The cries of laughing owls were heard in the mountains and forests. The sound was not so much a birdsong as a madman laughing. Laughing horrably, Lin Jiao on the chariot waved his hand back, signaling the soldiers behind him to stop.

"Column—array!" The pawn commander, the longer part, and the two chiefs stopped and shouted, pointing to the soldiers under their command to line up. The soldiers did not understand the strategy of attacking the whole army, only to know that their two thousand men had pulled out of the city, and the Qin army on the opposite side was getting denser and denser, more and more, and they were very frightened in their hearts.

There has been no war for more than ten years, and the training of the county soldiers is naturally not as good as that of the Wang Pawn and the Qin army, which has been arrayed for a long time, until the Qin army soldiers under the city are slowly approaching. The Qin army's military formation is getting closer and closer, and the noses of the chariots and horses on both sides are getting clearer and clearer, but because of the sun on their backs, their faces of the Chu army are completely unreal, and some are just a dazzling glow.

It was different for the Qin army with its back to the west and east, following the glow, the Chu army, which had traveled more than 100 miles and rushed to the city, was tired and embarrassed, not only were they not fully armored, their clothes were tattered, and even the queue was not very neat. According to past experience, such an army formation can be penetrated with only one impact, followed by unilateral slaughter.

The Qin army advanced slowly, and the Chu army also moved forward to meet the enemy after going through the whole team again. At 500 paces, 400 steps, 300 steps, 200 steps, and ......150 paces, the crossbowmen of the two armies rushed to the front of the formation, ready to start firing arrows after the enemy entered a hundred steps, however, at this time, the gong sounded again at the head of the city, and a Chu army that appeared out of nowhere was rapidly approaching the north gate of Jiyi.

"Stop. Withdraw. Withdraw! The city captain who led the army was not flustered, he waved the flag and commanded the Qin army to retreat to the city slowly.

The Qin army's retreat was not chaotic, but Chengtong must not let them retreat to the city safely. This time, it was the Chu army that beat the drum with all its might, and this drum ignited the last trace of strength and bravery in the soldiers, and they waved their spears and shouted loudly, and quickly chased after the Qin army who was about to retreat into the city.

"Stop!" The two armies were too close, and they were too far away from the city, so the city captain, who had no choice, had to order the drums to beat again, and when the Chu army marched fifty paces, he shouted: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

With one drum and then drum, thousands of arrows flew towards the Chu army that was rushing quickly, and there were countless arrows. But the arrows could not discourage the morale of the Chu army at all, but aroused their killing intent. Regardless of whether they were hit or not, they all held their blades high and slammed into the Qin army's military formation. For a time, the halberds exchanged blows, shouted and drank, and the bloody corpses were ......

As Cheng Tong had wished before the battle, the two armies were finally entangled, and even if the chariots of the Qin army were rushing into his thin wings, he no longer worried—he saw that the Cai division led by Pan Wuming was already two miles away.

"Kill!" He didn't have to wait too long, and Pan Wuming, who was the first soldier, rushed through the rice-covered Tian Mo with Cai Shi, who had no queue, and pounced into the indistinguishable battle group, striking at the left flank of the Qin army. The left flank of the Qin army was attacked by the enemy on the back and collapsed in an instant. The collapse of the left flank is a disaster, but the greater disaster is that more and more Chu troops appear behind the entire army formation, at the beginning the Qin army can still form a formation for defense, and slowly lean towards the city in a gradual retreat, but seeing that he is about to be completely surrounded by the Chu army, the right flank, which has not yet been encircled, actually left the formation without authorization.

"Escaped! The Qin people fled!! Seeing this, the generals of the Chu army shouted loudly, and their morale was even stronger; Although the Qin soldiers didn't know what the enemy was shouting, they turned around and saw that some people had left the army and fled to the city, and the barely maintained battle line finally collapsed.

When the two armies faced each other, not many people died, but the result of the collapse of the army formation was that the whole army was wiped out. When everyone understands the truth when they are calm, everyone is stunned when the friendly army breaks and flees, and the city is close at hand. Seeing that the drawbridge was being raised, every soldier scrambled to escape back into the city, abandoning their weapons and swarming towards the drawbridge and rushing to the city gates.

"Shoot the arrows!" Arrows rained down on the walls. The Jiyi Castle Commander gave the order in a fit of patience, trying to drive the defeated army away from the city. But it was too late. The plague-like Qin army jumped out of the city, some were pierced by bamboo arrows in the water, and some stepped on the corpses of their comrades and squeezed to the city gates.

"Shoot the arrows!" The city commander was at a loss, and there was no other order than shouting and releasing arrows. But the more he released the arrows, the more the Qin army died under the city, and the higher the corpse base, and outside the city, in the twilight, stepping on the corpses of the Qin army stuffed with the moat, the Chu army was coming.

"Our army has won a great victory!" Sima Pengzong, who had previously faintly opposed the immediate attack, sighed after putting down Lu Lijing. It was not for nothing that he opposed an immediate attack: after days of marching, the soldiers were already tired; There is no siege ladder, so you can only rely on human lives to fill the moat; And twilight is approaching, and it is extremely inconvenient to attack at night. He didn't expect that the generals of the Qin army would actually take the initiative to go out of the city to meet Chengtong's two thousand people.

"The Qin people are still the same." The corpses of the Qin army outside the east gate were piled up, and when the last ray of light fell, the soldiers of Chu had already stepped on the corpses and rushed to the city wall, fighting with the Qin army in the city. Xiang Yan also put down the Lu Lijing and put it away carefully, he began to feel that this Lu Lijing was more important than he thought before, it was of great help to understand and judge the enemy's situation and command the battle.

"Unchanged?" Peng Zong looked at him with a smile, a little puzzled.

"The Qin people fought to the death, just to be knighted. If you die in battle, what is the use of being knighted? Xiang Yan said a few more words.

"The general means that the Qin people will also be afraid of death?!" Peng Zong was very surprised, he was the Sima of the Chengyang Army not long ago, and he had only heard how brave the Qin army was in battle.

"Who is not afraid of death?" Xiang Yan asked solemnly, and when he wanted to say something, the rider who summoned the message suddenly came.

"General Bao: Our army won a great victory, and the Qin people opened the west gate widely, abandoned the city and fled." The knight was sent by Xiang Zhi, and the Qin people who fled west happened to fall into the encirclement of Xiang Zhi on the other side of the mountain, and there was no suspense about Jiyi taking it.

"Urgently order Xiang Zhi to quickly march to the city, pull it out if it can, and surround it if it can't, and it should be necessary to hold the mountain road." Xiang Yan instructed.

"Yui!" When the cavalry was ordered, they jumped on their horses and ran for a dozen paces before disappearing into the night. Not far away, the fire in Jiyi City was burning bigger and bigger, and the shouts of all sizes were getting more and more poignant.

Under the same night, under the same night, Xie Yi, eighty miles east of Xiang Yan, was also taken by the Qin army. Unlike the Chu army, which was stealthy and lured the enemy, although Xie Yi was in danger of Huaishui, Meng Wu concentrated on the strange tricks in the army to build a bridge from upstream the day before - swimming was originally an insignificant skill in later generations, but in this era it was called a strange trick by soldiers, saying that it could 'cross the river over the deep water'.