"Fifty thousand? Thirty thousand? Yue Wangjiu was incredulous, paused, and asked in a tone of lack of confidence: "Xiangguo, why do you say this?" ”

Hearing this, Qian nodded vigorously, and then explained: "Great King, it has been nearly twenty days since the Chu people seized Wucheng, and all countries must have known that Chu intends to annex our Yue State, and in order to prevent Chu from becoming a single country, all countries must have sent troops to attack Chu State."

Imagine, in this case, it is still difficult for the Chu State to protect itself, and there are still more than 100,000 troops there to attack Yuedi. Therefore, the minister thought that this must be the Chu people who wanted to intimidate us, so they were tricked. ”

Yue Wangjiu nodded again and again when he heard this, but before his heart landed, Yue Kui on the other side suddenly spoke: "Xiangguo, if the Chu people really have more than 100,000 troops to help, how can Xiangguo defend the city?" ”

Qian Belly's face darkened when he heard this, as if he didn't hear it, and he was silent.

And when Yue Wangjiu heard this, his pale face was even more dead.

At this time, in the Chu camp, after Sima Jian settled the army, he came to the main tent where Tang Yu was, and after saluting, he asked: "General, now that the reinforcements have arrived, I don't know what the situation is in Huiji City, when will the siege begin?" ”

Tang Yu said with a smile: "There are very few soldiers in Huiji City, and they have been surrounded by this general, and the Yue people who came to support are not allowed to enter the city, and Huiji City at this time is already a lonely city, so there is no need to worry."

As for the Yue people in other places, the scouts came to report that the Yue people began to gather in Zhuji and Shangyu, but so far, none of the Yue people gathered in the two places exceeded 20,000. Previously, Ben would have led 50,000 Chu troops to besiege the city here, so they didn't dare to come to Huiji for reinforcements. Now that Ben General has an army of nearly 200,000 men, they are even more afraid to come to reinforcements.

When Ben will break through Huiji City, with the low and dilapidated city walls of Zhuji Shangyu and a group of hastily recruited strong men, they will be vulnerable at all.

There is no need to be in a hurry about the siege of the city, the general led the army from Yingdu to Huiji, tired from afar, and needed to rest for three days, and after three days, the army attacked the city with all its might. ”

When Sima Jian heard this, he knew that he was not too late, so he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "The last general is willing to listen to the general's orders." ”

Tang Yu nodded.

Then, the Yue people in the city saw that the Chu people had not attacked the city for a long time, and thought that as Xiangguo Qian said, the Chu people were just bluffing, and there were not many reinforcements coming, so they did not dare to attack the city. For this reason, the anxious heart is full of stability.

Early in the morning three days later, the generals gathered in the main tent, and Tang Yu ordered: "General Tang Lin, I will give you 10,000 troops, immediately go to the outside of Shangyu City, threaten Shangyu City, stop the Yue people in Shangyu, and come to support Huiji when our army is attacking the city." ”

"No."

"The general is fighting, I will give you 10,000 Chu troops to contain the Yue people in Zhuji."

"No."

"General Zhaoying, I will give you 50,000 Chu troops to attack the east gate. General Sima, the general will also give you 50,000 Chu troops to attack the West Gate, and the rest of the soldiers will all go with the general to attack the North Gate. ”

"I also told the soldiers below that after the city is broken, all the finances in the city will be handed over to the Taifu, and all will be distributed to the soldiers, and I hope that the soldiers will go all out. Break through the Huiji, and the general will definitely ask for credit in front of the king. ”

When the generals heard this, they were all overjoyed. Conquering the city will certainly not be less, and the property in the city does not have to be handed over, which is an unexpected joy.

Huiji City is the largest city in Yuedi, and it is the heart of Yuedi, and nearly half of the wealth of Yuedi is gathered here.

With so much wealth, even if it is shared by an army of more than 100,000, it is a windfall.

Thinking about it, the generals shouted excitedly: "Fight with all your strength and swear to break the city." ”

Seeing that the generals' fighting spirit was mobilized, Tang Yu nodded and said loudly: "Okay, the last vicious battle to destroy the Yue Kingdom is here, I hope the generals will go all out to break through Huiji City and destroy the country and return." ”

As he spoke, Tang Yu shouted: "Pass on my generals, attack the city!" ”

Soon after, more than 100,000 Chu troops slaughtered out of the camp, and then divided into five, killing towards their respective targets.

City.

After the Chu army left the camp, the Yue Wang Jiu on the city wall looked at the Yue army surging like a tide, and roughly calculated, there were at least 150,000 people.

Seeing this, the heart that was about to sink to the bottom suddenly jumped to his throat, and said in shock: "Xiangguo, there are many Chu soldiers, and what can they do about it?" ”

Cold sweat broke out on Qian Bei's face, and he paused, and then hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the king, although there are many people in Chu, but in the face of the tall city and the Yue people in the city, the city can be safed in a short time."

Half a month ago, the minister had already ordered that soldiers be recruited from all parts of the Yue country, and now that half a month has passed, it will not take ten days and eight days for warriors from all over the country to gather outside the city of Huiji, at that time, the city has the support of reinforcements, and it will definitely be able to hold on.

Therefore, please don't worry."

Before the words fell, I saw two Chu armies of about 10,000 people, without any signs of stopping, one east and one west towards the distance.

Yue Kui saw that the two Chu armies continued to move forward, gradually moving away from Huiji City, and then, looking in the direction where the Chu army was going, his face suddenly changed greatly: "It's not good, there are Chu troops going to Zhuji and Shangyu." ”

Qian Bei's face also changed when he heard this, and he hurriedly looked at the east and west, and sure enough, there was a Chu army on each side that was quickly moving away from Huiji.

There is no doubt that the purpose of these two Chu armies was to contain the rest of the Yue Kingdom and prevent reinforcements from coming to support Huiji City. In this way, wouldn't reinforcements from all over the country not be able to come in a short time?

Thinking of this, Qian's whole body suddenly stiffened, his breathing became rapid, and he didn't react when he was half-ringing.

At the same time, the other ministers of the Yue Kingdom on the city wall were also constantly looking at Zhuji Shangyu, and their faces were not good-looking. What's more, his eyes kept flashing, as if he already had other ideas.

At this time, the 50,000 Chu army led by Tang Wu himself had already set up a position outside the city and was ready to attack the city.

As soon as the Chu army was in formation, Tang Mo squinted his eyes and looked at the city, without waiting for news from the other sides, and directly ordered: "Order, beat the drum, and the vanguard will immediately attack the city." ”

"No."

Soon, the Chu army, which was at the forefront, strode forward to the beat of drums.

Because it took ten days to build engineering equipment, resulting in insufficient large-scale equipment, the Chu army that set off first, only a small number of Xuan chariots could defend against arrows, and most of the soldiers were holding shields to open the way in front, followed by shields, there were a large number of archers and soldiers pushing cloud ladders and holding wooden ladders.

The vanguard advanced rapidly, and was still more than two hundred paces from the city, when it was fired at by sparse arrows.

This kind of arrow is like a spear, and it is extremely powerful, but whenever it hits the shield, there will be a loud "bang", and then it will penetrate the shield and shoot directly at the soldier who raised the shield.

This is a large crossbow that requires several people to wield.

However, because Huiji is located in the rear of the Yue Kingdom, there has been no war in the past two hundred years. Therefore, there were very few strong crossbows on the city wall, and the Chu army paid a slight price, so they braved the arrows to kill under the city wall.