Shi Le led his troops forward and went straight to Xingyang.

Xingyang is the gateway to the east of Luodong, and has always been a place where soldiers must fight◆ Liu Bang broke the three Qin and went east to the Han Valley, that is, according to Xingyang and Xiang Yu confronted each other for more than a year, and then retreated to Guanzhong due to lack of food, Xiang Yu then Sanyang and Chenggao. When it is, if Xiang Yu can take advantage of the victory, first set Wanluo, and return to Guanzhong, I am afraid that the outcome of the battle between Chu and Han will be very different.

However, Han Xinfang went to Zhaodi, Peng Yue attacked Yu Liang, and Di Bu rebelled against Jiujiang, so Xiang Yu did not dare to go deeper. Then Liu Bang used Yuan Sheng's strategy to go south out of Wuguan to attract the main force of the Chu army, "order Xingyang and Chenggao to rest", and then took advantage of the opportunity of Xiang Yu's return to the east to attack Peng Yue to restore Xingyang and Chenggao. Xiang Yu recovered Sanyang and surrounded Chenggao, and Liu Bangnai galloped north into Han Xin's camp, seized his troops to resume the battle, and disturbed Liangdi several times. Xiang Yu went east to Dingliang, Liu Bang then beheaded Cao Ji and Sima Xin, and Wei Zhong was ignorant of Xingyangdong. Xiang Yu returned, and Liu Bang lined up in Guangwu north of Xingyang

It can be seen that when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang's basic strategy was to stick to Xingyang and Chenggao, so as to thwart the momentum of the Chu army, and reinstate Han Xin, Peng Yue and others to gradually invade Chu or attach Chu princes. Liu Bang is a t, blocking **oss Xiang Yu head-on, and making the output profession deplete the boss's blood grid a little bit, and finally win the next battle in Yu, and then determine the world.

So since for hundreds of years, in order to fight for Luozhong, the vicinity of Xingyang has repeatedly turned into a Shura killing field, naturally leaving a considerable number of barriers of the previous generation, which can be used by the Jin army. There is a city 30 miles away from the northeast of Xingyang City, there is Longcheng 30 miles away from the east, there is a city of Guancheng more than 40 miles away from the southeast, all of them are strong fortresses built on flat ground, Zu Ti then ordered to defend the base, and dig a long trench between the three bases, pile up soil to make a wall, and repeat the same as Liu Bang guarded Xingyang at the beginning, "build Yongdao", in order to block the army.

Today's Jin situation, just like the Han King in the past, and Shi Zhao is far inferior to Western Chu, if the Jin side is allowed to complete the barrier and improve the fortifications, even if Xiang Yu attacks the Han base, it will take nearly two years to succeed, how much chance can Shi Le have? Even if he had a chance of winning, would he be able to afford a year? Therefore, as Zhang Jing said, now we can't care if the other party has any traps, and we don't have time to attack Yangwu and Juan County in a good time.

Zhang Jing said: "If you are cowardly, you will have no fighting spirit, and if you have no fighting spirit, you will have a strong wall to break." Set up Zu Ti and Pei should be here, even if it is Li Ju, Guo Mo and others, the ministers will never dare to persuade His Majesty to move forward; Only General Liu is allowed to be soldiers, and the opportunity must not be missed. ”

Shi Le thought so, and immediately led the army forward and stormed the Jin base. At this time, the civil fortifications of the Jin side had not yet been finally completed, and Shi Le came to the front in person, and after careful observation and repeated attempts to send troops to try to attack, he finally went straight to the gap between Longcheng and Guancheng. After four days of fierce fighting, the Jin army was defeated, and the Zhao army besieged the city.

The Xingyang Jin army organized two decisive assaults, sent troops from Longcheng, made a posture to rescue Yangwu, and threatened the Qianjun army, and finally received Feng Tie, the defender of the city, and more than 3,000 people under his department. When Zhao Jun entered Guancheng, Zhang Jing congratulated him, but Shi Le was not pleased, but pulled the tendrils under his chin and said:

"Although the Jin wall was broken through the hard fighting, and the city was in charge, there were no less than two or three thousand dead and wounded in the past few days, and the corpses of the Jin people were only six or seven hundred. With such casualties, I am afraid that even if our army can shout at Xingyang, it will be able to live hard. ”

Zhang Jing comforted him and said: "In a fierce battle, the damage will be heavy, once the key point is occupied, the morale of the thief will be frustrated, and the situation can be advantaged, and the enemy can be destroyed and the formation can be broken. The city is broken, if it is on top of Xingyang, then it will be stripped of its bottoms, and its heartfelt clothes will be snatched, and Xingyang will be naked, so why should the naked city be afraid? Even if our army is exhausted, Xingyang and Chenggao are only one step away, can't we still help me with Yu Yong and seize it? ”

Shi Le said: "After days of fierce fighting, the Jin people are also very brave, and their morale is quite strong, and they don't seem to be the pawns of the cowardly."

Zhang Jing said with a smile: "Although Xu Liu is cowardly, his subordinates are also ancestors of a hundred battles, how can he suddenly lose his will to fight?" But if you win one or two victories, the thief is afraid, and Your Majesty should not doubt it - Your Majesty Zeng Yun: 'The enemy is not fearful, the enemy is not fearful, only I have no courage to fight, and I have the intention of retreating, which is the most fearful.' 'Now that our army has not been defeated, but the casualties are slightly higher than those of the thieves, will Your Majesty hesitate? ”

When Shi Le heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Qingyan is yes, the matter has come to this point, how can it be justified?" Only by continuing to advance can we hope to win! ”

So he went straight to between Xingyang and Longcheng. On the way, Su Jun defeated Xu Niche and surrounded it, and Xu Niche sent an envoy for help. Shi Leben didn't want to pay attention to it, but Zhang Jing said: "If you don't send troops to help, I'm afraid they will have different intentions." It's better to save it a little, and with a firm heart of stubbornness, you can stop Su Jun, so as not to cause extraneous branches. As a result, Shi Le sent his general Liu Mian to lead 3,000 soldiers to rescue Xiaqiu.

Liu Mian rushed all the way to the west of the city of Xiaqiu, Xu Gong saw it on the city, hurriedly opened the west gate, and rushed out. The generals of the "Donglai Battalion" Han Huang, **, Guan Shang and others waved their troops to refuse, and Liu and Xu were not far apart recently, but it was always difficult to meet the division. Liu Mian was forced to occupy the city south of Sheephorn City in order to echo the Qiuqiu and relieve the pressure on the Jin army.

When Su Jun heard that the army was coming to rescue Xiaqiu, he couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and he got a report, saying that the enemy was only three or four thousand people. Su Zigao immediately summoned Han Huang and other generals to come and asked them: "I have waited for a long time to fight with the thief, and his situation is unknown. ”

Han Huang pouted and said, "But Er'er." Guan Shang also said: "The last general once entered the Guanzhong from the west of the capital, attached himself to the Great Sima, returned to Qing and Xu, and attacked Cao Wei with the Chinese army. In the eyes of the last general, the three armies of the Great Sima are like bears, and our army has expanded too much, resulting in insufficient food and straw offerings, so that daily training is neglected, if I am 5,000 and the Guanzhong army is 5,000, it is enough to resist, and if I am the Guanzhong army, I will be defeated."

What he meant, the "Donglai Battalion" is only elite and can compete with the three armies of Guanzhong and Sima, and it is only half of the 5,000 people-

"In comparison, Cao Weishuo has mouse ears, Xu Gong is a fox, the Chinese army is comparable to tigers and leopards, and thieves are just jackals."

So he suggested that Xun Rui defeat Zhao Jun first, and then turn his head to clean up the Xu niche.

Su Jun muttered: "And send the sentinel to probe far away to see if there is a large army of thieves to follow, if there is no time, then follow the secretary." Although he is a little afraid of Shi Le and the main force of the Zhao army, for ordinary generals and three or four thousand soldiers, he still has the ability to defeat and retreat if he sees it, not to mention that Pei Gai and Zu Qi blame him afterwards, even these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals under his command probably have to have a knot. Then it is better to reconnoiter first, if Shi Letuo is big, and only orders these three or four thousand people to come, I will swallow one of them, so as to boost the army's might!

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After Feng Tie returned to Xingyang, he immediately knelt down to Zu Ti to plead guilty, Zu Ti stretched out his hands to help him up, and said with a smile: "The thieves are powerful, and my fortifications have not yet been perfected, and the general is a strong enemy with outnumbered soldiers, and it is enough to be able to hold on for four days, so why be annoyed?" But then the face was blank again, and he reprimanded:

"But as I said the day before yesterday, Zhucheng is just a barrier to Xingyang, in order to gradually weaken the thief's strength and frustrate his spirit, then the road is broken, so he should retreat early to preserve his strength, why is the general slow to act, so that he is surrounded by thieves? If Xingyang's rescue is not in time, and the general and thousands of Jin are martyred together with Guancheng, which will not only hurt the strength of our army but also revive the spirit of the thief, at that time, even if you want to ask me for guilt, you will not be able to do it! ”

- Feng Tie was born in the ancestral trilogy and has always been brave, so although the road was broken, he thought that he could defend the city for a few more days, and did not immediately order the withdrawal of troops, which caused Zu Ti to transfer troops to rescue him twice in a row, and finally received this army of soldiers and horses.

Feng Tie had just gotten up, and when he heard Zu Li's words, he hurriedly weakened his knees, knelt down again, and pulled him up again, and then ordered Feng Tie to tell the generals all over the time: "For the general, you should plan for the overall situation, advance if you should advance, and retreat if you should retreat." should not advance, cowards, should retreat but not retreat, and the puppet is also - Wangqing and other cowards who do nothing will not be a puppet. But from my order, advance and retreat from the moment, you can make achievements and break the thief! ”

Then he asked Feng Tie in detail about the quality of the Qianjun army and the ability of the generals he had come into contact with.

Feng Tiedao: "The situation is very strong, the pawns are all brave, Shi Le is easy to move, and he will take the weak point of my defense line as soon as he moves, and the offensive is fierce, and it is really difficult to do."

In fact, as far as Zhao Jun's quality is concerned, the judgment of the management business is closer to the truth - "The Chinese army is comparable to tigers and leopards, and thieves are no more than jackals." This is because Shi Le came to invade this time, grabbing soldiers and horses from Youyou and Hebei Prefectures, and this number is large, and it is inevitable that the high and low will be uneven, and the courage and cowardice will not be even. If it is said that the two states are really trained for a long time and have experience in battle, they are similar to those of the ancestors, and seventy or eighty thousand people have reached the sky; If the rest are distributed according to the distribution method of the Jin army in Guanzhong, their combat skills are inferior and their weapons are rude, and I am afraid that they are not even qualified to be auxiliaries.

During the Warring States Period, the people of the vertical and horizontal lobbied the princes, and often divided the arms of each country very clearly: how many chariots, how many cavalry, how many armor, and how many gangsters were analogous, and half of the 130,000 Zhao troops were gangsters, who could only be responsible for logistics and transportation, or play an auxiliary role on the battlefield - either like Shihu, take their lives to pave the way.

In order to be able to attack Xingyang City, Shi Le was able to attack the city of Xingyang, so the people in front were all elites, which left Feng Tie with a very brave and capable taro. And the ones he sent to Liu Mian to aid Xu Gong belonged to the second-rate troops—although they were also considered armorers—then Han Huang, Guan Shang and the others naturally looked down on them.

After all, Zu Ti is fighting on the inside line, and it is easier to find out the enemy's situation than the Zhao side, and he also knows this-if the Zhao army is all tough people who dare to fight, then what else do I plan? I can only defend with all my might. So after listening to Feng Tie's words, he immediately twisted his beard and said: "Its momentum is not exhausted, its qi is still sharp, it still needs to be slowly weakened, and it cannot be fought with it for the time being." ”

Shi Le and Zhang Jing have a biased understanding of the strength ratio between the two sides and the actual situation of the Jin people. Zhang Jing also comforted Shi Le, saying: "Feng Tie is the ancestor of the love of generals, known for his bravery, then it is reasonable to fight to the death with the city∫ and then try to attack Longcheng, his generals Fan Ya, Yuzhou Lao Ge'er, and Su reckless, may not be convinced by Xu Liu, or unwilling to defend to the death"

The ability and temperament of the generals of the relevant ancestral army, after all, they have been fighting for several years, and Cheng Yao secretly sent spies, and the investigation was still relatively detailed, and Zhang Jingnai used this as the basis for his own judgment. In a sense, what he expected was not bad, Fan Ya was not as brave as Feng Tie, and the soldiers were relatively flexible, coupled with Zu Ti's three orders and five declarations, so the Zhao army attacked again for three days, and Fan Ya took the initiative to abandon Longcheng and retreat to Xingyang as soon as he saw that Yongdao was about to break.

When Zhang Jing heard the great news, he said to Shi Le: "The thief has taken away. If Fan Ya refuses to stick to Longcheng, he will return and will be punished by Xu Liu. If Fan Ya is beheaded immediately, Yin Xin will be punished, and if Fan Ya is lightly reprimanded, Fan Ya will refuse to accept it, and I am afraid that he will drum up the coconut generation to resentment Xu Liu. The thief army will be chaotic, the opportunity must not be lost, Your Majesty should rush to attack Xingyang! ”

So Shi Le ordered his general Ge Bo to lead his troops to monitor Licheng, trying to cut off the connection between it and Xingyang, and then personally sent the army out of Longcheng and came straight to Xingyang to get a report, that is, he led the army to the front of the city to wait for the division.

Shi Le listened to the report of the former army, and was still a little unconvinced, and said: "Xu Liu dares to attack, does he also want to fight for the whole division?" Zhang Jing said wisely: "This must be unstable, because they dare not retreat, but can only go to war, in a vain attempt to succeed." But then another sentinel reported that the main general of the Jin army had made a big call, and it was not the name of Xu Liu, the leader of the Central Army, but the hussar general Zu Li

Shi Le couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you want to deceive me?!" ”

So Zu Ti took advantage of the fact that the Zhao army had not yet set up camp and everyone was suspicious, and first scattered the cavalry on both wings, and then the army moved forward steadily, directly approaching the array. Shi Le hurriedly responded to the battle, and the two sides fought until dusk from before noon, and then Jin Shi and then Zhao Zhensan

Shile had confronted Zu Ti many times in Hanoi and Ji County, and Yu Zu Ti's tactical command ideas were well understood. In less than two quarters of an hour after the two sides engaged, he felt the taste through the movements of the handlers and the pressure on the front-"Sure enough, it's not Xu Liu, this is Zu Qiye!" ”

Shi Le was still surprised, let alone ordinary Zhao soldiers and generals? Oh, it was originally said well, Zu Ti can't hide it, so the Jin people are easy to deal with, but as a result, Zu Ti, who is unguarded, will inevitably feel apprehensive and even afraid. Fortunately, the top ones are all elites, and they have only been fighting hard for half a day, although they have three but still maintain the integrity of the battle formation after all, and they have not completely collapsed. So after dusk, Shi Le did not dare to set up camp on the flat ground, but retreated to the vicinity of Longcheng.

immediately summoned the generals and scolded first: "Zu's illness has been cured, and he can actually fight against me, Cheng Ziyuan is incompetent, how can he not find out the exact news?!" ”

Of course, Cheng Yao couldn't find out, Zu Yi was also pinching the time, and after the news came that Fan Ya led the army to abandon the defense and retreat, he sent an envoy out of Xingyang to Luoyang to take care of his son Zu Lian: Okay, you can report the news of me in the army to Your Majesty.

Zu Lian will leave the music left by Zu Li before leaving, then the emperor knows, and the ministers will know, as soon as the ministers know, it will only take half a day to spread the entire Luoyang City. But even if the Zhao spies in Luoyang City learned about it, it would take a day or two for the fast horse to report to Shi Le—not to mention whether he could ride a horse through the Jin realm smoothly. Unless Shi Le has gone down to Longcheng, he will temporarily suspend his troops, otherwise he will meet Zu Ti in a hurry before the battle!

This lining Bo has finally been revealed.

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