Huaishui meanders through the north of Shouchun City, and the nearest place is even less than 20 miles.

Although it is the middle of winter now, the amount of water in Huaishui is still very full, Zhong Liwu stood by the river and looked at it, only to see the vast soup on the river, and the endless waves were rolling towards the east, and his heart involuntarily gave birth to an indescribable sense of desolation, and he couldn't help but whisper: "The son said on the river, the deceased is like this?" ”

Sima Jiang Ji, who was standing behind him, didn't have Zhong Li's state of mind, and asked puzzledly: "General, the Han general Li Zuoche led an army of 50,000 to invade the territory, and the general was determined to defend Shouchun, why did the general take us away from Shouchun and run to this barren mountain to drink the northwest wind?" ”

"You know what?" Zhong Liwu put away his emotion and said coldly, "We didn't come here to see the scenery, we have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders related to the life and death of the Chu army!" ”

Jiang Ji changed color slightly: "What kind of responsibility?" ”

"Dig the embankment!" Zhong Li said solemnly, "Flood Shouchun!" ”

"Huh!?" Jiang Ji was shocked when he heard this, "Flooded Shouchun? Didn't even the general drown? ”

"Don't worry, the flood won't flood our own people." Zhong Li said, "Otherwise, what do you think the use of so many bamboos that moved into the city last night?" ”

"So that's the case, it's not in vain that we moved the bamboo overnight." Jiang Ji paused, and said, "But since we want to dig the Huai River embankment, why should we go so far?" Less than 20 miles northwest of Shouchun is the Huai River, and it is more troublesome to dig from there, so why bother to run more than 50 miles? Moreover, do you want to dig the Huai River from here and drown the Han army? ”

"You know what? The general said yes, he will definitely be able to do it! Zhong Liwu said this, and said, "Besides, Li Zuoche is not Fan Xu, he wants to dig an embankment near Shouchun, it is a dream!" ”

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East of Shouchun City, Li Zuoche Daying.

Today, the army has just arrived, and the soldiers are tired, so Li Zuoche does not plan to attack the city, and even Li Zuoche has already decided, if the remnants of the Chu army are still fighting and resisting fiercely, he will give up the strong attack, and change to a long-term siege strategy, wait for their food to run out, and then lure them to break through from the west gate, when the Chu army is exhausted and lacks fighting spirit, he can turn over and destroy them.

The only thing Li Zuoche is worried about now is whether King Han will give him this opportunity.

You must know that Fan Xu is the henchman of the King of Han, and when he heard that Fan Xu was beheaded, the King of Han will definitely be so angry that he will be like thunder, in order to avenge Fan Xu, it is entirely possible for the King of Han to lead a large army to attack Shouchun.

Li Zuoche was thinking about what was on his mind, when Sima Xiahou of the other department suddenly strode in.

"General!" Xiahou shook his sword and said in a deep voice, "When General Mo observed the terrain outside the city just now, he found that the terrain of Shouchun City was far lower than the Huaishui water surface in the north, and the whole was a big depression. ”

"General Xiahou rest assured." Li Zuoche smiled and waved his hand, "This general has already noticed it. ”

After saying this, Li Zuoche said again: "This general has sent patrol cavalry to patrol day and night in the northwest of Shouchun, and once they find that the Chu army is digging the embankment, they will report it immediately, so they don't want to dig the embankment!" Besides, if the Chu army really dug up the Huaishui embankment, wouldn't they even drown themselves? Is it difficult for the Chu army to really dare to burn jade? ”

Xiahou Jian breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and said curtly: "It's that the last general is too worried." ”

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In Shouchun City, the Chu army camp.

Thick bamboos filled almost the entire school yard, and hundreds of Chu soldiers were busy tying up bamboo rafts.

Not far away, more than 100 female soldiers are busy in the soles of their shoes, from time to time there are male soldiers squeezing their eyebrows and whistling at the female soldiers, and the female soldiers are not careful, and some of them even dare to talk to the male soldiers, but they are also happy.

Xiang Zhuang didn't bother to pay attention to all this, he was busy supervising the manufacture of weapons.

In the blacksmith shop, Yu Ziqi and the two blacksmiths were already tired and sweating, but the weapons that Xiang Zhuang needed were finally formed, in the eyes of Yu Ziqi and the blacksmith, this is a "strange" weapon, it is obviously not a sword, because the sword is double-edged, and it only has a unilateral blade, but it is not a knife, because the knife is curved, and it is straight.

Xiang Zhuang checked the weapon in his hand, the weight is about twenty catties, and the length is about six feet, this is actually a ring-headed knife without a ring head, or a strengthened version of the horizontal knife, the blade is narrow and straight, thick back and single edge, and the air is cold, just put it there, it exudes a fierce murderous aura.

As a traverser, Xiang Zhuang had certainly heard of the famous murderous name of the ring head knife.

In a sense, the Han Empire defeated the Xiongnu with the sharp ring head knife, and then the Tang Empire, it was by virtue of the horizontal knife that inherited the legacy of the ring head knife to defeat the Turks, two thousand years later, the Japanese derived the Tai knife on the basis of the horizontal knife, and carried forward the ferocity of the knife to the extreme!

Xiang Zhuang turned his head and made a look, and Jing Qian suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang raised his sword to greet him, only to hear the explosion of "Gong", the big sword in Jing Qian's hand had already been broken into two, and the broken half fell to the ground with a bang, but the "horizontal knife" in Xiang Zhuang's hand was unscathed, and there was not even a trace of a gap left on the blade, and the soldiers and blacksmiths who were watching around immediately cheered loudly.

"That's it!" Xiang Zhuang said happily, "But as long as it weighs ten catties and is four feet long, it will cost five thousand!" ”

"General, I'm afraid this won't work." Yu Ziqi shook his head with a wry smile, to create five thousand such knives, the raw materials are not a problem, after two battles, the weapons captured by the Chu army can be described as piled up, enough to use, the key is to create such a knife, it is extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming, first to melt the original weapons, and then cast the blank, and then fold and forge the blank repeatedly, but also quench, one process after another, two blacksmiths can only build two a day!

Even if you gather hundreds of blacksmiths, you can only make a hundred knives a day!

It would take at least fifty days to build 5,000 knives, not to mention that there were not enough 100 blacksmiths in the army, and there were not so many stoves and tools, so even if it took three months, Yu Zi might not be able to complete the task.

"Then try your best." Xiang Zhuang also knew that the horizontal knife processing technology was complex and the cost was high, so he said to Yu Ziqi at the moment, "General Ziqi, you don't have to worry about other things these days, the matter of ration distribution will be handed over to Mr. Wu, you just need to build weapons, and all the blacksmiths in the general will gather together and go all out to build weapons!" ”

"No!" Yu Ziqi shook his head and hurriedly summoned the blacksmith.

The blacksmiths who had originally gathered together also dispersed, blowing the wind, casting, and striking iron, and the whole blacksmith shop was soon filled with the sound of Ding Ding Dangdang.

Xiang Zhuang slowly walked out of the blacksmith shop, looked at the horizontal knife in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

There are not enough horses now, so it is really unnecessary to build stirrups on a large scale, but it is really urgent to replace the double-edged sword with a horizontal knife to become the melee weapon of the Chu infantry, and once a large number of horizontal knives are equipped, the combat effectiveness of the Chu infantry is bound to go to a higher level!

But unfortunately, the conditions do not allow it.

At this moment, Xiang Zhuang really hoped that the Chu army could have a solid base.

However, the reality is cruel, the Chu army is now a source of water, a tree without roots, just say that this Shouchun, in a few days will be abandoned, after giving up Shouchun, the Chu army will enter Dabie Mountain to hide with the Han army, where is the time, where is the condition to build a horizontal knife on a large scale?

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The next day, after a night's rest, the Han army launched a tentative attack on the east gate of Shouchun.

In the continuous sound of the horn, a group of Han army armor soldiers swarmed out of the camp, entered the wasteland outside the east gate of Shouchun and set up a formation, and then a group of light soldiers and dead soldiers had pushed the ladder and siege vehicle slowly drove out of the gate, followed by the ladder and the siege vehicle, it was a team of light archers.

The last to appear was Li Zuoche's 2,000 personal soldiers.

Surrounded by a banner that covered the sky and the sun, a chariot slowly drove into the Han army's formation, and Li Zuoche was like a vigorous hundred-year-old pine, standing proudly on the chariot.

Suddenly, Li Zuoche raised his right hand and pressed it forward gently, and at the same time said lightly: "Attack." ”

Suddenly, the continuous sound of the horn stopped abruptly, and after a momentary pause, the dense war drums rushed into the sky, and its momentum was enough to pierce the golden cracked stone, which made people's blood boil, and tens of thousands of Han soldiers followed with a roar, while roaring, they also rhythmically struck the shield with their swords, or with halberds: "Roar!" Roar! Roar ......"

The next moment, the front row of armor soldiers have shrunk their formations, giving way to one passage after another, and the archers who have been waiting for a long time immediately held their bows and arrows, and walked through the passage made by the armor soldiers at random steps to the front of the formation, accompanied by a terrible long howl, all the archers brushed their bows and arrows, and Leng Sensen's arrows were already aimed at the city in front.

"Whew...... Ha! There was another terrible howl, and the two thousand archers released their bowstrings almost simultaneously.

In an instant, two thousand feather arrows had already swept into the air, and swept through the sky with a sharp breaking sound, and finally turned into an endless rain of arrows, falling towards the head of Shouchun City.

At the head of Shouchun City, the veterans who had experienced a hundred battles had already hidden behind the battlements, or under the shields, but those recruits who had just joined the army did not know the strength of the Han archers, and they were all still pestle on the city to look down at the excitement, and one of the recruits in order to show their contempt for the archers of the Han army, and even lifted their robes to pee outside the city.

The veterans watched coldly, no one stopped or reminded them, the ability to save their lives, others can't teach them, you have to go to the battlefield yourself to learn, you have to exchange your life! These recruits, if they don't see blood, will never know the cruelty of war, and they will never grow into real soldiers. #####ps: Thank you for the generous rewards of book friends such as Gao Gao Shan, Innocent Little Pig, Liang, No Xiaosheng, Ah Jin First, Xu Xu Xu Xu, Yunyun Lifelong, Buck, Lonely Outsider, Naked Man, Dragon and Phoenix ABC and other book friends.