Chapter 40: Cai Ci dies in battle

In Chen County, the gongs are noisy, the people are panicked, a large number of displaced people pour into Chen County, in the streets, in the alleys, there are the figures of the displaced people everywhere.

The Qin army advanced into Chen County, has become an indisputable fact, many county towns begging to surrender, Zhang Han led the army, Enwei and Shi, everywhere they went, the people ate pot pulp, kneeling beside the road, and some people helped the old and the young, and fled from their hometowns.

On the tower of the city, a group of soldiers holding Changge began to garrison the city, rolling wood and thunder stones, bed crossbows, feather arrows and dung soup are constantly being transported to the city, and a large number of them are hoarded.

In the palace of Zhang Chu, the alarm was repeated, nearly half an hour, six messengers have rushed into the palace, reporting the battle situation, Xu County lost, Tan County lost, Zhaoping County rebelled, Guling, Yangxia Wangfeng begged to surrender, Zhang Chu has reached the point of life and death.

Now, Zhang Han marched in two ways and marched to Chen County, which made Chen Sheng restless and anxious, and how to retreat from the enemy became the most difficult choice for Chen Sheng.

All the ministers were silent, and none of them could come up with a strategy to retreat from the enemy.

Just as Chen Sheng was roaring and reprimanding everyone, a personal guard rushed in quickly and arched his hand: "King, Xu Wu and Deng are back!" ”

Chen Sheng's eyes glared at the guards, his right hand clenched his fist, slammed the table, and said angrily: "The general of the defeated army, do you dare to come to see the widow?" ”

At this time, Cai Ci walked out and arched his hand in front of Chen Sheng: "King, Xu Wu only has 10,000 people in his hands, how can he resist the 450,000 army of the Qin army?" ”

Cai Ci's words angered Chen Sheng even more, and at this time he had already roared: "Xu Wu has few soldiers, it can be forgiven, is it possible that Deng said that there are few soldiers and horses?" He has an army of 30,000 in his hands, and he fled without encountering the Qin army, what is the use of keeping him with such people? ”

After speaking, Chen Shenglang shouted: "Bring Xu Wu to the widow, and in addition, behead Deng Shuo and hang the palace gate." ”

The guards sang the promise and left, and after a while, Xu Wu was brought in, he was already embarrassed at this time, his face was covered with black mud, kneeling in the center of the hall, crying: "King, the last will be guilty, the last will be guilty!" ”

Chen Sheng knew that it was pointless to blame Xu Wu at this time, so he sighed and ordered, "You get up." ”

Seeing that Chen Sheng didn't blame himself, Xu Wu felt a little relieved, got up and hurriedly said: "King, the Qin army has more than 400,000 horses, and the troops are divided, and Chen County can't hold it, so let's retreat south!" ”

"Shut up!" Chen Sheng's face was full of anger, his muscles were jumping, Xu Wu had just come back, so he persuaded himself to move the capital, what was he going to do?

At this time, Chen Sheng's eyes burst into murderous intent, Xu Wu saw Chen Sheng's anger, he didn't dare to say more, at this time, a personal guard trotted in, arched his hand beside Xu Wu and said: "King, the latest battle report, the Qin army has arrived in Changping." ”

After a muffled sound of "dong ......", Chen Sheng suddenly sat on the ground, Changping, here is less than three hundred miles away from Chen County, if the Qin army approaches again, tomorrow will be under the city, Chen Sheng looked at everyone in despair, not knowing what to do.

Below, Cai Ci sighed and said helplessly: "King, the Qin army is pressing, Zhang Chuguo is in danger, I am willing to lead the troops and fight to the death with the Qin army!" ”

Seeing that Cai Ci had the heart to fight, Chen Sheng was moved in his heart, he sighed, now that the building is about to fall, he has no choice, so he had to nod silently, at this time, Cai Ci said again: "King, I have heard that near Tan County, there are several rebel armies, with tens of thousands of subordinates, and the king can send people to recruit them, thinking that foreign aid will rescue Chen County." ”

Chen Sheng nodded, looked at Chen Pan in the hall, and ordered: "You can do this matter, don't live up to the expectations of the widow." ”

Chen Pan walked out of the queue and saluted in front of Chen Sheng, "The king can rest assured, the ministers should make every effort to recruit rebels from all walks of life, return to Chen County, and relieve the king's danger." ”

Chen Sheng nodded, looked at Xu Wu again, and said hatefully: "The widow gives you a chance to make meritorious contributions, you can follow Cai Ci, send 50,000 troops, and go north to fight against the Qin army, if you can't drive away the Qin army, you don't want to come back!" ”

Xu Wu had no choice but to walk to Cai Ci's side, salute with Cai Ci, and turn around to walk outside the hall.

Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Chen Sheng silently prayed in his heart, hoping that God would be able to make a heavy snowfall, block the footsteps of the Qin army going south, and create an opportunity for himself to fight back.

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To the west of Changping, the endless plain, where the Qin army and Zhang Chu's army met, and this place was later Xihua County.

In the past two years, the Qin army has been fighting in the east and west, quelling rebellions everywhere, and the army is enriched, with as many as 500,000 people, and it is divided into two ways, while Cai Ci only led 50,000 Zhang Chu troops to the north to resist the enemy, and the two sides have a big gap in strength.

At this time, the war drums slowly sounded, and the two armies began to line up, for Zhang Chujun, who was sparse in number and frightened by the Qin army, this battle was undoubtedly looking for death, and the so-called mantis arm blocked the car, which was vulnerable.

But Cai Ci had no choice, he had already decided to be loyal to Chen Sheng, and on the opposite side, Zhang Han's army had chariots in the vanguard, and cavalry and spearmen followed, and powerful crossbow arrays lined up on both sides, like an unshakable eagle.

The two sides confronted each other for more than half an hour, Zhang Han took the lead, marched out of the array, behind, Zhang Ping, Sima Xin, Su Jiao and others followed, a chapter on the high banner of the book, opposite, a pole of the book with the word Cai under the banner, Cai Ci stood on the chariot, staring closely at the Qin army's battle array, he wanted to find the weakness of the Qin army, and strive to defeat the Qin army in a battle, but he found nothing.

In front of the Qin army, Zhang Han was wielding a halberd to swear to the army, and the Qin army waved weapons from time to time and roared loudly, just like that, after the oath, Su Jiao rode his horse, came to the center of the two armies, lifted a spear, and stared at Zhang Chujun tightly.

Cai Ci is a civil official, he doesn't know martial arts, and he can't fight, he can't help but look at Xu Wu beside him, Xu Wu is already a little timid at this time, but when Cai Ci stares at himself, Xu Wu has to force the panic in his heart, lift the spear, and ride the horse out.

The war drums of the two armies became louder and louder, and the soldiers on both sides were also waving their weapons to cheer for their generals.

Xu Wu also raised his spear horizontally and galloped forward, the two horses intersected, the two weapons struck each other, making a crisp sound, and with the running of the two horses, the two separated again.

Su Jiaole turned his horse's head and killed again, but Xu Wu had already discovered that Su Jiao's power in wielding his weapon was amazing, and he was not his opponent, but seeing that Su Jiao was about to run closer, Xu Wu had to wave his spear to block, but at this moment, Su Jiao's spear flung to the left and knocked Xu Wu off the horse with the spear shaft.

With a muffled // hum, Xu Wu fell to the ground, fell to the ground, rolled and crawled, and ran towards Zhang Chujun's camp, but Su Jiao did not let go of Xu Wu's posture, he chased hard, and soon chased behind Xu Wu, brandished a spear, and stabbed Xu Wu, "poof", and the spear leaked out of Xu Wu's chest.

A pair of desperate eyes quietly stared at Zhang Chujun's camp, but its owner could never go back.

With cowardice and unwillingness, Xu Wu knelt on the ground, and the blood flowed down the shaft of the spear, and soon, Xu Wu was cold and fell in a pool of blood.

In the distance, Zhang Han saw that the morale of the Qin army was high, so he brandished a halberd and shouted vigorously: "Kill it!" ”

The Qin army was like a flood of the embankment, the beast went down the mountain, and rushed towards Zhang Chujun, on the opposite side, Cai Ci saw a broken hand, and hated it in his heart, and wanted to choose another general to fight, but the Qin army had been killed like a landslide and tsunami, and the war finally started.

Cai Ci drew his long sword on the chariot, turned around and shouted: "Victory or defeat in this battle, soldiers, follow me to kill!" ”

The coachman beside Cai Ci immediately waved the reins, drove the carriage, and rushed forward under the escort of more than 100 chariots.

But the infantry and crossbowmen behind, they did not follow Cai Ci closely, I don't know who fled first, one person fled and hundreds of people fled, and one hundred people fled and thousands of people fled, and in an instant, Zhang Chujun fled in all directions like a lost dog.

But Zhang Chujun's rout, Cai Ci did not know, at this time he had a determination to die, rushed forward, the chariot soon met with the chariot of the Qin army, the two chariots collided together, and the chariots constantly overturned, throwing the soldiers out of the car, and the ensuing winch hanged them.

The fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce, and many cavalry had just rushed into the Qin army's formation, and they were surrounded and devoured by the Qin army.

The soldiers and horses brought by Cai Ci became fewer and fewer, and soon, when only more than ten chariots were left beside Cai Ci, the archers and crossbowmen of the Qin army gradually surrounded them, and not far away, Zhang Han stared at Cai Ci sharply, and shouted loudly: "Shoot him!" ”

Arrows rained down, Cai Ci didn't have anything beside him, ten thousand arrows pierced his heart, Cai Ci died like a hedgehog in the chaos.

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The Qin army killed Cai Ci and did not stop, they pursued the rout all the way, and there were countless descendants, along the plain, unscrupulously chasing, and the vanguard of more than 20,000 cavalry and more than 3,000 chariots had gradually pulled away the follow-up troops, running all the way.

But not far away, a Biao army horse suddenly flashed, they lined up and waited, many Zhang Chu troops who had retreated from the battlefield had been taken under their command, regrouped, and fought the Qin army again.

The first general, wearing leather armor, holding a long sword, with a black and bright stubble on his face, and his eyes are small but bright, he is Zhang He, a general under Chen Sheng.

At this time, Zhang He quietly stared into the distance, the vanguard of the Qin army

The team was getting closer, Zhang He waved his sword and pointed forward, shouting: "These troops are running for a long time and are vulnerable, brothers, follow me to kill!" ”

20,000 Zhang Chu army mighty, rushing forward, the Qin army ran for a long time, no defense, and there was no reinforcement of the main force, suddenly Zhang Chu army, was killed and retreated, about an hour later, the Qin army retreated.

After the Qin army retreated, Zhang He immediately ordered to go down to the village on the main road, sprinkle thistle terrestris, and ask Chen Sheng for help.

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At night, the news of Cai Ci's death in battle was transmitted back to Chen County, Zhang Chu Palace, Chen Sheng was anxiously wandering, Zhang Han was about to approach Chen County, and Zhang Chuguo's deadline was approaching.

Although there are 20,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang He stationed in the west temporarily, he urged reinforcements five times, and he also summoned his ministers to come to the meeting three times, but now, no one came, and Chen Sheng felt a faint sadness of betraying his relatives and leaving his relatives.

But now, most of the ministers fled from Chen County, and Chen Sheng didn't have time to think about how to deal with these people, so he had to order his personal guards to assemble an escort team, about 7,000 people, and hurriedly left Chen County to personally reinforce Zhang He.