Chapter 576: The Beginning of the Attack on Chu

In the twenty-second year of the reign of King Qin, at the beginning of winter, the army of Qin, Qufu, Yicheng, Tengxian, Renxian and other places of Qin, the whole army marched, crossed the Mishui River, and slowly marched to the plain where the camp of the Chu army was only ten miles.

The army of no less than 100,000 soldiers is mighty, the momentum is quite majestic, the black flag of Qin characters is in the sea of people, innumerable, fluttering with the wind, the dense Changge makes people dazzled, and they can't see the end.

"Array !!"

Hewlett-Packard rode a war horse, standing at the front of the army, looking at the plain in the distance, the army of Chu had all lined up, strolling towards this side.

Beside HP, many Qin army generals looked at Chu Jun and felt a sense of oppression, and their faces were full of solemnity and nervousness.

In this battle, it is difficult to retreat.

Since they have crossed the water, they and the Chu army, only one side can leave alive.

"Pass my order, the archers prepare, the Chinese army advances, and the right army responds!"

After HP watched the army of Chu State lined up, the Chu army began to send vanguard soldiers to test, so he also decisively pulled out his waist sword and sword, and ordered sharply.

Fortunately, after capturing Qufu, HP had a long time to let the generals train their subordinates, otherwise in the face of such a large number of Chu troops, I am afraid that morale would have been unstable.

As the herald holding the order flag rode away left and right, not long after, the war drums roared, in front of one phalanx after another, the herald rode and shouted continuously, and in front of the rows of Qin sergeants, the commander immediately pulled out his swords and led the soldiers behind him to drive in the direction of the Chu army.

Looking at the army of the Chu State on the opposite side, the dense and neat advance in a uniform manner, one by one the soldiers of the Qin State looked to the left and right, and the soldiers who also couldn't see their heads felt the armor of the whole body, and their courage stabilized, and they walked side by side towards the Chu army.

As the vanguard army, the armor on their bodies is also the best in the whole army, and thinking of the rewards promised by their generals before the war, every soldier's heart is a little hot.

When they were soldiers in the Wei State or farmers in the fields, they did not have the opportunity to get a better life.

And now, when I think that after the war, I can have land and land, and I can get slaves, and get a better life for my wife and children, as well as the face on my face after I go back, and the scene of being sought after and envied by acquaintances.

At this moment, looking at the Chu army opposite, the soldiers were not so afraid.

The other side.

One by one, the soldiers of the Qin army holding longbows also slowly stopped following the position of the general, and under the order of the general, they took out the arrows, pulled the bow and stringed, and aimed at the sky above the Chu army.

During the time in Qufu, all their clothes and armor had been changed into Qin Jun's black clothes, after all, they just changed the fabric to black cloth, although it took time, it was not very difficult.

Right now, they have completely become the soldiers of the Qin army, and when they think of the beheading military merit system of the Qin State, they have always been afraid of it when they think of it, but at this moment, it makes their hearts full of longing.

When they attacked Qufu, they had seen or heard that many of them had already been cut to the first rank, made military achievements, and also been promoted, and their families not only got many fields that they did not have before, but also had maids to serve them.

"Shoot the arrow!!"

In the order of the general, one by one the soldiers instantly released their bows and crossbows in the direction of the Chu army, and thousands of arrows were shot at the Chu army almost in an instant.

The arrows that were once used to garrison the girder and were placed in the city and had never had a chance to be used were all shot at the Chu army at this moment.

On the plains.

HP watched as the Chu army approached, and the archers quickly shot all the arrows at the Chu army, this scene made HP pay attention, and then, when he saw that the Chu army's counterattack also fell on the Qin army one after another, HP immediately observed the morale of the former soldiers.

Although there are overseer generals, but those soldiers, after all, there are many soldiers who are not perennial soldiers, once the morale collapses, the whole army will inevitably be affected.

When following General Li Mu, HP had never commanded a soldier of such a scale, if it weren't for General Bai Yan's battle, he only needed him to drag the Chu army, and even a rout would not matter, HP really didn't dare to take the order, and crossed the river as the main general to fight with the Chu army.

Thinking of Bai Yan's trust and the opportunity to promote him all the time, HP swore in his heart that this battle would be for the general, fight for face, and let all other generals have no doubts.

Even if he uses these more than 100,000 miscellaneous troops, he will have to fight a good battle with the Chu army.

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Five miles outside Xiyi City, five Chu soldiers covered in blood were riding war horses, rushing towards the direction of Xiyi, but on the official road, suddenly a thick rope came out of the ground, and the first two Chu soldiers who could not dodge in time were directly tripped up, and the two behind did not have time to hold the rope, and they were instantly tripped by the war horse that fell to the ground in front.

The sound of falling to the ground sounded one after another.

The only Chu sergeant saw this scene, his face was shocked, and he couldn't care about the other four, so he hurriedly continued to rush towards Xi Yi, the next moment. An arrow came from the nearby forest.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the soldiers of Chu fell off their horses, and only the horses were empty, and they soon stopped.

In the dense forest, more than a dozen men dressed in cloth and holding sharp blades came to the official road, and without waiting for the other four Chu soldiers to stand firm, they directly surrounded the four and slashed four people one after another.

The five soon fell to the ground, blood spreading, and they became corpses without moving.

Half an hour later.

With the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, the dozen or so men who had already brought the five corpses and the war horses aside all followed the sound, and when they saw the Qin army's iron horsemen riding war horses, all the men's faces instinctively turned pale, and their eyes were full of fear.

Especially when I saw the dense Qin army iron cavalry swarming in front of me, those Qin soldiers in full battle armor.

Armour!!!

Obviously, he had just killed someone, but at this moment, among the dozen or so men, there were a few men who were so frightened by the scene in front of them that their sword-wielding hands trembled faintly.

Xiyi.

The Chu soldiers at the head of the city were patrolling with Changge in their hands, and when they suddenly saw the mountains in the distance, a black torrent was surging, and all the Chu soldiers on the city looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

The army of Chu is obviously in Huyi and Indiscriminate, how can there be cavalry suddenly rushing to Xiyi, could it be that something happened?

Just when the soldiers and soldiers of Chu looked puzzled, as the black torrent in the distance approached, when some sharp-eyed soldiers and soldiers of Chu saw the black flags of Qin characters in the torrent, their faces were suddenly pale and bloodless.

"Qin Jun! It's Qin Jun!! ”

"The Qin army is coming, go and report to the general!! Just go!!! ”

In the panic and fear, one by one the Chu soldiers kept running back and forth, and occasionally some soldiers could be seen falling, and they hurriedly got up, wishing for a few more legs.

However, without preparing in advance, Xi Yi, in the face of the arrival of the Qin army's iron cavalry, could only defend in a hurry.

What made the Chu soldiers on the head of the city even more frightened was that with the sudden killing of the Qin army, there was a sudden scream from the downstairs of the city, and many Chu soldiers had not yet reacted, only some of the old soldiers of the Chu army seemed to have thought of something, their eyes were full of horror, and after turning their heads to look at the Qin army's iron cavalry outside the city, they didn't care about anything else, they just threw away their weapons and turned around and ran.

A moment later.

The iron cavalry of the Qin army, who came bravely, flocked into Xi City under the frightened gaze of all the Chu soldiers and soldiers on the city.

In an instant, there was a sound of screaming and killing everywhere under the city tower, and the Chu soldiers on the head of the city looked stunned, and then they saw the Qin soldiers rushing up to the city one by one at the stairs.

"Kill!!"

"Kill !!"

The Chu soldiers, who were pale, could only respond to the battle in a hurry.

As the sound of screaming and killing spread, the screaming figures who fell to the ground could be seen everywhere in the entire city road, and the flags of the Chu army that were originally planted fell one after another, and were replaced by black flags with Qin characters.

Outside the city on the other side of Xiyi.

Jing Zhi, the general of the Chu army stationed outside the city, was also shocked when he learned that the Qin army's iron cavalry was coming, and hurriedly picked up his sword and walked out of the camp.

In the camp of the Chu army, there were riots and restlessness everywhere, and the Chu soldiers were walking around.

"Cai Li, immediately order the officers and men of the whole army to prepare for battle!"

Jing Zhi had just walked out of the camp tent, and he saw the deputy general Cai Li coming with two, and Jing Zhi hurriedly ordered.

At this moment, Jing Zhi's mind was full of doubts, why did the Qin army come to kill him with iron horses, but he didn't have any news at all, what about the scouts? And what about the generals who are on guard against the iron cavalry? This place is so far away from the Qin army, how could the Qin army's iron cavalry kill here in such a short time.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, and what Jing Zhi is most worried about at the moment is that once Xicheng is occupied by the Qin army's iron cavalry, the Chu army camp in Miaoshui will be raided by the Qin army's iron cavalry if he is not careful.

"No!"

When Cai Li heard Jing Zhi's words, he glanced at Jing Zhi with his eyes, and hurriedly gave up his orders, and then just about to turn around and leave.

However, at this time, suddenly a soldier hurriedly came to Jingzhi and knelt on the ground.

"General, the soldiers report, General Chu Zhen just broke into Yan Meiren's tent, it seems that he wants to ......"

The soldier's words made Jing Zhi look surprised, and then he was furious.

Yan Meiren is his most beloved concubine, Chu Zhen actually dared to take advantage of the chaos to go to his concubine's tent at this time, what is Chu Zhen going to do?

But thinking that the Qin army's iron cavalry had been killed, the most critical thing at the moment was to resist the Qin army, otherwise his life would not be guaranteed.

However, Jing Zhi watched his concubine being violated by Chu Zhen...... How could Jing Zhi stand it, and Jing Zhi didn't understand, Chu Zhen wasn't afraid that he would order someone to go over?

Wrong!

Jing Zhi suddenly thought of the Qin army's iron cavalry, he had no news before, thinking of this, Jing Zhi suddenly woke up.

"Cai Li, immediately take your generals and pass on my order to capture and kill Chu Zhen!"

Jing Zhi ordered, and then worried that Cai Li's troops would be insufficient, and even sent some cronies to follow.

When Cai Li heard this, he received the order again, and then took the generals and others, and hurriedly turned around and walked towards Yan Meiren's camp.

After Jing Zhi saw Cai Li leaving, he didn't care about anything else, and immediately went to prepare the army with the remaining cronies, bound to resist the Qin army's iron cavalry and hold Xiyi.

Soon.

With the outside of Xiyi City, dense Chu soldiers poured into Xiyi City one after another, and in an instant, the Chu soldiers who had already been defeated and fled, instantly recovered their morale, and resisted to the death in the face of the Qin army that was chasing and killing.

On the streets, the sound of screaming and killing could be seen everywhere, and the Qin Chu soldiers who were fighting together kept falling to the ground and dying tragically.

Jing Zhi was holding a sword in the sea of Chu soldiers, with his generals, and was about to recapture Xicheng, when he suddenly saw a Qin pawn in iron armor suddenly appear on the street in the distance.

And on the street, the Chu soldiers who were originally fighting with the Qin army, in the face of the brave and good iron cavalry, it was difficult to deal with, and it was difficult to resist, and when they saw the iron cavalry with iron armor coming over, they looked at it with horror one by one, and saw that there were all overseer soldiers behind them, and some Chu soldiers were heartbroken, left and right were dead, desperately killing those ironclad Qin soldiers.

However, before they could fight each other, they were hacked to death by a sword before they could hurt the ironclad Qin pawn, and the other Chu pawns were counterattacking, and they were helpless in the face of the well-defended ironclad soldiers, not to mention, in addition to the ironclad pawns of the Qin army, there were also the iron cavalry soldiers who had been fighting all year round picked up bows and crossbows in the back and kept shooting arrows.

Finally resisted the defense line of the Qin army, and in an instant, it was defeated again, many Chu soldiers couldn't care about the people who oversaw the army, and hurriedly fled, and more and more people escaped, and the people who oversaw the army behind not only couldn't kill them, but also saw the iron-armored Qin soldiers and iron cavalry killing over, and they also retreated again and again.

Seeing this, Chu General Jingzhi's face changed dramatically, and he suddenly had no countermeasures, and when he saw other streets, there were also Qin army iron cavalry killing, so he could only follow the army and withdraw from Xiyi again.

However, outside Xiyi, the iron cavalry and side cavalry of the Qin army, which were galloping on horseback along both sides of the city, had already been killed, and one by one they held bows and crossbows, and began to fire arrows at the dense Chu army.

Whether it is a side cavalry or an iron cavalry, they are the frontier pawns of Qin and Zhao in the past, in terms of archery and cavalry warfare and hunting, not to mention the Chu soldiers who are crowded outside the city, even the few Chu army cavalry pawns, they were also quickly defeated.

It didn't take long for all the Chu troops to scatter and flee, and looking outside the city, more and more Chu soldiers dropped their Chang Ge swords and knelt on the ground to surrender to Qin, while the other places that were still resisting everywhere were all Chu generals who fled in defeat.

"Take it to Qu Luan!"

Bai Yan was wearing Qin armor, standing in the Xicheng City Road, and handed a roll of bamboo slips in his hand to Zhong Lichuan and Zhong Lihao brothers.

"Peng Bo has already brought Ban Ding to the Zhongli clan, and will also arrange for someone to inform the Zhongli clan that the death of Qu Yi and the death of Changping Jun's eldest son, if Ao Liu's pawns are involved!"

Bai Yan looked at the two brothers, and after the two took the bamboo slips, they looked at the south of the Chu State.

"As soon as Ban Ding dies, if the Ao clan and the Zhongli clan fight to the death, I will live or die! I can easily take Zhongli City, and you two brothers can easily take down Zhongli Clan. ”

Bai Yan said softly.

After learning that Ban Ding had wanted to use the army of Chu to defeat the Qin army and persecute Yingzheng, Bai Yan was plotting this matter, and had already written to Luoyin.

Bai Yan did not object to Ban Ding's idea of 'small sects and big sects', but what Bai Yan couldn't accept was that Ban Ding wanted to use the defeat of the Qin army as a price, and the Qin army defeated by the Chu army in Ban Ding's eyes was his Bai Yan and his subordinate generals.

Ban Ding has his own interests and positions, but Bai Yan also has his own means.

Bai Yan will not kill Ban Ding with his own hands, but it does not mean that Ban Ding will not die.

In the past, Ban Ding worked for Bai Yan, and he was Bai Yan, and even the guest of the Qin State, but now that Ban Ding calculates Bai Yan and becomes the enemy of Bai Yan and the Qin State, he will no longer have guest affection.

Just south of the Chu State, the location of Zhongwu City is very important, and there are not only Chu troops stationed in the city, but also thousands of private soldiers in captivity by the Zhongli clan.

"General rest assured!"

Zhong Lihao and Zhong Lichuan glanced at each other, then raised their hands and saluted, looking at Bai Yan with jealousy and fear in their eyes.

At this moment, the two brothers didn't understand how Bai Yan knew that the two brothers had conspired with Li Yuan in Zhongwu City!

Now, since Bai Yan has decided to go south and attack the Chu State, and promised the two brothers that after arriving in Zhongwu City, as long as the two brothers are in charge of the Zhongli clan and open the city gate, they will not touch the Zhongli clan, and write to Xianyang, asking Yingzheng to give an order to let the people of the Zhongli clan become the city commander of Zhongwu City.

Come to think of it.

The two brothers have nothing to hesitate about, compared to being in the Chu State, the two brothers were excluded by the Zhongli clan and became a side clan, it is better to descend to the Qin State, serve Bai Yan, and become the lord of Zhongwu City.

Especially thinking of Cai Li, the general of the Chu army here in Xicheng, he actually secretly descended to Bai Yan at some point, turned his head to look outside the city, and looked at the fate of Jing Zhi, the main general of the Chu army.

The two brothers thought of Ban Ding, who had already gone to Zhongwu City, and when they thought of the fate of betraying Bai Yan in the future, the two of them were full of coldness.

No one knew what means Bai Yan had secretly prepared to prevent the betrayal of the two brothers.

(End of chapter)