The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 137

Yi Xiaochuan's march was extremely fast, and he rushed from Wuguan to Shangluo in three days.

The closer he got to Xianyang, the more irritable he became, and it was difficult to maintain a normal mind.

Fortunately, Meng Tian also came here in a hurry, the same people were exhausted and could not wait for work with ease, so when Yi Xiaochuan was not able to gain a firm footing, he was caught off guard.

The two sides had to go to camp separately, so that the horses could rest first.

As for the battle between Meng Tian and Yi Xiaochuan, Li Mu did not plan to intervene, and let his two brothers fight for their own lives.

Unless the Han army is really not an opponent, he will choose to intervene.

In terms of military strength, the gap between the two sides is quite large.

Now Yi Xiaochuan has more than 50 troops under his command, but Meng Tian only has half of his troops.

However, in this kind of large army battle, the superiority of troops is not absolute. If the generals do not command well, causing the army to collapse, no matter how many troops there are, they may be defeated.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as Xiang Yu's tens of thousands of Chu troops defeating 40 Qin troops.

However, Yi Xiaochuan may not be defeated against Meng Tian, ​​because the person who commands the army for him is called Han Xin, the person who advises him is called Zhang Liang, and the person who manages the internal affairs and logistics for him is called Xiao He.

Xiao He and Yi Xiaochuan are old acquaintances. When Yi Xiaochuan escorted Mr. Lu's family to Pei County, he came up with the idea of ​​using the seat to collect money.

At that time, Xiao He was the chief official of Pei County, and Lu Gong had a close relationship with the county magistrate of Pei County, so the county magistrate sent Xiao He to be a gatekeeper for Lu Gong to register those who came to congratulate him at the gate.

At that time, he had already dealt with Yi Xiaochuan, but he was not friends with Liu Bang. On the contrary, he looked down on Liu Bang very much.

One of Liu Bang's "He Qianwan", if Yi Xiaochuan hadn't stepped forward at that time, Xiao He almost sent someone to beat him up.

After Yi Xiaochuan's incident, he joined the Han army with this friendship and was reused by Yi Xiaochuan.

Of course, Xiao He is not an idiot relying entirely on his connections, he has real materials and is worthy of Yi Xiaochuan's trust.

……

After the army had rested for two days, Yi Xiaochuan was discussing matters with a group of civil servants and generals in the tent of the Han army, when a soft shout suddenly sounded outside the tent: "Report."

Yi Xiaochuan said: "Come in."

The messenger soldier entered the big tent, bowed his fists and said, "Report to the King of Han, and the Qin army will send envoys to see you."

A Han general wondered: "The Qin army sent envoys to see you at this time, what do you intend to do?"

Another person laughed and said, "It's not like they came to surrender, right?"

Zhang Liang said: "It's unlikely, according to the spies' report, the Shangluo garrison is the Meng family army who just arrived from Shangjun."

"This is the most elite army in the Qin army. General Meng Tian is rarely defeated. There is still a chance to fight this battle."

Han Xin also said: "Only Meng Tian in the Great Qin Dynasty is worthy of a battle."

Yi Xiaochuan frowned, to be honest, he was not willing to die with Meng Tian.

Although he knew well that he was not Meng Yi, Meng Tian always treated him as his own younger brother and always treated him well.

Although he doesn't appreciate it, he is not ignorant of good or evil.

But he can't help it, Shangluo is the last hurdle that prevents him from entering Xianyang, and he must break through.

As long as he passes this level, there will be no obstacles in the future, because after arriving in Xianyang, Gao Yao will help him open the door and welcome him into the city, and there will be no obstacles after going to Luoyang.

It's useless to think so much now, he has come to this point, no matter what, he will not give up.

Now anyone who dares to stop him from picking up Yushu, he will go there without hesitation.

After renewing his conviction, Yi Xiaochuan said to the messenger soldier, "Bring him in."

"promise"

The messenger soldiers came to the gate and brought the envoys of the Qin army to the tent of the Chinese army.

When Yi Xiaochuan saw the envoy, he couldn't help being startled, and said in astonishment: "Old Pang, why is it you? Aren't you in Tu'an?"

The person who came was Pang Gui, a hundred general who was in charge of their team of corvees when he went to repair the Great Wall.

Later, Tu'an raided the section of the Great Wall where they were, and was captured by Tu'an's army together with Yi Xiaochuan, and was taken to Tu'an as a slave.

He and Yi Xiaochuan have experienced many things together, and it is a fateful friendship.

And because of Yi Xiaochuan and Yushu, he and other slaves decided to settle in Tu'an.

But what Yi Xiaochuan didn't expect was that he would meet him here, and he became a Mengjiajun.

Pang Gui looked at Yi Xiaochuan with complicated eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Why did you rebel?"

Yi Xiaochuan was startled when he heard the words, then pointed to the military general of the accountant Chinese minister, and said: "You shouldn't ask me this question, you should ask them, ask those brothers outside who followed me in the uprising, and ask them why they rebelled."

Pang Gui stared at Yi Xiaochuan and said: "I don't ask them, I will ask you, because they have nothing to do with me, but you are my brother."

Yi Xiaochuan's face trembled, he turned around, and closed his eyes.

He really felt a little guilty about this question, no matter how high-sounding his rhetoric to the outside world and how upright his slogans were, in the final analysis, the root cause of his rebellion was for Yushu.

He is not so great, nor is he so high-minded, to save all people from suffering.

He has always been just a little person who just wants to live his own life well.

A night member who followed Yi Xiaochuan from the Xianyang base and has now become a general of the Han army said: "General Pang, right? The so-called officials force the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel."

"Nowadays when a tyrant is in power, the people are in dire straits. If the people in Guizhou have a way to survive, who would want to do such a thing?"

"Since you are a good brother of the King of Han, you must also be a kind and righteous person. You should go forward and retreat with him instead of asking why the King of Han rebelled here."

Pang Gui didn't even look at that person, still staring at Yi Xiaochuan's back, and said after a long time: "Can we talk alone?"

Yi Xiaochuan turned around and said to the civil servants and generals: "Everyone, I haven't seen my good brother for many years, and I want to talk in private."

Seeing this, everyone stood up and clasped their fists together and said: "The ministers and others (the last general) will leave."

They all quit the big account directly, no one worried about Yi Xiaochuan's safety, because they had great confidence in Yi Xiaochuan's martial arts.

After everyone went out, Yi Xiaochuan said to Pang Gui: "Sit down, tell me, why are you here?"

Pang Gui sat down silently, and said slowly: "When you disappeared suddenly, I searched all over the world, from Tu'an to Daqin, but I couldn't find your trace, so I had no choice but to give up."

"When I was in Shangjun, it happened to be just in time for the Meng family army to recruit troops. I have long heard the name of the Meng family army's loyalty, so I joined the Meng family army."

After listening to Pang Gui's words, Yi Xiaochuan was secretly moved.

When Yushu was sent to Daqin to get married, he secretly conspired with General Jin to snatch her back.

Because of the importance of the matter, he did not inform anyone, but acted in secret.

Later, in a battle with Meng Tian, ​​he fell off a cliff and spent more than a month recovering from his injuries.

Afterwards, they crossed mountains and ridges and took Yu Shu to Xianyang with Meng Tian, ​​but naturally Pang Gui couldn't find him.

Yi Xiaochuan sighed inwardly, he didn't mention the past events again, he just said: "Then why did you come to see me this time?"

Pang Guidao: "General Meng wants to see you alone, I took the initiative to ask Ying to be the envoy when sending someone."

Yi Xiaochuan smiled wryly and said, "The battle has already been fought to this point, what else is there to say?"

Pang Gui's gaze sank, and he said, "You dare not go to the meeting?"

Yi Xiaochuan shook his head and said: "Old Pang, you don't need to provoke me, I am no longer alone, I have to be responsible for the brothers under my hand."

"Meng Tian wants to see me alone, that's fine, open the city gate and surrender, I'll set up a banquet to have a private chat with him."

Pang Gui said expressionlessly: "You know this is impossible. Even if the Meng family army fights to the last one soldier, they will never surrender."

"General Meng guessed that you might not come to the appointment, so he has a second plan."

Yi Xiaochuan said: "What plan?"

Pang Gui said: "After two days of rest, the Han army must have recovered, and you should attack the city tomorrow."

"At that time, General Meng will ride out of the city alone and meet you between the Han army formation and the city wall, so you dare to attend the meeting?"

Now Meng Tian is the defender of the city, and Shangluo is not an isolated city, so there is no problem with the logistics support. Given the large gap in troop strength, he will naturally not go out of the city to fight against the Han army.

When Li You of Yongqiu leads his army to join up, he will be able to fight the Han army.

Yi Xiaochuan pondered for a while, nodded and said: "This arrangement is no problem, you go back and tell him, I will attend the meeting."

Pang Gui nodded upon hearing this, stood up and said, "Then see you on the battlefield!"

Yi Xiaochuan quickly stood up and said, "Old Pang, the current Daqin is not worthy of your loyalty at all, why do you have to fight for that tyrant with me?"

"I don't ask you to turn against each other. I just ask you to save your life. In the future, I will win the world, and you will always be rich."

Pang Gui glared at Yi Xiaochuan, and said in a condensed voice: "Are you insulting me, the Meng Family Army?"

Yi Xiaochuan said angrily: "I didn't mean to insult anyone. You are loyal to the tyrant Qin, but where is the righteousness of our brothers?"

Pang Gui froze, turned to face the tent door, turned his back to Yi Xiaochuan, and sighed: "Since ancient times, loyalty and righteousness have been difficult to balance. Since I joined the Meng family army, I can only choose to be loyal to the country."

Yi Xiaochuan scolded: "I'll go to your uncle's loyalty, you can't be loyal to the country, you idiot, Meng Tian is stupid, and you will be stupid too."

"Since you insist on courting death, you don't have to go back today, come here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of sergeants who were dressed in strange clothes and completely different from the ordinary Qin army rushed in.

Pang Gui suddenly turned around, glared at Yi Xiaochuan and shouted angrily: "Are you trying to break the rules?"

Yi Xiaochuan sneered and said, "Rules? If I follow the rules, I won't rebel. Moreover, the rules of the battlefield are that the two armies are fighting, and they are not killed, but they are not allowed to be detained."

After saying this, he waved his hand and said, "Take him down, arrange a tent to entertain him with delicious food and drinks, and your Flying Tigers will watch him in person."

"If you dare to find trouble, beat me up. As long as it doesn't hurt his life and doesn't let him out of the camp, you can do anything."

"Send another person to the city to tell Qin Jun that I have accepted Meng Tian's invitation, and Lao Pang will stay with me for a few days."

"promise."

Pang Gui was startled and angry, his weapons had been confiscated when he entered the camp, and he was empty-handed.

And those members of the Flying Tigers, that is, the night killers, heard Yi Xiaochuan's order and knew what he meant, so they didn't draw their swords, but came to catch him empty-handed.

Pang Gui pushed away a player's arm, and hit the opponent's front door with a backhand punch.

The team member was fearless, and with his incomparably agile left arm, he punched him in the abdomen with his right hand.

The solid and thick armor failed to protect him in any way, a force blasted through the armor into his abdomen, causing him to bow down immediately.

The two team members took the opportunity to grab his arms from left to right and put them behind his back, restraining him.

"Yi Xiaochuan, you bastard, let me go..."

……

Early the next morning, outside Shangluo City.

The flags of the Han army were flying, and they lined up two miles outside the city, with no boundaries at a glance.

Yi Xiaochuan was dressed in silver armor, with a long sword hanging from his waist and a spear in his hand. He rode alone towards the city wall.

At the same time, the gates of Shangluo City opened wide, the suspension bridge was lowered, and Meng Tian rode Hei Feng, stepped across the moat, and rushed forward as well.

In the end, the two rode together and met in the middle between the Han army array and the city wall.

Meng Tian stared at Yi Xiaochuan, said in a deep voice: "My Meng family has been loyal for generations, I never thought that in this generation, there would be a traitor."

Yi Xiaochuan said impatiently: "I have said many times, I am not Meng Yi, and have nothing to do with the Meng family."

"It's not about being puffy or anything, but I'm pretty sure of it because I know where I am."

Meng Tian raised his head, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then let it out slowly, then looked at Yi Xiaochuan again, and said: "Forget it, this issue is not important anymore."

"I have to meet you. I just want to ask you a question. Are you rebelling... for Concubine Li?"

Facing Meng Tian, ​​a man who also admired Yushu, Yi Xiaochuan didn't hide anything, and readily admitted: "Yes."

Meng Tian continued: "If there was no reason for Concubine Li, would you rebel?"

Yi Xiaochuan sighed, "If Yushu hadn't come to Daqin to get married, maybe our children are running all over the place now, who would want to rebel?"

Meng Tian's face was filled with sadness when he heard the words, he laughed at himself and said: "So in the end, did Great Qin die at the hands of a small border country like Tu'an?"

Although Tu'an had already been destroyed by him, Shihuang and Fusu both died in the hands of Tu'an people. Yi Xiaochuan, the rebel who swept the world, rebelled because of Princess Tu'an.

There is some truth in saying that Daqin died at the hands of Tuan.

Meng Tian knew very well that he couldn't stop Yi Xiaochuan at all, because Daqin was indeed terminally ill, and Yi Xiaochuan was what the people wanted now.

The only thing he can do now is to fight to the end, defend as long as he can, do his last loyalty to Great Qin, and give the Meng family army a successful ending.

"Fight!"

After Meng Tian said the last two words, he immediately turned his horse's head and ran towards Shangluo City.

Yi Xiaochuan looked at his back, let out a long sigh, and turned back to the army.

However, what the defending Qin army did not expect was that there was a sound of Mingjin withdrawing troops from the Han army.

Meng Tian, ​​who returned to the city wall, looked at the Han army receding like a tide, but he didn't feel relaxed at all.

He had already found out that the reason why the Han army was invincible and marched so fast was that before the battle, there were a large number of assassins in the city.

Often after one night, the generals defending the city would die, and then the assassins would raid the city gate, capture the gate and let the Han army enter the city.

Meng Tian naturally responded to this matter, but whether he could guard against the elusive assassin, he was not sure.

……

Yi Xiaochuan cherishes the lives of his soldiers and never wants to fight siege battles.

When fighting in the field or fighting in formation, he has no fear at all. With Zhang Liang's plan, Han Xin commands the army, and he is not afraid of any opponent.

Before, there were snare killers cooperating with them along the way, but now he didn't wait for the snares to contact them in Shangluo City. He guessed that the snare branch in the city had already been removed by Meng Tian.

On this road from Jianghan to Wuguan, the Flying Tigers hardly came in handy.

Now that Luo Wang is no longer counted on, it is naturally time for the Flying Tigers to play a role.

The next day, the darkest hour before dawn.

Of the [-] members of the Flying Tigers, except for a group of ten guarding Pang Gui, the rest all attacked.

Meng Tian did make corresponding arrangements, but he was only on guard against the city.

Tens of thousands of crossbowmen, in units of hundreds, armed with rifled crossbows, ambushed all over the city. Once they found traces of the assassins, they would immediately be covered by arrows.

He even sent three thousand crossbowmen to hide in the houses near the city gate. If anyone tried to seize the city gate, he would be shot like a hedgehog in an instant.

It has to be said that Meng Tian's arrangements were very careful, but what he never expected was that this time the assassin did not come from inside the city, but from outside the city.

Even in his wildest dreams, the city wall, which was more than two feet high and patrolled by sergeants, could not stop the invasion of assassins.

The Flying Tigers dispersed, formed a group of three, climbed up the city wall by relying on the gecko's wall-swimming skills, and slaughtered all the defenders on the city wall in an instant.

Then it was divided into two, and half of the people avoided the front of the city wall, climbed down the city wall from the side, touched the house where three thousand crossbowmen were lying in ambush, and started a bloody massacre.

The other half, after the movement in the house, immediately seized the city gate and winch, opened the city gate, and lowered the drawbridge.

When the city reacted, the Han army under the leadership of Yi Xiaochuan had already entered the city gate. The Meng family army was caught off guard and was crushed by the neat formation of the Han army, and Shangluo City was blown down.

Meng Tian led his own soldiers to fight the Han army to the end, no one escaped, and was finally wiped out. After Meng Tian was wounded by a member of the Flying Tigers, he decisively drew his sword and killed himself, and died without being a prisoner.

Although the Han army caught the Meng family army by surprise in this battle, it also paid a heavy price, with more than [-] casualties.

Yi Xiaochuan ordered Meng Tian to be buried generously, and then led his army to Xianyang.

A few days later, the Han army came to the city of Xianyang. When they arrived, the defenders on the city wall were hacked to death by their own robes right in front of their eyes.

Those who attacked Paoze all had a white cloth tied around their arms to distinguish themselves.

Then the banner of the Han army was erected on the city, and the city gate was opened wide, and Li Mu was standing on the tower at this moment and waving to Yi Xiaochuan.

"Xiao Chuan, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Old Gao, I knew you wouldn't let me down, and I didn't let you down either, right?"

Downstairs, Yi Xiaochuan shouted excitedly.

"Hahaha..." Li Mulang laughed and said, "Of course, if we brothers join forces, it will be a dimensionality reduction attack. How can there be any reason for failure?"

"Go to the city quickly, Yu Shu is waiting for you, I will take you to see her."

Hearing the latter sentence, Yi Xiaochuan's heart was filled with rage, he turned his head and said to Han: "General Han, you restrain the army well, don't disturb the people in Qianshou."

Han Xin clasped his fists and said, "The last general takes orders."

Yi Xiaochuan said again: "The Flying Tigers, the Habayashi Army, and other princes, follow me into the palace."

"promise."

The Habayashi Army is the 5 horses that Yi Xiaochuan first started.

After conquests all the way, thousands of people were lost, but he quickly selected sergeants from other troops to supplement them, and now it is still 5 people.

This is his direct lineal army, and in the future it will also be the garrison of the capital and the palace, the so-called Forbidden Army.

This army has always been controlled by members of the night, the first batch of members of the night were all slaves, and slaves do not have surnames, so Yi Xiaochuan gave them all the surname Yi.

In other words, this Habayashi army can also be called the Yi family army. It is his absolute confidant and his foundation.

Those batches that Li Mu sent later, the members who now form the Flying Tigers are the surnames given by Li Mu according to the surnames of hundreds of families.

After Yi Xiaochuan entered the city, he saw Li Mu riding a horse and waiting in the middle of the road, and Yi Xiaochuan rode with him.

"How is the situation here in Xianyang?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Are you still worried about my work? All the civil and military ministers were under my control when they came to court this morning, and Hu Hai was also taken down, waiting for you to deal with."

"Those ministers are up to you. You can use them if you can. If you can't use them, you can depose or kill them. It's up to you."

Yi Xiaochuan nodded, and finally asked the question: "Where is she?"

Li Mudao: "No accident, I should be waiting for you in Zhangtai Palace right now."

When Yi Xiaochuan heard this, he subconsciously slammed his feet on the horse's belly and accelerated his speed.

As soon as he accelerated, the Flying Tigers and the Habayashi Army behind him naturally accelerated, and Zhang Liangxiao and other officials also followed closely behind him.

After a while, the palace gate was in sight, and everyone got off their horses and entered the palace one after another. Under the guidance of Li Mu, they walked quickly to Zhangtai Palace.

When he arrived in front of Dezhangtai Palace, Yi Xiaochuan saw the beautiful figure standing in front of the palace gate at a glance, his eyes turned red instantly.

With a trembling voice, he called out the name: "Yu Shu."

"Xiao Chuan."

Seeing Yi Xiaochuan, Yu Shu couldn't hold back, and immediately ran towards him.

The two rushed in both directions and finally hugged each other.

"Xiao Chuan, Xiao Chuan, I finally waited for this day."

Yushu burst into tears, and Yi Xiaochuan hugged her tightly, as if hugging the whole world.

"From today on, no one will be able to separate us again."

Li Mu and his party followed. At this time, there were seventy or eighty servants standing in front of the Zhangtai Palace, as well as thousands of Luowang members in black clothes and holding swords.

"Clang...poof"

The surprise happened suddenly, just when Yi Xiaochuan said the words "no one can separate us again".

The lieutenant standing behind Yi Xiaochuan, a night member named Yi Tian, ​​pulled out his long sword without any warning, and stabbed at Yi Xiaochuan's back decisively.

His shot was so decisive, and the speed was so fast, so fast that Yi Xiaochuan couldn't react at all.

The long sword pierced Yi Xiaochuan and Yushu together without any surprise, and the faces of both of them froze at the same time.

Yi Tian didn't pull out the long sword, but let go of the hilt and retreated empty-handed.

The long sword pierced through Yi Xiaochuan's back until it reached the hilt, and then pierced through Yushu's abdomen, and then pierced out from her back.

The minds of Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others went blank for an instant, and they all stood there with their mouths wide open.

They were in a daze, but the night killers were not in a daze.

At some point, the group of civil servants headed by Zhang Liang and Xiao He was surrounded by the Flying Tigers.

When Yi Tian stabbed that sword, they also attacked without warning, beheading the group of civil servants around them.

Zhang Liang and Xiao He didn't understand until their death what exactly happened and why it happened.

"Yi Tian, ​​Yi Mu, are you out of your mind?"

"You traitors, what do you want?"

Someone in the Yulin army screamed hysterically, but it was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who went to Yi Xiaochuan.

However, the moment they shouted, the immediate superior standing in front of them, Habayashi Army Zhonglang General and Deputy General, suddenly drew their swords together and pierced their chests with a backhand sword.

In an instant, blood flowed like a river in front of Zhangtai Palace.

(End of this chapter)