rain.

The range of the Huns' beef tendon poplar hard bow was greatly shortened, which was nearly half shorter than the normal range. At the same time, the accuracy was greatly reduced. This is because after being damp, the length of the beef tendon was originally shortened after drying, which affected its tension and elasticity.

In order to ensure that the attack was fatal, the Hun centurion slowly lurked in the middle of the team, trying to use the cover of the surrounding soldiers to get closer to the target and closer.

The tip of the halberd breaks the throat.

Xiang Yu's powerful arm strength made the tip of the short halberd pierce the throat of the Hun centurion, and then continued to keep its momentum, and then hit the chest of a Hun soldier.

The unwilling Hun chiefs covered their throats, shook their bodies a few times, and then poured them into the mud and water with a "bang". At this moment, all the beautiful dreams left him.

In addition to underestimating Xiang Yu's counterattack power, his failure was also due to natural force majeure. Although the ox-string poplar bow can be launched on rainy summer days, its power has been sharply reduced. It is this fatal limitation that caused the Huns to lose their lives.

The black-cone horse neighed for a long time.

The master's courage made him feel extremely proud. His flying front hooves stomped through the loser's corpse. While cutting the bones, they also made offensive opponents retreat in fear.

After Xiang Yu rode his horse and rushed past this blockade, the shadow of Xiang Zhuang's front army was not far away. As long as the two armies met, the Chu army would be like Sun Xingzhe who had penetrated into the belly of the Huns. No matter which direction it was rushing, it would be better for the Huns barbarians. What's more, on the periphery, there were two friendly troops of Xue Gong and Zhou Yin to support them.

With his courage, the Chu army gained the upper hand in the first round of the battlefield. After losing several generals in succession, the Huns began to flee in all directions.

On the banks of the Hun River, Maodun, who noticed that the war was not good, had already set up a large tent on the high ground in Hebei. Under his severe reprimand, the Huns continued to send troops to the south bank of the Hun River in the danger of being swept up by the torrent.

"Right General, your troops continue to entangle the Chu Man, the rear army, and send two ten thousand men across the river and tell them that if they fight all the tribes, I will make up for it. If you find that you are afraid to escape, just wait for the tribe to be destroyed." Maodun shouted loudly at the people around him.

Needless to say anything?

Maodun has been talking about the grassland in the past few years, and his prestige is unmatched. What kind of temperament is he? People around him know that the chiefs and generals of those tribes are also clear.

In a moment, the Huns woke up from the chaos and reorganized a series of encirclements, trying to torture the Chu army's sharpness, and then wiped out the enemy in one fell swoop.

One side sets up a net of heaven and earth.

One side waved a sharp spear.

What we compare is who persists for a longer time, who is more patient and determined to disappear the opponent's resistance intovisible.

It has to be admitted that in terms of battlefield smell, Xiang Yu and Maodun both have natural keenness. At this point, Li Yuan's abilities should be more comprehensive.

In terms of political overall situation and economic development, Qin State was the leader of the three heroes, while the Huns had innate advantages in military strength. As for Chu State, they were not outstanding in several aspects, but Xiang Yu, a fierce man. In addition, Chu State is located in the prosperous eastern part, which made the Chu army not weaker than the other two opponents on the battlefield.

As night approached, the fierce battle that lasted for a whole day came to an end. The result of the fierce battle between Chu and Hungary made both sides not very satisfied.

No winner or loser.

Although Xiang Yu rushed all the way and killed the Huns' formations into chaos, the subsequent weather changes were beyond his control.

In the afternoon, the thunderstorm gradually stopped. The rainbow after the rain first appeared, which made the Huns' mood improve. As long as it did not rain, the Huns' bows and arrows could exert greater power.

When the Chu army was about to be exhausted, Xiang Yu saw that the war gradually declined, and that the right and left were weak, he led his army to join Xue Gong's troops from the left wing. The Huns' troops were unable to respond and could only watch as most of the Chu army escaped.

Heavy rain poured down.

All the dirt on the ground was washed away, leaving only the washed white corpses, piled up in chaos at the corners of the Hunhe River.

The yellow mud color is the corpses of the Huns.

The bright red color is the bodies of the Chu army soldiers.

At this moment, these former enemies hugged each other and intertwined each other, just like pairs of twin brothers.

Hunhe encounters a battle.

In the calculations, neither side gained any advantage. In this service, the Chu army lost more than 5,000 people, and the Huns killed 11,000 tribes. As for the injured, there were countless people.

Although Maodun was not satisfied with this kind of battle, he could still bear it because the total force was several times that of the Chu army, but the Chu army was not the case. They went north from afar, and they only had more than 50,000 people in full battle, and they lost one-tenth of their troops after a battle, which was unbearable for Xiang Yu.

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Jixian.

The capital of Yan.

This city that will become the capital in the future is now just a border town in the north. Even after the reinforcement of Yan State, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, its city walls cannot be compared with the large cities such as Handan, Daliang, and Linyi in the Central Plains.

Chu general Zhou Lan was ordered to garrison here.

In the palace of King Yan.

Zhou Lan lay lazily on the brocade couch wearing tiger skin, drinking the northern spirits one by one. The wine stains on the front showed that he was already seven or eight percent drunk.

At the military meeting to attack the Huns, Zhou Lan's cautious proposal was not adopted, and then he was placed in the position of the rear guard by Xiang Yu. This change was a big blow to Zhou Lan, who was determined to be a meritorious person.

When the Chu army and the Xiongnu cavalry encountered each other on a rainy night and the news of the fierce battle came back to Ji County, Zhou Lan was panicked. Teams of wounded soldiers were transported back from the front. It was still a lucky group to be able to come back, and more soldiers were buried in the white mountains and black waters in the north.

"The Overlord is too stubborn. If he listens to my advice, he will not have such a result." Zhou Lan was discouraged and sighed to his subordinates again and again.

The emotions of the chief general also directly affected the morale of the Chu army in Jixian. When the main force of the Chu army in front fought bloody battles, danger began to approach behind it.

In fact, when he went north, Zhou Lan was also very excited and full of confidence. The same sense of honor as the defeated foreign enemies and glorified the clan.

But Huan Chu's death made Zhou Lan's fanatical mood seem to be poured with cold water, which made him feel frightened and worried. If the bride in the family was unfortunate on the battlefield, it was the time when you fell in love with me. If one day he died, what would happen to the vassal? Zhou Lan dared not guess or guess.

Chu State.

It is not like Qin State, where there is a relatively complete system of sympathy. It relies more on power and blood ties to maintain the operation of the country. The disadvantage of this method is that once the person at the top of the power in the family has problems, the entire family's security system will collapse.

"General, the big thing is wrong. I found the Huns' cavalry twenty miles outside the city?" Just when Zhou Lan was drowsy, the Chu army captain who was guarding the city rushed in and reported.

"What Huns, where are they?" Zhou Lan shook her head and it took her a long time to react.

"Just near Yanshan, twenty miles south of the city, a team of supplies for our army transporting weapons and food were looted by the Huns, and five hundred young and strong men were killed."

"All of them are dead, sure they are the Huns, not the Qin people?" Zhou Lan's face turned pale, and a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. Although the Qin army was an old opponent, after Li Yuanzhu's army, the system of determining military merits with the head level was abolished. Although the Qin army that resurrected was as brave as before, it was not as barbaric as before.

The Huns were not the case. The favorite thing these northern barbarians liked was to use their enemy's heads as drowning tools. Whenever they thought that the dead Huan Chu's head would be filled with yellow and smelly urine, Zhou Lan felt that she was shocked.

"It's right that they are the Huns barbarians. We went to check afterwards. Apart from the headless corpses on the ground, there were scattered arrows. The signs on these arrow branches were the bone arrows of the Huns." The answer of the Chu Army Captain made Zhou Lan even more desperate.

"I understand, you go down. Don't spread this matter in the army. All soldiers who know will take care of me." Zhou Lan ordered coldly.

With the advantage of fighting immediately, the Huns could unexpectedly cut off the logistics supply line of the Chu army again and again. For the Chu army, they could not care about this end and that end. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to maintain the supply of 40,000 or 50,000 troops on the front line.

Zhou Lan tried to maintain the low morale of the Chu army by concealing methods, but this deception method was actually the most likely to cause problems. Once or twice, it may be possible to hide it. However, the next three or four such attacks occurred. When teams of companions did not come back, the people inside the Chu army were panicked and the army was in great turmoil.

The Huns who attacked the Chu army were not others, but were ordered to detour from the Liaodong County area to the rear of the Chu army, and the Xionghun king. In fact, this Xiongnu partial army was not large, with only about 6,000 people, but its strength was that the six thousand Xiongnu cavalry were all one man, two horses, or even three horses.

Such terrifying equipment made the Chu army's baggage infantry, who lacked war horses, unable to reach the distance. The Huns rely on the speed advantage of the strong horses to attack in the vast area from Qi to Yan, but the Chu army could only be beaten passively and could not find any way to be prepared.

Originally, the Qin army's standard crossbow was the most suitable weapon to deal with the Hun cavalry. However, these second-line troops of the Chu army obviously could not afford such weapons that required exquisite craftsmanship. The wooden spears in their hands could only be used as tools to scare small groups of bandits. Faced with the Huns with strong horses and long swords, these farmers who rushed into the army could only end up waiting to be slaughtered.
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