"Father, what should we do?" Xiang Qu asked his father.

Xiang Yan stood up straight under the support of Xiang Qu and Xiang Liang, and he touched the tears on his face. "Have you done everything I told you both the day before yesterday?"

"We went to do what my father had told us, but there were not many people in the army who were willing to follow us, and I counted that there were less than 50,000 people. Xiang Liang said.

Xiang Yan thought for a moment and said, "There are less than 50,000 people, well, it's better than nothing, and the number of people I expected is a lot more." In this extraordinary period, if these sons and daughters of the Chu State are asked to fight with us and the Qin army, some of them will naturally be unwilling. Where's the grain and grass?"

Xiang Qu replied: "Please rest assured about the grain and grass, I have gathered all the grain and grass together and transported it out of the city from the secret passage." ”

"Good. Xiang Yan nodded heavily, "Then I have nothing to worry about." Since Mi Tao is willing to surrender to the Qin people, let him go. Let's get out of town first, and then think about what to do next. ”

Xiang Yan was unwilling to surrender to Wang Qian, but the King of Chu had no fighting spirit and was unwilling to let more people pay for his throne. He, Xiang Yan, always has great ability, and it is difficult to turn the tide at this time. So he wanted to leave Shouchun City with the Chu army, and then confront the Qin army.

Fortunately, there are still nearly 50,000 people willing to follow him, with these people and horses, plus the remaining grain and grass before, Xiang Yan thinks that he can still deal with the Qin army for a while.

Mi Tao took the ministers of Chu to the gate of the city, and asked the Chu army defending the city to open the gate to welcome Wang Qian's army into the city.

Wang Jian and Meng Tian waited outside the city gate on horseback, and Meng Yi was among them. Everyone stood in a row, and behind them were hundreds of thousands of elite divisions of the Qin State, and the long halberds in the hands of the soldiers were densely packed, so that the Chu army standing on the city wall couldn't help but feel frightened.

It was still a little short of the appointed time, and everyone's eyes were looking at the city gate in the distance, as long as the city gate was not opened at the appointed time, then the Qin army began to attack the city.

"Dashuai, do you think the king of Chu will surrender?" asked a general of the Qin State to Wang Qian. This is also what others want to ask, after all, there are still 100,000 Chu troops in Shouchun City, and if they really want to attack the city, the Qin army will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

Wang Jian shook his head slightly, he didn't know if the King of Chu would surrender. Wang Jian has regarded the Shouchun Battle as the last battle in his life, and he will only allow himself to succeed and not leave a regret for half of his life. If the time arrives and the city gate is not opened, no matter what the price is, Wang Jian will knock down Shouchun City and draw a successful end to his life.

"Send the order of the commander, and when the hour comes, the city gate will not be opened, and the whole army will immediately attack the city. ”

"No. The herald who was waiting on the side responded.

The herald went down to convey Wang Qian's order to the Qin army at the four city gates, and not long after leaving, the city gate of Shouchun City slowly opened.

"Look, the gates are open. The discerning general saw the city gate open and reported to Wang Jianyu.

"Oh?" Wang Jian looked far away in the direction of the city gate. The gate opened, and out of it came a group of men and horses marching in their own direction.

All the generals of the Qin Army standing in the front row saw this scene, and Meng Tian raised one arm and waved it forward gently. Immediately behind him, a group of Qin soldiers came out of the queue and stood in two rows in front of the Qin army's formation.

The procession that came out of the city gate reached the front of the Qin army, and then stopped.

At the forefront of the horseback was Mi Tao, who got off the horse with the help of the lower man on horseback, and then took a tray from the hand of another subordinate, and then held the tray and walked to stand two feet away from Wang Qian.

"At the behest of the King of Chu, the Plain of Chu returned to His Royal Highness the King of Qin with the jade seal of the State of Chu and the crown of the King of Chu. Mi Tao bent down and held the tray and said loudly.

After Mi Tao finished speaking, the soldiers of the Qin army breathed a sigh of relief, it was naturally a good thing that the king of Chu was able to open the city and surrender, so that many people could die less. 61 Library

Wang Jian did not dismount to pick up the jade seal and crown of the king of Chu, he asked Mi Tao: "Pingyuanjun, where is the king of Chu? Why didn't the king of Chu go out of the city and surrender to Ben Shuai, but instead sent Pingyuanjun?"

Mi Tao raised his head and said to Wang Qian: "The king of Chu has not thought about tea and dinner for a few days, and today he made up his mind to surrender to the king of Qin, and it is common for him to be a little unacceptable for a while, so he handed over the jade seal and crown to me, and ordered me to explain to the marshal, and asked Marshal Wang not to blame." ”

"Pingyuanjun thinks too much, Pingyuanjun is the father of my queen of Qin, if it weren't for the war between Qin and Chu, Ben Shuai would have to meet him with courtesy when he saw the king. Well, since this is what the king of Chu meant, then Ben Shuai accepted it instead of my king. ”

After Wang Jian finished speaking, he looked at Meng Yi, "Meng Yi, you can accept these two things, and give them to the king when you see the king." ”

Meng Yi did not shirk it, and asked people to dedicate these two things, which represented the highest power of the Chu State, to King Yingzheng of Qin when they arrived in Handan.

"Let's go, let's go into town. ”

Wang Jian said that he wanted to enter the city, of course, he did not bring all the more than 500,000 Qin troops into the city, and only 20,000 people followed into the city, 10,000 were Wang Qian's subordinates, and the other 10,000 were the Mengjia army brought out by Meng Tian. The 20,000 people were mainly to collect the Chu army in the city, and to loot the treasures in the palace of the king of Chu, transport some of them back to Xianyang, and part of them were used as military salaries on the spot and distributed to all the soldiers.

But as soon as they were halfway there, they saw smoke rise into the sky, and it was supposed that there was a fire somewhere in the city.

"What's the fire in the city?" Mi Tao, who was walking side by side with Wang Jian on horseback, saw the black smoke rising in the city, and saw that the fire should not be small, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Meng Tian. Wang Jian shouted.

"The end will be. Meng Tian replied behind Wang Qian.

"You should first lead two thousand cavalry into the city to see where the fire is in the city, and if there are other circumstances, the commander will allow you to deal with it yourself. ”

Meng Tian received Wang Qian's military order and led the 2,000 cavalry of the Meng family army to gallop away.

Watching the two thousand elite cavalry roaring past him, Mi Tao couldn't help but admire: "Back then, Zhao Guo Hu Fu cavalry shooting, the Huns did not dare to invade the Central Plains, and today I see that this cavalry under the command of General Meng seems to be three points stronger than the cavalry of Zhao back then." ”

Meng Li said behind him: "Of course, not to mention that the soldiers of my Qin army are physically stronger than the Zhao people, even the war horses of my Meng family army are carefully selected, one in a hundred, of course, they are stronger than the cavalry of the Zhao State." Hearing others praise Meng Jiajun, Meng Li was very proud.

Wang Jian said with a smile: "Okay, don't brag about it, this cavalry of the Mengjia Army is almost equivalent to the expenditure of 100,000 soldiers under Ben Shuai, if there is nothing else that can be handled, not only Meng Tian, but also you are all idiots and waste." ”

Although what came out of Wang Qian's mouth was swearing, it was also very comfortable to hear in Mengli and the soldiers of the Mengjia army behind him, and they were almost able to see the road with their nostrils when they raised their heads one by one.

Meng Tian led his 2,000 cavalry to Shouchun City, but the Chu army did not stop it, and the 2,000 cavalry drove directly into the city gate and entered Shouchun City.

"General, it should be the palace on fire, you see. Meng Tian looked in the direction of the rising smoke, yes, that direction was the direction of the Chu King's Palace.

How could the palace catch fire? Meng Tian was very puzzled in his heart. "Everyone told me to hurry to the palace and bring the fire under control. ”

The palace can't be burned, Chu is located in the south of the Central Plains, and has been the richest prince among the princes in the world for hundreds of years, and the treasures in the palace must be countless. If it is burned like this, how much military pay will be lost?

Thinking of this, Meng Tian was heartbroken, and rushed to the palace of the king of Chu with two thousand cavalry, no matter what, he must extinguish the fire in the palace first.