In fact, the Chuji coalition forces had no chance to run away. Uncle Zhou deliberately spent so much effort and paid a considerable price. He finally weakened part of the strength of the Chuji coalition and laid the foundation for the next annihilation battle. How could he watch the Chuji coalition forces run away and fled to other places to extend the time of the Qi war?

So just morning the next day, Uncle Zhou ignored the fact that the Han Army's Northern Line Corps had just experienced a large-scale field decisive battle, and sent the steady-blooded Han army general Lu Kuang to lead 30,000 troops southward to the Chidao Road southwest of Jinjiling to establish a camp, blocking the way of the Chuji coalition's escape south, and directly put on the stance of annihilation of the Chuji coalition at any cost.

Uncle Zhou's arrangement also made the differences and contradictions within the Chuji coalition. Some Western Chu generals led by Ji Bu firmly advocated going south immediately and withdrawing to Boyang at any cost to establish the Wenshui defense line; once Licheng was lost, it would be equivalent to losing 90% of the land in Jibei, Tian Da, the king of Jibei, advocated defending Jinjiling and waiting for the Western Chu army to send reinforcements and even Xiang Yu to lead the army to aid. Xiang Zhuang, who could really make a decision, was hesitant and could not make a decision.

Han Xin, who had previously advocated defending the battlefield in Licheng, stood on Tian Da's side again. Han Xin clearly pointed out that even if the Chuji coalition forces retreated successfully now, they would definitely suffer heavy losses on the way to break through, and there was no hope of resisting the upcoming Han army reinforcements. At the same time, Boyang City, located on the north bank of Wenshui, would never be able to block the Han army's catapult bombardment, and could not serve as a tactical support point for the Wenshui defense line. The Chuji coalition forces still could not escape the misfortune of being severely damaged or even annihilated by the Han army.

Therefore, Han Xin believed that instead of losing troops and losing generals and risking to flee south at a heavy price, it would be better to take a gamble and defend the Jinjiling camp, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and fight against the Han army, which has too many troops on the front line, and at the same time ask Xiang Yu for help, asking Xiang Yu to lead his army to reverse the situation.

Han Xin's words did not make Xiang Zhuang decide. After pulling Han Xin to the side, Xiang Zhuang explained the truth to Han Xin and said, "It is probably unrealistic to expect our king to lead the army to reinforce, or to hope that the rear will send us reinforcements. Our king is now entangled in the Puyang battlefield by the Han thieves. Although it is not at a disadvantage, it is difficult to withdraw from us to reinforce us. In addition, the troops that we can draw in Chu have basically taken time. Huainan and Jiangdong may be able to draw some more troops, but those places are too far away, and it is difficult to recruit enough troops to go north to reinforce us within one or two months."

"It's similar to the estimate of the Mo General." Han Xin sighed helplessly, and then whispered: "But we can only defend, because we have not only been extremely difficult to retreat now, but even if we barely retreat to the Wenshui line, it is impossible to stop the Han thieves' army. If we retreat southward at Wenshui, it will be our Western Chu. Han thieves do not need to rush to advance to our local area. As long as we calmly annex Qi land and gather the manpower and material resources of Qi land, we will be even less of the Han thieves' opponents."

"But how long can we defend?" Xiang Zhuang said with a wry smile: "There are some food in the Jinjiling camp, but no matter how much it is saved, it will only be enough for us to use it for less than two months. By then, the food and grass will be exhausted. Even if the Han thieves do not send troops to attack the tough situation, we will starve to death. Wouldn't we still be dead?"

"Not necessarily!" Han Xin said in a shocking voice and said in a low voice: "Zuo Sima, if we continue to waste, we may not be dead! There are two reasons. First, Jinjiling is easy to defend but difficult to attack. We can use static to stop and wait patiently until the veterans of the Han thief are tired and reveal their flaws. Seize the opportunity to launch a sudden counterattack, and win a surprise victory to turn the situation around. Second, after the Han thief meet, various internal problems will definitely arise. Once there are conflicts and rifts within them, we will have room to take advantage of them."

"General Ji Bu is a typical example." Han Xin whispered again: "Relying on his qualifications and has made great contributions, he did not take you as the head coach Zuo Sima seriously. The same is true for the thief. Not to mention anything else, just the two thorns Zhu Jishi and Li Shang who have made contributions and qualifications will never be convinced by Uncle Zhou, as a man. In addition, the situation of the Qi State may change at any time, so we may not be able to get the opportunity to fight back."

"What if we can't wait for such an opportunity?" Xiang Zhuang asked worriedly.

"Then we can also wait until later to retreat." Han Xin replied: "Our army had just experienced a great war yesterday. The soldiers were exhausted and physically weak, and it was difficult to retreat. Moreover, so many military supplies and food were definitely difficult to take away. They were either forced to burn them or they were cheap and cheap. Instead of this, we might as well confront the Han thieves patiently for a period of time. It would be better to wait until the opportunity for counterattack appears. If it really doesn't work, we can also wait until the Han thieves can't attack for a long time and their morale declines. It's not too late to find an opportunity to break through and retreat."

After hearing Han Xin's words, he felt it was reasonable. He saw that the Han army had already divided its troops and closed the road in advance. It was already very difficult to retreat in a hurry. Xiang Zhuang thought about it for a long time, but finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said, "Stand! Hold to the end! Until the last moment, I will never consider giving up the Jinji Lingnan retreat!"

Xiang Zhuang's decision was of course strongly opposed by Ji Bu and others, but in the afternoon, Ji Bu and others said nothing nonsense, because in the afternoon, the front of the Han reinforcements led by Li Shang actually arrived at the Licheng battlefield one day earlier than the Chuji coalition expected. They crossed the Ji River that day and met with the Han Shushu Corps, which completely shattered the last hope of the Chuji coalition's retreat overnight in the evening. So after receiving this news, even Ji Bu, who was dissatisfied with Xiang Zhuang, could only accept his fate helplessly and instead support Xiang Zhuang's decision to stick to it. On the same day, he began to transfer the troops at the foot of the mountain up the mountain, and did not dare to stay at the foot of the mountain waiting to be smashed by the Han army's catapult.

Han Xin was secretly happy. After the 30,000 front troops led by Li Shang crossed the Ji River, Uncle Zhou did not allow Li Shang's army to directly enter the original camp of the Han army. He chose to let Li Shang establish a camp ten miles northwest of Jinjiling. Although this move also had the purpose of preventing the Chuji coalition forces from breaking through overnight, it was also likely to prove that Uncle Zhou was worried and worried that he would not be able to restrain Li Shang.

After all, Li Shang, who captured Hanzhong, Bashu and other places for the Han army, was not very different from Uncle Zhou in terms of credit and qualifications. He also served as the only one in Hanzhong for a long time. Uncle Zhou, who had just become a general of the Han army, wanted Li Shang to convince and obey orders, which was indeed a big problem.

On the second day, Zhu Jishi, a general of the Han army, also led the main force of the Han army reinforcements to the Licheng battlefield, completely establishing the absolute military advantage of the Han army over the Chuji coalition. Then, like Li Shang's former army, the main force of the reinforcements led by Zhu Jishi was stationed in the northwest of Jinjiling and did not directly join forces with the army led by Uncle Zhou. Han Xin was even more secretly happy to see the scene in person and even wanted to visit the scene with his own eyes. He also saw Zhu Jishi and Li Shang and other veteran Han army generals who paid homage to their new boss Uncle Zhou.

Although his emotional intelligence is not very high like Han Xin, Uncle Zhou also understands the various internal problems he is about to face, and knows that once he cannot handle the superiors and subordinates of a group of veteran Han army, he will be at least internal discord. If it is serious, it will be impossible to cause the entire battle to ruin the current good situation. Therefore, when Zhu Jishi, Li Shang, Feng Zhong and Fu Kuan and other veterans of Han army came to see him together, Uncle Zhou did not dare to act as the number one person in the Han army's military at all, and quickly led his main civil and military personnel to the camp to greet them.

Fortunately, although he was indeed unwilling to be the general of Uncle Zhou, Zhu Jishi, who was older than Uncle Zhou, gave Uncle Zhou some face. Even if he was just perfunctory, he did not lose any etiquette in front of everyone. Li Shang, Fu Kuan and others, who were under Zhu Jishi, did not show any expression when they saw him like this. Even though he was still a little dissatisfied, he still obediently gave Uncle Zhou a subordinate ceremony.

Next is the key. With a smile on his face, he followed Uncle Zhou into the central army's tent. Zhu Jishi and Li Shang and other veteran Han army generals immediately noticed that Uncle Zhou set up a position on the left and right next to his position, and immediately muttered in his heart, saying, "It depends on how you arranged it."

Uncle Zhou also made arrangements quickly. He first smiled and sat down on the left, then pointed to the right position and invited Zhu Jishi, "General Zhu, please sit here."

Li Shang, who had been alone under Xiang Kang's tent for a long time, was closed because Zhu Jishi's qualifications were older than him, and the other was that Uncle Zhou had asked his brother Li Shiqi to sit down. If Li Shang dared to compete with Zhu Jishi for the remaining position, he would not have to talk to him, and he would be able to slap his elder brother Li Shiqi, whom he raised, immediately. "Little master, have you grown your skills? Do you know what respecting the elderly and respecting the elders? Just you dare to be on an equal footing with your brother?"

Li Shang, the commander-in-chief of the Bashu Military Region in Hanzhong, did not dare to speak. Of course, the remaining young men such as Fu Kuan, Chongda and Ling Jing were even more afraid to speak. Feng Zhong, who had a seniority in the young army than Zhu Jishi, was a good old man. He smiled and only took the initiative to stand at the following of Li Shang. However, while Zhu Jishi was satisfied with his self-esteem, he felt a little embarrassed. After looking at everyone present, he took the initiative to say to Feng Zhong: "General Feng, your qualifications are older than me, so you should sit in this position."

"No, no." Feng Zhong waved his hand with a smile and said, "General Zhu, please sit down, I'll just stand."

After pretending to give in a few words, Zhu Jishi, who was respected, sat down at the position arranged by Uncle Zhou, who was respected, and Li Shang and Feng Zhong were closely behind him. The remaining Han generals stood by their own level and qualifications. The same was true for civil servants. Seeing that Zhou Shu and Cui Guang, the old men of Shangshan who were famous all over the world, took the initiative to stand by Li Shiqi's following, the other Han military civil servants did not even dare to take a breath and stood obediently. During this period, Mr. Sun, who had already fled from Linzi, was spitting everywhere, constantly praising Uncle Zhou's arrangements and was impartial.

Mr. Sun was still a little surprised and said to himself, "What's going on? Uncle Zhou is not good at this, how could he come up with such an idea? Use Old Man Li to suppress Li Shang, and the Four Heroes of Shangshan to suppress us civil servants. Feng Zhong is a bad guy. As long as he coaxes him behind his back, he will be fine. Then he will raise the experienced Zhu Jishi slightly, and the military generals have nothing to say. Why don't you see that Uncle Zhou has such a skill?"

Mr. Shusun's doubts soon came to an answer. After accidentally seeing the proud look on the face of the old man Zhou Shu in Shangshan, Mr. Shusun quickly realized and said to himself: "Old man, I really love you, a junior with the same surname and name, and actually came up with such a way to solve the seating problem for him."

Back to the point, when Mr. Shusun muttered in his heart, Uncle Zhou had already started a long discussion. He first thanked Zhu Jishi, Li Shang and others for their thousands of miles of support, and pretended to be humble and said that he was flattered. He did not expect that Xiang Kang would be entrusted with such an important task. Then he gradually turned the topic to the topic, probably introduced the current situation in Qi to Zhu Jishi and others, and the general situation of the Chuji Alliance. Finally, he said: "The situation is basically like this. As for the current situation, our situation is indeed very good, but the Chuji bandit army is a centipede after all, and it is not dead. There is still a possibility of dying struggle. In addition, the battle situation of Qi is still unclear. Can we take Qi to annihilate the Chuji bandit army? I hope that all the generals will work together to urge the soldiers to fight bravely and complete the tasks assigned to us by the king as soon as possible."

The Han army and civil and military officials sang their promises together, and then Zhu Jishi asked: "General, how many troops do the Chuji bandit army in the Jinjiling area have at present?"

"We cannot confirm how many troops the Chuji bandit army has at present." Uncle Zhou replied: "However, judging from the number of heads we captured the day before yesterday and the size of the camp of the Chuji bandit army, I estimate that their total strength is still more than 100,000, and it is still not to be underestimated."

"Then how should we fight next?" Zhu Jishi asked again: "Will we fight Licheng first? Or Jinjiling first?"

"Jinjiling is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is very difficult to win by relying on strong attacks. Of course, you should attack Licheng first." Uncle Zhou answered directly without thinking, and pointed at Li Shang and Feng Zhong who sacrificed their lives on the issue of seats. He smiled and said, "General Li, General Feng, thank you for your hard work, I'll ask you for the attack on Licheng. After the camp is established, you two take turns to lead troops to attack the city. Whoever takes the city will be the credit."

Knowing that Uncle Zhou wanted to compensate him and give him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Li Shang of course immediately clasped his fists and sang the promise, Feng Zhong also bowed his hands and sang the promise, and then asked very honestly: "General, our camp is far away from Licheng than your camp, so it is not convenient to send troops to attack the city. Isn't this awkward?"

"It turns out to be an honest man." Uncle Zhou smiled in his heart and replied: "It's okay, General Feng, you and General Li work hard and take the army to walk more roads."

After saying that, Uncle Zhou turned to Zhu Jishi again and said with a smile: "General Zhu, I won't interfere in the reinforcements camp for the time being. Please give it to you. Remember, on the night after we took down Licheng, we must be careful to prevent the thieves on Jinjiling from sending troops to rob the camp and attacking your camp. It is best to arrange ambush outside the camp in advance, so as to surprise the Chuji bandits at that time."

"Is the general so sure?" Zhu Jishi asked in surprise.

"You will know then." Uncle Zhou deliberately kept it a secret, and then said with a smile: "Okay, it's rare that so many people gather together. Come and bring the wine and food. Today we want to celebrate."

In this way, following the orders of Uncle Zhou, and quickly built a solid camp in the northwest of Jinjiling, Li Shang and Feng Zhong took turns to lead the troops of their troops to the east, and used the siege weapons prepared by Uncle Zhou's army for them to attack Licheng. As a result, when Han Xin saw this situation on the Jinjiling Mountain, he was secretly happy again. He immediately understood that Uncle Zhou deliberately gave the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the new army in order to calm the reinforcements. There must be a problem of command within the Han army.

He was secretly happy and was still happy. The Licheng walls built with rammed earth still could not resist the Han army's counterweight catapult siege. After three days of siege, Xiang Kang drew the Han army general Li Shang from the southern line to the north, and finally led his troops to break through Licheng. Not only did he say that he almost wiped out nearly 10,000 defenders in the city, he also killed Tian Ji, a general of the Jibei army who was guarding Licheng in the street battle. After the news was brought back to the Jinjiling camp by the defeated soldiers who escaped by luck, Tian Da immediately burst into tears and felt deeply saddened by the death of his beloved general.

When Tian Da cried, Xiang Zhuang, Liu Laosan and others were also beside him, and their faces were gloomy, because they all knew very well that after the Han army captured Licheng, they would definitely turn around and attack Jinjiling immediately. The main force of the Chuji Alliance would no longer hide in the mountains and rest. Instead, Ji Bu suddenly had an idea and said: "Everyone, the reinforcements of the Han thieves have been attacking the city for three consecutive days. The soldiers participating in the war must be very tired. Today they took Licheng again, and they will definitely be careless after winning. Since that is the case, as long as we send an army to sneak attack the camp of the Han thieves' reinforcements tonight, we will definitely catch the Han thieves off guard."

After hearing Ji Bu's right, Xiang Zhuang, Liu Laosan and others were immediately moved. Tian Da nodded repeatedly and agreed to take this risk to avenge his Licheng defenders. Only Han Xin sneered and said, "It's good that it's so easy. How cunning is Zhou Shupeng's husband? How can he not know the situation of the Han thieves' reinforcements? As long as he asks the Han thieves to prepare a little in advance, we will go down the mountain to attack and die in vain."

"Fart!" Ji Bu cursed angrily: "Uncle Zhou is a god, and he can predict everything in advance? Why can we guess that we will send troops to rob the camp tonight?"

After saying that, Ji Bu turned to Xiangzhuang and continued to persuade him, urging Xiangzhuang to adopt his suggestions and take advantage of the opportunity that the Han army reinforcements would definitely be defensive to prevent the attack overnight. Xiang Zhuang first thought that Ji Bu's words made sense, and secondly, he was unwilling to be beaten passively. After repeated planning, he agreed that Ji Bu personally led 4,000 troops down the mountain this night to sneak attack the Han army reinforcements camp closest to Jinjiling.

Then there is no need to say much about the situation. At the third update, the 4,000 troops led by Ji Bu had just touched the gate of the Han army camp, and were immediately shot by the heavily guarded Han soldiers with arrows to cry and cry for their parents. Then, after two Han army ambushed outside the camp in advance, Ji Bu's army was left with only one leg to escape. The Han army ambushed firmly chased and killed Ji Bu's army and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, only more than a thousand people were left to flee back to the Jinjiling camp in a panic.

The most surprised thing about this situation was of course not Xiangzhuang, who agreed to Ji Bu send troops to attack, but Zhu Jishi, Li Shang and Fu Kuan, who were commanding the Han army reinforcements. As early as when Ji Bu led his army to attack the Han army reinforcements camp, Zhu Jishi and others were already exclaiming, "Uncle Zhou can do divination? How could he know a few days ago that the Chuji bandit army would come to attack our camp tonight?"
Chapter completed!