It was nearly dusk, and the sunset was like blood.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on Xiang Yu's body, stretching his burly figure thin and elongated, looking a little lonely and lonely. The black man under his crotch also seemed to feel the master's mood, lowered his head and whispered his nose from time to time.

Behind him was an army that was ready to go, the princes and generals had completed the pre-battle preparations, the air was full of murderous energy, and hundreds of thousands of tigers all looked at Xiang Yu in front of the battle, just waiting for him to give an order.

Xiang Yu didn't give the order for a long time, just quietly watched the sunset, he was not cowardly before the battle, but patiently waiting for time.

There was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and Xiang Yu didn't look back, but he had already guessed who it was. At this time, Yingbu and Ryuge were intensifying their preparations for the great battle of tomorrow, and none of the princes would have the courage to interrupt his musings.

Yu Zi stopped behind Xiang Yu and looked at his burly back; "Big brother, I'm ready, do you want to attack the city now."

Xiang Yu looked up at the sky and shook his head; "Wait, it's still dark."

After a pause, he turned his head sideways and looked at Yu Ziqi with a smile and asked; "What about Ya Father, are you still angry and refuse to see me?"

Yu Ziqi spread his hands and nodded helplessly.

Fan Zeng was not in the army yesterday, so he did not participate in the discussion in the account, and when he came back, he heard that Xiang Yu sent Liu Bang to lead the army south to attack Hanzhong, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly urged Xiang Yu to send someone to recover Liu Bang and let others replace the leader. Xiang Yu just rejected Fan Zeng's proposal with an understatement of 'military orders are like a mountain', so the two quarreled openly in the tent, and Fan Zeng was even more angry and threw off the sentence 'Lack of erection and conspiracy' and left angrily.

In fact, Xiang Yu had his considerations, Liu Bang's proposal was indeed in line with his wishes, and he thought about who would lead the army. It's just that there are not too many generals available in his hands, and the big war is imminent, and it is not appropriate to disperse too many troops, so the southward attack on Hanzhong can only be a small force, which requires a high level of ability from the main general, and only Liu Bang is suitable if you think about it.

Although Liu Bang is a person who makes him spurn, he has to admit that he is still very good at fighting. As for what Fan Zeng was worried about, he also thought of it, so he only let Liu Bang go south with 10,000 headquarters, and the rest were filled into the men and horses under Xiang Yu's command. He also sent a confidant general to lead 10,000 people to follow Liu Bang south, under the name of assistance, but in fact to monitor. If Liu Bang succeeds in capturing Hanzhong, he might as well be a favor and give him Hanzhong, on the contrary, if he returns from defeat, he will be killed for this reason.

You must know that Liu Bang is also a prince, and he has made outstanding contributions, and he will definitely be crowned king after the world is decided. In the past, the king of Chu had made an agreement with the princes; The one who enters the customs first. Xiang Yu doesn't want to lose his trust in the world, Hanzhong also belongs to the land of Guanxi, although it is located in a remote but barely part of Shangguanzhong, and sealing Hanzhong to Liu Bang can also block the mouth of the world. Moreover, although Hanzhong has the advantage of topography, it is also a place of dragon trapping because of the Qinling Mountains, as long as there is a strong force in Guanzhong, Liu Bang will not think that he can go north to fight for hegemony in the world.

Xiang Yu wanted to tell Fan Zeng about his plan, but when Fan Zeng came back and heard that he had let Liu Bang go, he was furious, and he pointed at his nose in front of everyone, which made Xiang Yu somewhat unhappy. Although Fan Zeng is his elder, he is also a dignified commander of the coalition forces, and no one in the world knows the prestige of his Xiang Yu. But Fan Zeng often called him by his name as before, and even pointed out directly when he disagreed, without thinking of saving some face for him as a coach.

All these things made Xiang Yu gradually feel dissatisfied, although he still respected Fan Zeng in his heart, but after all, he was young and vigorous, and his face was a little unbearable. So yesterday for the first time, he didn't listen to Fan Zeng's opinion, which caused Fan Zeng to throw his sleeves away angrily and avoid him all day.

In fact, the conflict between Fan Zeng and Xiang Yu can be summed up very simply, that is, Fan Zeng still takes care of Xiang Yu as a nephew as before, always thinking about doing things for him and strangling all possible potential threats for him. And Xiang Yu is like a growing eagle, it turns out that he is under the protection of his uncle Xiang Liang, and then he got Fan Zeng's full help, but now he is already a famous 'overlord' in the world, so he wants to get rid of the protection of his father and decide alone.

Seeing that Xiang Yu was silent for a long time, Yu Ziqi guessed that he was worried about Fan Zeng, so he was relieved; "Uncle Fan, although he is angry with you, he still can't rest assured of you, and specially asked me to remind you to be careful of the Qin people's counterattack out of the city."

Xiang Yu smiled bitterly, thinking in his heart that his father still couldn't rest assured of me, he was also a lot older, so don't be angry and get sick, wait for a chance to apologize to him and explain.

Yu Ziqi said softly again; "Big brother, can you let me go to attack the city tomorrow."

Xiang Yu smiled slightly, and it was not difficult to hear from Yu Ziqi's words that he was anxious about making meritorious contributions, so he reached out and patted Yu Ziqi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Ziqi, the siege of the city is not trivial, and you have to take the lead in going to the city tower, and there is still a big gap between you and Yingbu and Long He in terms of martial arts, so they are more suitable than you for charging into battle." ”

Yu Ziqi said with some dejection; "Then I'll just watch them do it all my life?"

Xiang Yu shook his head with a smile; "Ziji, you and I have been close to each other since childhood, how can I treat you badly, eldest brother, don't worry, I will give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Have you ever thought that most of the generals under my command are like Yingbu and Longhe, who can only fight, but there are very few who are both civil and military, and only Jibu and you can be counted, so I don't want to use you like Yingbu and them. ”

Only then did Yu Ziqi understand Xiang Yu's deep meaning, and he immediately showed gratitude, and bowed down happily and convincingly; "Thank you, big brother."

Xiang Yu laughed and said; "Do you need to be so polite between you and my brother?"

After laughing, he lowered his face and said; "It's just that our time is running out, Ji Bu sent an urgent message from Pengcheng, saying that the little King of Chu and Chen Ying are about to move, colluding with the garrison generals to seize power while our main force is in Guanzhong, Ji Bu does not have many troops at hand, so let's return to the division as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in Chu."

"So this is our last big attack, whether we succeed or fail, we have to retreat to Chudi. Even if we can't capture Xianyang, we will have to fight the Qin State, and we will not have the strength to go out of the Guandong in the future, and we will stabilize the situation of the Chu State in the future and then turn back to destroy the remnants of the Qin State. ”

After speaking, Xiang Yu raised his head and looked at the majestic Xianyang City in the distance, and the murderous intent appeared in his eyes, and he slowly gritted his teeth; "Xianyang, sooner or later I will make you pay."

Yu Ziqi listened to the killing intent in Xiang Yu's words, couldn't help but shudder and didn't dare to say more, and heard Xiang Yu's arrogant voice again; "It's almost time, pass on my command to start the siege"

"No!"

Twilight was approaching, but bonfires broke out in the camp of the coalition army, illuminating as if it were day, and more than 300 behemoths were slowly pushed out of the camp by thousands of strong soldiers chanting slogans in unison, which was more than 300 trebuchets that Fan Zeng summoned skilled craftsmen in Hangu Pass to carefully make them, hoping to destroy the strong city walls of Xianyang.

Because there were also trebuchets in the Qin army, and they were ahead of the coalition forces in terms of range and strike accuracy. In the past, Xiang Yu also tried to shoot at Xianyang City, but he was defeated and defeated, so Fan Zengcai personally went to Hangu Pass to supervise the construction of a large number of sophisticated trebuchets and sent them.

The reason for choosing this evening is that the visibility is not very high when night falls, which greatly affects the accuracy of the trebuchet. It doesn't matter if the coalition forces arrive, anyway, it is not difficult to hit the city wall of such a large Xianyang city, but the Qin army in the city has suffered a great loss, and it is night in the wilderness, and it is very difficult to hit the enemy's trebuchet.

The Qin army obviously knew that the coalition forces had made some moves at night, in fact, Xiang Yu didn't want to deliberately hide it, such a huge scale of movement, the Qin army in the city would be aware of it no matter what.

Han Xin and a group of generals rushed to the city tower early, and there were still some doubts in their hearts, could it be that Xiang Yu was stupid enough to attack the city on a large scale at night? Keep in mind that visibility is extremely low at night, and it is almost impossible to storm the city except for a sneak attack.

It wasn't until he saw hundreds of trebuchets launched in the coalition army that Han Xin suddenly realized that Xiang Yu wanted to use stone cannons to destroy the city wall at night. He hurriedly ordered the soldiers at the head of the city to retreat, leaving only the sentinels on the watchtower, and the trebuchets in the city were also on standby, ready to return fire.

In front of the coalition army, hundreds of trebuchets have been assembled, nearly 10,000 soldiers are busy carrying stone bullets, and Yu Ziqi on the side is leading 30,000 elite horsemen to watch the Xianyang City Gate vigilantly behind them to prevent the Qin army from rushing out.

"Let go, let go......" Yingbu waved his arms, his voice was hoarse, and his face was full of murderous aura, "Let me ......"

Three hundred trebuchets roared angrily into the sky, and three hundred huge stone projectiles smashed into Xianyang City with a thunderous roar like wild horses that had escaped from the reins.

Xianyang City trembled in the torrent and groaned in the impact. Han Xin, who had already retreated to the second-tier city tower, had a pale face, he originally thought that Xiang Yu was unable to launch a large-scale attack, but he didn't expect that he was waiting for the arrival of this kind of siege weapon.

The Xianyang city wall is completely made of loess layered ramming, and the bottom layer is mixed with earth, lime and glutinous rice juice, which is extremely hard. When the Shang Emperor supervised the construction, he had asked that the name of the builder be placed on each brick, and after the construction was completed, the builder would be held accountable if he could enter it with a sharp spear.

Fortunately, the Xianyang city wall can stand tall in such a large-scale stone bullet frenzy, but the stomping wall, the female wall and the road at the head of the city are not so lucky, and they were smashed down by a boulder weighing more than hundreds of catties, and they were suddenly shattered. Han Xin hurriedly ordered the trebuchets in the city to return fire, while urgently dispatching the people to carry and repair the bricks and stones under the city, and wait for the attack to stop before repairing the city wall.

The coalition forces did not seem to want to give the Qin army any respite, and one trebuchet after another continued to shoot out all the stone projectiles that had been accumulated for months, until many of them collapsed under heavy load.

Xiang Yu has already been released, he wants to finish his work in one battle, and completely solve the big trouble of the Qin State in one battle.

Han Xin had already guessed Xiang Yu's thoughts, knowing that the day of the decisive battle had come, and if nothing else, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the coalition army would step on the cloud ladder and step on the broken city wall to attack Xianyang. He ordered that except for a few guards, all the other soldiers should go back to the camp and sleep well, and recuperate enough to wait for the battle of Tianming.

The massive trebuchet siege continued until sunrise, when most of the 300 trebuchets destroyed by the Qin army had broken due to their own overwhelm. However, Xiang Yu didn't care, he looked at the damaged Xianyang city wall and knew that his goal had been achieved.

The order to prepare for war was quickly issued, and the soldiers who had already had a full meal hurriedly rushed out of the camp to prepare for battle.

The drums in the camp sounded, and it became more and more intense, like a mountain collapsing and the ground cracked. This time, Xiang Yu didn't hide his secrets anymore, the first thing he sent to the field was his own 100,000 people, led by the fierce generals Yingbu and Long Ji respectively, and the other princes' armies followed as the second wave of attacks.

A sharp and long trumpet sound pierced through the clouds, followed by the chorus of hundreds of thousands of troops shaking the earth.

The first to be dispatched were the 100,000 elite of the Chu army, who had suffered little loss in the siege of February, but still maintained a strong morale and fanatical worship of the main general, Xiang Yu. The army was dispatched, and the earth was shaken, and thousands of flags surged like waves of the sea.

Yingbu rode a tall horse and ran at the forefront of the army, pulled out the preparation and pointed at Xianyang, and roared loudly; "The warriors of the Chu State, enter Xianyang to make contributions to my Great Chu, eliminate the brutal Qin people, and avenge the dead Chu people."

"Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu!"

"Kill!" The 100,000 Chu army roared angrily at the same time, and Yingbu took the lead, leading the army to roll towards Xianyang like a black cloud. There are 500 wells and 500 ladders mixed in the infantry phalanx, which is already the foundation of the coalition army, and Xiang Yu has patiently prepared for today's attack for two months, which shows his determination to destroy Xianyang in one fell swoop.

The high-pitched horn sounded at the head of Xianyang City, and the soldiers all lowered their bodies nervously and stared at the Chu army that was slowly approaching. Although they have already experienced life and death and are no longer afraid, they still can't help but feel chilled when they see the overwhelming momentum of the Chu army. Leaning on the broken stomping wall, a thought flashed through the hearts of many people, and that is; Can Xianyang hold it this time?

When the black-pressed Chu army approached a thousand steps, the first to fire was the trebuchet in the city, and their hearts were already full of anger after a futile night last night, and this time there was just the opportunity for them to vent their anger. One after another sharp whistle pierced the sky, and black dots crossed the city tower, sweeping over the city like a startled bird in the forest, and quickly smashed head-on towards the approaching Chu army. Hundreds of stone bullets fell from the sky like meteorites falling to the ground, and patches of blood splashed in the Chu army's array.

The Chu army couldn't help but stagnate, and then accelerated the pace of advancement, and the soldiers in the back row did not hesitate to step on the corpses of their comrades and strode forward. At this moment, their eyes were red, and there was only one thought in their hearts, that is, 'attack Xianyang', Xiang Yu had promised that once they attacked Xianyang, the wealth accumulated by the Qin royal family for hundreds of years would be plundered by them, and those beautiful women in the palace would be ravaged by them, which had already made all the soldiers crazy.

The officers at the head of the city shouted to and fro; "Steady the crossbow machine and pay attention to concealment." In his heart, he silently calculated the distance of the Chu army.

"Eight hundred steps."

"Seven hundred steps."

"Six hundred steps."

"Put!"

With a creaking sound, a black and oppressive cloud flew out of the city, and the soldiers at the front fell to the ground screaming, while the Chu army in the back row stepped on his corpse and continued to move forward.

The Qin army quickly wound up and aimed, and the life of the merciless reaper Chu soldiers, in the blink of an eye, the corpses of the Chu soldiers under the walls of the eastern city had been covered with a thick layer.

Soon, the Chu army's well was already pushed up, which ended the unilateral massacre of the Qin army. Xianyang's broken stomping wall could not cover the Qin soldiers as well as before, and under the pouring of arrows and arrows from the wells, there were constantly Qin soldiers screaming and falling.

The next step of the city ladder also arrived, Yingbu and Long He took the lead, and thousands of daredevils with shields climbed up along the ladder, braving the dense rain of arrows. The dead soldiers who jumped on the city soon fought with the Qin army, these dead soldiers were the most brave warriors in the coalition army, and they were led by Yingbu and other fierce generals, and soon gained a foothold in the city.

The broken stomping wall also brought a lot of convenience to the Chu army to climb, and the Chu army soldiers stepped on gravel and bricks, constantly jumping on the head of the city to fight with the Qin army. The emergency forces in the Qin army were also mobilized, and they all went towards the broken city wall.

In the coalition camp, Yu Ziqi said to Xiang Yu with excitement on his face; "Big brother, we have already captured the city, we only need to exert a little more pressure, the Qin army will definitely collapse, you let me take people up."

Xiang Yu shook his head and said; "The Qin army won't be so vulnerable, they can still support the formation. Let the Qi army and the Zhao army go first, we Chu people are bleeding, they have no reason to just watch from the sidelines. ”

Yu Ziqi looked disappointed, but he still agreed, and was about to give an order, but suddenly looked at Xianyang with wide eyes, and said in surprise; "What's that?"

But I saw hundreds of strange things floating in Xianyang City, some of which looked like birds, but they weren't when you looked closely.

Xiang Yu was also surprised, and thought for a while before saying; "This seems to be a paper kite, I heard someone say when I was a child that the Qin people have the habit of putting paper kites to pray for blessings, but I don't know what they mean by putting them now."

Yu Ziqi opened his mouth and laughed; "Could it be that the Qin people have already been frightened, and they actually thought of putting this ghost thing to pray for blessings."

Xiang Yu was faintly uneasy in his heart, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of a reason, so he had to shake his head and not think about it for the time being, but just asked Yu Ziqi to urge the princes to send reinforcements.

Before dark, presumably Xianyang will plant his Xiang Yu's banner.