In the second year of the regency, in mid-October, in the south of Gwangyang County, on the south bank of the flowing Yishui, Han Shin was patrolling along the river.

Although it was noon, the weather was still gloomy, and the wind kept blowing from the north, which made Han Xin feel the chill of Yandi, and he couldn't help but think of a song in his mind.

"The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone......"

In the past, if someone dared to read this sentence casually, it was like an anti-poem, and they would be arrested and questioned.

But now, this world is called Daqin, and even the emperor is gone, everyone secretly says that the real emperor is actually Xia Gong, after all, he is no longer called "regent on behalf of the Son of Heaven", but has become "regent on behalf of Tian", and Jing Ke assassinated Qin in the past, you can also talk about it.

"Back then, Jing Ke said goodbye to Prince Yan Danjue and went south?"

Among the subordinates, Yan Di descended and said: "However, the prince and the guests are all dressed in white to give them away. To the top of the water, when the height gradually left the building, Jing Ke and the song, for the sound of change, the scholars wept and wept, after the song, the repetition of the feather voice, the scholars were disgusted, the crown of the fingers, and Jing Ke went away in the car, and there was no return. “

After many years, when it comes to this matter, the people of Yandi have some regrets, while regretting that Jing Ke missed, and on the other hand, complaining that because of his relationship with Qin, Yanguo was retaliated against! So far, the vitality has not recovered.

But Han Xin shook his head and said: "Bang has no good generals, but he pins the fortune of the country on the dagger in the hands of the assassin, Yan deserves to perish!" ”

And what is going to cross Yishui today is not Jing Ke, who can only let go in a desperate situation, but to destroy Zhao Zhigong and go north to unify Jizhou, the world's famous general, Huai'an Hou Han Xin!

Huai'an Hou, this is Han Xin's new title after being promoted from Guannei Hou to Che Hou, wealth does not return to his hometown, such as brocade clothes at night, the princes are all asked to take their hometown as a seal, even if there are fewer households, it doesn't matter, Han Xin is no exception, but Heifu changed Huaiyin to Huai'an on the grounds of "Yin is unlucky", so he became Han Xinhou's name.

After Xia Gong's order came, in addition to Han Xin as the marquis of Che, the generals and captains in his army were also rewarded and promoted, and the officers and soldiers in the army were all overjoyed.

To the north of Yishui, there is a rammed earth wall that stretches for hundreds of miles, and there is no end in sight, which blocks Han Xin's sight, making him unable to see the Yan land at a glance, this is the southern Great Wall of Yan - the Great Wall of Yishui.

This Great Wall was built a hundred years ago, when the Zhongshan country was strong, many times and the Yan country war, taking advantage of the rebellion of the Yan country, the king of Zhongshan sent troops to seize the southern border of the Yan country more than ten cities, occupy its territory within a radius of 100 miles, but also plundered the Yan country many property and ritual vessels, so the Yan country built the Great Wall on the north bank of Yishui, in order to defend its capital.

Later, the Great Wall became the border to defend Zhao and Qin.

It is not an obstacle for Han Xin, not to mention, after Qin Shi Huang destroyed Yan, he had sent people to dismantle part of it, and the defense function was greatly reduced. It is said that Chen Sheng, who had previously responded to Xia Gong in Hengshan County, retreated to this area after being defeated by Li Zuoche, and cooperated with Han Xin to seize Julu County.

At present, Chen Sheng has become Han Xin's vanguard, using Yanxia Capital Linyi as a base, going north to capture Zhuoxian, and fighting with the army of Han Guang, the acting king, several times, winning and losing each other. However, Chen Sheng sent someone to report that it was difficult to continue to advance northward, because in the past month, a large number of Hun cavalry had gone south from Shanggu, and the remnants of Hengshan under Chen Sheng were by no means his opponents......

Although Han Xin was ordered to go to Shangjun to defend against the Xiongnu more than a year ago, Mao Dun was very cunning, and after plundering the new Qinzhong and Biansai, he saw Han Xin's army coming, so he retreated to the royal court under the Yin Mountain, and never fought with it, so the Huns were novel and strange enemies.

The Yan Dynasty region that is about to enter is also a brand new battlefield.

But there is one person who understands the reality of the Xiongnu very well, and is good at the land of the generations, and is a good general that even Han Xin admires......

He turned around and said to Captain Zhao Yan:

"Bring Li Zuoche, I want to drink with him by the water."

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When Li Zuoche was brought, Han Xin probably had a different mentality after becoming a marquis, and he behaved very politely at the moment.

"General Han, what is this doing?"

Such enthusiasm made Li Zuoche a little uncomfortable, he had been haggard a lot in the past few months, and there was even a deep scar on his neck......

This is the mark he left by himself, in September, just when Heifu had just destroyed Chu, Li Zuoche was still struggling to resist Han Xin in Handan, and he even took the remnant Zhao 30,000 troops brought all the way from Taiyuan to defeat the attack of the Qin army, but who expected, the opposite side was not Han Xin at all......

Han Xin had already brought his own light troops to pass through Jibei and Hejian, attacked Julu, captured Zhao Wang Xie, and asked Zhao Wang Xie to write a letter to persuade Li Zuoche to surrender, promising not to kill a single person.

Knowing that the giant deer was broken and his own king became a prisoner, the remaining 30,000 Zhao soldiers in Handan were demoralized, Li Zuoche lamented a few times, and ordered his subordinates to surrender, while he himself tried to kill himself, but was stopped by his subordinates, and only cut the skin.

Since then, he has been under house arrest, and he has been constantly fish and meat every day, but Li Zuoche does not want to eat, and is often forced to pour some soup, barely surviving his life, people become thin, and the wind blows and sways, Han Xin is polite to him, and this time he went north to Yandi and took him with him.

At the moment, Han Xin said: "I want to attack Yan in the north and replace it in the west, so as to get the merit of the whole Ji, but I don't hide it from Guangwujun, because the troops are stationed everywhere, Han Xin's subordinates can be flexibly called, but there are only 30,000 pawns, and all the chariots and horses have been transferred to the south by Xia Gong. ”

Li Zuoche thanked him and said: "When you hear about the generals of the defeated army, you can't be brave, and the doctors who have lost the country can't survive." Now that I am a prisoner of ruin, how can I have enough power to do great things? ”

Han Xin shook his head and said: "Since Han Xin led the troops alone, he has only admired three people in the world. ”

"One is Xia Gong, who is really a leader in military power and strategy; the second is Wang Ben, who attaches great importance to power and strategy, and the situation; The third is Guangwu Jun, just talking about the military situation, if I were to exchange the soldiers led by you, I am afraid that I would have been captured by you. ”

This is humble, and he feels that he can defeat Li Zuoche, relying on strong national strength and overwhelming the outnumbered.

Of course, Han Xin felt that if the two of them were equal in strength......

Of course, you can still win!

"What's more, Jun's eldest father, Zhao Wu Anjun Li Mu, once broke the Huns in Yanmen, Guangwu Junze grew up in Daidi, and Hu was on the verge of being close to him.

Speaking of this, seeing that Li Zuoche was still groaning, and seemed to still have concerns, Han Xin said: "I have a question, Jun is in Taiyuan, in Hengshan, both with desperate soldiers, all must retreat, but in Handan, it is clear that I have defeated my suspicious soldiers outside the city, and I can retreat north to Hengshan, why did I give up continuing to fight and order surrender?" ”

Looking at Li Zuoche's self-killing behavior after ordering the soldiers to surrender, it was definitely not because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, or because after Zhao Wangxi was captured, he felt that Zhao was bound to die and was disheartened?

Li Zuoche drank a glass of warm wine, and finally told the truth today: "Actually, what prompted me to order the soldiers to surrender was not the letter of persuasion from King Zhao, but the news that Han Guang introduced the Xiongnu into the dynasty......"

He said of a past incident many years ago: "General Han should know that I have been living in seclusion in Daidi because of my father's affairs, and the people of the county in the era secretly mourned my father, not because he counted the affairs of the Qin army, but because of the fact that the Huns were defeated in Yanmen and the peace of Daibei." ”

"Originally, those sacrifices were strictly ordered by the Qin officials, and even destroyed several ancestral halls, until the thirtieth year of Qin Shi Huang, but an edict came......"

To this day, Li Zuoche still remembers the content of that edict:

"Fu Zhen brushes the slightest, sweeps the wind and dust, respects the Son of Heaven and Rong Di, holds the Zhu flag and flattens the Rong Court, and the strategy of meritocracy. There is a sense of going, there is no hesitation, going to a foreign land is like home, the three tribes are pitting without regrets, and the courage of the countrymen is also. ”

"Since the king of Ping moved eastward, the south Yi and the north Di Jiao, China is endless, can respect the king of Yi, Yu Rong Di invasion, for the Xia to open up the territory of the people, the merit is greater than five people: said Guan Yiwu, said by Yu, said Sima Cuo, said Qin Kai ......"

"Li Mu!"

He smiled: "I didn't expect that the name of the eldest father, which has always been forbidden to be mentioned by the people in Daibei, could appear on Qin's edict. ”

"And Qin Shi Huang also said, Wei Li Mu, the Xiongnu are still tyrannical to the north and kill the people!"

He also said that it was the merit of Jingbian in China, and it was left to future generations, and Qin Shi Huang strengthened his ambition and specially ordered the border county to set up a 'Jingbian Temple' to sacrifice it. Taiyuan, Yanmen, Daijun, and Yunzhong ancestral temples are the main sacrifices to my father, and the four o'clock sacrifices are swept away, so that they can be fed blood, and also make them see the peace of the border today, and the previous mourning is ......"

"I was just a woodcutter in Daijun at the time, and I had mixed feelings in my heart, my eldest father was loyal to Zhao all his life, but in the end, he was tricked by Wang Jian Lao'er, and was forced to death by Zhao Qian and Guo Kai, the two faint traitors. I don't miss his 20 years of travel, nor do I remember his contributions to the civil war and the Huns. never thought that in the end, it was Emperor Qin, who had been his enemy all his life, who set up an ancestral temple for him! ”

"And later, I heard that the person who proposed to build the Jingbian Temple and let my eldest father enter the shrine was the Captain of Beidi County at that time, Heifu......"

"I remembered this name, it seems that among the greedy and cruel Qin officials, there is also a good official who remembers the exploits of the eldest father."

Han Xin bowed: "That being the case, why is Brother Li anti-Qin?" ”

Li Zuoche raised his chest: "Because I am a Zhao person!" ”

"Qin's harsh government in Zhao made it difficult for the Zhao people, everyone knows it, when the soldiers rioted, they elected me as the leader, and I was free to raise things in Bairen to protect the people, as for the later participation in the restoration of Zhao State, I was able to do Guangwujun and take charge of Zhao Guotai's semi-military power, which I did not expect."

When he was promoted as the leader, there were countless pushers behind him, and things became out of Li Zuoche's control.

"As the position gets higher, what I need to consider is no longer myself, but the Zhao people who have high hopes for me, so even if it is difficult, I have to take them to survive!"

He did it, and the Taiyuan army followed Li Zuoche to Hengshan, shot Chen Sheng away, and went south to Handan, defeating Han Xin's suspicious army, and there were still 30,000 people left.

Until the last moment.

Li Zuoche said proudly: "When I was in Xihe, I said that I would not be with the Huns, and the same is true today. ”

"Qin and Zhao are by no means all the way, but if there is a Donghu person or Huns on the opposite side, in contrast, although the Qin people are greedy and vicious, they also tie their hair in a bun, wear deep clothes, eat grains, and can talk and discuss. The Hu people, on the other hand, have different customs, different diets, and language barriers, and the same generation of Northern Zhao people have a hatred of killing and plundering for generations! ”

"This enmity is worse than the Battle of Changping, and even worse than the Siege of Handan!"

"Therefore, when only facing the Qin State, I am a Zhao person, and I want to fight for Zhao."

"But when the Huns came in."

"I'm not just a Zhao person......

Li Zuoche patted his right hand and said: "I am also a person of Zhuxia and a person with a crown!" ”

……

"Han Guang lured the wolf into the room, even if I can't fight with it, but at least, I can't hold back!"

"I resisted in the south for one more day, and then let the Xiongnu go deep into the border for one day, and their ferocity was ten times that of the Qin people."

"This great mountain and river, rather than being trampled on by the Huns, it is better to give Heifu to go, at least General Han did not kill Zhao prisoners, and Heifu, Xia Gong, since he can set up an ancestral hall for my eldest father, he should be able to distinguish between right and wrong! I don't want to become Yan Zhao's sinner because of my stubbornness. ”

Hearing Li Zuoche's words, Han Xin's eyes were blazing, he got up and raised the bottle, and toasted Li Zuoche:

"Great! The people of Zhuxia, under the leadership of the Duke of Xia, are unanimous to the outside world, and they should be a big white! ”

"So, Brother Li will help me, help me collect the Yan Dynasty, and the Huns will expel it!"

Li Zuoche didn't speak, just stood up and drank with him, which was a tacit acquiescence:

"If the general can appease the Zhao people, supplemented by those Zhao pawns who were captured and detained in Julu to repair the city wall, and promise to let them regain their freedom afterwards, I am willing to say it for the general, let them serve with all their hearts, take Guangyang County in Yandi, and recover Jicheng, it will be easy."

This is the reason why Han Xin courteously treats Li Zuoche, this person has a high status in the hearts of Zhao people, far surpassing Zhao Xie!

Unexpectedly, Li Zuoche said again: "But if you want to quickly replace the land and expel the Huns, it is very difficult." ”

"Brother Li thinks I have few soldiers?"

Han Xin said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Brother Li, Duke Xia has destroyed the Chu State, and the army has gone north, and now it has arrived in Ye County, and will enter the Zhao land." ”

"Otherwise, if you use troops in Daibei, the more soldiers you have, the more troublesome it will be." Li Zuoche shook his head and said:

"The Duke of Xia destroyed the Chu State, and the general only took Zhao Land, so it is difficult to use it. If Xia Gong wants to raise tired soldiers, the north into the Daidi, Yanshan, the north of the sentence note, the land is vast and sparsely populated, by no means Yan Zhao can be compared, if you want to fight, it may be difficult to find traces of the Huns, but will cover it up for the back, the situation is aggrieved, the food is exhausted, once the heavy snow comes, the army can do nothing? I'm afraid there will be a risk of breaking the army and killing the generals. ”

"What's more, Daibei has many mountains and hills, Manyan belongs, plains and vast fields, and where this chariot rides, the infantry is not one in ten. The Huns were born in a bitter cold place, fed on meat and cheese, tired from wind and rain, hungry and thirsty. With the shortness of mid-summer and the length of hitting the Huns, it is unwise! ”

"Therefore, this battle must not be fought in winter!"

Han Xin felt that Li Zuoche's words were exaggerated, and said optimistically:

"But Gong Xia has already gone north, and the three armies have the same hatred for the enemy, let me command, and if Brother Li gives advice, I will definitely be able to repel the Huns."

"The general only saw one, but not the other." Li Zuoche gave his hand, and Han Xin's courtesy over the past few days made him a little moved, and he said his heartfelt words.

"In my opinion, the reason why Xia Gong went north immediately after destroying Chu was that in addition to exterminating the Huns, there were two reasons."

"Oh? Brother Li doesn't leave the house, but he knows what Xia Gong thinks? I would like to hear about it. ”

Li Zuoche pointed to the east with one hand: "First, it is the two Liao's 'Fusu'." ”

pointed to Han Xin again:

"Second, it's General Han!"

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PS: There is only one chapter today.