The battlefield was in shambles, and the Qin soldiers were happily churning the corpses of the rebels. These followers of the rebel army, Li Ying, did not reap any benefits, and they all collected a lot of property. This is good, it is all cheap Qin Bing.

Han Xin didn't bother to stop it, so he simply left them alone, and just told Zhao Wuji to take good care of the prisoners, and at the same time be careful not to let the soldiers fight because of the looting of property.

Han Xin looked at the energetic Qin soldiers, and felt a little proud in his heart. After all, this is his first army, the first army that truly belongs to him. At this time, he saw a group of Qin soldiers escorting two people towards him, and one of the leading soldiers knelt down when he saw Han Xin and said, "General, I have captured two prisoners with suspicious identities." ”

Han Xin looked at the two captives, the one on the right was younger, he looked less than twenty, he looked ordinary, and when he saw Han Xin also cowering, Han Xin just glanced at it and became interested. The person on the left made his eyes shine, and he saw a young man, about twenty-seven or eight, dressed in white. In Han Xin's impression, there are generally two kinds of people who like to wear white, one is pretending to be forced, and the other is really classy.

And the man in front of him clearly belongs to the latter. After a scuffle, the man in white was also a little embarrassed, with a lot of mud on his face and clothes, but he was still standing there proudly with his bound hands, and saw that Han Xin, the commander of the Qin army, not only did not show a look of fear, but frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little disdainful.

Han Xin saw that the man in white had an arrogant face, but he looked him up and down carefully and asked; "You, that you, what do you see, that is, what is your name."

Li Zuoche snorted unhappily, raised his head and said proudly: "Get off Li Zuoche." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Li Zuoche." Han Xin nodded matter-of-factly, and the next sentence almost made Li Zuoche vomit blood, "I don't know." ”

At this time, a soldier whispered a few words in Han Xin's ear, Han Xin's face changed, and his eyes looked at Li Zuoche a little differently.

"You are Li Mu's grandson?"

Li Zuoche said proudly: "Exactly." ”

Han Xin sighed, looked at him for a long time, shook his head, and sighed again, with a regretful expression. Seeing his expression, Li Zuoche suddenly became angry and shouted; "What do you mean by that?"

Han Xin looked up at the sky, rolled his eyes, and said; "It's not interesting, I just thought, if my grandfather is here, I'm afraid that my soldiers will be beaten by him and there won't be even a bone left, but fortunately, Brother Li is here, very lucky." Thankfully! ”

Li Zuoche was provoked by Han Xin, and immediately became furious, and forcibly suppressed his anger and disagreed: "Your little trick can only deceive the reckless man like Li Ying, but I hate me to remind him three times and twice, but he didn't listen." If I were the commander-in-chief, you would have no place to die. ”

Han Xin 'cut' and shook his head disapprovingly, "The so-called plan and then act, do you think I relied on luck to defeat that reckless man in Liying?" Tell you, I spent a lot of effort to inquire about Li Ying's temperament and temperament, as well as the way of using soldiers, so I dug a pit and waited for Li Ying to jump inside. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, a hundred battles, if you are replaced as the commander, of course I have to change the way and the means. There is no battle in this world that cannot be won, only people who have not thought of how to win a battle. ”

Li Zuoche snorted heavily and said with a face full of disbelief; "What a brag."

"Don't believe me? Then let's deduce the deduction. ”

"Okay, I'm going to convince you to lose."

After speaking, Han Xin waved his hand and asked the soldiers to retreat, while he and Li Zuoche squatted down and used the sand as a plate and a tree branch as a pen to compete on the sand. These two people are both young and vigorous, almost the same age, they are both talented, and no one is convinced, so they are struggling at the moment.

Li Zuoche was born in a famous family, but because Li Mu died early, he was not personally taught. His father was a mediocre person, and all the family left him was a few military books written by Li Mu himself, and he was able to understand it only by relying on his extraordinary talent. So although he is Li Mu's grandson, he can use the way of military but is very different from Li Mu, Li Mu has made good use of fine cavalry all his life, and the offensive is like the wind, and often the opponent has stepped on the horse's hooves before he is ready to be prepared. However, Li Zuoche has a calm personality and strives to make every move.

Since Li Zuocha's subordinates had six times the strength and occupied most of Taiyuan County, they naturally had a chance to win, so they were not as eager to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army as Li Ying, but steadily held their footsteps, and slowly chased after Han Xin's Qin army, with a smile in his mouth; "You are only 4,000 stragglers, the morale of the army is weak, I am not a battalion, you can't provoke me, I want to see how you respond."

Han Xin grinned and said; "I can see that you are a steady person, but generally stable people have a common problem, that is, they have too many worries and seek to be safe in everything. This will be timid, hesitant to meet the opportunity, and this is your weakness. ”

Li Zuoche just wanted to open his mouth to refute, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was some truth. Han Xin continued: "What you said about the low morale of our army is indeed a problem, but there are many ways to improve morale, I naturally have a way to deal with Liying, if it is to deal with you, I will change the method." ”

After speaking, Han Xin pointed to the back road; "I can take advantage of your emptiness to plunder your rear, capture the cities you occupy, and even your stronghold of Jinyang, so that you can't take care of each other, and then boost morale by plundering the rebels' belongings. The Qin army I led are all local soldiers, and they are very familiar with this place, which is not comparable to you chaotic troops who rushed to the army. ”

Li Zuoche thought about it for a long time and said slowly; "Then I can divide my troops and garrison each city, and I will personally lead the main force to chase after me, and once the cities are alerted, I will quickly go to outflank them."

Han Xin laughed and said; "Your method may be useful for a well-trained army, but you don't want to think about what you're carrying. Although you have many soldiers, but you have no generals, I admit that you are a rare general, but it does not mean that the generals of the peasants and robbers under your command are also the same. If they are in distress, the first thing that comes to their mind is how to protect themselves, not to give you a tip-off. I may be tricky for you, and I'm confident that I can take the city before you come. ”

Li Zuoche's forehead was sweating slightly, he lowered his head and thought hard, and was silent for half a night. What Han Xin said was indeed a major weakness of the Righteous Army, and compared to the Qin soldiers, the lack of experienced officers was always a problem that the Righteous Army could not solve. After a long time, he sighed and said with a somewhat gloomy face; "What you said is true, I can't help you, you won."

Han Xin shook his head and said with a smile; "Not really, although you can't help me, but as long as you stick to the city, I can't help you, at most it's just a tie, and the battlefield is changing rapidly, how can it be as easy as we deduced."

Li Zuoche closed his eyes in pain and muttered; "With such superior forces, but I can't win, so what face can I say a tie. Li Ying is right, it is really useless to be a scholar, in vain I Li Zuoche has been studying military books for decades, but I can only use rigid routines, just being a Zhao Kuo, but insulting my grandfather's prestige. ”

Han Xin smiled slightly, but comforted; "People do what they are good at, and you don't have to be arrogant. What you are good at is not conquering cities, but defending the territory, if you defend the city, I will not be able to help you. ”

Li Zuoche just shook his head and said with a wry smile; "You don't have to comfort me, I feel ashamed of my ancestors." looked at Han Xin for a long time and said slowly; "You have told me so much just to recruit me to your advantage, although I admire your talent. But I still persuade you to die of this heart, my Li clan and the Qin State have a deep blood feud, and it is impossible to submit to you. ”

Han Xintian laughed; "I didn't expect you to be a great man, but after the dignified Li Mu, you are also so short-sighted."

Li Zuoche snorted; "No matter how agitated you are, I won't change my mind."

"Let me ask you, what nationality is General Li?"

"Qi people, how is that, my grandfather made contributions in the Zhao State, was deeply supported by the Zhao people, and has already become a member of the Zhao State."

"Who killed General Li?"

Li Zuoche's face changed and retorted; "King Zhao just listened to the slander of the traitor Guo Kai and fell for the counter-plot of your Qin State, and in the final analysis, it was your Qin people who were harmed."

Han Xin snorted heavily; "Don't deceive yourself anymore, if it weren't for Zhao Guojun's faint ministers, the top and bottom would have been filthy, thinking about General Zhao's great military exploits, how could he die because of a few words of slander from the villain, such a faint monarch mixed with the country, but your Li family wants to be loyal to him, isn't it ridiculous."

Li Zuoche's face was pale, and he said slowly for a long time: "Let you talk flatteringly, if you want me to be loyal to the Qin State, it is absolutely impossible, I, Li Zuoche, was born as a Zhao person and died as a Zhao ghost." ”

Han Xin's anger surged up and said loudly; "Li Zuoche, have you ever been to Northern Xinjiang?"

Li Zuoche was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding what Han Xin meant by asking, so he replied truthfully; "I have always lived in seclusion near Shangdang, and I have never been to northern Xinjiang."

"In northern Xinjiang, our northern army fought with the Huns and the Donghu people all day long. In the eyes of the grassland people, there is no distinction between the Zhao people and the Qin people, only the Central Plains people, and what they think about all day long is to break through the defense line of the Central Plains people and plunder the property of the Central Plains people. When the state of Qin was still there. It was still able to gather the strength of the whole country to stabilize the frontier, but once the Qin State fell apart, it was replaced by dozens of forces, large and small. The nomadic tribes of the steppe will definitely turn our territory into their pastures, and our people into their slaves."

After listening to this, Li Zuoche said suspiciously; "You are alarmist, the Xiongnu and Donghu have always been defeated by my Zhao State and Qin State, how can they be so powerful."

Han Xin sneered; "That's because there is no real leader in the grassland yet, and once this kind of person appears, it will integrate the power of the entire grassland. At that time, if the Central Plains were still falling apart, the grassland people would definitely completely destroy our civilization and our system like locusts, and turn the cultivated land of the Central Plains into their fertile farms. ”

These words shocked Li Zuoche very much, he looked at Han Xin and was silent for a long time, Han Xin saw that he had already moved, so he smiled and said again; "Won't the gentleman help me?"

"You want me to help you." Li Zuoche laughed rhetorically; "Is it just your three or four thousand remnants?"

Speaking of which, everyone is a smart person, and many things don't need to be picked so directly, Li Zuoche means that Han Xin's strength is still too weak and not worth his defection.

Han Xinzhi was not in a hurry, but smiled; "Yes, I only have more than 3,000 soldiers now, but I believe that one day I will have a large army."

Li Zuoche smiled slightly and said; "Okay, then I'll see."

"If one day I have a large army and my own territory, will Sir be willing to help me?"

"At that time, the left car was the same as the left car."

"Is that true?"

"No jokes!"

Immediately high-fived and swore an oath, Han Xin ordered Li Zuo's car and servant to leave freely.

Zhao Wuji looked at Li Zuoche's figure far away, licked his lips and said; "General, do we really just let him go, you must know that this person is a rare talent, if he is used by the rebels, it will become a big trouble for us sooner or later, if the general regrets it, I will go and 'invite' him back."

Han Xin shook his head and said; "No need, it's useless to force people to stay, it's better to think about our own way out with this idle time."

"General, where are we going next, to occupy Jinyang?"

Han Xin looked up at the sky and said; "We won't go to Jinyang, let's go south to the Central Plains."

"Okay." Zhao Wuji nodded without thinking. Han Xin looked at him for a long time before he said slowly; "Don't you want to ask me why?"

Zhao Wuji grinned. said: "General, my life Zhao Wuji has long been yours, I will do it without frowning what you say." Although I am a little stupid, but I am not stupid, I know that the general is a genius, and you have never been able to win a battle, and there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome. In fact, I am also selfish, I want to follow the general to make meritorious contributions to you, and pay homage to the general, I believe that you will not treat me badly. ”

Zhao Wuji is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, but in front of a smarter person like Han Xin, it is better to be stupid. He had already seen that Han Xin's was wrong, if he was really sent by Wang Li, it was impossible that there would be no follow-up troops. And when he fled, he chose to go all the way to the south, contrary to the northern army, which is unjustifiable no matter what. So he had already guessed that Han Xin must have had something going on between him and the Northern Army, so he would be like this.

Han Xin was moved when he heard this, and gently patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I, Han Xin, will never let you down." ”

After a pause, he said; "Wuji, go and rectify the team, let those who don't want to follow us go south stay on their own, and the rest of the team is ready to move forward, let's go to Shangdang first, and then go to the Central Plains. Tell the brothers that the Northern Army is about to go south, and Taiyuan County will restore order to the territory of our Great Qin, so that everyone does not have to worry. ”

"No!"

Just when Han Xin led a light army south, the Central Plains had already undergone earth-shattering changes. Under the city of Xingyang, Tian Zang's general Li Gui led the army to continue to besiege Li You in the city, and he led the main army to meet the army of Zhang Han, who had just annihilated Zhou Wen's morale.

Tian Zang and Zhang Han met in Aocang, the two sides fought fiercely, the conceited Tian Zang was defeated faster than Zhou Wen, and died miserably, and after a few hours, Zhang Han's head was cut off. After the destruction of Tian Zang's army, Li Gui was soon annihilated by Zhang Han and Li You's internal and external attacks.

After eating the main force of the rebel army, Zhang Han and Li You joined forces and went straight to Chen County, the hometown of the rebel army. Chen Shengqiang held out for a month, but Wu Chen and Zhou Shi, two comrades-in-arms who had shared hardships in the past, watched the fall of Chen Sheng. Finally, Chen County couldn't support the fall, and Chen Sheng fled in a hurry, but his head was cut off by his own coachman in the city and dedicated to Zhang Han.

The vigorous Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings have since collapsed, but the fire they lit has burned the entire Great Qin, and it has become a prairie fire. A man named Zhaoping ran to Huainan and heard that Xiang Liang was leading the Jiangdong army north, so he pretended to be Chen Sheng's order to worship Xiang Liang as the Shangzhu State and the general, and asked him to go west as soon as possible to aid Zhang Chu.

Xiang Liang happily received the order, then erected the banner of the Chu State, and recruited heroes from all over the world to attack the Qin army in the name of Chen Sheng.