In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang, at the end of September, the New Year was very close, the weather was getting colder and colder day by day, and the autumn wind was bleak, blowing people with headaches.

More than ten miles south of Wan County, Nanyang County, there is a township, called "Nanzheng Ju", which was originally a gathering city, and then slowly became more residents, so a township was set up, but in fact, there was no wall.

Most of the men in the township were requisitioned by the Marquis of Tongwu and transported the grain from Wancheng to Fancheng, leaving only some old and weak women and children in the township, as well as some of the villagers who stayed behind.

So when a group of "rebels" armed with soldiers came to the door, Nan Zhengju did not even put up decent resistance and fell.

This army was led by Wu Guang, who led his men straight to the village temple and forced the barn to open the village barn, only to see that it was full of the rent collected from the field this month—the grain that had not yet had time to be processed.

Wu Guang asked people to catch a thin old farmer who didn't have time to hide on the street at will, but saw that he was still wearing a torn summer coat in such a cold late autumn, coarse brown as a cloth, and he didn't know how long he hadn't washed it, and he looked dirty and hard, standing in front of Wu Guang at the moment, trembling.

"Uncle, you don't have winter clothes?" Wu Guang asked casually.

Wu Guang was full of Chenjun Yangxia accent, this old farmer in Nanyang listened to it two or three times before he understood, he hurriedly bent down and almost hit the ground:

"Officer, there were any, but they were all worn by my second son to serve"

Wu Guang bowed: "Second son? Isn't it forbidden to levy two people in one household? ”

The old farmer said: "The officials from Wancheng said that the front is tight, and people need to transport food, as long as they are old enough, almost all of them have been levied, if there is no strong man in the family, they will draw men in turn, as long as they are more than six feet, they all have to go to serve, and in our township alone, hundreds of people have been recruited." ”

As for when he will return, there is no certainty, and the officials who levy the soldiers only say that "the Marquis of Tongwu loves the soldiers like a father and brother, and will soon sweep away the rebels, why should you and others be weeping" so that they should not worry.

But how can you not worry [the rebels have all hit the hinterland of Nanyang, Tongwuhou, don't you be defeated, right?]

After listening to the old peasant's narration, Wu Guang knew in his heart that it was no wonder that General Han Xin said that tens of thousands of people from Wan to Fan were constantly transporting grain for Wang Ben's army, and it turned out that most of them were natives of Nanyang.

How could he not understand the taste of this? A few months ago, Wu Guang, who originally lived an ordinary life in Yangxia, was also forced to enlist in the army by a conscription order? If he hadn't risen halfway to Chen Sheng, I'm afraid they would have filled the ravine, and I don't know what happened to their hometown.

Wu Guang can imagine the situation when the people of Nanzheng Ju were conscripted, and there were relatives and relatives in the Chinese family to see them off, and large bags and small bags were stuffed into their hands with money, grain, and winter clothes, and the poor people could only put on the only thick clothes of the whole family and wear straw sandals on the road.

Thinking of this, he sighed, looked left and right, and asked people to take off the fur coat from Hongo's body and put it on the old man.

I was afraid of retaliation, and I waved my hand again and again to refuse, and after putting on the fur coat, it was warm but warm, and I only felt uncomfortable, scratching here and there.

Perhaps because Wu Guang was not as high as an ordinary military official, the old farmer also began to confide:

"This general, the government said that you are rebels and thieves, and you are here to slaughter the city, but I think the general is kind and not like a wicked person."

Wu Guang smiled: "Can you still believe the words of the government?" ”

"I can't believe it."

The old peasant suddenly became angry: "At the end of the summer, the government sent people to the township to inform that the first emperor was gone, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and he wanted to give amnesty to the world and reduce rent. ”

"In the first half of the month, I went to pay the rent with the old woman at home, and it was indeed reduced by half, but before we were happy, in the second half of the month, the township asked the people to pay the reduced grain, which was exactly the same as in previous years, isn't this a lie?"

The old peasants were full of indignation, but Wu Guang knew, so they followed Han Duwei to the rear, and successively cut off the grain routes from Yingchuan and Sanchuan to Nanyang, and the front-line food was tight, and the court officials in Wancheng had to collect grain locally in Nanyang.

Although there is a reason for the incident, in the eyes of Nanyang people, this is already a naked fraud, and the reputation of the government may have been completely destroyed.

He said with a smile: "In the south of us, it is really a rent reduction, Wuzhong Hou loves the people like a son, and does not let the soldiers take a stitch from the people, I heard that even if they do not levy, the people of Nanjun also spontaneously let their children carry a flat burden and go to the front line to send food to the army." ”

"Is there such a thing?" The old farmer couldn't hide his suspicion in his eyes.

Time was tight, Wu Guang didn't say more, let people come out of the township warehouse and bag the grain, handed it to the old farmer and said, "Uncle, go home!" ”

The old peasant hurriedly waved his hand, and wanted to take off the fur fur on his body: "Don't dare, don't dare, I will accept your grain, I'm afraid I will be arrested by the officials." ”

Wu Guang sneered, pointed to the man who was hanged in the township temple and said: "At present, Nanyang is in turmoil, and the officials themselves are difficult to protect, so they have the leisure to take care of these things." ”

"It won't be long before Marquis Wu Zhong will be able to conquer Nanyang, and at that time, the second son of the Ru family will also be able to return, so there will be no need to be afraid."

The old peasant thanked him for his kindness, but when he left, he muttered in a low voice:

"It doesn't matter who comes, it doesn't matter how much you rent."

"Just don't fight, my eldest and second child, it's good to come back safely!"

Looking at the figure of the old farmer leaving, Wu Guang sighed, turned his head, and waved his hand.

"Second and third sons, move all the grain that can be moved from the township warehouse, and if you can't finish moving, pile it up on the street and tell the people in the township that this is the grain they have been requisitioned by the government, and whoever wants it, they will take it themselves!"

The Art of War: Therefore, the wise general will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one hour, and be my twenty bells; Avoid one stone, when I have twenty stones.

This is Han Xin's strategy in Nanyang County, as long as it is the county and township that is laid, although they do not disturb the people in principle, and do not plunder grain from the common people, but in the warehouse of the government, not a grain of grain can be left, even if it is given to the people for nothing, no one dares to collect it, and it will have to be burned!

When Wu Guang returned to the camp with the grain, the two generals of the expeditionary force were looking at the tall Wancheng and sighing.

"My father told me."

Li Cang looked up at Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County, where the city gate was closed, and said: "Fifteen years ago, he served as a servant with the Marquis of Wuzhong and went to Huaiyang with dozens of prisoners, because Wang Ben was besieging it, and Uncle Dongmen, Uncle Ji, and Uncle Gong were all around. ”

"When everyone walked to Wancheng, they happened to hear the news that Wang Ben broke Huaiyang, and then there was an order, let the Nanjun soldiers go to Wei, listen to Wang Ben's dispatch, flood the Liang, and destroy the Wei State, and the Marquis of Wuzhong was in that Chen Fight to support the silver"

"Who would have thought that? Today, Wu Zhonghou, who is just a commander, was divided into two armies with the former general Wang Ben, and faced off against Jianghan, and we who were still ignorant children fifteen years ago also jumped thousands of miles, transferred to the four counties, and shook the Central Plains! ”

Han Xin, who was on the side, heard this and laughed: "This shows that Wang Ben is old!" ”

And they are in the year of fighting!

Han Xin is qualified to say this, he formulated the strategy of "first taking Luyang in the west and avoiding the edge of the Nanyang army", which was proved to be correct, Nanyang Wei was eager to exterminate the "rebels" in the rear, and he was stunned to kill Yingchuan, chasing another Han Xin to the east in a hurry, and ran to Zhaoling.

At the beginning of September, taking advantage of the moment when the Nanyang army beat the wrong person, Han Xin had already led 15,000 people to attack Luyang Pass, intercepted a large amount of grain, brought some of it, and burned most of it together with Guancheng.

Immediately quickly went south, entered the empty Nanyang County after the county soldiers went north to "quell the rebellion", traveled sixty miles a day, appeared in the suburbs of Wancheng, and hundreds of horsemen almost rushed into the city gate, which immediately caused a shock in Wancheng!

Feng Quji, the left prime minister in charge of supervising the army, was already anxious about the chaos of the two grain routes cut off in the rear, so Nanyang Shou and Wei must solve the enemy in Yingchuan, and there were only 5,000 Wancheng guards left.

Unexpectedly, the good news was sent back from there, but the enemy army seemed to fall from the sky, and suddenly the soldiers came to the city, which immediately frightened him, and immediately sent someone to report to Wang Ben.

If the army has no baggage, it will die, and once Wancheng is lost, the army will completely lose the rear. This also made Wang Ben almost break through the Hanshui defense line, but he had to withdraw his troops, and the success was successful

On the other hand, Han Xin and Licang also knew the importance of Wancheng, which was the distribution center of Wang Benjun's grain, a famous iron-smelting center, and a big city with a household registration of 20,000.

But because of this, wanting to capture this city with 15,000 people is tantamount to a fool's dream, after showing off his might under the city and destroying some roads and bridges outside the city, Han Xin and Li Cang pondered that it was almost time to run away

Li Cang bowed: "It's time to go, our scouts in the south have returned, and the scouts of Wang Benjun's army who have come to the north have increased several times recently, and Wang Ben is afraid that he will return to the division." ”

Not only Wang Ben, but also Nanyang Shou and Wei, who went to Yingchuan to suppress the Korean riot, are also hurriedly withdrawing, and it is expected that the advance of the northern and southern armies will arrive in Wancheng in three days, and they will be surrounded by then, and they will not be able to leave if they want to.

But after the various troops scattered near Wancheng to seize grain returned, everyone was ready to go, but to the shock of Licang, Han Xin issued a military order that made him unbelievable.

"Marching west!"

"Wait!"

Li Cang was shocked: "General Han, shouldn't we go east and go back to Runan?" ”

"That's right." Han Xin bowed his head: "Hitting the dancing yin, crossing the Fangcheng Xia Road, and then returning to Runan, is indeed the most convenient way." ”

"But Captain Lidu, have you ever thought that you can think of it, how can Wang Ben not think of it?"

"What does General Han mean?"

Han Xin said: "If my expectations are correct, Wang Ben will return to Nanyang, and he will definitely send someone to the east to intercept him, but we will go east, but we will fall into his hands!" ”

"So it's better to go the opposite way and go west!"

Li Cang couldn't bear to sweat: "Captain Han, to the west of Nanyang, is Wuguan Road, and the enemy army is heavily guarded. ”

"That's right."

Han Xin said with a smile: "We have messed up Yingchuan, burned Luyang, and cut off the two grain routes in Nanyang, but it is still not satisfactory, Feng Qujian will definitely ask Guanzhong to send more grain, so he will go to the west, take the soldiers from Guanzhong by surprise, and burn hundreds of thousands of stones!" ”

Interspersed behind enemy lines, bridge the enemy's nose, after a series of victories and miracles, Han Xin's self-confidence has reached its peak, those seemingly dangerous schemes, he is more and more daring to use, deep down, he regards the world's generals as nothing!

Lyoka was worried, because he knew how dangerous it was.

"Even if we are lucky enough to cut off the Wuguan Road, will it be difficult for us to have this little force, and we can still break through the Wuguan Pass and enter the Guanzhong?"

"We can go to Danyang Henan Xichuan), and then"

Han Xin had already thought of a way out, pointing to the west, as if he had seen his next prey:

"Into Hanzhong!"

PS: Chapter 2 at night.

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