"That's really nonsense."

Looking at Xiang Cheng in the distance, Zhai Chong said to Heifu: "This small city, even if it is full of people, there can be at most thirty or forty thousand, where is the 100,000 army?" ”

Xiangcheng was originally an independent Xiang State in the Spring and Autumn Period, but was destroyed by the Lu State during a princes' alliance. Later, it was obtained by the Chu State, and the King of Chu gave this place to a prince, so he took Xiang as the clan, which is the origin of the Xiang clan of the Chu State. Xiang was not conspicuous in the Spring and Autumn Period, but after the Chu State moved eastward, it became more and more prominent, and now Xiang Yan has become the real "pillar country" of Chu State.

As the end of the chasm, Xiangcheng is a busy trading center in peacetime, and in wartime, it is a place where soldiers from the south to the north must fight. Under the management of the Xiang clan for hundreds of years, the city here is larger than the ordinary county, the wall is also higher, and there is more Yingshui as the shelter, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the city head is already full of soldiers, ready to meet the enemy at any time

"Even if it's only 30,000, it's not a lot."

Hefu looked back at his own well-established troops, but they were only three thousand.

After breaking through Dun County, they rested for two days, left a few soldiers to defend, and then continued to go south, today is the seventh day of the first month of October, three thousand soldiers arrived in Xiangcheng seven or eight miles away, and began to stop and camp, here is the plain through which Yingshui flows, a horse and a flat river, standing at the head of Xiangcheng City, you can see their behavior clearly.

"What do you mean, Captain?"

After receiving the order to assist in camping, his colleague Zhai Chong whispered to Heifu: "He knows that there is an army of Chu in Xiangcheng, and he dares to bring our 3,000 people to camp nearby, so he won't wait for the main force of Huaiyang?" ”

This is the strangest place for Zhai Chong, coming from Huaiyang, there is obviously no Chu State Pass, but looking at the north bank of Yingshui, General Li Xin's main force is nowhere to be seen.

Heifu smiled, although Li You did not explain the combat strategy issued by Huaiyang to his subordinates out of secrecy, Heifu had already guessed a rough idea.

"The art of war is cloudy, and those who can make the enemy self-defeating will also benefit."

Since borrowing a few volumes of "Wu Sun Tzu" brought by Li You to watch, Heifu can also pop out a few sentences of "Art of War" and "Sun Tzu Said" from time to time, and in order to be promoted in the future, Heifu is trying his best to package himself as a literate military official.

He pointed to Xiang Cheng, who was standing full of soldiers observing the movement here, and then pointed to themselves: "We are the small profits used to lure the enemy!" ”

"Hiss......" Zhai Chong gasped when he heard this, and he also understood, no wonder the lieutenant only brought such a small number of soldiers, and blatantly camped not far from the city, daring to love these Nanjun soldiers, just a bait.

But the bait is there, where is the hook?

"We only have 3,000 people, and we have traveled for two days, if Xiangcheng sends tens of thousands of soldiers to attack, wouldn't it be ......?"

Zhai Chong looked left and right, but he didn't see where his ambush was, especially on the north bank of Yingshui, which was even more empty, and he couldn't help but be worried.

Heifu comforted him and said, "Have you forgotten that after leaving the city the day before yesterday, there was a commander with a thousand soldiers, along with two thousand prisoners from Yingchuan County, who disappeared without a trace?" By the way, that Qin Mo Chengshang is also among them, guess what they are going to do? ”

"Escorting grain?"

"How much grain do you have to escort so many people?"

Heifu smiled: "I looked back, they went in the direction of Yingshui, if I am not mistaken, there is already a partial division in Huaiyang, relying on these people to answer, smuggled from near Dun County, and now, they have long followed us far behind." ”

Otherwise, how dare they be so unscrupulous with only 3,000 people?

The events that followed proved Heifu's conjecture, and the Qin cavalry Pegasus kept in touch with Li You in the rear, and Li You relied on the friendly troops behind him, and he became more and more chaotic. He chose a damp and hilly place that could not be used as a camping point in the art of war, and asked the soldiers to move stones and cut trees, build barracks, and set up a military flag that was also crooked, and it looked like the main general would not use the soldiers, and his morale was low.

However, the gate of Xiangcheng in the distance was closed, and it seemed that the Qin army that came to the city rashly had no idea at all.

The first time he failed to lure the enemy, Li You had no choice but to stop the performance and let everyone rest when night fell, but secretly ordered that half of the people should be awake tonight, and there were soldiers waiting for the rest of the camp wall, and as long as there was any movement outside, they would immediately rise up to meet the enemy.

At this moment, even Heifu, who was sure that there were reinforcements behind him, broke out in a cold sweat.

"Du Wei is too hard, if Xiang Cheng really sent someone out to raid and rob the camp at night, he might really fall into the strategy and be attacked by the ambush soldiers more than ten miles behind us, but before that, the Nanjun soldiers will also suffer heavy losses......"

Fortunately, Heifu and they, as short soldiers, only need to surround Li You's big tent and guard, Heifu has made up his mind, if the Chu army really comes to attack at night, he will protect Li Youxian to retreat, don't win the battle when the time comes, but their Li Duwei died in the chaos, then he wants to cry without tears.

But the whole night passed, and the soldiers, shivering in the frost, waited nothing, and when Hefu awoke from his sleep, it was already dawn.

Li You walked out of the camp tent in a big coat, looking at Xiang Cheng, who was still closed, with a worried face.

Twice lured the enemy to no avail, it seems that the main general of the Chu army in Xiangcheng is really calm.

"Could it be that Xiang Yan is really in charge himself?"

Li You and Li Xin were both born as court officials, so he knew Li Xin very well, this Li general did not like to siege the city, but liked to use the good chariot and cavalry raid to solve the problem, so he was more inclined to formulate a strategy to lure the enemy out of the city for field battles.

However, the Chu army saw the weakness of the Qin State that had just finished the battle to destroy Wei this year, and the manpower and food were not very abundant, so they planned to concentrate their forces and defend the dangerous and fortified city?

The next day, a thousand soldiers and two thousand men who had been left behind the previous day followed, and they brought not only new wagons of grain and straw, but also many carts of wood, ropes, and the like.

Heifu knew that this was Li You's third time to lure the enemy, and they wanted to build a pontoon bridge on the Yingshui River in front of the Xiangcheng Chu army.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a way to build a pontoon bridge by "building a boat as a beam", and even across the big river, which is more than 100 meters wide.

At noon, dozens of wooden boats came from the upper reaches of Yingshui, which were temporarily collected and plundered in the coastal cities.

Li You gave an order, and this time the Nanjun soldiers simply put down the weapons in their hands and went into battle together, helping to build a pontoon bridge in the already a little cold river......

This scene made Heifu's heart tremble, even if he knew that this was a lure to the enemy, but if the Chu army sent a car to ride out of the city, it would come in an instant, and the thousands of people who were busy working by the river were easy to fall into chaos, you know, the Nanjun soldiers were never elite.

He held his sword and stared at the direction of Xiangcheng, and at the head of the city, there seemed to be someone looking this way.

"The gates seem to be opened......"

Heifu stared at it for a while, and suddenly he spoke, and the short guards who were sitting on the ground waiting next to him immediately became agitated and stood up with their shields.

But when I saw Xiangcheng, there were some black spots out of the city gate, and then carried billowing smoke and dust, galloping towards this side!

It's a tank.

Hundreds of horses and chariots galloped on the road, and a horse and a flat river on the south bank of Yingshui were the frontiers that were conducive to the chariots galloping and fighting, and the target of the chariots was the Qin army, which was busy building pontoon bridges by the river and looked chaotic......

The chariots of the Warring States period were used to trap the battle!

They were the heavy tanks of their time, far less agile than cavalry, but with superior impact and destructiveness.

Before and after the enemy, the course is undecided, and it is trapped. The banner is disturbed, and the number of people and horses moves, and it is trapped. The soldier is either in front of him or behind, or left or right, and he is trapped. Chen is not strong, and the soldiers take care of each other, that is, they fall into it. Go to doubt, then fear and cowardice, that is, fall into it. The three armies were frightened, and they all rose thinly, and they fell into it. If you fight in a different place, you can't solve it, that is, you will fall into it. Traveling far away and giving up at dusk, the three armies are afraid, and they are trapped!

These eight are also the resorts of cars!

Hefu muttered the description of the chariot in the art of war, his palms were covered with viscous sweat, although he had fought several siege battles, he had never encountered an enemy in the field, and he had no experience in facing the impact of chariots.

"Eight wins in the chariot, the other party is complete, Li Duwei is really a desperate actor, don't make it come true in the end."

"Herald, immediately fly to the rear and report, the short soldiers will come with me!"

Li You didn't have any fear on his face, seeing that the Chu army, which had been lured for a long time, finally got out of the city, he also drove in front of the Qin army, and loudly ordered those soldiers who pretended to build pontoon bridges, but were actually hiding among the people and waiting for orders, to return to the shore and prepare to meet the enemy!

Even if the chariots were full of impact and were now two miles away, Li You knew that as long as he could hold them for a while, the Qin army chariots five miles away behind him would be able to arrive in time, and then there would be tens of thousands of Qin army divisions, and at that time, it would be the period of destruction of these elite Chu troops.

After annihilating part of the Chu army, this city was much easier to fight.

Heifu and the others followed Li You closely, holding short-bladed shields behind them, and in front of them, there were already a thousand Qin soldiers lined up, holding spears and preparing to meet the enemy! In the face of those galloping behemoths, everyone was a little uneasy.

But at this time, Hefu suddenly discovered another problem.

He hurriedly squeezed in front of Li You's car and reported loudly:

"Captain, behind the enemy's chariot, there are no vaits to follow!"

Li Youyan, who was still immersed in the excitement of successfully luring the enemy, couldn't help but change his color.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!"

Sure enough, after those chariots charged a mile away, they suddenly slowed down, and then the front team turned into a rear team, turned the head of the car, and slowly withdrew in the direction of Xiangcheng......

After they all entered the city, the more than 1,000 horsemen in ambush behind the Nanjun soldiers were late, and it was too late to hide their whereabouts at this time.

At the head of Xiangcheng City, Zhou Wen, who had been observing the Qin army for a long time, also breathed a sigh of relief.

He has good eyes, a rough understanding of the art of war, and has also been a guest of Chunshenjun, and now it is the "sun" that the Chu army specially uses to observe the enemy situation in the distance and calculate the time.

Looking at the Qin army's chariots that came out, Zhou Wen smiled and said to the Chu pawn beside him: "Hurry up and report to General Xiang, the Qin army is really luring the enemy!" ”