Chapter 340 Let Yingbu go back
Bi Shu did not agree to Kuai Che's request. He really didn't want to take this risk. Chu and Huainan are allies, and Chu did have the obligation and responsibility to protect Huainan. But now that Huainan has been saved, the Chu army has no need to fight with the Qi army again, especially when there are huge risks, they cannot go. "
What's more, from the moment, a Huainan Kingdom without Ying Bu is beneficial to Chu.
In fact, what Bi Shu wants to do most now is to find a quiet tent, recall this duel with Han Xin several times from beginning to end, and study the details repeatedly. Bi Shu believes that through such an analysis, he will definitely be able to learn a lot from it. When he fights Han Xin next time, his performance will be completely different.
Soldiers can only grow in war. As a commander, they can only grow in war. Soldiers need to be poured out blood to become veterans, while commanders need to fill their lives to build superb command capabilities. In the Battle of Sishui, the Chu State suffered more than 50,000 casualties. How could Bi Shu ignore the experience obtained at such a heavy price?
Bi Shu declined again, but Kuai Che had no choice but to hurried back to Pengcheng City to find Zhao Zhen.
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Besides, Ying Bu, with 20,000 imperial guards biting the tail of the Qi army, he chased for more than fifty miles.
Along the way, the Qi army retreated while resisting, one heavy armored square formation after another, one light army formation after another, even one bow and arrow formation after another, and one flying spear formation were defeated one after another under the pursuit of the 20,000 imperial guards in Yingbu. However, no matter how urgent the 20,000 imperial guards in Yingbu chased and no matter how fierce the attack was, the entire formation of the Qi army was not at all in chaos.
Moreover, during the process of fighting and retreating, Han Xin had fully grasped the details of the 20,000 imperial guards led by Ying Bu, including the army's strength, physical strength, and equipment, and then estimated the comprehensive combat power. More importantly, during the pursuit, the physical strength of the Huainan imperial guards was once again seriously consumed, and now it is at the end of their strength.
More importantly, the Chu army did not chase after it, and the reinforcements in Huainan did not chase it either!
After mastering all the details, Han Xin finally took action and launched a thunderous attack on the Huainan Army!
In order to retreat, the car that was about four feet high has been destroyed. However, this is not a problem for Han Xin. Han Xin asked his personal army to raise dozens of flagpoles on the main formation of the Central Army, and then hung colorful lanterns on it. ( )
Like the combination of the order flags, different combinations of lanterns represent different objects. For example, the red lanterns represent the left army, and two red lanterns are placed side by side to represent the left camp of the left army. A green lantern is added behind the three red lanterns in the front, which refers to the middle curve of the left left camp of the left army, and the height, density, and direction of the lanterns are placed, which also has other meanings.
The ordinary soldiers of the Qi army did not understand these at all, but the officers above Qu Chang followed Han Xin for a long time and were extremely familiar with Han Xin's two communication systems during the day and night. Therefore, after the lanterns on the flagpole were hung, more than 200,000 Qi army quickly turned around and counterattacked, launching a fierce attack on Ying Bu's 200,000 Huainan Imperial Guards.
Ying Bu suddenly realized that it was indeed too rash to chase Han Xin with only 20,000 people, but it was too late to regret it at this time. His 20,000 people had already been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Qi army. In the dark, there were soldiers from Qi everywhere, fires everywhere, and the noise of killing and riots everywhere. Ying Bu didn't even know which direction to break through.
In fact, even though Ying Bu knew the facts of the Qi army, he was afraid he would not be able to lead the imperial guards to break through the encirclement.
Although Ying Bu's 20,000 imperial guards were elite, they had already fought against Cao Shen's 100,000 troops during the previous battle to attack the Qi army camp. They had just chased Han Xin's army and killed fifty miles. Both physical strength and energy were already at the limit. Now they were at the end of their strength.
Moreover, the equipment of the Huainan Army is obviously not as good as that of the Chu Army!
Under the attack of Qi army archers and spearmen, the casualties of the imperial guards increased rapidly. When the Qi army's dead soldiers launched a fierce offensive from all directions, the formation of the Huainan imperial guards finally began to loosen. Even with Ying Bu, it could not stop the defeat of the Huainan imperial guards. After all, Ying Bu was also a man rather than a god. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple
Helplessly, Ying Bu could only shrink his troops and formed several formations, ready to defend himself to the death.
Now, the only hope of Ying Bu is that the Chu army can come as soon as possible. If you don’t help, Zhao Zhen, Feizhu and the others will come with the Huainan army, and maybe Han Xin will retreat.
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But Ying Bu didn't know that the country is now in chaos.
Regarding whether to send troops to rescue Yingbu, the minister Kuai Che, the minister Ben He, the general Zhao Zhen, the last general Fei Zhu and other civil and military ministers were almost quarreling.
The general Zhao Zhen thought that the Huainan army could not act rashly and should serve the prince to guard Pengcheng well.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Zhen no longer thought Ying Bu could come back. He was ready to make the crown prince the new king.
The senior official Ben He and the last general Fei Zhu believed that Ying Bu was the king of Huainan and could not help him. Even though he knew he was defeated, he would still mobilize the Huainan army to respond.
Kuai Che had another concern, that is, once the Huainan army went out to rescue the King of Huainan, would the Chu army take the opportunity to attack Pengcheng? Although Chu and Huainan are allies, any alliance is unreliable in the face of huge interests. If the Chu army had the opportunity to perish in one fell swoop and annex Huainan Kingdom, I believe Bi Shu would never be ruthless.
At this time, the evil consequences of Ying Bu's bad control of people appeared. Kuai Che was the prime minister and nominally the highest commander of Huainan when Ying Bu was not there. In fact, it was not the case. Whether it was military bosses like Zhao Zhen, Fei Zhu, or officials in the court like Ben He, when Ying Bu was not there, they almost didn't buy Kuai Che's account.
More than a dozen ministers argued until dawn, but they still didn't make a result.
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Outside Pengcheng City, the Chu army had already entered the Qi army camp.
Han Xin's tent has become Bi Shu's temporary headquarters. It is late at night, but the lights are still brightly lit in the headquarters. Bi Shu is carefully summarizing his experience of the Battle of Si Shui, especially the details, which he carefully wrote on the public send paper. There are more than a hundred pieces of paper, a long article.
However, looking at the thick stack of handwriting, Bi Shu frowned.
He stood up, walked in the tent with his hands on his back for a long time, until the eastern sky showed a slight whiteness, Bi Shu suddenly realized something. He turned around and picked up the large stack of Gongshu papers full of "experiences" on his desk and threw them into the brazier. Seeing the snow-white paper turning into ashes in the flames, Bi Shu's face finally showed a hint of relaxation.
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It was dawn, and the Qi army, who was attacking the Huainan army from all directions, suddenly retreated like a tide.
Ying Bu wiped the blood on his face, turned his head toward the east, and took a deep breath of air conditioning in the scorching sun. The air in the morning was so fresh that even the smell of blood could not cover up this fresh smell. Unfortunately, this is probably his last morning in the world. After Qi Jun made a little adjustment, he should fight the decisive battle next?
When death is approaching, Ying Bu has no regrets. In fact, what's the use of regret?
After a while, a neatly armored Qi army suddenly drove out of the army, and then crushed directly towards the residual formation of the Huainan Imperial Army. Ying Bu turned the horizontal sword that had been rolled up, and was about to order a death battle, the Qi army suddenly stopped. At the opening of the formation, a purple crow flashed out of it.
King Qi's big banner? Han Xin?! Ying Bu's eyes narrowed in an instant.
Sure enough, Han Xin, wearing a purple robe, walked out of the formation on a white horse. In Ying Bu's eyes, Han Xin was still like that. His nose was not the nose, his mouth was not the mouth, and every pore on his face was full of pride. Ying Bu really wanted to slap Han Xin a few times on the face, but now it seems that he is not qualified.
"Han Xin, are you here to ridicule me?" Ying Bu said coldly.
Han Xin smiled faintly and said, "Ying Bu, for the sake of past friendship, you go."
"Ah?" Ying Bu was stunned when he heard this and said in disbelief, "You'll let me go?"
"Yes, leave quickly." Han Xin nodded and said calmly, "Before I haven't changed my mind yet."
Seeing Han Xin nodding, Ying Bu became more and more confused. Han Xin hated this guy, but he was just talking nonsense. He said that if he wanted to let him go, he would never go back on his word. But why could Han Xin let him go? Ying Bu could be considered a hero and a tiger? Isn’t Han Xin letting the tiger go back to the mountain?
"What?" Seeing that Ying Bu was still hesitating, Han Xin said coldly, "Ying Bu, do you want to be a prisoner?"
Ying Bu swallowed a little hard, turned around and shouted: "Huainan soldiers, follow me..."
"No, you are leaving alone." Before Ying Bu finished speaking, Han Xin interrupted faintly, "As for the thousands of defeated soldiers under your command, there is no need to go back. Let them and I go to Linzi."
Ying Bu was suffocated when he heard this, turned around and looked at the imperial guards behind him with some reluctance, and finally went to take a horse.
The last few thousand imperial guards wanted to accompany him, but were cut off by the Qi army's radiant sword and halberd. In just a moment, Ying Bu rode his horse out of the Qi formation, and the Qi soldiers did not stay.
It was not until he drove his horse to the gallop that Yingbu breathed a long sigh of relief.
Ying Bu couldn't figure it out, why did Han Xin let him go?
Ying Bu didn't know that Han Xin actually didn't want to let him go. The one who really wanted to let him go was Lou Jing, the minister of Qi. Lou Jing told Han Xin, "Master, after our army lost this, we will be unable to move south in a short time. If you really kill Ying Bu, then the only one who really benefits is Chu. Xiang Zhuang can easily destroy Huainan Kingdom, so it's better to let Ying Bu go back."
Han Xin suddenly felt that Lou Jing's words made sense, so he adopted the advice and actually let Ying Bu go back.
Chapter completed!