Dingtao, Liang Palace.

Liu Kou had just returned from the white horse and was reporting to Peng Yue about the latest developments of the Chu army.

After listening to Liu Kou's report, Peng Yue frowned and said, "In other words, in at most ten days, the floating bridge will be built?"[]

"At most ten days!" Liu Kou nodded and said, "Also, in recent days, the Chu army's scout cavalry has quietly crossed the river at night to spy on the truth of our army. This also shows that the Chu army will soon cross the river."

Peng Yue frowned and turned to ask Zhang in the lower right corner and said, "Major, is there no news from the King of Qi?"

Zhang Shuo shook his head. Just as he was about to answer, Xi Yi, the disciple of the door, suddenly held a letter high and hurried in. While walking, he shouted loudly: "King, King Qi is urgent!"

Peng Yue stretched out his hand and shouted: "Come on!"

Peng Ming, who was holding the sword behind Peng Yue, had already stepped forward, took the Shujian from Xi Yi, turned around and handed it to Peng Yue. Peng Yue opened the Shujian, and after reading it hurriedly, he was overjoyed and said, "Okay, the King of Qi has sent troops!"

Liu Kou was stunned when he heard this and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that King Qi actually sent troops?"

"What's so strange about this?" Peng Yue said sneered, "The son of Xiangzhuang has what the King of Qi wants."

"Why is the king saying that it is a military merit?" Zhang Shuo said, "It is indeed a great achievement to destroy the remnants of the Chu army in Xiangzhuang."

"Military achievements?" Peng Yue shook his head and said, "The King of Qi has destroyed Xiang Yu's 100,000 elite troops, and will he care about the minor military achievements of these tens of thousands of remnants of the Chu army?" After saying this, Peng Yue said, "What the King of Qi really wants is the Qin King's jade seal of Xiang Zhuang's child! If you get the Qin King's jade seal and present it to the King of Han again, that would be a great achievement!"

In fact, why didn’t Peng Yue want to get the Qin King’s Jade Seal?

But then again, if the Qin King's jade seal really fell into his hands by Peng Yue, he would never offer it to the King of Han. As for whether Han Xin would give it after obtaining the jade seal, he didn't know.

"The Jade Seal of King Qin?" Liu Kou's eyes narrowed.

Zhang Shuo also said: "Why is the King of Qin saying that the jade seal of King Xiangzhuang is in the hands of Xiangzhuang?"

"That's right, it's in Xiang Zhuang's hands." Peng Yue was very sure of this.

In Guanzhong, when Xiangzhuang worshipped the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, the Qin King's jade seal was placed on the table except for three animals! At that time, many old Qin clans in Guanzhong witnessed it, and there would never be any fakes! The reason why King Liu Bang of Han was so concerned about the thousands of remaining soldiers in Xiangzhuang and pursued them all the way was also for the Qin King's jade seal?

The jade seal of King Qin is the official seal of the First Emperor!

When the Great Qin Empire issued an edict in the name of the emperor, it was covered with the jade seal of the King of Qin!

If it weren't for this jade seal of the Qin King, even if Liu Bang had become emperor, his reputation would be incorrect and his words would be unsatisfied when he issued the edict. Most of the princes and the powerful men of the world would not be convinced.

Liu Kou suddenly said, "King, I think I shouldn't have asked King Qi for help at the beginning. I just waited for the Chu army to cross the river. Let's mobilize the troops of Chen County, Dang County, Yingchuan County, and Dong County County, and encircle and annihilate the Chu army in one fell swoop. Isn't the Chu army's horses and the Qin King's jade seal yours yours?"

Due to the lack of military rations, Peng Yue's 100,000 tiger and wolf troops are now stationed in various counties to eat. The 30,000 elite troops from the Dongjun camp are confronted by the Baima and the Chu army across the river.

These 30,000 elite soldiers are also Liu Kou's direct subordinates.

Peng Yue said angrily: "You know that killing and killing is easy to mobilize a large army, but what should you eat after the army is mobilized? If there is not enough military rations, do you let the soldiers fight against the Chu army hungry?" Peng Yue was not afraid of Xiangzhuang, and was very confident in his 100,000 elite troops, but he would never think that the Liang army could defeat the Chu army hungry.

Liu Kou scratched his head and stopped talking, but the fierce light in his eyes still did not restrain himself.

Peng Yue frowned and ordered Liu Kou: "The army of King Qi set out from the Jinbei camp, and it is 400 miles away from the Baima. It will take five days to arrive at the fastest. You will return to the Baima, strengthen the patrol efforts on the south bank of the river, and strictly prevent the infiltration of the Chu army's scouts! In addition, we must mobilize soldiers to build more beacon towers along the south bank of the river!"

"Here!" Liu Kou bowed and took the order.

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On the north bank of the river, Baimajin.

Next to Baimajin, there is a large dense forest, which has now been blocked by the Chu army.

In the deep forest, hundreds of furnace kilns have been built, and the bus and thousands of surrendered soldiers are burning large urns day and night. Next to each furnace, there are already layers of large urns, with at least tens of thousands of urns! The purpose of the Chu army burning these large urns is very clear, just to cross the river.

Although Tian Heng was carrying five thousand Right Army to build a pontoon bridge in Baimajin, Xiangzhuang did not put all the chips on the pontoon bridge. If Peng Yue refused to let go, then these large urns would come in handy. With the help of these large urns, the Chu army could also cross the river.

Of course, if you tie a big urn across the river, people will inevitably be frozen.

Moreover, it is also troublesome to cross the river by borrowing a urn to transport a large urn back and forth, and it is not as convenient as a pontoon bridge after all.

However, there is a way of being a cunning rabbit, so it is still necessary to keep one's hands on everything. Planning ahead is always better than thinking about the way at the end.

Halfway through the inspection, there was a sudden sound of horse hooves outside the forest. When Xiang Zhuang looked back, he saw Meng Fu had already rushed into the kiln.

"General, the scout cavalry intercepted and killed two cavalry messengers and discovered this!" Meng Fengqi turned over and dismounted, bowed to Xiang Zhuang first, and then took out a few wooden slips from his arms.

Xiang Zhuang took the wooden slip and saw that it was full of small seal script and there were no punctuation marks.

The writings in the Qin Dynasty were in the transition from small seal script to official script. Although the transformation of official script had already begun, the official script was still small seal script. In addition, there were no punctuation marks, it seemed very difficult for Xiang Zhuang to be a time traveler, so he took the few wooden slips and handed them to Bailixian on his left.

Bailixian put out wooden slips on the ground, arranged them back and forth for more than ten times, and looked up and said, "General, this should be a secret letter of three sends and one send. Although some of them are missing, the general is still able to guess the general meaning. This should be a secret letter sent by King Han Xin of Qi to King Zhao, asking the Zhao army to cooperate with the Qi army and Liang army to harass our army!"

"Hmm?" Xiang Zhuang, Wei Liao's expression changed slightly when he heard this. Cooperate with the Qi army and the Liang army harass the Chu army?

Doesn’t this mean that not only Peng Yue doesn’t want to let go, but even King Han Xin of Qi is going to get a kick?!

At that moment, Xiangzhuang had no intention of continuing to inspect the kiln, so he took Wei Liao and Bailixian hurried back to the tent and asked Jin Xiang to spread the map on the wool blanket.

Xiang Zhuang took a picture of the map and said, "It's less than four hundred miles from Boyang to Baima!"

During the period when the ship was built and floating bridges were built, the Chu army also sent a large number of fine works to mingle into Handan and Yecheng, and even crossed the river to mingle into Liang's cities such as Puyang. They spyed on a lot of news, such as the Liang army was forced to divide their troops to station in various counties for food due to lack of military rations. For example, Han Xin reduced 200,000 troops and retained only 100,000 elite troops, and stationed in Boyang.

It is said that 100,000 elite Qi troops were stationed in Boyang to intimidate the Yingbu army entrenched in Xue County.

There are also rumors that Ying Bu had turned against Liu Bang. Not only did he seize the Xue County, which was nominally assigned to Qi, he also sent troops to capture the East China Sea and Si Shui counties, and even incorporated tens of thousands of Han troops from the two counties. He didn't know whether the rumors were true or false. If they were true, it would undoubtedly be good news for the Great Chu State.

Wei Liao frowned and said, "In less than four hundred miles, you can arrive in a marching for four days."

Bailixian said: "In other words, it is absolutely impossible to cross the river before Han Xin's army arrives."

"Hateful!" Xiang Zhuang said hatefully, "This Han Xin is really Liu Bang's loyal lackey. Liu Bang's old man has already rolled back to Guanzhong in shame. Han Xin is still working like this to work for him?" After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said again, "Military advisor, why don't I bring 10,000 elite cavalry to cross the river first, and also give Han Xin a half-ambush?"

"No, this is absolutely not possible." Wei Liao quickly stopped him, "General, Han Xin is a famous military strategist in the world. This person is unmatched in command of the battle. Not to mention whether he can successfully ambush. Even if he is lucky enough to be successful, ten thousand cavalry are still too weak in terms of military strength. If he wants to defeat Han Xin's army, it is probably not enough."

Xiang Zhuang was silent. The biggest advantage of the cavalry was its super power. If you fight in positional warfare, the light cavalry really couldn't do anything to Han Xin's infantry group, unless the Chu army had enough heavy cavalry! If the Chu army had enough heavy cavalry, no matter how powerful Han Xin was in command, the Chu army could crush the Qi army like crushing ants.

However, the Chu army had only more than 200 heavy armored iron cavalry, and the number was too small!

Baili Xian also said: "General, our army has few soldiers but many horses, so it is really not appropriate to divide the troops."

Bailixian's concerns are also reasonable. The Chu army originally had only more than 20,000 cavalry, but they had to take care of nearly 100,000 pack horses, plus more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers. Although these more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers surrendered to the Great Chu, the morale of the army was not stable. Once there was any disturbance, they were afraid that they would immediately flee or even mutiny!

Therefore, once Xiangzhuang brought tens of thousands of cavalry across the river, the remaining 10,000 cavalry may not be able to do so. If Guan Gao is not good, Zhao Wu will have a different mind. No matter what, Zhao State now has a 100,000 army. If the main force of the Chu army is stationed on the north bank, the Zhao army may not dare to act rashly, but if the troops are divided, it is hard to say.

Xiang Zhuang said in a muffled voice: "What should I do? When Han Xin's army arrives, it will be difficult to cross the river."

Bailixian frowned slightly, shook the feather fan and just pondered silently. Obviously, he had no good idea for a while.

Wei Liao stroked his long black beard under his chin and suddenly said, "General, the reason why Han Xin sent troops may not be to work hard for Liu Bang. If I was not wrong, Han Xin should be here for something!"
Chapter completed!