Chapter 176: Adventure
Meng Tian was still wrong, when he received the news, Li Xin was no longer in Pingyu, he took the elite of 30,000 Guanzhong, slowly left Pingyu, and headed east.
At the head of Pingyu City, the lieutenant who was left by Li Xin to guard this place watched the army go away and was worried.
In the opinion of this lieutenant, Li Xinneng was able to break through Pingyu in one day, and the fight was a surprise.
The Chu people's eyes were on the chasm, the Yingshui line, and the besieged Xiangcheng, they thought that the Qin army in Shangcai was just a partial division led by Meng Tian, but they didn't know that under the banner of Meng Tian's partial general, it was Li Xin, the commander of the Qin army.
Li Xin concentrated all the five captains from Neishi, Shangjun, Beidi, and Longxi under his command, plus the siege equipment built by Qin Mo and the craftsmen, but in two days, Pingyu, which had only 2,000 defenders, was declared broken.
"This place looks at Song and Zheng in the north, Huai and Chu in the south, leans on the Xiong of Jing Chu, walks the road of Chen and Xu, and the fields are peaceful, which is an important place."
"But as long as we break through the peace, Huaibei will have no danger to defend, between this Ying and you, it is already our unhindered frontier!"
After looking into the distance at the head of Pingyu City, Li Xin threw down such a sentence, and let this lieutenant stay here, and he himself set off again, and the troops pointed directly at the hinterland of Chu State!
Prior to this, the lieutenant who was ordered to stay in Pingyu also showed worry and secretly dissuaded Li Xindao:
"The general is brave and brave to break the peace, and because this city is not far from Shangcai, it will come in an instant, so that the enemy army is caught off guard. But further on, it is the hinterland of Chu, the general carries 30,000 troops, but there is no food backup, isn't it a lone army? It's better to go north to join General Meng, besiege Xiangcheng together, wait for Xiangcheng to be captured, and then slowly go south before it is too late......"
Li Xin disagreed, he said: "Back then, Wu'an Jun invaded Chu, and he also attracted tens of thousands of people to go deep into the 5,000-mile Chu land, which was known as holding a million halberds. Along the way, I will break the cities, break the bridges, burn the wooden ships, cut off the back roads so that the soldiers may concentrate on the battle, and I will follow them today. ”
"As for the grain? Huaibei has always been rich, and the Chu people only had time to empty the border granary, but the townships and towns inside must have a lot of grain, as long as the army carries ten days of food per person and plunders the suburbs along the way, it can be enough for the army to eat! ”
In the past, he fought with Yan and Zhao in the north, out of Taiyuan and Yunzhong, galloped in the North China Plain, chased the enemy in the reckless wasteland, and often made meritorious contributions by riding on chariots.
In Li Xin's view, the advantage of the Qin army is conducive to field warfare, and the chariots that can be fully utilized on the plains, 300 chariots from Xianyang, and 3,000 fine cavalry from Shangjun, Beidi, and Longxi are all in their hands, and they are invincible in this land.
With such an advantage, he should run rampant in the Chu realm, find the Chu army supporting Xiangcheng all the way, and annihilate it, instead of going to the city to empty the waste, let the horses raise fat, and let the soldiers have lice in their armor.
Unlike the old and steady Wang Qian, Li Xin is a risk-taking person, and he also believes that he has the ability to turn adventures into miracles!
Let Xiang Yan confront Meng Tian under the banner of Li Xin in Xiangcheng, when he was trapped in the place of death, Li Xin, who was under the banner of Meng Tian, was already about to penetrate the land of Huaibei of Chu State!
In the twenty-third year of the reign of King Qin, on the tenth day of the first month (October), Li Xin led his army to leave Pingyu.
In the early morning of 13 October, after several days of marching, Li Xin's vanguard had reached the sleeping hill, two hundred miles east of Pingyu......
It seemed that Haotian was also secretly helping the Qin army, and on that day, a heavy fog filled the entire sleeping hill.
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The bed hill is just a small yi, the wall is not more than a zhang high, when the king of Chu Zhao had a grandson Ao son here, so far, there are still descendants of Sun Shu Ao, here to be a small feudal monarch.
Although the city is not high and the population is not large, it is the only way to go north from Xincai to Xiangcheng, and a more than 10,000 Chu army from Xincai is passing through here, stationed outside the city, so that the grandson of the palace can supply the camp and food.
Because Li Xin's speed of breaking through Pingyu and marching eastward was too fast, this army, which had gone north from Xincai a few days ago, did not know that to the west of itself, by the thick winter morning fog, a Qin army chariot had slowly approached......
"Woooooooo
Sun Feng, the grandson of Sun Shuao, has been breeding here for more than 300 years. Until this early morning, the feudal monarch who thought he could live with Chu was awakened by the deafening sound of horns and golden drums outside!
Sun Feng hurriedly lifted the futon, threw down his wife, got up from the couch, he ran out of the door, and went up to the city, only to find that the new Cai Chu army outside had become a mess, and the drumbeat of the assembly resounded throughout the city.
"What's wrong?" Sun Feng asked as he grabbed a soldier who was running and hung his sword on the hook.
"It's Qin Jun!" The soldier's face was pale, in stark contrast to his Crimson Chu-style armor.
Sun Feng was stunned: "Where did the Qin army come from?" Isn't Qin Jun in Xiangcheng? ”
Xiang Cheng was more than a hundred miles away from the sleeping hill, so he always felt that he was safe.
"There's a bike that's two miles away! It must have been approaching in the thick fog of the night. ”
The military officer didn't care to say much, hurriedly ran away, and called his subordinates to prepare to defend against the enemy, he only knew that the Qin army's chariot and cavalry forward was already close at hand, taking advantage of the morning fog to come to him, and the whole army formed a battle formation, and could attack at any time.
Sun Feng stood on the wall a little distractedly, he looked down at the city, the Chu army camp was in a panic, the soldiers were stumbling in the cold before dawn, some were busy extinguishing the campfire, and a few shirtless warriors were putting on their horses.
He looked into the distance again, and in his field of vision, it was still full of pale mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly, where was Qin Jun?
"Knock knock!"
The beat of the drums sounded again, this time more rapidly, and the sensitive horses, as if sensing the murderous aura on the other side of the fog, neighed, and the horses and horses ran one end at a time, leaving their chariots behind, and scurrying through the camp. The chariot soldiers did not have time to go out of the battle, only the soldiers with spears in their hands, hurried out of the camp to meet the enemy......
But before they could line up, a galloping chariot tore through the fog and suddenly appeared within a hundred paces!
A hundred paces away, the galloping chariot arrived in an instant, and the emperor kept whipping the horses, and the sharp spear on the right hand of the chariot was full of coldness.
At this distance, the chariot was unstoppable, and it broke the thin defense line of the Chu army at once......
Sun Feng watched as the thousands of Chu soldiers who hurriedly left the camp completely collapsed under the impact of the three hundred chariots, like clay pots beaten by a hammer, shattered, and shot to death by the rapidly approaching Qin cavalry.
They were followed by the Qin soldiers who emerged from the dense fog and scattered all over the mountains, hiding behind the barrier of shields and spears, and marched forward in unison, completely flattening the Chu state camp under the city of Bedhill......
By the time the sun rose, the battle was nearing its end, and the Chu army was shattered and scattered, with Qin people chasing them everywhere.
Watching this scene, chill and fear crept under Sun Feng's skin, causing his hands to twitch and almost unsteady himself on the city wall.
He only remembered that before his legs were sore and collapsed, he saw a tiger and bear banner with the word "Mongolian" written on it, slowly walking towards the sleeping hill.
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Two days later, on October 15, on the east bank of Yingshui, one hundred and fifty miles east of Bedhill, Juyang City, which was the second line of defense of the Chu State, received a report from the remnants of Bedhill.
"General Qin Meng Tian attacked and broke our army!"
With the rout and military intelligence, there was also the Qin army drinking horses by the Yingshui......