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The advance speed of the three major armies of Xuanwu, Qinglong, and White Tiger in Jiangnan Chu can be said to be completely unexpected by Hu Hai and Wei Yi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Of course, what Hu Hai didn't expect the most was that Xiang Liang Jingran took the initiative to cross the Huai River and send it to Du Teng and Xu Chuang as if his head was caught by the door.

In this way, the most difficult problem of how to cross the Huai River for the Qin army was solved. Not only that, but this battle also basically announced the demise of the Chu State.

No more than 350,000 of the 300,000 Chu troops escaped, and only 400,000 truly trained soldiers of the entire Chu State were entered. How many defensive soldiers there are in Shouchun City, it is basically written clearly in the Black Iron Letter.

The more than 100,000 Chu troops are still in the hands of the three corrupt old families of the Chu State, Zhao Qujing, and the threat has been directly lowered by several grades. The three clans of Zhaoqu Jing play with power and politics, maybe there will be some of them, but if they lead the troops to fight, it is absolutely impossible to achieve anything.

Weng Zhong's Xuanwu Army and Du Teng's White Tiger Army, more than 100,000 Jingrui troops captured Shouchun, but it was only a matter of time. What's more, there are a lot of Xuanniao battalion soldiers in Shouchun.

Chu Di was about to be pacified, so the establishment of effective rule in the counties and counties in the central part of Great Qin, and the integration of the people's hearts that had been turbulent due to frequent wars had to be placed in front of Hu Hai's eyes in advance. ╔╗

Originally, in Hu Hai's plan, there was at least one month left to select officials sent to various places. Now it seems that Di obviously underestimated the combat power of the Qin army and overestimated the combat power of the Chu army.

The main reason why the remnants of the Six Kingdoms only need to raise a big banner and immediately have countless people of the Six Kingdoms obey the wind is that Great Qin did not establish effective rule in the territory of the original Six Kingdoms occupied, and of course, some of Great Qin's policies are also one of the very important reasons.

If you want long-term peace and stability. Then the first thing to do is to change the hostility of the people of the original six countries towards Great Qin, so that they can have a centripetal force towards Great Qin. This is the first priority that Hu Hai faced after the pacification, the people of the Six Kingdoms do not return to their hearts, they have no centripetal force towards Daqin, and they always regard themselves as the people of the Six Kingdoms, even if Daqin can settle down temporarily, as long as there are ill-intentioned people who are slightly incited, the land of the original Six Kingdoms will immediately become a pot of porridge again.

Based on Xiang Liang's capture of the people of Chen County and Dang County, basically all of them were arranged in Jiujiang County on the south bank of the Huai River, which was used to enrich the entrance to the Chu State and to recruit more soldiers.

Hu Hai even carefully calculated with Wei Yi to relocate hundreds of thousands of people from the land of Guanzhong again to supplement the scarce entrances of Chen County, Dang County and other counties. ╔╗The entrance to Bijing Great Qin is too small compared to the vast territory of Great Qin.

However, the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people will inevitably involve the interests of all parties, and if one is not done well, it will even mess up Guanzhong. Hu Hai finally listened to Wei Yi's advice, and after capturing Jiujiang, he sent the people who originally lived in Chenjun and Dangjun back to their hometowns.

The Chinese people themselves have a local plot. As a last resort, he was unwilling to leave his homeland and live in another completely unfamiliar place.

The forced repatriation of the people who were forcibly brought to Jiujiang by Xiang Liang can temporarily solve the problem of uneven distribution of entrances, but it cannot fundamentally solve it.

Now, counting the nearly one million laborers who remain in Guanzhong who are unwilling to return to their homeland, it is estimated that the entrance to Guanzhong has exceeded five or six million.

Guanzhong, which occupies one-thirtieth of the territory of Great Qin, is almost overcrowded, while many counties outside the Guanzhong are vacant and have a large amount of land left uncultivated, which is obviously unreasonable.

Chu was pacified, and Nanyue Ziying and Zhao Tuo were under the siege of the Sixth Route Army, and it was absolutely impossible for them to survive this year. After the pacification of some national policies and the policy of people's livelihood and development of production, Hu Hai has been in the planning with several important ministers of Daqin.

…… On September 16 of the first year of Daqin II, with the sound of shouting and killing outside the city of Shouchun, the sun finally rose.

As the capital of the Chu State, Shouchun far surpassed Anfeng City in terms of the size of the city and the height and hardness of the city walls. Anfeng City can only be regarded as a small city, if it were not for the fact that it happened to hold the western gateway of Shouchun, I am afraid that it would have been abandoned long ago.

Yesterday afternoon, Weng Zhong led 45,000 Xuanwu soldiers under the city of Shouchun, did not take any rest, and immediately launched a half-test and half-real siege of Shouchun.

The frightened faces of the soldiers guarding the city of Shouchun, and the carriages, tools and other things that could be seen everywhere inside and outside the city because they were in a hurry, all told Weng Zhong that the Chu army of Shouchun, including the whole state of Chu, was not psychologically prepared for the Qin army to come to the city.

Since you are not psychologically prepared, it is possible to take advantage of Shouchun's floating heart and unstable soldiers' hearts to win Shouchun in one go; Of course, if the resistance of the Chu army is fierce, the siege of Xing will be tested to maintain pressure on the Chu army, and the Chu army's hole cards to defend the city will be played to the greatest extent. ╔╗

In the battle yesterday afternoon, from the arrival of the Xuanwu army outside Shouchun City, the direct formation of the attack on Shouchun to the collection of troops and the encampment of Mingjin was only carried out for most of the hour.

After all, the Xuanwu Army was not an ordinary infantry army used to capture the fortified city. The thick construction that provides them with the greatest defense capability and the greatest attack power also limits their combat power to the greatest extent in certain occasions, such as capturing five or six zhang high fortified cities.

Whether it was Wu Rui, Zhaotong or Qu Ping, no one thought that the leading generals of this Qin army were like stunned young men, and they traveled a long distance to the city of Shouchun, and the battalion did not stop, and immediately directly beat the war drums and set up a formation to attack Shouchun.

The siege began without warning.

Wu Rui, who was caught off guard, waited for him to enter, and did not hesitate to order the soldiers to resist the strong crossbow in the hands of the Xuanwu soldiers with their flesh and blood. After Weng Zhong waited for the opportunity to destroy nearly 20 large crossbow machines sent by Ziying, Weng Zhong also withdrew his troops without warning.

The Xuanwu Army retreated neatly, leaving behind the corpses of the Chu soldiers all over the city wall!

Shouchun City, the city is high and strong, if the Xuanwu army does not count the casualties, Weng Zhong estimates that it will take a night at most to take it. ╔╗However, in this way, the Xuanwu Army will lose at least half or more. The Xuanwu army could not bear such heavy losses, if the Xuanwu army suffered too many casualties, even if he captured Shouchun City, he was afraid that he would not have much merit with the emperor, but he would definitely have it.

Hu Hai had warned the officials of the five major legions from the Bashang battalion countless times that unless it was absolutely necessary, if the commander of any legion exchanged the lives of the soldiers for military merits, he would definitely be severely punished. Although Hu Hai did not say clearly how to punish him, he did not dare to defy the law.

Everyone knows that the emperor usually doesn't have any fights, and he is even very good at talking, but once he touches the emperor's taboo, then the consequences of angering the emperor have to be weighed by themselves.

Of course, the reason why Weng Zhong retreated so quickly, in addition to being concerned about the casualties of the Xuanwu army, another reason was Wu Rui and the others' firm determination to defend the city.

As the last fortified city of the Chu State, Wu Rui, Zhaotong and others knew that the time when the city was broken was when they were waiting to be the head. Of course, what really gave them confidence was the 300,000 army of Xiang Liang, who was still considered by the government and the opposition of the Chu State to be on the north bank of the Huai River.

Weng Zhong's Xuanwu army totaled less than 50,000 troops, and the Chu army soldiers in Shouchun City alone were almost three times that of the Qin army. As long as Xiang Liang received the news and returned to the division smoothly, even if the Qin army was strong, it would be impossible to resist the siege of hundreds of thousands of Chu troops.

The victory or defeat is not scored, Wu Rui and others will desperately defend Shouchun City no matter what they are for.

Seeing that the Qin army was encamped, Wu Rui and the others were all relieved. Who knows, seeing that the fire in the Qin army's camp had just been extinguished, the rumbling war drums sounded again without warning, and then the Qin army under the city began to explode at the Shouchun city wall again. A stick of incense was followed by the sound of Mingjin withdrawing troops without warning.

At night, the Chu army of Shouchun City was disturbed by the sāo of Weng Zhong Xuanwu Army, and there was no peace all night! Presumably there must be a nervous breakdown!

Early in the morning, Weng Zhong received an edict from Hu Hai from Xianyang, and a moment later, the war drums in the Xuanwu army camp rumbled again. The soldiers of the Chu army who were huddled in the corridor of the city wall not only did not rush to defend the city, but shrunk their bodies even tighter!

The reinforcements of the White Tiger Army are about to arrive, so he doesn't really attack, but puts on a posture, using the large Lian shè crossbow machine and hand crossbow in the Xuanwu Army to blindly explode shè and sāo to disturb the Chu army defending the city, and the greatest possible consumption of the living strength of the Chu army soldiers defending Shouchun and the will to defend the city of the Chu army soldiers.

More than ten large-scale crossbow machines that were finally saved yesterday in Shouchun Chengtou were turned into sawdust by the Xuanwu army who had been waiting for half a year. Without the large Lianshè crossbow machine, the Chu army on the city wall had nothing capable of threatening the Xuanwu army at all. Although the defending Chu army also has a lot of Qin army-style strong crossbows in their hands.

However, the Qin army-style strong crossbow that Ziying gave to the Chu State is like a large-scale Lianshè crossbow machine, which is an old-fashioned crossbow machine. Not only could shè Cheng not be able to compare with the powerful crossbow held by the Xuanwu army, but his power was also much less.

Weng Zhong was waiting, waiting for Du Teng to lead the White Tiger Army to meet under Shouchun City.

…… Xiang Liang's rapid capture made Du Teng and Xu Chuang enter the 10,000 scout cavalry that were originally going to burn the building boats and bamboo rafts used by Xiang Liang to cross the river, but they did not come in handy at all.

Although the two entered strategically despised Xiang Liang's 300,000 army, they still attached great importance to tactics. The 10,000 scout cavalry was used to prevent Xiang Liang from cutting off his rear route when he couldn't escape.

As long as Xiang Liang can't cross the Huai River, how to toss on the north bank of the Huai River is a dead word in the end.

When Weng Zhong received the edict from Hu Hai, Du Teng, Xu Chuang, and Heitie Sanjin also received the edict from Hu Hai. The two camps immediately began to get busy.

Xu Chuang led 35,000 light cavalry to go first, and 5,000 heavy cavalry acted as a temporary escort team, followed by more than 10,000 laborers. After separating the Jiangdong soldiers and the rest of the Chu soldiers, Du Teng took Xiang Liang, Fan Zeng, and a group of captured generals of the Chu army at all levels and began to cross the river.

The place where Du Teng chose to cross the river was not Quyang County, where Xiang Liang crossed the river, but a shoal less than ten miles downstream of Shouchun City. At this distance, Chu Jin, who has good eyes, can see the army crossing the river at the head of Shouchun City.

Du Teng, that's what you want!