The System Forces Me to Be the Emperor

The majestic atrium was closed, and Han Xin stood on the city wall and looked to the east.

The sun was rising in the east, shining brightly, and it looked peaceful, but just now when the scouts came to report, Meng Fang's soldiers and horses were already fifty miles away, and they were rushing towards them, while the Qin army from Tonglu County had entered Shanyuan County, and was rushing forward at a rapid march. Come.

This was the danger Han Xin was about to face. If he could stop these Qin troops, he would be able to wait for Daxia's reinforcements. If he couldn't stop them, he would have to die.

This is also the reason why Han Xin had to disperse his forces to defend the two passes. The assembled forces of the Qin army were not enough to split into two groups to capture Zhongting Pass and Beishu Pass at the same time. They could only seize them one by one. So if the atrium falls and Han Xin dies in battle, it will create opportunities for the North Hub and reduce the pressure, and they will be able to wait until the arrival of reinforcements from the Great Xia.

Now that Meng Fang is coming to attack the Zhongting Pass, one reason is that the distance is relatively short, and the other reason is that Han Xin's troops stationed here are relatively small, so Meng Tian must pick a soft persimmon.

"Stay here, Dongqi Sixteen Commanderies will belong to Daxia."

Han Xin muttered to himself, then stretched out his hand and patted the city wall in front of him vigorously. He started with hard and solid stone bricks, but it gave Han Xin more motivation and confidence.

The three passes of the Qinling Mountains were built on the basis of the Qinling Mountains, just like Daxia built the city wall in the Qimeng Mountains, these three passes were also built in low mountains.

Atrium Pass is eleven miles long, extending to the mountain peaks on the left and right. The city wall is more than 20 meters high and more than ten meters thick. There are towers, sentry towers and other buildings on the city wall. Thousands of troops.

As the saying goes, one husband is in charge of the gate, and ten thousand husbands cannot open it. This is the truth.

At this time, the stairs on both sides of the city gate were piled up with earth and rocks, and Meng Fang could only use cloud ladders and climbing ladders if he wanted to seize this pass.

Gradually, patches of black shadows appeared in the southeast, getting closer and closer, they were the soldiers and horses of Meng Fang.

Finally, they approached and stopped five miles away from the atrium.

Meng Fang led people to pat the horse forward. When he saw that the stair passage was full of earth and rocks, and it was impossible to attack by force, Meng Fang's mood became more gloomy.

He raised his head and looked at the dense Xia army standing on the city, lined up, each with an indifferent expression, neither frightened nor frightened, as if they wanted to live and die together with the city gate under their feet.

"Who is Han Xin?" Meng Fang asked angrily.

Han Xin stood on the top of the city gate, condescendingly said with a smile, "Why did General Meng Fang seek General Ben?"

Meng Fang had never met Han Xin before, and when he saw him for the first time, he didn't expect him to be so young! It is inconceivable that he is a native of Yan country and was born as a servant. Such an identity is valued and used by Emperor Xia. The new emperor of the Xia Kingdom really has no doubts about employing people.

This was just a sudden thought, and then Meng Fang pointed at Han Xin with his sword, and said angrily: "Han Xin, Xia Guo disregarded morality and attacked our Great Qin land, and now he is using conspiracy to seize our city gates. Just grab it and don't make unnecessary resistance!"

Han Xin said with a smile: "Okay, I can catch him without a fight, but General Meng has to convince my soldiers, how about it, you give me ten days, how about it?"

"Fart! Stop delaying the time!" Meng Fang said angrily.

Han Xin shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "You are the one who made fun of this general again! Zhongting Pass was taken away from Zhao Guo by you, and now it falls into our Daxia's hands, so it belongs to Daxia. If you have the ability, lead someone to take it away." Let’s go, just to let this general see your Meng Fang’s methods! But after listening to your lecture just now, hmph... no wonder you Meng Fang is not one of Qin’s five tiger generals!"

Hearing this, Meng Da was furious and shouted: "Son Han Xin, if you have the guts, would you dare to come down and fight?"

Han Xin smiled and said, "Are you stupid to be the general? Why don't you come up? If you have the guts, you can attack now. If you don't have the guts, you'd better go back and set up camp, waiting for your reinforcements!"

"Haha..." Xia Guo soldiers all laughed, mocking Meng Fang's innocence.

This was so angry that Meng Fang was extremely furious. He really wanted to give an order to start a strong attack, but he really couldn't take the city gate with 20,000 troops.

"Okay! Han Xin, after this general wins the Atrium Pass, I'll see if you can still smile!" Meng Fang shouted angrily, then turned his horse's head and returned.

Next, Meng Fang ordered the soldiers and horses to set up camp.

A large number of Qin troops are coming from all directions, so Meng Fang needs to wait patiently, and there is no rush to attack the city. However, Meng Tianfang was also scratching his head, that is, the Beishu Pass was also occupied by the Xia army. Meng Fang knew that this was Han Xin's cunning trick, and he really wanted to divide his troops into two groups and take the Atrium and the Beishu Pass at the same time, but the strength was insufficient. allow.

There are more than 700,000 Qin troops in the Dongqi area, and more than 300,000 are in Meng Yi's place. Meng Fang originally had 60,000, but only 20,000 were left after the loss. Only Nanliguan was lost. Tonglu County had 60,000 troops, Zhaodu County was the old Zhao capital with 80,000 troops, Dongqi County originally had 70,000 to 80,000 troops, and the rest were allocated to other counties.

So calculated in this way, there are not many troops that Meng Fang can mobilize in the shortest time. It would be good if he can gather 100,000 troops at full strength. Moreover, the troops of Zhaodu County and Xichuan County are blocking Chen Qingzhi, and Meng Yi is farther away, more than 30 Thousands of troops are beyond reach.

Can 100,000 troops take down the atrium pass guarded by 20,000 Xia troops?

Meng Fang understood that even if it could be taken down, it would be up to Qin Jun to pile up the corpses! But there is no way, the atrium pass must be taken down!

That night, the soldiers and horses on both sides had a good rest, knowing that this was the last time they would sleep soundly before the war.

Han Xin didn't sleep, he was waiting for a letter from Falcon.

Meng Fang came to Zhongting Pass, so naturally he didn't pursue Dian Wei. According to Han Xin's plan, Dian Wei's soldiers and horses had already touched the vicinity of Nanli Pass, hiding and waiting for the time to come.

But now that his whereabouts have been exposed, it is hard to say whether Dian Wei will be able to approach Nanliguan, and Meng Fang did not pursue Dianwei, so he must have sent someone to follow him, and at the same time notified Nanliguan. Therefore, Dian Wei's environment is also very dangerous.

In the middle of the night, the eagle letter came.

Seeing the secret letter sent by Dian Wei, Han Xin heaved a sigh of relief. Dian Wei had already hidden in the Qinling Mountains, only more than 20 miles away from Nanli Pass, and the scouts following him had been wiped out. Safety.

so far.

Han Xin didn't worry about the last thing he was worried about. The next thing is to fight hard. Whether he succeeds or fails depends on the result.

In the early morning of the next day, Mengfang's soldiers and horses began to get busy, cutting down bamboo to make climbing ladders, and at the same time making simple ladders with wood. In the afternoon, Qin troops had already arrived one after another. Gathering in front of the atrium gate, looking from a distance, they are all the light of torches.

At this time, the atrium was closed and the torches were lit, like a fire dragon. I don't know if the Qin army will attack tonight, so Han Xin ordered the soldiers to rest on the city.

At this time, Han Xin also received the eagle letter from Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi had already entered Xichuan County, but unfortunately, he was blocked by the Qin army in Xichuan County, and his speed was limited, so the time for assistance might have to be postponed.

This was within Han Xin's expectation.

The time of ugliness has passed, and everything is silent, only the sound of the summer wind blowing to the banner, wrinkling the torch.

At this moment, there was movement in the Mengfang barracks.

The Qin army began to file out from the barracks. The first batch of Qin troops were death squads. They carried ladders and shields on their backs. Their task was heavy, and they had to lean the ladders against the city wall!

Then came the archers, who relied on bows and arrows to suppress the Xia army on the city wall and provide cover for the climbing infantry behind them. At the same time, Qin Jun also brought bed crossbows, relying on the terrible lethality of bed crossbows, suppressed Xia Jun.

Next, is the ladder.

At the same time, Meng Fang also specially arranged for shield players and infantry to cooperate to excavate the earth and rocks on the stairs of the city. Once the stairs are cleared, they can rush up from the stairs.

In order to win the Atrium Gate, Meng Fang tried his best!

At this time, the city gate was closed, and the vigilant Xia Jun also noticed the enemy's attack, and immediately issued a warning with the sound of drums. Han Xin, who had just squinted for a while, woke up startled, walked out of the city tower, and then looked at the moving figures in the night, he yelled One voice: "Ready to go to war!"

In an instant, all Xia Jun became busy.

Hot oil, rolling logs, stones, crossbows, one by one hid behind the city wall, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Finally, Qin Jun arrived.

At a distance of more than 200 meters, the archers of the Qin Army released arrows, and the rain of arrows flew up and down in the sky, and landed on the city gate in a perfect parabola, in an attempt to hurt the soldiers of Daxia.

The soldiers of Daxia immediately raised their shields to defend, and heard the arrow feathers shoot on the shield, making a rattling sound, like a rainstorm hitting plantains.

At the same time, Qin Jun's death squad rushed forward and began to erect ladders.

Xia Jun began to counterattack. They leaned their backs on the crenels of the city wall, fired bows and arrows from the crenels, and shot and killed the death squads of the Qin army. However, one person was shot and killed, and the Qin army rushed up to supplement it, and began to attack desperately.

In this way, the siege battle in the night began.

As the commander-in-chief, Han Xin naturally didn't need to take the lead. He just sat on the city gate and didn't go anywhere. With him, Da Xia Erlang would have the backbone and be able to fight the enemy bravely.

It didn't take long for the Qin army to pile up a passage with the corpses, and the infantry rushed up. They had built more than a dozen ladders on the city wall, and the Qin army infantry began to climb.

The soldiers of Daxia threw hot oil and rolling logs, or fired crossbow arrows, and attacked from a high position. The Qin army suffered heavy casualties.

This battle lasted until dawn, Qin Jun's first attack failed, and after retreating, Qin Jun's corpses were left all over the place.

Meng Fang inquired about the number of deaths in battle, more than 3,000 people, and 4,000 casualties.

Knowing how difficult it is to siege the city, this is the first time the attack is so tragic. It is conceivable how difficult it is to successfully win the Atrium Pass.

At this moment, Meng Fang felt that his heart had become very cold, and he couldn't help being kind.

He looked at the lieutenant beside him and asked, "After an hour, continue to attack! After the Xia army's bows and arrows, rolling logs, and hot oil are exhausted, I'll see what defense they have."

"Yes!" The deputy general went down to make arrangements.

Meng Fang looked at the commander Bai Lie who led the troops from Tonglu County again.

Whether you can win the Atrium Pass or not depends on this person.