"General, can we send troops to raid Zhongwu City?"

"Yes! General! ”

In the camp of the Chu army, Zhao Dai, Qu Yi, Yan Chen, Jin Li, Xiang Le, Xiang Quan, Huang Fang and other Chu generals all looked at the general Xiang Yan and waited for Xiang Yan's decision.

Fan Zeng stood silently on the side at this time, and his brows were tightly locked.

"Are you sure there are dozens of wooden trailers that have left Zhongwu City one after another?"

Xiang Yan turned his head to look at the scout again and asked.

When the scout heard this, he saluted Xiang Yan.

"General, it's been confirmed!"

The scout said.

As the general's words fell, Changping Jun on the side looked at Xiang Yan at this time.

"General, why hesitate?"

Chang Pingjun said softly, in the tone of talking to Xiang Yan, although it was as usual, but at this moment, Chang Pingjun's eyes, which were full of hatred, made people can't help but be afraid.

"Bai Yan is cunning. Changping-kun! Yan, I'm a little worried! ”

Xiang Yan shook his head, then looked at the map.

Since Bai Yan sent Chang Wenjun's head, and also sent the bamboo slips that humiliated Changping Jun, since then, Changping Jun, who has always been steady, has lost his mind a little, often excessive, and even many things that he would not have done at all before, but now he has become unthinking and eager for quick success.

In Xiang Yan's heart, although Changping Jun also led troops, not only in Xianyang City to quell the rebellion of Chang Yu, but also the rebellion of Xinzheng, and also the rebellion of Changping Jun to pacify it, but whether it is Chang Yu or Xinzheng's rebellion, compared with Bai Yan, who led the Qin army at this time, it cannot be regarded as one of them.

Bai Yan is Yingzheng's henchman, the young and strong general of Qin, Wei and half of Zhao are all dead in his hands.

Changping Jun faced Bai Yan at this time, and he was arrogant, and sooner or later there would be trouble!

"Report!"

Outside the camp tent, the sound of scouts came again at this time, and then under the eyes of Xiang Yan and others, they saw a scout panting into the camp tent.

"Report, General, the people who left Zhongwu City have arrived at the Unbounded Mountain, and their speed is so fast, about 100 miles!"

A scout said to Xiang Yan under the gaze of all the Chu generals.

Hear the words.

All the generals of the Chu State were shocked, and looked at each other, even Fan Zeng looked at the scout in surprise, and his eyes changed slightly.

"A hundred miles a day?"

Xiang Yan raised his hand and looked at the location of the Unbounded Mountain on the map, from leaving Zhongwu City to the time it took for the scouts to send back the news from the Unbounded Mountain, after calculating, even Xiang Yan couldn't help but be shocked.

Traveling 100 miles a day?

Generally, the speed of the march of the army is between 30 and 60 miles a day, and if it is 60 miles a day, the army is already tired and cannot fight.

And right now, those people are actually traveling hundreds of miles a day at a speed of rushing towards Hongcheng.

"General, don't hesitate any longer! According to the speed of the Qin army, but in two or three days, the Qin army can arrive in Hongcheng, Qi is worried, if he hesitates, when the Qin army arrives in Hongcheng, it is found that the Chu army in Hongcheng is less than 30,000, and the Qin army that has rushed to help in other places will be dispatched to return quickly and rush to the aid of Zhongwu City. ”

After listening to the scout's words at this time, Chang Pingjun turned his head again and looked at Xiang Yan with a straight gaze.

Other Chu generals, Zhao Dai, Qu Yi, Yan Chen, Xiang Le and others, heard Changping Jun say that Chu was going to die, they all didn't care in their hearts, now Xiang Liang has gone back with Xiong Qi to recruit troops, if he doesn't attack Zhongwu City now, at most he will lose the opportunity to surround the Qin army, and when the reinforcements arrive in the future, he can still eat the Qin army, how can he lose the country.

However, everyone also understood that Changping Jun wanted to send troops to take revenge, and now everyone also looked at Xiang Yan, at this time they also advocated sending troops, at the speed of the 30,000 people who left Zhongwu City, it was basically determined that all of them were Qin troops in Zhongwu City, and it must be that the Qin army rushed to Hongcheng for reinforcements after receiving Bai Yan's strict order.

This is a chance, and a last chance in a short period of time, before the subsequent transfer arrives.

Now in Shouchun in the rear, the grain and grass are becoming more and more tight, and the price of grain and millet in the entire Chu State has begun to rise, and the Jianghuai in the east of Chu is either occupied by the Qin army now, or it was plundered by the Qin army when the Qin army raided before, which led to the grain and grass in Jianghuai, the richest place in the Chu State, either obtained by the Qin army, or the scholars wanted to send it, but there was no way.

In such a situation, they did not want to spend months fighting the Qin army, and this may be the only chance.

Quiet camp in the tent.

Everyone looked at Xiang Yan and waited for Xiang Yan's decision.

Just as Changping Jun's brows became tighter and tighter, he was about to be impatient to speak.

"Xiang Le, Xiang Quan!"

Xiang Yan looked at the map, and under the gaze of Changping Jun and other Chu generals, he spoke softly.

"The two of you will lead 50,000 troops, raid Zhongwu City, and if anything happens, withdraw immediately!"

Xiang Yan looked at the two of them and ordered.

"No!"

"No!!"

Xiang Le and Xiang Quan bowed to Xiang Yan, and then turned around and left under the gaze of the other generals.

Seeing this, Fan Zeng couldn't help but glance at Xiang Yan and wanted to speak, but noticed the eyes of Changping Jun looking at Xiang Yan on the side, as well as Changping Jun's appearance, Fan Zeng knew that opening his mouth to block would definitely offend Changping Jun, and finally thought about it, but there was always a trace of worry between his eyebrows.

…………………

Zhonggo Castle.

On the aisle of the city wall, at a glance, it was empty, only a few Qin soldiers, standing together and chatting, it didn't seem like standing guard at all.

If this had been changed a few days ago, it would have been unthinkable, but now, when they were given orders, they could do as they pleased.

However, for the Qin soldiers, the only thing that bothered them was that whenever there were people outside the city who wanted to enter the city, they scolded those people to leave, and these jobs, when the city gate was opened, were all in charge of the Qin soldiers under the city tower, and now that the city gate was closed, the work of scolding the people to leave was naturally handed over to the people on their city road.

As dusk came, suddenly, a few chatting Qin pawns suddenly saw a dense army of Chu appearing on the western plain.

"What's going on?"

"The Chu army is here! Hurry up and report to the general!! ”

"Fast !!"

Seeing this scene, a Qin pawn hurriedly turned around and ran towards the steps of the city tower.

A moment later.

In the large camp where the Qin army lived in the city, after hearing the news of the attack of the Chu army, all the generals of the Qin army led their subordinates one after another, left their residences, and rushed towards the city.

On the empty streets, for a while, you could see Qin soldiers holding Changge and Qin swords everywhere, running towards the city.

Cai Yu and other generals of the Qin army came to the city, and saw that the outside of the city was densely packed, and the army of Chu was full of people in the distance, and there was no tension on everyone's faces.

At this moment, these generals glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of happiness.

Fortunately, General Bai Yan expected that the army of Chu that would attack Wuyi was a suspicious soldier of Chu, so there was no reinforcement, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Inside the castle of Zhonggo.

In the castle guard's mansion, Bai Yan, who was reviewing bamboo slips in the study, heard the general's report, and looked at the general in some surprise.

"Confirm that the Chu army is no less than 50,000 people?"

Bai Yan asked.

"General Yu, it's true, at least no less than 50,000 Chu troops have arrived outside Zhongwu City at this time, and all the scouts outside the city, only the scouts in the direction of Boshan, none of them have returned! Before that, the Chu army should all be hidden in Boshan! ”

The general looked at Bai Yan and said.

When Bai Yan heard this, he couldn't help but look out of the door curiously, he didn't expect Xiang Yan to really send troops to attack Zhongwu City.

It seems that Xiang Yan has already been prepared, and the Chu army has been hiding between the mountains and rivers for a long time, no wonder he suddenly disappeared and lost his trace.

"Let all the soldiers in the city hide their whereabouts, and order the soldiers at the head of the city to guard the city tower, the sky is about to fall, the Chu army is mostly a temptation, don't let the Chu army find out that the Qin army in the city has not left!"

Bai Yan commanded.

"No!"

The general received the order, then got up and walked towards the outside of the study.

After Bai Yan watched the generals leave, he got up and walked to the map, looking at the hanging map, marked one by one.

The army of Chu suddenly arrived in Zhongwu City, and it was also going to attack the city at dusk, this was obviously a temptation, and at the moment Bai Yan was not sure who the other party would be, but no matter who Chu would be, this Chu army was already a turtle in the urn, so don't think about leaving again.

Previously, Bai Yan took Hongcheng to take risks, and it was an illusion to bet on the Chu army that attacked Wuyi, but now Bai Yan is right to bet, so he naturally wants to accept the return.

As Bai Yan's order was given, time passed, and the sky became darker and darker.

The sound of drums from the direction of the city head, after a brief sounding for half an hour, followed by the end of dusk, and finally gradually disappeared.

Not to Bai Yan's expectations, the Chu army retreated several miles after a short temptation and camped outside Zhongwu City.

In the city guard's mansion, a general of the Qin State all came to the study.

"General!"

"General!!"

Seeing Bai Yan, Cai Yu and other generals, they raised their hands one after another and bowed to Bai Yan.

All the generals looked at Bai Yan, their hearts were full of admiration, and with the attack of the Chu army, all the previous worries dissipated in an instant.

Now the 50,000 Chu troops outside the city will be surrounded by their Qin army tomorrow, the slower the Chu army finds out, the more there is only a dead end, thinking of this, everyone is a little excited, this is another big victory after being surrounded by the Chu State.

From the very beginning, it was learned that Li Xin's army in the west was defeated and 200,000 troops were killed! Then General Wang Ben in the north of Wei withdrew his troops to defend the homeland of Qin! In the end, facing the Chu generals Xiang Yan and Jing Qi, who led hundreds of thousands of Chu troops to surround them, all of them had experienced despair firsthand.

And now, with the killing of King Chu's henchman Jing Qi, the defeat of the Chu army in the north, and looking at the 50,000 Chu troops outside the city who had been unaware of the plan, all the generals saw hope again from despair.

And all of this is related to Bai Yan in front of him.

If they hadn't participated in it personally, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have dared to believe that in such a dangerous situation, only one person could make the situation that was already close to rout stabilize in an instant, and even faintly reversed.

This can't help but make a person appear in their hearts, seventy years ago, a general appeared in the Qin State, Bai Qi!

At the beginning of Yique, Bai Qi at that time was also alone in the face of the Wei and Han coalition forces, multiple enemies, and finally led the Qin army to victory, and Bai Qi also became famous all over the world because of this battle, no one knows, no one knows.

Bai Yan, Bai Qi!

The same surname Bai, the same commander of the lone army, and the same face of several times the enemy, how similar, the important thing is that Bai Yan at this time has led them to defeat the siege of Chu all the way, so that all the Qin troops can get a chance to breathe.

"Do you know who the commander of the Chu army outside the city will be?"

Bai Yan saw the arrival of Jiu, Cai Yu and other generals, and asked.

"General, I have forced Chu to ask the Chu soldiers, the generals of the Chu army outside the city are Xiang Yan's sons Xiang Le and Xiang Quan, so the two of them led 50,000 Chu troops to attack Zhongwu City, before Xiang Yan Ji's son Xiang Liang has returned to Shouchun, and it is rumored that he will return to Shouchun to collect the Chu army!"

Cai Yu reported to Bai Yan.

These are all the news obtained by whipping and torture after capturing Chu Pawn alive, and there will be no mistake.

"Xiang Yan's son? The 50,000 Chu troops outside the city are Xiang's soldiers and horses? ”

When Bai Yan heard Cai Yu's words, he was surprised when he learned that it was Xiang Le and Xiang Quan who led the troops.

"It's not Xiang's soldiers and horses, most of them are the subordinates of this prospect Qi, after General Zhang Shu raided the Chu army camp, except for the Chu army that was killed, the rest of the Chu soldiers fled tens of thousands, during this time, these Chu soldiers were all called by Xiang Yan."

Cai Yu looked at Bai Yan and explained.

Bai Yan is a pity, if it is the soldiers and horses of the Xiang clan outside the city, it is really a surprise for Bai Yan, as long as the elite of the Xiang clan under Xiang Yan is solved, the main force of the Chu army, the rest is not to be feared.

"Generals, Xiang's soldiers and horses, and more than 100,000 Chu troops are all in Boshan at this time!"

The dove glanced at Cai Yu, and then said to Bai Yan as well.

"Xiang Yan's time seems to be a tentative move......"

When the dove spoke, he was also a little uncertain, after all, the other party's main general was indeed the son of Xiang Yan, not someone else.

"It does seem like a temptation, but in any case, since the Chu army has already been sent to the door, how can we not accept it......

As Bai Yan spoke, his gaze shifted from the location of Boshan on the map to the crowd.

"Generals, tomorrow according to the predetermined plan, lure the Chu army to stay, if the Chu army retreats, then go out of the city to follow, and the Chu army will definitely be driven to this foreground where the Qi army is defeated! Surround and annihilate! ”

Bai Yan ordered.

"No!"

"No!!"

When Jiu, Cai Yu and others heard Bai Yan's order, they all surrendered their hands.

Night is coming.

Under the candlelight, after listening to Bai Yan's deliberation, many generals saw that Bai Yan had no other orders, so they left one after another, waiting for tomorrow to come, kill the Chu army again, and make war exploits.

And also in the night, there is Xianyang thousands of miles away.

In Xianyang City, the snow is full of houses, as a place to the north, when Bingdong is coming, the severe cold in Xianyang City is not less than other places.

In the Bai Mansion, the people of the Bai family, who did not know that in the Qi Kingdom, Tian Ding's uproar about driving Bai Yan was in the study, talking together.

"I don't know what is going on with that kid."

Bai Yu sighed worriedly, and the burly cheeks of the past seemed to be a little more vicissitudes now.

Many times, even Bai Yu can't help but sigh, he really began to grow old slowly, he was still leading the army five or six years ago, who dared to say that he was old, but more than five years have passed, even Bai Yu can't help but admit that now it is not only in the body, but also in the heart, it is difficult to find the heroism of the past.

"Since Bai Yan led the troops to attack Chu, he is confident, although Li Xin's troops were defeated and Wang Ben withdrew his troops, but at least for now, there is no news of the defeat yet, it depends on Bai Yan whether he can survive the cold winter."

Bai Ji sighed, now that Feng of the Feng family has become the right prime minister of the Qin State, the marriage between the Bai family and the Feng family, coupled with the previous relationship, now in the court, there is basically no need to worry about the future.

After all, with the Feng family, whether it is Bai Ping or other Bai clan members, if they want to join the company in the future, they don't need to worry.

It's a pity that Bai Yan, who has contributed the most to this matter, is now besieged in Chu and can't get out.

"Grain and grass!"

Bai Bo frowned, sighed, and said the most worrying point.

As for Bai Yan's ability to lead the troops, not to mention the people of the Bai family, that is, the whole world, no one has questioned it, but at this time, compared to being surrounded by the army of Chu, facing the generals of Chu Xiang Yan and Jing Qi, what is more worrying is the grain and grass of the Qin army.

Without grain and grass, the Qin army collapsed without a fight!

"In the past so many days, the king has not ordered someone to send a reply, and it seems that he still doesn't want Shu Yu to lead his troops to attack Chu State!"

Bai Bo turned his head and looked at Bai Yu.

"No matter what, Yu, you have to take revenge with your own hands, you can't leave everything to that kid, that kid has been supporting the Bai family for so long!"

Bai Yu suddenly laughed, thinking of Bai Yan's appearance, thinking of the first time he saw Bai Yan in Lantian, Bai Yan's face was uneasy, and the scenes when he was in Handi.

"Tomorrow, Yuhui will continue to write a book, asking the king to let Bai Yu follow General Wang Jian and lead the troops into Chu in the future! The enmity of Changping Jun and Changwen Jun, the people of the Bai family, must be avenged with their own hands! ”

Bai Yu said, his tone full of firmness.

When Bai Bo and Bai Ji heard this, they glanced at each other, full of worries about Bai Yu's body, but they also knew that Bai Yu's meaning was not wrong, Bai Yan had supported the Bai family for so long, and now Bai Yan's enemies Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun led the troops to surround Chu.

How can they ignore the people of the Bai clan! Bai Yan took his family wealth and went to raise grain and grass for Bai Yan alone, but after all, he was a businessman, and for the current situation, this was far from enough.

Inside the study.

As Bai Bo, Bai Yu, and Bai Ji were talking, outside the closed door, outside the open window, in the night, outside Xianyang City, several Qin horsemen on horseback, in the night, holding torches, kept hurrying.

When those Qin cavalry came to the streets of Xianyang City, the officials who inspected Xianyang were all curious when they saw this, and guessed that something big must have happened.

After all, sending news overnight, this kind of thing is still very rare, if it is not an urgent event, it will generally wait until the next day, especially in this cold winter, there is ice and snow everywhere, if it snows at night, it is estimated that people will not be able to hold it at that time.

Outside the gate of Xianyang Palace.

Under the torches, the palace guards guarding the palace gate hugged Changge, rubbing their hands from time to time, feeling the cold of the night, even the strong palace guards were a little unable to hold on.

However, when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, all the palace guards couldn't help but cheer up.

"What?"

The generals guarding the palace gate couldn't help but be surprised when they saw the appearance of several Qin horses, especially when almost all Qin horses dismounted, they couldn't walk steadily, and when they got closer, everyone was frozen and pale.

This couldn't help but make the generals feel shocked, knowing that if it wasn't for something big happening, they would never be in such a hurry.

"General Bai Yan's letter, General Wang Ben's letter, submitted to Wang Shang'......"

A Qin horseman, holding a frozen hand, a hand that was already unconscious, trembled and wrapped the cloth on his chest and took it off.

"Bring the fire!"

When the palace gate general heard this, he was shocked, Bai Yan two words, how could this general not know what it meant, and only then did he understand why these soldiers would rush overnight.

Looking at these soldiers with admiration, the general ordered the other palace guards to bring torches to ward off the cold, and then turned around and took out the bamboo slips that had been frozen and stiffened after being cold from the cloth wrap.

The generals didn't know whether this bamboo slip was good news or bad news.

But the immediate priority was to send it to the king, and thinking of this, the general turned around and walked towards the palace.

Inside the royal palace.

Under the corridor, several eunuchs hurriedly came to the door of the study, whispering something to the Han Zhizhi, and then saw Han Zhizhi looking at the bamboo slips with surprise on his face, and after carefully holding them up with both hands, he didn't care about the coldness on the bamboo slips, and hurriedly walked into the study.

Ying Zheng was behind the wooden table, looking at the roll of bamboo slips, and when he saw Han Zheng coming in, he didn't think much about it, thinking that it was some ordinary matter to report.

Meng Yi, who was also in the study, waited for Han to report as usual at this time, and he stepped forward to take the bamboo slip to Yingzheng.

However, under Meng Yi's waiting.

"Your Majesty, General Bai Yan and General Wang Ben, order someone to send a letter!"

Han Yu held the bamboo slip and said to Yingzheng.

Meng Yi's face was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes looked at the bamboo slip in Han Yi's hand.

Under the countless bright candle lights, Ying Zheng, who was reviewing the bamboo slips, heard Han Zhen's words, and after reacting, he immediately raised his head and looked at Han Zheng with a surprised face.

"Bai Yan?"

Almost every day, Ying Zheng thinks about this name, but Ying Zheng almost forgets how long it has been since the last time he received Bai Yan's bamboo slips.

Now that he heard the news sent by Bai Yan's order, Ying Zheng's eyes were full of excitement.

"Read!"

Ying Zheng couldn't wait to speak.

However, just as he was opening his mouth, he suddenly thought that Bai Yan was now besieged in Chu Dong, facing the encirclement of the Chu army alone, looking at the bamboo slips sent by Bai Yan in front of him, Ying Zheng didn't know why, he was suddenly scared in his heart, worried that this was the last letter sent by Bai Yan.

"Give it to the widow! The widow wants to see the bamboo silk sent by Bai Yan in person! ”

Ying Zheng hesitated, suddenly spoke, looking a little worried, with a slightly nervous gaze, looking at the bamboo slip in Han Zheng's hand.

"No!"

Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Han Yu withdrew the hand that was about to open the bamboo slip, then glanced at Meng Yi, nodded to each other with Meng Yi, and carefully took it forward and placed it on the wooden table in front of Ying Zheng.

Because it is a cold winter, countless important things in all parts of the Qin State, together with Yingchuan, Handan and other places, have now all become Qin soil, coupled with the two years of conquest, there is a shortage of grain and grass in various places, and the political leaders are far busier than in previous years.

And Ying Zheng, who had been calm all day after the next dynasty, looked at the bamboo slips on the wooden table in front of him at this moment, and his breathing was a little disordered, and he could see that Ying Zheng was uneasy at this time.

Looking at the bamboo slips that were a little damp on them, thinking that this was the bamboo slips sent by Bai Yan after a lapse of thousands of miles, Ying Zheng couldn't help but think of the young man who was the Qin State, Ying Zheng for him, led the troops to attack Zhao, and destroyed Wei.

Ying Zheng is worried, can the young man's current situation be okay?

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