The heavily battered Yang Zhai Qin army still chose to give up, in the case of the young marshal's army deliberately opening the road to the west gate, there were only more than 1,600 people left in the Yang Zhai Qin army still resolutely chose to stick to the end, while sending people north again to ask for help from the Qin army in Sanchuan County, while organizing the people in the city to participate in the defense of the city, in order to make up for the lack of manpower, but also the vast majority of the young and strong women in Yang Zhai City were recruited into the army, and they were organized into an army separately to participate in the defense of the city.

In addition, in order to make the people in the city resist as bravely as possible, Gao Jing also adopted the suggestions of the officials under his command, and made people hype in Yangzhai City, saying that after the young marshal army and the Korean army broke through Yangzhai City, they would slaughter all the people in the city, regardless of men, women, and children. The people of Yangzhai believed it to be true, and under fear, they strengthened their determination to defend to the death, and willingly served as cannon fodder on the battlefield for the Yangzhai Qin army.

Because of this, after three days to prepare sufficient siege equipment, the young marshal's army could only launch a frontal assault according to the original plan, and the South Korean army also went out to join the battle with the siege weapons they had built.

It stands to reason that the young marshal army and the South Korean army joined forces to fight, and they were also preparing to attack the southeast two gates of Yang Zhai at the same time, and the two armies should be responsible for each battlefield, but the strength of the South Korean army was too weak after all, not only the combat effectiveness was relatively poor, but the number of troops was less than 10,000 people, and it was difficult to take on the heavy responsibility of being alone, so Xiang Kang and Han Cheng agreed early on and decided to mix the forces, and the young marshal army took on the task of suppressing the cover and the main force of the siege, and the Korean army served as the siege vanguard, responsible for the first impact on the city wall and opening the way into the city for the young marshal army.

After arranging Zheng Bu, Ding Ji and Li Shang to be responsible for attacking the east gate of Yang Zhai, the siege battle soon began, and the young marshal soldiers who came forward with a long shield soon lined up a large number of temporary fortifications next to the moat, covering the crossbowmen to hide behind the shield and release arrows to suppress the defenders of the city, and then more than 60 trebuchets lined up to step forward, and at the same time threw stones at the southeast two gates of Yang Zhai to attack the defenders of the Qin army from a distance. There have been casualties of strokes and arrows on both sides.

About half an hour later, taking advantage of the opportunity of the long-range attack of the young marshal's army to contain a large number of defenders in the city, the Korean army, which volunteered to be the vanguard of the siege, began to move, Han Xin and Wang Xier each led a South Korean army, pushing the ladder car and the crash car to stride forward, and at the same time attack the Yangzhai city gate and the section of the river where the outer moat has been filled, and the army also carried a large number of flying ladders, ready to directly launch the ant annex battle while opening the way.

Not to mention, in order to get more benefits in the hands of the young marshal army, the poorly equipped South Korean army also fought quite impressively in this battle, the flying ladder was directly attached to the ants, the ladder car continued to grit its teeth even if it was ignited by the rocket torches of the Qin army, and the city crash convoy was against the hail and rain of arrows falling stones, very difficult to bypass the wall, extremely tenacious approaching the city gate, one after another, even if the three city crashing cars were smashed by boulders, the fourth South Korean army's crashing car still did not hesitate to continue to move forward, Desperately storming the gate of Yangzhai City.

It's a pity that the South Korean army can only do this, the tenacious Yang Zhai defenders saw the move, and burned the two large ladder cars of the South Korean army with rockets and torches one after another, and carried the crashing wood to knock over the Korean army's flying ladder one after another, and smashed countless sheep's head stones and ash bottles to the Korean soldiers who climbed the ladder and climbed the city.

Seeing this scene, in order to share the pressure on the friendly troops who fought hard, Xiang Kang decisively sent additional long shieldmen and crossbowmen to step forward, and covered the friendly attack with more dense feather arrows, but the Qin army was too tenacious, and the Korean army had been blocked under the city by death, even if occasionally there were soldiers who were lucky enough to rush to the city wall, they were quickly eliminated by the defenders with local strength advantages, and they were never able to occupy the position at the head of the city.

Then, something unexpected happened to Xiang Kang, seeing that the sergeant had been unable to attack for a long time, Han Xin, who had been paying attention to Xiang Kang, actually went into battle in person and took the Han sergeant to join the ant war, but unfortunately Han Xin's move made Xiang Kang Yifa disappointed, and said secretly: "What the hell is going on?" How could Han Xin, a generation of soldier immortals, be so stupid? Obviously, the reserve troops are sufficient, and there is time to attack the city calmly, why do you still go into battle in person, and you are not afraid that a stray arrow will kill you if you are unlucky? Is this the talent of that general? ”

Han Xin's personal battle did not play a decisive role, even if to a certain extent to boost the morale of the Korean army, the Korean soldiers still failed to rush to the city, still firmly blocked under the city, at the same time, the two large ladder trucks that the Korean army subsequently put into the sky also ignited a skyrocketing fire, just crossed the filled moat and were scrapped one after another, unable to play a siege role, and the casualties also increased greatly.

After all, the capital is too thin, and after observing it with concern for a while, seeing that the army still has no hope of breaking the city, Han Cheng next to him can only cheekily say to Xiang Kang: "General Right, the soldiers under the command of the widow have been fighting fiercely for more than an hour, their physical strength has dropped significantly, and the casualties are too great, can you ......, can you let them withdraw and rest?" ”

"Pull it off." Xiang Kang nodded generously and said: "King Han's soldiers have tried their best, but the defenders are too tenacious, so they haven't been able to succeed, and King Han's soldiers can fight to this point, and I am also very satisfied." ”

Han Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered someone to ring the golden cymbal and recall the army under his command, but when he heard the sound of Mingjin, the soldiers of the Han army, who had not been able to attack for a long time, were of course relieved, and hurriedly threw down the broken siege weapons, and retreated quickly with the wounded soldiers, while the soldiers of the Qin army in the city were cheering like thunder, excitedly celebrating the first strong attack of the enemy by their own army.

The cheers of the soldiers of the Qin army quickly disappeared, because the Han army had not yet withdrawn from the main formation, and the three thousand young marshal troops had already carried more siege weapons out of the formation, and rushed to the south gate of Yangzhai again under the leadership of the young marshal army general Long Ji, and what shocked the Qin army soldiers even more was that the flying ladders of the young marshal army had already rushed through the moat in large numbers, and the trebuchets of the young marshal army in the distance were still throwing stones, risking the risk of accidentally injuring their companions and continuing to throw stones, covering their companions to attack the city at any cost.

This hand before the war Xiang Kang had already clearly informed the soldiers of the whole army, saying that the trebuchet of the self-army continued to throw stones when the ants were attached to the battle, and it would definitely injure many young marshal soldiers by mistake, but if the stone throwing was abandoned, the defenders of the city would definitely be able to smash more stone ash bottles and cause more casualties to the soldiers of the young marshal army, so instead of temporarily idling the trebuchet, it was better to keep throwing stones and attack the defenders of the city psychologically and physically.

Xiang Kang's hand really received satisfactory results, against the trebuchet of the army and the stones smashed by the enemy on the city at the same time, the young marshal soldiers quickly put the flying ladder on the Yangzhai city wall one after another, and quickly climbed the siege city, and the defenders on the city were taken away by the courage of the young marshal soldiers, and they were obviously at a disadvantage in terms of momentum, and the counterattack was no longer so fierce.

Xiang Kang's luck in the past few days is also obviously better, when the large ladder truck of the young marshal's army entered the range, the rockets released by the defenders were obviously not as dense as before, obviously because they had consumed too much before, and they had not had time to replenish them. Long He, who led the army to attack the city, saw that the opportunity was rare, so he decisively invested in the other remaining ladder truck, and tried his best to open a stable road to the city.

At the same time, the young marshal army on the battlefield of the East Gate has also made a move, and the relatively junior Li Shang sought the consent of Zheng Bu and Ding Ji, led the army to launch the first wave of siege, and also put all the two ladder trucks in his hands into the battlefield, determined to grab the first credit for breaking the city.

The war has also completely entered the white heat, in the earth-shattering war drums and shouts of killing, the flying ladders of the young marshal army are continuous, repeatedly reluctant to set up the Yangzhai city wall, countless young marshal army warriors step on the ladder to charge, and there are also soldiers who successfully rush to the city wall. The four ladder carts also stubbornly advanced against the rockets and torches hurriedly fired by the defenders, and gradually leaned into the Yangzhai city wall, forcing the Qin army to use reserves to go to the city to help the battle, and the trebuchets of the young marshal's army took the opportunity to throw stones frantically, smashing the stones that did not have long eyes into the battlefield of the city wall, which caused great casualties to the defenders who were too dense in the crowd.

Although the first ladder car was burned by the rockets and torches that the Qin army quickly replenished, the second ladder car took advantage of the opportunity of the front car to attract a large amount of firepower, successfully broke through the moat, and leaned against the Yangzhai city wall without much fire, opening a relatively stable road to the city.

Seeing this situation, of course, the Qin army was in an uproar, desperately smashing the stone torches to the ladder cart that had been leaning against the city wall, and the young marshal soldiers were cheering like thunder, pushing the cart soldiers to step up the ladder quickly, and Long Ji also decisively led the reserves in his hands to charge. And Xiang Kang did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Uncle Zhou to lead the army out of the battle and carry more siege weapons to attack the south gate of Yangzhai.

Xiang Kang may not need to do more, Long He and the rear team of the department have just rushed to the foot of Yangzhai City, and the young marshal sergeants who pushed the ladder car forward have already rushed to the head of Yangzhai City, firmly occupying a position at the head of the city, and then after the fierce general Long He rushed to the city wall with a machete made of steel, none of the Qin soldiers on the city wall could be his opponent, and was killed by Long He and the young marshal warriors around him was a ghost crying wolf, flesh and blood flying, and the young marshal warriors behind took the opportunity to rush to the city wall in large numbers, occupies a larger area of the city's head position.

"The winner is decided!" Zhou Zeng said the hearts of all the young marshals and soldiers, and said: "The Tyrannical Qin army has no hope of driving our soldiers off the city wall, and it is only a matter of time before we take Yangzhai." ”

Before the words fell, there was also a huge cheer from the east gate of Yangzhai, and at the same time, a military flag of the young marshal army also appeared on the east gate of Yangzhai.

Seeing this scene, of course, the young marshal's army was more cheerful, and the young marshal's army was also smiling, but Han Cheng and Zhang Liang around Xiang Kang were envious, jealous and hateful, Zhang Liang couldn't help but say to Xiang Kang: "The soldiers under the command of the right general are really getting more and more powerful, only about half an hour, they can rush to the east gate and south gate of Yangzhai successively, and compared with the performance on the Huaisi battlefield, they are definitely more than one or two times stronger." ”

"Haven't you been trained in World War I?" Xiang Kang said with a smile: "After fighting so many battles, the survival of the fittest, of course, it is difficult for the remaining soldiers to grow up." ”

Zhang Liang sighed helplessly, regretting that he was careless in making friends and getting too close to Xiang Bo's best, which led to his failure to play any role in Xiang Kang's creation of the Huaisi Foundation, and missed the opportunity to give himself the opportunity to cultivate an elite army - otherwise, why would the South Korean army fight so the Yingchuan battlefield and not be able to open up a big situation for a long time?

Regret is useless, in order to take advantage of this opportunity to get more benefits, Zhang Liang can only say to Xiang Kang again: "General Right, the victory or defeat has been decided, our king's army is no longer useful, instead of being idle and wasteful, it is better for us to move our troops to the west gate and north gate of Yangzhai in advance, block the escape path of the tyrannical Qin army, and ensure that you can annihilate the tyrannical Qin army in Yangzhai City as much as possible." ”

has successfully rushed to the city wall, and it is obviously unnecessary to continue to surround the three missing one, for the sake of Zhang Liang's face, Xiang Kang also casually agreed, let the Korean army intercept and kill the defeated soldiers of the Qin army, and seize the belongings and weapons of the defeated soldiers of the Qin army. As a result, after the Han army left, the young marshal soldiers led by Uncle Zhou also quickly put two large ladder trucks on the city wall, and more young marshal soldiers rushed to the city head and occupied more city positions, and the defenders of the city were panicked and had begun to flee for their lives in the city.

There is no suspense in the next battle, after successfully occupying the city head position of the southeast two gates, the young marshal soldiers under the city soon crashed open the city gate, directly into the city, the defenders scattered and fled, and also opened the two city gates in the northwest to escape, Yingchuan County Shougao saw that the general trend had gone, and directly killed himself after crying in the county guard's house, and the young marshal soldiers entered the city in large numbers, and quickly seized important facilities such as granaries and arsenals.

At this time, Xiang Kang, who had been brainwashed by modern education, had of course ordered all departments of the Young Marshal's Army to ask the officers and men of the Young Marshal Army to allow the enemy to lay down their arms and surrender, and not to kill the Qin prisoners at will. However, not long after the order was issued, the scout of the young marshal army suddenly came to report that the South Korean army was frantically slaughtering the people of Yangzhai who fled out of the city outside the two gates in the northwest of Yangzhai, and even the Qin soldiers who had already laid down their arms and surrendered. Uncle Ya, Chao Zhi, you temporarily command the whole army for me, and I will go and see the situation in person! ”

"Right General and slow!" Chen Ping hurriedly stopped and said, "For the sake of safety, take our cavalry with you." ”

Xiang Kang thought about it carefully, and immediately ordered Guan Ying to lead the cavalry to protect himself and go to the west gate of Yangzhai with him, Chen Ping did not dare to rest assured, and also rode on a horse to follow Xiang Kang to the west city. As a result, when I arrived at the scene, there were indeed corpses all over the outside of the West Gate of Yangzhai, lying full of the corpses of the people of Yangzhai and the soldiers of Qin, and the elated soldiers of Han not only chased and killed the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhai who fled out of the city, but also rushed directly into the city to kill people and set fires, and next to Han Cheng's flag array, there were dozens of disheveled young women crying loudly, and piled up a pile of packages and belongings that had just been robbed.

At this time, seeing Xiang Kang coming suddenly, Han Cheng, who was soft-mouthed, had already led Zhang Liang and Han Xin to take the initiative to greet Xiang Kang, and said with a smile on his face as soon as they met: "General Right, it was just right, just now the widowed soldiers caught some women who fled out of the city, and a few of them are still good-looking, please choose from General Right and bring them back to serve your daily life." ”

"No need!" Xiang Kang flatly refused, pointed to the corpses all over the ground outside Ximen City, and said angrily: "King Han, what do you mean by this? What's wrong with the Qianshou Li Shu in Yangzhai City, they have already fled for their lives out of the city, why do they still have such a poisonous hand against them? ”

"Some civilians, do you need to care so much about the right general?" Han Cheng asked suspiciously.

"Aren't civilians human?" Xiang Kang, who was very brainwashed by the humanitarian education of modern society, was even more furious and asked: "Without civilians cultivating textiles and working hard, what do we nobles eat and wear?" There are no civilians to serve as soldiers, and our soldiers have formed an army to charge for us? Also, if I'm not mistaken, Yang Zhai should be the old capital of South Korea, and Yang Zhai's commoner Li Shu is also a citizen of South Korea, as the king of Han, you don't want to benefit your people, why do you want to do such a poisonous hand to them?! ”

The education was completely different, Han Cheng was completely dumbfounded by Xiang Kang's training, and only after a while did he mutter: "It is true that they are the people of Han Land, but they are driven by the tyrannical Qin army, help the tyrannical Qin army defend the city, and kill our siege soldiers, so they deserve to ......die." ”

"Fart!" Xiang Kang cursed and shouted: "The knife of the Tyrannical Qin army is on the neck, and they dare not listen to the drive of the Tyrannical Qin army?" If you help the Tyrannical Qin army, you should die, then wouldn't all the civilians in the world who had paid taxes and food to the Tyrannical Qin court deserve to die? We, the Six Kingdoms who were once forced to become Qin people, should all die after that?! ”

Han Cheng was completely speechless, but Han Xin next to him was very dissatisfied, stood up and clenched his fists and said, "General Right, please speak politely to our king!" ”

"Want to do it?" Noticing Han Xin's clenched fists, Xiang Kang immediately sneered and said, "If you want to do it, General Ben will accompany you to the end!" ”

Before Xiang Kang finished speaking, Guan Ying, Yang Xi and countless young marshals and cavalry from civilian backgrounds behind him had already tightened their weapons, sneered and glared at Han Xin and Han Cheng and the others, Zhang Liang saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stood up to play a round, and said with a smile: "General Right, if you have something to say, don't get angry, don't get angry, this matter is not right for us, it is indeed wrong for us." ”

After that, Zhang Liang hurriedly took the responsibility on himself, and said: "King, this matter is also the fault of the subordinates, the subordinates forgot to report to you, the right general is kind-hearted, and he never likes to kill innocents indiscriminately, even if it is a non-commissioned officer of the tyrannical Qin army, as long as he puts down his arms and surrenders, the right general usually will not be held accountable, so under the account of the right general, there are many surrendered Qin army generals, ordinary soldiers, and even many Guanzhong Qin people." It's all to blame that Your Majesty didn't remind you of this, which led to General You's misunderstanding. ”

After taking the opportunity to glance at Han Cheng and Han Xin in succession, Zhang Liang turned to Xiang Kang and said: "General Right, we can't completely blame our king for this, the main reason is that there are many violent Qin soldiers who fled from the city in the crowd of Yangzhai civilians, and our king ordered to intercept them, which caused so many innocent civilians to be injured by mistake." ”

"Accidental injury?" Xiang Kang was angry, and snorted coldly: "But how can I see that your army is indiscriminate at all, whether it is a civilian or a tyrant Qin soldier, they will kill anyone when they see it?" And caught so many women ready to enjoy? ”

"Misunderstanding, really misunderstanding." Zhang Liang stubbornly continued to lie and said: "Since General Right can't get used to it, then we can change it, and I will ask the king to issue an order to prevent soldiers from killing innocents indiscriminately." ”

Xiang Kang snorted coldly again, and then said, "And those women, let them go home too." ”

"No problem." Zhang Liang agreed and said, "Let it go, let it go right away." ”

After that, Zhang Liang looked at Han Cheng like a chicken and wiped his neck, Han Cheng had no choice but to immediately order the release of people, and ordered to prohibit the indiscriminate killing of innocents, Xiang Kang had to inch in, and ordered the cavalry he brought to step forward and led those women to leave the scene, so as not to prevent Han Cheng and others from settling accounts after the autumn and taking those innocent women out of anger, and finally angrily left the Ximen battlefield with the cavalry of the young marshal's army.

"Phew! Hypocrite! ”

This was the first thing Han Cheng said after Xiang Kang left, and Zhang Liang watched Xiang Kang's back as he left, and sighed secretly in his heart, "The heart is good enough, but it's a pity that I don't know what it means to be in charge of the army, and sooner or later I will suffer a big loss in this regard." ”

At the same time, Chen Ping also said to Xiang Kang: "General Right, I'm afraid this is also the last battle we will fight with Han Cheng, with such a conflict, Han Cheng and they will definitely not be willing to join forces with us again." ”

"I don't want to join forces with them anymore." Xiang Kang replied: "The most important thing for us to attack Guanzhong is to win the support of the people, and not to force all the Qin people in Guanzhong to the opposite side of us. ”

After finishing speaking, Xiang Kang bowed to the crying women again, and instructed Chen Ping: "Sir, take a little more effort, let people comfort them, and make sure they know that it was King Han who was holding them up against them to rescue them, and then let them go home." And what happened just now should also be disseminated among the people as much as possible, so that the more people know about it, the better. ”

"Students understand, please rest assured General Right." Chen Ping agreed with a smile, and said with a wicked smile: "General Right, it seems that your attack on Guanzhong this time is definitely not just to destroy Qin, but also for a greater purpose." ”

Xiang Kang smiled and said nothing, but thinking of Zhang Liang's reaction just now, Xiang Kang couldn't help but have some regrets in his heart, and said in his heart: "It seems that Zhang Liang and I are really inseparable, with what happened just now, he will definitely not leave with me no matter what." But there's no way, I can't just watch Han Cheng's gang kill innocents indiscriminately in order to please him, right? ”