Meng Tian waited in Xingyang for two days, but Xiang Yu's army did not attack the city, but the news came that Han Xin had arrived outside the city. Meng Tian went to the city to see that Han Xin's soldiers and horses were only a few thousand, and he was very puzzled, so he ordered Han Xin to enter the city to inquire about the situation.

Meng Tian is a famous general in the world and a great wisdom, as soon as he heard Han Xin's account, he knew that something was wrong with Hangu Pass, and immediately transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses to Han Xin and galloped to help Hangu Pass at full speed.

Han Xin led an army of 20,000 to aid Hangu Pass, and after marching for less than half a day, he encountered Feng Guangli's army from Hangu Pass. After exchanging information with each other, they went to Xingyang to meet Meng Tian together. In this way, the Qin army in Xingyang City and the army of Xiang Yu outside the city formed a confrontation like the army of Wang Jian and Xiang Yan back then, which was the Xingyang army.

In addition, Fusu successively received Wang Li's report and Meng Tian's suggestion, and at this moment the jade seal of the country fell into the hands of Zhao Gao, and Zhao Gao and others used the jade seal to issue a holy decree to cause trouble in the world.

Fusu responded quickly, and the dispatch of all troops was subject to the orders of the National Governor's Office from now on; The emperor's edict shall be stamped jointly by the seal of the national lieutenant and the great seal of the prime minister, and the edict of the jade seal of the country shall be stopped immediately.

When Meng Tian and Xiang Yu were fighting in Xingyang, Fusu received an urgent report from Langxi County: Xiang Liang, a rebel general of the Chu State, led 100,000 rebels to attack Langxi County and capture Langxicang.

After Fusu hurriedly consulted with Wei Yu, he decided to send an order for Zhang Han, who was on the northern tour, to return to the army immediately, and to join Julu and Wang Wei, and the army was dispatched by Zhang Han to go to Langxi County to annihilate Xiang Liang.

After Han Xin led the army and Meng Tian to converge, they began to discuss the countermeasures to retreat from the enemy, and after a day of discussion, everyone did not come up with any reliable strategy, because Meng Tian planned to let this rebel army stay under Xingyang City, but now there were no fighters to annihilate hundreds of thousands of troops, and the army dispersed in the evening.

At this time, Xiao He, who was in charge of transporting grain and grass, prepared to report the grain and grass to Meng Tian, and it happened that Han Xin had just come out of Meng Tian's temporary shogunate.

met Xiao He, who entered Qin together, Han Xin has always regarded Xiao He as his elder, and it is appropriate to be a "classmate", so the two went in to meet Meng Tian together.

Meng Tian had dinner with them, and Xiao He said that more than 300,000 slave children in Lishan had participated in the cultivation of Guanzhong, which was the time of a bumper harvest, but the grain had to be stored in Xianyang Cang, and the grain supply in the army was still mainly Ao Cang, which was built by Wei in the past.

When it came to offering food, Han Xin's eyes lit up, and then he fell into deep thought, and after dinner, Han Xin took his leave. Along the way, he bowed his head and pondered, and entered the military camp.

The next day, when Meng Tian was raising the account, he found that Han Xin had not arrived, so he sent an order to ask. Until noon, there was no news from Hanshin.

Just as Meng Tian instructed the generals to pay attention to the vigilance and dispersal of the defense, Han Xin came. Meng Tian was unhappy in his heart, and after the generals withdrew, he asked, "Why didn't you come this morning?" ”

Han Xin knelt down and said: "The last general went out in the second half of last night to inspect the grain road from Xingyang to Aocang, and the last general has a strategy to break the enemy." ”

Meng Tian was very excited: "Come quickly!" ”

Han Xin got up and said: "The rebels' military rations will definitely not be able to support it for too long, the most convenient thing from here is Ao Cang, our army's protection of Ao Cang is not enough, and the enemy army will soon pay attention to Ao Cang." If our army sends a large army to protect Aocang, the garrison of the city will be insufficient, and in the end, it will only be a desperate food route for the enemy army to disperse, and the effect of pursuit and killing will not be obvious. The last general suggested luring the enemy out of the barracks and letting them attack Ao Cang, and our army would destroy the enemy on the way. ”

Meng Tian actually knew the mountains and rivers of the Qin State well, and as soon as he heard Han Xin's suggestion, he understood, and said, "Okay, good!" ”

That night, Xiao He took over the 20,000 troops and chariots brought by Mengxin, and began to transport a large number of grain and grass to Hanguguan and Xingyang.

On the Chu army's side, Fan Zeng also saw that the grain and grass of his army was unsustainable, and he was worried about this matter, Xiang Yu was angry with him for a few days and did not meet, because Xiang Yu sent troops to attack Xingyang City several times, and had already issued a ruthless order, and the city would be slaughtered on the day the city was broken!

Fan Zeng suddenly received a letter that the Qin army had suddenly increased the number of grain carriers, and it was obviously in a hurry. Fan Zeng judged that the enemy army found out that he was short of food, and he had already paid attention to Ao Cang, but he did not get Xiang Yu's support.

The army fell into a situation of lack of food, and when it was about to seize Aocang, the Qin army actually began to speed up the transfer of grain and grass, so they hurried to the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss with Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu was sulking and angry, and was drinking sullen wine. Seeing Fan Zeng coming, he said angrily: "Is it that the Qin army has surrendered out of the city?" ”

Fan Zeng ignored Xiang Yu's angry words: "Immediately verbally order the generals to raise their accounts, and the war is about to begin." ”

When Xiang Yu heard that there was going to be a war, he put down the wine lord, and his mood was instantly different: "Someone, quickly pass the password and gather the generals." ”

Fan Zeng arranged the whole army to seize Aocang, among which Zhong Liwu led the leading troops to secretly approach Aocang, spy on the movements of the Qin army in the southwest of Dongjun, and attack Aocang during the day, so as not to be ambushed or suspected by the Qin army's cholera army. Long He led the Chinese army to meet the Qin army that came to save the granary from Xingyang, and Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng led the rear army to flank the main force of the Qin army.

Xiang Yu directly denied Fan Zeng's plan for the rear army, he believed that he had an army of 350,000, while the Qin army was less than 200,000, and when the Qin army went out to rescue Ao Cang, he should take the opportunity to attack the city.

Fan Zeng had no military power, so he had no choice but to agree to Xiang Yu's dispatch, but he still sent 20,000 troops to personally lead the main force of the Qin army.

Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng argued for a while but still gave in, because he wanted to go to war too much. Zhong Liwu led 100,000 troops to attack Aocang, Long He led 150,000 to meet the Qin army, Fan Zeng led 20,000 troops to cooperate with Long and flanked the main force of the Qin army, and Xiang Yu led the remaining 80,000 elite soldiers to attack the city fiercely.

Inside the city of Xingyang.

Meng Tian received an urgent edict from Fusu and needed to rush back to Xianyang immediately. At this critical juncture, Meng Tian felt that only Han Xin could take on the important task of commanding the Xingyang sniper battle through Zhao Yongbing twice.

So Meng Tian held a meeting of the shogunate and announced that Han Xin had full command of the battle, and all the generals must obey Han Xin's orders, and Wang Li, who sent Han Guan, to lead an army of 10,000 to Xingyang to help defend the city.

After two nights of secret marching, Zhong Liwu's army finally entered the range of attacking Aocang, and found that the army transporting grain in Aocang was heavily guarded, and was in a hurry, so he ordered the whole army to rest and prepare for an hour, preparing to attack and seize Aocang.

Zhong Liwu assigned combat tasks to the deputy generals of each team, and an hour passed in the blink of an eye. The front team of 20,000 was already ready to go, and when the war drums rumbled, they shouted at the same time to kill the defenders who rushed towards Aocang.

As soon as the defenders of the Qin army saw the Chu army attacking, they did not meet the battle, but all ran to the battlements of Aocang to hide. This move came as a big surprise to the Chu army, and most of these former troops participated in the attack on Hangu Pass, and the stubborn resistance they encountered at that time made them never forget the fierceness of the Qin army in this life.

When Zhong Liwu's front army rushed to less than three hundred steps away from the battlements of Aocang, ten thousand arrows suddenly fired in the battlements, and the overwhelming crossbow arrows were shot, and after a round of crossbow arrows, the two thousand Chu troops who rushed in front were already lying on the ground and never spoke.

Seeing this, the lieutenant general of the front army immediately ordered the shield soldiers of the front army to raise their shields and continue to charge, and the sound of the crossbow arrow sounded again, but this time the difference was that there was still a sneering sound, and it turned out that this time it was a rocket.

These leather armor or wooden shields instantly turned into torches, which made Chu Jun very embarrassed to hold the shields. Zhong Liwu led the follow-up army to see the embarrassing situation of the previous army, and ordered the army to disperse the attack, and at the same time, according to the original plan, divided the army of 20,000 to intercept and kill the grain transport troops.

When the front army put down the burning shield to extinguish the fire, the crossbow arrows of the Qin army rang out again, and this time the rocket (prepared by Luo Chang) and the crossbow arrows were tilted three times at the same time before stopping, and the troops of the front army instantly lost their combat effectiveness.

At this time, Zhong Lifu began to wake up, and his plan to sneak attack Ao Cang had already been known to the Qin army, or the Qin army had already taken precautions.

When he was commanding the army to attack the 20,000 Qin army transporting grain, suddenly the grain army rushed towards his own army instead, and the Qin army in black clothes and black armor jumped out of those grain trucks.

Over there, there were also countless Qin troops running out of the battlements of Aocang, and they were lining up to kill their own army formation. At this moment, the Chu army began to panic, and the original plan was to attack the Qin army, but at this time they found that they were ambushed and attacked from both sides.

Zhong Liwu showed his ability to lead the army at this time, he calmed down in his heart and analyzed that it was difficult for his army to run away, and he could only turn the tables if he worked hard to kill the army that dragged to Longji, and ordered the whole army to fight towards Ao Cang.

Han Xin saw the panicked Chu army suddenly and orderly killing Ao Cang on the nearby high slope, and secretly admired the generals of the Chu army. Then the order flag waved, and the forest where the Chu army was hiding just now suddenly shook the sky, and the boundless Jiuyuan cavalry was actually killed.

Zhong Liwu instantly felt that the earth shook and turned the land under his feet into hell. He hastily ordered the whole army to turn around and kill south, hoping to break through and join the dragon.

Han Xin saw that the movement of the Chu army was abnormal, and waved another order flag again, and countless crossbow archers and shield pikemen arrays instantly appeared on both sides of Zhong Li's retreat route, and the army killed Zhong Liwu's army in an orderly manner, while constantly tilting the crossbow arrows.

The southwest side of Zhong Liwu's army was rushed and killed by the cavalry of the Qin army, the northeast side was chased and entangled by the army array killed by Ao Cang, and the army pretending to be transporting grain was frantically slashed and killed in the north, and the road between the north and south was stubbornly resisted by this mixed army formation.

Zhong Liwu saw that his army was rapidly decreasing, and knew that the way back to the south could not penetrate the encirclement of the Qin army, so he ordered the Chinese army to desperately seize the road to the east to break through. The army was killed from morning to evening, and Zhong Liwu broke through the siege with less than 7,000 soldiers and horses and fled eastward.

Han Xin shook his head helplessly on the hillside and said, "If there are more than 100,000 troops, none of these enemy troops will be able to escape. So he ordered the whole army, except for more than 1,000 cavalry pretending to chase and kill Zhong Liwu's deserted army, and immediately set off to the preset second battlefield, waiting for the Chu army to drill into the pocket.