Chapter 1784: Ancestral Dragon (I)

"My lord, the last general is incompetent."

The three generals of the Chonghei Tiger bowed their heads together and pleaded guilty.

Seeing this, Liu Xiu sighed, helped the three of them up one by one, and said with relief: "It's not your fault, Meng Heng has made sufficient preparations in advance, the Jiangling defenders are not more than 10,000, but 1,500 defenders are divided to defend against the three of you, and you can be regarded as sharing a lot of pressure for our army to attack the city." ”

Hearing Liu Xiu's words, the faces of the three generals improved a lot, but Chonghei Hu was still unwilling.

"Lord, let's attack the city at night, once it's late and the line of sight is blocked, even if the night attack is discovered by the Qin army, the crossbowman will definitely not be able to shoot so accurately, and he will definitely be able to climb the city tower by the end of the day." Chonghei Tiger said confidently.

Liu Xiu's eyes also lit up, and he smiled: "You can give it a try." ”

After that, Liu Xiu decisively ordered to stop the siege and the whole army withdrew to the camp, after all, it was a desperate loss to attack it, and the foundation of Chu was far inferior to that of Qin, so it was impossible to consume all the precious troops on the siege.

Late that night, Liu Xiu led more than 10,000 troops, as well as Chongheihu, Wei Wentong and other generals, to prepare to launch a night attack on Jiangling City.

Looking at the Jiangling City Tower, Liu Xiu couldn't help but secretly stabilize in his heart, but he had just ordered the attack, and suddenly countless torches lit up on the Jiangling City Tower, shining the entire city gate in the night sky as if it were day, and then a rain of arrows shot down from the city tower, killing a large number of Chu army soldiers.

"Haha, Liu Xiu, do you really think that Ben would never have thought that you would come to attack at night?"

Meng Heng appeared in the city tower and shouted to the city: "If you want to capture Jiangling, you can come and try it, see if you have more people in the Chu army, or if my Qin army has more arrows." ”

Liu Xiu, who has always been calm and calm, had a rare trace of anger in his eyes at this time, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Meng Hui, you wait for this king." ”

After speaking, Liu Xiu turned his head to the left and right and said, "Withdraw the army and return to the camp." ”

Chonghei Hu looked puzzled and said, "Lord, this is not going to fight?" ”

"Do you still fart, use the flesh and blood of our soldiers to consume the bows and arrows of the Qin army?" Liu Xiu didn't have a good airway.

"Well, this ......" Chonghei Hu was speechless for a moment.

The Chu army came in a hurry but returned in defeat, thinking that the night attack could make a contribution, but he didn't expect Meng Heng to think about it so thoroughly, and the preparations for the night battle had already been made.

Liu Xiu didn't want to fight with the Qin army, so he had to withdraw first, and then discuss carefully.

Seeing that the Chu army had retreated, Meng Heng also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, even if he prepared a large number of fire oil torches to illuminate the night as if it were day, but after all, the night was still black, and the crossbowman's accuracy could not be compared to the day, so he still didn't want to fight with the Chu army at night in his heart, but fortunately, the Chu army also didn't want to fight a war of attrition and took the initiative to retreat.

"Hold on, as long as you wait until the governor returns, the danger of Gangneung will be solved." Meng Heng muttered to himself.

Meng Hui knew that with his 3,000 defenders, 5,000 recruits, and 2,000 remnants, it would be too difficult to protect Jiangling under the offensive of 50,000 Chu troops, and the only possibility was to delay the time until the main force of Yiling withdrew.

Therefore, at the beginning, Meng Hui's main strategy was to delay time, if Liu Xiu's envoy was shot to death by Han Shizhong, he was even ready to come up with a trick to surrender.

On the other side, after Liu Xiu withdrew his troops, he immediately convened the generals to discuss how to seize the generals, but in the face of the impeccable Meng Hui, even he couldn't think of any good way, and what good ideas could other generals have?

"Report ...... Lord Qi, General Wei Zhang is back. ”

"Hurry up, please."

Wei Zhang Wei Zhang, a general of the Qin State during the Warring States Period. In 312 B.C., there were outstanding achievements such as the defeat of the Chu army, the capture of its general Qu Kuo, the beheading of 80,000, and the capture of the land of Hanzhong.

Wei Zhang was a general who was carried out by Shang Ying, and his implanted identity was a member of the Wei Yan clan who had fallen, so he naturally came under Liu Xiu's command.

The biggest feature of generals in the Warring States period is that their abilities are balanced, after all, they can get out of the way in the chaotic era of the Warring States period, and they must be excellent in all aspects, so the five dimensions will not have too many shortcomings, and Wei Zhang is naturally the same.

Wei Zhang, who has a very balanced ability in all aspects, is undoubtedly a usable talent in Liu Xiu's eyes, and Liu Xiu values Wei Zhang very much, so he gave him the task of intercepting the Qin army's reinforcements.

Before the three armies of Chu had yet to turn in Jiangling, Wei Zhang had already led an army of 70,000 to the north, responsible for intercepting and defeating the Qin army coming to help from Xiangyang.

On the Xiangyang side, Qin Zheng's reaction speed was no slower than Liu Xiu's.

The Chu army had just landed in Nanjun, and Qin Qiong's order to send reinforcements had not yet been sent back to Xiangyang, and Qin Zheng had already sent reinforcements to support Jiangling.

Qin Zheng knew that the number of defenders in Jiangling was too small to stop the 50,000 Chu army for too long, so Qin Qiong's order had not yet arrived, so he ordered Zhang Xian and Wang Gui to lead 3,000 veterans and 7,000 recruits, a total of 10,000 troops, to support Meng Heng in Jiangling.

What Qin Zheng didn't expect was that Liu Xiu had already guessed that the Qin army in Xiangyang would send reinforcements to support before the Chu army arrived in Jiangling, so he sent Wei Zhang to lead 7,000 troops to intercept it in advance.

Wei Zhang's mission was originally only to intercept the Qin army's reinforcements, but on the way, he found an area that was very suitable for an ambush, so he set up an ambush in the middle of the road, and personally led an army of 3,000 to lure the enemy.

Wei Zhang's clever trick of deception made the former army commander Wang Gui lose his mind, and directly led the former army to break away from the army to pursue, but he was ambushed by the Chu army without carelessness.

In the end, Wang Gui was beheaded by Wei Zhang himself, and the 4,000 former army was wiped out, including the precious 1,000 veterans.

Knowing that Wang Gui broke away from the army to pursue, Zhang Xian had a bad premonition in his heart, and as expected, he was ambushed.

Zhang Xian originally wanted to rescue Wang Gui's front army, but after he led the army to arrive, the front army had been wiped out, and Wang Gui had already died in battle.

Zhang Xian originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Chu army had just finished the war and was exhausted to defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop, but the soldiers under his command were mixed with new and old soldiers, among which there were too many new soldiers, and the combat strength of the whole army was too weak, and he was finally defeated by Wei Zhang's tired army.

Realizing that the combat strength of the new army was too weak, even if the Chu army was tired, it was still not an opponent, so Zhang Xian decisively ordered a retreat in the direction of Xiangyang.

Wei Zhang beheaded Wang Gui, defeated Zhang Xian, won two battles in a row, and the morale of the Chu army was even greater, and after a little repair, he came to hunt down and kill Zhang Xian.

Wei Zhang's pursuit is dozens of miles, and Zhang Xian, who is chasing and killing, is miserable, if Qin Zheng does not personally lead the army to come to the rescue, Zhang Xian's army may not be able to return to Xiangyang.

The Chu army pursued the Qin army for dozens of miles, and its physical strength was extremely exertional, so it was naturally not the opponent of the main force of the Qin army.

In the end, Wei Zhang was defeated by Qin Zheng's main force of 3,000 Qin troops, and the 6,000 army suffered more than 2,000 casualties.