Chapter 277: Take the initiative

What does Li Si mean when he was imprisoned?

Not only Liu Kan and others knew that the leaders of the rebel army from all over the country also knew very well. That was the last pillar of Lao Qin!

Perhaps only that kind of heart to enjoy, Qin Ershi, who was confused and confused, did not understand.

In fact, when the news of Li Si being thrown into the prison spread, the first reaction of the rebel leaders from all over the country was that they did not believe it.

There is a conspiracy!

This must be Lao Qin's trick.

You know, Li Si had just promoted Zhang Han. Zhang Han quickly defeated Zhou Zhang's hundreds of thousands of troops on the banks of the Weishui River. Logically speaking, Li Si should be more valued by Qin Ershi, so how could he be thrown into the Heavenly Prison? Furthermore, Li Si's eldest son Li You is still struggling to support the current situation in Xingyang... Is Qin Ershi not afraid that Li You will rebel in Xingyang?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

For a time, the news that Li Si was imprisoned was more eye-catching than Zhou Zhang's defeat.

The attack of Tian family in Qi immediately slowed down. Liu Bang also retreated back to Pei County, Zhang Er and Chen Yu silently observed the current situation in Julu.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Xianyang and Chenxian.

Scouts galloping on the official road were endless, conveying all kinds of news.

"Old Qin this time, I'm afraid there's really no hope."

Gongshulia gently stroked Liu Qin's long black hair, sighed to the sky, and his eyes unconsciously showed a hint of sadness.

When Lao Qin unified the world, Gongshuliao worked hard and made great contributions.

Back then, Emperor First Emperor had just taken power, and was worried about internal and external troubles, and the whole country was panicked. It was Gong Shuliao and Li Si who were working silently around Emperor First Emperor, and he saved the situation bit by bit. But unexpectedly, as soon as Emperor First Emperor left, Lao Qin collapsed.

Qin Ershi, this is destroying the Great Wall!

"Uncle, grandpa, why did Li Si get arrested?"

Liu Qin raised his head and looked at Gong Shuliao's curious questioning. He didn't understand what Li Si meant to Lao Qin, but at the age of ten, he also understood a lot of things. Just looking at his father and his aides came to visit today, Liu Qin knew that the matter was very serious.

Liu Kan firmly believes that Li Si's imprisonment this time is definitely not a conspiracy.

Because in history, Li Si did not have to die well. But he was a little confused about why Xianyang took Li Si at this time?

Uncle Gong smiled and said calmly: "There is nothing else, power!"

With just one sentence, all the doubts disappeared. The people here, whether it was Kuai Che and Lu Jia, Shusun Tong and Cao Shen, were all talented people. Gong Shuliao only needed to mention a little, and everyone immediately realized, including Liu Kan.

Since replacing the building warehouse, Liu Kan has not relaxed his attention to Xianyang.

Li Si was in charge of the government affairs. Although the situation in Shandong was chaotic, it could support it hard. But at the same time, the conflict of rights between him and Zhao Gao was also intensifying. Of course, Zhao Gao did not want someone like Li Si to exist. It was just that the rebel army was powerful before, so Zhao Gao did not dare to act rashly.

Now, Li Si has promoted Zhang Han and defeated Zhou Zhang.

This also made Li Si's reputation in the court suddenly increase a lot. If he did not take action, Zhao Gao would be afraid that it would be difficult to suppress it.

On the other hand, as Zhang Han defeated Zhou Zhang, the crisis in Xianyang was resolved. Perhaps in Zhao Gao's view, it was a good opportunity to take action now. His relationship with Qin Ershi is much closer than that between Li Si and Hu Hai. A false charge can be taken away...

"Mr. Gongshu, isn't Zhao Gao afraid of Li You's rebellion?" Cao Shen couldn't help but ask.

Gong Shuliao did not answer, but instead focused his eyes on Liu Kan. The meaning was clearly that you would like to explain this question.

Liu Kan thought for a while, "Although Zhao Gao had no talent, he was indeed a good player in such conspiracies. You see, he just threw Li Si into the prison, but did not take any action. That is, he was warning Li You that if you rebel, I will kill your father and brother first. And he would give Li You a hope, let Li You fight to the death in Xingyang in order to make meritorious contributions and let the court pardon Li Si.

I look at the battle in Sanchuan County, and I am afraid it will end soon.

At that time, Zhang Han's army will go out of Hangu Pass in the east to control the situation in Shandong... Haha, but at that time, it was also the time when Li Si's head fell. After Zhang Han's army went out of Hangu Pass in the east, Li You's role will be weakened and will be useless to Zhao Gao."

"But Zhao Gao is like this, isn't it..."

Gongshu Liao sneered, "In the eyes of a eunuch slave, what else can you see besides fame and fortune? Your Majesty has been wise for a lifetime and is really a little confused about only reusing this person!"

It can be seen that Gongshu Liao has no good feelings for Zhao Gao.

As for whether there are any grudges between the two? Liu Kan was too lazy to ask, nor did he want to ask. The only thing he was concerned about now was how to escape from the decay of Shandong and arrive in Jiuyuan County safely. From Lou Cang to Jiuyuan County, there were many dangers along the way. Not to mention anything else, just the princes who dominated various places were a very troublesome problem.

Zhou Zhang failed, Zhang Han went out of Guanzhong...

What will be next?

Even if Liu Kan doesn't know this history, he can still infer a rough idea.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were able to do everything smoothly before, but to put it bluntly, it was just luck. Shandong's troops were empty and the court did not pay attention to them, which allowed this army of mud legs to grow rapidly. However, mud legs were mud legs after all. When Lao Qin's powerful state machine began to operate, it immediately collapsed. Invading Hangu Pass, it finally touched Lao Qin's nerves.

When Zhang Han leaves Guanzhong, Chen Sheng will inevitably fail.

When Chen Sheng failed, the situation in Shandong would probably become complicated and even a brief calm would appear.

Whether it is Xianyang or various rebels, they are extremely sensitive and suspicious at this time.

If he goes north at this time, he may face encirclement and suppression from all parties. Liu Kan would not think that he has the ability to fight against the whole world.

A proper time!

Liu Kan needs an appropriate time...

Only when Lao Qin and various rebels rekindled the war, Liu Kan had the chance to successfully go north to Jiuyuan County.

Liu Kan thought so, Kuai Che and others had the same idea as him. How to muddle the water in this pool? The top priority is now.

Kuaiji!

Liu Kan knew that after Chen Sheng’s failure, all parties would stop and watch the changes.

The one who destroyed this peaceful situation was the Xiang family soldiers who came across the river. Before Xiang Yu crossed the river, Liu Kan had to take the lead in taking advantage. Only in this way could he have the opportunity to negotiate with various troops and horses, and he could successfully head north to Jiuyuan County.

But how to seize this first move?

Seeing that it was already August, as the Qin army attacked, the situation in Shandong suddenly changed drastically.

Zhou Zhang retreated step by step and first retreated to Caoyang (southwest of Sanmenxia, ​​Henan Province). But before Zhou Zhang could regroup, Zhang Han took the chief Sima Xin as the vanguard and the army of eight thousand lieutenants as the army, and the troops were under Caoyang. On the banks of the Wei River, Zhou Zhang saw with his own eyes how powerful the lieutenant army, known as the first army of the old Qin, had. Those guys were simply fearless and skilled in combat formations.

At that time, Zhang Han organized the prisoners in Mount Li and pretended to be a million people.

But he did not attack. He only relied on the lieutenant's army tore into pieces in a moment.

Zhang Han was very smart and knew that the millions of troops organized temporarily were just mobs, and the morale of the army was still unstable.

So when the Wei River was fighting, he only sent a lieutenant army to attack. With the more than 10,000 lieutenant army, he not only defeated Zhou Zhang's army, but also shocked the troops under his command, causing the prisoners who were originally ulterior motives to obey orders honestly.

Zhou Zhang was in Caoyang and only lasted for fifteen days before Sima Xin captured the city.

In the defeat, Zhou Zhang had to retreat to Mianchi. However, at this time, the Qin army, after a brief training and resting for 30 days, arrived at Mianchi under Zhang Han's command. Three days later, Mianchi lost... Zhou Zhang was desperate and committed suicide in Mianchi City.

At the same time, Li You, who fought hard to save his father, also ushered in a turning point.

Wu Guang's attack on Xingyang for a long time was not over, and the people in the army were in a state of great trouble. Seeing that Zhou Zhang had failed, Chen Sheng ordered Wu Guang to lead his troops to enter the pass quickly and rush to help Zhou Zhang.

When Chen Sheng's order was passed to the city of Xingyang, Xingyang was at the end of his strength.

Wu Guang did not want to fail, so he refused to accept Chen Sheng's order. So Chen Sheng's envoy bribed Wu Guang's general Tian Zang and killed Wu Guang. Then, Tian Zang took the post of general as the general, and left Li Gui to continue to besiege Xingyang. He led his elite troops to try to go west to rescue Zhou Zhang.

However, before Tian Zang arrived in Luoyang, Zhou Zhang's entire army was wiped out.

For a moment, Tian Zang hesitated... It was when Tian Zang was hesitating that Zhang Han took the opportunity of Mianchi's victory and quickly broke out of Guanzhong.

In the battle of Ao Cang, Zhang Chujun was hit hard again.

Tian Zang was killed in the chaos, and the Qin army took advantage of the situation to pursue Li Gui's troops outside Xingyang City.

The Battle of Xingyang, which lasted for a full sixty days, ended here. Sanchuan County returned to the hands of the empire, Zhang Han stationed troops in Luoyang, and watched all the troops from Shandong.

From Zhang Han defeating Zhou Zhang in the Wei River to recapturing Sanchuan County, the Qin army took only fifty days to completely turn the situation around.

Faced with the Qin army's storm attack, everyone was frightened.

In mid-September, Qin II issued another edict, ordering the county magistrates of Jiuyuan County and the general Wang Li to raise all the 300,000 Qin troops in the northern border, and attacked from Yunzhong, Yanmen and Taiyuan counties to suppress all the troops. Zhang Er and Chen Yu did not dare to continue to go north, stayed in Julu, and supported Wu Chen as King Zhao, trying to block Wang Li's army in Hebei. At the same time, Zhang Er sent people to Qi and asked Tian Dan for assistance.

"Ovary, what should I do?"

Liu Bang was a little frightened, "Tian Dan withdrew his troops, and Wang Ke's Sima Column was not restrained by the Qi army, so he would definitely join forces to encircle and suppress our Pei County."

Zhang Liang couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

"I never thought that Old Qin was so good at fighting. Zhou Zhang's army was wiped out in tens of thousands of days, which was beyond my expectations."

He thought for a while, Zhan Yan smiled and said, "But Pei Gong doesn't need to worry. Although Zhang Han's troops regained the Three Rivers, they are probably exhausted. His millions of troops were also temporarily put together. Before, they mainly relied on the shock of the lieutenant army... Now that Zhang Han's regained the Three Rivers, the most urgent task is to quickly digest the millions of people under his command. Moreover, even if he wanted to attack, Yu Pei Gong would be out of reach.

The first thing Zhang Han wants to eliminate is Zhang Chu's Chen Sheng.

The soldiers and horses in the northern border were probably difficult to attack this place for a while. Although Prince Xue was not restrained by the Qi army, he was afraid that he was seriously injured by the enemy from both sides and was powerless. As for the Donghai County, it was not worth worrying. He regarded it like a native chicken and a tile dog, and only needed to order Fei Gongzi to lead his headquarters to attack. In this way... Even if Sima Lan survived, it would be difficult to pose any threat to Pei Gong."

Zhang Liang was full of confidence. After muttering in Liu Bang's ear for a while, Liu Bang was overjoyed.

But he soon frowned again, "But even so, in Pei County, the small area will be affected by the war sooner or later... It's better to do this. Now Ying Zhuang is dead, and only Qin troops in Loucang are left in Sishui County. Why don't we capture Na Xiang County?

In this way, it can also echo Zhang Chu..."

"Pei Gong, you must never seize Xiangxian County."

When Zhang Liang heard this, his face suddenly changed, "The Duke is in Pei County, and there is still a place to go. If he captures Xiang County, he will be in trouble."

Chen Sheng seems to be strong now, but he will lose sooner or later.

When Zhang Han rests his troops, he will definitely take a fatal blow to Zhang Chuxing. According to good speculation, Zhang Han will definitely launch an attack at the end of the year at the end of the year.
To be continued...