Let’s not talk about Xiang Zhuang recruiting all kinds of wealthy families in Xianyang, and Liu Bang has already arrived outside Hangu Pass.

Zhang Liang's army of more than 100,000 finally arrived. Since entering Liangdi, there were wide and flat roads to walk along the way, so the speed of the march was greatly accelerated.

Before he could take a breath, Zhang Liang hurried to Liu Bang's tent.

"Zifang, you are here." Seeing Zhang Liang, Liu Bang immediately stepped forward as if he had seen his relatives, grabbed Zhang Liang's hand tightly, and then held Zhang Liang to the screen in the tent, and said anxiously, "Zifang, I just got the news that Lü Ze had blocked Wu Pass, but why did Guan Ying's cavalry run to Hedong?"

According to Chen Ping's design, the Lu Zesai Wuguan and Guan Ying cavalry should block the flying fox path.

Zhang Liang waved his hand and smiled, "Don't worry, the king, this is all my arrangement. General Fu Kuan has brought 20,000 elite troops across the river from Baimajin. Now he should have blocked Huguan and Jingxing. The king who was originally guarding Huguan and Jingxing attracted 20,000 troops. Now he should have gone north to Yunzhong and blocked Feihuxing."

"Oh, it turned out that it was the ovary you arranged." Liu Bang felt relieved.

Chen Ping said, "Brother Zifang, Guan Ying’s Eight Thousand Cavalry Army, have you made other arrangements?"

"That's right." Zhang Liang smiled slightly and said, "Guanying's eight thousand cavalry will block the east bank of the river and strictly prevent the Chu army from rushing east into Han territory. In this way, as long as Wuguan is not lost, the Chu army will have few choices, either rushing into Hanzhong, or entering the territory of the Qiang people west or going north to Hetao to join the Xiongnu."

Chen Ping said: "With Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao's ability, the Chu army should not go to Hanzhong."

Zhang Liang said: "Let's not talk about whether the Chu army can enter Hanzhong or not. If they really go in, they may not be able to get out!"

Hanzhong is surrounded by natural dangers, and it is true that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. But on the other hand, it is not easy to get out of Hanzhong. The reason why the Han King army was able to fight out of Hanzhong and also settle the Three Qins was because Han Xin's clever plan to "build a plank road openly and cross Chen Cang secretly" completely deceived Zhang Han, Sima Xin and others.

Therefore, if the Chu army entered Hanzhong, Liu Bang would never give him a chance to leave Hanzhong.

By then, whether it was going to Bashu south, Hanzhong north, or Jingchu east, all roads would be blocked by the Han army.

Liu Bang frowned and said with some depression: "Zifang, Chen Ping, and Hangu Pass have not been down yet."

Zhang Liang said lightly: "Don't worry, King, Xiang Zhuang will never be arrogant enough to think that the Chu army can defend Guanzhong, so he will never have too many troops left at Hangu Pass. The king has more than 100,000 troops, and there are heavy siege equipment such as cloud ladders, well railings, siege cars and catapults. It will be a matter of time before he captures Hangu Pass."

"Oh." Liu Bang sighed and said more and more depressed, "You don't know that all the corn that Lu Ze hoarded in Luoyang's granaries was stolen by Xiangzhuang's children, and even the corn from the surrounding counties was plundered. Now, I can only send troops to pretend to be the Chu army to grab grain. After this battle, the people of Sanchuan will be empty."

Zhang Liang and Chen Ping were silent. There was no food in the army, so there was no way to seize food from the people.

You can't let tens of thousands of soldiers go to fight against the Chu army on hunger, right? If this is the case, the tens of thousands of soldiers will be afraid that they will mutiny immediately, and there is no need to fight this battle again.

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At Hangu Pass, Pang Yu and more than a dozen soldiers were on the Han army's left and right foot on the peak of the pass.

Hangu Pass is built between two peaks with a wall of thousands of feet high. On one side of the lonely peak at the left is Hangu Pass, and on the other side is the roaring river. The water surface is very wide and wide, and the water flow is extremely slow. However, near Hangu Pass, the water surface is extremely narrow, the water flow is extremely turbulent, and there are even reefs under the water, so boats cannot ferry at all.

Standing on the top of a lonely peak with a wall of thousands of feet high, looking at the endless Han army camp outside Hangu Pass, Pang Yu's expression seemed unprecedentedly solemn. There was no doubt that the Han army, far away in Qi, had arrived at Hangu Pass. It can be foreseen that the Han army's offensive will become more fierce next.

When the two armies of Huan Chu and Ji Bu were evacuated from Hulao Pass, there were still more than 6,000 people.

However, now, after two days of fierce battle with the Han army with Hangu Pass, there are only less than 4,000 remaining soldiers. What worries Pang Yu is that the morale of the remaining 4,000 remaining soldiers is extremely low. Even more than 200 veterans in the battle think that it is a matter of time before Hangu Pass falls. After all, Pang Yu still lacks prestige.

If General Jing Qian was still there, the situation would be different?

However, Pang Yu was also very clear that the reason why General transferred Huan Chu away was that Ji Bu left the two of them with 6,000 troops was to give him a chance to build prestige! When he thought of this, an inexplicable feeling surged in Pang Yu's heart. In any case, Pang Yu could not let down the General's trust!

However, how easy is it to keep Hangu Pass?

The Han army had many soldiers and generals, so Pang Yu was not worried, but the Han army's ladders, well railings, siege cars and catapults seriously threatened the safety of Hangu Pass. Especially the well railings built by the Han army caused great damage to the Chu army soldiers at the pass. More than 2,000 people who had been killed in battle were most of them shot by Han army archers on the well railings.

Therefore, if you want to guard Hangu Pass, you must find a way to destroy the Han army's well railing!

However, except for siege, the Han army's well railings usually hide behind the camp, and there are several Han army camps separated by Hangu Pass. How can they be destroyed?

After thinking hard for a while, he gained nothing, Pang Yu subconsciously picked up a piece of mountain vine.

The mountain vine was about the thickness of an arm, but Pang Yu pulled it lightly but it didn't move at all. He pulled it hard, but it still didn't move at all.

Pang Yu couldn't help but wonder. When he looked down, he saw that Juebi was covered with old vines. Looking at the lush old mountain vines all over the cliffs, Pang Yu suddenly felt his heart moving, maybe...

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It's late at night and people are quiet.

More than two hundred veterans who were trapped in the battle have been summoned by Pang Yu.

Pang Yu was wearing heavy armor and a horizontal knife on his waist. Facing more than two hundred pairs of cold eyes, he shouted: "Tell me, do you want to be cowards or heroes?"

"Nonsense." A veteran said impolitely, "Of course I want to be a hero."

Pang Yu was not angry because of the veteran's impoliteness, and asked again: "What if he could only be a hero for one night?"

"So what?" said the veteran coldly, "If you are a human being, you will die. As long as you can be a hero and earn military merit for your wife and children, it is worth it to be a hero for only a moment!"

"Okay." Pang Yu nodded and asked the others again, "Where are you?!"

"Damn, when did we fight, we didn't put our heads on the belt?"

"That's right, when did our sons in Da Chu admit their conscience? They were afraid of death?"

"There is no need to ask at all. Will I still care about life and death when I fight all the way from Dabie Mountain?"

More than two hundred veterans suddenly started to shout, and their faces showed anger. Obviously, Pang Yu's words angered them.

Pang Yu's face was cold, but he felt secretly happy.

Sun Tzu had a plan to provoke generals in the Art of War, and he was the plan to provoke generals today!

"Okay, very good!" Pang Yukeng pulled out the horizontal sword and shouted fiercely, "Since everyone wants to be heroes, don't guard Hangu Pass and wait for death. This is the general who burns the Han army's baggage camp!"

"Um?"

“Huh?”

"Burn the Han army's baggage camp?"

"What, go and sneak attack the Han army's baggage camp?"

"No way, we have more than two hundred people going to sneak attack the Han army camp?"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than 200 veterans looked at each other, all of them suspected that they had heard it wrong.

"Why, are you scared?" Pang Yu said coldly, "Don't dare to go? Don't want to be a hero anymore?"

"Bad!" said the veteran who spoke first, "Of course we are not afraid of death, but we don't want to die in vain!"

Soon another veteran echoed: "That's right, we only have more than 200 people. I'm afraid that even the first camp of the outsiders' army could not be broken, so how could it be that the large baggage hiding at the back of the gate would be burned?"

"Who said we were going to kick the camp from the front?" Pang Yu asked coldly.

"Don't kick the camp from the front? Where can I kick the camp from?" The veteran said just now, "It's just one way out of Hangu Pass. Could it be that we can still fly over the cliffs on both sides?"

Pang Yu did not answer, but a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Then Pang Yu said something to more than 200 veterans. The more than 200 veterans' eyes suddenly shone, and their faces were full of excitement, and there was a faint ferocious murderous intent.

Looking at the angry veteran of the crowd, Pang Yu couldn't help but feel relieved.

However, it is not enough to have only more than 200 veterans. At least 300 strong soldiers were selected from the top 4,000 new recruits. There were more than 500 elite soldiers, and each of them carried a can of hot tinder oil, which was almost the same.

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In the Han army camp, Liu Bang was sleeping soundly with his arms around Mrs. Qi's slim waist. Outside the tent, there was a burst of killing sounds like the sky and the earth cracked. Liu Bang was shocked and stood up naked before he could wear his clothes, shouting repeatedly: "What's going on, what's going on, where does the killing sounds come from?"

"King, the baggage camp is attacked, General Li Shang has already brought his troops to pick him up."

As Liu Bang finished speaking, Xiahou Ying's response sounded outside the tent. Mrs. Qi, who was also naked, quickly pulled over Jin and covered her graceful body.

"The large baggage camp was attacked?" Liu Bang frowned, "How did the Chu army emerge from behind?"

"It shouldn't be the Chu army." Xiahou Ying said outside the tent, "It's probably a small group of thieves who came from somewhere."

"Nonsense! When a small group of bandits saw my army, they were afraid they would not dare to attack them. How could they dare to attack them?!" After Liu Bang said that, he suddenly lifted the tent and strode out of the tent. Just as he was about to instruct Xiahou Ying to take Zhang Liang, Chen Ping came, a huge fire suddenly ignited in the direction of the baggage camp behind him!

This is?! Looking at the fire that had reddened half of the night sky for a few days, Liu Bang suddenly changed color.

With such a big fire, the ladders, well railings, siege cars, catapults and other heavy siege equipment in the baggage camp, and the corn that tens of thousands of stones of difficulty were probably not saved.

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