Chapter Eighty-Nine: Digging a Pit and Others
Finally, after a two-day long journey, more than 200,000 Great Qin Jiashi finally came to a Chen town dozens of miles ago in Chen County.
When I came here, it was about noon, but the pace of the Great Qin army stopped, and they did not go towards Chen County.
Because there's going to be a big task next, and that's digging a hole!
After calculation, because the army led by Wu Guang was closer than Song Liu, that is, close to Chen County, if Wu Guang and Song Liu rushed to Chen County, Wu Guang must have arrived first for one or two days, or even faster.
Therefore, after everyone's discussion, it was unanimously decided to eat the rebels led by Wu Guang first!
And after Wei Yu's analysis, the army led by Wu Guang will definitely pass through Chen Zhen, at this time, Ying Zheng doesn't care so much, anyway, as long as Wu Guang enters from here. Then, if you want to do an ambush, you have to do something in front of Chen Zhen.
So, at noon, the army was encamped, and Ying Zheng, Wei Xiao, Meng Yi, Ying Qiang and others led thousands of men and began to check the terrain near Chen Town.
See where it is best for ambushes and digging pits.
In ancient times, no matter where the northwest was, it was densely wooded, unlike later generations, when the northwest was bare, or desert or something.
Wu Guang led more than 100,000 horses, and if he wanted to quickly cripple them, he had to attack them on a large scale.
Just attacking close to the body, it is estimated that it will not be able to defeat them for a while, so at this time, Daqin's crossbowmen will have to play well.
It's better to block them, then tie them in the pockets, and then shoot them in groups, and then charge, so that you can probably cripple the hundreds of thousands of rebels.
Zuihou, after an afternoon of searching, finally found a good place.
I saw that this place was in a forest about ten miles in front of Chen Town.
The woods were not very dense and not very tall enough to ambush a large number of troops, and there were two small gentle slopes behind the woods on either side. In that case, it is possible to place crossbowmen very well. Believe in the range of the bow and crossbow, which is a very haode distance!
In the middle of the woods is a large official road.
After choosing a location, everyone went back to the barracks one after another.
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Chen County, Chen Sheng, looking at the traps and barbs in front of Chen County, and quickly dug a mud ditch in front of the city in the past few days.
Then he looked at the soldiers around him again, and couldn't help but feel melancholy in his heart, can these preparations withstand the attack of the Qin army?
Just last night, Chen Sheng received a message from the scout, saying that nearly 300,000 Qin troops had arrived in Chen Zhen in front, so today, maybe you can see the Qin army.
"If you can't resist it, then you can only retreat!" In Chen Sheng's heart, he had already prepared for the worst. He didn't expect that he would face such tremendous pressure not long after he became king.
"Cheng Li, where are King Wu and General Song now? How many days will it take to get back? The cold wind of winter blew on Chen Sheng's face, but the arrival of Daqin's army made his heart even colder.
After listening to Chen Sheng's words, the general named Cheng Li said respectfully: "King, King Wu is close to Chen County, it is estimated that in only seven days, he will be able to lead a large army to come to the aid!" ”
"Seven days?" After Chen Sheng heard this, he almost vomited blood, but there was no way to do it, there was no train in ancient times, so he couldn't come all at once, and he could only blame Zhou Wen, this guy was broken by the Qin army, and hundreds of thousands of troops were cut off.
"What about General Song?" Chen Sheng's heart was cold, seven days? After seven days, it is estimated that the daylilies are cold. In less than seven days, according to the experience of Yingchuan City in front, it is estimated that in less than three days, this Chen County will have to be broken by the Qin army!
At this time, that Cheng Li saw that Chen Sheng's face was gloomy for a while, but he still said: "General Song is a little more distant from Chen County, and it is estimated that it will take nine days to rush back to ......."
"yes, got it." After listening to Cheng Li's words, Chen Sheng already knew in his heart that he couldn't hope for Wu Guang and Song Liu now, because they couldn't catch up, and now they could only rely on the 200,000 troops in Chen County.
I hope to hold it for seven or eight days, so that when Wu Guang and Song Liu rush back, then the situation can change!
Actually, here Chen Sheng didn't know that Ying Zheng used the trump card to break Yingchuan City, and now that the trump card has been scrapped, it is estimated that it will not be so easy to attack the city.
"Pass the order, the whole army will be vigilant to this king, the Great Qin army will come at any time, and then it will immediately enter the moment of battle!"
"No."
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Just when Chen Sheng was worried, on Chen Zhen's side, the 200,000 Qin troops were all ambushed in the two forests that they had chosen before, and at the same time began to dig pits in the official road, and installed some traps and the like, which were used to block Wu Guang's way.
Ying Zheng thought so, set a trap in front to block the way, and let Yingqiang's 3,000 iron cavalry and Yingtian's 4,000 heavy armored infantry plus some charioteers block their retreat, after the crossbowmen in the gentle slopes of the forest on both sides were shot, the armor soldiers in ambush in the forest immediately rushed out and came to a big encirclement, a big hand-to-hand combat!
Probably that's the kind of battle.
At the same time, send the remaining seventy or eighty thousand Great Qin armor soldiers to besiege Chen County!
It is a siege but not an attack, of course, you can pretend to feint to deter the rebels in Chen County.
Now, it's time for Wu Guang to arrive.
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At noon, when the seventy or eighty thousand Great Qin armor soldiers were pressing towards Chen County, Zhou Wen led the remaining remnants of less than 40,000 troops to finally rush to the outside of Chen County.
I saw that these 40,000 remnants of the army all looked like they were about to die, and they had been going over mountains and mountains for several days to avoid the Qin army, which made them tired and unhappy, and the scarcity of food for the soldiers made them want to cry.
"I'm Zhou Wen, we are friendly troops who escaped from Yingchuan City, please open the door quickly!"
Zhou Wen finally led the remnants of less than 40,000 troops back to the gate of Chen County.
At the head of the city, when those rebels saw the tens of thousands of horses rushing out in front, they thought that the Great Qin army had arrived at first, but after a closer look, it turned out that they were all their own people.
At this time, Cheng Li was patrolling the city, and when he saw the army that suddenly appeared, he was shocked, but when he heard the shout, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
However, vigilance should not be done like that.
"How do I know if you are your own people, and call your general out!"
Just as Cheng Li was shouting, Zhou Wenwei ran out.
"Lao Cheng, it's me!" I saw that Zhou Wen looked embarrassed at this time, and he didn't even have a horse, he ran to the front of the army and said to Cheng Li above the city.
Cheng Li fixed his eyes and immediately recognized Zhou Wen.
"Lao Zhou, it's really you!" When Cheng Li saw Zhou Wen, he was overjoyed, he and Zhou Wen had a good personal relationship, and of course he was happy to see that his old friend was not dead.
"However, Lao Zhou, the formalities are still required, so that they will drop the weapons in their hands in front of the city, and Lao Zhou, you will present the tiger talisman to take a look......"
Zuihou, this group of tragic remnants was able to open the gate of Chen County after discarding their weapons, and the 40,000 remnants of Zuihou were finally able to return to the embrace of the base camp...... (Ask for a recommendation ticket!! Strongly begging for it! )