Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 197
If the terrain is not too open, in the battle in the western suburbs of Ji County, even if the Young Marshal cannot completely wipe out the Sanchuan Qin Army, at least it can beat the Sanchuan Qin Army to the point where they cannot take care of themselves, and there will be no reorganization of the army. However, it is a pity that the battlefield is too flat, and there are escape routes in all directions. In addition, as night falls, it is difficult to pursue, so in the end, more than 4000 remnants of the Qin army escaped from the pursuit of the young commander and fled back to the still The small town of Kunyang that was still under the control of the Qin army.

The loss of the Young Marshal’s Army in this battle was also not small. Those who stood firm on the high ground and forcibly charged into the formation were all tough battles that could not be opportunistic. Together, the Young Marshal’s army killed or seriously injured more than 700 soldiers, and they also lost their lives. Most of them were elite and strong soldiers, and the number of wounded soldiers reached more than [-], and the casualties accounted for more than [-]% of the total force. Therefore, after the pursuit was over, although a detailed investigation report had been received, it was said that the Nanyang County Guard Lu Yu was leading the main force of the Qin army from Nanyang to the battlefield in Ji County, and Xiang Kang didn't dare to take the risk to take the initiative to fight again. He honestly led the main force of the young commander and hurried back to Ji County, intending to let the soldiers rest for a few days, and then Then consider how to deal with the Nanyang Qin army.

Xiang Kang's decision gave the Nanyang Qin army a chance to calmly adjust their tactical plan. After receiving the news of Yang Xiong's disastrous defeat, Lu Yu, who had already brought the Nanyang Qin army to Kunyang, was shocked. Going outside, he hastily summoned the army, Chinese and military, and discussed countermeasures with everyone. Not to mention the result, because he had never fought against the young commander, several generals of the Qin army suggested to continue westward. The army also suffered a certain loss, and then launched a decisive battle with the young commander's army.

Chen Hui, a member of Lu Yu's door, firmly opposed the westward advance, and pointed out to Lu Yu: "Your Majesty, the bandit army has more than [-] troops. Even if they suffered a certain loss today, the number of troops must be more than [-]. Occupy the superiority of troops. Moreover, since our army was formed, we have only conquered some rogue bandits in Nanyang. In fact, we have not experienced many actual battles. However, the Xiangkang bandit army has swept Huaisi without defeat, and they have fought against the enemy in the Central Plains battlefield General Zhang Han’s main force has won many times, and their battlefield experience is far superior to ours, so it’s a bit risky to have a decisive battle with such a powerful bandit army, once it fails, the consequences will be unimaginable.”

After pointing out the danger of continuing westward, Chen Hui said: "The only plan for now, we'd better gather the remnants of the Great Qin who fled from Ji County as soon as possible, further strengthen our forces, and then take advantage of the bandit army before it's too late. Taking advantage of the opportunity to return to Kunyang, it is the best policy to withdraw back to Ye County as soon as possible, and rely on the favorable terrain of the Ye County battlefield to compete with the bandits for a long time."

Lu Wei twirled his beard to calculate, and asked after a long while: "What about Ji County? We withdrew to Ye County, and the bandit army will definitely take the opportunity to attack Ji County. Do we want to just watch Ji County be broken by the bandit army?"

"Junzun, at this time, the preservation of our army should be the priority." Chen Hui said very calmly: "If we keep our army, even if Ji County falls temporarily, we still have a chance to recover Ji County in the future, but if we If there is any mistake in our army, not to mention a small county of Ji, even the whole territory of Nanyang will be lost."

Lu Jue is a person who can listen to persuasion. After hearing what Chen Hui said was reasonable, and seeing that Yang Xiong had suffered a disastrous defeat and there was no more friendly army to share the pressure for him, Lu Jue quickly made up his mind and said: "Mr. At this time, we should give priority to preserving the army, and we must not take the risk of taking the initiative to fight decisively. Let’s do this, first gather the Daqin soldiers who escaped from Ji County, reorganize them into an army, and then withdraw to Ye County as soon as possible, to our advantage Go and deal with the bandits on the battlefield."

The death of Yang Xiong greatly facilitated Lu Yu's integration into the Sanchuan Qin Army. At the same time, after learning the history of the Ji County War from the defeated Qin army, Lu Yu, who was somewhat self-aware, was also very grateful that he listened to Chen Hui's dissuasion. Instead of going directly westward to take the risk of a decisive battle with the vicious and brutal Young Marshal Army, and quickly completing the reorganization work, Lu Wei left Yingchuan County Prime Minister Xu Wei to continue guarding Kunyang, acting as the outer barrier of Ye County, and immediately took Nanyang Qin The army withdrew to Ye County and redeployed defenses on the Ye County battlefield where the terrain was favorable to the Qin army.

Before the matter was over, on the way back to Ye County with the withdrawal of troops, Chen Hui, who had some brains, thought it over and took a chance to rest on the road. I have a rather bold idea, if the lord of the county follows his plan, our army may be able to defeat the strong with the weak and completely annihilate Xiang Kang's bandit army, but I don't know if the lord of the county is willing to adopt it."

"Sir, do you have an ingenious plan to wipe out Xiang Kang's bandit army?" Lu Wei was a little surprised, and hurriedly said: "Quickly explain in detail, and let me hear what is ingenious."

"I don't dare to think of a clever plan, it's just a superficial strategy." Chen Hui was modest, and then said: "The fall of Ji County is basically a foregone conclusion. After the bandit army takes Ji County, there are three ways to go south to the hinterland of Nanyang. One is the Ye County road. The second is the Xiaohengshan trail in the south of Ji County, and the third is the trail of Dajian Mountain in the southwest of Ji County. The bandit army found out that our army retreated to Ye County. It will give birth to the idea of ​​going south by the path."

"In this case, why don't we push the boat along? Use this to try to lure the bandit army into the narrow path, and then take the opportunity to send troops to recover Ji County, guard the dangerous points to block the exit of the path, and cooperate with the partial division we sent to the hinterland of Nanyang to block the main force of the bandit army. If you die in the deep mountains, it is entirely possible to completely annihilate the bandit army."

Lu Jue thought about it, and quickly said: "The idea is good, but how should we lure the bandits into the narrow path?"

"Fake surrender." Chen Hui said in a deep voice: "Let our partial division deployed in the hinterland of Nanyang come forward to feign surrender, falsely claiming that he is willing to surrender to the bandit army, and lead the way for Xiang Kang's bandit army to directly enter the hinterland of Guanzhong. Xiang Kang'er sees a chance to bypass Ye County, which is heavily guarded by our army, is likely to be tricked and go directly south from the small path. If the sky grants people's wishes, we have the hope of creating a miracle and wipe out Xiang Kang's rebel army, which endangers the world."

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Jue immediately said: "It's worth a try! Even if we can't succeed in the fraudulent surrender, we can only lose one envoy at most. If we succeed, the gains will definitely be huge! We must try and see if we can succeed!" "

"Since Jun Zun decides to give it a try, we must do it immediately. The sooner we send envoys to surrender Xiang Kang's rebels, the easier it is to win his trust." Chen Hui said quickly: "Also, we'd better take the rebels Lured into the relatively long Dajianshan alley, in order to convince Xiang Kang's rebels, our generals who came forward to feign surrender had to deliberately leak the defensive deployment of the hinterland of Nanyang and some military information to Xiang Kang's children, and tried their best to lure Xiang Kang's rebels into deep Yamatori path."

Lu Yu nodded again and again, discussed carefully with Chen Hui, and soon arranged a fairly strict plan to surrender, and sent a fast horse to the hinterland of Nanyang on the same day to contact the general of the Qin army stationed at the exit of the Dajianshan trail. Song Yang, let him act according to the plan, and immediately send envoys north to Ji County to lure the enemy by feigning surrender.

The tenacious resistance of the army and civilians in Ji County bought time for the Qin Army to implement the false surrender plan, and inadvertently helped Lu Yu and Chen Hui in another aspect. After resting outside Ji County for a few days, it was discovered that the main force of the Qin Army in Nanyang had already Taking the initiative to retreat to Ye County, Xiang Kang, who was already at ease, did not hesitate any longer, and immediately urged the army to launch a siege, and no longer like the last time, he only used some temporary flying ladders to attack the city to deliberately defeat the battle, and used the ladder Large-scale siege weapons such as trebuchets, trebuchets, and ramming carts were used to attack the small town of Ji County with only a thousand defenders.

Xiang Kang and the young generals were very surprised. Facing the powerful offensive of the young generals, the Qin army in Ji County, which was weak and weak, not only did not give up timidly, but also fought extremely bravely and tenaciously. For the first time to block the attack of the young marshal's army, the ordinary people in Ji County also joined forces with the generals and soldiers of the Qin army. Guarding the city with weapons, doing their best to share the work for the defenders of Ji County, and helping the defenders of Ji County to block the Young Marshal's army for a long time.

Fortunately, after all, the Young Marshal's army is strong and has advantages in combat effectiveness. Each battalion and army took turns to fight. They still broke through the city wall of Ji County in the evening and entered the city of Ji County. However, the soldiers and civilians of Ji County still refused to raise their hands and surrender. , and fled out of the city from the west gate of Jixian County, which the young commander had deliberately let go, and fled to the west in the direction of Luyang overnight. Arms surrender.

Regarding this situation, Xiang Kang was of course very puzzled. He was very puzzled why the soldiers and civilians of Ji County, who were isolated and helpless, resisted so tenaciously.In doubt, he sent Zhou Zeng to take people to investigate the reason, and Zhou Zeng carefully interrogated the captured Qin soldiers, and after going deep into the folks to understand the aspirations of the people in Ji County, he quickly returned to Xiang Kang and reported that : "General You, the investigation has clarified the situation. The reason why the Li Shu soldiers in Ji County resisted so fiercely was because they thought they were all Qin people, and they were worried that the armies of the six countries outside the pass would take revenge on them. They wanted to massacre the whole city, so they would rather die than surrender, and they resisted extremely fiercely."

"People from Qin?" Xiang Kang was confused, and said, "How can the soldiers and civilians in Ji County think they are from Qin? If I remember correctly, during the Warring States period, Ji County should belong to Chu or Han. ?”

"Ji County has always been the land of Chu since the Warring States period." Zhou Zeng introduced: "But in the first year of King Qingxiang of Chu, the Tyrant Qin army marched out of Wuguan and captured fifteen of Chu's lands including Ji County. The city, also from that year, Ji County was merged into the Qin State, and has never been recovered by the Chu State. It has been 90 years now, and the population has changed several generations. As soon as they all passed away, the Li, Shu and Qianshou of Ji County have been ruled by Qin for several generations, so they have long believed that they are orthodox Qin people, and have a sworn hatred against the six countries outside the pass."

"So that's the case, no wonder you fought so hard." Xiang Kang suddenly realized, and then said: "It seems that we have to handle the matter of Ji County carefully, otherwise, when we go deep into the hinterland of Nanyang, we will definitely only encounter Biji County More tenacious resistance."

"Your officer thinks so too." Uncle Zhou nodded, and said, "When the city was destroyed yesterday, many soldiers and civilians from Ji County, Li Shuxi, fled to Luyang for refuge, but many of their parents, wives and children must have failed to escape. Or get separated from them, the official thinks, we might as well find out these lost people, give them dry food, let them bring their belongings to Luyang to reunite with their relatives, and then pass on our military discipline to them by the way, and wait for them to arrive After Lu Yang is reunited with his relatives, the Qianshou of Ji County, who think they are from Qin, will definitely not hate us so much anymore."

"Okay, I'll trouble you, Uncle Ya, to handle this matter yourself." Xiang Kang agreed, and then urged: "Remember to tell them, no matter whether they are Qin people or not, our army going south will never hurt innocent people casually." The people of Qin will only settle accounts with those princes and dignitaries who oppressed them and the six countries outside the pass, and will definitely let them live and work in peace and contentment in the future, and will no longer suffer from the chaos of war."

Zhou Zeng was not good at military affairs, but he was very good at internal affairs. With the help of Shusun Tong, who was very eloquent, the young commander quickly found some people in Ji County who had been separated from their relatives who had fled to the west. First, he told them all the good things about the lenient policy of the self-army towards the Qin people, and then gave them dry food for the journey, and asked them to bring their belongings to Luyang to reunite with their relatives.At the same time, he repeatedly enforced military discipline, strictly prohibited soldiers from looting civilian property and killing innocent people indiscriminately, and unscrupulously bought the hearts of Nanyang people who thought they were Qin people.

Such a hypocritical policy is always very effective in troubled times. One day later, when the people of Ji County who were sent out of the city by the young marshal came to Luyang to reunite with their relatives, the soldiers and civilians of Ji County who were determined to stick to the small city of Luyang really caused a sensation. , scrambling to inquire about what happened after the city of Ji County was destroyed, and when they heard that the young commander had strict military discipline, almost never committed any crime against ordinary people, and did not massacre the city for revenge as they feared, the soldiers and civilians of Ji County immediately felt relieved and fled west After arriving in Luyang, the county magistrate of Ji county also made up his mind and sent an envoy back to Ji county to ask for surrender to the young commander.

Zhou Zeng was still in charge of receiving the envoy from Luyang. He was overjoyed when he learned the purpose of the envoy's visit. He first comforted the envoy from Luyang, and then immediately came to Xiang Kang to announce the good news.But to Zhou Zeng's surprise, when he arrived in front of Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang was also personally interviewing a man dressed as an ordinary person, and he was still looking through a letter carefully.Seeing this, Zhou Zeng asked Chen Ping beside him, "Mr. Chen Ping, what's the matter?"

"Nanyang Qin general Song Yang's envoy." Chen Ping first pouted at the envoy who was prostrating in front of Xiang Kang, and then said in a low voice: "Come here to ask for your surrender, Song Yang wants to take the opportunity of guarding the Dajianshan path to bring Let his cronies in the army surrender to us, so that we can directly enter the hinterland of Nanyang from the Dajianshan trail."

"Really or not?" Zhou Zeng, who has been led by Xiang Kang for a long time, was skeptical, and secretly said: "Could it be a false surrender? The road from Dajianshan can directly enter the hinterland of Nanyang, but if you can't get out, We're in big trouble."

At this moment, Xiang Kang burst out laughing, and greeted with joy on his face: "Your envoy please hurry up, it is really hard for you to send me such good news from such a long distance, and General Song will help open the way for our army , and also sent a map of the Tyrant Qin army's army deployment in Nanyang, it will be much easier for us to take Nanyang. Hurry up, set up a seat for General Xu's envoy."

The envoy sent by Qin General Song Yang breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly thanked Xiang Kang, and then got up and sat down. Xiang Kang greeted him and asked about Song Yang's specific situation, while handing over the letter brought by Song Yang's envoy to him. After leaving Chen Ping, Zhou Zeng hurriedly went up to watch with him. He saw Qin general Song Yang claiming in a letter that he had long wanted to rebel against Qin. The Dajianshan trail went directly into the hinterland of Nanyang, said a lot of words about his willingness to surrender to the Young Marshal, and reported to Xiang Kang some Nanyang military situations that were difficult for the scouts to contact. It seemed that he sincerely wanted to surrender to the Young Marshal.

At this time, Xiang Kang had already made a promise to the envoy sent by Song Yang, promising to reward Song Yang heavily after entering the hinterland of Nanyang, and conferring Song Yang on the spot as a benevolent general, Marquis of Thousand Households, and sent the envoy sent by Song Yang He was appointed as a school lieutenant, with hundreds of households in the city, and rewarded Song Yang's envoy with a pair of jade walls and two hundred gold on the spot, and finally let the soldiers bring the joyful Song Yang envoy down to eat, and casually ordered that he must be good Sheng entertained Song Yang's envoy.

Then, naturally, just after Song Yang's envoy was led out of the Chinese army tent, Xiang Kang, who turned his face faster than a book, immediately disappeared his smile, and immediately asked Chen Ping and Zhou Zeng: "Uncle Ya, Mr. Chen Ping, what do you think?"

"I can't tell the truth from the fake for the time being." Chen Ping replied, "But it's better to be cautious, and don't take the risky path of Dajianshan."

"I also think it's best not to take risks." Zhou Zeng also said: "If that tyrannical Qin general named Song Yang came to feign surrender, tricked us into the mountain road, and then guarded against the danger to prevent us from going out of the mountain, the tyrant The Qin army is blocking the north again, and we will be in big trouble."

"Of course you can't take risks." Xiang Kang sneered, and said, "I don't know if Song Yang's intention to surrender is true or not, even if he really wanted to surrender, I would never take the risk of going south on the mountain path , take such a risky move, as long as there is a slight accident, we will not only be in big trouble? The whole army is in danger of being wiped out!"

"Then why did General You agree to accept Song Yang's surrender?" Zhou Zeng asked very strangely: "Giving back so many rewards, wasting our army's money and food in vain?"

"Uncle Ya, didn't you realize that if we can find out whether Song Yang's intention to surrender is true or not, and confirm that he is here to lure the enemy with a false surrender, many of our troubles can be easily solved?"

Xiang Kang asked back with a smile, and said, "The main force of the Tyrant Qin Dynasty in Nanyang is guarding Ye County. The terrain in Ye County is also surrounded by high mountains. After confirming that Song Yang is luring the enemy, he will use his plan to lure Nanyang's Tyrant Qin army to fight in Ji County, and then break through the Tyrant Qin army's defense line in Ye County, wouldn't it be much easier?"

"But how can we find out whether Song Yang's surrender is true or not?" Zhou Zeng hurriedly asked.

"It's simple, just arrange a manpower to perform a play and trick that Song Yang envoy to tell the truth?"

Xiang Kang, who was full of bad things, didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately said the wicked idea he had thought up just now. Zhou Zeng and Chen Ping applauded together when they heard it, and they all admired Xiang Kang's cunning and viciousness. The way to lure Song Yang envoy to tell the truth.However, after careful calculation, Chen Ping still said worriedly: "General You, what if the messenger is Shijian?"

"The death room is not so easy to arrange. In addition to not letting him know the truth, we must ensure that he is absolutely loyal and will not choose to betray because of a misunderstanding. I don't believe that the unknown guy named Song Yang can have such a great ability to send out the death room. "

Xiang Kang snorted confidently, and said casually: "Take ten thousand steps back, even if he is dead, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we absolutely can't take the path south. He refused to tell the truth and asked our people to kill him Why don’t we just bring back the jade wall and gold? Our gold and jade wares were all obtained from Tyranny through hard work, so we can waste them casually?”

(End of this chapter)