Standing on the east wall of Kuiyang, Heifu observed the Chu people outside, several chariots had already arrived under the city, circling around Kuiyang to reconnoitre, and several scouts on horseback were running back to report the military situation.

A mile away in the distance, the large force of the Chu army was crossing the creek east of Liyang, and at the rising sun, Heifu roughly estimated their number.

"I'm afraid there are more than 2,000 people in the Chu army, which is three times the size of our army."

Seeing that the number of Chu troops did not reach the terrifying level of tens of thousands, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Zhai Chong smiled and said: "In this case, even if the Chu people come to attack, there is no need to be afraid, the circumference of this town is only one mile, but there are more than 700 of us, we just went to inspect it, and the soldiers were in good spirits after resting all night, which was enough to resist the attack of the Chu people." ”

Qin Mo Chengshang, who followed them to the city to watch the enemy, also interjected: "Heifu hundred generals, I have learned the art of city defense, and I can also assist the hundred generals to resist the enemy." ”

However, Heifu shook his head: "It's not a question of whether you can hold it or not, once the enemy finds it difficult to capture, you can stop and wait, just watch us." Wait and see, the Chu people came from the east, which means that the sleeping hill has fallen. Although we can resist the attack, if we stay in Liyang because of this, we will have to face more and more reinforcements from the Chu State, but we are alone. ”

"Therefore, the first thing to consider now is not how to hold on to the sun, but how to get out smoothly, we must leave this place within today, otherwise, the situation will get worse and worse."

Xu Yang came up with an idea and said: "The enemy army just sent chariots and horses to arrive at the city, and most of them are still crossing the river, and it will take a moment to reach the city, why don't you immediately order everyone to open the west gate and leave the city?" ”

"I can't run far."

Tu Si shook his head worriedly: "General Xu Bai, please see, this Chu army has brought at least thirty chariots and nearly a hundred single horses, but we have sent out all the horses that can run to deliver the letter, and the only chariot is still carrying Li Duwei, if you are entangled in the middle of it, you will not be able to get out." ”

At this time, in the distance, there was a Chu chariot soldier stopped dozens of steps outside the city, and the chariot held a long chieftain spear high, shouting and provoking towards the city, full of ugly words.

"Jing people are so brave!"

Zhai Chong was furious, took the horn bow of a soldier next to him, and aimed at the warrior charioteer is an arrow! He was worthy of being born in Shangjun Bai Zhai, and he shot a good arrow, but unfortunately the distance was too far, and the arrow fell a few steps in front of the chariot.

Seeing this, the three people on the chariot were even more rampant, and the shouting and scolding came from afar, all of them were Qin people who were courageless, generals of the defeated army, and the like.

Zhai Chong put away the horn bow, then gritted his teeth and said: "The Chu people are so arrogant! Rush out or die! ”

In the defeat of Xiangcheng, they were attacked by many Chu armies, and there were even arsonists from Chen Ying, who lost inexplicably, and they were a little unwilling. After a night's rest, morale and energy were restored, and the will to fight returned, after all, everyone was a relatively elite short-range guard.

"That's exactly what I mean."

Heifu bowed his head: "The art of war, my division is out of the country, and the army is in the enemy's land." The enemy is so big that they surround me several times, and they want to break out, but they can't get through. At this time, it is better to motivate the soldiers and fight with them! After defeating this Chu people, they seized their chariots, horses, banners, and armor, so that they could retreat westward smoothly. ”

However, they were outnumbered, and they dealt with the Chu army, which had just won the battle and was in high morale, and the victory or defeat was difficult to know. Even if you succeed in defeating the enemy, you will inevitably suffer heavy losses, at least half......

In the interval between their words, the Chu people had already approached the city and set up a formation, and it looked like an experienced military officer was commanding in an orderly manner.

Then, the two chariots drove straight to the city, and after the car stopped, a man dressed as a Qin military official approached the city under the threat of a spear behind him, and shouted loudly:

"I am on the order of General Li, Liao Ping, the five hundred lord of the town guarding the sleeping hill, and now the sleeping hill has descended to Chu, fortunately the benevolence of Duke Hu and the sleeping father, regardless of the generals, they all survived. Tu Baijiang, you don't have to resist, it's better to surrender quickly! ”

"It's really Liao Ping who guards the sleeping hill."

Tu Si spat and scolded: "I usually think that although this person is old, he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and sure enough, he actually descended." Not only did he become a 'military thief', but he also involved hundreds of soldiers, and their poor parents, brothers, wives and children were all accepted as subordinate concubines. ”

In Qin's military law, the worst behavior was not the loss of a division and territory, but surrender.

Fortunately, Nanjun is okay, in Guanzhong, which has been immersed in Qin Law for more than 100 years, before the father sends his son, the brother sends his younger brother, and the wife sends her husband to join the army, they will warn each other: "If you break the law and leave the order, if you die, I will die, and the township will be governed." "The subtext is that even if it is for the sake of your family, you must obey military orders, fight hard, and never be a deserter, or even surrender......

Therefore, in order not to affect their families, many Qin soldiers would rather die in battle than surrender.

The same is true for Heifu, surrender is his worst option, not to mention, he also knows the general trend of Chu's destruction. The surrender was a temporary reluctance, and a few years later, the state of Chu collapsed, waiting to be liquidated by Qin Law and become a subordinate to build the Great Wall for the first emperor?

Everyone in the city has this attitude, and the five hundred lords have dedicated their beds, which is probably the reason why the Chu people came so quickly, even if they resist for an hour, they have now left safely.

This assumption was meaningless, but seeing the five hundred lords squandering to surrender, Heifu had an idea.

"The enemy doesn't know that there are more than 100 people in the city?"

It's a pity that the five hundred lords then said to Tu Si that he should also persuade the five hundred lords who entered the city last night to surrender together.

"It seems that the enemy general already knows, it must be that when we entered the city yesterday, we were discovered by the scouts of the Chu State who were observing from a distance."

However, the scouts of the Chu people only knew that there were hundreds of people entering the city, and thought that it was a leader or a five-hundred-hundred-lord lord, but they didn't expect that there was a big fish like Li You in the city.

Heifu was a little discouraged, he also thought that if the enemy did not know the number of people in the city, he would play an "empty city plan" to tempt the Chu people to take over the city, and then suddenly attack, it seemed that he had to make another plan.

At this time, Zhai Chong began to draw his bow again, intending to shoot the traitor Liao Ping with an arrow.

Heifu hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Zhai Chong, and said to everyone: "I have made up my mind, and I will gather everyone in the city later and go out of the city to attack the enemy!" But before that, maybe we can make a plan to let the Chu people relax their vigilance, so that we have a little more chance of winning......"

Xu Yang frowned: "How to calculate it?" ”

Heifu didn't want to say now: "This policy must be implored by Li Duwei's approval, and it must be implemented by wise and brave people to have a chance to succeed!" ”

Just now, when the Chu people sent a chariot to serve the scouts, Heifu had already left the battlements, not letting the people outside see his appearance, and said to Tu Si at this moment:

"Tu Bai will continue to stay here, and reply to the thief, just say that we will send someone out to discuss in a while!"

……

"General Dou, General Sun, the people in the city said that they would send someone to discuss later."

"If there is a sense of surrender in the city, it is good."

Although the Chu army defeated the Qin people in the final battle, Sun Feng still remembered the scene where Li Xin's army defeated the Chu people outside the city of Bedqiu.

All he had to do now was to finish his mission as soon as possible, return to the territory, and repair the walls and houses that had been destroyed during the war.

"It seems that the Qin people were really scared by General Xiang Yan, and this is already the third group of guards who are willing to surrender."

Hu Gong Douran sat on the chariot, and after receiving the reply from the Qin general, he smiled with satisfaction.

As the eastward migration of the Ruo Ao family, Dou Ran's family has not been comfortable in the past few decades, Huainan and Huaibei good territory has been occupied by Qu, Jing and Zhao, and recently the Xiang family has been updated and risen, and it has become one of the courts. And their Dou clan can only be reduced to a second-rate aristocrat like the Sun family, barely surviving in Hu County.

But this is already good, if the Qin army destroys the Chu State, the Dou clan and the Sun clan will lose even the last territory.

Fortunately, when the Qin army pressed the border, the Chu people were rarely united under the danger of losing the country, and the nobles also did their best to send their best soldiers out and hand them over to Xiang Yan to command, and defeated the invincible Li Xin with the strength of mourning soldiers, so that the Chu State avoided the fate of the country.

After the decisive battle of Xiangcheng, Dou Ran, who led troops north from Huxian to reinforce the north, was only halfway through when he received a new order: to recover the provinces that had been captured by Li Xin.

So Dou Ran led his army westward, relying on the assistance of the local Chu people, and successfully besieged Bedhill.

The five hundred lords guarding the sleeping hill found that they had to face not only more than a thousand Chu soldiers, but also the Chu people in the city who would make trouble at any time, and wisely chose to surrender.

Sun Bong was released from captivity and reinstated as his father-in-law. So the two of them joined forces together and continued westward with 2,000 men, their ultimate goal being to join the army besieging Pingyu along the route that Li Xin had taken.

Although the Qin people in the city of Liyang showed their willingness to surrender, Dou Ran was not careless, he let his men wait for the battle, and set up his own big tent, the nobles of the Chu State are very particular about etiquette, and they will be able to use it when they surrender.

When the big tent was erected, the Chu soldiers outside also came to report that the people sent by the city had arrived.

"Bring it in."

Dou Ran sat in the middle of the big tent, Sun Feng sat beside him, and Liao Ping, the five hundred lord of the Qin people who surrendered, also sat below.

But outside the tent, there were two rows of Chu people in red leather armor, both holding halberds in both hands, and the halberds were crossed. At this moment, the sunlight has poked its head out of the stratus clouds, reflecting on the blades, shimmering and reflecting, shining the road ahead, and more than ten Chu soldiers also brushed their faces and looked at the people in the city, their round eyes were full of murderous energy!

The man who came was a black-faced man seven and a half feet tall, and he wore his right bun and a red scarf wrapped around it. The man looked at the road ahead of the two halberds and hesitated for a while, and then walked slowly with his head down, but the trembling of his legs could not hide it.

After entering the camp, he immediately saluted Dou Ran and Sun Feng, and said in a thick Nanjun Jingchu dialect: "The villain is heartfelt, he is the tun chief sent by the five hundred lords in the city to negotiate surrender, and he has seen all the generals!" ”