Chapter 158: Return
On the twelfth day of July in the first year of Great Qin II, Hu Hai set off from Chengwu City to return to Xianyang!
Han Xin led 20,000 soldiers from the battalion and 10,000 soldiers from the Jiuyuan Army stationed in Aocang, Xingyang, and arrived at Chengwu on the evening of the 10th day of the seventh month! The remaining 100,000 troops also arrived in Dawu the next night!
The giant deer army under the command of Meng Tian arrived at Dawu on July 11!
Nearly 200,000 soldiers all ran away, with yellow faces and thin muscles, like refugees fleeing!
After the battle, the countless corpses piled up around Chengwu City were completely cleaned up after two days, and all the corpses of Xiangliang's rebels were piled up and burned in one fire, including the dead Great Qin soldiers!
The consequence of this is that the entire Chengwu City radius of dozens of miles is shrouded in the smell of burnt corpses, mixed with the smell of blood, whether it is Hu Hai or the Great Qin soldiers or ordinary people of Chengwu City, now they want to vomit when they taste the taste of meat!
After Hu Hai and Meng Tian discussed, it was decided that the nearly 200,000 troops gathered in Chengwu would follow Hu Hai back!!
It's just that both Han Xin's army and Meng Tian's army followed Hu Hai to Ao Cang east of Sanchuan and then stopped, instead of following Hu Hai into the pass and returning to Xianyang!
The reason why this is so is because whether it is the more than 100,000 army under Han Xin or the more than 100,000 army brought by Meng Tian from Julu, they are all facing a very real and serious problem!
That is, this time, in order to rush to the aid of Hu Hai, who was stationed in Chengwu, Meng Tian and Han Xin chose to come lightly at the same time, and the nearly 200,000 troops did not carry enough grain and grass to support the army to chase Xiang Liang in the south, except for the basic armor and basic supplies needed on the way!
Now the more than 200,000 troops gathered in Chengwu are about to run out!
The more than 1,000 Xuanniao army of Black Iron only stayed in Chengwu City for less than a day, and quietly left Chengwu on the night of the tenth day of the first month, and followed Xiang Liang's army all the way south!
In the past two days, Hu Hai has continued to receive information about Xiang Liang's army from Heitie!
After Xiang Liang hastily withdrew his troops in the early morning of the tenth day of the first month, he kept going south along the road he came from without stopping! Everywhere along the way, all the people, men, women and children, were coerced away, following Xiang Liang's army south, all the way, crying and shaking the sky!!
By the time Hu Hai left Chengwu, in three days, Xiang Liang's army could only reach Dangjun Mengxian County, and there were still dozens of miles away from Dangjun County governing Suiyang!
The reason why it moves so slowly is precisely because Xiang Liang's army continues to coerce the people all the way, and all the people follow Xiang Liang's army with their families, and as Xiang Liang's army moves south, Xiang Liang's team is also like a snowball!
These people are the only factor that slows down the march of Xiang Liang's army!
Every day, there will be several letters sent to Hu Hai from the Black Iron Xuanniao Army, so Hu Hai knows the movements of Xiang Liang's army well!
It's just that whether it is Hu Hai or Meng Tian or Han Xin who came later, they can't guess what Xiang Liang is thinking! Isn't he afraid that his army will follow and catch up?
What's more, it is understandable to coerce the male Hu Hai and others, after all, the male can be armed and used as soldiers! But Xiang Liang is obviously a little hungry, regardless of men, women, old and children, all of them! Follow the army all the way south!
Wherever Xiang Liang's army passed, all the county towns and villages were suddenly inaccessible! It's like a dead field!
Although, now Xiang Liang's army is moving very slowly! But Hu Hai didn't have any way! Whether it is Han Xin's army or Meng Tian's army, they have just gone through a long journey and need the necessary rest!
I think Xiang Liang also saw this, so he dared to be so fearless!
What's more, the army didn't carry enough grain and grass to support the tail chasing Xiang Liang!
In this regard, both Hu Hai and Meng Tian are extremely helpless!
And Hu Hai is extremely remorseful! Originally, I thought that Xiang Liang's army would be taken in one fell swoop, but now I have lost my troops and gained nothing! I can only watch Xiang Liang's army Shi Shiran come, Shi Shiran go!
After the first battle of Chengwu, the people of Chengwu County are basically vegetarians! The vast majority of people have young people in their families or their relatives who died in this battle! Although none of the people of Chengwu blamed Hu Hai, this made Hu Hai, who originally wanted to give the people less war pain, blamed himself in his heart!
The people of the city sent Huhai ten miles away before they were reluctant to leave!
The team of people and horses rolled forward, and Hu Hai looked at Chengwu City, who could no longer see the figure, and was silent!
"Your Majesty, it's time to think about the heir! However, only a beauty like Miss Yu Ji is worthy of Your Majesty! Meng Tian's injury was not yet healed, so he could only sit in the carriage and follow Hu Hai, but at this moment, he said such a sentence inexplicably, which made Hu Hai, who was originally stunned, a little surprised!
In the past two days in Chengwu, Meng Tian has already seen Yu Ji.
As for Hu Hai's thoughts about Yu Ji, as well as the vague and strange relationship between the two, I am afraid that everyone in the small Chengwu City knows it! Meng Tian naturally knows!
It's just that Meng Tian never mentioned Yu Ji's matter in front of him when he was in Chengwu City, why did he mention it at this time today? And when it comes to it, it's a matter of heirs!
A small carriage stopped beside Hu Hai.
Hu Hai looked back in surprise when he heard the voice, and when the car window was lifted, there was a pretty face that captivated the country and the city!
Glancing at Meng Tian, who had already hid in the car, Hu Hai smiled dumbly!
"Miss Yu Ji, would you like to get off the car and ride a horse with me?"
Seeing Yu Ji, the depression in Hu Hai's heart suddenly dissipated a lot, and he said with a smile!
Yu Ji can ride a horse, and Hu Hai still knows it through Yu Ziqi!
Compared with later generations, the land of China, which has just gone through hundreds of years of great strife, is far more enlightened than that of later generations! Even the style of the Sui and Tang dynasties is mostly inherited from this era!
Soon, Yu Ji changed into a strong outfit and rode a pure white horse and stood beside Hu Hai!
Seeing Yu Ji, Hu Hai suddenly thought of Concubine Li, who was still in Xianyang for some reason!
Concubine Li and Yu Ji, if you talk about appearance, you can say that they are comparable! However, Concubine Li gave Hu Hai more often the fiery and coquettish spirit of a peony, while Yu Ji was like a deep valley orchid, quiet and remote, but there was nothing to stop its fragrance!
"How about seeing who catches up with the army first?" Hu Hai looked at Yu Ji and said with a smile!
Yu Ji stared at Hu Hai quietly and nodded!
"Drive! Ha ha! Hu Hai suddenly clamped the belly of the black electric horse, laughed and ran out first!
Looking at the emperor who was a little cheating, Yu Ji suddenly felt a touch of pity in her heart for some reason! In Chengwu these days, although Hu Hai has not changed significantly, Yu Ji can feel the anxiety and depression in his heart from Hu Hai's eyes!
At this moment, from Hu Hai's seemingly clear laughter, this feeling for Yu Ji is particularly clear!
Looking at Hu Hai, who had already disappeared, Yu Ji suddenly smiled. "Drive!" Yu Ji drank and chased away!
One black and one white rode fast horses, galloping out!
Long Xuan and more than 100 other dragon guards followed behind the two riders!
…… On the 16th day of July in the first year of Great Qin II, Huhai's brigade arrived at Aocang, Xingyang, Sanchuan!
And Feng Zheng, who received Hu Hai's edict, was already waiting in Xingyang!
Among the people who were driving, Hu Hai unexpectedly met Li You, the eldest son of Prime Minister Li Si, and the eldest sister he had never seen before, Ying Nan!
Li You got the news that the emperor was about to come to Xingyang from Feng Zheng, and Li You naturally wanted to come to meet him! What's more, Li You is not only Li Si's eldest son and Sanchuan County Shou, he is also Hu Hai's brother-in-law!
The emperor is not in Xianyang, Feng Zheng knows, but he can't blatantly say that the emperor is not in Xianyang! Therefore, the people who came to greet Hu Hai this time were Feng Zheng, Li You and Hu Hai's eldest sister Ying Nan!
As the eldest princess of the First Emperor, Ying Nan is almost a teenager older than Hu Hai, and when Hu Hai was still a little kid playing with mud, Ying Nan was already married to Li Si's eldest son Li You!
So Ying Nan is not very familiar with his eighteenth brother! It can even be said that the number of times the two have met is only a handful!
The First Emperor never had much interest in women in his life, at most it could only be said to relieve physical needs! Therefore, among the many children of the First Emperor, siblings or sisters born to one mother are extremely rare!
I don't know Li You and Ying Nan, Hu Hai!
"Subordinate Feng Zheng (subordinate Li You), Ying Nan greets Your Majesty!"
In the ten-mile long pavilion outside Xingyang City, Feng Zai, Li You, and Ying Nan saw Hu Hai, who was surrounded by Meng Tian and others in the middle, dressed in black armor, and said in unison!
"Everyone, love Qing Ping!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
When everyone got up, Hu Hai did not get off the horse, but said to himself: "Today, I am just passing through Xingyang, you Aiqing don't have to be like this!" Feng Aiqing, you immediately commanded the 100,000 troops brought by Meng Aiqing from Julu to go south with General Han Xin in two ways after replenishing the grain and grass. The two armies on the north bank of the Huai River were at the angle of each other, and the Xiang Liang rebels must not be allowed to cross the Huai River. ”
"The last will obey!"
Feng Zheng knew that he was finally able to lead the army, so he was naturally extremely happy and said loudly!
"I'm going back to Xianyang! Xianyang is about to hold a post-album ceremony, Li Aiqing remembers to bring the imperial sister to Xianyang to watch the ceremony! Hu Hai looked at Li Youdao, who had three long beards under his chin like Li Si and was polite!
Canonizing Li Yan as the queen, this matter is impossible to change! Regardless of whether Li Si has ill intentions or not, whether Li Si controls the net or not, even if Hu Hai is unwilling in his heart now, it is impossible to change this matter that has already been decreed to the world!
"Thank you, Your Majesty! The subordinates will definitely take the eldest princess back to Xianyang to participate in the post-book ceremony! ”
When Li You heard Hu Hai's words, he hurriedly bowed down and said!
"So good! It's getting late, so I won't stay longer! Feng Aiqing, Han Aiqing, today I will entrust the 200,000 army to the hands of the two of you! In addition to not crossing the river at will, Xiang Liang thief Jundan has any action, and the two Aiqing can deal with it at their discretion, and report it to me afterwards! Hu Hai finally admonished!
"The last will obey!"
Feng Zai and Han Xin bowed down in unison when they heard Hu Hai's words!
"Well, go ahead! There are many carts of grain and grass needed by the army, and all the war horses of the Jiuyuan Army have been ordered to leave them for you and the other two armies, of course, all the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army will be stationed in Aocang, and will not go to battle with you and the other two armies! ”
(To be continued)