The first day of June in the first year of Great Qin II! Late at night!

Endless darkness enveloped the entire land, and from time to time, there were groups of shirtless or simple leather armor soldiers walking by on the tall Chen city walls, on the streets of the city, and in the alleys of various places!

Except for the torches in the hands of those patrol soldiers, the entire Chen County was in darkness! It's like a dead field!

In the dark county, there is a huge mansion, but it is brightly lit, and countless huge torches are inserted into the tall courtyard wall, illuminating the entire mansion within a radius of fifty steps.

Within a hundred paces of the mansion, there were obviously more patrolling soldiers than anywhere else, and the closer they got to the mansion, the more heavily defended they became!

Outside the entire mansion, there are no less than thousands of soldiers guarding! It's a sign of the extraordinary!

Hundreds of black shadows suddenly appeared in the streets and alleys of Chen County!

Among them, more than a hundred black shadows lightly alternated with each other, dodging the patrolling soldiers, and gradually approached this huge mansion guarded by layers of heavy soldiers!

The remaining hundred or so black shadows are either a group of more than ten people, or a group of more than twenty people, each running to different places!

As these hundreds of black shadows continued to move forward, a few ordinary insect calls came from time to time in the darkness! Accompanied by the sound of this insect, there is always a low muffled grunt, and then it disappears into the darkness!

The more than 100 black shadows running towards the giant mansion were already less than a hundred steps away from the giant mansion, and if they took another fifty steps, they would be exposed to the bright firelight! Face thousands of soldiers head-on!

These more than 100 black shadows cautiously sneaked under the cover of the night, avoiding one patrol after another, and stopped at the junction of light and darkness! Seems to be waiting for something!

Yin Shi (3 to 5 a.m.)!

The patrol soldiers who had been going back and forth all night finally began to gradually slack off, and it was not so quick to take over each other!

Five or six fires suddenly rose from all over the city, and in the blink of an eye, they had become a prairie fire!

As the fire rose, a pair of soldiers who had been patrolling around rushed to the nearest fire point, and in the darkness, crossbow arrows continued to shoot out, harvesting the lives of the patrol soldiers who seemed to be a little flustered!

Soon, the sound of firefighting, footsteps, shouts, and fighting sounded everywhere in Chen County, and the originally dead county seat of Chen County suddenly became as lively as an explosion!

Xiang Liang had just received the news that there had just caught fire in the city, and he had only slept for a short time at this time!

Since Yang Xiong's remaining remnants of more than 10,000 guards were rescued from the siege by Li Xin and the Jiuyuan Army, Xiang Liang went straight to Chen County, wanting to surround Li Xin, including Yang Xiong, and the more than 20,000 Qin soldiers of the Communist Party of China to death in Chen County!

As a result, I didn't expect Li Xin and the others to retreat into Chen County and leave without staying and wrapping up their things, and retreated all the way to Yingchuan, Xiang Liang thought about it and still didn't continue to chase, if Li Xin had backup, he didn't need much, just another 350,000 Qin army, and his army of more than 200,000 people changed from chasing people to being chased!

The undefended Chen County naturally went down without a fight, and Xiang Liang, who thought that he would have a big harvest in Chen County, suddenly felt half cold after seeing the empty Chen County Treasury!

When I asked, I learned that Li Xin took Zhang Er and Chen Yu's captured more than 100,000 soldiers to leave Chen County, and when they left Chen County, the entire Chen County treasury had been emptied, and not even a single hair was left for Xiang Liang!

Although Xiang Liang hated it in his heart, he had no choice!

In the first battle of Huaihe, seeing that his army of more than 200,000 did not even leave the 20,000 Qin troops who were under siege in the end, Xiang Liang shuddered at the Qin army's combat strength and was deeply glad at the same time!

He was glad that he had subdued Wu Rui, if it weren't for Wu Rui's 200,000 Baiyue barbarians, I am afraid that now his 70,000 or 80,000 Jiangdong soldiers would have been killed by the Qin army!

Xiang Liang deeply understood that even if he relied on himself as a rabble, even if he was 500,000, he was not the opponent of the 100,000 Qin army, so Xiang Liang learned from the pain, and while sending a small number of soldiers to capture the various counties of Chen County, he stayed in Chen County and began to train the army!

Even at the succession ceremony of the King of Chu on May 18, Xiang Liang only sent Fan Zeng to congratulate, and second, to ask for soldiers, food and weapons! He himself still stayed in Chen County to train soldiers and collect grain everywhere!

And the rest of the month's grain collection income from Xiang Liang is now all in that heavily guarded mansion!

So when the guards came to report that there was chaos in the city, Xiang Liang's first thought was whether the huge mansion was burned! It wasn't until he confirmed that it wasn't a giant mansion that Xiang Liang breathed a sigh of relief!

Immediately ordered the army stationed outside the city to be transferred into the city to extinguish the fire and capture the annihilation! And ordered the guards of the giant mansion to guard the mansion closely!

Xiang Liang knew very well that it would take at least ten days for the grain and grass from Jiujiang and Jiangdong to be transported to Chen County in Jiangbei, but the grain in that huge mansion was concentrated with all the grain collected in Chen County, once it was burned, his entire army would fall into a land without food!

Although the rest of the Chen counties also have harvested grain, it is obviously not enough to support the consumption of the entire army! What's more, if all the grain in the entire Chen County is scraped and the people are robbed of grain, then his own Chu army will definitely lose the hearts of the people!

Killing chickens and taking eggs is not what Xiang Liang wants to do!

But what he didn't know was that when a fire broke out in the county seat of Chenxian County, the barracks on all sides of the camp outside the city were also ignited by a continuous stream of rockets fired from the night, and then a fire broke out!

The entire Chen County, as long as it was the county seat occupied by Xiang Liang's army, suddenly someone set fire at the same time at this time!

The thousands of soldiers guarding the mansion heard the sound of fighting from all over the city, and suddenly scratched a little when they looked at the flames rushing to the sky, but they quickly calmed down under the pressure of the bullets of the leading generals, and guarded the surroundings of the mansion even more strictly!

Instead of luring away these guards, these soldiers who had become a little lazy raised their vigilance, which obviously greatly surprised the hundreds of black shadows lurking fifty paces away.

Three short strange insect chirps suddenly sounded!

Hearing these three short strange insect chirps, the more than 100 black shadows lurking in the darkness all trembled!

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The second day of the sixth month of the first year of Great Qin II!

Early in the morning, Hu Hai got up and left Xianyang Palace, when Hu Hai got up, Concubine Li was still on the big bed in the emperor's study, Hu Hai tossed for most of the night last night, and fell asleep in the morning! So she didn't know when Hu Hai left!

After leaving Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai first went to Shangfang for a morning, and then returned to the Bashang camp again in the afternoon!

Not long after Hu Hai left Shangfang, more than 100 huge carriages with strange shapes left Shangfang, left Xianyang and went straight to the camp in Bashang!

The reason why these carriages are said to have strange shapes is because these carriages are not the two-wheeled carriages that are currently used in Daqin, but all of them are four-wheeled, more than two zhang long, and they are boxy like a box!

The four-wheeled carriage is naturally produced by Hu Hai to provide ideas from Shangfang!

The whole carriage is completely container-like structure, and it is no longer from the wheel, but with two doors at the back of the carriage! At the bottom of the carriage is a row of six shock-absorbing iron pillars wrapped in thick cowhide, of course, outsiders can't see it at all!

The wheels of the carriage are not wooden wheels or cyan bronze wheels, but wheels cast in fine iron, and the wheels are firmly wrapped with thick cowhide and rivets to reduce the friction of the carriage!

As long as the bearing and shock absorption problems proposed by Hu Hai can be solved, I believe that Daqin will soon have a six-wheeled or even eight-wheeled carriage with a larger load!

The windows of these carriages were all tightly closed, escorted by Weng Zhong's more than 6,000 Xuanwu troops who came to Shangfang yesterday!

The carriage is loaded with brand new armor and some special equipment produced by Shang Fang, as well as some Shang Fang craftsmen!

Hu Hai had a headache about which 20,000 people to follow him this time!

Weng Zhong's 6,000 heavily armored Xuanwu army had been exposed to the world, but it was obviously impossible for all of them, who were all heavily armoured, to go north with Hu Hai, because there were no suitable horses for them to ride!

So after thinking about it, Hu Hai decided to take only a thousand Xuanwu troops to follow him north, and those box trucks could carry these thousand Xuanwu troops and their equipment was obviously just right!

If possible, Hu Hai even only planned to lead 10,000 guards to the north, so that there were fewer people, and the speed was obviously faster, and he didn't think that there were any chaotic troops in Shandong and other places that could threaten himself protected by 10,000 elite Qin troops!

But apparently he could only think about it. Now that the situation in Daqin is tense, Li Si and the others will definitely not agree for any reason, and Wei Yi, Ying Teng, Zhang Han and others, who have rarely opposed them, are extremely resolute in this matter!

In the end, the 20,000 guards were still the result of mutual compromise between Hu Hai and Wei Yu and others!

Numerous new equipment, especially stirrups, saddles and other things, Hu Hai obviously cannot and will not be exposed to people at this time, these cavalry artifacts he knows very well what will be the result once they are introduced to the male lord Mao Dun who is waiting for an opportunity to move north of Yin Mountain!

After thinking about it, Hu Hai still decided not to bring the rest of the foot soldiers except for the 1,000 heavy armored foot soldiers this time, and the remaining 19,000 people all chose cavalry, and among the 19,000 cavalry, there are 2,000 heavy armored cavalry who have been trained for a period of time!

Of course, these heavy armored cavalry are also mixed in the ordinary cavalry, the heavy armor and war horse armor on the cavalry are all boxed, except for the saddle stirrup two things are not equipped, the cavalry war horses that followed Hu Hai to the north and the east tour, including the horses pulling the cart, were all secretly installed with horseshoes!

It is a very simple task to select 17,000 elite cavalry from the 600,000 troops of the Bashang battalion, and it is also a very difficult task!

It's easy because there's a base of 600,000, and it's hard because they all want to go!

It took two days, and under the selection of Zhang Han, Wang Gan and others, Hu Hai's guards and soldiers who went north this time were all selected!

And the generals who followed Hu Hai to the north were also determined!

In addition to Weng Zhong, Wei Yi, Zhang Han, Wang Qian and others all stayed in the camp of Bashang, and Li Xin's 10,000 Yuan Army had left conspicuously today and turned back to Wuguan to garrison along Wuguan Road!

However, Du Teng, who was originally a prisoner and is now a captain, and Zhou Bo, Fan Xu, and Xiahou Ying, who followed Liu Bang to Xianyang, were specially transferred to the northward army by Hu Hai!

Coupled with the two hundred dead soldiers of Long Wei, the emperor's northward tour to the east this time is completely determined!

The fourth night of the first month of June in the first year of Great Qin II!

Ming said, Hu Hai will leave Xianyang again!

"Your Majesty, Red Letter!" Win Yi's voice suddenly sounded outside the arrogant tent, and the brush in the hand of Hu Hai, who was writing at the desk, suddenly slammed! A large cloud of ink appeared on the snow-white paper!

It's the Red Letter again!

(To be continued)