After Xiang Zhuang escaped from the battlements of Langxicang, he collected the fleeing Chu army, and finally recovered 10,000 Chu troops.

Xiang Liang seized the Qin army camp with the assistance of Li Zuoche, and Wang Wei led the army to Zhang Han's army, and met the Chu army of Yu Ziqi and Xiang Zhuang near Jishui, and the two sides withdrew after a small fight.

Overall, both sides lost more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the number of soldiers at the moment was still roughly equal, but Zhang Han recaptured the Langxie Warehouse and could be regarded as having the upper hand.

Xiang Liang occupied the city, drew strong men from the people to replenish the battle attrition, and recovered to more than 100,000 troops in a short time.

On this day, Xiang Liang received the news of Xiang Yu's defeat, and also knew that Xiang Yu's remnants of the army were about to arrive in Qidi soon, and he was in a bad mood when he lost Lang Xiecang, so he trained Xiang Zhuang for two days, and reprimanded Xiang Zhuang for one day.

Xiang Zhuang was scolded for his defeat, so he had to swallow his anger and not speak, and then closed the door. Li Zuoche originally planned to plan for Xiang Liang how to recapture the Lang Evil Cang, but Xiang Liang was in a bad mood, and Xiang Zhuang did not go out after reprimanding Xiang Zhuang for three days.

(The growth of a general needs opportunities, such as Zhou Bo, Fan Xu, Guan Ying and others in the Western Han Dynasty are ordinary people who later grew into generals.) Famous generals need a combination of talent and opportunity, such as Bai Qi, Wang Qian, Han Xin, etc., which are rare in history, so the Mengzhi, Mengxin and other generals in this book can also become good generals after growing up in the military, but famous generals will not be added out of thin air)

Although Zhang Han recaptured the Lang Evil Warehouse, he lost more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and when Daqin's troops were so short, the loss of soldiers and horses was very distressing.

Zhang Han sullenly approached Wang Wei Mengzhi to discuss a strategy to retreat from the enemy. Meng Zhi has received very good results due to his many plans, so this time Zhang Han is particularly concerned about Meng Zhi's thoughts.

At this moment, the high-ranking generals in the shogunate were there, so Zhang Han opened his mouth and said, "What is General Mengji's good plan for the next big war?" ”

Meng Zhi is the youngest general among the generals, he himself thinks that it is because of the light of Meng Tian that he has today's status, and now he is actually the first to ask for advice, his heart is extremely excited, and he blushed and said: "General, the last general has been taught by the general's love, and the last general feels that he can learn the strategy of the new famous general Han Xin to destroy the rebels with fire." ”

Everyone was surprised by his strategy, Xiang Liang's army is now cowering in the city of Langxie County, how can we burn them?

Wang Wei knew from his previous experience that this kid would not be untargeted, and asked, "How to attack with fire?" ”

Meng Zhi calmed down a lot at the moment, and said slowly: "We transported all the warehouses here to Jibei County, the rebels came from afar and were already short of food, and the Qi people were not good at farming, so they collected little grain on the spot, and they would inevitably come to snatch the grain and grass, so we chose a suitable section of the road to ambush and then led to the jungle to burn it." ”

The audience applauded when they heard this analysis, and Zhang Han also smiled, and the audience continued to discuss. The generals discussed the location of the ambush and the way to transport grain according to what they saw on the way to the march, and they couldn't get the essentials for a long time, so Zhang Han had to let the generals retreat and think of a way, leaving Wang Wei and Meng Zhi to eat together and continue to discuss.

Wang Wei Laocheng was serious, summed up the suggestions of today's generals, and felt that Li Zuoche of Zhao State was assisting Xiang Liang, and the ambush on the road would not have much success, and said the appalling idea in his heart: "I think it is most appropriate to choose the ambush site and the fire attack site in Langxicang, we will directly send a large army to escort the grain and grass, so that they cannot rob it, they see that we have many troops out of the city, and they will inevitably attack Cangliao, so we will take advantage of the situation to bring them in." ”

Zhang Han's mouth opened wide when he heard it, and he was silent for a long time. Wang Wei knew that this kind of burning of the granary set up by Great Qin was a major event, which was directly related to the long-term strategy of the military, government and people of a big country, and it could only be done by the emperor's will, so he did not disturb Zhang Han's thinking.

However, Meng Zhi began to be unable to hold back the excitement in his heart, thinking that Zhang Han was a pity that such a good warehouse was reluctant to burn: "General, we can build another granary if it is gone, once the rebels are annihilated, then these counties and territories will be returned to our hands, no pity." ”

Zhang Han and Wang Wei's eyes lit up after hearing this: "That's right! Man is on the earth. ”

Zhang Han finally made a decision: "According to the suggestions of the two, Wang Wei led 20,000 soldiers and horses to arrange a fire attack and was ready to attack the city of Langxi County at any time, and he would have asked His Majesty for an order." ”

The military rations are decreasing day by day, and the local collection is far from enough, Xiang Liang is worried about this. Kuaima scouted the news: The Qin army is transporting the grain and grass from Langxi County to Jibei County, and the transportation team is very large.

Xiang Liang immediately ordered the drums to be beaten, and soon the congregation would arrive at Xiang Liang's shogunate one after another. Xiang Liang asked Sima of the Chinese army to briefly introduce the situation of the investigation, and then everyone began to discuss.

Yu Ziqi was the first to express his opinion: "General Yu, the last general thinks that our army can attack Langxicang when the Qin army sends a large army to transport grain, for two reasons. First, the grain and grass that the Qin army can transport at present is less than one-tenth of the grain stored in the Langxie Warehouse; Second, the Qin army sent a large army to transport grain, taking into account that our army would rob it, and it must be precautionary, but if we go directly to attack the Lang Evil Warehouse, we will inevitably receive a surprise effect. ”

Xiang Liang was very satisfied: "General Yu's strategy is very good, what do other generals add?" ”

Xiang Bo said excitedly: "We can pretend to be the grain transport team of the Qin army, blend into the battlements, grab a south gate and then control it, and then the army will kill it, which will reduce casualties." ”

Xiang Liang was even happier, and turned his head to look at Li Zuoche, who bowed his head and pondered without saying a word, and the generals also looked over with Xiang Liang's eyes.

The shogunate was silent for a while, so that Li Zuoche seemed to react, and quickly raised his head and said: "There is no shortage of strategists in the Qin army, and this time the Qin army suddenly began to transport grain, which is not in line with the battlefield conventions. In addition, the Qin army system is strictly managed, and the granary is more strictly guarded, and the fine work cannot be touched, let alone the army? It is inferred that they deliberately lured our army out of the city, and it is recommended to send mobile troops to attack the Qin army's grain transportation team, and it is absolutely impossible to attack the battlements. ”

Xiang Zhuang, who had been depressed for many days, said loudly: "Our army has lost the granary, and the thief army only needs to tighten the granary to let our army retreat, and at this moment the thief army is transporting the grain and grass away is nothing more than to let our army leave the Qi country forever, what kind of conspiracy can this be?" The fighter plane is fleeting, don't miss it, as long as we occupy the granary, the country of Qi will be our Great Chu. ”

Xiang Zhuang said that he was excited and immediately knelt down: "General, the last general is willing to lead the army to snatch back the granary for the vanguard, and be ashamed of the snow!" ”

Xiang Liang saw that the generals' desire to fight was so high, and he was also exaggerated, so he ordered: "Xiang Bo led five thousand soldiers to defend the city, and the rest of the generals led the whole army to attack Lang Evil Cang with the general, and the Great Chu Fuxing fought here, you must try your best to fight!" The generals went out one after another, leaving the depressed Li Zuoche.

Li Zuoche came out from the Xiangliang Shogunate to find Zhao Wang Xie: "The king hurriedly ordered all the civil and military forces to clean up the softness, let's hurry to the north of the Yan land, there will be a great disaster here." ”

Zhao Wang Xie finally spent a few days of carefree days in the city of Xiang Liang's army, and was playing with the singer, when he heard Li Zuoche's words, it was like a bolt from the blue, and he was stunned for a moment before saying: "The general Xiang Liang defended the city as impregnable, why is the prime minister alarmist?" ”

Li Zuoche was in a hurry, sweat broke out on his forehead: "A catastrophe is coming, I implore the king to follow the advice of his subordinates and leave quickly." ”

Although King Zhao was very reluctant, seeing that Li Zuoche was so resolute, he had no choice but to arrange for it to be cleaned up. The next day, Li Zuoche resigned to Xiang Liang on behalf of King Zhao: "Thanks to the general's acceptance, the whole country of Zhao is grateful for the kindness of the general, and there is nothing to repay at the moment, my king decided to go north to Yandi to seek contact with Donghu, and find a large number of war horses for the general to fight against the Qin army's iron cavalry." ”

Xiang Liang originally pitied Li Zuoche's talent and wanted to recruit him, but recently he didn't match himself, and he didn't like it very much, and he heard that he had added rare war horses to his southern army, so he agreed without hesitation.

Over there, Wang Wei arranged to defend the battlements of Lang Evil Cang, intending to combine the virtual and the real, that is, to let the army defend with their lives, if Xiang Liang's army failed to attack the city, it would be annihilated under the battlements, and if Xiang Liang's army attacked the city desperately, it would carry out a fire attack according to the plan.

When the advance of Xiang Zhuang's army reached the range of the crossbow arrows of the battlements, the Qin crossbow fiercely poured crossbow arrows into the Chu army to express a "warm welcome".

After an hour of shooting, charging and shield soldiers, Xiang Zhuang's front army finally approached the battlement wall.

Seeing that the sky was also dark, the Qin army thought that this time was also a regular siege, and it was estimated that the two sides were about to withdraw their troops and wait for the dawn to fight again. But this time Xiang Zhuang seems to have connected with his brother Xiang Yu's heart, and learned to attack day and night, at this moment, the sky is getting dark, not only did not stop attacking, but instead attacked from one direction during the day to attack from all sides.

Wang Wei saw that this was an opportunity to play a good trick, waved his hand, and ordered the reserve team to go to the city to take turns to withdraw and defend the city, increase the intensity, and start to break through at dawn.

Xiang Liang kept sending probe horses to the front army to explore the battle situation in the rear army, and when he got the Qin army's crazy defense, he felt that the Qin army cared very much about the battlements of Langxicang at the moment, and immediately ordered Yu Ziqi to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to strengthen the attack.

When Wang Wei was busy ordering the preparation for a breakthrough and retreat, there was a military situation: the siege torches outside the south gate suddenly increased several times.

After a little contemplation, Wang Wei instantly began to smile and ordered: "The crossbow archers immediately rushed to the south gate, and every half an hour they will shoot ten rounds of crossbow arrows, and the defenders who retreated after an hour immediately put hay and other fire attack on their backs. ”

When the army of the Yuzi period slowly approached the south gate, suddenly the Qin crossbow sounded, and the crossbow arrows poured down from the sky, and the ten rounds of intermittent fire stopped, so that the army of the Yuzi period was hindered by the corpses of the friendly troops in front of it in the dark night, and the advance was affected, and the rear army slowly crossed the Jishui.