Chapter 233: Betrayal
Namyang County in May.
Plants and trees are frantically absorbing nutrients, trying to give themselves the upper hand in the competition for survival in the new year, and suppress their peers who have grown of the same type.
This is true of plants and trees, and so are people.
This spring and summer.
The name of Han Xin became loud in the Central Plains. The person who represents him will certainly not be Han Wangxin who fled to Yingchuan in embarrassment, and the person who represents him is the young man who was humiliated by his crotch in Huaiyin's hometown.
Offensive.
With invincible momentum, defeat all opponents who dare to oppose them.
The depressed Han Xin, after wandering among many princes, finally found an opportunity to prove himself in the Qin State, and it was none other than Li Yuan, the equally young Shenwu Marquis, who gave him this opportunity.
Fight to fame.
The brilliant achievements of the Qin army made Han Xin, a little-known little person, suddenly make all the princes and big men look sideways.
"How could such a talent come to the Qin State?"
"I heard that Han Xin is still a Chu person, how can he be so indistinguishable from wrong, he doesn't come to serve in the Chu army and the Han army, but goes to be a tyrannical general of Qin."
"Don't joke, Han Xin is under the command of the overlord, at best, he can only be a halberd-wielding Langzhong, if it weren't for the Shenwu Marquis of the Qin State, how could he be famous all over the world."
Such discussions took place in Yingdu, Pengcheng, Handan, and Xiping, even in the opposite Wancheng City, and the Han army was also whispering.
Outside the city of Wancheng.
The Qin army camped at the West Gate, and it is very interesting that the camp chosen by Li Yuan and Han Xin was the camp abandoned by Han Wangxin and Liu Jia not long ago.
After nearly a year of separation, Li Yuan and Han Xin reunited, still outside the enemy's city, and this change seemed to indicate that Qin's strategic posture had shifted from defensive to offensive.
The sun is rising.
When the first rays of sunlight on the first day of May shine through the treetops of the tent, through the water. When the oblique irradiation hit the green grass on the ground, the soldiers of the Qin army began to bury the pot and make rice.
Smoke rises.
It floats erratically, but it grows more and more densely.
"Herod!" The high-pitched neighing of the war horse sounded, followed by the long neighing of the healthy horse one after another, which made the entire west gate of Wancheng boil.
The time of the war.
Li Yuan rode on a flaming red war horse, a bloody horse from the Western Regions that was trafficked to Chang'an by Hu merchants, and after a journey through thousands of mountains and rivers, he finally found its true owner.
Beside Li Yuan was Han Xin of the White Horse Silver Halberd. As a commander-level general in the Qin army who surged up like a rocket, Han Xin swept away the gloom when he was unexpected, and his face, which had just grown a thick beard, was full of confidence and calmness.
Feng Xuan, Su Jiao, Meng Hu, Zhang Ping, Cao Xin, ——, the generals of the Qin army surrounded all of them, and accompanied Li Yuan to check the terrain around Wancheng, there was no need to cover up, and there was no need to worry that the Han army would suddenly come out, the reason was very simple. The situation of the Han army in Wancheng is now clear to the Qin army.
is not only the news of the intermittent investigation, but also the Han generals like Chen who know the bottom of the Han army in detail.
"Wuhou, Zhou Bo of Wancheng is Liu Bang's diehard loyalist, if he insists on not surrendering. Our army forcibly attacked the city for a long time, and the last general had already sent a general to sneak into the city the day before yesterday, if he could persuade Chen Xuan, the lieutenant of Wancheng County, to donate the city, the war in the area of Nanyang County could basically end. Han Xin urged Ma and Li Yuan to walk side by side. While looking at the towering city walls, he reported to Li Yuan on the battle situation of the Qin army on the southern front.
"Chen Xuan, is it? General Han wants to persuade this person to surrender, and he needs to add another fire. Two days later, on the night of the moon, the soldiers tied the letters with arrows and shot them in the city. The letter can be said: Chen Fan deliberately surrendered my Great Qin, and has sent people to negotiate in the camp outside the city, I will wait and wait for the generals of the Han army in the city to fight, how about it? Li Yuan Haha smiled and said.
Only war, attack the heart for the top, siege for the bottom.
Han Xin's strategy of dividing and disintegrating the Han army in Wancheng City made Li Yuan agree very much, a mature general should not use only one method to deal with the enemy, Han Xin's innate talent for war generals made him take the most Haode method at the first time.
Chen Xuan.
This name Li Yuan remembered.
In the records of historical books, Corporal Chen Xianlixian was very famous in the early Han Dynasty, and later because he was jealous of Liu Bang's minister Zhou Chang, he gradually came to the side of the rebel generals who rebelled against Liu Bang and established himself as the king.
In fact, the reason why Liu Bang was defeated by the Huns in Baishan Mountain at the beginning of the Han Dynasty was that in addition to the weakening of the national strength of the Chu and Han dynasties, Chen Xuan, Han Xin, Peng Yue, Yingbu and ——, were all killed under Liu Bang's suspicion.
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The defeat was like a mountain.
Zhou Bo's order to withdraw Wancheng within three days was like a straw that crushed the camel, and as soon as the Han army received the order, they hurriedly shook off their arms and rushed all the way towards Wancheng.
Escape.
The farther away from those Qin people who killed people without blinking, the better, this is the call of those Han army generals who have experienced the fiasco in Guanzhong, in the past, there was no general order, they could only hold on to the bitter hopelessness, now, even if there is a shortage of soldiers and major generals when they run to Wancheng, there is nothing, I believe Zhou Bo can't say anything.
Compared with the old soldiers in the Han army, some of the new and newly promoted young Han generals were much slower to react, and this slowness quickly turned into a mistake to rush their lives.
Ye.
Located in the southeast corner of Nanyang County, the Han general Chen Chu, who was stationed in this small city, looked at the Qin generals passing by him, and felt bitter in his heart.
A pack of sheep and a pack of wolves meet, and the result can be imagined.
He just wanted to bring more money from Ye County, so he was surrounded in the city by Feng Xuan's Qin army. In the face of the wolf-like Qin army, Chen Chu was so frightened that he didn't even have a symbolic resistance, so he simply led his subordinates of more than 1,000 people to surrender.
Chen's surrender was just one of many Han army generals. However, soon, Chen Chu found an opportunity to exert his ability under Feng Xuan's command.
Be the vanguard of the vanguard, lobbying one colleague after another.
This is the way that Chen Chu found for himself to join the Qin army and quickly be reused and promoted.
In the fourth year of the Qin New Calendar, April 29.
The Qin army of the north and south roads met under the city of Wancheng like a broken bamboo, and surrounded about 40,000 Han troops in the city of Wancheng, under the continuous pursuit of the Qin army, the retreating Han army was scattered by nearly 10,000 people and did not know where to go.
Wancheng.
Zhou Bo's generals were in short supply, on the one hand, because of the escape of generals such as Liu Fei, Liu Jia, and Han Wangxin, and on the other hand, under the continuous pursuit of the Qin army, all units of the Han army suffered heavy losses.
Zhou Bo was angry and angry, suffering from typhoid fever, although he was treated by a doctor, but it was still good or bad, in the case of internal and external troubles, as the only Han general who stood firmly on Zhou Bo's side, Chen Xuan, was promoted and reused by Zhou Bo, and was appointed as the lieutenant of Wancheng County.
These days, Zhou Bo has given Chen Feng more affairs and more trust, including the command of the defenders of the most important West Gate and South Gate.
For Chen Xuan, who is used to being pampered, a large number of affairs is really a heavy burden, if it weren't for his brothers Zhang Chun, Man Qiuchen, Wang Huang, etc., who are supported behind him, Chen Feng is afraid that he will collapse early.
Wancheng Pianpian young man.
Chen Xuan, who was just thirty years old, had a pair of peach blossom eyes, a handsome face, and a tall figure, and he could get the favor of women, but before he made a career, Chen Xuan was at best just a gangster wandering in Nanyang County, in the storm of the princes' anti-Qin, Chen Xuan's vision was very unique, he did not join Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising team at the beginning, but quietly pulled a group of brothers to work alone.
Going it alone undoubtedly requires luck.
Fortunately, Chen Feng has always been very low-key, and the Qin army of Nanyang County did not take a guy like Chen Feng who took the opportunity to make a profit as an opponent. After becoming a general of the Han army, Chen Feng began to mix like a fish in water in Wancheng, not only owning a whole magnificent mansion, but also raising four beautiful concubines.
All this, Chen Feng has struggled for half his life.
How can you just give up?
However, the retreat again and again in the past ten days has shattered Chen Xuan's former self-confidence, and the current Han army and the Qin army are really not opponents at the same level.
Cavalry is the hammer of thunder on the battlefield.
In terms of cavalry construction, the Han army only had less than 500 war horses, and it was not able to form any scale and combat effectiveness at all, compared with the Qin army, which had as many as 6 or 7,000 elite cavalry troops, and the war horses of these cavalrymen were tall and healthy horses that were raised from the Hetao and Longxi grasslands, which were completely different from the so-called cavalry adapted from the inferior horses that temporarily used carts in the Central Plains.
In other arms, the Qin army also has the Ba people who are good at fighting in the mountains and hills, the Yueshi heavy infantry troops who are good at bows and arrows and huge strength, and what does the Han army have, a bunch of young people who were hastily pulled in.
Do you really want to accompany Zhou Bo to destroy this city together? On the night of the siege of the Qin army, Chen Xuan leaned on the brocade couch tiredly, his eyes were scattered and thoughtless, and even the most favored Mei Ji was blasted aside by him.
Promotions in the line of fire.
More power, more responsibility.
If it is replaced by other princes to besiege the city, Chen Feng is not afraid at all, the walls of this Wancheng are all piled up by bluestones, quite firm, a few years ago, Chen Sheng sent Deng Shuo as the general of the Southern Expedition, led more than 50,000 rebels to attack Wancheng, but the result was a full year and did not be able to take the city.
"But, this time, can Wancheng really be able to stop the Qin army?"
Many Han armies were defeated, and judging from the return of the defeated soldiers, even if it was an elite general in the eyes of Chen Xuan, under the offensive of the Qin army sweeping away the leaves, the city did not hold for three days.
During the day, after climbing the city tower and seeing the Qin army camp with boundless black pressure, Chen Xuan was not only shocked in his heart, but also frightened. (To be continued......)