Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 189 The Impulse to Cut Hands

In the battle of crossing Yingshui, the Yingchuan Qin army actually performed quite well. In addition to defeating the main force of the Korean army head-on, they also fought very tenaciously in the face of the powerful offensive of the young commander. Nearly half of the elite young marshals who crossed the river in the first wave, if not for the second round of the young marshals rushing to the west bank of Yingshui for reinforcements in time, the first thousand-man team of the young marshals who crossed the river were almost defeated by the Qin army .

On the eastern front, after the Qin Army's front army, whose physical strength had declined, was scrambled by the new force of the Young Marshal's army from the two wings, the Qin Army's rear army led by Yingchuan County Cheng Xu Wei formed a circular formation in time, and tenaciously withstood the attack of the Young Marshal's army. The shock forcefully dragged the superior young commander into a stalemate. Xiang Kang couldn't help but praise him for his tenacious fighting spirit.

But there is no way, the disparity in strength is still too great. The young marshal army with a total of more than 3000 people not only has an absolute advantage in terms of strength, but also has combat experience that is a few blocks away from the Yingchuan County soldiers who were born in the suppression of bandits. No matter how tenaciously the soldiers of the Qin Army on the west bank of Yingshui fought, they finally failed to stop the Young Marshal from forcibly crossing Yingshui, and were forced to retreat to Yangdi City to defend the city after paying certain casualties.The Eastern Front also failed to resist the attack of the Young Marshal's Army in turn. The circle collapsed, and the soldiers fled. They were chased and killed by the Young Marshal's soldiers for more than [-] miles. Most of the troops lost, and there was no longer any force to threaten the Young Marshal. Behind the main force of the army.

After the battle, the main force of the Young Marshal quickly crossed Yingshui and set up camp outside the south gate of Yangzhai. Next to the camp, Zhang Liang ran to Xiang Kang at the first time and asked to join forces to attack Yangdi City, and proposed to divide the money and food in the city into four or six after breaking the city, brazenly trying to rely on a gang of mobs to divide Yangdi Forty percent of the money and food in the city.

Considering that his own army could not carry too much food and grass to march south, Xiang Kang did not categorically reject Han Cheng's shameless demands, but Xiang Kang did not rush to agree, but just said to Han Cheng: "King Han, don't worry, how to distribute money and food?" Let’s talk about it later, the most important thing for us right now is how to take down Yangdi as soon as possible, after we have figured out the specific situation of Yangdi and decided on the siege tactics, then we will have time to discuss the matter of money and food.”

Knowing that Xiang Kang is not a person who eats alone, Han Cheng hurriedly nodded and agreed. At this time, Chen Ping, who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners on the West Bank, returned to Xiang Kang and reported to Xiang Kang: "General You, the confessions of the prisoners have been obtained. , There used to be over 700 Tyrant Qin troops on the Yangzhai battlefield, but we wiped out 500 of them when we crossed the river, and it is estimated that there are still about [-] defenders in Yangzhai City.”

Xiang Kang frowned a little, because although there are not many defenders in Yangdi City, they are definitely not too few. If they just stick to defense and don't fight, even if the Young Marshal can win Yangdi City in the end, they will definitely suffer losses. Not small enough to get there.Uncle Zhou next to him also said: "General You, the enemy still has the strength to fight. We'd better find out the situation of Yangdi's city defense as soon as possible, and see how to attack the city."

Xiang Kang nodded, and soon decided to lead Uncle Zhou and Chen Ping to personally investigate the enemy's situation under Yangzhai City, and understand the situation of Yangzhai's city defense on the spot. Xiang Kang casually agreed to go to Yangdi City to investigate the enemy's situation, and soon led a team of cavalry out of the camp, and rode his horses to the site of Yangdi City to understand the situation.

Xiang Kang still frowned at the results of his visit to the city. Because of the continuous war in Yingchuan, the Yangzhai defenders obviously spent a lot of effort to renovate the city defenses, dredged the moat, repaired and strengthened the nearly three-foot city wall, and built a fence in front of the city gate. The wall that can hinder the advance of the crashing vehicle is very difficult to attack. In addition, the north gate of Yangzhai is directly protected by Yingshui, and only the three gates of east, west and south can be attacked by the enemy. city ​​difficulty.

"This city is not easy to attack." Uncle Zhou also came to the same conclusion as Xiang Kang, and said: "If we attack the city head-on, we must build more siege weapons and use our strength to attack continuously. The Tyrant Qin army has a chance to breathe, so they can hope to break through the city. In addition, we had better let go of the west gate, so that the Tyrant Qin army has a way to escape, so that we can reduce some of the pressure on us to attack the city."

Xiang Kang didn't say a word, he just kept thinking about how to stand out from the surprise soldiers, use his special tricks to deceive and surprise surprises to win, and take down Yangdi City at the lowest cost.And Zhang Liang next to him finally seized the opportunity to perform in front of Xiang Kang, and stood up and proposed: "General You, I have few enemies, and my strong enemy is weak. Why don't you try to send envoys into the city to surrender? To the tyrant Yingchuan County Shou Gao Jing understands the truth, acts both kindly and powerful, and persuades him to take the initiative to open the city and surrender."

"It's worth a try." Xiang Kang finally said, "I'll send envoys into the city in a while to persuade Gao Jing to see the current affairs clearly and take the initiative to open the city and surrender."

It was also a coincidence that just as Xiang Kang decided to try to surrender, Yangdi City was filled with crowds of people, and a group of people suddenly went up from the city to the south gate of Yangdi City. Uncle Zhou had a sharp eye, and the first thing he saw was someone in the group wearing a sheriff's uniform , hurriedly said: "General You, Gao Jing has gone to the city."

Xiang Kang tried his best to see the situation on the city, but Han Cheng next to him couldn't wait. He just saw clearly that Gao Jing, the governor of Yingchuan County, went to the city in person, and immediately said: "It's just right, General You, since Gao Jing came in person, then we should just go to the city." Immediately send people over, go to the city to shout, and directly persuade Gao Jing to open the city and surrender."

Xiang Kang also wanted to test the enemy's attitude towards surrender. He nodded immediately after hearing the suggestion, and when he asked who would dare to go to the city to persuade him to surrender, Han Cheng, who was in a hurry, pointed at his eunuch Han Yang and ordered: "Han Yang, you can speak well, go and try."

Han Cheng's eunuch Han Yang was a little timid, but he didn't dare to openly disobey Han Cheng's order, so he could only bite the bullet and pat his horse forward, trot to the south gate of Yangzhai and shout loudly, directly persuading Yingchuan County who happened to be going up to the city Shou Gaojing Kaicheng surrendered, but Gao Jing not only refused to listen, but also decisively ordered the soldiers of the Qin army in the city to shoot Han Yang with arrows. Han Yang hurriedly ran for his life, but two feather arrows shot him in the back , Han Yang screamed in pain, almost fell off the horse, and finally hugged the horse's neck tightly before escaping out of the range of the Qin army's bows and arrows, and was not buried under the Qin army's random arrows on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Han Cheng was of course furious, and shouted loudly: "Master Gao Jing, the two countries are fighting each other, and if you don't kill the envoy, you dare to shoot arrows at the envoy of the king! Kill all of you!"

The emissary who hit the arrow was not from the Young Marshal Army, Xiang Kang was of course not as annoyed as Han Cheng, he just took a long look at Gao Jing who was yelling at the city, and then he said casually: "Go back, there is not much hope of surrendering." Now, go back and discuss how to attack the city."

After leading everyone back to the Young Marshal's camp, Xiang Kang first arranged for Zhou Zeng to organize manpower to make all kinds of siege weapons as spares as soon as possible, and then made two requests to Han Cheng. Send troops to Yangzhai City every night from that day to beat gongs and drums, fake the illusion of siege, and make the defenders in the city restless day and night. Soil and rocks were used to fill up the moat at the two southeast gates of Yangzhai.In the end, Xiang Kang promised to send troops to cover the Han army to fill the river, and to distribute [-]% of the money and food to Han Cheng after breaking the city.

Xiang Kang's arrangement was naturally to let the Han army take on the auxiliary task of attacking the city. Fortunately, Han Cheng was a little self-aware, knowing that the mob under his command wanted to fight against the ants just to give the Qin army a head, so he obediently agreed immediately.But at this moment, Han Cheng's guard suddenly came to report, saying that Han Yang, the brother of Han Cheng's clan who was shot by the arrow in persuading him to surrender, was too seriously injured to be rescued, and died as soon as he returned to the Han army camp. Immediately burst into tears, vowing to avenge Han Yang, Xiang Kang also sighed, he could only be comforted by Haosheng, and finally sent away the weeping Han Cheng.

After Han Cheng left, Xiang Kang, who was quite tired, was planning to take a rest. Unexpectedly, another soldier from outside the account reported, saying that it was Shu Suntong, who was appointed as a doctor by Xiang Kang, who asked to see him, and said that he had important military affairs to ask. Reported to Xiang Kang face to face, Xiang Kang muttered after hearing this, and secretly said: "What important military affairs can that sycophant need to report in person?"

Let me also introduce the situation of Uncle Suntong by the way. After Xiang Liang, who looked down on Uncle Suntong, sent him to work under Xiang Kang's command in Pengcheng, he personally took Uncle Suntong to see Xiang Liang. Sun Tong appointed a doctor as a doctor and asked him to help Zhou Zeng deal with some military chores. After that, although Uncle Sun Tong did a good job, he didn't perform very well, and Xiang Kang was not very good. I like his flattering virtue of flattering and flattering, so I never let him participate in military affairs, and almost forgot the existence of the number one Confucian scum in the late Qin Dynasty.

Closer to home, although he didn't like Shusuntong very much, since Shusuntong said that there was a major military matter that needed to be reported, Xiang Kang nodded and agreed to summon Shusuntong.Then, as Xiang Kang expected, just after he entered the big tent of the Chinese army, he saw Xiang Kang resting on the table with a tired face, and Shu Suntong immediately asked nervously: "General right, what is it?" Is it because you are not feeling well? Are you uncomfortable there? Do you want to send a medical worker to show you? The official visited a good doctor in Puyang the day before yesterday, and his medical skills are very good, why don’t you send him to show you?"

"No need." Xiang Kang shook his head and said, "I'm just a little tired, nothing uncomfortable."

"General You, then you must have a good rest. You are the leader of our army. You must not be exhausted. Our soldiers in Chu cannot do without your wise leadership." Uncle Sun Tong couldn't wait, and said: "Why don't you ask me to pinch your feet for you? Xiaguan also knows a little bit about medicine, especially good at pinching feet."

"No need, no need." Xiang Kang, who didn't want a man to give him a foot massage, quickly shook his head, and then quickly changed the subject, saying: "Mr. Uncle Sun, didn't you say you have some important military affairs to report to me? What kind of military affairs is it?"

"General You, the important military situation that I want to report is related to how our army took Yangdi." Shusuntong hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I suggest that for the Tyrant Qin army in Yangdi City, our army You might as well adopt a siege strategy of both kindness and power. While attacking the city with force, send envoys into the city, understand the reason for the Tyrant Qin army, and persuade them to obey the heavens and take the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender. If this is successful, we will The army may be able to take Yangdi Jiancheng directly without a single soldier."

"If only it were so easy." Xiang Kang, who was very tired, smiled wryly, and didn't bother to introduce the situation that the envoy of Han Jun's surrender had been shot to death by Qin Jun's arrows just now.

"Your official is so bold, I think you might as well give it a try." Shu Suntong said cautiously: "Your official dare not lie to the right general. When I was serving as a Doctor of Shizhao in the imperial court of the Qin Dynasty, I once fought with Yingchuan County of the Qin Dynasty in Yangdi City. Shou Gaojing has met on several occasions, and they are fairly familiar with each other, with this relationship, the lower officials may hope to persuade you to surrender for you, General You."

"Sir, do you know Gao Jing?" Xiang Kang finally became interested.

"I know." Shu Suntong nodded, and said, "Three years ago, when he went to Xianyang to report on his duties, the subordinate officials met him a few times, and we even drank together at the same table. We are old friends."

After finishing speaking, Shusun Tong couldn't wait to cup his hands and said: "General You, if you don't mind, I am willing to bring your letter into the city in person to persuade Gao Jing to open the city and surrender for you. Maybe I can succeed."

"Sir, would you like to go into the city to persuade him to surrender? Are you not afraid that Mr. Gao Jingpi will be ruthless and will harm you?" Xiang Kang was even more surprised, and he finally looked at Shusun Tong who was always flattering.

"As long as you can serve General You and repay General You's great kindness of shelter, even if Yangdi City is a sea of ​​swords and flames, the lower officials are willing to fight for General You! In the worst case, the head will fall to the ground, why should the lower officials be afraid?!"

Shusun Tong answered righteously, but he murmured in his heart: "The two countries are fighting each other, if they don't kill each other, and the old man has a little friendship with Mrs. Gao Jing, the danger is not too big. You can take this risk."

"Mr. Shusun, you have to think carefully, this is not a joke."

Xiang Kang gave a warning, and then told Shusuntong that Gao Jing asked Qin Jun to shoot Han Cheng's envoy to surrender, and then naturally, cold sweat gushed out from Shusuntong's forehead like a waterfall At the same time, Shusun Tong screamed loudly in his heart, "Gao Jing, you old man is so ruthless! What a tragedy, the old man talked too much just now, if the right general really forces me into the city to persuade me to surrender You, my old life is still in your hands?!"

Fortunately, Xiang Kang is not a person who likes to force his accomplices to die in vain. Just seeing the rain-like cold sweat on Shu Suntong's face and his body trembling involuntarily, Xiang Kang knows that this sycophant is Niu couldn't hold back his boasting, and couldn't bear to embarrass him, so he took the initiative to say: "Mr. Shusun, how about this? Since you know Gao Jing well, you might as well write a book to persuade Gao Jing, Advise him to see the current affairs clearly, take the initiative to open the city and surrender as soon as possible, I will send people to shoot arrows on the Yangzhai city wall, and then we will see Gao Jing's reaction."

Uncle Sun Tong nodded his head in agreement as if he had received an amnesty, and immediately sat aside to write a book, and wrote a beautiful article full of flowers. Lianhua persuaded Gao Jing to take the initiative to open the city and surrender, and also said that as long as Gao Jing wanted to, he could go to the city at any time to share the old feelings with Gao Jing, in order to show his sincerity in recruiting and surrendering.Xiang Kang was satisfied when he saw it, so he sent someone out of the camp to shoot Shu Suntong's letter up the city wall of Yangzhai with a bow and arrow, and then he didn't care about it anymore.

The matter is not over yet. After Shusuntong's letter was shot on the head of Yangdi City, it was quickly sent to Gao Jing, the governor of Yingchuan County. As a result, Shusuntong's letter has not been read, and he is loyal to the Great Qin court. Geng Geng Gao Jing was already furious, and cursed: "Shameless villain! As a doctor of the imperial court of Daqin, it's fine if he doesn't assist the emperor to wipe out the bandits outside the pass, but he dares to join the Chu thieves and persuade me to bow his knees to the Chu thieves! Surrender! Despicable bastard, I swear to kill you!"

Roaring, Gao Jing couldn't get rid of his anger, kicked over the table in front of him, hurriedly advised Gao Jing to calm down, and don't ruin his body because of Shu Suntong's despicable person.However, after Gao Jing finally calmed down, his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly picked up Shusuntong's letter and read it again. Gao Jing immediately grinned and said: "Arrange an envoy to go out of the city tomorrow to contact the Chu thief, and say that the old man is willing to discuss the important matters in the letter with Mr. Shusun Tong face to face. Please come to the city to talk to Mr. Shusun Tong." Discuss directly with officials."

"Governor, do you want to discuss Kaesong's surrender with the traitor Shusuntong face to face?" His confidants were shocked, and they couldn't believe that Gao Jing, who was loyal to the Great Qin court, would say such a thing.

"Bullshit!" Gao Jing cursed a dirty word, and said with a smirk, "I want to lure that traitor Shusuntong into the city, take him to the top of the city and execute him with his own hands, so that our soldiers will share the flesh and blood of this bastard, to declare that we The determination of the soldiers of Great Qin to live and die with Yang Di!"

That night, the South Korean army who carried out harassment tactics for Xiang Kang completely angered Gao Jing once again. He was tortured by the noise of drums and gongs and did not sleep well all night. The letter came to the camp of the young marshal and invited Shusun Tong, who he hated deeply, to the city for a face-to-face discussion.

As a result, Shu Suntong, the number one scum of Confucianism in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, naturally fell into despair. Behind his back, he tried his best to persuade Xiang Kang to give it a try, and hinted that even if there is any mistake, it doesn't matter. It will be completely unscathed to the main force of the young commander, but if it succeeds, it will definitely benefit huge.In addition, the envoy sent by Gao Jing said very beautifully, saying that Gao Jing missed his old friend and hoped to have a drink with his old friend Shu Suntong, as if he had really been shaken, so Xiang Kang was thinking about it After leaving, he could only kick the ball to Shusuntong himself, and asked Shusuntong: "Mr. Shusun, the Governor Gao wants you to go to the city to discuss the matter of surrender. Would you like to go?"

More sweat appeared on Shu Suntong's forehead. He wanted to say that he didn't have the guts to take this risk, but he couldn't afford to lose him. In addition, many colleagues were nearby, so all eyes were on him. On the body, Shu Suntong was even more ashamed to refuse.What's even worse is that the envoy sent by Gao Jing made a stab at the side and said: "Mr. Shusun, in your letter to our county guard, didn't you say that you can share old feelings with our Gao County guard at any time?" ? Why are you unwilling to invite you into the city now, the Gao County Sheriff? "

"Have I ever written this paragraph?" After recalling it blankly, thinking that he had indeed written such a paragraph in the persuading letter, Shu Suntong suddenly had the urge to cut off his right hand—why? So cheap, to write such a paragraph to drive yourself into a desperate situation?

Shusuntong's cowardly appearance also angered Li Shiqi, who is currently the most bad-tempered under Xiang Kang's command, and said very unhappy: "Mr. You must fulfill your promise! Otherwise, who will dare to trust the envoy sent by our right general in the future?"

Looking at Li Shiqi quietly with great resentment, Shu Suntong opened his mouth helplessly, and said tremblingly, "I wish..., I wish to go."

PS: In history, Liu Laosan and Han Jun joined forces to attack Yangdi City. Because Yangdi Qin Army resisted stubbornly, Liu Laosan and Han Jun retaliated against Yangdi after the city was broken.

(End of this chapter)