Chapter 440 Two Chess Pieces

With Ying Bu's death in battle, the battle in Xiang County soon came to an end. No one fled the more than 2,000 defeated soldiers in Huainan who were swearing to follow Ying Bu to the death, and no one knelt down to beg for surrender. They all fought bloodyly to the last moment. At the cost of life and blood, they fulfilled their original blood oath: In order to protect Ying Bu, they fought to the last moment of their lives!

Seeing so many Huai Army soldiers would rather follow Ying Bu underground than kneel down to surrender, Jin Xiang couldn't help but sigh that Ying Bu could become one of the 18-way anti-Qin heroes and beg for a bloody journey in troubled times and become a famous prince. It's a pity that he chose the wrong camp, and he shouldn't be an enemy of Da Chu!

At that moment, Jin Xiang bowed deeply to Yingbu's headless corpse, and ordered his clan brother Jin Zhong to pick up Yingbu's head from more than ten steps away and put it on Yingbu's neck. Then he asked someone to collect wooden boards and nail a thin coffin in the city, and buried Yingbu's burial. Poor Yingbu's heroes, but in the end they were dead among the plants.

The tiger and the soldiers were busy cleaning the battlefield, but Jin Xiang took out the tip bag given by Bi Shu before leaving. Before leaving, the general said that the tip bag could only be disassembled after capturing Xiangxian and killing Yingbu, but he didn't know what it contained inside. Jin Xiang carefully disassembled the tip bag.

The clan brother Jin Zhong came up and asked, "Brother, what's in it?"

Jin Zhong was a distant relative of Jin Xiang. Since Jin Xiang became the general of Chu, distant neighbors have successively rushed from Liang to Jiangdong to join him. Jin Xiang was also a very nostalgic person, so he took all these distant neighbors in the mansion and selected some children of good qualifications to cultivate them.

This Jin Zhong is the best among the Jin family's children, and he has become the Hu Ben Guard at the age of Qingqing.

Jin Xiang ignored Jin Zhong, took out a secret letter from the brocade bag and browsed it carefully. Then, an unprecedented excitement surged on Jin Xiang's face and said in a low voice: "Good guy, the military advisor's work is really big. He wants to cook the 600,000 Han troops in Nanyang in one pot!"

Jin Zhong was shocked and asked anxiously: "Brother, are there any wars?"

Jin Xiang muttered without comment and ordered Jin Zhong to say, "Go and call General Ji Xin."

"Here!" Jin Zhong agreed to take the order. Within a moment, he led Ji Xin to Jin Xiang. Ji Xin was the younger brother of Jibu, Hou of Louxiang and a famous general in the Chu army. Xiang Zhuang was the first to enfeoff Huan Chu, Ji Bu and Zhou Yin, which was actually equivalent to depriving these long generals of military power in disguise. As compensation, Ji Xin joined the Hu Ben Guard to serve as the deputy general of Jin Xiang.

"General!" Ji Xin bowed respectfully towards Jin Xiang. He was a little older than Jin Xiang, and the two of them had no comparison in terms of qualifications. When Ji Xin followed Xiang Yu to charge into battle, Jin Xiang was still playing in the Liang area, but Ji Xin didn't dare to be too arrogant in front of Jin Xiang. No matter what, Jin Xiang was one of the best generals in the Great Chu.

Jin Xiang waved his hand as a gift and said in a deep voice: "General Ji Xin, the Hu Ben Army will be handed over to you. After a brief rest in Xiang County, you will take the army back to Pengcheng and listen to the order under General Ziqi's tent."

"Here!" Ji Xin agreed without thinking, and said in surprise, "Where are you, General?"

A strange look suddenly appeared between Jin Xiang's eyebrows and said solemnly: "You go and choose the three thousand tigers to stay with me, so there is no need to ask more about anything else."

"Here!" Ji Xin bowed again and took the order with questions all over his body.

Watching Ji Xin's figure go away, Jin Zhong said excitedly: "Brother, is there really a big battle?"

"Hehe, it's not just a big battle?" Jin Xiang smiled fiercely and said in a deep voice, "This time, for my brother, we must cooperate with the king, the military advisor and the general will have a game of great chess to destroy the country, and our three thousand tigers will be one of the two most important pieces!"

"One of the two most important chess pieces?" Jin Zhong said in shock, "Who is there another chess piece?"

"Don't worry about this." Jin Xiang waved his hand and said coldly, "Take the time to rest and eat!"

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North Shu, Jinniu Pass.

Gao Chu was wearing a casual robe and was walking back and forth between Guancheng.

The mountain wind blew, shaking the long willow beards under Gao Chu's chin and the clothes and robes on his body, and there was a faint elegance. At this moment, if someone who didn't know each other saw him, he would think Gao Chu was a well-educated scholar. No one would have thought that he would be a commander and a general who killed countless times.

To be honest, Gao Chu felt quite uncomfortable at this time.

The king personally mentioned that the 400,000 army was confronting Liu Bang and 600,000 Han army in Nanyang, and the general also led the 200,000 army to fight with Han Xin and Yingbu's Qihuai coalition forces in Pengcheng. Even the boy Pang Yu also caught a small battle in Jinchuan, west of Shu. His good nephew Pang Zheng has been named the Qiang Protector by the King.

At this time, the entire country's war machine was fully operational, and everyone was fighting, but Gao Chu was still guarding Taurus Pass, as if he had been forgotten by everyone. In fact, Gao Chu didn't care about being forgotten by others. The key is that the king could not forget him, he was the number one general of the Great Chu State!

Looking at the winding and rugged Taurus Road ahead, Gao Chu couldn't help but sigh.

"Why did the general sigh? But because there is no war to fight?!" A clear voice suddenly came from behind. Without looking back, Gao Chu knew that he was a staff member Xu Jiang.

"Shunzhi, do you think the king really forgot me?" Gao Chu nodded and sighed.

"I thought the general was a little obedient." Xu Jiang smiled slightly, then stepped forward and stood beside Gao Chu, then pointed to a cliff under Guancheng, and continued, "General, have you seen that ancient pine? No matter how windy or rainy, no matter how cold or hot it is, it always stands there, and it will be the same for a hundred years."

Gao Chu was shocked when he heard this. In addition to being a personal soldier from Xiang Zhuang, with his excellent martial arts and outstanding archery skills, more importantly, his understanding was excellent. Therefore, he immediately understood Xu Jiang's strings. Xu Jiang was clearly using Gu Song to advise him to maintain a calm mind and not to be arrogant because of his favor.

"You mean..." Gao Chu turned his head and looked at Xu Jiang and said in a deep voice, "The king has become suspicious of me?"

"This is not." Xu Jiang shook his head apart and said, "The king has great trust in the general. At least so far, he has no suspicion about the general. If he is not wrong, it is absolutely not an ordinary move to transfer the general to the Jinniu Pass before the Chu-Han War. There must be another mystery here!"

"Is there another mystery?" Gao Chu said in a deep voice, "What mystery?"

Xu Jiang smiled bitterly and said, "I can't guess this below."

Gao Chu pondered and said, "Do you want me to send a surprise troops to intercept Hanzhong and threaten Guanzhong?" However, Gao Chu quickly denied his speculation. Not to mention that Hanzhong had at least 50,000 Han troops stationed, and there were also the last general Fu Kuan and Wang Kuang. It was the fortress built by the Han army outside the northern exit of Jinniu Road, which was enough for the Chu army to have a headache. It was not easy to attack Hanzhong.

Xu Jiang was speechless. He really couldn't guess Bailixian's plan, but then again, if he could even see Bailixian's plan, then Bailixian's level would be too inferior. How could he be competent for the important task of the Chu army's military advisor? How could he be the opponent of a peerless strategist like Zhang Liang and Chen Ping?

At this moment, Pojun suddenly rushed to the top of the city.

"General!" Pojun rushed to Gaochu and bowed and said solemnly, "The king is urgently ordered!"

After saying that, Po Jun carefully took out a secret bag from his arms and handed it to Gao Chu. Gao Chu took it with some confusion, then carefully opened it and took out a secret letter from it. After reading the secret letter in a hurry, Gao Chu was overjoyed and said, "I knew that the king could not forget me, hahahahahahahaha..."

Looking at Gao Chu who was laughing loudly, Po Jun couldn't help but say, "General, has there been a war?"

"Yes." Gao Chu nodded, patted Xu Jiang's shoulder hard and said, "Shunzhi, I really let you say that the king ordered the general to station in Jinniu Pass, which really has a deep meaning, hehe." After that, Gao Chu ordered Po Jun again, "Po Jun, you can select 3,000 elite veterans immediately and prepare half a month of dry food!"

"Here!" Pojun responded with a loud promise and hurriedly took the order.

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The last quiet night was about to pass, and the dark clouds of the war had already covered the sky of Nanyang County.

Jiang Ji's naval fleet had arrived at the river beside the Chu army camp. Under the dark night, the Chu army was busy lifting heavy crossbows onto the warship, and then fixed them on the bow of the warship with large iron nails. In order to keep the warship balance, many heavy objects were placed in the middle and rear of the cabin.

These heavy objects can also be used to adjust the shooting angle of the crossbow when necessary, because increasing or decreasing the heavy objects at the stern of the ship will inevitably cause the bow to rise or sag. In this way, the shooting angle of the crossbow will change. Whether the shooting accuracy of the crossbow will be affected is not within the scope of the Chu army's consideration.

Indeed, small crossbows such as arm-opening, waist-opening, and slashing crossbows all win with accuracy. Large crossbows have never been precise strike weapons. Large crossbows rely on ultra-long range, super penetration and large-scale coverage and killing. After all, facing giant arrows as thick as arms, as long as they are next to each other, it is enough to be fatal!

When the sky finally dawned, nearly a thousand crossbows were finally moved to the navy warships. More than 200 large ships were equipped with two or more crossbows, and more than 400 small ships were installed with one crossbow. More than 600 large and small warships of the navy were transformed into crossbow ships in an instant.

In the thin morning light, more than 600 large and small warships of the Chu Navy were divided into two groups, like two groups of hideous giant crocodiles with exposed fangs, swimming back and forth in the cold river.
Chapter completed!