Chapter 223: Meng Wu died in battle
Yan Dan cut off his own head with a sword next to Yi Shui, hoping to stimulate the bloody nature of the Yan people to resist the invasion of the Qin State. But just when his head arrived in Xianyang City, Wang Ben's army also broke through the gate of Jicheng, and the Yan Kingdom was destroyed. All the women of the Yan royal family were arrested and sent to the palace of Xianyang City as slaves and maids, and all the men were reduced to slaves.
After the destruction of the Yan State, the entire Central Plains except for the Qi State has all been reduced to the territory of the Qin State, and the national strength of the Qin State has risen to a new level, and in these places, the Qin army has recruited hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, except for the troops stationed in the city, all of them were transferred to the south by Yingzheng, preparing to attack the Chu State in one fell swoop.
Because when the Qin army attacked Yan, Yan asked Qi for help, but the strong strength of Qi Wangjian in Qin, coupled with the fact that Qi Xiangguo Housheng had been bought by Qin, and he advised the King of Qi to maintain a neutral policy, so that Qi could avoid military disasters. Qi Wangjian listened to Hou Sheng's rhetoric, so he turned a blind eye to King Yan's plea for help, and his actions made the fall of Qi several years late.
Because of the destruction of the Yan State, the worries behind Ying Zheng have disappeared, so he began to resolve to destroy the last powerful prince south of the Yangtze River, the Chu State.
Li Xin and Meng Wu led an army of 200,000 to confront the Chu army, the person who led the Chu army was Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan led the troops to fight without common sense, and the surprise soldiers caught Li Xin and Meng Wu off guard, and chased the fleeing Qin soldiers all the way to the border of the southern county of Qin.
Because of the defeat of Li Xin and Meng Wu, King Yingzheng of Qin was furious, and he ordered a fierce rebuke of Li Xin and Meng Wu, ordering them to destroy the state of Chu at all costs.
Because his father was severely reprimanded by the king, Meng Tian, who did not lead the troops to the battle, was very unhappy, seeing that the war in the north had been calmed down, and only a lonely Qi country was left. Meng Tian couldn't hold it back, and attacked to find King Yingzheng of Qin.
"Meng Qing, what is the matter with seeing the widow today?" Ying Zheng was looking at a picture in front of him, and when he saw Meng Tian entering the hall, he asked with a smile.
Meng Tian knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the last general has come to ask the king for war. Now General Wang Ben has led his troops to destroy the Yan State, and the princes in the world have only Qi and Chu left. The State of Qi is already in the bag of my Qin State, and sooner or later it will become a part of my Qin State, and now our biggest opponent is the State of Chu. My father and General Li Xin were at war with the Chu army, and I heard that they had lost the battle, so the last general wanted to lead troops to help my father and pacify the Chu state for the king. ”
"Oh?" Ying Zheng smiled on his face and said to Meng Tian: "According to the widow, you can't bear to fight, right?"
"This ......"
"Okay, in fact, the defeat of Li Xin and Meng Wu is not their reason, if Changping Jun suddenly rebelled behind their backs, which caught them a little off guard, and let Xiang Yan lead the Chu army to find an opportunity, how could they suffer such a fiasco according to the ability of the two of them?" Ying Zheng told Meng Tian what happened.
So that's the case, Meng Tian is still wondering, his father knows it, and Li Xin's ability to lead the troops is only under Wang Qian, how could he be hit so seriously by the Chu army, and his feelings are that he is suffering from the enemy.
"In that case, why didn't the king send troops to destroy Changping Jun?" asked Meng Tian to Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng looked at Meng Tian, and then said: "The widow is looking for someone to attack the land of Yingchen of Changping Jun, and it just so happens that you are here, so I will leave it to you." After destroying Changpingjun, you should lead your troops to help your father. ”
"The last general thanked the king. Hearing that Ying Zheng finally allowed himself to send troops, Meng Tian was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Ying Zheng.
Meng Tian returned home, packed his bags, said goodbye to Zi Yanran and Xiao Tianci, who was already able to run, and then went to the barracks to lead the Meng family army to attack Changpingjun.
Yingchen is a small place, Changping Jun was originally the first of the Ying clan to express support for Yingzheng, so Yingzheng sealed his fief to Yingchen after the pro-government. Yingchen was originally the place of the Zhao State, but was later captured by the Qin army, and the geographical location is quite good. When Li Xin and Meng Wu led an army to attack the state of Chu, Xiang Yan sent someone to contact the king of Changping, promising that as long as he helped the state of Chu defeat the attack of the state of Qin, he would choose a place in the territory of the state of Chu that was a hundred times richer than the place of Yingchen as his fief. China Library
Chang Pingjun is a speculative businessman, after he successfully invested in Yingzheng, but was sealed to such a small place as Yingchen, he didn't know how many times he complained about Yingzheng in his heart. Therefore, after the State of Chu sent people to find him and promised a heavy reward, Changping Jun betrayed the State of Qin, and fought back and forth with Xiang Yan, and Li Xin and Mengwu were defeated, and the State of Chu also took the opportunity to recover a lot of lost territory.
When Meng Tian led the army to Yingchen, Changping Jun had already abandoned the city and fled to Chu, Meng Tian arrived in Yingchen and found that this was just an empty city, so he had to write a letter to Yingzheng to report the victory, and then stationed in Yingchen to inform his father to prepare to launch a counterattack against the Chu army.
After learning that Meng Tian was stationed in Yingchen, Xiang Yan felt that the situation was a little bad, before Li Xin and Meng Wu were attacked on their backs, but now Meng Tian is in Yingchen, Li Xin and Meng Wu are in Nanjun, and now it has become the Chu army on both sides. Originally, Li Xin and Meng Wu's 200,000 army was no longer something that the Chu army could contend with, but now that Meng Tian's army is here, can the Chu army still have the strength to fight back?
Xiang Yan couldn't sit still, and he decided to make another sneak attack on Li Xin and Meng Tian, whose morale had just settled, and defeat the Qin army from the front. If Meng Tian wanted to attack the Chu State, he had to cross the Yangtze River moat first, so there was no need to worry about it for the time being.
After deciding on the plan, Xiang Yan ordered to go down, and the Chu army took advantage of the night to sneak across the river and launched an attack on the Qin army camp stationed on the opposite bank.
Li Xin and Meng Wu led the Qin army to flee to Nanjun, across the river from the Chu army, the Qin army was not good at water warfare, and there was some water and soil discomfort in the Chu territory where many waterways were not conducive to the army's conquest, and the combat power was greatly reduced. Xiang Yan also took a fancy to this, so he decided to attack Li Xin and Mengwu's army first.
As soon as nightfall, the Chu army secretly crossed the river and assembled at two places away from the Qin army's camp. When all the Chu troops came ashore, under Xiang Yan's order, the Chu army slaughtered the Qin army camp.
Only Meng Wu and 30,000 Qin troops were stationed in the camp tonight, and Li Xin was stationed in Nanjun City with the rest of the nearly 100,000 troops, and the two camps gathered for nearly ten miles. By the time the people on Mengwu's side found out that the Chu army was sneaking up and killing, most of the Qin army was still sleeping. Hearing that the Chu army was coming, everyone put on their clothes and armor in a panic, picked up their weapons and went to kill the Chu army.
With the unpreparedness to fight unprepared, the morale of the Chu army was high, and more than 10,000 Chu troops beat the 30,000 Qin troops without the power to fight back. When Meng Wu learned of the sneak attack of the Chu army, he fought with the Chu army in armor and sword.
"Quickly go and inform General Li and ask him to lead the army to come to support. Meng Wu said to the soldiers beside him, and then swung his sword and slashed a Chu soldier who rushed over.
"General, you see, that person seems to be Meng Wu, the commander of the Qin army. On a high ground at the gate of the Qin army's camp, Xiang Yanzheng and several lieutenant generals stood here to watch the battle.
"Where is it, show me?" Xiang Yan looked at the Chu army and the Qin army fighting together in the camp.
The deputy general pointed to the door of a large tent, and Meng Tian, who was surrounded by dozens of Qin soldiers and protected, said: "There, there should be the handsome tent of the Qin army." ”
Xiang Yan saw it, he saw Meng Wu who was fighting hard in the midst of many Chu troops. "It is said that the Qin State has the Wang family and the Meng family, but the Qin State is safe, Ben Shuai didn't believe it before, but now when he sees the force of Meng Wu, he also feels that it is a little credible. Mengwu, Mengwu, no matter how brave you are tonight, I, Xiang Yan, will eat you today. Come, bring arrows. ”
Xiang Yan took the bow and arrows and aimed at Meng Wu in the camp, and the soldiers who were responsible for protecting him around him also wound their arrows and aimed at Meng Wu, who was unaware.
"Huh~" The bow and arrow left the string and shot towards Mengwu in the Qin army camp.
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