Xiang Kang, who was unwilling to give Li You, the famous general who defended the city at the end of Qin, had too much time to prepare for the battle, and Xiang Kang, who had never liked to attack the fortifications head-on, finally hardened this time, with a total of only about 23,000 troops, and dispatched more than 20,000 people in one go, and directly killed under the Outer Yellow City with great momentum, and at the same time, the young marshal soldiers who stayed in the camp were still hurrying to make siege weapons, and they had already put on a posture of never giving up if they did not take the small city of Waihuang.

The main force of the young marshal army did not frighten Li You, the second generation of the most competitive officer of the Great Qin Empire, when defending Xingyang, Li You, who had more than 200,000 troops in Wu's vast army, had seen it and never been afraid, not to mention the young marshal army with a total strength of only one-tenth of Wu Guangjun's army?

What worries Li You is the city defense situation of Waihuang Town, an ordinary county-level small city, the rammed earth city wall is less than three zhang high, less than half a zhang thick, old and dilapidated, the city defense equipment is obviously insufficient, the moat is shallow and narrow, even if it is excavated desperately in less than two days, the width of the moat is only more than half a zhang, even if it is an ordinary trench bridge car, it can easily build a trench road on the trench, and the blocking effect can be quite limited.

Although the fighting spirit of the Sanchuan veterans was tenacious, even if they suffered a crushing defeat on the Jiyang battlefield, more than 5,000 Qin soldiers had fled back to Waihuang and returned to the team, but the weapons were seriously lost, and the most important bows, crossbows, feathers, and arrows were seriously lacking, which could not support much time. In addition, the residents of Waihuangcheng were also frightened by the repeated tug-of-war, and were unwilling to take the initiative to help the Qin army defend the city.

Internal and external troubles and difficulties, but Li You still looked calm, and quickly divided the only more than 5,000 troops in his hands into five teams, four of which were on duty at four gates, and led one team as the general reserve, calling on the generals of the Qin army to defend the city with the determination to die. However, after the generals of the Qin army hugged their fists together and agreed, Wu Qingxiang, a beloved general who had suffered an injustice, suddenly jumped out and said to Li You: "Junzun, please let the last general lead the troops to guard the north gate of Waihuang and face the main force of the Chu thieves head-on!" ”

The main force of the young marshal army has begun to line up outside the Outer Yellow North Gate, and the main attack direction should be the Outer Yellow North Gate, Li You is also the same judgment as Wu Qingxiang, but considering that Wu Qingxiang is in a state of rage, Li You is inevitably a little hesitant, and for the first time, he does not want to let his own hand-drawn right-hand general Wu Qingxiang pick up the heaviest burden. Wu Qing saw Li You hesitate, and couldn't help but be even more aggrieved and angry in his heart, and said loudly: "Junzun, please let the last general guard the North Gate of Waihuang!" ”

After looking at Wu Qingxiang, whose eyes were already red, Li You hesitated again, nodded again, and said, "Okay, you guard the north gate, but be careful, don't be impulsive." ”

Wu Qingxiang agreed loudly, and hurriedly sent someone to pass the order, so that the army assigned by Li You to his command quickly ascended to the north gate of Waihuang, and waited with a murderous face for the young marshal's army to launch a frontal attack. Li You quickly arranged the defenders of the other three gates, and then did not rush back to the city to rest, while letting the reserves gather in the city, while staying on the north gate city, condescendingly observing the siege deployment of the young marshal's army.

At the same time, the young marshal's army was also ready to attack the city, but Xiang Kang was not in a hurry to arrange the siege army and the direction of the main attack, or after the young marshal's army rangers confirmed that Wu Qingxiang's 'Wu' banner appeared at the head of the north gate of Waihuang, Xiang Kang decisively issued the command, and said: "Zheng Bu, you lead the army to attack the west gate of Outer Huang, Zhu Jishi to attack the south gate, Ding Ji, Long And, the two of you each lead the men and horses of the headquarters, storm the east gate of Outer Huang, and serve as the main attack!" ”

The young marshal generals who were named by Xiang Kang agreed, and immediately took their men and horses to the battlefield they were responsible for, and Uncle Zhou next to him was a little strange and asked: "General Right, our main force is arrayed outside the North Gate of Outer Huang, why do you want to go far and attack the East Gate of Outer Huang?" ”

"Forgot the letter I wrote to General Wu Qingxiang yesterday?" Xiang Kang smiled and asked, "Since General Wu is our internal response, then why do we still attack the north gate that he guards?" Isn't this fratricide, cheapening Li Yupifu for nothing? ”

Uncle Zhou smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said: "General Right, the last general has served you, when has it been, and he hasn't forgotten to frame the discord, so that Wu Qing can't tell if he has a hundred mouths." ”

As Xiang Kang hoped, in a short time, all the units of the young marshal's army quickly entered their respective battlefields, and after launching an attack on the three gates of Waihuang, east, west and south at the same time in the sound of war drums, Wu Qingxiang, the only one who was not affected by the enemy, suddenly burst into anger and roared loudly on the north gate city, "Xiang Kang Xiaoer! Why don't you hit the north gate? Why don't you hit the north gate?! ”

"Why didn't Xiang Kang Xiaoer hit the north gate?" Li You's heart was also very suspicious, but the battle had already begun, and Li You didn't have time and mood to pay attention to the reaction of the beloved general Wu Qingxiang, so he just hurried to the Dongmen battlefield where the young marshal's army invested the most troops, and went to the front line to supervise the army to fight.

The young marshal army, which had been fully prepared for mobilization before the war, fought very resolutely this time, and the long shield team had just set up temporary fortifications outside the outer Yellow City, and the crossbowmen behind the long shield immediately cast feather arrows, desperately suppressing the defenders of the city, and then the infantry of the young marshal army pushing the trench bridge car shouted up, and rushed directly to the edge of the moat with the bow and crossbow of the Qin army, and rushed over the trench bridge with all their strength at any cost, and after paying a certain number of casualties and opening more than 20 roads to enter the army, Ding Ji and Long He immediately launched a charge, carrying a rough flying ladder to directly impact the outer Yellow City wall, another group of infantry of the young marshal army pushed the crash car to storm the city gate, and the Qin army defending the city rose up to meet the battle, and the fierce shouts of killing also rose to the sky.

The battle entered the white heat from the beginning, the flying ladders of the young marshal's army successively took the head of the outer Yellow City, and the warriors who ascended first continued to charge up, even if the flying ladders were carried by the experienced Li You sergeant who defended the city one after another, and the soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell down the flying ladder one after another, the young marshal soldiers also persevered, roaring and quickly lifting the knocked over ladder again, and set up the city wall again, charging continuously. And once a young marshal rushed to the city wall, the top of the city wall was immediately splashed with blood, flesh and blood flew sideways, and in the blink of an eye, countless blood spots were sprinkled from the city.

The city gate side is also the same tragedy, the stones thrown by the Qin army continue to fall with the sound of the wind, smashing the wooden structure of the young marshal army crashing into the city car to the wood and cracking, and also pushing the cart into the young marshal army soldiers smashed their brains, broken tendons and fractures, but the previous crash car was destroyed, and the latter crash car immediately followed without hesitation, and at the same time, the young marshal army crossbowmen behind the long shield also concentrated their firepower, shooting the feather arrows above the city gate as much as possible, desperately sharing the pressure for the crashing convoy.

The brutal fierce battle continued, and the pressure on the Qin army became more and more intense, because the soldiers of the Qin army under Li You's command this time were no longer facing the rabble under Wu Guang during the Battle of Xingyang, but the division of the young marshal army with well-organized and rich experience in actual combat, a powerful enemy who was above them in terms of experience and combat effectiveness. Although the Qin army relied on the local strength advantage to quickly chase and kill all the enemies in the upper city, but after a long time of physical strength decline, it still allowed several young marshal soldiers to successfully rush to the city wall and seize a little city head position, forcing the Qin army's east gate defenders to hurriedly dispatch reserves to rescue.

The South Gate Battlefield and the West Gate Battlefield are the same, although they are not the main attack, but Zheng Bu and Zhu Jishi, the two generals, obviously do not want to give the credit to Ding Ji and Long He, who are fighting the main attack, they all play twelve points of strength to urge the army to attack the city, and the killing is rising, Zhu Jishi also simply led the army into battle to participate in the ant battle, which greatly encouraged the morale of the young marshal and soldiers, and also brought heavier pressure to the defenders of the South Gate of the Qin army.

The situation was obviously favorable to the young marshal's army, but Xiang Kang still did not order an attack on the North Gate of Waihuang, but instead sent Uncle Zhou to lead an army to reinforce the battlefield of the East Gate, and gathered more troops outside the East Gate of Waihuang to strengthen the attack. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li You had no choice but to hurriedly order the Qin army reserves to rush to the East Gate City to wait for orders, so that they could ascend to the city for reinforcements at any time.

At this time, the weakness of the Qin army's lack of preparation gradually began to be exposed, first the stone above the city gate ran out, and was forced to use firewood and grass to set fire to the city crashing car of the young marshal's army, and then the feather arrows that were suppressed remotely were gradually sparse, forcing Li You to temporarily send people into the city to collect the feather arrows shot into the city by the young marshal's army, and send them to the city head for the defenders to use. In addition, sheep's head stones and ash bottles are also rapidly consumed in large quantities, and no matter how much they force the people to transport them to the city, they cannot keep up with the consumption rate.

"The thieves are moving too fast, just give me a few more days to prepare."

When he lamented in his heart, the thing that made Li You's soul fly suddenly happened, first there was a huge noise and roar from the direction of the north gate of Waihuang, and then another soldier stumbled and ran to report, saying: "Junzun, it's not good! General Wu, he opened the north gate and rushed out with our army! ”

"Wu Qingxiang?!" Li You was almost stunned, and yelled, "What is he doing out of the city?" Who told him out of town?! ”

At this moment, Li You even had doubts in his heart for a while, and said secretly: "Could it be that Wu Qingxiang is really a traitor and plans to sacrifice the city to Xiang Kang'er?" ”

Wu Qingxiang proved his loyalty to Li You with his actions, after leading the army out of the city, Wu Qingxiang's department galloped like flying, quickly went around to the battlefield of the east gate of Waihuang, and did not hesitate to charge the young marshal army team that was storming the east gate of Waihuang, and killed the soldiers of the young marshal army who were attached to the city by surprise, and was forced to stop the siege of the city and turn around to face the battle.

Seeing Wu Qingxiang leading the army to rush out, Xiang Kang didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered the long-standing Chao Zhijun to stride out and attack the position of the North Gate of Outer Huang that Wu Qingxiang was responsible for. Although Li You also reacted quickly, he immediately ordered his reserves to rush to the north gate to reinforce and take over from Wu Qingxiang to guard the north gate battlefield, but when the Qin army reserve hurriedly entered the north gate position, the young marshal army still seized the opportunity to quickly build a trench bridge and directly launched an attack on the north gate wall.

Here I have to praise the courage and tenacity of Wu Qingxiang's department, in the face of Zheng Bu, Long and Zhou Shu's three armies of the joint attack, the strength of only a few hundred Wu Qingxiang's troops still rushed left and right, unstoppable, once the strength of the absolute advantage of the young marshal army to kill are a little difficult to parry, killing the rise, Wu Qingxiang also took off his armor on the battlefield, bare-chested spear to kill, every time he stabbed a spear and roared wildly, "Chu thief!" Death! Death! ”

Inspired by Wu Qingxiang, the Qin soldiers under his command were also all hardworking, everyone used their lives, followed Wu Qingxiang and fought hard to kill, and even once forced back the team of the young marshal's fierce general Long Ji. However, the lonely yang is not long, the lonely yin is not born, as time goes by, the physical strength of the Qin soldiers declines, and Wu Qingxiang's department is gradually surrounded by the young marshal army on all sides, no matter how they rush to kill, they can't break through the encirclement of the young marshal army, and the Qin soldiers around Wu Qingxiang are becoming fewer and fewer.

Sweat appeared on Li You's forehead, and the soldiers of the Qin army next to him were also anxious, and they rushed to Li You and said: "Junzun, General Wu is dying, if he doesn't send troops to respond, his army won't be able to come back!" Please give the order and send troops to respond. ”

Closed his eyes in pain, regretting that he did not have absolute trust in Wu Qingxiang, Li You, who felt guilty in his heart, hesitated for a long time, but still ordered: "Send five hundred troops to rescue General Wu!" ”

Li You, who lacked military talent, made an unforgivable wrong choice, after five hundred Qin soldiers and soldiers were killed from the east gate of Waihuang, not only failed to rescue Wu Qingxiang's army who was besieged, but also was immediately divided into troops by the young marshal's army, and sacrificed the precious lives of countless soldiers in vain and failed to receive Wu Qingxiang back to the city.

At this time, there were only more than 100 Qin soldiers left beside Wu Qingxiang, and there was no hope of breaking through, and at the same time, Wu Qingxiang himself was wounded in many places in the fierce battle, covered in blood, but Wu Qingxiang was still not afraid, and was still shouting loudly, "Sons and daughters of Sanchuan County, kill!" Even if it's death, you'll have to pull your back! ”

"Kill!" The remnants of the Qin soldiers roared in response, continued to follow behind Wu Qingxiang, and once again charged the crowd of young marshals more than ten times their size, proving their loyalty and courage with their blood and precious lives, and also setting off the shameless face of a despicable villain......

In the end, Wu Qingxiang brought out of the city more than 600 Qin army soldiers all killed, none of them surrendered, Wu Qingxiang was injured countless all over the body, even the intestines flowed out of the body, but until death, his eyes were wide with anger, both hands clenched the spear, and the tragic expression made the young marshal soldiers couldn't help crying.

Although Wu Qingxiang's negative attack proved his loyalty, it seriously disrupted Li You's deployment to defend the city, not only wasted a large number of valuable troops in vain, but also forced Li You to put all the reserves into the North Gate battlefield, and there was no mobile force available in his hands.

In the afternoon, the young marshal's army landed in the city from three directions, east, west and south, and captured a number of positions at the head of the city, and it was only a matter of time before they attacked the outer Huang City. Li You categorically refused, took the spear and just continued to rush and kill, and would rather die than take a half step back.

At the beginning of the unitary hour, the east gate of Waihuang was hit by the city car of the young marshal's army, the young marshal's army swarmed into the city, Waihuang announced that the city was broken, Li You was forced to withdraw the city wall, while leading the Qin army soldiers and the young marshal's army to start a street battle, while trying to collect the Qin army in the city, preparing to launch a breakthrough when it was dark. It's a pity that Xiang Kang was prepared for this, and ordered the young marshal to defend the four gates of Waihuang early, and never allowed Li You to break through and succeed.

After it was dark, Li Youjun began to launch a breakthrough, but unfortunately the young marshal army officers and soldiers had deployed heavy guards at the four gates of Waihuang, no matter how Li Youjun rushed left and right, he could not rush out of the Outer Yellow City Gate, and was trapped in the Outer Yellow City full of fire and smoke, and at the same time, the young marshal's army entered the city with heavy troops, and went all out to hunt down and kill the remnants of Li You, who said that he would not give up his banner.

The battle reached this point, no matter how tenacious the Sanchuan Qin army was, there were still countless wavering people in the army, who abandoned their weapons and surrendered on their knees under the coercion of the young marshal soldiers, and the Qin soldiers around Li You were also rapidly reduced, and there were only more than 300 people left in the second watch, and they were surrounded by Zhong Liwu and Long He, two young marshal armies, and they were trapped near the west gate of Waihuang.

"Surrender or kill! Surrender or kill! ”

The slogans were overwhelming, completely submerging the trapped Li You's remnants, and he couldn't resist the fear in his heart, and many trapped Qin soldiers were forced to put down their weapons and surrender on their knees, but Li You still led the remaining soldiers to form a circle formation to resist the attack launched by the young marshal's army from all directions.

"General Li You! We respect you as a strong man! Surrender! We're not going to kill you! ”

Long You's loud voice roared out of his voice, and it clearly came into Li You's ears, but Li You, whose face was covered with blood, just spit out a mouthful of bloody spit and scolded: "The eldest man of the prime minister of Great Qin, how can he surrender to the traitor?!" ”

"The eldest son of the prime minister of Great Qin, how can he surrender to the traitor?!"

This is also the last sentence of Li You, the second generation of the first official of Daqin, in his life, more than half a moment later, Li You, who only had a dozen personal soldiers left around him, was stabbed in the lower abdomen by a sudden spear, directly pierced the body, and then was stabbed by more spears, the chest and abdomen were bleeding like an infusion, the mouth ho-ho, and the bleeding continued, but Li You still held the spear tightly, and tried to support his body with the spear, until he lost his breath and did not fall, and ended his life standing......

"Send Li Junzun!"

With Long Ji and Zhong Liwu shouting at the same time, countless young marshals and soldiers present bowed down together, and expressed their admiration and admiration to Li You with tears. And when Li You's body was sent to Xiang Kang, he learned that Li You died in battle, and saw Li You's eyes that had not been closed until now, Xiang Kang couldn't help but burst into tears, bowed down to Li You's body, and cried and said: "Li Junzun, you didn't disgrace your father. ”

Afterwards, out of respect for Li You, Xiang Kang not only decided to send Li You's body back to his Xia Cai hometown for burial, but also agreed to Shusun Tong's suggestion to set up a spirit to worship Li You outside the Outer Yellow City, and allowed the newly incorporated Qin army captives and captured Qin army soldiers to worship in front of the spirit, so as to buy people's hearts. Then, as Xiang Kang hoped, seeing that Xiang Kang was so benevolent and righteous, many tenacious soldiers of the Sanchuan Qin Army also changed their ways and voluntarily joined the team of the Young Marshal Army, so that Xiang Kang squeezed a lot of oil and water from Li You's body.