Chapter 51 The fall of Yingcheng and Wang Jian are in a dilemma

When night falls, everything will rest. However, Wu Zixu and Wang Jian and the army they led were busy at this time. Wu Zixu commanded his soldiers to quickly repair the damage to the city wall caused by the day's fighting; At this time, Wang Qian's soldiers were busy digging an earthen mountain, and they wanted to build an artificial earth mountain as high as the city wall outside Yingcheng.

By the early morning of the next day, the walls of Yingcheng had been basically repaired, and the tired soldiers looked in good spirits after a night's rest.

There were constant earth-shattering shouts from the Qin army's position opposite the slippery army, and they were pushing huge trebuchets up the earth mountain, and it turned out that the Qin army wanted to condescendingly bombard Yingcheng with trebuchets.

The Qin army's attack began, and the trebuchet was indeed a big killer, and under its bombardment, the walls and bunkers of Yingcheng were vulnerable and collapsed one after another.

As soon as Wang Jian waved the banner, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Qin army rushed to the gap in the city gate like lightning, like a pack of hungry wolves pounced on a wounded sheep that could not move, and all the results seemed to be doomed.

Just as the cavalry of the Qin army was about to cross the moat, several rockets were suddenly shot from the top of the city, and the moat suddenly became a sea of fire. The war horses were frightened, and the cavalry of the Qin army was immediately in chaos.

At this moment, countless slippery archers emerged from the ruins of the city, angrily shooting arrows of revenge at the Qin army, the cavalry of the Qin army turned on their backs, embarrassed, and the cavalry leader was about to retreat, but saw a dark cloud in the air whizzing by, it was the rain of arrows of the Qin army. There was no cover left in the city, and the poor slicker archers had to bear the arrows piercing their hearts with their flesh and blood.

Seeing this, the morale of the Qin cavalry was greatly boosted, and the cavalry leader commanded the troops to turn around and return, and continued to charge towards Yingcheng. Soon, the Qin cavalry burst into the city, but they quickly withdrew. It turned out that Wu Zixu had already expected that Yingcheng would definitely not be able to defend it, so he had already arranged Yingcheng into countless battle fortresses. The streets were filled with horses and fences, and every house had an ambush of archers and swordsmen, who, if frightened, rushed out and shot or slashed the cavalry.

The cavalry of the Qin army suffered unprecedented losses and returned in vain, which made Wang Jian furious, and decided to make a desperate bet and attack with the whole army, vowing to fight to the death in the slippery army.

At this time, in the mansion of the marshal in Yingcheng, looking at this group of ragged and scarred generals, Wu Zixu burst into tears. Yingcheng has no place to defend, almost naked in front of the Qin army, as long as the Qin army attacks again, Yingcheng will no longer be able to defend. Wu Zixu said helplessly: "The generals have worked hard, and the soldiers are here to thank you for the king." The current situation is critical, and we must not be killed. In order to ensure my survival, Ben Shuai now ordered all departments to break through the siege separately, and quickly went to Gusu City after breaking through. If Ben Shuai does not die, he will join hands in Gusu to fight the enemy. When the generals heard this, they all burst into tears, and after saying goodbye to each other, they rushed to the headquarters to arrange for everything.

After a short rest, the Qin army came again under the command of Wang Jian and rushed over the battlefield with a overwhelming momentum, raising dust and dust. The army entered the city, was waiting for a fight, but found that the whole Yingcheng was lifeless, and the city had already been empty, Wang Jian was annoyed and ashamed, so he ordered people to raze Yingcheng to the ground.

Wu Zixu had already ordered the soldiers and civilians in various places to pack up all their inventory and belongings, stand by and retreat at any time, implement the clear of the wilderness, and resolutely not leave a meter or water for the Qin army. Therefore, when Wu Zixu led the troops to retreat, the soldiers and civilians from all over the country immediately followed, in an orderly manner, and there was no panic and retreat.

It is said that the slippery army hidden in the mountains and forests before has been closely watched by the Qin army and cannot be used, so Wu Zixu decided to be under the unified command of Fan Li and continue to penetrate deep into the rear of the Qin army to attack the Qin army's fragile supply line, so as to slow down the Qin army's fierce offensive.

At this time, Wang Jian, who was standing on the head of Yingcheng City, frowned, and was constantly calculating in his heart when the grain transport troops of the Qin State would arrive. Since the army crossed to the south, it has been fighting fiercely with the slippery army for several days, and the grain and grass in the army have long been exhausted. In the past, war grain and grass could be taken as much as he wanted in the occupied territory, but Wang Jian did not rely so much on domestic grain and grass supplies. And this southern expedition, Wu Zixu seems to have come prepared, although the Qin army is unstoppable, but the slippery army is also well-founded and calmly responds to the battle. Now that the 600,000 Qin army can be put in a dilemma, how can it not make Wang Jian very worried.

The breeze blew on the city, and a few flutters spilled off his clothes, Wang Jian couldn't help but think of the promise he had made to the queen before he set out on the expedition.