"The many armies of the King of Han passed through Zhongtiao Mountain and suddenly arrived in Yuanqu, and there is a possibility of attacking Yiguan?"

"What are you kidding? Since the king ascended the throne, there has never been any conflict with the army of the king of Han, and the envoy of the king of Han also made it clear that they were going to attack Shangdang, how could the army of the king of Han enter the pass and threaten our Hanoi county? Did the scouts at Yiguan make a mistake and mistook the Han garrison in Yuanqu as a new army? ”

Relatively speaking, he was too honest and loyal, and when he received the news of the warning at Yiguan, the poor king of Henan, Sima Wei, still couldn't believe the alarm for a while, and even suspected that the scouts of the self-army had made a mistake, and regarded the training of the Han army in Yuanqu as a reinforcement of the Han army. Fortunately, Sima Wei also had a particularly reliable think tank, Li Zuoche, who immediately said loudly: "King, whether it is a misunderstanding or not, the most important thing we should do at the moment is to hurry up and prepare for war and mobilize troops to reinforce Yiguan!" Otherwise, if there is any mistake in Yiguan, our hinterland of Hanoi will be in big trouble! ”

After hesitating for a moment, Sima Wei still adopted Li Zuoche's suggestion, and in addition to ordering the main force of the Henan Army stationed outside Luoyang City to immediately start preparing for battle, he also went to order the Pingyin ferry garrison, so that the Pingyin garrison was immediately rescued and passed. However, when things came to this point, Sima Wei still had illusions, and separately gave an order to the Henan Army's Yiguan garrison, asking the Yiguan garrison to exercise restraint, unless the Han army really launched an attack on Yiguan, it was never allowed to provoke the Han army without authorization and take the initiative to cause trouble.

The cruel facts soon shattered Sima Wei's beautiful illusions, and only a little more than a day later, Hanoi County sent two bad news, one was the loss of Yiguan, and the defenders were almost completely annihilated by the Han army, and the other was the loss of the Pingyin Ferry, the defenders were killed by the Han army, and the most convenient and fast connection between Luoyang and the hinterland of Hanoi was directly cut off by the Han army. While stunned, Sima Wei finally understood that Xiang Kang was really here this time, and immediately roared like crazy......

"Xiang Kang Xiao'er, you shameless traitor! The world's number one despicable dog thief! Bastard! What are you going to send troops to the party, and after a long time, it turns out that you, a shameless traitor, are preparing to go to war against this king! This time, this king has fallen for your evil! You shameless scumbag——! ”

Cheng Lian, who had tried to persuade Sima Wei and Xiang Kang to get along amicably, didn't even dare to take a breath, hanging his head and wishing that he could hide where Sima Wei would never see himself, but Li Zuoche looked helpless, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "Sure enough, there is a knife hidden in the smile, Xiang Kang's little vertical son, your face is really more than ordinary thick, in order to make us take it lightly, you even used the means to please our queen mother, I am afraid there are few people in the world who can be despicable to your level." ”

After roaring wildly, Sima Wei, who almost blew up his chest, didn't think about it, and immediately roared again: "Pass the decree and tell our main force to prepare to set off immediately, and this king will personally lead the army to the north and kill all the Han thief troops who dare to sneak attack us!" ”

"Wait!" Li Zuoche really jumped out to stop him, and said loudly: "King, please calm down!" Although the Han thief army's sneak attack on Yiguan and Binh Yin is hateful, we still don't know whether the Han thieves are ready to attack Hanoi or not! If we fall for the Han thieves' plan to divert the tiger from the mountain and send the main force to Hanoi, and the main force of the Han thieves takes the opportunity to kill Hangu Pass, then we will be in big trouble! ”

"Guang Wujun suspects that Xiang Kang Xiao'er is feintting to attack Hanoi?" Sima Wei asked calmly.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Li Zuoche immediately replied: "Although Hanoi County is important, Sanchuan County is more important to us and to Xiang Kang Xiaoer, if Xiang Kang Xiaoer intends to go east, it is definitely the first choice for Sanchuan, not Hanoi, and we must also prevent Xiang Kang Xiaoer from attacking Hanoi and taking Sanchuan." ”

Sima Wei frowned and quickly calculated, and after a while, Sima Wei suddenly shook his head and said: "It can't be a feint, if the Han thief army is a feint, it is enough to take Yiguan, and it will not continue to go south to Pingyin, block our river crossing road, and prevent us from going north to rescue Hanoi." ”

"What the king said is very true." Shaofu Du Wanda hurriedly echoed: "Our detailed work has found out the accurate news, before Xiang Kang sent the thief army eastward, it was to directly open to Pusaka, and set up a strong pontoon bridge at the Puban ferry, obviously trying to take the east of the river to enter Hanoi, if we don't hurry north to Hanoi to recapture Yiguan, and wait for the rear army of the Han thieves to enter Hanoi in a big way, our Hanoi will be completely finished." ”

As soon as Sima Wei nodded, Li Zuoche immediately scolded: "Ridiculous! The Han thieves built a pontoon bridge in Pusaka, which proves that they are ready to march into Hanoi by way of Hedong? How far is Pu Han from Ning Qin, and the Han thief army only needs one day to go south from Pu Han to Ning Qin, and then send a letter from Ning Qin East to Guguan! Besides, Xiang Kang went east and didn't take the wide and flat gallop road, how could he take Hedong to march into Hanoi? Is Hanoi extremely important to Xiang Kang'er, and it is worth him to take it at any cost? ”

"Guang Wujun, who said that Hanoi is not important enough to Xiang Kang'er?" Du Wanda retorted: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er took Hanoi, and he will be able to cut off our direct contact with Handan immediately, and then he can not only use Handan County to curry favor with Zhao Guo, who is cut off from him, but also cross the Yellow River from Guangwu South to coerce our Ao Cang Heavy Land, when Ao Cang is in a hurry, Xiang Kang Xiao'er's main force will come out from Hangu Pass, how do we deal with it?" ”

"How to solve the grain and grass of Kang Xiao'er?" Li Zuoche said angrily: "How much manpower and material resources do it take to transport grain from Xianyang to Hedong, and then to transport grain through Zhongtiao Mountain and Yiguan to the hinterland of Hanoi? Xiang Kang Xiao'er can't even calculate this account? ”

"Don't make any noise!" Sima Wei interrupted the dispute between Li Zuoche and Du Wanda, and said with a dark face: "Let's go to Pingyin first, and then see you when you get to Pingyin, if Xiang Kang Xiao'er is really ready to attack Hanoi, we will rush across the Yellow River and rescue Hanoi, if Xiang Kang Xiao'er is just a feint in Hanoi, we can also immediately turn around and go west and block him in Cuihan Road." ”

Considering that the Han army might turn fiction into reality and really go all out to take Hanoi, Li Zuoche did not object to Sima Wei's cautious decision, but only suggested: "Great King, for the sake of prudence, it is best for us to immediately inform Han King Shenyang of the situation, explain to him the reason for the cold lips and teeth, and ask him to immediately prepare to go north to reinforce us." In addition, a partial division was divided, and the west was the first to reinforce Michi, and when it arrived at Michi, the deep ditch and high fortress were held, and the enemy was only allowed to defend the camp when he came, and was not allowed to fight, so as to guard against all eventualities. ”

Sima Wei did have more respect for Li Zuoche, and immediately nodded and agreed with Li Zuoche's proposal, and immediately ordered Wei Heng, the general of the Henan Army, to lead an army of 10,000 to the west, and went to Mianchi to establish a blocking position to prevent the Han army from going east to Hanguguan, and sent people to Shenyang, the king of Han, who was close at hand, for help, and at the same time sent people to Pengcheng to inform the Western Chu side of the situation, so that Xiang Yu was also ready to send troops to help him as soon as possible.

By the way, although the Zhao army, which was also close at hand, had also torn his face with Xiang Kang, Sima Wei not only did not consider anything to ask Zhao for help, but on the contrary, he directly ordered his Handan garrison to let the Henan army in Handan County be careful to beware of the Zhao army taking advantage of the fire to rob, and suddenly stabbed himself in the back - Sima Wei abducted so many Zhao troops to build a country for himself, and Zhao Guo could definitely do this kind of lack of virtue to retaliate.

Fortunately, the troops in Sima Wei's hands are quite sufficient, following Xiang Yu's exhaustive force, except for the guard army stationed in the place and various important places, Sima Wei's mobile force in his hands is as much as 80,000, even if 10,000 are stationed in the west to defend the pond, there are still 70,000 troops that can be used on the battlefield in Hanoi, and in terms of strength, the Han army's partial division Zhou Shusuo's department can form an overwhelming advantage, in addition, Sima Wei also has Ao Cang in hand, and the advantage in grain and grass is greater than that of the Han army. Therefore, even if it was sturdy and was caught off guard by the Han army, the Henan army was not particularly flustered, and soon prepared to go out, and the main force left Luoyang under the personal leadership of Sima Wei a day later, with the general Sun Yin as the vanguard, and marched to Pingyin through Henan County.

The distance is different, when the front team of 20,000 Henan Army led by Sun Yin arrived in Pingyin, the rear team of the Hedong Han Army led by Lu Kuang and Worm Da carried grain and grass and military supplies, and was still on the way from Anyi to Pingyin, and the north bank of the Yellow River was still only garrisoned by 8,000 Han troops led by Zhou Shu, and the troops were immediately at an absolute disadvantage. However, Uncle Zhou was not afraid at all, and personally climbed the high ground on the north bank of the Yellow River for the first time, condescendingly looked at the garrison of the Henan Army, and saw that the enemy reinforcements did not take over the dock ferry, but only set up a camp next to the ferry, Uncle Zhou was overjoyed and said: "Okay! Here's your chance! Sun Yin'er is careless and underestimates the enemy, and we have a loophole to exploit. ”

"General Zhou, what loopholes do we have?" General Li Bi asked curiously.

"The ferry dock of the Henan thief army." Uncle Zhou pointed to the fleet of the Henan army gathered next to the dock on the south bank, and said: "Sun Yin is careless, I think that the original thief army in Pingyin can protect the fleet and the dock and hold on until he leads the army to come to reinforce, and now it must be no problem, so he did not increase troops on the dock, the original Pingyin thief army saw the arrival of reinforcements, and felt that they could sit back and relax, and they would definitely sleep with peace of mind tonight, and we will launch a surprise attack at night, and we will definitely be able to win!" ”

"The general wants to slap Sima Wei in the face? Provoke him to cross the river? Li Bi understood what Uncle Zhou meant.

"Do you know and ask?" Uncle Zhou asked with a smile, and immediately ordered: "Immediately gather the sailors we selected before, secretly prepare firewood and grass and fire boats, and set out tonight to attack the south bank dock of the thief army." ”

It was the second watch of the night, more than 600 Han soldiers who were proficient in water took sixty fast boats, with twenty fireboats full of firewood and grass as the vanguard, and suddenly launched a sneak attack on the Henan Army wharf fleet on the south bank of the Yellow River under the cover of night, and the result was just as Uncle Zhou expected, the Pingyin Henan Army, which had successfully protected the dock and ferry, saw the arrival of reinforcements, and really completely relaxed their vigilance, never dreaming that the Han army would take the initiative to attack with weak forces, so that the Han soldiers had already lit the fireboats, Most of the officers and men of the Henan Army who were responsible for guarding the ferry at the pier were still asleep.

In front of such a vicious and cunning opponent as Uncle Zhou, the negligence of the Henan army of course caused a catastrophe, and the north wind was cold in the late autumn season, the wind helped the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and twenty fireboats full of firewood and grass had just rushed into the Henan army fleet, which immediately ignited many Henan army ships, and then the Han army fleet that was killed concentrated firepower, focusing on attacking the Henan army ships docked on the dock, and expanding the results again, but the Henan army guarding the dock was in a hurry, and was burned into a mess by the Han army. In the end, when Sun Yin hurriedly sent to rescue the rescue wharf, the Han army death squad accepted it and quickly withdrew to the north bank of the Yellow River with very slight losses.

The results of this battle of the Han army were actually not very large, only more than 40 large ships and some small boats of the Henan army were burned, which caused some damage to the dock facilities of the Henan army, and the real number of enemies killed was negligible. But at noon the next day, when Sima Wei rushed to the Pingyin ferry with the main force of the Henan army, he was still so angry that he was like thunder, and scolded Sun Yin for his love, Sun Yin was extremely aggrieved, and defended: "The king, it's not that the last general is incompetent, it's that Uncle Zhou's puppet is too cunning, and he hasn't done it before, and deliberately did it after the last general led the army to the ferry. ”

"You still have the face to be careless?" Sima Wei roared angrily: "Insult my military prestige, frustrate my spirit, come here, push Sun Yin out to this king and behead him!" ”

"The king spares his life!"

"My lord, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and there is no need to kill our generals for a small defeat. Please read General Sun's previous merits and spare him this time. ”

Everyone pleaded for Sun Yin, and Li Zuoche also said: "King, Uncle Zhou is Xiang Kang's favorite general, when he was in Hedong, he annihilated the main force of Western Wei in just a few days, and forced Wei Bao, the king of Wei, to surrender. General Sun Yin was careless for a while, and it is not surprising that he was defeated, but fortunately, our army suffered little losses, and I hope that the king will not be too heavy a punishment, so as to grow the ambition of a thief and extinguish our prestige. ”

Still listened to Li Zuoche's persuasion, Sima Wei waved his hand and signaled the guards to let go of Sun Yin, Sun Yin hurriedly thanked Sima Wei and Li Zuoche and others, but Sima Wei didn't bother to pay attention to him, just said to Li Zuoche: "Guangwujun, Uncle Zhou held the ferry with weak troops, and attacked our fleet at night, so that our army did not have enough ships to launch a river crossing, it seems that the main target of the Han thieves this time should be our Hanoi County." ”

"Not necessarily." Li Zuoche shook his head decisively and said: "If your subordinates are Uncle Zhou, in the face of the current situation, in order to cover Xiang Kang'er's main force going east, your subordinates will also stick to the ferry and create the illusion that our army will be blocked on the south bank of the Yellow River." Because only then will we suspect that the Han thief army is preparing to attack Hanoi. ”

"If that's the case, then King Ben doesn't have to worry about Hanoi." Sima Wei smiled, and was very disdainful of Li Zuoche's analysis in his heart, and said: "But no matter whether Xiang Kang Xiao'er is the main attack on Hanoi or not, the fighter plane is rare, we must take advantage of the opportunity that the Han thief rear army has not yet been able to come to reinforce Zhou Shupifu, and recapture the Pingyin ferry as soon as possible, so as to be prepared for everything." ”

After that, Sima Wei did not discuss with Li Zuoche, and immediately ordered the main force of the Henan Army to hurry up and prepare to cross the Yellow River, and decided to launch a rush battle early the next morning to recapture the north bank ferry that was shamelessly occupied by the Han army. Li Zuoche didn't object, but said in his heart: "The ferry can indeed be taken back quickly, but our main force must not cross the Yellow River, otherwise with Uncle Zhou's skills, it will definitely not be so easy for us to cross the river and come back." ”

At the same time in the Han military camp, Uncle Zhou finally received a message from Lu Kuang and Worm Da and other generals, saying that the rear army led by them could come to Pingyin before sunset the next day to reinforce, Uncle Zhou only thought about it for a moment after reading the report, and immediately ordered: "Send fast horses to Lu Kuang and Worm Da to order, let Lv Kuang protect the military grain and grass and move slowly, stop advancing after resisting Yiguan, set up more flags behind Yiguan, and arrange the illusion that we have many soldiers and generals." He told Worm Da to lead 4,000 elite soldiers to travel lightly and quickly, and he was not allowed to carry the baggage of the camp tent, and he must arrive in Pingyin before the next three o'clock tomorrow, and there must be no mistake. ”

"Also." Uncle Zhou instructed again: "Let our soldiers hurry up and prepare to guard the river, Sima Weipifu bullied us with few soldiers, and we will definitely launch a rush tomorrow morning!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, the Henan army really dispatched a large number of troops to launch the crossing, but fortunately, the Han army was fully prepared, and immediately relied on the river defense fortifications built in advance to hold on to the river, and the Henan army that rushed to kill the river fought in the dark, day and night.

The Han army fought very hard in this battle, the Henan army relied on the absolute superiority of troops, and repeatedly attacked the shore fortifications of the Han army again and again. During this period, the Henan army also divided its troops very cunningly to cross the river from the downstream, rushed ashore to attack the flank of the Han army, but fortunately, Uncle Zhou had already taken precautions, and let his favorite general Li Bi lead the reserve team to fight to block the Henan army, which did not let the Henan army go smoothly.

If it weren't for the timely use of the original grenades, which were already scarce, the Han army's ferry position might have been broken through by the Henan army at noon, but fortunately, the frightening effect of the primitive grenade was very amazing, even if it could not kill people when smashed out, it could also scare the soldiers of the Henan army who had never seen gunpowder weapons half to death, and finally helped the Han army successfully repel the fierce attack of the Henan army and firmly held the ferry position. However, even so, Li Bi, the young general of the Han army, was still injured in the fierce battle, and the casualty figure of the Han army soldiers directly exceeded the 1,500 mark.

According to Uncle Zhou's order, the 4,000 elite soldiers of the Han army led by Worm Da did their best to sacrifice their baggage and travel lightly, and finally successfully arrived at the Pingyin battlefield at about the beginning of the time, which greatly encouraged the morale of the soldiers of the Han army. At the same time, in accordance with Uncle Zhou's order, when the reinforcements arrived, under the leadership of the middle-level generals of the Han army, the soldiers of the Han army also shouted loudly, "The king of Han is here!" Our King Han is here in person! Long live King Han! Long live King Han! ”

Vaguely hearing this shout, Sima Wei, who was supervising the battle on the south bank, was so startled that he jumped up directly, and tried to watch with his hand to shade the sun, Li Zuoche was also taken aback, and blurted out: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er is here in person?" How can it be? ”

In the end, of course, it was proved that the Henan army was just a false alarm, and after confirming that the Han army reinforcements were only 4,000, although Sima Wei breathed a sigh of relief, he still beat a drum in his heart, and said secretly: "Is this just Xiang Kang'er's front team?" If Xiang Kang Xiao'er really personally led the army to reinforce Hanoi, then the Hanoi of the king would be extremely dangerous. ”

The reinforcements who arrived in time successfully helped Uncle Zhou block the strong attack launched by the Henan army on this day, and after the fierce battle to Shenshi, it was not early to see that it was not early, and the Han army's river defense position was still standing. Li Zuoche did not rush back to rest with Sima Wei, and chose to continue to look at the situation of the Han army on the high ground on the south bank, or when he saw that the Han army reinforcements were forced to sleep in the wilderness because they did not have a military tent, Li Zuoche, who was already rumbling with hunger, nodded, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth......

Li Zuoche may have laughed too early, because before this, Uncle Zhou had already summoned the generals of the Han army, and instructed the generals to Worm and Li Bi: "All the generals should work hard tonight, supervise our soldiers to prepare for the night, prepare enough dry food and torches, tonight Sima Weipifu will definitely send an army to attack the ferry on the north bank, after the thief army crosses the river, we only need to be false and sorry for a moment, and then immediately abandon the camp and go north, and withdraw to Yiguan overnight, I will personally lead the army to the rear of the palace." ”

The generals of the Han army looked at each other, and then Yu Worm Da asked, "General Zhou, how can you be sure that the thief army will definitely launch a sneak attack tonight?" ”

"Your army doesn't even have tents, they can only sleep in the wilderness, how could that old fox Li Zuoche miss such a good opportunity for a sneak attack?" Uncle Zhou smiled and asked rhetorically, and said with regret: "It's a pity that our task is to lead Sima Wei's horsemen across the Yellow River, otherwise I would like to take the opportunity to arrange an ambush and give the thief army a heavy blow, so there is no way, we have to suffer a defeat." ”

After that, Uncle Zhou added: "There is another very important matter, we must tell the news to all our soldiers, just say that our Han King is personally leading the army to Hanoi to kill, and he will be able to reach Hanoi soon." It is difficult to withdraw the troops at night, and our soldiers have fought very hard during the day today, and they will abandon the camp and retreat overnight tonight, and there will definitely be our soldiers who have been captured by the Henan thief army. ”