Zhang Han is back!

This news surprised and surprised everyone, and Gan Xiao, who was the first to be rewarded, knew that the stakes were very high, and strictly ordered the soldiers not to spread the news, and at the same time sent people to gallop to Han Xin to report the news. He himself recklessly left the Wuguan with 5,000 soldiers and set up a temporary camp at the foot of Shaoxi Mountain to accommodate this man.

When he asked to see Zhang Han, he was in a very complicated mood, and he didn't know what kind of courtesy to ask to see him. In terms of identity, Zhang Han is the general of the Qin State, and he is the Marquis of Guannei, and his great military achievements can not be compared to that of a small general.

But the problem is that Zhang Han surrendered to the Chu army, and the Qin State was busy with internal strife and then the siege of Xianyang, and there was no time to officially issue an edict to deal with Zhang Han, and over time it was gradually forgotten. Now that I think about it, the imperial court has not canceled his position as a general and the title of Marquis of Guannai, which has become a big surprise.

This also made Gan Xiao nervous, not knowing what kind of etiquette to treat Zhang Han, a sensitive person, but fortunately Zhang Han shirked his physical discomfort and did not meet him, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. Thinking that this problem should be left to the imperial court to solve, he just needs to stabilize this Qin army before the imperial court sends people.

Because of the sensitive identity of this Qin army, Gan Xiao naturally did not dare to risk putting them into Wuguan, so he temporarily set up a camp outside the pass to settle them. His 5,000 soldiers were carefully deployed around the perimeter, although they were not clear, but their posture was clearly vigilant.

But then Gan Xiao felt that his worries were unnecessary, although there were 40,000 people in this Qin army, most of them were empty-handed. One by one, they were yellow-skinned and thin, and when they saw the food, they were like hungry ghosts reincarnated. Not to mention those with different intentions, Gan Xiao only needed to send someone to take the rice and put it in front of their camp, and when they smelled the rice, they would put it down one after another and rushed over to grab the food.

Gan Xiao will never understand that these soldiers, who are like hungry ghosts, were once a tiger and wolf army that crisscrossed the Central Plains. They used to be proud, proud, and they were confident that they could crush any opponent in the world.

They should be proud. In the water, they routed Zhou Wen's army of 200,000 and miraculously recovered the almost collapsed Qin Empire; In the city father, they personally cut off the head of King Chen Sheng, who was disturbing the world, so that Daqin saw the hope of Zhongxing; In Dingtao, Xiang Liang's invincible head also became a trophy for them to send to Xianyang to invite merit.

They were once fearless and confident, and their holding high black battle flags with the words 'Qin' and 'Zhang' written on them became a nightmare for every anti-Qin prince. The princes trembled and cowered, trying to retract their power, lest they attract their attention and become the next trophy to be sent to Xianyang.

They almost succeeded, but the roar of the young male lion on the banks of the Zhangshui River made them lose their dreams, their glory, and even their lives.

The First Battle of Julu rewrote the fate of the entire Qin State, and also rewrote their fate. In just one day, the originally powerful Qin army collapsed in an instant, followed by retreat, retreat, and finally surrender!

Humiliating surrender, their names will become the object of the Qin people's curses, and their families will not be able to raise their heads under the gaze of the neighbors. Surrender has never been seen in the glorious record of the Qin army, and it is also the surrender of a full 200,000 troops.

But the generals told them that if they surrendered, they would at least be alive, and if they didn't surrender, there was only one way to die.

Yes, it is more important than anything else to live in the troubled times, so they lowered their heads that were once raised high and became an unusual 'Qin army', following Xiang Yu into the customs and strangling their motherland.

However, Xiang Yu even deprived them of the right to 'live' in the end, and even wanted to kill them alive and build a large tomb of 200,000 people to add to his world-building achievements.

After Zhang Han led them to fight back, they became a group of lonely ghosts, neither allowed by the Qin State nor the Kwantung princes. Zhang Han, who was full of grief and indignation, had a very simple idea, that is, to bring these lonely souls and wild ghosts back to Qin again, even if he himself would be cut in half and torn apart, he would try his best to make up for the mistakes he had made.

Hangu Pass is Xiang Yu's westward road, naturally it is impossible to go there, only to go south, if Wuguan has not been lost, you can return to Guanzhong from there.

Because Xiang Yu was in a hurry to enter the pass to destroy Qin, he didn't pay much attention to his ruined army, but only sent a general to lead 20,000 people to pursue south, and at the same time ordered Ji Bu of Pengcheng to fully assist in the encirclement and suppression. The pursuing Chu generals caught up with the fleeing Qin army, but after several battles, they did not take advantage of anything, so they changed their strategy and changed to entangle the tail of the Qin army, preventing them from fleeing south with all their might, and waiting for Ji Bu's reinforcements to arrive before annihilation.

Because there were pursuers later, Zhang Han couldn't go south with all his strength, so he had to stop and go, fighting while walking. This part of the Qin army was originally demoralized, and when they escaped, they were in a hurry and had nothing to eat, so they could only barely maintain supplies by plundering the villages, and they could only take a detour when they encountered the city on the way.

Because of this, they walked for four months less than a thousand miles, as if they were fleeing.

Fortunately, Ji Bu had a tense relationship with King Huai at that time, and he couldn't spare his hands to clean them up, so they were able to retreat to Wuguan.

At this time, Wuguan has been taken over by Liu Bang's troops, and the Qin people who have come to the pass with great difficulty can't help but cry bitterly, they are only separated from their hometown by a pass, but it is like the end of the world. Although there were only 3,000 Chu troops in Wuguan, they could not attack Wuguan without siege equipment and cut off food and grass, so they could only die under the high city walls.

Zhang Han did not despair, he relied on the prestige of the army to forcibly take the desperate Qin army away from Wuguan, slowly returned north along the tall mountain range, and then threw off the pursuers and entered the endless Shaoxi Mountains, wanting to climb over the mountains from here and return to Guanzhong with his bare hands.

The Shaoxi Mountains are the branches of the Qinling Mountains, stretching from the place of the big river to the junction of Wuguan and the main vein of the Qinling Mountains, and connecting with the Fulao Mountains to the east, with a vast span of more than 600 li, hundreds of miles in length and width, which is the barrier for the Qin State to isolate the eastern part of the Guandong.

In the past, when the Six Kingdoms joined forces to attack Qin, they also thought of sneaking up the mountains from here to attack Qin, but in the end they couldn't do it. Because Shaoxi Mountain is indeed difficult to cross, many of the mountain roads smashed out of the cliffs can only accommodate the next person to walk, not to mention the baggage supplies carried by the army.

In order to lighten the load, Zhang Han ordered the Qin army to abandon the armor and the only remaining baggage, and the weapons were almost discarded, leaving only some hunting for self-defense.

The first problem the army faced when entering the mountains was the lack of food and grass, and in the plains they were able to maintain supplies by plundering, but in this endless mountain range there was hardly a single human population, let alone food for them to plunder.

The army marched slowly through the mountains, and the wild things, wild vegetables and fruits on the road were swept away, and the extremely hungry Qin army even ate all the snakes, ants, rats and insects but still couldn't fill their stomachs, and in the end they even relied on chewing leaves to satisfy their hunger. An army of nearly 50,000 men was like locusts crossing the border, eating everything they could eat on their way.

It was a desperate journey home, the morale of the Qin army fell to the point of almost collapse because of hunger, and the hungry soldiers with green eyes even cast ill-intentioned glances on the robes beside them. As a result, it is often rumored among the team that a soldier never came out after being relieved in the mountains and forests, and there were some unknown pieces of meat in the pot of another tun that came from nowhere.

Despair tormented every soldier like hunger, and one by one they craned their necks vigilantly at the robes who had relied on each other's lives, and often slept in the middle of the night simply because of the strange screams of insects and beasts in the woods, which caused the whole army to bomb the camp.

At this time, Zhang Han unexpectedly cheered up, and he became energetic. He tirelessly ran through the ranks, calming the panicked soldiers with hearty laughter. He chewed wild vegetable leaves every day like ordinary soldiers, and personally led his own soldiers to patrol the night to appease the army.

He repeated the same phrase every day, that is, to tell his soldiers that Guanzhong was ahead, and Qin was ahead, and as long as they climbed a few more hills, they could return to the fat and oily Guanzhong. There, the king of Qin had pardoned them for treason, but only made them serve ten years of military service, and their parents, wives and children were at home looking forward to their return. Everything will pass, just climb the hill ahead!

Over time, they all actually believed what Zhang Han said, and continued to walk with this belief, and finally on the forty-seventh day, after crossing a high mountain, what appeared in front of them was the endless Guanzhong Plain.

40,000 Qin troops walked out of Shaoxi Mountain, while more than 10,000 Qin people were buried in the mountains and forests. They were already lucky, they would have died more people, and even the whole army would have been wiped out, just because Zhang Han gave them the belief in survival.

Han Xin was inspecting the defense in the north at this time, and after receiving Gan Xiao's urgent report, he rushed to Wuguan overnight. He was very excited in his heart, not to mention that these 40,000 former elites would greatly enhance the weak national strength of the Qin State after a little cultivation, but he was also very happy to see Zhang Han return to Qin.

Zhang Han used to care for Han Xin like an elder, and he always respected Zhang Han very much in his heart, even if Zhang Han surrendered to Xiang Yu later, Han Xin could understand that he had no choice but to do it.

The only mistake Zhang Han made in his life was to underestimate Xiang Yu and pay a heavy price for it.

It's just that Han Xin is a little worried about how to make the Qin people accept this former general again.

In the history of the Qin State, there has never been such a dramatic change as Zhang Han's identity, before Julu, he was the savior of the Qin State and the hope of millions of Qin people. But after that, he became the Qin traitor referred to by Qianfu, especially after Xiang Yukeng killed the Qin soldiers, Guanzhong's father hated Zhang Han even more.

When Xiang Yu divided the princes, the generals of the Qin State, Sima Xin and Dong Peng, were also divided into kings, but only Zhang Han was missing. This made Han Xin very strange, and the spies sent to Kanto to investigate couldn't find any news, and Zhang Han disappeared without a trace as if he had evaporated in the world, until Gan Xiao sent someone to roughly report the news to Han Xin.

For three days and three nights of galloping horses, when they were sleepy, they would close their eyes on the back of the horse and take a nap, and each person rode day and night. This is not a difficult thing for Han Xin and his personal guards from the Northern Army, but it is a little bitter for Meng Shi, who was born in a family. After a few days, Meng Shi only felt a hot heartache on the inside of his legs, and he grinned in pain when he touched it slightly.

Han Xin saw it in his eyes and smiled; "What's wrong Meng Shi, didn't you say that you are the strongest warrior, you can't even suffer this little bit, if your father knows about it, he will definitely say that he doesn't know you with a black face."

Meng Shi really couldn't stand Han Xin's provocation of him, so he immediately stood up and said in a rough voice; "Who said I can't stand it, don't talk nonsense, general, okay, I just got bitten by a mosquito, which eye of you saw me can't do it."

After speaking, he raised his horsewhip and threw down the sentence. "I don't believe we're faster than anyone."

Han Xin laughed, his originally somewhat gloomy face suddenly relaxed a lot, shook his head with a smile and chased after him.

On the third day, Han Xin and the others rushed to the camp, but Gan Xiao was not in the camp. Originally, he was worried that he would not be in Wuguan for a long time and Wuguan had too few troops, so he was worried that something would happen, so he returned to Wuguan when he saw that there was no situation here, leaving the deputy general to lead the army to garrison carefully.

Han Xin did not alarm the lieutenant general when he entered the camp, but only used the token he carried with him to say that it was an envoy from Xianyang and entered the camp.

At this time, it was lunch time, and groups of ragged Qin soldiers sat in front of the camp gate with porridge bowls and drank corn porridge in large gulps, and stood up nervously when they saw Han Xin and a group of freshly clothed and angry knights rushing over.

Han Xin, who was on the horse, glanced at the porridge bowl in the soldier's hand, and saw that the thin rice porridge could faintly reflect the figure, and suddenly some anger swelled up, thinking that Wuguan's grain and grass were not in short supply, why was Gan Xiao so stingy. was about to say something, but suddenly understood Gan Xiao's intention to do this.

Because the identities of these Qin soldiers are still unknown, it is difficult to guarantee that they will be foolproof, so Gan Xiao deliberately offered them gruel, also to prevent them from having sufficient physical strength, even if there is anything, they can deal with it calmly.

Thinking of this, Han Xin couldn't help but look at this Gan Xiao Gao a little, thinking that this person was a cautious general.

But since he came, there was no need to be so careful, Han Xin took out the talisman from his arms and said to a personal soldier behind him; "Go and get my talisman to mobilize the nearby grain and grass, change the dry rice for these brothers, and prepare more vegetables and vegetables."

The pro-soldier retreated as promised, and the Qin soldiers next to him raised their arms and cheered when they heard it, one by one elated. Although they didn't know Han Xin's identity yet, they could tell by looking at his clothes and outfit that he was not an ordinary person. Han Xin's smiling gaze swept over the soldiers, seeing that although their faces were yellow and thin, and many of them were thin and skinny, they were not afraid to look at their eyes, presumably after a long time of recuperation, they must be a tiger and wolf army.

This is a middle-aged man who looks like an officer walked out of the crowd, he walked up to Han Xin's horse and bowed his hand to give a military salute, and said respectfully; "My lord, I am Fan Shi, the marquis of the third battalion under General Zhangshang's account, may I ask your lordship, who are you?"

Before Han Xin could answer, Meng Shi preemptively said; "This is Lord Han Xin, the general of Great Qin."

The military marquis was stunned for a moment, they had cut off contact with Guan since Julu, obviously not knowing when there would be another General Han, so he stammered and asked; "General Han? May I ask which General Han is, I don't seem to have heard of it. ”

Meng Shi was suddenly furious, and said viciously with wide eyes; "You are so daring, you dare to doubt General Ben, don't you want to live?"

When the marquis saw that Meng Shi was angry, he knelt down in a panic and opened his mouth to say something, but he heard a soldier behind him say in a loud voice; "General Han, I know you."

"Oh?" Han Xin's gaze swept over smoothly, and he saw that it was a thin soldier, so he asked with an interested look; "Do you recognize me?"

Seeing that Han Xin's eyes were gentle and did not mean to blame, the soldier said boldly; "I know you, you are General Han Xinhan, and my brother was a soldier under you in the first place."

At this time, a personal soldier behind Han Xin said, "Huh", looked at the soldier carefully, and said, "Are you a little black?" ”

The little black man also had a large number of personal soldiers and said in surprise for a long time; "You are Brother Tian, what about my brother, isn't he with you?"

There was eagerness in his voice, and he looked at the soldier with blank eyes, for fear of saying unfavorable news from his mouth. I saw the pro-soldier laugh and laugh; "You said that kid, he's amazing now, he made a contribution in the last battle, and now he has become a quhou, and he is training recruits in Xianyang."

The little black man said with surprise and joy; "Qu Hou! Oh my God, my family has never had such a big official in my life, hahahaha, hahahaha. ”

Seeing Han Xin looking at him with a smile, he hurriedly stopped laughing and bowed his head to plead guilty; "The villain is rude, General Han, don't worry about the small general."

Han Xin smiled slightly and said; "It's okay, little black, you can take me to the general. It's been a long time since I've seen him, and I miss him so much. ”，

"No."

Han Xin and the others followed Xiao Heizi all the way to Zhang Han's tent, and the two soldiers outside the tent saw Han Xin coming and hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted. They are all Zhang Han's personal guards, so naturally they have already been instructed to know Han Xin's current identity.

Han Xin saw that the two of them were a little familiar, thinking that they had often been in and out of Zhang Han's camp before, so he had seen a lot, so he asked; "What about the General?"

The two guards looked at each other for a moment, and they both lowered their heads and didn't speak, Han Xin didn't embarrass them when he saw this, so he wanted to go in, but he saw a guard said in a panic; Han ...... General Han, General Zhang is not in the tent now, he has told him that he does not want to see anyone. ”

Meng Shishan stepped forward and said angrily; "Bastard, do you know who is in front of you, he is the captain of my Great Qin, the highest official position in the army, what are you general Zhang, who can order him?"

The two guards suddenly turned pale, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy, Han Xin waved his hand to stop Meng Shi, and said to the two of them in a peaceful voice; "Please go and report it, saying that the former general Han Xin asked to see the general, and I hope the general can see Han Xin."

The two guards were shocked, they both lowered their heads, and one of them raised his head and said with a choked voice; "General Han, I know that you are a nostalgic person, so don't be embarrassed about the general, he is now unpopular."

In the past few days, he has built a large tomb with his bare hands, saying that he wants to hold a vigil for the dead more than 300,000 brothers. He stabbed himself blind, cut his cheek with a knife, covered his face with a hat all day long, and said that he had no face to say goodbye to his father in Guanzhong, but he just wanted to keep a watch for his dead brother, and he would no longer ask about anything and never see anyone again. ”

Han Xin's head shook violently, and he gritted his teeth and said slowly; "Didn't the general say that he couldn't see anyone, including me?"

"Yes, the general asked me to tell you a word to the general, he said that he did not see the wrong person, let you do a good job, to fulfill his unfulfilled last wish."

Han Xin was silent for a long time when he heard this, and raised his head to let the tears in his eyes flow back.

He thought of the old man with thin cheeks but always very energetic, the old man who always liked to talk to him with a smile for a long time.

Han Xin suddenly felt a sense of relief, and let out a long sigh of relief.

This may be the best ending for Zhang Han, at least he is making up for the mistakes he once made. Mourning is greater than heart death, Zhang Han is already dead, why should he embarrass him.

Han Xin slowly turned his head and said in an unusually calm tone; "Let's go."