Xia Cai.

A city located on the shore of the Huai River.

The reason why this city is named Xia Cai is to be opposite to Shang Cai and Xin Cai, and the three are the former Cai national capitals.

The capital of the state of Cai was originally in Shang Cai, until the state of Cai was destroyed by the state of Chu. A few years later, Chu was in turmoil, and King Chuping, who had killed the monarch and ascended the throne, let Cai regain his kingdom in order to make friends with the vassal states. Because of the attachment to the Chu State, the restored Cai State moved the capital to the side of Rushui, closer to the Chu people, and its place name was Xincai.

Later, Wu Guo attacked Chu, Cai Guo chose Wu between Wu and Chu, and followed the Wu army to attack the Chu capital, which was a shame. After the recovery of the Chu state, the state of Cai was afraid of the retaliation of the Chu people, so he moved the capital to the shore of Huaishui further east, so as to accept the support of the state of Wu, and this new capital was named Xia Cai.

However, it turned out that the Wu people were unreliable, and the powerful Wu state declined in only a generation or two, and was wiped out by the Yue people further south.

The state of Chu took the opportunity to move north and destroy the state of Cai to avenge its former revenge.

Shang Cai, Xin Cai, Xia Cai.

These three former capitals of the Cai State have all been reduced to the cities of the Chu State since then, and only the name still exists, indicating that there was once a country named "Cai" in this land.

It is worth mentioning that after the fall of the Cai State, some of the remnants of the Cai State fled to Jiangxi and built a city to look at Cai.

There are also some remnants who were moved by the Chu State to the mountains and mountains in the south, and re-established the country to develop the wild land in the south for the Chu State, and the Cai State is also called Gao Cai.

Now, on the city of Xiacai, the smoke is everywhere, and the sound of shouting and killing is shaking over the city.

Li Xin stood on the chariot with a cold face, looking at the blood-stained Xiacai City Wall, and the figures of Qin soldiers who climbed up and fell down one by one on the city wall.

The commander's banner was waving in the wind behind him, and when he arrived at Huaishui, only one step away from Shouchun, he no longer used Mengwu's banner to cover up, and directly planted the commander's banner representing him Li Xin, so as to announce it to the Chu people.

Li Xin, the commander of the Qin army, has already drunk Ma Huai water!

"General, this time the guards of Caicheng are stubbornly resisting, and our army has suffered heavy casualties, do you want to suspend the siege and let our soldiers rest."

General Pi Xin Wu walked over and said with a tired and worried face.

The Qin army ran all the way for nearly two hundred miles, the soldiers were tired and the horses were paralyzed, but Li Xin did not let people rest and directly issued the siege order.

In the absence of large-scale siege equipment, the Qin soldiers carried improvised bamboo and wooden ladders to the city wall, which led to heavy casualties among the Qin army.

After all, Xia Cai, as a city across from Shouchun, is from north to south, attacking the last checkpoint city of Chudu, and the defense is still quite tenacious, and under the full defense of the two thousand guards in the city, it is difficult for the Qin army to capture it for a while.

In the face of Xin Wu's exhortation, Li Xin was expressionless.

After a long time, he looked at the fierce battle in the distance at the city wall, and said softly, "Xia Cai City has already taken precautions."

Xin Wu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "General, this is normal. When we broke through Huyi before, many Chu people took the opportunity to escape, so many days have passed, they must have spread the news of our army's arrival in Chu everywhere, not to mention this Caicheng, I am afraid that the king of Chu in Shouchun City has long known the news that our soldiers are in Huaishui."

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This is also one of the reasons why Meng Wu, Xin Wu and others opposed Li Xin's strategy at the beginning. Li Xin said that he was going to attack the Chu capital, but in fact, as long as he led the army to attack the heart of the Chu State, the news would inevitably leak, and the King of Chu in Shouchun City would definitely know the news of the arrival of the Qin army in advance and arrange defenses.

Li Xin also has his own reasons for this. As long as he rode fast enough, he could attack Shouchun City before the Chu army returned to help, so it didn't matter if the king of Chu was prepared, because the army of Chu was attracted by Mengwu in Xiangcheng and Huaibei, and the Huaishui coast was empty, and he drove straight in, and the Chu people would inevitably be terrified and lack combat power, which was enough for him to make a contribution.

Any city, whatever obstruction, will be torn apart by the strange soldiers he leads!

It's just that now standing in front of Xia Cai Cheng, a feeling of uneasiness rose in Li Xin's heart. This is

He has developed a military instinct during his years of battlefield battles.

After thinking for a while, Li Xin said coldly: "All the troops are attacking the city alternately, one is attacking, the other is resting and eating, the siege must not be stopped, before it gets dark today, Xia Cai must be taken, there must be no mistake!"

Xin Wu nodded helplessly, and was about to go down, but was stopped by Li Xin again.

"General Xin, can there be a ranger patrol guard in the rear of our army?"

Xin Wu replied, "There are a hundred rangers, and they are about ten miles away."

"Increase to five hundred horsemen, and then thirty miles outward, and report any unusual movement at once." Li Xin's voice was resolute.

"Obey, I'll arrange it."

Xin Wu was stunned, surrendered his promise, turned around and left, and went to arrange the siege and the rangers.

Seeing Xin Wu leaving, the uneasiness in Li's confidence not only did not lessen, but became more and more intense.

Although up to now, Li Xin's surprise attack was relatively smooth, all the way to Xia Cai, without encountering large-scale resistance from the Chu army, as if everything was as he said in Qi Ce, driving straight into Chu, and no one was responsible all the way.

But outside the city in the past, Zhao Tuo's words still left a shadow in Li Xinxin.

Immediately afterwards, the reply from the Juyang guard general Zhaoping made Li Xin more and more uneasy.

Something is not right!

Li Xin squinted in the wind, looked at the Xia Cai city wall that was still fighting fiercely in the distance, and whispered, "No matter what the situation is. Xia Cai must be taken, I need the food inside. Moreover, from now on, Shouchun will have no danger to defend......

The drums rumbled, shouting to kill the heavens.

Under the strict military discipline, the Qin soldiers could only move forward desperately, using their lives to consume the arrows and rolling logs at the head of Cai Chengtou, and exchange their lives with the Chu army guards on the city wall.

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The flames are burning.

It was a flame of resentment that was denied by Meng Wu and stirred up by Zhao Tuo's advice.

He wants to prove it to Meng Wu, to Zhao Tuo, and to all those who question him.

He Li Xin, right!

He wants to win Shouchun, capture the king of Chu, and announce to the world with brilliant achievements that he Li Xin is a real world-famous general!

Just when Li Xin's tide was surging, the short soldier on his side exclaimed in surprise, pointed to the other side and said, "General, there is a Chu army there!"

Li Xin raised his eyes and looked.

I really saw a Chu army wearing red armor and holding a banner coming from the south and began to drive the Chu people near the river bank, as if they were going to deploy defenses on the south bank of the Huai River.

"It's the defenders of Shouchun City!"

Li Xinjian raised his eyebrows slightly, the Chu army guarding the south bank of Huaishui will make it more difficult for the Qin army to cross Huai, and if you want to go over, you must find a way.

"I don't know who the commander of this Chu army is, and he is also an incompetent person. If I were a Chu general, I could have ambushed Huainan first, waited for the Qin army to cross part of the river, and then launched an attack, so that I could make a contribution."

Li Xin muttered to himself, a hint of sarcasm flashing in his eyes.

The other party hurriedly ran over to defend the south bank, and did not even dare to use the half-crossing attack, looking deeply afraid of crossing the Huaishui, this doesn't prove that the Chu people on the other side of the Huaishui are very afraid, they are afraid that the Qin army will cross the Huaishui, so they don't dare to slack off for a moment, and they don't even dare to gamble on the opportunity to cross the Huaishui!

Huainan does not have the army of Chu!

Li Xin's expression became excited, and he could see from the performance of the Chu army on the other side that the Chu army south of the Huai River did not have much strength, otherwise the other party would definitely not be so nervous.

Just when Li Xin was standing by the Huai River.

Dozens of embarrassed cavalry of the Qin army were galloping from the north and coming to Xia Cai in a hurry.

Half an hour later.

Li Xin, who returned to the city, saw these Qin knights covered in blood and frightened on their faces.

"Are you Li You's subordinates?"

"On the way to escort the grain and straw, your unit encountered the Chu army?"

"How many people are in this Chu army?"

Li Xin asked with a glare, the excitement he had just been by the Huai River had disappeared, and his hands were trembling slightly.

The cavalry trembled, "A lot!"

"There are very many Chu troops, it seems to be more than the total number of our army, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands."

Hearing this, there was a sound of inhalation around him......

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