Chapter 65
Sima Nuo, the commander of Xingyang County, was fully dressed and inspecting defense at the city wall.
Two hours ago, the sky-storming smoke suddenly rose from Ao Mountain. According to the agreement between Ao Cang Order and the five cities, once the wolf smoke rose from Ao Mountain, it must be attacked. The five cities of Jingyi, Suoyi, Guangwu, Chenggao and Xingyang must rush to help quickly. The Xingyang Order did not dare to be negligent, so he immediately lit up more than a thousand old and weak people and rushed to Ao Cang.
There were not many defenders in Xingyang City. The Xingyang Order took away more than a thousand people at once, and there were only less than five hundred people left in the city. Sima Nuo immediately ordered the city gate to close, strictly ordered anyone not to go to the streets or make noise, and also drove all the civilians in the city to the top of the city and took strict precautions. Even so, Sima Nuo was still worried and still wanted to go to the city to inspect defense in person.
When Simanuo inspected outside the north gate for the fourth time, a Han army of four or five hundred people suddenly drove out on the main road outside the city.
Simanuo immediately ordered the archers on the city to prepare, then leaned out with his hand and asked, "Stop, where did you come from? Have you ever brought the guards?"
Under the city, the leader of the Han general groaned, raised a scroll of silk book in his hand and shouted: "According to the order of Lord Chen Xi, we will come to assist the Xingyang Order in defending the city. Ao Cang Order's Pass is here, so why don't you come down and check it quickly!"
"Are you from Ao Cang?" Sima Nou frowned, "Didn't you meet my master on the way?"
"Nonsense!" the general said impatiently, "I came here by a small pass, but I didn't catch it!"
"The Xingyang Order has led his army to help Ao Cang!" Sima Nuo smiled bitterly, "Aren't Ao Cang attacked? Why did you run to Xingyang instead of staying in Ao Cang to defend the city?"
"Ao Cang was not attacked!" The outsider general said coldly, "The beacon fire of Aoshan was ignited by the bandits and spies while the people were unprepared. Lord Chen Xi was worried that this was the bandits' plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain, so he ordered the general to lead his troops to Xingyang to help defend the city. That guy, I have said so much, why don't you send someone to check the defense immediately?"
Simanuo was still a little suspicious and said, "You should check the defense and shoot up the city."
"Fart!" The general of the man was furious and said, "If you want to check, send someone down as soon as possible. If you don't want to check, you can just lead the troops back to Ao Cang. If there is a mistake in Xingyang, you will only ask!" As soon as he finished speaking, the general of the man actually turned his head. It seemed that he really planned to lead the troops back to Ao Cang.
Sima Nuo's face changed drastically when he heard this. If the beacon fire in Aoshan was really ignited by the bandits and spies, and the bandits were indeed the abacus of diversion from the mountain, then Xingyang is likely to be the primary target of the bandits' attack! After all, compared with the four cities of Guangwu, Chenggao, Jingyi and Suoyi, Xingyang is the real county, and there is obviously more oil and water.
Moreover, Sima Nuo also knew that there was indeed a large number of bandits operating at the junction of Dang County and Sanchuan County. It is said that it was the remnant of Xiang Chu. If this remnant of Xiang Chu came to the territory, the five hundred old men in the city might not be able to defend it. Sima Nuo immediately said, "Oh, general, wait, please send someone down!"
The outsider will reluctantly turn back and said, "Then hurry up!"
"Okay, okay, general, please wait a moment, and then send someone down." Sima Nuo said, and quickly asked someone to hang the servant under the sect with a hanging basket. Although the servant under the sect was afraid, after getting off the city tower, he could only pluck the courage to swim across the moat, and then took the silk book from the Han general and read it. It was true that Ao Cang Lingguan was guarding him.
The little official turned around and shouted, "Sir, it's Ao Cang Lingguan's guard against you!"
Simanuo was relieved and shouted: "Hurry, hurry up, put down the suspension bridge and open the city gate!"
In less than a moment, the hanging suspension bridge fell down and the heavy city gate slowly opened. The Han general slowly entered the city with hundreds of soldiers. After passing through the city gate corridor, the Han general's mouth suddenly had an unconcealed grin. Sima No, as soon as he met the city, saw the grin on the Han general's face, and couldn't help but be stunned.
The next moment, the general suddenly laughed at the sky: "Hahaha, the military advisor's clever plan is indeed amazing!"
After saying that, the Han general said with emotion: "Thinking about Xingyang, I led tens of thousands of elite troops and attacked for several months but couldn't get in. I never thought that it would be so easy to take it down today!"
Sima Nuo was shocked and said, "You are not the guardian of Ao Cang? You, you, who are you?"
The general of the Han Dynasty smiled grimly and said, "I am Long Qi, the general of the Great Chu. When you arrive at the King of Hell, don't report the wrong person!"
After saying that, the Han general raised his sword and fell, Sima Nuo's head was thrown in the air until it flew into the air. Sima Nuo's face was still full of disbelief. General Long Qi, the Great Chu general,? How could this be possible? Didn't Long Qi kill the King of Qi in Weishui? Why did he survive again? Could it be... Long Qi was not dead!?
It’s a pity that Simano will never know the answer.
The Han general naturally could not be Long Ji, but Huan Chu, the former general of the army.
Huan Chu killed Sima Nuo with one sword, then raised his sword and shouted: "General Long Qi, the general of the Great Chu, will lead a 50,000 army to capture Xingyang by the order of my overlord. Why don't you surrender quickly?"
The old and weak Han army in the city were immediately blown up. Some of them knelt on the ground and begged for surrender, but more of them turned around and ran away.
Huan Chu did not send troops to cover up the killing, but instead sent troops to defend Xingyang City, and at the same time severely rectified the public security in the city.
Almost at the same time when Huan Chu captured Xingyang, Ji Bu and Xiao Kai also led the five hundred light troops from their troops to Guangwu and Suoyi City. At this time, the incident that happened in Ao Cang City had not yet spread, and with the letter of Ao Cang Lingguan Prevention Seal, Ji Bu and Xiao Kai also successfully opened the city gate without much effort.
About two hours later, Gao Chu and Yu Ziqi successfully attacked Chenggao and Jingyi, which were slightly far away.
At this point, all five cities around Ao Cang were attacked by the Chu army, and an extremely shocking news spread quickly in Wei: Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, led 500,000 elite troops to attack Wei, and the generals Long Qi, Fan Zeng and other five had each led 50,000 elite troops to attack the five cities of Xingyang, Guangwu, Chenggao, Jingba, and Suoyi!
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In Aocang City, Xiang Zhuang was patrolling the cellar with Wei Liao.
The two walked out of the cellar full of rice, and looked up and saw that there were towering open-air granaries all over the mountains and fields, and there were also a large number of cellars hidden underground. Such a scene was not only spectacular? Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but sigh. Just from the huge scale of Ao Cang and the massive amount of millet hidden in the warehouse, it was enough to imagine how powerful the Qin Empire was back then!
But such a powerful empire was destroyed in less than three years after Qin Shihuang's death! It's really a pity!
After careful consideration, after Qin Shihuang unified the world, he accomplished three major events that were shining in history in just ten years, but also made a fatal mistake. He formulated a large number of effective laws, but did not formulate a strict and effective system for the Qin Empire to select new kings, which led to the tragedy of the Qin Empire's death in two lifetimes!
Wei Liao, who was standing behind Xiang Zhuang, was also somewhat moved. Looking at the granary and cellars all over the mountains, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he entered Qin in white clothes.
At that time, Wei Liao was in his prime, and Emperor Ying Zheng was also in his prime. He was also very young and heroic. In order to discuss the plan to eliminate the six states of Guandong, the monarch and ministers talked with candles for four days and four nights without sleeping. He also traveled to more than 100 counties of the six counties of Qin with a car to conduct a detailed investigation of the national strength and military strength of Qin, and never let Xiao Gong Wei Yang be beautiful in the past!
When Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao were just sighing, a sudden sound of rapid footsteps came from behind.
When I looked back, I saw Qin Yu coming hurriedly and immediately bowed and reported: "General, a guest is here to visit."
Xiang Zhuang nodded and recalled Wei Liao and said, "Military advisor, Ao Cang is too big. I don't know when it will be until the end. Let's leave it to Jing Qian. Let's go back first."
Wei Liao had no doubts about it, so he immediately returned to Ao Cang Ya Office with Xiang Zhuang.
As soon as he entered the hall of the government office, Xiangzhuang saw a graceful and charming back.
The little girl turned her head when she heard the footsteps. Xiang Zhuang was stunned after seeing her Rong Bao clearly. It turned out that this little girl was the beautiful woman who was talking about Chen Xi behind him in the morning.
"It's you?" The beautiful little girl saw Xiang Zhuang clearly and was a little surprised.
The middle-aged man suddenly became alert and immediately drew his sword to block the beautiful little girl. This beautiful little girl and the middle-aged man were naturally the old Princess Wei Wuyang and her guard Dong Bo.
Seeing Dong Bo draw his sword, Qin Ji instantly drew his sword and blocked Xiang Zhuang.
More than a dozen personal soldiers guarding outside the hall hall also drew their swords and rushed in again, surrounding Wei Wuyang and Dong Bo.
Seeing that the two sides were at odds, Wei Wuyang couldn't help but sigh and said, "Dong Bo, put away the sword."
Dong Bo had no choice but to put his sword back and take back his sheath and take two steps back. Wei Wuyang then took two steps forward and bowed to Xiang Zhuang Qianqian and said, "Little woman Wei Yue, whose name is Wuyang, has seen the general."
Xiang Zhuang replied lightly and said, "General of the Great Chu, Xiang Ji, whose name is Zhuang."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiang Zhuang suddenly felt someone pulling his armor behind her back. He turned around in surprise and saw Wei Liao winking at him repeatedly, while muttering in a low voice: "General, let me speak with you."
Xiang Zhuang was confused by this old guy. He immediately sued Wei Yuewuyang and followed Wei Liao into the side hall.
As soon as he entered the side hall, Wei Liao said excitedly: "General, the Book of Rites says: A man has a 20-crowned character and a woman has a 15-crowned character. This little lady has a name, a surname and a character, which shows her noble origin! More importantly, her surname is Wei, and there are also heroes who guard her! General, this woman's identity is so precious!"
"Huh?" Xiang Zhuang suddenly said, "You mean, is she the reason Princess Wei?"
Wei Liao said: "Even if it is not the reason why Princess Wei is definitely a descendant of the royal family!"
"Hehe, this is really a place to search for something without any effort! We are looking for descendants of the old Wei royal family, so she came to her door!" After saying this, Xiang Zhuang suddenly remembered something again and frowned, "But, military advisor, this little lady is a woman. Can she order the powerful clans of Wei?"
Wei Liao rubbed his hands and smiled and said, "You are so confused. Of course, a woman cannot order the powerful Wei land. But you are a man, the general of the Great Chu, and a rare hero in the world! If you can become the son-in-law of the former Wei royal family, wouldn't you be able to come forward and order the powerful Wei land?"
"You mean, let me marry that little girl?" Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly shone.
"What, General, don't you want it?" Wei Liao stroked his long beard and said with a smile.
Chapter completed!