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Once this group of troops was defeated by the Chu army in the area of Hangu Pass, not to mention anything else, the knight troops led by Zhang Jiashi who were retreating along the road from which they came, and the 25,000 people under Wang Li's command who were building Wuguan, could be said to be very likely to fall into death.

Wang Li's situation is fine, no matter how bad it is, if Wang Li sees that the situation is not good, he can quickly give up Wuguan and retreat into Hanzhong County.

But Zhang Jiashi was unable to do this. After all, Zhang Jiashi still has some time before he can return to the Guanzhong region, and if Hangu Pass is lost at such a time, then what awaits Zhang Jiashi will be a very bad situation.

After all, even Chen Ping probably didn't have the confidence to command less than 20,000 people, including Xiahou Ying and Yingbu, after the main force on the front line was defeated, to hold this Xianyang, which was quite large.

Because this thing simply can't be done.

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In this military meeting held by Huanfeng, he expressed his thoughts, that is, once Hangu Pass was broken by the Chu army, then he would lead the remnants to retreat directly into Shangjun instead of retreating to Xianyang.

Huan Feng made such an arrangement, and everyone, including Han Xin, knew that this was the best choice. After all, they were still able to go directly north from Weishui, and then destroy the bridges in the straight, or transfer all the ships on the south bank of Weishui to the north bank, so that the Chu army could not pursue them at all.

And their retreat to Xianyang can be regarded as a dead end that is very likely to be uncomfortable for themselves.

After all, in the area from Hanguguan to Xianyang, it can even be said that there is almost no danger to defend.

In such a situation, it would be a very foolish idea for them to return to Xianyang.

Moreover, once Hangu Pass is lost, the other Qin troops in the Guanzhong area will soon retreat to the nearest controlled area according to the meeting arranged by Zhang Jiashi before the expedition.

In doing so, it can be regarded as abandoning the Guanzhong region.

But whether it is Huan Feng or Wang Li, who also received such a news, they all know very well that this is already the best way to deal with it.

Zhang Jiashi is different from the First Emperor, that is, at the military meeting presided over by Zhang Jiashi, a sentence made Wang Li and Huan Feng both really realize that Zhang Jiashi may not have the eloquence of the First Emperor, but in many ways, Zhang Jiashi also has a character that the First Emperor lacks, that is, benevolence......

And the sentence that Zhang Jiashi said is:

"If you lose your land, you will lose your land, and if you lose your land, you can regain your land!"

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Zhang Jiashi did not think that he would lose, but in the face of this situation, once Zhang Jiashi's plan failed or Hangu Pass could not withstand the onslaught of the Chu army, then next, for Zhang Jiashi, such a decision would not be difficult to come up with.

You must know that Zhang Jiashi himself is very aware of a situation, the Guanzhong area is important, but once he loses Hangu Pass, why should the officers and soldiers under his command who have not been properly rested in the past few months stop a group of inhumane vicious dogs under Xiang Yu's command?

In this case, Zhang Jiashi can only give up Guanzhong, save the strength under his hands as much as possible, and then plan for the future.

Now, Zhang Jiashi has breached Aocang, a place that is crucial to the coalition forces, and buried the main grain storage area of Aocang directly under the earth and rocks, and this operation can be said to be very successful.

Huan Feng himself knows one thing very well, that is, the next step is to see if they can rely on the tired officers and soldiers of the 60,000 or 70,000 divisions under their hands to hold Hangu Pass.

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"Report! Captain Zhuang asked for support, a large number of troops of the Chu army are storming the fortified wall!!"

Hearing the words of this herald, including Huan Feng, who had been in battle for a long time, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because he didn't expect that the Chu army would just stop for a while and continue to attack.

"Why don't you let people stop for a while?"

Nangong Qi muttered this sentence, but no one took this sentence to heart, because they themselves knew one thing, that is, they also had Nangong Qi's thoughts.

Of course, it's not easy for them to say it directly.

After Huan Feng came back to his senses, he pondered for a while, then took a deep breath and said, "Captain Han, you first bring five thousand troops to support Hangu Pass." The others, as best they could, gather a force of two or three thousand men to remove the seriously wounded in half an hour, and General Ben and General Nguyen combined these forces and then supported Hangu Pass. Captain Nangong, you ...... Lead a team of knights and gather all the ships on the south bank of Weishui!"

Huan Feng's orders made the people present feel a little incredible at first, and then a little taken for granted. But the last point is something that makes them feel unacceptable.

Han Xin was responsible for leading the army to support Hangu Pass first, which no one thought was strange, after all, the troops under Han Xin's command also suffered heavy casualties, but compared to Zhuang Guang, Nangong Period, and even Huan Feng and Ruan Weng Shao's troops, the battle loss ratio was the smallest.

But what they were stunned was that Nangong Period was actually ordered to mobilize the ships on the south bank of Weishui now, in a sense, it also showed Huan Feng's plan, and he was not very optimistic about the next battle.

However, they were also quickly relieved, after all, the troops under their command could be regarded as often more dead than seriously wounded, more seriously wounded than lightly wounded, and more lightly wounded than nothing at all, and nothing at all...... Yes, there are not many people.

Otherwise, Huan Feng would not have given the second order, after all, he also knew very well the situation of the Qin army troops near Hangu Pass, which could no longer be summed up in a tragic word.

Before leaving, Han Xin hugged his fists and asked Huan Feng: "General, do you want to inform Xiangguo now?"

Huan Feng heard Han Xin's words, and after pondering for a while, he shook his head: "If it really comes to that time, it's not too late." In addition, Captain Han, if Hangu Pass is lost, can you assist General Ruan in managing and helping the remaining officers and soldiers under Huan's command?"

When Han Xin heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because Huan Feng's words were not a good idea. They weren't stupid, because he and Ruan Weng Shao, who was also about to leave this house, understood very well what Huan Feng meant by this.

The subtext of this sentence is that he Huan Feng wants to live and die with Hangu Pass.

It's just that before Han Xin could say anything, Ruan Weng Shao, who also had a certain close relationship with Huan Feng in the past few months of fighting, said to Huan Feng in a deep voice: "Old Huan, what stupid things are you talking about? The king didn't plan to investigate in detail who was responsible for the outcome at that time, can you still make up your mind on behalf of the king." Be careful that I give the king a lesson, and then let Lao Huan go around if you can't eat!"

Ruan Weng Shao's words made Han Xin almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The relationship between him and Ruan Weng Shao is quite good, and Han Xin, who has worked together for many years, didn't he understand Ruan Weng Shao's actual intention to say this?

Ruan Weng Shao didn't want Huan Feng to live and die with Hangu Pass, and the price they paid in Hangu Pass was too heavy. If even Huan Feng died in this place, then their fight against the Chu army this time could also be said to be the biggest fiasco after the Battle of Julu.

No, maybe they lost a little worse than Zhang Han.

Because almost everyone of the thirteen or fourteen generals, including Huan Feng, was a senior officer of the Qin army who could command a unit to fight alone, and Han Xin had to wrap his arm around the front of his abdomen and fix it with a triangular belt.

Not to mention, including the two captains under Huan Feng and the three captains under Jiang Lie, Kong Gang was still unconscious, and the captains under them didn't know how many people were urgently promoted to assist in commanding the troops......

Although they held the Hangu Pass and inflicted heavier casualties on the Chu army, they also became the last of the strong crossbows......

Huan Feng's idea is not a pessimism, but a kind of helplessness that conforms to reality.

But after hearing Ruan Weng Shao's words, Huan Feng couldn't help but show a hint of a smile. After all, what Ruan Weng Shao said was indeed a bit vulgar, which made Huan Feng, a person from a military family, laugh, but he also knew very well that Ruan Weng Shao didn't want to see such a result.

He nodded slightly, and walked straight out of the house.

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If we say that the busiest people in the Guanzhong area now are not the officers and soldiers in charge of front-line operations headed by Huan Feng, nor the logistics support personnel of Chen Ping, who is in charge of the rear coordination in Xianyang City, but Cao Shen, who travels back and forth from Hanguguan to Xianyang almost once every three or four days.

Cao Shen's hair has turned gray, but for him, some things can not be improved by diligence and hard work.

It's like grain, and the grain and straw transferred from Shangjun is already a limit. Cao Shen even had to move the granary in the southern area of Xianyang, which was originally used as a contingency plan.

The official warehouse of Xianyang City has been burned in the previous fire of Xianyang City, and the grain of the granary in this area is ...... In fact, there are not many of them.

This is also a matter of no choice, Zhao Gao and Hu Hai tossed Guanzhong, and the grain supply of the army under Zhang Han has long been counted in this area, and it can also be used as the largest granary of the Great Qin Empire The grain storage in the granary area is very serious.

However, mosquito legs are also meat, and when the grain and straw in the south of Shangjun are already at their limit, Cao Shen can only use these small stocks of grain to supply Wang Li's army and support the Qin officers and soldiers in the Hanguguan area.

As a result, Cao Shen himself had an urge to cry.

And Cao Shen soon discovered a rather fatal place, that is, many of those granaries can now be said to be able to almost starve rats......

He had to find Chen Ping to see if there was any way to solve this problem.

But after coming to the house where Chen Ping worked, Cao Shen saw Chen Ping and Sun Po, looking at Xiahou Ying with a gloomy face.

The latter's expression was also a little excited. But Cao Shen knew very well that Xiahou Ying, a good old man, would not have conflicts with Chen Ping and Sun Po at such a time, and besides, there were no overt contradictions between them, and there were few disputes in private.

Cao Shen walked into the room, Chen Ping just motioned for Cao Shen to sit down with his eyes, and he said a sentence after a while: "Xiahou Duwei, do you mean that those who won the surname Zhao still can't distinguish priorities at such a time?"

Cao Shen heard this sentence and understood one thing, that is, Xiahou Ying was responsible for commanding the troops to garrison Xianyang Palace, although there was no need to station Xiahou Ying's new force in Xianyang like this, but both Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping thought that this practice was necessary, at least, it was necessary now.

After all, inside some remote palaces in Xianyang Palace, a large number of distant clans of the Great Qin Empire captured from Yongdu Gao Jian were placed under house arrest.

In this case alone, the tight defense of Xianyang Palace is not a wasteful arrangement.

And this time, it was obviously those noisy winning clans surnamed Zhao, which made Xiahou Ying, a good old man, unbearable.

At the same time that Chen Ping said those words, Cao Shen could also see the cold glow in Chen Ping's eyes.

Cao Shen knew that Chen Ping had murderous intentions. He understood that killing those clans that were useless to Zhang Jiashi now, but could be regarded as a burden or even a threat, was not a good thing for Zhang Jiashi.

He is one of the participants and core personnel of the event planned by Chen Ping and Gonggong Xi, and Xiahou Ying is also the same, if it weren't for the fact that once Zhang Jiashi did this, he would be burdened with notoriety, and he would have suffered a lot of troubles, it could be said that the gains outweighed the losses, and they would have buried these bastard clans who couldn't see reality well in the wilderness a long time ago.

In a sense, although these thousands of clans that were almost wiped out in one fell swoop, although they were not very good in terms of food, Cao Shen believed that Xiahou Ying did not treat these people harshly.

As for why Xiahou Ying was forced by the other party to be anxious, and even ran to Chen Ping to say such a situation, Cao Shen didn't know, but he was able to force Xiahou Ying, a good old man with a commitment, to this point, and those clans who won the surname Zhao really found a "way" to deal with Xiahou Ying this time.

It's just that their "method" not only provoked Xiahou Ying, but even made Chen Ping and Sun Po, two people who are definitely not soft-hearted, move to kill.

"Since they want to die...... Then we might as well kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys!" Sun Po said this coldly, and then slowly tapped his fingers lightly on the table: "Xiahou Duwei, there are some things that the king can't do, and we people have to worry about the impact, but there are some accidents, but we can't avoid them." ”

Sun Po said this, and then said: "For example, those old men who should have died early and become immortals early accidentally knocked over the palace lamp inside a palace......"

Sun Po didn't continue, but showed a cold smile.

When Cao Shen heard this, he didn't feel strange, that is, if this was really the case, Zhang Jiashi would be criticized more because he didn't do his duty.

Of course, such a thing must be done beautifully, so that it will have such an effect.

What Cao Shen didn't expect was that Xiahou Ying did not directly oppose this approach, or rather, he didn't even hesitate at all, but nodded with a rather calm expression.

Cao Shen couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "What the king said is really quite reasonable, 'Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black'"

Cao Shen himself did not object to this practice, because he did not think that there would be any harm in doing so.

If it weren't for the fact that they didn't want to make a big mess in this regard, these clans, including the Ying Ziying who was now said to be quite peaceful, but definitely not to be underestimated, would have been sent to the most suitable place for them to go to......

......

Xiahou Ying is gone, and there are some things that Cao Shen himself is unwilling to get involved in. He also didn't think that Xiahou Ying had no way to deal with such a "small matter".

After Xiahou Ying walked away, Cao Shen looked at Chen Ping and Sun Po, and said a sentence: "Our grain has almost been consumed, if the Chu army in Hangu Pass can still threaten Hangu Pass for half a month, I'm afraid it will ......."

Cao Shen didn't finish his words, but sighed slightly.

Chen Ping and Sun Po, how could they not know the meaning of Cao Shen's sigh?

They have no way to solve this matter, after all, they are not liars and cannot draw bread to satisfy their hunger, and second, they are not immortals, and they cannot conjure food.

But Chen Ping and Sun Po didn't take such a situation too seriously, but said one thing:

"Cao Changshi (Cao Shen is Zhang Jiashi's palace governor's history), the grain problem is no longer very important, this is ...... A note sent by General Hanya Sekihuan. ”

Chen Ping stood up, then picked up a bamboo slip and handed it to Cao Shen.

Although Cao Shen didn't know the content inside, but in such a situation, after Cao Shen took the bamboo slip, he also thought of this piece of bamboo slip, and the content above must not be good......

After reading the book, Cao Shen understood the meaning of Chen Ping's words.

That is, before they were completely short of food, and they didn't have to wait for them to borrow grain from some surviving powerful families in the Guanzhong area, it is estimated that the victory or defeat of Hangu Pass would have been able to be distinguished.

Either Hangu Pass was lost, and they had to retreat to Shangjun, Beidi County, Longxi County, and Hanzhong County in batches; or the Chu army itself could not withstand it first, and withdrew from Sanchuan County outside Hangu Pass, and waited until at least the autumn harvest before they were able to organize the next powerful offensive.

Cao Shen nodded, put down the bamboo slip, and then said, "The queen, do you want to send someone to inform you?"

Chen Ping shook his head: "For the time being, there is no need to alarm the queen and ...... The two Xiaojun, but in this matter, I have sent someone to inform Yingbu, so that the other party can lead the prisoner army and the troops of Xiahou Duwei to escort the queen and others away at any time. ”

"Then ...... the king's side"

"The king can even succeed in that kind of unbelievable tactics, and he should have a way to deal with that situation. We just need to protect the queen and the two princes. ”

Hearing Sun Po's words, Cao Shen nodded.

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In a remote palace to the west of Xianyang Palace, more than a dozen clans surnamed Zhao who were over sixty years old were revealing their resentment towards Zhang Jiashi and the Liaodong Army, and even more resentment against Wang Li and Gao Jian, the two "traitors".

Fifty or sixty meters outside the palace, Xiahou Ying led his own troops, holding bundled firewood, ready to act.

"Everything is arranged?"

"Lord Lieutenant, the brothers who were originally in charge of patrolling this area have all been replaced, and the people who have changed the guard know what to do. ”

"That's good, if it leaks later, it's not a pity for me to die, but even if it affects the king, I won't give up!"

After Xiahou Ying said this, she waved her hand gently.

Dozens of Liaodong officers and soldiers quickly placed firewood on the periphery of the palace......

The old men didn't notice this, but continued to talk......

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"Release!" With this order, more than 20 Liaodong officers and soldiers who picked up bows and crossbows and ignited rockets quickly launched the arrows in their hands......

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Under the starry sky, Xiahou Ying looked at this palace that had screamed and gradually turned into a sea of fire, and the corners of her mouth showed an arc......

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