Chapter 135: Encircled on All Sides
When Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng led nearly 200,000 troops from the middle and rear armies to Xiang Liang's place, Xiang Liang was standing on the edge of the battlefield in a daze, watching the tens of thousands of foot soldiers who came to the rescue to clean up the battlefield!
Xiang Zhuang, Tian Du, and Sima Ang followed behind Xiang Liang!
A rich smell of blood permeated the entire battlefield, steaming in the scorching sun, and a disgusting aura wafted through the entire air!
Looking at it, the most seen on the battlefield was not the corpses of Sima Ang's former soldiers who were nailed to the ground with crossbow arrows, but the fragmentary corpses of thousands of Jiangdong iron cavalry who were slashed and killed by the heavy armored cavalry of the two thousand Xuanwu Army!
Basically, none of the corpses of the Koto Iron Riders are complete!
Just like the more than 100 chariots that overturned, stumps and broken arms were everywhere!
Zhang Liang has not been through the battle array, but it is the first time he has seen such a tragic battlefield!
Taking a deep breath and forcibly controlling the tumbling stomach and intestines, Zhang Liang carefully avoided the corpses of several former soldiers of Sima Ang who were lying on the ground and had not yet been restrained, and came to Xiang Liang to stand still!
Sima Ang, Xiang Zhuang and Tian Du saw Zhang Liang bow slightly to Zhang Liang! Everyone knows that Zhang Liang, who seems to be young now, is the second person second only to Xiang Liang in Xiang Liang's army of hundreds of thousands!
Even Fan Zeng, who followed Xiang Liang at the earliest, is now only ranked third!
"General!" Zhang Liang returned the salute to the three of them, looked at Xiang Liang with a lonely face, and said softly! This was the first time he had seen the high-spirited Xiang Liang look like this!
Obviously, this was originally used to pick up cheap battles, which made Xiang Liang suffer a great blow!
Hearing Zhang Liang's words, Xiang Liang seemed to have just woken up from his contemplation, looked back at Zhang Liang and said lightly: "The ovary is here!" ”
"General, how is this battle?!" Zhang Liang thought about it and said!
The three people of Xiang Zhuang next to them heard Zhang Liang's words, and their faces changed! Isn't this Zhang Liang a pot that can't be opened? Look at the severed arms and limbs that can be seen everywhere on this battlefield, and know how this battle went!
Didn't you sprinkle another handful of salt on the general's already wounded heart?
"Fiasco!" Xiang Liang didn't go back!
"What are the casualties?" Zhang Liang seemed to have to ask Xiang Liang clearly on this issue today, and then asked!
"The three generals will go down first to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and bury them all! Command the army to camp on the spot! Xiang Liang turned his head and glanced at Zhang Liang deeply, and then said to Xiang Zhuang, Sima Ang, and Tian Du!
"The last general obeys!"
The three people who wanted to leave when they heard Zhang Liang's words hurriedly responded when they heard Xiang Liang's words, and then turned around and left without looking back!
"The 6,000 Jiangdong Iron Cavalry that followed the general are now less than 1,000 intact, and more than 3,200 people have been killed! More than 200 chariots and soldiers were wiped out! Sima Ang's 50,000 former army suffered more than 20,000 casualties! ”
Xiang Liang waited until Xiang Zhuang and the three of them went away, looking at Zhang Liangdao!
"Dare to ask the general, do you know what the casualties of the Qin army were?"
"Ben will not know! But think about it, the Qin casualties are only a thousand! ”
"In this case, why did the general make such a childish feeling? Is the general afraid of the Qin people? Or has this battle destroyed the general's determination to destroy the Qin State? Zhang Liang then asked!
"The ovary is misunderstood!" Xiang Liang smiled bitterly, "Is there still a way out for me now?" ”
"Then why is the general in such a situation?"
"Today, if it weren't for the ovary sending troops to help, I'm afraid that Liang's head would have been dedicated to the Qin Emperor by the Qin army!"
"We already know the benefits of the Qin army! Don't worry, General! It's just that it seems that the Qin people have a kind of soldier who has never appeared in the battle array? Zhang Liang asked!
"It's thousands of cavalry soldiers covered in armor and can't tell if it's a person or anything! Invulnerable! Thousands of Jiangdong iron cavalry can't stop these cavalry for a moment, and more than 3,000 of my Jiangdong disciples are all buried in the hands of such cavalry! ”
Speaking of the Xuanwu Army, Xiang Liang thought of the steel giant who was more than a foot tall of the last flying man, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes!
"General, have there ever been such cavalry corpses?" Zhang Liang saw Xiang Liang's expression, noncommittal.
"I haven't gotten a single body, and when the Qin army withdrew, it was all taken away!"
"Don't worry, General! You know, nothing is perfect! The Qin people's cavalry is so beneficial, it must have its drawbacks! Now that the Qin people have a conscience, they will definitely be able to help the general get what he wants this time! At that time, the invulnerable cavalry will definitely be used by the general! At that time, Emperor Qin died, just ask who else in this world is the opponent of the general! Zhang Liang said proudly!
"Oh!? Is this true!? Xiang Liang, who was originally lonely, heard Zhang Liang's words, and immediately grabbed Zhang Liang's arm and asked eagerly!
"General, please listen to Liang's arrival." Zhang Liang whispered to Xiang Liang as he spoke!
Xiang Liang listened to Zhang Liang's words, his face changed, his face was swept away, and finally he suddenly let out a hearty laugh!
"Haha! Liang has the help of the ovary, no less than 100,000 elite soldiers! ”
…… A battle outside Chengwu City, several hours. By the time Xiang Liang's army finished cleaning up the battlefield, the sun was about to set!
After cleaning up the messy battlefield and burning the bodies of all the fallen soldiers, Xiang Liang immediately swung in with a large army, camped less than three miles away from Chengwu County, and surrounded Chengwu County from all sides!
Hundreds of thousands of people set up tents around Chengwu County!
The overwhelming momentum of the densely packed hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly made the hearts of the people of Chengwu, who were originally slightly relieved because of a big victory, once again pressed a heavy stone!
Even Hu Hai saw so many soldiers besieging the city for the first time!
In my previous life, although I watched a lot of battles in the era of cold weapons through TV and movies, most of them were extras, and the number was only hundreds, and then hundreds of thousands of them were made by computer stunts, so naturally they couldn't be compared with the immersive situation they were in at the moment!
After Xiang Liang's army set up camp, they began to dig one after another trenches that were one or two zhang deep and one zhang wide on all sides of Chengwu County, less than a mile away from the city wall!
It seems that he has made up his mind to kill Hu Hai in this Chengwu County!
When Hu Hai received the news and rushed to the head of the city, five deep trenches in the south facing the camp of Xiang Liangzhong's army had already taken shape!
More people is more power!
In less than two hours, when the sun set and the darkness had not yet come, the ditches of the four city walls had been closed, and five shallow trenches of more than ten miles long formed five rings, encircling the entire Chengwu County in it!
And there are countless soldiers who continue to widen and deepen the trenches!
Seeing these five trenches that had been connected in a line, Hu Hai's first instinct was that Xiang Liang was using this trench to defend against his own cavalry, especially the heavy armored cavalry of the Xuanwu Army who almost killed Xiang Liang!
However, then Hu Hai was confused again, did Xiang Liang dig this trench without leaving a little passage in order to trap himself in this Chengwu County and starve to death? Will you be afraid of this beam in the first war?
Although there is no shortage of food in Chengwu County today, it can only support nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city for half a month at most! Of course, if it is counted as the nearly 10,000 war horses of the Qin army, it should be able to hold out for more than 20 days!
If there was no two-way army of Meng Tian and Han Xin to rescue him, Hu Hai should indeed be worried about Xiang Liang like this!
However, now that the armies of Meng Tian and Han Xin are quickly coming to Chengwu Road, Xiang Liang plans to trap himself in Chengwu County, but it just happens to fit Hu Hai's thoughts!
Siege to death, he is not worried! What he was worried about was Xiang Liang's desperate and crazy siege!
After looking at it for a while, he couldn't understand the situation, and Hu Hai didn't bother to think about it, anyway, Xiang Liang's ditch was still widening and deepening! He can't get out by himself, he doesn't leave any passages, and he can't attack it himself!
Hu Hai went to sleep with peace of mind!
There has always been a large army guarding the city wall of Fangzheng, as long as there is any movement of Xiang Liang's army, there will be a warning immediately!
This night, except for the sound of logging and digging in the Xiangliang camp outside the city, there was no movement in the camp that stretched for dozens of miles!
Inside and outside Chengwu County, there was a strange calm in this night!
It seems that Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops are here to protect Hu Hai!
Nothing to say all night!
…… The ninth day of the seventh month of the first year of Great Qin II!
Early in the morning, Hu Hai had just gotten up and was still washing, when he heard Long Xuan say outside the lobby: "Your Majesty, there are people outside the city who ask to see you!" ”
Hu Hai wiped his face with a towel and said vaguely: "Could it be that this person wants to see me again?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, that man did say that he wanted to see Your Majesty!"
"What?"
Hearing Long Xuan's words, Hu Hai stopped what he was doing and asked!
"Back to Your Majesty, there is a person outside the city who calls himself Zhang Liang who is outside the city asking to see Your Majesty!"
This time Hu Hai heard clearly!
Zhang liang!
"He's here alone, isn't he!?" Hu Hai put down the towel in his hand and said lightly!
"Back to Your Majesty, yes!"
"Leave him alone! I'll talk about it after breakfast! "Hu Hai really can't figure it out, is it possible to have this habit of fighting at this time? Is it that a person has to meet the other party's main general before the war, and then the two sides will fight to the death?
Salute before soldiers?
I saw Xiang Yu before because Hu Hai really wanted to see the true face of this overlord who had been scratched for thousands of years. Up to now, Hu Hai is really a little aesthetically tired of these famous figures in history!
Zhang Liang, who assassinated the first emperor of Bo Lang Shaxing, was hunted down and hid in Xiapi to put shoes on Huang Shigong, got Huang Shigong's "Taigong Art of War", and finally helped Liu Bang destroy Zhang Liang who unified the world in Great Qin!
I don't think there will be anyone else!
It's just that I didn't expect that now Liu Bang has taken refuge in himself, and Zhang Liang, who was originally not optimistic about Xiang Liang in history, has taken refuge in Xiang Liang! However, now that Liu Bang is gone in this life, it seems that Zhang Liang can only take refuge in Xiang Liang!
"Whoa!"
Long Xuan didn't want to tell Hu Hai originally, after all, when did the emperor become a green vegetable in the field, who wants to see it? It's just that because of Xiang Yu's matter, he was worried about what if the emperor wanted to see him? So it's time to report it!
As for whether the emperor sees or doesn't see this Zhang Liang, he doesn't care about it at all!
By the time Hu Hai was full of food and drink, the sun had already risen!
Zhang Liang also waited in anticipation under the city for more than half an hour!
The neck is sore!
(To be continued)