Chapter 79: The Destruction of Xiang Liang's Army

Zhang Han has led a hundred shadow guards to the target location of Xiang Liang's army.

After Zhang Han arrived, he began to observe the target terrain.

The meeting point is in a small canyon.

This kind of terrain will fully exert the power of grenades.

So Zhang Han began to ask his shadow guards to go to the high ground on both sides and start digging trenches.

He had to arrange the battlefield according to the training manual given by Zhao Yi.

Because in Zhang Han's opinion, the value of the manual written by Zhao Yi is comparable to famous military books such as Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Zhang Han had never seen such a detailed tutorial on training soldiers.

Moreover, some of the knowledge in it was something Zhang Han had never seen before.

However, Zhang Han judged that such knowledge was useful based on his many years of battlefield experience.

Zhang Han could also see that many things in the manual written by Zhao Yi were prepared for weapons such as pistols and grenades.

For example, trench digging and camouflage today.

This kind of method was completely unnecessary on the battlefield before.

In the past, the victory or defeat of the battle on the battlefield was determined by the battle between the legions.

Digging trenches and camouflage are useless; legion battles rely on numbers.

Trench camouflage can only hide a small number of people, not a large army, and cannot affect the battle situation at all.

If I were to come to this canyon myself, I would also send out spies to check if there was an ambush by a large army. If not, I would set up camp with peace of mind.

However, the spies were unable to detect the trenches that had been camouflaged using the technology taught by Zhao Yi.

Zhang Han believed that if Zhao Yi grew up, he would definitely be a military god on the battlefield.

No! To be precise, Zhao Yi, who wrote this manual, was already a military god on the battlefield, but he could not go to the battlefield because of his age.

Zhang Han closed the manual and put it in the bag, then picked up a shovel beside him and began to dig a camouflaged trench with the shadow guards.

In addition, before reaching the target location, Zhang Han had already issued an order ordering the local troops to arrive at the other side of the canyon and wait.

Although Zhang Han felt that his 100 shadow guards could deal with the rebellious Xiang clan.

However, necessary insurance measures must still be taken.

The one thousand local garrisons were Zhang Han's insurance measure.

After he led the secret guards to launch an attack, that garrison would be used to clean up the mess.

……

It was the afternoon of the next day, and Xiang Liang led his three thousand elite soldiers to the target location.

Although Xiang Liang said that Xiang Yu was worrying too much, he was also afraid that what Xiang Yu said was true.

So he ordered his troops to stop before reaching the target location.

Xiang Liang then sent scouts to the mountains on both sides to see if there were any troops lying in ambush.

After all, this terrain is too easy to be ambushed and attacked.

After a while, the scouts sent out came back to report.

There were no ambushes on the mountains on either side, but there was an army of about a thousand people on the other side of the canyon.

Xiang Liang was relieved when he heard the report.

It seems that Xiang Yu was worrying too much. If the imperial court wanted to deal with his army, the best option would definitely be to ambush one or two thousand people on the mountains on both sides.

But now the spies came back and reported that there was no army ambush on the mountain.

The thousand-man army on the other side of the canyon alone could not defeat his army that had been trained in battlefield fighting.

Therefore, the army over there must be here to cooperate with me in suppressing bandits, to replenish my resources and to lead the way.

So Xiang Liang turned to Xiang Yu and said, "You heard it, right? There is no ambush at all. Do you think those 1,000 men can handle our army?"

Xiang Yu replied: "Impossible."

Although the information I heard was good, I should have felt relieved.

But Xiang Yu couldn't let go of the worry in his heart.

Instead, it jumped faster and faster.

Xiang Yu had a premonition of what was going to happen next.

Xiang Liang began to order his troops to advance towards the canyon.

Xiang Yu also controlled his horse and followed. As he moved forward, he looked up at the surrounding mountains.

However, Zhang Han on the mountain was very patient and he did not immediately order an attack.

He would wait until all the rebels entered the canyon before launching the attack.

Zhang Han had already rehearsed the attack yesterday.

He has already arranged everyone's targets.

Moreover, we had already practiced throwing stones yesterday to ensure that everyone's grenade could hit the target they had intended today.

When Xiang Liang's army began to enter the canyon.

Zhang Han's shadow guard had quietly come out of the camouflaged trench and slowly walked to the attack position arranged yesterday.

Since they were already camouflaged, wearing camouflage clothes and tree branches as camouflage.

Therefore, Xiang Liang's troops did not notice that there were a hundred people on both sides of them.

When Xiang Liang's army was about to reach the middle of the canyon.

Xiang Yu, who had been paying attention to his surroundings, suddenly seemed to see a person on the mountain.

So Xiang Yu immediately shouted: "It's bad! The enemy is attacking, defend quickly."

So Xiang Liang's soldiers reacted immediately and raised their shields to defend themselves all around.

At the same time, they were greeted by grenades falling from the sky.

Bah!Bah!Bah!
One hundred grenades were thrown into the middle of Xiang Liang's army.

Xiang Yu saw the black iron ball falling next to him.

He was wondering what this thing was.
But he knew very well that this was probably not a good thing.

So he immediately raised his shield to defend himself.

But it was a little too late, he saw the black ball light up.

Then there were loud noises like thunder.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One grenade after another exploded, blowing Xiang Liang's entire army to pieces.

Before the smoke and dust cleared, Zhang Han ordered another grenade to be thrown.

He wanted to completely wipe out the rebellious Xiang clan.

The intelligence we received showed that Xiang Liang's army was composed entirely of rebels recruited by him.

This army supported by the Qin Dynasty completely became the private army of the Xiang family.

Therefore, the order Zhang Han received from His Majesty was to kill without mercy.

The grenade exploded again.

Boom boom boom!

Smoke and dust enveloped the entire Xiang Liang army.

After Zhang Han's shadow guards threw the grenade, they took out revolvers loaded with bullets and approached Xiang Liang's army at the foot of the mountain in groups of three.

A gust of mountain wind blew away the dense smoke and dust, revealing Xiang Liang's army again.

After two rounds of grenade bombing, there was no one left standing in Xiang Liang's army.

Fragments from grenades took away the lives of 70% of Xiang Liang's soldiers. The armor they were wearing was completely vulnerable to the grenades.

The remaining 30% were all injured, and only a few were still capable of fighting.

But Xiang Yu was lucky, he was not injured by the grenade.

The shield he raised helped him block the flying iron sand.

Xiang Yu shook his head, trying to clear the tinnitus caused by the explosion.

He is completely confused now.

What on earth is that iron ball?
How could it be so powerful!
Is it a punishment from heaven?

By the way, where is your uncle?

Xiang Yu pressed his head while looking for Xiang Liang.

Soon he found Xiang Liang lying in a pool of blood.

Xiang Liang coughed up blood foam and said slowly: "Ahem, Xiang Yu, you are right. Run away quickly..."

(End of this chapter)