Chapter 122

"Report, General: Li Yuanba is ferocious beyond compare; he has already slaughtered over thirty thousand of Xiang Yu's army! Xiang Yu's forces now show signs of desertion. General Wang Li urges us to hasten the main army!"

"Because... once Xiang Yu's army collapses into full rout, even General Wang Li's thousand men cannot stop them!"

"What?"

A report arrived; Wang Ben and General Meng Tian both felt their scalps prickle with dread!

Remember, that was only Li Yuanba alone!

And the opponent was Xiang Yu's four hundred thousand-strong army!

One man, slaughtering Xiang Yu's four hundred thousand until deserters appeared?

How utterly terrifying?

Moreover, what makes it even more horrifying is: thirty thousand!

Wang Li reported: Yuan Ba has already killed thirty thousand!

Thirty thousand!

Remember, that was thirty thousand!

Forget thirty thousand; even slaughtering thirty thousand pigs would likely exhaust a person to collapse!

What of Li Yuanba?

Is he... tired?

Both Wang Ben and General Meng Tian felt their scalps prickle.

The accompanying generals were likewise chilled to the bone!

General Meng Tian said: "If this battle proceeds smoothly, then possibly, our first clash with Xiang Yu will be the decisive one!"

He was stunned.

Wang Ben nodded: "Very likely, but only if Li Yuanba is truly that ferocious!"

"But regardless, we must hurry!"

"If we slow even a bit more, Li Yuanba may not hold out!"

"After all... that was four hundred thousand!"

Wang Ben shouted; at this moment, he ordered the soldiers to advance rapidly once more!

To boost morale and quicken their pace, he simply dismounted and ran alongside the many soldiers, personally urging them to move faster!

Under his urging, clearly, the entire army's marching speed increased considerably!

In the blink of an eye.

Only twenty li remained to Xiang Yu's army's encampment!

Upon reaching here.

The two hundred fifty thousand-strong army finally halted.

At that moment, many soldiers could not help but heave heavy, ragged breaths!

Seeing this scene, General Meng Tian's brows furrowed repeatedly!

At this very moment, he was nearly certain his guess was correct.

The Qin Army had grown lax!

The current Qin Army, aside from the three hundred thousand Meng family troops under his own command and the five hundred thousand Qin troops led by Zhao Tuo, which counted as elite.

The other Qin troops were truly lax!

Indeed!

Twenty li!

And this was without carrying baggage and supplies.

Just twenty li, and these soldiers were exhausted to this state.

Remember, the Meng family troops under his command train daily carrying loads for forty li!

And these soldiers...

General Meng Tian shook his head again and again!

Wang Ben, looking at these soldiers, felt equally furious!

But... there was no time to attend to them!

Right now, they truly could not spare attention for these soldiers.

Right now, the war situation was paramount.

At this moment, General Meng Tian and Wang Ben left the two hundred fifty thousand here temporarily, allowing them a brief rest!

The two of them, leading light cavalry, would head immediately toward the vicinity of Xiang Yu's army's encampment!

They must quickly scout the situation!

At the very least, they must know exactly what was happening now before making adjustments and deployments.

Issuing orders hastily would prove very costly!

Soon, the two arrived five li outside Xiang Yu's army's encampment.

Speaking reasonably, as generals of an army, the two of them being this close to the enemy was extremely dangerous.

But... at this very moment, they only wished this distance was even closer!

Because...

They could not see clearly!

They truly could not see clearly!

Separated by five li, they could only smell the blood in the air and see soldiers fleeing in the distance!

Inside the encampment, what exactly was happening? They truly could not make it out!

"Closer!"

"There is a high mountain ahead; go up there to look!"

Wang Ben shouted, and at this moment, riding a swift horse, he rushed up the mountain!

Meng Tian followed closely behind!

Soon, they arrived!

Just at this moment, the sun rose, and the situation inside Xiang Yu's vast army camp was laid bare!

And truly standing on the mountain peak, looking down at the scene inside Xiang Yu's vast army camp!

Whether Wang Ben or Meng Tian, both of them felt their spines grow cold!

Because... below really was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

Shattered flesh was everywhere!

Fresh blood had soaked the entire earth!

Even the pristine white tents had been dyed red.

And facing such a scene, how could it be merely thirty thousand dead?

It felt... at least fifty thousand!

"Not just that!"

"Absolutely not just that!"

"I feel there must be seventy or eighty thousand!"

Wang Ben swallowed hard!

And what shocked them even more was not this, but the vast army stirring over there!

Although the distance was too great to see clearly, one could still see the vast army in the barracks stirring!

Hundreds of thousands of troops were all moving in one direction!

That was not the main camp gate, but the rear of the camp!

All the soldiers were shuffling toward the rear of the camp!

"This... is a retreat!"

Wang Ben said, his heart pounding with fear.

Meng Tian also swallowed hard!

However, no matter how shocked they were, it still fell far short of one-thousandth, one ten-thousandth of the shock felt by Xiang Yu's army!

The reason was simple!

Because, no matter how shocked Meng Tian and Wang Ben were, they were only watching from the perspective of bystanders.

But this matter was happening to them directly!