Chapter 66: The Undefeated Army's Soul
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's May 24th!
More than 20 days of time spent in Huhai's early training, Shangfang, Bashang training ground, and Bashang camp at four points and one line! Of course, in the past 20 days, Hu Hai still went back to Xianyang Palace.
For Concubine Li, who was confined to the palace, it was naturally a surprise to see His Majesty the Emperor appear at first glance, and it was naturally a pleasure to wait for His Majesty the Second Emperor by all means, many of which were not detailed!
Li Yan's post-sealing ceremony is delayed again and again!
The reason is very simple, since the first emperor of Great Qin, most of them have been queens, not empresses! Since the first emperor established the huge Great Qin Empire and ruled the world, but did not establish an empress, it directly led to the fact that Great Qin has not really held a post-sealing ceremony!
So this is sad for Ying Teng and others, and Hu Wujing, one of the nine Qings who is in charge of a series of rituals such as the temple sacrifice, was imprisoned by Hu Hai in the Xianyang Prison under Yao Jia, and Hu Hai has never mentioned it so far, and it seems that he has forgotten Hu Wujing, the unlucky Fengchang Lord!
In desperation, three days ago, Yingteng rushed from Xianyang to report to Hu Hai that the ceremony needed to be postponed!
On the eighth day of the fifth month, Hu Hai had already informed the Great Qin court of the news that the general Wang Li had died in battle, and at the same time, he also clearly informed the court that the queen was the time to lead the army to quell the chaos!
If it was just Li Yan's post-canonization ceremony, he wouldn't be worried at all, he knew very well that the reason why Hu Hai wanted to canonize Li Yan was to exchange with Li Si in exchange for Li Si's support for the people of the hundred families to establish the Royal Academy of the Great Qin Empire!
As far as Win Teng is concerned, he doesn't quite agree with the canonization of Li Yanwei, after all, Li Si is now temporarily in charge of Daqin's government affairs, and he is already above 10,000 people under one person! If Li Yan is the next step, then Li Si's authority will undoubtedly be heavier!
This is not good news for the Great Qin royal family!
However, Yingteng also knows that Hu Hai is also helpless, since he can't object, then of course it can be delayed for a few days! But after Hu Hai set the name of sending troops to quell the chaos, the big pawn said, things will be different!
After delaying Li Yan's book, it is also delaying His Majesty the Emperor to send troops to quell the chaos!
After Ying Teng cautiously told Hu Hai that the post-book ceremony needed to be postponed, he inadvertently pointed out that if there was the assistance of Lord Feng Chang Hu Wujing, he would definitely be able to prepare the post-book ceremony within a month!
Hu Hai was surprised when he heard Yingteng's words, this is what Fengchang should do, what do you do with me if you don't look for Fengchang? Apparently forgotten that Hu Wujing was still ordered to be locked up in prison by him!
When Ying Teng heard Hu Hai's words, his mind was suddenly full of black lines, and he felt that the lord had forgotten that he had ordered Feng Chang Hu Wujing to be arrested and locked up in prison! Moreover, it is explicitly ordered that no one is allowed to intercede, so even Li Si has never mentioned to Hu Hai that he is pleading for his brother Hu Wujing!
Ying Teng looked at Hu Hai, who was surprised, and thought maliciously, if Hu Wujing knew that he was directly forgotten by His Majesty the Emperor, would he directly take the sword and stab himself with two swords?
Hearing Yingteng's reminder, Hu Hai remembered that there was Hu Wujing, and Hu Hai couldn't help but hesitate a little when he thought of it!
It's very simple, Hu Wujing was locked up by Hu Hai because he wanted to kill Kong Kui in front of Hu Hai, and now he has been released for more than a month, what will this make Kong Kui and others who have just been attached think?
The emperor said that he wanted to give an explanation, but he didn't come out but released Hu Wujing!
Of course, Ying Teng understood why Hu Hai hesitated, and put forward a more desperate idea, first release Hu Wujing in the name of preparing the post-book ceremony, and then put him in after the post-book ceremony!
The fate of the unlucky Hu Wujing was decided by two unscrupulous people!
Meng Tian, who was far away in Julu, also knew the news of Wang Li's death, and in addition to his grief, he stepped up his training of the captured rebels, because Hu Hai would go to Julu in person in a few days!
Today is the day when the king left the coffin and entered the customs!
Li Xin hurried and hurried to finally rescue the remnants of Yang Xiong, who were surrounded by less than 10,000 people!
The veteran Li Xin and the 20,000 Nine Plains Elite once again let Xiang Liang see the world of difference between his hundreds of thousands of rabble and the elite of Great Qin!
From the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Xiang Liang began to consume the will of Yang Xiong's remaining more than 50,000 remnants little by little! Dozens of small battles a day, several major battles, twelve hours without breaking!
At the beginning of May, Sixiang Liang and Wu Rui began to dispatch Baiyue barbarians to cross the river from the south of the Huai River!
On this day, Yang Xiong still had the strength to block the Baiyue barbarians who crossed the river, and once again caused a heavy blow to the nearly 100,000 troops of Xiang Liang and Wu Rui's combined army, reducing the number to less than 80,000, and the Qin army also lost nearly 8,000 people again!
However, due to the containment of Xiang Liang's army of more than 100,000 people who had already crossed the north bank on the north bank, the Baiyue barbarians who crossed the river from the south bank of the Huai River reached 100,000 on the fourth day of the lunar month!
Xiang Liang and Yang Xiong's offensive and defensive momentum suddenly changed!
By the beginning of May, the army under Wuxiang Liang had reached more than 250,000 people! The Baiyue barbarians are almost all out of the tribe, except for women, all men over the age of fourteen or fifteen cross the river to the north!
All the grain and grass were burned, and they could only rely on hunting in the dense forests and fishing in the Huai River to maintain their basic physical strength, and Yang Xiong's army, which had become a lone army, was gradually squeezed by Xiang Liang's army in a corner of the north bank of the Huai River!
Xiang Liang knew the horror of the combat power of the Great Qin soldiers, especially the Great Qin soldiers who had become a mourning army!
In order to minimize casualties, they did not rush forward, but adopted the method of attacking and besieging them, intending to kill and starve to death tens of thousands of Great Qin soldiers who were hanging alone on the north bank of the Huai River!
From the fifth day of the first month to the sixth day of the first month when Yang Xiong received the edict from Hu Hai from Xianyang, Yang Xiong and the remaining more than 30,000 Great Qin soldiers had not closed their eyes for nearly 20 hours!
Xiang Liang divided the army of more than 200,000 into dozens of troops of thousands to tens of thousands, and constantly destroyed the will of the Qin army with gongs and drums.
Yang Xiong finally rejected Xi Chun's long-pleading request to break through! Wang Li's death and the fiasco of the army, Yang Xiong took everything on himself, in his opinion, if it wasn't for his negligence and forgetting to send soldiers to defend the camp where the grain and grass were stored in the rear, if the grain and grass were not burned, Wang Li would not choose to fight to the death, let alone let the 100,000 army fall to such a point!
It is not so much that Yang Xiong is waiting for Hu Hai's edict, it is better to say that he is waiting for death!
Yang Xiong knew very well that there was no Great Qin army within a radius of thousands of miles that could rush to the aid of his remnant army, and Hu Hai did not mention the news that Li Xin had led the army out of Wuguan to come to the aid in his edict to Wang Li!
Therefore, in Yang Xiong's opinion, his remnant army that has run out of food, coupled with the hundreds of thousands of rebels around him, is a mortal situation from any point of view!
On the sixth day of the first month, Hu Hai's timely arrival made Yang Xiong rekindle his desire to survive! From His Majesty the Emperor's edict, Yang Xiong could see that Hu Hai did not hold him accountable for the loss of the camp and the burning of all the grain and grass!
As a result, the news of the death and martyrdom of the great general Wang Li spread throughout the remaining tens of thousands of troops in a matter of moments!
The declining army will win!
I think it is to describe Yang Xiong's more than 30,000 Qin troops at this moment!
In the three days before Li Xin arrived, Yang Xiong's more than 30,000 Qin troops without food and medicine had resisted the attack of more than 200,000 Xiang Liang's Baiyue barbarians! At first, the Qin army could still shoot Baiyue barbarians with strong crossbows, but by the next day, all the crossbow arrows had been exhausted, and they could only fight with people!
The wounded soldiers of the Qin army are increasing dramatically! It made the Qin army, which had no food and could not get any rest, even worse!
When Yang Xiong got the news that more than 10,000 wounded soldiers had died by suicide en masse, this nine-foot-tall man had never shed tears except for tears when he saw Wang Li's corpse, but he cried like a child!
In the face of dozens of times their own and did not collapse, the remaining 20,000 intact but withered Qin troops were all crying at that moment!
But as soon as the horn sounded, all the remaining Qin soldiers wiped away the tears on their faces, and suddenly they were like tigers coming out of the gate, completely disregarding life and death, and the nearly 10,000 Yue barbarians who came to attack were wiped out that night!
Xiang Liang, who learned the news and thought that Yang Xiong's army was about to break through, suddenly ordered the whole army to press, firmly surround Yang Xiong's army, and did not engage in battle, that is, besieged!
On this night, Li Xin, who had traveled a long distance and abandoned all the grain and grass, and the 10,000 Jiuyuan cavalry suddenly entered the encirclement of Xiang Liang's army in three ways in the second half of the night, and chiseled through the encirclement of more than 200,000 Xiang Liang in less than tea time, and joined forces with Yang Xiong's more than 10,000 remaining Qin troops!
On the way here, Li Xin and the 10,000 Nine Yuan Elite Cavalry, who had already imagined the scene of meeting with Yang Xiong's army countless times, felt the shock for the first time when they saw Yang Xiong and the remaining 10,000 or so Qin soldiers who could not see the human form at all and needed to support each other to barely stand, but still held the weapons in their hands tightly!
Before the frightened expressions on their faces passed, more than a thousand Qin soldiers who had just been wounded and could not move on their own killed themselves!
The Jiuyuan Army has always considered itself to be the most elite soldier in Great Qin, even if it is the Longxi Army that is also a border army, although the Jiuyuan Army does not say it on the surface, but all the Jiuyuan soldiers also think that they are inferior to themselves!
The Jiuyuan Army, which has always been the first of Lao Tzu, felt its insignificance for the first time! The dissatisfaction of these 10,000 tired soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, who had traveled thousands of miles to help this group of defeated generals who had joined the army, turned into shame in an instant!
They knew very well why the more than 1,000 Qin soldiers who had obviously seen themselves and others arrive would choose to commit suicide!
Because they were afraid that they would drag down the rest of the uninjured soldiers to break through!
They're afraid of killing more robes!
So they chose to commit suicide!
Only in this way, the remaining uninjured Great Qin soldiers can devote all their energy to fighting the fierce Baiyue barbarians around them! There will be more robes to break through!
Li Xin and the 10,000 Nine Primordial Elite Cavalry could see from the sad but firm eyes of Yang Xiong and the others that this was obviously not the first time such a thing had happened in this defeated Qin army!
Li Xin and the 10,000 Nine Yuan Jingqi also understood at this moment why these 50,000 Qin soldiers who did not have the slightest grain and grass baggage could hold on to the present under the siege of dozens of times the rebels!
They are still glorious in defeat!
They are the undefeated army soul of Great Qin!
(To be continued)