In fact, after the Qin army in Wancheng was forced to put down their weapons and surrender, it was not only Song Yang and his dozen of his personal soldiers who were brainwashed by the Qin court. They also had serious escape from war or homesickness. The Qin army's surrendered soldiers were quite serious. Every night, dozens of people fled at night. However, these people were humble and not like Song Yang. After they ran away, they had to leave a letter to insult Xiang Kang, so the impact was not that serious.

However, these escaped Qin soldiers soon discovered that they had taken a vain. As soon as the situation in Wancheng stabilized, Xiang Kang issued a clear order allowing the Qin soldiers who had put down their weapons to surrender to choose their own way out, willing to leave behind the hands of joining the Young Commander's Army to welcome them, and those who were unwilling to leave were sent to dry food to go there.

Originally, he was worried that the Young Marshal's Army would force him to continue joining the army, and he might be forced to raise his butcher knife to his Qin compatriots in the future. He never expected that Xiang Kang would be so kind and generous. So after hearing this order, more than 7,000 Qin soldiers who surrendered with weapons were immediately shocked and were extremely grateful to Xiang Kang. Then, although most of the Qin army surrendered soldiers chose to collect dry food and return home, the Young Marshal's Army's strict military discipline and Xiang Kang's magnanimity were soon taken to various places in Xianyang by these Qin army surrendered soldiers, and even brought them into the Guanzhong Plain, which caused a lot of response.

Of course, Xiang Kang had no choice but to let others go so pretentiously. As mentioned earlier, because he was ruled by the Qin court for decades, the local people in Nanyang had generally recognized their identity as Qin people and were deeply hostile to the six countries outside the pass. If Xiang Kang forced the Qin army in Nanyang to join the Young Marshal's Army, no matter how they were dispersed and reorganized, it would be difficult to digest all these Qin soldiers. It is also very likely to affect the unity and combat effectiveness of the Young Marshal's Army and become a hidden danger within the Young Marshal's Army. Therefore, Xiang Kang could only learn from a certain party and would rather let the tiger go back to the mountain than to force the surrendered soldiers to fight for their own army.

Fortunately, the deliberate means of softness were quite effective. After various means of winning people were used, the local people in Nanyang were still greatly reduced in hostility towards the Young Marshal's Army. At the beginning, poor people took the initiative to join the Young Marshal's Army to make a living. At the same time, the Nanyang city around Wancheng also surrendered voluntarily under the persuasion of the Qin army surrendered officials. Li County in the north first sent a surrender sign, and then Yangcheng and Yu County also took the initiative to surrender. Then Deng County (Xiangfan), who had a very important strategic position, also surrendered under the persuasion of Lu Qi's letters, and closed the southern gate of Nanyang for the Young Marshal's army.

During this period, Qi Ji was afraid of being alone and his daughter Qi Min repeatedly persuaded her, and she took the initiative to ask for the introduction of the Young Marshal Army, and gave up her unrealistic dream of continuing to be unique. Xiang Kang generously named Qi Ji as the governor of Nanyang County and asked him to help Lu Qi to manage Nanyang for him. It was also worthy of Qi Ji. However, behind her, Qi Ji still complained more than once, "It turns out that a girl is extroverted. I really didn't expect my daughter to help outsiders like this."

In addition, after adopting Zhang Liang's suggestion, Xiang Kang also selected a commander named Ren Kai from the Young Commander's army, and asked him to lead three thousand new and old troops back to Ye County to station, guarding the northern gate of Nanyang, without giving the Qin army a chance to calmly go south to the hinterland of Nanyang. At the same time, he sent people north to inquire about the news and learn about the current situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains, so as to seize the opportunity to advance to Wuguan.

The distance is far away, the road is neither smooth nor dangerous. Of course, it is difficult for the young commander army to go north to inquire about the news to send news quickly. On the contrary, Danshui, on the west side, first heard the news, saying that the Danshui Qin army rejected the young commander army's persuasion, and beat the young commander army's envoy to surrender out of the city. Xiang Kang was furious when he heard the news and immediately summoned the young commander generals to discuss sending troops to retaliate, and planned to personally lead the main force to attack the ignorant Danshui Qin army.

Uncle Zhou stopped Xiang Kang's decision and persuaded: "The Right General, the main force of ours for a county town is to kill chickens, which is too waste of our military strength and food. At present, Zhucheng, Nanyang, has just surrendered and surrendered, and people are unstable. Our main force should continue to be in charge of Wancheng. In case, in Danshui, we only need to send a partial army to attack."

Considering the current situation in Nanyang, Xiang Kang quickly adopted Uncle Zhou's suggestion and decided to send Uncle Zhou and Li Shang to lead 8,000 troops to attack Danshui. He also casually tried Uncle Zhou's ability to command troops alone for great use in the future. Then the next day, Xiang Kang was extremely glad that he adopted Uncle Zhou's suggestion, because Ren Kai, who was in the north to Ye County defense, suddenly sent someone to report that 10,000 Qin troops had arrived south from Xiangcheng to Kunyang and might launch an attack on Ye County.

Fortunately, she was confused afterwards. Xiang Kang asked strangely: "Why did so many violent Qin troops appear in Yingchuan? We have already wiped out more than half of the violent Qin main force of Yingchuan, and our territory has basically been destroyed. How could we organize so many troops so quickly?"

"Can it be the partial division of the tyrant Qin coming from the Central Plains battlefield?" Chen Ping analyzed: "Count the time, we must have known about the news that we entered the hinterland of Nanyang. Zhang Han and Wang Li must have known about it for a long time. They are also likely to mobilize troops to go south to reinforce. This tyrant Qin army may have been sent by them."

"If this is true, this is an opportunity for us to directly grasp the situation of the Central Plains." Xiang Kang calculated and quickly ordered: "Give Ren Kai the order and ask him to send more details on the situation of the tyrannical Qin army. In addition, we will temporarily move our food and supplies into Wancheng to hoard them so that our main force can go north to reinforce Ye County with light loads."

According to Xiang Kang's order, the soldiers of the Young Marshal's Army quickly moved most of the food and grass into the city to stock up. Then Xiang Kang left behind Zheng Bu, a veteran general of the Young Marshal, to lead 6,000 troops to defend the city to protect the food and grass, and personally led the main force of the Young Marshal's Army to reinforce Ye County, preparing to kill the Qin army from the south and eliminate hidden dangers on the northern front, so as to avoid the fire in the rear when the Young Marshal's Army entered Wuguan, and also took the opportunity to understand the current situation on the Central Plains battlefield.

When the troops arrived at Yangcheng, Ren Kai sent someone to contact Xiang Kang again and reported the general situation of the Qin army coming to the south. It turned out that just like Chen Ping's suspicion, the Qin army suddenly moved south to the south as the army that Zhang Han drew to reinforce from Ao Cang. The main general was Qi Ben, the deputy general of the Qin army, and also said that the Qin army had already moved south from Kunyang and was preparing to launch an attack on Ye County. Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard the news and immediately ordered the entire army to move forward quickly, requiring the army to travel two days a day and to arrive in Ye County before the evening of the next day.

Xiang Kang's decisive decision successfully killed the Qin army and caught him off guard. The next day approached the evening, when the main force of the Young Marshal's Army suddenly came to the vicinity of Ye County, he never dreamed that the main force of the Young Marshal's Army would come so quickly. The Qin army, who was still cutting down trees to build siege weapons, suddenly became panic and fled back to the camp to hide. Xiang Kang, who had successfully bitten the Qin army, was not in a hurry to launch an attack. He just asked the army to set up a camp to rest, and sent envoys to the enemy camp to submit letters of war, and asked the Qin army to fight to the death the next day.

Qi Ben gritted his teeth and agreed to a decisive battle with the Young Marshal's Army. However, as soon as the envoy of the Young Marshal's Army left, Qi Ben immediately secretly gathered the army and led the army out of the camp after half of the second update that night to launch a sneak attack on the main camp of the Young Marshal's Army, trying to take advantage of the opportunity of the Young Marshal's Army's exhaustion from afar and catch the Young Marshal's Army off guard.

Unfortunately, Xiang Kang, who was good at stealing, had been wary of Qi Ben's actions, and ordered the young generals to not disarm their armor when they rested and not leave their weapons. At the same time, he arranged a large number of secret whistles to lurk around the camp. In addition, he went to Lingye County to send troops immediately when he found that the main camp was attacked and took advantage of the situation to attack the Qin army camp. Therefore, the Qin army had just touched the camp near the young generals' camp, and the young generals' secret whistle immediately issued a signal and alert. The young generals who were always preparing for war also immediately stood up to assemble. The young generals in Ye County also immediately assembled and left the city to attack the Qin army camp.

Xiang Kang's full preparation turned the Qin army's opportunistic tricks into being backfired. Qi Ben, who was still experienced, did not retreat in a hurry and did not give the Young Marshal's Army a chance to immediately launch troops to pursue. However, after seeing the Young Marshal's Army in Ye County taking the opportunity to send troops to attack his camp, the Qin soldiers were still shaken and began to panic. Xiang Kang also took the opportunity to urge the army to go out to fight back and start a night melee with the Qin army.

The battle situation was completely one-sided. After more than a year of war, the Zhang Han Corps, the Qin Army, which was mainly composed of prisoners in Mount Li, had been exhausted in repeated tug-of-wars. They had never seen hope of going home, and it was difficult to gain actual benefits in the war. The fighting will declined very seriously. However, the Young Commander Army was completely the opposite. They had always relied on various shameless means to fight with the wind, and they could also get various rewards through the war, gaining a lot of money and water. The morale was always high, and they had an advantage in their mentality and military strength. Therefore, it took less time to kill the Qin army and fled.

After the defeat, the Qin army still dreamed of returning to the camp to protect themselves, but when they were chased by the main force of the Young Marshal's Army and fled outside the camp, the Young Marshal's Army in Ye County had taken advantage of the situation and rushed into the Qin army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Qi Ben could only flee directly to Kunyang with the defeated soldiers. The main force of the Young Marshal's Army pursued him closely and completely defeated the Qin army in the pursuit battle, captured quite a lot of prisoners, and pursued them until Tiansequanming before he withdrew his troops.

After winning, Xiang Kang was too lazy to pay attention to how many military weapons he had robbed and how many gains he had gained. He just took all the civil and military officials of the Qin army captured at the first time, and asked Chen Ping to take the civilian officials of the Young Marshal's Army to interrogate them separately to understand the current situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains. Then in the afternoon, Chen Ping returned to Xiang Kang with a large stack of confessions and said, "Right General, I have asked almost the question. The official has sorted out and made a summary. Please check it out."

Xiang Kang nodded, first praised Chen Ping, then took the summary of confessions compiled by Chen Ping himself, and then only saw the first sentence. Xiang Kang widened his eyes and said in surprise: "The tyrannical court asked Zhang Han and Wang Li to unify the army? Let Zhang Han be responsible for the front battlefield and Wang Li be responsible for the two wing battlefields of Sanchuan County. Is this news reliable?"

"Reliable, all the prisoners are told this." Chen Ping replied: "Qi Ben's tyrant Qin army had just entered Yingchuan from Ao Cang. Wang Li gave him a message and told Qi Ben the decision of the tyrant Qin court to change it to obey his orders and command. For this matter, Qi Ben was sending people to contact Zhang Han, and was delayed for some time on the road. The matter was very big, so many of Qi Ben's subordinates knew about it."

"The tyrannical court is crazy?" Xiang Kang said in even more surprise: "The front line is so tight that they actually have to divide the troops outside the pass into two and mess up their commands?"

"If the subordinates are not mistaken, it should be the right general that the divisive strategy you used when you went south from the White Horse." Chen Ping smiled and said, "The tyrant court was suspicious of Zhang Han's common man, but was afraid of forcing Zhang Han to rebel, so he slowly took away his military power and prepared to let Wang Li replace him." (See Chapter 186 of this book)

"If this is true, it won't take long before the Central Plains battlefield will be able to decide the outcome, and we will win!"

Xiang Kang came to the conclusion and quickly went to see the summary of confessions sent by Chen Ping. Only then did he realize that his cousin of the overlord did not stare at Zhang Han's flood defense line stupidly. He retreated rationally for the time being and confronted Zhang Han. At the same time, he sent troops to attack Shangdang, successfully cutting off the connection between the main force of the Qin army and the Qin army in northern Shanxi. The new conquered troops of the Qin army were all handed over to Wang Li by the Qin court. Zhang Han, who was on the front line, had not received any military supplies, and Wei Bao took the opportunity to raise the Wei flag again in Wei territory and other situations in the Central Plains.

It was still when Xiang Kang finished reading the information and put down the bamboo slips to calculate, Chen Ping spoke again and said to Xiang Kang hesitantly: "There is another thing that the right general, because it is impossible to confirm, I did not write it on the bamboo slips. According to the instructions of Qi Ben, the king of our Chu State, Xiong Xin, seemed to have issued an order, saying that it was against Qin Yishi, whoever could lead the army to enter Guanzhong first will be named the King of Guanzhong."

"The one who entered Guanzhong first is the king?" Xiang Kang felt a stern, and he quickly raised his head and asked, "Where did the servant hear the news?"

"He heard from the envoys who contacted Qi Ben." Chen Ping replied: "This time Qi Ben led his army south. Because of the difficulty in collecting food and grass along the way, he stopped the food when he arrived in Yingyin and was forced to move his troops to Yangdi to get food. He wasted a lot of time. Later, Wang Li sent someone to urge Qi Ben to go south quickly. He came forward to entertain Wang Li's envoy, and heard it during the conversation. But according to his confession, Wang Li's envoy was also heard from others, so he dared not confirm whether it was true or false."

"If this is true, my prince may be jealous of me." Xiang Kang said coldly.

Chen Ping did not dare to provoke the relationship between Xiang Kang and Xiang Yu, so he closed his mouth and did not answer the words. After Xiang Kang had calculated for a while, he quickly made up his mind and said: "The tyrannical Qin army has been defeated and the supply of food and grass is difficult. Qi Ben's defeated soldiers must not dare to stay in Kunyang and wait for death. There is no need for us to waste time. Let our soldiers rest for two days, and then immediately withdraw to Wancheng."

As Xiang Kang expected, the next day, news came from Kunyang that Qin general Qi Ben had already led the defeated general to retreat north and fled to the hinterland of Yingchuan. Xiang Kang no longer delayed it. After instructing Ren Kaijin to guard Ye County, he soon went south with his main force lightly and returned to Wancheng to continue commanding the overall situation.

As soon as he returned to Wancheng, new good news came soon. Uncle Zhou, who was advancing westward to attack Danshui, not only easily captured the city, but also successfully persuaded Wang Ling, another anti-Qin Yi army in Danshui to accept the acquisition of the Young Marshal's Army. At the same time, in addition to Xixian, the remaining Nanyang County towns also sent surrender. Xiang Kang was very happy when he heard the news. In addition to ordering Uncle Zhou to move his troops to attack Xixian, he immediately started preparing for the Western Expedition to Wuguan.

During this period, Xiang Kang also summoned Zhang Liang alone and handed Zhang Liang the information he collected on the battlefield in Ye County to Zhang Liang to watch, solicit Zhang Liang's opinions on the advance of his own army to Wuguan. Then he learned that the Qin court actually made Zhang Han and Wang Li disobey each other and each formed a single army. Zhang Liang immediately said: "Right General, the time for you to enter Wuguan is ripe. Not to mention that the tyrant Qin army has been divided and chaotic, Zhang Han may suffer a crushing defeat at any time. Even if you enter Wuguan at this time, the tyrant Qin court will draw the tyrant Qin army under Wang Li's command back to Guanzhong for rescue, Zhang Han will be defeated immediately. At that time, the army of princes takes advantage of the victory to advance to Hangu Pass. Wang Li will be unable to take care of the head and tail, and he will definitely be defeated."

Seeing that Zhang Liang, who was good at strategy, also believed that the time to enter Wuguan was ripe, Xiang Kang certainly did not hesitate anymore and immediately began to mobilize the army, officially made public the strategic plan of the Young Commander's army to enter Guanzhong, so that the young commander's army soldiers would be mentally prepared, make various promises to boost morale, and satisfy the habits of this era. He carefully selected a zodiac auspicious day and decided to send troops westward on the 25th day of the first lunar month to officially advance to Wuguan.

The plan did not change quickly. On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, the little girl Qi Min suddenly ran to Xiang Kang. She first asked Xiang Kang what she was going to set off the day after tomorrow. After getting Xiang Kang's accurate reply, the little girl mustered up the courage and blushed and asked to go to war with Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang was moved by her shy appearance. She first let the personal soldiers in the tent go out, and then she skillfully pulled the little girl Qi Min into her arms. She was familiar with her and took advantage of her. She asked with a lewd smile: "What must you do with me to Guanzhong? Are you reluctant to leave me and want to be by my side at any time?"

Trying to hold Xiang Kang's claws swimming in his underwear, Qi Min's face had long been red to the base of her neck, but her mouth was very tough, and she said angrily: "Who can't bear to leave you? I have never been to Guanzhong and want to go to Guanzhong to see the scenery there."

"That's it." Xiang Kang smiled even more lewdly and said, "If you can't bear to leave me, I can take you with you. If you just want to go to Guanzhong to see the scenery, then you should wait in Wancheng. When I enter Guanzhong, you will ask you Aweng to send someone to Guanzhong to see the scenery."

"Then I won't go."

Qi Min struggled, and stood up in anger to leave, but unfortunately Xiang Kang hugged her very tightly. Qi Min not only struggled but also was touched and kissed by Xiang Kang, taking countless advantages. Unfortunately, just as Qi Min's body slowly became soft, the voice of the captain Xu Ji suddenly came from outside the tent, "Report to the right general, Ren Kai and Ren Duwei sent someone to send a former general's messenger from Ye County, saying that he had a letter from the former general and would submit it to you in person."

"I finally remembered to contact me on my own initiative." Xiang Kang snorted coldly and said casually: "Take him here."
Chapter completed!