General Qin

"Qin army started to retreat?"

At the head of Xiangcheng City, Zhou Wen, who was in charge of watching the sun, opened his eyes wide, watching the scene by the Yingshui in disbelief.

Group after group of Qin troops drove out of the camp. They crossed Yingshui in an orderly manner under the command of the military officials through the pontoon bridge built on the water, and then formed a queue and marched northward by land. Looking at the formation, it turned out that they brought food, fodder and luggage along with them.

However, in front of its big camp, there is still a Qin army that has not moved in formation. They are facing Xiangcheng, forming a battle formation, holding spears and crossbows, as if they are guarding against the Chu people in the city coming out of the city to attack, so as to cover the robes. Yingshui withdrew to the north.

This kind of scene, what is it if it is not the retreat of the Qin army?

"Last night and morning, the drums were still beating loudly, and they kept sending people to the city. Why are they running away now?"

The Chu soldiers next to them were talking to each other. As they said, the Qin army was attacking the city day and night, rushing towards the city wall day and night, and the powerful cannons threw huge boulders into the city from time to time. , so heavy that the Chu soldiers in the city could not lift their heads.

Under this terrible offensive, the Chu army suffered heavy casualties, and even the walls of Xiangcheng almost collapsed, falling into the hands of the Qin people several times.

Although the Chu soldiers in the city were quickly taken back, judging by their posture, the Qin army would be able to break through the city and start street fighting with them in less than two days.

In such a good situation, why did the people of Qin retreat?

Zhou Wen suppressed his doubts and hurriedly sent people into the city to report.

Soon, Chu General Xiang Qu received the news and strode up to the top of the city.

"It seems that the young master has made a move."

Xiang Qu watched the retreat of the Qin army outside the city, his eyes lit up, and his voice was full of joy.

Son?

Zhou Wen blinked, what son? Where did the young master of Chu come from here?

But before Zhou Wen could react, Xiang Qu issued orders one after another to the generals following behind him: "Let the sons have a good meal and replenish their energy, and the horses should also be fed with fodder and get ready. When I give the order , then go out of the city to pursue!"

"Since the Qin army withdrew, they immediately sent people south to communicate with Shangzhu Kingdom and inform Shangzhu Kingdom of the situation here."

After a series of promises, Xiang Qu turned his gaze to Zhou Wen again: "Shiri, you continue to pay close attention to the movements of the Qin army after this breakup, and report to me immediately if they show signs of retreating."

"only."

After issuing a series of military orders, Xiang Qu turned his gaze to the Qin army outside the city.

"This broken army looks like there are 20,000 people. Meng Wu is really stable. If so many Qin troops are broken, I'm afraid it will be difficult for my army to eat. I don't know if my father can arrive in time. If I can take With the 20,000-strong Qin army, Meng Wu is nothing to be afraid of."

...

A day later, Meng Wu stood on the commander's car, his face covered with frost, facing the cold wind, looking at Huaiyang City in front of him.

I saw that Huaiyang turned against the city, the city was high and thick, and there were dense crowds of people on it.

Those people were all wearing black armor and holding swords and halberds. They were a group of Chu people wearing Qin armor, waiting in line to prevent the Qin army from attacking the city.

"Is anyone out of the city?"

Meng Wu turned his head to look at the Qin Junjun who arrived first.

The military marquis hurriedly said: "No, when the officials led the army here, they saw that the city gate was closed tightly and the flag of Chu State was planted on the top of the city, so they knew that the situation had changed. Shooting and killing, the officials immediately sent someone to notify the general. They also sent cavalry to patrol the four gates, but no one was seen leaving the city."

"He didn't do anything to these 5,000 people, but he was quite cautious. It seems that he wanted to stick to the city, cut off my supply and return, and wanted to consume our army."

Meng Wu whispered, and then turned to order: "Let people go to the city to spread the word, and invite Changping Jun to tell."

After a while, the military officials reported back to Meng Wu.

"General Meng, the people from Chu at the top of the city replied that there is no Lord Changping of Qin among Chen Ying, only Prince Qi of Chu. When Qin and Chu are at war, Prince Qi and the general have nothing to say."

Hearing this, Meng Wu couldn't help showing anger on his usually calm face.

"Young Master Qi... what a young master Qi, I never thought he would be so overwhelmed. If that's the case, then there's nothing I can do about it."

"All the troops listened to the order, immediately forged equipment, attacked the city overnight, and must take this city within two days!"

"only!"

Seeing that the generals were leading the order to arrange camping and siege, Meng Wu's face not only did not relax, but became more and more tense. He whispered: "Two days, there are only two days left."

When Huaiyang was reversed, the Qin army could only supply food for three days, but Meng Wu led his army to withdraw from Yingshui camp to the outside of Huaiyang city, which took one day.

Therefore, he only has two days of food reserves in his army. Even if the diet is reduced and the porridge is mixed with water, it may not last for four days, but the soldiers are going to attack the city and kill the enemy, how can they be allowed to drink gruel.

This is not counting the tens of thousands of civilians and auxiliary soldiers near Huaiyang. Their military rations are all supplied by the city. Now that Huaiyang city is rebellious, they all have to go hungry. Meng Wu couldn't squeeze out the army food to help them. In order to avoid chaos, Meng Wu asked the military officials to lead the tens of thousands of civilians to the north, heading for Yangxia. On the way, they plundered the countryside and fend for themselves. .

As for Mengwu's Qin army, there are more than 40,000 people, plus the remaining 20,000 people, that is more than 60,000 soldiers and thousands of horses.

Except for Huaiyang, there is no place within two to three days' distance that can feed so many people and horses. So there is only one choice before Meng Wu.

Hit Huaiyang!

Before the food runs out, the Qin army must take down this anti-city!

at all costs!

...

boom!

A huge stone flew over from Tianyu and landed heavily in Chen Ying City, smashing a house and the Chu people inside it, causing a crowd of screams and howls.

This is the cannon of the Qin army. After debugging, it can bombard the city buildings behind the city wall with a parabola, causing great panic to the Chu people in the city.

At the same time, there were countless Qin soldiers outside the city wall pushing the building carts, siege vehicles and various siege equipment that had been rushed out overnight, and launched a fierce attack on Chen Ying.

The offensive was so fierce that it continued day and night, one after another Qin soldiers stepped over the corpse of Paoze to the sound of war drums, and rushed towards the city wall with hideous faces.

"It is worthy of being the Qin people who destroyed the four countries in a row, and it is worthy of being the invincible Qin army."

In Chen Ying City, Young Master Qi, who had just watched the battle on the city wall, sighed softly.

Although the Chu people in the city relied on the advantage of the city wall to repel the Qin army's attacks day and night one after another, they were civilians who were recruited after all. Although there were some old soldiers among them, their quality was far inferior to those of the Qin army who had been fighting for a long time. The fierce soldiers, under the onslaught of the Qin people day and night, were somewhat difficult to sustain, and were almost occupied by Qin soldiers on a city wall several times.

"Unfortunately, because of the fact that Mengwu sent troops, I was asked to raise the matter in advance, and the time agreed with Shangzhu Kingdom was staggered. Otherwise, if the incident is planned today, there will be Shangzhu Kingdom's response, and the response will be more calm."

Young Master Qi sighed, he and Xiang Yan agreed that the time to start the incident is today.

According to the original plan, he publicly opposed Qin today. After Meng Wu learned about it, he would definitely lead his army back to help, and Xiang Yan had already arrived at that time, so he could follow Meng Wu and pursue him all the way.

In this way, the Qin army will be defeated and won.

But it is a pity that Young Master Qi raised the matter two days earlier. Before Xiang Yan arrived, Meng Wu calmly went north, surrounded Chen Ying and launched a fierce attack, which made Young Master Qi feel a little helpless. After all, there are tens of thousands of soldiers of the Qin army outside the city!

"If the city is broken and the Shangzhu Kingdom has not arrived, I will burn all the army rations in the city, leaving tens of thousands of Mengwu with no food to eat. When the time comes, when my Chu army arrives, Mengwu will still be defeated. !"

Young Master Qi murmured, he was already prepared for the worst in his heart, but his eyes still couldn't help but look to the south, full of expectation.

"Shangzhu Kingdom, I have complied with the agreement, can you arrive?"

...

"What's going on with Yang Yuan? Why haven't his 20,000 people arrived yet?"

Outside Huaiyang City, Meng Wu frowned and couldn't help but look to the south.

Now under the onslaught of the Qin army, the defenders against the city have shown signs of decline. Those Chu people who were temporarily recruited and defended the city with blood and courage are not at all the opponents of the Qin army with orderly orders. The city wall was captured by the Qin army.

Therefore, his plan of Mengwu to attack the city day and night is correct, and he is very likely to attack the city before the food runs out, thus resolving the crisis.

But Meng Wu has been worried about two things in his heart.

One is that after the city is broken, Lord Changping, the rebel guarding the city, will be so mad that he will burn all the food and grass. If he really does that, then everything will really stop.

Another point of worry is that in the Yingshui camp, the Yang Yuan tribe, which was broken to ensure the withdrawal of the army, has not yet arrived.

According to the news from Yang Yuan before, when the army left and he led the rear Qin army to prepare to go north, the Chu army in Xiangcheng really went out of the city to pursue and fought with the Qin army of Yang Yuan's tribe. Twenty thousand Qin troops marched northward.

"I left him 20,000 people. Even if the Xiangcheng Chu army came out to pursue them, it would be impossible for the exhausted soldiers in the city to defeat Yang Yuan's 20,000 people."

Meng Wu comforted himself in his heart, but as a veteran on the battlefield, he couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart, which came from the veteran's intuition.

Just when Meng Wu was feeling uneasy, he suddenly heard a noise coming from outside the tent, he was startled, strode out of the tent quickly, and asked at the same time: "What happened, why the noise?"

Before the short soldiers guarding outside the tent could answer, General Pi Han Zhong rushed over in panic.

"General Meng, something is wrong! The scouts came to report that Yang Yuan was defeated by the Chu army, and the defeated army is rushing here."

"What!"

Meng Wu hurriedly went out of the camp with Han Zhong, walked out of the gate, and he really saw dust billowing in the direction of Xiangcheng in Yingshui.

In the flying dust, countless panicked Qin soldiers were running towards the camp, throwing away their helmets and armor all the way, and the number was tens of thousands.

And here in the Qin army camp, countless Qin soldiers also knew the news, and they were all horrified.

As for the Qin soldiers who were attacking the city wall in the distance, they also saw this scene, and the city wall they had just taken was taken back by the Chu people taking advantage of the situation.

After the Yingshui was cut off, the Qin army was defeated, which caused the army here to be unstable.

"Yang Yuan was defeated. He has 20,000 people. How could he be defeated by the Chu army in Xiangcheng?"

Meng Wu was puzzled, but immediately his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted: "After the rout, I'm afraid there will be Chu troops following, quickly send people to line up outside the camp, let the rout avoid the camp, and regroup, don't Come and storm our camp!"

Meng Wu made a decisive decision and wanted to make safe arrangements, but it was already too late.

Those defeated soldiers of the Qin army were chased and killed by the Chu people for a day, and they were already in a panic, only knowing to run away. At this moment, they saw the camp of their own army in front of them, so they didn't care about the issue of "attacking the barracks". They all rushed into the tent with their legs apart, longing for their robes, as if they had seen their long-lost parents. Can protect them from being chased and killed by the Chu people behind.

At this moment, the 40,000 Qin army outside Huaiyang City was attacked by their own rout, and the 40,000 troops were in a state of chaos, and it was even more difficult to line up for a while.

Immediately afterwards, from the rear, the Chu army who had already prepared for a surprise attack rushed over.

In an instant, there were shouts of killing everywhere, and at the same time, the tents of the Qin army were also set alight by the raiding Chu army, and the red flames were blazing, reflecting the sky.

In the city, Young Master Qi saw the flames rising into the sky, screaming and killing all over the place. He was shocked and knew that the reinforcements had arrived. He made a decisive decision and sent a thousand warriors from Chu who were conscripted, together with his men who dared to die, to open the side gates and attack them. The Chu army echoed each other and jointly attacked the Qin army under Meng Wu's command.

"We lost."

Meng Wu was supported by the short soldiers on the horse, and saw the flames covering the sky in the barracks, the soldiers shouted and fled in all directions, and those Chu troops were killing and chasing everywhere.

There is no need to talk about the result of such a scene.

"General, let's go, our army is now doomed, there is no other way."

The short soldiers persuaded with tears.

Meng Wu nodded. Before leaving, he turned his head to the south, where the Chu army came from, and said sadly, "Is it Xiang Yan?"

...

At the head of Chen Ying City, Young Master Qi stood on the city wall, his face was reddened by the soaring fire in the distance.

"Defeated, the Qin army is defeated!"

he whispered.

Seeing with his own eyes that the country he had served suffered a crushing defeat, and seeing the generals and soldiers of the Qin army who had respectfully saluted him being chased and fled by the Chu people, his feelings were quite complicated.

But soon, Young Master Qi's expression became firm again. Isn't this the result he wanted? Why is there such a melancholy thought when the result is achieved?

Finally, his eyes turned to the south.

"Shangzhu Kingdom, you really came."

...

"I am coming."

Xiang Yan stood on his chariot, looking at the burning battlefield in the distance.

Next to the chariot is Xiang Qu on a horse.

Xiang Qu pointed to the battlefield ahead and said with a smile: "Father came here in time. When our army and the Qin army were fighting each other, my father led his troops to flank the Qin army and defeated it. Only by driving the defeated Qin army to attack this place can we achieve such a great victory!"

"Hahaha, father first defeated Li Xin in Xia Cai, and now he defeated Meng Wu in Chen Ying. This is a great achievement!"

"In this battle, my father's name will surely resound throughout the world, and my Xiang family will also have infinite glory!"

Looking at her son's high-spirited appearance, Xiang Yan's expression was dull, without a hint of joy.

he came.

Fulfilling the agreement with Young Master Qi.

Destroyed 20,000 Qin troops by the Yingshui River, and drove the routs to attack the Mengwu army. They made amazing achievements and directly shattered the war against Chu launched by Qin.

This time Xiang Yan's name is enough to shake the world!

But his trip violated the imperial edict of King Chu.

"It is impossible for Huainan to have 30,000 Qin troops. They don't have so many ships to cross the river, and they don't have supply logistics. It is impossible for so many Qin troops to sneak into Shouchun without being discovered."

"Although the Qin army didn't know how it sneaked into the hinterland of our Chu country, they didn't dare to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city, and even threatened to have an army of 30,000 to threaten them. This must be a fraudulent king. Don't be credulous. From my point of view , there are only a few thousand of them at most.”

"I sent 10,000 people back to aid Shouchun, plus the king recruited Shouchun to be young and strong, enough to protect Chu, even if the opponent really had 30,000 people, he would definitely not be able to break through the city."

This was Xiang Yan's judgment, so he rejected the order of the king of Chu to send him back to help, and only sent 10,000 people back.

He himself took the remaining Chu army northward and went straight to the Qin army outside Xiangcheng.

In the past, the 30,000 Chu army lost thousands in the battle with Li Xin's chariots, and only 20,000 remained. Now that 10,000 people have been sent back to Shouchun, Xiang Yan's available troops are actually only 15,000. Thousand or so. He even gave up chasing Li Xin who fled to Pingyu for this reason.

Because the battle in Xiangcheng is more important!

Compared with Li Xin, the 70,000 men in the Mengwu Division are the main force of the Qin army. As long as they can swallow them, Qin will suffer heavy losses this time, and it will be difficult to gather new forces to attack Chu for a while.

This point is really important to Chu State.

Not to mention, he, Xiang Yan, has already made an agreement with Young Master Qi in Chen Ying City.

"So, here I come."

Xiang Yan murmured: "Your Majesty will understand me. Everything I do is for Chu."

As he said that, he couldn't help turning his head to look south again, looking in Shouchun's direction.

Your Majesty, will you really understand him?

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