Suddenly, a rapid sound of horse hooves came back from the front.

Soon, a scout rushed out of the night. The Pegasus arrived in front of Mei Yu and stopped the rushing force. The cavalry on the horse then turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee to report: "General, the Chu army suddenly turned around and came to the east!"

"Oh? The Chu army is coming east?" Mei Yu was stunned when he heard this. The Chu army was actually coming east. Isn't that getting closer to his army? Isn't the Chu army afraid of meeting his army head-on? Or is Xiang Zhuang's little boy not taking his 20,000 elite soldiers seriously?

No, Chu Jun’s actions were a bit abnormal.

Mei Jiao immediately turned over and dismounted, turned around and shouted, "Map!"

The personal soldiers had already dismounted and spread the map he carried with them on the grass in front of Mei Kai. Another personal soldiers set up more than a dozen pine torches, illuminating dozens of steps in a radius as bright as daytime. Mei Kai bent down and stared at the map without a moment. Soon, he discovered something strange on the map.

General Si Kouli said, "General, is there anything wrong with it?"

"Here." Mei Yu took a picture of the map and frowned and said, "Even if the Chu army defeated our army, it would not be able to break out, because the Huan River is less than a hundred miles east. The Huan River is wide and deep, and there is no way to cross the river. If the ships are collected, there will be no time for time, because when the Chu army collects the ships, our six armies will have already arrived."

"Yes, Xiang Zhuang's son is in a hurry. Wasn't he going to the death?"

"That's right, let's not talk about my 20,000 army standing in front of the Chu army. Even if I break through, what can they do?"

"Yes, in fact, there are still gaps in our encirclement net now. It's a pity that the Chu army does not know the reality of our army and lacks timely and accurate information, so we can't break out. But if the Chu army really advances east along the Huan River, then our six-way army will only need to encircle the left side of the Chu army. In this way, there will be no gaps again, and the Chu army will undoubtedly die."

Many generals agreed, but Mei Jiao always felt something was wrong. How could Xiang Zhuang be so easy to deal with?

What's more, Wei Liao is the military advisor of the Chu army. This old guy used to be the Grand Qin wei, and he once formulated a grand strategy for Qin Shihuang to wipe out the six kingdoms. He should be quite familiar with the terrain of Zhao territory, so how could the Chu army make such a low-level mistake? No, there must be something strange about it!

Mei Qing pondered for a moment, and then ordered his general Si Kouli to say, "Go and find a few village men!"

Si Kouli took the order and left. He couldn't wait for the meal, so he brought two villagers, one old and one young, to Mei Yan. The old man was obviously afraid of Mei Yan and immediately protected the young child behind him. Mei Yan asked patiently, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you, we just ask you if you have something to do."

The old man said tremblingly: "Just ask, the old man will definitely answer the truth."

Mei Qing nodded and asked, "The Huan River is less than a hundred miles east from here. Do you know the Huan River?"

"I know." The old man hurriedly said, "When the old man was young, he often went to the Huanshui to sell fish, and the carp in the Huanshui is very fresh."

"Very good." Mei Qing nodded and said, "Is there any shallow water in the Huan River that can be used by the army to wader through?"

"Some." The old man said without hesitation, "Although the Huan River is wide, it is not deep. It is especially shallow near Jipu, and the deepest part is only more than five feet. The army can completely wade through it."

"It's true!" Mei Qing said, "Old Wei Liao, what a smart plan!"

After saying that, Mei Kai waved his hand and signaled his personal soldiers to take away the grandparents and grandchildren, and shouted: "Si Kouli!"

Former military captain Si Kouli suddenly took two steps forward, clasped his fists with both hands, and responded proudly: "The last one is here!"

Mei Yu said murderously: "Lead 4,000 elite soldiers from our headquarters to rush to Jipu immediately, and then guard the general there. Before the other armies arrive, you must not let a Chu soldier go, otherwise you will only ask!"

"No!" Si Kouli responded to the promise and immediately lit up the four thousand elite soldiers and left. Mei Yu turned his head and ordered the personal soldiers to lead: "Immediately send a flying cavalry to inform Zhou Bo, Wang Nu, Fu Kuan, Li Shang, Xiahou Ying and other five generals, and said that the Chu army was likely to flee from Jipu to the east through the Huanshui River, so that they could immediately encircle in the direction of Jipu!"

"No!" The personal soldiers led the troops to agree to the promise and also turned around and ordered the cavalry to go there.

Mei Jing said again: "The other generals led their troops to follow the general south to intercept the Chu army!"

More than a dozen captains and Sima agreed in unison, and then they all lit up their troops and followed Mei Jiao to the south, preparing to intercept the remnants of the Chu army who were advancing eastward.

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Under the night sky, five thousand Chu troops were advancing eastward along the main road.

All the soldiers were already sweating like slurry and panting like a cow, but Xiang Zhuang was still urging them.

"Start up, continue to speed up, don't slow down, let alone stop. The soldiers, the men of Da Chu, grit their teeth and hold on!"

"It's a man, so I can hold on!"

"We are not afraid of death, are we still afraid of being tired?"

"Think about what you eat and drink, and what you can do for hundreds of miles will pass!"

"I promise you that when you arrive at Jipu, you will definitely give you something delicious and some spicy food!"

"I heard it clearly. Now I'm tired and harder, and I'll kill many people by then!"

"Babys, I will use all the energy you are trying to help the women, speed up, continue to speed up, and rush through the river ahead in front of the Han army. Hurry, hurry up..."

At this time, the sky was already bright, and in the thin morning light, a small river was quietly standing in front of it.

The river is not wide or deep, and the army can completely wading by. However, the problem is that there are dense Han army flags on the northern horizon. With the endless sound of horns, tens of thousands of Han army soldiers rushed out from behind the flags, like endless ant colonies sweeping down the wilderness.

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On the fields of the north, more than 10,000 plum blossoms were swarming south.

Seeing that the Chu army was about to cross the small river not far ahead, Mei Kai couldn't believe his eyes. He had heard that the Chu army could escape more than 300 miles overnight. Mei Kai didn't believe it at first, but today, he believed it. The endurance of these Chu army's remnants running long distances was really unattainable!

At this moment, Mei Kai was also shocked and sweated. According to the distance and location of both sides, his army of more than 10,000 had only run for more than 20 miles, but the Chu army had already run for at least fifty miles. If his army was a little late, it would fall behind the Chu army and eat dust!

"Mei Yin obeyed the order!" Mei Yan turned his head and yelled in a hurry.

Mei Yin, the captain of the Central Army, rushed forward and responded sternly: "The last one is here!"

Mei Jiao yelled while controlling his horse and running: "Lead five hundred light cavalry, rush up and entangle the Chu army!"

Before Puyang divided the troops, Liu Bang assigned 500 light cavalry to all the elite soldiers of the six routes. In addition to being the flying cavalry and using them to convey messages to each other, another use is to entangle the Chu army at an important moment.

Mei Yin responded with a loud promise and quickly lit up the five hundred light cavalry and left the brigade, swarming south.

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"Damn it!" Xiang Zhuang gritted his teeth, turned his head and shouted, "Gongsun Sui!"

Gongsun then hurriedly urged him to come forward, bowed and replied sternly: "The last one is here!"

Xiang Zhuang pointed hard at hundreds of Han light cavalry sweeping from the north and roared: "Lead the scouts and block them!"

"No!" Gongsun then responded to the promise, and then turned around and shouted at the more than a hundred cavalry scout cavalry accompanying behind him, "Scout team men, come with me!"

"Let's go, fight with them!"

"Let's leave these Han cavalry to us!"

"With us here, no one can think of going there, don't think of it!"

More than a hundred scouts cavalry suddenly started to scream, and they controlled their horses one by one and left the brigade, waved their javelins, and followed Gongsun Sui to the Han light cavalry that were swarming down the north.

The javelin was specially assigned by Xiang Zhuang to the scout cavalry, and was specially used to deal with the Han cavalry.

Because the cavalry was not equipped with stirrups at this time, except for generals with extraordinary strength who could hold the horse's belly with their extraordinary legs to ride and shoot, it was difficult for ordinary cavalry to pull the bow and shoot arrows on the horse's back. However, throwing javelins only requires one hand, so ordinary cavalry can do it.

The two armies advanced and the distance was approaching quickly.

"Ao...ha!" Gongsun then held the horizontal knife and suddenly howled to the sky.

In an instant, more than a hundred cavalry following behind him slowly spread out toward their wings. In less than a moment, more than a hundred cavalry formed a one-line long snake formation that was more than a hundred feet wide.

On the northern horizon, Han general Mei Yin waved his hand, and the five hundred Han cavalry slowly spread towards their wings, and set up a cavalry line of more than a hundred feet wide, but the Chu army had only one line, but the Han army had five lines in front and back! Looking at the Chu army's thin cavalry formation, Mei Yin's mouth suddenly had an extremely ferocious murderous intent.

Gongsun Sui took the lead and urged the horse to run. The earth under his feet retreated like a tide.

Suddenly, Gongsun Sui had already held up the horizontal knife in his hand high. The cold blade faced the rising sun, and a dazzling cold light suddenly reflected. The next moment, Gongsun Sui pulled the horizontal knife forward and forced it. More than a hundred Chu cavalry twisted it at the same time, and then raised his right arm backwards. The cold javelins were ready to go.

"Kill!" With a thunderous shout, Gongsun Sui's high-rise sword suddenly fell, and more than a hundred Chu cavalry threw the javelin in his hand forward at the same time. More than one hundred sharp javelins instantly cut through the void and shot towards the Han cavalry advancing on the opposite side with a sharp scream. ##########################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
Chapter completed!