Chapter 265

Two hundred thousand enemy troops arrived, and Han Xin slaughtered one hundred and eighty thousand of them; what crime is there in that!

Han Xin lowered his head and said, "Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu escaped!"

"Heh! That's it?"

"This is called a crime?"

Wang Jian glanced at Han Xin, utterly speechless!

Even Facing Ying Su was shaking his head!

It seems this Han Xin has learned bad habits from Wang Jian!

He has learned nine or ten out of ten of Wang Jian's ways!

Having achieved great merit, yet he immediately begs for punishment!

"Nothing, although you previously said you wanted to capture Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive, but... after all, slaughtering one hundred and eighty thousand people, this is nothing!"

Facing Ying Su said with a smile!

He truly felt nothing was wrong.

If his goal in this battle was to defeat the Xiongnu, then capturing Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive would naturally be the most important!

But... his goal in this battle was to annihilate the Xiongnu, from the Xiongnu king down to the Xiongnu commoners, kill them all!

Since that is the case, whether or not Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu is captured alive is not so important!

However, Han Xin shook his head:

"Not only that, not only did Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu escape, but the experts from the Central Plains escaped too, and Seeing Xiang Yu escaped as well!"

"If it were only that, I would not have begged for punishment!"

"Most importantly, the contradictions now possess four hundred thousand troops!"

"With this, even if we win this battle, we cannot occupy Hulun Pasture at all!"

"Therefore, this battle cannot be considered a decision!"

"The war to annihilate the Xiongnu is far from over!"

"What?"

The moment the words left his mouth, Wang Jian was shocked.

Facing Ying Su was shocked as well!

Han Xin then painfully closed his eyes!

Beginning to recall the scene on the battlefield just now!

A feeling a bit like a heart being cut by a knife!

About one shi earlier.

Just as Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's great army was about to charge out of the swamp, suddenly, cannon fire filled the sky!

Han Xin's army really stunned Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu!

Even driving Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu into utter despair.

It was truly too despairing!

Behind were Zhou Yafu's cannons!

In front were Han Xin's cannons!

On the flank, even more so, Cao Zhengchun, the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun, and a host of experts led sixty thousand troops in a surprise attack, even... charging out of the swamp to fight his army to the death!

But he?

Had only five thousand remnant troops!

These five thousand remnant troops, facing such a situation, how could they break out?

At the moment he ordered the charge out of the swamp, he went with almost a determination to die!

Completely holding the belief that if he could send one out, he would send one out, leaving behind a spark!

And Han Xin fought this battle with the belief of definitely capturing Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive.

Capturing Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive, then... Facing Ying Su could drag Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu back to Xianyang!

In this way... Facing Ying Su's prestige would rise greatly!

Everyone under heaven, no one would dare to disobey Facing Ying Su anymore!

After all... this was capturing the Xiongnu king alive!

In history, no one had ever been able to do this, yet he, Facing Ying Su, did it; how could his prestige not rise?

This was a small gift Han Xin gave to Facing Ying Su to repay him!

So, when he ordered the soldiers to fire the cannons, he also ordered the soldiers to try not to kill Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu, try to capture him alive!

A living Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu is far more valuable than a dead Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu.

But... heaven does not grant human wishes!

Just as this battle was nearing its end, when Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's army had been slaughtered down to only twenty or thirty thousand, suddenly, Fan Zeng and Seeing Xiang Yu, the two of them, led their own five thousand troops and a large group of experts from the Central Plains, charging out from behind Han Xin.

The two of them?

And experts from the Central Plains?

They didn't charge into the swamp?

Of course not!

Just as they were about to charge into the swamp, Fan Zeng finally could not bear it.

He felt this battle was exceptionally difficult, so he stopped Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu and spoke his thoughts!

Letting him and Seeing Xiang Yu, along with all the experts from the Central Plains, provide support!

To guard against the unexpected!

At first, Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu thought Fan Zeng was afraid of death, so he glared fiercely at Fan Zeng!

He even… didn't really want to agree!

But in the end, when he saw Fan Zeng's sincere attitude, and thought that what Fan Zeng said did indeed make some sense!

So he agreed!

After all, Fan Zeng's request was not excessive.

He only asked to keep his and Seeing Xiang Yu's five thousand men, along with the Central Plains experts!

To put it bluntly, these people were all here to help, and it was only reasonable that they didn't want to go to their deaths!

Moreover, fighting in this kind of swamp, having five thousand more or five thousand less really didn't make much difference!

Even if those Central Plains experts came in, it would just be sending them to their deaths for nothing!

So… he agreed.

Originally, he hadn't even planned to let these people come to meet him.

But… at the critical moment, Fan Zeng and Seeing Xiang Yu still charged out from behind Han Xin's rear and began to link up with Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu!

This scene moved Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu greatly!

But his being moved was useless!

Because Han Xin had long anticipated this batch of troops.

And even if he hadn't anticipated it, these five thousand men would find it hard to cause damage to his military formation!

So, these five thousand men were held back!

The two sides fought fiercely for nearly more than a shichen!

However, no matter how much he calculated, Han Xin had not calculated that behind these five thousand men, there was actually still an army!

A full four hundred thousand men!

Four hundred thousand men!

"Where did this batch of troops come from?"

Han Xin turned pale with shock and angrily questioned the messenger!

The messenger stammered and couldn't explain clearly either!

In the end, it was still a messenger, covered in blood, who rode a fast horse over!

He said that half a month ago, when Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's Left Worthy King Wanyan Dalai learned that Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu was trapped at the Hulun Grassland, he had already gathered troops and charged over to rescue Chanyu Modu Chanyu Modu Chanyu!

Finally, today, half a month later, they had charged over!

Four hundred thousand men!

Facing this sudden arrival of four hundred thousand men, even Han Xin felt somewhat unable to cope!

At this moment, in order to preserve his strength, he could only order all the troops besieging Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu to charge into the swamp.