Let's take a look at the situation on Chen Qiu's side, and arrange for people to send Li Shi away, Chen Qiu originally planned to return to the Qin army headquarters where he was staying, and gather a few reliable henchmen to discuss the surrender of Kaicheng, but he never thought that as soon as he got down the city wall, Chen Qiu ran into Li Cai, the general of the Qin army who led the army to withdraw from Wuguan, and hit a person in front of him.

Since he happened to meet him head-on, of course Chen Qiu could only ask Li Cai's intentions, and Li Cai was not polite, and said directly: "General Chen, the last general heard that Xiang Kang sent an envoy to contact you, so he came to take a look at the situation, and took the liberty to ask, what is the matter with the thief army sending an envoy into the city?" ”

"Of course, it's a pipe dream, trying to persuade me to surrender." Chen Qiu was not obscure, and then said shamelessly: "I scolded you and left, just left." ”

"In addition to persuading him to surrender, did Xiang Kang's envoy say anything else?" Li Cai asked very worriedly, and said: "General Chen, don't blame, the last general is a person who has suffered a lot, so I have to remind you, Xiang Kang Xiao'er is really too treacherous, before in Wuguan, he used a forged letter fabricated out of thin air to provoke the internal strife of our Great Qin army, and the last general is really afraid that he will repeat his old tricks and play some despicable tricks, so he has to ask a few more words." ”

"It's okay, General Li, you are also thinking about me, how can I blame you?" Chen Qiu waved his hand and said, "But don't worry, the general, except for persuading him to surrender, the envoy of the thief army didn't say anything else, nor did he play any other tricks. ”

At present, he can still trust Chen Qiu, after hearing this, Li Cai's heart was a little relieved, but after seeing the package held by Chen Qiu's personal soldiers, Li Cai hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General Chen, if the last general is not mistaken, the package should be a gift from Xiang Kang Xiao'er to you, right?" Don't hide it from the general, when he was in Wuguan before, Xiang Kang Xiaoer sent someone to persuade the last general to surrender, and also gave the last general some gold and jade, although the last general accepted it, but all of it was replaced by Qin half and two points to the soldiers, and the last general was brave and wanted to persuade the general to do the same as the last general, so as to encourage the morale of the soldiers and soldiers, and also declared the determination of the general and the general to live and die together. ”

"Nosy! Your Li family has been an official for generations, and what you have in your family is money, of course, you can't look down on the gift given to you by General You, but Lao Tzu is born in Qian, can you compare with the Li family? ”

Chen Qiu's heart was a little angry, and his tone was suddenly a little stiff, and he said: "Thank you General Li for your guidance, the thief army used to bribe me with a gift, I will naturally hand it over to the Great Qin Imperial Court, and I don't need the general to worry about me." ”

After that, Chen Qiu led his own soldiers to lift their legs and leave, and then didn't bother to pay attention to the nosy Li Cai, Li Cai looked at his back and was worried, and said secretly: "Say more about Chen Qiu's greed for money, it seems that this matter really can't be faked, if the thief army catches this weakness of him and lures him with huge profits, he will really be moved." No, I'll have to pay more attention to this and find a way to keep an eye on him. ”

Not to mention Li Cai's worries about Chen Qiu, it is only said that after Chen Qiu returned to the Qin army headquarters with some anger, he first carefully hid the gold and jade artifacts that Xiang Kang gave him, and then plucked the feathers of the iron rooster, and asked the family to prepare some wine and meat, and then invited a few cronies he had cultivated in the Wuguan garrison on the grounds of discussing the war at the guard, and while drinking with them, he carefully tested their attitude towards surrendering the young marshal's army.

Chen Qiu also had some roundabout methods, first symbolically discussed the tactics of defending the city with a few cronies, and then quickly brought the topic to the future prospects, sighing and said: "We really don't know if we can win this battle, although the imperial court sent us 20,000 reinforcements, but you also know the situation of the reinforcements, they are all recruits who have basically not been on the battlefield, and it is extremely difficult to fight the rabble of Zhang Chu rebels, let alone fight with the elite soldiers of Chu thieves who have experienced a hundred battles." The situation of our defenders in the pass is even worse, they have not even fought a real battle for more than ten years, what do you think about this? ”

To Chen Qiu's disappointment, several of his cronies may not have understood his hints, and they all bowed their hands and said: "General, don't worry, although our soldiers have not been trained in actual combat, as long as we work together, we are determined that the city is in the city and the city is dead, and with the help of the natural danger and the strong fortress, we will definitely be able to defeat the thieves and keep the city." ”

"A bunch of idiots." Chen Qiu scolded secretly in his heart, and asked unwillingly: "What if you still can't hold it?" ”

"Even if we can't hold it, we have to fight to the last soldier!" A cronie immediately replied: "Yaoguan is the last barrier of the Guanzhong Plain, and behind us are our parents, wives and children, and fellow villagers Sangzi, if we can't shed the last drop of blood for them, even if we withdraw to Guanzhong, we won't have the face to see our parents, relatives, and hometown compatriots." ”

"That's right!" Several other cronies echoed and said: "Old Qin, there is no one who is greedy for life and afraid of death!" For the sake of our parents and loved ones, no matter how difficult this battle is, we will never take a step back! ”

I didn't expect several of his cronies to be so stubborn, Chen Qiu was unexpected, of course, he didn't dare to pierce the last window paper, he could only smile and praise a few cronies for their loyalty to the Great Qin court, and several of Chen Qiu's cronies were more and more energetic, and they also took the initiative to ask for help, to lead the army out of the city to guard the sheep and horse wall position under the city when the young marshal army launched an attack on the city, so as to delay the attack of the young marshal army, and show the determination and courage of the defenders of the pass not afraid of strong enemies. Chen Qiu secretly complained in his heart, but he still had a forced smile on his face, and kept praising the loyalty and courage of several cronies, and his mouth was wrong to the extreme.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the defenders of the north and south gates of the pass also sent people to report, saying that the north gate of the pass had been closed, and the defenders of the north and south gates had also been rotated. ”

Several cronies had no choice but to follow Chen Qiu's instructions, and only got up to say goodbye after eating dinner with Chen Qiu, Chen Qiu didn't send them off, and immediately after they left, he ordered: "Prepare hot soup, I'm going to wash and rest." ”

"General, aren't you going to the city to inspect the military situation?" The captain of the pro-soldier asked cautiously.

"Still patrolling a fart, you don't know about the daytime?" Chen Qiu scolded in a low voice, in addition to urging the captain of the pro-soldier to hurry up and prepare hot water for himself, he said in his heart: "It's troublesome, I can't imagine that the few bastards raised by Lao Tzu are so stubborn, how can I surrender the city now?" ”

Fortunately, Chen Qiu is the general of the pass after all, even if there is no way to persuade his generals to join forces with him to lead the army to surrender, but it is not difficult to quietly open the city gate, so after lying on the bed and pondering for a long time, Chen Qiu gradually made up his mind, and said secretly: "It can only be like this, after sending someone out of the city tomorrow, General Right will contact him and ask him to prepare in advance, and then when the third watch is held tomorrow night, Lao Tzu will quietly open the city gate with his own soldiers to welcome General You's soldiers into the city." Although the credit for doing this is small, at least it fulfills what Lao Tzu promised the right general, and the reward that the right general promised me should also be indispensable. ”

After quietly making up his mind, Chen Qiu, who was completely relieved, quickly fell asleep, and at the same time, because there were no generals to inspect and supervise the city, the soldiers of the Qin army were not only extremely lax at night, but also leaned on the arrow stacks and yawned and fell asleep for days, and with the gradual passage of time, drowsiness and drowsiness aggravated, and even several Qin army patrols who came and went to patrol were lazy, found a sheltered place to sit down and nap, and the surveillance of the city was completely useless.

Of course, the young marshal soldiers who are determined to be surprised will not miss such a good opportunity, the third watch has just arrived, a group of black shadows sneakily touched the edge of the moat at the south gate of the pass, and under the cover of the night, carried more than ten flying ladders lightly over the bridge on the moat, directly touched the south gate of the pass, and then quickly set up the ladder to the head of the city, more than a dozen warriors climbed the ladder up, almost effortlessly climbed to the head of the city.

Up to this moment, the Qin soldiers on this section of the wall were still asleep, and soon someone suddenly covered their mouths in their sleep, and was stabbed into the heart by a sharp blade, and they didn't make a sound until they died, and the black shadow under the wall had a piece in their mouths, and kept climbing up the ladder, and climbed up the city one after another under the response of their companions, and quickly controlled a large area of the city head position. At the same time, more black shadows carried more ladders over the moat, putting more ladders on the head of the city......

Or after more than two hundred black shadows touched the head of the city, a Qin soldier who was awakened by urine found that the situation was wrong, and quickly rang the alarm gong, but at this time it was too late and too late, hearing the sound of the gong, the young marshal soldiers who had already landed in the city immediately launched a strong attack, and cut down the surrounding Qin soldiers as much as possible, and at the same time, the city was also full of people, and more young marshals and soldiers carried flying ladders and hit wood directly through the moat, while climbing the city with flying ladders, while directly hitting the gate of Yaoguan.

The sound of more gongs soon resounded at the south gate of the pass, and the shouts of killing also entered the pass, but unfortunately, because Chen Qiu did not arrange a mobile army at night, although the soldiers of the Qin army in the city were also quickly awakened, but none of the troops could quickly complete the assembly, and immediately rushed to the south gate battlefield to reinforce, and the generals and soldiers were all busy dressing and armor, looking for weapons, and they were in a mess. The young marshal soldiers seized the opportunity to quickly go to the city, slashed and killed the defenders of the city who were also caught off guard, and also used the torches of the defenders to set fire to the south gate tower of the pass, burning the soldiers of the Qin army who lived in the city tower in chaos.

At this time, Chen Qiu had also been woken up by the captain of his own soldiers, and in a daze, he heard the shouting and killing sound from the direction of the south gate, and Chen Qiu shouted in disbelief, "How is it possible?" I have already promised to surrender to General You, why did he still come to attack Yaoguan? ”

No one could answer Chen Qiu's question, on the contrary, out of the habitual reaction of many years of fighting, Chen Qiu subconsciously shouted: "Quick! Fast! Blow the trumpet and gather the army! Give Yan Qi an order and tell him to immediately lead the army to the city for reinforcements! ”

The soldiers agreed, and they immediately rushed out to give orders, but Chen Qiu immediately shouted: "Wait, wait!" ”

was about to go to herald the pro-soldier to turn back in confusion, and the captain of the pro-soldier also hurriedly asked, "General, what's wrong?" Why don't you blow the trumpet and send reinforcements again? ”

"Have you forgotten the handwritten letter I wrote to General Right today?" Chen Qiu said with a sad face: "If we defend the city tonight and ruin the good deeds of General You, and General Right hands over my letter to the court in anger, do you want my family's head anymore?" ”

The captain of the pro-soldier came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "General, what should we do now?" ”

Chen Qiu hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I have to hide, no one will see, if anyone comes to ask, you will say that I went to the city to inspect the night defense." ”

In this way, when the south gate of the Qin Pass was already 100,000 urgent, Chen Qiu, the guard of the Qin army, for his own head and the reward promised by Xiang Kang, Leng took a few henchmen and soldiers to hide in his treasury, and also sent the remaining soldiers to guard the gate of the Qin army headquarters, and let a few reliable soldiers be responsible for coming forward, claiming to the Qin army generals who rushed to wait for their lives that they had gone to the city to inspect the military situation, and asked the Qin army generals to go to the city wall to find themselves.

In this way, it is natural to suffer the poor soldiers of the defenders of Yaoguan, obviously several armies have been hurriedly assembled, but there is no order from Chen Qiu, but that army does not dare to rush to the south gate of Yaoguan without authorization to reinforce, the generals of the Qin army sent countless people to the city to look for Chen Qiu, and there is no trace of Chen Qiu, all of them are so anxious that they are sweating profusely, but no one can do anything.

In the end, there was really no way, and the Qin army Yan Qi, who was closest to the south gate of the pass, could only make an assertion and rush to the south gate of the pass with the army to reinforce without Chen Qiu's consent. But at this time, it was too late, too late, not only had more than 1,000 young marshals rushed to the city wall, basically controlling the city head position at the south gate of the pass, but also smashed the city gate to the ground, there were several cracks, no matter how the Qin soldiers sacrificed their lives to attack, there was no hope of recapturing the city head position, they could only resist the city gate with their lives, and the dying struggle to buy reinforcements for the rear army.

The Qin army may still have hope, because Chen Qiu can't really be found, and the defenders of the north gate of the pass are also good at making claims, opening the north gate of the pass in the middle of the night, and letting the Qin army Li Cai's troops who are urgently dispatched enter the city for reinforcements, but seeing that although the soldiers of the Qin army have been assembled into an army with torches, there are not too many troops fighting on the south gate, Li Cai of course has almost an angry stomach, and has just rushed to the command department of the Qin army, and immediately yelled at the generals of the Qin army waiting in front of the door, "You are crazy? The thief army has already rushed to the south gate of the city, why don't you take the army to reinforce the south gate battlefield, and you are still waiting here for a leisurely meal?! ”

"General Li, you can't blame us for this." The generals of the Qin army shouted one after another, and said with a sad face: "It's General Chen, he is gone, no one has given the command, and none of us dare to lead the army to the city without authorization." ”

"General Chen is gone, why is he gone?" Li Cai was taken aback, and when asked if Chen Qiu disappeared after going to the city to inspect, Li Cai was still worried, and said secretly: "Could it be that Chen Qiu's luck is not good, when he was patrolling the city, he happened to be bumped into by the thieves who attacked and was killed by the thieves?" ”

There is nothing to be done about worrying, and after a little calculation, Li Cai hurriedly yelled at the generals of the Qin army: "There can't be no master in the army!" Now that General Chen's whereabouts are unknown, I will give you the command, are you willing to obey the order? ”

"I want to listen to the general's orders!"

The generals of the Qin army clasped their fists together and replied loudly, Li Cai nodded, and then immediately ordered the Qin army to directly reinforce the south gate of the pass, and sent two armies to go up to the city from the east and west of the pass, and attacked the two wings of the young marshal army of Dengcheng on the left and right, and led the men and horses of the headquarters as the general reserve.

Li Cai's immediate decision still played a certain role, relying on the help of the reinforcements, the soldiers of the Qin army still held the south gate of the pass, and did not let the young marshal soldiers knock down the city gate and directly enter the city, but the Qin army's previous debts were too much, and the head of the south gate city had been completely lost, and the young marshal soldiers still relied on the flying ladder to rush to the south gate city inexhaustibly, not only firmly held the position of the city head, but also began to attack the east and west of the city pass, and killed the Qin army soldiers who hurriedly went to the city to reinforce it. At the same time, seeing that the city gate could not be opened, the young marshal soldiers also immediately changed their strategy, began to pile up firewood and grass under the city gate, and set fire to the city gate directly, while the Qin army could not directly pour water from the city to extinguish the fire, and could only continue to pour water on the city gate to delay the time when the city gate was burned.

In the chaos, of course, it was difficult for the Qin army to ensure the water supply inside the city gate, and the young marshal soldiers were also very clever in using the city defense weapons left by the Qin army, constantly falling stones and trees from the city wall, preventing the Qin army from transporting water to extinguish the fire.

Seeing that the city gate was destroyed by fire, the soldiers of the Qin army, who had nothing to defend, simply mustered up the courage to launch a counter-charge, in a vain attempt to directly kill the soldiers of the young marshal army who retreated outside the city, destroy the ladder of the young marshal army, and cover the friendly army to recapture the position at the head of the city. But such brave Qin soldiers soon found that they were too naïve, in front of the experienced young marshal soldiers, their counter-charge was purely a moth to the fire, no matter how they struggled, it was useless, not only could not shake the position of the young marshal soldiers, but also was quickly killed by the young marshal army and retreated, and was forced to retreat to the city gate Yongdao, the young marshal soldiers followed into the Yongdao, and the Qin soldiers fought in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark.

When the battle situation at the South Gate was reported to Li Cai, Li Cai behind the gate immediately understood that it was difficult to keep the Pass, but out of duty, Li Cai still sent someone to order all units of the Qin Army, asking the generals of the Qin Army to lead the soldiers of the Qin Army to continue the fight to the death, and at the same time sent people to contact the Xianyang Lieutenant Army who had arrived in Lantian again, in a vain attempt to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements by street fighting and recapture the last barrier of the Guanzhong Plain.

In the face of absolute strength, no matter how dying and struggling is useless, when the fourth watch is more than halfway, first the east of the city head position of the pass is lost, and then the west of the city head position is also declared to have fallen, at the same time, the young marshal army soldiers who continue to go to the city also launched a charge from the steps of the city, and the friendly army from the city gate into the city, and successfully covered the friendly army to break through the Qin army's defense line on the inside of the city gate, the young marshal's army swarmed into the city, the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, and countless soldiers fled into the city with shouts.

This is not over, after successfully seizing the east and west of the two city head positions, the young marshal army soldiers even refused to give up, and along the city wall to the south gate of the city to attack, found this situation, Chen Qiu did not dare to hesitate under the shock, and quickly sent troops to reinforce the south gate of the city position, so as not to lose the south gate, and the Qin army was caught in the urn of the young marshal.

When the fifth watch came, the defeat of the Qin army was revealed, and the armies were either directly defeated by the young marshal's army, or fled to the south gate of the pass on their own, and Li Cai's generals also hurriedly persuaded Li Cai to retreat quickly, so as not to be caught by the young marshal's army urn. Li Cai's heart was like a knife, but he had no choice but to nod, but when he was about to retreat, Li Cai suddenly remembered one thing, and hurriedly pointed to the Qin army headquarters next to him, and shouted: "Ignite the fire, burn this place, there are countless important documents of our Great Qin army hidden inside, and they can't be left to the thief army!" ”

Li Cai's personal soldiers agreed, and immediately rushed in with torches to set fire, but Chen Qiu's personal soldiers who were guarding the door panicked and hurriedly shouted: "Can't burn, can't burn!" ”

In the panic, one of Chen Qiu's personal soldiers also shouted in a ghostly manner, "You can't burn it!" Our General Chen is still inside! ”

"What?!" Li Cai's surprise was not trivial, and he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Chen Qiu's personal soldier, and shouted, "You General Chen are inside?" Didn't you General Chen go missing after going to the city to inspect it, why are you in this now? Say it quickly, or I will kill you!" ”

couldn't resist Li Cai's obscenity, and Chen Qiu's personal soldiers could only cry and say with a sad face: "General, it's none of my business!" It was General Chen who asked us to do this, and he hid in it himself and didn't want to come out, so he asked us to lie to you here. ”

"Piff!" Li Cai was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and shouted: "Where is he hiding? Take me to him right away! ”

Forced by Li Cai, Chen Qiu's personal soldiers could only lead the way obediently, leading Li Cai to the door of the money vault where Chen Qiu was hiding, Li Cai's personal soldiers quickly knocked open the door of the money treasury, rushed into the room to search, and then by the light of the torch, Li Cai, who was carrying a sword, also quickly saw that Chen Qiu, who had disappeared before, was hiding behind a large pile of cash boxes with a few of his henchmen!

At this moment, Li Cai couldn't help laughing, and laughed out loud with great sadness and indignation: "Piff! You've done a great job! ”

Chen Qiu also thought that his death was not miserable enough, and in extreme fear, Chen Qiu also said that Li Cai already knew all the truth, and shouted in despair: "General Li, don't mess around!" As long as you let me go, I will take you to see the right general of Chu State, and beg him to spare you from death! Give you the same reward as I do! ”

"What?!" Li Cai was taken aback again, and then suddenly realized, and laughed wildly: "Okay! It turns out that you, the horseman, deliberately avoided the army because you secretly surrendered to the thief army! I'll just say, how can a shameless villain like you, who is greedy for money and profit, so happy to refuse the surrender of the thief army? ”

Laughing wildly, Li Cai waved his sword and shouted, "Take them down!" ”

Li Cai's personal soldiers immediately rushed forward, quickly hacked Chen Qiu's personal soldiers who tried to resist, and took Chen Qiu down, Chen Qiu struggled and cried, "General Li, spare your life!" Spare your life! As long as you spare me, the money here is all yours and yours! And the reward given to me by the right general will be all for you! It's all up to you! ”

Li Cai didn't say a word, but just opened a cash box casually, revealing a large box full of Qin Banliang, Li Cai grabbed a handful of Qin Banliang, stepped forward and pinched Chen Qiu's mouth, and then stuffed Qin Banliang into Chen Qiu's mouth, and roared with red eyes: "Aren't you greedy for money?" Aren't you greedy for money? I'll make you greedy, greedy enough for one! Enough for greed! ”

Chen Qiu whined in his mouth, snot and tears gushed together, shaking his head and just begging and struggling, but one after another copper coins were still stuffed into his mouth one after another, and he was stabbed into his stomach by Li Cai and his personal soldiers with the hilt of their swords, until his limbs gradually stopped twitching and his stomach rose high.

On that day, greedy for money and greedy to the point that even Taishi Gong couldn't help but record a sum of Qin Army's Guan guard Chen Qiu, who was alive and died by the money he had gathered, and the Guanguan City he guarded was also captured by the young marshal army who was as fierce as a jackal and as fierce as a tiger, and the Qin army in Guanzhong no longer had any natural dangers to defend, and the road for the young marshal army to march into Xianyang was a flat river, and the rich and prosperous Guanzhong Plain was also like a fat lamb, completely exposed to the butcher's knife of the young marshal army, a group of jackals and hungry tigers.