang County is the territory of the Chu State, and the Chu army is far more familiar with the terrain than Lu Zhejun, Xiang Liang threatens the defeated soldiers with the families of the defeated army in Huizhang County and constantly sends them to death, he also uses his connections to mobilize the Haoshen clan to help intercept and kill the heralds of Lu Zhejun.

The clans and gentry of Huizhang County were basically blackmailed by Lu Zhe. Most of the people received Xiang Liang's request, and some of the Chu troops who continued to harass Lü Zhe along the way were these people's clan soldiers and the like, and more were dealing with the heralds of Lü Zhe's army, so that it was difficult for the people sent by Mei Kai to cross the blockade. The people sent by Lu Zhe couldn't get to Danyang, and they broke off contact with each other.

According to the terminology of modern warfare, Lu Zhe is now facing a fog of war on the battlefield, that is, in addition to the area where the troop scouts radiate. The situation in the rest of the world is unknown.

Far away in Danyang, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, where war has broken out.

Xiang Zhu brought a large number of troops, and as soon as he came, he completely surrounded Danyang, a county town without city walls, from four directions. Faced with Danyang, which had dug trenches and obstacles such as rejecting horses, he first sent 10,000 people to test.

The 10,000 Chu troops brought from Surabaya County, these soldiers who were tired of boats and horses were actually in a state of fatigue. It is not so fierce that the offensive is tired, when 10,000 people entered the range of the crossbow of the Danyang defenders, Mei Kai issued an order to shoot arrows, and the densely shot arrows fell into the attacking Chu army, and the four consecutive arrows of two thousand crossbowmen made the Chu army fall at least two thousand people, and Xiang Zhu's first test was forced to retreat by the arrows before hand-to-hand combat.

Xiang Zhu was very surprised by the advantage of Lu Zhejun's arrows, the enemy troops he encountered when he was fighting in Surabaya County, not to mention the crossbows, did not even encounter the archers a few times, and now he encountered Lu Zhejun, who had the advantage of arrows, and was a little unable to react for a while.

The more than 7,000 people who ran back had just stopped, and shouts were heard from the other three directions. That was Xiang Zhu's order that the Chu army in other directions was also testing the defense of Danyang, so as to find out the defense of Lu Zhe's army against Danyang, so as to decide the location of the main attack next.

The biggest enemy of Chu in the south is Lu Zhe, Xiang Liang's explanation to Xiang Zhu is very clear, whether or not Lu Zhe can be cut off this time is related to whether the Great Chu can severely damage or even eliminate Lu Zhe, it is rare that Lu Zhe himself made a fool and ran into Huizhang County, if he does not take this opportunity to kill it, the situation in Great Chu will be very worrying in the future.

Xiang Zhu has a deep understanding of what Xiang Liang said, Xiang Liang means that no matter how big the price is, as long as he can kill Lu Zhe, he is willing, and capturing Danyang is related to whether he can block Lu Zhe's retreat, so Xiang Zhu will not care about the number of casualties at all now, and his head is full of taking Danyang, and then attacking Lu Zhe with Xiang Liang.

"There were a fair number of crossbow troops to the east and north, and the defenses to the west and south were the weakest...... "Xiang Zhu's temptation to pay nearly six thousand casualties was valuable, at least because he thought those men had not died in vain. Next, he began to mobilize his troops, transferring the more elite soldiers to the weak positions of the Danyang defenders, "leaving 20,000 men, and the rest of the troops are all put into the attack!" ”

The movement of the Chu army could not be concealed at all, but Mei Li did not know which Chu troops were more elite, so he could only focus on the direction of the larger number of Chu troops. He has fewer troops in his hands, and from the movement of the Chu army, it seems that he is going to attack on all sides at the same time, and he is already preparing to retreat to the area of the people's houses to fight street battles.

"I'll guard the west and north," Gongwei's heart knot had been opened, and he hated Xiang Liang who was playing with people's hearts, and he finally regained his strength.

"Okay." Mei Kai, who was short of qualified commanders, naturally would not object.

The Chu army had soldiers preparing for the attack in one direction, and it was difficult to judge which side the main attack position would be from the number of Chu troops in the four directions, so Mei Kai had to conservatively distribute the troops evenly and leave the necessary reserves.

There is basically no surprise in urban offensive and defensive warfare, and both sides are in a position where they can see, and what they can do is to flexibly use the forces in their hands to make reasonable deployments, and see who can put in the required forces at the most appropriate time and where after the war starts.

Anyone can see who is doing what, and Xiang Zhu naturally won't be unaware of this, so the forces at his disposal are equal in all four directions, but in the east and north are recruits from Huiji County, and in the west and south are the relatively elite Surabaya County headquarters.

The trumpets of the Chu army were beating, and the Chu troops in four directions shouted and launched a charge.

Mei Kai has relevant experience, and can see the composition of an army from the attitude of the charge, he found that in the two directions of the east and the south, the Chu army in the south knows how to control the speed when running, and the Chu army in the east looks like soldiers who have never fought before.

It is really easy to observe whether an army has combat experience, and the recruits are basically rushing very fiercely at the beginning of the first battle, but the veterans know how to trot at the beginning. It also depends on whether the enemy has crossbowmen, and if there are crossbowmen who enter the firing range, they should be able to rush as fast as they can.

The battle of the siege of Danyang on all sides officially began, Su Lie, who was originally in Liyang, had already led the army to rush to Danyang, and their current location was twenty miles away from Danyang in the northwest, as long as they crossed a small low mountain, they could see Danyang with the naked eye.

"Commander, the number of enemy troops is 80,000, and now 60,000 people are divided into four directions to besiege Danyang, which is defended by General Mei." The person who spoke was He Yi, who was heavily recommended to Su Lie before the co-lieutenant left.

In the end, it was the first time that Su Lie was leading an army alone, and the scouts he sent were concerned about Danyang, and they did not spill enough distance, otherwise they would definitely find that there were not only 80,000 Chu troops, but also a 40,000-strong Chu army approaching Danyang in the northeast of Danyang.

"Hmm!" The enemy army began to attack the city, Su Lie didn't think too much, and now his only thought was to hurry up and lead the army to Danyang to support.

He Yi wanted to say something, but before he could speak, he heard Su Lie say: "Let the troops speed up." ”

The 80,000 men who set out from Hengshan County fought two county seats, and they had not received a corresponding rest for nearly a month, and now they hurried another 50 miles to the battlefield, to be honest, it was not a good idea.

"Lord, do you want the robes to breathe here for half an hour?" What He Yi saw were some soldiers who were out of breath in a hurry.

Su Lie also knew that something was wrong and he was very tired, but Danyang was being besieged by 80,000 enemy troops, he didn't know how many people there were in Danyang, and he was afraid that Danyang would fall: "The lord is still in the hinterland of Huizhang County, Danyang is related to the gains and losses of the ferry, and there can be no mistakes." ”

He Yi had nothing to say. (To be continued......)