Chapter 55: The Rope

Three days have passed since the siege, and the Qin army under Dafu Mountain still does not surrender. At night two days ago, Qin soldiers climbed the mountain in groups, in a vain attempt to break through the mountain, but unfortunately the mountain side is Suixian, Xiang Yan is also very clear about the terrain on both sides of Dafu Mountain, and the intercepted soldiers were stationed on the top of the mountain on the first day, cutting off the possible retreat of the Qin army.

The victory is already in hand, but what the Chu army can't bear is the stalemate of the war, and the other two Qin armies may attack at any time. Early in the morning of the fourth day, a team that no one had ever seen carried hammers and pulled carriages to the perimeter of the encirclement, and after showing their feathers, the soldiers in the team passed through the spear array to the inner side of the encirclement. The soldiers of the Chu army were assassinated day and night, and the Qin army had to manage to build a low wall, and then concentrate the crossbows, barely keeping a distance of fifty paces from the Chu army.

As soon as the Chu army moved, the Qin army in the low wall let out a burst of restlessness, but this time it was different, the Chu soldiers who rushed up only carried an iron stake more than one person high, they stopped twenty steps away, and let the hammer vigorously nail the iron stake into the ground. The ground was littered with corpses stabbed to death by spears, and the iron stakes passed through the corpses on the ground and slammed deep into the ground. After the hammer, he took ten steps back and hammered down the iron stake again.

The enemy was beating the stake twenty steps away, and twenty steps were already within the range of the crossbow arrows, but these Chu soldiers were also wearing huge armor, and they shot for a while to no avail, and the Chu archers fifty steps away suppressed again and again, and the Qin army had to stop under the low wall to avoid arrows.

"Jing Ren, why is this?" After the iron stakes were nailed, bundles of rope-like things were carried in, and along the iron stakes, ropes were bolted to them, forming extremely sparse nets.

"Jing people are going to fence us up again, like a cow and a sheepfold." The Qin soldiers who had already been surrounded didn't care about a few more fence walls, they built a low wall themselves.

"Why is that?" Qin saw that Mingtang was coming, and Chu also saw Mingtang. It's just that once these fence walls are erected, it will be difficult to practice assassination in the future, and the wall will hinder everyone's business

"The general has been ordered in the morning, and from today, you will return to the division." The division commander who led the team to build a fence looked at Chen Hong, who was asking questions.

"But what about Qin Kou?" Chen Hong pointed to the Qin army inside the fence, "Qin Kou still has 100,000 left, in case he escapes, ......"

"It's burning!" The division commander only replied two words and turned his head, and Chen Hong was summoned away by the sound of drums, leaving only a group of armor soldiers who did not know what was going to happen. Only Chen Sheng shuddered a few times when he heard the word 'burned', and he always remembered the Qin soldiers who burned to death at the gate of Chen Ying's inner city, as well as the painting that could kill people.

"Will the Qin people descend or not? Do the Qin people descend or not? Do the Qin people descend or not? …… To drop or not to fall? "This was the last inquiry, and the voices of more than 100,000 people were incomparably majestic, shaking through the valley. However, as before, the Qin army at the foot of the mountain was dead silent and did not respond.

"General......" The artillery general looked at Xiang Yan and waited for him to give a military order.

"Put." Xiang Yan's order was very light, as if it was a little displeased. The autumn harvest is imminent, and the state of Chu, which is not short of food for the time being, can already feed the captives, but I didn't expect that these Qin soldiers would rather die than surrender, since this is the case, they can only be burned to death.

"Putting ——!" Gong Yi Ji shouted behind him, more than 100 trebuchets that were transported day and night were already ready, and when he heard Gong Ji 'Dang', the ten-ton iron block at the end of the pole fell rapidly, and the fire bomb in the leather pocket was thrown out immediately.

'Boom! A terrifying flame rose from the black oppressive Qin army, and there was no longer a deathly silence, but a terrible scream.

"Put!" The artillery commanders shouted incessantly, and in a narrow area that was no more than two miles long, thirty or forty fire oil bombs fell every minute. Fire oil has long been not animal anointment, but a light oil refined from coal tar, and every 400 catties of fire oil bomb can stir up a few square steps of flames when it lands. Although it would take more than 60,000 fire bombs to cover the two-mile stretch and thirty hours of continuous firing, there was no need for such a firing density. Because, they are people.

Less than an hour after the fire of the oil bomb, the Qin army was completely chaotic. The fire oil makes every Qin pawn desperate, and this despair makes people crazy. They no longer wanted to wait for reinforcements from across the Huaishui, they didn't want any knightly feats, they just wanted to escape from this place of death. But what is unexpected is that the crazy Qin soldiers did not rush out of the encirclement in the first place, they first killed the officers around them who were blocking them, and then rushed to the fence wall that they thought was like ropes.

In the army, the officer must always maintain absolute authority over the non-commissioned officers, and when this authority does not exist, the army does not exist. Seeing this scene, Xiang Yan, including Peng Zong and others beside him, were all silent, but their hearts were shocked, the Qin army collapsed, but unfortunately it collapsed and could not surrender.

"Put!" The trebuchet array was still firing, and the fire oil bombs were like demonic eggs, each of which devoured countless Qin pawns, burning them alive. The flames in the encirclement grew louder and louder, the smoke grew louder and louder, and as soon as the mountain wind blew in, the wings of the nose were filled with the disgusting smell of burnt human flesh. The sense of smell is like this, and the seemingly fragile fence walls that make people even more frightening.

The fence wall was no more than a foot high, and a 'rope' collapsed every half a foot on the iron stakes. If you don't look closely at these 'ropes', you will think that they are playing countless knots, but Lu Li can see that those knots are thorns in the mirror. The Qin army, who wanted to climb over the fence wall, was pierced by thorns and bled more than a few feet, and even if he climbed up despite the bleeding, his robe would be hung by thorns. Some people climbed, some slashed with their halberds, and some people thought the weapons were too blunt and even bit them with their teeth, but the 'ropes' were constant anyway.

"This is barbed wire?" Xiang Yan was no stranger to the name, but this was the first time she had seen the power of barbed wire.

"Yes, yes." Li He had long seen the power of barbed wire, and Da Sima Mansion also summed up a set of tactics according to the characteristics of barbed wire.

"General Pan," Xiang Yan nodded slowly, no longer looking at the Qin soldiers who were crazy about breaking through like beasts in the encirclement.

"The end will be." Pan Wuming saluted.

"I'll leave it to you." Xiang Yan first whispered to Pan Wuming, but then loudly told the generals: "From now on, Jiyi will take General Pan as the general, and those who do not obey General Pan's orders will be beheaded!" ”

"The last general respectfully obeys the order!" The generals shouted in unison, and no one obeyed.

"The Zhou division is fine, and the Chen division and the Xiang division immediately withdraw from the battlefield. Xiaoqian boarded the boat, opened when eating, stayed in Xixian County for a day, stayed in Yingwei tomorrow, and stayed in Xiangcheng the day after tomorrow. Xiang Yan ordered. There are only 500 new-style large-wing warships, which can only carry more than 80,000 people, and Wang Zu cannot be evacuated on the west bank of Huaishui, so he can only be replaced by Chen Shi and Xiang Shi.

"The last general respectfully obeys the order." Xiang Yan shouted that the generals responded again, with imperceptible pride. The other generals had no choice but to cast hateful glances at the Qin army in the encirclement, because they made it impossible for them to participate in the next stage of the war.

The trebuchet kept firing fire oil bombs, and the screaming and wailing Qin pawns crossed the first barbed wire fence but could not cross the second, climbed the second and then the third and fourth. However, the frenzied Qin troops trampled on each other and climbed, and the four barbed wire fences could not stop them, so they had to arrange a row of razor spears outside the fourth barbed wire, and the Qin troops who escaped were all stabbed to death by them.

This is no longer a battle, but a massacre, Chen Sheng didn't dare to look at the wailing Qin army in the barbed wire when he left, but Chen Hei's buttocks kept turning back, one moment was tearing his teeth and grinning, his fists were tight, and the other time he was scratching his ears and cheeks, jumping around, and the not very annoying Wu Chang Chen Chen finally gave him a punch, so he honestly carried the spear and didn't look back.

"General?" On the west bank of Huaishui, standing on the carriage, Li Xinxin stared at the mirror for a long time, and the car right under saw that the general was staring for too long, and couldn't help but ask out loud.

"Ahh It's okay not to ask, but as soon as Li Xin asked, he screamed wildly, so frightened that everyone hurriedly held him up.

"General, our army should withdraw from Jiyi as soon as possible." Bai Lin boarded up on another chariot and looked at it, without any temple calculations, just looking at the Qin army's madness, he knew that Zhao Shanjun was completely finished. The most important thing at the moment is that he has to withdraw from Jiyi, or retreat to Biyang along the Ma Valley or along the moon water, and more than 20,000 people will die here even later.

"How can you withdraw at this time?" Shi Ge was indignant, "How can we see that our allies are in danger and not save them, and we will ...... Qin Law"

According to Qin law, it is a big sin to abandon friendly troops, but if you don't abandon friendly troops at this time, the result will be that the entire army will be destroyed. Bai Lin looked at Li Xin again, as the main general, how to decide was for him to decide. Li Xin naturally knew that it was time to make a decision, and he stared at the king of the Chu army who was sitting in strict order by the Huaishui for a long time, and finally said: "I will withdraw from Jiyi tonight." ”

"General, if the king punishes the crime......" Shi Ge was very uneasy about Li Xin's decision.

"If the king had punished him, he would have borne it alone." Li Xin shouted, he turned around and stopped looking at the roaring fireworks under Dafu Mountain.

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"Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the king...... "The next day, at the Huaishui Wharf in Yingdu, the ministers and soldiers who welcomed the suburbs of the city once again shouted 'Long live the king'. The Qin people did not believe in the alliance to deceive, the king Tianyou was unscathed, and the most important thing was that the general defeated the Qin army again, and beheaded 150,000 in Jiyi. Stimulated by several pieces of news, Yingdu was boiling, and even the women and children left behind were shouting long live on both sides of the dock and pipeline, and the sound was overwhelming.

Xiong Jing was not half happy to hear that he was in vain, and at noon he received the news of the Qin army's attack. Shangcai Qin's army had reached Xinyi west of Pingyu and on the east bank of Huaishui; The Qin army of Yuyi moved south to occupy Yangxia, and the advance had reached south of Minglu and north of Shashui. The sand water flows through Chenying, crosses the chasm to the east, and turns south at Ziwu (now south of Luyi County), which is still dozens of miles away from Lishui, and almost travels on the same level as Mao.

The sand and water are not abundant, and the Qin army can easily build a bridge to cross, and Zi Bu is only more than 400 miles away from Xia Cai, if the march is faster, the Qin army will be able to rush to the city of Xia Cai in six or seven days, and face Yingdu across the river. And the Chu army has not yet returned to the division at this moment, let alone the surprise attack on Aocang, Xiang Yan has been delayed in Jiyi for too long.