On the other side, Zhao Ju observed the coalition forces at the head of the city for several days, but saw that the coalition forces outside the city had not behaved abnormally, either building siege equipment or transporting various equipment through the chasm.

Ten days later, when Zhao Ju was inspecting the city, Yin Jun walked over quickly: "Ling Yin, the spies have come to report that the coalition army has left the camp, and after they leave the camp, they are divided into five, of which three large armies are coming to my Chen Cheng, and the other two armies are going south and north respectively. ”

The coalition is about to storm the city?

Zhao Ju's eyes froze, and he responded: "Okay, I will go to the north of the city with Ben to have a look." ”

"No."

Not long after coming to the north of the city, Zhaoju saw an army of about 50,000 people under the banner of Wei State being slaughtered towards Chen Cheng.

"Ling Yin, General Zhaoying in the east and Huang Jun in the west came to report, and a Wei army of about 50,000 people appeared on both the east and west."

"Ling Yin, the spies have just come to report that the other two coalition forces that left the camp not long ago are heading towards the mouth of my moat. It seems that their purpose is to cut off the flow of water. ”

Zhao Ju nodded, and then looked intently at the Wei army in front of him, and after the Wei army set up a formation, he saw that the equipment in the Wei army was all big shields and carts used to transport soil and fill the ditch, as well as a large number of soil bags.

Seeing this, Zhao Ju said lightly: "The coalition army is about to attack the city." ”

Saying that, Zhao Ju frowned again, and then turned his head to the Yin Jun beside him and asked, "Yin Jun, have the coalition forces outside the city divided their troops to the south in the past few days. ”

Yin Jun thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Since the coalition army arrived outside the city, our spies have been staring at them, and there is no sign of the coalition army dividing troops. ”

"The sailors of Yingshui, as well as the city of Yingnan, have you ever found signs of the coalition army crossing the river?"

"Nope." Yin Jun still shook his head and said, "I haven't received similar news in the past few days. ”

Zhao Ju nodded when he heard this, and then looked at the coalition forces outside the city with some doubts and regrets, and sighed secretly: "It's a pity that the coalition army has 700,000 people, and its strength far exceeds that of my Chen Di, and the area south of Chen Cheng is mostly empty. ”

Thinking about it, Zhao Ju said with a heavy look: "It seems that this war will not end in a short time, and some will be fought." ”

Hearing this, Yin Jun echoed: "What Ling Yin said is extremely true, this time the countries will attack me, at least for more than a year, if the war does not go well, lobbying the three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Song failed, I am afraid that this battle to defend the city will last for two or three years." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ju let out a long sigh.

On the same day, the Wei army filled the river outside the city for a day.

Then, the next day, the Qi army took over from the Wei army to start the river reclamation, and then the three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Song rotated in turn.

On the thirteenth day, when it was the turn of the Qin State to attack the city, Zhao Ju stood on the tower in the north of the city, looking at the Qin army outside the city that was constantly filling the moat and shooting arrows into the city, and his eyebrows were tightly locked: "Yin Jun, the five kingdoms attacked the city in turn, although their attack methods were the same, but how could Ben Jiang always feel that the attack of Qin and Han was not as strong as that of Qi and Wei." ”

When Yin Jun heard this, he suddenly realized: "I said how I felt strange before, I didn't find it before, but now when I hear Ling Yin say this, I find that the offensive of Qin and Han is not as strong as that of Qi and Wei, and even Song is not comparable." ”

Saying that, Yin Jun immediately arched his hand and said, "Ling Yin, the last general requests to see the siege records of the past ten days. ”

"Go ahead." Zhao Ju nodded.

After a while, Yin Jun took three rolls of bamboo slips, came to Zhao Ju's side with a hint of joy, and then handed a roll of bamboo slips to Zhao Ju and said: "Ling Yin, please see, according to the records of the recorder in the north of the city, with the coalition army chariots back and forth as a wave of attacks, the frequency of Qin attacks in a day is nearly seven waves less than that of Qi and Wei, and South Korea is stronger than Qin, but it is also three or four waves less than Qi and Wei.

This is only the situation in the north, and the most exaggerated situation is that Huang Jun is in charge of defending the west, and the offensive of Qin and Han on that side is much weaker than ours. ”

At this time, Zhao Ju looked at the general situation in the north and found that it was indeed what Yin Jun said.

After looking at it, Zhao Ju handed the bamboo slip back to Yin Jun, and said with a smile: "Ben Jiang has long known that the five countries have their own ghosts, and when they attack Chen Cheng, there will definitely be some people who are cheating and playing tricks.

If they had waited for the Five Nations to fill in the moat, or to attack the city like this, they would have been confident that they would have been able to hold out until the Five Nations ran out of food until they themselves retreated. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Ju couldn't help laughing.

Seeing this, everyone on Zhao Ju's side laughed with him, and for a while, the city tower was filled with Chu Jiang's hearty laughter.

Two months after the siege of the city by the Five Kingdoms, the moat was completely filled in, and the coalition forces officially launched an attack on the walls of Chencheng.

This time, the five countries were still taking turns attacking Chen Cheng.

Soon, ten days passed in a flash.

On the night of the tenth day, the results of the battle losses of the Chu army on the three city walls were summed together.

At this time, when Yin Jun saw the result, he handed over the result to Zhao Ju on the main throne and said with a smile: "Ling Yin, as expected, Qin and Han are still as passive as before, not only Qin and Han, but even Song State deliberately preserved their strength when they stormed Chencheng, and did not attack the city with all their might. ”

When Zhao Ju heard this, he immediately took the battle report from Yin Jun's hand, and then quickly browsed it.

Sure enough, the Qi and Wei attacks on Chencheng were the strongest, and every time the Qi and Wei attacked the city, the casualties of the Chu army were the largest, almost reaching more than 2,000 people per day.

Of course, most of the more than 2,000 people were wounded, and about one-tenth of them were killed in battle.

And every time the other three kingdoms attacked the city, the casualties of the Chu army were all greatly reduced. Even, when the Qin army attacked the city the day before yesterday, the western city wall guarded by Huang Jun was less than ten dead. Of course, Huang Jun's troops also had very little gain, and after most of the Qin soldiers climbed the city wall, they quickly retreated as soon as they saw that the situation was not right, and the soldiers defending the city often couldn't catch up.

When Zhao Ju saw this, he immediately sighed, if Qin and Wei also attacked the city like this, then he could hold Chen Cheng for two hundred years.

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A month later.

On this day, it was the turn of the Qin army to attack the city.

At this time, Kuang Zhang and Gongsun Xi stood silently at the back of the battlefield, watching the Qin army attack the city.

Although the sound of fighting on the battlefield was not as small as when they were attacking the city of Qi and Wei, and even more so, the two of them saw that the envoys of the Qin army climbed the city wall in a hurry, and then most of them did not climb the city wall, so they fell down inexplicably, and even if someone could climb the city wall, they all jumped off the city wall without a few breaths.

And the Chu army also seems to have formed a tacit understanding with the Qin army, if they cut the first knife, they will never cut the second knife, and they will not pursue those who retreat, just like the style of ancient gentlemen.

After the two watched the battle for two hours, they saw that the Qin army was circulating so repeatedly, and basically no Qin soldier could hold on to the city wall for ten breaths.

Seeing this, both of them were cold.

Especially Gongsun Xi, when he saw the scene of the Qin army attacking the city, he couldn't help but think of the battle he participated in twenty years ago when the Five Kingdoms attacked Hangu Pass.

That time, only the Three Jin Dynasty really attacked Hangu Pass, and Chu Yan was full of people on the battlefield, and the Five Kingdoms attacked Hangu Pass for nearly a year, but they did not shake Hangu Pass in the slightest.

And this time, it seems that the tragedy is repeating itself.

No, this time it's even worse, this time only two countries have contributed, but three countries are mixing.

Thinking about it, Gongsun Xi said to Kuang Zhang with an ugly face: "Zhangzi, we can't go on like this, if our five countries are still attacking the city like this, often our Qi and Wei countries have just suppressed the morale of the Chu people, and then after the siege of the three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Song, the morale of the Chu people has risen again."

After such repetition, I am worried that the Chu people have not broken their muscles and bones, and our Qi and Wei countries will not be able to withstand it first. ”

"Yes, we can't go on like this." When Kuang Zhang heard this, he also nodded with an unsightly face.

He now knows why in the previous battle of Hangu Pass, the five countries attacked the Qin State for nearly a year, not only did not suppress the arrogance of the Qin State, but made the arrogance of the Qin State even more arrogant, so that later the Qin army dared to go out of the city to fight, and launched a counterattack against the coalition army that far exceeded his own side, and then the million coalition army of the five countries collapsed at the touch of a button.

If the fight continued like this, Kuang Zhang doubted that a year later, the Chu people would go out of the city to launch a counterattack against the two countries of Qi and Wei, and then the two countries were defeated, and then the five countries withdrew.

Then, Kuang Zhang remembered the war of various countries more than ten years ago, as well as the last war of the Six Kingdoms.

In these two wars, all countries have gone all out.

The same coalition of countries, why is there such a big difference?

Kuang Zhang's mind turned, and he figured it out.

Although the strength of one country can bring other countries together to form a coalition, only interests can drive countries to move forward.

Regardless of whether it is the previous Vaqi or Vachu, as long as each country wins, it can directly obtain a large number of benefits.

And this time the five countries attacked Chendi, Qin and Qi did not have any direct benefits, and the benefits of Song and Han were also few, only Wei had the greatest benefits

So...

Thinking about it, Kuang Zhang hesitated for a moment, turned his head to look at Gongsun Xi and said: "General Xiwu, now that the Five Kingdoms are attacking Chu, the three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Song are slow, and the siege is weak, at this moment, I don't know what the general's opinion is?" ”

When Gongsun heard this, he was immediately silent.

He naturally knew why the Three Kingdoms were so weak in attacking Chen Cheng, but if he wanted him to come up with a way, he couldn't come up with it.

It's not that there is no way, but that you don't want to speak.

For example, if the coalition army is divided into two now, and the Qin-Han coalition army is allowed to attack Yingnan, then the Qin-Han coalition army will definitely explode impulsively and frantically like a chicken blood.

But this is very disadvantageous to the Wei State, and even the benefits are not much harmful.

So...

Gongsun Xi was silent for a long time, and then said helplessly: "General Zhangzi, in order to continuously exert pressure on the Chu people and prevent the Chu people from recovering their morale, I thought that I could let the five countries attack the city together, and I would attack the northeast and the northeast and let the Qin and Han countries attack the west." ”

When Kuang Zhang heard this, he thought about it, there was no better way, and he didn't want to say what Gongsun Xi didn't want to say.

Although he is the commander of the coalition forces, other countries will not listen to him.

When the Three Kingdoms attacked the city, what could he do, persuade each other with good words, the Three Kingdoms may not listen, severely reprimand, the Three Kingdoms will be dissatisfied, kill people and establish authority, then the Three Kingdoms will immediately defect.

Thinking about it, Kuang Zhang said helplessly: "Good, the general is reasonable." ”

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