Chapter 144: Going North to Jiuyuan
"What do you say?! Huan Chu was furious and said, "Of the six thousand, there are less than eight hundred left?!" β
In a fit of rage, Huan Chu grabbed Pang Yu up, and then raised a big iron fist and smashed it into Pang Yu's face, but before he could get it, the other big hand had already clamped Huan Chu's wrist like an iron tong, Huan Chu struggled and didn't move at all, and when he looked back, it was Xiang Zhuang who was Shen Sèyin.
"Lao Huan!" Xiang Zhuang said coldly: "Do you want to do it?" β
Huan Chu flattened his mouth and let go of Pang Yu with some scorn.
Pang Yu sighed again, and bowed his hand to Xiang Zhuang and said: "General, the last general underestimated the enemy's carelessness, so that he lost Hangu Pass, and the guilt is hard to escape, and he is willing to die." β
Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said lightly: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers. β
After saying this, Xiang Zhuang looked around at everyone and said: "The loss of Hangu Pass is indeed inescapable, but General Pang Yu can come up with a strange plan to attack the light and heavy battalions of the Han army along the cliff, and really burned the heavy grain and grass of the Han army, or made a great contribution, so the merits and demerits are offset by no reward and no punishment." β
The generals looked at each other, and they all felt that Oh Zhuang was too lenient to Pang Yu.
Pang Yu was even more ashamed and said: "General, I am ashamed. β
"Alright, let's go down and rest." Xiang Zhuang patted Pang Yu's shoulder, and said, "And your eight hundred remnants, enter the city tonight and camp there, take a hot bath first, and then have a hot meal!" β
"No!" Pang Yu felt a little crying, turned around and strode away.
Waiting for Pang Yu to walk away, Huan Chu said: "General, this is too cheap Pang Yu's kid." β
Xiang Zhuang shook his head and said abruptly: "Pang Yu faced Liu Bang, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping and hundreds of thousands of Han troops, and it was not easy to be able to burn the heavy grain and grass of the Han army with a strange plan. β
Wei Yu also nodded and said: "As the so-called army has not moved, the grain and grass go first, and all the heavy grain and grass of Liu Bang's army will be destroyed, even if Hangu Pass is captured, within ten days, at most, tens of thousands of elite soldiers will be sent to Xianyang first, so that our army will have much more room to turn, otherwise Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops will crush it, and the situation will really hang." ββ¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦
Hanguguan, Zhang Liang Xingyuan.
Zhou Bo hurriedly walked into the hall and said to Zhang Liang: "Mr. Zhang Liang, the army has run out of food. β
Zhang Liang sighed and said helplessly: "General Zhou Bo, let's kill hundreds of mules and horses first, and then let the soldiers go to the field to dig some wild vegetables and cook them together." β
Speaking of this meal, Zhang Liang said again: "There are also soldiers in the whole army who are only allowed to eat once a day. β
Zhou Bo was silent, and now it can only be like this, as long as everyone does not starve to death.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Bo said again: "Sir, do you think you should send an elite army to march in the direction of Xianyang first?" β
Zhang Liang thought about it, shook his head and said: "Forget it, Xiang Zhuang is brave and Wei Yi is old and spicy, they are not easy to match, and the Chu army has been recuperating for a long time, and the soldiers have enough grain and grass while our army is sleepy and lacking, and the grain and grass are not continued. β
"Well, that's all it had to be." Zhou Bo couldn't help but feel a little suffocated.
Seeing that Hangu Pass has been captured, and the remnants of Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er's Chu army are close in front of him, but he can't drive the army to attack, do you say it's uncomfortable? Thinking of this, Zhou Bo couldn't help hating Pang Yu to the bone, from the mouth of the Chu army prisoners of war, Zhou Bo already knew that the guard of Hangu Pass was a guy named Pang Yu, and he heard that he was still very young.
Pang Yu? Pang Yu?! Fuck, where did this guy come from?
When Zhou Bo hated Pang Yu to the bone, Zhang Liang was also pondering this Pang Yu who had cornered hundreds of thousands of Han troops.
And Zhang Liang saw deeper and farther than Zhou Bo, I heard that this Pang Yu was not a Chu person at all, but a Wei person, Xiang Zhuang is really discerning people, and he dares to use people? For this alone, Xiang Zhuang is already far superior to Xiang Yu, and if Xiang Zhuang can't be forced into a wild realm this time, the general trend between Chu and Han may really be reversed.
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Xianyang, Prime Minister's Office.
The question is back to square one, where should the Chu army go?
Hanzhong is the land of the dragon and must not go, the road of Wuguan is rugged and there are elite soldiers and fierce generals to guard it is also a dead end, Hangu Pass will not be said, hundreds of thousands of Han army hedgehogs gathered in one place, according to the pass and guarded, but Xiangzhuang has less than 20,000 people, even if it is replaced by Xiang Yu, I am afraid that it is impossible to take 20,000 people to fight the Hangu Pass held by more than 100,000 Han troops, right?
What's more, Xiang Zhuang's 20,000 talents have just formed an army, and they are still far from the elite.
And at least half of Liu Bang's army of more than 100,000 are elite veterans who have experienced a hundred battles!
Wu Shi thought for a while and proposed: "Or, it's better to force the river to go to Hedong, and then cross the Huguan or Jingps and Flying Fox PS to enter Zhao Di, and then cross the river from Zhao Di to kill back to Wei Di!" β
Wei Yu sighed and said: "The Han army is even blocked by Wuguan, how can Huguan, Jing*, and Flying Fox* be defenseless? β
After saying this, Wei Yu said again: "And it is too dangerous to force the river to cross, if Liu Bang sends a cavalry to the east of the river and raids while our army is halfway crossing,
That's a big problem! β
Everyone was silent, Liu Bang really had an elite cavalry under the devil.
This cavalry was assisted by the late Qin generals Li Bi and Luo Jia to assist Liu Bang in exercising, and was commanded by Guan Ying, however, since Han Xin's Northern Expedition, this cavalry has continued to follow Han Xin in the campaign, and in the battle of Xiaxia, Guan Ying participated in the battle as Han Xin's general, which was the elite cavalry of Guan Ying, forcing Xiang Yu to kill himself in Bird River.
With Han Xin's trust in Liu Bang, he may not be able to detain the cavalry that has been irrigated and not returned, if this cavalry has really reached the east of the river, and then wait for the Chu army to cross the river and attack halfway, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Wu Shi said abruptly: "In this way, we can really only go west or north to join Rong Di." β
Xiang Zhuang shook his head silently, to the west is the territory of the Qiang people and the Yueshi people, that is, the ** of the later generations,
Qinghai, Gansu and other places, the Chu army is really going to enter here, needless to say the bitter cold and harsh natural conditions, I am afraid that I don't want to go back to the Central Plains in this life and this life, as for going north, isn't it sent to the tiger's mouth of the Huns?
While discussing it, Jin Xiang suddenly came in and reported: "Admiral Y, Baili Xian asks to see you." β
Exhaled, Xiang Zhuang waved his hand at Jin Xiang: "Please come in, Mr. Bailixian." β
Jin Xiang made a promise and retreated, and soon, Bai Lixian, who was dressed in white, shook his head and walked in.
Entering the hall, Bailixian rushed to Xiang Zhuang, Wei Yi, Wu She, Huan Chu, Ji Bu and others to salute respectively, Xiang Zhuang returned the salute, and said solemnly: "Ziliang, please sit down." β
Bai Lixian flicked his sleeves and sat down.
He also said: "General, I just saw a defeated army on the streets of Xianyang, and I heard that it was retreated from Hangu Pass, dare to ask the general, has Hangu Pass been lost?" β
Xiang Zhuang nodded and said, "Yes, Hangu Pass has been lost. β
Bai Lixian smiled quietly, and said, "Then is Wuguan also blocked by the Han army?" β
Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but cheer in his heart and said, "Ziliang, how do you know?" β
"It's a guess below." Baili Xian said: "I'm afraid that this poisonous plan is only planned by Chen Ping for Liu Bang...
If you don't guess wrong, not only has Wuguan been blocked, but I'm afraid that Huguan, Jingps, Flying Fox PS and Chen Cangdao, Meridian Valley, and Baochuan Road have also been blocked by the Han army. β
From Bai Lixian's tone, Xiang Zhuang faintly heard a hint of free-spiritedness, and immediately asked, "Ziliang, do you have any solution to it?" β
Bai Lixian shook the feather fan in his hand and said: "Chen Ping's plan never leaves room for it, and it can't be cracked either, but Chen Ping has never been to Saibei after all, and he doesn't know the situation in Saibei, so his closed-door policy still leaves a flaw, and the general actually still has a way to go!" β
Erzhuang immediately got up and gave Bai Lixian a deep bow, and said, "Please also ask Ziliang to teach me." β
Bai Lixian hurriedly got up and confronted Xiang Zhuang, and said: "I don't dare to be a general with such a big gift, since I have entered the general's account as a staff member, it is my duty to provide advice for the general." After saying this, Baili Xian said again, "The general can actually follow the straight road, go north to Jiuyuan, and then detour to Yunzhong, Yanmen, Daijun, Shanggu and then enter Zhaodi."
"What, go north to Jiuyuan?!" Xiang Zhuang quietly changed his words, "Ziliang, hasn't Jiuyuan County been occupied by the Huns since Wang Li's army was transferred south?" The Hun cavalry came and went like the wind, fierce and murderous, and there were no less than 400,000 people who controlled the strings, and our army was less than 20,000. β
As a traverser, Xiang Zhuang certainly knew about the siege of Baideng.
The historical Siege of Baiden should have taken place within a few years.
Liu Bang Lao'er dominated the world after the army to the north to attack the Huns, the result was due to the carelessness of the enemy, not waiting for the follow-up more than 300,000 infantry to arrive, then with thousands of cavalry alone to advance, the result was the swarming Hun cavalry trapped in Baishan Mountain, Liu Bang several times broke through was blocked by the Huns, the Huns attacked the mountain many times also failed miserably, the two armies confronted each other in Baishan Mountain for seven days, until Chen Ping made a strange plan for the Huns to break the siege, this is the famous siege of Baideng in history!
The history books also say that there were 400,000 Hun cavalry participating in the siege of Baishan Mountain, and it is also conclusive that the horses of the 100,000 Hun cavalry in each direction of the east, south, west and north were divided into white, green,
There are four kinds of black and red, but the Han Empire, which had just been established, could not even gather four horses with the emperor's imperial apples.
Such a huge contrast formed a great psychological shock to Liu Bang and the soldiers of the Han army.
After nearly a hundred years, the Han Empire continued to live under the terrible shadow of the Huns, Liu Bang returned to Chang'an and adopted the advice of the mastermind Lou Jing, and adopted a humiliating policy of peace and proximity to the Xiongnu!γ