Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 81
He did not let a man with a sword who was scolded as a child under his crotch look down on him. Although he took down Xu County bordering Huaiyin in one fell swoop, Xiang Kang did not have any plans to continue to attack and expand the territory. There are three reasons. Marching and fighting, the generals of the young generals with poor overall qualities are quite exhausted and urgently need rest and reorganization; the second is that the young generals quickly captured three counties in a short period of time, and have gradually exposed various symptoms of indigestion. According to the signs, Xiang Kang needs time to consolidate his control over the newly occupied territory, train soldiers to replenish soldiers, and further expand the army, so he must temporarily stop the pace of expansion.

The third reason is the most critical. The Young Marshal Army successively captured the three cities of Xiaxiang, Tongxian and Xuxian that border Donghai County, but the Qin Army in Donghai County next to it has not made any moves. Xiang Kang is not clear about the specific reason. , but Xiang Kang can be sure that the reason why the Qin army in Donghai County did not move is definitely related to the fact that he has never attacked Donghai County. He gave the Qin army in Donghai County a chance to beggar-thy-neighbor. Qin Jun in Sishui County refused to save him, which also gave the young commander a chance to fish in troubled waters.

But if Xiang Kang is not greedy enough and reaches out to Donghai County at this time, then the situation will definitely be completely different. In order to protect himself and explain to the higher authorities, the Qin army in Donghai County, who has made certain preparations for war, will definitely fight to the death. The main force of the county soldiers may also come to trouble the young marshal. If the county soldiers of Sishui County also take the opportunity to send troops to quell the chaos, it will be too late for Xiang Kang to cry.Therefore, Xiang Kang can only choose to continue non-aggression with the Qin army in Donghai County, and try his best to avoid fighting on the two fronts. Of course, it is impossible to attack Huaiyin County, which is under the administrative establishment of Donghai County.

However, in order to let the army rest and strengthen its control over Donghai County, Xiang Kang brought the main force of the Young Marshal Army to the city of Xu County. With Zeng's help, he made a series of adjustments to Xu County's personnel and political affairs. He promoted the county magistrate of Xu County who urged the county magistrate to surrender to the county magistrate, appointed the original county magistrate as an official in the army, and brought him to the army. Appointment, and abolished the complicated Qin laws that made the people of the six countries complain endlessly, simplified the laws, pardoned many prisoners for minor crimes, reduced taxes and corvees, encouraged the people to devote themselves to the autumn harvest, exempted several people who were ravaged by the war from taxes, money and food this year, and launched Many new policies welcomed by the people.

In terms of military affairs, Xiang Kang, in addition to recruiting troops desperately to expand the army, also rewarded him for his meritorious deeds. He named Xiang Zhuang, who had contributed the most during this period, a miscellaneous general. Xiang Guan, Xiang Sheng, Xiang Han, and Feng Zhong were all named generals. Du Wei, and followed the [-]th rank system of the Qin Army, improved and perfected it, so as to encourage the soldiers of the young commanders to fight bravely.In addition, taking advantage of the slight gap, Xiang Kang especially strengthened the formation training of the army, and it also received a little effect, making up for the weakness of some young commanders who were not good at formation battles.

At the same time, under the explicit request of Xiang Kang, the three counties of Xiaxiang, Tongxian and Qulu have also been expanding their troops as much as possible. As of the tenth day of August, the total strength of the young marshals in the four counties officially exceeded 9000. , with more than [-] horses and nearly [-] chariots, the strength not only formed an absolute advantage over the Qin army in the surrounding counties, but also had the confidence and capital to compete head-on with the soldiers of Sishui County. ——Of course, it is still a question worth discussing whether the frontal decisive battle can beat the county soldiers of Sishui County.

However, behind the gratifying situation, there are countless terrible worries. First of all, the base of the Young Commander's Army is located in the plains. There is no danger to defend and it is surrounded by enemies. dilemma.The second is that the Young Marshal's army is expanding too fast, people's hearts are not in harmony, and internal hidden dangers are serious. Once the war is unfavorable, internal troubles may erupt en masse at any time.The third is that the Young Marshal’s army rose too early and was isolated and helpless. No matter whether it was expanding or protecting itself, it could only fight alone, without the cooperation and help of friendly troops. During the rebellion together, even Xiang Kang himself did not dare to guarantee this.

No, before he had lived a stable life in Xu County for a few days, Xiang Kang received unconfirmed news sent by Xiang Sheng, saying that the soldiers of Sishui County had recovered the area captured by Chen Sheng's general Ge Ying. Zhi County was besieging Qi County, which had been occupied before. At the same time, the main force of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had left Sishui County and entered the territory of Chen County to the west.And if this news is true, as long as the soldiers of Sishui County take down Qi County, then the next target of the soldiers of Sishui County will undoubtedly be the Young Marshal Army!
The distance was far away, and Xiang Kang didn't say any unnecessary nonsense. He asked Xiang Sheng's messenger whether the news was reliable, but waved his hand to let the messenger go down to rest, and then said to Zhou Zeng: "Uncle Ya, whether the news is true or not, I think We should all get ready for the battle as soon as possible. It is absolutely impossible for Zhao Zhuang, the prefect of Sishui County, to watch us occupy the four cities southeast of Surabaya for a long time. Sooner or later, we will come. The sooner we prepare, the better it will be for us in the future. "

"How does the young commander plan to prepare?" Zhou Zeng asked.

"I plan to concentrate our main force on taking advantage of the battle." Xiang Kang replied: "For the convenience of transporting food, Zhao Zhuang sent troops to attack us. There is a [-]% chance that Zhao Zhuang will attack us first. If we defend the strategy, it is equivalent to defending the rest of the country. Three counties."

"But what if Donghai County takes the opportunity to send troops to attack behind us?" Zhou Zeng asked worriedly, and then reminded: "Zhao Zhuang sent troops to attack us. Seeing that the Tyrant Qin army in Donghai County has an advantage to take advantage of, it is very likely that they will not miss this opportunity." Chances of meritorious deeds are chosen for nothing. Moreover, in order to increase the odds of winning, Zhao Zhuang may also take the initiative to ask for help from the Tyrant Qin army in Donghai County."

Xiang Kang frowned deeply, and he was also extremely worried that he would be attacked by the enemies of Sishui County and Donghai County. However, misfortunes never come singly. Ma sent an urgent letter, saying that there was something urgent to report.When Xiang Kang hurriedly ordered to be summoned, Xiang Guan's messenger had just entered the door to salute, and immediately said: "Young Marshal, you and Xiang Guan, the third uncle of Captain Xiang Du, suddenly came to the prime minister the day before yesterday, and he lost his temper with Captain Xiang. Young commander, you should go back to him immediately. Captain Xiang Du dared not disobey him, so he sent a villain here to bring the book, so I ask the young commander to have a look."

"The one that should have come has finally come." First he sighed helplessly, then Xiang Kang took the letter delivered by his own soldiers, and when he opened it, Xiang Guan really yelled for help on the book, saying yes Uncle Xiang didn't do anything after he got to the prime minister, except for losing his temper desperately, he kept pointing fingers at the young commander who was prime minister, asking Xiang Kang to go back and kowtow to him immediately. Come and kick the ball to Xiang Kang, and ask Xiang Kang to make up his mind to deal with this troublesome third uncle.

"Understood, you go down to eat and rest first." Xiang Kang told the messenger helplessly, and said, "I will write a reply in a while, and you can take it back to Captain Xiang."

The messenger led away, and Zhou Zeng also immediately said to Xiang Kang with a wry smile on his face: "Young commander, it seems that you are in trouble this time, brother brother is your uncle, there is absolutely no way he will bow to you, and you are also It is absolutely impossible to respect him as handsome, how you get along is a big problem."

"Uncle Biya is more troublesome than you imagined." Xiang Kang even smiled bitterly, and sighed: "My third uncle, I don't know what to say about him, alas..."

Shaking his head, putting his troubles aside temporarily, Xiang Kang thought about it again, and said, "Send the order, we will be ready to go tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow the main force will set off and return for consideration."

"Concern?" Zhou Zeng was taken aback, and hurriedly reminded: "Young Commander, did your uncle tell you to go down to meet him?"

"I can't ask our soldiers to run more than 100 miles back and forth because of his request." Xiang Kang said with a blank expression, "He wanted to see me, so he came to see me on his own and told me to go down to see him." , I don't have that time."

Although he is not very clear about the grievances and grievances between Xiang Kang and Xiang Bo, but just listening to Xiang Kang's tone and seeing Xiang Kang's expression, Zhou Zeng understands that the relationship between Xiang Kang and Xiang Bo is definitely not as simple as he imagined Well, this time, the Young Marshal may face the danger of splitting.So Zhou Zeng, who had completely tied up Xiang Kang's thief ship, couldn't help but feel worried, and said to himself: "It's troublesome, it's hard to open up a little bit of the situation. If the army is really divided, how will we fight future battles?"

After quickly making preparations to return to the teacher for consideration, on the morning of August [-]th, Xiang Kang, Xiang Zhuang, Zhou Zeng and others led the main force of the Young Marshal Army and set off northward, while Xiang Kang handed over Xu County to himself. Feng Zhong, the most trusted general with a foreign surname, led the army to guard, which not only gave Feng Zhong a chance to exercise on his own, but also left himself a way to retreat in case of emergency.In this regard, although the Xiang family's children complained a little, Xiang Kang stopped them with only one sentence, "No matter how many brothers we have in the Xiang family, how can it be possible for each of them to be responsible for guarding a city? Now we have won It’s okay to say that there are fewer cities, and we will win more and more cities in the future, how can our brothers get enough?”

Feng Zhong also lived up to Xiang Kang's expectations of him and vigorously promoted him. After the main force of the young commander left, Feng Zhong not only urged the county magistrate of Xu County who obeyed his orders to collect autumn grain, but also trained the army diligently according to Xiang Kang's requirements. Build a large number of weapons and equipment for military use, and do your job conscientiously.In addition, the recruitment and expansion of the army has not slowed down. As long as they are men of the right age who come to join the army, Feng Zhong will accept them and do his best to prepare a reserve army for Xiang Kang.

However, on the third day after the main force of the Young Marshal left Xu County, when Feng Zhong brought his own soldiers to the recruiting office to inspect, he encountered an accident—a tall man who came to join the army with his own sword, did not Knowing why, when talking to the young commander in charge of recruiting, his body swayed, and suddenly he fell to the ground and remained motionless. The personnel did not know, and immediately caused a small commotion at the recruiting office.

Encountering such an accident, Feng Zhong, who did his best, of course immediately stepped forward to find out the reason for the tall man's sudden coma. The result was fine. After being rescued by others, the tall man finally woke up leisurely, and then opened his mouth. He groaned and said, "Is there anything to eat? I haven't eaten for almost two days."

"It turned out that he passed out from hunger."

Feng Zhong almost didn't laugh out loud, but out of kindness and in order to buy people's hearts, Feng Zhong asked someone to bring some food right away, the tall man didn't thank him, and just gobbled up the rice balls handed over by Feng Zhong's soldiers. He was choked when he was in a hurry, and his embarrassment caused everyone to burst into laughter.Feng Zhong was also angry and funny, he hurriedly handed the tall man a ladle of water, and then said: "Eat slowly, no one will grab you, what's your name, where is it?"

The tall man was only drinking water and didn't have time to talk to Feng Zhong, but there was a young man who joined the army beside him and said with a smile: "General, this Zhuzi is called Han Xin, he is a celebrity in Huaiyin, he doesn't do anything all day long, he only takes money all day long. With a sword, he eats and drinks everywhere, and when he lives in Huaiyin and goes to the countryside, there is no pavilion chief who has not been eaten and drunk by him for free."

"Walking around eating and drinking with a sword all day long?" Feng Zhong laughed dumbfounded. He couldn't help but think of a rogue who took his brothers to cheat and drink everywhere all day long, and he couldn't help feeling a little kind to the tall man named Han Xin. Feeling, I looked at his tall body with big hands and feet, and felt quite satisfied, so I patted the tall man on the shoulder and said: "Come to join the army? Okay, accept it, join my personal army, and I will definitely let you eat in the future." Be full."

"General, don't let this Han Xin join your personal army." The person who introduced Han Xin's identity before was anxious and said hastily: "General, you are seen as tall and tall, but in fact he is more courageous than a rabbit." When he was still young, when he was in Huaiyin, someone disliked him and told him to crawl over from under his crotch. This Shuzi, who was greedy for life and fear of death, actually crawled over! How can such a Shuzi be assigned as your personal soldier?"

"Is there such a thing? Climbing through someone else's crotch? Is it true?"

Others laughed loudly, Feng Zhong was also a little dumbfounded, some couldn't believe it and looked at the tall Han Xin, Han Xin lowered his head and silently endured the insults from his fellow countrymen and everyone, and after a long time he reluctantly opened his mouth and said to Feng Zhong: " General, I can read and understand the art of war."

"Just like you? Do you know the art of war?"

Others laughed again, mocking Han Xin constantly, and although Feng Zhong regretted his easy promise just now - the treatment of the soldiers is of course much better than that of ordinary soldiers, but the words have already been spoken, and Feng Zhong himself has also been arrested by the Xiang family. The son was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy. He felt sympathetic to each other, so Feng Zhong nodded and said, "Okay, then join my personal army, register him, and let him come with me." .”

Others sighed with regret, wondering why Feng Zhong would let such a useless person become his personal soldier, but Han Xin hesitated again and again, and after a while he reluctantly said: "Thank you, General."

After all, Han Xin still said helplessly in his heart, "You can be a soldier. Who told me that I was unlucky. Xiang Kang had already left with the army when I got here? It's good to be a soldier, at least you can have Opportunity to offer advice and suggestions is easier to succeed than being an ordinary soldier."

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Having already left Xu County with the army, Xiang Kang certainly didn't know that he had recruited an extremely important person in his army. At the same time, Xiang Kang was not in a hurry to meet Uncle Xiang, and led the main force northward to Tong County at a normal speed. Afterwards, Xiang Kang also stopped to learn more about the collection of autumn grain in Tong County, and the management of Tong County by Yan Xie, Bao Wen and others. Slowly going north to take care, he didn't give Xiang Bo any face at all.

But no matter how much you don't want to meet Uncle Xiang, you can still see him. After more than a day, the main force of the Young Marshal led by Xiang Kang finally arrived in Qulu City. He led all the city officials to greet him outside the city.As a result, Xiang Kang finally saw his uncle, the scum of the Xiang family, and one of the most difficult people in history-Xiang Bo among the crowd who greeted him.And Han Liang standing next to Uncle Xiang—of course, Xiang Kang still doesn't know Han Liang's true identity.

Forced to come here to meet his least favorite nephew, of course Uncle Xiang didn't have any good looks on his face, but when Xiang Kang came to bow in front of him in public, he still knew what is proper Uncle Xiang tried his best to squeeze out a little smile, took Xiang Kang by his own hand, patted Xiang Kang on the shoulder and said, "Okay! Be brave! Your eldest father knows you well, so you can rest in peace if you want to."

"Thanks to the good teaching of the two uncles, my nephew never dares to forget his identity as Chu people." Xiang Kang pretended to be modest, and asked curiously: "Uncle, when I was doing the photoshoot a while ago, my nephew asked Han Li Han The strong man brought you a letter, please go south to join us with my nephew, Xiapi is only a day away from Xiaxiang, why did you not come?"

"This..." Uncle Xiang was a little embarrassed no matter how thick-skinned he was, he said after a while, "I'll tell you the details later. I was busy with other things at the time, so I didn't have time to go south immediately."

After finishing speaking, Uncle Xiang quickly changed the topic again, and told the Xiang family's children who came forward to salute him together: "Get up, come on, come with me into the city, we will talk in the city."

"Wait." Xiang Kang yelled and said to Xiang Zhuang, Xiang You and others: "My brothers and brothers, the army has not been settled yet, and you can't enter the city for the time being. Take the army to set up camp first. Arrange for the generals to stay behind, and then go into the city to salute uncle. Also, prepare my tent for the Chinese army, I still want to live with the army.”

Already accustomed to obeying Xiang Kang's military orders, of course Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Yang, Xiang It and others immediately agreed, and they had always admired Xiang Sui and they agreed without hesitation. Only Xiang You hesitated, but seeing Xiang Kang's After looking majesticly, Xiang You followed the other Xiang family children and clapped their hands and sang promises, and immediately went back and led the army to set up camp on the school field outside the city.But Uncle Xiang, who was blocked by Xiang Kang's orders from his elders, had an ugly face and became increasingly dissatisfied and displeased with Xiang Kang.

Then, of course, Xiang Kang introduced Zhou Zeng who was always by his side for Uncle Xiang. Zhou Zeng respectfully saluted and greeted him, but Uncle Xiang didn't give face at all, and asked Xiang Kang directly: "Kanger, uncle has long wanted to see you." Let me ask you, this Zhou used to be a tyrannical official of the Qin Dynasty, it’s fine if you don’t pursue his previous crimes, why do you still lead our Xiang family children to respect him as Uncle Ya?”

Hearing this, Zhou Zeng was obviously embarrassed and embarrassed, but Xiang Kang sneered in his heart, knowing that with Xiang Bo's words alone, Zhou Zeng, his number one assistant in government affairs, would never be pulled over by Xiang Bo .Then Xiang Kang said respectfully: "Uncle, is there anything wrong with respecting Mr. Zhou as Uncle Ya? His age and seniority are above my nephew and us. It seems that there is nothing wrong with respecting him as Uncle Asia as the junior and respecting the elders." its not right?"

"He was an official of the Qin Dynasty before, and he helped the court of the Qin Dynasty to arrest me!" Uncle Xiang said even more bluntly.

"It's true that Uncle Ya was an official of the Tyrant Qin Dynasty before, but he has already made a clean break with the Tyrant Qin court." Xiang Kang argued: "The defense of the Prime Minister, as well as the battles to capture Tong County, Qulu and Xu County, Ya Uncle has done a lot of work. Do you still want to pursue his faults in serving the Qin Dynasty? As for Uncle Ya, it is his duty to arrest Uncle you for the Qin Dynasty. If you want to pursue uncle, then the whole Don’t all the officials and servants who are inferior to the prime minister have to be held accountable?”

Uncle Xiang was speechless, but his face gradually turned livid, and Xiang Kang smiled again: "Uncle, stop joking with Uncle Ya. Who of us brothers in the Xiang family don't know that Uncle, you are generous and witty, and you have already made the previous point Let the grievances and grievances be laughed off, so how can you care about the trivial matter that Uncle Ya once helped the Qin court to arrest you? Uncle, do you think that is the case?"

When he said this, Xiang Kang had a friendly smile on his face, as if Xiang Bo was really not some scumbag with a small belly, but Xiang Bo was embarrassed and didn't know how to deal with it.But fortunately, Zhang Liang stood up in time to defuse the situation, and while bowing his hands to Xiang Kang, he smiled and said, "Young Master Xiang, you are a blockbuster. I didn't have a chance last time, but this time I really want to treat you well." Ask for advice, and I hope you will not hesitate to teach me."

"Little nephew, how dare you." Without knowing Zhang Liang's real name and identity, Xiang Kang is of course not particularly affectionate towards Zhang Liang, but also because Zhang Liang came with Xiang Bo's scourge, he was full of vigilance and hypocrisy towards Zhang Liang. He saluted and said: "My nephew is young and inactive, and has little talent and learning. I should ask Uncle Han to give me some advice."

Zhang Liang smiled modestly, but said in his heart: "Little guy, I'm not pretending to be polite to you, this time I really want to test you, to see if you have the ability to overthrow the Qin Dynasty and restore the six kingdoms, Is it worth it for me, Zhang Liang and Zhang Zifang, to follow and assist me?"

(End of this chapter)