Chapter Forty-Eight: The Capture of East County
The 30,000 army led by Wang Li directly crossed the Yellow River to reach Dongjun, at this time, Dongjun garrisoned 20,000 Chu family troops, and the general who led the army was Xiang Jun, another uncle of Xiang Yu.
Wang Li led a large army to a mile from Dongjun and set up camp.
Xiang Jun hurriedly ordered that all the 20,000 Chu family troops go to the city tower, ready to fight, and prepare to block the Qin army's attack!
Xiang Jun sent someone to Yingchuan County to deliver the message, but the messenger soldiers never returned, which made Xiang Jun's heart tremble, Yingchuan County, it won't have been captured, why didn't you reply to the letter!
How did Xiang Jun know that Xiang Yu was already unable to protect himself, and there was only a little man left in the end...
Wang Li gathered several generals to discuss how to attack the city, and a herald came in a hurry, "Report to the general, the whole army has been encamped, everything is ready."
Wang Li waved his hand, "Go down, let the soldiers be ready to attack the city at any time."
The herald took the order and departed.
Wang Li pointed to the map of Dongjun, "Generals, tell me how to attack the city?" His Majesty has decreed that Dongjun must be captured, so that Xiang Yu can only run to Chenjun."
The adjutant general said, "General Wang Li, the defenders of Dongjun have about 20,000 soldiers, if we attack hard, we will definitely not be able to do it, the defenders will have the advantage, and if we attack hard, we will lose both."
The first lieutenant nodded, "The deputy general is right, our army is not very advantageous in numbers, although there are 10,000 more soldiers, but the defenders have an advantage."
Commander Wang Li pondered, "Generals, you also know that the 30,000 army led by Commander Wang Ben was originally going to attack Xue County, who knows, Wu Guang sent people to lead an army of 50,000 people to support and fight to the death, Commander Wang Ben had no choice but to retreat to Jibei County."
Wang Li pointed to the map, "Let's see, Dangjun and Xue County are only half a day's journey, Liu Bangbu can support Dangjun at any time, General Ben is worried that if we are both defeated and suffer heavy damage, we will be attacked by the rebels of Dangjun, and it is possible that the whole army will be wiped out."
The adjutant general thought for a while, "General, why don't we ask Your Majesty for instructions and let the 50,000 troops of Julu County support us, so that it will be okay, the rebels are united, and we also have the support army of the imperial court."
Everyone nodded, it could only be like this, Wang Li immediately flew a pigeon to pass the book, and asked Ying Fusu for instructions, so that General Wu Hao's 50,000 army would support.
Ying Fusu received the letter on the same day, and immediately replied, agreeing with General Wang Li's strategy, and let General Wu Hao lead an army of 30,000 to support Wang Li, assist in the attack on Dongjun, and then give an order to the army of Daijun to let the garrison of 50,000 troops go to Jibei County and obey General Wang Ben's command to guard Jibei County, as well as the counties and cities in the east!
General Wu Hao of Julu County received the secret decree and hurriedly led an army of 30,000 to Wang Li's army to assist in the attack on Dongjun, leaving an army of 20,000 to guard Julu County!
The 30,000 army led by Wu Hao, two days later, came to Wang Li's camp and began to set up camp, and the next day, the 60,000 army began to prepare for the attack.
Wu Hao said to Wang Li, "General Wang, let General Ben go to attack the city this time, how about General Wang stay in the base camp?"
Wang Li smiled slightly, "General Wu gives the young man some chances, you stay in the base camp, and General Ben goes to attack the city, by the way, Your Majesty's will, General Wu is just assisting, do you want to"...
Wu Hao hurriedly covered Wang Li's mouth, "Okay, okay, what are you talking nonsense?" You can go, don't talk nonsense, you want my life!"
Wang Li opened Wu Hao's hand and smiled proudly.
Wang Li led an army of 50,000 chargers and began to charge, the mighty army was like ants, and the black pressure was like a vast ocean!
General Wu Hao led the remaining 10,000 soldiers to stop at a distance of 600 meters from Dongjun, set up a heavy crossbow, and when the heavy crossbow was ready, he directly ordered it to be launched!
Three thousand long arrows crossed the charging Qin army and shot at the Dongjun City Tower, and the Xiang army hurriedly ordered, and the shield soldiers blocked it! Five thousand Chu family troops, picked up the long shield to block the front, the long arrow shot through the long shield, directly took everyone away, a wave of long arrows went down, shot five hundred Chu family soldiers, shot five waves in a row, a total of three thousand Chu family soldiers were shot and wounded!
The 50,000 troops led by Wang Li came to the bottom of the city tower, set up a long ladder and climbed up, and the more than 16,000 Chu soldiers who defended the city came back to their senses and hurriedly shot arrows and smashed stones.
The generals of the Qin army took the lead, ordering the army to move forward bravely, not afraid of death to climb up, the soldiers in front fell down, the soldiers in the back continued to climb up, attacked for half an hour, after losing the price of 10,000 Qin soldiers, the soldiers of the Qin army finally climbed the city tower, the city gate was opened, and groups of Qin soldiers rushed through the city gate and entered the city and began the melee!
On the upper floor of the city of Dongjun, in the city, there are battlefields everywhere, and there are melee everywhere, Xiang Jun raised his head to the sky and roared and drew his sword to commit suicide!
The remaining nearly 10,000 Chu family troops, the dragons fled for their lives without a leader, and the soldiers of the Qin army chased after them, and half a day later, the battle ended, Wang Li was covered in blood, and sat weakly on the city tower listening to the soldiers' reports.
The soldier said respectfully, "Report to the general, kill 15,000 rebels, surrender 3,000 rebels, flee 2,000, our army killed 20,000 soldiers, wounded more than 1,000 soldiers, General Wu Hao led the soldiers to look for rebels everywhere."
Wang Li nodded and said weakly, "Flying Pigeon passed the book to Your Majesty, truthfully reported the results of the battle, and asked Your Majesty to tell your Majesty that our army will stay behind or continue to go on the expedition!"
Soldier: "No."
Wu Hao took the soldiers to search the whole city, found hundreds of rebels, executed them all, returned to the city tower, asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and came to Wang Li's side, "General Wang Li, on the whole, we are still successful, although the loss is a bit big"!
Wang Li said helplessly, "Yes, I lost 20,000 soldiers and injured more than 1,000 soldiers, which is indeed a bit big, bury the fallen soldiers, reward and punishment, everything is subject to Your Majesty's will."
Wu Hao nodded, "Have you asked Your Majesty?" Let's stay, or do we keep going"?
Wang Li nodded, "It's already been passed on by the flying pigeon, wait for news from Your Majesty."
The two generals ordered that the battlefield should be cleaned up, all the towers should be garrisoned by the army, and the rest of the soldiers should all be withdrawn to the barracks, and the people should not be disturbed, the people should not be oppressed, and they should not leave their posts without permission.
The soldiers of the Qin State are not afraid of the fifty military sticks, nor are they afraid of removing the army, the only thing they are afraid of is not being able to enjoy the imperial court policy, however, General Wang Li is not so rigid, stipulating that one hundred soldiers at a time can go out for a day to find a woman, eat and drink, as long as they do not disturb the people, do not commit treason, and do not run away, then it is okay, among the hundred soldiers who go out, there are ten Wang Li's personal guards to supervise.
General Wu Hao sent people to arrest all the big and small officials in Dongjun and ordered them all to be executed!
No matter how much Wang Li persuaded him, he couldn't persuade Wu Hao, so Wang Li could only give up.