Chapter 37: Before the New Year
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During such a period of time, there were also several small-scale battles between Huan Suo, who was stationed in the middle line of Guangyang County, and Long Ji, the general of the Chu army.
In these battles, Huan Su relied on the ramparts and the gradually built sections of the Great Wall to destroy many Chu army squads that had to fight separately one by one in the way of interspersed operations.
The losses of the Chu army in the fortress area were not too large, but because the offensive was delayed for a long time, the Chu army's will to fight quickly weakened.
At the same time, the news of Liu Bang's strong attack on Wuguan reached Xiang Yu's ears, and Xiang Yu roared for a whole night.
There is no way to do this, after all, there was such an agreement when he was in Chu State: "The one who enters the customs first is the king." ”
In other words, Xiang Yu couldn't get used to Liu Bang, who was much faster than him in such a aspect.
Therefore, Xiang Yu ignored Fan Zeng's dissuasion and ordered the troops to go south, passing through Sanchuan County and going straight to Hangu Pass.
Of course, Fan Zeng would not make Zhang Jiashi comfortable so easily. After Wuchen's death, Julu, Handan and other counties fell into a blank area, Fan Zeng persuaded Xiang Yu to leave Zang Di, Han Guang and others in such a place.
Fan Zeng did this in the hope of blocking Zhang Jiashi's way south after regaining his strength.
Of course, if Fan Zeng knew that Zhang Jiashi would not intervene in the chaos of the Central Plains at such a time, Fan Zeng would probably make such a failed arrangement for him, and maybe he would directly spurt out a mouthful of old blood.
And Fan Zeng's miscalculation is not only like this, that is, for the surrendered troops of Zhang Han's army, Xiang Yu still ordered Xiang Zhuang and other generals to directly disarm the other party, and then collectively pit and kill near the Thorn Yuan camp.
When Fan Zeng heard the news, he couldn't help but sit down on the ground in a gloomy manner.
After a long while, Fan Zeng looked up to the sky and sighed: "The hearts of the people in Guanzhong are unattainable!!"
If Zhang Jiashi knew that Fan Zeng said this, he would probably be unable to help but give the other party a thumbs up. Because Fan Zeng really saw it very clearly on this issue.
In fact, Xiang Yu insisted on leading the army to return east after killing the Ying clan who stayed in Xianyang, in fact, it was not Xiang Yu's willful action, but after a long period of consideration.
First, Zhang Han's troops were wiped out, and then after obtaining the Guanzhong area, military discipline was not strictly prohibited, so that the Guanzhong area quickly became dilapidated. Under such a premise, the possibility that Xiang Yu would stay in Guanzhong, a broken place, naturally does not exist.
It can be said that from beginning to end, Xiang Yu is not a reckless man who can't think about things, but a butcher who often does some very unexpected things.
In a sense, saying that Xiang Yu is crowned by a monkey is to elevate Xiang Yu, because if Xiang Yu is not such a character, maybe history may be rewritten.
At the very least, a reckless man would not be so easily moved by people and give up his desire to kill.
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Wang Li and Wang Chang led their armies westward and easily occupied Hengshan County and Taiyuan County, which had been mostly controlled by the Wang family's forces.
To the north, Shusun Zhong and Cao Shen also gradually advanced their troops westward, occupying the entire Yuyang County and part of Shanggu County.
Of course, if it weren't for the fact that there were too few officials under his command, Zhang Jiashi wouldn't mind letting the troops occupy the entire Shanggu County.
Zhang Jiashi asked Cao Shen and Shusun Zhong and others to be on guard against the Donghu people when they were advancing westward. Because after Han Guang was defeated by He Huai and Wang Li successively, the defense of the entire Shanggu County could be said to be a mess at all. In such a situation, even if the Donghu people fall into civil strife, they may take the opportunity to go south.
Zhang Jiashi did not want a fierce battle with the Donghu people at such a time.
It's not that Zhang Jiashi is afraid of the Donghu people, but in such a situation, if their troops want to get rid of the Donghu people, they will inevitably change many of the policies that have been determined.
Zhang Jiashi is not completely out of reserve troops now, but in such a situation, if he recruits troops on a large scale again, I am afraid that there will also be the possibility of killing chickens and taking eggs.
Fortunately, however, the Donghu people seem to have little interest in the defenses of Kamitani-gun. In other words, during such a period of time, when the civil war between the Donghu people became more and more intense, the Donghu people could not send a large number of troops south.
In short, after defeating several forces of the Donghu people, all of whom numbered less than 1,000 people, Shusun Zhong's troops easily mastered the defense of the Great Wall in Shanggu County.
Perhaps in the territory of Shanggu County, there are also many small troops of Donghu people wandering, but in such a situation, Shusun Zhong does not have much spare strength to clean up these Donghu people. He had to send a request for help to Zhang Jiashi.
After discussing with Chen Ping, Zhang Jiashi finally chose to let Li Cang lead 10,000 knights and He Huai lead 10,000 infantry to Shanggu County to strengthen control over the territory of Shanggu County and clear the Donghu people.
It's not that Zhang Jiashi doesn't understand a problem, that is, even if he clears out the enemies or bandits of Shanggu County now, he can't get too much meaningful things from Shanggu County. But for Zhang Jiashi, even if he couldn't build Shanggu County at such a time, just to avoid being harassed by the Donghu people and causing the Guanzhong strategy to fall short, Zhang Jiashi thought that he should do it anyway.
Shanggu County is the weakest area among the counties on the Great Wall. In the other border counties of the Great Wall, even the northernmost Yunzhong County, Wang Li left the Qin army troops led by Yang Wengzi, the fierce general of the Northern Frontier Army, to garrison them. Even the current Toumandan, who planned to storm Yunzhong County and relied on the Great Wall or some fortresses to defend it, could resist the Huns until the Qin reinforcements from Shangjun arrived.
However, because of Han Guang's rebellion in Shanggu County, when the officials either died or fled, Zhang Jiashi had to add an order a few days later, that is, Shusun Zhong and others had full authority to handle the affairs of Shanggu County.
and, if possible, to gather some of the displaced people in Shanggu County, and to organize a more effective administrative district in a few relatively safe areas.
In a sense, Zhang Jiashi knew what he was representing when he gave this order. That is, until the time came, he didn't want to expect anything to gain from Ueya.
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After a period of time when Zhang Jiashi ordered his troops to take over Shanggu County, the situation developed relatively well, and the situation of the whole world changed somewhat.
After Tian Heng, the general of the Qi army, led less than 20,000 remnants of his army to retreat to Jibei County, Tian Heng's brother Tian Dan fell ill and died. After rushing back to Linzi City to discuss with his younger brother Tian Rong, Tian Heng did not set himself up as the king, but together with Tian Rong, he supported Tian Shi, the son of Tian Dan, as the king of Qi.
But an unexpected news reached Linzi, that is, the people in the hometown of Qi in many areas supported the late Tian Jian, the grandson of the late King of Qi, and Tian Tian, the sect of Qi, was pretended to be the king of Qi.
An angry Tian Heng and Tian Rong personally led their troops into battle with Tian Jia's troops.
The entire Qi country gradually fell into the midst of military disasters.
At this time, the state of Chu took the opportunity to send Song Yi's son **** to lead an army of 30,000 to attack Xu County, which could easily threaten Pengcheng.
Because the troops in Xu County were basically taken away by Yu Ziqi, Xu County was easily captured by the Chu army.
After receiving this news, the Western Qi led by Tian Rong and the Eastern Qi led by Tian Jia did not pay too much attention to this situation, but continued to fight with each other.
However, when the **** was still not satisfied with getting Xu County and lifted the direct threat of Qi to Pengcheng, he continued to lead the army north, including several cities controlled by Tian Jiao. The ****, which engulfed the people of Qi State, soon expanded the army to about 60,000 people.
In such a situation, Tian Rong's Western Qi and Tian Jia's Eastern Qi had to temporarily put aside their disputes with each other and unite to resist the **** offensive.
The war, which lasted for half a year, made the Qi army and the Chu army stalemate in the area north of Xu County.
Liu Bang's attack on Wuguan was frustrated many times, although in terms of troops, Liu Bang was much more than the defenders of Wuguan, but Wuguan, as a fortress in Guanzhong second only to Hangu Pass, also made Liu Bang and Zhang Liang and others helpless in terms of danger.
After a stalemate under Wuguan City for several months without an inch of progress, Liu Bang received the news that Xiang Yu led his army south and besieged Rongyang, which was seized by Wei Bao, Zhang Liang had to persuade Liu Bang to step up his offensive against Wuguan.
Although Wei Bao was defeated in Julu, Wei Bao, who took the opportunity to escape in the chaos, quickly recruited an army of about 30,000 people from his small cities.
In a sense, although the 30,000-strong army was even more unbearable than the rabble, Wei Bao, who led the army to Sanchuan County, easily captured more than a dozen large and small cities in Sanchuan County south of the river as if he had entered a no-man's land.
It's just that after Xiang Yu went south, Wei Bao didn't know what he should do. He didn't want to lose so many cities, and he didn't want to be slaughtered by Xiang Yu, who was in the prime of his army.
Therefore, after several battles with Xiang Yu were defeated by the Chu army, Wei Bao abandoned several cities that were too close to Xiang Yu and led his army south to Yingchuan County.
Wei Bao, who went south to Yingchuan, was a huge threat to the weaker Han King Han Cheng. Several battles broke out between the two sides in the area bordering Sanchuan and Yingchuan counties, and the Han army suffered heavy casualties, and Han Cheng had to lead the remnants of his army to retreat to Yangzhai and ask for help from his ally Liu Bang.
Han Cheng is Zhang Liang's loyal person, and Zhang Liang followed Liu Bang's side at this time, which was more of a way to borrow people to work.
As the prime minister of South Korea, Zhang Liang naturally can't abandon Han Cheng and ignore it.
With the support of Liu Bang's bribes, Zhang Liang took Yongya and other generals under Liu Bangjun's command, as well as 20,000 troops to aid Han Cheng.
On December 4, 208 BCE, Chu reinforcements led by Zhang Liang and Wei Bao fought on a river beach west of Yangzhai City. The Wei army was defeated, and Wei Bao led the army away again.
However, after the threat of the Wei army to Yang Zhai was lifted, when Zhang Liang was about to lead the army back to Wuguan City, the weather quickly became cold. Zhang Liang, who had to lead his army to rest near Yangzhai, had to send someone to tell Liu Bang about it.
Liu Bang was very understanding of this matter on the surface. But for the people around Liu Bang, especially a middle-aged woman who is about thirty years old, she knows very well that Liu Bang is actually very angry about such a thing.
Liu Bang has never been the kind of person who can tolerate people. Maybe the other party will succumb to the situation and pretend to be generous, but in fact, this middle-aged woman knows one thing very well, that is, her husband is too far behind the other person.
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In the Chu army camp under Wuguan City, a middle-aged woman in a leather coat was watching her son, Liu Bang's second son and sister-in-law Liu Changman, playing with Liu Luyuan.
In fact, the middle-aged woman had a secret that even her sister and even her deceased mother did not know.
She wouldn't tell the secret, but shook her head gently.
In the past few years, she looked at her child, who looked vaguely similar to that person's face, and although she was proud and happy, she also had hesitation and fear.
She is proud that Liu Changman's father is a commander who can fight well and make many people fearful.
She is happy because that person is Liu Changman's biological father.
What she hesitated about was that she didn't know what kind of attitude she would have towards if she had the opportunity to meet the other person again.
What she feared was that once Liu Bang knew the secret fact, what would happen to her, and her son?
"Ma'am. A deep voice sounded beside the middle-aged woman.
After the middle-aged woman heard this voice, she looked up and saw a middle-aged Chu army officer, who was saluting him with her fists clenched.
She smiled slightly and said, "Brother Juan doesn't have to be polite. I don't know what happened to Brother Juan this time?"
The middle-aged man who is known as the eldest brother of the judge, looking at this ********, has very complicated emotions in his heart.
He was in love with this woman who seemed to have come to an end, and he also felt something. But he still waited by the other party's side without regrets.
For him, he doesn't care about the changes in ********, nor does he care about the situation of ********, he knows that what he loves is the woman in front of him.
It's not that he didn't think that at a very early stage, he would kill Liu Ji and then let her get rid of the humiliation that the other party brought her. But he didn't do it, because he hoped that she could be truly happy.
And he, judging by the food, has also heard some rumors, but he doesn't think this thing is fake. But he didn't say what he thought, especially when facing that Pei Gong Liu Ji, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
Because he judged her and could see the brilliance of happiness from her, so whether Liu Ji would be unlucky or directly wronged, such a thing, he didn't think it was a bad thing.
Maybe Liu Bang also knows what's going on, otherwise he wouldn't have snubbed this woman by hanging out with some women all day long for such a period of time.
But it doesn't matter, it's important that he protects the people he likes, even if ...... The other party didn't like him.
From Liu Changman's face, he couldn't help but think of the face of a somewhat blurry young man, which he had seen by chance a few years ago. He didn't think that this young boy would be better than him, but he was convinced of the other man's ability.
After hearing the middle-aged woman's words, Juan Shiqi stopped thinking and said a sentence: "Madam, Pei Gong hopes that Madame can come over tonight." ”
He said this without a hint of expression, and he quietly looked at the woman he loved, with a hint of mockery on his face.
"I know, then, Brother Juan, Lu Yuan and Chang Man will ask you to take care of it. ”
The woman said this and sighed softly.
And the judge nodded calmly: "Obey Madame's orders." ”
At this time, one or two flowers fell gently in the sky, and then more and more snowflakes.
The middle-aged woman gently raised her hand and took a snowflake in the palm of her hand.
She muttered a word: "I don't know, he ...... What are you doing?"
The judge on the side, as if he hadn't heard this, stood next to the middle-aged woman like this.
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At the same time, Zhang Jiashi sneezed lightly, making Mo Yan'er, who was holding his hand next to him, laugh deliciously.
After hearing Mo Yan'er's laughter, Zhang Jiashi seemed to be a little annoyed and gently scratched the other party's nose.
In such a period of more than two months, Zhang Jiashi asked Mo Yan'er to accompany him, and the relationship between the two parties can be seen in the entire Jixian County, as long as they are not blind.
In such a situation, Zhang Jiashi didn't care to let the relationship between himself and Mo Yan'er be known to others.
And now, he is accompanied by Mo Yan'er, followed by some guards and maids, wandering around the streets of Jixian County, which is gradually recovering its vitality.
He didn't accompany Yingxi like this, nor did he accompany Yinglian like he walked with Mo Yan'er so closely, which made Zhang Jiashi feel a little guilty.
But Zhang Jiashi, who knew very well that he would not let Yingxi and them take such an adventure, could only say sorry in his heart for the time being.
In the midst of the falling snow in the sky, Mo Yan'er suddenly stopped, because she saw one of her maidservants, who was looking at a small piece of jewelry and was fascinated.
Mo Yan'er didn't know the origin of this maid named Zang'er, she just knew that this girl was very cute, and she looked like a beautiful embryo, which made her like it very much.
She couldn't help but walk to the other party's side and whispered, "Zang'er, do you like this?"
"Hmm. Zang Er whispered this.
"So, what about my sister giving Zang'er this, which should be the king's dowry for Xiao Zang'er?" Mo Yan'er whispered this sentence, making Zang'er blush-bodied and shook her head.
And Zhang Jiashi silently looked at the sunset in the sky, and sighed in his heart: "Women are ......"
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The last day of 208 B.C. passed quickly, and no one could have imagined that in the new year, more people would die because of the war......
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