The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Jiujiang County, the county seat of Panyang City.

At this moment in the city, most of the defenders have left the city and rushed to Pengdi, which is 100 miles away from Panyang, where they formed a resistance army with troops from other counties, with a total of 100,000 people, as a defense against the Chu army. The first line of defense going south.

This time the Chu army went south, not directly crossing the Yangtze River to Danyang and other places in Wujun, which is not realistic.

Let's not talk about whether Wujun has so many crossings for the Chu army to land, just say that Wujun, as the hinterland of Yue State, has a heavy army.

In addition, the people in the county are more interested in the Yue Kingdom, and the Yue Kingdom has many eyes and ears here, plus some suitable ferries, there are some soldiers and horses stationed, and some obstacles are being set up. It is really difficult to land here. sky.

On the contrary, it is different in Lujiang County.

Since ancient times, Lujiang County has been the place where Wuyue and Chu fought for supremacy. It has been a battlefield for an unknown number of years.

Naturally, in this place, the people of Wu and Yue and the people of Chu both infiltrated and lived together, making it difficult to distinguish each other.

However, most of the time, the Chu State still has the upper hand. Many places in Lujiang County, more than 2/3, exist as the territory of the Chu State.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the forces of the Chu State that resisted the rebels here were able to persist for so long.

If the rebels hadn't suddenly moved south and concentrated all their forces to the south of the Yangtze River, the rebel forces in Lujiang County would have suddenly expanded several times, and the defenders of Chu State, which had been struggling to support them, would have been wiped out all of a sudden, and Lujiang had become a rebel army. under the rule of the army.

However, now that the army of Chu State is heading south, 200,000 troops have crossed the Yangtze River and stepped into Lujiang, the hometown of Chu State again.

This kind of good news suddenly cheered up the people who were interested in the state of Chu, and many undercurrents surged under Lujiang County.

For example, in today's Panyang city.

The original 50,000 defenders in the city have all been transferred to the front line by the local defenders of the Yue Kingdom, in the Pengdi area. Taking advantage of the mountainous situation there and the fact that the Lujiang River is the main traffic route connecting many counties and counties, guard the pass here and block the Chu army's footsteps.

After all these adjustments, there were only 3,000 defenders left in the city, who could barely maintain law and order in the city and deter the towns within 30 miles outside the city.

However, the majesty maintained by such strength cannot deter most people after all. On the contrary, it makes them see through the weakness of the Vietnamese army even more, and their hearts can't help but twitch even more.

In the middle of the night, Panyang City is now facing a war, and a curfew has already been implemented. Teams of armored soldiers on the street patrolled the surroundings in an orderly manner, intersecting each other from time to time, cruising back and forth, quite tightly.

In the house next to the street, the lights had already been extinguished, and it was so dark that no one could be seen.

However, in this darkness, bright eyes were staring closely at the Yue soldiers on the street outside, their eyes full of killing intent.

Counting carefully, in the rooms of the entire street, there are several pairs or dozens of pairs of eyes staring at the army on the street, and there are faint lights of swords flickering in the rooms. Under the moonlight, Clear and bright.

Shhh-sound.

This sharp and loud voice suddenly sounded in the city. This voice seemed to be a certain signal. In an instant, the originally silent city was instantly ignited and turned into a noisy market.

Bang bang crackling!

Countless chaotic sounds sounded, but there were sounds caused by touching furniture in the room and breaking the door.

Kill! Kill all these Yue dogs, kill all these rebels, and welcome back Master Wang!

Kill! Kill all these foreign mud legs and take back the dignity of our Lujiang people!

I saw countless passionate voices resounding, and in an instant, countless people responded, resounding throughout the city.

Ever since, countless soldiers with hatred or other purposes rushed out of the room, and rushed towards the astonished faces of the soldiers outside.

Poof a few times.

That was the dull sound of the sword piercing into the body, the sharp weapon intersecting with the flesh and blood, and it sounded continuously at this moment.

huh huh huh.

In the entire city, on the streets, and in the rooms, countless torches were suddenly lit, and the transparent firelight illuminated the entire city as if it were daytime.

Countless crisp metal collisions, roaring shouts, or other chaotic sounds filled the entire city.

On the avenue, there were only a few soldiers on patrol, but now it is full of people. Countless people are rushing out of the rooms, making the already crowded avenue even more congested.

Emperor Yuan seven years, August.

It has been one month since the Chu army went south, and they fought against the garrison of Pengdi in Lujiang County, Yue State.

The pace of the 200,000 troops was blocked, which caused the original sharp and unstoppable offensive of the Chu army to stagnate and decline.

However, afterwards, the remaining 300,000 Chu troops crossed the river behind Fanpeng, that is, north of Panyang City, and suppressed Panyang City.

All of a sudden, the whole city of Panyang was in panic, the defenders in the city became more and more heavily guarded, and an undercurrent surged in the city.

Three days later, when the 300,000 Chu army had pressed down thirty miles to the north of Panyang City, a mutiny broke out in the city at night.

Many local aristocratic families in Lujiang County, or the nobles who were attacked, united one after another, mobilized many people, formed a rebel army, and raised their troops against the brutal rule of the Yue Kingdom.

And also drove away Zheng killed the defenders in the city that night, regained control of Panyang City, and sent envoys to the camp of the Chu army overnight to surrender to the commander of the Chu army, and hoped that the king of Chu would forgive them for their ineffective defense of the city. guilt.

The Chu army who got the news was overjoyed, and in the early morning of the next day, they dispatched 3,000 cavalry to Panyang City in a hurry, preparing to take over the city defense, and test whether the surrender was true.

mid-August.

Panyang City has completely fallen into the hands of the 300,000 Chu army, and the 100,000 Vietnamese army in Pengdi has been completely trapped. Facing the power of the 300,000 Chu army and the opposite 200,000 Chu army, it seems that at any time dumped.

In the last ten days, 100,000 Vietnamese troops were wiped out by the combined attack of the Chu army, and 50,000 were beheaded. The rest fled more than 20,000 people and hid in the mountains. After a few months, only a few survived. The remaining 30,000 people surrendered and were ordered by the king of Chu to become slaves. They all rushed to Jiangling and other places to rebuild the ancestral mausoleum for Chu. Under the heavy labor, there are only a hundred people alive in the end.

early September.

It was the autumn harvest season, but there were not many farmers harvesting the fields already full of rice. The big good fields were left uncultivated, and the millet was rotting in the fields. I don’t know how many farmers who depend on the fields for a living are heartbroken.

At the same time, 500,000 Chu troops crushed the Wu County of the Yue State, and the Yue State was in turmoil, and the country was already in danger of subjugation.