Chapter Ninety-Six: Ant Possession
With the marching speed of the Qin army, Xiang Yan thought that Yang Duanhe would be able to rush to the Tiger Prison in three days, and he would go out of the Tiger Prison to fight a decisive battle with him on the fourth day. He was only half right, Yang Duanhe did arrive at the Tiger Prison Pass in three days, but he did not go out of the pass to fight him on the fourth day, but sent a partial army to test it several times before leaving the pass after the eleventh day.
It was because of Li Xin's persuasion that the 50,000 Qin troops who came from Shangcai, the 150,000 Han troops who poured out of the country, and the 120,000 Qin troops who came from the counties of Qin finally arrived at the Tiger Prison on this day. Coupled with the previous 150,000 Qin troops, the Qin-Han coalition army totaled more than 400,000.
Xiang Yan of the 150,000 Qin army still has the heart to fight, and the more than 400,000 Qin troops can only avoid the war. This is not only a consideration of troops, but also a consideration of the enemy's lack of food and straw, and the consideration that the girder has no worries about the future. There are two roads from Luoyang to the east, one is through Yanshi, Chenggao, Rongyang, and the other is to cross Luoshui to the south, through Chenghuang (now Dengfeng), Xinzheng, Yuguan to Daliang. The reason for this lies in the Songshan mountain range, and the eastward beam must be detoured from the north and south.
More than 400,000 Qin-Han allied troops rushed to the Tiger Prison, so they had to take Aocang before they could march to Daliang, otherwise the road would have to be cut off by the Chu army in Aocang; And with such a large army assembled in such a short period of time, there must be a shortage of grain, even if it is the autumn harvest season, the army stays in one place and does not leave, and there is no way to support consumption. So Qin Jun challenged, but Xiang Yan shouldn't have it at all.
On the morning of this day, Yang Duanhe and Li Xin led their troops out of the Tiger Prison Pass for twenty miles and camped ten miles southeast of the city wall. At this time, the Chu army was not only more than 70,000 people, after the emergency transfer of the king's pawn, the Chu army actually had more than 100,000 people, more than 100,000 people relied on the ten miles of the Great Wall that had just been built as a guard, and the two sides were a little different.
The army went out of the camp and lined up, and when he saw that the Chu army had built a ten-mile-long high wall in such a period of time, Li Xin suddenly had a headache. The wall is no more than three zhang high, but this high wall must be filled by Qin Jun with corpses.
"General Teng, what do you think of this city?" Li Xin asked Tengqi, the chief general of the Korean army, and had an idea in his heart.
"City?" Teng Qi was deeply trusted by the King of Han to be appointed as the leading general, and any army would only be emboldened if it stood with the Qin army, not to mention that the Chu army did not dare to fight. "It's just a thin wall."
The thickness of the city wall can be seen from both sides, and it is not necessary to have a tammed earth wall more than ten meters wide, and the concrete wall in front of you is no more than eight centimeters thick, which is already a compliment.
"Since it's a thin wall, can the general give it a try?" Li Xin's smile was even brighter, he just wanted Han Jun to fill in the wall.
"The army of Great Qin will not be defeated in a hundred battles, how dare the last general cross his behalf." Tengqi was not stupid, and immediately politely refused.
"General Teng is not under the orders of the general?" Yang Duanhe's face was gloomy. There were still five days left before the deadline of the fifteenth, and the king urged him day by day, and under the suppression, he saw that no one had a good face, and on the way of the march, he killed 30,000 or 40,000 people by military law—with the art of war, 'those who are good at using soldiers in ancient times can kill half of the soldiers, then thirteen, and eleven under them.' Those who can kill half of them, Weijia Hainei, kill thirteen people, and add the princes, kill eleven people, and order the soldiers'.
The Qin army's exploits were won, but Yang Duanhe knew that if he couldn't win Ao Cang within the specified time, not only would his title be gone, but he might also be reduced to a ghost salary. However, his hand was still weak, and he only killed a tenth of it, and temporarily succeeded in ordering the soldiers.
"The last general will not dare." Tengqi's heart was full of bitterness. "However, the Han army has never attacked the Chu army, and it is not yet clear ...... the Chu army."
"If you hit once, you'll know." Yang Duanhe's tone was displeased. "General Teng, this general ordered you to lead the Korean army to attack the city for an hour, there must be no mistake!"
"The last general...... Respectfully! Tengqi replied helplessly. An hour later, the drums in the army suddenly sounded, and on the dry grass that was slaughtered in late autumn, 150,000 Korean troops slowly came out of the battle, and when they were 350 steps away, they stopped and sat down with the military order, only more than 10 rushing carts were pushed out surrounded by thousands of soldiers.
The long wall had no doors, but it was so thin that it could have been broken by a car crash. This was the idea of the generals of the South Korean army, and Tengqi immediately adopted it. Several of the rushing cars had been destroyed when they rushed under the wall in the rain of arrows and fire bombs three hundred paces away, and the remaining eleven cars began to crash into the wall under the force of Han Shu.
'Knock——、 knock-' The sound of the crash continued, but the Chu soldiers in the city were not worried at all, and some people laughed instead. The long wall is so thin, not to mention the Han army, even the Chu army itself is also worried, Feng Renjiao had to find a rushing car to hit the long wall in front of the whole army's non-commissioned officers, Lifu hit it is not counted, and he found the strongest soldier in the army. The soldiers were exhausted and did not knock the wall open. Later, everyone learned that there were huge tendons in the wall, and there were ghosts sealed by witches.
The Han army braved the rain of arrows and firebombs to repeat the mistakes of the past, and there were not a few Chu pawns who laughed in the city, and Chen Heibutt was one of them.
"Why are Koreans so stupid?" Chen Heibuttocks smiled, he stood on the six-meter-high platform at the head of the city. The platform is only three feet square, and there are steep sliding walls on both sides, and like Chen Ying's royal city, the enemy will fall down and poke to death as soon as he climbs the wall.
"Why do you talk so much?" Chen Sheng looked at the crossbowmen on his side, there was a crossbow on each platform, and at this time, the crossbow was firing arrows at Han pawns raising shields under the city, and about nine out of ten arrows could hit Han pawns.
"Hook sickle! Hook sickle! Han Zhu under the city launched the rush car and then launched the ladder car for a while, and the Wu Commander standing on the platform immediately shouted hook and sickle. Chen Sheng's movements were a little slow, and he kicked him.
"Rush! Punch ——! "There was only a nervous feeling at the head of the city, but the Han soldiers under the city were shouting hysterically, and once they were hit by a fire bomb, they would turn into a ball of fire that would jump and scream; Or they were shot by a crossbow and the arrows that pierced their bodies nailed them to the dead grass, shedding the last drop of blood.
Fortunately, not the majority of people died so tragically, and more people rushed to the city safely. After the ladders were unfolded, these people held wooden shields and tried to rush up to the top of the city, which was more than six meters high, but most of the ladders were caught by hooks and sickles. Looking at the seven-foot-long city wall, the people on the ladder could not jump over, nor did they retreat, they could only freeze on the ladder, and were killed by the archers on the platform at close range, and most of them would let out a scream when they fell from the arrow.
However, there were also a few ladders that were not framed by the hook and sickle, and the Han soldiers on the ladder hurriedly ascended the city, wanting to seize a section of the city wall so that the comrades behind could follow them. His comrades did follow, but they fell with the men in front of them into the deep trench behind the wall, and were poked to death on the rows of sharp logs in the trench.
Han died one after another, and the Chu army calmly coped with it. In less than an hour, nearly 10,000 Han pawns went back and did not return, and relying on the death of these 10,000 Han pawns, Li Xin probably guessed the layout of the Chu army's city head: like Chen Ying, the city head is full of steep slopes, and if you go up, you will fall to your death. There is no way to attack such a city.