"This matter must be kept secret, the news must be blocked, and the soldiers under his command must not be allowed to know!"

At the end of January, in the camp of the Zhao army in Jiexiu (Jiexiu County, Shanxi), Li Zuoche instructed the two Simas of his cronies, and after they retreated, they only felt a headache.

"This Chen Sheng, it's really damned!"

He collected the defeated troops of the Wei State in Hedong, and finally stabilized the situation in Taiyuan and formed a confrontation with Han Xin, but at this critical moment of survival, Hengshan County, which was the rear of Taiyuan, actually dropped the chain.

Li Zuoche had just received the news that Chen Sheng, the captain of Hengshan, suddenly launched a mutiny and took control of most of the counties, including the county Zhidongyuan......

This was a fatal blow to Zhao Guo, which was already a great enemy.

Hengshan County is the area of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province in later generations, this county controls the danger of Taihang, the key to Hebei, Taiyuan is shaken in the west, and Fan Yang is shocked in the north. Ground control swallow thistle, the road leads to Heluo, there is more danger of well, it is the most convenient and only direct passage from Taiyuan to the east of Taihang, if the soldiers under his command know, it will definitely lead to the shaking of the army's heart.

But how long can they hide it? How many days? Half-moon? Once Han Shin's Ranger spies detect this news, the situation is bound to change.

Zhao State sits on six counties, can recruit nearly 100,000 soldiers, and half of it is in Li Zuocha's hands, he inherited the family's military book, knowing that Taiyuan County is easy to defend, and the enemy wants to attack, nothing more than through three roads:

One is to cross the river from Shangjun, and a large number of Qin army rangers have sneaked in sporadically from there recently, but if the brigade is a large group, it must pass through the ferry, so Li Zuoche put 10,000 people in Lishi Fortress (Lishi County, Shanxi).

The second road is Guanjuejin, also known as the Bird Mouse Valley (Lingshi Gorge), which means that the canyon is so narrow that it is difficult for the Sparrow to pass. Li Zuoche once turned over to his grandfather Li Mu described here: "The east and west mountains face each other, the north and south are a stream of water, dozens of miles, the road is dangerous and narrow, the left and right are knotted, the partial beam pavilion road, the tired stone is on the road, lingering with the rock side, or go to the water for a zhang, or five or six feet high, on the mountain Fu, down to the stream, cover the ancient Jin pass, but also in the present place of danger." ”

The east and west mountains refer to Huotai Mountain and Luliang Mountain, and the north and south rivers are the Fen River, forming a rugged and steep, tossing and turning, mountain cliff wall, and turbulent flow of water.

So Li Zuoche personally guarded 30,000 people in the boundary and blocked the pass, Han Xin wanted to take Taiyuan, and if he dared to go north from the Mouse Bird Valley, as soon as the long line appeared, it would be attacked by the Zhao army!

There is also a third way: from Shangdang County through Tunliu, Tongba to Qi and then to Weiyu, to Jinyang City, but if the Qin army wants to take this road, the premise is to eliminate the Zhao and Wei coalition forces of Shangdang with 40,000 people and capture this county. But the terrain there is not as good as the east of the river, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Wei Xiang Zhang Er has called on the Shangdang people to fight to the death, Handan, Julu Bingze through the Taihang Cheng, Bai Cheng to the party, in the local fortification.

There was a dispute about where Han Xin would fight, and some people felt that Han Xin had a three-pronged plan, the first army continued to cross the river in Shangjun to harass, the first army was stationed in Huoyi, eyeing the Mouse Bird Valley, and the first army was attacking Shangdang and wanted to break through there.

"Han Xin, this son, is good at using the technique of doubting the soldiers."

This is Li Zuoche's evaluation of Han Xin, from the Ming Dynasty plank road darkness Chen Cang, and the forced crossing of the east of the two wars, the sound of the east and the west is its forte, before the war to play a set of dazzling actions, let you divide the troops to guard, and the real killer moves, hidden in it.

"Whoever is in the battlefield first and treats the enemy, and then in the battlefield and tends to the war, so those who are good at fighting will cause others but not others, and those who can make the enemy come to themselves, will also benefit."

This is his grandfather's winning trick to win the battle of Yi'an and kill the invincible Qin general Huan Qi.

"The change of Hengshan cannot be hidden, rather than waiting for the enemy to detect and control me, it is better to lure the enemy with this."

After a long time, Li Zuoche made a decision, this was a last resort, they could have fought a protracted war, but the changes in Hengshan County broke the balance, and the Zhao army must fight quickly, otherwise the situation in Taihang and the east and west will collapse.

"Order the Lishi defenders to retreat to Jinyang, and the Jiexiu army has also made a move to the north!"

He wants to take the initiative to create a fighter for Han Xin, an easy bait to capture the Mouse Bird Valley and capture Taiyuan......

……

At the beginning of February, the withdrawal of the Zhao army in Taiyuan did attract the attention of the Qin army, and the number of Qin troops stationed in Huoyi (Huo County, Shanxi) increased significantly.

But what they didn't expect was that Zhao Jun suddenly killed a horse pistol!

Outnumbered Zhongxia, the Qin army's forward failed to resist, and it collapsed at the first touch, retreating to the valley, while the Zhao army pursued more than once, pursuing the Qin army into the Bird Mouse Valley, they fought 8 battles a day, all broken, although there were not many prisoners, but the morale was greatly boosted, and the strikers fought more and more smoothly, and continued to chase south.

Everyone in Zhao was happy, but Li Zuoche felt that something was wrong, it was too smooth, and the Qin army retreated quickly, which seemed to be a fraud.

Sure enough, as soon as the Zhao army's forward chased to the outside of the valley, it was attacked by the Qin army, and it turned out that the Qin army used the valley mouth to cover it, and only sent the forward into the valley, and the brigade was still waiting at the south entrance, waiting for work.

This time it was the turn of the Zhao army to retreat in defeat, they retreated in a hurry, and the Qin army's foot soldiers were pressing in the rear step by step!

The Zhao army has penetrated too far into the valley, more than ten miles before and after, if there is a rout, the consequences are unimaginable, this tough battle, they must win.

"Noh Win!"

Li Zuoche cheered for his subordinates: "Decades ago, the five countries were all afraid of Qin like a tiger, and they were defeated repeatedly, but Zhao and Qin fought each other, and they won and lost each other!" ”

"The siege of Handan, the desperate situation, the battle of Yi'an and the battle of Fanwu of my eldest father Li Mu have all defeated the Qin army, as well as the battle of General Zhao Hao's ......"

Even Lian Po felt that it was an irreparable battle, but Zhao Hao still felt hopeful, and finally defeated the strong enemy, shocking the world.

Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, Han, Wei, Qi and Yan were all like autumn winds sweeping away the leaves, and they did not experience any difficulties, but Zhao Chu, one north and one south, created big trouble for the Qin army.

And the Zhao people are more aggrieved and dissatisfied than the Chu people, not only the blood feud of 400,000 people in Changping, so that almost every Zhao person has a family feud with Qin, but also because the Zhao State did not die in defeat, but after winning the battle, it was plotted by the knife of the court behind him!

And today, the Zhao people, who did not admit defeat, shouted the same slogan as the battle of Yan and Yan under the command of Li Zuoche:

"A narrow encounter."

"The brave wins!"

The Zhao people shouted, holding a counterattack, the situation did not simply fall to them, and the two sides became evenly matched, and they rested until night.

In the next few days, the Qin army seemed to be iron-hearted, and constantly tried to cross the Mouse Bird Valley in the north, while Li Zuoche led the main force to deal with it, not giving an inch, and there were daily confrontations in the canyon, but they were all small-scale, and both sides had suffered losses, and neither dared to attack rashly.

It wasn't until mid-February that Li Zuoche pondered carefully and realized that something was wrong.

"Hit the mark!"

"The main general on the other side is definitely not Han Xin."

"Those who have been with us for a long time are not the main force of the Qin army!"

……

Relying on the shelter of the valley, neither side can know the full appearance of the other party's soldiers, but the Qin army relied on the reconnaissance of the rangers from Lishidu, at least they knew that the main force of the Zhao army was here, but the Qin army ......

At the south entrance of the Mouse Bird Valley, Commander Wu Guang was very happy: "Han Hou is really a clever plan, if Li Zuoche knew that the battle with his 40,000 Zhao army across the Mouse Bird Valley was inseparable, and there were only 20,000 people Dong Jun and I carrying, wouldn't he be angry to death?" ”

Although the number of people is small, they are not afraid at all, the Mouse Bird Valley is a natural danger for both the north and the south, no matter which side, even if there is a military advantage, but to force through the canyon, the first time to invest less troops than the other party, even if they desperately move forward, these dozens of miles of canyon are enough for the two sides to fight for half a month, and that, is what the Qin army wants to see......

What's more, behind him is a steady stream of support from Hedong, and the infant irrigation department, which has already gained a firm foothold in Lishi, is also a horn with them.

Dong Peng felt a little aggrieved: "The Xihe Army doesn't want to fight this kind of battle. ”

They slaughtered 20,000 Wei soldiers, but they may not believe it, although the Zhao people and the Qin people did have a deep blood feud, but under the restraint of Li Zuoche, the Xihe city occupied by the Zhao army, although there were atrocities such as looting and killing, but it was not massacred.

Wu Guangshao couldn't help but comfort Dong Fei: "When Li Zuoche notices, Han Hou has broken the army of Shangdang Zhao and Wei, and walked behind him and annihilated the main force of the Zhao army!" ”

After that, he was able to get in touch with Chen Sheng, an old friend of Hengshan County......

It turned out that when Han Xin learned that the Zhao army in Taiyuan had "retreated", he had seen through this trick.

But since Li Zuoche was anxious for a decisive battle out of the change of Hengshan, then Han Xin would plan and use a partial division to drag the Taiyuan Zhao army in the Mouse Bird Valley, and he quickly attacked the Shangdang, and after the victory, he went north, and Dong Fei and Wu Guangbu outflanked Li Zuoche, and the first battle was set to the west of Taihang.

This is Han Xin's goal, and it is also the opinion of the "Northern Theater Staff" that Heifu equipped him.

However, this optimistic attitude of "the first war is decided" was shattered three days later.

The harassment launched by the Qin army from the valley was still frequent, but the Zhao army still fought back violently at first, but the further back, the more powerless it became, until mid-February, the Qin army's forward was almost at the mouth of the valley, and still did not encounter a single Zhao pawn, and the former barrier in the valley was empty.

When they arrived at the north entrance of the canyon, they were confronted by the Infant Irrigation Department's rangers and informed of the latest results.

"Li Zuoche, retired from the army!"

……

"It's not too late to wake up, but even if Li Zuoche retreats, he can only protect himself, and he can't keep the party."

In late February, when he learned of Li Zuoche's retreat from the Mouse Bird Valley, Han Xin was standing on a pass in Shangdang County, which was the entrance to the Changzhi Basin and the garrison of the Zhao army, which supported Shangdang, and was now occupied by him.

The narrow valley under the pass, and the two ancient barriers in the valley, became a cage for the prisoners.

It was a beautiful siege and annihilation battle, enough to go down in history.

Forty thousand Zhao people and Wei people squatted or stood, huddled together, and after Han Xin got Heifu several times to increase their troops, as many as 60,000 Qin troops watched, they raised their heads, unwilling and frightened to wait for the victor to fall......

Han Shin also knew why they were afraid.

In this valley, there are countless clusters of arrows and broken halberds, which the locals have been picking up for decades, and if you carry a hoe and dig a few feet down, you may be able to dig up a lot of white bones!

Han Xin knew that this was a knot tied by a senior soldier more than fifty years ago, a dead knot called "Changping"!

The national fortunes of Qin and Zhao are completely bifurcated here!

It's really like fate, Han Xin couldn't help but sigh:

"What was Wu Anjun thinking when he faced the Zhao State troops who were ten times more than this?"

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PS: The second chapter is in the evening.