Li You stood quietly at the head of Xingyang City, the sound of killing under the city wall soared to the sky, the arrows on the city wall were like flying locusts, and the arrow feathers grazed his cheeks several times, but Li You was unmoved.

The deputy general behind him was already shocked into a cold sweat, and dragged Li You down to the city, pleading in his mouth; "General, I hope to put the great cause first."

Li You slowly turned his head, his red eyes seemed to be oozing blood, and he suddenly pointed at the rebel army under the city and laughed wildly; "The great cause is important, the great cause is important, our Great Qin is going to die, where is the great cause coming from."

After speaking, Li You closed his eyes in pain, "Father, father, you come to this Xingyang City to have a look, this is the Great Qin for which you have worked hard and dedicated, and this is the empire that you are hungry for profit and will not be able to subvert." ”

The adjutant general's face was sad, and he knelt on the ground and said in a long voice; "The erosion of Great Qin is not our crime since then, and the general does not have to blame himself. Besides, in the north, in Lingnan, and in Guanzhong, there are still millions of tigers in my Daqin, and once they come to their aid, these clowns will not be wiped out. ”

Li You shook his head, his face was bitter, but he didn't speak. After a long time, he slowly asked, "How many soldiers are there in the city?" ”

When the adjutant general saw that Li You had begun to inquire about the defense of the city, he was overjoyed in his heart, and reported in an excited trembling voice: "General, there are still 26,000 soldiers and 120,000 residents in the city, and 30,000 young and strong people can be mobilized to defend the city." ”

Sanchuan County was placed in the first year of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, and it has been a Qin land for more than 40 years, so most of the residents regard themselves as Qin people. Among the slogans played by the rebel army, there was 'kill all the Qin people, Zhang Da Chu State', so the deputy general proposed to mobilize residents to go to the city to help defend the city.

After quietly listening to the deputy general's report and looking at the bloody sky, Li Youchang sighed, as if he was convincing himself. "No matter what, we have to protect the hundreds of thousands of Qin people in the city, and we should do our best to do it when the national disaster is at the head."

After closing his eyes for a long time, Li Youmeng opened his eyes, his gaze was firm again, and he resolutely said: "Pass on my general order, the whole city will build weapons day and night, strengthen the city wall, dig the city river, and guard the guards." At the same time, Kuaima complained to His Majesty Xianyang, saying that Xingyang was in danger. A conscription order was issued to all counties and counties, ordering them to abandon their territories and order them to come to Xingyang as soon as possible to rendezvous to prevent them from being broken by the rebels. ”

"Today is only the vanguard of the rebel army, and then a large number of rebels will swarm in. Spread the word to the whole city, behind us is Xianyang, that is, Daqin, the whole city, ready to fight to the death. ”

"No."

Wu Guang's army arrived at dawn and evening, starting from the captured Luoyang, and the mighty army of 200,000 marched all the way west, and the place where it went was surrendered. In less than a day's effort, Wu Guang was full of ambition and took his 200,000 Zhang Chu army to the city of Xingyang.

Wu Guang is very proud, but also very proud, only a month after the army, they have gone from nothing to the current army Yuncong, even the emperor Lao Tzu who is far away in Xianyang knows his Wu Guang's name, one day he will also capture Xianyang, snatch the emperor's seat for a few days, and then give it to the eldest brother.

If Wu Guang captures Xingyang, then Guanzhong will lose its barrier, and the capture of Xianyang will be just around the corner. But this Li You just didn't cooperate, and he didn't even like the officials of the Qin Dynasty before him, who either fled or surrendered, he actually defended himself in the city.

It stands to reason that Li You is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, but Wu Guang has an army of more than 200,000 people, and it is clear which is stronger and which is inferior. But Xingyang City, which is stubbornly defended here, has become the biggest obstacle in Wu Guangxi's pass.

Wu Guang was very angry, and the consequences were serious, urging the soldiers to attack the city all day long, intending not to give Li You any respite.

Under the city of Xingyang, the drums and horns shook the sky, and the rebel army poured under the city wall like a tide, and the arrows shot at the defenders like flying locusts. No matter how provocative Wu Guang was, he couldn't hold on, and made up his mind to block the main force of the rebel army under Xingyang City, so as to buy time for the Qin army in Guanzhong to react.

If it is compared to planting crops, ten Li You is not Wu Guang's opponent, but if it is compared to marching and fighting, then Wu Guang is not as good as Li You.

Wu Guang was just a farmer, he only had some clever minds, and he didn't know anything about military affairs at all. The previous battles were simple and outrageous, but Wu Guangyao rode a horse and led the army around the city, and the defenders in the city fled.

It's a pity that he ran into Li You this time. Li You guarded Sanchuan County for many years, controlled the soldiers and horses of the five counties of the Central Plains, knew how to make good use of the soldiers, and governed the army in a good way. The most important thing is that he has a stoic temperament, which is the most important quality that a city defender needs to have. When Wu Guang met Li You, he was like encountering a hit nemesis, wandering under Xingyang City for half a month, and he couldn't take a step forward.

Wu Guang doesn't understand military affairs, but he likes to compete with poverty. As the leader of the 200,000 rebel army, Wu Guang also became arrogant, he couldn't listen to any advice from his subordinates, and blindly acted independently. The general Tian Zang suggested to him that he bypass Xingyang and attack Guanzhong directly, but Wu Guang decisively shook his head and refused. Tian Zang suggested to him again that it was better to withdraw the troops for the time being, lure Li You out of the city and then surround and annihilate him, Wu Guang not only refused with a black face this time, but hung Tian Zang up and whipped him.

In front of General Wu Guangwu, I can also tolerate you, a little brother, to chirp crookedly, and you should be beaten.

He recognized a dead reason, surrounded Xingyang to death, surrounded Li You, who seemed to be unable to beat Xiaoqiang, and trapped him in the city. As for the great cause of opposing Qin and Zhang Chu's prospects, these are not within the scope of his consideration.

It was because of Wu Guang's stubbornness that he spent the 200,000 elites of the rebel army under Xingyang City in vain, giving Qin a chance to relax.

Chen Sheng, who was busy enjoying himself in Chen County, did a big thing, a big thing that would definitely chill the fledgling rebel army.

He killed Ge Ying, who was one of the Big Four who started with him.

When Chen Sheng was king, Ge Ying did something that made him very angry, he was thousands of miles away, and he didn't know that Chen Sheng was king, but instead supported a descendant of the king of Chu as the king of Chu. After learning that the boss was called the king, Ge Ying realized that he had made a mistake, hurriedly killed the unlucky king of Chu, and hurriedly returned to Chen County to ask the boss for his guilt.

But Chen Sheng didn't let him go, but thought that he had the idea of supporting the army and self-respect, so he killed him.

From a small thing, we can see what Chen Sheng thought at that time.

When Chen Sheng was young, he often waved a hoe on the ridge of the field and sighed to a poor brother: "Don't forget the rich and noble." When he became the queen in Chen County, the poor buddies who farmed with Chen Sheng heard that Chen Sheng was really rich, so they came to Chen County to find him. At first, Chen Sheng was not bad to these poor buddies. Later, because these poor buddies often talked about some interesting things when Chen Sheng was poor, and they were too unruly, they called Chen Sheng big brother, not the king, so Chen Sheng ruthlessly killed these poor buddies.

Some people can only share in the suffering, but not the prosperity and prosperity together.

After killing Ge Ying, Chen Sheng learned that his most trusted good brother Wu Guang had touched his nose under Xingyang, and he was very anxious. At this time, a man named Zhou Wen stood up and gave Chen Sheng an idea.

Now the main forces that Qin can mobilize in the Central Plains are all in Xingyang and Wuguang, but Guanzhong, which is the base camp, is extremely empty. It is better to send an army to attack the fortress directly and take Xianyang, then the Qin State will be completely finished, and the world will be pacified.

Chen Sheng has always respected Zhou Wen very much, because Zhou Wen has a great background. Chen Sheng cheekily claimed Xiang Yan's old department under the banner of Xiang Yan, but this Zhou Wen was the real Xiang Yan's old department. He once served as a staff member in Xiang Yan's army, mainly responsible for divining the good fortune and evil of the troops, and the gods of that era were very respected, so Chen Sheng always treated him like a guest.

Since it was an opinion put forward by the divine stick, it had a taste of God's will, and Chen Sheng naturally readily agreed. He gave Zhou Wen 20,000 foot soldiers and asked him to attack Xianyang.

Zhou Wen is indeed a character, and the demagogic development team is a good hand, the team just left Chen County, and when it arrived in front of Hangu Pass, it was already covered with flags, with an army of 200,000, thousands of cars, and more than 10,000 cavalry.

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At the Hangu Pass, the soldiers holding the halberds on the city wall looked at the crowd that was entering the pass one after another with wide eyes, and did not dare to relax their vigilance at all. Rumors of the Kwantung rebellion had already spread in Guanzhong, and passers-by knew that this Qin army of 3,000 men had temporarily arrived from Longxi to garrison Hangu Pass in accordance with Xianyang's orders.

Hangu Guanxi is based on the plateau, east of the river, south of the Qinling Mountains, north of the Yellow River, is one of the earliest Xiongguan fortresses built by the Qin State, but also the most important checkpoint. Founded in the twelfth year of Qin Xiangong, it is the throat place of going to the Central Plains in the east and reaching the pass in the west, known as "the Tiankai Hangu Zhuangguan, the ten thousand valleys are shocked to the north sky", "the twin peaks are towering beside the big river, and the Hangu is a battlefield since ancient times", and it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times. In the third year of King Zhou Shenliang, King Huai of Chu raised the army of the Six Kingdoms to attack Qin, and Qin relied on the natural danger of Hangu, so that the army of the Six Kingdoms "ambushed millions of corpses, bleeding and drifting". In the sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, the armies of Chu, Zhao, Wei and other five countries committed Qin, "to Hangu, all were defeated", which was a powerful reason for Great Qin to sit in Guanzhong and look down on the six countries.

Since the First Emperor swept Liuhe and unified the world, the status of Hangu Pass as a strategic location has declined significantly, and it is only used as a hub connecting Guanzhong and Kanto. The elite soldiers and strong generals who were originally stationed here were also transferred to other places, leaving only a few hundred old and weak soldiers to maintain order in and out.

When the land of Kanto fell one after another, the status of Hangu Pass became re-important, and the high-level people of Daqin suddenly remembered that there was such a Xiongguan to rely on, and hurriedly recruited 3,000 elite soldiers from Longxi to settle in. It's just that Hangu Pass has been lacking repair for more than ten years, although the outline of the world's first Xiongguan can still be seen on the appearance, but many places have collapsed, no longer the strength of the year.

But no matter how dilapidated it is, it is not something that can be captured by those mud legs who rushed to the army in the Kwantung region, which made the Qin generals defending the city feel at ease, and they just waited anxiously for the battle report from the Kwantung region.

On this day, a mighty team suddenly came in front of Hangu Pass, but it was not an army, but a team composed of more than 300 ploughing oxen, which was knocking at the pass.

The soldiers in the city did not release their arrows, but looked at the strange team curiously, and one of the generals shouted in a long voice; "Who are you, what are you doing in Guguan?"

The person below raised his head, his cheeks were slender and his appearance was quite delicate, he raised his head and replied loudly: "I am Song Qiang, the county commander of Zhou County, Sanchuan County, the rebels of Zhou County are approaching, and the defenders in my city have been transferred to Xingyang by Li County Guard. Only then did I abandon the city with the ploughing cattle in the city and flee, wanting to go to Guanzhong. ”

The cattle in Zhou County, Sanchuan County are famous far and wide, and the guards who defend the city also know a little, so they don't doubt it. Moreover, this team only escorted the ploughing cattle, and the ploughing cattle were an important resource of the Qin State, so it was also a great achievement for the county commander to escape back to Guanzhong with the herd of cattle, and he might be able to make up for the crime and still retain it.

The guard ordered Song Qiang's documents and seals to be checked with a hanging basket, and found no problems, so he ordered the city gate to be opened and the ox team entered the customs. For safety reasons, only one cow is allowed to enter slowly.

When the bull team entered the halfway, the guard looked at the team with some boredom, and the horse slowly walked past the bull team. At this time, one of Song Qiang's subordinates greeted him with a smile and stuffed a money bag into his hand. The guard smiled and didn't say anything, just put away his money bag.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and a thought flashed, and he turned his head sharply, and suddenly cold sweat flowed down.

He is an experienced military marquis of the Qin army, and he knows that those who have served as soldiers have a characteristic, that is, the tiger's mouth is extremely calloused, and if he is a farmer, he will only have calluses on his palms, not the tiger's mouth. When I first met the man, it was clear that the tiger's mouth had thick calluses.

Looking at those cowherds carefully, they are all powerful and vigorous, and they don't look like ordinary cowherds. And with only 300 cows, there are nearly 1,000 cowherds, which is not too much.

The guard's throat was dry, and he was aware of the danger, so he hurried back. I wanted to shout loudly, but my vest hurt, and I was hit by an arrow behind me, and I fell off my horse, which was the county magistrate of Zhou who held the bow.

Zhou Wen saw that the matter had been revealed, so he opened his bow and shot the guard to death, rushed through the city gate and shouted; "Take the city!"

A thousand cowherds quickly turned into wolf-like soldiers, drew their broadswords from under the tripe, and looked at the stunned Qin soldiers around them, while an army of 10,000 people outside the city was rapidly rushing towards Hangu Pass.

An hour later, Zhou Wen looked at the slowly extinguishing fire in Hangu Pass, looked farther to the west, and shouted, "March." ”

"Marching towards Guanzhong."

"Marching towards Great Qin."