Qiang Qin

Updated: 2010-11-27

After Han Xin and Meng Tian led the troops to rest for a day, they sent scouts to the direction where the Chu army was retreating, because Meng Tian and Meng Tian began to suspect that Xiang Yu had retreated because of this defeat.Sure enough, not long after, the scouts returned to Malay to report that they had chased for fifty miles, but they only saw traces of men and horses passing by, and no figure of the Chu army was found.Hearing this, Han Xin glanced at Meng Tian, ​​and sighed: "This feather can be afforded and put down. Seeing that the battle was defeated and General Meng's reinforcements arrived, he led the army back. This is a good way to preserve strength." Way."

Meng Tian said: "Actually, Xiang Yu will never retreat. Although he retreated in a big defeat last time and even lost a lot of luggage to us, but in terms of military strength, the Chu army is still higher than the sum of your two armies. We can The reason for the victory is that the Chu army was careless, and our army attacked from behind, so if we really confronted each other head-on, we might lose the winner."

Han Xin nodded in agreement: "So we can't relax our vigilance, maybe when the Chu army will come back and give us a carbine. But now we should report the battle here to Xianyang, so that The emperor knows it well. At the same time, he can make the next plan to deal with the other two troops of the Chu army."

Meng Tian said: "Among the other two groups of troops, I received news about Yingchuan's situation after arriving here. It said that after the Chu army captured Yingchuan, they did not rush to attack, but stationed in the city. It seems that They are waiting for the news of the other two groups of people, so that the three groups can advance together and take care of each other."

"Now that Xiang Yu's route has been defeated, Handan City's route will naturally be impossible to advance. This time the Chu people's three-way march will fail completely. It's just that our original goal is to defeat the Chu army one by one. , If they are allowed to retreat calmly, then the strategy set by the emperor will not be considered a success." Han Xin said.

But Meng Tian said confidently: "I don't think so. Now we can't deal with the troops from Handan and Xiang Yu's troops, but the Chu army from Yingchuan is different. Now it's not so easy for them to leave. It's over. These days, those Dajunian who rushed to the northern border are about to come back, just in time for them to deal with the Chu army occupying Yingchuan."

Meng Tian was right after thinking about it, and said: "Then let's jointly write a letter to the emperor, let them use all their troops to deal with the enemies of Yingchuan. As long as we eliminate all the troops from that road, it will remove one of Xiang Yu's arms." Naturally, Han Xin would not refuse this suggestion, so they quickly drew up everything and then released the pigeons.

But Han Xin and the two still underestimated the efficiency of the Qin army, because at this time the Qin army who had been recalled from the north had already set off from Xianyang.Fusu ordered the soldiers to return south with flying pigeons, and the Qin army, which was originally used to hook the Chu army, immediately walked back.Some of them received the order before reaching the north, so they didn't stop and rushed towards Xianyang immediately.So the date is much earlier than Fusu imagined.Seeing that 5 people had rushed back to Xianyang, Fusu immediately ordered them to go in the direction of Yingchuan.

In fact, when he learned that the Chu soldiers were divided into three groups and decided on this strategy, Fusu had already decided to annihilate the Chu army that attacked Yingchuan first.It's just that the original idea was to lure the Chu army in again, let them fall into the Qin army's territory completely, and then end the enemy's life by closing the door and beating dogs.In this way, there will be no fish that slip through the net.But now the Chu army is only stationed in Yingchuan City, no matter what method the Qin army thinks of to lure them to attack, they can't succeed.So Fusu had no choice but to retreat to the next best thing, and only wanted to give them a heavy blow when the law cut off their way out.

Three days after the [-] Qin troops set off, Fusu received news from Hanoi.After reading Han Xin and Meng Tian's advice, Fusu smiled at Zhang Liang: "Unexpectedly, we would like to go with Han Xin and the others, and they also sent a letter asking us to send troops to attack Ying when there is no contact between the Chu army. The enemy of Sichuan."

Zhang Liang hadn't read the letter, so he didn't know the situation in Hanoi, so he asked, "Your Majesty, have they mentioned what is going on in Hanoi County? General Youmeng rushed over with 3 horses, and Hanoi County should be in danger. right?"

Fu Su smiled and handed the bamboo slip into Zhang Liang's hands: "Look at it. If they hadn't retreated from the Chu army, how could they have thought about it for Yingchuan County? Now the problems of Yingchuan and Hanoi have been resolved. Now, it depends on what will happen to the Handan guarded by Zhang Han. If he can also retreat from the enemy, then the time for our Daqin counterattack will come. If all three troops of the Chu army fail, then the army’s morale will be in chaos and morale It is bound to fall sharply, and our army just took advantage of this good opportunity to attack the ground."

Zhang Liangcao casually read the bamboo slips in his hand, and then said: "Unexpectedly, there is a plague in the city of Hanoi. If General Meng's men and horses hadn't arrived in time, Hanoi County might not be able to hold it. What the emperor said is true, we really can't Let go of this good opportunity, take Yingchuan's Chu army first, and then send troops to Chudi. If Yingchuan's tens of thousands of horses are removed, plus Xiang Yu's lost troops in Hanoi County, Chu State can fight me The number of troops will drop to around 20. And our Daqin has an army of nearly [-], which is enough to pacify Chu in one battle."

Fusu laughed, and said: "At that time, we will turn around and pacify the Huns who are in constant internal strife. When the world is unified, our Great Qin will have achieved an undying hegemony." Thinking of this, Fusu I feel that my blood is boiling, and I am not far from the final success. As long as I destroy Chu, I can replace the original Han with Qin, and if I win the Xiongnu, my achievements will not even compare to Emperor Wu of the Han.Although he knew that it would take a lot of hard work to get to that point, at least now all of this is no longer elusive.

Zhang Liang also nodded, his heart was surging.Although he didn't think as far as Fusu, as a talented person, who wouldn't want to make contributions and add a lot of color to himself in the history books?

The sun has risen to Zhongtian, Zhang Han led thousands of horses to Handan City, and the ground outside the city was covered with bloody corpses, among them were soldiers of the Qin army, but more were soldiers from the Chu army military.Just last night, Zhang Han led more than [-] people in the city quietly out of the city and launched an attack from the east of the Chu army.In the Chu army camp, as Zhang Han expected, the strength of the soldiers in it was uneven. The soldiers in the east were all new recruits who were neglected in the battle formation. After encountering the surprise attack of the Qin army, they became chaotic.In a panic, some of them fled backwards, disrupting the Chinese army behind them, and some fled to both sides, but were intercepted by the Qin army who had already ambushed there.For a while, there was a mixture of killing and crying in the east of the Chu army's camp.

And Xiang Zhuang and others did not expect that the Qin army would suddenly go out of the city to attack, and they were unprepared, so when they wanted to gather troops to fight back against the Qin army, the Qin army had already killed them, and there was no way to gather the soldiers.

When Xiang Ta saw this, he knew that his army had no way to fight the Qin army here, so he decisively ordered the whole army to retreat and get away from the Qin army's attack as soon as possible.But since Zhang Han had found such a good opportunity, how could he let the Chu army escape easily, so he led his men and horses to bite him tightly, and drove the Chu army thirty miles away before withdrawing the troops and returning to the city.

In fact, Zhang Han also knew in his heart that it was a fluke that he could kill the Chu army this time. Compared with the situation in Hanoi County, they were far inferior in terms of military strength.Although the number of the Qin army in the city was double that of Hanoi, they did not have a support army outside the city, so Zhang Han was very happy to be able to kill the Chu army and retreat for thirty miles.

After this battle, the morale of the Qin army in Handan City was greatly boosted, but the morale of the Chu army outside the city was low.

Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Ta led the Chu soldiers back for more than 30 li before regrouping them.Seeing tens of thousands of horses retreated again and again by thousands of Qin soldiers, Xiang Zhuang's face was ashen. If Xiang He hadn't winked at him repeatedly, he might have lost his temper.Looking at the terrified general, Xiang Zhuang snorted solemnly: "The results of our siege and battle for nearly a month were completely thrown away overnight. You say, how should we explain to the Overlord?"

All the generals looked at each other without saying a word.Seeing this situation, Xiang He hurriedly said, "Xiang Zhuang, you and I are also responsible for this defeat. Besides, although the Qin army took some advantage for a while, they are still far smaller than my Chu army in terms of numbers. As long as we rearrange People and horses, it is not too difficult to take down Handan City."

When Xiang Zhuang saw that Xiang Ta had said something, he couldn't say anything more, so he fell silent, which finally made the generals heave a sigh of relief.

Two days later, the Chu army settled all the injured people, and then came back again, and Chen Bing arrived at the city of Handan again.At this time, the news of victory from Hanoi had been received by Zhang Han in the city.So although it seems that the Chu army is still besieging the Qin army, it is actually Zhang Han who is holding back the Chu army.

Looking at the soldiers standing upright below, Zhang Han said loudly: "Although the difficulty of being besieged in Handan has not yet been solved, the other Chu armies have been defeated by us. It won't be long before our reinforcements from Daqin They will come here, and it will be time for us to turn defense into offense."

When all the Qin soldiers heard this, they all shouted loudly. They had admired Zhang Han a lot since the battle two days ago, and now they no longer have any doubts about what he said.With high fighting spirit, they walked up the city wall like this, waiting for a new round of attack by the Chu army.