Although the boundary wall is not high, some people successfully rushed to the top of the boundary wall in the first charge of the young marshal army, but relying on the absolute geographical advantage and local strength advantage, the Qin army officers and soldiers quickly drove down the young marshal sergeants who rushed to the top of the wall, and did not let the young marshal soldiers gain a firm foothold on the top of the wall.

The most disadvantage of the young marshal army in this battle is that it is too difficult to invest troops, and it is too late to fill the trench under the boundary wall, and the young marshal army can only rely on the twelve trench bridge vehicles brought by the army to build a temporary bridge to cross the river, and at the same time, the foothold on the opposite side of the trench is also very narrow, from the boundary wall to the trench is only five feet wide, even if it is very difficult to take the flying ladder, it is naturally impossible to expand the troops, so the young marshal army can invest very limited troops at the top of the wall every time, and it is easy to be broken by the Qin army, and the offensive is naturally difficult to work.

With the rapid adaptation of the Qin soldiers, they began to give full play to their condescending advantages, stabbing the young marshal sergeants who climbed the flying ladder with spears and battles, and also threw down stone ash bottles to smash the young marshal soldiers under the wall, the offensive of the young marshal army was not only more sluggish, but the casualties also rose rapidly, and although the young marshal soldiers in the back roared like thunder and hurriedly joined the front-line battle, they were unable to cross the trench, and no matter how urgent the noise was, it had no effect.

Fortunately, the new trench and bridge car was already on the way up the mountain quickly, seeing that the offensive was not smooth, and there were too many casualties among the soldiers, Zhong Liwu, who had seized the first opportunity to attack by drawing lots, decisively let people ring the golden cymbal, temporarily withdrew the siege wall soldiers to reorganize the team, and prepared to wait for a large number of trench and bridge cars to go up the mountain before launching a new attack, and at the same time, the young marshal sergeant behind the long shield also seized the opportunity to open his bow and release arrows, and shot the Qin sergeant who had no time to squat down to dodge, and gave the inexperienced Qin sergeant a bloody war lesson.

It was also the bad luck of the Qin soldiers, the water had already been cut off, and today it happened to be a sunny day, and the bright sun rose from the east, which not only shone on the faces of the Qin soldiers, making it difficult for them to see, but also made those Qin soldiers who had just sweated a lot feel more and more thirsty, and the sound of asking for water continued one after another, and the morale was quickly affected.

At the same time, the Qin army reinforcements who came from Wuguan had also rushed to the west of the suspension bridge ridge, but the Qin army reinforcements had just reached the mountainside, and the new trench bridge car of the young marshal's army had already been sent to the top of the mountain.

After opening more trench roads, the offensive of the young marshal's army was significantly strengthened, greedy for the heavy reward promised by Xiang Kang, the young marshal's soldiers followed one after another, constantly stepping on the ladder to the top of the wall to attack, and also successfully rushed to the top of the wall many times, if it was not for Ning Zhi to use the reserve in time to reinforce the boundary wall defense line, he almost occupied the boundary wall position before the arrival of the Qin army's reinforcements, but the loss was difficult to invest troops, when the Wuguan Qin army rushed to respond, the young marshal's army was still dragged into a stalemate.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Liwu was of course so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and kept urging the rear team to hurry up and send more trench and bridge cars, but he didn't know that the Qin soldiers were also suffering now, and their physical strength was consumed a lot in the fierce battle, but they couldn't even drink a sip of water, and many people were already so thirsty that their throats were smoking, and they kept looking back to see if the drinking water had been delivered, if it wasn't for the fierce battle, some soldiers would have rushed down the mountain to find water to drink.

After more trench cars were sent to the top of the mountain, knowing that the fighter plane was fleeting, Zhong Liwu simply went into battle in person, and personally went to the front line to launch an attack with the young marshal sergeants, forcing the Qin army reinforcements to go into battle with all of them, which barely withstood the sudden increase in the offensive of the young marshal army.

"The water is coming! The water is coming! ”

"The water is coming! Drink water and go! ”

When the fighter of the battle situation appeared when the first Qin army waterwheel was carrying water uphill, knowing that there was a shortage of water on the mountain, the Qin soldiers who went down the mountain to carry water filled the first cart of water, and immediately transported water uphill, and did not wait for all the waterwheels to be full before going up the mountain together, but the kindness of these Qin soldiers and soldiers caused serious consequences, seeing that there was finally a water mountain, many Qin soldiers who were so thirsty that their throats were about to breathe fire ignored the military order, and rushed directly over to grab water, which immediately affected the morale of the soldiers on the front line, and many Qin soldiers only cared about looking back at the situation of the waterwheel. No longer concentrating on combat, the young marshal soldiers immediately seized the opportunity and rushed to the top of the boundary wall one after another.

"Here's your chance! Hurry up! ”

Keenly aware of the opportunity to appear, Zhong Liwu roared, bit the ring head knife in his mouth, and climbed with his hands and feet quickly, and the young marshal warriors in front of him were also very competitive, and were stabbed by the spear of the Qin soldier and grabbed the handle of the spear and rolled down the flying ladder, while getting out of the way, it also created an opportunity for Zhong Liwu to climb the wall, Zhong Liwu jumped up on the ladder, first kicked away the Qin soldier whose weapon was snatched away, and then slashed with a knife, and cut several Qin soldiers one after another, covering the young marshal warriors behind him to climb the wall, Several young marshal warriors climbed the wall one after another, and finally succeeded in seizing a small piece of the top of the wall.

Under the leadership of Zhong Liwu, the young marshal soldiers flexibly dodged the enemy's long weapons, and wielded the axe machete that was convenient for close combat, fiercely slashing the Qin soldiers on the top of the wall, and the Qin soldiers who lacked actual combat experience were cut into flesh and blood, screaming constantly, and the young marshal soldiers and soldiers behind also rushed to the top of the wall in an endless stream, seized more wallhead positions, and quickly connected with the young marshal soldiers who landed in other positions. Controlled the top of a section of boundary wall more than 20 zhang long.

Still inexperienced, Qin general Ning Zhi didn't understand why the strong defense line of his own army was suddenly broken through by the young marshal's army, and he was so anxious that he scolded at the same time, Ning Zhi only knew how to urge the Qin soldiers to step forward and recapture the boundary wall position, but unfortunately no matter how the Qin soldiers counterattacked, they still couldn't stop the fierce offensive of the young marshal's soldiers, and they were still killed and retreated, with continuous casualties.

After another watermill went up the mountain, many Qin soldiers and soldiers rushed over to grab water despite the fact that the front line was already extremely tight, and the young marshal army seized the opportunity to launch an attack, and forcibly rushed to the vicinity of the city tower, and cut down Ning Zhi's general flag with a knife, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Qin army, Ning Zhi personally led his own team to meet the battle, and was also quickly defeated by the morale of the young marshal soldiers, and was forced to flee from the city tower, and the young marshal soldiers took the opportunity to cut the rope of the suspension bridge, causing the suspension bridge to land, It became a wide avenue for the direct attack of the young marshal's army.

In the next battle, the performance of the Qin army can only be described as a mountain of defeat, the young marshal army just hit the door and smashed into the camp of the Qin army, the frightened Qin army soldiers completely collapsed, countless generals and soldiers rushed to flee down the drawbridge ridge, Ning Zhi could not stop it, and had to flee west in a hurry under the persuasion of his own soldiers, the young marshal army officers and soldiers took the opportunity to pursue, and successfully seized the important place of the drawbridge ridge at the same time, but also killed a large number of Qin army defeated soldiers in the pursuit battle, weakening the defense force of the Qin army in Wuguan.

At around the time of Shen in the afternoon, Xiang Kang led the army to climb the Suspension Bridge Ridge, and then Xiang Kang was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery on the top of the mountain, nor did he pay attention to the corpse-strewn battlefield of the Suspension Bridge Ridge, but immediately walked to the west, looking at the Wuguan Guancheng in the distance, and the Qin army camp in Guanzhong in the distance, his face was still full of worry, and he was not happy and excited at all because of the successful victory of Wuguan Waiguo.

It is not to blame Xiang Kang for being so demanding, the reason why the young marshal army was able to successfully take the suspension bridge ridge is not only because the Qin army's lack of experience gave the young marshal army a chance to cut off the water, but also because the top of the suspension bridge ridge is relatively open, seven miles long from north to south, and the young marshal army officers and soldiers can launch an attack. However, the Wuguan Pass City five miles away is located in the canyon, there is almost no open space in front of the pass, and it is extremely difficult to deploy the troops, and at the same time, the pass wall of Wuguan is as high as more than three zhang, and it is by no means as easy to climb as the boundary wall.

The young marshal next to him understood Xiang Kang's thoughts, in order to comfort Xiang Kang, Uncle Zhou stood up and said: "General Right don't worry so much, although the Wuguan is strong, but it is not unbreakable, during the Warring States period, the armies of Chu and Qin have broken through the Wuguan head-on, and now our army is strong and strong, and the soldiers are elite and good at fighting, but the violent Qin army is negligent in the battle formation, lacks experience, and it is by no means impossible to succeed in attacking Wuguan head-on." ”

"I'm not worried about not being able to win the military pass, I'm just worried about casualties." Xiang Kang said: "The terrain of Wuguan is too steep, even if the strong attack is successful, our casualties will definitely not be small, and the tyrannical Qin army still has reinforcements to rely on, if the army rotates in time and orderly, it will definitely be more difficult for us to take Wuguan again." ”

Uncle Zhou was silent, and he also knew that if the Qin army from Guanzhong cooperated closely with the defenders of Wuguan and rotated in time, it would definitely be more difficult for the young marshal army to take Wuguan. Xiang Kang continued to frown and calculate, and suddenly said to himself, "No, we can't let the Tyrannical Qin army work together, we have to find a way to provoke internal contradictions between them and reduce our siege pressure." ”

The action had a direction, only a little bit of consideration, Xiang Kang, who has always been good at division, made up his mind, asked people to take pen and ink silk silk, found a sheltered place to sit down, and personally wrote a letter to Li Cai, the general of the Qin army stationed in the west of Wuguan, with a respectful attitude as a junior, to Li Cai, the second son of Li Xin, a famous general of the Qin army, saying that his nephew Xiang Yan was able to meet Li Cai, the son of Xiang Yan's old opponent Li Xin, on the battlefield, which was both a coincidence and fate, and said that Li Xin was unfortunately defeated in the hands of Xiang Yan back then, but his eldest father still spoke highly of Li Xin, admitting that if it wasn't for the advantage of the Chu army, there would be no possibility of defeating Li Xin, and he respected Li Xin very much.

After putting on a high hat for Li Cai's dead ghost father, Xiang Kang said very politely that he hoped that he could have a dignified battle with Li Cai this time, ending the various grievances and grievances between Xiang Yan and Li Xin that year, and making it clear that he was willing to listen to Li Cai's teachings at any time, and worked with Li Cai to serve the gentleman's style in the Spring and Autumn Period. At the end, Xiang Kang arranged another messenger and ordered him to go to Wuguan Pass with a white flag to borrow a way, and go west to deliver a letter to Li Cai.

It was only after Xiang Kang sent the messenger out that Uncle Zhou next to him asked, "General Right, what is the purpose of your doing this?" ”

"Lie to Li Cai's reply." Xiang Kang replied very directly and said: "If I succeed, I will be sure to separate the relationship between Li Cai and Wang Bang." ”

Borrowing the way to send a letter to the enemy, if this kind of thing is replaced later, it is likely to make the enemy laugh off his big teeth, but there is no way, the era of the late Qin and early Han dynasties still attaches great importance to etiquette, not only rarely kills the messenger, but also generally treats the enemy's messenger with courtesy, and will not deliberately make things difficult. Therefore, in history, Liu Laosan's soldiers came to Wuguan City, and before launching an attack, they sent the envoy Ning Chang to borrow the road from the Wuguan defenders, and rushed directly to Xianyang to contact the Qin court to persuade the Qin court to surrender.

The envoy sent by Xiang Kang was the same, after coming to Wuguan City with a white flag, the soldiers of the Qin army reported the news to Wang Bang, the general of Wuguan, and Wang Bang waved his hand to let him go, but since the messenger of the young marshal army passed through the road, Wang Bang of course read Xiang Kang's letter written by Li Cai first, and laughed at Xiang Kang's pedantic conservatism, and then sent someone to send Xiang Kang's messenger to the Qin army camp west of Wuguan.

The next thing is relatively simple, Qin General Li Cai was a little lamented the impermanence of life, and even let himself and the nephew of the dead ghost father's sworn enemy fight on the battlefield, and saw Xiang Kang's handwritten letter to his dead ghost father is extremely respectful, and he is also very polite and respectful to himself, out of etiquette, he also wrote a reply to Xiang Kang, in addition to the courtesy compliment Xiang Kang's eldest father, Xiang Yan, the famous general of Chu State, also promised to fight with Xiang Kang in a dignified duel on the battlefield, and settled the grievances left by the previous generation, He also stamped his own seal on the letter.

Because Xiang Kang's messenger arrived at Li Caijun's camp in the evening, he could only borrow the road from the Wuguan defenders on the morning of the next day and return to the young marshal's army that immediately set up camp at the foot of the Hangqiaoling Mountain. But to Wang Bang's surprise, a day later, in the morning, Xiang Kang actually sent another messenger, carrying the golden jade wall and the letter to Wuguan City to borrow the way, and to contact Li Cai, and Xiang Kang's letter to Li Cai this time was still sealed in two blank slips, covered with sealed mud, not giving Wang Bang a chance to watch directly.

"What tricks is Xiang Kang Xiaoer playing this time? How can it be a gift and a sealed letter? What exactly is written in the letter? ”

Under the doubts in his heart, Wang Bang also subconsciously wanted to pick up the mud, and the young marshal army envoy who was escorted to the front hurriedly said according to Xiang Kang's instructions: "General Wang, this is a letter written by our right general to General Li, if you must open it, the small one will never dare to object, but General Li is there, I'm afraid the general is not easy to speak." ”

Considering his colleague relationship with Li Cai, and now that he must get Li Cai's help, Wang Bang hesitated, but still threw the letter back to the young marshal's envoy, and shouted: "Get out, tell Xiang Kang Xiao'er when you go back, it's just this time, don't think about borrowing from General Ben in the future, don't trouble me less." ”

The envoy of the young marshal army hurriedly agreed, and hurriedly brought letters and gifts to Li Cai's camp, but out of curiosity and vigilance, Wang Bang was naturally deeply impressed by this matter, and decided that after the young marshal army envoy returned, he would take a look at Li Cai's reply to Xiang Kang this time - he couldn't open the sealed letter from Xiang Kang to Li Cai, Li Cai must have an opinion when he saw it, but Li Cai's letter to Xiang Kang, even if Wang Bang opened it, Li Cai, who was seven or eight miles away, could still know if it could be done?

The young marshal envoy didn't let Wang Bang wait long this time, and it was only at noon that the young marshal envoy returned to the west gate of Wuguan empty-handed to borrow the road again, and the guards immediately escorted him to Wang Bang in accordance with Wang Bang's instructions, but when Wang Bang asked Li Caike to reply to Xiang Kang, the young marshal envoy said with a sad face: "General, there is no reply, after General Li read the letter of our right general, he scolded the villain very much, and said that he would not want to have anything to do with our right general in the future. So we shouldn't bother you to borrow it in the future. ”

"Why did General Li scold you?" Wang Bang asked curiously.

"Because General Right wrote a letter to persuade General Li to surrender this time, General Li was loyal to Great Qin, so he scolded the villain." The envoy of the young marshal replied truthfully.

Wang Bang laughed, and laughed at Xiang Kang's whimsy, and wanted to wave his hand to let him go, but for the sake of prudence, Wang Bang still bowed to the young marshal's envoy and ordered: "Search his body, if there is nothing important, let him go." ”

The personal soldiers stepped forward to search their bodies according to the order, and the young marshal's envoy who was frank in his heart also obediently raised his arms and let Wang Bang's personal soldiers search his body at will, but during the careful search, a personal soldier suddenly found that something was wrong and said: "General, this person's clothes have a mezzanine, and there seems to be something in them." ”

"What?!" Wang Bang's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, take off his clothes and check!" ”

"My clothes have a plych?" The envoy of the young marshal's army was also inexplicable, and said to himself: "How is it possible? This is a new garment that our Captain Captain gave me today, how could there be a mezzanine? ”

To make the unlucky young marshal envoy dumbfounded, when he set off today, there was really a mezzanine at the corner of the new clothes that Chen Ping gave him, and there was a white silk with handwriting and a seal hidden in the mezzanine, and the young marshal envoy suddenly screamed like a pig, "Something strange!" Why do I really have a sandwich in my clothes, and there is something hidden? ”

Too lazy to pay attention to the stunned young marshal envoy, Wang Bang just snatched the piece of white silk and took a closer look, and then just looked at the general content of the words on the white silk, Wang Bang's expression became extremely hideous, and said with a cruel smile: "It's really like it!" On the surface, he is loyal to our Great Qin Imperial Court, but behind the scenes, he plans to collude with the thief army, help the thief army to attack our Wuguan Guancheng before and after, and dedicate Wuguan to Xiang Kang Xiao'er to invite merit! If it weren't for General Ben's prudence, Wuguan would have been dangerous this time. ”

By the way, if the letter on the messenger is not found, of course Xiang Kang has even worse means to make Wang Bang see this letter, doing this kind of thing has always been Xiang Kang's forte, isn't it?