Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 385 Xiang Kang Arrives
If it hadn't been for the final boss of the Han army, Xiang Kang, who had arrived at the Julu battlefield in person the next day, the soaring anger of Zhou Yin, the great Sima of Western Chu, would definitely have burned down the camp of the allied Qi army. When He Tianbu was arguing about the robbing of the camp yesterday, a messenger of the Qi army suddenly rushed into the tent of the Chinese army, and said loudly to Tian Bu and Zhou Yin, who were already blushing and thick-necked, and barely made a move:

"General! He is here! The traitor and false king Xiang Kang is here! That shameless traitor Xiang Kang, who is known for his treachery, cunning, and cruelty, is really here!"

At the same time, when Xiang Kang's king's flag appeared on the Chidao leading to the south, the soldiers of the two major corps of the Han Army who lined up on both sides of the Chidao, and the Han Army camp behind them, also almost At the same time, deafening cheers erupted. Whether it was true or false, whether it was sincere support for Xiang Kang, a despicable villain and a hypocrite, or just to flatter and flatter, almost every Han soldier cheered, and almost every All the soldiers of the Han army were ecstatic, and the huge sound waves went straight into the sky, reaching several miles away, and the scene was comparable to the strongest on the surface.

Of course, the sisters of the Yu family were the most excited. Just as they saw Xiang Kang coming in the royal chariot, the little girl Yu Ji jumped out of the carriage, crying and rushed towards Xiang Kang, but it was a pity that even though Xiang Kang also got off immediately Che was about to hug her, but the little girl Yu concubine suddenly remembered that she was still only Xiang Kang's sister-in-law, so she had to stop only two steps away from Xiang Kang, blushed and choked up and called out, "Sister-in-law .”

Xiang Kang calmed down by calling Yu Concubine little girl, thinking that he was already the king after all, and he had to pay attention to the influence. Xiang Kang could only barely restrain his impulse, nodded to the little girl, and pressed down. With a thousand words in his heart, he opened his arms to greet his wife Yu Miaoge, who was married to Ming Media, and hugged her and his child in his arms. The crowd of Han soldiers also burst into loud cheers again.

In fact, the most touching thing was the moment when Xiang Kang met his good brother Feng Zhong. In front of countless soldiers of the Han army, Xiang Kang walked slowly step by step in front of Feng Zhong with tears in his eyes, and Feng Zhong also burst into tears. Their faces were full, but they didn't hug each other. They just stretched out their right hands and hit the air hard. Then Xiang Kang grabbed Feng Zhong's hands with both hands, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Feng, come to this world. The best thing I did was to make friends with you, brother."

Hearing Xiang Kang's words from the bottom of his heart, thinking of his hardships and endurance in the past few years, and the difficulties and obstacles he encountered when escorting the family members of the Han army to break through, Feng Zhong had a sore nose, burst into tears, and shook Xiang Kang's body vigorously. Hands, thousands of words in the chest, but still can't say a complete sentence...

It took a lot of time for Xiang Kang to appease the family representatives of the rescued Han army, and also expressed his respect and gratitude to Li Shiqi, who had been imprisoned for many years but was always loyal and unyielding, as well as Uncle Zhou, who had been away for a long time, Zhou Shu and the others expressed their admiration to each other, but when Mr. Uncle Sun finally got the opportunity to prostrate himself in front of Xiang Kang and flatter him, Xiang Kang suddenly noticed that Zhang who was talking with Han Xin not far away Liang's face was as pale as paper, and his body was still shaking. Something was obviously wrong.

He quickly glanced at the other people around Zhang Liang, and saw that Han Cheng, who Zhang Liang insisted on following, was not there. Xiang Kang vaguely realized that something was wrong, so he waved his hand to stop Mr. Shusun's eloquence, and came over and asked, "Mr. Zifang , What happened? Where is King Han? Didn’t he escape?”

Because of Han Cheng's unwillingness to accept Xiang Kang's official position, Zhang Liang of course had no face to answer, and Han Xin had no face to introduce Han Cheng's situation. In the end, it was Feng Zhong who came forward and introduced to Xiang Kang that Han Cheng betrayed the Han army and died in the rebellion. Regarding the situation, Xiang Kang listened to it for a long time without saying a word, and then asked after a long while: "How did King Han's body be placed?"

"Bring it back." Feng Zhong replied: "It is currently stored in General Zheng's camp, waiting for your majesty to dispose of it."

Xiang Kang nodded, then patted Zhang Liang on the shoulder, and said, "Mr. Zifang, you can handle it. Pick a good place to bury him, and I will pay for it. Also, his children will be entrusted to you." , good life to teach them to grow up, and then I will arrange official positions for them as appropriate."

Zhang Liang fell on his knees to Xiang Kang with a plop, and after sobbing for a long time, he said, "Thank you King Han, the King of Han is magnanimous. It's hard to repay the King of Han's great kindness even if he is smashed to pieces."

Xiang Kang helped Zhang Liang who was crying bitterly with his own hands, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Zifang, don't worry, let the matter pass, this is not a place to talk, let's go to the camp, we will return There are a lot of big things that need to be discussed carefully.”

Because the sisters of the Yu family and the family members of the Han army lived in the camp of the Zheng Bu Corps, Xiang Kang, who only led five thousand elites, of course also established his so-called imperial camp in the camp of the Zheng Bu Corps. During the establishment of the camp, Xiang Kang, who was well aware of the urgent military situation, led another team of cavalry, and went to the outside of Julu City and the camp of the Qi Chu army in person to survey the terrain and learn about the latest changes in the military situation on the Julu battlefield. Be aware of it, and then return to the camp to decide the next decisive battle tactics.

Like Uncle Zhou and others, Xiang Kang was also very surprised that the Zheng Bu Corps of the Han Army failed to lure the enemy last night, and he couldn't help but asked Li Zuoche with a smile, "Mr. Guangwu, what's going on? Mistake, why did your carefully designed scheme of throwing bricks and attracting jade have no effect at all?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me." Li Zuoche replied with a wry smile: "I don't understand what went wrong. Yesterday our scouts clearly found signs of Qi's bandit army secretly preparing for war, but I don't know why. It just so happened that no troops were dispatched."

Xiang Kang couldn't figure out the reason, and there was no need to waste energy on this kind of thing, so he smiled and said: "Forget it, if you miss an opportunity, you will miss an opportunity. Anyway, it won't affect much. Since it's still early, Let's quickly discuss how to kill the remaining Qi, Chu and Zhao bandits as soon as possible."

The civil and military officers of the Han army agreed, and quickly sat down according to their official positions. They were ready to discuss the tactics of the decisive battle with Xiang Kang. The decisive battle is extremely important to us. If we can't completely annihilate the Qi and Chu bandits outside the Julu City before the Western Chu King Xiang Yu personally leads the army to reinforce, and take Julu to attack the Zhao country's bandits, then the bravery of the Western Chu King Good at fighting, and the unfavorable terrain in the Julu area, as well as our too long and single food road, I am afraid that the battlefield in Zhaodi is very likely to be overthrown by the enemy, and our previous sacrifices and efforts are also very likely to be in vain, so My king hopes that all the generals will be able to supervise the soldiers to fight bravely, defeat the enemy quickly, and completely establish our victory on the northern front, and live up to the soldiers of our army who sacrificed their blood to attack the bandit army of Zhao State."

Everyone in the Han army sang promises in unison, Xiang Kang nodded in satisfaction, and said: "Everyone knows the situation of the bandit army's garrison, so I won't be too wordy. There is only one problem before us, and that is Should we first fight the bandit army of Zhao State in Julu City? Or should we fight the bandit army of Qi and Chu outside Julu City first? Regarding this point, everyone can speak freely without any scruples, so that this king can listen and understand, and make the right choice that is most beneficial to our army. "

After finishing speaking, Xiang Kang pointed at Uncle Zhou and said, "General Uncle Zhou, you have always been the main force on the northern front, and you know the enemy's situation best, so you should speak first."

"I obey." Uncle Zhou agreed, and then said: "I have also discussed this with General Zheng Bu, but the opinions are opposite and no agreement has been reached. I believe that although the strength of Zhao's bandit army is the weakest, it is still huge. The Lucheng Pool is too strong, and there are Qi and Chu bandits as external support. They can send troops to attack our siege army at any time. If we attack the Julu City first, it may be difficult for our army to succeed quickly. Therefore, the ministers believe that our army should attack first The thieves outside the city will attack the city with all their strength after they have wiped out the enemies outside the city."

After saying that, Uncle Zhou quickly added another sentence, saying: "There are two advantages to doing this. One is that the elite of Zhao's rebel army has already lost, and there is no spare power to go out of the city to reinforce the enemies outside the city. We don't have to worry too much about the flanks when we attack the Qi and Chu rebels. The second is that as long as we quickly annihilate the enemies outside the city, even if Xiang Yu personally raises troops to arrive, we only need to use a small part of our troops to contain the decimated Zhao's bandit army, and we can use the main force to fight against them. The Western Chu reinforcements are fighting."

Uncle Zhou was surprised that after listening to his correct opinion, Xiang Kang, who had always been obedient to him, not only did not immediately adopt it, but instead looked at him with doubts for a few times, then Xiang Kang turned to Zheng Bu and asked: " General Zheng, just now General Zhou said that you disagreed with him, so you are advocating attacking Julu City first?"

"Reporting to the king, that's exactly the case." Zheng Bu hurriedly replied: "The last general proposed to attack the Julu city first. The reason is very simple. With the new trebuchet that you personally invented, the king, we have great confidence in taking down the Julu city quickly. At the same time, we can also force the Qi and Chu bandits to come out for reinforcements, take the opportunity to annihilate some of the Qi and Chu bandits, and facilitate our next battle. In addition, after taking Julu City, we can also seize the food and grass in the city and give it to the enemy, reducing our food and grass pressure."

Uncle Zhou was even more surprised. After listening to Zheng Bu's opinion, Xiang Kang turned his suspicious eyes to him again. You probably haven’t used our new trebuchet in actual combat, have you?”

"Reporting to the king, no." Uncle Zhou replied truthfully: "Because the materials are too rare, our new-style trebuchets were all completed two days ago, so I have not used the new-style catapults that you personally invented in actual combat. machine."

Xiang Kang suddenly realized, Zheng Bu also patted his forehead, and finally understood why Uncle Zhou opposed his tactical plan, then Xiang Kang said with a smile: "It's no wonder, General Zhou, wise men worry a lot, and occasionally make mistakes. You are too conservative this time. But you can’t blame you, the main reason is that you have never seen the power of the new trebuchet invented by the king, and how much damage it can do to the rammed-earth city wall, so you just follow the old-fashioned way. Dare to take the risk and attack Julu City first."

"Our new trebuchet, is it really that powerful?" Uncle Zhou was still a little skeptical, and said, "But as far as I know, when you were in Puyang, Your Majesty, you first wiped out the Western Chu bandit army outside the city, and then you went all out." The siege?"

"That's because the Western Chu bandit army was stationed under Puyang City at that time, protecting the three gates of Puyang on three sides, and the north of Puyang was a big river, so our troops could not be deployed, so this king had to attack the Western Chu outside the city first. Thieves."

Xiang Kang explained the reason with a smile, and said: "But the situation is different now. The Qi and Chu rebels are afraid of our sharp soldiers, so they stationed on the high ground on the mountain. They let us attack the two northeast gates of Julu. There is room for expansion, and there is an opportunity to besiege the city and fight for aid, so of course we have to pick the weak ones, and take the Zhao country's bandit army first."

Seeing that Xiang Kang's opinion was completely consistent with his own, Zheng Bu was of course elated, and Uncle Zhou gradually came to his senses, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, so to speak, this subject is really too conservative this time. For the city, the minister fully supported it, and it happened to witness with his own eyes the amazing power of the new trebuchet that the king himself created."

"After we meet, you will never be able to leave again." Xiang Kang said with a smile, "Also, you won't have to worry about how to attack the city anymore."

Seeing that Xiang Kang spoke so confidently, Uncle Zhou could only quickly agree, and General Chong Da of the Han Army who belonged to Uncle Zhou's corps also hurriedly said: "My lord, since we accidentally pulled General Zheng's hind legs this time, Please give us a chance to redeem our crimes, and ask your majesty for permission to let the last general be the vanguard of the attack."

"General Chong, you are too good at beating snakes with sticks, aren't you?" Gongsun Tong, another fierce general of the Han army who belonged to Zheng Bu's corps, was anxious and said quickly: "Since you also admit that we are right, Then we should be in charge of attacking the city.”

After all, Gongsun Tong also followed suit and asked Xiang Kang to be the vanguard of the city. Xiang Kang smiled and waved his hands, and said, "No hurry, we should attack the gate of Julu first after the discussion is over. Everyone, Zhao Guo thief The army should have learned the lessons of the Handan battlefield, and completely blocked the two southwest gates of Julu City, leaving only the two northeast gates for traffic. Judging from the positions of the camps, it should be the bandit army of Qi State who is responsible for protecting the east gate of Julu, and the bandit army of Western Chu who is responsible for rescue and covering the north gate of Julu. If so, which gate of Julu city do you think we should focus on?"

This time, there was finally no disagreement within the Han army. The two military geniuses, Uncle Zhou and Li Zuoche, just made some calculations, and soon said in unison: "We should attack the east gate first!"

"Why?" Xiang Kang asked thinkingly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, because only by attacking the east gate of Julu first, can we create the most opportunity to attack the city and provide reinforcements. While attacking the city, we will take the opportunity to severely injure the enemies outside the city, and reduce the resistance for us to annihilate the enemies outside the city in the next step."

Li Zuoche hurriedly said: "The bandit army of the Qi State is intact. We stormed the east gate of Julu. They are duty-bound, and they can't find any excuses to shirk. They must send troops to rescue. We only need to prepare in advance, and we will definitely be able to win and take the opportunity to weaken the enemy. Opportunity for the bandit army of Qi State. Otherwise, the bandit army of Western Chu suffered heavy losses and their vitality was seriously injured. Even if the Julu North Gate was in an emergency, they would definitely find all excuses to refuse to send troops. Even if they sent troops, it would probably only be perfunctory It is difficult for us to take the opportunity to further weaken the Western Chu bandit army while attacking the city, which is not conducive to our next step of annihilating the enemies outside the city."

Uncle Zhou nodded, indicating that he also had the same opinion, while Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Since Lord Guangwu and General Zhou both think so, let's focus on the East Gate of Julu."

Before Xiang Kang's words fell, Chong Da, Wang Ling, Gongsun Tong, Tao Xi and other generals could not wait to take the initiative to ask for orders to be the vanguard of the siege, but Xiang Kang still did not make a decision, just asked Zheng Bu with a smile. He said: "General Zheng, since General Zhou accidentally held you back this time, let you choose for yourself. Are you willing to be in charge of attacking the city? Or are you willing to be in charge of reinforcements?"

Just as Xiang Kang expected, Zheng Bu just made some calculations, and immediately said through gritted teeth: "Your servant, please order me to fight for help! Find the bandit army of Qi State to settle the score!"

Xiang Kang laughed and agreed, and agreed by the way to let Chongda lead the army as the siege vanguard. Chongda thanked him with great joy and accepted the order happily.Then it was at this time that Chen Ping said: "Your Majesty, during the siege and reinforcements, we must not forget the Western Chu bandit army. Your servant suggested that we should take advantage of the current situation and try to recruit Da Sima of the Western Chu bandit army." Zhou Yin, this will not only make Zhou Yin even more unwilling to rescue the Qi and Zhao bandits, but also benefit our next step in the battle to wipe out the bandits outside the city."

The history is messy, and I don't know what kind of guy Zhou Yin was in history. Xiang Kang was a little surprised when he heard it, and said: "Recruit Zhou Yin? How is it possible? He is my brother's confidant. How can my elder brother's old minister of Western Chu be easily shaken?"

"It may not be impossible." Chen Ping said in a deep voice: "Please think about it, my lord. Zhou Yin led the Western Chu bandit army to fight like this in Zhaodi. , and it is absolutely impossible to spare him lightly! Since Zhou Yin is the confidant of King Xichu, he must be very aware of this point. As long as we start from this aspect, I am not afraid that Zhou Yin will not be swayed at all. As long as he is swayed, our It’s a good fight.”

Considering the violent temper of his overbearing cousin, Xiang Kang nodded slowly. Li Shiqi, who was in the tent, didn't know how to learn a lesson, so he stood up immediately and said, "If the king decides to surrender, then this old man is willing to go to the enemy camp, to persuade Zhou and Yin to change their flags and surrender, to abandon Chu and return to Han."

Xiang Kang thought about it for a while, and quickly shook his head and said, "Mr. Li, you can't just take risks. Mr. Zhou Yin may be shaken, but there must be many stubborn people by his side. You go directly to persuade Zhou Yinpifu to surrender, I'm afraid it will be dangerous."

"Your Majesty, trying to recruit Zhou Yin should be divided into two steps." Chen Ping suggested: "I suggest that we might as well write a letter today to persuade Zhou Yin to surrender, explain the pros and cons to him, and lay the foundation. Then wait for us to win After leaving Julu City, Zhou Yin has nowhere to go, so we will send important officials to contact him, promise high-ranking officials, rich salary and feudal titles, and try our best to urge him to change his banner and surrender."

As soon as Xiang Kang heard that he was in the middle of his heart, he immediately nodded in agreement, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou, when you were in Jingxing, didn't you already catch Zhang Ao, the son of Zhang Er? Bring him here." Already?"

"Bring it back to the king." Uncle Zhou immediately replied: "Before this, I also used this point to try to contact Zhang Er and persuade him to surrender voluntarily, but he refused to reply. If my guess is correct, Zhang Er's traitor should be ready to give up his son."

"He is such a son, would he be willing to give up easily? At his age, even if he has another son, I'm afraid he won't be able to wait for the younger son to grow up." Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Just bring it." , when we send troops to attack the city, remember to bring along, Zhang Er, the son, should still be able to play a role."

When Uncle Zhou agreed, Feng Zhong who was next to him also remembered something, and hurriedly interjected: "Your Majesty, the last general was too excited just now and forgot to report to you. By the way, I brought it here from Pengcheng, please show me how to deal with it."

"It's hard work, brother. After running such a long way, you still insist on bringing them here." Xiang Kang smiled and praised, and then said: "Let's hold it for now, Mr. Liu Jipi is cruel, but he definitely won't care about it." The life and death of his family members, but if his family members make good use of it, they may not be able to make a fuss about my bad-tempered overlord brother."

After Feng Zhong also agreed, Xiang Kang waved his hand very coolly and said: "Everyone, you all know my temper. I don't like red tape the most. Now that the military situation is raging, we must take down Julu as soon as possible. The better the victory is, the better, so the other formalities and etiquettes can be avoided, and now there is still time, everyone will go back to prepare for the battle, and we will have a meal together in the evening, by the way, we will feast on the soldiers, and launch the siege tomorrow!"

"Promise!" Han Junwen and Wu neatly stood up and clasped their fists to sing promises, and then Feng Zhong couldn't help but praise in his heart, "My brother is indeed more and more kingly, and it is true that he turned an enemy into a friend back then." The best thing I've done in my life."

(End of this chapter)