The world's largest granary in this era is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the entrance and exit of the north can be affected by the enemy, and there are the Yellow River natural danger and the chasm canal on the periphery can be relied on as a barrier, easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus Zhang Han has already sent 30,000 troops to guard in advance, and there are more than 10,000 Qin troops in Xingyang Sanchuan County next to it can help, and the troops are quite sufficient.

Therefore, after confirming that the main force of the young marshal's army entered Aocang, Zhang Han only transferred the 10,000 mobile troops originally deployed in Chaoge to Aocang as a precautionary measure, and then he no longer cared much about the situation on the Aocang battlefield, and freed up his hands to concentrate on dealing with the princes' coalition forces that rushed to the Julu battlefield first, and planned to kill or severely damage a part of the anti-Qin rebel army before the main force of the Chu army arrived at the Julu battlefield, so as not to prevent the comparative advantage of the strength of the Julu battlefield from being reversed by the anti-Qin coalition army, causing the Great Wall Corps of the Qin army besieging Julu to fall into passivity.

In order to boost the morale of the army and kill the chicken to show the monkey, of course, the persimmon had to pick the soft one first, and after making up his mind to do it first, Zhang Han, who was very good at capturing the enemy's weakness, immediately set his sights on the Qi army of the anti-Qin coalition army, and the reason was also very simple, because Qi Wang Tian City and Qi Xiang Tian Rong refused to lend the road to the main force of the Chu army, the Jibei defenders of Qi State, under the leadership of the main general Tian An, had betrayed the Qi State and joined forces with the main force of the Chu army. The morale of the army must have been greatly affected, so it must be the easiest to attack the Qi army first, and then as long as the Qi army is quickly killed, it will be difficult for the other anti-Qin rebels not to be frightened.

It's a pity that Zhang Han, who is good at attacking the enemy's weakness, miscalculated this time, in this era of righteousness and lightness, although there are many slippery scoundrels like Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, but there are more heroes and heroes who stand up to the sky, Tian Du and Tian Jian, the main generals of the Qi army on the Julu battlefield, Tian Jian and Tian Fake Brothers also happen to be the best among them, in the face of the double dilemma of the Qin army's onslaught and the cut off of backup, Tian Du and Tian Jian, Tian Fake Brothers not only did not panic and waver, but also made their attitude and position early, clearly expressed his support for Tian An's righteous act of helping the Chu army rescue Julu, while leading the soldiers of the Qi army to fight bloodily, relying on the hard support of the camp fortifications, he refused to take half a step back in saying anything, so that Zhang Han's wishful thinking of killing chickens and monkeys succeeded.

Under the personal command of Zhang Han, 80,000 Qin troops took turns to go into battle, and launched a frontal assault on the Qi army camp for two consecutive days, fighting so that the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, but no matter how crazy the Qin army attacked, the soldiers of the Qi army just gritted their teeth and did not retreat, even if they suffered heavy casualties, they refused to give up the self-army camp that had been riddled with holes, which not only caused a lot of casualties to the Qin army, but also forced Zhang Han to send the Great Wall Army to participate in the battle nearby and strengthen the attacking forces.

On the third day, with the 30,000 Great Wall Corps drawn by Zhang Han to join the battle, the Qi army still inevitably showed defeat, the camp defense line was broken through in many places, and the outer camp was on fire everywhere, and the other anti-Qin righteous divisions next to them saw that the situation was not good, although they also had the courage to send troops to the rescue, but they were all killed and retreated by the Qin army in the field battle, and they could not share much pressure on the Qi army soldiers, on the contrary, the morale of the Qin army attacking the camp was greatly increased, and the killing became more and more violent. The defenders of the outer camp of the Qi army, who were struggling to support, were even more difficult to parry, and the casualties rose sharply.

When it was close to Shen Shi in the afternoon, the outer camp of the Qi army completely fell, a large number of military tents and camp fortifications were completely burned to ashes, and countless soldiers were forced to abandon the camp and flee. Seeing this scene, the anti-Qin coalition army in the distance was of course frightened and demoralized, but Zhang Han was very proud, and said with a sneer: "Tiandu rebel, now you should regret not running for your life first, right?" ”

"Report ——!"

The sudden long shout interrupted Zhang Han's smug smile, and then immediately after, a dusty Qin sergeant rushed to Zhang Han's face, and presented a military emergency report with chicken feathers in front of Zhang Han, and said loudly: "General Qiqi, the urgent report from Thorn Yuan, the main force of Xiang Kang's rebel thief has abnormal behavior!" ”

"Xiang Kang's traitor has abnormal behavior?" Zhang Han frowned slightly, took the military emergency report and opened it, and then only took a cursory glance, Zhang Han's face suddenly changed, first pale as paper, then as green as ink, and couldn't help but yell, "Xiang Kang Xiao'er!" How dare you do that?! ”

"General, what's wrong? Xiang Kang Xiaoer, what's wrong with him? ”

Finding that Zhang Han's expression was not right, the generals of the Qin army next to him hurriedly inquired about the reason, but Zhang Han's face became more and more blue, in order to avoid shaking the morale of the army, he did not dare to disclose the current situation of the young marshal army at all, but called the herald to the front, and ordered a password in his ear, asking him to immediately return to the Thorn Plains to give an order to Sima Xin and Zhang Ping who stayed at the dock, and asked Sima Xin and Zhang Ping to immediately send troops to stop the young marshal army, and then shouted loudly: "Beat the drums, strengthen the attack!" Pass the order, who can get the head of the thief general Tiandu, and the bounty is 3,000! ”

sang the promise left and right, and immediately ordered the drummer to step up the drumming, but no one noticed that Zhang Han had already crushed the military emergency report written on the wooden board, his hands were still green, his finger joints were white, and his teeth were clenched......

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Let's take a look at the situation on the side of the young marshal's army, according to Xiang Kang's orders, Zhu Jishi, the general of the young marshal's army, led more than 4,000 people in the headquarters to march west in Yangwu, and the next morning they successfully rushed to the west bank of the chasm to set up camp, and confronted the Aocang defenders led by Sima Duan, the general of the Qin army. Although Sima Duan had 30,000 troops in his hands, and his strength was far above Zhujishi, he was afraid that Zhujishi's lone army was luring the enemy to the main force of the young marshal's army, so he did not dare to risk the battle, so he just strictly guarded the ferry wharf and allowed Zhujishi's troops to calmly set up camp on the east bank of the chasm.

Before the camp was established, Zhu Jishi had already personally led the army to the bank of the chasm to fight, and organized a group of loud soldiers to greet Sima Duan's family affectionately across the chasm, especially the female relatives who focused on caring for Sima Duan, and their words were vicious, and their attitude was even more arrogant and domineering to the extreme. Sima Duan's generals were all furious, and they all asked to lead their men and horses across the river to fight to the death against Zhu Jishi, who was too deceitful.

Fortunately, Sima Duan, who had forced Xiang Liang to be strong in Zou County, had a very calm personality, and categorically rejected the pleas of the generals under his command, and said: "Don't be fooled, Xiang Kang Xiao'er deliberately only sent a small number of troops to fight the chasm first, clearly trying to lure us across the river for a decisive battle, if we are tricked, we will definitely fall into Xiang Kang Xiao'er's trap." Besides, Zhu Jishi came lightly against the thieves, and it was easy to retreat, and before our army crossed the chasm, he must have already run away with the thief army, and we couldn't beat him even if we crossed the river. ”

After saying that, in addition to sending people to the bank of the chasm to confront the young marshal's army across the river, Sima Duan also sent people to order the three armies, prohibiting a soldier from crossing the river to fight with the young marshal's army, and resolutely not giving the young marshal's army a chance to lure his army across the chasm.

On the morning of the next day, news came from Yangwu, saying that the main force of the young marshal's army had easily taken the county town of Yangwu, which had only a few hundred defenders, on the first day, and robbed all the grain left in the city.

The situation on the third day was still the same, the young marshal army ran to the bank of the chasm as soon as it was dawn and cursed, deliberately provoked and provoked the defenders of Aocang, Sima Duan still held his breath and ignored it, and the young marshal army with weak strength did not dare to cross the river to attack. As a result, on the same day, Dong Kansuo, a mobile army of the Qin army that came from Chaoge, also rushed to the north bank of Guangwu, and could cross the Yellow River south at any time to reinforce Aocang.

This wait is spoiled, and when it comes to the evening of the same day, an unexpected news suddenly comes - the sour jujube defenders sent someone to report, saying that the main force of the young marshal army has sent troops east from Yangwu early yesterday morning, and directly crossed the sour jujube I don't know where to go, at the beginning, the sour jujube defenders thought that the main force of the young marshal army was preparing to attack them, and they were so frightened that they closed the city gate in broad daylight, or after confirming that the main force of the young marshal army crossed the sour jujube directly from the south, only to know that the young marshal army was not advancing east to attack the sour jujube, Because of this, a lot of time was wasted, and it was only at this time that the news was reported to Sima Duan.

"Strange thing, what tricks is Xiang Kang playing? Why did they leave their partiality and go directly to the east of the sour jujube? ”

Sima Duan vaguely found that something was wrong, and the generals of the Qin army next to him also had different opinions, all of them suspected that Xiang Kang had ulterior motives for doing this, but no one could say what Xiang Kang's purpose was. In the end, it was Sima Duan who came to a conclusion and said: "Can't be fooled, Xiang Kang Xiao'er deliberately threw down his partial division and marched east alone, probably to let us rest assured that we would send troops across the river, so that his partial division could take the opportunity to lure us into his trap. ”

The young marshal army under the command of Xiang Kang is always varied, starting from the second watch that night, every once in a while, there will be a sudden sound of horns and war drums on the east bank of the chasm, as if the young marshal army is preparing to cross the river overnight to attack, the cautious Sima did not dare to be careless, in addition to letting the granary defenders take precautions, he also lit countless bonfires on the bank of the chasm, and arranged an army to strictly guard the wharf ferry, preferring to be played by the sound deliberately created by the young marshal army, and definitely not giving the young marshal army any chance to launch a sneak attack.

Fortunately, probably because of the tight guards of the Qin army, the young marshal army has never dared to cross the river with a single soldier, and when the fifth watch is about to be halfway through, the young marshal army on the other side of the chasm also took the initiative to end the noisy harassment, so that the soldiers of the Qin army who had worked hard all night could rest at ease for a while. But when it was all dark, just as Sima Duan was having breakfast, a Qin army scout who went to the east bank of the chasm to investigate the enemy's situation rushed back to the Qin army camp, and before he entered the Chinese army's tent, he couldn't wait to shout: "Quick, go and report to General Sima, the thief army has escaped!" The thief army on the east bank of the chasm ran away overnight! ”

"The thief army on the east bank of the chasm ran away overnight? How can it be?! ”

In disbelief, Sima Duan didn't even finish breakfast, threw down the dishes and chopsticks and got out of the tent, hit the horse and rushed to the high ground on the west bank of the chasm to look west, but what made Sima Duan dumbfounded was that the camp of the young marshal army on the other side was really empty, only some Qin soldiers who ventured into the camp to investigate were active, and there was no shadow of half of the young marshal soldiers. The generals of the Qin army who followed also opened their mouths one by one, and said one after another: "What the hell is the thief army doing? Why did you leave the camp and run away? Where did you go? ”

Where did the young marshal go? Sima Duan was also thinking hard about this question, and then thinking of the situation that the main force of the young marshal's army had crossed the sour jujube and went directly eastward the day before yesterday, Sima Duan's heart suddenly moved, his face suddenly turned a little pale, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Fast! Send someone to chase along the gallop road! Let's see if the thieves on the east bank are heading east along the gallop road! ”

Zhu Jishi's troops really retreated too quickly, and it was only in the afternoon of the same day that the Qin army scouts who went east to chase sent news, which proved Sima Duan's suspicions - the Zhu Jishi headquarters of the young marshal army who abandoned the camp and retreated did go quickly to the east along the Chi Road. As a result, when he heard the news, Sima Duan collapsed on the spot, but the generals of the Qin army next to him were still puzzled, and they all said, "What are the thieves doing in the west?" Didn't they come to fight Aocang? Why don't you fight again? ”

"Are you all stupid pigs and stupid cows?!"

The discussion of the generals was exchanged for Sima Du's hysterical and crazy yelling, "Xiang Kang Xiao'er let his partial division pretend to be in Aocang for a few days and run away immediately, of course, to cover his main force to attack Puyang!" Puyang is the grain land before our main force, and now the city is still rich in grain and grass, and if he takes it, he can be stationed for a long time! It can also cut off our Yellow River transportation and cut off the grain transportation road of our main force! Unless our main force divides its forces to recapture Puyang, the Julu battlefield will soon run out of food! ”

The generals of the Qin army suddenly realized, and hurriedly persuaded Sima Duan to immediately send troops to reinforce Puyang, but Sima Duan was even more furious, and roared again: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er had already sent troops to the east the morning before yesterday, and more than two days have passed, how can we still have time to send troops to rescue Puyang now?" Fooled, we were fooled, our Chaoge garrison was also fooled, it's too late to save Puyang, Puyang, it's dangerous! ”

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Sima Duan may have come to the conclusion too early, because although the sound of the young marshal's army was playing beautifully, there was also a gallop road tens of meters wide from Yangwu to Puyang, but the distance was placed here after all, so when Sima Duan came to his senses, the main force of the young marshal army had just arrived near Puyang, and at the same time, to the surprise of the Puyang defenders, who were only about 3,000, were just when they were busy preparing to defend the city and send people to ask for help, on the road leading to Baimajin in the northwest, more than 400 Qin cavalry suddenly rode their horses and rushed over, And relying on the mobility of the war horse, he rushed to the west gate of Puyang before the advance of the young marshal's army intercepted it, and loudly demanded that Puyang immediately open the door and let them enter the city to avoid the pursuit of the young marshal's army.

The incident happened too suddenly, and the young marshal's army was rapidly approaching the west gate of Puyang, and the Qin general Wang An, who led the army to guard the west gate, had no time to report to the main general, so he could only ask in a hurry in the city: "Where are you from?" From that army? ”

"The last will be five hundred long Yang Xi!" The five hundred commanders of the Qin army led by the city were a Guanzhong person, and they said loudly in an authentic Guanzhong voice: "We are the Great Qin army stationed in Chaoge, and the main general will be Dong Kan, the deputy general under the command of General Zhang Han, who was ordered to go west to reinforce Aocang, and found on the road that the Chu thief army suddenly came in to fight Puyang from the east, and quickly turned around to reinforce Puyang. At present, our vanguard army is crossing the river in Baima, I was ordered to lead the cavalry of the headquarters to come to investigate the enemy's situation, accidentally discovered by the Chu thief cavalry, suffered some losses and could not retreat back to Baima, can only flee to Puyang for help, please open the city gate quickly, let us in! ”

After saying that, Yang Xi also showed his injured right arm and said loudly: "General, please look, I am still injured, please hurry up the city gate, otherwise we will be finished!" ”

As if to verify Yang Xi's words, at this time, sure enough, another team of young marshal cavalry chased after them from the way they came, and at the same time, the front team of the young marshal army who came directly to the west gate of Puyang also chased closer and closer, and the situation was extremely critical. As a result, of course, this made Wang An, the guard of the West Gate of Puyang, extremely difficult, and said loudly: "General Yang, it's not that I don't believe you, it's that the current situation is too critical, I don't have time to screen your identity and origin, I really don't dare to open the door and let you in!" ”

"Don't worry, general, after entering the city, we will immediately lay down our weapons and let you screen at will." Yang Xi pleaded: "The thief army is about to chase after you, if you don't open the city gate again, none of the more than 400 brothers under my command will survive!" Please, please, open the gates quickly! Otherwise, none of us will be able to escape! ”

The cavalry of the Qin army brought by Yang Xi also begged loudly, and a few shouted loudly, all of them were in authentic Guanzhong accents, and at the same time, the pursuers of the young marshal's army were also chasing closer and closer, and they were about to chase to the side of the moat. Out of sympathy, and in order to save these precious Great Qin cavalry, but also because Yang Xi and the others all have authentic Guanzhong accents, and basically they can confirm that they are from Zhang Han's main force without screening, Wang An gritted his teeth, and still shouted: "Open the door immediately and let them in!" ”

According to Wang An's order, the closed Puyang West Gate was quickly opened, and then naturally, Yang Xi's right arm, which was bleeding all over his arm, was immediately healed, and while thanking him loudly, he suddenly picked up the spear in his hand and stabbed the city gate officer who commanded the gate soldiers to death with a spear, and at the same time the Qin cavalry he brought also rushed up, and quickly killed the rest of the Qin army soldiers with a sword and spear, during which Yang Xi also yelled: "Don't get off the horse!" No one should dismount! Otherwise, our people will not be able to distinguish between friend and foe! ”

The incident happened too suddenly, or when the front team of the young marshal army rushed directly across the moat under the cover of Yang Xi's group of Qin cavalry, the soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall woke up like a dream, and hurriedly desperately released arrows to prevent the soldiers of the young marshal army from crossing the river, but of course it was too late to do so, and the young marshal army, who finally caught this opportunity, did not think about any casualties at all, and just rushed directly to the city gate Yongdao, and in ' With the help of the cavalry of the Qin army, he quickly gained control of the city gate and opened the passage of the young marshal's soldiers into the city, and Ding Ji, who led the young marshal's army, also took the lead and rushed into the city with the young marshal's soldiers and soldiers, and started a street battle with the Qin soldiers who were in a hurry.

At this time, Wang An, who found the plan, was remorseful, and had already apologized on the city wall, and the soldiers of the Qin army under his command were all so angry that their eyes were red, and they rushed into the city in a vain attempt to recapture the city gate, and the Qin army reserves in the city also reacted at the first time, and immediately rushed to participate in the battle, and also relied on the local strength advantage, once occupied the upper hand, but they could not take back the control of the city gate and the road, and at the same time, with the rapid arrival of the main force of the young marshal's army, decisively invested troops to strengthen the attack, The balance of the battlefield is still gradually tilting towards the side of the young marshal.

The angry is still behind, seeing that the West Gate is no longer guaranteed, and some Qin soldiers actually directly opened the other three gates to escape from the city, which further hit the morale of the Puyang defenders, and then with the large number of young marshals and soldiers entering the city, the weak Puyang defenders also had no hope of reversal at all, and the smart ones quickly put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender or fled out of the city. The important town of Puyang, where Zhang Han's main force had previously relied on it, fell into the clutches of the despicable villains of the Young Marshal Army.

Wang An, who was kind enough to save people but made a big mistake, may be angry, because after seeing the young marshal and soldiers quickly take Puyang City, Xiang Kang, who personally arranged Yang Xi's fraud city, actually sighed, and said with regret: "I have been going back and forth for so long, and it only took so much time to get it, if I had known that Puyang could be taken so easily, I should have gone north from Suiyang to fight Puyang in the first place, so as not to waste so much food and time." ”

"General Right, be content." Chen Ping next to him said with a wry smile: "If we go north directly from Suiyang, even if the tyrannical Qin army is a fool, will know that we are likely to attack Puyang, not to mention anything else, as long as they are only stationed in Chaoge, as long as they immediately go south to reinforce Puyang, we don't want to have such an opportunity to cheat the city, and there is no certainty of a frontal attack." ”

"That's all we can do to comfort ourselves." Xiang Kang sighed shamelessly and said, "I hope that Zhang Han can leave a little more grain in Puyang City, if we can't even get it back, then we will lose a lot." ”