"To be honest, Xiao He has followed the army in recent years to fight. Every time he conquered and occupied a city, other soldiers were busy robbing treasures. Xiao He never took half an inch of gold and silver. He only sorted out all the books about the world's household registration, terrain, laws, classics, and litigation. He would immediately take them out to watch them whenever he had some free time. These days in Xingyang, he read the books in Xingyang and realized how hateful these two people were."

The more Wang Zhu heard it, the more surprised he became. No wonder Liu Bang praised Xiao He as the most important contributor to the Western Han Dynasty. It turned out to be such a living treasure.

"I also agree with your idea, but there is no solid evidence to execute the two people for no reason, which will definitely cause panic among the residents in the city. You know that Daqin's reputation has never been very good."

"King, this is too simple. Just find someone to assassinate them at night. If the whole family dies, the government can confiscate their property." A trace of viciousness flashed in Xiao He's bright eyes. This viciousness is hidden behind Zhonghou's eyes. Han Xin died on it.

"Hehe, then I will fully entrust Lord Xiao to deal with this matter. I will issue an order tomorrow to grant Lord Xiao the Shaofu. After the battle in Xingyang is over, Lord Xiao will go back to Guanzhong to handle everything for me."

"Yes!" Xiao He just nodded slightly and then quit.

The next morning, Xiao He came back to report that Wang Zhu was anxious to discuss military affairs. He stepped in and said, "King, two murders occurred in the city last night. Sun Fugui, Dongcheng and Liu Batian's family in Xicheng were wiped out. I heard that it was a group of masked men with high martial arts skills. "

Before Xiao He finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Zhu: "When is it now? People are dying outside the city every day, and I still have time to pay attention to any murder. Are there any living families in the two families?" Xiao He said; "The problem lies here, everyone is dead, and I don't know how to deal with a large amount of property!"

Wang Zhu said impatiently, "What's the problem? According to the Qin Dynasty's laws, if no one claims property, all property will be confiscated. Go down and do things according to the rules, without any scruples!"

Xiao He answered slowly: "Yes, king!"

Wang Ao looked at Xiao He's back and said, "This man has some talent, why don't the king value it?" Wang Zhu said, "I want to sign him as the young mansion of the Qin Dynasty and let him go back to Guanzhong to raise food, grass and military supplies, so as not to avoid Gong Ziying being too busy alone. Do you think it's appropriate or not."

Wang Ao said; "In recent days, Xiao He has arranged the food and grass matters accurately and is a person with great knowledge and is absolutely competent, but the murder case he just mentioned-" Wang Zhu said; "Don't worry about the murder case, the most important thing at the moment is to defeat the Chu army. Is there no news about the army of Wang Ben and Guan Ying?"

"There is news." Li Zuoche replied: "I had a trick that happened to the city yesterday. General Wang had returned to Pingyang and was expected to cross the Yellow River in at most two days. The trouble is Guan Ying. Luan Bu seems to be difficult to deal with!"

Wang Zhu thought to himself that one Yingbu and the other Jibu are not easy to deal with, and there is another Luanbu. Nowadays, he is called "Bu"!

"That means Guan Ying can't come back for a while!"

"Yes, the king, but General Wang also has 50,000 or 60,000 troops in his hands, and he can completely attack inside and outside to eliminate Xiang Yu." Li Zuoche said confidently.

"I still have news here!" Yuan Sheng brought it back in South Korea. Han * publicly announced that he would rebel against Chu and return to Qin and expressed his willingness to be loyal to the king. Yuan Sheng was preparing to destroy Zheng Chang and then go north to encircle and annihilate Xiang Yu.

"Okay!" Wang Zhu kept rubbing his hands. Is the situation big?

But he forgot that Liu Bang was defeated and fled again and again under the great situation, almost died.

"Our army must go out of the city as soon as possible! We must try to open up the food channel, otherwise we will not be able to stick to it at all." Wang Ao was very dissatisfied with Wang Zhu's optimism. It was a little too early to be happy.

"Report——" A spy rushed in outside the door; "Report to the King, the Chu army will increase its troops! General Zhou Lan and Xiao Gongjiao brought countless cavalry, chariots, and the total number of reinforcements was no less than 300,000."

Wang Zhu almost fell to the ground. Xiang Yu was really able to scrape the ground, and his speed of pulling men reached the peak. In just a short time, he had another 500,000 or 600,000 people.

"The letter from the Old General Wang also said that Han Xin and Zhang Liang had left Zhao State and went north to attack Yan Dai. The old general meant to take the opportunity to destroy Zhang Er and seize the entire territory of Zhao State!"

"This—" Wang Zhu thought to himself that it is indeed good to open up a second battlefield, but if Wang Ben doesn't come back, how can the crisis in front of him be resolved?

Li Zuochelan; "This strategy is feasible. Are the king worried about the safety of Xingyang?" Wang Zhu said; "Xiang Yu's 500,000 Chu troops besieged the city, and the food in Xingyang is almost finished. How can we deal with it?" Li Zuochelan; "I have a way. The north of Xingyang City is Aocang, which has been the ancient road; the food in Aocang is in the world. As long as you get Aocang, why don't you worry about the lack of food and grass? The king is worse than the entire army stationed on Guangwu Mountain outside Xingyang City and sent a general to capture Aocang. Xiang Yu brought hundreds of thousands of troops, which consumed a huge amount every day. He must want to fight quickly. The king relies on Aocang's sufficient food with the terrain of Guangwu Mountain, and can definitely drag him down."

Wang Ao nodded. This was originally his plan.

Wang Zhudao; "No need to go out of the city overnight!"

At the second update, the head of Xingyang City suddenly became dim, the torches were extinguished, the flags were gone, there was no sound of clappers, and the sound of trumpets could not be heard. The four gates in the southeast, west and north suddenly opened out at the same time, and countless Qin troops rushed out from all sides.

Yu Ziqi, who was in charge of the siege of the city, was sleeping in the commander's tent. For several days, the Qin army had no movement, which made him relax his vigilance. He, who was already brave but not resourceful, made a wrong judgment on this emergency.

"Split the troops in four directions and chase me!"

Wang Zhu wanted this effect. In fact, only the main force of the Qin army appeared in the four city gates, and the other three gates were just to hide their sights and wander around.

The most terrible thing was that after Yu Ziqi sent people to notify Xiang Yu, the reinforcements were not delayed. The total number of soldiers besieged by him was 100,000, divided into four routes and more than 20,000 each. A few Qin troops from the three gates in the east and southeastern areas were chased and surrendered. The generals in charge of chasing Baixi, Jin Yueyuan, Yuan Si, Tu Gangqiu, Ba Yuzan and other generals who were in charge of chasing him knew they had been fooled at a glance.

Yu Ziqi personally chased him from the east gate. Thirty thousand men and fifty thousand troops were chased. The result was conceivable. Wang Ao arranged for Fan Kuai and Wang Ling to set up an ambush halfway, waiting for Yu Ziqi to enter his pocket.

Yu Ziqi thought in his heart that if he chased someone, the overlord would definitely blame him and throw other things out of the sky. He even forgot the simple military tactics of "Meeting the Lin Mo" and followed the Qin army into the woods.

Fan Kuai and Wang Ling, two outlaw-like figures, saw that Yu Ziqi was really following in, and they couldn't help but be happy. When the front team of the Chu army passed through the road between two rows of dense forests, the middle army was immediately attacked from both left and right directions. After half an hour of hand-to-hand combat, the Chu army had a small number of people and was attacked by sneak attacks. The first one could not take care of each other and was defeated again. Yu Ziqi fled back to Xingyang City in a panic, and quickly came to Xiang Yu to apologize, but was shocked.

It was strange that there were very few soldiers left in Xiang Yu's camp in Dongcheng of Guangwu, and Xiang Yu was not in the camp. Yu Ziqi dragged a bloody lame leg to see Fan Zeng. Fan Zeng was no longer there. He looked for Zhonglimei, Long Jie, Ji Bu and other people. Finally, he met Xiao Gongjiao, the governor of Dang County, who was on duty at the gate of the village, and then he found out that while Xiang Yu was silenced at the head of Xingyang City, he had led hundreds of thousands of troops to the west of Guangwu.

Yu Ziqi was inexplicably confused.

Fan Zeng planned to pay attention to the Qin King's food, otherwise the Qin King would have no way out. Therefore, when something happened at the head of Xingyang City, he not only disagreed with sending troops to reinforce and intercept them, but instead asked Xiang Yu to bring a large group of troops to Xicheng to ambush. This time, Xiang Yu surprisingly did not oppose Fan Zeng's proposal, and transferred all the 300,000 troops under his command under the main camp to Xicheng. Therefore, Yu Ziqi was empty when he came back.

Wang Zhu was very proud of defeating Yu Ziqi. He thought he had done his best, but he didn't know that Fan Zeng and Xiang Yu had already set up a pocket formation and waited for him to get in. Xicheng was not very far from Xingyang City. After defeating Yu Ziqi, he soon entered Guangwu Mountain District and saw the small-scale Xicheng City.

When Yu Ziqi returned to Chu Camp, Wang Zhu also happened to arrive at the city.

Xicheng and Dongcheng are just fortresses. They were built during the reign of Qin Shihuang. The city was of equal size, three meters high and about a thousand meters long and wide, so they could only garrison troops, but not people. The city was built against the mountains and guarding the main roads, and they were two gate gods of Ao Cang. This arrangement shows Qin Shihuang's importance to Ao Cang. It is worth mentioning that Xiang Yu did not seem to attach great importance to it. If it weren't for Fan Zeng's repeated requests, he would have been too lazy to send troops to garrison. The war was made up of real swords and guns, and it didn't seem to matter whether there was any food or grass.

"Enter the city, quickly enter the city." The west city is even more dangerous than the east city. There are only two city gates in the east and west, which are used to connect the mountain road. The right hand is the abyss surrounded by mountain mist, and the left hand is a cliff that stands thousands of feet high. It can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. One person is the pass and ten thousand men cannot open. The army moves forward and prepares to enter the city. The city is dark, and it can be seen that it is an empty city.

Wang Zhu turned around and looked at the surrounding environment, and couldn't help but chill and murmured, "If thousands of huge rocks were suddenly thrown down on the foothills, we would all die without a place to bury."

Wang Ling said carelessly, "You can't, how could the stones fall down the mountain? It's impossible-" Fan Kuai used to like to argue with him; "You know what if there is an ambush!"

Fan Zeng's thin figure suddenly appeared on the dark mountain road, pointing at Wang Zhu's red tassels and brocade robe and said to Ji Bu and Zhongli Mei; "Did you see it? That's the King of Qin. Let's capture the king first, let the three thousand crossbowmen you selected come?" Zhongli Mei hurriedly bowed; "Father Ya, don't worry, you are all the best crossbowmen, warriors made of hundreds of refined ones, I chose them myself." Fan Zeng sneered viciously; "The rocks are also ready?" Ji Bu said; "You have ordered Ding Gong and Xiang Sheng to prepare, and there are countless stones of all sizes!" Zhongli Mei smiled; "Xiang Xiang, Ji Xin led his men to cut down hundreds of rolling woods, which are useful at any time." A sinister smile appeared on the corner of Fan Zeng's mouth; "When there is any movement in the city, start immediately. All artillery fire must be aimed at the King of Qin. Only after the remaining Qin King's remaining ones were destroyed will he greet the soldiers of Qin."

Zhonglimei said excitedly, "This is natural!"

"Boom!" The west gate of Xicheng was pushed by Qin soldiers and opened. Zhang Yi and Zhang Han commanded the army into the city at the gate: "Hurry up, line up and keep up!" The light infantry lined up at the front.

Because the mountain road is narrow, it can only be divided into four rows to advance slowly. After the light infantry, there are heavy infantry sword spearmen led by Sima Xinxinsheng. The equipment of these soldiers is much better than that of light soldiers. Each of them is equipped with a crossbow arrow, armor, combat boots, spears, and swords. The age of the soldiers is generally not over thirty years old, and they are the elite of the infantry, with a number of 30,000 people. After the heavy infantry, there are 40,000 cavalry temporarily commanded by Wang Ling and Fan Kuai. These people are quite complicated. Except for more than 10,000 elite Qin soldiers, the rest are all subdued soldiers of Wei, Zhao, Linjiang, Henan, and Lu Zhi, and their combat effectiveness is not very strong.

The real elite cavalry were taken away by Wang Ben and Guan Ying. At the end were Feng Jing, Sima Xin, and Dong Yi's chariot soldiers. After Wang Zhu came to this era, he carried out rough reforms to the Qin army. First, he cut the number of chariots, because Wang Zhu felt that chariot soldiers were a bit too bulky to deal with cavalry, which was very useful to deal with infantry. However, Xiang Yu did not rely on infantry to win and was dedicated to training elite cavalry, so he tried not to move the chariots in the battle against Chu. Therefore, there were only 200 chariots, 75 soldiers, two spearmen, and one driver to calculate the number of people.

Wang Zhu's central army had been thrown to the end. The command of Qin Ai, Qin She, Zhang Ping's surrendered generals Wu Pu, E Qianqiu, Tong Gong, Lu Jia and others followed the civil servants, all wearing heavy armor, helmets and tassels. The total number of archers, personal guards, and swords and spearmen was no less than 40,000. The formation was relatively rigorous. Due to the strong discipline of the Qin army, the other surrendered soldiers and generals led to consciously abide by order. Although there was a cliff in the abyss, no one shouted the horse neighed. The soldiers entered the city one after another!

The vanguard troops entered the city for about 10,000!

Suddenly, the war drums broke out in the city, and the cannons roared! The shouts were like tides and the fire was shining! Xiang Yu's crazy laughter came from the city: "It was indeed not as expected by Yafu, Ying Hu Hai, your death date was coming." On the foothills, there were flags and shouts, and the shouts were like thunder. Chu troops rose everywhere, and huge rocks rolled down.
Chapter completed!