It is possible to do bad things with good intentions, and it is possible to do good things without intentions, Zhou Zeng, the chief civil officer of the Han army, and Chao Zhi, the general of the Han army, who specially watched Xiang Kang's home, inadvertently sold a lot of favors to Uncle Zhou.

Uncle Zhou also learned when he returned to Xianyang that in order to alleviate the labor of the soldiers running back and forth, Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi did not transfer the 18,000 recruits they urgently recruited in Shangjun to Xianyang to assemble, but let these recruits gather in Gaonu, Diaoyin, Yangzhou and Fushi, and other places, armed on the spot, formed into an army, and waited for Uncle Zhou to lead the army to the north before joining them and integrating them into the main army.

It stands to reason that although Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi's decision did reduce the hard work of the recruits in Shangjun to go back and forth, it was not conducive to Uncle Zhou's rapid familiarization with the army and the formation of combat effectiveness for the army allocated to him by Xiang Kang as soon as possible. However, after learning of this situation, Uncle Zhou not only did not complain angrily, but on the contrary, he saluted and thanked Zhou Zeng and Chao with a happy face, and said quite excitedly: "Uncle Ya, Lieutenant Chao, I really didn't expect you to be so good to Zaixia, and even sent all the best recruits to Zaixia, Zaixia really doesn't know how to thank you." ”

"The best team of recruits? What do you mean? ”

Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi were confused together, and then listened to Uncle Zhou's explanation, Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi only then knew that since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Shangjun soldiers have always been the best elite soldiers in the Qin State, and the Qin army team formed by them are all elite troops in the Qin army without exception. Even more when they encountered Shangjun, the Qin army was as big as a fight, and they were cowardly before fighting. So when I heard that Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi had allocated all the recruits recruited in Shangjun to himself, Uncle Zhou was of course overjoyed and grateful to Zhou Zeng and Chao Zhi.

"Treat! You pay for dinner tonight! Also, after destroying Zhang Han, Dong Fei and Sima Xin, these puppets have seized treasures and gold, and they must be given a share to us! ”

Uncle Zhou's explanation has not been finished yet, Chao Zhi can't wait to shout, Zhou Zeng stroked his beard and said that he has not eaten too much for a long time, and hopes that Uncle Zhou can be informed and interesting, and not force his boss to give him small shoes to wear in the future. Uncle Zhou laughed and said, "Okay, the big banquet is too big a feast!" However, Zhou Xiangguo, there is still a very important question in the end, and I ask you to bother more. ”

"General Zhou, doesn't he want to talk about the problem of grain and grass?" Zhou Zeng guessed Uncle Zhou's request.

"Yes, it's grain and grass." Uncle Zhou nodded and said: "Yunzhong, Yanmen and Daijun are all sparsely populated, and it is difficult to collect grain and grass on the spot, so it can only be supplied from the rear, so on the issue of grain and grass transportation, the last general has to ask Xiangguo to bother a lot." ”

"No problem, this is also the duty of this officer." Zhou Zeng agreed, and said: "General rest assured, not long after the autumn harvest, our main force can supply grain and grass on the spot in Aocang, and the grain and grass reserves in Guanzhong are very sufficient, so you just have to fight at ease in the front, and this officer will definitely try his best to ensure your supply of grain and grass." ”

"Thank you Sangkook." Uncle Zhou hurriedly thanked him, and said: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and I also ask Xiangguo to organize people to start transporting grain and hoarding to Yunzhong County today, the more the better." ”

Zhou Zeng, who is good at internal affairs, agreed, and really began to organize the people to transport grain and grass to the north on the same day, and hoarded it in Yunzhong County according to Uncle Zhou's requirements, and Uncle Zhou seized the time to go to the new army camp to understand the various specific conditions of the Han army recruits, and by the way, he made his battle plan public, and decided to lead the Han army recruits directly north to Yunzhong County, and the Han army Wang Mausoleum who was previously stationed in Yunzhong County was a division, and then went east to Yanmen and Dai County, first killed Dong Peng and Zhang Han, and finally condescendingly, smashed Taiyuan from north to south, and annihilated Xiang Yu's sworn friend Sima Xin in one fell swoop!

The matter was not over, that night, when the Han army and the civil and military gathered together to enjoy the Taigao banquet that Uncle Zhou had paid for out of his own pocket, Uncle Zhou decided to send an envoy to Taiyuan County to contact Sima Xin and persuade Sima Xin to follow Shenyang's example and abandon Chu and return to Han, not to provide Zhang Han and Dong Peng with support in terms of grain, grass, money and grain, let alone directly send troops to help them.

Then needless to say, hearing this, of course, poor Mr. Uncle Sun was like earth on the horse, but fortunately, Uncle Zhou was not as black-hearted as Xiang Kang, as soon as there was such a dangerous task, he immediately forced Mr. Uncle Sun to go into battle, just decided to send an ordinary messenger to contact Sima Xin, Mr. Uncle Sun also turned his worries into joy, and changed his words to praise Uncle Zhou's strategy in the strategic, decisive victory thousands of miles away, worthy of Xiang Kang's most trusted Han army general and the like.

After some intensive preparations, four days later, Uncle Zhou finally led about 22,000 Han army recruits to set off, passing through Yunyang, which is just north of Xianyang, and went directly north to Diaoyin along the gallop road left by Qin Shi Huang.

Zhang Han, Dong Fei and Sima Xin's meticulous work is not blind, such a big move of the Han army, of course, there is absolutely no way to hide their meticulous eyes, so Uncle Zhou led the army to the north to the vicinity of Diaoyin, and Sima Xin, who is closest to Xianyang, has already received relevant information, and also knows the destination of the Han army's grain team, and Uncle Zhou's strategic plan is to first go north and then south, and kill Zhang Han and Dong Fei first before attacking himself.

Immediately afterwards, the envoys of the Han army who traveled in a light car also rushed to Jinyang, and politely handed over Uncle Zhou's handwritten letter to Sima Xin, asking Sima Xin to immediately stop all military support for Zhang Han and Dong Peng, and to follow Shen Yang's example and abandon Chu and return to Han. Needless to say, Sima Xin, who had a close relationship with the Western Chu Army, of course rejected Uncle Zhou's request, and while expelling the Han army envoys from the country, he sent people to contact Zhang Han and Dong Fei to tell them Uncle Zhou's actions and purposes, so that Zhang Han and Dong Fei could prepare for the response as soon as possible.

In addition, in order to facilitate the dispatch of troops to reinforce Zhang Han and Dong Peng, Sima Xin also gathered his main force to Jinyang early, so that he could send troops north at any time to protect his northern line barrier.

On Dong Fei's side, after Sima Xin sent the information to Dong Fei, who was currently stationed in Yanmen County, Dong Fei wanted to strike first, and rush to send troops to take Yunzhong County, and then rely on the Yellow River to deploy defenses, but Dong Fei only had 20,000 troops in his hands, and he had to rely on his allies Zhang Han and Sima Xin for food and grass supplies, so he was not sure to complete this operation alone. So in desperation, Dong Fei could only write a letter about his plan and send a fast horse to Dai County to contact Zhang Han, suggesting that Zhang Han join forces with him.

On Zhang Han's side, after receiving Sima Xin's urgent report, Zhang Han sent people north as soon as possible, contacted the current Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, and asked him to send troops to help him resist the attack of the Han army, but because Mao Dun is currently busy conquering the north of Qu Chai, Ding Ling and other countries, whether he can get reinforcements, Zhang Han is not very sure, can only actively prepare for war, and give priority to how to gather the strength of the three armies in the north of Jin and Jin to resist the Han army's upcoming attack.

Under such circumstances, after receiving Dong Peng's letter suggesting that he strike first, Zhang Han couldn't help laughing and said: "This Dong Fei really hasn't changed at all, he only knows how to strike first when he encounters trouble, why doesn't he want to think about it?" If we preemptively send troops to attack Yunzhong County, we will only play into the hands of Uncle Zhou's husband and give Uncle Zhou and us a chance to fight quickly. ”

"King, Uncle Zhou wants us to send troops to attack Yunzhong County first?" The general asked curiously.

"Of course." Zhang Han replied: "Yunzhong and Yanmen are sparsely populated, there is a shortage of grain and grass, and the supplies are all supplied from the rear, and there is a danger of running out of food in front of the slightest mistake, so Uncle Zhou's husband goes north this time, definitely hoping to fight with us quickly, if we want to strike first and send troops to attack Yunzhong County first, we will definitely fall into the arms of Uncle Zhou's husband." Therefore, in this battle, our best way is to adopt a sticking strategy, first drag Uncle Zhou and slowly find a way to attack his grain road, and then we can launch a counterattack and annihilate his thief army. ”

"Brother, what exactly should we do?" Zhang Ping hurriedly asked.

"Write back to Dong Peng, telling him that he must not act rashly." Zhang Han replied: "Hurry up, first set up a strong camp in Shanwu, and prepare for a long time." As for us, the main force will go west as soon as possible, reinforce Shanwu, bring more food and grass and military supplies, first help Dong Fei to defend Shanwu, and then try to counterattack. ”

Zhang Ping, Nei Shibao and others nodded yes, and Zhang Han hurriedly replied to Dong Peng, asking him to act according to his own arrangement, and then decided to personally lead the army to reinforce Shanwu, leaving Zhang Ping to lead the army to guard Dai County and protect his lair.

At the same time, Uncle Zhou also led the main force of the Han army's partial division to meet the Shangjun recruits from Gaonu and Yangzhou and other places, and continued to go north along the gallop road almost non-stop, and then arrived at the county of Shangjun, and after meeting with the last Shangjun recruits, Uncle Zhou let the 40,000 Han troops stop and rest. The slow-moving Han Army's grain brigade continued to go north to Yunzhong County according to Uncle Zhou's order, and did not stop in Fushi.

After resting for two days, the 40,000 new troops allocated by Xiang Kang to Uncle Zhou were finally reorganized and completely formed into a whole, and Uncle Zhou also convened the generals of the Han army this night to announce the next plan of action, but just when the generals of the Han army thought that Uncle Zhou was going to decide to continue to set off north the next day, Uncle Zhou suddenly said: "Order the whole army, prepare to go, early tomorrow morning, march to Wubaoting in Fushi County, cross the Yellow River there, and attack Lishi!" ”

There was a lot of uproar, and none of the Han army's civil and military forces did not scream in surprise, and asked one after another: "General, we heard it right, right?" Entering Wubao to cross the river and attack Lishi? Didn't you say before that you would march from Yunzhong County to Yanmen and Dai County, and then go south to attack Taiyuan County? ”

"If I don't let the news out, then wouldn't Sima Xinpifu send his main force to Lishi early to station and block us from crossing the big river (Yellow River)?" Uncle Zhou smiled and asked, and said: "If I don't let the news out, how can Zhang Han and Dong Peng, two puppets, obediently manage the deep ditch and high base in Yanmen County, waiting for us to fight them?" Missed the best opportunity to reinforce Sima Xin in advance? ”

Han Jun Wenwu continued to be dumbfounded, and then Worm Dacai said: "General, so you were ready to sneak attack Lishi from the beginning?" In that case, then why do you want our grain convoy to continue to go north, instead of leaving our grain and grass directly in the skin for use? ”

"Of course, it is to prevent Sima Xinpifu from arranging eyeliner in Fushi, guessing that we are going to attack him suddenly, so that his army will rush to Lishi to rescue him in the starry night, so we can only make our grain transportation team work harder."

Uncle Zhou smiled even more happily, and said: "But don't worry, I won't starve you, although there is not much food in Fushi City, it is enough for us to eat for a month." Also, after taking Lishi, there must be a lot of grain in Zishi, Wuxian and Jiexiu to the east of Lishi, even if we don't have a gallop to transport grain, we don't have to worry about running out of grain and grass. ”

After saying that, Uncle Zhou turned to Wu Gui, the county guard of Shangjun next to him, and said with a smile: "Wu County Shou, I won't embarrass you, take away how much grain you have, and when our grain transportation team comes back, I will ask them to return it to you." ”

"The general has said it, most of them are loyal to the king, you just moved all the grain in the treasury of Xiaguan County and did not return it, and Xiaguan will definitely not have half a complaint." Wu Gui, the old man of the young marshal's army, replied with a smile, and said: "Although Fu Shi is remote, there are still many fishing boats along the river, and if the general needs it, the lower official can send people to collect boats along the river overnight, and gather them in Wubao Pavilion for the general's use." ”

"Thank you so much for guarding Wu Jun." Uncle Zhou thanked him happily, and said: "Also, I have to trouble Wu Junshou to work hard, and we must prepare enough food and grass for fifteen days before tomorrow morning, so that we can take it away when we set off." ”

Wu Gui immediately sang a promise, in order to save time, and immediately said goodbye and went back to act according to the order, and Uncle Zhou also gave Yang Xi an order, asking Yang Xi to lead the cavalry to go first early the next morning, and rush to Wubaoting to protect the dock and the ships collected by the Fushi government for the army, as well as to be responsible for detecting the enemy situation on the other side of the Yellow River. He also specially instructed Yang Xi that if the enemy's reaction was too slow and he failed to send troops from Lishi to the ferry to fortify in time, the Han cavalry could boldly cross the Yellow River and seize the ferry on the opposite bank in advance, so as to reduce the difficulty of the Han infantry crossing the river.

The matter was not over, and after quickly arranging the specific matters of the attack on Wubao, Uncle Zhou personally wrote a book and sent an order to the Han army grain transport team and the Han army's Wang Ling Department, so that the Han army grain transport team would immediately withdraw to Fu Shi after seeing the order, and send the grain and grass to the Jinshi front line for use, but at the same time, a percent of the grain and grass were divided and continued to go north and transported to Linhu (now Dongsheng County) for use. In the order to Wang Ling, Zhou Shu asked Wang Ling to immediately lead the army from Yunzhong County to Linhu after discovering that the enemy had no enemy to divide his troops south, meet with the Han army's grain transportation team, and stay in Linhu for fifteen days before exercising the next tactical plan......

After everything was arranged, early the next morning, Uncle Zhou led 40,000 Han troops to suddenly march eastward, with cavalry as the vanguard and took the county road to Wubao on the bank of the Yellow River to kill, and then it was still in the evening of the same day, when the cavalry of the Han army arrived at the Wubaoting ferry first, a small number of defenders of Sima Xin's Taiyuan army on the opposite bank were stunned to find that the sudden arrival of the Han army had formed a fatal threat to them!

Cangtian sometimes likes to help evil and suppress good, the shameless sneak attack of the Han army's partial division is despicable enough, luck is still resolutely on the side of the Han cavalry, seeing the sudden arrival of the Han cavalry with a strength of up to 8,000, the number of Taiyuan Army wharf defenders of only 100 people did not even have the courage to resist a little, Baichang took the lead in escaping, and the soldiers dispersed in a hurry, only a very small number of people fled to Lishi overnight to warn. As soon as Yang Xi saw that there was an opportunity, he did not hesitate to use a small number of boats at the wharf on the west bank to start crossing the river, and seized the ferry wharf on the other side without much effort.

What's even more outrageous is still to come, although there are a few dock guards who fled back to the Taiyuan army Lin Ting camp not far to the west overnight to warn, but the Taiyuan army Lin Ting, who has a strength of more than 500 people, is afraid of encountering danger when the camp is out at night, Leng did not dare to send a soldier and a pawn to the ferry overnight to block the Han army from crossing the river, and then it was the next day when the sky was light, Lin Ting's Taiyuan army cautiously went out of the camp to the west, to the dock to check the situation, and then saw that most of the Han cavalry had crossed the Yellow River, Lin Ting's Taiyuan army also ran away immediately, and the cavalry of the Han army decisively dispatched an army to pursue, and easily killed the Lin Ting Taiyuan army like chopping melons and vegetables, and also seized the camp of the Lin Ting Taiyuan army.

In the end, after another day, the main force of the Taiyuan army and county soldiers from Lishi hurried to the vicinity of Lin Ting to check the situation, but by this time, the Han cavalry had not only already crossed the Yellow River, but the main infantry of the Han army had also arrived on the west bank of the Yellow River, and also grabbed a number of pontoon bridges on the Yellow River. Then there was no need for the Han infantry to shoot, just relying on the Han cavalry to launch a charge, he brandished a saber and directly killed the Lishi County soldiers, and the Lishi County Cheng who commanded the Lishi County soldiers was extremely resolute, and the Han cavalry just killed in front of him, he immediately dismounted and surrendered, and he didn't even have the courage to flee back to Lishi to continue to defend the city.

Then, Lishi County, who surrendered in battle, also helped the Han army persuade Lishi to surrender directly, so that the Han soldiers could easily take Lishi County without a single soldier. And when Uncle Zhou curiously asked why Lishi's county commander surrendered so resolutely, Lishi's county commander replied confidently: "Because Sima Xin is not worthy of being the king of Taiyuan!" After this puppet arrived in Taiyuan County, he either raised taxes today or increased taxes tomorrow, and slaughtered us Taiyuan people as fish and meat at will, and we didn't want to be his people for a long time. ”

Uncle Zhou smiled and said secretly: "Sima Xin is also forced to do this, he not only has to prepare for war, ready to help Xiang Yu's puppet attack us at any time, but also has to supply Zhang Han and Dong Fei, the two puppeteers, to fight north, of course, the money, food and military needs can only be exploited from his people." But it's okay, the more unpopular Sima Xinpifu is in Taiyuan County, the more beneficial it will be to me. ”