A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 121 Another reversal
Just as Xiang Liang's army was besieging Puyang, Xiang Yu's troops were resisting the southern division, and the Bai army was resisting the northern division.

An elite army arrived quietly.

At this time, Xiang Liang and others were still unaware.

"Wind! Wind! Wind!"

A vigorous military trumpet sounded over Puyang.

Xiang Liang and others quickly went out to check.

Just as they were wondering, a black cloud appeared in the distance. The black cloud was approaching them and others, and soon came in front of everyone.

"Avoid arrows!"

Xiang Liang shouted loudly, and then pulled Fan Zeng next to him into the tent and blocked it with a wooden board.

At this time, Xiang Liang's fame had spread all over the world, and he was almost recognized as the leader of the rebel army. Therefore, many rebel soldiers came with their troops to join forces with Xiang Liang. If Bai Qing hadn't been resisting the Qin army coming from the north, Bai Qing might have Your Majesty will also come to join us.

A large number of rebel troops continued to join, and the number of Xiang Liang's troops increased from hundreds of thousands to three hundred thousand.

However, Zhao State did not come. Zhao Wangxie was recommended by Zhao Prime Minister Zhang Er and General Chen Yu. He occupied Handan County, Julu County, and Hengshan County. He was the largest rebel force besides Xiang Liang.

A large number of Qin troops appeared in the west of Puyang, and the rebel camp in the west of Puyang was easily defeated.

The Qin army advanced to the east of Puyang.

The Qin army's crossbowmen continued to fire arrows, and the infantry shouted "Wind! Wind! Wind!" as they continued to advance.

Soon the Qin army pushed in front of Xiang Liang's camp, preparing to attack the camp, but in the end for some unknown reason, the Qin army retreated, and the Qin army continued to retreat under the cover of archers and crossbowmen.

After Xiang Liang escaped the rain of arrows, he was commanding the army to rely on the camp to resist. When he saw the Qin army retreating, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Zhang Shaofu, since His Majesty has appointed you as the commander-in-chief of the army, I have no choice but to obey your orders! Send the order and withdraw the troops with gold!"

The speaker's name was Wang Li, the commander of the Northern Great Wall Army. This time he was ordered by Qin II to come and exterminate the rebels.

The total strength of the Great Wall Corps in the north is 400,000, mainly to defend against the Huns and protect the captured Hetao land.

Seeing that there were no available troops in the world, the Second Emperor of Qin, on Zhao Gao's suggestion, mobilized the Northern Great Wall Corps to go south. He mobilized 300,000 troops from Jiuyuan County, passed through Shang County, followed the Yellow River to Luoshui, and then turned eastward. Passed Hangu Pass, followed the Yellow River, passed Sanchuan County, arrived at Dongjun, and arrived at Puyang.

The reorganized counter-rebellion army was composed of Zhang Han as the main general, Wang Li as the deputy general, Sima Xin and Dong Yi as the chief commanders, with a total strength of 400,000, the Great Wall Army 300,000, and Zhang Han's remaining army was supplemented to 100,000.

"General Wang, please don't be angry, and listen to me. Now that our army is at an advantage and is stronger than the bandit army in every aspect, do we still need to forcefully attack the camp and hurt the soldiers in vain?

You know, today's Da Qin has no other army except ours. We are Da Qin's life-saving straw. We must not be damaged at all. Since we can easily defeat them in field battles, why should we in vain damage our soldiers to attack the city? ?

Can you understand this? "

After Wang Li heard this, he knew that he was impatient and Zhang Han's statement was correct, so he said: "The general is shallow and needs to be taught!"

Zhang Han said nothing more and just ordered the army to retreat to the city wall. Of the 300,000 troops, only 200,000 were left outside the city to lure Xiang Liang to attack.

Sure enough, Xiang Liang saw that there were only 200,000 troops outside the city. Knowing that this was the last force of the Qin Dynasty, he immediately ordered the entire army to leave the camp and confront the Qin army head-on. After defeating the Qin army with dignity and dignity, he conquered the world in one fell swoop.

Two hundred thousand Qin troops faced off against three hundred thousand rebel troops.

As usual, the rebels could not bear it any longer and attacked first.

"Sure enough!" Zhang Han knew that the rebels would attack first.

"Crossbowmen prepare!"

"put!"

The arrow rain struck on time.

"Raise your shield!"

The rebels raised their shields one after another, and Xiang Liang was already prepared for the Qin army's arrow rain. Although the rebels will still suffer damage, the damage is almost negligible compared to before.

The two armies met. The rebel army was like hitting an iron wall, and the Qin army's defense line remained motionless.

"how come?"

Xiang Liang looked at the battle and said in disbelief, is this the Qin army he has seen before?
The rebels on the front line were constantly harvested by the elite Qin army, like a piece of tofu hitting the wall.

"This is no ordinary Qin army!" Xiang Liang affirmed.

"Great Wall Legion!" Fan Zeng said, "General, hurry up and retreat. Our small force cannot defeat this elite group!"

Xiang Liang ordered people to call him Jin
"Ding Ding Ding!"

The rebels turned around and ran away, and the Qin army began to pursue them, discarding their heavy equipment and continuing to pursue and kill them.

Suddenly a fire broke out in the rebel camp. It was obvious that the camp had been stolen.

During the battle between the Qin army and the rebel army, Zhang Han had already ordered 10,000 Qin troops to come out from the south of the city and circle back to attack the camp.

Xiang Liang led the remaining troops to bypass the camp and fled south.

Zhang Han commanded the army to pursue Xiang Liang, and finally blocked Xiang Liang at Dingtao. Because Dingtao was not captured by Xiang Yu and others, Zhang Han sent Qingqi to order the defenders of Dingtao to stop Xiang Liang on his way.

On a small hill, Xiang Liang was surrounded by the Qin army. He had no hope. His ambition and hope of making the Xiang family proud were gone. He looked into the distance and said loudly:

"Ji'er, Xiang will rely on you from now on!"

After saying this, he killed himself.

Looking at Xiang Yu and Liu Bang again, they were unable to attack Waihuang for a long time, and then turned to attack Chenliu, but they could not attack for a long time.

Suddenly the news came that Xiang Liang was defeated and killed. Xiang Yu was filled with grief and anger, and wanted to lead his army to avenge Xiang Liang on the spot.

Liu Bang and Zhang Liang hurriedly persuaded him: "Now that General Xiang has failed, people in the world are panicking. Even if the general is brave enough, how can he avenge General Xiang when all his subordinates are desperate?

Maybe not only will it be impossible to avenge General Xiang, but he will also fall into the Qin army's formation. So who will avenge General Xiang? General, please think twice! "

Xiang Yu still wanted to refuse to listen to the dissuasion. At this time, Fan Zeng led the remaining soldiers to find Xiang Yu and said, "Xiang Ji, what do you want to do?"

Xiang Yu said: "Avenge my uncle!" Fan Zeng said angrily: "The courage of an ordinary man! Now that Xiang Liang has passed away, the Xiang family has to rely on you. As a result, you don't think about how to expand the lintel of the Xiang family, but you want to take the children of the Xiang family with you. Go and die.

Is this what Xiang Liang wants to see? You should know that Xiang Liang's greatest wish is to make the Xiang family's name bigger and bigger, so that the name of the Xiang family will spread throughout the world like the Bai family. What about you? Do you want to let him down? "

"this···"

Xiang Yu hesitated. At this time, other descendants of the Xiang family also came to persuade him, saying that the overall situation should be the most important thing. Only then did Xiang Yu agree to stabilize people's hearts first.

So everyone decided to withdraw. Xiang Yu led his troops to the west of Pengcheng, and Liu Bang stationed his troops in Dang. They would watch the next change in the situation and then decide what to do.

Here, after Zhang Han strangled Xiang Liang, he decided to march to Handan and pacify Zhao.

Wang Li said: "Where are the remnants of Xiang Liang's army? And the white bandits in Hanoi and Tian Rong in Qidi?"

Zhang Han introduced: "Now the main bandits in the world are Xiang Liang's remnant army of more than 50,000 people led by Xiang Ji, 30,000 led by Bai Qing in Hanoi, 50,000 led by Tian Rong of Qi, and 50,000 led by Zhao. Zhao Xie of Di Di had 150,000, and Han Guang of Yan Di had 70,000.

You say, how should we advance? "

Wang Li said: "We are the main force, so naturally we have to attack the biggest one. As long as the head is knocked off, the rest of the branches are not of concern. Just the county soldiers can deal with it."

"Da Shan! General Wang! The counter-insurgency war is different from your battle with the barbarians at the border. It is not a pure military competition. There are other factors that influence it. Winning a big battle does not mean that the final victory lies with us. side.

Just like, I originally thought that by destroying Chen Sheng, I should be able to easily pacify other places. Facts have proved that I was right, but I didn't expect that Xiang Liang would appear, causing our army to be defeated.

But even Xiang Liang was defeated by our army? As long as the bandits don't have a leader, we can easily defeat them one by one. "

"Been taught a lesson!"

Then, 400,000 Qin troops crossed the Yellow River north and headed towards Handan County.

In ten months, the army arrived in Handan.

Zhang Han began to attack the city.

Although the walls of Handan City are high and deep, after many wars, the walls were not maintained, resulting in many parts of the Handan City Walls collapsing.

Therefore, Zhao Xie in Handan City heard that the Qin army was approaching, and immediately followed Zhang Er and others to retreat to Julu City.

There were only a few thousand defenders left in Handan City.

In one day, Handan was captured.

The Qin army continued to advance north and soon arrived at Julu City.

At this time, there were hundreds of thousands of defenders in Julu City. Even the elite Qin army could not conquer it in a short time, so Zhang Han had to make long-term preparations.

In order to protect the food routes for the army, he sent 100,000 troops to protect the food routes along the way, but these 100,000 were not the Great Wall Army.

Julu was surrounded, and King Zhao sent out a letter asking for help, and almost every rebel force received it.

In addition, in order to prevent the Qin army from concentrating on attacking the city, Zhang Er sent Chen Yu to Hengshan County and led 60,000 troops from Hengshan County to a hillside north of Julu City and set up camp there.

Sure enough, upon seeing this, Zhang Han immediately divided his troops and asked Wang Li to lead an army of 100,000 to the north of the city to watch Chen Yu's army.

Bai Qing also received a request for help, but due to his weak strength, he could only continue to harass and threaten the Qin army's food routes.

On the other side, King Xiong Xin of Chu also received it. In order to rescue King Zhao, and to encircle Wei and save Zhao, he sent two armies.

Along the way, Song Yi was the chief general, Xiang Yu was the second general, and Fan Zeng was the last general. He led an army of 70,000 people directly to the north to relieve the siege of Julu.

The other route was dominated by Peigong Liu Bang, who asked Liu Bang to lead his troops to the west to attack Rongyang and threaten the hinterland of the Qin Dynasty.

In order to stimulate everyone's fighting power, the King of Chu made them a promise that whoever enters Guanzhong first would be crowned king.

Song Yijun came to the Yellow River, but soon set up camp and seemed to stop moving.

Xiang Yu asked why? Song Yi said, "Now that other rebel armies in the world are conserving their strength, if Chu's strength is damaged in order to save Zhao, wouldn't it be a big loss?"

Xiang Yu said: "What the general said is different. I heard that the Bai Kingdom was weakened after being besieged by a hundred thousand troops, but after hearing King Zhao's plea for help, it still sent troops to relieve the siege of Julu.

Although they did not directly attack the Qin army, they continued to harass the Qin army's food routes. How could it be said that all the rebels were waiting and watching?

Besides, since the death of my uncle Xiang Liang, the anti-Qin arrogance in the world has been reduced a lot.

If King Zhao is defeated again, the people of the world may no longer have hope in our anti-Qin cause.

Will we still be able to resist the Qin army's attack by then? General, please think twice! "

Song Yi was always stubborn and refused to send troops despite Xiang Yu's persuasion and questioning for several days. Finally, he got tired of being asked and said loudly to Xiang Yu:
"Xiang Ji, please correct your identity and remember that I am the commander-in-chief of the army. Do you think you are Xiang Liang?
Get out of here, I said, I don’t agree to send troops! "

Why did Xiang Yu accept such humiliation? He immediately became furious and drew his sword.

Seeing this, Song Yi was so frightened that he stepped back and said loudly: "Xiang Ji, how do you treat me? I am a general appointed by the king himself!"

Xiang Yu glared angrily and said: "What a bullshit King Chu! Without the support of me, Xiang, and my uncle, the King of Chu wouldn't know which mountain top to graze on."
After being the King of Chu for a few days, do you really think you are a great king?

It’s the King of Chu who gives you face, but if he doesn’t give you face, you are worthless. How dare you be so arrogant in front of Nai’s father? How many heads have been chopped off by Nai’s father? "

"Presumptuous! Dare you be disrespectful to his king?"

"King, king of bullshit!"

After saying that, Song Yi was beheaded with a sword, and then he walked out of the account with his head in his hand.

This move frightened the guards and surrounding soldiers into silence.

I didn’t know what to do, but fortunately Fan Zeng happened to be nearby, so he immediately went and shouted to the surroundings:
"Song Yi has colluded with the Qin army to rebel. After the king got the news, he immediately sent a secret letter to General Xiang, asking General Xiang to kill the Song thieves, and appointed General Xiang Ji as the new general and the general of Chu."

Then he held up a piece of cloth in his hand that was actually a letter from his family.

After the King of Chu in the rear received the news, he wrote the letter after being persuaded by the people around him, and accepted everything Fan Zeng said.

After Xiang Yu became the commander-in-chief, he immediately began to prepare a plan to attack the Qin army.

(End of this chapter)