Jicheng - Wangcheng Yanwang Inner Palace

After hearing this, King Yan turned around and said: "Gonggong Chen doesn't need to say this, I saw it when Liu Xiang and the others first came, Liu Xiang does exude the spirit of a king, those generals are all tiger and wolf generals, Jiang Chen Jianxin and the two are rare generals, because of this, the Qin army has not suffered defeat in Zhao State."

After a pause, King Yan continued: "Liu Xiang and these people will not betray the widow, they have traveled thousands of miles to vote and are friends of life and death with Wen Yi, Xu Yao and others, with such people to help us, Yan Guo will definitely be able to strengthen the wings of a tiger, Liu Xiang and these generals have many similarities with General Fan Yuzhi in the past, General Fan sacrificed his life for the country and Liu Xiang will inevitably be the same, please don't talk about it again."

Wei Bing, who was on the side, walked to Gonggong Chen's side and stretched out his hand to signal: "It's not early, the king still has to rest, father-in-law, please step down."

Gonggong Chen didn't say anything more and nodded and withdrew from the inner palace, Chen Wu said to him: "Father-in-law, the king does not agree to get rid of Liu Xiang and his comrades, what should we do next."

"At the moment, we have to don't move them yet, the Qin army is about to fight, and it's not suitable for us to do it, let Liu Xiang and the others get away with it for a few days, and then you and I will arrange more killers to get rid of them with tricks."

After listening to what Chen Shiwei said, Chen Wu gave up his hand to receive the order, and the two walked out of the palace together.

Yishui West Bank-Yanjun Ferry Defense Area

Guo Yue sat on a stone and clenched the long sword half-inserted in the ground, and saw that the Qin army that had just launched a charge outside the fortifications had retreated again, and asked the generals beside him: "This is the first time the Qin army has charged."

"If you only look at the charge launched by the Qin army to the ferry, this is the eighth charge, and if you look at the attack launched by the Qin army on our army's entire defense line along the river, this is already the thirty-seventh attack"

After Wei Biao finished speaking, Guo Yue stood up and said: "Doesn't the Qin army care about consumption, in just a few hours, it attacked thirty-seven times in a row, and every time it was beaten back, every time it lost its troops."

"General, although our army has annihilated a lot of Qin troops, our army has suffered more than half of the casualties, and many defense lines have been seriously reduced, and there has been a shortage of defenders, and some defense lines are almost useless under the attack of the Qin army's rocket catapults, and we will not be able to hold it if we continue like this."

After listening to what Wang Jing said, Guo Yue slammed the long sword in his hand into the ground and said: "This is what Wang Jian wants to achieve, depleting our troops is not his first goal, he is planning to drain the energy of me and the soldiers in the defense line, we must keep a clear head, there will be a sneak attack in the middle of the night."

Wang Jing looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground in front of the fortifications and said, "General, the defenders on the east bank and the other Yan troops must know our situation, why are they indifferent and don't come to reinforce us."

"King Yan has ordered that in order to prevent further actions of the inner ghosts, no general is allowed to get involved in the defense line of others, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by the law of the country."

After speaking, Guo Yue sighed deeply, waved his hand and signaled the generals to retreat and defend everywhere, and after a while, only Guo Yue and a few personal captains were left in the middle of the entire ferry defense area, Guo Yue knew in his heart that this place would soon be lost, so he began to arrange a retreat.

Guo Yue walked out of the fortifications alone and came to the Yishui River from the back door, and after boarding a warship in front of him, he saw cans of gunpowder stacked on the deck.

After checking the gunpowder in the jar, Guo Yue gathered all the generals and colonies of the Jiangzhong Navy and asked them: "How many of your sailors are there in your navy that can ignite fire?"

"There are more than 80 cans of gunpowder like this on each ship, and a lot of oil, flint, sulfur, saltpeter can also be collected, which are all provided for catapults and heavy crossbows to kill the enemy," said Zhu Mao, the highest-ranking general of the naval army under the defense line on both sides of the Yishui Eastern Front.

Wang Fang, the deputy general of the navy, said: "The general suddenly asked this, is there something wrong?"

"Immediately order your soldiers to collect all the flammable fire utensils here, all of which have been requisitioned by our defenders on the east coast, and I will make precise deployment in half an hour."

After saying that, Guo Yue stood up and walked back to the shore, Zhu Mao Wang Fang did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the soldiers to collect fire utensils, and as long as they could be ignited, all of these dozens of large and small warships were moved to the largest warship, and not even a drop of oil in the oil lamp candlestick was poured into the prepared oil drum.

Not long after landing on the shore and walking into the fortifications, Guo Yue heard the sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground as the heavy equipment advanced, not only that, but the speed of the Qin army's march became much slower.

Guo Yue turned around and lay on the slope of the fortification to look, just poked his head out, a rain of arrows struck, Guo Yue hurriedly stretched his head back and squatted to avoid the arrows.

Although all the arrows were inserted in the fortifications and the ground, a small number of arrows still fell through the window holes, and more than a dozen Yan soldiers were hit by the arrows and fell to the ground.

Immediately after that, the Qin army laid down the formation, and the layers of shield walls blocked the front, with the sound of an engine, several flints flew from behind the shield wall, Guo Yue saw this, hurriedly lay down to protect his head, and the Yan soldiers in the other fortifications and trenches also dodged one by one.

After the burst of crackling sound and gunsmoke, the Yan military fortifications had turned into a sea of fire, and Cao Cheng in the Qin array smiled slightly when he saw it, and then signaled the soldiers and horses to move forward.

More than 20 Qin soldiers walked to the front of the Yan military fortifications and stretched out Changge to stab at each other, and before Changge's blade pierced into the trench, he saw a person in the trench jump out, waving the weapon in his hand like a pear blossom with rain, killing these Qin soldiers in an instant.

Cao Cheng saw that this person was Guo Yue, so he waved his shield and heavy halberd and said: "The life is really big, I didn't blow you up or burn you to death, but you will soon die in my hands."

After saying that, Cao Cheng jumped off his war horse and strode forward, and at this time, the Yan soldiers in the trench also drilled out of the ruins and raised their bows to shoot, and all the soldiers of the Qin army stopped when they saw this, and set up shields to block arrows.

"Don't stop, rush up for me."

Cao Cheng shouted while rushing in front of Guo Yue, Guo Yue raised the wind shuttle to be blocked by Cao Cheng's shield, Cao Cheng resisted the attack with a shield in one hand and swept the heavy halberd attack with the other, and the two fought for twenty rounds without distinguishing the winner, but it was obvious that Guo Yue had taken the advantage.

The two continued to fight, but Cao Cheng only had the strength to parry, and at this time, the sound of Mingjin sounded behind the Qin army, Cao Cheng pulled off his weapon and took two steps back and said: "Count your fate, otherwise you will die today."

After Cao Cheng led the Qin army to retreat, Guo Yue boarded the warship with several captains, and after seeing that the sailors had collected all the burning things, Guo Yue pointed to the two warships on both sides and said: "Dismantle all the other facilities on these two warships, and then move the heavy crossbow catapults and other weapons on the other ships to these two ships, and prepare quickly."

Zhu Mao and Wang Fang immediately ordered the soldiers to do the same......