After Xiang Liang unfortunately died in battle, the last floating bridge on the Jishui River was severely overloaded and quickly overturned under the violent trampling and squeeze of the defeated Chu soldiers. Countless Chu soldiers on the bridge screamed and fell into the river, and were swept into the torrents and drowned alive. Even Liu Laosan's good friend Cao Shen fell into the river. If it weren't for the extraordinary water nature, Liu Laosan would have lost an arm.

The only way of retreat was cut off, and the main force of the Chu army, which had long been collapsed, suddenly collapsed. In order to survive, the generals and soldiers either put down their weapons and surrendered, or fled in scattered life. The Qin army took advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle. They killed countless Chu soldiers in the pursuit and captured countless Chu army prisoners. They killed the main force of the Chu army, which was as corpses accumulated like mountains and blood flowed, almost wiped out the soldiers on the north bank of the Chu army, and seized all the food, grass and military supplies that the main force of the Chu army had not yet had time to transport across the river.

The battlefield was too chaotic. Not to mention the Chu army on the south bank of the Jishui River, even the Qin army did not dare to quickly determine the whereabouts of Xiang Liang. In the end, after Xiang Liang's body was carried to Zhang Han, and after countless captured Chu soldiers' tears testimony, Zhang Han and the Qin generals were ecstatic to confirm that Xiang Liang was dead, and immediately decided to pursue with all their might, killing the remnants of the Chu army on the south bank of the Jishui River and killing the roots.

It was a little bit a pity that Zhang Han underestimated the quick decisions of Xiang Yu, Huan Chu and Liu Laosan and other Chu troops. Although it was impossible to confirm Xiang Liang's current situation, just seeing the main body of the Chu army on the north bank of the Ji River from afar, Xiang Yu, Liu Laosan and others understood that Xiang Liang must be in danger. Even if he was still alive, he would definitely not be able to cross the river to continue to lead the remaining Chu troops to fight. In addition, the food and grass military supplies lost another elixir, and delaying it would only be more dangerous. Therefore, Xiang Yu, Liu Laosan and others also made a quick decision. That afternoon, he hurriedly retreated south with the remaining Chu troops. While retreating to Chengwu at full speed, he sent people to inquire about Xiang Liang's whereabouts.

The fighter's shot was rare, so Zhang Han also made a decision immediately. On the same day, with the help of the Dingtao defenders, he built a cross-river bridge and led the main force of the Qin army across the Jishui River overnight. He personally led the main force to pursue the next morning, leaving his deputy Dong Yi to lead 50,000 rear troops to clean the battlefield, guarding the more than 10,000 Chu army prisoners captured, and dealing with the main force of the young commander who might have arrived in Dingtao.

It was also coincidental that on the afternoon of the afternoon of the day after Zhang Han led the main force of the Qin army to the south, the Qin army of Wanhua sent people to send news that the main force of the Young Marshal's Army had left the Jiyang battlefield yesterday morning and drove towards Wanhua along the small road on the south bank of the Jishui River. It might have attacked Wanhua, or it might have been preparing to come to Dingtao to meet with the Chu army. Dong Yi did not dare to be negligent when he heard the news, so he quickly summoned all the generals under his command to discuss countermeasures.

There were also capable people among Dong Yi's subordinates. At least the general Ji Hu saw through Xiang Kang's purpose of eastward advance at first sight and pointed out to Dong Yi: "General, Xiang Kang's son's advance eastward cannot be to attack Wan'e, because Wan'e is located on the north bank of the Ji River, and the county road leading to Wan'e from Jiyang is also located on the north bank of the Ji River. If Xiang Kang's son was to attack Wan'e, he must have passed the Ji River first and then entered Wan'e along the county road eastward. But Xiang Kang's son did not cross the river and chose to go directly westward on the south bank of the Ji River. This is enough to show that Xiang Kang's son already knew that the main force of Chu thieves went south to Dingtao, so he did not dare to risk crossing the river. He walked the small road on the south bank to eastward, and he must have met with the main force of Chu thieves."

"It's reasonable." Dong Yi nodded and said, "The old thief Xiang Liang had evacuated Puyang more than five days ago. Even if the thief envoy he sent was slow, he would definitely contact Xiang Kang's child. Xiang Kang's child went straight east across the river, which must be to meet with the main force of Chu's thieves."

"General Dong, this is an opportunity!" Ji Hu said again: "After the main force of the Chu thief collapsed, the remaining defeated generals fled south, and it is almost impossible for the Chu thief soldiers to flee to the west to die. Xiang Kang's son was probably passing Wan'e, and he didn't know that the main force of the Chu thief had been defeated. As long as we prepare for the battle immediately, we should send troops to fight to the east, and we will surely win a great victory!"

Dong Yi, who hated Xiang Kang deeply, was very moved when he heard this, but after thinking about it carefully, Dong Yi frowned again and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult? Xiang Kang's child is extremely cunning. Even if he doesn't know the situation and goes east to Dingtao, he will not be able to send a scout in front of him. Once he finds that the main force of the Chu thief has been destroyed, he will definitely turn around and run away immediately. Even if we send troops immediately, we can only fight a defeat battle and won't get much results."

"General Dong, there is nothing we can do about this." Ji Hu said helplessly: "Our army in Wanhua is all county soldiers, so it is difficult to protect ourselves, let alone sending troops to pursue Xiang Kang's children, helping us attack Xiang Kang's children from both sides. So we can only fight at most one defeat battle this time, and then try our best to pursue and expand the results of the battle."

Recalling the countless shames he suffered in front of Xiang Kang, Dong Yi, who hated Xiang Kang, refused to give up. After calculating in front of the map for a long time, Dong Yi suddenly asked: "You guys say that after Xiang Kang's son approached Dingtao, he found that the main force of Chu thieves had been destroyed and was hit by us, would he go one way to escape?"

"The most likely is to withdraw from Wanli first, then go south from Wanli directly to Hualing County, and then escape to Suiyang." Ji Hu rushed to say: "It is also possible to go south from the suburbs of Dingtao, and then escape from Anyang east to Shanfu or escape from Meng County in the south. If you don't go to the intersection of Anyang and get too close to Dingtao, Xiang Kang's child may have found that something is wrong before he arrives at the intersection of the intersection of Anyang, so he will definitely not dare to take the risk of continuing to move eastward and go south to the intersection of Anyang."

"If I were Xiang Kang's child, I would directly withdraw to Wanqu and then go south to Huiling County." Another general also said: "Because there are county roads from Dingtao to Wanqu and Wanqu to Huiling County, it is much more convenient to retreat. The road to Anyang is too narrow. It's raining heavily now, and the road is extremely difficult to walk, so it's easy to catch up when you walk this road."

"Xiang Kang's children will only withdraw from Wanqu." Someone said: "Going south to Anyang is seeking death. Our main force has already gone to Chengwu. As long as you randomly divide an army to Anyang to intercept, you will be able to kill Xiang Kang's children!"

Dong Yi nodded slowly and thought for a moment. Dong Yi made up his mind and ordered: "Jihu, immediately lead 15,000 troops to cross the Jishui River north, take the small road on the north bank of the Jishui River to Wanqu Cross River, set up a camp on the south bank of the Jishui River, and cooperate with our pursuers to attack Xiang Kang's children from front to back!"

"General, do you want to divide your troops into intertwined and attack Xiang Kang's son from front to back?" Ji Hu was shocked.

"Of course." Dong Yi said with a grin, "Xiang Kang's son has repeatedly caused this general to be humiliated. How could this general miss such a good opportunity to take revenge?!"

"But general, we have not many troops at all, and we have to be responsible for guarding the prisoners. If we divide the troops too much, will there be any danger?" Ji Hu asked with some concern.

"What danger can there be?" Dong Yi sneered and said, "If you are Xiang Kang's child, when you approach the suburbs of Dingtao, you find that the main force of the Chu thief has been destroyed, and our army is ready again. Do you still have the courage to fight again? Will you retreat and escape immediately? I sent troops to pursue him in Dingtao, and you interspersed with Wanqu and attacked him from behind, and Xiang Kang's child had wings and could he fly there?"

After saying that, Dong Yi urged again: "The fighter is rare, go and prepare quickly. Remember, the interweaving speed must be fast, but the march must be hidden. Never let Xiang Kang discover your traces."

Seeing that Dong Yi had made up his mind, Ji Hu didn't dare to say anything. He hurriedly held his fists and took the order. Then he hurriedly ordered 15,000 troops and horses. He crossed the Ji River that day and penetrated Wanqu along the north bank trail. While Dong Yi was rectifying the troops, he sent people to carefully explore the progress of the Young Commander's Army. At the same time, he searched closely around Dingtao to prevent the Chu army from contacting the Young Commander's Army and was ready to take revenge.

The next morning, Dong Yi received the movement information of the Young Marshal's Army sent by Wanqu again. Just as the Qin generals such as Dong Yi expected, without knowing that the main force of the Chu army had been destroyed, the main force of the Young Marshal's Army had indeed crossed Wanqu and advanced eastward, and was quickly rushing towards Dingtao along the road leading to Dingtao from Wanqu. Dong Yi was overjoyed and became more determined to take the opportunity to take revenge.

However, the marching rhythm of the Young Commander's army made Dong Yi very uncomfortable. He set out from Jiyang to advance east. The main force of the Young Commander's army took one day to arrive at Wanqu and then continued to advance eastward. The Young Commander's army pinched the rhythm very accurately. He marched fifty miles a day and then set up camp for the night at about thirty miles away from Dingtao. This immediately made Dong Yi raise his heart to his throat.

Of course, what worried Dong Yi was that the distance between thirty miles was not far or near, which happened to be the most disgusting. It was raining heavily, and it was impossible for the Qin army to run thirty miles overnight. On the contrary, if Xiang Kang sent a scout to advance eastward overnight to explore the enemy situation, he would probably know the situation on the Dingtao battlefield the next morning. At that time, Xiang Kang turned around and fled, and it would be difficult for Dong Yi to catch up with the main force of the Young Commander Army. At the same time, Dong Yi could never rule out that the main force of the Chu army had escaped contact with Xiang Kang in advance, revealing the secret of the main force of the Chu army that had been destroyed.

After worrying, he thought about it for a long time. In order to lure Xiang Kang to Dingtao as much as possible, Dong Yi gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and simply selected a rebellious Jiangdong soldier from the Chu army prisoners overnight, promising a heavy reward. He also used the captured Xiang Liang seal and the Chinese letter of the Chu army to make a civil servant forge a letter written by Xiang Liang, and arranged for the rebellious Wu soldiers to pretend to be Xiang Liang's messenger and come in west overnight to deliver a letter to Xiang Kang.

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In fact, Dong Yi was simply worried. Affected by the continuous heavy rain, the Young Marshal's Army neither discovered the Qin army that was interspersed on the north bank, nor sent Xiao Zuo to Dingtao to inquire about the news overnight. None of the defeated Chu army who fled south fled so far. He contacted the Young Marshal's Army and set up a camp thirty miles west of Dingtao for a night. After resting for a night, Xiang Kang, who had not recovered from the illness, sent scouts eastward to investigate the road situation, while leading the main force of the Young Marshal's Army to advance eastward in the rain to meet with the main force of the Chu army.

During this period, Xiang Kang, who was weak, could only go on a car, but in disguise, he was lucky. Seeing that Xiang Kang was extremely weak, Uncle Zhou's eldest niece, Miss Bo, was walking in the same car with Xiang Kang in order to take care of Xiang Kang at any time. A man and a woman were crowded in a narrow carriage. Xiang Kang, who was able to score in this era, certainly took advantage of him and took a lot of money. He also learned that Miss Bo was named Bo Yuanzhi, and his name came from the Book of Songs.

"Yuanzhi?" After coming to this era, I occasionally read some books. Xiang Kang suddenly discovered the profound meaning of the name Bo Yuanzhi and asked hurriedly: "Miss Bo, did your name choose from your father? Or did your mother give it to you?"

"Go back to the right general, it was my mother who took it." Bo Yuanzhi replied shyly.

"It seems that Wei Madam really hopes that his daughter will become a phoenix." Xiang Kang smiled and said in a pretentious manner: "The phoenix is ​​flying, and the feathers are circling, and the gathering is also gathered. The amiable king, Dojishi, Wei is a gentleman, and charming the emperor. Miss Bo, Wei Madam gave you this name, which clearly means that he hopes that you will marry the emperor and become the mother of the world."

Bo Yuanzhi's face blushed to the base of his neck, and after a while, he nodded slightly and said in a low voice: "The Right General is really knowledgeable. My mother gave me this name because she hopes that I can marry the emperor."

"What a pity." Xiang Kang smiled again and said, "It's a pity that I shouldn't have the fate of the emperor. Otherwise, I really want to find a matchmaker to go and ask her to consider me for you."

Although his face was not as thin as Xiang Kang's wife Yu Miaoge, after hearing Xiang Kang's explicit joke, Bo Yuanzhi was so embarrassed that he wanted to jump out of the car and said angrily: "General Right, if you say such words, he will go back to his mother."

Xiang Kang smiled and was about to tease Bo Yuanzhi for a few more words, but Xu Ji outside the car suddenly said loudly: "Right General, General, the General has sent someone to deliver a letter to us."

"Where is the letter?" Xiang Kang hurriedly lifted the curtain and asked impatiently: "What's the situation now, our main force?"

"Report to the right general, the messenger sent by the general, the confession said that our main force had fought a battle with the tyrant Qin army the day before yesterday. He suffered a considerable loss and was forced to give up attacking Dingtao and retreat to Changyi. The main force of the tyrant Qin also chased him. Now there are only a few thousand tyrant Qin troops left behind in Dingtao." Xu Ji answered truthfully, and submitted another letter from Xiang Liang that he had just received, saying: "The tyrant general gave us an order to rush to Changyi immediately to meet with the main force."

He quickly took Xiang Liang's handwritten letter and saw that the content was basically consistent with Xu Ji's oral introduction. He also saw that the letter was indeed Xiang Liang's handwriting and Xiang Liang's general seal was also covered with Xiang Liang's seal. Xiang Kang did not dare to neglect and hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up, send the order, speed up, and go to Changyi to meet our main force."

Xu Ji agreed loudly, but Xiang Kang glanced at the letter in his hand again. Seeing that the letters written by Baishu were clean, there were only some raindrops that had just dripped. Xiang Kang immediately became suspicious and hurriedly shouted: "Slow down, don't send the order for the time being, call the messenger sent by his uncle, and I want to ask him in person."

Xu Ji agreed, and soon, the Chu army messenger who disguised himself as an ordinary citizen was taken to Xiang Kang, and greeted Xiang Kang with a genuine Wu accent, and said that he was Xiang Liang's personal soldier. Xiang Kang remained silent and just asked: "Are you my uncle's personal soldier? Why have you never seen you when I was under my uncle's position?"

"Right General, you are a nobleman, of course you don't remember such a little personal soldier as a villain." The messenger said with apologizing: "But the villain often sees you under the general's tent, but he just has no blessing to talk to you, so you must not remember the villain."

After saying that, the messenger took the initiative to present his identity card to prove his identity as Xiang Liang's personal soldier. Xiang Kang carefully checked and found that it should not be a forgery, but his doubts were not diminished at all. He asked again: "You just said that there are only a few thousand tyrant Qin troops outside Dingtao City. Is this what you saw with your own eyes?"

"Reporting to the right general, it was the villain who saw it with his own eyes." The messenger answered honestly and said vividly: "In order to send the letter as soon as possible, the villain took the risk of coming from the outskirts of Dingtao City and saw with his own eyes the situation of the tyrannical Qin army."

Xiang Kang nodded and suddenly asked, "When did my uncle write the letter you sent, and where did my uncle write it?"

"Report to the right general, the general wrote the letter the afternoon before yesterday." The messenger replied, "It was written on the road when our main force set sail to Changyi."

"Written on the road?" Xiang Kang laughed and showed the clean and tidy letter, saying, "It has been raining heavily these days. Since my uncle wrote the letter on the road, why is there no trace of being rained in this letter?"

The messenger was stunned and hurriedly replied: "Report to the right general, the general had an umbrella cover to cover the rain at that time, and the villain sent the letters in a bamboo tube, so he was not wet by the rain all the way."

"Fart!" Xiang Kang cursed angrily, saying, "How severe the storm these days has been? Even if there is an umbrella covering the rain, and the letters written in the wind and rain in the open air, how could it be that there was no rain at all?"

The messenger became more and more dumbfounded, and after a while, he stammered: "General Right, Xiao remembered it wrongly. The rain stopped temporarily, so the general's letter did not get the rain."

"Very good, I believe your explanation for the time being." Xiang Kang sneered and said, "But don't think about leaving. Didn't you just say that there were only a few thousand tyrant Qin troops in Dingtao? I'll stop moving forward and send more people outside Dingtao City to explore the situation. If you find that you have told lies, you know the consequences."

After saying that, Xiang Kang shouted again: "Take this messenger down and tie it up and see. If our scout finds the news and proves that he has told a lie, I will use a knife to cut off the flesh on his body piece by piece!"

Xiang Kang's personal soldiers agreed and immediately stepped forward to the messenger and held it down. The messenger was frightened. When his legs were weak, he knelt down to Xiang Kang's knees and shouted in a crying voice: "Good your life, right general, right general!"

"Then you won't tell the truth?" Xiang Kang shouted: "Tell me honestly, I'll spare you! If you don't tell the truth, I guarantee that you will die worse than anyone else!"

The messenger who was bought by Dong Yi did not dare to continue to quibble. He could only honestly explain the truth that the main force of the Chu army had already been destroyed on the north bank of the Jishui River the day before yesterday. He also admitted that he was bought by Dong Yi and brought a forged letter to deceive the young general army to enter Dingtao with confidence. Xiang Kang was shocked and angry and shouted: "Then how is my uncle? How could my uncle's handwritten letter be in the hands of the tyrannical Qin army?"

"Right General, you must hold on after hearing it." The messenger said tremblingly: "General, he has been killed."

Before the messenger finished speaking, Xiang Kang fell into Bo Yuanzhi's arms. His cheeks were tightly pressed against Bo Yuanzhi's chest and his eyes were distracted and unconscious. No matter how nervous Xu Ji, Bo Yuanzhi and others swayed and shouted, Xiang Kang was still motionless, as if he had fainted.
Chapter completed!