Li Yan said: "If you want someone to marry you now, once a war starts, what will you do if Huayin is not guaranteed?" Are you going to run away with someone? Li Dare nodded: "That naturally, I will never leave my fiancée behind." Li Yan continued: "But with your family, there is a lot of inconvenience, once you can't escape, you deserve to die, what about Qianniang?" Either die with you, or fall into the hands of the Ming army. At that time, she will be a family member of the thief army, and she will definitely die a miserable death. ”

Li Dare listened, sweat on his face dripping down: "So...... So ......"

Li Yan said: "Then if you don't force someone to marry you, she is just a woman from Huayin City, even if Huayin City is lost and the Ming army recovers the city, she will definitely not slaughter the city, then she still lives her life and waits for you to come back." When you restore the Great Qin River, you will marry her again. Isn't it better? ”

Li Dare listened, and then suddenly realized. stood up and bowed his hand to Li Yanyi: "Thank you, brother, foolish brother understands." ”

He understood, but Zhang Yi over there didn't understand.

Since occupying Huayin City, Zhang Yi has been running to Wu Xinlan almost every day. But at this time, Wu Xinlan's face changed and she refused to let him in. When they see him coming, they must tell their men to go out and close the door of the shop.

Zhang Yi begged through the crack in the door, but Wu Xinlan just sneered: "You said that you are good citizens, so why did you come into the city and kill people and set fires?" I've been fooled by you before, but now I won't, get out of here, or the girl will break your legs. ”

For several days, it was like this, Zhang Yi wore out the skin of her mouth and face, and she couldn't get in.

On the sixth day, Zhang Yi didn't come, Wu Xinlan thought that he was dead, but who knew that the Qin army was facing a great crisis, and Zhang Yi had no time to take care of her.

Just the day before, the scout Pegasus who was sent out reported that a large group of Ming troops had been discovered in the west and north at the same time, and it seemed that they were coming towards Huayin. There were fewer men and horses in the north, about four or five thousand people, and at least three thousand cavalry. There are about 10,000 men and horses in the west, and more than 5,000 cavalry.

After receiving this news, King Qin immediately summoned several important ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Wang Jian didn't seem to care too much: "We have 7,000 men and horses in our hands, and there are only more than 10,000 Ming troops, so it is impossible to capture Huayin." He had a point in saying this. Since ancient times, the defenders of the city have taken advantage. Because there are high walls and strong cities to rely on, it is much more advantageous than an unsheltered attacker outside the city. Therefore, if the city is attacked, the attacking side must have at least three times as many defenders as many as the attackers.

Now the Ming army is only more than 10,000, twice as much as the Qin army, and it is indeed not easy to capture Huayin.

Everyone agrees with these words, but Bai Qi has a different opinion: "General Wang is right, but if we just stick to it, we will become very passive, it is better to take the initiative and destroy him all the way first." ”

Wang Jian nodded: "Yes, the Ming army wants to flank our army from two directions." Like a big pair of scissors, we can break one way first, and leave the other way, and there is nothing to worry about. ”

Bai Qi said: "At present, the enemy army is still seventy miles away from Huayin, and the official army is different from those peasant armies, so they must have thought that we would take advantage of their unstable foothold and go forward to sneak attack. ”

Fan Ju said: "The general is right, the official army is different from the king of neatness, the scout reported that the official army only walks thirty miles a day, and then camps and camps, so that the soldiers are not tired, and it is our hand that is guarded." Wang Jian said: "Then we will not sneak attack, and fight fist-to-fist with them in an open and honest fight." ”

Bai Qi groaned: "There are 5,000 men and horses all the way in the north, and we only have 7,000 here, and we have to leave 2,000 to defend the city, and at most we can only draw out 5,000 men and horses." Moreover, the enemy has many cavalry, and our cavalry is less than a thousand, and this battle is not easy to fight. ”

Wang Jian said: "Don't be afraid of this, in the past few days, we have built thousands of strong crossbows, even if there are 10,000 cavalry, and we will shoot him all the time." ”

In ancient battlefields, the most effective weapon against cavalry was the crossbow. This crossbow is more than a meter long, and a person must press the crossbow body with his feet, pull the crossbow string with both hands, and use all his strength to wind it. The crossbow arrows equipped with can shoot up to 300 paces, within the effective range, an arrow can shoot people away from the horse, if it hits the horse, it will fall down immediately, and the lethality is huge.

If you line up hundreds of powerful crossbows, even if you rush together, you will have to pay great casualties.

In the past, when the Qin army fought against the strong cavalry of the Xiongnu and Zhao, this kind of strong crossbow played a huge role. Today's Qin army also attaches great importance to the equipment of strong crossbows, and as soon as they occupy Huayin, they immediately recruit skilled craftsmen in the city and build them day and night.

Wang Jian believed that the cavalry of the Ming army would also collapse when they encountered strong crossbows, and suffered heavy casualties.

However, Bai Qi's view is different, because during the Warring States period, the role of cavalry was far less powerful than today, mainly because the cavalry did not have horses, and knights could not use weapons on horses, so the cavalry at that time could only be used to harass and sneak attack the grain road, and it was of little use on the main battlefield. The cavalry also did not have decent armor.

But the current Ming army is different, Bai Qi has already seen the Ming cavalry in Huayin City, they can clash back and forth, stab and slash, and even some cavalry are equipped with iron plate armor, which is not easy to shoot through. Therefore, it is not known how effective the tactics formed by the Qin army for hundreds of years will be at this time.

But one thing is certain, this battle is a must-have.

The king of Qin ordered Bai Qi and Wang Jian to lead their troops to attack and first defeat the Ming army from the north. Liuziyi is in the city and guards Huayin.

Bai Qi and Wang Jian were ordered to select 5,000 elite soldiers, including 500 spearmen, 500 crossbowmen, 1,000 sword players, and 3,000 pikemen, and went out of the city to meet the attack.

They did not bring cavalry, because at this time there were not many cavalry in the Qin army, there were few war horses, and the sergeants were not fully familiar with horse pedals, so they could not use them blindly.

Five thousand men and horses left Huayin and came north.

But said that the north of this force, the general soldier is He Huchen, this person is known for his bravery in the Ming army, the five thousand elite soldiers under his command are strong in combat, these five thousand people, half of them are ironclad cavalry, these cavalry wear light Ming light armor, mobility is not affected, can run long distances. He once broke tens of thousands of peasant armies in Gansu, and was majestic.

At present, He Huchen also heard about Huayin City, and saw the notice with his own eyes, and he only smiled coldly at what was written on it, and never believed it. How can there be such a thing in the world, Qin Shi Huang can live until now?

Even if I can live until now, I, He Huchen, will be the overlord of Chu, and I will destroy you as well.

Since receiving Hong Chengchou's military order, He Huchen immediately marched into the army, at the beginning of the day 80 miles, and when there were still 100 miles away from Huayin, he ordered his subordinates to march slowly, only 30 miles a day, and to send scouts to investigate.

He Huchen can be the chief soldier, he is by no means a brave man, he has brains. On the one hand, he was afraid of the enemy's sneak attack, and on the other hand, he was also waiting for another group of people to encircle Huayin, so as not to go deep alone.

Sure enough, on this day, less than seventy miles away from Huayin City, the team was marching, and a scout came to report, saying that a group of men and horses had left Huayin City and were coming.

He Huchen asked: "How many people are there and how are they equipped?" ”

The scout replied: "There are about 5,000 men, all infantry, no cavalry. ”

He Huchen laughed: "Using infantry to fight cavalry, it seems that the leader of the general is dizzy!" How far are they? The scout said, "About fifty miles." He Huchen ordered: "Walk a little longer, and the whole army will be encamped." ”

He led the men and horses out of the seven or eight miles road, the terrain in front of him was flat, and there were two burned villages near the left, and He Huchen ordered to set up a large camp. Immediately everyone got into a hurry, set up camps, arranged deer and firewood, set up fights, and raised fires for cooking. There was jubilation.

He Huchen personally took dozens of personal soldiers, rode fast horses, and looked forward, they ran out of more than 20 miles, rode up a hill, and looked far away. Sure enough, I saw a black crowd in the distance, heading here. He Huchen made a rough calculation, and sure enough, there were about 5,000 people, there was no cavalry, and they were all infantry troops. And the team is not neat, there is no flag, no matter how you look at it, it is a group of people's army.

After watching it for a while, He Huchen was relieved, and ordered to return to the camp and send men and horses to strictly inspect at night, so as not to be robbed of the village, and prepare for a battle tomorrow.

At the same time, the Qin army was also preparing.