Unfortunately, the main force of the Chu army and the anti-Qin coalition failed to seize the opportunity and caught up with the enemy before the main force of the Qin army crossed the Huanshui south. Not only did they miss the opportunity to damage the main force of the Qin army again, they were temporarily blocked by the Qin army's main force on the north bank of the Huanshui River, and could not pose a direct threat to the main force of the Qin army.

The main force of the Qin army was able to retreat safely to the south bank of the Huanshui River. The credit should be taken from Zhang Han himself. After paying a heavy price to withdraw from the Zhangshui River, Zhang Han learned a lesson and decisively let the main force of the Qin army abandon most unnecessary military supplies and retreat lightly. He also let the Great Wall Corps, which suffered heavy losses in the Zhangshui River, go first, and lead the troops to be the rear of the entire army, greatly stabilizing the morale of the Qin army. In addition, the Qin army had previously built a flat corridor between Jiyuan and Julu, so the main force of the Qin army retreated very quickly. It took only more than a day to retreat from Zhangshui all the way south to Huanshui.

In contrast to the main force of the Qin army that decisively fled, the main force of the Chu army carried forward the noble style of Xiang Yu's preference for cutting grass and not eliminating roots. He first joined the princes on the Zhangshui battlefield, wasting a lot of time, and then launched a pursuit. As a result, when the vanguard of the Chu army led by Ying Bu and Chai Wu caught up with the Qin army, the Qin army behind Zhang Han had basically retreated through the Huanshui River. Ying Bu and Chai Wu's soldiers dared not take the risk of crossing the river, so they could only watch the main force of the Qin army calmly smashed the Huanshui Bridge and temporarily blocked the main force of the Chu army's crossing the river with the help of the Huanshui natural danger.

However, the main force of the Qin army has only temporarily escaped the disaster. Whether it can escape the pursuit of the coalition forces of the princes is still unknown. The reason is that the Yellow River canal transport has been cut off by Xiang Kang and the young commander of the young commander. Once the time is delayed, the main force of the Qin army will be exhausted by the food and grass stored in Jiyuan. Therefore, if the main force of the Qin army wants to escape from the heaven, it must retreat to a safe place west of Puyang as soon as possible to obtain food, so that the danger can be truly turned to safety.

The situation was even more severe than Zhang Han and Wang Li estimated. After retreating to Jiyuan, Zhang Han and Wang Li found through statistics that the main force of the Qin army actually lost nearly 50,000 troops in the battle of Zhangshui, and the losses were extremely heavy. At the same time, bad news came one after another. The mobile unit of Dong Kan was defeated by the Young Marshal's army. Su Jian's troops who risked to take the South Bank to save Puyang were also been Xiang Kangyin. Not only did he completely lose the hope of counterattacking Puyang, but he also no longer had the opportunity to temporarily restrain the hungry wolf of the Young Marshal's army. The main force of the Qin army retreated westward and was likely to be blocked by the Young Marshal's army.

In addition, the huge threat from the main force of the Chu army and the coalition of princes could not be escaped. The day after the main force of the Qin army retreated to Jiyuan, the main force of the Chu army and the coalition of princes successively chased to the north bank of the Huanshui. As a result, the preliminary investigation and statistics of the scouts alone made Zhang Han frightened. Not only did the main force of the Chu army chase after them, but other anti-Qin Yi troops on the Julu battlefield were almost dispatched in full swing. The total number of troops and horses of all the routes exceeded 160,000, and the total force directly exceeded the 200,000 mark, and its strength was enough to compete with the Qin army head-on.

After initially understanding the enemy's military situation, Zhang Han convened a meeting of the generals of the Qin army to discuss the next tactical plan. What surprised Zhang Han was that although many Qin generals agreed to withdraw food west as soon as possible, some Qin army generals still advocated a head-on battle with the anti-Qin coalition forces, first striving to temporarily repel the anti-Qin coalition forces, and then calmly retreat to the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

The main advocate of a head-on decisive battle was the Qin generals from the Great Wall Corps. Wang Li's two important deputy Su Jiao and Shemai agreed with the decisive battle. Su Jiao also pointed out to Zhang Han: "General, the reason why our army was defeated in the Battle of Zhangshui was completely because of the rush to retreat and the army was flustered and did not have a firm determination to fight head-on with the bandit army. This gave the bandit army the opportunity to attack us halfway. If we don't learn lessons and still just want to retreat without thinking about fighting hard, we will definitely repeat the same mistakes on the retreat westward. Only by fully encouraging morale and encouraging the morale of the army, first defeating the bandit army head-on, and then we can retreat safely."

"Yes, our total force is still 300,000, and the force still has an advantage!" Shuma also shouted: "As long as we unite and motivate the soldiers to fight bravely, and fight head-on with the bandit army, we may not have no chance to turn defeat into victory and defeat the main force of the bandit army head-on."

Zhang Han thought without saying a word, but after a while, he turned his gaze to Wang Li, who was also not speaking, and asked, "Marquis Wucheng, what do you think?"

Wang Li's attitude was obviously very hesitant, and after a moment he said, "The words of General, Su Jiao and Shemai are somewhat reasonable, but if you decide, you still have to ask the General to make an idea."

Zhang Han waited for this sentence and immediately said, "Okay, that general will make the decision. General Su and General She have a commendable ambitions, but your suggestions are absolutely not allowed to be adopted. War is not simply a competition of troops. Our troops still have advantages now. But if the decisive battle is unfavorable, even if we are tied with the main force of the bandit army, our consequences will be unimaginable, because the bandit army and us can afford it, we cannot afford it. Taking a risky battle is to use the lives of our 300,000 soldiers as a joke. Only by retreating west as soon as possible, first retreat to a safe place west of Puyang to get food, and then we can plan to counterattack and take revenge!"

After decisively rejecting the proposals of Su Jiao, Shema and others, Zhang Han continued: "It's decided that tomorrow we will withdraw to the west. I will escort the food and grass military supplies first. General Wang Li, you will lead the army to the back, and be responsible for arranging the cover of the army behind the palace. You march thirty miles a day, step by step, and retreat toward Hanoi!"

Seeing Zhang Han directly made the decision, Wang Li, who actually agreed to the risky battle, had no choice but to hold his fists and sing with the generals. Although Su Jiao, Shuma and others were dissatisfied, they did not dare to openly disobey the military order, so they had to swallow their anger and obediently accept the order.

In this way, under Zhang Han's arrangement, the main force of the Qin army, who had already been ready for retreat, set off the camp and retreated to the west in an orderly manner. After the anti-Qin coalition discovered this situation, they immediately launched a pursuit. In order to break through the Huanshui as soon as possible, the generals of the anti-Qin coalition forces ran to Xiang Yu to request orders and requested to be the vanguard to launch a rush to rush to the crusade. Xiang Yu also knew that his morale could not be extinguished, so he nodded and agreed immediately, and immediately dispatched Yingbu, Shenyang and Sima Huo to lead the troops to attack, and the troops were divided into three groups to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to rush to 3 groups as well as the morale was boosted.

In fact, the Qin army had a great chance to win this battle. With the defensive fortifications built in advance and blocking the river, the Qin army soldiers who were responsible for guarding the ferry shot the anti-Qin coalition soldiers who were driving the ship to ferry with their strong bows and crossbows, and once repelled the enemy who had forcibly rushed across the river at the beachhead. If the Qin army decisively increased its troops, it would be very hopeful to temporarily block the main force of the anti-Qin coalition. At the same time, Wang Li, who was responsible for the arrangement of the palace, was eager to try and almost wanted to lead the army to reinforce the Huanshui Ferry.

Zhang Han sent people to stop Wang Li and asked the envoy to tell Wang Li clearly that no matter how beautiful the battle at the ferry crossing was, the Qin army would at most temporarily stop the anti-Qin coalition forces and would have no possibility of repelling the enemy. Instead of sending more troops to the Huanshui Ferry, which must be abandoned, and give the anti-Qin coalition the opportunity to defeat the Qin army, it would be better to firmly maintain unified action, so that even if the anti-Qin coalition forces broke through the ferry crossing, they would not be able to directly threaten the Qin army. Finally, Zhang Han clearly ordered Wang Li not to reinforce the ferry crossing, and let the ferry defenders with only more than 8,000 people fight on their own. How long can they last?

As mentioned earlier, after Li Si's blessing, Qin II Hu Hai had already asked Zhang Han to lead the troops outside the pass of the Qin army, and Wang Li's Great Wall Corps were also among them. Therefore, although he was extremely dissatisfied, Wang Li still had no choice but to take back the decision to increase the ferry crossing, and slowly retreated with the Great Wall Corps, allowing his ferry defenders to fight alone on the south bank of the Huanshui River, missing a chance to win.

Zhang Han's decision to stop Wang Li from reinforcement of the ferry was of course a pity for the ferry defenders. He could not wait for reinforcements, but could not withstand the fierce offensive of the anti-Qin coalition. At noon, the ferry defenders who were fighting alone were finally defeated and were chased by the anti-Qin coalition forces who were successfully robbed for more than ten miles, and the losses were quite considerable. As a result, after fleeing back to our team with injuries, the Qin general who was commanding the ferry defenders ran to Wang Li with tears in his eyes and shouting for justice, questioning why Wang Li did not send him additional reinforcements?

"It's not that I don't send reinforcements to you, it's that the general doesn't allow me to send them."

When answering this sentence, Wang Li was obviously not confident enough. After the Qin general who had the hope of guarding the ferry crossing cried out in grievance, Wang Li couldn't help but lower his head, and felt increasingly dissatisfied with Zhang Han, and said in his heart: "What else do you do except flatter Li Si and escape?"

Zhang Han's decision was actually quite correct. At least after quickly crossing the Huanshui River, he found that the main force of the Qin army had retreated only 30 miles before setting up a camp. Xiang Yu and Old Man Fan were immediately shocked and immediately understood that Zhang Han was planning to retreat to Hanoi step by step. It would be difficult for the self-in-chief army to have the opportunity to break the enemy like the Zhangshui Battle. There may be very few possible defeats of the Qin army on the road.

However, Xiang Yu certainly did not give up. The next morning, Xiang Yu decisively led the main force of the anti-Qin coalition to advance westward, lightly chasing the main force of the Qin army retreating westward, and successfully caught up with Wang Li's rear team just after noon. In order to give the main force time to retreat, Wang Li's rear team resolutely stopped and formed a formation to fight, preparing to persist for a while before turning back to chase the main force.

Seeing this, Xiang Yu, who was eager to catch up with the main force of the Qin army, was of course immediately ordered to launch an attack. Master Xiang Bo, who had never thought that his condition had recovered quickly, suddenly jumped out and said to Xiang Yu: "Nephew, attack slowly. Since the back team of the tyrant Qin army is fighting in formation, the terrain here is very wide and suitable for the army to intersperse quickly. Why don't we use our military advantage to surround them and lure the tyrant Qin army back to rescue?"

"Master Xiang, please use your brain to think about it?" Old Man Fan next to him said angrily: "The tyrannical Qin army in front of us is only more than 10,000 troops. How could the main force of the tyrannical Qin give up retreating west for such a little army, turn back to save them, and delay their main force's retreat?"

"Shi Fan Zuo, please listen to me to say it, okay?" Xiang Bo retorted angrily, saying: "If the tyrant Qin army left their backs and ignored them, we will attack from all directions and kill all the tyrant Qin troops surrounded by us! Seeing the fate of their companions, you said that there is still a tyrant Qin general who dares to walk behind with his army and dares to turn around when we are caught up with him. Isn't it easier for us to catch up with the main force of the tyrant Qin army?"

It’s okay, what Master Xiang Bo, who has always been unreliable, really makes sense this time. Even Old Man Fan couldn’t find anything to refute. After a moment of planning, Xiang Yu also said with a try-and-see idea: “Well, anyway, the tyrant Qin army is going to take steps and retreat slowly. We still have time, so let’s give it a try.”

After saying that, Xiang Yu really adopted Xiang Bo's suggestion for the first time, first retracting the offensive order, and then commanding the anti-Qin coalition forces to step forward in turn, surrounding the Qin army's rear team that fought in all directions. Because the anti-Qin coalition forces were extremely fast, it was when the Zhao general Shen Yang led the army to detour behind the Qin army. At the same time, two anti-Qin Yi troops rushed to the Qin army's left and right defenses, the Qin army's rear team understood the intention of the anti-Qin coalition forces and quickly launched a charge and broke through the encirclement and escaped.

The Qin army's rear team failed to break through. After several charges, they were forced to retreat by the anti-Qin coalition forces fighting in formation. They were forced to retreat to the original place to form a formation to protect themselves. At the same time, they quickly sent people to ask Zhang Han and Wang Li for help. As expected by Old Man Fan, he learned that the 10,000-strong rear team was surrounded by the anti-Qin coalition forces. Wang Li sent someone to escort the messenger to see Zhang Han at the first time. Zhang Han didn't even blink his eyelids and immediately said: "Tell the whole army to continue to advance, so that our rear team can break through on its own. We cannot implicate our main force for the 10,000 troops."

"General, our army is surrounded by the thief army and cannot escape!" The messenger asked for help was very anxious and begged: "If you don't send reinforcements back, our 10,000 troops will be over, and no one can escape back! General, please, please!"

"Stop!" Zhang Han interrupted the plea for help with a stern face and said, "As a soldier of the Great Qin Dynasty, you should be prepared to die for the Great Qin Dynasty at any time! If you want to survive, you can break out of the siege and rush over!"

After saying that, Zhang Han not only ordered people to take away the crying messenger for help, but also sent someone to give Wang Li a special order to follow him and not send one soldiers back to rescue the surrounded palace rear army.

It is conceivable that Wang Li was angry after learning Zhang Han's decision, and the generals Shuma and Su Jiao next to him were all furious. They all roared in front of Zhang Han's messenger, "Don't treat our soldiers in Shangjun as humans? If the 10,000 troops said they didn't want them, they wouldn't want them. The soldiers surrounded were dead, what should they do if their wives and children were surrounded? They wouldn't be saved. In this way, who else dares to lead the army behind the palace in the future?"

"General Wang, General Wang." The messenger asked for help also cried loudly: "We had the opportunity to retreat immediately. We were surrounded by the thief army in order to try our best to gain time. We were loyal to the Qin Dynasty. We were surrounded for the main force!"

"Stop quarrel!" Wang Li suddenly roared, shocking everyone beside him, and then said to the messenger sent by Zhang Han: "Go back and tell the general, and I am useless. I am too soft-hearted and can't bear to let the trapped soldiers die in vain. I want to go back to save them! If he wants to pursue the matter, wait until I save my rear team, and then come back to apologize to him!"

After saying that, Wang Li shouted orders one after another, ordering the retreating Great Wall Corps to turn around and return to rescue the trapped Qin army team. After hearing this order, the Qin generals of the Great Wall Corps were cheering like thunder and immediately executed the order without saying a word. However, Zhang Han was shocked when he heard the news and cried out: "Wang Li, you are going to kill our main force!"

In this way, of course, it was Master Xiang Bo's turn to be proud and arrogant. When he saw the Great Wall Corps suddenly turn around and fight, Old Man Fan, who was not optimistic about this tactic, almost shocked his chin and couldn't believe his eyes at all. Master Xiang jumped three feet high, jumping loudly, "See? Did you see? I'm right? As long as we surround the back team of the tyrant Qin army, the tyrant Qin army will definitely come back to rescue, and will definitely come back to rescue! I am indeed a god-predictable thing!"

"Uncle, you are there!" Xiang Yu also rarely praised his third uncle, and then shouted: "Form a formation and prepare for the battle!"

Xiang Yu is always reassuring in military affairs. Facing the Qin Great Wall Corps, which was coming with fierce momentum and high morale, Xiang Yu was very rational and temporarily avoided the edge. He did not immediately launch an attack to confront Wang Li head-on. On the contrary, he ordered Shen Yang to deliberately give way so that the surrounded Qin army back team could escape to meet with the Great Wall Corps. Then he asked Ying Bu to lead his army to attack the Qin army back team and force the Qin army back team to flee west. The Qin army back team, who was once desperate, was indeed trapped. He soon fled in a hurry under Ying Bu's expulsion, and he attacked the anti-Qin coalition forces for free, resulting in the Qin army being unable to use their best tactics of bowing and crossbow to defend the enemy.

Then, although Wang Li noticed the danger and immediately sent troops from both wings to attack Ying Bu left and right to cover the retreat of the self-armed army to prevent the self-armed army from turmoiling the front of his battle formation, the two wings of the Qin army had just fought with Ying Bu, and the anti-Qin coalition troops arrived immediately and joined forces with Ying Bu to fight with the two wings of the Qin army.

The battle situation was once the Qin army had the upper hand. The Qin army, who came back to rescue friendly troops, had high morale. Even if the troops were slightly weak, they had defeated Ying Bu and other troops for a long time to defeat them. However, Xiang Yu, who was more taught by Xiang Liang than Xiang Kang, was not anxious. He sneered and just waited patiently for the change of the Qin army's mentality. The result was the same as Xiang Yu hoped. As the war continued and the continuous consumption of physical strength and fighting spirit, the Qin army's fighting soldiers showed signs of gradually losing morale, and the offensive was no longer so fierce. Only then did Xiang Yu calmly send more troops to reinforce the melee battlefield ahead.

Wang Li was also very decisive. Seeing Xiang Yu's reinforcing troops on the front line, he immediately understood that Xiang Yu wanted to use the tactics of adding fuel to the front, gradually dragging himself into a melee, insisting on not being deceived, and seeing that the right-wing flags of the anti-Qin coalition were complex, and they were composed of different anti-Qin Yi divisions, so he immediately dispatched elite troops to attack the right wing of the anti-Qin coalition. Xiang Yu laughed and immediately ordered the Chu cavalry to prepare for attack, and then ordered Cao Ju, whom he trusted most in military affairs, and said: "Uncle Cao, the army is temporarily under your command. In addition to the right wing, the central and left wings will temporarily take a defensive moment. When I defeated the right-wing soldiers of the tyrannical Qin army, they will come back to command the entire army."

"Nephew, you are the commander of the entire army, why do you have to take risks yourself?" Cao Ju asked with a wry smile.

"The hands are itchy, and you don't kill dozens of tyrants in Qin Dynasty are all uncomfortable!"

After answering Cao Ju's question very directly, the Qin army had just rushed to the right wing of the anti-Qin coalition to fight. Xiang Yu shouted like a lion, and led five thousand Chu cavalry to attack the right wing battlefield with his five thousand Chu army cavalry, holding up his own flag and storming towards the right wing battlefield. As a result, seeing Xiang Yu personally led the Chu cavalry to fight, the anti-Qin coalition was of course cheerful and morale was greatly boosted. The complex formation of the anti-Qin coalition was even more motivated, and the morale was strongly enhanced, and the right wing of the anti-Qin coalition was strongly strengthened, and the battle was strongly fought to block the elite army sent by Wang Li.

In contrast to the anti-Qin coalition, seeing Xiang Yu personally leading the army to fight from a distance, there was a huge uproar in the Qin army formation. Wang Li almost glared out his eyes and shouted: "Crazy! Madman! The commander of the entire army who commanded more than 200,000 troops dared to lead the army to fight in person. Are you not afraid of a ravine shooting you to death?!"

Xiang Yu's personal battle also seriously disturbed the Qin army's mind of attacking the army. Seeing the enemy's commanding flag rushing towards his own army, the Qin army soldiers who were attacking the right wing of the anti-Qin coalition were in a big uproar, countless Qin army soldiers involuntarily turned around and faced Xiang Yu, excitedly yelling, "Kill! Kill! Kill directly kill the thief commander!"
Chapter completed!