Chapter 231: Enemy on the Belly and Back

The Qin State invaded the Han Dynasty.

Wuguan and Luoyang's Qin army is concluding a large number of formations, it is clear that this is a frame to eat the Han army, knowing the urgent report of the Han army scouts, Liu Bang was shocked, since the beginning of the year, he has sent several messengers in a row, to lobby the princes in various places, to seek another opportunity to cooperate with the Qin army, but the result of Zuihou made him disappointed.

Fight against the tyrannical Qin.

This is the oath that the princes made when they meet.

Zhang Er's proposal failed, and the unwilling Liu Bang sent Zhang Liang to Pengcheng to lobby again, Zhang Liang and Zhang Er went out of the horse, from the level of lobbying and dialectic, the camp is really luxurious.

In order to eliminate Xiang Yu's hostility, Zhang Liang bribed Xiang Bo, who had already stepped aside, with heavy money. Xiang Bo was also attentive, and after continuously harassing Xiang Yu, Zhang Liang finally met Xiang Yu, who had just been married.

Newlywed Yan'er.

In Zhang Liang's eyes, Xiang Yu's complexion is much more energetic than a year ago, which is estimated to be the reason for the rare conquest in recent days, and a winter will be raised, which is a powerful supplement to Xiang Yu's tired body.

Xiang Yu is a natural general, and too long silence will definitely make him uncomfortable, but after Zhang Liang cautiously proposed that Chu and Han join forces and fight against the Qin State, Xiang Yu refused without hesitation.

The reason made Zhang Liang, a wise man, speechless.

Recently, the beauty Yu Ji suddenly became ill, and Xiang Yu, the overlord who loved the country and loved the beauty even more, decided to stay in Pengcheng and stay by Yu Ji's side.

What kind of bullshit reason for refusal, if you don't want to be indulgent, you don't want to be indulgent, what women have, when will they be able to put it on the table.

If this is really the case, the Han King Liu Bang and the two women Lu Pheasant and Qi Ji are making a fuss, so can he Liu Bang simply retire and not be the King of Han.

Zhang Liang returned gloomily, and when a wise man with a mind like a fox encountered an opponent who did not speak of common sense, he could only do anything in vain. After Xiang Yu expressed a negative attitude, those small princes who touted him as the Han King Gaoyi and the Han King Ren avoided him one by one, while the powerful princes such as Wei Bao, Wu Rui, and Zhao Xie said that there had been a lot of thieves in the territory recently, and the army in their hands was used to suppress the bandits, and they had no spare strength to support the Han State.

The inability to send troops to resist Qin is the reason put on the table, and in private, the rumors that Zhang Liang heard are even more unbearable.

"The king of Han is unwise, he actually went to assassinate Li Yuan. This set the fire to the body, and the king was really powerless. This is the attitude of Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, who has always had a good relationship with Liu Bang.

"King Han is just a hypocrite who is hypocritical." This is from the attitude of Wei Bao, the king of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Wei army was pitted by Liu Bang when they jointly attacked Xingyang, not only more than 10,000 troops were annexed, but even the general Wu Pu was trapped under the city of Xingyang.

"Liu Bang's house also has today." Peng Yue, a thief who was active in Juyeze, couldn't help but scream happily after getting the news of the Qin army's attack on Han.

Same with Wei Bao. Peng Yue also has personal experience of Liu Bang's shameless style, and as an opponent along the way, Peng Yue has watched Li Yuan grow from a small soldier to a ruling country over the years, and those jealous princes have always rumored that Li Yuan got the help of former Prime Minister Li Si. This made Peng Yue, who understood the truth, even more respectful of Li Yuan.

"It seems that there is about to be a war between the Qin State and the Han State, and if you want to be safe, it is better to leave Yingcheng as soon as possible." This is the intention of some well-informed people under Liu Bang's command.

took refuge in Liu Bang, but he just ate a mouthful.

I can't take my life, and I don't have the King of Han, the King of Wei, the King of Changsha, the King of Yan, and so on. No matter how bad it was, he ran to Pengcheng to beg the overlord to eat a mouthful.

Different people have different understandings of the current situation, but they are all the same. all expressed their disbelief in Liu Bang.

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Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river.

The princes are all grass on the wall, and they can't be counted on. And Liu Bang, the former commander of the Western Expeditionary Army of Chu State, also began to lose his appeal after his character was defeated again and again.

Fight against Qin alone.

If it was placed a year ago, the Qin army would have attacked, and his old Liu would not be afraid at all.

What can a remnant of Qin, a group of remnants who have been driven out of all directions, what else can they do. But now, Liu Bang no longer dares to relax in the slightest.

Who is Li Yuan?

It was the great enemy who killed several Han generals such as Fan Xu, Fu Kuan, Li Shiqi, Zhou Gou, Zhou Spy, and Cao Shen, and it was the old enemy who drove him Liu Bang back to Hanzhong from the fertile Guanzhong and expelled him from Hanzhong to Nanjun. Guanzhong couldn't get into it at all, and the foundation of Hanzhong was lost again, and under the oppression of the Qin army, it was already God's help for the Han army to occupy the place of Linjiang to rest.

If it hadn't been so insistent on killing Li Yuan at the beginning, if it wasn't for the endless pursuit after the people ran to the Yongqi border, if it wasn't for the fact that when he saw the powerful signs of the Qin State, he followed the example of Prince Yan Dan and sent Jing Ke to assassinate Qin in an attempt to kill it once and for all, how could the first target of the Qin army be the Han State.

Every time he thought of this, Liu Bang couldn't help but regret it.

In this unfavorable situation, the people of the Han State were panicked, and the affairs of the whole army and war almost came to a standstill.

In terms of military affairs, after Cao Shen died in battle and Li Shang surrendered, Zhou Bo took over as the captain of the Han State, responsible for the formation and training of the Han army, and the expansion.

In the battle of Xicheng, the Han army was annihilated more than 10,000 people, and the Li Shang who was stranded in Shu County was scattered, in such a difficult situation, Zhou Bo took Nanjun and Nanyang County as the basis, and led the Han army to conquer the east and west, all the way to sweep away the remnants of Gongao, and incorporated a number of thieves who were active in the Yangtze River Daze, and at the same time, by forcibly recruiting, the Han army was quickly expanded to nearly 200,000 people.

In order to cope with the attack of the Qin army, Zhou Bozi, the commander of the Han State, led more than 70,000 main troops to defend Wancheng in Nanyang County, trying to fortify the city with strong troops and make a long-term plan. At the same time, Liu Bang gathered an army of 100,000 in Yingdu, ready to either reinforce Zhou Bo at any time, or run away.

State affairs are like this, and family affairs are also boring.

The Yingdu area of Nanjun is located in the Heze River area, and the climate is humid, which is not suitable for an elderly person like Liu Bang, who is in his fifties.

What bothered Liu Bang even more was that there was a fire in the inner house, and with Qi Ji giving birth to her son Liu Ruyi, the competition for the heir of the Han King became more and more intense.

On the one hand, there is the strong and bitter wife Lu Pheasant and the eldest son Liu Ying, and on the other hand, the gentle and lovely beauty Qi Ji and Liu Ruyi.

Sandwiched between two women and two shili, Liu Bang felt exhausted. And when he fell ill again and again, the open and secret struggle between Lu Pheasant and Qi Ji intensified.

King Han is very old.

I don't know which day I won't be able to afford it, if there is really that day, who will inherit the throne, whether it is Liu Ying or Liu Ruyi, according to the current situation of incompatibility, one party will come to power will be the end of the other.

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In the fourth year of the Qin New Calendar, April 2.

On the battlefield in the north of Nanyang County, the Qin army's partial division with the task of covering suddenly attacked, and Li Yuan, the Marquis of Shenwu, personally led 10,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry from north to south, along the galloping road from Luoyang in Sanchuan County to Wancheng in Nanyang County.

The news reached Wancheng.

Zhou Bo, the commander of the Han army, immediately turned gray, he had learned Li Yuan's strength many times, and each time he failed to take advantage of it. After some consideration, Zhou Bo decided to immediately mobilize the main force of the Han army to gather north of Wancheng, and unlike before, this time, behind Zhou Bo, there was no longer Cao Shen to stand up, and he had to stand alone to resist the attack of the Qin army.

From April 2 to 10.

The Qin and Han armies fought fiercely in the hilly areas north of Nanyang County, and the cavalry units of Sujiao and Menghu were like a group of flying falcons coming and going without a trace, constantly harassing the slow and unorganized Han army, which made the Han generals who rushed to the army miserable.

The superiority in numbers was insignificant in the face of the natural differences between cavalry and infantry. Zhou Bo had no choice but to gather his generals into a group again and again to resist the attacks of the Qin cavalry.

April 11th.

The battle situation changed abruptly, and Han Xin's eastward expedition to the Qin army marched out of Wuguan, and the troops marched eastward along the Han River in two routes, and arrived at Deng County and Fancheng in the Hanzhong Plain on April 13.

On the 15th, the Qin general Cao Xin quickly marched eastward, led his Yueshi soldiers with the assistance of auxiliary soldiers, suppressed the city wall with dense and accurate long-distance bows and arrows, and then forcibly smashed open the city gate with a crash car, although Liu Jia, the Han general of Fancheng, mobilized about 3,000 soldiers to defend the city, but under Cao Xin's onslaught, the city was lost in only one day and night.

Liu Jia was defeated, led the remnants to retreat to the Wancheng area, almost at the same time that Fancheng was broken, the Han army in Deng County (Xinye) was besieged by the Ba warriors of Feng Xuanbu, and surrendered after two days of hard support.

The Qin army marched eastward.

Everywhere they went, the Han army either broke up or surrendered with a white flag. Liu Jia is Liu Bei's cousin, and he has always been old and serious in marching and fighting, and the terrain of Fancheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but he didn't expect to be broken by the Qin army in just one day and night. The outstanding performance of the two pioneers of the Hu and Ba people made the generals of the Han army frightened.

April 19th.

The vanguard of Han Xinjun's Feng Xuan army quickly moved south from the trail and suddenly appeared on the periphery of Yingcheng, which made the whole Han kingdom change in unison.

In a panic, Liu Bang sent Guan Ying, Lu Ze and other generals to carry out a sweep in the Jiangze Plain, trying to encircle and annihilate the infiltrated enemy in one fell swoop. After Feng Xuanbu frightened Liu Bang, he seemed to have disappeared and fled west into the vast Shennongjia primeval jungle, not knowing where to go.

Subsequently, Han Xin's army, which marched into Yingdu and smashed the capital of the Han State, suddenly turned again from the Han River Basin, from south to north, and attacked the back of Zhou Bo's Han army. (To be continued......)