Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 358 Giant Deer Trap
"Damn traitors! As expected, they are here!"

When he received the emergency report from the Han army's partial division on the Baimajindu River to the south, Zhao Guoquan, who had already stood firmly on the side of the Western Chu army, did not have any surprises, because he had known that the Hanoi Western Chu army had been wiped out by the Han army. Zhang Er was already certain that as long as the main force of the Han army on the Xingyang battlefield could free up their hands a little, they would definitely send troops to Handan to stab him in the back to avenge his betrayal of the Han army several times before.

Later, I learned that Xiang Yu personally led the army back to the hinterland of Western Chu to suppress the rebellion, and that the main force under his command had already fought fiercely with the Han army's Uncle Zhou's troops in Hengshan County. Zhang Er was also [-]% sure that the Han army would definitely divide up in the near future. Going north, he not only seeks revenge on himself, but also shares the pressure on the northern division of the Han army, which is currently at a disadvantage. Therefore, after receiving the urgent report on the southern front, Zhang Er not only did not feel surprised or surprised, but on the contrary felt a lot more relaxed—— Anyway, I can't hide, so I won't worry about it every day if I come earlier.

The same is true of Zhang Er's staff headed by Wei Wuzhi, a descendant of Lord Xinling, who also did not feel any surprises. Wei Wuzhi also said to Zhang Er: "Mr. The battle is decided quickly, and the main force of our army is in Hengshan. It is very likely that we will advance lightly and try to kill our army by surprise. Although Enxiang has made careful preparations before, but for the sake of caution, we'd better send an army from Hengshan to go south to Julu Maneuver, just in case."

"It makes sense." Zhang Er agreed with Wei Wuzhi's proposal very much, and said: "Although we have urgently recruited a group of troops to deploy on the front line of Zhangshui, it will be difficult for the Han thieves to break through, but the new army recruited urgently is not strong enough after all. We can’t pin all our hopes on them, and we must dispatch an army from the northern front to the south as soon as possible.”

Having said that, Zhang Er, who had carefully considered the contingency plan, immediately issued an order to let his beloved generals Zhang Yan and Chen Ze immediately lead the army to the south and rush to Julu to wait for the order to maneuver. Wei Wuzhi was a little worried after hearing this, and hurriedly asked Said: "Enxiang, there are [-] Han bandits going north, but the army under the command of the two generals Zhang and Chen has only more than [-] people. If they are only sent south, is there a shortage of troops?"

"You can't draw too many troops from the northern line at once." Zhang Er shook his head and said, "First, if too many troops are drawn to go south, the Han thieves on the northern line will definitely understand that their reinforcements are already marching northward, and they will be more determined. The second is that without our main force standing on the northern front, the two armies of Chu and Qi may become selfish and unwilling to fight hard. Only by mobilizing some of our troops to go south will the Han thieves on the northern front not be able to figure it out Our reality, our allies will think that our southern line is not a big problem, and they can rest assured that they will attack the northern line with all their strength."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Er smiled and said: "Besides, we don't need to send so many troops to the south. Back then, the 40 troops of the Tyrant Qin could not defeat the giant deer. Of course, the mere [-] Han thieves would not even think of threatening the security of our capital." Also, although there are changes in the rear of the King of Western Chu, with his strong troops, it is only a matter of effort to extinguish the rebellion in the rear. He will definitely return to the Central Plains battlefield soon. , we don’t have to worry about anything.”

Seeing Zhang Er's self-confidence, Wei Wuzhi couldn't hold on to it, so he could only change his mind and ask how to deal with the enemy on the southern front. Zhang Er replied very easily: "The Han bandits moved northward, and Anyang and Ye County must be very difficult to defend. Fortunately, those two counties are not very important, even if they are lost, it will have little impact. So ignore Anyang and Ye counties, and ask Fan Ao to guard the Zhangshui defense line with all his strength to prevent the Han thieves from attacking the giant deer with light clothes. Chen Ze's army has moved south to Julu, and we will redeploy the southern defense."

Zhang Er's decision saved the people of Anyang and Ye counties from a war of fire. With the crude siege weapons that were made temporarily, they easily took the two counties of Zhao State, and then marched to the bank of Zhangshui River.Zhang Er didn't care about it, and after receiving his order, Zhang Yan and Chen Ze led about [-] Zhao troops south to Julu Houming. Zhang Er was overjoyed and summoned Chen immediately. Second General Zhang personally taught them the tips.

"The two generals have worked hard, but the army is on fire. The two generals can't rest yet. They must continue to go south immediately to Handan to prepare to meet the enemy."

After finishing his request straight to the point, Zhang Er warned: "After the two generals arrive in Handan, they are only allowed to guard the camps and cities, and must not risk a decisive battle. The army of Han bandits is notoriously bad at attacking fortified positions. You only need to If you don't fight on the wall, it will be difficult for them to do anything to you. Then you just need to hold on for a while, so that the Han bandits army will be impatient and eager to fight. The truth will have its own way to lure the Han bandits to divide their troops to the north and come directly to fight the giant deer. Then you play by ear, or take advantage of the opportunity to launch a counterattack, or try to cut off the food roads of the Han thieves, our army will defeat the Han thieves from the south, and it will be as easy as pie!"

Zhang Yan and Chen Ze agreed together, and then Zhang Yan asked worriedly: "Master En, even if you travel lightly from Julu to Handan, it will take at least two days. If the Han bandits break through our Zhangshui defense line first , rushed to Handan ahead of time, what should the general wait for?"

Zhang Er burst out laughing and said: "Two generals, you have to trust General Fan Ao who guards the Zhangshui line of defense. The truth has already been clearly explained to him. Let him guard the ferry with all his strength and prevent the Han bandit army from crossing the north. In the end, he is not the opponent of the Han bandits, and it is definitely not a big problem to buy you enough time. Unless the Han bandits divide their troops and rush lightly, otherwise they have absolutely no chance of reaching the Han bandits ahead of you. If the Han bandits really do this Now, with the abilities of the two of you generals, isn't it easy to defeat the lightly armed soldiers of the Han bandits?"

Zhang Er did have the capital of this arrogance. Two days later, when Zhang Yan and Chen Ze Er led their troops to the city of Handan, not only did they not see a single soldier of the Han army, on the contrary they also received a letter from the general of Zhao Jun Fan Fan. The accurate news Ao sent from the Zhangshui Ferry said that the Han army's partial division was still collecting ships on the south bank of the Zhangshui River, and they hadn't even had time to initiate a crossing operation. Generals Zhang Yan and Chen Ze were overjoyed when they heard the news, so hurry up Leading the army to station in the famous city of Handan, with deep ditches, high fortifications, solid walls and clear fields, patiently waiting for the Han army to come north to gnaw at the tough bone of Handan.

The movement of the Han army's partial division this time was really slow. After easily taking down the small town of Ye County on the banks of the Zhangshui River, the Han army's partial division prepared for six days on the south bank of the Zhangshui River and collected enough ferries. After recruiting the garrison of Ye County who had been captured and surrendered, they calmly launched the crossing operation. Because it was summer and the river was rising, they did not take the risk of crossing the river from the fast-flowing section of the river, and chose to cross the river section with the slowest flow. Cross the river and attack Zhao Jun's full-strength crossing position.

This was also the first tough battle that the Han army had fought after the division went north. The soldiers of the Han army had just started to board the ship. The bows and arrows of the Zhao army on the north bank of the Zhangshui River continued like a storm, which made it difficult for the soldiers of the Han army to raise their heads. The shield body was swung and paddled, and the pier on the north bank was hit. After paying a considerable price, the soldiers of the Han army just approached the north bank.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Han army who served as pioneers were all carefully selected elite soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was quite reliable. Even if they faced the battle hastily, the front army of the Han army still held the position on the river bank and protected the landing of the rear army. The road, no matter how the Zhao army's soldiers attacked and stormed, they still did not move. They repelled the Zhao army's attacks many times, and successfully persisted until the second and third rounds of the Han army crossed the river and landed on the north bank of Zhangshui.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Fan Ao, who was ordered to guard the Zhangshui Ferry, had no choice but to let the army beat the drums and personally lead more than 1 Zhao troops to launch a general offensive in an attempt to annihilate the Han army's crossing army by virtue of its superiority in strength. Gritting his teeth and holding on, while protecting the ferry with his flesh and blood, he continued to cover the rear army to cross the river. He carried the Zhao army for nearly two hours. The army was forced to give up the offensive and retreat to the camp north of the ferry to defend the camp.

Then, the Han army did not rush to attack the Zhao army's camp, but first built a pontoon bridge to protect the main force of the Han army's partial division across the Zhangshui Li camp, and then still did not rush to attack the fortifications, and chose to divide the troops and cut down Wood, intending to build enough weapons to attack fortifications first, and then attack Zhao Jun's camp.

However, this battle did not start, because Zhao Jun and Fan Ao's troops had bought enough time for the reinforcements on the northern front. The next night, Fan Ao, who had been informed by Zhang Er in advance, voluntarily abandoned the camp on the north bank of the Zhangshui River, and withdrew to Handan overnight with less than [-] new troops under his command. After the Han army scouts discovered this situation, Zheng Bu Although some troops were sent in pursuit, but Zhao's army slipped too fast. The Han army's pursuers only caught up and severely damaged Zhao's rear army, but did not hurt the main force of Fan Ao's army.

After most of Fan Ao's army successfully withdrew to the Handan battlefield, the Zhao army on the Handan battlefield also reached about [-]. Although they were still at a disadvantage in terms of overall strength, they were more than enough to guard the strong city of Handan.After this situation was reported to Zhang Er, Zhang Er was of course very happy. In addition to ordering Zhang Yan, Chen Ze and other generals to guard Handan with all their strength, he couldn't wait to call one of the Julu guards. Liu Jian, the general of Zhao, ordered him to come forward to feign surrender to the side division of the Han army, pretending that he would dedicate the city of Julu to the side division of the Han army, luring the Han army to split up to fight Julu, and even bypass Handan to fight Julu directly.

In order to win the trust of the Han army, Zhang Er also graciously asked Liu Jian to present Zhao Jun's Julu military information and city defense maps to the Han army's partial division. yes immediately.But Wei Wuzhi next to him reminded: "Enxiang, are you too anxious? The Han bandit army has not yet arrived at the city of Handan, so there is no need to send someone to surrender so soon, right?"

"It's not urgent at all." Zhang Er said with a sneer confidently: "The traitors are cunning, and they will certainly not easily believe that our generals take the initiative to surrender. The best way is to send people to pretend to surrender as soon as possible, let the Han bandits see hope first, and then set up false appearances, so that we can hope to lure the Han bandits to divide their troops or bypass Handan and take the risk to fight the giant deer."

When Zhao General Liu Jian sent a false surrender envoy to the south to get in touch with the Han army, the slow-moving Han army had just arrived at the foot of Handan City. When they heard that there was an enemy general who took the initiative to send envoys to ask for surrender, Zheng Bu, Li Zuoche and others of course immediately responded. He met the envoy sent by General Zhao Liu Jian at the first time, but after reading Liu Jian's letter asking for surrender, Li Zuoche did not make a decision lightly, but first asked the envoy Liu Jian carefully about the situation of Julu's enemy. Then the guards were asked to take Liu Jian's envoy away temporarily and discuss the matter with Zheng Bu carefully.

"Mr. Guangwu, how is it? Is it true or not?" Zheng Bu asked impatiently.

"Insufficient information, we can't tell the truth from the fake." Li Zuoche shook his head, and said, "It's just that the possibility of false surrender is very high, because the current situation of Julu is obviously a trap set by the treacherous Zhang Er. Going to fetch the giant deer, or bypassing Handan to hunt the giant deer, will only fall into the hands of the treacherous Prime Minister Zhang Er."

"Is the giant deer a trap set up by the traitor Zhang Er?" Zheng Bu asked in surprise.

"That's right." Li Zuoche nodded, and said, "The traitor Zhang Er's purpose is very clear, that is, to guard Handan with heavy troops, block our food roads, and at the same time lure us to split up our troops to fight the giant deer, and even lure us to bypass Handan and go straight for it." Julu, if we fall for the trick, the treacherous Prime Minister Zhang Er will definitely defend the city with all his strength, and at the same time send heavy troops from the northern line to return to the south. At that time, the enemies in Handan will also send troops to the north, and attack us back and forth with their northern reinforcements. Coupled with the fact that the Julu defenders are cooperating internally and externally, the treacherous Prime Minister Zhang Er is not only confident in defeating us, but even hopes to annihilate our army."

"Good idea!" Zheng Bu said with a smirk, "If we didn't want to wait for him to send the bandits from the northern front to the south to die, we would have taken Handan long ago, and we would have given him so much time to arrange things calmly?"

"But we'd better not underestimate the enemy." Li Zuoche replied with a smile: "Ants can kill elephants even if there are too many ants. Now we'd better use our tricks and take advantage of the opportunity of Zhang Er's treacherous deliberate arrangement of giant deer traps. He deliberately dispersed the troops to defeat them one by one, and by the way forced him to dispatch the northern army to the south as soon as possible to die, so as to share the pressure for our northern army."

Zheng Bu nodded, fully agreeing with Li Zuoche's suggestion, and asked, "What should we do with the emissary who came from Julu?"

"It's fine to pretend to be a snake." Li Zuoche replied: "Regardless of whether it is true or not, first agree to Zhao Jian's request to surrender, let him prepare in Julu, and then respond when we go north to Julu. That Zhao Jian really asked to surrender, and when we take down Handan and go north to Julu, he can certainly play a huge role. If he pretends to surrender, he can also make Zhang Erpifu happy for a few days, and then he will be more surprised and flustered."

As soon as Zheng Bu heard the applause, there was a messenger sent by Liu Jian to ask for surrender, and he agreed to General Zhao Liu Jian's offer to surrender. The soldiers stepped up to set up the camp, while organizing manpower to cut wood, they made every effort to manufacture various offensive weapons including counterweight trebuchets, sharpened their knives and cut woodworkers to prepare for the Handan War.

On Zhang Er's side, after Zheng Bu accepted the news of Liu Jian's surrender and was brought back to Julu, Zhang Er, who was full of confidence, was of course very happy. In addition to getting the Julu defenders to step up their preparations to defend the city, he also went to Lingheng Mountain early. On the battlefield, let his number one confidant Gan Gong (the key figure in history who decided whether Zhang Er voted Han or Chu) be ready to lead the main force of the Zhao army back to help Julu at any time. He also sent someone to send generous gifts to Tian Bu, the general of the Qi State who was in command of the Qi army, and asked him to lead the Qi army and Duke Gan to go south together.

On the Handan side, in addition to withdrawing all the troops to garrison the city, the Zhao army also made preparations to defend the city. In order to let the Han army attack the city as soon as possible, Zhang Yan, Chen Ze and others sent several times to attack the city. A small group of troops took the initiative to run to the gate of the Han army camp to insult and challenge the Han army, trying in vain to make the Han army attack the city directly when they were not prepared enough, and use the city defense advantage to give the Han army a disarm.

It is a pity that since Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, has learned nothing about morality, righteousness, honesty and shame since he followed Xiang Kang, the only thing he has learned is very thick-skinned, so of course Zhao Jun's provocative generals have no effect. After spending seven full days preparing enough siege weapons, on the morning of the eighth day, Zheng Bu personally led the army out of the camp and launched an attack on Handan City, the former capital of the State of Zhao.

Of course, the Zhao army also closely monitored the movement of the Han army. Before the main force of the Han army was assembled, the city of Handan was already full of alarms and gongs. The defenders were on duty to prepare for the battle. The three generals, Chen Ze and Fan Ao, also hurriedly boarded the South Gate of Handan, condescending to check the movement of the Han army.

Halfway through the hour, more than [-] main forces of the Han army's partial division, carrying a large number of siege weapons, successfully advanced to the south gate of Handan to form a formation. After checking the situation of the Han army on the city wall, they were appointed by Zhang Er. Zhang Yan, the chief general of Zhao Jun's southern line, snorted and said with a sneer, "It's a waste of time, thinking that the Han bandits can play some new tricks, but now it seems that they are no different from other bandits."

Chen Ze and Fan Ao nodded in agreement, both of them thought that the Han army attacking the city was worthless, and even believed that the Zhao army could withstand the 40 Qin army back then, and the mere [-] Han army outside the city was of course a piece of cake.In the end, after the soldiers of the Han army lined up the counterweight trebuchets outside Handan City, Zhang Yan, Chen Ze and others who had never seen this kind of weapon were a little vigilant. Judging from the huge throwing arm, they guessed that After the weapon outside the city was likely to be a trebuchet, Zhang Ze also said to Zhang Yan: "Brother Zhang, the Han bandits should use the trebuchet to hit stones. You are the commander. It is best not to stay on the city wall and take risks, and advance into the city." Go rest, I'm here."

Knowing that this was a good intention from his friend, Zhang Yan accepted Chen Ze's persuasion after a few words of refusal, and left the front line to return to the headquarters in the city to take charge of the overall situation. Before leaving, Zhang Yan was also very kind to Zhang Ze. Said: "Brother Zhang, after the Chinese thieves start throwing stones, don't take the risk of staying on the city wall and go into the tower to take shelter. I'm doing it for your own good, so don't be careless."

Chen Ze agreed, Zhang Yan also led Fan Ao and his own soldiers down to the city, mounted his horse and returned to Zhao Jun headquarters in the county guard's mansion, but the horse didn't go far, Zhang Yan suddenly heard a call from the city There was a burst of exclamation, and before Zhang Yan turned back to check the situation, a huge howling sound fell from the sky...

"Boom!"

The strong wind was blowing, and the face was scraped like a knife. Still before he had time to see clearly what happened, Zhang Yan, who was riding on the horse, fell directly to the ground, and when he fell dizzy, Zhang Yan hurriedly screamed at the soldiers next to him. When I looked closely at the voice, I screamed out, "My sister!"

After screaming, Zhang Yan's crotch felt hot, and a hot liquid suddenly soaked the dick on his waist...

Don't blame Zhang Yan for being timid, the main reason is that the scene was too scary. A huge boulder weighing more than 100 jin suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Yan, smashing the head of Zhang Yan's war horse into meat sauce. Another big hole a few feet deep was smashed into the ground!It was only a little bit short, and it almost smashed Zhang Yan from head to toe into a meat paste!
Boom!

A louder muffled sound came suddenly, and Zhang Yan, who was lying on the ground, saw with his own eyes that the South Gate Tower of Handan above his head seemed to have been hit directly by a giant fist of ghosts and gods. It shattered and collapsed, turning into a piece of rubble surrounded by walls!
"What happened?" This was the first reaction in Zhang Yan's heart, and then, Zhang Yan immediately screamed like a pig, "Brother Chen Ze, you must not really listen to me!" Advise, really entered the city tower!"

(End of this chapter)