Li Yuan and Liu Bang, like two gambled high-rollers, showed all their skills around the important town of Xingyang.

The war is stalemate.

The investment of troops on both sides of the offensive and defensive sides is close to the limit, and the means of pressing the bottom of the box reserved in their hands have also been used, and for generals at all levels, there is only one thing left to do, which is to grit their teeth and hold on until the other party can no longer support it.

The county watchman's house.

As the most important staff member under Li Yuan, Chen Ping's voice has been hoarse for several days, and his previous demeanor and image have ceased to exist with busyness.

Li Yuan supervised at the head of the city, and the affairs in the city were handed over to Chen Ping to be responsible, and it was also thanks to Chen Ping's assistance, otherwise, only relying on Fan Jia, Guan Yue and others with mediocre ability, the burden of defending the city would be broken.

The battle between Li Yuanjun and Liu Bangjun around the battle for the important town of Xingyang lasted for more than two months, and anyone with a little military knowledge could see that the victory or defeat of Zuihou had arrived.

As for the siege of the city, in the absence of gunpowder weapons, the siege of the city was generally carried out, and the method of forcible attack was not adopted, especially in the Spring and Autumn Period, some cities were besieged for seven or eight months, or even more than a year, and they could still be preserved, and finally brought in reinforcements, and turned defeat into victory.

The bloody battle in Xingyang this time completely subverted this traditional method of warfare, and the fierce attack without paying attention to the tactics of war, as well as the killing of the fugitive soldiers by the supervising team, all made the battle enter a more brutal mode.

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The storm grew bigger and bigger, spreading from Xingyang to all parts of the Kanto region.

Pingyin North.

An unexpected army was involved in this dramatic war, and the commander of this army was Han Cheng, a descendant of the Korean clan, and Han Cheng was assisted by the most famous strategist in the late Qin and early Han dynasties: Zhang Liang, the Marquis.

After learning that the Qin army in Luoyang was advancing eastward, Liu Bang was also a strong hand, on the one hand, he laid out a plan to eliminate the hidden dangers within the coalition army, and on the other hand, he sent several envoys to Chu, Han, Wei, Zhao and other anti-Qin Shili to report again.

Compared with other shili, the Han army operating in the area of Yingchuan County was the closest, so after the appearance of the ghost plot Chen Ping, Zhang Liang was finally brought into the vortex by the storm set off by Li Yuan. Luo Jia and Jiang Yu's stay in the Pingyin area did not escape Zhang Liang's eyes, Zhang Liang had a good relationship with Liu Bang, and after carefully analyzing the dilemma faced by Liu Bang, he immediately persuaded Han Cheng to send troops to help.

In the battle with the Han army commanded by Han Cheng and Zhang Liang, although the Qin army had the upper hand, it was dragged by the Han army and the advance was slow for a while.

The Qin army on the west road was blocked by the Han army, and in the west of Puyang, the five thousand Qin troops of Zhangping who set out from Jianyuan also failed to cross the river smoothly, and the Chu army, which had been standing still in the Anyang area, suddenly made a force.

Song Yi, the general appointed by the king of Chu Xiongxin, was beheaded by Xiang Yu, who was bloody and strong, and the Chu army was immediately like a tiger running out of the mountains, and it took only two days and two nights to reach the periphery of the giant deer, and the pressure on Zhang Han increased suddenly. As a last resort, Zhang Han urgently ordered Zhang Ping to lead the army back to help, and at the same time, he ordered Handan's Wang Li's army to quickly go south and join the main force of the Qin army in Julu, and Zhang Han wanted to end all the wars in the Kwantung region with a general battle.

The Qin army near the two roads was blocked, but the Su Jiao army from Handan advanced smoothly all the way, and the Qin border army had a strong mobility ability, so that the shili who tried to block it became dust-eating goods.

December 29, the third year of Qin II, noon.

The Qin army, which was advancing all the way, penetrated the empty rear wing of Liu Bang's army like a broken bamboo, and joined forces with the defenders in the city to launch a counterattack on the Liu army that was tired of attacking the city.

Su Jiao, who had long been holding back his anger, led the army to fight and rush, and the combat effectiveness of the border army of the Qin State was fully exerted in this battle, and the Liu army, which had been exhausted under the city, gradually lost its fighting spirit. Su Jiao's attack went unexpectedly smoothly, and Li Shang, who served as the rear army's block, collapsed at the first touch. Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, Guan Ying and other generals saw that the situation was not good, and they also began to lead their headquarters to retreat southward, and Liu Bang was even more like he had expected, and took the lead in getting in touch with Han Cheng and Zhang Liang.

January 2nd.

Liu Bang led more than 17,000 people in his headquarters to retreat to the areas of Baima and Pingyin, and then did not stop to collect the rout, that is, to lead troops to Yingchuan and Nanyang.

The Second Battle of Xingyang ended with the Qin army winning the defense war, and the commander of these two battles was the same Qin army general surnamed Li, who was Li You before, and now Li Yuan.

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The border army of the Qin State was rape, and when dealing with the enemy army, this army was a sharp knife, and when dealing with their own people, these violent soldiers were no less disgusting.

With the arrival of Su Jiao, in Xingyang City, the situation of Li Yuan's family being the dominant party was broken, and Aunt Gongsun, who had always had dealings with the border army, quickly switched to Su Jiao's arms.

A battle for the ownership of Xingyang will begin again.

East Side.

A light boat swings on the river, and in all directions, except for Li Bi who is at the helm, there is no one else, and in the cabin, several important people under Li Yuan's command are all present.

This is a secret gathering, after several bloody battles, Li Yuan finally set up his own team, including Chen Ping, Guan Yue, Hou Xi and others, Wu Luo Jia, Jiang Yu and other generals, in addition to these direct generals and strategists, such as Zhang Ying, Hu Zhuang, He Ping, Cao Xin, Li Bi, Bai Guangji and a number of middle and lower-level officers, village elders constitute the support of Li Yuanjun.

A lamp swayed back and forth with the rocking of the ship, making the soap map in front of everyone seem to come to life.

"General, this time the border army has been cheapened, Ping is guilty, please punish the general." Chen Ping's face was gloomy, the plan for the battle of Xingyang was made by Chen Ping, but the result was unsatisfactory, it can be said that the front foot resisted the tiger, and the back foot entered the wolf, which made Chen Ping, who has always claimed to be a strategy, very angry.

Originally, according to Chen Ping's strategy, if Zhang Han and Wang Li came to help, after repelling Liu Bang, Xingyang would form a balanced situation in which Zhang Han, Wang Li and Li Yuan three liliang controlled each other, among them, although Li Yuan was the weakest, but it was the nature of the head snake, and the two guest armies were opposed to each other, Li Yuan just mediated from the middle, and sought a glimmer of life in the cracks, but unfortunately, Chen Ping's plan failed to realize after Xiang Yu quickly advanced westward.

"Mr. is serious, this world is changeable, if everything is expected to be the enemy first, wouldn't it be the same as the gods, now, Su Jiao's border army and some shili in the city have colluded, our army needs to plan early." Li Yuan waved his hand and said.

He didn't blame Chen Ping, at the beginning, when Chen Ping offered his plan, it was indeed a good plan to kill two birds with one stone, this battle situation was unpredictable, not only Zhang Han's reinforcements did not arrive, but even the reserved Luo Jia army did not play its due role under the blocking of the Korean army.

Hearing Li Yuan's question, everyone in the cabin was silent for a while, and finally occupied a little territory, and now they are about to be taken away by life, which is like working hard to raise a child, and then let people recognize it in the blink of an eye.

Li Yuan saw that everyone's mood was heavy, and he didn't say more, he only stretched out his hand and pointed to a place on the soap map, and said in a deep voice: "Gentlemen, if our army is sent here, what should we do?" ”