Chapter 351
: Still moving
In front of the screen hanging on the map, Liu Bang was discussing the battle situation in Jingxiang with Zhang Liang and others. While speaking, a burst of rapid footsteps came in from outside the lobby. When everyone looked back, they saw Zhou Guanfu had already entered the lobby with high spirits. Zhou Guanfu bowed to Liu Bang and said loudly: "King, strange things, the Chu army actually took the initiative to attack!"
"Hmm?" Liu Bang was stunned and said with a sniff, "Chu army took the initiative to attack?!"
Zhou Guanfu nodded and said, "Yes, I just found a horse and returned, the Chu army has arrived in Bi County!"
"Bi County?" Liu Bang whispered. Bai Mo had already found the location of Bi County on the map, and pointed to the map and said to Liu Bang, "Your Majesty, Bi County is here, almost at the junction of Nanyang County and Nan County."
"Are Pang Yu's son crazy? He let the Jiangling city not defend, and he actually led his army to Bi County to fight the Liang army in a field?" After saying this, Liu Bang suddenly said, "Oh, no, it's not Pang Yu, it's Gao Chu. I forgot that Xiang Zhuang's son has transferred his number one confidant Gao Chu from Bashu to Jingxiang."
"Gao Chu must not be crazy." Bai Mo said in contemplation, "The Chu army should have other plans."
"It is of course for the Chu army to have other plans." Chen Ping continued, "I just don't know what the Chu army's plans are?"
Zhang Liang pondered for a moment, squinted his eyes and said, "Analysis carefully, the Chu army's plans are actually traceable. The Chu army put the city without defending, but insisted on running to Bi County to fight with the Liang army. In this way, it can be said that he did not take Peng Yue and the 100,000 Liang army seriously. With Peng Yue's arrogant heart, he would definitely be furious."
Chen Ping thoughtfully: "Brother Zifang said that the Chu army was using a provocation plan?"
Bai Mo continued to analyze: "So, does the Chu army want to lure the enemy into the depth?"
Zhou Bo looked at Liu Bang and asked, "King, should you send someone to remind King Liang Yi Er?"
"I'm afraid it's too late." Zhang Liang shook his head and sighed, "Shangyong has three or four hundred miles to get to Bixian County, and it will take seven or eight hours to run a horse back and forth. If nothing unexpected happens, the battle in Bixian County has already started. Since we will send people, the war there will probably be settled by the time the messenger arrives."
Liu Bang thought for a while and said, "Then just wait and see what's going on."
Zhou Guanfu endured it, but still couldn't help it and asked Zhang Liang: "Military advisor, do you think Liang Jun will lose this battle?"
Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "Originally, the Liang army's winning odds in this battle should have surpassed the Chu army, but now, even I can't see it very accurately. Gao Chu can give up Jiangling and run to Bi County to fight the Liang army in a field battle. This shows that he still has a very powerful back. Now it depends on whether Gao Chu can succeed."
Bai Mo said: "If Gao Chu can succeed, the Liang army will be defeated."
Chen Ping said: "That may not be necessary. In the face of real strength, all conspiracies will be useless. If the Chu army cannot withstand the frontal attack of the Liang army, Gao Chu's back may not be able to play a role."
Zhang Liang said: "In short, our army should also be prepared as soon as possible. Whether it is the army going out of the Central Plains or sweeping Jingxiang, it will be a good result. Of course, if the Liang army can fight against the Chu army and suffer both losses, it would be great. In this way, our army will not only sweep Jingxiang and regain Bashu, but also take the Central Plains into its pocket."
Liu Bang's eyes lit up instantly, this was the result he wanted most.
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Fierce battles are in full swing outside the suburbs of Bi County.
Above the sky, a large number of arrows were intertwining and shuttled. In the low altitude, rows of flying spears were flying in the sky. With the rain of arrows and the accumulation of flying spears, blood flowers were bound to bloom in the formation of the two armies. Although the heavy armored martial soldiers were protected by large shields and iron armor, they could not stop the thrust of the flying spears. The archers wearing cloth armor and leather armor could not even resist the invasion of arrows. Under the attack of the rain of arrows, they fell into a pool of blood.
However, the one who fought the most tragic and suffered the most casualties were the heavy armored warriors who were in the front.
"Go to die!" Gao Chu roared, and the horizontal knife in his hand suddenly slashed, causing a faint sound of wind and thunder.
"Dream!" Liu Kou smiled grimly, and the heavy two iron halberds came forward without any tricks. With a clanging explosion, he even held Gao Chu's horizontal knife.
In this battle, the two of them were almost equal.
Taking advantage of Gao Chu and Liu Kou's swords and halberds, the two had exhausted their old strength and the new strength had not yet grown, Liu Chong's figure suddenly flashed out from behind Liu Kou like a ghost. Silently, the spear in Liu Chong's hand had already stabbed Gao Chu's throat like a poisonous snake.
"Dare you!" Po Jun roared angrily, carrying the big shield and suddenly took two steps forward, blocking Gao Chu. Then there was a clear sound. Liu Chong's big stupid spear stabbed Po Jun's big shield heavily. In an instant, a huge force rolled back from the big shield. Po Jun could not stand his foot and slipped backwards with his feet.
"Hey!" Seeing this, the six Chu army soldiers were holding shields at the same time, and people stacked up their shoulders to block Pojun. The six of them worked together, and Pojun barely blocked the power of Liu Chong's spear. If Pojun's big shield was not made of pure iron, this spear would have been broken.
At this time, Gao Chu and Liu Kou finally recovered. The two of them exerted force at the same time and suddenly shoved forward.
A huge energy that was as solid as the halberd suddenly burst out from the intersection of the swords and halberds. In the dust, Gao Chu, Liu Kou could not stand his foot at the same time. He stepped back several steps. Pojun, who was pressing behind the two, and Liu Chong and his respective personal soldiers were immediately taken down, and the two armies were suddenly overturned.
Gao Chuyi took five steps in a row before finally standing firm again, and said sternly: "It's worthy of being Liang Jun!"
Liu Kou took seven steps to barely gain a foothold and said with a grim voice: "Chu Army, that's it!"
At the forefront of the close contact, the soldiers of the two armies on both sides were still killing each other for a desperate attempt. In every blink of anger, hundreds of soldiers died in the battlefield. However, in the middle of the battlefield, the soldiers of the two armies fell into a brief confrontation. Whether it was Gao Chu or Liu Kou, they had already discovered that it would be difficult to defeat the opponent in a short period of time.
Gao Chu's command style is in line with Xiang Yu and Xiang Zhuang. During the war, they all led the way and rushed to the forefront of the entire army. This approach can greatly inspire the morale of the entire army. It can often defeat the strong with the weak and defeat the crowd with the weak. However, this also has extremely high requirements for the general's martial arts and not everyone can follow.
If it were someone else's leadership, even if Peng Yue himself led the army, he would probably be defeated and lost under the fierce attack of Gao Chu and 800 personal soldiers. However, this time, Gao Chu met a real opponent. Not only was Liu Kou's martial arts comparable to him, but his style of fighting was almost the same. He advocated the lead and defeating the enemy's attack Yu Zhengrui!
He took a deep breath of bloody air, Gao Chuhengdao's chest and said in a deep voice: "Liu Kou, within ten rounds of time, I will take your life!"
"Ha, what an arrogant Gaochu boy. Not to mention ten rounds, even fifty rounds and five hundred rounds, why is this general afraid of you?" Liu Kou laughed furiously, and as he spoke, he used two halberds to attack each other. His exposed arms showed a piece of knotted muscles, and his body like an iron tower, instantly revealing the violent aura of a beast like a wild beast.
"Liu Kou, die!"
"Eat my halberd!"
After a brief confrontation, Gao Chu and Liu Kou rushed forward almost at the same time, like two furious lions, opened their bloody mouths, and showed their sharp claws, fighting violently. Liu Chong hid behind Liu Kou and tried to attack Gao Chu from the flank several times, but they were blocked by Po Jun and the personal soldiers behind him.
Although the Liang army had an attack of tide, the Chu army remained unmoved.
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Several miles away, Liang Jun’s main formation.
Peng Yue slapped the guardrail with a grudge and said angrily: "What are he doing, this idiot Liu Kou?"
The captain of the Central Army, Peng Ming, has always been dissatisfied with Liu Kou, and sneered: "The General seems to be really old. He has 30,000 elite troops and has been attacking for nearly two hours. He still cannot defeat tens of thousands of mobs?!"
The guardian captain Shen Tu Jiaxin was not angry and retorted loudly: "Have you seen the big star embroidered with a tiger? It's the Hu Ben Camp of Chu. This is not a mob, but a real elite of the Chu army!"
"Bad elite!" Peng Ming said disdainfully, "If you pull a few tiger flags, you will become elite?"
"That's the big flag of the Chu army's Huben camp!" Shentu Jia said, "Not any army can fight."
"Shentu, you have repeatedly developed ambitions and destroyed your own prestige. What is your intention?" Peng Ming was furious.
"The last general is just a statement of the facts." Shen Tu Jia responded coldly and said to Peng Yue, "The king is clear-minded. It is not that the general's attack is not sharp enough, but that the Chu army's defense is strong!"
"Shentu, you still dare to talk nonsense?" Peng Yue was furious.
"Enough!" Peng Yue was furious and glared at Peng Ming fiercely. Peng Ming then stopped saying a word.
Peng Yue said again: "The combat effectiveness of the Chu army's Huben Camp is not weak, but Xiangzhuang is not here. Liu Kou still couldn't defeat them for so long, but he lost all the face of our Liang army!" After saying this, Peng Yue looked around again and shouted sternly, "The big flag is sent to the order, and all the troops will come out together to defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop!"
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The Chu army's main formation.
Gao Chu led the way, but the burden of taking charge of the central army fell on Xu Jiang, who was just a weak scholar, and his most brilliant deeds were that he had won the 17th place in the top scorer ten years ago when he took the national examination. Although he had fought many battles with Gao Chu in the past ten years, they were all small battles. How could he compare with today?
At this moment, Xu Jiang was already sweating profusely and was fighting.
On the contrary, Qingpi, who was guarding Xu Jiang, seemed calm and composed. Seeing the Liang army facing forward, each army came out together, he turned his head to Xu Jiang and said, "Shou joined the army, Liang army is going to fight to the death!"
Xu Jiang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and nodded softly.
Qingpi said again: "The Liang army has taken the bait. Should we retreat?"
"No, it's not the time yet." Although Xu Jiang was so nervous, he was not confused and said, "If you retreat now, the Liang army will immediately take off. At that time, we may not be able to resist it, and it may turn into a defeat. Therefore, we have to hold on for at least another half an hour and wait until Liang army is impatient."
"This..." Qingpi hesitated, "Are you asking the general?"
"No need to ask." Xu Jiang calmed down a little and said, "This is the general's military order!"
Qingpi stopped saying anything more, and turned around and shouted: "Send the order, the cavalry on both wings will run, run for me, protect the wings of the formation, and protect the wings of the formation..."
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Chapter completed!