If it weren't for Master Xiang Bo and Master Xiang's full help, Liu Laosan's own efforts would basically be unable to convince Xiang Yu to take advantage of it and run away, cross the Sishui first and take the main road to retreat to Pengcheng.

Thanks to Master Xiang's greed for life and fear of death, he was far more greedy than ordinary people, and he helped Liu Laosan persuade Xiang Yu with all his strength. In addition, no one else opposed it, and Xiang Yu sent people north to contact Xiang Zhuang several times but never returned, which made Xiang Yu, who was too muscled, vaguely feel that the situation was not good. After repeated consideration, Xiang Yu accepted the kind advice of Master Xiang and Liu Laosan, and decided to suddenly cross Sishui on the third day after defeating Zheng Bu, and retreated back to Pengcheng first, so that the lost Chuji coalition forces themselves could find a way to break through and escape.

It's pretty good, because the main force of the Western Chu army had not planned to be stationed in Huling for a long time before, the Western Chu army retreated this time without the troubles of retreating in Puyang last time. It took only one day to prepare for departure. However, for safety reasons, we try not to give the Han army the chance to come and make trouble after receiving the news. Xiang Yu, with the help of the civil and military officials of the Western Chu army, formulated a very careful retreat plan and decided to set up the camp at the fourth update and raise the army at the fifth update, and take two hours to cross the Sishui River. Even if the Han army arrives urgently, it will not have time to cause too much trouble to the Western Chu army.

However, even so, Liu Laosan and Kuai Che and others still had a layer of worry. They were afraid that the Han army would send troops to Lao Fort to build a camp in the evening, taking advantage of the distance to find out that the Western Chu army crossed the river and retreated too early. The result was quite good. After it was dark, the last team of Western Chu army scouts returned to the camp to report, confirming that as of the darkness, the Han army had not dispatched troops. Liu Laosan and Kuai Che and others quietly breathed a sigh of relief and completely relieved.

When the night was corrected, according to the original plan, all the soldiers of the Western Chu army, with a force of about 120,000, stood up and prepared, hurriedly ate some dry food that they had made during dinner, and then immediately started to pack up the tents and supplies. Before the 5th, they also successfully loaded all the tents and supplies into trucks and gathered in line with torches. Xiang Yu quickly gave an order to ask the Western Chu army to cross Sishui in batches in order.

After giving the order to retreat, Xiang Yu, who had just fought two happy battles, said regretfully: "It's all the blame for that stupid brother Xiang Zhuang. If he can contact us, let us know the general situation of the thief on the northern front. I really can't bear to retreat actively."

"King, for safety reasons, don't be so regretful." Master Xiang Bo and Master Xiang rarely express a correct opinion and said: "It will take time for us to withdraw from the deep ditch and high building in Pengcheng. As long as we withdraw from Pengcheng first and build a strong camp that can be held for a long time, we can be invincible. Once the thieves with long grain channels reveal any flaws, we can immediately send troops to fight back."

Xiang Yu nodded with great regret, then looked at the direction of Yutai Pavilion upstream of Si Shui with one eye, and snorted coldly: "Little Master, let you be proud first. If you have the courage, don't wait for Uncle Zhou's man. Cross the river to chase after it at dawn. See how I deal with it..."

After snorting coldly, Xiang Yu couldn't hum anymore because his one-eyed eyes suddenly saw that the upstream of Si Shui under the moonlight seemed to have ignited a few ignitions. He suspected that he had read it wrong and rubbed his eyes quickly. When Xiang Yu carefully used his one-eyed eyes to see the situation upstream, he opened his mouth and confirmed that he was not only not wrong, but not only did a few ignitions appear in the upstream of Si Shui, but the number of fires is still increasing rapidly!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Dangdangdangdangdangdangdangdang! The enemy attacks! The Han thief is coming! The Han thief's fire raft is coming!"

At this time, the sound of Tonggong alarm and the shouts of the soldiers of the Western Chu army suddenly came from the upstream of Si Shui in the west. The Western Chu army, who had just started to cross the river, was suddenly in an uproar. Master Xiang, Kuai Che and others beside Xiang Yu, all screamed in shock, "How is it possible? We have just started crossing the river, why did the Han thieves' fire raft burn the floating bridge?"

No matter how much screaming, it was useless. Driven by the river, hundreds of bamboo rafts were loaded with firewood and lit downstream, and quickly rushed towards the ten floating bridges built by the Western Chu army on the Sishui River. The night wind helped the fire, which made the Han army rafts burn bigger and bigger, gradually turning into huge fire balls floating on the water surface, flowing unstoppable to the Western Chu army floating bridge. The soldiers of the Western Chu army on the floating bridge were completely in chaos. Some people rushed across the river, and some people quickly retreated back to the north bank of the Sishui River, for fear that the floating bridge would be burned by the fire raft and let themselves fall into the river.

"Stop crossing the river! Form formation immediately and prepare for the battle! The thieves are coming soon!"

After all, he was a person who had been on the battlefield for many years. As soon as he came to his senses, Xiang Yu immediately realized that the Han army's raid was coming, and he decisively ordered to stop crossing the river and prepare for the upcoming Han army enemies. Then, as Xiang Yu expected, the Western Chu army had just stopped crossing Henan and retreated. Before the main force of the Western Chu army was ready to fight, the upper reaches of the Si River were already filled with hooves, and countless Han cavalry were shouting and shouting at them.

Fortunately, the Han army rafts dispatched too early gave the Western Chu army a certain amount of time to respond. The Western Chu army rear team responsible for the palace had been prepared for combat urgently and shot the Han cavalry with arrows in time, without giving the Han cavalry the chance to defeat the Western Chu army rear team. However, the Han cavalry had just retreated voluntarily, and countless torches appeared in the upstream direction of Sishui, and countless Han infantry rushed towards him.

At this time, Liu Laosan also rushed to Xiang Yu and shouted as soon as he met: "King, you must have leaked the news in advance, or a traitor took the lead in reporting the secret to the Han thief, otherwise the Han thief would never have come so quickly!"

"You still have to say this?" Xiang Yu scolded loudly in anger, and then ordered decisively: "Uncle Ji, you, Xiang Xiang, Xiang You and others stay at the ferry, be careful to protect the military supplies, and the other generals will follow the king westward to meet the enemy!"

"King, don't be fooled!" Liu Laosan quickly opposed: "The Han thieves are so anxious to take action. They deliberately set a fire raft to burn the bridge just as we just started crossing the river. The purpose must be to entangle us and prevent us from crossing the river smoothly! We must not let the Han thieves get what they want! The best way is to fight on the spot, protect the floating bridge with all their might, and then cross the river firmly after the Han thieves' fire raft is burned, and get rid of the Han thieves' entanglement as soon as possible!"

"Fuck!" Xiang Yu cursed and roared: "The Han thief dared to come to the door to die. How could I be willing to miss such a good opportunity? Go west immediately and kill all the Han thiefs for me!"

Undaring to disobey Xiang Yu's orders, the generals of the Western Chu army could only act obediently according to the orders, and immediately returned to their respective teams to command the troops. Then, under the leadership of Xiang Yu, stride westward and faced the Han army that came to take the initiative without hesitation. Although Liu Laosan knew that Xiang Yu was trapped, he still had no choice but to act like this with everyone.

It was almost the same as Liu Laosan's estimate. After seeing the Western Chu army coming in large numbers, the Han army's infantry and cavalry were indeed about to retreat and quickly retreated to the way they came. Xiang Yu, who liked field battles, was of course chasing him and roaring, leading more than 70,000 Western Chu army to pursue him in a big staircase. He swore with one eye to kill all the Han army that came to his door. He also roared early: "Chasing! Even if there is an ambush, you don't have to be afraid! As long as the ambush of the Han thieves dares to rush out, kill all of them together!"

It was similar to Xiang Yu's expectations. After chasing west for nearly twenty miles, there was a loud sound of killing in the dense forest in the north. A large number of Han army ambush suddenly shouted and rushed out, raiding and attacking the waist of the Western Chu army. The Han army infantry and cavalry who had fled west before also turned around and attacked the Western Chu army brigade on both sides. Fortunately, the Western Chu army was prepared for this. Not only was there no panic at all, but on the contrary, they also launched a decisive counterattack and launched two melee battles with the Han army in the darkness before dawn.

This was also the largest field opportunity that Xiang Yu had gained after the start of the Chu-Han War. What made Xiang Yu very proud was that under his command, the Western Chu army was ambushed by the Han army, and even with its fierce and powerful counterattack, it still killed the Han army with its extremely fierce and powerful counterattack. Not only did it not take any advantage, but it gradually showed signs of defeat just before dawn.

Even more ecstatic than Xiang Yu was still behind. When the first beam of sunlight finally shone on the top of the West Mountain, Xiang Yu's one-eyed eyes clearly saw that the big banner of the Han King, which was annoying at first glance, actually appeared on the old fort highland not far west! In a big joy, Xiang Yu ignored the fact that the old fort highland had already lined up with Han soldiers, pointed the old fort highland with a spear and shouted wildly: "Kill up! Who can get the head of Xiang Kang's traitor? I will share the world with him!"

Xiang Yu, who was famously stingy in rewards, finally became generous. The main force of the Western Chu army, which was already strong and brave, burst out with incredibly powerful combat power. He first quickly defeated the Han army ambush from the north, forcing the Han army ambush to flee north to the mountains and forests, and then strode forward, forcing the Lao Fort Highland with a thunderous force. In a moment, he defeated the Han army infantry and cavalry that were blocking the front and rushed to the side of the Lao Fort Highland.

Looking at the unstoppable fierce attack of the Western Chu army, even though Xiang Kang and the Han generals had already experienced many battles, they couldn't help but be amazed. Xiang Kang had to sigh from the bottom of his heart, "I am worthy of being my overlord brother, I am indeed invincible! Unrivaled!"

No matter how much he sighed, it was in vain. In order to entangle the main force of the Western Chu army, and to survive, Xiang Kang could only order the Han army soldiers to stand on the high ground and strive to waste the Western Chu army. However, what shocked Xiang Kang and the generals of the Han army again was that even though the Han army had a part of the condescending geographical advantage, the soldiers responsible for protecting Xiang Kang were all elite Han army soldiers who had experienced battles. They were actually rushed backwards by the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu, and several infantry phalanxes were forcibly defeated by the Western Chu army.

Seeing this, Xiang Kang could only quickly order the Han army soldiers to shrink their positions and try to block the crazy attack of the Western Chu army with dense forces. As a result, this only had some effect, delaying the failure of the Han army. The Western Chu army, which was red-eyed, still attacked fiercely, and successively defeated the Han army in front of him, as if a flood was rushing, slowly approaching Xiang Kang's flag formation unstoppable.

Seeing this, even the number one fierce general under Xiang Kang was frightened and had to say like Xiang Kang: "King, if the situation is wrong, please let the general be responsible for the palace. You don't have to pay attention to the situation of the general and withdraw the Yutaiting Camp first to ensure your safety."

Xiang Kang nodded, accepted Long Qi's kindness, and said to himself: "I hope I won't get to that point, otherwise our losses will be huge."

Things went against my wishes. Nearly halfway through the fierce battle, the front team of the Han army was still unable to stop the crazy attack of the Western Chu army. Under Xiang Yu's personal attack, he completely disbanded. He shouted and was forced to escape from his future. Xiang Yu roared excitedly and led the Western Chu army to directly kill the Han army central position where Xiang Kang was located. The soldiers of the Western Chu army were also bravely taking the lead. The roaring voice spread for several miles, "Kill! Capture Xiang Kang alive! Capture Xiang Kang alive!"

He shook his head helplessly. Xiang Kang, who was unwilling to die in vain, had no choice but to be Long Qi, who had already begun to urge him to escape, said: "General Long, the palace queen, please ask you! Remember, come back alive to see me!"

Long Qi solemnly agreed, and Xiang Kang turned his horse's head and quickly fled into the rear army. For the first time in his life, he left the army and fled first when he was in the battle. The heavy armored soldiers of the Han army led by Zhang Zhong followed closely and were ready to take on the identity of the second rear team to cover Xiang Kang's retreat. As a result, seeing Xiang Kang's commanding flag fleeing west, Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu army all shouted like thunder and rushed like fire, "Chase! You must never let Xiang Kang traitors run away!"

The Han army's rear guard team led by Long Qi only bought a moment for Xiang Kang. After quickly breaking out a bloody path among the Han army crowd, Xiang Yu led the soldiers of the Western Chu army to run like flying, roaring and chasing Xiang Kang's flag. During this period, the Han cavalry led by Guan Ying came to cover from the side, and was quickly defeated by the Western Chu army with a rainbow of morale. The Western Chu army's team continued to rush west like a dragon going out to sea.

Seeing that the Western Chu army was chasing too tightly, Xiang Kang had no choice but to adopt the kind suggestions of Xu Ji and others, and put down his flag on the run for the first time during the escape, making it difficult for Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu army to find their place. But even so, the Western Chu army still bit the Han army brigade where Xiang Kang was located, and never gave Xiang Kang a chance to escape calmly. Even though Long Han brought the Han army back team that could still be restrained, he did not force Xiang Yu and the Western Chu army to fight back.

Fortunately, the old fort was only more than twenty miles away from the Han army's Yutaiting Camp. Xiang Kang, who was running for life, did not need a long-distance raid to escape back to the camp. However, when he could already see the Yutaiting Camp from afar, Xiang Kang suddenly considered a possible danger. He had to shout like Zhang Zhong who was always following him and said, "Zhang Zhong, you bring heavy armored soldiers to stay in the palace! Buy me time! Otherwise, if the Western Chu thieves took advantage of the situation and followed us into our camp, we would be all done!"

Zhang Zhong didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately led the only five hundred heavy-armored Han soldiers around Xiang Kang to turn around and rushed directly to Xiang Yu's flag. Xiang Yu didn't care at first, but when he was shocked to see his spear, he could not pierce the armor of the heavy-armored Han soldiers, Xiang Yu immediately understood the situation and roared: "Okay! In order to escape, I don't even want your heavy-armored soldiers! Okay, I want to see today whether you are powerful or powerful!"

Roaring, Xiang Yu should have stabbed to smash the heads of the Han army's heavy armored soldiers with a spear. He also relied on his peerless divine power to pull mountains and drive down the Han army's heavy armored soldiers whom Xiang Kang were treasures. The soldiers of the Western Chu army behind took the opportunity to rush to kill them, either stabbed them with a spear and sword to death, or quickly submerged the Han army's heavy armored soldiers who were forced to fight by Xiang Yu because they were killed by Xiang Yu.

Unfortunately, although Xiang Yu had unparalleled divine power, the spear in his hand was limited by durability. After he knocked out more than a dozen heavy-armored Han soldiers in succession, he suddenly broke. What's even more unlucky is that at this moment, Zhang Zhong, a well-known martial arts master in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, rushed to him. The steel spear in his hand was stabbed out quickly, and it actually pierced Xiang Yu's lower abdomen, and directly pierced through the bronze armor on Xiang Yu's body, pierced the skin on Xiang Yu's lower abdomen!

"God helps me!"

In secret joy, Zhang Zhong, who was also powerful, quickly stabbed Xiang Yu with all his strength and tried to stab Xiang Yu directly to death. However, Xiang Yu was quick-witted and decisively threw away the broken spear. He grabbed Zhang Zhong's steel spear that had stabbed him with both hands. Not only did he pull out the steel spear that was about to pierce through his lower abdomen, but he also raised Zhang Zhong with both feet and stood up in the air. Zhang Zhong, who had never seen such a strange force, screamed in disbelief. Xiang Yu waved his hands and smashed Zhang Zhong, who was wearing steel armor, directly to the ground. Then he snatched the steel spear in Zhang Zhong's hand and hit Zhang Zhong's helmet with the handle of the spear. Blood and brains also spurted out from Zhang Zhong's protective face.

After forcibly killing Zhang Zhong and robbing the steel spear that would not be broken, Xiang Yu became an invincible existence in the chaos. Regardless of his lower abdomen, he waved the steel spear like a demon coming to the world, smashing the heavy armored Han army soldiers who were forcibly rushed over one after another. The roaring sound directly overwhelmed the noise on the battlefield, "Who else! Who else!"

No one could stop Xiang Yu in this state. With his personal leadership, all five hundred heavy-armored soldiers of the Han army, including Zhang Zhong, a famous general of the Han army, were killed in this battle, and none of them were spared!

Fortunately, Zhang Zhong and the heavily armored soldiers of the Han army did not die in vain. Relying on their life-sacrificing house, Xiang Kang, who was afraid of death, finally escaped back to the Han army camp and met with the Han army soldiers who were left behind in the camp. After receiving many defeated Han army soldiers back to the camp, he shot the pursuers of the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu with dense feather arrows, and did not give the Western Chu army the chance to take advantage of the situation to enter the Han army camp. Xiang Yu roared angrily outside the camp, and Xiang Kang was still scared at the center of the Han army camp and sighed: "It's so dangerous! I definitely don't want to encounter such a second time in this situation."

Three consecutive attacks were shot back by the Han army with arrows. Seeing that she could not rush into the Han army camp, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up the attack and reorganize the team. While ordering the soldiers of the Western Chu army to chase and kill the defeated Han army who had not had time to escape back to the camp, he hurriedly bandaged the wound on his abdomen that was stabbed by Zhang Zhong. Then, after taking off his armor, Xiang Yu fought a cold war for the first time - the wounds stabbed by Zhang Zhong could already see his own intestines!

Seeing this situation, the soldiers of the Western Chu army next to them were of course screaming. All of them, including Liu Laosan who had just arrived, rushed up to help Xiang Yu bandage the wound. Xiang Yu forced himself to calm down and said with a smile: "It's okay, a small injury will not affect my continued killing the enemy!"

"Brother..., King! King! King, why are you injured too? Is it important?"

A very familiar voice suddenly came into Xiang Yu's ears. When Xiang Yu subconsciously looked up, he saw that his cousin Xiang Zhuang rushed to the front with blood stains and sweat all over his face. He hurriedly smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a small injury..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiang Yu suddenly came to his senses and quickly yelled at Xiang Zhuang and asked, "Brother, why are you here? When did you come?"

Xiang Zhuang did not answer immediately, but just knelt down at Xiang Yu with a plop, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, I am incompetent. I have brought back less than a thousand people to the army you handed over to me. The rest were all annihilated by the Han thieves. Tian Da, the king of Jibei, was also killed."

"Where did the thief in the north?" Xiang Yu quickly yelled again: "Where did Uncle Zhou, that ordinary man?"

"I'm here, I'm here in Teng County." Xiang Zhuang replied cryingly: "In the middle of the night yesterday, I finally fled back to Teng County with my defeated soldiers. The magistrate Wang Long, who had thought that Teng County, rebelled, suddenly slapped the flag of the Han thief and sent troops to intercept our defeated soldiers. When I rushed over him to intercept, the Han thief's pursuers also arrived."

Xiang Yu was stunned and his face turned pale for the first time in his life. After a while, he murmured: "Have you arrived in Teng County? That means, in the late night of yesterday, the Han thieves on the North Line were only forty miles away from us."

"No wonder I can't contact Zuo Sima and the others all the time. It turns out that something was wrong in Teng County."

Liu Laosan next to him finally realized it suddenly, but after suddenly realizing it, Liu Laosan couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to himself: "Okay, although I won this battle, it was worse than losing in the end. Even if we were asked to pass Sishui first, the situation would not be so passive!"

God played a huge joke with the poor Western Chu king Xiang Yu. He finally got the opportunity to fight the decisive battle in the field with the main force of the Han army's middle route. He got his wish and finally won a big victory, forcing Xiang Kang to knock down the Shiqi and escape for the first time in his life. However, before the Western Chu army could return to the camp triumphantly, the main force of the Han army's northern line, which was far above the main force of the Han army's middle route, suddenly appeared near the main force of the Western Chu army. After several years, the main force of the Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu himself was at an absolute weakness in front of the Han army!
Chapter completed!