The Xingyang defenders and the enemy Kai, whether they were Li Yuan's personal soldiers, Li Yuan's servants, or the county officials, and the young and strong men recruited, under the leadership of Li Yuan and Ying Yushu, finally gathered their strength and handed over their trust to their companions. In this battle, they would defend this lonely city with the greatest efforts and guard their homes.

The collapse of the Qin Empire was caused by the problem at the decision-making level, and the continuous riots were the trigger. While the princes of all sizes of the anti-Qin were raising the banner that symbolized justice, they were also destroying one city after another, displaced more people and forced to join the rebel forces.

The peasant uprising, from ancient times to the present, from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, wherever the rebels went, the city turned into scorched earth, and wealth was destroyed.

This circular pattern of destruction, reconstruction and destruction continues to take place and repeat in the long history of the feudal dynasty in China. When a new dynasty is established, the history books will write the turmoil of the last years of the previous dynasty, and the so-called heroes, like stars in the sky, save the people from water and fire. When the force of resistance is suppressed, the words "thugs, bandits" and other words will be described by the swordsman. As for the truth of the facts, no one will go into delving into it.

This is the sadness of human nature. After all, there are too few officials who have recorded history like Sima Qian.

How to record historical books? Li Yuan didn’t have time to think about it. As a modern person, he just felt that my fate was in my own way, and that my husband, my own life, and his own path must of course be controlled by himself.

Li Yuan was fighting unremittingly and had the same idea as him. On this battlefield, there was another person - the thief Peng Yue.

Flanking to the northwest of Xingyang.

Peng Yue, who was excluded by Cao Shen, was also attacking the city. However, his attack was almost negligible compared to Cao Shen. Opposite to Peng Yue's army, the defense force was only a thousand people, and Fan Jia, the commander of Xingyang, was also a writer. If Peng Yue really did his best, this section of the city might not be able to be preserved.

The feint attack that did not work hard was completely different from the real fierce attack. Although Liu Bang did a very concealed job to win over the power of the princes, how could Peng Yue not know? Now Cao Shen has taken the limelight from the main attack, which has made Peng Yue's favorability towards Liu Bang decline even more.

Peng Yue also began to understand that if he really conquered Xingyang, he would have any trophy and the credit would be all the generals of Liu. It would be great that Peng Yue could get a sip of soup to drink.

After receiving the order from Cao Shen to ask for reinforcements, Peng Yue looked gloomy. Cao Shen was just a general under Liu Bang. Although he had more troops than Peng Yue, in terms of identity, those who worked for others and those who were bosses were different after all.

"But just a prison officer wants my brothers to die? Do you really think I, Peng Yue, is a three-year-old child?" Since the first meeting with Li Yuan in Daliang, Peng Yue's confidence has been declining. Every time he feels that his judgment is accurate, but the result is often helpless.

This time, the same choice was before us again.

It seemed that the city was in danger, and I don’t know what terrible trap was hidden. As long as Li Yuan was still there, there were the floating flags of Li characters and the passionate sound of war drums. Peng Yue felt nervous and nervous.

"Forget it, I don't have the same knowledge as Li Xiaozhei."

After looking up at the fierce fighting Cheng Heng unwillingly, Peng Yue decided to give up. No matter how good the Xingyang City is, for him, it is just a flower in the mirror and the moon in the water. Since Xingyang has no attachment, there is no need to stay in Liu Bang's camp. Peng Yue saw the action of Liu Bang's annexation of strange things. Instead of being annexed by Liu Bang, it would be better to take the opportunity to leave now. The war is still in a stalemate. Liu Bang could not send troops to pursue him at this time.

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North of Xingyang, Liu Bang's tent.

Wu'an Hou Liu Bang paced back and forth impatiently, and every once in a while, he sent out a messenger to inquire about the battle situation ahead. If it weren't for the snow outside, the weather was cold and the car could not pass, Liu Bang wished he could go to the battlefield to boost morale and command the siege.

"Why hasn't Ah Shen taken the city head yet? It's been two hours?" Liu Bang trusted Cao Shen's ability. Since the rebellion in Pei County, Cao Shen has always been the first to take the generals and seize the flag under Liu Bang. There is no doubt about his ability to command and combat.

"Pei Gong, don't be anxious. With Guan Ying's assistance, Jiancheng Hou's troops should enter the city at this time." In the tent, Liu Bang's close friend Lu Wan persuaded him.

Lu Wan had just escorted food and fodder to come from Sishui County. He was not very clear about the recent situation of the war in Xingyang. In his opinion, Cao Shen and Guan Ying rushed to kill each other. The city of Xingyang was empty and civil strife occurred. It was not easy to break the city. Even if the Qin general on the opposite side was more powerful, he would be a mantis arm to chariot, and would eventually end up like Yongqiu and Li You.

"Immediately, Juye Jun led his troops to leave the battlefield and retreat to the Daze!" As soon as Lu Wan finished speaking, a soldier who reported the news stumbled and ran in.

"What? Peng Yue ran away, what is he going to do?" Liu Bang was furious. On Peng Yue, the effort he spent longer than any other princes. For nothing else, he was attracted by Peng Yue's influence in the Daze area. This swamp-connected area is the most favorable main battlefield and base for Peng Yue's thief army. No matter who it is, if you want to occupy Wei territory, you must first ask whether Peng Yue agrees or not.

Being close to Peng Yue was a military strategy that Liu Bang had determined early in the morning, but he didn't expect that he would turn against him because of the attack on Xingyang this time. Liu Bang felt frustrated even after thinking about it.

"It's all because of Li thief. When he was about to enter the city, he wanted to cut off Li thief's head as a chamber pot!" More than once, Liu Bang shouted and made a vow, which shows how strong the resentment Li Yuan planted in his heart was.

"Pei Gong, Peng Yue escaped from the battlefield without authorization, and our flanks were exposed. Now that the army has not been able to attack the city for a long time, it is better to retreat first and then attack the city after the army is rectified." Zhongjuan Zhou Bo waited for Liu Bang to vent his anger and hurried forward and advised him urgently. He was familiar with military affairs and was even more worried that the weaknesses on the flanks would be exploited by the Qin army. If a general in the city had a new force and seized Cao Shen's retreat, the situation would be very bad.

"What Zhou Zhongjuan said is that our army had no results in a long battle, and the soldiers were all exhausted, but the morale in the city was high, so there was no results in this battle!" Li Shang also followed Zhou Bo to advise.

Li Shang disagreed with this forced attack on the military operation. In his opinion, among the three aspects of the right time, place and people, Liu Bang only saw the empty military force in the city, but did not take into account the changes in the climate and the difficulty of Xingyang's attack. Now, it is obvious that a brave general like Li Yuan is in charge of the city, and it is almost impossible to take down the city.
Chapter completed!