Qinba Han water.

A towering Qinling Mountains, blocking several mountains and rivers.

At the same time that Liu Bang was determined to defend Xicheng, Li Yuan, the Marquis of Qin Shenwu, quickly dispatched troops from Guanzhong County and Sanchuan County to enter the hinterland of Hanzhong from Chencang Road.

Han Xin, a general stationed north of the river, also received Li Yuan's order, and after handing over the command of the remaining troops to Jiang Yu, he led his own troops to rush west from Chidao to the Hanzhong front.

In addition to Han Xin, Feng Xuan, who was stationed at Lantian Pass, also received Li Yuan's order, but he didn't need to travel thousands of miles to Hanzhong, Li Yuan's order was to let Feng Xuan lead his men and horses to attack directly from the Bao Chuan Road to contain the Han army.

In early March, Li Yuan and Han Xin led more than 20,000 elite soldiers to the east along the Hanshui Road.

The towering mountains of the Qinling Mountains block the cold current in the north, the spring flowers bloom in the area of Hanzhong County, and the mountains and wilderness are full of vitality, in stark contrast, the mountain people living here are not clothed and fooded, and their quality of life is not said to be compared with Guanzhong, even the places where wars are frequent in the eastern part of the country are more than here.

"This is the Han Kingdom under Liu Bang's rule, how can it be like this?"

Li Yuan led the army all the way east, and he didn't feel puzzled in his heart, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty in history, no matter how he judged it, he could still be regarded as a heroic figure, and the policy of recuperation and recuperation in the early Han Dynasty was also formulated in his hands, but now looking at the situation of the people in Hanzhong, it is obvious that Liu Bang's taxes were too high.

The changing times are unpredictable and difficult to argue. Only a year ago, when Liu Bang, the king of Han, led his western expedition to Chu from Wuguan, the people here also welcomed the Qin army today, looking forward to the days of suffering and suffering to pass quickly, and to live a peaceful and peaceful new life like the people of Guanzhong.

The will of the people.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat.

Looking at the surging Han water rushing eastward, Li Yuan couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Liu Bang's reign in Hanzhong and Ba and Shu was only one year, from the sandwich road to the centrifugal betrayal, the implication is self-evident, this time to attack Hanzhong, if the Qin State can not learn the lessons of Liu Bang, in the near future, today's ending of Liu Bang is a witness.

In the third year of the Qin New Calendar, March 27.

The Qin army arrived outside the western city, and the army camped to bury pots and cook food, and cleaned up the siege equipment. Prepare for a storming of the city. The two old rivals of Qin and Han once again stood on opposite sides, and this time, the situation turned around, the Qin army belonged to the attacking side, and the Han army became the attacked side.

Xicheng (this is the name of the Han State, the Qin State is called Jinzhou, and it will be collectively called Xicheng in the future for the convenience of the narrative).

It now belongs to the Ankang area, located in the southwest of Hanzhong County. Leaning on the Qinling Mountains in the north, Daba Mountain in the south, the Han River passes through the middle, and belongs to the north and south sides of the high in terms of topography. In the valley basin at the bottom of the middle, the Qin army attacked from west to east, and if they wanted to occupy the eastern part of Hanzhong County, they had to take the county seat of Xicheng.

The overlord of the world.

Only one way.

In the repeated use of stratagem. After defeating the strong with the weak and winning more with less, Li Yuan finally had the strength to defeat his opponent in a dignified manner. This time, the ratio of troops between Qin and Han was 20,000 to 7,000, and Liu Bang, who did not want to shake the good situation in Nanjun, tried his best to gather 7,000 Han soldiers to hold on.

Next.

The tent of the Qin army in the army, the pre-military deliberations are underway.

Compared with the previous practice of Li Yuan in the center and the generals gathered in front of the sand table, this time, Li Yuan handed over the command of the siege to Han Xin, and he was mainly responsible for coordinating the Qin army in Hanzhong.

"Li Hou, the moat of Xicheng leads the Han River to irrigate, the depth of the central river is not above the heads of the two, it is extremely difficult to fill the trench with cloth bags, it is better to cut down huge trees to make bridges, and it is convenient to pass." Feng Xuan, the captain who served as the first of the Qin army, looked excited and admonished loudly.

The first time he received the task of attacking the fortification, the enemy was Liu Bang, the anti-Qin prince of Han who first entered Xianyang, and in the face of such a strong opponent, Feng Xuan's young heart only felt blood boiling.

"Logging is a bridge, and it is feasible. However, it is also necessary to consider that if the enemy fires rockets from the top of the city, or if the hot oil comes down and the wooden bridge is set on fire, our army will be in a dilemma. Han Xin said as he leaned over to inspect the sand table terrain near Xicheng.

Creation makes people.

Han Xin, who had intended to defect to Liu Bang, the king of Han, had now become the general of the Qin army, and in the face of Li Yuan's almost unconditional reservation, Han Xin's confidence throbbed.

This time, he wants to show all his skills and let everyone who looks down on him see that he Han Xin is a strong man, not a man under the crotch.

"What is the general's good plan, and let's talk about it in detail?" Li Yuan smiled and asked. Since Han Xin said this, he must have thought of a countermeasure, and what Li Yuan has to do now is to put on a listening appearance.

"Li Hou, everyone, if you want to make the wooden bridge not burn, you can cut down huge trees and soak them in the Han water, and use wet wood to erect them on the moat, so that even if the enemy has rockets, he can't help me?" Han Xin continued.

"General Han, the last general has a question. This siege, our army is three times the enemy's strength, this is the number of strong attacks, in case it can't be attacked for a long time, what should it be? Wang Shang thought for a moment and asked.

"What General Wang said is that the gap between our army's siege strength and the enemy is not too much, but the west city is built by water, and the west city wall is about one mile wide, and there are several places where you can choose to storm the city, so that our army can rely on the advantage of troops and attack a few points, so as to distract the enemy's attention and realize our strategic idea of forcibly taking the city." Han Xin replied confidently.

The pre-war dispute between Han Xin and Wang Shang was a form of discussion of specific tactics between the Qin generals in the Battle of Hanzhong, and Li Yuan was rarely able to judge whose opinion was more credible as an arbiter in the middle, and he was pleased not only with Han Xin's resourcefulness, but also with Wang Shang's unwillingness to show weakness.

Han Xin has only one, while Wang Shang may cultivate many. This is the reason why Li Yuan trained the young generals in the Qin army bit by bit.

In the future, the opponents of the Qin army are no longer just Liu Bang, Xiang Yu or other princes, in a few years, the Xiongnu iron cavalry of Maodun will go south again, and in Lingnan, the hundreds of thousands of former Qin army generals stranded in South Vietnam will be under the orders of Zhao Tuo, and it is not known whether they will face the Qin saber soldiers.

The dawn is rising.

The generals of the Qin army, who had breakfast early, began to reorganize their armies, and the ladders were neatly placed at the gate of the camp, and the shiny swords in the hands of the soldiers flashed cold, as if to indicate that a bloody battle was about to begin.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The war drums were bursting, and under the urging of rapid drum beats, one team after another of Qin army generals carried the wet wood fished out of the Han River, and more than ten people carried and dragged on their shoulders, and began to advance towards the moat of Xicheng.

"Yo drink, yo drink!"

Under the pressure of the gravity of the wet wood, the Qin soldiers had a terrifying expression on their faces, and the green tendons on their foreheads were prominent, and next to them, a group of armored soldiers who were responsible for covering were raising their wooden shields and raising them high in the direction of the city wall, in order to block the arrows that fell from the Han army's back.

"Great Qin, Great Qin!"

"Fight, fight!"

The Qin army marquis commanding the first phalanx shouted hoarsely, and the plate hats, which were a little higher than ordinary soldiers, flashed a strange light in the sun, which made them quickly become the target of the Han army's archers.

Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king.

Under the command of the general Cao Shen and others, the Liu army archers pressed the advance of the Qin army with sharp arrows, which was a long-distance contact battle before the great war, and the Qin army finally succeeded in placing five sections of wet wood on the moat after paying the price of four or five hundred casualties.

"Woo, woo, woo!" After seeing the progress of the auxiliary troops responsible for paving the road, Han Xin immediately ordered the battle horn of the whole army to storm the city wall.

At the same time, Cao Shen, the general of the Han army, who felt the increasing pressure of the Qin army, also issued rescue orders to the city again and again, hoping that the reserve troops would arrive as soon as possible and prepare to fight to the death with the Qin army.

Li Zhongxiang hid his figure in the shadow of an infantryman's wooden shield, a boxwood bow in his hand, and a sharp arrow was ready to be launched at the string of his left hand, looking for a suitable target on the city wall.

Looking up at the front from the bottom up, the Qin army's first pawns have crossed the moat, a team of ladders leaned on the city wall, and the brave Guanzhong soldiers held a sword in one hand, climbed one side of the ladder with one hand, and began to climb with arrows and stones.

"Drink!"

Gan Yong shouted, turned to one side with force, avoided a piece of rolling wood that fell from above, and then before the city wall could react, he immediately took several steps in a row, and the position of his head was exactly level with the battlement on the city wall, which was the closest of the five teams of ladders to the city first.

Gan Yong's big name is much stronger than his nickname Rokuro, and this name also makes Gan Rokuro like it very much, not only because the word Yong represents fierceness and bravery, but also because it is the name of Han Xin.

Li Zhongxiang had already shot seven arrows in a row, each arrow made a rising Han army officer hate the battlefield, and after observing the changes in the battlefield, he began to focus on taking care of the front of Gan Yong's ladder.

In addition to his own bravery, the credit should also be credited to Li Zhongxiang's head, it was his accurate shooting again and again that made the Han army hesitate to show his head at the battlement, but could only blindly throw down heavy objects such as rolling logs.

"Ascend to the city!"

When he saw Gan Yong's body appear on the city wall from a distance, Han Xin couldn't help but shout, although it was far away, but Gan Yong's figure Han Xin could still recognize it, and his subordinates behaved like this in the first battle, which made Han Xinxin bloom and excited.

Gan Yong jumped up, and as soon as his feet stepped on the head of Xicheng, he felt that there was a strong wind blowing on the left and right sides, which was the Han army generals who had come back to their senses and were desperately fighting back.

"You have to defend this corner of the wall, it only takes a moment!" Gan Yong screamed and stepped to the side, stabbing his bronze heavy sword into the panicked pawn's body. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )

PS: Socializing at night, drunk, that's all for this chapter, sorry.