In Heyang City, five thousand elite Han troops have gathered outside the city to stand by.

After Chen Shi, three striking black smoke rose almost at the same time in the beacon towers facing southeast and northeast. The Han army captain who was responsible for watching the smoke immediately reported to Li Zuoche loudly: "General, wolf smoke is rising in the southeast and northeast. The Chu army has begun to cross the river in Puyang. The Pi family has crossed the river at the same time. The three striking wolf smokes have exceeded 10,000 Chu troops crossing the river!"

Li Zuoche stroked his beard and smiled: "Pi is a suspicious soldier, and Puyang is the real target of the Chu army!"

After saying that, Li Zuoche turned around and ordered his deputy general Xiahou Zhao and said, "General Xiahou, order the entire army to rush to Puyang at a fast speed to marching!"

"Yes!" Xiahou Zao responded with a loud bang, turned his head and shouted, "The general has an order to rush to Puyang at a fast march!"

The passionate marching drums suddenly sounded in the Han army formation. With the sudden sound of drum beats like rain, teams of Han army armored soldiers began to turn around, and then lined up ten columns to advance towards Puyang. The loess rammed road soon rose to the sky.

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Pi, the assembly place for crossing the river.

On the river beach not far away, a row of cowhide rafts, rafts, boats and large urns have been spread out along the east bank of the river.

Gao Lang turned around and threw his eyes at Xiang Zheng for consultation. Xiang Zheng nodded slightly, and Gao Lang walked up to the military platform with a knife. His sharp eyes only swept the bottom of the stage. The two thousand Chu soldiers gathered below were silent in a daze.

Facing the scorching eyes of the two thousand dead soldiers, Gao Lang said loudly: "My army in the Great Chu attacked the Han Dynasty, and more than 500,000 soldiers were involved in the war. However, there was only one Han Dynasty and only one military merit. Which family will fall in? It depends on their own ability. Brothers, tell me whether you want to win the first merits of the Han Dynasty?"

"think!"

"think!"

"think!"

Two thousand death warriors responded fervently.

Under the military reward mechanism, the battle of the Chu army is unquestionable. Because military achievements mean higher titles and more rewards, higher titles mean richer survival resources, which means that they can gain a better living environment for their wives and children and become real nobles.

"The prince has an order!" Gao Lang didn't say much nonsense and directly issued a reward. "The first person to step on the east bank of the river will be awarded a third level. The reward is a thousand taels of gold!"

"Aoah..."

The two thousand dead soldiers in the audience screamed like wild wolves, and the crowd was infuriated.

On the large colonel field not far away, tens of thousands of Chu soldiers gathered together were all envious. They reached the third level, and the gold 1,000 taels was not an ordinary reward!

"Now, it's time for the Han army to see the majesty of our great Chu Jianer." After saying that, Gao Lang suddenly drew out his sword, pointed the sword at the west bank of the river with the blade, and screamed at the top of his lungs, "Kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill..." The two thousand dead men responded, and as Gao Lang's sword fell, one by one, rushed towards the river beach like wild horses that had been ridden, and pushed the cowhide rafts at the fastest speed. The rafts or small boats rushed to the middle of the river. When the cowhide rafts, rafts or small boats ran away from the river bank, they jumped onto the raft boats and began to row the river hard.

For a time, more than 500 cowhide rafts, rafts and small boats tied with large urns were shot toward the west bank of the river like arrows. Before the Chu army fleet could cross to the middle of the river, hundreds of Han army archers who had long been guarding the west bank of the river began to pull their bows and shoot arrows. An arrow fell from the sky like rain, and from time to time, the Chu army's dead soldiers fell in pools of blood.

However, it took a lot of effort to pull the bow. It was even more physically employed to pull the infantry hardwood longbow. After shooting more than twenty arrows, the more than 500 Han army archers almost stopped. They found that the arrows shot from the other side of the river began to become sparse. The Chu army dead men on the raft immediately became very motivated and began to wave the pulp with all their strength...

Amid the sound of waves higher and higher, a small boat was the first to stand. The Chu army standing at the bow led the first to jump off the boat. However, before he could trek through the shallows and step onto the river bank, six or seven Han army long halberd soldiers had already swarmed up and nailed the Chu army to the shallow river beach.

The second Chu army died in death jumped off a cowhide raft and was immediately nailed to death by the Han army.

The third Chu army's dead soldiers capsized the boat in the river and swam over. He suddenly floated to the water when he was only a few steps away from the river bank. However, as he was about to step onto the river bank, a heavy wolf-tooth arrow suddenly shot up and immediately penetrated his cheek. The Chu army's dead soldiers screamed and poured them backwards into the turbid river water.

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The five thousand Han troops stationed in Heyangyi are worthy of being well-trained elite soldiers. They arrived in less than two hours from Heyangyi to Puyang.

The marching of the ancient cold weapon army is completely different from the marching of the later hot weapon army. Because the marching of the hot weapon army uses firearms, the hot weapon army only needs to hook its fingers during combat, so all its physical strength can be used to marches without reservation, but the ancient cold weapon army cannot.

The ancient cold weapon army not only had an extra heavy load (armor), but also had to retain at least half of its physical strength to fight. Otherwise, you would have to die if you rushed over. Therefore, the speed of the marching speed of fifty miles in two hours was already very powerful. I am afraid that only the thousands of remaining soldiers in Xiangzhuang could be more powerful than them.

However, when Li Zuoche panted and led 5,000 elite soldiers to the Han Jundun Fort on the other side of Puyang, he found that the river banks were silent. From a distance, there were only thirty or fifty cowhide rafts on the east bank of the river, and the boats were moving on the shore. More than a hundred Chu soldiers fell and died on the beach on the west bank of the river. There was nothing else.

"What's going on?" Li Zuoche wiped the sweat from his forehead and rushed forward to greet the Han army captain.

"General, the Chu army was driven back by us." The Han army captain said excitedly, "Just just now, three or four hundred Chu army dead soldiers tried to force the crossing. The two armies fought for more than half an hour, and in the end, more than one hundred were killed by us. The remaining Chu army was retreated, and there were probably more than one hundred people washed away by the river, hehe."

"Three or four hundred Chu troops?" Xiahou Zao said sternly, "Just like this, do you dare to light three wolf smoke?"

The wolf smoke used by the Han army to send messages was extremely strict regulations. The number of wolf smoke increased by one, the number of enemy troops exceeded 5,000. If there were three wolf smoke, the number of enemy troops exceeded 10,000! Moreover, the color of wolf smoke was also given special attention. When the black smoke rose, the enemy attacked, and the white smoke rose, it meant that the war was unfavorable.

The Han army captain calmly said: "General Xiahou doesn't know anything. Although there were less than 500 Han troops crossing the river just now, at least tens of thousands of Chu troops gathered on the other side of the river. Moreover, the last general also saw the big banner of Prince Xiang Zheng, the Chu prince!"

Xiahou Zao was also a little confused and turned his head to Li Zuochelan: "Old General, look..."

"It's bad, it's bad! It's bad!!!" Li Zuoche suddenly came back to his senses and said repeatedly, "I've been involved in Xiang Zheng's plan. This is really a geese all day long, but it's pecked by the geese. Hey, I've been in the army for many years and have been through countless wars. I never thought that I was careless and fell into Xiang Zheng's trick."

Xiahou Zao and the Han Army Captain looked at each other, and neither of them could react at once.

At this moment, three striking white smoke had already risen from the beacon tower in the northeast. A sharp-eyed Han army soldier suddenly pointed to the northeast and shouted: "Look, there are three bundles of white smoke in the northeast!"

Xiahou Zao and Han Army Captain were shocked to look at each other. There were three bundles of white smoke in the northeast, and the meaning was obvious. This shows that the prince of Chu Xiang Zheng did not lie at all. He said he wanted to cross the river in the Pi family, but he really devoted all his strength to cross the river in the Pi family. However, the old general Li made a false appearance, and the real false, and the result was that the five thousand elite Han soldiers were killed in vain.

"Elder General, let's retreat to Liyang quickly!" Xiahou Zao first reacted. Once the Pi family was broken through by the Chu army and the natural danger of the river was lost, Liyang would become the last barrier to protect the eastern front of Xianyang.

"No, we must not retreat to Liyang." Li Zuoche shook his head and said, "If our army retreated to Liyang, the Chu army would go south and attack Tongguan! If Tongguan is lost, the army of Chu general Gao Chu will join forces with the prince of Chu Xiang Zheng, and there will be no danger to defend from Tongguan to Xianyang. What should we use to resist Xiang Zheng? Gao Chu's 100,000 iron armor?"

Xiahouzao frowned and asked in a deep voice: "What does it mean to the old general?"

"Retreat to Linjin!" Li Zuoche said in an unquestionable tone, "Shield the back of Tongguan."

"What if Xiang Zheng did not take Lin Jin and directly took Xianyang?" Xiahou Zao said, "What should we do?"

"He dared not to be a son of Xiang Zheng." Li Zuoche Lane, "It is a taboo for military strategists to hang their troops alone to attack the hinterland of the enemy country. If Xiang Zheng's son really dares to lead his army to take Xianyang directly, I will cut off his retreat and leave him dead without a place to die!"

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The Han army ferry on the other side of the Pi family has been completely captured by the Chu army.

As time passed, waves of Chu army soldiers crossed to Hexi. When the number of Chu troops ashore exceeded 5,000, the Han army on the west bank of the river finally collapsed completely. More than 5,000 Han troops gathered on the river beach died in battle, and the remaining more than 3,000 people scattered, most of them fled towards Xia Yang's defeat.

Inspired by his military achievements, the Chu army soldiers chased and killed themselves, and the vanguard was almost chasing Xiayang City.

At this moment, the main formation of the central army, which had just crossed the river, suddenly sounded the sound of gold. Hearing the crisp sound of gold, the soldiers of the Chu army were full of unwillingness, but they could only calm down their ambitions and start returning to the west bank of the river to reorganize the team. The military discipline of the Chu army was extremely strict. If they heard that Jin did not retreat, they would have to beheaded.

More than a dozen Chu army small school came to Xiang Zheng, Gao Lang, and said with a quick look: "Crown Prince, general, the morale of the Han army has been dispersed. Xia Yang in front can be broken with one blow. Is this what the army will urge to attack the city?"

"Attack Xia Yang?" Xiang Zheng and Gao Lang looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads, "No, we don't have time to get too entangled with the Han army in Xia Yang."

Gao Lang held up his sword and shouted loudly: "Tell me to order the whole army to go around Xiayang and go straight to Xianyang!" (To be continued)

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