Qiang Qin

Updated: 2010-12-28

In an inconspicuous valley a hundred miles away from Kuaiji, more than 2000 Chu soldiers were hiding there under the leadership of Xiang Ta and Xiang Zhuang.After these few days of rest and rest, the two thousand remnants have recovered.It is said that they are disabled soldiers because these people lost the courage and ability to fight again after the fall of Jiujiang, but it does not mean that there are disabled people among them, otherwise they would not be able to come to Kuaiji in such a short time .However, Xiang He didn't think that his small force could turn the situation around. He only wanted to save the lives of more than 2000 soldiers here and other people who ran out from Kuaiji, so he sent several soldiers in the past few days. Ten clever people went to investigate the situation in Kuaiji and other places.

Xiang Zhuang saw Xiang He sitting there quietly, and put forward his own thoughts to him again: "His brother, I don't think those Qin people may be able to leave a large number of troops in every city, and they should be about to If we leave, we can recapture some cities by then."

Xiang He is not as optimistic as Xiang Zhuang: "Now the situation of the Overlord is unknown, and my Kuaiji has been occupied by the Qin people. At this time, it is impossible to regain everything with only you and me and these 2000 people. Even if we can seize a city by surprise attack when the Qin people are relaxed, as long as the Qin army arrives, how can our 2000 troops defend a city? So now we should find the whereabouts of the overlord first, if he is still there , with his reputation, the people of our Chu land may continue to resist the Qin people, without him, we have no choice but to break up and live a peaceful life."

Xiang Zhuang wanted to refute Xiang Ta, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what he said was also reasonable, so he finally had to sigh helplessly.Then he asked again: "His brother, why didn't any of the people who went out to find out the news come back? Could it be that they were..."

Xiang He said: "Don't worry, they are all selected by me from among the sergeants, they are good enough to be scouts, maybe they will bring back the news in the next few days." Come to report: "General, several scouts have returned, and they said they have something important to say to the two generals."

Hearing this, Xiang Ta's eyebrows twitched, he stood up abruptly and walked out, Xiang Zhuang followed closely behind him.When the three of them walked to Taniguchi, they saw a person dressed as a commoner walking towards them.Xiang Zhuang recognized at a glance that this man was once a soldier under his command.After the man met the two generals, he opened his mouth to tell the news he had heard: "General, although the Qin people occupied my Kuaiji, they did not replace the officials in the city, but only a few important positions. It's up to their people to decide. And the Qin army has already left for Jiujiang after stationing in Kuaiji for a few days."

Xiang He praised: "The Qin people are really good means. As long as those officials are not replaced, these people will naturally not be against them, and they will even work harder for them. We will slowly accept the rule of the Qin people, and by then our Great Chu will really disappear completely." Then he asked: "It shouldn't be too much trouble to inquire about these things, but why you haven't come back until now? Could it be that Qin is on the way?" Are people guarding tightly?"

"That's not true. It's just that my subordinates wondered why the Qin people left in such a hurry, so they continued to inquire there for a few days. The subordinates heard good news just the day before yesterday." He swallowed his saliva before continuing, " It turns out that the reason why the Qin people rushed to Jiujiang in such a hurry was to return to the Central Plains as soon as possible. Because the overlord had already brought his troops to the hinterland of the Qin people. I found out that before the fall of my Kuaiji, which one to grasp was already Lian took Dong, Dang, and Chen three counties, and took advantage of the Qin people's unpreparedness to enter the Central Plains."

"So that's how it is. God helped our country of Chu." Xiang He said happily, "In this way, we have a direction to attack, and that is to follow the Qin army back to the Central Plains. You can hit them from behind as a surprise soldier."

Xiang Zhuang was also overjoyed: "That's great, let's get ready to go!"

More than 2000 Chu troops assembled again. When the news that Xiang Yu had killed Xiang Yu to the Central Plains, all the Chu troops cheered up and shouted to go to the Central Plains to kill the Qin people together with Xiang Yu. Turned upside down.

The next day, only those who could not fight were left in the valley, and the others followed Xiang and him to the west.

After taking a rest in Jiujiang City, Fusu's troops followed Meng Tian's army to the west, but Fusu still felt a little uneasy, that is, Chu had just arrived, and he was killed because of Xiang Yu's attack. That's why he couldn't stay for a while to appease him. He only hoped that Xiang Yu and his Chu army could be completely wiped out this time, so that the source of the chaos in Chu would be eliminated by himself, and the world would be truly unified.But Fusu also forgot that Chu Jun who suddenly appeared outside Kuaiji City that day and then disappeared. So in the end he ignored the small Chu army team.

At this time, a series of things had happened in the Central Plains. After Xiang Yu took down Hedong, the officials of Qin State began to consider using another method of Chen Ping to deal with the enemy, that is, to abandon some less important cities, and use the current The available forces were concentrated against the attack of the Chu people.But they also implemented this method selectively, that is, the soldiers and horses in Xianyang, the capital of the country, cannot be used no matter what. In this way, they can really use less than [-] troops to resist the Chu army now. Only by relying on the city can we deal with the Chu people, but Fa can't find an opportunity to annihilate the Chu people.

Chen Ping knew that this was already their biggest concession, so he didn't make further progress, but immediately ordered that the people and soldiers in those cities be transferred to Sanchuan County, relying on the dangerous terrain here to stop the further invasion of the Chu army. .Fortunately, in the past few years, the Central Plains suffered successive years of military disasters. Those big cities are no longer the big cities of the past. A large part of the people in them have moved to other places, and some of them have been killed during the war, so the cities were relocated. It is not as difficult as Chen Ping imagined, and several cities have been emptied in just a few days.The next thing to do is that Chen Bing is in Sanchuan, waiting for Xiang Yu's arrival.

Xiang Yu really didn't expect the Qin people to come up with such a move. He always believed that as long as he kept attacking cities, he would always get food and supplies. However, although he took a few more cities after Hedong, he got nothing.Of course, he didn't really use force to seize those cities, because those cities had become empty cities when he arrived with soldiers and horses. There were no people, no food, and even some living things. Supplies were also moved cleanly.Xiang Yu of Nai had no choice but to comfort himself and encourage the soldiers below, saying that it was a sign that the Qin people had lost their courage to fight, and as long as they killed Xianyang as quickly as possible, everything would be fine.But Xiang Yu could make the soldiers feel at ease, but he couldn't make himself feel at ease. Seeing that the food was getting less and less day by day, he was actually extremely anxious, but the hateful Qin people didn't even fight with them.

Finally, when Xiang Yu was about to lose patience, the Chu army reached the city of Sanchuan.Seeing the precipitous terrain here, Xiang Yu wished that the Qin army here would go to the city like the previous few cities, but the first sergeant brought something he didn't want to accept: "There are Qin people guarding the city, and it depends on the lineup. Neat, with the flag flying high, obviously prepared."

"It seems that the people of Qin gave up several cities along the way, in order to block our army's attack here. But how can the remaining troops of Qin country block our army's westward march to Xianyang?" Xiang Yu was still in his heart. He is full of confidence, he is full of confidence in the Chu soldiers he leads.

The Qin army in the city had already discovered their traces when the Chu army was still ten miles away from the city, and immediately passed the enemy information to Chen Ping, who came from Xianyang to supervise the battle.But Chen Ping just calmly asked the soldiers at the top of the city to step up their guard, without saying anything.

Sure enough, when Chu Junfu came here, he was not in a hurry to launch an attack. Instead, he set up a camp, and then took out some simple siege equipment. It is only now that it has come in handy.Early the next morning, under Xiang Yu's personal leadership, the Chu army began to attack Sanchuan City.

However, due to the running and fighting in the past few days, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army has dropped a lot, and the arrows have been almost consumed due to many battles, so the only way for the Chu army to attack the city is to let the soldiers charge forward regardless of casualties .In this way, the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain of these three rivers is even more revealed.When Fusu came to attack the city that day, he also relied on finding a small road to finally conquer the city. Today's Chu army is inferior in strength and siege equipment. In this way, it only took half a day, and the Chu army lost nearly 3000 people. , and they have not even climbed the city wall.

Only then did Xiang Yu realize how powerful Sanchuan City was, and at the same time he felt fear for the first time.

Just when the Chu army was trapped in this method and then moved westward, Meng Tian and Zhang Han had brought 5 horses into Hedong City.Because Xiang Yu didn't have many troops, he didn't send people to defend the city after he captured the next city. Now he just wants to capture Xianyang.After seeing the scene in the city, Meng Tian couldn't help worrying about the city behind, so he hurriedly ordered the army to continue heading west without taking a rest, and must catch up with them before Xiang Yu arrived in Xianyang City.

A hundred miles behind them is the army led by Fusu, and behind them is the remaining [-] Chu troops led by Xiang Ta...