Chapter Nine: The Breaking of the Country (II)
The wolf smoke finally rose outside Xinying City, and the huge Qin army divided the brigade into countless squads, and they kept attacking and harassing Xinying day and night. Originally, the Chu army flocked to the city when they saw the Qin army coming, and they were on guard, but they couldn't help the Qin army tossing day and night like this, and they couldn't stand it in two days, and they were all dragged to the point of yellow and thin muscles, and they were dying.
Under the cruel lesson, Jing Qi finally understood the intention of the Qin army to exhaust the enemy, and immediately divided more than 100,000 remnants into three squads and took turns to guard, but this also made a few surprises every day, and he couldn't sleep day and night.
The army is still like this, and the people and magnates in Xinyingcheng can't stand it even more: Xinyingcheng has not heard of war for decades, and people are used to being comfortable and happy, and now the Qin army is overwhelming, and everyone has long been frightened! Hugh said that assisting the defenders to resist means closing the door and shutting up at home all day long, and being frightened by the incessant shouting and killing of the Qin army day and night, and he was terrified and unable to live all day! In particular, the cunning Fusu kept shooting some letters of persuasion, temptation, and intimidation into the city, so that the people in the city not only did not dare to help the Chu army defend the enemy, but gradually developed the heart of the enemy, so in just six or seven days, the Qin army had not really begun to attack the city, and the people of Xinying were already in chaos!
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The solemn sound of war drums ...... "Knock knock knock" quickly spread in the early morning air, and huge pieces of black quickly appeared outside the originally empty Xinying City: The Qin army is coming!
The cat-and-mouse prelude has come to an end, and Xinyingcheng has ushered in a real test!
"Dangdangdang......" The alarm bell at the head of Xinying City rang quickly, sending out the most urgent enemy signal!
"Quick, quick, quick! Fuck, hurry up! "A large number of Chu troops, under the urging of the generals, quickly landed in the city and prepared to engage in battle!
Jing Qi stood on top of the north gate and looked into the distance: a huge black line first appeared in the distant sky, and gradually the black line turned black, obscuring the distant earth like a dark night. Murderous aura, a thick murderous aura, quickly rose into the air, seizing the brilliance of heaven and earth, and firmly enveloping Xinyingcheng!
"Bumper bumper ......" The neat and powerful footsteps of the Qin army slammed into the hearts of the Chu soldiers like a hammer. The faces of the Chu soldiers changed, it was a kind of horror and shock to the powerful force!
When the Qin army's advance reached 500 steps below Xinying City, the brigade stopped. Jing Qi clearly saw that there were hundreds of huge siege weapons lying quietly in the rear of the Qin army's formation, many of which were so strange that Jing Qi had never seen them in his life, and he couldn't help but suddenly have a sad face!
At this moment, the Qin army began their routine homework. "The Chu people can't descend! The Chu people will not descend! ......" The Qin soldiers slammed their halberds and let out a huge shout. The shout rolled in, shaking the ears of the Chu people like a landslide cracking, and the horror on their faces became even thicker!
Silence, astonishing silence, the Chu people at the head of Xinying City responded to the persuasion of the Qin people with silence!
Qin Jun waited for half a moment, and when he saw that the Chu people did not move, he seemed to be angered by the rudeness of the Chu people. Suddenly, there was a thunderous battle drum behind the Qin army's formation, and tens of thousands of Qin army crossbowmen lined up and marched towards Xinyingcheng with neat steps.
"Bump! Touch! Touch! ......" powerful steps declare the strong will and determination of the Qin people!
"Five hundred steps!" Chu Jun looked at his hands and shouted hard!
"Four hundred steps!" The voice is trembling more and more!
"Three hundred steps!" The voice is already a little hoarse!
At this moment, Jing Qi waved his big hand: "The crossbow machine is launched!" As soon as the words fell, a tooth-aching sound of machine springs sounded over Xinyingcheng's head, followed by a burst of "whoosh" explosions in the air like a series of rolling thunder, and then a cold light rose into the air, screaming and pounced on the approaching group of Qin army crossbowmen!
"Plop pounce pounce ......" Qin Jun's crossbow hand suddenly responded to the sound of a strange blood flower, and the bloody breath quickly drifted away with the wind, filling the sky.
A famous Qin army fell, but the robes behind him immediately turned a blind eye to the substitutes, and ignored the crazy crossbow arrows of the Chu army!
"Two hundred and fifty steps! Stop, raise your crossbow, and get ready to fire! "Bang, the strict military formation stopped in an instant, and a team of Qin troops aimed the crossbow machines in their hands at the sky!
"Put!" With the vigorous shouting of a Qin army captain......, tens of thousands of arrows instantly jumped up from the sky above the military formation, making a huge strange scream, shocking people's eardrums, and pounced on Xinyingcheng like a swarm of black and crushed locusts!
......The huge head of the huge Xinying City was instantly deeply cultivated by the dense rain of arrows of the Qin army, followed by pieces of poignant blood flowers and heart-rending screams!
"Gale! Gale! Gale! ...... "Seeing the crossbowmen exerting their might, the sergeants in the rear of the Qin army shouted loudly with their soldiers! The huge shout shook the heavens and the earth, and heavily guided the blood of the Qin people, which was already boiling to the extreme, and the Qin people's eyes were red!
As soon as the Qin army's three-stage serial crossbow array was launched, its tremendous power was unstoppable: wave after wave of huge arrow curtains rose above the crossbowman group, covering the entire sky, making huge strange screams, and ploughing the head of Xinying City over and over again!
In recent years, the Chu people, who were not rich in experience in fighting with the Qin army, immediately suffered heavy casualties, and the embarrassed Chu army barely fought back a few rounds, and then they were suppressed so that they did not dare to raise their heads indiscriminately, hiding like a group of turtles on the side of the battlements and shields, trembling!
There is no doubt that the routine arrow curtain coverage of the Qin army before each siege not only has a huge effect on capturing the enemy's heart, but also has a huge power of killing and injuring the enemy's effective force!
"Gale! Gale! Gale! ......" The cheers of the Qin people became louder and louder!
"Whoosh......" The last round of arrow rain rose from above the Qin army's crossbowmen, sprinkling a handful of salt on the already bleeding wound at the head of Xinying City!
"Collect the crossbow! Fall back! With the shout of the Qin army captain, the Qin army crossbowmen put away their crossbows one after another, endured the huge soreness of their arms, and quickly retreated back to the formation, now is the time for the Qin army's foot soldiers to perform!
In the powerful footsteps of the crossbowmen of the Qin army, the head of Xinying City was dead silent, and for a while, only the crackling sound of flames burning wood and the dripping sound of blood dripping on the ground were heard, but it was so quiet that there was almost no breath of life!
Indeed, under the powerful coverage of the Qin army's 400,000 to 500,000 arrow rains, the Chu people suffered heavy casualties, and even the soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were deeply shocked by the Qin army's terrifying attack power for a while, and they were in great horror for a while and couldn't extricate themselves!
"Knock knock ......" A new round of war drums sounded under Xinying City, and this time the war drums sounded more rapidly and more violently: Yes, this is the siege drum of the Qin army!
With the sound of drums, hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers around Xinying pushed countless siege equipment to sweep across the ground like a black storm, and the huge shout was as terrifying as a mountain flood and tsunami! Under the daylight, the cyan cold light obscured the sky and the sun, exuding a fierce aura of death!
"Dangdangdang......" The long-silent alarm bell at the head of Xinying City finally rang again, and the Chu people who were shot by the rain of arrows of the Qin army finally stood up one after another. But the Chu people seemed much lonely, about three or four percent of the Chu army was either shot to the ground, or fell to the ground in pain and kept moaning, the Chu people paid a huge price in this round of arrow rain!
Jing Qi also looked up under the escort of his own soldiers, and when he saw such a huge siege momentum of the Qin army, he couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately shouted: "Prepare to roll wood, stones, boiling oil, boiling water, bow crossbowmen prepare, listen to my order to launch!" ”
With the sound of the order, the Chu army was in a hurry, and the defensive formation, which was messily shot by the rain of arrows, was immediately reorganized and ready to engage in battle!
At this moment, there was a huge strange noise suddenly in the sky, and the Chu soldiers had never heard of this kind of strange noise, so they couldn't help but look up together!
In the distant sky, a group of black dots roared and rolled in, making a huge roar! Quickly, the black dot turned into a black shadow, and it rushed straight to the head of Xinying City with a thunderous momentum!
"Hide ——! Quickly" The clever Chu people roared vigorously. As soon as the words fell, countless boulders volleyed in, and the loud sound of "booming ......" rang non-stop for a while, and the ear drums were filled with the miserable howls of the soldiers of the Chu army, and a stream of blood mist rose into the air; Sawdust flew and stones tumbled, and the huge walls trembled like a pendulum!
Immediately afterward, a new volley of attacks struck, this time a group of huge balls that were fiery red. When the huge balls of "Bumper ......" fell on the head of Xinying City one by one, they splashed the fire oil all over the sky, and when the fire oil passed, a raging fire immediately rolled up on the head of the city, igniting countless city defense equipment, gatehouses, and arrow stacks of the Chu people! Ah——!h ......" Countless Chu soldiers rushed out of the flames with screams, and their bodies were already burning like a blazing torch!
As a result, before the Chu army could make any effective attack on the Qin army, the head of Xinying City had been swept by the Qin army's huge and advanced siege weapons like a sudden wind! The people of Chu were successively attacked by the new tactics and weapons of the Qin army, and their combat strength plummeted, and the casualties were heavy!
The so-called, while you are sick, you will die! Seeing the sea of fire at the head of Xinying City, and the Chu army was in a hurry, the Qin army couldn't help but be overjoyed, and rushed up like a nest of peaks with a shout. Countless bridge cars turned the wide moat into a moat, and the rain-like cloud carts and ladders have taken the head of the city. Immediately afterward, countless Qin troops were attached like black ant colonies, rushing towards the head of Xinying City!
In the raging waves, Jing Qi struggled to straighten up and shouted: "Hurry up and release the arrow!" Smash it for me, don't let the Qin army climb to the top of the city! "The surviving Chu army struggled to exert its might, flying arrows like rain, and shot down the Qin army attached to the ants one by one; Immediately after that, rolling wood, stones, ash bottles, and cannons fell like rain, and the Chu people didn't even need to aim, as long as they grabbed something and smashed it under the city wall, they would definitely get a harvest, because there were too many Qin troops under the city wall!
At the head of Xinying City, there was a sword and sword shadow, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the raging beacon fire could be clearly heard more than ten miles away. The officers and soldiers of the two armies of Qin and Chu sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, fought hard to kill, and they were all fighting bloodily for the interests of the country!
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As the sun sets in the west, the golden sunset begins to shine on the earth, smearing everything on the earth with a layer of gold.
Finally, with the sound of Jin Duo, the Qin army that had been racing through the mountains and fields retreated. After beating Xinying City for a whole day, they took away the corpses of their companions, leaving behind the remains of countless siege equipment! And they also left a significant commemorative symbol on the Xinying city wall: broken and crumbling battlements, ruined towers, and walls everywhere in huge pits! The huge and solid new Yingcheng has changed color and appearance in one day!
On this day, the Qin army almost created a miracle in the history of the world's siege: in the large-scale siege battle, they relied on advanced tactics and weapons on the attacking side, and the number of casualties was even less than that of the Chu army in a defensive position, and this huge success made the retreat of the Qin army become cheerful and powerful!
On a hill in the distance, Fusu, Wang Jian and other generals of the Qin army watched the battle all day and couldn't help but be satisfied with today's results. Fusu smiled and said to Wang Qian: "Old general, today's battle is estimated to consume four to fifty percent of the combat power of the Chu army, far more than our army expected!" If it goes on like this, it is estimated that it will take less than a month, and half a month will be able to break through Xinying! ”
Wang Jian nodded and said: "I didn't expect the king's trebuchet to have such a miraculous effect on the siege, it seems that Xinying is already in the bag of my Qin country!" By the way, General Meng, how is the situation of Xiang Yan's department in Huaishang? Meng Wu replied: "Xiang Yan is recruiting, and a new army of 570,000 people has been gathered, and it is in urgent training!" ”
Wang Jian shook his head when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Grinding guns in battle is a taboo for soldiers!" Even if Xiang Yan has wings that soar into the sky at this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to fly out of Chu's death! The generals laughed when they heard this!
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In the next half month, the two armies of Qin and Chu fought fiercely day and night, and Xinying Chengtou was like a hell on earth, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the two armies stained the battlefield with blood every day, sacrificing their lives for the country!
At the same time, under the cover of the Qin army's tidal offensive, the Qin army's tunnel operations were also in full swing! On this day, Jing Qi, who was fighting fiercely with the Qin army, reported that the moat suddenly dried up, and I don't know why! Jing Qi, who was experienced in combat, immediately judged that the Qin army was digging tunnels on a large scale! Immediately buried hundreds of large urns under the Xinying city wall, in order to listen to its sound, one night, Jing Qi broke through more than ten tunnels of the Qin army, the Qin army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the tunnel offensive gradually slowed down!
However, after Fusu ordered the Yangtze River water to be poured into the abandoned tunnels, the originally soft foundation of Xinying City was greatly damaged, and the huge city body gradually cracked and sat down under the combined attack of the natural recoil and the Qin army's trebuchets and rushing cars, and gradually collapsed! Although Jing Qi has a strategy, he can only cry out in vain at this time!
In mid-June 224 BC, half a month after the Qin army besieged Xinying, Xinying Xicheng took the lead in holding on and collapsed in three places, and the Qin army frantically swarmed into Xinying like a flood tide. Jing Qi led the remnants of the army to resist to no avail, died in battle, the king of Chu was captured by the Qin army, and the state of Chu was declared extinct!
Hearing that the capital of the country had fallen, Xiang Yan looked west in Huai and worshipped, cried bitterly for three days, his eyes were dripping blood, he fainted to death several times, and was persuaded by the public to stop! Soon, Xiang Yan supported the younger brother of the prince of Changping of the Chu State as the new Changping Jun in Huai, spread the old land of the Chu State, and continued to resist Qin with the new king!
When Fusu and Wang Jian heard the report, they knew that Xiang Yan still had the strength to fight, so they didn't dare to relax, and immediately led an army of more than 300,000 to quickly march eastward, approaching Huaishang, and confronting Xiang Yan's troops across the Huaishui!