Let’s not talk about Zhou Bo’s army crossing the river, let’s talk about Liu Bang.

It took only more than two hundred miles to Xinyi to Puyang, so after just over two hours, the urgent report of the Chu army flowing south through Xinyi was submitted to Liu Bang's desk.

Moreover, the first emergency report was delivered not long after, and the second emergency report was also arrived one after another, and the Chu army was just passing by.

After reading two urgent reports, Liu Bang asked Zhang Liang and Chen Ping said: "Zifang, Chen Ping, what do you think about this?"

Zhang Liang pondered for a moment and said thoughtfully: "From the urgent report submitted by the Xinyi Guards, the Chu army should have passed by there, but it is hard to say whether it is the main force of the Chu army in Xiangzhuang." After saying this, Zhang Liang said again, "After all, it is dark. The Chu army only needs five hundred people. If you ignite more torches and expand the distance between the marches, you can create a momentum of five thousand people."

Chen Ping also echoed: "Brother Zifang is right, this may just be the Chu army's suspicious plan."

After saying this, Chen Ping said again: "However, once General Zhou Bo's urgent delivery arrives, the king will know whether the Chu army's main force or just a suspicious soldier passed through Xinyi."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sui He hurried into the hall with a book scroll.

"King, General Zhou Bo is urgently reporting!" Sui He bowed to Liu Bang and said respectfully.

Liu Bang reached out to take the book, and after reading it hurriedly, he changed his expression slightly: "Zifang, Chen Ping, Zhou Bo's battle report said that the remnants of the Chu army ran towards Xinyi. It seems that the person who passed through Xinyi should be the main force of the Chu army in Xiangzhuang. Zhou Bo also said that the Chu army even threw down the ships used to cross the river. It seems that the child of Xiangzhuang was walking in a hurry!"

"Is that right?" Zhang Liang frowned, "Does the Chu army really not plan to return to Zhao?"

"Don't you go back to Zhao?" Liu Bang said in a deep voice, "Don't the little boy Xiang Zhuang plan to go to Guanzhong?"

"When the Chu army knew that there was no hope of attacking Guanzhong, it might retreat to Chu territory." Zhang Liang nodded and said, "However, this matter is still a bit strange. From a tactical perspective, it is certainly a wise move for the Chu army to return to Chu territory, but from a strategic perspective, once the Chu army returns to Chu territory, then all the previous efforts will be wasted."

Chen Ping nodded slightly, and he was also confused. This seemed to be inconsistent with Xiang Zhuang's style of conduct, right?

Since Shouchun, Xiang Zhuang has given people the feeling that he is so resolute that he is even cruel and even cruel. Will he give up?

Previously, whether it was a surprise attack on Liang or a rush to Qi, the strategy of the Chu army had undoubtedly demonstrated. The Chu army wanted to break the Han King's general trend of sweeping the world through a series of wars. However, this time, the Chu army was abnormal and seemed to be ready to return to Chu. Before breaking the Han King's general trend, would the Chu army really return to Chu?

Liu Bang frowned and said in a deep voice: "I don't want so much. As long as the Chu army is the main force behind Xinyi!"

After saying this, Liu Bang gritted his teeth and said, "In this way, let Han Xin do more and more details, strengthen investigation, and then let Zhou Bo, Wang Su and others cross the river to pursue him quickly. I don't care what Xiang Zhuang's children want to do. This time, he must destroy his remaining troops in Qi, especially Xiang Zhuang. I have to crush his bones and raise them ashes!"

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After dawn, the Chu army did not stop marching, but continued to move south.

At noon, the Chu army entered the territory of Dong'a. After entering Dong'a County, Qi's scout cavalry began to appear at the intersections of key passes. They headed south, and the fine works of Qi army dressed as hungry people or woodcutters and hunters along the way began to appear. Obviously, Liu Bang and Han Xin already knew that the Chu army had returned to Qi.

In the middle of the night, the Chu army had already penetrated nearly a hundred miles deep in Dong'a County.

Wei Liao, who was originally lying on the stretcher, suddenly struggled to sit up and said to Xiang Zhuang, who was urging his horse to walk in front: "General, let's get here, there is no need to move forward!"

Xiang Zhuang then raised his right hand and said loudly: "Stop moving forward!"

"The general has an order, and the whole army will stop advancing!"

"The general has an order, and the whole army will stop advancing!"

"The general has an order, and the whole army will stop advancing!"

Xiang Zhuang's order was quickly conveyed, and the Chu army, which were originally marching forward, stopped one after another.

In less than a moment, Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Xiao Kai, Yu Ziqi, Jing Qian, Gao Chu and other generals gathered to Xiangzhuang. Except for Yu Ziqi, Gao Chu was thinking, the rest of the generals were confused. According to the usual marching method of the Chu army hiding out at night during the day, it was a great time to march. Why should we stop?

Xiang Zhuang's eyes swept across the faces of Huan Chu, Ji Bu, and Xiao Kai, and finally fell on Yu Ziqi.

Yu Ziqi seemed to realize something, and immediately urged him to step forward, bowed to Xiang Zhuang, and said solemnly: "General, please give me any instructions if you have anything to do. Whether it is to go to the Knife Mountain or the oil pan, the final general will be absolutely absolutely true!" Yu Ziqi's trust in Xiang Zhuang was unreserved. If it weren't for Xiang Zhuang, how could the Chu army last until now?

Xiang Zhuang was silent and said after a while: "General Ziqi, you have to think clearly."

"I don't have to think about it at the end." Yu Ziqi's tone was very light, and he did not express his determination with harsh words.

However, Xiang Zhuang clearly felt the determination momentum of whether there is or not, whether there is no return, whether there is no life or not: the general has his own destiny, even if there is tens of millions of people, I will go...

"Okay." Xiang Zhuang pointed his head and said solemnly, "Yu Ziqi obeys the order!"

"Bang." Just a clear sound was heard, and Yu Ziqi had already folded his fists and bowed on the horse's back, and listened to the military orders respectfully.

"Lead 500 elite troops from the headquarters, use more torches, increase the distance between the marches, and continue to move south with disguise. Remember, you can only march at night and hide during the day. In particular, you must strengthen your vigilance and never let the Qi army scouts see through the truth too early! In short, the longer you delay, the more beneficial it will be to my main force. Go!"

"No!" Yu Ziqi responded with a loud promise and immediately lit up five hundred elite soldiers and left.

Xiang Zhuang looked around the generals and shouted: "Every army immediately put out the torches and take a small path back to Xinyi!"

Xiangzhuang's order was issued quickly, and the remaining 4,000 troops extinguished the torches one after another, then turned around and went north, and killed him again towards Xinyi.

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In the east of Xinyi City, Zhou Bo's army was heading south along the road.

A moment ago, Zhou Bo had just received a report from the magistrate of Dong'a County and learned that the Chu army had fled into Dong'a County and was probably about to reach Jishui now.

Calculate the distance and found that Zhou Bo's army had been pulled down by the Chu army for nearly two hundred miles.

Zhou Guanfu said in a hatred: "Father, these Chu barbarians can really run away!"

Zhou Bo sighed and said helplessly: "No, the Chu army is all elite!"

After saying this, Zhou Bo looked at the marching queues in front, back and left and right again, and saw that the Han army's marching queue had already become terrible because of the long and urgent marching. He said with some depression: "Unlike our army, it is said to be elite. In fact, there are still many old, weak, sick and disabled in the army. If it weren't for this, they wouldn't have been dragged so far by the Chu army, hey."

Zhou Bo, Zhou Guanfu and his son didn't know that the main force of the Chu army, who had run two hundred miles away, was actually hidden in an old forest less than ten miles away. The Chu army returned to Xinyi before dawn at the speed of forcing the force, and then hid in the old forest that had been surveyed long ago.

As we headed north, because we took a small path and forced our troops to go in a hurry, many Chu soldiers fell to their noses and faces, and several even broke their arms and legs. Fortunately, there were no other mistakes on the way north, and the four thousand Chu soldiers returned to the vicinity of Xinyi almost without knowing it.

Such a situation was actually a long time ago in Xiang Zhuang, and Wei Liao expected it.

Due to years of war in Wei, most of the people in Dongjun had fled, and those who had not fled moved into cities or forts to live. The peddlers and pawns were completely extinct. Now the villages in the wild are almost empty, and even fewer families live in barren mountains and ridges. Therefore, the Chu army went north overnight and did not encounter a single pedestrian at all.

As for the scouts of the Qi army and the Han army's detailed works, they had already followed Yu Ziqi's "army" to Dong'a. After all, Yu Ziqi's "main force of the Chu army" is currently in Donga County.

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Puyang, the county magistrate's office.

Early in the morning, Liu Bang couldn't wait to enter the hall of the county magistrate's mansion.

Seeing that the Chu army was stepping into the Jedi step by step, Xiang Zhuang's son was about to be awarded the title, Liu Bang was also excited and didn't even have the intention to be intimate with Concubine Qi and Mrs. Bo. He wanted to stay in the hall all day and night, following the latest updates of the Chu army that Zhang Liang and Chen Ping always paid attention to, as well as the latest progress of the Qi army and Zhou Bo army.

At this moment, Zhang Liang was pointing at the map hanging on the screen to analyze the latest situation with Liu Bang.

"King, it seems that the one who entered Dong'a County should be the main force of the Chu army in Xiangzhuang."

"Last evening, the main force of the Chu army had already entered Dong'a County, but in the middle of the night, he suddenly turned east and changed the direction of the marching. Then by dawn, all scouts and slaughter lost the news about the Chu army. It is estimated that the remnants of the Chu army hid in a secret valley."

"The Chu army changed its marching route just to make it more obvious. I judged that the Chu army was likely to go to Lu County in Xue County. After all, thousands of remnants of Xiang Guan were still entrenched in Lu County."

Liu Bang immediately said, "That's right, even Xiang Guan was cleaned up."

Zhang Liang nodded and said, "Zhou Bo and Mei Yu have now passed through Xinyi, Li Shang, Fu Kuan, Xiahou Ying and other three elite soldiers have also crossed the river and have spread along the east and west directions. Once the Chu army suddenly turns around or flees in the east and west directions, they will be intercepted and killed by these six elite soldiers."

Zhao's six elite soldiers, but the 20,000 elite soldiers that Wang sucked were left at Huguan and Jingxing Pass.

Liu Bang touched the mustache on his lips and said in a deep voice: "We must find the whereabouts of Chu army as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry, my king." Zhang Liang smiled slightly and said, "I have sent out a Deli disciple, the hero who discovered the whereabouts of the Chu army in Dabie Mountains last time. Calculate the time, he should be almost at Dong'a County now. I guess it will take a long time before Dong'a County will be sent back."

"Okay!" Liu Bang immediately slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "This time, I want to see if the little boy from Xiangzhuang can still run away? Where can he run? Humph!" ps: Recommend a book "Genius Photo Master", written by Da Yan. I have followed the entire process of the other book "Golden Eyes" he just finished.
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