Five thousand cavalry could kill infantry on the plains, but when faced with the Chu army protected by the chariot formation, the cavalry was at a loss. To the west of Jiyi, they forced to cross the Yue River and traveled for about fifteen miles. Xin Sheng finally caught up with Xiang Yan's headquarters. Because he had known that the Qin cavalry was going to chase him, nearly 10,000 Chu soldiers were divided into five rows of marches, 600 double-shaft chariots were divided into two, and they were guarding the army on both sides. A team of more than four miles long stepped out a stream of smoke and dust visible on the avenue.

The horse has no stirrups, and it is difficult to force the bow. Therefore, the Qin army knights are equipped with arm crossbows, while the Chu army is equipped with longbows. The range of the bow is far better than that of the arm crossbows. Whenever the Qin army knights are about to approach, the Chu army archers will draw their bows to drive them away. This is not the most headache for Xin Sheng, and the most headache for the car formation. Although the double-shaft chariot is not as wide as the single-shaft chariot, it is not something that the horse can cross. Even if Xin Sheng is determined to 5,000 cavalry, if all casualties are rushing, he may not be able to break through the car formation, so he can only choose another target.

The Huai River descended from Dafu Mountain, followed the mountain, flowed across the Fuyi Mountain Road at the foot of the mountain, and then turned eastward and parallel to the mountain road, entering the Jiyi Basin at the later Tongbai County. From Jiyi to Fuyi, crossing the Yuehe River for twenty miles to cross the Huai River, and then traveling along the mountain road for more than ten miles to Fuyi. Last night, Xiang Zhi's troops had occupied the Huai River Ferry, but it also alarmed the Fuyi defenders.

The ferry was in the hands of the Chu army, so it was impossible for Xin Sheng to help the reunite, and it was impossible for him to even fight with the Chu army. The mountain road was narrow, and even if the cavalry crossed the Huai River, it was difficult for them to fully utilize their advantages to fight with the Chu army. Therefore, over the difficult Chu army formation, Xin Sheng chose the target at the ferry.

"Drop off!" Two miles away from the ferry, Xin Sheng's order spread throughout the army.

"Dropping off the horse..." The five thousand knights were originally similar to the dragon cavalry, and were better at infantry fighting than cavalry warfare. With Xin Sheng's military orders, after the continuous sound of sword-great attacks, all five thousand knights dismounted.

"Range - array!" The bell rings, and the ringing sounds floated in the soldiers' ears. The squad leader shouted to arrange the array. Soon, a five hundred people lined up across the line, five hundred cavalry on both sides, and three hundred people wide in the back formation. The five-person army formation was completed. The height of the Qin army knights was required to be more than seven feet and five inches, strong and fast, and was called the Martial Knights. Once the army formation formed by them was formed, the murderous aura naturally overflowed. With the sound of drums, they slowly walked towards the ferry.

"The Qin people are here, retreat into the camp!" The main general went west and there were pursuers at the tail. Xiang Zhi, the Xiang County army, led two thousand people to the ferry to meet him. Seeing that the Qin martial knights abandoned their horses and fought in a fierce battle, his method was very simple, that is, not to fight with him. Even if they were fighting, they should try to delay time to wait for Xiang Yan's headquarters. If the Qin people did not retreat, the two armies could attack him from both sides.

"Retreat!" It was already arranged to respond to the enemy's plan. Most of the ships on the east bank of the ferry had retreated to the west bank, and the Chu army only occupied the original camp at the ferry. With Xiang Zhi's order, all the Chu army outside the camp entered the camp and did not fight the Qin army in field.

"General, the Jing people have retreated into the camp, our army..." Amid the drums, the Qin people's army still slowly moved forward, but the Chu troops who were originally outside the camp retreated into the camp one by one, completely avoiding war.

"Beat the drum!" Xin Sheng naturally saw the Chu army retreating into the camp at the ferry, but he had no choice at this time - if he didn't grab the east bank of the ferry before the two Chu troops met, they would hide into Fuyi Mountain Road and defend the dangerous situation. At that time, if he wanted to destroy these two Chu troops, the price would not be to attack such a small camp.

"Hi!" The cavalry generals agreed loudly. At this time, the drum sounded even louder. The martial knight who was walking on the drum tightened the crossbow in his hand. Everyone's crossbows had been turned on, and the camp occupied by the Chu army in front was only three hundred steps away.

"Transmission: Take down the Jing people's camp in the ten drums." The drum sounds stopped for a moment, and Xin Sheng issued the last military order.

"Receive the order!" The cavalry generals, the chief of the town, the chief of the squad, and the commanders shouted to answer the order. After that, the drum sounded loudly again, and Xin Sheng beat the drum himself.

"Shoot--!" The Qin army was getting closer and closer. Seeing that they entered a hundred steps, Xiang Zhi ordered the archers to shoot arrows. Fuyi did not take it down, and dozens of archers' sparse rain of arrows fell into the Qin formation, and also knocked down many knights in the formation.

The hundred steps were also the distance between the Qin army's attack. While the Chu army fired the arrows, the entire attacking army ran away with the Qin sergeant shouting at the front of the entire line. The Qin soldiers ran while holding crossbows to shoot arrows at the Chu camp, but they had no time to turn the string and then fire the second arrow. The crossbow that had been shot was immediately discarded, and everyone followed the sergeant to rush towards the Chu camp in front with weapons.

The Chu army occupied more of a wooden fence than a camp. These wooden fences were used to surround the supplies, food and grass accumulated on the east side of the ferry to prevent robbers from stealing and destroying them. In the morning, Xiang Zhi's troops used wooden fences to surround the ferry to form a simple camp.

The Qin army attacked the wooden fence and wanted to push it, but the Chu army guarded the wooden fence and stabbed it continuously with long soldiers through the fence. The corpses gradually piled up on both sides of the wooden fence, but before the corpses were higher than the fence, the Qin army could not attack. Moreover, because of the isolation of the wooden fence, the two sides could not form an interlaced situation. Only the soldiers holding long soldiers stabbed each other through the fence, and the short soldiers could not use their strength at all.

During the fierce battle, both armies made loud drums, especially the Qin army's drums were the most urgent. Xin Shengquan saw the situation of the battle. According to this tactic, not to mention the ten drums, even twenty drums could not get the ferry.

"Catch the hammer." Xin Sheng returned the drumstick to the drum man and wanted to go into battle himself to break the Chu army camp.

"General, look!" Before Xin Sheng could get off the chariot, the soldiers beside him pointed at the back of his eyes in horror. There was the Chu army's chariot formation.

"General Xiang is here! General Xiang is here!" Xin Sheng, who was standing on the carriage, saw Xiang Yan's carriage formation, and Xiang Zhi, who was stationed at the ferry, also saw it. For a moment, everyone in the Chu army was excited and was about to rush out of the fence to wipe out the Qin army in front of his friendly generals.

"Get off the troops!" Xin Sheng, who consciously did nothing to blame, ordered the troops to withdraw. Before Xiang Yan's chariot formation arrived, he led the cavalry to retreat five miles downstream of the ferry and did not go far.

"The last general is paying homage to the general." Xiang Zhi, who wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh, bowed to Xiang Yan under the double-rod chariot.

"How about Fuyi?" Xiang Yan was not surprised by the Qin army's retreat. His first sentence was Fuyi.

"Please atone for your sins, and the reign of the country has not been removed." This is the reason why Xiang Zhi dared not laugh. He did not take the reign of the country.

"How many Qin soldiers in Fuyi?" It was all luck to be able to take Jiyi: the Qin army was defeated, and the soldiers who were determined to enter the city not only filled the city protection, but also got the city on the mountain of corpses. Fuyi could not repeat the incident in Jiyi. For the Chu army without siege equipment, it was normal that they could not take it.

"When the general returns to Fuyi, there may be two thousand Qin soldiers." Xiang Zhi could only say 'or'. The Qin army defenders in Fuyi stayed in the door and did not fight, so he had to order people to guard the narrow mountain road and wait for Xiang Yan's arrival.

"Two thousand Qin soldiers..." Xiang Yan nodded first, then shook his head. "How much is our army losing?"

"Our army has not suffered much loss." Xiang Zhi replied. "There are only a hundred soldiers who have suffered casualties, and there are still eight thousand people who can fight."

"Good." Half of the Cai army and half of the Xi army can fight only 5,000 soldiers, plus these 8,000, which is 13,000. "Our army has sufficient food and grass, and the water sources in the mountains are not worrying. After the 15th day of food is exhausted, we retreated into Tang County." Xiang Yanling said.

"Fifteen days?" Pan Wuming, Cheng Tong, Peng Zong and others were also there. After hearing Xiang Yan's order to "Fifteen days of guarding the mountain road", the first one to jump out was the grain guest in the army, that is, the military ration officer. He said: "General, our army does not have enough military rations! Don't forget that our army still has more than 1,300 horses."

When he left Xieyi, more than 16,000 soldiers could fight and four thousand men; now, more than 13,000 soldiers could fight, plus the wounded and the servants to fight, the total number was 18,000. If the prisoners who fled west of Jiyi would be more than 20,000. Twenty thousand men would have two meals a day, at least 20,000 stones were needed on the fifteenth day, but three meals were required during war, and 30,000 stones were required on the fifteenth day.

The horse's food is five times that of a person, which means that more than 600 pack horses and 730 military horses are equivalent to 67,000 soldiers. Based on the two stones per soldier per month, half a month is 7,000 stones, plus the previous one is 37,000 stones. When evacuating Jiyi, although most of the two-shaft carriages were equipped with wounded people, the horse camel man carrying a man and took away 12,000 stones of military rations.

"The mountain road is under control, and it is necessary to build a wall. The Qin army prisoners knew that I had arranged the arrangements and could not be released after the service, so they could only be executed." Xiang Yan's expressionless face, and a sentence determined the life and death of more than a thousand Qin army prisoners.

"The husband is not a soldier. When we carry the wounds and retreat to Tang County before our army retreats, the same is true for the army and horses." Xiang Yan said again. "Ten thousand soldiers and twenty-two thousand stones of military rations, we will find some wild vegetables and hunt some wild animals before the Qin army attacks me, which may last for fifteen days."

"Fuyi Tang County is only separated by a mountain, but 4,000 soldiers and wounded men went to Tang County here for 40 miles. The mountain road is rugged, and I am afraid that I can reach Tang County Avenue in four or five days, so I have to carry four or five days of military rations. If Tang County has no way to respond, I may need to carry ten days of military rations." The army Sima Peng Zong was worried. The mountain at the ferry was low. When retreating from here to Tang County, it would be necessary to abandon the baggage and go south, but these people still took a lot of military rations.

"I know that the Grand Sima is a man, and Tang County must have a support." Xiang Yan was confident in his heart, "The servants returned south with their injuries and illnesses, and they could bring four-day military rations. In this way, is there enough food?" He asked Xiang Sui's grilled guest.

"If someone in Tang County picks up... more than 5,000 people, 1,350 horses, need 800 stones of grain every day, and take away 3,200 stones..." Su Ke calculated silently, and finally nodded: "Report to the general, the four thousand servants carry nine thousand stones of military rations, and the pack horses should not be taken away. Three hundred horses must be kept. A horse is twenty stones of grain, and three hundred horses are six thousand stones, and the grain is enough."

Horses consume grain, but horses can eat them. Xiang Yan felt sorry for the horses. His muscles twitched a few times and finally said, "There are few horses in Chu, just pick up two hundred inferior horses and keep them to pull the grain. I will take them back to Tang County by the army Sima. You will cross the ridge from here today."
Chapter completed!