Chapter 133: Death of the Nation
If you look down from the sky, you will find that the smoke and dust kicked up by hundreds of thousands of people fill all the space from Michi to Xin'an. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
A mere Qin straight road could not allow hundreds of thousands of troops to go in parallel, and both sides were marching all over the mountains, one in front and one in the rear. It's only a dozen miles away.
More than ten miles in between, there is smoke everywhere, and there is fighting everywhere.
Although the brigade did not officially join the battle, the men and horses of the Chu army and the vanguard of the Qin army fought for their lives.
After Zhou Wen personally sat in the break, he alternated all the troops back and forth to buy time for the march of the brigade.
Fortunately, Qin's law is ruthless, even if the abandoned Chu army wants to surrender alive, Qin has no habit of surrendering.
Zhang Han has no intention of changing it. First, the Qin army recorded merit at the head level and surrendered casually, which was a big blow to the lower echelons of the Qin army, because it was not good for them to rob the army of military merit and Zhang Han to lead the army. Second, Zhang Han also feels that today's world must be chaotic and heavy, not to kill a hundred examples, how to deter the world. Thirdly, Zhang Han also felt that if Zhou Wen had no other way, if he continued like this, he would only eat the Chu army one bite at a time, and it could be said that the victory was in his hands. In such a situation, it is always the Chu army that does not surrender, and Zhang Han does not look at the little time wasted.
As Zhang Han expected, the distance between the Chu army and the Qin army, even though there were many desperate snipers and desperate resistance of the Chu army, they were still approaching little by little.
According to Zhang Han's calculations, within a day, the Qin army brigade will be able to catch up with the Chu army, and at that time, it will be the time for a decisive victory.
This time will only be sooner rather than later, so Zhang Han is very calm.
Things are getting to the last moment of victory, Zhang Han is becoming more and more cautious, preferring to be slower, more steady, and not aggressive, if Zhou Wen turns over at the last moment, Zhang Han himself will not forgive himself.
A day passed in a hurry, and the Qin army did not chase overnight, and the Chu army did not rush overnight. Because the distance between the two sides was already very close, each could see the smoke and dust kicked by the other team.
It's just that it's getting dark, and it's not an opportunity for war
Zhang Han didn't even think about fighting at night. Moreover, the Chu army hurriedly ran dozens of miles in the middle of the night, running from Mianchi to Xin'an, and was already exhausted.
Fortunately, there is Xin'an City as a basis, otherwise the disadvantage of the Chu army will be more obvious.
Tomorrow is the time of the decisive battle. Zhang Han scrutinized repeatedly, and gathered the information from various places in front of him one by one.
The south did not move, Zhou Wen did not use the golden cicada to get out of the shell, and the news from the big river that Wu Guang and Wei Wuji's department were still assembled in Pingyin. There is no action.
Zhang Han wrote a letter of war and asked people to hand it over to Zhou Wen and make an appointment to fight.
"Your Excellency Chu Chen, you are also ordered to attack Qin, you can't advance today, you can't retreat, why don't you surrender early, why don't you decide early, today Zhang Han is willing to hunt under Xin'an with Your Excellency, Your Excellency does it matter?"
There are not many words in this scroll of bamboo slips, but each word has a heavy murderous aura on it. Zhou Wen stroked gently, and wanted to communicate with his opponent who had never been masked through the text.
Zhou Wen raised his head, his eyes were joyless and carefree, and said: "I know what your general means, tomorrow morning, the decisive battle will be in the east of Xin'an, please tell me." ”
The envoy of the Qin army bowed his head and said, "Yes." ”
Zhou Wen picked up the pen casually, and wrote in the blank space of the bamboo slip: "Tomorrow in the east of Xin'an, waiting for the big shelf." He rolled up the bamboo slip and threw it into the arms of the Qin army's envoy.
The envoy of the Qin army took it, bowed, and then retreated.
As soon as the envoys of the Qin army left, the generals of the Chu army at all levels stepped forward one after another and said: "General, tomorrow's battle will be more auspicious, please think twice?" ”
Zhou Wen suddenly groaned: "Wu Gexi wearing rhino armor, and the car is wrong and short-handed." The sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrows and fallen soldiers compete for the first.
Ling Yu staggered for the rest of his life, and his left side was injured and his right blade was injured. The haze is two rounds and four horses, and the jade is beating the drum. The days are full of power and anger, and they are all killed and abandoned in the wilderness. Can't get in and out, and the plains are far away. With a long sword, he carried the Qin bow, and his head was not punished.
Cheng is both brave and martial, and he is strong and invincible. The body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the soul is resolute. ”
A song of national mourning was sad and tragic, and for a while, an inexplicable emotion filled everyone's hearts.
Everyone here is from Chu, how come they haven't heard of Qu Yuan's national martyrdom. Qu Yuan's national mourning was once also the military song of the Chu State, at the beginning, it was still Zhou Wen himself singing, and later the soldiers in the big tent were together, and some people drew their swords and struck the sound of the shield, and the sound was even more low and generous.
Zhou Wen pushed away the short table in front of him, stood up, and said, "Are you waiting for a terrible death?" ”
A general came out and said, "The Chu people are not afraid of death. ”
"Yes, there are no people in Chu who are afraid of death."
Zhou Wen said: "I won't hide it from you, I, Zhou Wen, am incompetent, I lost to Zhang Han twice, and today is already at the end of the day, and there is nothing to do." I know that the army of hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves in the Qin army is not our enemy, but I was cultivated by the ancestors of the Chu State and met by the Chen Kingdom, and today, I am defeated and died. There must be no negative encounter with King Chen, and the enmity of Qin and Chu has been more than 100 years, I will never want to be under the Qin people, tomorrow's battle, I will not force you, those who do not want to fight, you can leave now. Those who are willing to die with me, let them stay. ”
There was silence in the tent for a while, because the next decision would be related to their life and death.
"General, how can we be people who are afraid of death, since there is no way out, we would rather pull a few more Qin people on our backs."
One person spoke up, and immediately countless people responded, and they all said: "Yes, the Qin people want to eat us, and it depends on whether they have anyone with this tooth." ”
"Since the Qin people don't give me a way to live, let's fight to the death."
For a time, the crowd was agitated and the public was turbulent. Zhou Wen shouted: "Okay, since this is the case, I, Zhou Wen, please go to death with me, pass the order, don't save food today, everyone let go of eating, eat all the food, if we win tomorrow, we can naturally get food from the Qin army, if we don't win, we don't need food." ”
Since the pond, the food of the Chu army has been in short supply, and the daily food consumption of all Chu troops is regular and quantitative. It's just enough to add to your stomach, and you have a little luxury when you're full.
Zhou Wen also knows the so-called three-day food in the army, but according to this saving, if it is really open to everyone, but it can be eaten in one day, the ancients did not have any oil and water, so the amount of food is very large, and there are several buckets of rice in a meal, not to mention that there are some big-bellied men in the army, and no amount of food is enough for them to eat.
Zhou Wen dispersed the generals, and after a while, the entire Chu army was shrouded in a tragic atmosphere.
Such a trapped beast is still fighting, whether he can defeat Zhang Han in the end, Zhou Wen is actually quite optimistic, in fact, if it weren't for Zhang Han's acceptance of surrender at all, there would have been unlucky ghosts who had already demonstrated for these people. These people all had no intention of surrendering to the Qin army. There is no way to retreat, so there is such a common hatred for the enemy.
But the difference in strength will not be transferred by people's will, Qin Chu's first two encounters have already given Zhou Wen a very clear answer, they can't defeat Zhang Han by their decision alone.
Zhou Wen couldn't help but look up to the east, as if he could see the places he couldn't see, the figures of Wei Wuji and Wu Guang, pinning their hopes on others, this kind of taste was very uncomfortable, especially for a resolute person like Zhou Wen, but at this moment Zhou Wen had no other choice, only this way.
Zhou Wen said secretly: "Wu Guang, Wei Wuji, I hope you don't let me down." ”
In Zhou Wen can't see the distance, what are the two armies of Wu Guang and Wei Wuji doing?
Pingyin City is densely packed with flags, and there are not many people in sight for a while, and in the big camp under Pingyin City, there is a sound of drumming from time to time, as if all the soldiers inside and outside Pingyin City are full.
But only those who go deep into Pingyin City know what the truth is.
Chen Ping took Wei Wuji's guard of honor and began to patrol the city, patrolling one big camp after another, in each big camp, only more than 100 people were desperately beating war drums, creating a noisy atmosphere.
And the entire inside and outside of Pingyin has long been empty.