Chapter 43 Night attack on Chencang

Author: Magic Prince

Chapter 43 Night attack on Chencang

It is already autumn, the north wind is blowing, the branches and leaves are turning yellow, and the eyes are filled with a sense of desolation.

Xiang Yu stood on the hillside and looked far into the distance. He had a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery. In the distance there was a large winding river called the Wei River. There was a small river on it called the Qianhe River. There was a city at the intersection of the two rivers, called the Wei River.

Chen Cang.

The terrain near Chencang is complex. To the south is the Taibai Mountain, the remnant of the Qinling Mountains. Near Chencang City is the Weihe Graben Valley. To the northwest is the platform area where the Longxi torsional structure is inserted. Proper use of the terrain can achieve twice the result with twice the result. Xiang Yu also observed

The terrain, while planning the attack route in mind.

It was getting late, and the sun was setting in the west, leaving a red ray of light at the junction of the sky and the earth. Xiang Yu stood there for a long time without saying a word.

"General Xiang, what are you thinking about?"

Xiang Yu turned around and saw that the person speaking was the deputy general beside him. After thinking about it for a while, Xiang Yu replied: "It's nothing, I just saw the setting sun and recalled some old things."

"Oh, I didn't expect General Xiang to be so sad at such a young age." The deputy general also cast his gaze on the afterglow of the setting sun that was about to completely dissipate. "The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it's almost dusk!"

Xiang Yu couldn't help but frown slightly after hearing this. "I didn't expect you to be quite culturally accomplished and be able to say such poetic words."

"I just read some loose books when I was young. I can't say I know much. But I really envy General Xiang for not only possessing extraordinary martial arts at such a young age, but also being able to distinguish between rewards and punishments, and being proficient in marching formation strategies, so sometimes

I was wondering, who did General Xiang learn from?" the adjutant said.

Xiang Yu originally wanted to say that he inherited the Xiang family's ancestral skills, but suddenly he remembered that his uncle Xiang Yan had left him for more than four hundred years. "I just followed the way of heaven."

After speaking, Xiang Yu said nothing more, and only asked his adjutant to order the soldiers to rest early, and the whole army would march before dawn.

Although the adjutant still had many doubts in his heart, seeing that Xiang Yu did not want to elaborate, he accepted the order and retreated.

Xiang Yu sighed deeply and whispered to himself in the distance towards where the sun was setting. "It is hard to violate the laws of heaven. Even if it is as powerful and brilliant as the sun, it will sometimes rise and set, and sometimes it will be obscured by dark clouds and haze."

When the sun is covered, there is also the season of hiding in autumn and winter.”

Xiang Yu's sigh was actually lamenting his past life experience. Even if he was as invincible as he was at that time, and his light was as dazzling as the sun, there would still be times when things went downhill.

When the sun went down, he couldn't bear to return to Jiangdong and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback, just like he couldn't bear the long darkness that would usher in after the sun set.

But now after hundreds of years of experience, Xiang Yu finally understands a truth. Whether the sun rises or sets, or the ups and downs of life, they are all part of the way of heaven. In life, one must be able to withstand the glory of the peak of glory.

You must also be able to withstand the pain of underestimating disappointment. After enduring the trough, it is like the sun going through the long night and autumn and winter, and finally rises again and returns to the earth in spring.

It's just that for Xiang Yu, this period of darkness lasted a little too long. It has been more than four hundred years, and now he has the opportunity to rise slowly like the morning sun again.

Before the ugly hour was over in the middle of the night, Xiang Yu awoke the soldiers from their sleep and ordered the entire army to prepare quickly. Xiang Yu asked the soldiers in the flickering firelight in the dark night: "Why do you join the army? For the country? For the family.

?For yourself? For the world?"

The soldiers were well prepared and stood on the mountain road. Xiang Yu stood in the center, his voice loud and clear. "They are all, and they are not! In order to survive, the Qiang people are rebelling. Han Sui and others took advantage of the situation to conspire with the thieves and lead the army.

The army is pressing down on the territory, looting wantonly, doing bad things, threatening the three auxiliaries, and the officers and soldiers are retreating steadily. Why? Their hearts are not strong enough, their ambitions are not strong enough. Today is the time for us to make achievements. Let me see your courage and

Courage!"

After Xiang Yu finished speaking, he heard the surrounding soldiers shouting in unison: "Kill the enemy to serve the country and make contributions!" The momentum was very shocking.

Seeing that his words had an effect, Xiang Yu took the lead in mounting his horse and ordered two thousand soldiers to descend from the mountain under the starry night.

Xiang Yu took the lead, riding the black horse given to him by Dong Zhuo, Galloping Thunder, and ran at the front. In the dark night, two thousand soldiers and horses, carrying like tigers down the mountain, rushed straight towards Chencang City.

Chencang City is located on the other side of the Wei River. There is a wooden bridge on the river. Han Sui usually did not station heavy troops on the bridge. Even if there were heavy troops guarding it, in the dark night, when the elite cavalry led by Xiang Yu rushed forward, there was no resistance at all.

of power.

Xiang Yu came with his whip raised, and raised his thunder gun in his hand to pierce the chest of a Qiang soldier guarding the bridge. Blood immediately spurted out from the huge hole in his chest to the front and back. Xiang Yu raised his hand again, and another Qiang soldier was guarding the bridge.

The soldier's head was cut off in half.

Seeing that something was not going well, the soldiers guarding the bridge rushed to the nearby beacon tower to light a fire to notify the garrison in Chencang City. However, the thunder from Xiang Yu's crotch was as fast as lightning. Even if he was given the slightest chance, he was stabbed with a spear.

He was stabbed directly and flew several meters away. A large mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth. His body twitched a few times and stopped moving.

The remaining defenders were so frightened that they dared to resist. They abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in panic. Xiang Yu occupied the wooden bridge over the Wei River and ordered people to take over the nearby beacon tower to prevent the defenders from taking the opportunity to light the beacon.

tower.

Xiang Yu continued to lead the entire army towards Chencang City. When they arrived outside Chencang City, Xiang Yu found that there were also some Qiang and Han rebels stationed outside the city. One camp was mainly composed of Qiang people, and the other camp was mainly composed of Qiang people.

Mainly Han people.

The initial rebellion was led by the Qiang people, but as Han border officers such as Bian Zhang and Han Sui joined and even became rebel leaders, more and more Han people from Xiliang also joined the rebellion. These Han people

Many of their ancestors have lived at the junction of Qiang and Han for generations, so many of them are Han and Qiang mixed ancestry. Coupled with hundreds of years of cultural collision and integration, these Han people are very similar to the Qiang people in terms of lifestyle and personality. Therefore,

As the size of the rebel army grows, more and more people join the rebel army.

In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on these Han rebels for being unpatriotic. After all, the climate has been abnormal in recent years, the living environment has become increasingly harsh, the emperor has become incompetent, and the eunuchs, relatives, and local powerful nobles have exploited and oppressed ordinary people at all levels, which is no longer as violent as the previous dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty was even more violent than the Qin Dynasty in some respects, so by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, rebellions were occurring all over the country, and the rebellion itself had the same contagious effect as an infectious disease, leaving more and more people who could not survive.

Don't choose to join the rebellion.

Of course, in order to quell these local rebellions, the emperor could only delegate the power of army recruitment and administration to local powerful people. Even if these rebellions were suppressed in the end, the central government basically lost its ability to directly control local powerful people and warlords. The emperor's

Power has also been emptied step by step, and it has gradually become a puppet.
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