"Kill—"

Projectile arrows rained down from the city wall, and countless Qin soldiers in black robes shouted and rushed towards the city wall carrying ladders, not that someone was shot by the arrows falling from the sky and fell down screaming, but someone soon filled his place.

In addition to the projectile arrows, the cannonballs flying from the city wall were also a deadly threat, the figures of the Chu soldiers on the city wall swayed, and a sentry commander shouted at the tiger cannon that was added, "Release!"

Boom –

In the next second, the cannonball shot out, directly blasting a battering ram underneath to pieces, but before the soldier who raised the tiger squat cannon could withdraw, an arrow just hit him in the eye socket, and the whole person was killed on the spot.

"Quick, hurry, reload!"

No one paid any attention to the tragic death of the robe, and at the urging of the sentry commander, the soldiers hurriedly reloaded the tiger squat cannon, and those armed with rifles also crossed the wall from time to time to shoot at the Qin army that was swarming like a tide below, and almost every time a shot was fired at such a close distance, one person would be killed.

A soldier leaned against the wall to load the rifle and knelt directly on one knee, ejected the muzzle of the gun into the firing hole of the wall, pulled the trigger, and then put the rifle back before he had time to check his results, and the next second, a shell hit the wall less than two meters away from him, smashing the wall battlement, and the soldier hiding behind was also knocked to the ground by the flying rubble.

"Kill—"

Even though the Chu soldiers on the city wall resisted hard, the Qin army still relied on its huge strength to successfully erect the cloud ladders on the city wall, climbing upward, and the birds and archers below also launched at the city wall to provide cover for the robe.

"Put! Don't let the enemy climb the walls alive!"

Bang bang bang –

The Cossack infantry on the city wall pulled the trigger one after another, and after shooting the projectile from the gun, they hurriedly retreated, giving up the shooting position to the robe behind him......

"The Qin army has retreated! The Qin army retreated! The Qin army has retreated!"

The battle lasted not only for a long time, but the Qin army, which had suffered another setback in the siege, finally had to choose to retreat, looking at the Qin soldiers and horses that had faded like a tide, the Chu soldiers on the city wall shouted loudly, signaling the soldiers on the city wall to cease fire.

This is the county seat of Xiangtan, the fifth day of the seventh month, the third day of the official outbreak of the Qin-Chu civil war.

Three days ago, on the second day of the seventh month, the Chu army officially marched west under the order of the superintendent and fought a fierce battle with the Qin army, which opened the prelude to the official outbreak of the Qin-Chu civil war.

Su Dingyuan, the Chu army stationed in Xiangtan County, was surrounded by the Qin army immediately after the outbreak of the civil war, because Su Dingyuan asked the Xuanwu Left Brigade to escort the captured more than 20,000 Qing troops back to Jiangxi after the Qing army withdrew from Hunan, so only he and more than 6,000 soldiers of the Qinglong Right Brigade were surrounded in the city.

The 100% superior firepower of the Qinglong Right Brigade provided great help to hold the county seat of Xiangtan, and under such ferocious firepower, the attacks launched by the Qin army were all frustrated, and they finally experienced the pain of the Qing army.

However, repelling the siege of the Qin army did not make Su Dingyuan happy, he stood on the city wall, looking at the corpses of the Qin army everywhere outside the city, his heart was full of melancholy.

Once upon a time, these Qin soldiers who fell outside Xiangtan County were all good sons and daughters who fought against the Qing army, and their way back should have been on the battlefield with foreign races, not a civil war between the Han Chinese.

He didn't mean to criticize Su Yan's practice of starting a civil war, because he also knew very well that Sun Kewang was an unstable factor, and if he couldn't get rid of this person, the fight against the Qing Dynasty would have a greater impact.

There were many people who were unwilling to join the civil war, and Bai Wenxuan, the Duke of Gongguo, was one of them, and although he was ordered to join Feng Shuangli to intercept Li Dingguo, who was trying to enter Yunnan, he was not willing to go to war with Li Dingguo.

Therefore, after contacting Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan was directly persuaded by the latter, betrayed Sun Kewang, and led the army to join Li Dingguo's command.

Returning to Huguang, Xiangtan County could not be attacked for a long time, and the Chu army was beautiful and Huberai

Xun (who had been canonized with Su Yan as the king) led the army from Chaling Prefecture to rush to the aid of Xiangtan County, and Wang Ziqi, who was besieging the county seat, did not dare to respond to the battle after learning about it, so he hurriedly lifted the siege and retreated north to Changsha.

At the same time when Xiangtan lifted the siege, Dingnan Hou Cao Dahao also began to besiege Yuezhou, although the city of Yuezhou is narrow, but it is facing water, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Cao Dahao can not attack several times, so he has to continue to besiege the city.

The Huguang battlefield did not get a crushing breakthrough, mainly because Su Yan did not come to Huguang in person, and only Su Dingyuan and Lai Xun were really effective in the Chu army, so Cao Dahao had not come out of the previous painful losses, how could he defeat Yuezhou, which was holding on?

Su Yan was still busy with the government affairs of Nanjing, and he had no time to personally command the war in Huguang, so he granted Su Dingyuan the post of governor of Huguang and secretary of the military department, and ordered him to be the prime minister of Huguang military affairs and food and salary matters.

And Su Dingyuan did not disappoint Su Yan, after the will of the imperial court was delivered to the army, Su Dingyuan immediately mobilized the Qinglong Left Brigade stationed in Wuchang and the first town to the south, with Ma Xin and Su Fu as the main generals, and cooperated with Cao Dahao to besiege Yuezhou.

Although Yuezhou resisted stubbornly, it only lasted less than half a day under the heavy fire and artillery bombardment of the Qinglong Left Brigade and was forced to surrender.

Sun Kewang saw the Chu army approaching in a big way, and was afraid of the sharp artillery possessed by the Chu army, so under the pretext that Guiyang had many government affairs, he abandoned Changsha and retreated to Guiyang before the Chu army approached.

Not only has the battle situation in Hunan made a breakthrough, but Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi, who fought against the Qing army in Hubei, have also made good progress.

Zhang Mingyang and Wang Yi joined forces to defeat the Qing army at the Maxi River, Ke Yongsheng fled west in a hurry, giving up the De'an Mansion, and Xu Yong, who was stationed in Hanchuan, learned that he was evacuated as soon as possible, so as to avoid being outflanked by the Chu army.

After the recovery of De'an Mansion, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi divided into two routes, all the way north to Suizhou, all the way west to attack Anlu Mansion, intending to recover the former Xingdu Chengtian Mansion, Ke Yongsheng knew that he was invincible, and after joining Xu Yong, he resolutely abandoned the defense and retreated north to Xiangyang Mansion.

The Huguang war situation is advancing vigorously, allowing Su Yan to stay in Nanjing with peace of mind to handle government affairs and welcome the upcoming Zhu Chenggong.

But before that, a great piece of good news fell on Su Yan's head, which made him ecstatic, and at the same time, a deep panic rose in his heart.

Zheng Chagu is pregnant.

Zheng Chagu has not thought about tea and dinner in recent days, and it is accompanied by a burst of nausea, Su Yan asked the medical officer to diagnose her, and she got the conclusion that she is happy, and it has been more than a month.

As a human being in two lives, this is the first time Su Yan wants to become a father, and after he is ecstatic, he is looking forward to it and nervous.