Chapter 18 Mistakes and Mistakes
Wu She said it was true. The road he said was vaguely placed in front of Xiang Yu. He walked slowly north from the Western Chu camp. After half an hour, he crossed a ridge full of weeds in front of him. A grassy mountain road that could not allow two people to walk side by side appeared in sight.
As mentioned earlier, this road is very difficult to walk. Xiang Yu did not hesitate and ran on foot. The Chu army behind him lined up in a column and then came. Wu She walked in front of Xiang Yu with a thick and twisted vine with his arms, leading 30,000 people to the deep mountains.
Mountains with a radius of dozens of miles have sharp cliffs, two or three hundred feet high, and the area ranges from three to five miles to six or seven miles. There is no big difference in area between the top and the foot of the peak. The shape is square or round, like a huge column supporting the sky. A large group of people trek along the path hidden in the thorny mountain vines, like a long dragon lingers on the foot of the mountain, rising and falling among the mountains. On the cliffs, the trees are lush and clustered like hair, and layers of sand, stones and rock walls are unavailable. There are wild animals running around in the middle and strange stones are spreading across the sky. Even the spiritual apes in the mountains may fall down the mountain.
Although these Western Chu soldiers were carefully selected, they would not fly to the sky and the earth. In addition, the mountains were covered with clouds and mist and the stone walls were smooth. Some of them accidentally fell into the abyss and died of misfortune. From time to time, shrill screams came from behind Xiang Yu. He ignored them, turned a blind eye, and urged them to speed up the march.
“How long will this road take?!”
Wu She walked very steadily, and at a glance he knew that he had made sufficient preparations in advance. After hearing Xiang Yu's words, he hurriedly held a dead tree protruding from the stone wall, and gasped and replied, "Omb King, it takes at least eleven or twelve hours to reach a valley. The terrain is hidden and low-lying. You can bury a pot and cook rice. You can rest for a while. Go out of the valley and cross a mountain, you can go straight to Chenggao in about four hours."
Xiang Yu calculated: "That's tomorrow evening, and I'll endure hunger today." Wu Shedao; "Overlord, soldiers are more important than speed, don't hesitate." Xiang Yu nodded and said, "Did the soldiers hear it? Soldiers are more important than speed, and there is no time to eat and rest. If you want to eat, go to Chenggao City to eat the flesh and blood of Qin soldiers."
The approaching Chu Bing burst into laughter and agreed in unison, and the news reached the back team one by one.
However, the road was tightly against the rock wall, and the foot was harder and harder after all. Climbing vines and hiding, looking at the future, not only many mountains blocked the way. Sometimes, seeing a cliff blocking the road, it suddenly became clear after a few steps. However, if you can't walk a hundred steps, you will suddenly get together again, and suddenly you will be worried about where you will get out.
From daytime to night, and from night to morning, the Chu soldiers were not fallen like meteors, and finally two or three of them were killed or injured. The remaining soldiers became one by one, cautious and slower. Xiang Manzi looked down on this the most. The more dangerous the thing he was, the more vigorous he became. He issued several orders in succession, ordering: acceleration, acceleration, acceleration. The Western Chu soldiers knew that violating the orders of the Overlord would definitely be more miserable than falling dead, so they rushed forward regardless of life and death, and the casualties naturally became larger and larger.
The valley that Wu She mentioned finally appeared under her nose. The valley was surrounded by mountains, like a basin, with huge trees in the valley towering, strange rocks and mists. It seemed that no one had visited for thousands of years, and strange beasts and birds were singing. The soldiers of the Chu army began to become scared again, and even Wu She was a little timid. Xiang Yu snorted angrily, swung the iron halberd in his hand, smashed a piece of gravel blocking the road, and rushed into the valley with his big steps, and used his courage to dispel the terror that was entrenched in his heart. The Chu army drove into the valley.
Wu She praised in her heart that the King of Western Chu is a real god! He didn't know that if this miracle was used in governing the country, it would cause irreversible embarrassment.
After a long journey, the soldiers of the Chu army were thirsty, tired and hungry. After receiving the order to rest on the spot, they all couldn't wait to lay down. After about an hour of rest, Xiang Yu ordered people to shout out the soldiers like dead dogs and let them bury the pot and cook, and after an hour, they would go on the journey.
At this time, it was midnight, and the stars in the sky were shining on the treetops. In the darkness, there were dark shadows of swaying trees all around. The night wind blew lightly, and thousands of rippling ghost fires shining among the water, wood, mountains and rocks, which were extremely strange. Smoke columns rose among the shadows, rushed out of the clouds and mist and pointed at the starry sky, and dispersed thousands of birds and flocks of wild beasts.
Li Xin has been ambushing in this valley all the time, and this is the task Wang Zhu gave him.
The valley is narrow, long and wide, and it is dozens of miles long. Li Xin led his troops in the north, and the Western Chu army was in the south, blocking rocks and plants in the middle, and his sight was not reached. Even the sound was covered by the sound of swaying branches, so no one on both sides knew who there was. The Western Chu army was burying the pot to make rice, but Li Xin's Qin army was sleeping soundly.
Li Xin is worthy of being an old general of Qin. He has harsh, old-fashioned and meticulous in his military management. Even in such a rare and lifeless environment, he did not forget to spread arrow towers and guard posts around the camp. The smoke and flames of the Western Chu army burying pots and making rice alarmed the beasts and birds in the mountains, and also alarmed the Qin soldiers patrolling the arrow towers.
The Qin soldier hurriedly ran into the coach's tent to inform Li Xin. Li Xin was not sleeping, his eyes were red, and he looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back. He was in a dark and depressed mood, and was close to despair. He was so old, but I was afraid that he would never have another chance to make achievements in this life.
"Report, General, suddenly birds rose in the valley and wild beasts ran around, as if smoke was filled with smoke in the night sky.
Li Xin's silver hair almost stood up, quickly lifted up the curtain and rushed out of the tent, and rushed up the arrow tower with big strides. He looked down from a high place and looked into the distance. He saw birds waving around the treetops. He looked up and saw the smoke columns in the navy blue sky gathered into black clouds. Judging from Li Xin's decades of experience in marching, there was no doubt that an army was burying a pot to make rice nearby.
Li Xin almost jumped off the arrow tower excitedly and rubbed his hands. "The great king's divine calculations, the Chu army really passed by now. Today I, Li Xin, have made great success!" As he said that, he had already run down the arrow tower along the escalator, shouted harshly, and ordered the four Qin soldiers around him; "Call all the generals to gather in the commander's tent, and there is an emergency military situation."
All the generals believed that Li Xin was sick.
In this situation, how could there be an enemy situation in this terrain? This old guy was obviously overeating. More than a dozen generals came to the handsome tent with dissatisfaction, and hung his head listlessly to listen to Li Xin's nonsense.
Li Xin frowned, his long sword was unsheathed, and shouted in an unquestionable tone; "Where is Ma Changbo?" Ma Changbo almost fell asleep with his eyes closed, and suddenly woke up and said in a confused manner; "The last general - the last general - is." Candlelight flashed blood on the long sword that was as bright as Qiushui. Li Xin shouted angrily, his wrist sank, and with a clang, he cut off the corner of the table in front of him: "General Ma seems to have not woken up yet, so he pulls it out and beats fifty military sticks."
Two Qin soldiers immediately came up behind Ma Changbo, and without any explanation, pulled their arms and walked out of the tent. Ma Changbo was stunned. The generals stared at each other and were at a loss. When the screams outside came, they knew to kneel down and plead; "General, what crime did Captain Ma commit?"
"Low down on military aircraft!" Li Xin's tone was sonorous and his eyes were firm. At this moment, his whole mind had entered a state of war.
The generals knew that Li Xin blamed him for dozing off in the commander's tent, but where was the military aircraft? Before everyone could ask questions, Li Xin raised his sword and shouted loudly; "All the generals, the Chu army is right in front of him, are you awake?" Zhang Fan, the commander of the army, bowed and bowed; "The old general, the captain Ma should be punished for neglecting the military aircraft, but where did this - this - Chu army come from."
Li Xin sneered arrogantly, "You don't need to know where the Chu army came from. Your duty is to send them to hell!" The generals looked at each other. Li Xin looked around majesticly, and the air in the handsome tent was immediately frozen, because the eyes were filled with an extremely cold murderous aura.
"Zhang Fan, five thousand soldiers and horses, moved forward from the left, hiding his tracks, carrying rockets, and sent one person back every ten miles to report. If you encounter the Chu army, don't make a sound, just hide on the left side of the road and let him go. Li Tong, five thousand soldiers, walked forward from the right side, like Zhang Fan, secretly, and no mistakes should be made."
Zhang Fan and Li Tong are both intermediate officers of Qin. They are unknown and can only look up to Li Xin. However, they felt it was necessary to confirm this confused order, not to mention that the old general got up in the middle of the night and talked to everyone to make everyone happy. After all, the old general is already very old, and it is not impossible to do some stupid things occasionally.
Zhang Fan coughed, "Old General, this, this, if we didn't encounter the Chu army, what should we do?" He thought to himself, he wouldn't be beaten! The Chu army didn't come, so we can't blame me!
Li Xin said, "If you haven't encountered the Chu army, you will definitely touch their camp. You two sides of the left and right will surround them. Wait until the middle army will join forces to join the encirclement, release the rockets together, and burn the group of traitors and rebels without leaving them."
Zhang Fan and Li Tong finally understood. They kept smiling bitterly in their hearts. The old man was crazy about making contributions. Chu Jun could not come here, so he was just using people to play with them.
If there is no way, the old general wants to play, we have to accompany him. Not only do we have to play, but we also have to ensure that the old general can have fun and comfortable play. On the contrary, the Captain Ma Changbo who was crying and howling outside the tent was a role model. So the two of them understood it and shouted seriously, "Give order!" but they kept sneering in their hearts.
Li Xin said again: "From this moment, our army's camp has stopped and no fire is allowed to emit. When you return to the camp to summon your subordinates, you can only ask for a face-to-face order, and you cannot use a horn to send orders to avoid alarming the enemy."
Zhang Fan asked with courage, "How did the old general know that the Chu army is coming?" Li Xin said; "Birds circling in the valley and fireworks are everywhere. It is clearly the military's work. What are the questions?"
Zhang Fan repeatedly said, "Yes, yes, no doubt." But he laughed in his heart. It might be because of the loss of the sky fire, so why did he think that the enemy was coming?
Chapter completed!