If it weren't for the problem of grain and grass, Liu Laosan would definitely be able to take his Peixian friends to attack directly to the city of Hangu Pass, but because there was not much food and grass with the army in light travel, and he was not sure that he would be able to take Hangu Pass in a battle, and when he rushed to the city of Shaanxi County (Sanmenxia), which was more than 30 miles away from Hangu Pass, Liu Laosan and his friends could only stop and start to arrange siege tactics, preparing to take Shaanxi County first, temporarily solve the supply problem of grain and grass, and then attack Hangu Pass.

Fortunately, during the preparation for the siege of the city, Liu Laosan's scouts quickly confirmed that no army had rushed to reinforce Shaanxi County in the past few days, and there were still only more than 1,000 county soldiers guarding Shaanxi County. Since the Tyrannical Qin court did not send reinforcements to Shaanxi County, there must be no reinforcements on the side of Hangu Pass, otherwise, the Tyrannical Qin army has sufficient troops, and it must be divided to strengthen the defenders of Shaanxi County and build a peripheral barrier for Hangu Pass. ”

"Pei Gong, it's better to hurry." Zhou Bo said: "It is very likely that the Hangu Pass side has already known that we are coming, and they must have sent someone to ask for help from the Tyrant Qin court, if we don't hurry up and give the Tyranny Qin army time to reinforce Hanguguan, we may have to give up our efforts this time." ”

"I want to do it too!" Liu Laosan stomped his feet and said, "But the siege weapon hasn't been made yet, how do you tell me to fight?" ”

"Today's wind is very strong and the wind direction is stable, it has been southeasterly." Zhou Bo suggested: "We can rush to build siege weapons overnight, and at the same time arrange for two thousand soldiers to chop a bundle of firewood each, pile it up outside the south gate and east gate of Shaanxi County after dark, and set fire to the city gate. ”

"Good idea." Liu Laosan was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "But two thousand soldiers are not enough, three thousand, mobilize three thousand troops, and each of them chop a bundle of firewood to prepare to burn the city." ”

Zhou Bo agreed with a smile, and immediately organized 3,000 soldiers to go out under Liu Laosan's order to rush to the mountains and forests south of Shaanxi County to cut firewood, Cao Shen personally urged the army to rush to make siege weapons, Xiao He led a group of people to make food and dry food, responsible for logistics affairs, Zhou Chang and Xiahou Ying were responsible for leading the army to monitor the movements of the Qin army in Shaanxi County and protect the temporary security of Liu Laosan's army, and Fan Hao took more than 1,000 elite soldiers to sleep, ready to take on the important task of taking the lead when the siege was officially launched, and a group of small partners in Zipei County performed their duties, Methodically prepare for the siege battle.

When the sky was slightly dark, the soldiers of Liu who went up the mountain to chop firewood successfully completed the task and returned to the camp, and after a full dinner, at the second watch, it was still this army that went out, carrying the bundles of firewood they had cut down and lined up outside the southeast two gates of Shaanxi County, and then took turns to step forward under the cover of crossbowmen, throwing bundles of firewood one after another to the city gate and piling them up. During the period, although the Qin army guards in Shaanxi County also released arrows to block, the light was too poor, and the effect of bows and arrows was very small, which completely blocked the soldiers of Liu who were like worker ants from carrying firewood.

After a large number of bundles of firewood were piled up outside the east and west gates of Shaanxi, dozens of soldiers immediately stepped forward and threw torches at the firewood, and at the same time, Liu Jun's archers also fired arrows in unison, shooting countless rockets at the firewood, and the defenders of the city hurriedly poured underwater stones, desperately preventing Liu Junjun's arson, and there were shouts on and off the city.

There was too much firewood that the soldiers of the Qin army moved, no matter how the soldiers of the Qin army poured water to put out the fire, the fire was still lit outside the two gates in the southeast of Shaanxi County, and the flames were burning more and more, and the flames were soaring to the sky, and the soldiers of the Qin army could not stop it at all, so they could only quickly carry the earth, stone and sandbags to block the road of the city gate, so as not to be unable to guard the city gate after it was burned.

The howling night wind really helped Liu Laosan a lot, the wind borrowed the fire, and constantly blew the smoke on the head of Shaanxi County, and smoked the defenders in the city to cough, their eyes were red and swollen and tearful, and they were scorched by the raging fire until their skin was oily, their hair was curly, and they were miserable from top to bottom, but they were afraid that Liu Laosan's army would take the opportunity to attack the city, so they could only continue to insist on the city, and everyone worked hard inexplicably. Zhou Bo seized the opportunity and urged Sergeant Liu to start filling the moat river at the south gate of Shaanxi County, opening the way for the siege of the city the next day.

The flames raged until the sky was slightly dark, and at the same time, Liu Laosan's army also rushed to create a large number of siege equipment, which did not give the defenders of Shaanxi County any respite time, and immediately launched an attack on the two gates in the southeast of Shaanxi, which were burned black, and directly launched an ant-attached attack.

Finally, it was Liu Laosan's turn to show his skills Fan Xu, carrying the dog slaughtering knife deceived from Xiang Kang, Fan Xu, who was covered with black meat, was the first to step on the ladder and charge upward, but unfortunately Fan Xu was unlucky this time, the flying ladder under his feet was taken care of by the Qin army, and was directly knocked over by the Qin soldier with a collision wood, and he fell backwards with Fan Xu, and the Liu soldier was also immediately in an uproar, and his morale was immediately affected. Liu Laosan, who was in the distance, was not worried, and scolded: "Useless dog things, as stupid as dogs!" ”

Perhaps hearing Liu Laosan's insults, Fan Hao quickly got up from the ground, rushed back to the city and grabbed a soldier Liu who was about to step on the ladder to enter the city, biting the knife and using his hands and feet, and quickly climbed to the city again, and also successfully rushed to the top of the city wall, dodging the spear that the Qin soldier hurriedly stabbed and jumped onto the city, and also cut down a Qin soldier who was caught off guard, and once again rushed to the enemy's city head position first.

In this era, if only in terms of personal force, of course, Xiang Yu is the number one in the world, and when it comes to who is the second in the world, the dog nemesis Fan Hao is definitely one of the most powerful contenders! So after Fan Xu gained a firm foothold in Shaanxi County, the Qin soldiers and soldiers beside him immediately fell into bad luck, and when his dog butcher knife waved, the Qin soldiers either flew directly into the air with their heads, or their arms were directly cut off, so frightened that the remaining Qin soldiers screamed and retreated, but Fan Xu's dog slaughtering knife was more and more tiger and tiger, even chopping and chopping, slaughtering Qin soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, and quickly opened up a large area of position space in the city.

Don't say it's an exaggeration, it's the dog nemesis that is really so fierce, in history he has countless records of attacking the city, when he hit Liu Laosan, he personally killed a total of 176 enemies and captured 288 people.

Under his cover, the warriors of Liu Jun, who had been recuperating before, landed in the city one after another, quickly opening up a larger space for the position, covering more Liu Jun warriors to rush to the city wall of Shaanxi County. And when more than 200 Liu Jun warriors successfully rushed to the head of Shaanxi County, the defenders of Shaanxi County basically had no hope of counterattacking and regaining their positions, and could only watch Liu Jun warriors rush to the city wall one after another, gradually seizing the entire South Gate City position.

The fierce battle was more than halfway through, the city head position of the south gate of Shaanxi County had been basically occupied by Liu Jun, Liu Laosan also calmly put into the rear army, helping Fan Hao to attack the city of Shaanxi, the defenders of Shaanxi County were forced to retreat into the street battle in the city, and began to surrender voluntarily, and then at the middle of noon, Liu Jun's soldiers had just removed the earth, stone and sandbags used by the Qin army to block the city gate, and the main force of Liu's army immediately entered the city, and the remaining Qin troops in Shaanxi County were either forced to lay down their arms and surrender, or open the west gate and the north gate to escape, The soldiers of Liu's army were like a bamboo, and before the time passed, they successfully took the city of Shaanxi, seized the grain, grass and military supplies hoarded in the city, and temporarily solved the problem of food shortage in Liu Laosan's army.

After successfully taking the city, the besieging army quickly withdrew outside the city to rest and count the casualties, Liu Laosan also hurriedly ordered someone to bring wine and meat, and rewarded the soldiers of Liu Jun who had made meritorious contributions to the siege, but just when the soldiers of Liu Jun were cheering, a fast horse suddenly rushed to Liu Laosan, and hugged his fist to Liu Laosan and said: "Qi Peigong, twenty miles to the east, I found that a violent Qin army was rushing towards Shaanxi County. ”

"There's a Tyrannical Qin army coming from the east?" Liu Laosan was taken aback, and immediately began to worry that his army was tired from attacking the city and its combat effectiveness would be affected, so he hurriedly asked, "How many troops are there?" Who is the leading general? ”

"Back to Peigong, there are about four or five thousand people, but I don't know who their commander is." The scout replied, and hurriedly added: "The small ones failed to find out the commanders of the Tyrannical Qin army, because the banners of the Tyrannical Qin army were uneven, there was no main general flag, and there were only two left, and there were only two of them left in the thousand-person banner, and the queue was chaotic, and it was difficult to count their specific strength, like the Tyrannical Qin army that had escaped from defeat, so the small ones could not judge the commanders of the Tyrannical Qin army, and they could only approximate the strength of the Tyrannical Qin army." ”

"Flags are not in order? Queue chaos? Like you escaped from defeat? Liu Laosan began to be pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Then what is the situation of their weapons and equipment?" ”

"It was very chaotic, and many people seemed to have no decent weapons anymore, so they could only defend themselves with wooden sticks, and their marching speed was still very slow, as if they were generally lacking in physical strength." Again, the scout answered truthfully.

"Haha!" Liu Laosan applauded and laughed, and laughed wildly: "Good luck, if the remnants of this violent Qin army are defeated and come over earlier, Lao Tzu may not be able to take action against them." Now that Shaanxi County has been taken, Lao Tzu doesn't need to be polite. ”

"Pei Gong, what now?" Zhou Bo hurriedly asked.

"The fat that came to the door on the initiative still needs to be polite?" Liu Laosan asked rhetorically, and said in a big way: "Your army is almost rested, take your army, and I will ask Fan Hao to give you a hand, and go over to clean them up." Capture as many prisoners as possible, maybe it will be useful when we call Hanguguan, and it will also be convenient for us to inquire about the situation in the east. ”

Zhou Bo agreed, and quickly ordered his troops to assemble, and Liu Laosan asked Fan Hao to take the elite troops and Zhou Bo who had withdrawn, and took the initiative to march east to meet the defeated Qin army at the end of the road, and then he no longer worried about the situation in the west, and concentrated on dealing with the aftermath of the battlefield in Shaanxi County.

When the sun was about to set, Zhou Bo and Fan Xu really returned to Shaanxi County with more than 2,000 Qin army prisoners, and Liu Laosan didn't bother to greet them, but sent someone to order them to settle the appendix as soon as possible, and then hurried over to drink with him. Unexpectedly, as soon as the herald was dispatched, Fan Xu personally carried a prisoner of the Qin army with a lot of flowers and tied up in front of Liu Laosan, and shouted happily from a distance: "Pei Gong, guess who we caught this time?" ”

"Who did you catch?" Liu Laosan asked casually.

Fan Xu smiled and didn't answer, but just slipped the captive in front of Liu Laosan, kicked him to his knees, and shouted: "Tell Pei Gong yourself, who are you?" ”

The captive was very stubborn, and after being kicked by Fan Xu, he knelt down, and immediately gritted his teeth and stood up straight again, his bloodstained face was full of anger, and he said loudly: "Shi can be killed!" Don't be disgraced! If you have the ability, kill me Wang Li now, and ask me to surrender to you thieves, dreaming! ”

"Quite backbone." Liu Laosan laughed casually, but before he finished speaking, Liu Laosan's eyes suddenly widened, and he pointed at the captive and shouted, "Wang Li? You say your name is Wang Li?! You are Wang Li, the commander of the Tyrannical Qin army?! ”

"It's me." Wang Li replied coldly: "But I advise you, it's best to kill me now, you want to expect me to surrender to you, you are a pipe dream!" ”

Liu Laosan laughed wildly, and shouted proudly: "God treats me Liu Ji really well, he will actually send the Marquis of Wucheng of the Tyrannical Qin Dynasty to the door for me to be captured alive, the gods of heaven have helped me to this point, it seems that it is difficult for me not to take Hangu Pass this time!" ”

After laughing wildly, Liu Laosan waved his hand decisively and ordered loudly: "Take this Wang Li down, put it in the prisoner car and close it, you must not let him run away or die, he has a great effect when he fights Hangu Pass." ”

Liu Laosan rubbed his hands excitedly, and hurriedly asked about Fan Xu's capture of Wang Li, Fan Xu painted a voice, saying that he and Zhou Bo went to clean up the defeated Qin army that fled from the east, and it was effortless to kill the defeated Qin army that had been exhausted to the extreme, and he found out in time that Wang Li was protected by the Qin army's defeated army, so he quickly led people to launch a surprise attack and successfully caught Wang Li with his own hands before he fled. Liu Laosan was even more overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly filled a glass of wine for Fan Xu, brought it to Fan Xu's front and said loudly: "Good brother, you really worked hard today, and you were the first to rush to the city wall of Shaanxi County, and you personally helped me catch Wang Li, the chief general of the Tyrannical Qin army, brother, I don't know how to thank you." Come, brother, I'll toast you! ”

Fan Xu was not polite, took the wine glass and drank it all, Liu Laosan was very excited, and was about to continue to ask about the specific situation of the battlefield in the east, but unexpectedly, another scout rushed to Liu Laosan, hugged his fists and said: "Pei Gong, a team of Qi cavalry caught up with us, saying that it brought the order of the former general, and I want to see you immediately." ”

I didn't expect Xiang Yu to send someone to get in touch with him so quickly, Liu Laosan couldn't help frowning, but he still ordered to meet the cavalry of Qi who came to give orders, and then after a while, the envoy sent by Tian An from Michi was led to Liu Laosan, and after a symbolic salute, the envoy of the Qi army also said directly: "Pei Gong, our General Tian of Qi sent me to tell you that General Xiang Yuxiang, the chief general of the coalition forces of the six countries outside our Guan, has issued a clear order that no one is allowed to lead the army to attack Hangu Pass without authorization." We, General Tian, hope that you can act according to the order, immediately stop the westward advance, and be stationed on the spot, and don't take a step further west, otherwise, General Xiang will ask you to come down, and I am afraid that you will not be able to afford it. ”

Liu Laosan was expressionless, and only after a while did he ask, "Where are the former generals of our Chu State now?" When will I be able to get to Hanyaguan? ”

"Take the main force of the Six Kingdoms to sweep the remnants of the Tyrannical Qin army in Sanchuan County." The envoy of the Qi army replied casually: "Only after taking Luoyang, Xingyang and Aocang will the former general enter Hangu Pass in the west." ”

Liu Laosan blinked, and suddenly stretched out his hand to the envoy of the Qi army, and said, "Where is General Xiang's warrant token?" Show it to me. ”

"General Xiang's warrant token? What warrant token? The envoy of the Qi army was asked by Liu Laosan.

"Of course, it's a warrant ordering me to stop my westward advance, or a token that proves that you are General Xiang's messenger." Liu Laosan said confidently: "You are not the messenger of our Chu State, and you don't have the handwritten warrant of the former general, how dare you tell me to believe that the password you conveyed is what General Xiang meant?" ”

The envoy of Qi was speechless, and only after a while did he say: "I don't have a warrant token from General Xiang, but I can guarantee that General Xiang does have this order." ”

"You forgive your sins." Liu Laosan sneered and said: "The stakes are very high, there is no warrant, there is no token, there is no basis for words, I dare not believe the order of General Xiang conveyed by you." ”

"Pei Gong, you have to think about it carefully." The envoy of Qi threatened: "Our Qi army has brought the word, if you insist on not listening, General Xiang will be held accountable in the future, but no one will take responsibility for you." ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Liu Laosan was expressionless, and said in a stiff tone: "But without General Xiang's warrant token, I can't believe your verbal communication, go back, please thank General Tian An for me, and ask him to send someone to send General Xiang's warrant token as soon as possible, so that I can follow the order." ”

Seeing that Liu Laosan was cheating, he didn't believe his words if he didn't see Xiang Yu's password token, and the envoy of Qi had no choice but to throw down two cruel words and leave. Liu Laosan was silent, just saw him walking away, and immediately ordered the soldiers next to him: "Go, immediately send an order to the whole army, rest for the night, and set off immediately at dawn tomorrow to open to Hangu Pass!" ”

"Pei Gong, have you thought it through? If Xiang Yu's puppet really gave this order, and we insisted on going to Hanguguan, it would be a big crime to resist the military order. ”

Fan Hao was not only brave, but also very cautious and subtle, and hurriedly opened his mouth to warn Liu Laosan. Liu Laosan's face was still silent, and he replied with his fingers: "Regardless of whether he has this order or not, as long as we don't see his warrant token, we can bite this point and gag his mouth in the future, so that he can't cure us for the great crime of disobeying the military order." Shaanxi County is only more than thirty miles away from Hangu Pass, only the last step away, for the throne of Guanzhong, we have to gamble no matter what! ”

Seeing that Liu Laosan's determination had been decided, Fan Xu didn't say much, and Liu Laosan's personal soldiers also quickly ordered the whole army, so that Liu Jun's soldiers were ready to send troops to the west in the early morning of the next day, and then in the early morning of the next day, Liu Laosan only left Zhou Chang to lead more than 1,000 soldiers to guard Shaanxi County, and immediately took his main force to stride westward and hurried to Hanguguan to attack the city.

The matter was not over, at noon, when the front team of Liu Jun arrived at Caoyang Pavilion, which was less than ten miles away from Hangu Pass, a Liu Jun herald who came from behind suddenly caught up with Liu Laosan's Chinese army and hugged his fist to Liu Laosan, who was leading the army, and said: "Pei Gong, General Zhou Chang ordered the villain to report that just now the former general of our Chu State sent a messenger to contact us and brought his handwritten warrant to stop us immediately!" I'll see you right away! ”

"Fuck me!" Liu Laosan almost didn't go crazy, and roared and scolded: "Xiang Yu'er, shameless dog thief!" In order to become the king of Guanzhong, no one was allowed to attack Hangu Pass before him! Lao Tzu is already shameless, how can this puppet be even more shameless than Lao Tzu? ”

"Pei Gong, what should we do now?" Xiao He, Fan Xu, Cao Shen and others next to him all asked nervously.

Liu Laosan, who is as good at making decisions as Xiang Kang, also hesitated this time, on the one hand, the temptation of the first to enter the customs as the king, and on the other hand, the felony of disobeying Xiang Yu's military order, heaven and hell, there is only one step away, Liu Laosan really doesn't know how to choose this time......

A hooligan is a hooligan after all, his hands and fists clenched his joints white, and after clenching his teeth and thinking for a moment, Liu Laosan suddenly asked the herald sent by Zhou Chang, "Where is Xiang Yu'er's envoy now?" ”

"On the way here." The herald replied: "Originally, General Zhou Chang deliberately wanted to invite the envoy of the former general to dinner in order to buy you time, but he refused to agree, and wanted to come over to chase you immediately. ”

"Well done." Liu Laosan nodded with satisfaction, pulled Xiahou Ying in front of him again, and quickly ordered with red eyes: "Bring some reliable people, pretend to be the messenger of Xiang Yu'er for me, kill him and his entourage on the way, and don't let any of them go!" Destroy the corpse and issue a ban order after you succeed! ”

"Pei Gong! Calm down! ”

Xiao He hurriedly opened his mouth to stop him, but Liu Laosan responded with angry eyes, and asked word by word: "Do you want us to give up all our efforts?" All these years in vain? ”

Xiao He closed his mouth, and Liu Laosan urged Xiahou Ying to act according to the order again, Xiahou Ying hesitated, but nodded, and immediately selected a few absolutely trustworthy Liu Bang's personal soldiers to return to the way they came, to kill the messenger sent by Xiang Yu for Liu Laosan, Liu Laosan was pale, and shouted: "Keep going, you must take Hangu Pass before Xiang Yu'er makes a new reaction!" ”

If you want to know what happened next, please see the next chapter, "Brothers Are Used for Pits"!

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