Under the scorching sun, tens of thousands of Chu troops were carrying countless people from Chu and rushed towards Xincai City in the north.

Xin Cai, as the name suggests, Cai Shui Zhibin also. To be exact, it is the end of the Cai River, which is about to join the Huai River and "wash" out of the city.

The turbulent Caishui came all the way east from the western highlands, but under the pressure of the mountain-shaped terrain, it turned a corner here, and the flow rate slowed down suddenly, gradually allowing people to build houses and fields again, and the new Caicheng gradually formed its appearance.

Now, Cai Shui almost envelops half of the new Cai City, turning from the southeast to due east, then to the northeast, and then to the southeast to meet several tributary streams, and then rushing towards the Huai River.

In addition to the necessity of water, it is also very important that the river can hinder more attacks.

And this new Cai City is a typical example.

If you look down from the clouds, you will see that Cai Shui is almost naturally the half moat of the new Cai City.

Although Cai Shui is not turbulent in the Xincai section, just this river surface that is several meters wide can well stabilize the defense system of Xincai City. Of course, the most benefited nature is the south of the city, which is completely wrapped in river water.

The unique terrain also makes Xincai City another natural pass to Chendu, the capital of Chu State.

Of course, this is also the last difficult bone for the Qin army to lead to Chen Capital.

If it was usual, Wang Di would definitely choose to take a detour from the west or east of Xincai, even if it was a detour of 100 miles, it would be better to attack directly.

Obviously, with the blessing of the moat, the Qin army is bound to pay a heavy price if it wants to storm the east, west or south of the city, although there is no interference from the moat in the north of the city, but unfortunately, except for the water surface of this section of Xincai, the water conditions in other areas are very unsuitable for swimming or bridges.

Therefore, the best and quickest way is to spend five or six days taking a detour to find a ferry port upstream or downstream, and after crossing Cai Shui, you can pick up Xin Cai from the north.

However, there are no other drawbacks to this solution, except that it is a bit time-consuming.

And time is the most precious thing in the current Qin army.

There is no way, even if it is a big price, Wang Yi must break through Xincai as soon as possible.

With the arrival of the defeated army, the chief general of the Chu State stationed in Xincai was also taken aback.

After all, he had only received the news of the Qin army's large-scale entry the day before yesterday, and today's defeated army in Zengcheng in front of him had arrived under his own city. From Zeng Cheng to his own Xincai, there is more than a day to say.

In other words, Zeng Cheng, as the capital of the former Zeng State, couldn't even stop the Qin army for a day?

Where is there an army of 30,000!

According to the plan, Zeng Cheng should be held for at least 20 days to a month, and at the same time, reinforcements from all walks of life began to converge on their own Xincai, and when the Qin army could not capture Zengcheng for a long time, the army gathered in Xincai would move south and defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop.

Why was this plan stillborn before it could be implemented?

The more serious problem is that there are only less than 20,000 troops in Xincai City today, although there is the benefit of the moat, how can it stop the Qin army of the tiger and wolf army?

Before he had time to think about it, the commander of the Chu army in Xincai immediately ordered the city gate to be closed.

There is no way, the defeated army is holding the people of Chu, there are too many people, once they are allowed to pour into the city, not to mention how many Qin army works will be in it, it is enough to cause chaos in Xincai City.

This is not alarmist at all, no city can accept the impact of doubling its population overnight, even if it is a modern and highly developed city, let alone the weak Warring States city today.

It should be said that Xin Cai's main general's reaction was quite fast, and if he really wanted to wait for this group of defeated soldiers and homeless people to enter the city, and then wanted to clean it up, it would only be half the effort.

Of course, Xin Cai's order in the main general was fast enough, but many of the defeated army and displaced people rushed into the city before the city gate was closed.

As for the remaining defeated soldiers and displaced people, they can only follow Cai Shui, to

Ran for their lives to other cities up and downstream.

Fortunately, the guards of Zeng Cheng entered Xincai City without accident.

With the arrival of the defenders of Zengcheng, the guards of Xincai finally knew the reason for the loss of Zengcheng, and while congratulating themselves for giving the order to close the city gate in time, they also immediately ordered the whole city of Dasuo, and it was necessary to wipe out the female cadres of the Qin army.

Just when the defenders of Zengcheng told about the battle of Zengcheng, this small group of defeated soldiers and homeless people who entered the city had already spread the courage of the Qin army to break through "Zengcheng" throughout Xincai.

couldn't help but panic among the people and guards of Xincai.

Immediately afterwards, according to the large-scale manhunt described by General Zeng Cheng, this panic was further exacerbated.

However, in just half an hour, the new Cai, who had been quiet for a long time, immediately became noisy. At this time, the Zeng Cheng guard pat his ass and took the rest of his soldiers and continued to rush to Chen Du.

Looking at the guards of Zeng Cheng who were gradually moving away, Xin Cai's main general was also in a complicated mood.

On the one hand, he envied the guards of Zengcheng who could escape from here and return to Chendu; On the other hand, he also knew that the only thing waiting for the guards of Zeng Cheng in Chen Capital was the boundless prison.

Whether it is for Chen Du, for the Chu State, or for his own life, General Xin Cai understands very well that he must hold on to Xin Cai for enough time.

Of course, if Qin Jun planned to bypass him, it would naturally be the best. The cavalry and archers in their hands were very capable of creating some difficulties for the Qin army crossing the river.

Immediately, Xin Cai's chief general scattered a cavalry reconnaissance squad to the east and west.

The purpose is self-evident, it is to explore the Qin army's upstream and downstream river crossing sites, and then mobilize troops and horses to block it.

It's just that the heavens seem to be joking with the main general of Xin Cai, and the cavalry reconnaissance team here has not been scattered for two hours, and the army of the Qin State over there has already appeared at the southern end of Cai Shui!

"The Qin army is going to attack Xincai?" The commander of the Chu army was a little uncertain.

However, soon, the low sound of Qin Jun's horn gave Chu Jun an answer.

Seeing that the Qin army, which had just been stationed, had already divided tens of thousands of troops and came towards Xincai. The chief general of the Chu army finally knew how impatient the Qin army was.

The more impatient they were, the more the Chu army could not give the Qin army any opportunity to take advantage of.

Immediately, the chief general of the Chu army ordered the army to ascend the city to defend.

The war had begun in less than two quarters of an hour.

And the most important thing for the Qin army is obviously to deal with the natural moat of Cai Shui, specifically, to find a way to cross Cai Shui and put personnel and siege equipment under the city tower.

If it is an ordinary moat, the Qin army can use the way of building embankments with accumulated soil to cut them off, although it also has to lose a certain number of troops, but it is not a big problem, especially the Qin army still has a large number of cavalry, cavalry who come and go like the wind, can minimize the loss in the process of building embankments.

Once the embankment was built, the passage to the castle tower was formed.

But this Cai Shui is different, although its water surface is slow, the bottom of the water surface is turbulent and complicated, a bag of sand and soil smashed down, it will not take long to be washed away by the flowing water, want to cut off a river, or under the nose of Chu Jun, this is almost impossible.

Another way is to build temporary bridges.

This method is obviously much worse than building an embankment with tired earth, the first level requires soldiers with good water ability to swim across the river, and the second level is to brave the rain of arrows and rolling logs on the city tower to anchor the landmark; The third level is the follow-up troops, who must continue to brave the rain of arrows on the castle tower and lay wooden planks.

Even if these passes were crossed one by one, the wooden bridge was still at risk of being destroyed by the Chu army on the city tower.

Obviously, no army would attack in such a way unless it was absolutely necessary.

It's just that today's Qin army obviously has no better way.

What, by boat?!

This is said to be wide or not, and the front is not narrow, how many ships do you want the Qin army to prepare?

Even if you take the whole front regardless of the cost

Put on the boat, even ignore the losses in the process of crossing the river, and ferry hundreds of people to the city tower at a time.

The boat then returned to the south shore, picked up hundreds of people, and rushed to the north shore.

This back and forth time was enough for the Chu army on the north bank to wipe out the hundreds of thousands of people who had just arrived on the north bank. Without a continuous output of troops, this is not crossing the river, it is sending people away!

What, the Qin army anchoring the landmark will also be shot?

Of course, but how small is the goal of one or two people? No matter how good the eyes of Chu Jun on the tower of your city are, you can't find all my people.

I always managed to make one or two of the 10 groups of people.

Out of my 100 groups, I can always succeed in 10 or 20 groups, right?

Even if all the anchor personnel of this 100 groups were killed in battle, it would only be a few hundred people, and it would only be the loss of one trip by ship.

Similarly, the Qin army who laid the bridge will be shot mercilessly, but this is already a very cost-effective method.

Again, although it is clumsy to build a pontoon bridge, it is the best way for the Qin army today.

Sure enough, Wang Yi also chose the method of building a pontoon bridge.

Of course, in order to minimize losses as much as possible, the Qin army extravagantly used dozens of arrow towers and stone-throwing vehicles as cover.

This time, the stone-throwing cart threw out no longer bamboo slips, a solid projectile in the air through a graceful arc, smashed in Xincai City, although out of the dust and smoke of a place, there is not much damage, but the psychological blow to the soldiers and people of the Chu army in the city is huge, especially after they have just learned of the atrocities of the Qin army in Zengcheng.

I can't help but feel that the soldiers and people in the city have already retreated.

Fortunately, the chief general of the Chu army was very calm and sat on the south tower to supervise the battle.

At least, before Cai Shui was defeated by the Qin army, the chief general of the Chu army was still very confident that he could stop the Qin army.

It's just that this confidence really can't last long.

As dozens of arrow towers slowly rolled out from the Qin army's camp, tens of thousands of Qin soldiers also followed closely and attacked Xincai City.

The Arrow Tower is probably the only siege machine that is not cold to the moat.

Although the moat widens the distance between the enemy and the enemy, as long as the enemy's arrows can cover the surface of the moat, the attacker's arrow tower will naturally pose a threat to the defenders on the castle tower.

Obviously, the width of Cai Shui was not enough to stop the Qin army's arrow tower from suppressing the Chu army.

However, because Xincai City is located on the northern slope, even if the Qin army has heightened the arrow tower on the original basis, it still has to be lower than the city wall, but this height is enough for the Qin army with strong bows and crossbows to suppress the Chu army.

Sure enough, as the Qin army's arrow tower was in place, a fierce confrontation broke out between Qin and Chu in an instant.

The Chu side had the advantage of geography and numbers, while the Qin side had the advantage of weapons and personal ability, and for a while, the two armies were inseparable.

But it is obvious that the Qin army's dense position, coupled with the successive climbs, its casualties are much higher than those of the Chu army.

However, these have long been expected by Wang Di.

Just as the two armies were firing crossbows at each other......