Qin Official

"Your Majesty, the first year of the Northern Expedition is appropriate!"

"Otherwise, it would be better to stay in the first year of Jingnan!"

"Why not call it the first year of Wuzhong?"

No matter how many suggestions anyone made, none of them were reliable. Heifu got angry and said:

"Why don't you call him Hei Fu Yuan Nian? Everyone, get out of here!"

After repelling all the staff, Hei Fu was extremely angry.

Although he knew that his wife and children had arrived in Jiangling, Heifu still resisted going back to take a look. The battle was over. Although Wang Ben was successfully repelled, the strength of the north was particularly strong. In terms of military strength and national power, it was still stronger than the south, and who Knowing what Wang Ben will do next, will he launch a winter offensive to fight back?

Therefore, Heifu remained in Jianghan and asked the generals to move north to occupy Fancheng and Deng County as outposts, while in the east they pushed the front line to Tangbai River and Tongbai Mountain. The two sides exchanged offense and defense and entered into a confrontation again.

It is the last day of September, and tomorrow is the first day of October, the Qin New Year.

Just like Zhu Di did not recognize the Jianwen era and created the "Thirty-Fifth Year of Hongwu", Heifu, who established a new central government, naturally would not recognize Xianyang's "Second Year".

After thinking about it, I realized that I was flying the red flag to fight against the red flag and simply continued the title of the First Emperor.

"The thirty-eighth year of Qin Shihuang!"

Heifu suddenly smiled.

"Continue to use this title, Your Majesty. It's as if you are still here."

Is his soul still above the nine heavens, watching everything happening on the ground? Watching these farces, watching the king's flag changing on the city wall, watching his unworthy descendants and having no loyal ministers in the world, will his face be solemn or will he smile contemptuously.

Suddenly, Heifu felt a little sad.

He quickly signed a few more documents and asked the boss to take them with him and send them to the counties under the control of the Northern Expeditionary Army. He used this as the new year's name. At the same time, he urged various places to conscientiously implement the "rent reduction" requested by Commander Heifu. No matter how difficult it is, we can't charge people 10% more rent!

On the other hand, he was also always paying attention to Wang Benjun's movements. The scouts risked their lives to go deep into Nanyang, and there were new reports every day.

Today, Heifu learned something surprising from Cavalry Sima Lao Wu.

"Wang Ben's main force of 100,000 troops retreated to the Xinye front line, and a partial division of 40,000 to 50,000 people was assigned to move westward to the Rangxian area?"

Rangxian County is the later Dengxian County in Henan Province, the fiefdom of the famous Ranghou Fan Ju. Further west, you can reach Danyang (Xichuan, Henan Province), which is connected to Wuguan in the north and Hanzhong in the south...

Heifu immediately became alert: "Could it be that Wang Ben has noticed my intention to send the Dongmen Leopard to enter Hanzhong through Shangyong?"

Shangyong is the area around Shiyan, Hubei Province in later generations. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the territory of the Mi and Yong kingdoms. The latter two kingdoms were destroyed by Chu and were established as "Hanzhong County". However, when King Huai of Chu came to Chu, he was unsatisfied with being deceived by Zhang Yi, and Chu was against Qin. When the war started, they were severely defeated, and Danyang and Shangyong were also lost. Although they regained two more lands later, in the 19th year of King Qingxiang, Shangyong, northern Han Dynasty and Qin were also ceded.

From then on, the hard days of the Chu Kingdom came. The land of Shangyong reached Nanzheng in the west, Yan and Zhou in the east, the suburbs of Lianwan and Deng in the northeast, and the Baxia Gorge in the south. It was the western barrier of Jianghan. The next year after the cession of Shangyong, Qin captured Xiling. Eleven years later, Qin soldiers had entered Ying.

In fact, the reverse is also true. If Heifu can capture Shangyong, he can go to Danyang in the north to threaten Wuguan, and he can capture Hanzhong in the west. Now that all Bashu has returned to the Northern Expedition, Heifu sent another 10,000 people into Pakistan, hoping to eliminate the besieged enemy as soon as possible. Feng Jie of Jiangzhou, then the soldiers of Shu County took the Jinniu Road, Zhao Tuo and Wu Chen took the Micang Road, and joined forces with Dongmen Bao in Hanzhong, which could directly threaten the Guanzhong area.

By then, even if they cannot cross the Qinling Mountains and attack Guanzhong, Hu Hai and Zhao Gao will be afraid in the face of Xianyang's three police forces a day. Wang Ben and Feng Quji will have to divide their forces and return to Guanzhong. The situation on Nanyang's side may be opened up.

But now, Wang Ben seemed to have seen through Heifu's plan. When he was retreating to Xinye, he divided his troops to Hanzhong. This gave Heifu a headache. From this point of view, even if Dongmen Leopard could seize Shangyong first, Hanbei , Nanzheng, but there are some difficulties.

The battle is still difficult to fight, after all, the opponent is Wang Ben.

Heifu immediately sent an additional 10,000 people to the west, and asked a messenger to warn Dongmen Bao to be careful. When it was night, he was dealing with military and political affairs, and when he was too sleepy, he suddenly remembered something and woke up in shock. He put on his clothes and went out of the tent, calling for his staff.

"Han Xin, where are you now!?"

…

Han Xin has arrived in Danyang.

Danyang is an area between Danshui and Xishui. It is located in the Yang of Danshui. It is said that this was the birthplace of Chu State. The ancestors of Chu State, Wu Xiong, lived in Danyang. They were not satisfied with the land of a hundred miles and were full of thorns. It was not until King Wu of Chu that he moved to Yan.

Although it has a distinguished history, Danyang has long been abandoned by the Chu people and later captured by Qin. It is now just a small town. When the Northern Expeditionary Army marched west from Wancheng, all they could see in the distance were grassy mountains and forests, poverty and backwardness.

But there are also some local specialties, such as peach arc thorns and arrows that can be used as bow materials. The profit warehouse has been cut down a lot. Although they captured a large number of armored soldiers in Kunyang and Luyang, the consumption was also huge. They fought several battles along the way. Some officials have drawn their bows to pieces.

In addition, there is also "baimao" used to filter the wine. Rice wine has so many impurities that it is difficult to drink it without filtering it.

At this moment, Han Xin was sitting cross-legged on the bank of Danshui, drinking local rice wine filtered with corngrass, and watching the soldiers cutting wooden rafts and preparing to cross the river.

Han Xin was in a good mood. From the time they left Runan in early August to the end of September, they had traveled more than a thousand miles, fought in several counties, fought several tough battles, and eliminated the three grain roads behind Wang Ben's army in Nanyang in one go. Cutting off one by one, especially in the past few days, Han Xin's plan was like a stroke of genius. Instead of going east, he came west, catching the enemy troops transporting grain from Guanzhong to Wancheng by surprise, destroying hundreds of grain trucks, and burning the grain. At least one hundred thousand stones!

Today, Wuguan Road is still billowing with smoke.

Li Cang no longer doubted Han Xin's strategy and said with a smile: "Now, Wang Benjun will probably have to eat gruel for a month."

And now, the long expedition seems to have come to an end.

"After Danshui, we will reach the north of Han Dynasty. The soldiers in Hanzhong either support Nanjun or go to Bashu. They are very empty. As long as we break Yunguan (Yunxian County, Hubei), we can cross the Hanshui south to Shangyongdi. …”

When Heifu sent Han Xin northward, it was just for emergency relief and he did not think so far. Instead, Han Xin was sensitive to the value of Shangyong and Hanbei.

He thought that after Wang Ben's army failed to attack Xiangyang, it would retreat to Nanyang and wait for food from the rear while remaining on the defensive and not go south again throughout the winter.

It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to seize Nanyang by force and even annihilate Wang Ben's army of more than 100,000 men. This general is not only good at attacking, but also good at defending.

Therefore, Hanzhong County will become the focus of capture by both sides. Once the Northern Expeditionary Army takes control of Hanzhong, they can use Ziwu Road, Baoxie Road, and Chencang Road to invade Guanzhong...

Therefore, while leading the army to march westward, Han Xin also asked Wu Guang and others to disguise themselves as the heads of Guizhou who were escaping from the war, and try to go to Jianghan to get in touch with Marquis Wu Zhong and report the idea to him, hoping that Heifu could send troops to Hanzhong to assist him. .

But now it seems that everything is going well. Wang Benying has not yet realized that Han Xin has come to the west, so he sends troops to Fangcheng Xia Road to stop him.

Pride grew in the heart of this young but already accomplished general, which made him say these words to Tokura.

"I think Wang Ben is not worthy of his name."

Li Cang was directing everyone to cross the water. Hearing this, Li Cang smiled and said: "Marquis Wu Zhong respects Wang Ben very much and often says in private that he does not want to be his enemy. General Han Bi, but you sneer at him?"

"What I said is the truth." Han Xin said:

"As a Taiwei, Wang Ben commanded all the troops in the world, combined the strength of the whole country, and attacked Xiangyang in the south with twice the number of troops, but no results were achieved. Moreover, when he started the war, he did not care about the front and rear, and was defeated by two of us. Tens of thousands of people penetrated the entire Central Plains, cutting off the food routes, and Wancheng was in danger. He could only rush back to the army. He must have wanted to catch me to vent his anger, but he failed again."

Thinking of his proud work, Han Xin laughed: "So, I don't know whether Wang Ben is old and useless, or whether the wars he fought before and the countries he destroyed were all due to the favorable wind of the country's power. In short, The title of the best general in the world..."

Han Xin shook his head and easily denied Tongwuhou's life.

"He doesn't deserve it!"

Han Xin's high-mindedness, his overbearing arrogance, and his tone of contempt for the world's generals made it difficult for people to like him. Even Li Cang, who had gradually become accustomed to his personality, frowned.

"You just won a few battles, why are you so proud?"

But Li Cang still said:

"That's natural. The most famous general in the world is Wu Zhonghou!"

Han Xin smiled, but was noncommittal.

He dared to say it openly, but secretly said in his heart: "What Wu Zhonghou is best at is planning and building momentum, which is the art of military power. I admit this."

"But when it comes to formation battles, whether it's the Battle of Wuchang or the Battle of Anlu, the minority dominates the crowd, and the people fighting are mediocre people. If they encounter a good general, they may be defeated. And the Battle of Jiangling , the number of people is equal, the prince was almost defeated by Feng Wuze, if I had not arrived in Jiangling in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"

"In short, Marquis Wu Zhong just chose too many strategies and used the right people, that's all. He and Wang Ben, um... can be said to be on par."

In Han Xinxin's opinion, there is one person in this world who, after being tempered by so many fierce battles, has surpassed the king and the captain in the way of using troops. He is better than his master.

His eyes were filled with pride and confidence.

"I."

"Han Xin!"

But before Han Xin's pride lasted too long, and before the army could cross Danshui, he sent scouts from afar to report the news.

"General Han Bi, an army of thirty to forty thousand people appeared downstream of Danshui!"

"On the south bank of Danshui, there is also a force of more than 10,000 people, heading towards where we are crossing the river!"

…

A few days later, in Wancheng, Nanyang, Wang Jian had stabilized the new field front and returned to Wancheng.

The old general's beard and hair seem to have more white than a few months ago. I don't know if it is the winter frost in the early morning, or the increase in white hair due to the unfavorable war situation and the division and collapse of the world?

Bad news comes one after another: almost the entire Guandong region is in turmoil, Qi is also in chaos, the restored Chu State has controlled the entire Chu region in the north of the Yangtze River, Xiang Ji is storming Dang County, Shangqiu is in danger, and some people who are recovering from Korea have sneaked into Yingchuan. Several counties have been controlled...

Things were worse in the west: the governor of Shu County had rebelled, Feng Jie was besieged in Jiangzhou County, and Jinniu Road was harassed.

Feng Quji also worriedly told Wang Ben that after learning about the rebellions, losses, and withdrawals of troops in various places, the second emperor was extremely angry and issued several edicts to question Wang Ben: Why is the rebellion getting bigger and bigger?

Wang Ben was so tired that he really wanted to fall down and never wake up again...

But he is the last pillar of Da Qin. If he falls, this building that was built with great difficulty will also collapse.

Wang Ben could only kneel on the ground like a bull, with his knees on the ground, and use his old shoulders to hold up the precarious palace.

Fortunately, the New Year had just passed in the first year of the second year, and he finally received good news.

"Marquis Tongwu!"

Chief Shi Gantang came in happily: "Congratulations to Marquis Tongwu!"

Wang Ben opened his eyes from his short rest. He naturally knew what Gantang was talking about.

"Then Han Xin, did he really go to the west, to Danyang, to enter Hanzhong?"

Gantang said with admiration: "It's exactly as expected by Marquis Tongwu!"

"Han Xin thought he had a trick. After burning the grain in Wuguandao, he was leading his army to swim across the Dan River. However, he was overtaken by General Sima. After a huge battle, the rebels were almost completely wiped out!"

He said excitedly: "Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers died in the river. The Dan water has really turned into 'Dan' water now!"

Although 50,000 people fought against 15,000 people, and they managed to get half the crossing at a bargain, so the victory was certain, but the imperial court had indeed not had such an exciting victory for a long time!

But Wang Ben didn't care about how many enemy troops were annihilated, he only cared about one thing.

In other words, a person, a person who completely disrupted his plan and made his attack fall short!

Wang Ben stood up and asked with concern:

"Han Xin, are you dead?"