When Xiang Kang defeated the opposition, he decided to seize Tongxian and the second city of Zhiwu, the total strength of the Young Marshal's army finally broke through the 3,000 mark. More than 1,700 people in the army were old soldiers of the Young Marshal's army who participated in the defense of Xiaxiang throughout the whole process, more than 800 were prisoners of Qin army half-forced by the Young Marshal's army, and nearly 500 were newly recruited soldiers after the battle of Xiaxiang. - Seeing that the Young Marshal's army was very victorious, the Qin coalition forces in Tongxian greatly increased their confidence in the Young Marshal's army, not only did many Xia Xiang people who did not dare to join the Young Marshal's army change their course and actively joined the army, but also many people from neighboring counties who could not bear the tyranny of Qin II also rushed to Xiaxiang's army. Xiang Kang, who urgently needed to strengthen his strength, would rather be indiscriminate and accept everything, so the expansion speed was very fast.

Of course, although the expansion speed is fast, the Young Marshal's Army is still a group of mobs that are so typical that they cannot be more typical. Even Xiang Kang himself dared not deny this, but there is no way. He has no time to train, nor has he enough weapons and equipment, and there is no way to turn decay into magic and turn the mobs into elite and strong soldiers at once. Xiang Kang had no choice but to hold on to the plan of training the team in actual combat, so that the army can eliminate the weak and retain the strong through actual combat, and gradually cultivate elite and strong soldiers.

However, there are corresponding benefits to recruiting and enlisting the mobs. At least Xiang Kang will not be as undressed as before when dispatching troops. Even if he decides to take two thousand troops to attack Tongxian and take the matter, Xiang Kang still has 1,000 troops to stay and hand them over to Xiang Guan. Xiang Xian and Xiang Dian three Xiang families led their troops to defend the city to ensure the safety of Xiaxiangcheng, the only old nest. At the same time, in order to be cautious, Xiang Kang decided to bring his former Xiaxiang County Magistrate Zhou Zeng to fight together, leaving behind Sun Gong, who was not as powerful as Zhou Zeng, who helped Xiang Guan and others to govern the government and comfort the people, and presided over Xiang Qiu Harvest.

In order not to give the enemy too much preparation time, after quickly preparing for the war, when the military supplies were insufficient, the two thousand young commanders took only ten days of food and grass and set off with Xiang Kang, heading westward towards Caiwu and Tong County. When choosing the first target of the siege, Xiang Kang flatly rejected Zhou Zeng's suggestion to attack Tong County first, and first pointed the finger at Caijing, and decided to attack Xiang Jing first, and then take Tong County.

Zhou Zeng, who was very familiar with the situation of the Qin army, was of course quite puzzled. Even though Xiang Kang made up his mind, he couldn't help asking: "Young marshal, should you think about it again? The county magistrate of Tong County Gu Bi has died in the Xiajing. The county magistrate is represented by the county magistrate. His power is not enough to convince the public. It will definitely be difficult to gather a large number of troops to compete with us in a short period of time. Relatively speaking, it is better to fight than to take the matter. The situation of taking the matter is completely opposite to Tong County. Why do you choose to give up and take the matter hard, and take the matter first?"

"Two reasons." Xiang Kang replied directly: "First, most of the prisoners of war we recruited were soldiers. They were forced to join us, and they must be worried that their families would be implicated. If we do not seek help first to rescue their families and make them feel at ease, their homesickness and family-loving emotions may affect our military morale. The second is that the county temple of Quyou is complete. If we give Quyou too much time to recruit soldiers to prepare for war, and then turn around to seek war, it will only be several times more difficult than to fight now."

"But it is harder to fight for the sake of consideration than Tong County?" Zhou Zeng reminded: "We have insufficient supplies and equipment, and only enough food and grass for ten days, and the soldiers do not have any experience in formal siege. What if they can't fight for the sake of consideration?"

Xiang Kang was so sad that he nodded, admitting that it was indeed harder to take care of the situation than Tongxian, and then said: "Same, for us, as long as the enemy is locked in the city, Tongxian is actually harder to take care of the situation than Tongxian. However, relatively speaking, because we have many people to take care of the situation, we have a lot of connections with the military and civilian officials in the city, and there are many opportunities to take care of the situation using tricks to win, so for us, it may be easier to take care of the situation first than Tongxian."

Seeing that Xiang Kang had made up his mind and knew that he was far from playing military affairs, Zhou Zeng no longer insisted on opposing this. He just told Xiang Kang that when he was in the school, he had a lot of research on siege weapons because of his interest, so that Xiang Kang could find him at any time when he needed it. Xiang Kang was overjoyed and quickly asked Zhou Zeng to consider the height of the city wall and the width of the moat that he had taken into account, so that Zhou Zeng would immediately draw a design of siege ladders and floating bases to spare the use of siege weapons.

One day after departure, the young commander army, which had no rivals in the southeast of Sishui County, successfully entered the territory of Taiwu. As Xiang Kang expected, as soon as he entered the country, many people had already joined the elderly and young, and came to the young commander army to find relatives. In order to buy the morale of the army, Xiang Kang also allowed local young commander soldiers to go out to the camp to meet their families when establishing a camp. Outside the young commander army's camp, there were touching scenes of father and son hugging each other and couples hugging their heads and crying.

At the beginning, Xiang Kang and many young generals were worried that the Qin army prisoners who were worried that the Qin army would flee on the plane, which affected the morale of the army. However, what made Xiang Kang and the young generals overjoyed was that because of Qin II's rebellious actions and the harsh governance of the county and temples, the people could not bear the poison. Not only did any of the young generals who went out to meet their families did not escape, but on the contrary, many people took the initiative to ask to join the young generals. Xiang Kang was very happy to have all the young generals, and the young generals' team also added more than 100 people to the young generals' team, which made a good start for this attack.

The next day, the young commander's army continued to advance east under the leadership of Xiang Kang, and successfully arrived at the eastern suburbs of Tseu in the afternoon of the same day. As a result, Wang Zhao, the county magistrate of Tseu, who had few soldiers and generals, chose to close the city and defend it, and did not dare to lead the troops out to fight. Xiang Kang was not in a hurry. He just commanded the army to set up camps at a suitable location, and sent people to cut wood everywhere and handed it over to the engineer team responsible for Zhou Zeng to build siege equipment. At the same time, he sent people to inquire about the news and understand the specific situation in Tseu city.

When the camp was established, during dinner, Xiang Kang invited Chao Zhi and a few officials who surrendered to Chao Zhi to the central army tent. While having dinner with them, he consulted them for a plan to break the city. As a result, Chao Zhi first said: "Young marshal, the last general believes that it is best to find a way to win by attacking and seeking surprises. Don't rely too much on the frontal attack to succeed directly. Because the city wall of seeking vain is too solid. Over the years, in order to prevent the flooding of Sui River, several county magistrates attached great importance to strengthening the city wall every time they conscripted corvee. The city wall was built to be three meters high and one and a half meters wide. Even if they were soaked in the flood for a month or two, they would not collapse. It would be impossible to expect the catapult to smash the city wall."

"In addition, in order to facilitate flood discharge, the moat of Wei was dug deep and wide, and it was still difficult to fill the living water. Even if we built a siege ladder or a tower cart, we could not advance to the Xiaxiang City to launch an siege. Therefore, the last general believes that with the current situation of our army, there is no certainty in winning the frontal attack. We can only find a way to win by surprise and use other methods to win the siege city."

Listening to Chao Zhi's introduction, Xiang Kang, who had already visited the site for exploration, was not in a hurry to speak. It was only after Chao Zhi's introduction that Xiang Kang asked: "General Chao, in your opinion, how should we win by surprise?"

"The general thinks that it might be better to do something about the fact that the county magistrate Wang Zhao is not favored by the people." Chao Zhi suggested, and said: "It is not that the general hates Wang Zhao deeply and deliberately belittles him. This ordinary man is not famous for being greedy for money and lust, irritable, cruel and harsh. If the general thinks that the military and civilian officials in the city may be afraid of his power and have to participate in defending the city, but there must be many of them who are very willing to see the young commander who break through the situation and beheaded Wang Zhao to vent his anger."

"Wang Zhao is not a good person, so how did he take the position of county magistrate?" Xiang Kang asked with a contempt.

"Of course it's just flattery and please the superiors." Chao Zhi sneered and said, "He is a distant relative of the county censor of our Sishui County. He often sends things to the county censor. The county censor is in charge of the assessment and supervision of all officials in the entire Sishui County. Even the county magistrate Zhao dared not offend him easily. The county censor supported him and helped him settle affairs in the officialdom, so he settled his position. Otherwise, with his virtue, he would have been exempted from several times."

Chao Zhi took the lead, and several officials of the Shiwu surrendered with Chao Zhi also agreed, saying that Shiwu County Magistrate Wang Zhao is not a good thing and has nothing to do except flatter his superiors. Xiang Kang nodded and asked again: "Who do Wang Zhao have any confidants in Shiwu City?"

"What kind of confidant he can have? In addition to the family he brought from his hometown, the family Cao Lu'an who only knows how to flatter him all day long, even the clerks in the county temple were unwilling to make friends with him." Chao Zhi said contemptuously: "The county magistrate and the county right lieutenant were also disagreeable with him, and he greeted his mother many times behind his back. There were also several big families in the county who were often extorted by him, and they wanted him to get out early."

Hearing this, Xiang Kang had a little idea. He first asked Xiang to bring some cloth and ink, and then ordered Chao Zhi and others: "General Chao, and you all, you are familiar with the people in Qiwu City. Please write some letters, list Wang Zhao's various crimes, and persuade the military and civilian officials in Wu City to help me kill Wang Zhao, and take Wang Zhao's head to exchange for a reward from me. In addition, General Chao, you should work harder, and then write a letter to the county magistrate and the right lieutenant of Qiwu, with your personal reputation, to persuade them to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, kill Wang Zhao and surrender to me in exchange for a reward from me, and finally sign your name."

Chao Zhi and others agreed, and then Chao Zhi hesitated and said, "Young Marshal, I can write it, but if you can persuade the county magistrate and the right lieutenant to surrender, the last general is not sure."

"It's okay, write it." Xiang Kang smiled and said, "I didn't expect these letters to be able to receive the effect of repression. I just need to let these letters be seen by Wang Zhao."

Although he did not understand Xiang Kang's intention very well, in order to show his loyalty to the new master, Chao Zhi and others still picked up their pens and wrote a book without hesitation. They quickly wrote more than a dozen letters to persuade the soldiers and civilians to kill Wang Zhao in exchange for rewards. Then, Chao Zhi also wrote a letter to the county magistrate and the right lieutenant who were given the intention, urging them to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and kill the unpopular Wang Zhao to surrender to the young commander. After the letter was written, Xiang Kang immediately handed it over to Xiang Yang, asking Xiang Yang to arrange ten crossbowmen to lurk at the city at night, tie the letters to the arrows and shoot them into the city.

Before the matter was over, after dinner, Xiang Kang came another official Zheng Lun, who had also surrendered to him, and ordered him to imitate the handwriting of the county magistrate and the right lieutenant, and wrote two letters to himself in their reputation. Then he also handed them over to Xiang Yang and gave him face-to-face advice, so that Xiang Yang could act according to the plan...

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After all, Qiyou is a county town, and no matter how tight the defense is, it is impossible to cover everything. Xiang Kang's personal soldiers have no chance to find arrows under the city, so Xiang Kang's personal soldiers easily completed the task and shot more than a dozen letters into the city that night. Then, as Xiang Kang expected, although several arrow books fell into remote places in the city and disappeared, and some letters were hidden or destroyed, there were still several letters discovered by Qin soldiers and handed over, and they were transferred to the front of Wang Zhao, the magistrate of Caiwu County, at dawn, which also included a handwritten letter written by Chao Zhi to Bao Wen, the right magistrate of Caiwu County.

It is conceivable that Wang Zhao was angry after seeing these letters. In addition to ordering the whole city to find the remaining arrow books to confiscate, Wang Zhao also patted the tables and shouted, shouting loudly to the 18th generation of the ancestors of Chao Zhi's rebels, and vowed to deal with Chao Zhi's wife, the water-like Yanghua, on the bed. However, after the rage, Wang Zhao fell into great fear, fearing that the people below would be encouraged by the Young Marshal and Chao Zhi, and suddenly killed him, and took his head to Xiang Kang to reward him with great rewards. After all, Wang Zhao was a little self-aware, knowing what kind of reputation he had in the people, and knowing how unpopular he was.

The more he was afraid, the more he saw the more he was. Just when Wang Zhao was worried, Wang Zhao personally promoted him to replace Chao Zhi as the left magistrate of Caiwu County. Lu Wu suddenly came to ask for a meeting. After Wang Zhao ordered the summoning, Lu Wu ran all the way to the lobby of the county temple. He even opened his mouth and shouted in panic: "County Master, the disaster is wrong, a letter has been found outside the city, and we found a letter outside the city!"

"What's the disaster?" Wang Zhao asked angrily, and asked in confusion: "A letter was found outside the city? Didn't the letters of the rioters shoot into the city? How could they find letters outside the city?"

"The county master is not a letter from the rioters, but a letter from us who are concerned about the people in the city and shoot out." Lu Ye replied with a sad face, and said again: "The letter was also shot out by an arrow and inserted into the mud outside the east gate. Fortunately, the lecturer under the subordinates' subordinates looked sharp-eyed and saw it in advance and took it back, otherwise the letter would have been picked up by the rioters' scout."
Chapter completed!