Chapter 55: The Siege 4
The day was about to dawn, and suddenly everyone was shouting that the city was broken, whether it was the county magistrate Chen Jian or the common people in the city, most of them rushed to the southeast water gate of Chen Ying when they heard the news. As long as you get on the boat, the Qin people will definitely not be able to catch up, otherwise, your head will definitely be cut off by the Qin people and hung outside the gate to show the public.
There are also some people who don't have time to run to the water gate, they can only rush to the closer Wangcheng, the location of the Wangcheng is east of the southern end of Chen Ying, the south gate of the Wangcheng is the Nanzhong Gate after the big court, and the southeast water gate is protected by it, as long as the Wangcheng is not lost, the water gate is not lost.
Before dawn, the night was darkest, and the common people who came to the west of the city stumbled in the darkness with the wailing of the women and children. The 3,000 rescuers led by Yang Yu were jammed by these people halfway. The street was not wide, and the common people thought it was Qin Jun at the beginning, and the crying stopped in fright, and when they heard that the other party said that they were Chu Jun, they immediately cried again. Yang Yu wanted to ask some about the situation in Xicheng, but he couldn't ask at all, so he could only let the soldiers shout 'don't get in the way' while leading the army through the road.
"The city is broken? Is the city really broken?! "The sky is already bright, outside the West City, Xiangbang Ziji, who stood on the car and looked out at the middle of the night, looked at the 'Wei' flag on the city tower, and asked in a daze, very unbelievable. Chen Ying is one of the Yingdu of the Chu people, and he was attacked by himself overnight? No way! No way! It must not be so.
"The city is indeed broken. Congratulations to Xiangbang. The Wei generals beside him congratulated Ziji in unison, smiling from ear to ear.
"Report ——!" A disgraced herald rushed over, "Xiangbang, our army has captured the three gates of Xicheng, most of the Chu army is scattered, and only a small group of men and horses will not retreat." ”
"Great goodness!" Ziji shouted, because he was excited, he almost fell off the car, but fortunately, there were people on the left and right to help him. "General Lin, you quickly bring 50,000 people into the city, and 20,000 people attack the northern city to welcome the Qin army into the city; The remaining 30,000 quickly pulled out the royal city, and at this time the city was broken, and the Chu army would gather in the royal city to resist. ”
"Yui! The last general was commanded. The general, named Lin Jiao, shouted loudly and hurried out.
"You quickly go to the Qin camp to tell General Xinwu, and say that our army has broken through the west city, and is about to break the Chu army in the north of the city and welcome the Qin army into the city." After being imprisoned, Zi Ji is no longer the prime minister of Wei, but a courtier of Qin, even if the city is broken, he thinks about the Qin people everywhere. But he obviously didn't understand the deep meaning of the Qin people, and the people who went to tell him had not yet entered the Qin camp to see Xin Wu, and Xin Wu's people came.
"Please Xiangbang make the Wei army withdraw from Chen City quickly!" The words spoken by the visitor made Ziji think that he had misheard, he had been ringing in his ears lately, especially when he was excited.
"Why is that?!" There was still a Wei general standing next to Zi Ji, and it took nearly 10,000 dead and wounded to take Xicheng, how could he easily withdraw from the city.
"That's what General Xin said." The person who came was Xin Wu's housekeeper, called Ye Shou, and he didn't explain at all in the face of the angry Wei Jiang, and only looked at Ziji. "This time to attack Chu, Xiangbang should know that the armies of the two countries are not here to pull out the city."
"Why did that come about?!" A black-bearded Wei general drank wildly, and he couldn't wait to kill Ye Shou on the spot.
"However, I have sent General Lin Jiao to lead 50,000 men into the city." The hard-earned city was actually about to be spit out, and it was difficult for Ziji, who thought that everything he had done was Qin people, to agree immediately, "If you withdraw the army at this time, your morale will inevitably decline." ”
"Xiangbang, is this unwilling?" Ye Shou smiled, his eyes only stared at Zi Ji, and when he saw that he didn't answer, he said, "That's the case, farewell." ”
"Wait!" Seeing Ye Yi leaving, Ziji hurriedly stopped, "Please wait a while......"
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"The city is broken?!" On the big wing warboat, Xiong Jing, who had just arrived at the south gate of Chen Ying, was startled. In the middle of the night last year, he arrived at the chasm outside Chen Ying, and it was inconvenient to travel in the East Lake at night, so he could only wait for dawn to enter the city. The funny thing is that before he went ashore, Chen Ying was lost.
"Your Majesty, yes! Qin and Wei's 400,000 troops attacked the city at night, our army was outnumbered, most of the county soldiers were killed in battle, please leave the city quickly to Xiang, it is too late. Chen Jian had just been escorted to the water gate in the south of the city by a group of people, and before he boarded the boat, he saw the flag on the big wing, so he had to press down on the idea of escaping, and persuaded the king to flee immediately, and everyone fled together.
"......" Xiong Jing's face changed several times when Chen Jian said this, Lian Po hurriedly coughed when he saw this, and said, "The king must not go!" The enemy army attacked the city for a night, and the city was broken, but it could still be saved. He pointed to the boat division outside the water gate, "The king still has thousands of elite armor soldiers in his hands, and the defenders in the city have not broken up here, and they are still fighting with the Qin people, why doesn't the king fight with the Qin people?" Chen Cheng will be lost, but the royal city can also be preserved. ”
"The king, Chen Ying is already in danger, don't ......" The servant Jiang heard that Chen Jian said that there were 400,000 troops, and then heard that Lian Po wanted the king to counterattack Chen Ying, and immediately bowed down and persuaded the king not to live in danger.
"Why not?" Zuo Shi was also about to speak, but before he could speak, he was stopped by Xiong Jing. "All the armor soldiers, follow this king into the city!"
"Respectfully obey the order!" Last night, the armor soldiers on the big wing heard the fighting in the city, and naturally wanted to try their skills, who thought that the city would be broken as soon as it dawned. At this time, the king decided to enter the city to counterattack, and they were extremely excited after holding it all night.
"Gongjia array!" The general of the palace armor, Zhuang went to drink heavily, and more than 100 palace armor lined up in front of him, protecting Xiong Jing heavily. The Zhoushi armor soldiers lined up in front of the palace armor, striding forward to the sound of the drums of the chariots behind them.
"The king has returned to the city! The king has returned to the city......" The common people who fled to the South Water Gate knelt down and jumped excitedly and shouted, fleeing from Chen Ying is a last resort, since the king has returned to the city, it means that Chen Ying will be able to defend. Deserted, they also found some long pestles and spears, and returned to the city with the army.
"County magistrate?" Xiong Jing insisted on recapturing Chen Ying, and Chen Jian, who failed to speak, didn't know what to do for a while.
"If the king returns to the city, I will wait for ......" Thinking of the things he had done, Chen Jian's eyes still looked at the boat outside the water gate, he didn't want to go back at all, he just wanted the Qin army to occupy Chen Ying, and it was a hundred.
"Everything has been arranged, so that nothing is lost." Chen Bi whispered to each other, and whispered for a while before the fear in Chen Jian's heart slowly put down. "The matter of defending the city is all in Sima, if the king is to blame, the county prince will not know."
"Yes, yes. Yes, too. Chen Jian nodded, it was indeed Chen Bu's sole responsibility to defend the city, and he never intervened.
"Defend the gates! Defend the gates! "At the west gate of the North City, the Wei army that entered the city from the west city was surging, and the North West Gate bore the brunt. In the past, Lan Zhong, who wanted to seize this door, was leading a group of honorable people to assist a guard guard, although the blade was sharp, but there were too many Wei people, and it seemed to be dull when chopping and chopping. The Sanitation Yi spear array next to it also seemed to be overwhelmed by the Wei army, Chen Yan's corpse was getting higher and higher, and the head of the pawn, Shangguan Gao, was already standing under the pile of corpses, and he could barely see the Wei people outside the formation.
"Right Sima has an order, guard the city gate, guard the city gate!" The county guards in the city are also urgently conveying military orders, outside the city is the Qin army, inside the city is the Wei army, as soon as the city gate is opened, more than 10,000 county soldiers in the city will definitely be surrounded and annihilated by the Qin and Wei armies.
"Put!" The crossbows and archers at the head of the city shoot arrows outside the city and into the city at the same time, and there is no need to aim at all. Inside and outside the city were densely packed with enemy troops.
"Wei He! Wei He! Wei He ......" The Wei army under the city suddenly cheered. Killing two Chu generals in a row to capture the city gate, Wei He was already a hero of the Wei army, and the soldiers saw Wei He on the chariot and couldn't help cheering in unison.
"Wei He is here ......, where are the Chu people?" Narrowly avoiding a thorn crossbow shot from the city, Wei He did not hesitate to speak, pulled out the military flag on the chariot and waved it. The soldier next to him shouted with him: "Wei He is here, where are the Chu people?" Wei He is here, where are the Chu people? ”
The Wei army entered the city with more than 30,000 people, and the cheers were simply earth-shattering, and after the cheers, the morale of the Wei army was immediately high. At this time, the military flag in Wei He's hand pointed forward and shouted, 'Kill——! ’。
"Kill ——!" The Wei pawn, who had been killed by the spear and the sword, was aroused to blood, and he rushed forward again.
"Defend the gates!" Shangguan Gao, the commander of the pawn, shouted, and the honorable blue bell also shouted: "Hold the city gate......"
Wei pawns rushed in, dust flew, even if the front row of huge iron spears were all flattened, they still rushed with a shout, rushed to the nearest place and hit the tip of the spear, the spear penetrated the lungs, and the shout turned into a scream, but the Wei pawn in the rear didn't know what was happening in front of them, they still pushed the front row and rushed, until they also hit the bloody spear tip.
"Listen to my military orders, abandon the spear in the front row." One by one, Wei pawns were strung on the spear, and the front row of sanitation had no way to draw the spear at all. "Draw your sword!"
"Draw your sword!" The first three rows of sanitation all abandoned spears and drew knives, and the knives were five feet long, which was unstoppable.
"Kill! Kill! Kill ——! Shangguan Gao shouted, he held a small shield in his hand, and rushed back against the Wei army. Following him, the front-row sanitation also rushed to the Wei army.
"Boom ——!" The sound of the shield hitting the shield, the sanitation is all a pawn, even if they are not tall, their physique is stronger than Wei pawns, they are full-time soldiers, and they train day by day. The ferocious impact suddenly knocked Wei pawn in the front row backwards and flew back.
"Kill!" Sanitation and drinking, they held the enemy with their left shield, and stabbed with their right hand, this is a standard sword and shield tactic, although the shield is very small and the blade is very long, but the Wei pawn, who has never fought so closely, was immediately killed by them and retreated.
But it is useless to retreat, with previous experience, encountering this kind of close play can only be a desperate counterattack by someone in the formation, pushing away the distance between yourself and the sword and shield. It's a pity that there are too many Wei troops, and the gap between people is too small and too small, not to mention that no one in the formation rushed out, even if someone realized this, they couldn't rush out.
"Change! Change! "The Wei army was killed by their own side and retreated, but people's strength was limited after all, seeing that the first row of sanitation was close to exhaustion, the commander Shangguan Gao hurriedly changed people. Hearing his military order, the front row of sanitation immediately gave way, and the rear row of sanitation stepped forward quickly from the gap, and they went up and killed with a fatal impact, which was even more fierce than the previous row.
The Wei pawns who shouted 'Where are the Chu people' just now couldn't organize effective resistance at all, and they didn't even have the courage to face the sanitation, they only grabbed their comrades in the back row and stepped on them to walk backwards. Such a stampede immediately caused panic in the entire array, and before Shangguan Gao could replace the third row of sanitation, the Wei army collapsed, and the soldiers trampled on the desperate rush of the back row, and the army formation fell into the distance like dominoes.