From the moment he received Zhao Zheng's royal order in the morning, Xianyang City fell into chaos. The Chu army went straight to Xianyang, but the Qin army was far behind, and it was too late to catch up, and Xianyang could only rely on its own strength to wait for help. Xianyang Tianxia Xiongcheng, the city is seven zhang two feet high, the wall thickness is twenty-one zhang, counting the slope protection of the foot of the inner and outer walls, that is twenty-six zhang.

Such a Xiongcheng is not difficult to defend for three days according to the king's order, but the Chu army broke through Lantian City in only an instant. As soon as the witchcraft roared, the walls flew into the sky. Although the officials and people in Xianyang City did not witness it with their own eyes, for more than half a month, the Chu army relied on witchcraft weapons and spread all over Xianyang in one day. Even the important ministers in the court did not feel that they could hold Xianyang.

Not to mention. In order to block the Chu army in Lantian, including the Shi Zi of the school and the vertical son of the palace, Ding Zhuang in the city made all his efforts in Lantian. The rest of the city were either old or weak, officials and craftsmen. Including the people of the palace temple, there are more than 80,000 officials, and there are as many as 280,000 craftsmen in the Shaofu (including a large number of subordinates). Although there are many people, few have experienced battle. These people can't even hold the Ge steadily, and the battle is about to collapse at the first touch, and the defense of the city is unbearable.

Therefore, as soon as the court meeting presided over by Zuo Prime Minister Kui Xiang, Ting Wei Li Si, and Lieutenant Zhao Bo dispersed, Dongcheng fell into chaos. Immediately after the big city behind the royal city, the city was crowded with people, corn, sauce, chickens and ducks, cattle and sheep, ......, as long as they could be eaten, they were all snapped up.

The rush to buy in the big city naturally caused chaos in the west and suburbs. The Qianshou of Xicheng also entered the city to grab corn and grain, and the Qianshou on the outskirts of the city either fled to other places or poured into the city.

Under the rule of Qin, all the heads of Qian, but the heads of Qiantou also have ranks. The Qianshou of Xianyang is one level higher than the Qianshou of other cities of Qin, and the Qianshou of other cities is one level higher than the Qianshou of the countryside and wilderness, and the Qianshou of the wild land is one level higher than the new Qianshou of the newly conquered area. Officials will naturally not be as busy as they are with the new Qianshou in Xianyang.

At this time, Zhao Bo, the lieutenant in charge of Xianyang's city defense, issued a military order: Ding Zhuang, a man and woman in each part of the city, were required to prepare their own armor and soldiers to garrison the outer city in sections.

Qu answer, car, stack, line, slash, orange tree, Lian Yuan, long axe, long vertebrae, long hoe, hook, flying rush, criticism, rope ......, if there are these city-guarding equipment, to be immediately moved to the city, no, Shaofu overnight manufacturing; Charcoals, stones, thistles, rolling wood, gravel, iron filings, ash, chaff, grain, husks, horse urine, and human excrement, these fortified things were to be brought to the city and collected as soon as possible.

In addition, the city also needs a thousand steps and a table, two hundred steps and a floor, a hundred steps and a pavilion, fifty steps and a stove, and thirty steps and a Hou Lou (protruding outside the city wall, similar to the later horse face), and the city should be buried obliquely outward, blocking the planting of the ladder car, and the inner side of the moat should have the firewood that sticks out outward or even a low Fengyuan.

Of course, the city must also be fortified - the battle to defend the city is by no means the end of the city, the standard strategy of defending the city, behind the city wall is a ring road, and the avenue is a simple earthen wall, under the wall is a deep trench, the trench is stuffed with firewood and grass, and the enemy enters the city and ignites the firewood and grass in the trench to form a wall of fire. In addition, barriers and walls should be set up between the various miles to cut off traffic and strictly guard against spies.

The Mo family's art of defending the city is the most complete, but unfortunately Xianyang has never experienced war since the city was built, last month I heard that the Chu army wanted to enter the pass, Sikong only began to set up a table to build a building in the city, planting trees outside the city, how can Xianyang City be eighty miles around, ten days is not enough time. Now that the Chu army has suddenly arrived, they can only abandon the outside of the city and go all out to build the city.

There were no more than 20,000 soldiers in the city, and they could barely maintain order in the city. The eastern city, the western city, and the suburbs of the city were all in chaos, and it was extremely difficult to recruit soldiers in a chaotic situation, not to mention the common people of the western city, even the powerful people of the eastern city also had many of them fleeing and self-harming to avoid being drafted.

When the ministers were at a loss, it was Yan Wuyi who took tens of thousands of ink scholars and craftsmen to the head of Xianyang City with the order of the Mo family, which stabilized the hearts of the people, and the chaos in the city was contained. The time of a day is too short and too short, when the military flag of the Chu army appeared under the city of Xianyang, only the southern city wall hung up the canal, and the wooden standard, the wooden building, the wooden oar, the wooden pavilion, the charcoal stove, and the waiting building were still not complete.

According to the habit of the Chu army, everywhere they went, they would routinely fire artillery to test the enemy's situation and deter the Quartet. In the south of the city where the knights of the Zhao army died in battle last year, a battalion of artillery was lined up and fired at the three gates of the southern city.

The sound of the cannon was deafening, and the cannonballs hit the canal, and even the canal pole was knocked away, revealing the cowering Qin pawns at the head of the city; When it hit the city gate, the city gate was immediately a big hole - the time was urgent, and the door was not blocked in the city at all; Hit in the air, the cannonballs whistled over the wall and landed in the palace, some of which were fired at a high angle past the Yingmen and hit the main hall.

The main gate of the south of the city is facing the main gate of the palace, the main hall is in the Ying Gate, the Ying Gate is in the Pheasant Gate, the Pheasant Gate is in the Kumen, the Kumen is in the Gao Gate, and the Gao Gate is in the City Gate. Xianyang City has expanded several times, and Xianyang Wangcheng has expanded, but no matter how it expands, the scale of Wangcheng is also nine-third. Xianyang City is 22 miles long from north to south, and the length of Wangcheng from north to south is also between 7 and 8 miles (the Forbidden City is only 2.3 miles long from north to south and 1.8 miles wide from east to west). Behind the main hall is the road gate, and inside the road gate is the dormitory.

It is extremely normal for a shell fired at a five-fold charge and at an angle of more than 40 degrees to fall more than 2,000 meters away (about six miles), and more than 2,000 meters is just within the Yingmen. After finding that the door hole was not blocked, the Chu army immediately adjusted, and more artillery aimed at the main gate of Nancheng to bombard, but there was still a company of fifteen-pound guns aimed at Wangcheng, which was two kilometers away. Every time a cannonball fell, the temple maids in the city would scream in fear, and then they all avoided the road gate and hid in the depths of the dormitory.

"Jing people are the best! Jing people are the best! The old poisonous woman wants to destroy my Great Qin! The old poisonous woman wants to destroy my Great Qin ...... "The temple maid is frightened, the queen mother."

Zhao Ji was even more irrepressible in her madness. Thorn is dead, but she will never forget the damage it caused her.

"Queen! Queen! "At the beginning of the war, the concubines of Weinan returned to Xianyang City, crowded into a small and old palace, and Mi Qian still lived in Liuying Palace, Liuying Palace in Weibei....... The iron bullet fired by the Chu army's witch weapon fell on the front of the road gate outside, and all the concubines in the road gate hid in Mi Qian. Mi Qian is the sister of the king of Chu, and it is the Chu army that is attacking the city outside the city, and only Mi Qian is safe here in Xianyang, eighty miles away.

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother," hundreds of concubines poured into the Liuying Palace, and the seven-year-old Fusu was not afraid but curious, and he innocently asked: "Why didn't my father invite my uncle to the Xianyang City Township Banquet?" ”

Seven years old is not yet the age of entering school, war is synonymous with blood, Mi Qian never said to Fusu about the bloody war between Qin and Chu, only to him that Qin and Chu were friendly. Her son's question made Mi Qian frown, and she had no choice but to say: "Your father is still in Lantian, and your uncle went to Xianyang first, and those who are in the palace dare not open the door without the king's order." ”

"Why don't you dare open the door?" Fu Su raised his head and asked, rubbing his body against Mi Qian's legs. "When they open the door, my uncle will not need a witchcraft. Queen Mother, everyone is already panicking, why don't you let people let your uncle not use witchcraft? ”

"Why, why do you have geometry?" She hoped that Qin and Chu would never fight each other, but unfortunately since last month, Qin and Chu have been in a full-scale battle, and Brother Wang even led the army to fight outside Xianyang City.

As the princess of Chu State, the mother country recovered the old Ying, she was extremely happy in her heart, but as the king of Qin, it is okay for Qin to lose Nanjun and Nanyang, but if Xianyang is pulled out, is Brother Wang going to die in Qin?

"Shang Wu ......" made Fusu laugh, he thought this sentence was very interesting. Mi Qian didn't pay attention to her son anymore, but called the old temple man Shangwu.

"Queen." After Mi Jian's death, Shang Wu served in Liuying Palace, saying that he was serving, but in fact, he was taking care of Mi Qian for a long time, and he took care of Mi Qian by the way. If Zhao Ji really wants to harm Mi Qian, he will not pity his old life.

"You bring this, I want you... Go out of the city," Mi Qian hesitated, "Brother Wang, he ......"

"The old slave knows also." The Chu army actually hit Xianyang, and rumors gradually spread in the city, saying that the Qin army was defeated and the king had died. Regardless of whether the king is or not, the most important thing at the moment is to understand the intentions of the king of Chu. Shang Wu knew what it meant. "The old slave will go out of the city."

Shang Wu hurriedly retreated, but unfortunately he had not yet left the city, and gradually entered the Liuying Palace in the night, Mi Qian suddenly heard a tsunami-like exclamation from the south, followed by the boiling voices and drums. No one knew what was happening outside the palace, and the concubines in the court screamed and cried again, and finally even Fusu was so frightened that she cried.

"Queen Yu, Jing people broke through the south gate ......" Wei Weitu rushed into the Liuying Palace to report urgently. Since the afternoon, there has been no one in the government outside the road gate, and as soon as the Chu army uses a witch weapon, even the temple people outside the road gate have run away. Tu couldn't find the minister, so he had to find the queen.

When the concubine heard Wei Weitu's urgent report, she cried even more fiercely for a while, and Mi Qian's face also changed, and she muttered: "In this way, Brother Wang is about to attack the palace......

"Don't worry, the queen will never let the Jing people enter the palace!" Tukyu Road. His mission was to protect the royal palace.

"Hundreds of thousands of Qin troops can't hold it, how can you not let Brother Wang attack the palace?" Mi Qian glanced at the picture, and she turned to say, "Someone!" Quickly help me get dressed and changed. ”

Xianyang, which has been expanded several times and has never been at war, does not have an urn city. There is no urn city, which means that once the thirty-two pounds of siege artillery break through the city gate, the outside of the city will be transparent, and the Chu army can swagger from the three city gates that are about ten zhang wide and twenty zhang into Xianyang City (only the south gate connecting the royal city is more than 20 zhang wide, and although the east and west gates are also three, the three gates add up to only a dozen zhang).

The Chu army did not set up ladders, but only attacked the city gates. Under the command of Zhao Bo, the entire Xianyang garrison was guarded by the three gates. As soon as the Chu army rushed to the door, the Qin army in the city rushed out with a shout. The Chu army only tentatively sent a few sword and shield pawns, and these people were immediately pushed out by the Qin army in the doorway, and the Chu army general who witnessed this scene immediately cursed.