speed.

This is the advantage that the Huns rely on most.

Zhou Lan was helpless in the face of the destruction of the food transport troops sent out one after another, and the Chu army's logistics supplies were in trouble. Facing the emergency reports of failure one after another, Zhou Lan's pale face gradually showed a look of despair, and all his thoughts

Occupied by fear, what I was thinking about was not how to defeat the Huns, but how to escape with my life and return home to Pengcheng.

The morale of the Chu army was turbulent.

What's more pressing is that Xiang Yu is aware of the dangers on the front line of the Hun River, but he doesn't pay too much attention to them. In his opinion, what he is attacking is just a partial division of the Huns. According to Zhou Lan,

With a force of nearly 20,000 troops, it may not be possible to eliminate a wandering army without a foundation for a while, but there will be no problem in protecting the baggage.

Although Zhou Lan, the new five tiger generals of the Chu army, ranked last, he followed Xiang Yu and experienced many fierce battles such as Julu. There was no doubt about his ability. However, what Xiang Yu did not expect was that after Zhou Lan was promoted to the five tiger generals,

He gradually lost the motivation and goal to move forward, and the death of his best friend Huan Chu in the battle made him have deep doubts about the future.

What do people live for?

Isn't it just to be able to have a wife and a shadow one day and enjoy the privileges brought by high-ranking officials and generous salaries? Now, Zhou Lan has climbed to the position of general of Chu State, and the possibility of further promotion is gone, and he continues

If you stay on a battlefield full of dangers, you will just become a cold, headless corpse like Huan Chu. Thinking of this, Zhou Lan felt chills all over his body, and his whole body could not help but tremble.

Early July.

When another group of baggage sent from Pengcheng was plundered by the Xubuhun tribe, Zhou Lan, who could not bear Xiang Yu's severe rebuke, was frustrated and unexpectedly led 10,000 troops to leave Jixian and head toward Qidi.

retreat.

The hesitant Zhou Lan finally made the decision to imitate the independent Zhong Limei and find a remote county on the seaside of Qidi to live his own small life.

His order caused disagreements within the Chu army in Jixian County. Not all Chu army guards obeyed Zhou Lan's order. More than 4,000 Chu soldiers in the city chose to continue to defend the city. The main reason why they stayed was

We still hope that Xiang Yu's bravery on the battlefield can continue and lead them to win more glory and meritorious deeds.

The generals who followed Zhou Lan were mostly people who were disappointed and dissatisfied with the current war situation. Like Zhou Lan, they only longed to find a stable place, marry another woman, and reproduce their own offspring.

The unusual changes in Zhou Lan's Chu army made Xubuhun, who had been searching for fighters in the outskirts of Jixian County, overjoyed. In fact, the Chu army was very miserable after being attacked, and Xubuhun's life was not easy either.

Attacking cities by force is not the strong point of the Huns cavalry. Dealing with an infantry that has no long-range strike capability in the wild is the favorite job of the Huns cavalry.

Six thousand riders.

There were not many actual battle casualties, but a quarter of those fell down due to illness. These men from Wuhuan Mountain and Mobei had a sharp decline in combat effectiveness in the hot and humid weather in summer.

Youyan is not Mobei.

After more than 200 years of reclamation and development in the Yan Kingdom, the land here has been used more for farming than for grazing. The people here are mostly accustomed to the farming culture of the Central Plains, and have always had a hostile attitude towards the nomadic people on the grasslands.

Fighting in such a strange place where people and land are alien to each other, the Huns could only sleep in the wilds and endure the bites of mosquitoes in summer.

Infectious diseases are something more terrifying than war in this era. The medical skills of the Huns can only be described as primitive and ignorant. In desperation, Xubuhun had no choice but to order the sick soldiers to be deceived into deserted valleys.

Then, help them relieve their pain by mass killing.

Waiting is an extremely painful thing, especially watching his companions die miserably day by day. Unlike Zhou Lan, who has no desires and desires, Xu Buhun must grit his teeth and persevere for the position of King Youxian, even to the end.

One soldier at a time, he had to wait until Maodun defeated the Chu army.

During the retreat, Zhou Lan's tribe was constantly bled by the Huns. Although each loss was small, it had an extremely important impact on morale.

July 10th.

Zhou Lan was surrounded by the Huns on the north bank of Yishui River. In desperation, the Chu army general launched a suicidal attack. The result was very tragic. Zhou Lan, who tried his best to avoid being beheaded by the Huns, could only become the leftist of the Huns.

The latest in King Guli’s crotch drowning device.

Of the 10,000 Chu army's baggage troops, only less than 1,000 men managed to cross the Yishui ford and fled to the Qin area, escaping the Huns' interception.

After hearing about the drastic changes in the rear army, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up the confrontation with the Huns on the Hun River and instead retreated his defense line to the Jixian area. After learning that Xubu Hun's partial division had succeeded, Mao Dun immediately led his army with all his strength.

They rushed over and tried to attack from the north and south, encircling and annihilating the Chu army in Yan.

north.

The situation changes suddenly.

July 12th.

The Chu State urgently sent an envoy Kuai Che to the Qin State's Handan City. Here, Kuai Che met Han Xin, the commander-in-chief of the Qin army in Handan County and Dai County.

Last year, Kuai Che lost the political battle for the dominance of the Chu State, and was subsequently thrown into prison by Xiang Tuo. His teacher Shusun Tong fled the Yan State, An Qisheng died unjustly, and the alliance's relatives, the Yu family, also lost power.

Being marginalized, the new power groups that resisted the Xiang family completely failed in their struggle for power.

After being imprisoned for nearly a year, Kuai Che bowed his head.

As a wise man who was good at vertical and horizontal skills, it was stupid to give up his life in vain. In his final apology letter to Xiang Yu, Kuai Che did not say more about his achievements and ideas. He just repeatedly stated that Chu State was currently good at

There is a shortage of debaters, but Kuai Che still has a sincere heart to serve the overlord.

As for the previous differences, they were just internal battles of loyalty, and they will be over if they are over. I hope the Overlord and the Prime Minister will not care about them.

This time, the Chu army was in danger of being completely annihilated by the Huns. Xiang Tuo, the Prime Minister who was stationed in Pengcheng, after learning that Zhou Lan's troops in Yan were defeated, decided to send envoys to Qin to lobby. At the same time, Wei King Wei Bao and Chang Shanhou

Zhong Limei, King Wu Rui of Changsha and other princes, Xiang Tuo also sent envoys there.

This time, that time.

At present, the biggest enemy of the princes and countries is no longer Qin, but a huge threat from the north: the Xiongnu.

Facing as many as 300,000 to 400,000 Huns cavalry, relying solely on the broken rammed earth Great Wall on the border and relying solely on the power of one country could not stop Maodun who was determined to sweep the Central Plains.

For other princes, it was easy to choose candidates, as long as they could speak eloquently, but the envoy sent to Qin put Xiang Tuo in trouble. Originally, Xiang Bo was a suitable candidate, and the last time Cheng Gao met with him, it was also Xiang Bo who helped him.

But this time, Xiang Bo followed Xiang Yu to Yan in the north.

Among the officials who stayed in Pengcheng, there were only a few who had friendship with the state of Qin. Among them, the descendants of the Xiang family had no connection with the Li Yuan branch of the state of Qin at all. Xiang Tuo thought about this, and suddenly

After seeing Kuai Che's petition, he immediately decided to ask Kuai Che to perform meritorious deeds and go on a mission to Qin.

In his early years, Kuai Che once defected to King Bao of Wei, and had a few acquaintances with Qin's Eastern Front General Han Xin. During his last mission to Qin, he got along well with Chen Ping, Guan Yue and others in the Qin Dynasty. He was a guilty minister.

If you go there, even if your lobbying is in vain, you will not lose the reputation of Chu State.

Daijun.

The former homeland of the Zhongshan Kingdom is located in the area south of Yishui and north of Jingxing in Taihang. It borders Yunzhong County to the northwest and Changshan Kingdom to the southeast. Its northeastern side is under the jurisdiction of the Yan Kingdom.

After the war between Chu and Hungary broke out, Han Xin's station continued to move northward, and the main force of the Qin Army's eastern front also moved northward to prepare for possible sudden changes.

Many scouts of the Qin army were active in the Guyan area this summer. The Huns' partial divisions were constantly entangled with the Zhou Lan tribe of the Chu army. While Han Xin was surprised by the fighting power of the Huns, he was also worried about the difficulties the Chu army was about to face.

Did they take advantage of the emptiness in the rear of the Chu State to sneak in and destroy the Western Chu State? Or did they focus on resisting the invasion of foreign tribes and send troops to unite the Chu army to fight against the Xiongnu?

Regarding the grand strategy related to Qin's national policy, Han Xin was only the commander-in-chief of one side, and the real decision-making power must be decided by Li Yuan. What he could do was to truthfully report the battle situation in Yan to the Shenwu Marquis Mansion. (Unfinished)
Chapter completed!