The Eastern Chu army was defeated.

The Qin army reoccupied the once-lost Nanjun in the swampy area near the Han River and the Dajiang River. At the same time, due to the surrender of Deng Tuo's tribe and Xi Juan, Wang Hui and other old Han troops were defeated one after another. Bandits and plundering were everywhere in the Yunmengze area.

The situation on the trade routes has finally improved a lot.

Although there are still scattered small groups of bandits making trouble, the Qin Navy is now powerful. With more than ten mengchong captured from the Eastern Chu Army, plus Deng Tuo's surrendered troops, the Qin Navy has grown from a weak and weak one.

He can deal with small groups of bandits and become almost invincible across Yunmeng Daze.

Those who know how to do things are distinguished.

In this troubled and troubled world, there is never a shortage of speculators.

Deng Tuo appeared at the final stage of the war between Qin and Dong Chu, which made Zhou Cheng's wish to escape unscathed come to naught. In fact, if Zhou Cheng knew more about Deng Tuo's past, he might have understood that Deng Tuo was not the original

What a staunch anti-Qin element.

Deng Tuo's power was inherited from his uncle Deng Zong, and this former general of Chen Wangsheng's South Route Army, after attacking Yingchuan and Nanyang, he surrendered to the Qin State when he saw that the situation was not good. However, Deng Zong was killed again later.

The full Zhang Han was executed, which forced Deng Tuo and others to flee to Yunmengze and become bandits.

Deng Tuo had no choice but to become a bandit.

Therefore, with a little secret coaxing from the Qin State, Deng Tuo wavered. He had held his troops still because he was not clear about the outcome of the war. When Li Yuan appeared in Yingdu, Dong Chu

When news of the army's defeat came back, Deng Tuo knew that his opportunity had come.

Show your strength and skills in front of Li Yuan. Only in this way can Deng Tuo be reused and not be used as a tool to claim credit by other Qin generals.

Deng Zong was killed after he surrendered. This was partly because Zhang Han wanted to kill people to establish his authority. The more important point is that Deng Zong's ability was not recognized by the Qin court at that time, or Zhang Han, a great general of the Qin State, was not recognized by the Qin court at that time.

I feel that people like Deng Zong have no other use except killing to deter thieves.

Yingcheng.

Deng Tuo entered the heavily guarded county with an uneasy mood. For him, this trip to Yingdu was both a journey of rebirth and a gamble of life and death.

Was he beheaded like his uncle Deng Zong?

Or are you lucky enough to become a member of the Qin State on the road to unification? In the end, you will honor your ancestors and return to your hometown with honor?

After successfully retaking Nanjun, Li Yuan held a banquet in the county mansion to entertain the generals who had contributed to the suppression of the rebellion and the local officials of Nanjun. In this defensive battle, the civil and military officials of Nanjun were very coordinated in their cooperation.

There is a situation of estrangement from each other like Hanzhong.

If the officials in charge of the local area had not mobilized the people to move inward to the county and city, leaving the Eastern Chu army without food and firewood, Zhou Cheng would not have been so anxious to attack the city. As a result, the morale of the army was shaken even during the battle.

In the banquet hall, Li Yuan was sitting in the middle, Yan Le and Li Zhongxiang were on the left and right. Feng Xuan, Luo Xian and Chen Xi were sitting on one side. On the other side were the local officials of Nanjun. As soon as Deng Tuo entered,

Seeing this situation, I was at a loss for a moment.

"General Deng, please sit over here." Fortunately, Feng Xuan saw Deng Tuo's predicament at a glance, and quickly stood up and pulled Deng Tuo to his seat.

The banquet begins.

One by one, the generals and officials of the Qin army began to toast each other. At the same time, they also bowed to Li Yuan in the middle and asked. When Feng Xuan arrived, this young Qin general who had made a big splash in the battle of Nanjun forced Deng Tuo to join him.

Come forward.

"Yingchuan Deng Tuo, see Wu Hou." Deng Tuo came closer. When he saw Li Yuan's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but be surprised. Although he heard that Qin State's Shen Wuhou was very young, he really didn't expect that Li Yuan

He looks about twenty-four or fifteen, even a few years younger than himself.

"Deng Tuo, I heard that your station, Panlong City, is located between the Han River and the Great River. Let me tell you about the situation south of the great river. Yuan and all the generals will definitely listen." Li Yuan smiled slightly and asked.

When Deng Tuo heard Li Yuan's question, his timidity suddenly disappeared and he became energetic. When it comes to the situation in the southern part of Yunmengze, whether it is water conditions or scenery, no one knows more about it than him.

"Reporting to Marquis Wu, south of the river was the old land of the Chu Yi people. In the tenth year of King Chuzhuang's reign, Changsha, Yunmeng, Hengshui and other cities were established in the south of the river, and 20,000 residents of the Yingdu area were moved there.

In the south, these immigrants have multiplied for several generations, and their current number cannot be verified. In the south of Zhucheng, also known as Lingnan, there are many Yi tribes such as Shanyue, Panyi, and Nanyue living there——!" Deng Tuo said eloquently

Here, through his description, he presented the customs and customs south of the Yangtze River to the generals of the Qin army one by one.

With the unblocking of Yunmengze, there is no longer any obstacle to Qin's access to the south of the Yangtze River. During the contact between Lu Jia and Zhao Tuo's forces in Lingnan, Zhao Tuo's attitude towards Xin Qin also began to change from indifference to concern. In the latest round

During the negotiations, Zhao Tuo had already proposed the idea that the Qin army would attack from the north, while the South Vietnamese army would attack from the south, and attack the Changsha Kingdom in the middle and the Meijuan forces in the Wuling area from both sides, and finally join forces.

Li Yuan was still very interested in this strategic idea.

No matter what Zhao Tuo's true thoughts were, at least one benefit was real, and that was to build a channel from Lingnan to the Central Plains, thereby laying the foundation for the development of trade between the north and the south.

After Deng Tuo caused a wave of discussion, Qin's celebration banquet gradually turned into a pre-war analysis meeting to discuss the possibility of going south.

In order to strengthen the military strength in the Nanjun area, Li Yuan not only recruited Deng Tuo's troops as the navy this time, but also ordered Chen Xi's troops to attack Hengshan County of Eastern Chu eastward to cooperate with the ongoing Jiangdong war of the Western Chu army.

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Jiangdong.

The peace that once existed no longer exists this spring.

Yingbu's arrogance finally made him pay the price. After Zhou Cheng led his army to the west, the overlord Xiang Yu, who had been silent for a long time and had been recovering from his injuries as a cover, secretly arrived on the north bank of the river.

The arrival of Xiang Yu excited the mood of the more than 50,000 soldiers of the Western Chu Army. Xiang Yu took Xiangzhuang as the vanguard, Zhong Limei and Ji Bu as his deputy generals, and crossed the river in the Moling area. He was weak in terms of strength and indulged in lust.

Among them, Yingbu was careless and was defeated by the Eastern Chu army in one battle.

Later, Yingbu, who retreated to Qu'a, tried to mobilize his troops to counterattack, but he did not want to wait for him to decide the winner on the front line. The generals guarding the city in the rear rebelled one after another when they heard that Xiang Yu had killed them. Among them, Kuaiji, Wu and other Xiang clans were more influential.

In strong places, those powerful people even gathered their troops and directly occupied the cities and counties, killing or driving away the officials sent by Yingbo.

In desperation, Yingbu went into a frenzy and refused to quarrel with the Western Chu army. The main force of the Eastern Chu army, composed of more than 20,000 thieves, marched from Qu'a to Wu County and Kuaiji County, killing all the cities along the way.

, and his move further aroused the Jiangdong disciples who were already dissatisfied with Dongchu.

March 1st.

The Eastern Chu Army was surrounded by the Western Chu Army and the Fan troops from Kuaiji on the edge of Taihu Lake in Wu County. Yingbu was furious and led his generals to a decisive battle with the Western Chu Army. Yingbu, the former Five Tiger General of the Chu Army

, and his former coach Xiang Yu became hostile opponents in a corner of Jiangdong.

This civil war between the two Chu regimes lasted for more than ten days.

Yingbu indeed lived up to his reputation as a murderer and a butcher. Under the repeated attacks of Zhonglimei, Xiangzhuang, Jibu and other Western Chu generals, he still performed admirably. From the analysis of the tactical effects of this battle,

Yingbu's former ranking as the first among the Five Tigers is truly deserved.

However, no matter how strong Yingbu is personally.

It is also difficult for two fists to defeat four hands. Compared with the gradually gathering comprehensive national strength of the Western Chu Army, Yingbu's Eastern Chu Army has no airs but no support. The generals under him, like Zhou Cheng, are already pretty good, and

If Zhou Cheng faced off against Ji Bu or Xiang Zhuang, the result can be imagined.

March 11th.

The Eastern Chu army was divided and surrounded by the Western Chu army. Among them, nearly 5,000 elite soldiers with bandit origins led by Yingbu were besieged by nearly 30,000 Western Chu and Panyue coalition forces. On another battlefield, the Eastern Chu army general Zhou

Cheng had lost his fighting spirit and ordered more than 10,000 soldiers under his command to lay down their weapons and surrender to Xi Chu.

Same defeat, different results.

Zhou Cheng did not have much resistance to surrendering to the Western Chu army. In fact, before Yingbu rebelled and became independent, Zhou Cheng and others were members of Xiang Yu's Chu army.

Zhou Cheng's rebellion, like a set of dominoes being toppled one after another, triggered a chain reaction in the territory of the Eastern Chu State. On March 13, the Eastern Chu State officials Zhang Buyi, Ben He and others who had returned to Jiujiang County,

Under the instruction of Lu Xu, Lu Yuan and others, they surrendered to the Western Chu general Yu Ziqi who attacked Jiujiang County. Their move also marked the collapse of the short-lived bandit regime of Eastern Chu.

Lu Xu and Lu Yuan only have lust and no feelings for Ying Bu, but the woman who really has feelings for Ying Bu is Wu Ji, who has been ignored by Ying Bu for a long time.

The daughter of Changsha King Wu Rui, after hearing that Yingbu was surrounded and the people of Eastern Chu rebelled against their relatives, she lit firewood in the cold palace and committed suicide.

15th.

After Yingbu's troops continued to flee, only about 800 of them were left. The leader of bandits who galloped across the river and the former number one general in the Chu army had also reached the end of his life. He tried to launch a desperate charge.

In the last charge, Yingbu was stabbed under his horse by Xiang Yu, who was holding a halberd in his left hand.

Yingbu's head was raised high on a halberd by Xiang Yu, and Jiangdong was restored to the possession of Western Chu.

In this battle, Xiang Yu seemed to have regained his former bravery and invincibility on the battlefield, and the broken right hand made him even more ruthless on the battlefield.

16th.

Qin general Chen Xi's troops seized the western part of Hengshan County and Jiujiang County. Regarding the Qin army's intrusion into the Jiangnan area, the Western Chu army did not make many drastic moves. Yu Ziqi's troops only built some symbolic structures in the six counties.

The crude defensive walls were hastily withdrawn into the city.

The situation in the world has changed from complicated to simple in the spring of the seventh year of the New Calendar. The relationship between the two power groups, Qin and Western Chu, has also become more and more subtle in the collisions. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!