Let's take a look at the situation on Chen Qiu's side and arrange people to send Li Shiqi away. Chen Qiu originally planned to return to the Qin army command where he stayed and summoned a few reliable confidants to discuss the matter of opening the city and surrendering. Unexpectedly, just after he got off the city wall, Chen Qiu met the Qin army general Li Cai who led his army to retreat from Wuguan, and even ran into one in person.

Since I accidentally met him, Chen Qiu could only ask Li Cai’s intention. Li Cai was not polite and said directly: “General Chen, General Chen, I heard that Xiang Kang’s rebels sent an envoy to contact you, so I came over to see the situation and asked, “What’s the matter with the thief army sending an envoy into the city?”

"Of course I was dreaming during the day and wanted to persuade me to open the city and surrender." Chen Qiu did not hide it, and then said shamelessly: "I scolded me and just left."

"In addition to persuading surrender, did Xiang Kang's envoy say anything else?" Li Cai asked worriedly and said, "General Chen, don't blame me. Mo Jiang is a person who has suffered a lot, so I must remind you that Xiang Kang's child is too treacherous. Before, in Wuguan, he was stunned to use a forged letter made out of thin air to provoke internal strife in our Qin army. Mo Jiang was really afraid that he would use his old tricks again, so he had to ask a few more questions."

"It's okay, General Li, you are also considering me. How can I blame you?" Chen Qiu waved his hand carelessly and said, "But don't worry, General. Apart from persuading surrender, the envoy of the thief army did not say anything else, nor did he use any other tricks."

It is still possible to trust Chen Qiu. After hearing this, Li Cai felt a little relieved. However, after seeing the package held by Chen Qiu's personal soldiers, Li Cai hesitated for a moment and said, "General Chen, if the general is not wrong, the package should be a gift from Xiang Kang's son to you, right? To be honest, when he was in Wuguan, Xiang Kang's son sent someone to persuade the surrender of the Mojiang, and also gave some gold and jade artifacts to Mojiang. Although the Mojiang took it away, it was replaced with Qin half a liang for the soldiers. The Mojiang was daring to persuade the general to do it like the Mojiang, so as to encourage the morale of the soldiers and declare the determination of the general to survive and die together with the Yuguan."

"Mediating on other people's business! Your Li family has been officials for generations and has money at home. Of course, they don't like the gifts given to you by General Right. But I was born in Guizhou. Can I compare with the Li family?"

Chen Qiu felt a little angry, and his tone suddenly became a little stiff again, and he said, "Thank you for General Li's advice. The gifts used by the thief army to bribe me will naturally be handed over to the Qin court, so there is no need for the general to worry about me."

After saying that, Chen Qiu led his personal soldiers to lift his legs and left. He was too lazy to pay attention to Li Cai, who was meddling in other people's business. Li Cai looked at his back and was worried and said in his heart: "Talking about Chen Qiu's greed for money more, it seems that this matter is really not fake. If the thief army seizes his weakness and lures it to make a lot of profit, he may really be moved. No, I must be more concerned about this matter and find a way to keep an eye on him in secret."

Not to mention Li Cai's concerns about Chen Qiu, but after Chen Qiu returned to the Qin army command in a little anger, he first hid the gold and jade artifacts that Xiang Kang gave him, and then he plucked his feathers and asked his servants to prepare some wine and meat. Then, on the grounds of discussing the war to guard the pass, he invited several of his confidants cultivated in the Wuguan Army. While drinking with them, he carefully tested their attitude towards surrendering to the Young Marshal's Army.

Chen Qiu was also quite a bit of a roundabout way. He first discussed with a few close friends symbolically to discuss the tactics of defending the city, and then quickly raised the topic to the future prospects. He sighed and said, "We really don't know if we are sure to win this battle. Although the court sent us 20,000 reinforcements, you also know the situation of the reinforcements. They are all new recruits who have basically never been on the battlefield. It was extremely difficult to fight the gang of Zhang Chu's thieves, let alone fight against the elite Chu thieves who have experienced many battles. The situation of the defenders in our Ship Pass is even worse. We have not even fought a real sword and gun battle for more than ten years. What do you think about this?"

To disappoint Chen Qiu, his confidants may not have understood his hints, and all bowed and said, "General, don't worry. Although our soldiers have not undergone actual training, as long as we work together and hold on to the determination of the city and the city is dead, with the natural danger and the solid city of Guan, we will definitely be able to defeat the rioters and protect the city."

"A bunch of idiots." Chen Qiu cursed in his heart, but refused to give up and asked, "What if it still can't be kept?"

"Even if we can't hold on, we will fight to the last soldier!" A confidant immediately replied: "Yuguan is the last barrier in the Guanzhong Plain. Behind us are our parents, wives and children, and the hometown of fellow villagers. If we cannot shed the last drop of blood for them, even if we retreat to Guanzhong, we will have no shame to meet our parents, relatives and compatriots in our hometown."

"That's right!" Several other close friends agreed and said, "The old Qin is not afraid of death! For our parents and relatives, no matter how difficult this battle is to fight, we will never take a step back!"

Unexpectedly, several of his confidants were so stubborn. Chen Qiu was surprised and of course he did not dare to break the last window paper. He could only smile and praise the loyalty of several confidants to the Qin court. Chen Qiu's confidants became more and more vigorous as they spoke, and they all volunteered to lead the army out of the city to guard the Sheep and Horse Wall position under the city when the Young Marshal's Army launched an attack, so as to delay the Young Marshal's Army's attack, and also showed the determination and courage of the Yiguan Guard's defenders not to fear the strong enemy. Chen Qiu complained secretly, but he still smiled on his face, constantly praising the loyalty and courage of the few confidants, and his words were so wrong.

At this time, it was already dark, and the defenders of the north and south gates of Ship Pass also sent people to report that the north gate of Ship Pass had been closed and the defenders of the north and south gates had also been rotated. For the sake of safety, several close friends suggested that Chen Qiu go to the city to inspect the situation of the guards themselves, and all expressed their willingness to go to inspect the military situation with Chen Qiu. However, Chen Qiu casually said: "I will go by myself later, let's finish the meal first."

Several of the confidants had no choice but to follow Chen Qiu's instructions and stood up and say goodbye after dinner. Chen Qiu did not send them to them, and immediately ordered: "Prepare the hot soup, I'm going to wash and rest."

"General, don't go to the city to inspect military information?" asked the captain of the personal soldiers carefully.

"I'm not a big deal to patrol. You don't know what happened during the day?" Chen Qiu whispered. In addition to urging the captain of the personal soldiers to prepare hot water for himself, he also said in his heart: "I'm trouble. I didn't expect that the bastards I personally promoted were so stubborn. How should I surrender now?"

Fortunately, Chen Qiu was a general at the gate of the Shipeng Pass after all. Even if he could not convince his generals to join forces with him to lead his army to surrender, it was not difficult to open the city gate quietly. So after lying on the bed for a long time, Chen Qiu gradually made up his mind and said intimately: "This is the only way. After sending people out of the city tomorrow, the right general contacted him and asked him to prepare in advance. Then at the third update tomorrow night, I would quietly open the city gate with my personal soldiers to welcome the right general's troops into the city. Although this is a little contribution, at least I have fulfilled my promise to the right general, and the right general should not be missing the rewards that the right general promised me."

After quietly making up this idea, Chen Qiu, who was completely relieved, fell asleep quickly. At the same time, because there was no general to go up to the city to inspect and supervise, the Qin army soldiers not only lazily guarded at night, but also leaned on the bush of arrows and fell asleep yawning. As time gradually passed, sleepiness and sleepiness became worse. Even the Qin army patrol teams that were coming and going to patrol became lazy and found a place to shelter from the wind to sit down and take a nap. The surveillance under the city was completely useless.

Of course, the young generals, who were determined to be unexpected, would not miss such a good opportunity. As soon as the third update arrived, a group of black shadows sneaked into the edge of the moat at the south gate of Shipengguan. With the cover of the night, they carried more than ten flight ladders and gently crossed the bridge on the moat, and directly touched the south gate of Shipengguan. Then they quickly put the flight ladder to the top of the city. More than a dozen warriors climbed the ladder first, and climbed up the top of Shipengguan with almost no effort.

At this moment, the Qin soldiers on this wall were still sleeping soundly, and soon they were suddenly covered in their mouths in their sleep and stabbed into their hearts by sharp blades. They didn't make any sound until they died. The black shadows under the wall held a piece of stairs in their mouths and kept climbing up the ladders. With the help of their companions, they climbed up the city head one after another, quickly controlling the large area of ​​the city head. At the same time, more black shadows also carried more stairs across the moat and put more stairs on the city heads of the city heads...

After more than 200 black shadows touched the head of the Yiguan city, a Qin soldier who was awakened by urine found that something was wrong and quickly rang the alarm gong. However, it was too late at this time. When he heard the sound of the Tonggong, the young generals who had already climbed the city immediately launched a strong attack and cut down the surrounding Qin soldiers as much as possible. At the same time, the city of Yiguan was also full of people. More young generals carried the flying ladder and hit the moat directly through the moat, climbing the city with the flying ladder and directly hitting the Yiguan city gate.

More gongs quickly resounded at the top of the south gate of Yiguan, and the shouts of killing came into Guanzhong. Unfortunately, because Chen Qiu did not arrange a mobile army at night, although the Qin soldiers in Guancheng were quickly awakened, no army could quickly complete the assembly and immediately rushed to the battlefield of the South Gate to reinforce. The generals and soldiers were all in a hurry to dress and armor, looking for weapons, and they were in chaos. The young generals seized the opportunity to quickly go to the city, chopping and killing the defenders on the city that were also caught off guard. They also lit the southern gate tower of Yiguan with the torches of the defenders, burning the Qin soldiers living in the tower.

At this time, Chen Qiu was already awakened by his personal captain. He heard the shouts of killing from the south gate in a daze. Chen Qiu shouted in disbelief, "How is it possible? I have agreed to surrender to the right general. Why did he still come to attack Shiguan?"

No one could answer Chen Qiu's question. On the contrary, out of his habit of fighting for many years, Chen Qiu subconsciously shouted: "Hurry! Quick! Blow the trumpet and gather the army! Give Yan Ke the order and ask him to lead the army to the city to reinforce immediately!"

The personal soldiers agreed and immediately rushed out to pass the order, but Chen Qiu immediately shouted: "Slow down, wait!"

He was about to send a message to the personal soldiers to turn back in confusion, and the personal soldiers captain also asked quickly: "General, what happened? Why didn't he yell the trumpet or send reinforcements?"

"Did you forget the letter I wrote to the Right General today?" Chen Qiu said with a sad face: "If we guard Guancheng tonight and ruin the good things of the Right General, the Right General will hand my letter to the court in anger. Will my whole family still want my head?"

The captain of the personal soldiers woke up and asked, "General, what should we do now?"

Chen Qiu hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I have to hide it, no one sees you. If someone comes to ask, you will say that I have gone to the city to inspect the night defense."

In this way, when the southern gate of Shiguan was already 100,000, the Qin army's Shiguan Guard Chen Qiu hid in his money warehouse for his head and Xiang Kang's promised reward. He also sent the remaining soldiers to guard the gate of the Qin army command center, and asked several reliable soldiers to come forward. He claimed to the Qin army generals who had arrived in the city to inspect the military situation and asked the Qin army generals to look for him on the wall.

This naturally made the poor soldiers of the defenders of Shiguan. Although several troops had already completed the assembly in a hurry, but without Chen Qiu's order, the army did not dare to rush to the southern gate of Shiguan to reinforce. The generals of the Qin army sent countless people to the city to find Chen Qiu, but they were still missing. They were all so anxious that they were sweating profusely, but no one could do anything.

In the end, there was no way. The Qin army Yan Ke's troops, who were closest to the southern gate of Shiguan, could only make a decision. They led the army to the southern gate of Shiguan to reinforce without Chen Qiu's consent. But it was too late at this time. Not only had more than a thousand young generals rushed to the city wall, basically controlled the city front position at the southern gate of Shiguan, but also smashed the city gate to a shaky end, and several cracks appeared. No matter how the Qin soldiers sacrificed their lives to attack, they had no hope of regaining the city front position. They could only hold on to the city gate and struggled to get reinforcements for the rear army.

The Qin army may still have hope, because they really couldn't find Chen Qiu, and the guards of the northern gate of the Yiguan were also good at making a move. They opened the northern gate of the Yiguan in the middle of the night and asked the Qin army Li Cai's troops to send emergency dispatch to the city to reinforce. As a result, they saw that although the Qin soldiers had already gathered into an army with torches, there were not many troops fighting at the South Gate. Of course, Li Cai almost burst into anger. As soon as he rushed to the command department of the Qin army, he immediately shouted at the Qin generals waiting in front of the door, "Are you crazy? The thief army has rushed to the south gate of the Yiguan. Don't you still take the army to reinforce the Nanmen battlefield, and you are still waiting for free here?!"

"General Li, we can't blame us." The generals of the Qin army shouted injustice and said with a sad face: "It's General Chen who is gone, no one will give a commander, and none of us dare to lead the army to the city without authorization."

"General Chen is gone, why is he missing?" Li Cai was shocked. When asked about Chen Qiu missing after inspecting the city, Li Cai was still worried and said to himself: "Is Chen Qiu's luck bad? When he was patrolling the city, he happened to be caught by the thief army who was sneak attacking and was killed by the thief army?"

There was no way to worry. After a little calculation, Li Cai quickly shouted at the Qin generals: "There can't be no leader in the army! Now General Chen doesn't know whereabouts, so I will issue commanders to you. Are you willing to obey the orders?"

"I wish to listen to the general's order!"

The Qin generals clasped their fists together and answered loudly. Li Cai nodded, and immediately ordered the Qin army to directly reinforce the southern gate of Shiguan. They also sent two troops to attack the two wings of Shiguan from east and west to top the city, and led their own troops as the general reserve team.

Li Cai's quick decision still played a certain role. With the help of reinforcements, the Qin army soldiers still defended the southern city gate of Yiguan, and did not let the young generals knock down the city gate and rushed into the city directly. However, the Qin army had too much debt before, and the Nanmen city was completely lost. The young generals still rushed to the Nanmen city on a flight ladder. Not only did they firmly defend the position on the city front, but they also began to attack the east and west cities of Yiguan, killing the Qin army soldiers who were hurrying to reinforce. At the same time, seeing that they could not open the city gate, the young generals immediately changed their strategy and began to pile up firewood under the city gate and set fire directly to the city gate. The Qin army could not directly splash water from the city gate to put out the fire, so they could only continuously splash water on the city gate to delay the time when the city gate was burned.

In the chaos, it was certainly difficult for the Qin army soldiers to ensure the supply of water inside the city gate. In addition, the young generals were very clever to use the city defense weapons left by the Qin army to continuously fall rocks and trees from the city walls to prevent the Qin army from transporting water to put out the fire. At the fourth update, the solid city gate at the south gate of Shiguan finally turned into ashes in the raging fire, revealing the gate corridor leading to the city gate.

We must also praise the courage of the Qin army soldiers. Seeing that the city gate was burned by fire, the Qin army soldiers who were unable to defend simply muster up the courage to launch a counter-charge, trying to directly kill the young generals outside the city, destroy the young generals' ladders to climb the city, and cover the friendly forces to regain the position on the city. However, such brave Qin army soldiers soon discovered that they were too naive to think. In front of the young generals who had been through many battles, their counter-charge was purely a moth to the fire. No matter how hard they struggled, they had no effect. Not only could they shake the young generals' team, but they were also quickly killed by the young generals and retreated step by step and were forced to retreat back to the city gate corridor. The young generals followed and rushed into the corridor, fighting with the Qin army soldiers so dark that the sun and the moon were gone.

When the war situation in the South Gate was reported to Li Cai, Li Cai, who was behind the generals, immediately realized that it was difficult for Yiguan to be kept. However, for his duties, Li Cai sent someone to order various Qin troops to ask the generals of the Qin army to lead the Qin army soldiers to continue fighting to fight to the death. At the same time, he sent people to contact the Xianyang Lieutenant Army who had arrived in Lantian, trying to rely on street fighting until reinforcements arrived and regain the last barrier of Yiguan, the Guanzhong Plain.

In the face of absolute strength, no matter how hard the struggle is, it will be useless. After the fourth half of the fourth day, the city head position in the east of the Yiguan Pass was first lost, and then the city head position in the west was also declared to fall. At the same time, the young generals who were constantly up the city also launched a charge from the steps of the upper city, and responded to friendly troops and entered the city from the city gate, and successfully covered friendly troops to break through the defense line of the Qin army inside the city gate. The young generals troop swarmed into the city, while the Qin army was defeated and fell. Countless soldiers shouted and fled into the city.

Before this was over, after successfully seizing the two front positions in the east and west of Yiguan, the young generals refused to give up and attacked the south gate of Yiguan along the city wall. After discovering this situation, Chen Qiu did not dare to hesitate when he was shocked, and quickly sent troops to reinforce the south gate of Yiguan to prevent the South Gate from falling and the Qin army being caught by the young generals.

When the fifth hour came, the defeat of the Qin army was exposed. Each army was either directly defeated by the Young Commander's army or fled to the south gate of Zhiguan. Li Cai's general hurriedly persuaded Li Cai to retreat quickly so as not to be caught by the Young Commander's army. Li Cai felt like a knife, but he had no choice but to nod. However, when he was about to retreat, Li Cai suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly pointed to the Qin army command center next to him and shouted: "Light up the fire, burn it here. There are countless important documents of our Qin army hidden in it, and cannot be left to the thief army!"

Li Cai's personal soldiers agreed and immediately rushed in with a torch to set fire. As a result, Chen Qiu's personal soldiers who were guarding the door panicked and shouted: "You can't burn it, you can't burn it!"

In a panic, a Chen Qiu's personal soldier shouted, "You can't burn it! Our General Chen is still inside!"

"What?!" Li Cai was shocked, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Chen Qiu's personal soldier and shouted: "You General Chen is inside? Didn't you General Chen disappear after inspecting the city? Why are you in this now? Tell me quickly, otherwise I will take your life!"

Unable to resist Li Cai's tyranny, Chen Qiu's personal soldiers could only say with a sad face: "General, it's not my business! It was our General Chen who asked us to do this. He hid in it and didn't want to come out, so he asked us to lie to you here."

"A man!" Li Cai was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and shouted: "Where is he hiding? Take me to see him immediately!"

Forced by Li Cai, Chen Qiu's personal soldiers could only lead the way and lead Li Cai to the front of the money treasury where Chen Qiu was hiding. Li Cai's personal soldiers quickly knocked open the door of the money treasury and rushed into the room to search. Then, with the light of the torch, Li Cai, who was carrying a sword, also quickly saw that Chen Qiu, who had disappeared before, had indeed brought his several of his confidant soldiers behind a large number of cash boxes!

At this moment, Li Cai couldn't help laughing out loud, and laughed loudly with great sorrow and anger: "All man! What you did!"

Chen Qiu also thought that his death was not miserable enough. In extreme fear, Chen Qiu also said that Li Cai had already known the truth and shouted in despair: "General Li, don't do anything randomly! As long as you let me go, I will take you to see the right general of Chu, beg him to spare you! I will give you the same reward as me!"

"What?!" Li Cai was shocked again, and then suddenly realized and laughed wildly: "Okay! It turns out that you, a common man, deliberately avoided the army because you secretly surrendered to the thief army! I just said, how could a shameless villain like you, who is greedy for money and profit, so happy to refuse the thief army's surrender?"

With a crazy laugh, Li Cai waved his sword and shouted: "Take them down!"

Li Cai's personal soldiers rushed forward immediately and quickly killed Chen Qiu's personal soldiers who were trying to resist, and took Chen Qiu down. Chen Qiu struggled and cried, "General Li, spare your life! Please spare your life! As long as you spare me, the money here is yours, it is yours! And the rewards given to me by the right general will be given to you! All of them will be given to you!"

Li Cai didn't say anything, but just opened a sip of the cash box, revealing Qin Banliang full of Qin Banliang. Li Cai grabbed Qin Banliang, stepped forward and pinched Chen Qiu's mouth, then stuffed Qin Banliang into Chen Qiu's mouth, and shouted with red eyes: "Aren't you greedy for money? Are you greedy for money? I'm making you greedy for one, greedy for one! greedy for one!"

Chen Qiu's mouth was whimpering, and his nose and tears were gushing. He shook his head and just begged to struggle desperately. However, handfuls of copper coins were stuffed into his mouth one after another, and were stabbed into his stomach by Li Cai and his personal soldiers with the hilt of the sword until his limbs gradually stopped twitching and his stomach rose high.

On that day, Chen Qiu, the general of the Qin army's greedy for money, was so greedy that even the Taishigong could not help but record a sum of money, was killed by the money he had accumulated. The city of ​​Guangguan, which he guarded, was also captured by the young commander's army, who was as fierce as a wolf, as fierce as a tiger. The Qin army in Guanzhong had no natural danger to defend from then on. The road to the young commander's army entering Xianyang was flat, and the prosperous Guanzhong Plain was like a fat lamb, completely exposed to the butcher's swords of the young commander's army, such as the wolves and hungry tigers.
Chapter completed!