Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 316 Xiang Kang VS Han Xin (1)

The Han army's partial division is going smoothly and invincible on the northern line, and the situation on the southern line of the Han army led by the allies Shenyang Army is also very good-at least it seems so.

Except for Xiang Kang himself, including the decision-makers of the Young Marshal Army, everyone believed that the Shenyang Army had no possibility of failure. Among the two enemies on the southern front of the Young Marshal Army, the most powerful Yingbu Army has been standing still and did not rush to join in. In the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han, only Liu Laosan’s army chose to fight against the Han army. Later, although Xiang Yu sent an army to go south to help Liu Laosan pinch Shenyang, but Xiang Kang just confirmed this situation and immediately deployed to station In Chenggao, the Long Qie troops of the Han army went south from the Gou family to help Shen Yang resist the partial division of the Western Chu army, so that Shen Yang could deal with Liu Laosan alone without worrying about the safety of his own rear. Worry.

In terms of strength, the Shenyang Army is definitely not inferior to Liu Laosan. Like Liu Laosan, they all have a total strength of [-], and they are backed by the Han Army. Even if the territory of Yingchuan County has been beaten to pieces before There is no need to worry about money, food and logistics. They are better than Liu Laosan who must be self-sufficient. Even if they insist on consumption, Shen Yangjun is sure to win Liu Laosan.

In addition, the Shenyang Army has a very obvious advantage, that is, the Shenyang Army was expanded from the original Zhao Jun partial division as the main body, with a large number of elite veterans, but Liu Laosan's army has only a few There are [-] veterans from the old army, and the second-line troops of the Western Chu Army donated by Xiang Yu, who is less than [-] people. The rest are all recruits recruited by Liu Laosan after he arrived in Nanyang. military.

Because of this, even if Xiang Kang's warning was delivered to Shen Yang first, Shen Yang, who was leading his army south to Ye County, didn't take it seriously at all. On the contrary, he sneered and said: "Is the King of Han looking down on people too much? A group of mobs can be broken at the flick of a finger, yet the King of Han wants me to lead the army to retreat to Yangdi, only to defend without fighting, and to concentrate on protecting the hinterland of Sanchuan for him, so you look down on my king's ability to use troops?"

"That's right." The general next to him, Guo Yu, echoed: "The King of Han treated us well, but he looked down on us too much. Mrs. Liu Jipi only stationed troops in Ye County, and he didn't even have the guts to send troops to attack Kunyang first. He even wanted us. Retreating to Yangdi in an all-round way, and only defending Liu Jipifu without fighting, really underestimates us."

After snorting heavily, Shen Yang shouted decisively: "Order the whole army to move forward. This time, Liu Jipifu must be wiped out in Ye County, so that the King of Han can see the strength of our army!"

A few days later, the main force of the Shenyang Army, which numbered about [-], arrived at the city of Kunyang smoothly. What made Shen Yang sneer was that during this period, the main force of the Nanyang Army stationed in Ye County not only never dared to dispatch a single soldier to go north Attacking Kunyang City, the gateway to Yingchuan, on the contrary, they are still under the deep ditch and high fortifications in Ye County, overhauling the fortifications. After a short rest, he immediately continued to raise his troops to the south, and advanced to a place only ten miles away from Ye County to set up a camp. On the same day, he sent envoys to the Nanyang Army camp, and sent a letter to Liu Laosan to demonstrate against Liu Laosan.

Liu Laosan received the envoy of the Shenyang Army very warmly, with good wine and meat, and the hospitality of the beautiful women. He also clearly told the envoy of the Shenyang Army that the reason why he stationed troops in Ye County was just to give Xiang Yu an explanation. There is absolutely no intention of going to war with Shen Yang's army. I hope that Shen Yang will understand his difficulties, don't misunderstand his intentions, and make it clear that he will only choose to stick to it this time and will not take the initiative to challenge Shen Yang's army this time. Army launched an attack.

In addition, Liu Laosan not only gave Shen Yang a big gift to apologize for the accident, but also gave Shen Yang a bad idea, persuading Shen Yang to fight with him in Ye County, and to confront each other on the surface. Taking the opportunity to ask Xiang Kang for assistance in money, food and weapons, he reaped countless benefits without spending a single soldier.

For the sake of Liu Laosan's kind hospitality, after returning to the camp, the envoy of Shenyang Army reported the mission to Shen Yang in full. He asked the soldiers to build the fortifications of the camp very strong, and then sent troops to fight in front of the Nanyang Army's camp, insisting on driving Liu Laosan away by force.

Faced with the Shenyang Army's attack, Liu Laosan certainly couldn't hold on. No matter how Shenyang Army insulted and provoked outside the camp, he just clamped his tail and refused to leave the camp. Even if the Shenyang Army launched an attack, Liu Laosan would Just keep the camp and let it go, and never send troops to fight back.After repeating this for more than ten days, Shen Yang also basically believed in Liu Laosan's promise, and was greedy to preserve his strength. He was unwilling to really storm Liu Laosan's strong camp, so he chose to stand still and maintain a confrontation with the Nanyang Army. The envoy contacted Xiang Kang and asked Xiang Kang to support his food, grass and military supplies.

After a confrontation like this for a while, seeing that Shen Yang would no longer attack his camp, Liu Laosan was overjoyed and sent Lu Jia as an envoy to bring gifts to the camp to thank Shen Yang, promising that as long as this was the case, he would continue to fight for another month. , he would take the initiative to withdraw from the Ye County battlefield. Although Shen Yang did not fully believe it, he was relieved a lot. He gradually began to believe that Liu Laosan stationed troops in Ye County, really just to perfunctory Xiang Yu and give Xiang Yu an explanation.

As the commander of the first army, Shen Yang is like this, so it goes without saying that he is a soldier of his army. Seeing that the Nanyang army has never been able to hold on tightly, and even tried to avoid the slightest encounter with scouts, Shen Yang's army was equally shocked. Slack, military discipline is no longer so strict, night defenses are also greatly lax, and sentries often sleep lazily.

The Nanyang Army was waiting for this opportunity. On a snowy night, under the cover of the heavy snow, the Nanyang Army suddenly made a big move in the middle of the night and sneaked outside the Shenyang Army camp, taking advantage of the opportunity that most of the Shenyang Army sentries had already fallen asleep. , broke through the gate of the Shenyang Army's camp in one fell swoop, rushed into the Shenyang Army camp, murdered people and set fire everywhere, the Shenyang Army was caught off guard, and suddenly became chaotic, and was killed by the Nanyang Army. They entered their camp of the Chinese army and went straight to Shen Yang's tent. Shen Yang had no choice but to get on his horse and run away from the camp in a hurry, and fled to Kunyang in embarrassment for a while.

The long-prepared Nanyang Army quickly took advantage of the victory and surrounded the small city of Kunyang. Then Liu Laosan first sent people to pretend to be Xiang Yu envoys into the city to persuade Shen Yang to abandon Han and return to Chu, temporarily stabilize Shen Yang, and let Shen Yang give up his plan to break through as soon as possible. During the plan, he took the opportunity to rush to build siege weapons, and suddenly launched a strong attack on Kunyang. It took only a little more than a day to break through the small city of Kunyang, behead Shenyang in Kunyang city, and seize a large amount of food, grass and military supplies.

After the big victory, Liu Laosan laughed out loud and was so proud that he couldn't wait to send someone north to report the victory to Xiang Yu. Han Xin, the general of the Nanyang Army who directed the whole battle, was very calm and reminded: "Your Majesty, please be sure to tell the King of Western Chu In a word, tell him not to rush to launch a strong attack. We must wait until we take Yangdi and Yangcheng, open the way to enter the Gou clan, the gateway to Sanchuan, and then send troops at the same time as us. know how to resist."

Liu Laosan, who had already tasted the sweetness, laughed even more, and agreed: "It's a good idea, we must try our best to persuade the king of Xichu to join us in the army. Only in this way can the king of Xichu help us entangle the little traitor Xiang Kang." , so that we can siege the city and loot the land behind the little traitor Xiang Kang, murder and set fire to him, so that he can't live day and night! If we are lucky, we might be able to take the first step into the Guanzhong and snatch the money, food and beauties of the little traitor Xiang Kang. A clean one!"

Fortunately, the main force of the Shenyang Army was not completely wiped out by the Nanyang Army. At least the general of the Shenyang Army, Guo Mi, led a defeated army and fled back to Xiangcheng. He immediately sent people to Sanchuan to ask Xiang Kang for help. Xiang Kang won the time to respond in advance, so that he would not be caught off guard by the sudden killing of Liu Laosan like the unlucky Shen Yang.

But that's about the end. After receiving the news that the main force of the Shenyang Army was defeated in Ye County, Xiang Kang's face turned livid even though he had been mentally prepared for a long time, and he said after a while: "The southern line is in trouble, and Yingchuan can't keep it. "

"Your Majesty, it's not so dangerous, right?" Chen Ping said, "Currently Shen Yang's life and death are unknown, as long as he is still alive, he will be able to regain his strength, and even if he can't defeat Liu Ji, he can still guard Ying Yang and Yang Zhai for a long time. Yingchuan is an important town, and Liu Ji is not given a chance to enter the hinterland of Sanchuan."

"Don't be so optimistic." Xiang Kang shook his head and said, "Liu Ji has capable people under his command. With him, even if Shen Yang can save his life, he will definitely not last long."

After all, Xiang Kang didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered the Han army Zheng Bu's troops to be recruited to serve as a strategic reserve in Hanzhong Bashu to leave Hangu Pass in the west and rush to Sanchuan to reinforce the front line, and then ordered troops to advance to Yingchuan The dragon in the territory stopped advancing and led the army to retreat to the Yangcheng area to wait for orders. Almost without thinking, he gave up the plan to launch a counterattack in Yingchuan County.Wen and Wu of the Han army objected, feeling that Xiang Kang retreated too quickly, Xiang Kang also shook his head and said, "You don't know how powerful Liu Ji is. He is fighting in the hinterland of Yingchuan in Yimapingchuan, and there are bandits from Western Chu. Partial teacher to help, and he has no chance of winning."

I don't understand why Xiang Kang became so afraid of Liu Laosan, so the civil and military soldiers of the Han army had no choice but to keep their mouths shut. Fortunately, this matter did not affect Xiang Kang's prestige. Just two days later, Guo Yu sent someone to send him again The urgent report confirmed the news that Shen Yang had died in the battle in Kunyang City. While the civil and military soldiers of the Han army were shocked by the sharp front of the Nanyang army, they also had to admire Xiang Kang's foresight. They all admitted that they had indeed underestimated Liu Laosan and Nanyang Army.

Of course, Xiang Kang would not be proud of such foresight. After careful consideration for a while, Xiang Kang made two more decisions. State affairs of the Yang Army, leading the remnants of the Shen Yang Army to retreat to Yangdi City, waiting for their own troops to rescue.The second is to order Long Qie to allocate part of the troops to urge the people of the Gou clan to build a camp at the Cheyuan, the throat of the mountain road just south of the Gou clan. In order to confront the enemy on the southern front for a long time in the future.

After making these two conservative decisions, Xiang Kang counted the time, frowned and said: "If there is no accident, within three or two days, my brother should also receive the news that Shen Yang has died in battle. It's okay to say that we can deal with it easily. But if he keeps calm, he can wait patiently until Liu Ji and his southern line division join hands to go north, take down Yangcheng and advance to the Gou family, and then If we attack vigorously, then we will be in big trouble."

"King of Han, don't blame foreign ministers for making unkind words. This time, the king of Western Chu probably just wants to be impatient." Zhang Liang interjected, "Before, he repeatedly stormed our Guangwu camp and lost more than 3 troops. Later, [-] troops were assigned to reinforce the Yingchuan battlefield to help Liu Ji, and now we have [-] to [-] troops left. Although we also lost about [-] troops during this period, we added [-] new recruits from Guanzhong later. It has always remained above [-], and the relative strength has not decreased but increased.”

"That's why the ministers believe that as long as the King of Western Chu has a little brain, he will not lose his composure and attack us again, even if he thinks that the main force led by him is not as good as Liu Ji's other troops. At the very least, he has to wait until his follow-up army arrives at the front line and replenishes enough troops before launching an attack."

Zhang Liang's reasonable analysis made Xiang Kang frowned even tighter, and also made Xiang Kang have to worry about a fatal problem - if old man Fan and others hold Xiang Yu back, let him wait until Liu Laosan enters the Gou family before launching Offensive, or my bad luck, when the reinforcements from the Western Chu Army arrived at the front line, it happened to be in time for Liu Laosan to enter the Gou family. How should I deal with the problem of being attacked from the front and back?Among the generals under his command, who can be Han Xin's opponent?
Vaguely guessing Xiang Kang's worries, Chen Ping comforted him, "Don't worry, my lord, even if the remnants of the Shenyang army led by Guo Yu can't resist Liu Ji and the Western Chu bandit army, it will definitely be fine if we persist for a while. At that time, it will be time for General Zheng Bu to lead our strategic mobile force to the hinterland of Sanchuan. We only need to let General Zheng Bu lead his army to reinforce the Gou clan immediately, and we will be sure to stop Liu Ji and the Western Chu bandit army from joining forces. "

"I'm not sure. Neither Zheng Bu nor Long Qi can stop Liu Ji's army. If they are not careful, they may collapse quickly."

Xiang Kang's answer stunned Zhang Liang and Chen Ping once again, and they couldn't understand why Xiang Kang thought highly of Liu Laosan so much. Xiang Kang then said casually: "Among our army, apart from me, only General Zhou Shu can compete with you." It's a pity that Liu Ji is on the northern front and shoulders more important tasks, so he can't spare himself to go south to help us."

Speaking of this casually, Xiang Kang's heart suddenly moved, and an extremely bold idea jumped into his mind, secretly said: "Uncle Zhou can't get out of the family, but I can get out of the family? Although my elder brother is far stronger than Liu Laosan, but He is muscular and simple-minded, and he doesn't know how to use tricks other than being reckless. As long as I arrange it carefully, it is entirely possible for Zhong Limei and Ding Ji to block him for me, leaving me free to deal with Liu Laosan and Han Xin in person. ?”

After coming up with this bold idea, Xiang Kang hurriedly calculated the possibility of doing so carefully, and then combined the current strength of the main force of the Han army, and the objective factor that the follow-up army of the Western Chu army must not be as brave and good at fighting as the former army, Xiang Kang gritted his teeth After making up his mind, he ordered: "As there is still time, adjust the garrison, let Zhong Limei come to Guangwu to help me guard the main camp, and let Gongsun Tong guard Xingyang!"

I don't understand why Xiang Kang suddenly adjusted the army's garrison. Zhang Liang and Chen Ping were of course puzzled, but Xiang Kang refused to explain. The handsome old man Gongsun Tong went to replace Zhong Limei to guard Xingyang, and transferred Zhong Limei to his side to listen to him. He also asked Zhong Limei to take the time to familiarize himself with the various internal conditions of the Guangwu Camp, so that he could take over from him to guard the Guangwu Camp at critical moments. Free up your hands to deal with more dangerous enemies.

Unfortunately, Xiang Yu's reaction was also expected by Zhang Liang. Two days later, when Liu Laosan's messenger finally got in touch with the Western Chu Army, although Xiang Yu really felt a little embarrassed, he felt that he had brought the main force and had no servants. Playing beautifully is too embarrassing, and at one point he wanted to regain his face, but considering the current strength comparison between the main force of the Western Chu army and the main force of the Han army, Xiang Yu forcibly suppressed the impulse in his heart, patiently just waiting for his rear army Reinforced the front line, did not launch an offensive rashly.

In the following period of time, the situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains also continued to change. First, the envoys sent by Xiang Kang finally contacted Peng Yue's unit of the wandering army wandering on the south bank of the Yellow River, and successfully persuaded Peng Yue to accept Xiang Kang's canonization. , as a general of the Han army, took on the important task of guerrilla warfare behind the Western Chu army, adding countless uncertainties to the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony.

At the same time, the envoys of the Western Chu Army also successfully persuaded Zhang Er, the real leader of Zhao's army, to help Chu with all his strength, coveting the throne that Xiang Yu had secretly promised. The strength of Zhao Jun and the Western Chu Army's northern divisions increased greatly, and they once again exerted tremendous pressure on the flanks of the Han Army's main battlefield.

During this period, Liu Laosan and the southern division of the Western Chu Army were also in the hinterland of Yingchuan. They quickly captured Xiangcheng, Yingyang, Weishi, Yuanling and Changshe, and pressed Yangdi from the southeast. Fortunately, the general of the Shenyang Army, Guo Yu, still has a conscience. He mourned Shenyang's death and vowed to avenge the old master. The situation on the southern front of the army did not deteriorate rapidly to the extreme, and it also gave the Han army's strategic mobile army Zheng Bu time to advance westward to reinforce the Sanchuan battlefield.

In addition, there is a huge uncertain factor buried in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, that is, Yingbo behind Liu Laosan. If Yingbo accepts Xiang Kang's persuasion and turns to side with the Han army, then he only needs to take advantage of the vacancy Sending troops to the hinterland of Nanyang, the pressure on the southern front of the Han army will be greatly reduced immediately, and the danger will be saved.And if Yingbo insists on fighting against Xiang Kang, no matter whether he directly sends troops north to help Liu Laosan, or sends troops to attack Hanzhong Bashu, the strategic situation of the Han army is bound to deteriorate further.Xiang Kang was absolutely worried about this, but he had no choice but to hope that Chen Hui, who detoured to Hanzhong to contact Yingbo, could set up a surprise attack and persuade Yingbo to abandon Chu and vote for Han.

What was supposed to come couldn't be avoided, and after waiting for a while anxiously, the reinforcements of the Western Chu Army led by generals Huan Chu, Xiang Han, and Xiao Gongjiao finally arrived at the chasm battlefield, and brought Xiang Yu a The 12 reinforcements suddenly expanded the main force of the Western Chu Army to more than 25, and once again gave the Western Chu Army an absolute upper hand in terms of strength!
Standing on the top of Guangwu Mountain, looking at the magnificent scene of 12 Western Chu troops crossing the river, most of the Han soldiers, both civil and military, looked worried. In terms of strength and experience, the newly transferred reinforcements are definitely not comparable to the previous front-line troops of the Western Chu Army. As long as the main force of the [-] Han Army defends the dangerous points, they must have a high degree of confidence in stopping the attack of the Western Chu Army.

What Xiang Kang really cares about is still the Yingchuan battlefield. After turning his eyes to the direction of Yingchuan to the southwest, Xiang Kang murmured and said softly: "General Guo Yu, fight for your strength, and hold on for another ten days and a half months." , let me find a way to set back the spirit of my brother's reinforcements first, and then free up my hands to meet you."

It is a pity that unpredictable luck did not side with Xiang Kang this time. On the same day, relying on successive strong attacks, the partial divisions of the Nanyang Army and the Western Chu Army finally entered the city of Yangdi. Seeing that the situation was extremely strong, he had no choice but to flee northward with the remnants of the Han army to join the Longqie troops of the Han army. Liu Xiang's coalition forces successfully captured Yangdi City. .

　The note that has been forgotten, there were two Yangcheng counties in the Central Plains during the Qin Dynasty, one was located in the north of Nanyang County, and the other was in the northwest of Yingchuan County.By the way, it's the beginning of the month, ask for a monthly pass and a tip.Sorry, the handicapped party can't break out, and can't compensate for yesterday's update.

　　
　
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