More than 20 miles north of the lower prime minister, after receiving the news of Xiang's murder and rebellion, the Qin army of more than 1,200 people stopped advancing and set up camp under the orders of military officials at all levels.

"Junhou, I heard from Xiangxian Cheng that the Xiang clan is young and strong, plus the servants and slaves in the family, there are at least six hundred. Now that they have seized the arsenal of the lower prime minister and obtained a large number of armor, they will definitely take this opportunity to encircle other major clans and the heads of Qian, and the strength will definitely be more than a thousand. ”

"The lower prime minister is the fief of the Xiang clan in the past, they have a lot of reputation and power here, give Xiang Liang time, and the number of people he gathers will probably approach two thousand."

County Lieutenant Zhao Guang knelt at the bottom of Zhao Tuo, his face full of worry, and there were only two of them in the entire tent.

He said with some excitement: "We only have 1,000 county soldiers and 200 Lang guard cavalry brought by the prince on this trip. Once the time drags on for a long time, it will be troublesome if the number of opponents increases, it is better to attack the prime minister tonight and catch the Xiang family off guard. ”

In the face of Zhao Guang's proposal to break the enemy.

Zhao Tuo glanced at him, then shook his head.

He sighed: "You are also a veteran who has fought with me for many years and fought the Six Kingdoms and the Hu people, why are you confused at such a time." I know that you are afraid that the rebellion will expand and your guilt will increase, so you want to break the rebels quickly and put an end to this war. 33

"But as a general, once you enter a state of war, you must devote yourself to the victory or defeat of the entire battlefield, and you must not be easily affected by factors outside the battlefield. Our army galloped all the way for several days, the soldiers were tired, and the county soldiers were unstable after the emperor's assassination, and Xiang Liang faced our army, do you think he would be prepared? At this time, is it not appropriate to attack the lower conjunction, which is occupied by the rebels? ”

Being asked by Zhao Tuo like this, Zhao Guang suddenly blushed.

He was indeed in a hurry and was in a hurry, but there was no way, he felt like his head was going to explode when he thought about what had happened in just a few days.

First of all, the matter of Surabaya Baoding turned into a scam, and he had to bear part of the responsibility. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Liang's assassination occurred, and he, the county lieutenant in charge of public security, was fully responsible, but the assassins had not been caught, and the prime minister made a rebellion against the officials.

Assassin, anti-thief. I don't want anyone to live.

These things all fell on Zhao Guang's head at once, how could he think calmly, the whole person was already in chaos. Zhao Guang took a deep breath and arched his hand: "What the prince said is that our army has traveled a long way to come here, and the army is tired and morale is unstable, so it is really not suitable to go to attack the prime minister." It is better for our army to pretend to withdraw to Pengcheng, ambush in the middle of the road, and lead Xiang Liang to chase, then it can be ambushed, but it can counterattack. ”

Zhao Tuo smiled, then shook his head.

"Don't underestimate Xiang's people, Xiang Liang is the son of Xiang Yan, and he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, so he won't be fooled by this. It is better to learn the tactics of the Marquis of Wucheng, be upright, and suppress people with power. ”

"Overwhelming people with power?" Zhao Guang was stunned.

Zhao Tuo said lightly: "For the time being, find a spacious place to go down to the village as a battlefield." Scouts were released during these two days to prevent the enemy from attacking. At the same time, he appeased the soldiers to reward and stabilize the heart of the county soldiers, and used the Qin law to prevent them from being tricked into joining the enemy, so he recuperated and waited patiently for him Xiang Liang to fight. ”

Zhao Guang gritted his teeth: "What if Xiang Liang doesn't come to attack, but sits on the lower minister, echoing the rebellion of the Chu people in the surrounding cities." ”

Zhao Tuo smiled and said, "Don't worry, Xiang Liang will come, he can't consume us." ”

In the city, there is a sense of slaughter.

Xiang Liang had a long sword hanging from his waist and a pair of crimson armor on his body, and walked out of the county temple, and the attendants behind him were still holding many precious documents found from the county temple.

As soon as he walked out of the door, a thick bloody breath flew towards Xiang Liang's nose.

He glanced a little sideways, and saw that there was a hideous pile of corpses on the right side of the county temple, which was made up of more than ten headless corpses, which looked very terrifying.

Among those corpses, including the corpses of the county commander and the county lieutenant, mosquitoes and flies were flying all over the sky, biting the Qin officials who once dominated this county.

As for the heads of these two county magistrates, they had already been cut off by the Xiang clan, and after the head was passed on to the whole city, they were hung at the gate of the city, indicating to the Chu people in the city that the sky had changed.

"Brother, all the Qin people in the city have been killed, it is our hands that lead people to persecute the major clans and the head of Qian, they are now stained with the blood of the Qin people, so they can only follow my Xiang clan all the way against Qin!"

Xiang Tang strode over and said with an excited face. Xiang Liang nodded expressionlessly.

Yes, the Qin law is very harsh, and after the Chu people in the city were forced by the Xiang clan to kill the Qin people in the city with their own hands, whether they wanted to or not, they never had a chance to turn back.

Even if these people want to defect in battle, they have to worry about whether Qin will settle the account of the thieves and rebels for them in the future.

Xiang Liang originally disdained to use such coercive methods.

The ideal situation in his mind is that the Xiang clan will raise his arms and shout, and the subordinate clans will rush to respond, and fight against the tyrannical Qin with them in order to revive the Chu State.

However, in fact, when Xiang Liang led the children and servants of the Xiang clan to raid and kill the county temple and kill the county commander and county lieutenant, few of the many big clans in the city were willing to respond to them, let alone those Qiantou.

This made Xiang Liang very disappointed.

It's normal to think about it, if it weren't for Zhang Liang's involvement in Xiang's case, he Xiang Liang's brain would be in the water to raise troops against Qin in this situation where the Qin State occupies a general situation, which is completely an act of looking for death.

But Xiang Liang had no choice, Xiang Tang's involvement in the assassination was too deep, and the Xiang family couldn't get out of this vortex at all, plus Zhao Guang had already led troops to come at that time, if he didn't fight back, there would be only a dead end.

If you tie your hands, you will die, and if you rebel, you will die, so it is better to reverse this tyrannical Qin, and it can be regarded as a way out of the dead end.

The reason why the Xiang clan rebelled was because they fell into a dead state, and the other clans and the leaders of the lower prime minister did not have this situation, so it was naturally impossible to abandon his wife and children to rebel with his Xiang clan.

Therefore, Xiang Liang could only make this decision, forcibly wrap those people around the warships of the Xiang clan, and use the righteousness of reviving the Six Kingdoms to drive them to fight against the Qin people.

"The emperor has been assassinated, and the news calling for the world to recover the six countries has been released, I don't know how many people will respond, there must be hot-blooded heroes, but more people are afraid that they will be in a wait-and-see state."

"Unless I can break a Qin army and tell them that the Qin army is not afraid, so that I can give them confidence, and I will respond to every call and really fight a way out."

Xiang Liang is very sober and realistic, knowing that if Xiang wants to live, he has no other choice but to make this matter as big as possible, so that he can really get the help of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms.

If the Xiang clan wants to survive, they must turn this assassination into a confrontation between the remnants of the entire Six Kingdoms and the Qin State.

"How many people are available to the entire subordinate now?" Xiang Liang turned his head to look at Xiang Tang.

Although Xiang Tang has all kinds of problems, there are not many people in the Xiang clan who can be a big man, and he must rely on this younger brother.

Xiang Tang said excitedly: "With the help of these clans and the leaders of the city, there are nearly three thousand people available to us!" ”

Three thousand!

There was also a glint in Xiang Liang's eyes, although most of them were young men who were coerced by the Xiang family and were reluctant in their hearts, but there were a lot of them.

According to intelligence, the county lieutenant Zhao Guang brought only more than 1,000 county soldiers.

"Very good, gather these young people, distribute weapons, practice the military formation, just wait for Zhao Guang to bring people to attack the prime minister, we will wait for work, break it with one blow, and then take advantage of the situation to pursue and sweep Chudi!"

Xiang Liang made a decision, and a gleam of hope appeared in his eyes.

It was only in the evening that Hou Wu, who was in charge of scout investigation, brought back news that made Xiang Liang's face change slightly.

"Zhao Guangtun's troops camped in a small plain more than 20 miles north of Xia Xiang, and did not advance, but just sent people to spread the news around."

"The Qin army said that my Xiang clan colluded with Zhang Liang and assassinated the emperor, so they raised troops to fight, and now they are mobilizing a large army from the counties, so that the counties and towns are not allowed to obey us, otherwise they will be wiped out as soon as the Qin army arrives. If you fight with my Xiang clan and kill one of my Xiang clans, you can be promoted to one level and given 100 acres of land, and you will never be punished. ”

When Hou Wu said this, his body had already begun to tremble.

The people of the Xiang clan sitting in the council hall also had bad faces.

The Qin people are mobilizing a large army to come!

That's the Qin army that destroyed the Six Kingdoms, attacked Huyi, and swept the world!

If the army comes, how can they fight! Old men like Xiang Cang and others were even more trembling, and a look of despair had appeared in their eyes.

Xiang Liang took all this in his eyes.

He exhaled deeply and said: "This Zhao Guang is worthy of being a general who followed Zhao Tuo to the south and the north, I thought that he, the county lieutenant, would come to attack the prime minister when he saw our rebellion, so that we could take advantage of his fatigue to break the Qin army." ”

"But now, Zhao Guangtun's troops are north of Xiaxiang, blocking the road to the north of our contact, and they are waiting for the support of the Qin army in the rear, once its reinforcements arrive, the situation will be unfavorable to us, for today's plan, only take the initiative to attack, break Zhao Guang's county soldiers, and then bring a big victory, call on Jing Chu Nan'er, and take Pengcheng directly, in order to get a glimmer of life!"

Xiang Liang set the next strategy in one go. The words were full of hope, but his eyes were full of helplessness.

Xiang Liang, as the son of Xiang Yan, was born as a general, so he naturally knows the art of war, and he knows very well how much combat effectiveness the 3,000 people under him are.

Untrained, forcibly twisted, except for the children of the Xiang family of their own family, the rest are all rabble.

Xiang Liang had no choice, he wanted to wait for the echo of the anti-Qin people in the rest of the cities, and wanted to train the three thousand people under him, not to mention the order and prohibition, but also to be able to fight in formation.

But Qin Jun didn't give him time, he deeply felt a feeling of being oppressed by the general trend from the news that Hou Wutan heard.

He was waiting, and Qin Jun was also waiting.

The current Qin army has only a few thousand people in Surabaya County, but it won't be long before all the counties and counties that have received the military order will recruit large armies to rush here, and then it will not only be these thousands of Qin troops, but tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands!

In the art of war, this is called "momentum".

This momentum made Xiang Liang have to take the initiative to attack.

He had to quickly break through the Zhao Guang troops in front of him before a large number of troops from the Qin State arrived, and fight a majestic battle, so that those remnants of the Chu State who were in a wait-and-see state could support the Xiang clan.

Xiang Liang can't afford to spend time.

"Although the men and horses in my hands are not trained, they are all a rabble who are not accustomed to battle. But Zhao Guang led the county soldiers to gallop more than 200 miles, and he must have been exhausted. I still have an advantage in waiting for work. ”

"There are many people who are dissatisfied with Qin Fa and Qin officials among the prime ministers, and the morale of my Xiang clan is even higher for the protection of the clan. On the other hand, the Qin army is basically a native of Surabaya County, and has no loyalty to the Qin State, and now that the emperor has been assassinated again, the people must be panicked and have no morale. ”

"Not to mention that I have 3,000 people in my hands, and Zhao Guang only has more than 1,000 in my hands."

"Three thousand beat him more than a thousand, and the advantage in numbers is not small."

Xiang Liang was leading his troops to fight for the first time, and after analyzing according to the art of war and comparing the military strength of the two sides, he found that he still had an advantage, and he suddenly became confident.

"In this way, I still have a good chance of winning."

"This battle will be the battle of my Xiang Liang to become famous all over the world!

Some people died, but not completely......