He roared and issued an order to assemble the entire army. Zhou Yin, who had not slept all night last night, completely forgot about his fatigue and fatigue. He first put on his clothes and armor in a hurry, and then immediately rushed to the central army's tent to dispatch troops and generals, preparing to launch the decisive battle on the northern front that he had always dreamed of.

When they arrived at the Central Army's tent, more than half of the civil and military officials of the Western Chu army had already rushed to the tent first, and were still discussing the issue that the Han army's Zhou Shu Corps had the courage to launch a decisive battle. Zhou Yin was both excited and excited when he saw it, and ignored everyone's salutes. He just walked quickly to the throne and couldn't wait to see the robbery. He complained in his heart that the Chinese civil and military officials who were still unable to come to Hou Ming.

Then, Xiang Guan, an important general in the Northern Corps of the Western Chu Army, and a personal soldier, entered the account almost at the same time. The personal soldier rushed to bow and said, "Report to the Grand Sima, our scout just came to report and confirmed that the Han thieves' camp's troops were about 68,000, of which the number of cavalry was close to 10,000."

"So many have been dispatched?" Xiang Guan rushed to speak and said in surprise: "The total strength of the thief army is only 80,000 people. He dispatched nearly 70,000 to the decisive battle in one go. Shuppa Zhou is very courageous this time, and he dares not leave any backup and bet all his bets?"

"This is the best!" Zhou Yin said with a grim smile: "If it goes well, we can wipe out all the thieves on the northern front within today!"

After saying a grin, Zhou Yin waved his hand to let his personal soldiers go down, then quickly glanced at the corner of the tent, and said angrily: "Why haven't you arrived yet? I asked the swordsman to prepare. If you didn't come to Hou's mission within a stick of incense, no matter who it is, you will be killed immediately!"

Fortunately, although the mass discipline of the Western Chu army was corrupt, the military discipline was very strict. All the commanders arrived at the Marquis' order on time. As a result, everyone was quite surprised that Xiang Sui, the son of the Xiang family, was the last commander to arrive. As soon as he entered the tent, he asked Zhou Yin: "Grand Sima, the bandit army is making a big move. You ask our army to gather all the Marquis' orders. Could it be that they want to send troops to fight the bandit army?

In view of Xiang Sui's support for him, Zhou Yin did not care about Xiang Sui's questioning, and asked with a smile: "Is there any need to ask? Uncle Zhou finally had to fight us to the death with a dignified battle. How could this general miss such an opportunity?"

"The General of the Mo is opposed!" Xiang Sui's loud answer surprised Zhou Yin and everyone, and then Xiang Sui quickly said: "If it were normal, the General of the Mo is definitely supportive of taking the opportunity to launch a decisive battle, but today it is not possible. We must not take a risk of decisive battle today!"

"Why?" Zhou Yin asked with a suppressed attitude.

"Because our decisive battle preparations are seriously insufficient today!" Xiang Sui immediately said: "Yesterday we mistakenly thought that the Han thieves would come to rob the camp, and we did not prepare for a full-scale decisive battle at all. Most of the main combat soldiers did not rest well last night, which would definitely affect the physical strength and morale of the soldiers. The Han thieves army was completely opposite to us. Yesterday, they not only had a great appetite for the soldiers, but also had sufficient rest at night. The soldiers' physical strength and morale of the soldiers were at the peak. One was rising and the other was declining. At this time, the situation would only be unfavorable to us. Therefore, we will think that it is best not to take a risk to fight the Han thieves today!"

Zhou Yin's face immediately became gloomy, but he was concerned about the background behind Xiang Sui, so he could only continue to suppress his temperament and said with a pleasant look: "Brother Xiang Sui, I know all the situations you are talking about, but the opportunity for the fight is rare and fleeting. If we don't seize this opportunity to fight the main force of the Han thief, it will be difficult for us to have such an opportunity again in the future."

"Grand Sima, it's better to have no chance than to do it." Xiang Sui bowed and said, "Shumo will take the initiative to say that yesterday, Shupin Zhou deliberately sent a letter to a fight, and disturbed our military camp twice in the evening. The purpose is probably to make us only care about night defense and not prepare for today's decisive battle, and to consume the physical strength and morale of our soldiers. Now his sinister intentions have been basically achieved. If we still insist on sending troops to fight, we are afraid that we will fall in love with his thoughts."

Xiang Sui's analysis was very clear and reasonable, and Zhou Yin was not hopelessly reckless. After hearing Xiang Sui's persuasion, Xiang Sui was inevitably a little shaken. Xiang Sui hurriedly said: "Semi-Master, I know that you have long wanted to fight the Han thieves to the death. The Han thieves actually hope to annihilate the main force of the northern line as soon as possible and completely reverse the situation of the Central Plains. However, the front-line decisive battle is too important. As long as we make a mistake, the consequences will be unimaginable immediately, and even directly affect the overall situation of our Western Chu and Han thieves. Therefore, the Han thieves think that it is best not to take risks. We should temporarily take a defensive momentum to avoid the Han thieves' edge, and wait for the Han thieves to be frustrated, and then try to defeat the enemy."

Zhou Yin was hesitant and said for a while: "What if the Han thieves refused to fight with us in the future if they didn't fight this decisive battle today? There is a water blocking road in the south of us, and we cannot retreat, and we cannot fight, so what should we do?"

"It's okay!" Xiang Sui answered decisively and said, "We just need to endure for a day and avoid the current unfavorable situation. We can feel at ease to send troops to settle the scores with the Han thieves tomorrow. If the Han thieves don't fight, we will attack their camp. Within one day, the Han thieves will never be able to build their camps so strong that we can still be sure to take them! Take a step back and say that even if we can't take the Han thieves' camp, we don't have to worry. The water is not far from Julu, and our food supplies are easier than the Han thieves. Even if we confront each other, we can consume the Han thieves with a long grain channel!"

Zhou Yin was even more hesitant and wavering, but at this moment, another personal soldier outside the tent suddenly came to the report and bowed to the press and said, "Grand Sima, the Han thief sent dozens of cavalry to the outside of our military camp and shouted to fight loudly, saying that it was Grand Sima, you promised to send troops to fight today. If you are untrustful, you are..., that is..."

"What is it?" Xiang Guan next to him asked curiously.

"The villain dares not say it." The personal soldier replied in a mournful face.

"It's the maid!" Zhou Yin said with a dark face: "I told the Han thief envoy yesterday that if anyone who speaks without trust and breaks his word today is the maid!"

Even Xiang Guan didn't dare to say anything, but Xiang Sui looked calm and said, "Secretarius, the soldiers are never tired of deceit. Why should you take a joke to heart? If you endure a temporary humiliation, what's wrong with our army being invincible?"

Zhou Yin's expression was extremely complicated. After thinking about it with a dark face for a long time, Zhou Yin still gritted his teeth and shouted: "I ordered the entire army to guard the camp and not to fight with one soldier!"

Xiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly bowed to Zhou Yin to thank him. He comforted him with kind words, so that Zhou Yin would not have to take yesterday's promise to heart. However, Zhou Yin's face became darker and could not listen at all. He just waved his hand and asked the generals to go down to command the troops to guard the camp, and kept saying to himself: "A real man can bend and stretch, endure, and be patient, and you must hold it!"

Want to hold back? Is it so easy? When the main force of the Han army advanced several miles south of the camp and seized the favorable terrain in advance to arrange the formation, seeing that the Western Chu army still showed no sign of sending troops to the decisive battle, Uncle Zhou just whispered, and immediately dozens of cavalry surrounded a soldier wearing maid's clothes to come out of the battle, and ran outside the Western Chu army camp to insult the battle. A funny drama soon started in front of the Western Chu army's camp.

In front of everyone, the Han soldier wearing maid clothes was flirting and acted arrogantly, claiming to be the mother of Zhou Yin, the Grand Marshal of Western Chu. While greeting Zhou Yin's family and relatives loudly, pretending to take care of the baby made of straw, humiliating Zhou Yin and mocking Zhou Yin in all kinds of ways. The other Han cavalry laughed and cursed Zhou Yin, threatening that as long as Zhou Yin stood up and admitted that he was a maid, the Han army would immediately retreat to the camp and no longer care about Zhou Yin's promise yesterday.

People in this era valued dignity. Seeing the Han army insulting him in the camp, Zhou Yin was of course so angry that his whole body trembled. He wanted to summon the generals of the Western Chu army to send troops to fight again several times. Fortunately, Xiang Sui was prepared and insisted on guarding Zhou Yin from beginning to end, holding Zhou Yin tightly, so that Zhou Yin did not let Zhou Yin take the risk of going out in impulse.

After more than half an hour of hard work, seeing that the Western Chu army still showed no sign of sending troops, even Zhou Shu, the old man from Shangshan who was in charge of the army, was inevitably worried. He couldn't help but say to Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou Yin, if Zhou Yin's husband endured this tone and insisted on not fighting with us today, what should we do?"

Uncle Zhou didn't say anything, and after a while he smiled bitterly, "Then I have nothing to do. I can only admit that I underestimated Zhou Yin's husband, and I didn't expect him to be so calm."

"Stay calm and wait a little longer. The generals brought out by Xiang Yu are more irritable than the other. Even if they are temporarily calm, they may act impulsively at any time." After comforting the old man Shangshan, Uncle Zhou added another sentence in his heart, "I hope this is the case."

Unfortunately, at the same time, Zhou Yin had been forced back to the central tent of the Western Chu army by Xiang Sui. He could not hear the insults and provocations of the Han army, nor could he see the performances of the Han army dressed in women outside the camp. Although his face was terrible, his anger was controlled a lot. Xiang Sui also took the opportunity to persuade: "Grand Sima, that's right. The Han thieves used all means to incite you to fight, which means they were already anxious. As long as we hold back this tone, the initiative on the battlefield will definitely come back to us tomorrow."

Zhou Yin nodded in depressedly, and Xiang Sui advised again: "Sima, you didn't sleep all night last night. Why don't you rest? There is a general in the camp to watch. There will be no problem. If anything happens..."

"Report——!" The personal soldiers who were suddenly stepping in quickly suddenly interrupted Xiang Sui's patient persuasion. While kneeling down to one knee to Zhou Yin, he presented a military emergency report with chicken feathers to Zhou Yin, and said loudly: "Report to the Grand Sima, Julu urgently reported that it was sent by someone from Zhao Xiang Zhang Er."

He was in a very unhappy mood. Of course, Zhou Yin was extremely unhappy and grabbed the urgent report delivered by the guard. However, when he opened the content of the military emergency report carefully, Zhou Yin suddenly opened his mouth wide, and his face was full of incredible shock. Xiang Sui next to him saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly came up to read it together. As a result, he only read the general content of Zhang Er emergency report, and Xiang Sui was completely stunned...

After a long time, Zhou Yin suddenly asked Xiang Sui: "Brother Xiang Sui, are you still opposed to my decisive battle now?"

Xiang Sui was silent, and after a while, he replied in a gloomy voice: "I can only fight. As the uncle Zhou must not have time to know, I will win the decisive battle with him with all my might."

In this way, due to the sudden change in the battle situation, without sufficient preparation, the main force of the Western Chu Army's Northern Line Corps suddenly went out in full swing. Under Zhou Yin's personal leadership, ninety thousand troops were dispatched to the north in one breath, and came to the main force of the Han army's Zhou Shu Corps with great momentum to fight to the decisive battle. At the same time, at the request of Zhou Yin, the chief general of the Jibei Army, Tian Xin, also bit the bullet and led 30,000 troops out of the camp, joined forces with the Western Chu Army to set out north, and helped the Western Chu Army fight the Han Army.

Without the perspective of God, after receiving the report that the Western Chu army was finally dispatched, Zhou Shu of course believed that the insulting and provocation of the Han army soldiers played a role, and also ordered the Han army soldiers who fought outside the Western Chu army camp. However, before the Western Chu army arrived at the battlefield, Zhou Shu still reminded the Han generals: "The Western Chu thief army came in anger this time, and the offensive was bound to be fierce at the beginning. If our army rashly launched an attack, it would definitely suffer a great loss. Therefore, in this battle, we must first take a defensive moment, and wait until the morale of the Western Chu thief army is exhausted and the soldiers are exhausted, and then launch a counterattack, so we are sure to win!"

Because the troops were sent too late, it was not until nearly half noon that the Western Chu army and the Jibei army joined forces to slowly set sail near the battlefield. After quickly observing the terrain of the battlefield, seeing that the terrain was wide and the troops were convenient to deploy, Zhou Yin immediately decided to fight the Han army with the Yanxing Formation, which was suitable for leveraging the advantages of the troops. However, when considering how to deploy the troops, Zhou Yin suddenly remembered the letter of rebellion written by Uncle Zhou to the commander of the Jibei Army Tian Xin yesterday...

"Be careful, the Jibei Army is not very reliable at all, so it's better to be on guard against them."

After this thought flashed through his mind, Zhou Yin immediately made up his mind and ordered: "Lie Yan, brother Xiang Guan, you will lead 30,000 troops to be arranged on the west side of our left wing. Let Tian Xin order him to lead the Jibei army to be arranged on the east side of our right wing. The rest of the troops will be led by our commander himself, and the central army will be arranged on the front of the central army, and the main force of the chariots will be given to you. Each army will act according to the banner and do not make any mistakes."

The generals held their fists and sang promises together, and Xiang Sui quickly held their fists and took the order. After hesitating for a while, Xiang Sui carefully reminded: "Da Sima, is it a bit dangerous to let the Jibei Army line up on our right wing alone? The combat effectiveness of the Jibei Army is not very reliable."

"I did it on purpose." Zhou Yin answered very directly, saying, "You will understand the reason later."

Seeing that Zhou Yin refused to answer, Xiang Sui, who had already contradicted Zhou Yin many times today, did not dare to continue asking again. He could only honestly organize the army to line up in front of the central army position, and assume the important task of confronting the main force of the Han army head-on. Another Xiang Guan, who was highly used by Zhou Yin, quickly led the army to the western left wing of the Western Chu army. Although Tian Xin, who was in charge of the Jibei Army, knew that his own army would definitely become the key target of the Han army to take care of him, he did not dare to say anything. He could only swallow his anger and take the order.

On the Han army, Zhou Yin's formation was just revealed, and Uncle Zhou already understood his tactical intentions and couldn't help but praise: "No wonder Zhou Yin's husband has been desperately seeking a decisive battle with our army. He is quite capable of fighting in formation. Not to mention everything he should consider, he even set up a trap for me to drill. This battle is going to be fought, and it will definitely not be able to decide the outcome until it is dark."

"General, can you give me some advice? What trap did Zhou Yin set for us?" Zhou Shu, an old man from Shangshan who didn't understand formation battles, asked curiously.

"The Jibei bandit army, which was arranged alone on their right wing, was the trap set up by Zhou Yinpian." Uncle Zhou pointed directly at the Jibei army in the east and said: "The Jibei bandit army is not as powerful as the Western Chu bandit army, and their positions are also the most likely position for us to break through. Zhou Yinpian deliberately asked them to arrange the right wing in order to lure us to attack the Jibei bandit army, attract our troops, and create opportunities for him in the central and left wing positions."

"In addition, the Western Chu thief Army and the Jibei Army are arranged in the east and west wings respectively, and there is also a mystery among them." Uncle Zhou pointed to the sun in the sky and said, "It's already noon, and the sun is gradually setting in the west. Zhou Yin pushu asked the Western Chu thief Army to line up to the west. When launching an attack, attack the Western Chu thief Army on the side of our right wing, and you can gain the advantage of light facing the sun, so that our right wing army will be at the disadvantage of fighting against the light."

Zhou Shu tried hard to appreciate Uncle Zhou's guidance, and then said: "So, did the Western Chu thief Army want to encircle our flanks and defeat us by assault from west to east?"

"With this plan, Zhou Yinpeng did not bet all of his bets on our flanks." Uncle Zhou replied: "His real murderous intent is still on the front of our central army. Even if he attacks our right wing for a while, the purpose is to force us to increase our troops and create fighter opportunities for him on the front battlefield of the central army."

After saying that, Uncle Zhou smiled again and said, "Fortunately, all his arrangements were within my expectations, especially when he asked the Jibei Army to arrange the east side alone. It must be because our letters against Tian Xin played a role, so he did not dare to be completely relieved of the Jibei Army, and he deliberately used the Jibei Army as bait."

"What should we do?" Zhou Shu asked again quickly.

"Of course, it's time to defend first." Uncle Zhou replied very directly, and then ordered the personal soldiers next to him: "Go and order General Chengda on our right wing, and say that the Western Chu thieves will definitely attack his position with all their might, and ask him to defend his position to the death, and not take a step back! Also, tell him clearly that I have no reinforcements for him. His primary task in this battle is to defend our right wing. As long as he can persevere to the end, I will remember his first merit!"

As Uncle Zhou expected, after the formation was set up, the Western Chu army was indeed the first to send troops from the left wing and attacked the right wing position of the Han army. The Han army general Chongda, who had received the order from Uncle Zhou, also knew that he had a great responsibility. He quickly commanded the Han army soldiers to firmly attack the Western Chu army's charge with strong bows and crossbows. The Western Chu army soldiers raised their shields to charge, and roared and forced themselves to the Han army position. Behind the Han army commander's shields, they immediately stabbed countless spears, and stabbed them straight towards the Western Chu army soldiers who were shouting and killing...

"Put your foot firmly! No one is allowed to take a step back!" The middle-level generals of the Han army on the front line shouted.

"Kill! Kill all the thieves in the Han Dynasty!" The generals of the Western Chu army who were leading the army to charge shouted louder.
Chapter completed!