Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 50
When Sun Jian was fighting Han Sui's army, Xiang Yu finally led a thousand cavalrymen out of the city and headed west, leaving less than 1000 people behind Chen Cang. There were certain battle losses. Although many rebels were captured, Xiang Yu did not choose to directly incorporate these rebels into his troops.

The first problem is that although Chen Cangcheng has been captured, Xiang Yu's troops are obviously at a considerable disadvantage. He has no way to guarantee that these rebels will not rebel in his absence. Therefore, it is currently necessary to detain them. The best way, his combat purpose is not to reoccupy and liberate these cities that were originally captured by the rebels, because then his troops will not be enough, and it will also affect his subsequent strategic deployment and slow down the entire attack rhythm.

Therefore, Xiang Yu left nearly 1000 troops to guard Chencang City. On the one hand, it was to support Sun Jian's troops, and on the other hand, he was optimistic about the rebel prisoners to prevent them from looking for opportunities to recapture Chencang City. Still for Sun Jian, Chen Cangcheng is an extremely important strategic node. Once he loses control of this strategic node, it is likely to cause very serious problems.

And the thousand cavalry led by Xiang Yu at this time was not to say how much he would really fight westward, but to create a strategic deterrent. Not far to the southwest of Chencang is Dashan Pass, which is an extremely important pass in the middle of the pass and has great strategic value Big, 400 years ago, when Liu Bangming built the plank road and secretly went to Chencang, he entered Guanzhong from this pass.

After Bianzhang's troops were driven out of Chencang City, Bianzhang did not forget to dispatch part of his troops to Sanguan. The terrain of Sanguan is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is impossible to do, but the rebels in Sanguan can threaten Chencang City at any time, so Xiang Yu must stay in Chencang City with a certain amount of troops. The defenders in the pass created a certain pressure, so that the defenders in the pass did not dare to come out of the pass easily.

Then Xiang Yu reorganized his army and took Qianyang, Long County and other places along the Qianhe River northwest of Chencang City, and then temporarily stationed troops in Long County.

At this time, Xiang Yu heard a report from the army and learned of Sun Jian's record on the eastern battlefield. Sun Jian led his army to destroy half of the food and grass in the second supply team of Han Sui's rebel army, and then led the remnant army to divide the troops again. The 500 people of the Han Sui rebels gathered together and launched a fierce attack on the first supply team of the Han Sui rebels. After losing a lot of troops, they finally completely defeated the first food delivery team and seized a large number of food and grass, and captured a large number of rebels.

But at this time, Han Sui's reinforcement troops also gradually arrived, so Sun Jian led the remaining troops of about [-] riders, and returned to Chencang City with food, grass and rebel prisoners.

Just when Sun Jian's army was about to enter the city, Han Sui's reinforcements arrived, and a thousand cavalry left by Xiang Yu in Chen Cang went out to support Sun Jian's army. The reinforcements were temporarily defeated.

But then more reinforcements came and camped thirty miles outside the east gate of Chencang City, ready to attack Chencangcheng at any time.

At this time, Xiang Yu fell into deep thought after hearing these situations, and several lieutenants beside him suggested that Xiang Yu lead his army back to defend Chencang City as soon as possible, but Xiang Yu just looked at them and shook his head with a smile.

"General Xiang, the enemy is about to attack the city, why are our troops still wandering around in this small area of ​​Long County?" one of the lieutenants said.

"That's right, Han Sui's thieves are very powerful. If he doesn't come back, Chen Cangcheng will definitely change hands in an instant!" Another lieutenant general also echoed.

However, Xiang Yu just kept silent. After a long time, Xiang Yu walked out of the big tent, pointed to the looming mountains in the distance to the southwest and said, "No hurry, Bian Zhang's army will not arrive, and our army will not."

After hearing this, all the generals looked at each other in blank dismay.

"General Xiang, how do you know when Bian Zhang will lead the army to attack?"

"Hmph! Of course I don't know, but I know he will definitely come back." After speaking, Xiang Yu showed a mysterious smile.

The spies would come to report the battle situation in Chencang City every day. The less than 1000 people left by Sun Jianjun and Xiang Yu could not hold out in Chencang City together. There was sufficient food and grass in Chencang City. Although Han Sui's reinforcements were increasing in number, But most of them are cavalry, and it is very difficult to capture Chen Cangcheng in a short time.

This stalemate lasted for two days. Han Suijun built some siege equipment on the spot, and then began a large-scale siege battle. The main attack direction was the south and east. The battle was very fierce. After listening to the battle situation, he didn't speak, but his lieutenant was quite anxious.

If it were Xiang Yu in his previous life, it would be impossible to be as calm and calm as he is now. With his extremely impatient personality at that time, he must have been unable to hold back long ago, but now Xiang Yu can be calm and composed, which shows that he is in Mentally, there has been great growth.

Finally, two days later, the spies came to report that Bianzhang led his army out of Linwei, walked along the Weihe River, passed Sanguan, and led his army to attack the west of Chencang City.

"General Xiang, Bian Zhang has led the army to attack, when will we march?" Xiang Yu's lieutenant general asked Xiang Yu again.

Xiang Yu still shook his head. "Not urgent."

The generals under Xiang Yu looked at each other again, as if they didn't understand what Xiang Yu was thinking.

Two days later, spies came to report that the troops led by Bian Zhang had arrived at the west of Chencang City, and Han Sui's troops surrounded the entire Chencang City, and the situation was very urgent.

Finally at this time Xiang Yu said to the generals: "The time has come, you wait and follow me to the battle."

The generals had been waiting for this moment for a long time, so they cheered up immediately, followed Xiang Yu out of Longxian County at night, and headed south to the flank of the Bian Zhang army. After the city was exhausted, in the middle of the night, he led the army directly into the Bian Zhang army, taking advantage of the night and the fire to kill randomly.

As a result, before dawn, Bian Zhang took some of the generals around him and ran away in the dark in a desperate manner, leaving the other troops under him directly, so Xiang Yu led the army to charge After coming down, when it was dawn, the thousands of reinforcements led by Bian Zhang had turned into birds and beasts and dispersed. Afterwards, Xiang Yu did not lead his army into Chencang City, but swung his army west again.

Sun Jian woke up from sleep and was quite surprised to hear the report. The west gate was attacked by Bian Zhang’s army yesterday and was about to fall, but after one night, there was only a mess left outside the city, with armor and corpses everywhere. , but the troops besieged by Bianzhang were no longer visible.

(End of this chapter)