Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 413 How Did You Offend You?

After Xiang Kang personally led the main force of the Han army to Xiangcheng, Han Xin actually found something unusual, because considering that Ye County suffered from repeated military disasters and frequent wars, the surrounding decent timber had been felled seriously, and the counterweight trebuchet The throwing arm has strict requirements on materials. In order to plan ahead, Xiang Kang sent people to Lingwu Mountain and Ziyun Mountain around Xiangcheng to cut down suitable wood in advance, and he would rather spend more time transporting it to the battlefield in Ye County. In order not to find qualified wood available after getting Ye County.

The Nanyang army, which has the home court advantage, quickly discovered this situation, and according to Han Xin's request, it quickly reported this suspicious situation to Han Xin, which not only immediately aroused Han Xin's vigilance, but also immediately made Han Xin associate It is said that the mysterious weapon of the Han army that once appeared on the Puyang battlefield.

Although thousands of miles away, road traffic is extremely inconvenient, and information transmission is difficult, Han Xin, who has been on the southern line, has heard some rumors about the Puyang battlefield, knowing that the Han army used shameless means of poisoning to shake the morale of the Western Chu army. , and invested in a powerful new weapon, which defeated the main force of the Western Chu army in the middle, and also forced to death Cao Jiu, Xiang Yu's most trusted military affairs, and won a complete victory.

In this regard, limited by the times, Han Xin always felt that the shameless poisoning of the Han army played a key role in severely damaging the morale and fighting spirit of the Western Chu army. Only then did he easily kill Cao Jiu, who was actually mediocre, and also to the legendary The new weapons of the Han army are quite disdainful, thinking that the so-called terrorist weapons are the same as the primitive grenades used by the Han army before.But when he heard that Xiang Kang sent people to cut down thick and long trees around Xiangcheng in advance, Han Xin immediately thought of that new weapon.

"The Han thieves began to cut down wood in Xiangcheng. Could it be that they were trying to make the rumored weapon? What is that weapon? What is its function? It is really as powerful as in the legend. Are they all overwhelmed?"

The huge gap in military technology limited Han Xin's imagination, and the serious shortage of information also made Han Xin unable to imagine what the new weapons of the Han army looked like and how powerful they were. After thinking about it for a long time, Han Xin could only take two countermeasures. The method, first, let the Nanyang Army officers and soldiers seize the time, continue to strengthen the city defense and barracks with all their strength, and use the fortifications as strong as possible to meet the fierce attack of the Han army that is about to launch; In Kunyang County, stick to Kunyang to lure the Han army to use new weapons, and take the opportunity to understand the real situation of the new weapons of the Han army, so as to be confident.

In order to achieve this goal, Han Xin not only chose an absolutely reliable old man from the Nanyang Army to lead his troops northward, but also called the old man who had followed Liu Laosan when he started from Pei County to him, and took him by the hand and told him to go north. He said: "In any case, we must hold on for ten days, so that our king will personally command the troops to go north to reinforce Ye County to buy time. The fate and future of our army on the northern front line are all up to you."

"Please don't worry, General." The old man from the Nanyang Army was really fooled, and he bowed to the ground immediately, and solemnly replied: "Even if it is the last soldier in the battle, the last general will definitely guard Ye County for ten days and go north for our king." Ye County buys time!"

When this unlucky old man of the Nanyang Army rushed to Kunyang (now Yeyi Town) with his cannon fodder army and entered the city to station, the main force of the Han Army, which had already rested for a while, was also under the personal command of Xiang Kang, and set off from Xiangcheng. Aggressively came to Ye County to find Han Xin to settle accounts. Both Long Qie and Zhongli Meier, who had suffered a big loss at the hands of the Nanyang Army, fought each other and rushed to be the pioneers, forcing Xiang Kang to be on the safe side. The only choice is to choose another general of the Han army, Ding Ji, as the vanguard—after all, it is not a joke to play against Han Xin. Frustrated.

Not to mention, Han Xin's move to increase troops in Kunyang once really misunderstood Xiang Kang. He suspected that Han Xin did it to buy time for Liu Laosan's main force to go north, or to throw stones with counterweights in Longqie. When the machine razed Kunyang to the ground, Xiang Kangcai suddenly woke up and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, it is easy to take down Kunyang with our new-style trebuchet, but once our new-style trebuchet is exposed, Han Xin's treacherous and cunning , Either slipped ahead of time, or we can find a way to weaken the power of our new trebuchet, then it will not be so easy for us to win the important place in Kunyang."

"My lord, what should we do then?" Long Qi asked again hurriedly.

After thinking for a while, Xiang Kang made up his mind and said, "Using the previous method to attack the city will not only give us time to rush to build new trebuchets, but also temporarily preserve our strength, so that Han Xin can rest assured to die in Ye County!"

If you gain, you will lose. Of course, Xiang Kang’s decision has killed many Han soldiers. After arriving in Kunyang, Xiang Kang asked the craftsmen of the Han army to hurry up to build counterweight trebuchets, and prepared to attack Liu Xiang’s coalition forces by the way. The trench and bridge vehicles in the camp let the Han army officers and soldiers launch the siege with ordinary siege weapons, causing many Han army officers and soldiers to die in vain under the Kunyang city, and failed to take down the Nanyang army officers and soldiers for two days. The small town of Kunyang that was defended to death.Fortunately, the Han army's partial division Zhujishi's troops fought very smoothly, and easily captured the small town of Yangdi, which had a weak force. It once again strengthened the strength of the main force of the Han army.

With Xiang Kang's deliberate reservation, after knowing the specific situation of the Kunyang battlefield through scouting, Liji, Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and others suddenly decided that they were far more serious about defending the fortifications than Kunyang. The sturdy Ye County is more confident, and more determined to stick to Ye County and wait for reinforcements.Only Han Xin suspected that the Han army was deliberately preserving its strength, and thought of giving himself another surprise in the decisive battle in Ye County.

At this time, the scouts of the Han army who had already started to move around the battlefield in Ye County made Han Xin suddenly think of a way to understand the specific situation of the mysterious new weapons of the Han army, and soon deployed special manpower to capture the scouts of the Han army. , scratching his tongue to ask for a confession, and on the same day that the Han army finally captured Kunyang by relying on ants to attack the city, they captured a Han army scout who unfortunately fell off his horse and was injured.

It's a pity that Han Xin's luck was not very good. The Han army scout finally caught by the Nanyang Army cavalry was a very tough warrior. They couldn't find any useful information.After the situation was reported to Han Xin, Han Xin only made some calculations, and immediately ordered: "Tie him to the rack, take off his shoes and socks, spread honey on the soles of his feet, take two sheep to lick the soles of his feet, Lick until he confesses."

The laughing punishment invented by Han Xin more than 2000 years in advance has received miraculous effects. The next morning, while Han Xin was still eating breakfast, the Nanyang Army officer in charge of the interrogation came to Han Xin with a smile on his face. As soon as they met, they bowed their hands and bowed. : "The general is clever, the general is really clever, and he was able to come up with such a clever trick to interrogate the confession. The officer has really learned it, and he will no longer have to worry about not being able to ask for a confession."

"Stop talking nonsense, have you asked yet?" Han Xin interrupted impatiently.

"The question came out, the question came out, and before midnight, the man couldn't stand the sentence, and he spoke the truth."

The Nanyang Army official who was in charge of the confession answered with a smile on his face, and then he hurriedly presented the Han Army scout statement that he had personally recorded. However, to the surprise of the Nanyang Army official, after carefully reading the statement record, Han Xin not only did not praise him He was able to do things well, what kind of reward and compensation would he give to him who stayed up late to ask the confession, and instead he asked angrily: "Such an important confession was asked in the middle of the night yesterday, why did it take until now to present it to me?"

"Didn't you, General, rest at that time?" The confession officer hurriedly replied, "The confession of a traitor soldier is not very important. How dare you disturb your rest, General, in the middle of the night?"

"Fart! You are a pig head, such a confession is not important, what kind of confession is important?" Han Xin was furious, first scolded the officer who asked the confession, and then hurriedly shouted: "Quick, send someone to Zhou Bo and Lu Jia are invited to meet this general at the central army tent."

According to Han Xin's instructions, Zhou Bo and Lu Jia, who had just finished their meal, rushed to the Chinese army tent to meet Han Xin. Han Xin didn't show any politeness to them, and directly handed them the statement that recorded the situation of the Han army's new trebuchet. Asking them to take a closer look, Zhou Bo and Lu Jia were unavoidably surprised. They both said, "How is it possible? A boulder weighing more than 100 jins can be hit for miles and miles, and it can also send fireballs into the city? Really?" Fake, can there be such a powerful weapon in the world?"

"I'm afraid it won't be fake." Han Xin replied with a gloomy face: "Otherwise, how could it be possible that the city of Puyang, which Xiang Liang could not take down, and the city of Julu, which King Zhang Hanli could not take down with his 40 troops So quickly captured by the traitors?"

Zhou Bo and Lu Jia were tongue-tied, still unable to believe that the world could have such a weapon, and Han Xin said with a sullen face: "It seems that we can only adjust our strategy. The main force withdrew from the Ye County battlefield and left the army to defend the Ye County city. Then divide the troops to the northern cities of Nanyang, trade space for time, and buy time for the king of Western Chu to personally lead his army to reinforce us."

"General, are you kidding?" Zhou Bo jumped three feet high and shouted: "Kunyang, where the main force of the Han bandits are currently located, is only twenty miles away from Ye County. If we retreat at this time, the Han bandits will definitely come back immediately If we launch a pursuit, won’t we have to be chased and killed by Han thieves like we were in Xincheng before?”

"That's better than annihilating the entire army!" Han Xin said with a sullen face: "If the new trebuchets of the Han bandits are really as terrifying as the Han bandits' captives said, our fortifications in Ye County will be ten times stronger. It doesn't work, when the Chinese bandits break through our camp, if we try to retreat, the loss will only be even greater!"

"General, isn't it absurd?" Lu Jia also objected: "Just relying on the confession of a traitor and pawn, we must voluntarily give up the Ye County camp that we built with great difficulty. If the traitor captive is exaggerating to scare us , We voluntarily gave up the easy-to-hold Ye County fortress and fortified camp, and the Chinese thieves have to laugh their teeth out?"

"That's right." Zhou Bo added: "How do you explain to the Western Chu Army? How could Liji believe such a ridiculous confession?"

Considering that the captives of the Han army may indeed exaggerate intentionally, Han Xin is inevitably a little shaken, but for the sake of caution, Han Xin is still very inclined to retreat quickly and stick to the northern cities of Nanyang one by one at the expense of space.However, at this time, another fast horse came to report that the [-] reinforcements led by Liu Laosan had successfully arrived in Yangcheng (the city of the same name in Nanyang), and they would arrive in Ye County by tomorrow at the latest.

Hearing this good news, Zhou Bo and Lu Jia of course cheered, and more firmly opposed Han Xin's cowardly move, and insisted that Han Xin wait until Liu Laosan arrived in Ye County before making a decision. Han Xin was helpless, and knew that Li Ji would be more difficult to persuade , I had no choice but to reluctantly agree with Zhou Bo, Lu Jia and others' opinions, and said bitterly in my heart: "Sooner or later, I will be cheated to death by your stupid colleagues! Let’s create it, and I hope that the king can listen to my advice and make the right decision.”

But then again, it was really not that easy for Han Xin to flee immediately. On the same day, because he was afraid that Han Xin would slip away first, Xiang Kang personally led the main force of the Han army from Kunyang to the south, and it was very easy. Arrived at the outskirts of Ye County that afternoon, and quickly established a camp ten miles north of Ye County, ready to fight with Liu Xiang's coalition forces at any time, and basically shattered Liu Xiang's coalition forces' last hope of escaping first.

At this time, although the counterweight trebuchet of the Han army was basically completed, Xiang Kang certainly had no way to launch an attack immediately because he had not collected enough shells. Three arrived in Ye County smoothly the next day, and had the opportunity to join forces with Han Xin and Liji's second army.

He is already an old sparrow on the battlefield. The first thing he did after arriving in Ye County, of course, Liu Laosan hurriedly checked the pre-war preparations of Liu Xiang's coalition forces. What made Liu Laosan laugh from ear to ear was that Liu Xiang The coalition forces have not only built two strong fortifications that are comparable to cities outside Ye County, but also built countless defensive fortifications such as archery towers, sentry towers, and horse-repelling antlers. The sheep and horse walls protect the trenches, and the Yexian city defenses, which have been repaired repeatedly, have been reinforced to such a degree that the defense strength is definitely comparable to that of the county government.

Because of this, when the army he brought set up camp in the south of Ye County, when he came to meet Han Xin in front of Han Xin's camp, Liu Laosan opened his mouth and praised: "You did a good job. It must be so strong, not to mention that the total number of Han thieves is less than 30 troops, even if there are [-] Han thieves, they will never want to take down our Ye County gate!"

Han Xin smiled wryly, and didn't dare to say anything to shake the morale of the army in front of the gate of the camp. He just politely invited Liu Laosan into the camp to take a seat, and then presented the confession in front of Liu Laosan himself. After seeing it, he was naturally very surprised. He couldn't believe that the Han army would have such a powerful weapon in their hands. Han Xin hurriedly reminded Liu Laosan not to forget that the Han army quickly captured Puyang and Julu, and exchanged himself for space. Time's suggestion was put forward for Liu Laosan's reference.

Hearing Han Xin's words, Liu Laosan was also a little shaken for a while, but after thinking about it for a long time, Liu Laosan shook his head and said, "Han Xin, I also know that you are saying this out of caution. , but it is too hasty for us to make such an important decision based on the confession of a traitor and pawn. Let’s wait and see, if the situation is really wrong, it is not too late for us to decide to retreat.”

"But Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will be too late then."

Han Xin hurriedly persuaded again, but Liu Laosan waved his hand and interrupted, saying: "Needless to say, I know you are thinking about our army, but don't forget, we are now only ten miles away from the traitors, and we will retreat at this time If the traitors take the opportunity to send troops to pursue them, we will still suffer heavy losses. Instead of choosing to lose, we might as well choose to fight the traitors head-on.”

After speaking, Liu Laosan had an idea again, and hurriedly said to Han Xin: "By the way, haven't you always looked down on Xiang Kang's traitor's use of troops? Do you think he has no real talents other than opportunism? Now the opportunity has come. Our current total strength has reached [-], which is not much different from the Han bandits, quickly show your true skills and help me defeat the Han bandits head-on."

"Your servant will do his best." Han Xin replied helplessly, and said even more helplessly in his heart: "Xiang Kang's traitor's military use is actually average, and it is not difficult to deal with, but the problem is that if I want to defeat him head-on, I must establish a foundation that can block him." On the basis of his attack. If we can't stop the attack of the traitors, no matter how many good strategies I have to defeat the enemy, I can't use it?"

There was still Xiang Yu's threat behind him, and the food road was too long. Of course, Xiang Kang would not give Han Xin this chance. In the early morning of the fourth day after Liu Laosan arrived in Ye County, Xiang Kang couldn't wait to personally lead the [-] army He dispatched and rushed to Ye County in a fierce manner to find Liu Xiang's coalition forces to settle accounts.As a result, when receiving this news, Han Xin and Liu Laosan, who was somewhat anxious in his heart, of course secretly prayed, hoping that Xiang Kang would choose to attack the Western Chu army camp first, and let the Western Chu army be cannon fodder to expose the true strength of the Han army. , so that the self-army can have time and opportunity to make new choices.

Of course Liu Laosan and Han Xin's sweet dreams came to nothing. There is no doubt that the main force of the Han army marched directly to the line of Yexian County, aiming at the pitiful Han Xin army camp. They only allocated [-] troops to monitor and restrain them West Chu army camp to the west.Seeing this, Han Xin, of course, lamented again, and said, "Xiang Kang's traitor, how did this general offend you? Why are you holding on to me?"

(End of this chapter)