Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 294
The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. After leading the main force of the Han army to the battlefield of Chenliu, Xiang Kang, as usual, really had the idea of ​​opportunistic.

This point cannot be completely blamed for Xiang Kang's disposition being so bad that it is hopeless. It is mainly due to objective factors that Xiang Kang wants to play evil. First, Xiang Kang personally led the main force to attack Pengcheng thousands of miles away. Of course, he hoped for a quick victory. Don't want to be dragged into a confrontation by the enemy, wasting time that is more precious than gold.

The second is that Huan Chu built the fortifications too strong. In addition to building various civil engineering works to cross the river at Honggou Ferry, he also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build an unusually strong camp. The camp wall alone is two feet long. He dug three trenches to protect the camp. Sheep and horse walls, turrets, archery towers, sentry towers and antlers were all indispensable. Even though the main force of the Han army was three times that of Huan Chu, the equipment still had a clear advantage. Kang also couldn't guarantee that his own army could defeat the enemy in one battle.

Of course, Xiang Kang didn't use despicable tricks such as diverting the tiger away from the mountain, luring the snake out of the cave, or reviving the dead. The Han army fought a tough crossing battle, pretending to attack the Huan Chu army's key defense of the ferry position, and dispatched partial divisions to successfully cross the slow water ten miles downstream, and set foot on the other side of the gap.

Huan Chu also caught the trick, and quickly sent his mobile troops to the east to make up for the leak, preventing the Han army from going upstream to flank his ferry defenders. Xiang Kang then changed his feint attack to the main attack. A real violent attack is actually the most suitable for the Han army. At Honggou Ferry, where the main force crossed the river, the Western Chu army guarding the ferry couldn't resist, so they were forced to ask Long Qie for help. A large number of people quickly crossed the river, and gradually turned against the enemy, gradually pulling the Western Chu army into a decisive battle.

In this battle, the Han army only fought more difficultly in the middle and early stages, but as the various units of the Han army continued to cross the river, gradually reversing the situation of superior and inferior forces on the local battlefield, the Huan Chu army gradually became unable to resist. In order to preserve its strength, Huan Chu had no choice but to retreat before the downstream battlefield collapsed and retreated to the camp. The Han army crossed the river in an all-round way, and set up camp ten miles southwest of Chenliu.

It was at this time that Xiang Kang began to discuss with Chen Ping, Zhang Liang and others how to lure Huan Chu out of the camp for a decisive battle. As a result, Chen Ping was worthy of being the number one bad breed in the late Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty, and soon gave Xiang Kang a Bad idea, said: "Your Majesty, Huan Chu is a famous ranger in Jiangdong. He thinks that he is extremely tall and loves face the most. If he wants to get him out of the camp for a decisive battle, the best way is to humiliate him in public and make him lose his mind and act impulsively. In this way, there is hope. success."

Xiang Kang, who was familiar with Huanchu, was applauded. In addition to immediately rushing to build various offensive weapons just in case, he also arranged for three generals, Longqi, Ding Ji, and Zhujishi, to take turns to fight outside the Huanchu camp. The soldiers of the Han Dynasty selected dozens of swearers with loud voices, personally taught them some swear words for later generations, and asked them to go to the gate of the Western Chu Army camp every day to swear, humiliate Huan Chu and challenge him to fight.

As a result, General Huanchu's poor parents and relatives naturally suffered great misfortune. Under the eyes of everyone, in front of countless soldiers of the two armies, the Han army cursed and spit, bared their teeth and claws, from the eighteen generations of Huanchu's ancestors. The grandmother kept greeting Huan Chu's unborn grandson, her words were so vicious that even a pig with a little bit of shame would have the urge to commit suicide after hearing this.

"Little Huanchu! The turtle bastard! Come out and fight us to the death if you have the ability! If you don't have the ability, go back to Jiangdong to find your old lady (mother) to nurse! Let me ask your grandmother, how did she forget when she gave birth to you? In order to give birth to your eggs together, so that you don't even have the courage to come out and fight us?"

"Huan Chufu! You are a bastard raised by a maidservant! You are a turtle slave who grew up in a brothel! You prostitute your eldest mother (grandmother) and your tall eldest mother (great-grandmother) to raise you so much, not to tell you to hide There is no head in the tortoise shell! If you still remember the hard work of selling yourself to your aunt, crawl out and fight us to the death!"

"Little Huanchu! Have you seen Eggs? Have you seen them? Come and see what Eggs are! Weng knows you have no Eggs and dare not come out to fight with us. Let you take a look!" ——This one The scolding hand not only cursed, but also took off his clothes in public, showed his work to the Xichu military camp, and urinated on the Xichu military camp by the way.

I knew that Xiang Kang would try his best to lure him into battle, but Huan Chu never dreamed that Xiang Kang would use such vicious and shameless means to provoke himself into battle. The result was just as Chen Ping expected. Chu really had no shame to bear such humiliation, and several times he ordered to gather troops and horses, and lead the army out of the camp to fight the Han army to the death!Fortunately, several of his generals were still calm, and tried their best to stop him, persuading him: "General, calm down, general, the purpose of the Chinese bandits doing this is nothing more than to provoke you to fight. If we are fooled, we will definitely fall!" Fall into the trap of the traitor!"

"Calm down! Calm down! Must be calm!" Huan Chu also desperately asked himself to calm down in his heart, secretly said: "Don't be impulsive, if you are so easily fooled, Xiang Kang'er will definitely be suspicious. In order to lure Xiang Kang into us In the hinterland, I have to hold my breath for a few days before I speak."

After finally forcing himself to calm down, Huan Chu wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't want to listen to it, never thought that the sound of a Han army cursing suddenly entered his ears...

"Huan Chupifu! Do you still remember me? I am your father-in-law (father)! Come and see how much I look like you, forget about your original fake man, come to your father-in-law, Dear brother, I will buy you maltose (malt candy) to eat! You unfilial bastard, why don’t you come out to recognize you, I am going to be angry with you! I really pissed you off, and the first thing I do when I go back is to fuck your old woman , give birth to a few more brothers and sisters for you! Brothers, you say, how many brothers and sisters should I give birth to Huanchu Xiaoer?!"

Hearing this, all the soldiers of the Han army laughed wildly and yelled loudly, and many soldiers of the Western Chu army couldn't help laughing, but Huan Chu couldn't bear it anymore, and roared: "Blow the horn! Assemble the army, Go out of the camp and fight to the death with the bandit army!"

"General, calm down!"

"Calm down, old man! I can't stand the humiliation of the bandit army! Immediately assemble the army and go out to the camp for a decisive battle! Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed immediately!"

In this way, relying on the hard work of the Han army's scolding, Huan Chu, who originally wanted to endure for a few days before pretending to be tricked, couldn't bear it, and on the first day the Han army used the aggressive strategy, he couldn't wait to lead the army out personally. Battalion, and the Han army led by Long Qie fought in a decisive battle outside the camp.Not to mention, after the situation was reported to Xiang Kang, instead of being suspicious, Xiang Kang applauded and laughed and said, "My elder brother is still as good at employing people as before, sending Huan Chu who is brave and foolish It's no different from giving me Pengcheng in vain!"

After the laughter, of course, Xiang Kang immediately gathered his troops and led the main force of the Han army to reinforce Longqie. When Xiang Kang personally led the army to the scene, the Huanchu army, which was furious and sent troops, had already fought fiercely with the Longqie army. The regiment, relying on their soaring anger, had a slight upper hand on the battlefield.Xiang Kang was even more overjoyed when he saw it. He hurriedly sent troops to break Huanchu's way back to camp, and at the same time sent troops to attack the flanks of the Western Chu army. As the vanguard, he attacked the battle formation of the Western Chu Army.

There was no suspense in the battle. Basically, the invulnerable heavy armored soldiers of the Han army had just entered the battlefield, and quickly disrupted the flank formation of the Western Chu army. The army kept coming up, killing the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were forced to fight on their own, all over the field, howling ghosts and howling wolves. Shaking the Western Chu army's position, Longqie's army took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and soon gained the overall upper hand.

Depending on the situation, whether Huan Chu pretended to retreat to the camp first, or after being killed by the detoured Han army, Huan Chu pretended to be invincible and led his army to retreat to Yongqiu. The Han army, including Xiang Kang, However, none of them saw that Huan Chu was cheating to lure the enemy. In addition to taking advantage of the momentum to attack the Western Chu army camp, he decisively divided his troops to pursue the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army. A large number of defeated soldiers fled into Yongqiu city before withdrawing.

Chen Liu's big victory completely confused the judgment of the decision-makers of the Han army. Seeing that the self-army successfully defeated Huan Chu, they also successfully captured almost all the food, grass and military supplies of the Huan Chu army, and forced Chen Liu to surrender on the same day. It was still Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, none of them suspected that Huan Chu lost the battle on purpose. After the main force of the Han army quickly cleaned up the battlefield, they immediately moved to the east and attacked Yongqiu.

The next thing is relatively simple for Huan Chu. More than half of the more than 3 troops were lost, and all the food, grass and military supplies were lost. Just after finding out that the main force of the Han army continued to advance eastward, Huan Chu resolutely gave up Yongqiu City, the hometown of the Li brothers, and fled eastward with the remnants of the defeated generals.The Han army, on the other hand, was in full swing, and successfully landed on the second city of Yongqiu and Xiangyi without a single soldier. It took only a little more than nine days to hunt down and kill Suiyang, the prefecture of Dangjun, which Xiang Kang and the young commander had sacrificed their lives to defend. .

On the night of arriving at the Suiyang battlefield, Xiang Kang of course arranged for a secret envoy to sneak into the camp of the Suiyang garrison in secret, and contacted Wan Nan, the general of the Suiyang garrison who had voluntarily surrendered before, and asked Wan Nan, the young commander in chief, to fulfill his promise. Lead the Suiyang defenders to surrender as soon as possible.Wan Nan's reply was that some of his generals were unreliable, and at the same time Huanchu's army had already entered the camp of the Suiyang garrison, and it was difficult to make a hasty move. He asked Xiang Kang to give him some time to prepare and wait for his news.

Regarding this, Xiang Kang, who is suspicious by nature, is of course dubious. In addition to building a strong camp to prevent the enemy from suddenly launching a sneak attack, he also took precautions to build siege and fortification weapons so that he could attack by force when Wan Nan repented. The scouts work carefully, closely monitoring the surrounding movement, and do not give the enemy the chance of sudden arrival of reinforcements.

Facts proved that Xiang Kang was worrying unfoundedly. At noon two days later, the young commander-in-chief and former deputy of Xiang Zhuang, Wan Nan, suddenly sent an envoy to visit Xiang Kang at the camp, saying that he was going to take down Huan Chu at dinner. All the senior generals of the Western Chu Army asked Xiang Kang to make preparations in advance.Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly organized the army to secretly prepare for the war, and arranged a very comprehensive plan, waiting patiently for Wan Nan to start an uprising.

Things were only a little off. At dusk, the scouts suddenly entered the account and reported that there was a large-scale chaos in the Western Chu military camp and a large-scale fire incident. Xiang Kang also immediately understood that Wan Nan's plan must not be completely successful. The fish who slipped through the net led the army to fight with the army loyal to Wan Nan. He was overjoyed and didn't hesitate, and immediately led the main force out of the camp, killing all the way to the Suiyang garrison camp while taking advantage of the fire.

There was still no suspense about the outcome. The Han army had just arrived outside the camp of the Suiyang garrison, and immediately some troops opened the camp gate to welcome the Han army into the city, and loudly stated their position, saying that they were acting under Wan Nan's order.At the same time, seeing that after the Han army entered the camp, another Western Chu army opened the back door and fled out of the camp. It was obvious that they saw that the general situation was over and they did not want to stay and wait for death.The Han army entered the camp in a large scale, quickly seized the Chinese army camp of the Suiyang garrison, rescued Wan Nan, who was once surrounded by the enemy, and captured many important generals of the Suiyang garrison. Most of them put down their weapons and surrendered, and only a few escaped by night.

At this point in the matter, of course Xiang Kang no longer had any doubts about Wan Nan, the former young commander-in-chief. He not only received Wan Nan immediately, but also gave Wan Nan a heavy reward in public, and named him Marquis of Suiyang. , Give food to thousands of households in the city.And when Xiang Kang asked Wan Nan why his plan failed, Wan Nan replied: "Your Majesty, forgive me, but I don't know what went wrong. Huan Chu brought his army to attack the last general's camp, if it wasn't for the last general's defenders, he would have almost killed him."

After saying that, Wan Zhe quickly took the initiative to invite Ying and said: "But don't worry, my lord, the defenders of Li County, Dang County and Mang County to the east of Suiyang are all subordinates of the late general. Please allow the late general to lead an army." If we go to pursue them, we must not give Huan Chupifu the opportunity to enter the city to supply and garrison."

"No hurry, no hurry." Xiang Kang said with a smile: "Huanchu has only a few thousand remnants and defeated generals in his hands. Even if he enters the county town to the east, there will be no troubles. Let's follow the old rules and go first Contain and reorganize the Western Chu army in Suiyang, and then continue eastward to pursue it. It will not be too late."

There was a twinkle in Wan Nan's eyes, and he said secretly: "Sure enough, it hasn't changed at all. I'm still as cautious as before. I've already reached this point, and I still want to reorganize my army. But it doesn't matter, I don't believe it anymore, I I have given you such great credit, you will not even hand over the army to my command."

This time, Xiang Kang was finally a little careless. On the second day, after dismantling and collecting more than 8000 troops who surrendered with Wan Nan, Xiang Kang allocated an army to Wan Nan's command, and the number of troops still reached 8000. And more than [-]% were the original Suiyang defenders. Wan Nan was overjoyed and quickly thanked Xiang Kang, but Xiang Kang waved his hand with a smile and said, "You are welcome, you deserve it."

Wan Nan hurriedly thanked him again, and then wanted to speak several times, his face full of hesitation, Xiang Kang saw the strange situation, and asked, "General Wan, what else do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me." Wan Nan said cautiously: "The general's wife and children are all in Pengcheng City, and the general is worried that if we..., they may be in danger."

"Don't worry." Xiang Kang casually ordered: "Take care of the matter here in Suiyang, and the king will lead the army eastward tomorrow to rescue the king and your wife and children. Go down and rest, get ready, Let’s set off with the king tomorrow.”

Wan Nan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly thanked Xiang Kang again, and then left.Xiang Kang also turned to Zhang Liang and Chen Ping and said: "Suiyang is no longer a problem, and Huanchu is nothing to fear now. Now that we are going east to Pengcheng, there is only Xiangxian County as the last obstacle. Guard Xiangxian is my elder brother Xiang Han, what do you think of him?"

"Your Majesty, you should ask yourself this question." Zhang Liangbin replied politely: "General Xiang Han is your cousin and a former subordinate of yours. No one knows his situation better than you. What kind of treatment should be taken towards him?" As for the strategy, you should make up your own mind, Your Majesty."

Xiang Kang sighed helplessly, and murmured: "I didn't expect our brothers from the Xiang family to reunite, and it would be on the battlefield. I really can't bear to kill him."

Sighing, Xiang Kang thought about it again, and then said: "How about this, send an envoy to contact my elder brother, and tell him clearly that I marched into Pengcheng this time only to welcome my family back, and have no other intentions. For the sake of brotherly love, please don't get in the way, and lead the army to leave Xiangxian County as soon as possible. If he refuses to listen, I can only kill my relatives righteously."

Chen Ping agreed to write a letter to Xiang Han immediately on behalf of Xiang Kang, but at this moment, a guard outside the account suddenly reported that there was a person who claimed to have a very important confidential letter and wanted to present it to Xiang Kang face to face. Xiang Kang, who had already tasted the sweetness, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered to be summoned, and after a while, a middle-aged man who was busy with travel and dust was brought to Xiang Kang, saluted Xiang Kang and said: "General Feng Zhongfeng, General of Western Chu, Xiao Ying, a personal soldier under his command, has seen His Majesty the King of Han."

"Feng Zhong?!"

Before the man finished speaking, Xiang Kang immediately pricked up his ears, and when he quickly looked at the man's appearance, he vaguely found that Xiao Ying, who claimed to be Feng Zhong's personal soldier, did look familiar, as if he had seen him there before.Feeling more and more excited, Xiang Kang hurriedly asked again: "Soldier Xiao, has this king met you?"

"Your Majesty has a good memory." Xiao Ying said with a busy smile, "When you were in Huaisi before, Your Majesty, the villain did follow General Feng and he met your Majesty a few times, but I never thought that your Majesty could still remember this unknown little man. "

"What did Brother Feng send you to do, tell me quickly?" Xiang Kang asked excitedly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, General Feng asked the villain to bring you a letter and a map."

Xiao Ying quickly took out a letter and a map drawn on white silk, and Xiang Kang left the table to take it in person. He glanced at the map first, and found that it was also the garrison map of the Huaisi hinterland of the Western Chu Army, and quickly opened it. Looking closely at the sealed Feng Zhong's letter, Feng Zhong not only described the brotherhood between himself and Xiang Kang who is closer than his brother, but also said that he was extremely unhappy under Xiang Yu's tent and missed him all the time. During the good times fighting side by side with Xiang Kang, all he wanted was to return to Xiang Kang's account.He also said that the main force of the Western Chu Army is now in the quagmire of Qidi, and Pengcheng is empty. He suggested that Xiang Kang seize the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to enter Pengcheng, rescue his wife and children, Li Shiqi and others who were detained in Pengcheng by Xiang Yu, and offered to serve Xiang Kang. Acting as an internal response, he led the army to surrender at the critical moment, and helped Xiang Kang easily take Pengcheng, the capital of Western Chu.

On the back of the letter, Feng Zhong, who was born in mud legs, added a sentence in a polite way - weeping blood and praying for help, don't be suspicious.

The letter is definitely Feng Zhong's own handwriting. Xiang Kang, who once wore a pair of pants with Feng Zhong, can be absolutely sure without looking for previous letters and documents for comparison.However, looking carefully at Feng Zhong's letter, Xiang Kang's hands trembled slightly involuntarily, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cellar. He couldn't help but screamed in his heart: "I was tricked! This time I was really tricked !"

(End of this chapter)