"General Yu, there is no ambush in the woods five miles ahead."

"General Yu, there is no Qin army ambush ten miles ahead."

……

The scouts in front kept probing and reporting, which made Jing Tong, who was marching with the army, very reassured.

This time, Xiang Qu went north, and he was prepared to let Jing Tong lead 5,000 people to the palace, responsible for shipbuilding and transporting grain and straw from the west bank of Suishui.

But Jing Tong refused.

He was left a shadow in his heart by the Qin general Zhao Tuo in the last battle of Surabaya, for fear that Xiang Qu would be ambushed by Zhao Tuo on the way to Pengcheng and repeat the past Surabaya.

Therefore, Jing Tong persuaded Xiang Qu to let the other generals take charge of logistics and grain transfer, while he himself followed Xiang Qu and kept him awake at all times.

He was afraid that Xiang Qu would be impulsive and be ambushed by Zhao Tuo, and he would end up with Zuo Sima Zhaoping.

Since Xiang Qu and Zhao Tuo clashed several times, they have all fallen behind, and they are also quite jealous of this opponent, and he also feels justified when Jing Tong says this.

He ordered his subordinates to bring 5,000 soldiers and horses to be responsible for the rear, and he himself, Jing Tong, and Cai Wu, who supported from Xiangyi, led an army of 30,000 to the north to take the Qin army of Zhao Tuo's army that fled to the direction of Pengcheng.

Along the way, Jing Tong learned the lessons of the last time he was ambushed by the Qin army, and scattered scout cavalry before the main army, exploring all the places on the road ahead that might have been ambushed by the Qin army.

However, the Qin army does not seem to have any intention of attacking with ambushes this time.

The Chu army hurried for several days, and finally reached about forty miles south of Pengcheng, and did not find the Qin army ambush all the way, until the scout reported that they found the Qin army's barrier ahead.

"The Qin people built a barrier in the middle of the road to stop our army?"

After listening to the military intelligence report, Jing Tong's face changed, and he turned his head to look at the chief general Xiang Qu.

Xiang Qu looked indifferent and whispered: "Break the road and build the wall, do you want to block our army in the south and delay our army's journey, so that you can return to the division to support Pengcheng?" ”

"This Zhao Tuo has a hand."

In Xiang Qu's analysis of this matter.

He thought that Zhao Tuo was likely to leave a group of soldiers and horses to build a wall here to block himself and delay time, while Zhao Tuo himself led the remaining Qin army back to Pengcheng to encircle and annihilate Xiang Yue's Eastern Chu army.

"Barriers?"

"Watch me break it!"

Xiang Qu swung down with a punch, and his voice was categorical.

On the bank of Suishui, he broke the cauldron and prepared for a big battle with the Qin army, but the Qin people fled at night and waited for the empty camp, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

Now that he has been chasing all the way, he has finally discovered the traces of the Qin army, and Xiang Qu is about to fight hard to vent the anger in his heart.

After resting and eating, the Chu army immediately went north and drove directly to the fortress built by the Qin army.

Due to the limited width of the road, it was not suitable to drive a gallop, so Xiang Qu and Jing Tong drove forward and went to the Qin army fortress hundreds of meters away to observe.

"The pass road is repaired, this Qin army will really choose a place."

Jing Tong took a deep breath.

The Qin army fortress in front was as high as one zhang, all of which were made of mud, which was very solid at a glance, cutting off the entire road.

There were heavily armed Qin soldiers on the barrier, holding bows, crossbows, spears, and halberds, waiting for the battle.

In front of the ramparts, there are deep trenches, and the antlers are repelled from horses.

There is a river in the east and a dangerous slope in the west.

The slope is full of potholes, and what are those dense things?

Tribulus terrestris!

Even if Jing Tong had already guessed that the Qin army's defense facilities were powerful, he couldn't help but gasp when he saw such a scene at this moment.

This kind of road, this kind of defense, the Chu army is afraid that it will have to be filled with human lives.

Xiang Qu's face was also gloomy, and he remembered the Qin army camp he had faced in the chasm a few months ago.

"Wang Jian is an old turtle, and this Zhao Tuo is a little turtle!"

"But a few barriers are trying to stop me? Watch me break it in one day! ”

Xiang Qu hated to speak, and now he had no choice.

If you can't break the barriers, you can't take Pengcheng, then everything is really over!

"Back to camp!"

Xiang Qu reined in and turned around, and took Jing and others south to return to the camp.

Because the Qin army built a barrier on the pass road, this road of less than ten meters could not allow the Chu army to camp at all, so the Chu army's camp was set up in an open area five miles away.

Therefore, if the Chu army wants to attack the Qin army's fortress from its own camp, it has to take a five-mile road first, and its energy will inevitably be weakened, which is also a factor that the Qin army takes into account when building the barrier.

"This meal is a big feast, let the sons and daughters eat and drink enough, give me a night to attack the fortification, and stab the turtle shell of this Qin army in a battle!"

Xiang Qu gave the order.

The 30,000 Chu troops lit fires and cooked food in the camp, and after eating a big meal, they immediately began to attack in an orderly manner in accordance with the military order.

In addition to the troops attacking the fortifications head-on, Xiang Qu also ordered people to build rafts with bamboo and wood, wanting to spy on the Qin army intelligence behind the fortress from the river.

However, the Chu army went down the river on a raft, and as soon as they reached the barrier, they were shot by the crossbowmen of the Qin army, who had been prepared, with random arrows.

However, the Chu people lived in the south of the river, and many of them had good water quality, and there were still soldiers who swam back from the icy river, shivering while reporting the military situation they had seen behind the barrier.

"The Qin army behind the barrier is about a thousand!"

Xiang Qu bowed slightly, and thousands of people guarded the barrier, which was really similar to what he guessed.

It's just a thousand people, can't I break it with 30,000 people?

"Give me the drums, attack!"

Xiang Qu issued an order to attack.

The loud and passionate war drums sounded, and the Chu army officially launched an attack towards the Qin army fortress in front.

At the forefront were crossbowmen, who were the first to suppress the Qin army on the opposition.

The two sides fired at each other for a while, and the Chu army lacked a barrier to cover it, and the casualties were slightly higher, but it also successfully suppressed the Qin army on the barrier.

At this time, the Chu pawns holding huge shields covered the soldiers carrying the dirt forward.

The task of the first Chu army was not to attack the fortress, but to fill the ravine.

In front of the earthen ramparts was a deep trench dug by the Qin people, which was also sprinkled with thistles and various obstacles, so they had to sweep away the obstacles and fill in the trenches to facilitate the follow-up attacking troops.

Sou!

The Qin army threw another burst of arrows, and the shield soldiers blocked most of them, but there were still unlucky guys who fell with the arrows wailing.

Time passed in the screams and fighting of the soldiers, and after paying dozens of casualties, the Chu army finally cleared the obstacles in front of the fortress, and the trench was filled with corpses and mud, and the next thing was the real battle.

Under the fierce sound of war drums and the shouts of the military officials, the soldiers of Chu rose up the courage to fight forward, and they braved the rain of arrows thrown by the Qin army, carried the simple wooden ladder straight to the wall, and fought with the Qin soldiers guarding the fortress above.

The stump was thrown and blood was splashed.

One of the Chu troops fell, and someone rushed up immediately, and the Qin army on the base also fell next, and the robe behind him immediately took over with weapons.

The Chu army was large in number, and the Qin army was small in number.

But at this wall of less than ten meters, the number of people engaged in the battle between the two sides was equally large, and the Chu army was too strong to give full play to its advantages, so it could only rely on human lives to fill the Qin army's barriers.

However, the large number of Chu soldiers did not mean that they did not have any advantages, and every once in a while, they would replace the wounded and tired soldiers, and send another fresh army to go up and engage in wheel battles with the thousand Qin soldiers behind the camp.

Under this tactic, finally in the middle of the night, the Qin army behind the camp could no longer hold on, leaving a pile of corpses, and the remaining hundreds of people retreated.

"Our army has captured the Qin people's barrier!"

The news of the Chu army's capture of the Qin army's fortress reached the camp five miles away.

Even though it was late at night, Xiang Qu, Jing Tong and Cai Wu and other Chu generals still gathered in the tent to discuss the war.

"Haha, General Xiang is worthy of being the son of Ling Yin, saying that he broke the barrier of the Qin army in one day, and he really won it in one day, he is really a fierce general of my Chu State!"

Cai Wu smiled and sent a sycophant.

Jing Tong frowned slightly, the Chu army arrived at noon, and it took less than a day to conquer the Qin army camp at night, but the casualties were slightly heavy.

According to the battle report from the front, in less than a day, the Chu army suffered seven or eight hundred casualties, while the annihilated Qin army was only about two or three hundred. The rest of the Qin army retreated because they were fighting hard and were overwhelmed. Otherwise, if they continue to die, I am afraid that the casualties of the Chu army will be more.

"But it doesn't matter, if you lay the barrier here, the road to Pengcheng will be unimpeded."

Jing Tongxin comforted, and a smile appeared on his face.

Xiang Qu was even more high-spirited, breaking through the Qin army's barrier in the first battle and shattering Zhao Tuo's tortoise shell, which is a good sign.

Just when he was about to give an order to let the soldiers of the Chu army, who had been fighting all night in front, collect their troops and return to the camp to rest, and when they set off to the north again at dawn, there were soldiers from the front line rushing back to the camp to report the latest news.

"Report ...... General Xiang, our army has bulldozed and eradicated the Qin army's barriers, and the road is ready for our army to pass. It's just that the scouts explored the front of the road at night, and about two miles after the first barrier of the Qin people, they found the second barrier of the Qin army. ”

"What! The Qin army still has a second barrier! ”

Xiang Qu was taken aback.

The smiles on Jing Tong and Cai Wu's faces froze even more.

After the barrier, how can there be a barrier?

Xiang Qu couldn't bear it, took Jing Tong to run at night, passed the first barrier that was bulldozed, and ran more than a mile, and really saw that hundreds of meters ahead, under the clear moonlight, there was a tall barrier standing in the middle of the road.

Because of the first barrier in front, it bought more time for the Qin army behind to build.

This second barrier is even taller, after all the soldiers of the first barrier withdrew, the side passage was also resealed, and from a distance it looked like a copper wall and iron wall, and the barrier was also full of Qin soldiers who had set up bows and crossbows, and were eyeing each other.

Zhao Tuo...... What a hand! ”

Xiang Qu gritted his teeth, his hands clenched into fists, and the tendons and veins bulged out.

Jing Tongxin had a bad premonition, and said in a trembling voice: "If this road is long enough, then wouldn't the Qin army have to build a barrier in succession." After our army lays down this wall, will there be anything behind? ”

Jing Tong's bad premonition came true, and on the second day, the Chu army paid nearly a thousand casualties, and after taking this barrier, it really found the third barrier of the Qin army again one mile in the rear.

"Zhao Tuo! You can't be a turtle! ”

Xiang Qu was about to crush his white teeth, and his face was flushed with anger.

He was bent on rushing straight to Pengcheng, supporting Xiang Yue's 5,000 men, fighting a dignified battle with Zhao Tuo's Qin army, and using the advantage of his strength to break it head-on.

Unexpectedly, he rushed all the way, although he chased the Qin army, but he was faced with a wall that was more difficult to gnaw on.

Is this damn war?

This is a turtle shell!

Xiang Qu was angry and annoyed.

But in the current situation, Xiang Qu has no other choice, and the road to Pengcheng here is just that.

If you want to make a forced detour, it will take at least half a month, and then it will be too late.

Now that it is impossible to retreat, Xiang Qu can only pinch his nose and fight all the way, he doesn't believe that Zhao Tuo can repair the barrier all the way to Pengcheng.

The reason why these walls are difficult to gnaw is mainly because one side of this road is close to the river, and the road is a dangerous slope, so that the Chu army cannot go around. As long as this narrow road comes to an end, the days of grievance will end.

Next, the Chu army attacked Pengcheng at the speed of overcoming a barrier in one day.

It's just that these Qin army walls built on the pass road are more difficult to attack one by one, and the casualties paid by the Chu army are also greater day by day.

In addition to the casualties, the Chu army stopped outside the Qin barrier for several days, and the attack suffered heavy casualties, which led to a great drop in the morale of the soldiers, and the Chu soldiers at the bottom began to complain.

However, General Xiang, as the chief general of the first army, had no time to scruple about these, because after several days of attacking fortified positions, the Chu army had broken through the six camps of the Qin people in a row.

The road ahead gradually opened up, and the steep slope on the right had reached the end and disappeared completely after the last barrier.

This is the seventh barrier of the Qin army and the last wall to block the Chu army.

"Zhao Tuo, this is the last course."

……

Two miles behind the barrier, the Qin army camp, the black flag hunted in the wind.

Zhao Tuo stood on a high platform specially built for him, looking at the Qin army wall standing in the road in the distance.

There were shouts of killing at the wall, and the Chu army on the opposite side was launching a continuous offensive, in a vain attempt to break through this last Qin army barrier today.

"Even broke through my sixth base obstacle, and the Chu army suffered many casualties. And under the blunt soldiers, the Chu people were exhausted, and the army had no fighting spirit. Even if I can break through my seventh barrier today, how much combat power will I have left? ”

Zhao Tuo's expression was indifferent.

On the wide land between the seventh barrier and the barracks, there were tens of thousands of Qin soldiers who had rested for several days, and they had already lined up in battle.

The strong bow and crossbow stand are in the front.

The sword halberd spear stood in the rear.

When the Chu army broke through the seventh wall, it was the time for the Qin army to launch a fierce attack on the mountain.

The entanglement of the Chu general Xiang Qu and the Qin general Zhao Tuo in the past two months will also decide the winner in this battle.

The third is more sent.

The next chapter, Zhao Xiang's decisive battle, came to an end.

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