April 18 of the first year of Great Qin II.

After eight days of night and night, Wang Li's 100,000-strong army left Wuguan, passed through Zhiwan County of Nanyang County (now Nanyang, Henan), and Chuye County (now Sheqi area of Henan), and the advance of the army arrived near Shangcai County (near Zhumadian, Henan).

Shangcai County is the seat of the ancient Cai Kingdom, and it is also the hometown of Li Si, the current prime minister of the Great Qin. Before the Great Qin unified the world, Shangcai County was the junction zone of Han and Chu, belonging to the Chu State, less than 100 miles away from the current Chen County and Chen County.

In history, Zhao Gao used one of the charges used to kill Li Si, that is, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were all Li Si's fellow villagers.

It stands to reason that Hu Hai's three edicts should also be transmitted to Shangcai at this time, but the cavalry of the forbidden army who passed the message went straight to Chen County, and was immediately caught by Zhang Er and Chen Yu.

It has been seven days since the restoration of the Wei State on April 11, and seven days is neither long nor short, and Zhang Er's power has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Zhang Er carried out a three-day reorganization of the troops in Chen County, and then sent Chen Yu and other generals to capture more than ten county seats, including Guling, Yangxia, Xinyang, Ruyin, Yuxian, Xincai, Pingyu, and Xiangxian.

In just seven or eight days, Zhang Erjun swelled to more than 300,000 people at an incredible speed.

Among the more than 300,000 troops, in addition to the more than 20,000 elite soldiers with armor who were originally directly under Zhang Er, more than 40,000 rebels who were lucky enough not to die in the first battle of Chen County were also incorporated into Zhang Er's direct subordinate troops.

After a series of bloody battles, these more than 40,000 people are now considered veterans of battle, and of course Zhang Er can't let them go.

These more than 60,000 veterans, plus the rest of the former soldiers and county soldiers of Daqin County who surrendered, Zhang Er finally armed an elite soldier with nearly 150,000 people with the old armor and weapons stored in the treasury of the captured Daqin counties.

After the restoration of the Wei state, the people of the Central Plains of Chenjun and Surabaya poured into Zhang Er's army, so that Zhang Er not only had this fully equipped 150,000 elite soldiers with armor and 1,000 chariots, but also had an army of nearly 200,000 rebellious people.

Not only has the manpower skyrocketed, but the invisible talents from all sides have also come to vote.

Those who came from the military include Zhou Wen, Zhou Shi, Qin Jia, Tian Zang, Lu Chen, Deng Zong, Cai Ci, Zhu Jishi, Zheng Bu, Ding Ji, Chen Pan, Wu Xu, Deng Shuo, Song Liu, Zhang He, etc., and those who were born as civil servants include Zhaoping, Gongsun Qing, Zhu Fang, Hu Wu, Fang Jun and other old officials of the Six Kingdoms.

Another group of defectors are descendants of the Six Kingdoms Wang clan, including Wei Bao, Wei Qi, Han Guang, etc. There are also a large number of remnants of the Six Kingdoms and capable hermits who have heard the news and are coming straight to Chen County one after another.

For a time, Zhang Erjun had a vigorous atmosphere of strong military strength and abundant talents.

The military strength is at its peak, and the scene of talents makes Zhang Er, who has become the king of Wei, suddenly more ambitious.

After easily capturing the four counties of Xiang County, Yu County, Xincai, and Pingyu in the south of Chen County, Zhang Er naturally set his sights on Shangcai, the hometown of Li Si, the current prime minister of Great Qin.

Therefore, after Shang Cai's portal was calmed by public opinion, he immediately sent his number one general, Zhou Wen and Zhou Shi, to lead 50,000 troops to capture Shang Cai, and 20,000 of these 50,000 troops were Zhang Er's lifeblood - elite soldiers with armor, which shows Zhang Er's importance to Shang Cai.

The forward commander of Wang Li's army was the general of the original material officer, and the current general of the former army, Zhao Ben. Zhao Ben led 20,000 elite soldiers of the Great Qin Xianyang Guards and arrived at the outskirts of Shangcai County first.

At this moment, Shangcai County shouted to kill the sky, Zhou Wen's army has been attacking Shangcai for two days, and Shangcai is already in danger at the moment.

As the hometown of today's prime minister, Shangcai County is glorious from the county officials to the people of Qianshou, so as early as when the news of Zhang Er and others capturing Chen County and establishing the Wei State reached Shangcai, officials at all levels in Shangcai County organized the people to start strengthening the city wall and preparing to defend the city while Pegasus sent a message to Xianyang.

Especially after Shangcai's gateway Pingyu was captured, the entire Shangcai was closed to prevent the arrival of the Zhang Er army.

When Zhou Wen's army arrived, he faced Shangcai County, which had been fully increased to a height of more than ten meters, but Zhou Wen didn't take this small city into account at all, even if he was the hometown of Li Si, the prime minister of Great Qin.

After a continuous day of siege, Shangcai County is already full of blood and fire at this moment, and the gaps in the city wall are everywhere. Under the high city walls, there were corpses all over the place, some of the rebels and some of the guards of Shangcai, and the rich smell of blood filled the air, making people feel sick.

Now the commander of Shangcai Shoucheng is Li Pi, the Cheng of Shangcai County, who is considered Li Si's own family. Both the county commander and the county lieutenant were killed by the stray arrows of Zhou Wen's army in the fierce battle, and as the county commander, he is now the highest official in Shangcai.

The few soldiers of Shangcai Tun have basically been killed and wounded in the previous half a day, and most of the people guarding the city wall are now Shangcai's people. Zhou Wen's army not only failed to take a small Shangcai county town during the half-day siege, but also suffered thousands of casualties, which greatly annoyed Zhou Wen.

But he still didn't use the 20,000 armored soldiers specially sent by Zhang Er, he knew very well the weight of these armored veterans in Zhang Er's heart, if these armored soldiers suffered too heavy casualties, even if he defeated Shangcai, it is estimated that there will be no good fruit to eat when he goes back.

So he still used the old way, first let the army of unarmored and unarmed rebels swarm up, and when Shangcai was almost consumed, he planned to let these elite soldiers with armor capture Chen County in one go.

When he heard the swarming Zhou Wen soldiers shouting the slogan of "breaking the city is slaughtering the city", it aroused the courage of the entire Shangcai people to defend the city, and they repelled Zhou Wen's army that had climbed the city wall several times one after another.

But at this moment, there are not many people and guards on the Shangcai city wall who can still fight, and Zhou Wenjun, who has re-launched the attack, has rushed up again.

Looking at the more and more chaotic soldiers on the city wall and the people who fell to the ground and died one by one, Li Bi's eyes were torn, he knew that Shang Cai would not be spared this time no matter what, so he roared and pulled out the long sword in his waist and pounced with a few guards around him.

"Whew"

A desolate trumpet sound overpowered the earth-shattering shouts of killing up and down the city wall, making everyone's movements involuntarily.

Zhou Wen, who was riding on a horse with a victor's smile on his face, suddenly changed his face when he heard this horn, "Where did the army come from?" Has the king ever sent a letter saying that he would send a large army to support me? ”

Without waiting for the little school next to him to answer, a black line appeared on the Northern Avenue less than five miles away from Shangcai County.

A big soap-bottom flag fluttered high, and the black word "Qin" was visible in the distance.

It was Zhao Benqian's 20,000 troops who came at the same time.

"It's Qin Bing!"

Zhou Wen and the other generals of the rebellious army suddenly changed their faces when they saw the big Qin character, and Zhou Wen shouted, "Mingjin withdraws the troops!" Hurry up and call it in! ”

At the same time, Li Pi and others on the city wall also saw the big banner of the word "Qin" flying high, and they couldn't help but shout. The morale of the people and guards guarding the city on the city walls suddenly soared.

"Bang"

Hearing the sound of gold, the rebel army that had already climbed the city wall suddenly retreated like a tide, and the dozens of rebels who had no time to slip away were suddenly divided into corpses by the people of Shangcai, whose morale had soared.

At this moment, Zhao Ben is under the banner of the Qin character.

"General, do we let the soldiers rest for a while, or take advantage of the retreat of the chaotic army to exterminate this chaotic army in one go!" A lieutenant next to him asked.

Zhao Ben looked at the chaotic army rushing towards Zhou Wen's camp in embarrassment, and said lightly: "Such rebellious people who have no soldiers and no armor in their hands are regarded as the first battle of our army!" Beat the drums, let the 10,000 cavalry take advantage of the chaos to cover and kill, and then the foot soldiers will go straight to the camp of the rebel army! ”

Zhao Ben's vanguard front army consisted of 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers, and the Great Qin soldiers who came from a long distance were already exhausted, but the implementation of military orders was still not compromised at all.

"Knock Knock"

With a rapid sound of drums, a large number of black-armored cavalry neatly appeared on both sides of Zhao Ben's infantry.

"Whew!"

The desolate trumpet sounded again.

The 10,000 Great Qin cavalry who stood still suddenly rushed towards Zhou Wen's army, which was crowded together and was in a hurry to return to the camp, like a long arrow off the string.

There was no shouting of killing, except for the thunderous roar of horses' hooves, the entire Daqin more than 10,000 cavalry were silently riding their horses and galloping, adding a bit of slaughter and might.

The cavalry, which was originally divided into two pieces, gradually closed after galloping for a hundred meters, forming a black wave and slapping towards the chaotic Zhou Wen army.

Immediately following the cavalry, 10,000 foot soldiers lined up in a neat queue in three rows, and quickly followed behind the cavalry and pressed up.

The distance of five miles was fleeting under the hooves of the cavalry.

Seeing that it was less than two hundred meters away from Zhou Wen's camp, an arrow with a sharp whistle rose from the crossbow in the hand of a cavalry general who was rushing to the front.

The sharp whistling of arrows and the muffled sound of horses' hooves were particularly clear.

"Boom" There was a neat sound of the crossbow machine opening the strings.

"Buzz"

A rain of black arrows suddenly covered the sunlight in the sky, forming a black dark cloud, with a roar that rushed straight towards the thousands of chaotic troops who had not entered the camp at the gate of Zhou Wen's camp.