Following the example of the Mongolian Khan expelling enemy prisoners to attack the city, Xiang Kang had been so cruel that he had been in a day or two. As early as the Ningqin battlefield, Xiang Kang had already started to make arrangements and was preparing to do such unconscientious and unethical things.

As for why we use any means, there are two reasons. First, Hangu Pass is too important for the Young Marshal's Army. If we don't take it back in one day, we won't be able to find peace in Guanzhong every day. Although the terrain of Hangu Pass is destined to be much easier to attack from west to east, the sooner we can get it back, the more peaceable Xiang Kang and the Young Marshal's Army will be, right? If you use some vicious means, it will naturally not be enough to do it.

The second reason is that Qi general Tian An had a very good reputation. In order to fight against Qin Daye, he did not hesitate to give up his official position and rebel from Qi. He led his troops to Xiang Yu to lead the way for the Chu army to reinforce the Julu battlefield. He made a name for righteousness all over the world. Even Xiang Kang himself actually admired him quite a bit. The Young Marshal's Army suddenly plotted to capture him alive. Whether he was slaughtering him or detaining him, it would cause considerable damage to the Young Marshal's reputation. Therefore, Xiang Kang resolutely decided to release him unconditionally, and also targeted Tian An's weaknesses in Chongyi Ai Ming, set up a trap for Tian An, and in turn chose a moral or interest ball to Tian An, which also completely forced Tian An into a dilemma.

The effect was better than Xiang Kang hoped. Most of the captured Tian An soldiers were from Qi, and the rest were outside the pass. The captured descendants were panic and did not know how the young commander army would send them back. Seeing Tian An personally came forward to answer the Hangu Pass to exchange them back. In order to survive and return to their hometown, these prisoners of course hoped that Tian An could fulfill their promise and exchange them with Hangu Pass earlier. However, after coming outside Hangu Pass, Tian An first did not give any reply for two days, and then he flatly refused to hand over Hangu Pass in front of them. In disappointment and anger, these prisoners of war came to the west gate of Hangu Pass and shouted to Tian An to save them from them.

"Don't shoot arrows! We are our own people!"

"General Tian! General Tian! You promised to save us, why don't you keep your word?"

"Close the door quickly! We are going to return to the team! Don't shoot arrows, open and close the door quickly!"

The chaotic shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, and Tian An was sweating more and more on his forehead. He wanted to order the arrows, but he was not cruel enough, but he had to worry about the consequences of doing so. He would not shoot arrows. The young commander's army followed behind the captives of Qi State and might launch a surprise attack at any time to attack the Ximen wall of Hangu Pass. No one dared to predict the consequences. He was helpless. Tian An simply asked a few confidants next to him: "What do you think you should do? Should you shoot arrows?"

No one dared to take this responsibility, and no one said anything. Only Tianli mustered up the courage and said carefully: "General, Ci is not in charge of the troops. If the prisoners pass the moat and Xiang Kang's thief takes the opportunity to launch an attack, our losses will definitely be greater."

Tian An also understood this truth. After hesitating for a moment, he saw that the captives in Qi were less than thirty steps away from the moat. Tian An still ordered in pain: "Shoot the arrow!"

Countless feather arrows flew out of the air, roaring at the unarmed Qi army captives. In a blink of an eye, dozens of Qi prisoners were shot dead and injured. The Qi prisoners were either screaming or cursing, and were forced to turn around and escape, but the young generals who followed behind did not hesitate. They immediately shot arrows at them, roaring and forcing them to continue moving forward. The Qi prisoners had no way to advance and retreat, and the noise was shaking the sky, and many people cried loudly on the spot.

In this situation, taking advantage of the opportunity that the morale of the soldiers of Qi State was affected, the young commander army led by Zhu Jishi had already rushed to the city wall in large numbers, completely shattering the hope of Qi State's army to regain the positions on the city. It also began to use the materials and weapons left by the Qi State army to defend the city, and in turn attacked the soldiers of Qi State in the city, especially the soldiers of Qi State who focused on taking care of the Qianjin Gate. The rolling stones fell to pieces and smashed the soldiers of Qi State into blood and blood, and were constantly injured.

We have to praise the courage of the Qi general Tian An. Even though the situation was extremely critical, Tian An still refused to give up and took the initiative to withdraw from the city and organized the Qi army to prepare for street fighting. However, as soon as Tian An ordered, Tian Du, the confidant next to him, quickly grabbed him and said, "General, is it meaningful to fight like this? Not to mention that even if we insist on street fighting to the end, we may not be sure to protect Hangu Pass. Even if we barely protect Hangu Pass, our army will definitely be greatly damaged. What confidence will there be to talk to the princes outside the pass in the future?"

Tian An's lips trembled, and after a while, he said, "But if I can't defend Hangu Pass, how can I explain to Xiang Yu?"

"If we keep the army, even if we can't explain, we still have the capital to make a comeback." Tian Du said in a deep voice: "But without the army, we will be done with everything."

After saying that, Tian Du added, "Also, Xiang Yu was seriously injured, can he save his life? Even the Chu army is not sure if we fight all the troops and Xiang Yu is dead. Who will take us seriously if the princes outside the pass take us seriously? At that time, we will not have the capital to make a comeback and cannot go back to Qi. Wouldn't we become lonely ghosts?"

After all, he is a warlord in troubled times. No matter how much he pays attention to morality, Tian An must also think about his own interests and future. After hesitating for a while, Tian An could only shout: "Ming Jin, withdraw from Hangu Pass, first go to join the reinforcements of Zhao State, and then counterattack Hangu Pass!"

According to Tian An's order, Jin An quickly knocked. When Jin An heard Jin An's retreat sound. The Qi army, who could have been able to hold on for a while, were all scrambled to give up their positions and fled to the east gate, for fear that they would be caught up and killed by the young generals' soldiers. Tian An even took his personal troops and escaped from the east gate of Hanguguan and was the first to escape back to his main camp outside the east gate.

Facts proved that Tian An made an extremely wise choice. As soon as he saw the Qi army defeated, Liu Laosan, who was also stationed outside the East Gate City, made a quick decision. While taking more than 2,000 of his defeated generals, he fled eastward, and sent someone to contact Tian An with shamelessness, saying that he was taking the army to clear the way for the Qi army to go east, so as not to intersperse and detour, cutting off the retreat of the Qi and Chu coalition forces.

"Xiang Kang's bandit army interspersed and detoured? If Xiang Kang's bandit army could interspersed and detoured into the distance east of Hangu Guan, what would the six countries outside the pass and the tyrannical Qin army have fought for Hangu Pass in the past few hundred years? Did Liu Jipun treat me as a three-year-old child?"

The messenger Liu Laosan who roared and kicked him to report the news was not hesitant. Tian An immediately ordered the soldiers to load the food, grass and supplies into the vehicle, and before the young commander's army crossed Hangu Pass to start a pursuit, he immediately fled as if Liu Laosan had no idea of ​​wasting any precious time. Tens of thousands of soldiers in Qi were as anxious as frightened birds, and they just fled to the east of Shanxian County. Because of the narrow roads in the roads of the Junhan Road, the tragedy of trampling on each other and causing death and injuries occurred in broad daylight.

Although he escaped in a very embarrassing manner, because the young commander's army temporarily spared no hands to pursue him with all his might, more than 10,000 defeated soldiers in Qi rolled and crawled back to the city of Shan County, and gained some time to breathe. However, what made Tian An speechless was that Liu Laosan, who had the fastest, once again fled to the steep road east of Shan County to gather and rest, and once again seized a favorable position where he could escape at any time, forcing the Qi army to continue to resist the pursuers that Xiang Kang might have sent.

The one who made Tian An angry and crooked his nose was still behind. After fleeing to the city of Shan County, Liu Laosan actually sent an envoy to contact him, suggesting that Tian An enter the city of Shan County to lure Xiang Kang to attack Shan County, creating a chance to fight with the Young Marshal's army outside Hangu Pass for the upcoming Zhao reinforcements. Tian An, who had suffered enough losses in succession, could no longer bear it, kicked Liu Laosan's envoy over and roared: "Shaan County wants to guard you! I will retreat to Mianchi after a while. I dare to block my way. I will fight you together!"

The messenger quickly brought Tian An's reply back to Liu Laosan. Liu Laosan was not angry, but just sneered and scolded: "The short-sighted man! He doesn't want to make contributions to please Xiang Yu. He only knows how to preserve his strength. If Xiang Yu's little master recovers, the Zhao army will not be able to conquer Hangu Pass and are blocked from outside the pass. Let's see how he dealt with you, a man who lost Hangu Pass and missed the opportunity to fight!"

"Since Tian An is unwilling to station in Shan County, you don't have to force yourself." Someone next to him said, "As long as the Zhao army uses troops to achieve the right skills, even if Xiang Kang takes Hangu Pass, he will never be able to stop the Zhao army from entering the pass, and there will still be a danger of annihilation of the entire army."

It is rare to hear someone speak louder than him and Xiang Yu. Liu Laosan was curious, and of course he immediately turned his head to see the person who spoke this boldly. As a result, Liu Laosan was quite surprised that the person who said this was Han Xin, the subordinate of Wei Ji, the military supervisor sent by Xiang Yu. Then, without Liu Laosan speaking, Wei Ji immediately scolded Han Xin: "Han Xin, are you here again? Before the former general had spoken enough, he ran to Pei Gong to speak shamelessly?"

"Pei Gong, I am definitely not arrogant."

Han Xin was too lazy to pay attention to Wei Ji, but said directly to Liu Laosan: "Pei Gong, after meeting with the Zhao army, you might as well advise the Zhao general Chen Yu, and advised him to divide his army to cross the Yellow River north in Shan County, go west to Puban to cross the Yellow River again, and directly enter Guanzhong. It was less than a month since Xiang Kang took Guanzhong, and the people's hearts were not stable, and the people's hearts did not really surrender. Now he pulled all his troops to Hangu Pass, and the rear was extremely empty. It was difficult for Zhao's partial army to not overturn the hinterland of Guanzhong. It was not difficult to cut off Xiang Kang's food route. At that time, Xiang Kang's backyard caught fire and the food route was cut off, and the morale of the army would inevitably be in chaos. The main force of Zhao took the opportunity to attack Hangu Pass again, and it would be easy to capture Xiang Kang!"

Liu Laosan's military strategy is actually quite good. He just thought about it and said: "What if Xiang Kang divided his troops to guard Puban? He advanced from the road and mobilized the army must be far above the Zhao army."

"Then continue to divide the troops and send another army north to Xiayang to look for opportunities to cross the river in Xiayang!" Han Xin said firmly: "The Zhao army has as many as 130,000. Even if it is divided into three groups, it is sufficient. Xiang Kang can use only more than 40,000 troops. After repeatedly dividing the troops, it is difficult not to reveal any flaws!"

Liu Laosan didn't say anything, but said in his heart: "Is this ordinary man Zhao Kuo who only speaks big talk? Or Sun Wu and Wu Qi who was buried?"

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At the same time, outside the west gate of Hangu Pass City, in the temporary camp of the Young Marshal's Army, with a sound, Xiang Kang, who was drinking water, fell on the desk. The clear water in the bow splashed all over Xiang Kang and wet the documents on the desk. However, Xiang Kang didn't care at all, and just asked Chen Ping, who hurried to him: "Is it confirmed? The 130,000 Zhao army is on the way to Hangu Pass?"

"It can be basically confirmed." Chen Pingliang came out the Zhao army document found in the city of Guan and said, "We found it at Tian An's residence. General Chen Yu of Zhao wrote a letter to tell him that he was taking 130,000 main force of Zhao State to drive to Hangu Pass, asking Tian An to defend Hangu Pass and wait for him to come for reinforcements."

After quickly taking the letter written by Chen Yu to Tian An, Xiang Kang's face was filled with worries, and he said, "It's a problem. If the Zhao army is in a hurry to fight quickly and decide quickly, we just come directly to attack Hangu Pass, and we are still sure to deal with it. But if the Zhao army has enough patience and confront us head-on while splitting troops to attack Puban and Xiayang, we can't even cry."

"Right General, for caution, should we quickly divide our troops to defend Puban and Xiayang, and prevent it from happening?" Chen Ping suggested.
Chapter completed!