Chapter 177: The Qin State Invades Chu Again and Chuisha Fights
A few days later, the Han and Wei coalition forces began to fight with the reinforcements from the Chu State at Chuisha.
Wei Si originally wanted to ask King Han to take advantage of the arrival of Chu reinforcements, and the armies of the two countries continued to go deep into Chu to occupy more Chu territory, but King Han did not dare to rush in, and wanted to have a decisive battle with the Chu army in the sand not far away, so Wei Si had no choice but to cooperate with King Han.
After all, it was too risky to let the army of Wei go deep into the Chu realm without the help of reinforcements, not to mention that the Wei army that attacked Chu this time was only 150,000.
At this time, the Chu army was led by Jing Cui, and there were as many as 400,000 troops from Danyang, while Han Wei's troops were less than 300,000.
The Han and Wei armies, under the command of Wei Si and Han Wang, first crossed the river and clashed with the Chu army.
Although there is a lot of disparity in strength, because the Wei and Han armies have broken through all the way to this Chu realm, and their morale is also stronger than that of the Chu army, Jing Cui, the chief general of the Chu army, does not dare to order the army to pursue the victory.
At this time, it is already autumn, and the dry season has begun, and the amount of water has begun to gradually decrease.
On this day, Wei Si and King Han also came to the north bank of the water to inspect it.
Looking at the gradually withering water in front of him, Wei Si stopped and said to King Han on the side:
"I thought that the Chu army was exhausted from the withdrawal of the Qin State this time, and our Wei and Han armies would definitely be able to win the victory when they attacked the Chu army, but I didn't expect the Chu army to have such a strong combat effectiveness, we really underestimated the Chu army!"
Han Wang looked a little worried:
"But isn't it, the Chu army has just experienced the battle of Xianyang, and after a long journey to Chuisha, this time the armies of our two countries fought for the first time, and failed to win the Chu army, which is indeed a bit demoralizing!"
Wei Si asked:
"I wonder if King Han plans to fight again?"
Han Wang replied:
"Even if we don't want to fight, we have to fight, at this time, why do you have to ask this, King Wei?"
Wei Si also says:
"Yes, I originally expected the Qi State to attack Chu in the east to put pressure on the Chu State, but I didn't expect the Qi State to fight with the Yue State, but it will no longer attack Chu!"
King Han smiled:
"Where can Qi Guo be counted on? Its invasion of Chu is just the land of coveting the Huaisi of the Chu State, and now after occupying most of the land of the Huaisi of the Chu State, there is no need to attack Chu again, and it happens that the King of Yue Wujiang is united with the Chu State, and the Qi State of course has to solve the big trouble of the Yue State first. β
Wei Si couldn't help but say:
"Qi State, don't worry about it, I just don't know how the Qin State is now!"
King Han said:
"This king heard that the Qin State was preparing to take revenge on the Chu State, but he didn't move for a long time, so I don't know what the situation of the Qin State is now!"
Wei Si said:
"The Qin State experienced the Battle of Xianyang, although the country was destroyed, countless people were captured by Chu, and their vitality was greatly damaged, but its army still has nearly 300,000 people, and it is absolutely no problem to retaliate against the Chu State, but I don't know what the King of Qin thinks now."
Yongcheng of Qin State.
The white-haired King of Qin, who was full of vicissitudes of life, was still appeasing many people in the city.
At this time, a woman in the city suddenly squeezed over, pointed at the king of Qin and said:
"You faint monarch, causing our Qin State to be forced, my mother's family was all captured by the Chu State, do you still have the face to stand here? Hurry up and die, go and die! β
The King of Qin explained to him with tears:
"Auntie, the widow knows that I am a sinner of Great Qin, the widow has caused the destruction of countless of our Qin families, the widow is not worthy of seeing you alive here, but the widow can't die now, the widow has done something wrong, the widow must make up for it!"
The woman went on to accuse:
"You make up? What did you make up? Recently, I have done nothing except build your palace and temple in Yongcheng, how can you let us old Qin people believe in you as the king of a country again? β
At this time, people around kept shouting:
"We old Qin people don't want you to make up for anything, we just need revenge...... Avenge! β
"We want to seek revenge from the State of Chu...... Avenge! β
"Revenge...... Revenge, we want to find a bloody shame in the Chu State! β
"We want to save our captured families, we want to take back our land...... Take back our Qin land! β
At this time, King Qin suddenly sat on the ground crying bitterly.
At this time, he walked to the side of King Qin and said to many people:
"Don't accuse our monarch like this, our monarch is not what you think, it's not!"
The woman again sharply rebuked the ill:
"At this time, Lady Kasato, are you still explaining it? How can this make our entire Old Qin disciples believe? β
The first thing he did was to comfort the woman:
"Auntie, I know that you are also for the good of our Qin State, and everyone is for the good of our Qin State, but even if we want to attack Chu now, even if the army is still there, there is no food!"
Suddenly, someone said:
"My lord, you said that there is no food, so where did the food that Bashu just arrived go before?"
Explanation:
"Although the grain of Bashu has arrived, but because the harvest of Bashu this year is not good, it is still not enough to cut Chu, otherwise our king would have taken everyone to fight Chu together and take revenge!"
The woman immediately said:
"Since there is not enough food, why don't you say it earlier? I am willing to donate all the food in my family to the king and the lord of the barley. β
Others also said:
"We are willing to donate food, we are willing to donate food!"
"Even if we don't eat, we're going to cut Chu!"
"We're going to cut Chu, cut Chu!"
At this time, everyone ran home and took out the food stored at home.
Because the people of Yongcheng took the lead, the people of Qin in other places also began to donate grain for Qin's invasion of Chu.
When it was dark, the king of Qin summoned the woman in the daytime, and ordered her to be rewarded with fifty pounds, and thanked her, saying:
"Mrs. Mu, you really did the widow a great favor this time, if you didn't take the lead, these people of Yongcheng probably wouldn't be willing to donate food to the widow's army of Chu!"
After Mrs. Mu took it, she smiled:
"It's my blessing to be able to do things for the king!"
At this time, he also came over and said:
"King, this time we not only have enough grain and grass for the battle of Chu, but also enough for the battle of Wei!"
King Qin smiled and said:
"Yes, the widow thought that these people didn't have much food in stock, but they didn't expect that they could donate so much food now, even if they hit the Liang of the Wei State, it was enough!"
Then he continued:
"So this time, we only need to attack Danyang, so that Han and Wei can go all out to fight Chu, and then we will quickly return to the division, take advantage of the opportunity of the Wei division's southern transfer, recapture Hexi, and then capture the east of the Wei River, then we can find the shame of Xianyang in Wei this time...... I've got it back! β
ζ¨ιεδΉsays:
"Yes, the Wei State definitely can't imagine that our Qin State will be able to attack it quickly after suffering such a big blow from the Chu State, not to attack Yin Jin, Hangu Pass and other places, but to attack the land west of the river and east of the river!"
A few days later, the king of Qin ordered Li Ji to take revenge on the state of Chu with 300,000 Qin troops and countless grains and grasses.
Within ten days, the Qin army quickly recovered all the places of Hanzhong and Shangyu occupied by Chu, broke through the Wuguan Pass, and hit Danyang.
The news that the Qin army had attacked Chu Danyang also quickly spread to Huangjiao, and at this time the king of Han had returned to Xinzheng, and only the armies of Wei and Wei and Han were still here, facing off against Chu across the water, and the confrontation had been going on for nearly a month.
Due to the delay in gaining an advantage over Chu, Wei and Han increased their troops here by nearly 200,000, and the additional troops of Wei were transferred from Hexi, and South Korea also recruited all the soldiers and horses from Hangu Pass and Sanchuan, and vowed to fight to the death with Chu here.
Chu also increased his troops a lot, but he went to Huaisi with the king of Chu to resist the army of Qi.
After Wei Si received the news that the Qin army had attacked Danyang in the Chu state, he immediately ordered the Wei and Han armies to immediately attack the Chu army.
So the vanguard of the two armies, nearly 30,000 people, clashed again between the sand and the water.
However, after fighting for less than a while, the vanguard of the Chu army retreated first, and the Wei and Han armies immediately pursued the Chu army under the command of Wei Si and pursued them all the way to the foot of the city of Chuisha.
After the Chu army retreated into the city of Chuisha, it began to defend, and Wei Si ordered people to attack the city, but the city was too strong, and there was no result in a day, resulting in a lot of casualties among the Wei and Han troops, so Wei Si had to order people to retreat again, back to the north of the water, and the Chu army did not pursue, and rearranged the defense.
At this time, Su Qin finally returned to Huangthorn from Yingdu of Chu.
Wei Si asked Su Qin about the results of this envoy to Chu.
Su Qin replied:
"Although Danyang of Chu was occupied by Qin again, it seems that the king of Chu is not worried, but wants to use the strength of the country to fight to the death with our Wei and Han in Lisha!"
Wei Si was a little puzzled:
"This Danyang is much more important in Chu, than the weeping sand, after Qin occupies Danyang, go south along the Han River, and then break through the Beijin Shu, it will not take a few days to reach Yingdu, and now the king of Chu actually has no worries about Qin Zhandanyang, it seems that it is not simple!"
Su Qin also says:
"Yes, when Ji Zi was in Yingdu, it seemed that I saw Chu Chen Jin Shang often going out of the city to meet some mysterious people, and when Ji Zi and I came back, I also heard that after the Qin army arrived in Danyang now, it seems that there is no movement, so this time Qin Guo is very likely to want to sit back and watch our Wei, Han and Chu Guo fight to the death, and then wait for the opportunity to move!"
Wei Si couldn't help but say:
"Then Jizi, what do you mean is that the Qin State secretly sent someone to meet with Jin Shang, the minister of the Chu State, and then conveyed to the King of Chu that after the Qin State captured Danyang, it would not go south again?"
Su Qin replied:
"Chances are!"
Wei Si asked again:
"The State of Chu has broken through Xianyang and captured countless people of the State of Qin, how can this King of Qin do it at such a good time to destroy Chu and let the State of Chu go? What does this King Qin want to do? β
θ秦 says:
"Maybe the king of Chu privately promised the Qin State to release the Qin prisoners after this war with our Wei and Han? And with the interests of the Qin State, of course, it can also be accepted, after all, after the end of this battle, we, Wei, Han and Chu, no matter how the three kingdoms win or lose, will be greatly damaged, which is what the current Qin State is most happy to see. β