Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 376
"Ten brothers, the lives of more than 6000 of our soldiers, as well as more than 800 families and relatives of Han civil and military, are all entrusted to you."

"I am ashamed of being a general, and I am even more sorry for you. For my Hanwang brothers, I insisted on bringing you here, causing you to suffer so much and suffer so much. I dare not even let you rest. If you have enough rest, I must ask you to go to Zhao State with a letter asking for help, and tie your heads to the belt to help me ask Hanwang's army for help. I, Feng Zhong, really owe you too much."

"But ten brothers, you can rest assured that as long as one of you can send the letter asking for help to the army of the king of Han, let the army of the king of Han come to rescue us. When you see the king of Han, you As long as you are still alive, I will take care of your high-ranking officials and rich salary, and you will be rich and rich for a lifetime, and you can enjoy it endlessly! For those who died, your parents and children are my parents and children. The rewards and rewards I deserve, I also guarantee that one and a half will be handed over to your parents and children! If I, Feng Zhong, did not keep my word, I would cross the river and demolish the bridge, and a thunderbolt would strike me! , there is no place to die!"

"Ten brothers, please, I'm sorry, I don't even have a boat, and I have to find a way to cross the river when I leave the city. Also, please accept my obeisance before leaving!"

After finishing these words with tears, in front of everyone, Feng Zhong bowed down to the ten carefully selected self-soldiers and saluted heavily. Like Feng Zhong, they all kowtowed to the ground and bowed to the ten soldiers of Feng Zhongjun who were about to risk their lives to go out of the city to ask for help. The ten messengers who had disguised themselves as ordinary people also knelt down and returned the salute. , no matter how difficult or dangerous it is, we will definitely send your letter to the army of the King of Han and ask them to come and rescue you."

On the second night of being trapped in Pingyuan County, before the Chuji Allied Forces had time to build the siege fortifications and completely cut off the communication between Pingyuan and the outside world, at midnight, the southeast, north, and south gates of Pingyuan City were quietly opened at the same time, and the suspension bridge suddenly opened. Putting it down together, ten Feng Zhongjun soldiers with letters asking for help rushed out of the city, and rushed to the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River overnight, looking for boats to cross the river, and went to the Julu battlefield where the Han army might have arrived. Military families fight for the last chance.

Feng Zhong was worried. On the north gate of Pingyuan, he saw and heard with his own eyes very clearly that the four messengers had just left the city, and soon some torches appeared on the outskirts of the north gate of Pingyuan, where they were most likely to break through. The sound of horseshoes and shouts of killing could still be vaguely heard. It was obvious that the ambush soldiers of the Chuji coalition army who were ambushing outside the city discovered Feng Zhongjun's envoy leaving the city, and suddenly rushed out to intercept and pursue him. Seeing clearly the situation of the four self-army messengers leaving the city from the north gate, the only thing Feng Zhong could do was to pray silently, praying for God's blessing, so that the self-army messengers could successfully get rid of the enemy's interception and pursuit, and smoothly send the letter of appeal to The giant deer was handed over to the generals of the Han army who might have arrived there.

Feng Zhong must also be thankful for his decisive decision. On the second night after being trapped, he decisively sent a messenger out of the city to ask for help, because it was only the morning of the third day, and flags were waving on Chidao Road in the southeast. A large number of Jibei Army came for reinforcements. At the same time, by observing the flags, Feng Zhong soon discovered in astonishment that the person who led this Jibei Army was probably someone who had known him several times before. King Tiandu of Jibei!

It was true that Tiandu, king of Jibei, led his army to come to reinforce him. Before that, because of the West Chu Army's request for help and Xiang Yu's order, Tian Du was already ready to help the West Chu Army encircle and suppress Feng Zhongjun. When I got the letter from the Ministry General Tian, ​​I learned that Feng Zhongjun picked the soft persimmons and insisted on running around on his own territory instead of fleeing west. The elite of the Northern Army headed northward, heading towards Pingyuan, the most likely direction Feng Zhongjun would choose to break out of the siege, and arrived at the Pingyuan battlefield much faster than Feng Zhong and others expected.

After arriving at the city of Pingyuan, Tian Du, of course, immediately scolded Tian Jiao for his ineffective pursuit, and asked him why he was so incompetent. Feng Zhongjun took down the small town of Pingyuan, causing even greater losses to the Jibei Army, which was already small and thin.

At this time, it was the old general Ding Guding who jumped out to be a good man and pleaded for Tian Jiao: "King Jibei calmed down and failed to catch up with Feng Zhong's bandit army in time. It is indeed the joint fault of this old man and General Tian Jiao, but The fall of Pingyuan County has nothing to do with General Tianjiao. It was General Tianchu of your army who was negligent and let Feng Zhong's rebel soldiers follow his defeated soldiers into the city directly. The general has nothing to do with it."

After all, Ding Gu said with a smile: "Besides, it doesn't matter much if we lose Pingyuan County for the time being. At least we have completely trapped Feng Zhongpifu in Pingyuan City. Next, we can not even use the city. Gong, as long as you seize the time to repair the fortifications and completely cut off Feng Zhongpifu's way out of the city, Pingyuan City will naturally return to your hands in a short time. At that time, all the family members of the traitors will be captured, and we, the King of Western Chu In terms of rewards for meritorious deeds, naturally I will not treat you badly, Your Majesty."

"You don't need to attack the city? You can trap the Han thieves to death? It would be that easy!" Tian Du was not as optimistic as General Ding, and said coldly: "General Ding came from afar, probably he doesn't know yet. The Han thieves sent troops from Puyang to the north, and they have already captured Handan City, an important town in the State of Zhao. Feng Zhong’s traitor is trapped in Pingyuan City, and he might send troops to rescue Feng Zhongpifu, if this happens, then we will be in big trouble!”

"The Chinese bandits are almost hitting Julu? So fast?"

Ding Gu and Tian Jiao screamed together, and it was true that they did not have time to know this important situation. Tian Du nodded, and then told Ding Gu and Tian Jiao about the changes in the Zhao State's war situation that Zhao Guo's army had informed him. As a result, Ding Gu He Tianjiao also finally realized, looked at each other and exclaimed, "No wonder Feng Zhongpifu sent someone out of the city to ask for help last night. Did he know about this situation?"

"What do you mean by that?"

Tian Du asked confusedly, and Tian Jiao quickly told Tian Du what happened last night, saying that the Chuji Allied Forces who were in charge of monitoring the four gates of Pingyuan found that there were enemies coming out of the city, so they quickly dispatched to chase and intercept them, and finally successfully killed four Feng Zhongjun messengers , two were captured alive, and Feng Zhong’s letter to the Han army asking for help was found from them. Then Tian Jiao said: “At the beginning, the last general and old general Ding were very strange. Why did you go to such great lengths to send so many messengers to ask for help from the army of traitors thousands of miles away? Now it seems that Feng Zhong must have heard the news and knew that the traitors were about to hit Julu, so he decided Send people out of the city for help at any cost."

"Have all the messengers of the traitors been caught and killed?" Tian Du hurriedly asked, "Is there any fish that slipped through the net? The road from Pingyuan to Julu is all the way. If the traitors from Julu receive the news, they will come to rescue Pingyuan." But it's very convenient!"

Tian Jiao and Ding Gu shook their heads helplessly, saying that the light was too dark last night to confirm how many of the same envoys Feng Zhong sent out of the city, and naturally it was impossible to know whether the self-army had captured all the Han army envoys.Tian Du was furious when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Then what are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and give me the time to interrogate the confession, and you must ask me exactly how many rescue messengers Feng Zhongpifu sent! Also, whoever sent someone to Dahe Search upstream and downstream, and if any suspicious outsiders are found, I will take them all down!"

Tian Jiao had no choice but to make a promise, and quickly sent people to search the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River, looking for the messengers of the Han army who might have slipped through the net, and at the same time sent people to seize the time to interrogate the confession. Build siege weapons in order to launch a siege as soon as possible and retake the plain county that is extremely important to the Jibei Army.Then the hard work paid off, and in the afternoon, one of the two captured Han army couriers could not withstand the torture. He honestly confessed that Feng Zhong sent a total of ten couriers, and admitted that Feng Zhong asked them to think about it. Find a way to cross the Yellow River and send the letter of appeal to Julu to the Han army who may have arrived there.

When the situation report came to Tian Du, Tian Du became more and more furious. In addition to ordering the Jibei Army to step up the search for the remaining four Han army messengers, he also adopted the suggestion of Liu Hua, a counselor under his command, and personally wrote a letter to contact Dongwu and Cuo counties on the land of Zhao State. In other places, Zhao Guojun was also asked to help search and intercept the messengers of the Han army, and clearly explained: "No matter what method we think of, we must capture or kill the remaining four Han thief messengers, and we must not let them and Julu's Get in touch with the traitors! Otherwise, even if the traitors only send [-] troops to reinforce them, the traitors in Pingyuan City will definitely fight to the death, and it will be even more difficult for us to regain the important land in Pingyuan!"

It is a pity that although the Jibei Army used a lot of manpower to search and search, by the end of the night, the Jibei Army only found and killed two Han army messengers on the bank of the Yellow River, and there were still two Han army messengers missing. I don't know, I don't know if he is still lurking in Jibei or has escaped the Yellow River. Tian Du was furious when he heard the report, but he was helpless.

But there is also an unexpected harvest, that is, during the search and arrest by the soldiers of the Jibei Army, they undoubtedly found two suspicious men with foreign accents. Said: "Don't kill me, I am Han Wang Han Cheng, take me back to your king, I was also forced to escape from Pengcheng."

Then, when the unlucky Han Cheng and Han Xin were escorted back to the Jibei military camp, the scene of being able to kill the loyal South Korean minister Zhang Liang appeared. Bowing and bowing, he brazenly pushed all the responsibility for his escape from Pengcheng to Peng Yue and Feng Zhong, shamelessly declaring that he had always wanted to organize the old people of Han to help Xiang Yu fight against the traitor Xiang Kang, but he didn't expect to Being hijacked by Peng Yue and Feng Zhong, he was forced to flee with Feng Zhong as a last resort, and said that he did not want to accompany Feng Zhong to his death because he had long wanted to escape from Feng Zhong's army, blindly just begging for mercy, begging Tian Du to forgive him Undead, but also whimsical, Qiu Tiandu released him and returned to Han, and promised to repay him twice in the future.

It's a pity that Tian Du didn't bother to pay attention to Han Cheng at all. Before Han Cheng finished speaking, he quickly waved and said: "Put these two men into the prison car and take them to Pengcheng to the king of Xichu. The King of Chu is down."

The guard in the tent sang a promise, and immediately stepped forward to arrest him. Han Cheng hurriedly begged for mercy, but Liu Hua, the counselor of Tiandu who was also in the tent, rolled his eyes and hurriedly got up and walked in front of Tiandu. They all winked, and then said: "Your Majesty, King Han is after all the royal family of South Korea, and his status is noble. Even the King of Xichu has not treated him slowly. In my opinion, we should keep King Han in the army first." , good hospitality, it won’t be too late to do it later.”

After finishing speaking, Liu Hua even winked at Tian Du again like killing a chicken and wiping his neck. Tian Du knew that there was something wrong, so he changed his words and asked the guards to take Han Cheng and Han Xin down to treat each other with courtesy. En Wanxie said goodbye and left.Then, after the guards took away both Han Cheng and Han Xin, Tian Du asked Liu Hua strangely: "Why? Stay to waste our food?"

"Because this man is of great use to us." Liu Hua replied with a smile, and then said: "Your Majesty, since we have confirmed that Feng Zhongpifu already knows that the Han bandit army is about to arrive at Julu, then seeing that there is a glimmer of hope, Feng Zhong’s bandit army in Pingyuan City will definitely fight to the end, waiting for the Han bandit army to rescue, this is very disadvantageous for our army to attack the city, even if we regain Pingyuan County, we will definitely pay a big price.”

"Since this is the case, why don't we take advantage of the fact that Han Cheng, a shameless man, was once Feng Zhong's partner, and use the strategy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot to weaken the morale and fighting spirit of the thieves in the city, so that the thieves in the city will have the idea of ​​surrendering and begging for a living? If this is successful , if we want to take back the important plain, we will definitely be able to multiply it many times.”

"Then how do you get rid of the bottom line?"

Tian Du hurriedly asked again, Liu Hua smiled treacherously, and then explained his plan in detail, Tian Du was overjoyed when he heard it, and said happily, "A clever plan, let's do it this way! Let the thieves in the city have no intention to continue fighting!" "

Although Pingyuan County is not big, it is still a city, protected by suspension bridges and moats. Although the Jibei Army is a new force with obvious physical strength, it must first prepare certain siege weapons to be sure of taking the city. In the next few days, the Jinbei Army could only make all kinds of siege weapons with all their strength, and was not in a hurry to launch a siege, and they lived in peace with Feng Zhongjun in the city for the time being.

During this period, Dongwu City, which was controlled by the Zhao army in the west, also sent people to send a good news, sending the head of a Han army messenger and a letter of pleading for help written by Feng Zhong himself to Tian Du, although there was still a Han army The whereabouts of the courier were unknown, but Tian Du was still very relieved, believing that he would not be so ignorant, so that the last Han army courier who did not know his whereabouts really sent the letter of pleading for help to Julu and handed it over to the Han army, regaining the important plains for himself add trouble.

On the afternoon of the fourth day after Tian Du's army arrived at Pingyuan City, Zhou Lan's unit of the Western Chu Army also arrived at the Pingyuan battlefield after receiving the news. At around [-], while continuing to expand the superiority of troops, it also greatly boosted the morale of the Chuji coalition army, and at the same time hit Feng Zhongjun's morale and fighting spirit again, and the psychological advantage became more obvious.

Also on the same day, the Jibei Army also prepared barely enough siege weapons. Liu Hua, who was trusted by Tian Du, immediately suggested that Tian Du send troops to attack the city the next day, and take the plain as soon as possible to avoid accidents. .It's a pity that Tian Du just made some calculations, and immediately shook his head and said: "No hurry, wait another day, Zhou Lanpifu just arrived today, and he will attack the city tomorrow. He will definitely be tired from the distance and won't send too many troops to us. Help, that old man Ding Gu is treacherous and cunning, every time he fights a tough battle, he will always hide behind, and if we launch a siege tomorrow, we must be the main force to gnaw hard bones, even if we win the plains, we will definitely lose a lot, wait another day Launch the siege, so we can pull more Western Chu troops to help and share the pressure with us."

"But if the time is delayed for a long time, in case the last bandit messenger really got in touch with the Han bandits, the Han bandits will send troops to reinforce." Liu Hua said worriedly: "Then the bandits don't even need to be in a hurry To cross the river, you only need to set up a flag on the other side of the river, and the bandit army in Pingyuan City will definitely stick to it like crazy."

"What are you afraid of for a day?" Tian Du asked back, smiling and said: "The bandit army in the city sent an envoy to ask for help four days ago, even if the letter is really sent to the Han bandits, wait for the Han bandits to respond and send troops over It will take at least ten days to respond. By that time, we have already conquered the plains. Besides, our siege weapons are only barely enough, so we need to prepare a little more in case of emergencies. "

Seeing that Tian Du had made up his mind, and considering that in such a short period of time, even if the Han army received the news, it would be absolutely impossible to send troops to make trouble, so Liu Hua did not insist, and Tian Du was not in a hurry to be on the second day. The siege was launched on the first day, but first agreed with Ding Gu and Zhou Lan on the siege positions they were responsible for, and generously distributed some of the siege weapons prepared by the own army to Zhou Lan who had just arrived, and then on the sixth day In the early morning of that day, the Chuji Allied Forces dispatched their army very calmly, and the troops were divided into three groups to fight towards the plain.

According to the agreement, Ding Gu and Zhou Lan of the Western Chu Army were in charge of the north and south gates of the plain, while the Jibei Army was in charge of the front of the east gate facing Chidao. He immediately called Han Cheng, who had been captured before and was still recognized by the Han army as the king of Han, to the front, and forced him to hold a white flag and go to the city of Pingyuan to shout, and use the poisonous trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot for the self-army...

(End of this chapter)