"Newspaper ...... The Chu army has reached Xiacai thirty miles away, and looking at the banner of the Chu army, there should be no doubt that it should be Xiang Yan!"

On the second day, as Li Xin's previous thirty miles of rangers came back one after another to report to the city, there was a sense of depression in the entire Xia Cai City.

"General Li, our army is inferior in numbers to the Chu people, and yesterday we stormed Cai, and there were a lot of casualties among the soldiers, so if it is a field battle, it will be disadvantageous. It's better to defend the city to the death, rely on Cai's city wall defense here, and then deal with the Chu army."

In the big tent, after confirming that Xiang Yan was leading the army to approach, the generals looked frightened, and during the military discussion, a school captain proposed a strategy of relying on the Xia Cai city wall to defend it.

Yesterday, Li Xin led the army to attack the city, relying on soldiers carrying ladders to attack, the Qin army did not cause damage to the city wall, and it was completely possible to use this solid city defense facility to kill and injure a large number of Chu troops, so as to seek victory.

Hearing this, several lieutenants in the tent couldn't help but bow their heads.

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Xiang Yan is the most famous general in the Chu State today, comparable to Wang Jian of the Qin State. Now that Li Xin's army is alone, and it has just gone through a siege battle, no one wants to go head-to-head with an enemy of Xiang Yan's level.

Li Xin's eyes were cold and he didn't speak.

"We can't defend in Xia Cai, otherwise it will be a dead end."

General Pi Xin Wu vetoed it and explained: "Our army is isolated and helpless when it goes deep into Chu, and there will be no reinforcements to rescue you if you hold it here, but the Chu army occupies a favorable location and can continuously replenish military strength and baggage from nearby cities. If the city is defended, although it seems that it can take advantage of the city wall, it is actually surrounded and killed here by the Chu people, if Xiang Yan besieges and does not attack, when the food in the city is exhausted, we will be defeated without a fight."

"And there are tens of thousands of Xia Cai Chu people in this city, and they will definitely echo the Chu army outside the city. When the Chu army attacks the city, the Chu people in the city will act together, and our army will be attacked from inside and outside, and An can be careful to resist the enemy!"

As he spoke, Xin Wu sighed again: "According to Cai, once the city is broken, the whole army will be annihilated. If it is a field battle, most of our soldiers are chariots and horses, and they have an advantage in the field, and even if they lose, they can turn around, which is better than defending the city."

Xin Wu's words, although everyone nodded their heads, there was actually a pessimistic mood in them. The veteran, who has a lot of battlefield experience, is not optimistic about this fight.

After Xin Wu finished speaking, no one mentioned the matter of guarding Xia Cai again.

Only then did Li Xin speak: "The Chu army has reached thirty miles away, judging from Xiang Yan's ambush of me in Juyang, this person is an old man, he will not force the army to arrive, and he will definitely delay until tomorrow to arrive nearby, so as to preserve the physical strength of his soldiers so that they can fight our army." So, we have one more day."

Li Xin's eyes flashed.

"There are many Chu soldiers, but there are few of our soldiers, and our army is mainly chariots and horses, if it is a decisive battle in the position, it will be defeated. On the contrary, galloping across the field at the speed of our army's chariots will work wonders!"

"Let the soldiers rest for a night today, recuperate their energy, and set off for the north early tomorrow morning."

"I will raid the marching array of the Chu army with chariots and horses and break the enemy in one fell swoop!"

Li Xin's categorical voice sounded in the tent, full of indomitable momentum.

….

What to defend the city, what positional warfare.

None of them are his Li Xin's style.

Only attack is the best defense.

At the speed of a chariot and horse, raid the Chu army!

This is his Li Xin's tactics, and this is what he Li Xin should look like!

……

Early the next morning.

Li You stood on the wall of Xia Cai, watching the Qin army outside the city begin to pull out the camp and set off, the wheels rolled, the horse's hooves flew, and the long black snakes began to wind towards the north.

He couldn't help but be worried.

Li Xin's battle plan is very simple, that is, like Li Yousuo's department in Xiang Yan's raid and march, he will raid Xiang Yan's army on the march with chariots and horses, as long as the speed of the Qin army's chariots and horses is fast enough and the attack is strong enough, under the surprise, the Qin army can tear apart the Chu army array with a single charge.

Then the Qin army's foot soldiers followed, taking the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and at the same time killing the rear of the Chu army. In the subject

In the case of a surprise attack, the forward of the Chu army must have broken in a panic, and its rout was driven by the Qin army to counterattack the rear of the Chu army.

As long as this happens, then it is very likely to cause a rout of the entire Chu army on the battlefield, not to mention 30,000 people, even if it is 50,000 people, Xiang Yan will definitely be defeated.

"But that's Xiang Yan."

Li You couldn't forget that day when he was raided by the Chu army, watching the terrifying appearance of the endless red soldiers rushing over. Li Xin is second to none among the younger generation of Qin generals, but can he be Xiang Yan's opponent?

However, Li did not have the qualifications to admonish at this time, and in the case of abandoning the army and fleeing back after suffering a heavy defeat, Li Xin's failure to severely punish him was already a kind of tolerance, and it can even be said that it was beyond Li You's expectations.

Of course, it is actually no wonder that Li You was in that situation, at that time, the 5,000 Qin army was raided by more than 30,000 Chu troops, even if Wang Jian came, it was impossible to turn the tide of the war. Li You's ending is nothing more than dying in battle, or escaping. Li You, a young general who was born as a Langguan and had a great future, naturally would not choose a meaningless death, and it was natural for him to escape, and it was just a big deal to be punished after the war.

So Li Xin didn't criticize Li You too much, but gave him a task.

Your Highness!

led the more than 1,000 defeated soldiers who were collected yesterday, plus the soldiers who were slightly wounded in the Qin army, a total of about 2,000 people, and did not participate in Li Xin's raid. Instead, it was in the rear of the Qin army, deterring the Chu people in Cai City, and avoiding the possibility that someone in the city would take the lead in leading the Chu people in Xia Cai to attack the Qin army from the rear, causing Li Xin to suffer the enemy on his back.

"Wait, all the boats on the Huaishui have been scuttled, and there is no more ship near Xia Cai."

A lord of two or five hundred came to give a report.

Li You nodded, and then said, "Load all the grain and baggage into the cart, and after the army leaves for half an hour, we will set off."

……

The spokes turned, leading the car forward.

Li Xin stood on the chariot and couldn't help but look back, looking south.

He looked at Xiacai City in the distance, which was still in the glimmer of the morning light, and the river behind the city that he could no longer see.

Huai Shui.

Li Xin sighed softly, his voice was full of regret and unwillingness.

He has already broken through Xia Cai, drank Ma Huai water, and is only one step away from crossing this big river, taking the Chu capital Shouchun directly, and capturing the king of Chu alive!

….

The monstrous achievement is just around the corner!

Unexpectedly, Xiang Yan's sudden appearance disrupted all his plans.

In this battle, he was not sure of victory.

The Chu army has 30,000 people, and even if Li Xin can win, I am afraid that he will not have the strength to cross the Huaishui and capture Shouchun.

If it is defeated, then let alone not.

Moreover, his Li Xin's enemies are not just Xiang Yan.

Li Xin turned his head and looked in the northwest direction again, his eyes were full of anger and worry.

Changping-kun!

This person leaked his strange strategy to the Chu army, presumably because of his betrayal.

Changping Jun sat in the Huaiyang important land and was in charge of the grain transportation of the 70,000 army of Mengwu. Once he rebelled, he would stab Meng Wu in the back like a knife from behind, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Meng Wu, I'm afraid it's dangerous.

……

It was noon, more than ten miles away from Xia Cai City.

A long red dragon is slowly moving along this wide and flat field.

In front of this red army, there was a small hill, not high, but enough to block the view of normal people. There is also a forest on the west side, in which many birds fly up and flutter in the air.

Ye Cong served as the chief general of the Chu army's vanguard, and he was standing on the chariot at the moment, staring at the woods.

As a child of the Ye family, Ye Cong is a natural nobleman in this country, and he has naturally learned the art of war and tactics, and now when he sees the birds in the forest flying, he can't help but whisper: "In the art of war, it is said that those who move the trees will come; Those who have many obstacles are suspicious; The bird rises, and the fuge also. From this point of view, the Qin army will be ambushed here!"

"Defend in formation, there are ambushes here!"

Ye Cong

shouted, and the short soldiers next to the car immediately shouted, and at the same time waved the flag, conveying the order of the main general to all departments of the Chu army.

At that moment, the earth shook.

The rumbling sound was like thunder on a sunny day, and the hearts of the people were shocked.

The first to make a move was not the dense forest of birds fluttering that Ye Cong saw, but the hill in front of him.

Horses galloped, pulling chariots out from behind the hills, speeding across the field.

On both sides of the chariot, cavalry followed and galloped.

After the car was ridden, there were countless black-armored Qin soldiers following closely, galloping, and from a distance, it looked like a wave of black armor was frantically sweeping towards the red dragon.

At this moment, even if Ye Cong had seen through the Qin people's ambush plan, even if the Chu soldiers had already taken precautions, they still couldn't stop their hands, feet and bodies from trembling involuntarily.

Thousands of horses galloped, and hundreds of chariots charged.

How shocking, how terrifying.

"Array! Array!"

Ye Cong shouted, trying in vain to make his soldiers form a defensive formation.

However, looking at the scene of the chariot and horse charging and the earth shaking, fear had already crawled all over the faces of these Chu soldiers.

Except for Ye Cong's short soldiers, these soldiers recruited from the Ye fiefdom in the eastern border of Chu State were not elite soldiers. Even before the war began, they were just peasants working in the fields wielding their tools, and many of them had never even killed anyone.

Before the battle was engaged, some Chu people began to flee, one person fled, and ten fled......

The defensive formation could not be formed, and Ye Cong only had time to let out a scolding, and the Qin army's chariot had already rushed in front of him.

….

Fear appeared on Ye Cong's face, and immediately afterward, the vanguard of the Chu army where he was overwhelmed by the Qin people's chariots.

At this time, it was not only the advance of the Chu army that encountered the Mengchong of the Qin army's chariots.

In the dense forest where the birds were in the air, there were also thousands of black-armored Qin soldiers appeared, they first held the Qin crossbow that had already been wounded and shot at the edge of the dense forest at the edge of the dense forest, and then the Qin soldiers behind the crossbowmen launched a charge, heading straight to the middle of this red long dragon, to cut off the Chu army in the marching array.

"Xiang Yan broke Li You with a surprise attack the day before yesterday, and I will use the same method to deal with him today."

Li Xin, escorted by short soldiers, walked up the hill and looked into the distance.

The best time to raid should actually wait until the Chu army goes further, so that the ambush soldiers in the dense forest can directly attack the central army of Chu, where the commander is located, that will definitely cause chaos in the Chu army, and have the best effect, and the charge of the Qin army's chariots can also exert the greatest power.

It's a pity that the Huaibei Plain north of Xia Cai is suitable for riding and galloping, but it also lacks cover. The hill where Li Xin was located was already the best place to hide the army nearby, but it was still not wide and tall enough, and once the Chu army got closer, it was bound to find an ambush, which would not be good.

Moreover, Li Xin looked at the flock of birds flying in the dense forest, this obvious flaw, if it is delayed, it will be discovered by the Chu army sooner or later, it is better to move when the opportunity arises, and hit the Chu army by surprise.

"Enough! Judging from the reaction of the Chu army's forwards, the Chu army under Xiang Yan was not elite. A group of conscripted miscellaneous troops, I will raid with elite chariots and horses, enough to defeat him with 20,000 and 30,000!"

Li Xin watched the front of the Chu army completely rout, and the rout army was driven to the rear by the black-armored Qin soldiers, and rushed back to the rear of the Chu army, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

The battle situation in front of him was the same as he expected.

What about Xiang Yan?

Dead wood is just decaying.

……

At this time, from Xiang Yan's direction, there were countless panicked Chu army routs in front of them who were rushing back, and behind them, there were Qin people in black armor approaching, looking like the Chu army was about to be defeated.

But Xiang Yan's face was not only not panicked, but with a surging smile.

"Shangzhu National Divine Calculation, this Li Xin really chose to carry out a surprise attack when we were marching, everything

It's all in the expectation of the Shangzhu Kingdom." Zhao Ping said with admiration.

Xiang Yan smiled.

"Most of Li Xin's subordinates are riders, and if they stick to Cai, not only will they not be able to give full play to their advantages, but they will also kill themselves. If you want to take advantage of the arrival of our army to flee westward, you will inevitably be pursued by us, and the Qin army will fall sooner or later without baggage. So the only thing he can choose is to fight me head-on. With his character, he doesn't think he will choose a positional duel, but only a surprise attack with chariots and horses, which is also his usual style."

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Xiang Yan spoke very calmly, he had already studied Li Xin's character, except for the time when Juyang was a little unexpected to him, Li Xin's tactics were generally curious and dangerous.

How Li Xin acts is basically in Xiang Yan's hands.

….

Zhaoping nodded, looked at the fleeing front army, and couldn't help sighing: "But Shangzhu Guo deliberately used the soldiers recruited by the Ye clan and Sishang and Ludi to consume the Qin army's chariots, it's a pity, even if we can win, our army will suffer heavy casualties."

Xiang Yan said: "What's the pity, that Li Xin's chariots and horses are far more than our army, and they are more elite than our army. Being attacked by it on this plain must have suffered great damage, and instead of letting the elite under his command bear it, it is better to exchange those thousands of soldiers for the impact of the Qin army's chariots and horses. In this way, I can maintain the elite strength under my command, and when the Qin army is finished, it will be their demise."

Under Xiang Yan's gaze, at the rear of the Chu army, there were three neat phalanxes of stations, and three red military flags fluttered in the wind, even if they saw the robe in front of them fleeing in defeat under the impact of the Qin army, these three military formations did not show any signs of being affected.

Qu, Jing, Zhao.

The elite soldiers from the three major families of the Chu State were far from being able to compare with those ordinary Chu soldiers who were rushed and defeated by the Qin army's chariots.

"Those who dare to charge the army, slash!"

Under the sound of the order, the soldiers in front of the three military formations put down their spears and halberds together, and those Chu army soldiers who fled back from the front, as long as they dared to rush up head-on, they were immediately mercilessly poked to the ground by the robes at the front of the military formation.

After killing more than a dozen people in a row, even if those fleeing Chu pawns were panicked and frightened, when they saw the spears and halberds and blades in front of them, the ruthless faces, and the corpses on the ground, they also knew the fate of rushing into the army formation, and hurriedly fled to both sides.

In this way, under the large number of routs and scattered, the military formation composed of the soldiers of the three major families was still neatly and neatly established, and it was not affected in any way.

Finally, when the Qin army armor soldiers who chased and killed all the way and drove the Chu army to the rear reached the rear of the Chu army, they were shocked to find that the expected rout of the Chu army did not appear.

In front of them, on the contrary, were three orderly Chu army formations with guns and halberds and crossbows wound.

After a round of charge, the horses had begun to ride the tired Qin army; Running all the way in pursuit, slashing and slashing the Chu people, the Qin army's foot soldiers whose arms and feet had begun to become heavy.

The elite soldiers of the three clans of the Chu State who are in good order and full of physical strength.

The outcome of this battle speaks for itself.

Xiang Yan turned his head and smiled at Zhao Ping beside him, "The Qin army is defeated."

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