"Junhou, the first year of the Northern Expedition is appropriate!"

"Otherwise, the first year of Jingnan is appropriate!"

"Why don't you call it the first year of Wuzhong?"

With the suggestions made by such people, none of them are reliable, and Heifu was furious, and said:

"Why isn't it called the first year of Heifu? Stand down! ”

After repulsing the staff, Heifu was so angry that he couldn't do it.

Although he knew that his wife and children had arrived in Jiangling, Heifu still couldn't help but not go back to take a look, although the battle was over, although he successfully repelled Wang Ben, but the strength of the north is especially strong, whether it is the strength of the army or the country, it is still stronger than the south, and who knows what Wang Ben will do next, will there be a winter offensive and kill a horse pistol?

Therefore, Heifu still stayed in Jianghan, and let the communist lieutenant go north to occupy Fancheng and Dengxian as outposts, and in the east, he advanced the battle line to the line of Tangbaihe and Tongbaishan, and the two sides changed their offense and defense, and entered a confrontation again.

It is now the last day of September, and tomorrow is the first day of October, the Qin New Year.

Just like Zhu Di did not recognize the Jianwen era name and made a "Hongwu thirty-five years", Heifu, who set up a separate central government, naturally did not recognize Xianyang's "second first year".

Thinking about it, anyway, he was fighting the red flag against the red flag, and simply continued the name of the first emperor.

"Thirty-eight years of Qin Shi Huang!"

Heifu smiled and looked up.

"Keep using this name, Your Majesty, as if you were still there."

Is his soul still above the nine heavens, watching all this happening on the earth? Looking at these farces, watching the city head change the king's flag, looking at the children and grandchildren, and the world has no loyal ministers, is it a solemn face, or will you smile contemptuously.

I guess it's the latter.

Suddenly, Heifu was a little upset.

He hurriedly signed a few more documents, let the lord take it down, and send it to the counties under the control of the Northern Expeditionary Army, as the New Year's name, and at the same time urged all localities to conscientiously implement the "rent reduction" requested by Marshal Heifu, even if it is difficult, it is impossible to overcharge the people for a single percent of the rent!

On the other hand, he is also always paying attention to Wang Benjun's movements, and the scouts are risking their lives to go deep into Nanyang, and there is new news every day.

Today, Heifu learned something that surprised him from the cavalry Sima Lao Wu.

"The main force of Wang Ben's army of 100,000 retreated to the front line of Xinye, and he assigned a partial division of 40,000 or 50,000 people, and moved westward to the area of Yuxian County?"

Sui County is the later generation of Henan Deng County, the famous Hou Fan Ju fiefdom, and then to the west, can go to Danyang (Xichuan, Henan), where the north passes Wuguan, and the south connects Hanzhong......

Heifu immediately became alert: "Could it be that Wang Ben has already detected my attempt to send Dongmen Leopard through Shangyong and enter Hanzhong?" ”

Shangyong, that is, the later generations of Hubei Shiyan area, in the Spring and Autumn Period, for the elk, Yong two countries, the latter two countries for Chu to destroy, put "Hanzhong County", but to Chu Huai Wang, because of the anger was deceived by Zhang Yi, Chu to Qin war, but was defeated, Danyang, Shangyong also lost, although later recaptured more of the two places, but to the 19th year of King Xiang, and cut Shangyong, Hanbei and Qin.

Since then, the hard days of the Chu State have come, the land of the mediocrity, the west reaches Nanzheng, the east goes to Yan and Yan, the northeast is connected with Wan, the suburbs of Deng, and the south is covered by Ba and Xia, which is the western barrier of Jianghan. In the next year, Qin pulled out the Xiling, and after another eleven years, the Qin soldiers had entered Ying.

In fact, the reverse is also the same, if Heifu can seize Shangyong, the north can take Danyang to threaten Wuguan, and the west can take Hanzhong, now that Bashu has been returned to the Northern Expeditionary Army, Heifu sent 10,000 people into Ba, hoping to eliminate Feng Zheng who was trapped in Jiangzhou as soon as possible, and then the Shu soldiers took the Golden Bull Road, Zhao Tuo and Wu Chen took the Micang Road, and the Dongmen Leopard joined Hanzhong, which could directly threaten the Guanzhong area.

At that time, even if it is impossible to cross the Qinling Mountains and attack Guanzhong, in the face of Xianyang's three policemen in one day, Hu Hai and Zhao Gao will be afraid, Wang Ben and Feng Qujian must divide their troops and return to Guanzhong, and the situation on Nanyang's side may be opened.

But now, Wang Ben seems to have seen through Heifu's plan, and when he retreated to Xinye, he divided his troops to Hanzhong, which made Heifu a little headache.

The battle is still difficult to fight, after all, the opponent is Wang Ben.

Hefu immediately sent 10,000 men to the west, and sent messengers to remind Dongmen Leopard to be careful, and when it was night, when he was too sleepy to deal with military and political affairs, he suddenly remembered something, and woke up in shock, and immediately put on his clothes and went out of the tent, and called his staff.

"Han Shin, where is it now!?"

……

Han Xin has arrived in Danyang.

Danyang, is an area between Danshui and Xishui, located in the Yang of Danshui, it is said that here was the birthplace of Chu State, the ancestor of Chu State Xiong lived in Danyang, less than a hundred miles of land, and thorns everywhere, to the time of King Wu of Chu before migrating to Yandi.

Although the history is prominent, but Danyang has long been abandoned by the Chu people, and then taken by Qin, now it is just a small township, when the Northern Expeditionary Army marched west from Wancheng to this time, the distance is full of grass and mountains and forests, poor and backward.

But there are also some local specialties, such as can be used as a bow peach arc thorn arrow, Li Cang let people cut a lot, although they captured a large number of armor soldiers in Kunyang, Luyang, but the consumption is also huge, along the way several battles, some of the material officials have pulled the bow down.

In addition, there is also the "bud grass" used to filter the wine, and the rice wine has a lot of impurities, and it is difficult to enter without filtering.

At this moment, Han Xin was sitting cross-legged on the bank of the Danshui, drinking local rice wine filtered with bud grass, while watching the soldiers cut down the rafts and prepare to cross the river.

Han Xin's sentiment is very good, from the beginning of August out of Runan, to the end of September, the rest of the month, they have trekked more than a thousand miles, transferred to several counties, fought several tough battles, and cut off the three grain routes behind the Nanyang Wang Benjun one by one in one go, especially a few days ago, Han Xin's plan was like a stroke of genius, not to the east, but to the west, and hit the enemy army who transported grain from Guanzhong to Wancheng by surprise, destroying hundreds of grain wagons, and burning at least 100,000 stones of grain!

Now, Wuguandao is still smoking.

Li Cang no longer doubted Han Xin's strategy, and said with a smile: "Now, Wang Benjun, I'm afraid I will have to eat gruel for a month." ”

And now, the long expedition seems to have seen the end of sight.

"After the Danshui, it is the north of Han, the soldiers of Hanzhong, or support the southern county, or go to Bashu, very empty, as long as we break the Yunguan (Yunxian County, Hubei), we can cross the Hanshui in the south, and ...... to the mediocre land."

When Heifu sent Han Xin to the north, it was just to save the emergency, and he didn't think so far, but Han Xin was sensitive to the value of Shangyong and Hanbei.

He thought that after Wang Ben's army failed to attack Xiangyang, he would retreat to Nanyang, and while waiting for food in the rear, he would remain on the defensive, and he would not go south again throughout the winter.

It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to capture Nanyang by strong attack, or even annihilate the more than 100,000 troops under Wang Ben.

Therefore, Hanzhong County will become the focus of the two sides, and once the Northern Expeditionary Army controls Hanzhong, it will be able to take the Meridian Road, the Baochuan Road, and the Chencang Road to attack and harass Guanzhong......

So, while leading the army westward, Han Xin also asked Wu Guang and others, disguised as Qianshou who was fleeing the war, to try to go to Jianghan, get in touch with the Marquis of Wuzhong, and report this idea to him, hoping that Heifu could send troops to Hanzhong to respond.

However, at the moment, everything seems to be going well, Wang Benying has not yet realized that Han Xin has come west, and sent troops to Fangcheng Xia Dao to stop it.

Pride grew in the heart of this young but already distinguished general, which made him say such things to Licura.

"I thought that Wang Ben was not worthy of his name."

Li Cangzheng commanded everyone to cross the water, and said with a smile when he heard this: "Marquis Wu Zhong has great respect for Wang Ben, and often says in private that he doesn't want to be an enemy with him, General Han Bi, do you sneer at him?" ”

"I'm telling the truth." Han Xindao:

"Wang Ben, as a lieutenant, commanded the soldiers of the world, combined the strength of the country, and attacked Xiangyang in the south with twice as many people, but did not see the results. And he started a war, regardless of the front, by our 20,000 people, the entire Central Plains was pierced, cut off the grain road, Wancheng was in danger, he could only hurry back to the division, he must have wanted to catch me to vent his anger, but he pounced. ”

Thinking of his proud work, Han Xin laughed: "So, I don't know if Wang Ben is old and useless, or if the battle he fought before, the country he destroyed was all a tailwind battle to take advantage of the country's strength, in short, the name of the world's number one general ......"

Han Xin shook his head and easily denied the life of Tongwu Hou.

"He doesn't deserve it!"

Han Xin's eyes are high-minded, the arrogance of the domineering people, and the tone of despising the generals in the world make it difficult for people to have a good impression, and even Li Cang, who has gradually become accustomed to his character, frowned.

"Didn't you just win a few battles, what are you proud of!"

But Lycang still said:

"That's nature, the number one general in the world is Marquis Wu Zhong!"

Han Xin smiled, but was noncommittal.

He dared to say it openly, but secretly said in his heart: "What Marquis Wu Zhonghou is best at is planning and building momentum, and it is the art of military power and strategy, I admit this." ”

"But if you really want to talk about the battle, whether it is the battle of Wuchang or the battle of Anlu, it is outnumbered, and it is a mediocre person, if you meet a good general, I am afraid it has been defeated. And in the battle of Jiangling, the number of people was equal, and the prince and marquis were defeated by Feng Wuxuan, if I hadn't rushed to Jiangling in time, the consequences would be unimaginable! ”

"In short, Marquis Wu Zhong just chose more strategies and used the right person, that's it, he and Wang Ben, um...... It's kind of a step in hand. ”

In Han Xinxin, there is a person in the world who, after so many vicious battles, has surpassed the king and the lieutenant in the way of using soldiers.

His eyes were filled with pride and confidence.

"Me."

"Han Xin!"

But before Han Xin's pride lasted too long, and before the army crossed the Danshui, the scouts he sent out to a distant place hurried to report the news.

"General Han Pi, there is an army of thirty or forty thousand people, appearing in the lower reaches of Danshui!"

"On the south bank of Danshui, there is also a group of more than 10,000 people who are killing us across the river!"

……

A few days later, in Wancheng, Nanyang, Wang Ben had stabilized the new field front and returned to Wancheng.

The white on the old general's beard seems to be more than a few months ago, and I don't know if it is the winter frost in the early morning, or the white hair that has proliferated due to the unfavorable situation of the war and the division and collapse of the world?

The bad news is one after another: almost the entire Kwantung region has been in turmoil, and the Qi region is also in chaos, the restored Chu State has controlled the entire Jiangbei Chu region, Xiang Ji is storming Dangjun, Shangqiu is in danger, and some people who have recovered Korea have infiltrated Yingchuan and have controlled several counties......

The west was even worse: Shu County was treasonous, Feng Zao was besieged in Jiangzhou County, and Jinniu Road was attacked.

And Feng Quji also told Wang Ben worriedly that after learning the news of rebellions, losses, and withdrawals in various places, the second emperor was surprisingly angry and had issued several edicts to question Wang Ben: Why did the rebellion get bigger and bigger?

Wang Ben was so tired that he really wanted to fall down and never wake up......

But he is the last pillar of Great Qin, if he falls, this edifice that was built with great difficulty will also collapse.

Wang Ben could only kneel on the ground like a cow, his knees on the ground, and use his old shoulders to prop up this precarious palace.

Fortunately, the first year of the second year had only passed since the New Year, and he finally received good news.

"Tongwu Hou!"

Changshi Gantang came in happily: "Congratulations to the Marquis of Tongwu!" ”

Wang Ben opened his eyes from a short rest, and he naturally knew what Gan Tang was talking about.

"Then Han Xin, did he really go to the west, go to Danyang, and want to enter Hanzhong?"

Gan Tang said admiringly: "As expected by the Marquis of Tongwu, it is not bad at all!" ”

"Han Xin thought he had a plan, and after burning the grain straw of Wuguan Road, he was leading the army to swim across the Danshui, but he was caught up by General Sima, and after a big battle, the rebels were almost wiped out!"

He said excitedly: "Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers died in the river, Danshui, now it has really become 'Dan' water!" ”

Although 50,000 people fought 15,000, and they also picked up half of the ferry and cheapened, winning is certain, but the imperial court has indeed not won such an exciting battle for a long time!

But Wang Ben didn't care about how many enemy troops he had annihilated, he only cared about one thing.

Or rather, a person, a person who completely disrupted his plans and made his offensive fall short!

Wang Ben stood up and asked with concern:

"Han Xin, are you dead?"