In addition to defeating the main force of the Korean army head-on, it also fought very tenaciously in the face of the powerful offensive of the young marshal army, and on the western front, Lengshi fought nearly half of the elite of the young marshal army who crossed the river in the first wave, if it were not for the second round of the young marshal army's rush to the west bank of Yingshui in time to reinforce, the first young marshal army of 1,000 people who crossed the river was almost defeated by the Qin army.

On the eastern front, after the front army of the Qin army, whose physical strength had declined, was disrupted by the new force of the young marshal army killed by the two wings, the rear army of the Qin army led by Cheng Xu Wei of Yingchuan County formed a circle formation in time, stubbornly withstood the impact of the young marshal army, and dragged the young marshal army with the advantage of strength into a stalemate against the war of attrition, and the tenacity of the fighting spirit made Xiang Kang can't help but praise it.

But there is no way, the disparity in strength is still too great, the total number of more than 33,000 young marshal army not only occupies an absolute advantage in terms of troops, combat experience is a few streets away from the Yingchuan county soldiers who were born in bandits, so no matter how tenacious the Qin soldiers on the west bank of Yingshui are, in the end they still failed to stop the young marshal army from forcibly crossing Yingshui, and was forced to withdraw to Yangzhai City to defend the city after paying a certain number of casualties. The eastern front side also failed to resist the rotational impact of the young marshal's army, the circle was scattered, the soldiers fled, and they were chased and killed by the young marshal's soldiers for more than 20 miles, and most of the troops were lost, and there was no longer any strength to threaten the back of the main force of the young marshal's army.

After the battle, the main force of the young marshal's army quickly crossed Yingshui and set up camp outside the open Yangzhai South Gate, Han Cheng also cheekily crossed Yingshui with the rabble under his command, and established the camp next to the camp of the young marshal's army, and pulled Zhang Liang to Xiang Kang at the first time to ask for a joint attack on Yangzhai City, and proposed to divide the money and grain in the city into four or six after the city was broken, and brazenly wanted to rely on a group of rabble to divide the forty percent of the money and grain in Yangzhai City.

Considering that the self-army could not carry too much grain and grass to the south, Xiang Kang did not categorically refuse Han Cheng's shameless demand, but Xiang Kang did not rush to agree, but just said to Han Cheng: "King Han, don't worry, how to distribute money and grain will be talked about later, the most important thing for us at the moment is how to take Yang Zhai as soon as possible, and when we find out the specific situation of Yang Zhai and decide on the tactics of attacking the city, it is too late to discuss the matter of money and grain." ”

Knowing that Xiang Kang was not a black-hearted person who ate alone, Han Cheng nodded busily and agreed, at this time, Chen Ping, who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners on the west bank, returned to Xiang Kang and reported to Xiang Kang: "General Right, the confession of the prisoners has come out, there were originally more than 4,000 violent Qin troops on the battlefield in Yangzhai, and we fought out six or seven hundred of them when we crossed the river, and it is estimated that there are about 3,500 defenders in Yangzhai City." ”

Xiang Kang frowned a little, because although there were not many defenders in Yangzhai City, it was definitely not too small, if he blindly only defended without fighting, even if the young marshal army could finally take Yangzhai City, the losses would definitely not be small. Uncle Zhou next to him also said: "General Right, the enemy still has the strength to fight, we had better figure out the city defense situation of Yang Zhai as soon as possible and see how to attack the city." ”

Xiang Kang nodded, and soon decided to lead Uncle Zhou and Chen Ping to investigate the enemy situation under Yangzhai City in person, and understand the city defense situation of Yangzhai on the spot.

The results of the exploration under the city still made Xiang Kang frown, because of the continuous war in Yingchuan, the Yangzhai defenders obviously spent a lot of effort to repair the city defense, dredged the moat, repaired and strengthened the city wall of nearly three zhang, and built a wall in front of the city gate that can hinder the progress of the city car, which is very difficult to attack, and the north gate of Yangzhai is directly protected by Yingshui, and only the east, west and south three gates can be attacked, which invisibly increases the difficulty of the siege of the young marshal's army.

"It's a city that's not easy to fight." Uncle Zhou also came to the same conclusion as Xiang Kang, and said: "If we attack head-on, we must build more siege weapons, give full play to our strength advantage and attack continuously, so as not to give the tyrannical Qin army in the city a chance to breathe, so that we can hope to break the city." In addition, we had better let go of the West Gate and let the Tyrannical Qin army have a way to escape, which can relieve some of our siege pressure. ”

Xiang Kang was silent, just constantly thinking about how to highlight the strange soldiers, use his own tricks to win by surprise, and take Yangzhai City at the smallest cost. And Zhang Liang, who was next to him, finally seized the opportunity to perform in front of Xiang Kang, and stood up and proposed: "General Right, I have few enemies, and I am strong and weak, why don't you try to send an envoy into the city to surrender?" The Yingchuan County Shougao of the tyrannical Qin was reasoned with, and he was persuaded to take the initiative to open the city and surrender. ”

"It's worth a try." Xiang Kang finally spoke and said: "I will send a messenger into the city in a while to persuade Gao Jing to see the current affairs clearly and take the initiative to open the city and surrender." ”

It was also a coincidence that Xiang Kang had just decided to try to surrender, and there was a crowd of people in Yangzhai City, and the group suddenly went up from the city to the south gate of Yangzhai. ”

Xiang Kang tried his best to see the situation in the city, but Han Cheng next to him couldn't wait, and just saw that Yingchuan County Shou Gao Jing went to the city in person, and immediately said: "It's just right, General Right, since Gao Jing is here in person, then we will simply send someone over immediately, shout under the city, and directly persuade Gao Jing to open the city and surrender." ”

Xiang Kang was also about to test the enemy's attitude towards surrender, and immediately nodded after listening to the suggestion, and asked who dared to go to the city to directly persuade him to surrender, Han Cheng, who was in a hurry, immediately pointed to his servant Han Yang and ordered: "Han Yang, you can speak well, you go and give it a try." ”

Han Cheng's servant Han Yang was a little timid, but he didn't dare to openly disobey Han Cheng's order, so he could only slap his horse forward, trotted to the south gate of Yangzhai and shouted loudly, and directly persuaded Gao Jing, the guard of Yingchuan County, who was just going to the city, to surrender the city, but unfortunately Gao Jing not only did not listen, but also decisively ordered the Qin soldiers in the city to shoot Han Yang with arrows, Han Yang hurriedly slapped his horse and fled, but the two feather arrows still hit his back one after another, and Han Yang screamed in pain and almost fell off the war horse. In the end, he tightened his horse's neck and escaped out of the range of the Qin army's bow and arrows, and did not die under the Qin army's random arrows on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Han Cheng was of course furious, and shouted loudly: "Gao Jing Pifu, the two countries are fighting, if you don't kill the envoy, you actually dare to release arrows at the envoy of this king!" When Yingchuan City is breached, the widow must kill you to death! ”

The envoy of the arrow was not a member of the young marshal's army, Xiang Kang was of course not as annoyed as Han Cheng, he just glanced at Gao Jing who was scolding in the city from a distance, and then casually ordered: "Go back, there is not much hope for surrender, go back and discuss how to attack the city." ”

After leading everyone back to the camp of the young marshal's army, Xiang Kang first arranged for Zhou Zeng to organize manpower as soon as possible to make all kinds of siege weapons for backup, and then put forward two requirements to Han Cheng, one is to ask Han Cheng to send troops to Yangzhai City every night from that day onwards to beat gongs and drums, forge the illusion of siege, so that the defenders in the city will not be at peace day and night, and the other is to ask the main force of the Han army to take on the task of filling the moat, and from tomorrow onwards, he will go all out to carry the earth and pick up stones to fill the moat at the southeast gate of Yangzhai. In the end, Xiang Kang promised to send troops to cover the Han army's reclamation of the river, and also gave Han Cheng forty percent of the money and grain after the city was broken.

Xiang Kang's arrangement was naturally to let the Han army undertake the auxiliary task of attacking the city, but fortunately, Han Cheng was still a little self-aware, knowing that the rabble under his command wanted to fight the ants and annex the war purely to give the Qin army a head, so he immediately obediently agreed. But at this time, Han Cheng's guards suddenly came to report again, saying that Han Yang, the brother of the Han Cheng clan who persuaded him to surrender the arrow, was too seriously injured and could not be rescued, and he swallowed his breath as soon as he returned to the Han army camp.

After Han Cheng left, Xiang Kang, who was quite tired, was about to take a break, but unexpectedly, there were pro-soldiers outside the tent, saying that it was Xiang Kang's uncle who was named the next doctor, and that he wanted to see him, and that he had an important military event to report to Xiang Kang in person, Xiang Kang muttered after listening to it, and said secretly: "What important military affairs does that sycophant spirit need to report in person?" ”

Here is also by the way to introduce the situation of Shusun Tong, after Pengcheng was sent to serve under Xiang Kang, who looked down on Shu Sun Tong, Xiang Kang, who personally took Shu Sun Tong to see Xiang Liang, could only casually give Shu Sun Tong an official position of a doctor, and let him help Zhou Zeng deal with some military chores, and then although Shusun Tong did a good job, but there has been no too good performance, Xiang Kang does not like his flattery and flattery when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, so he has not been allowed to participate in military affairs. I almost forgot the existence of this number one Confucian scum in the last years of the Qin Dynasty.

To get back to the point, although he didn't like Shusun Tong's personality very much, since Shusun Tong said that there was a major military situation that needed to be reported, Xiang Kang still nodded and agreed to summon Shusun Tong. Then, as Xiang Kang expected, he had just entered the big tent of the Chinese army, and when he saw Xiang Kang resting on the desk with a tired face, Shusun Tong immediately asked with a nervous face: "General Right, are you unwell?" Uncomfortable there? Do you want to send a medical worker to show you? Xia Guan was looking for a good doctor in Puyang the day before yesterday, and his medical skills are very good, why don't you announce that he will come to show you? ”

"No need." Xiang Kang shook his head and said, "It's just a little tired, and there's nothing uncomfortable." ”

"General Right, then you must have a good rest, you are the master of our whole army, you must not be tired, our soldiers of Chu State cannot live without your wise leadership." Uncle Sun Tong couldn't wait, and said: "Otherwise, let the lower official pinch your feet for you, the lower official also knows a little medical Taoism, especially good at pinching feet." ”

"No need, no need." Xiang Kang, who was unwilling to let a man massage his feet, quickly shook his head again and again, and then quickly changed the topic and said, "Mr. Uncle Sun, didn't you say that there is any major military situation to report to me?" What is the military intelligence event? ”

"General Yuyou, the major military situation that the subordinate wants to report is related to how our army took Yang Zhai." Shusun Tong hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Xiaguan suggests that for the violent Qin army in Yangzhai City, our army might as well adopt a siege strategy of both grace and might, while attacking the city by force, while sending envoys into the city, the violent Qin army knows the reason, and persuades them to obey the heavens, take the initiative to lay down their weapons and surrender the city, if this move is successful, our army may be able to take Yangzhai Jiancheng directly without spending a single soldier." ”

"If only it were that easy." Xiang Kang, who was very tired, smiled bitterly, and didn't bother to introduce the situation that the envoy recruited by the Han army had been killed by the Qin army's arrows just now.

"The lower officials are brave, I think I might as well give it a try." Shusun Tong said cautiously: "Xiaguan doesn't dare to deceive General You, when Xiaguan served as a doctor of edict in the Tyrannical Qin Imperial Court, he had several encounters with the Tyrannical Qin Yingchuan County Shougaojing in Yangzhai City, and they are quite familiar with each other. ”

"Sir, know Gao Jing?" Xiang Kang finally became interested.

"Acquaintance." Shusun Tong nodded and said: "Three years ago, he went to Xianyang to report on his work, and the lower officials met him a few times, and they used to drink together at the same table, which is considered an old friend. ”

After that, Shusun Tong couldn't wait to give up his hand and said: "General Right, if you don't mind, the lower official is willing to personally bring your letter into the city to persuade Gao Jing to take the initiative to open the city and surrender for you, maybe you can be sure that you can succeed." ”

"Sir is willing to go into the city in person to persuade him to surrender? Aren't you afraid that Gao Jing Pifu will turn his face ruthlessly and be unfavorable to you? Xiang Kang was even more surprised, and finally looked at his uncle Sun Tong, who was messing up at every turn.

"As long as you can serve General Right and repay General Right for his great kindness, even if Yang Zhai City is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, the lower officials are willing to go on a journey for General You! It's a big deal that people's heads fall to the ground, why should the lower officials be afraid? ! ”

Uncle Sun Tong replied righteously, but muttered in his heart: "The two countries are fighting, don't cut it, the old man has a small friendship with Gao Jing Pifu, the danger is not big, this risk can be taken." ”

"Mr. Uncle Sun, you have to think about it carefully, this is not a joke."

Xiang Kang made a warning, and then told Shusun Tong that Gao Jing asked Qin Jun to shoot Han Cheng's envoy to death, and then naturally, cold sweat poured out from Shusun Tong's forehead like a waterfall, and at the same time, Shusun Tong screamed loudly in his heart, "Gao Jing Pifu, it turns out that you are so ruthless as an old horseman!" It's miserable, the old man just said too much, if General Right really forced me to go into the city to persuade you to surrender, my old life must not be explained to you?! ”

Fortunately, Xiang Kang is not a person who likes to force the accomplice lackeys to die in vain, just seeing the cold sweat on Shusun Tong's face like rain, and his body trembling slightly involuntarily, Xiang Kang knew that this sycophant was too big to hold his mouth, and he couldn't bear to embarrass him, so he took the initiative to say: "Mr. Uncle Sun, if you don't do this, since you are familiar with Gao Jing, then you might as well repair a book, persuade Gao Jing with kind words, persuade him to see the current affairs, take the initiative to open the city and surrender as soon as possible, I will send someone to shoot an arrow on the Yangzhai city wall, Then let's see the reaction of Gao Jing. ”

Uncle and grandson Tongru was amnesty, quickly nodded and agreed, and immediately sat aside to write a book, wrote a splendid article with clusters of flowers, as a friend to the old friend Gao Jing moved with affection, knew it with reason, and persuaded Gao Jing to take the initiative to open the city to surrender, and also said that Gao Jing as long as he wanted, he could enter the city at any time to talk about the old feelings with Gao Jing, in order to show his sincerity. Xiang Kang was quite satisfied when he saw it, and by the way, he sent someone out of the camp and shot Shusun Tong's letter on the Yangzhai city wall with a bow and arrow, and then he no longer cared about this matter.

The matter is not over, after Shusun Tong's letter was shot at the head of Yangzhai City, it was quickly sent to Yingchuan County Shou Gaojing, but before he finished reading Shusun Tong's letter, Gao Jing, who was loyal to the Great Qin Court, was already furious, and scolded: "Shameless villain! As the imperial court doctor of Great Qin, if he didn't assist the emperor to exterminate the thieves outside the Guan, he even dared to take refuge in the Chu thieves and persuade the official to surrender to the Chu thieves! Despicable rats, I swear to kill you! ”

roared angrily, Gao Jingyu was angry, and kicked over the desk in front of him with one kick, and hurriedly persuaded Gao Jing to calm down, not to be angry for the sake of Shusun Tong, a despicable villain. However, after Gao Jing finally calmed down, he suddenly moved in his heart, and hurriedly picked up Shusun Tong's letter and read it again, and when he saw that Shusun Tong was willing to enter the city at any time to recount the old feelings with him, Gao Jing suddenly laughed out loud and said: "Arrange a messenger to go out of the city tomorrow to contact the Chu thief, and say that the old man is willing to discuss the major matters in the letter with Uncle Sun Tong face to face, and ask Uncle Sun Tong to come into the city to discuss directly with the official." ”

"County guard, do you want to discuss the surrender of Kaesong with your uncle and grandson in person?" The left and right henchmen were shocked, and they couldn't believe that Gao Jing, who was loyal to the Great Qin Imperial Court, would say such a thing.

"Bullshit!" Gao Jing scolded a dirty word, and said with a cruel smile: "The old man is going to trick the traitor from Uncle Sun Tong into the city, put him to death at the head of the city, and let our soldiers share the flesh and blood of this dog thief, and declare our determination to live and die together with Yang Zhai!" ”

That night, the Korean army that carried out harassment tactics for Xiang Kang once again completely angered Gao Jing, who was tortured by the noise of drums and gongs and did not sleep well for a night, and sent an envoy out of the city early the next morning, carrying his own letter to the camp of the young marshal's army, and inviting his uncle and grandson, whom he hated deeply, into the city to discuss in person.

As a result, Shusun Tong, the number one scum of Confucianism in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, naturally fell into despair, although Xiang Kang also had doubts about Gao Jing's request to let Shusun Tong personally enter the city to negotiate, but the young marshal army Wenwu tried his best to persuade Xiang Kang to give it a try behind his back, and also hinted that even if there was any mistake, it would not matter, and it would be completely unscathed for the main force of the young marshal army, but once it succeeded, it would definitely be a huge benefit. In addition, the envoy sent by Gao Jing said very beautifully, saying that Gao Jing misses his old friend and hopes to have a good time with his former friend Shusun Tong, as if he has really been shaken, so Xiang Kang can only kick this ball to Shusun Tong himself after thinking about it, and ask Shusun Tong: "Mr. Uncle Sun, Gao Junshou wants you to personally go to the city to discuss the surrender, are you willing to go?" ”

More sweat appeared on Shusun Tong's forehead, and he wanted to say that he didn't have the courage to take this risk, but he really couldn't afford to lose this person, plus many colleagues were next to him, all eyes were focused on himself, and Shusun Tong didn't have the face to open his mouth to refuse. What's even worse is that the messenger sent by Gao Jing also made up for it next to him, and said, "Mr. Uncle Sun, didn't you say in your letter to our county guard that you can talk about the old relationship with our Gao county guard at any time?" Why is it that our high county guard invites you into the city now, and you don't want to? ”

"Did I write this paragraph?" After recalling it blankly, thinking that he had indeed written such a paragraph on the persuasion letter, Shusun Tong suddenly had an urge to cut off his right hand - why was he so cheap, and wrote such a paragraph to push himself into a desperate situation?

Uncle Sun Tong's cowardly appearance also angered Li Shiqi, who was currently the worst tempered under Xiang Kang, and said very unhappily: "Mr. Uncle Sun, a gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase, you have said such a thing, you have to fulfill your promise!" Otherwise, who else will dare to believe the envoys sent by our right general in the future? ”

Extremely resentful and quietly glanced at Li Shiqi, Shusun Tong opened his mouth helplessly, and said tremblingly: "Xiaguan is willing to ......, willing to go." ”

PS: In history, Liu Laosan and the Han army joined forces to attack Yang Zhai City, because the Yang Zhai Qin army resisted stubbornly, and after the city was broken, Liu Laosan and the Han army slaughtered Yang Zhai in retaliation.