speed.

This is the advantage that the Huns relied most.

Zhou Lan was helpless in the face of the destruction of the grain transport troops sent by teams, and the Chu army's logistics supply was in trouble. Faced with the urgent reports of failure, Zhou Lan's pale face gradually showed despair, and all his thoughts were occupied by fear. She was thinking more about how to find a way to defeat the Xiongnu cavalry, but how to escape and return to her home in Pengcheng.

The Chu army was in a turmoil.

What is more urgent is that Xiang Yu knew about the dangers encountered in the rear, but he did not pay much attention to them. In his opinion, he was only a partial army of the Huns. With the nearly 20,000 troops under Zhou Lan's troops, it may not be possible to eliminate a wandering force without a foundation, but there will be no problem in protecting the baggage.

Although Zhou Lan ranked last in the new five tiger generals of the Chu army, Xiang Yu also followed him and experienced many fierce battles such as Julu, so there was no doubt about his ability. However, what Xiang Yu did not expect was that after being promoted to the Five Tiger Generals, Zhou Lan gradually lost the motivation and goal to move forward, and the death of his close friend Huan Chu made him deeply suspicious of the future.

What is the purpose of people living?

Isn't it just to be able to one day win a wife and a son and enjoy the privileges brought by high-ranking officials and high salaries? Now, Zhou Lan has climbed to the position of the General of Chu, and the possibility of further rise is no longer there. If you continue to stay in the battlefield full of dangers, you will only become a headless cold corpse like Huan Chu. When you think of this, Zhou Lan feels chills all over and will tremble uncontrollably.

Early July.

When another team of supplies sent from Pengcheng was robbed by Xubuhun's tribe, Zhou Lan, who could not bear Xiang Yu's severe rebuke, unexpectedly led 10,000 people from the headquarters to leave Jixian and retreat to the Qi area.

Zhou Lan finally made a decision to follow the independent Zhonglimei, searching for a county on the seaside of Qidi and living his own life.

His order caused disagreement within the Chu army in Jixian County, and not all the Chu army guards obeyed Zhou Lan's orders. More than 4,000 Chu troops in the city chose to continue defending the city. The reason why they stayed was mainly because Xiang Yu's bravery on the battlefield could continue and lead them to win more glory and merits.

The generals and soldiers who followed Zhou Lan were mostly disappointed and dissatisfied with the current situation. Like Zhou Lan, they only longed to find a safe and stable place. Marry another woman and reproduce their descendants.

The abnormal changes of Zhou Lan's Chu army made Xubu Hun, who had been searching for fighter opportunities in the area outside Ji County, was overjoyed. In fact, the Chu army was very difficult to attack, and Xubu Hun's life was actually not easy.

Striking cities is not the strength of the Hun cavalry. It is the most popular task for the Hun cavalry to deal with an infantryman who has no long-range strike ability in the wild.

Six thousand rangers.

Not many people were truly damaged in combat, but one-quarter of them fell down due to illness. These men from Wuhuan Mountain and the northern desert had sharply reduced their combat effectiveness in the hot and humid weather in summer.

Youyan is not Mobei.

After more than 200 years of reclaiming and development in Yan State, the land here was more used for farming rather than grazing. The people here were also used to the farming culture of the Central Plains and always had a hostile attitude towards the nomadic people on the grassland. In such a strange place where people and land were alienated, the Huns could only sleep in the wild in the wind and eat in the open, helplessly enduring the bites of summer mosquitoes.

Infectious diseases are something more terrifying than war in this era. The medical skills of the Huns can only be described in the words of primitive ignorance. In desperation, Xubuhun had to order the sick soldiers to deceive the deserted valley, and then help them relieve their pain by massacre.

Waiting is an extremely painful thing, especially watching his companions crying out to die day by day. Unlike Zhou Lan, who has no desires and no desires, Xubuhun must grit his teeth and persevere in order to be the position of the Right King, even if he reaches the end, he will have to wait until the moment Maodun defeats the Chu army.

During the retreat, Zhou Lan's tribe was constantly bleeding by the Huns. Although the losses were not much, they had an extremely important impact on morale.

July 10th.

Zhou Lan was surrounded by the Huns on the north bank of Yishui. In despair, this Chu general launched a suicide attack, and the result was very sad. Zhou Lan, who tried her best to avoid being stripped of the head by the Huns, could only become the latest one in the Huns' drowning weapon under the crotch of King Zuo Guli of the Huns.

In the end, only 10,000 Chu troops had less than 1,000 people crossed the river from the shallows of Yishui and fled to the Qin territory, and then escaped the interception of the Huns.

Upon hearing the sudden change of the later army, Xiang Yu had no choice but to give up confronting the Huns on the Hunhe line, and instead retreated the defense line to the Jixian area. After learning that Xubuhun's side troops succeeded, Maodun immediately led the army to pounce on his strength, trying to attack north and south, and encircled and annihilated the Chu army in Yan territory in one fell swoop.

north.

The storm changes suddenly.

July 12th.

The State of Chu urgently sent an envoy, Kuai Che, to the city of Handan of Qin. Here, Kuai Che met Han Xin, the chief general of the Qin army in Handan County and Dai County.

Last year, Kuai Che was defeated in the political struggle for the dominance of Chu, and was then thrown into prison by Xiang Tuo. His teacher Shusun Tong ran away from Yan State, while An Qisheng was wronged. The power of the Yu family, the alliance's foreign relative, was marginalized, and the new force group that resisted Xiang's family failed completely in the struggle for power.

After being detained for nearly a year, Kuai Che bowed his head.

As a wise man who is good at erectile dysfunction, it is foolish to give up his life in vain. In the final apology to Xiang Yu, Kuai Che did not say more about his contributions and claims. He just repeatedly stated that the Chu State currently lacks arguing for the sake of justice, and Kuai Che also has the sincerity of serving the overlord.

As for the previous differences, they were just internal disputes of loyalty, and they would pass after that. I hope that the Overlord and the Prime Minister would not care about it.

This time, the Chu army was facing the danger of being completely wiped out by the Huns. Xiang Tuo, the prime minister in Pengcheng, decided to send envoys to Qin after learning that Zhou Lan's troops were defeated in Yan's territory. At the same time, Xiang Tuo also sent envoys to the princes such as Wei Bao, Changshan Hou Zhonglimei, Changsha Hou and Wu Rui.

This is one time, another time.

At present, the biggest enemy of the princes and countries is no longer Qin, but a huge threat from the north: the Huns.

Facing up to 300,000 or 400,000 Hun cavalry, relying solely on the broken rammed earth Great Wall on the border and relying solely on the power of a country, it cannot stop Maodun, who is determined to sweep the Central Plains.

In other princes, it is easy to choose candidates, as long as they are eloquent, but the envoys sent to Qin made Xiang Tuo difficult. Xiang Bo was originally a suitable candidate, and the last time the Chenggao Alliance was also made by Xiang Bo lobbying, but this time, Xiang Bo followed Xiang Yu to Yan land in the north.

Among the officials who stayed in Pengcheng, there were very few who had friendship with Qin. Among them, the Xiang family had no connection with the Li Yuan branch of Qin. After thinking about it, Xiang Tuo suddenly saw Kuai Che's confession, and immediately decided to let Kuai Che make meritorious and go on a mission to Qin.

In his early years, Kuai Che once defected to King Bao of Wei and had several encounters with Han Xin, the general of the Eastern Front of Qin. When he was on a mission to Qin, he got along well with Chen Ping, Guan Yue and others in the Qin Dynasty. He was a criminal minister. Even if he was a loser, he would not lose the reputation of Chu.

Dai County.

The former homeland of Zhongshan Kingdom was located south of Yishui and north of Taihang Jingxing. It bordered Yunzhong County in the northwest and Changshan Kingdom in the southeast. Its northeast is the jurisdiction of Yan Kingdom.

After the outbreak of the Chu-Hungarian War, Han Xin's position was about to move northward, and the main force of the Qin army's eastern front also moved northward to prevent possible mutations.

Many scouts of the Qin army were active in the Old Yan area this summer. The continuous entanglement between the Huns' partial army and the Chu army's Zhou Lan's army made Han Xin surprised the combat power of the Huns, and was also worried about the difficulties the Chu army was about to face.

Should we take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the emptiness behind the Chu State and take advantage of the opportunity to destroy the Western Chu State? Or should we mainly resist the invasion of foreign races and send troops to join forces with the Chu army to fight against the Huns?
Chapter completed!