Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 176 Fake a shot

Ao Cang, the largest granary in the world in this era, is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Only the entrance and exit in the north can be attacked by the enemy, and there are natural dangers of the Yellow River and Honggou canals on the periphery as barriers. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Before that, [-] troops have been dispatched to guard in advance, and there are more than [-] Qin troops from Sanchuan County in Xingyang to help, and the troops are quite sufficient.

Therefore, after confirming that the main force of the Young Marshal Army entered Ao Cang, Zhang Han just transferred the [-] mobile troops originally deployed in Chaoge to Ao Cang just in case, and then he stopped caring about the situation on the Ao Cang battlefield and freed up his hands Concentrate on dealing with the allied forces of the princes who rushed to the Julu battlefield first, and plan to kill or severely damage some of the anti-Qin rebels before the main force of the Chu army arrives at the Julu battlefield, so as to prevent the comparative advantage of the Julu battlefield from being reversed by the anti-Qin coalition forces, resulting in the siege of Julu. The Great Wall Corps of the Qin Army fell into a passive position.

In order to boost the morale of the army and kill chickens for the monkeys to see, of course the persimmons had to pick the soft ones first. After making up his mind to strike first, Zhang Han, who is very good at catching the enemy's weaknesses, immediately set his sights on the anti-Qin coalition army's Qi army. The reason is also very simple, because Qi Wang Tianshi and Qi Xiangtian Rong refused to lend their way to the main force of the Chu army. The Qi army on the Julu battlefield not only lost contact with the local rear, but also had no way to get supplies for food and grass. The morale of the army must have been greatly affected, so it must be the easiest to succeed by attacking the Qi army first, and then as long as they quickly kill Qi Army, the other anti-Qin rebels just can't help being frightened.

It's a pity that Zhang Han, who is good at attacking the enemy, miscalculated this time. In this era of valuing righteousness and despising life, although there are many slippery scoundrels like Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, the number of indomitable heroes is even greater. Many, Tian Duhe Tianjian and Tianjia brothers, the main generals of the Qi army on the Julu battlefield, happened to be the best among them. Shaken, he expressed his attitude early on, expressing his support for Tian An's righteous act of helping the Chu army rescue the giant deer, while leading the soldiers of the Qi army to fight bloody battles. Zhang Han's wishful thinking of killing chickens and monkeys succeeded.

The offensive and defensive battles of the Qi army's camp were therefore extremely cruel and bloody. Under Zhang Han's personal command, [-] Qin troops took turns to go into battle and launched a frontal attack on the Qi army's camp for two consecutive days. , but no matter how crazy the Qin army attacked, the Qi army officers and soldiers just gritted their teeth and refused to give up the already riddled self-army camp even if the casualties were heavy. Han can only deploy the Great Wall Corps nearby to join the battle to reinforce the attacking force.

The generals and soldiers of the Qi army who are not very powerful can only do this. On the third day, with the [-] Great Wall corps dispatched by Zhang Han to join the battle, the Qi army inevitably showed signs of defeat. After being breached, the outer battalion was on fire everywhere. The other anti-Qin righteous divisions nearby saw that the situation was not good. Although they had the courage to send troops to rescue them, they were all killed by the Qin army in the field. They failed to share much pressure on the Qi army soldiers. On the contrary, the morale of the attacking Qin army soared, and the charge became more and more violent, making the struggling Qi army's outer battalion defenders even more difficult to parry, and the casualties soared.

When it was close to Shen time in the afternoon, the Qi army's outer camp was completely occupied, a large number of military tents and camp fortifications were completely burned to ashes, and countless soldiers were forced to abandon the camp and flee. But it is also destined to be a dying struggle, and death is only in a moment.Seeing this scene, the anti-Qin allied forces in the distance were of course frightened and their fighting spirit was low, but Zhang Han was extremely proud and said with a sneer, "Tian Du traitor, now you should regret not running for your life first?"

"Report—!"

A sudden long shout interrupted Zhang Han's smug grin, and then, a dusty Qin soldier rushed to Zhang Han, and presented an urgent military report with chicken feathers to Zhang Han. In front of him, he said loudly: "General Qi, the urgent report from Ji Yuan, the main force of Xiang Kang's rebels has abnormal behavior!"

"Xiang Kang's traitor has unusual behavior?" Zhang Han hesitated slightly, took the military emergency report and opened it, and then only glanced at it briefly, Zhang Han's face suddenly changed, first as pale as paper, then as black as ink , and couldn't help shouting, "Little Xiang Kang! How dare you do this?!"

"General, what happened? What happened to Xiang Kang?"

Seeing that Zhang Han's expression was wrong, the generals of the Qin Army who were beside him hurriedly asked the reason, but Zhang Han's face turned darker and darker. In order not to shake the morale of the army, he did not dare to disclose the current situation of the young commander. He just called the messenger to his face. , commanded a password in his ear, asking him to return to Jiyuan immediately to send an order to Sima Xin and Zhang Ping who were staying at the pier, asking Sima Xin and Zhang Ping to immediately send troops to stop the young commander, and then shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, step up the attack!" ! Let the order go on, whoever can get the head of the bandit general Tian Du will receive a reward of [-]!"

Singing promises left and right, he immediately ordered the drummers to beat the drums harder, but no one noticed that Zhang Han had already crushed the military report written on the wooden board into pieces, his hands were still full of veins, his knuckles were clenched white, and his teeth were shattered. Crackling...

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Let’s take a look at the situation on the side of the Young Marshal’s Army. According to Xiang Kang’s instructions, the Young Marshal’s general Zhu Jishi led more than [-] people from the headquarters to Yangwu and marched westward. The battalion faced off across the river with the Aocang garrison led by General Sima Jin of the Qin Army.Although Sima Jin had [-] troops in his hands, far above Zhujishi, he was afraid that Zhujishi's solitary army marching westward was luring the enemy for the main force of the young commander's army. Zhujishi's troops set up camp calmly on the east bank of the chasm.

Rational forbearance only got the young marshal's nose and face. Before the camp was established, Zhujishi had already personally led the army to fight on the bank of the chasm, and organized a group of soldiers with loud voices to greet Sima affectionately across the chasm. Jin's whole family, especially the female relatives who cared about Sima Jin, spoke viciously, and his attitude was extremely arrogant.Sima Jin's generals were all furious, and they all asked to lead their troops across the river to fight to the death with Zhujishi, who was too bullying.

Fortunately, Sima Jin, who once forced Xiang Liang to dare not face up in Zou County, was very calm, and flatly rejected the pleadings of the generals under his command to fight, saying: "Don't be fooled, Xiang Kang deliberately sent only a small number of troops to come first. The battle on the chasm is clearly intended to lure us to cross the river for a decisive battle. If we fall into the trap, we will definitely fall into Xiang Kang’s trap. Besides, the Zhujishi rebels came with light clothes and retreated easily. Before our army crossed the chasm , he must have run away with the bandit army, even if we cross the river, we can't beat him."

After finishing speaking, Sima Jin, in addition to sending people to the bank of the chasm to scold the young commander across the river, also dispatched people to send orders to the three armies, prohibiting one soldier from crossing the river to fight the young commander, and resolutely refused to give the young commander his own troops. A chance to lure across the chasm.

In the morning of the next day, news came from Yangwu that the main force of the Young Marshal had easily captured Yangwu County, which had only a few hundred defenders the day before, and had taken away all the food left in the city. Panicked, just to go to Lingjuan County and Suanzao, asking the defenders of these two counties to stick to the city, not to give the main force of the young general army a chance to easily seize the city, and at the same time continue to strictly restrain the army, and not allow the generals of the Qin army to ignore the young general's presence. On the east bank of the chasm, there are shouts of war and curses.

On the third day, the situation was still the same. The young commander-in-chief ran to the bank of the chasm just after dawn, cursing and cursing, deliberately provoking and angering the Aocang defenders. Sima Jin still calmed down and ignored them. Shuai Jun did not dare to cross the river and attack by force.As a result, on the same day, Dong Kan's unit of Qin Army's mobile army from Chaoge also arrived at the north bank of Guangwu, and could cross the Yellow River south to reinforce Aocang at any time. Still calmly waiting for the young commander's next move.

This time, the food was ruined. At the end of the day, an unexpected news came out suddenly-the Suanzao garrison sent a report, saying that the main force of the Young Marshal had sent troops eastward from Yangwu early yesterday morning, and directly crossed the I don’t know where the Suanzao went. At the beginning, the Suanzao defenders thought that the main force of the Young Marshal’s army was going to attack them, and they were so frightened that they closed the city gate in broad daylight. Dao directly crossed Suanzao, only to realize that the young commander's army was not going east to attack Suanzao, and because of this, he wasted a lot of time, and did not report the news to Sima Jin until this time.

"Strange thing, what kind of tricks is Xiang Kang playing? Why leave their partial teacher alone and go directly to the east of Suanzao?"

Sima Jin vaguely realized that something was wrong, and the generals of the Qin Army beside him also had different opinions. They all suspected that Xiang Kang's move had ulterior motives, but no one could tell what Xiang Kang's purpose was.In the end, it was Sima Jin who came to a conclusion and said: "You can't be fooled. Xiaoer Xiang Kang deliberately left his partial division and went eastward alone. It is probably to let us send troops across the river with peace of mind, so that his partial division can take the opportunity to lure us into the river." We can't take any risks with his trap, we can only respond to all changes with the same, and give priority to guarding the important place of Ao Cang."

The Young Marshals under the command of Xiang Kang are always full of variety. From the second watch that night, every once in a while, there will be a sudden sound of horns and drums on the east bank of the chasm, as if the Young Marshals are preparing to cross the river overnight to attack. The cautious Sima did not dare to be careless. In addition to asking the granary defenders to take precautions, he lit countless bonfires on the bank of the chasm and arranged an army to guard the wharf and ferry closely. Don't give the Young Marshal any chance to launch a sneak attack.

Fortunately, probably because of the tight guards of the Qin army, the young marshals have never dared to cross the river one by one. When it was about halfway through the fifth watch, the young marshals on the other side of the gap took the initiative to end the noise and harassment, which made it hard work. The soldiers of the Qin army rested for a while at ease overnight.However, when the sky was bright and Sima Jin was eating breakfast, a scout from the Qin army who had gone to the east bank of the chasm to scout the enemy rushed back to the Qin army camp. Shouted: "Quickly, go and report to General Sima, the bandit army has escaped! The bandit army on the east bank of the chasm ran away overnight!"

"The bandit army on the east bank of the chasm ran away overnight? How is that possible?!"

Unbelievable, Sima Jin didn't even finish his breakfast. He threw down the bowls and chopsticks and got on his horse. He rushed to the highland on the west bank of the chasm and looked west. What surprised Sima Jin was that the young marshal's camp on the other side Sure enough, it was already empty, only some soldiers of the Qin army who ventured into the camp to investigate were active, and there was no sign of half of the soldiers of the young commander.The generals of the Qin army who followed were all dumbfounded, and they all said, "What the hell is the bandit army doing? Why did they leave the camp and run away? Where did they go?"

Where did the Young Marshal go?Sima Jin was also thinking hard about this issue, and when he thought of the fact that the main force of the Young Marshal's army had already crossed the Suanzao and went eastward the day before yesterday, Sima Jin's heart suddenly moved, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Quick! Send people to chase along the Chidao! See if the bandits on the east bank are heading east along the Chidao!"

Zhujishi's troops really withdrew too quickly, and it was not until the afternoon of the same day that the scouts of the Qin army who went in to chase after them sent news, which proved Sima Jin's suspicion——the Zhujishi troops of the young commander who abandoned the camp and retreated. The Ministry did go to the east direction quickly along the Chidao.As a result, upon hearing the news, Sima Jin slumped on his seat on the spot, but the generals of the Qin Army beside him were still puzzled and said, "What are the bandits doing to the west? Didn't they come to attack Aocang? Why didn't they attack?" gone?"

"Are you all stupid pigs and stupid cows?!"

The discussion of the generals resulted in Sima Jin shouting hysterically, "Little Xiang Kang asked his partial master to put on airs in Aocang and run away for a few days, of course to cover his main force to attack Puyang! Puyang is the place where our main force was before. There is still enough food and grass in the city to store grain, and if he takes it, he can stay there for a long time! It can also cut off our Yellow River water transportation and cut off the grain transportation road for our main force! Unless our main force divides up and takes back Puyang, the Julu battlefield will be destroyed. Food will run out soon!"

The generals of the Qin army suddenly realized, and hurriedly persuaded Sima Jin to send troops to reinforce Puyang immediately. Sima Jin was even more furious, and roared: "Xiang Kang sent troops to the east the morning before yesterday. More than two days have passed. We How can it be too late to send troops to rescue Puyang now? We have been fooled, we have been fooled, and our Chaoge garrison has been fooled too, there is no time to save Puyang, Puyang, it is dangerous!"

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Sima tried his best to draw conclusions too early, because although the Young Marshal's attack was beautiful, there was also a road with a width of tens of meters from Yangwu to Puyang, but the distance was placed here after all, so Sima came to his senses When they came over, the main force of the Young Marshal had just arrived near Puyang, and at the same time, what surprised the Puyang defenders, who were only about [-] in number, was that when they were in a hurry to defend the city and send people to ask for help, the road leading to Baimajin in the northwest On the road, about [-] cavalrymen of the Qin Army rushed forward on their horses. Relying on the maneuverability of their horses, they rushed to the west gate of Puyang before the forwards of the Young Marshal Army intercepted them. They loudly asked Puyang to open the gate immediately and let them enter the city. Avoid the young marshal's pursuit.

The incident happened too suddenly, and the young general army was approaching the west gate of Puyang quickly again. Qin general Wang An, who led the army to guard the west gate, had no time to report to the general, so he could only hurriedly asked loudly in the city: "Where did you come from?" ? From that army?"

"The last general is the five hundred commander Yang Xi!" The five hundred commander of the Qin army who led the team under the city was a native of Guanzhong, and he said loudly in an authentic Guanzhong voice: "We are the Great Qin army stationed in Chaoge, and the leader is General Zhang Han. Dong Kan, the deputy general under his command, was ordered to go west to reinforce Aocang. On the way, he found that the Chu bandit army suddenly came east to attack Puyang, and quickly turned around to reinforce Puyang. At present, our vanguard army is crossing the river on a white horse. I was ordered to lead the cavalry from the headquarters to investigate the enemy's situation Accidentally discovered by Chu bandit cavalry, suffered a lot and couldn't retreat back to the white horse, so we had to flee to Puyang for help, please open the city gate quickly and let us in!"

After saying that, Yang Xi showed his injured right arm and said loudly: "Look, general, I am still injured. Please hurry to the city gate, or we will be finished!"

As if to verify Yang Xi's words, at this time, there was indeed another troop of young marshal cavalry chasing them from the way they came, and at the same time, the front team of the young marshal who came directly to the west gate of Puyang was also chasing closer and closer, and the situation was extremely critical.As a result, Wang Anwan, the guard of Puyang's west gate, was in a dilemma, and said loudly: "General Yang, it's not that I don't trust you, but the situation is too critical now. Come in!"

"Don't worry, general, after we enter the city, we will immediately put down our weapons and let you screen them at will." Yang Xi pleaded: "The bandit army is about to come after you. If you don't open the city gate again, my more than 400 brothers will be killed." None of them will survive! Please, please, open the city gate quickly! Otherwise, none of us will be able to escape!"

The cavalry of the Qin army brought by Yang Xi also begged loudly, and some of them shouted loudly, all with authentic Guanzhong accents.Out of sympathy, and in order to save these precious Daqin cavalry, and because Yang Xi and the others all have authentic Guanzhong accents, they can be confirmed to be the main force from Zhang Han basically without screening. Wang An gritted his teeth, or Daqin He shouted: "Open the door immediately and let them in!"

According to Wang An's order, the tightly closed West Gate of Puyang was quickly opened, and naturally, Yang Xi's right arm, which was covered in blood, was healed immediately. While thanking loudly, he suddenly held the spear in his hand, He stabbed the city gate officer who commanded the gate soldiers to death with a spear, and at the same time, the cavalry of the Qin army he brought rushed forward, and quickly killed the remaining Qin army gate soldiers with their swords and spears. During this period, Yang Xi shouted: "Don't get off your horse! Don't get off your horse! Otherwise our people won't be able to tell the enemy from us!"

The incident happened too suddenly, and when the front team of the Young Marshal Army rushed directly across the moat under the cover of Yang Xi's cavalry of the Qin Army, the soldiers of the Qin Army on the city wall woke up like a dream, and hurriedly shot arrows to stop the Young Marshal's army. The soldiers crossed the river, but of course it was too late to do so. The young marshal who finally seized this opportunity didn't think about any casualties at all. With the help of his help, he quickly gained control of the city gate corridor and opened the passage for the soldiers of the Young Marshal Army to enter the city. The soldiers of the Qin Army started street fighting.

At this time, Wang An, who found out that he had been tricked, was very remorseful, and had already committed suicide on the city wall to apologize. All the soldiers of the Qin army under his command were so angry that their eyes were red, and they rushed into the city in an attempt to regain the city gate. The army reserve team also reacted immediately and rushed to join the battle immediately. Relying on the local strength advantage, they once gained the upper hand, but they couldn't regain the control of the city gate corridor. He arrived quickly and decisively invested troops to strengthen the attack, but the balance of the battlefield gradually tilted towards the side of the young marshal.

Annoyingly still in the back, seeing that the west gate was no longer safe, some soldiers of the Qin army even opened the other three gates to flee for their lives, which further hit the morale of the Puyang defenders. Entering the city, the weak Puyang defenders had no hope of turning around. The smart ones quickly put down their weapons and surrendered on their knees or ran out of the city for their lives. In the evening of the fierce battle, the important town of Puyang, which Zhang Han's main force relied on before, fell into the clutches of the young marshal army and the gang of despicable villains.

Wang An, who had a good intention to save people but made a big mistake, should probably come back to life, because Xiang Kang, who personally arranged for Yang Xi to defraud the city, sighed after seeing the soldiers of the young general army quickly take down Puyang City. Regretfully said: "After traveling back and forth for such a long time, it only took such a short time to succeed. If I had known that Puyang could be taken so easily, I should have gone directly north from Suiyang to fight Puyang in the first place. So much food and time wasted."

"General You, be content." Chen Ping next to him said with a wry smile: "If we go directly north from Suiyang, even a fool of the Tyrant Qin army will know that we are likely to attack Puyang. As long as the song garrison goes south to reinforce Puyang immediately, we will never have such an opportunity to defraud the city, let alone a frontal attack."

"We can only comfort ourselves in this way." Xiang Kang sighed shamelessly again, and said, "I hope that Zhang Han will leave more food in Puyang City. It would be a big loss."

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