In the camp of the Qin army, Li Mu was looking at the topographic map of Yingdu.

Yingdu is the former capital of Chu State, the walls are high and thick, and when Bai Qi attacked Yingdu, he also relied on flooding Yingdu to take Yingdu, which also led to countless casualties. After Xiong Qi established himself as king, he re-strengthened the city wall of Yingdu on the original basis of Yingdu, making it more solid, no less than Handan, the capital of Zhao State.

And there is a bottomless moat guarding the outside of Yingdu, and the city walls are all heavy crossbows of the Chu army, and it is not easy to attack Yingdu.

"According to our intelligence, there are less than 20,000 defenders in Yingdu, and Xiang Yan is actively recruiting people to join the ranks of the defenders, although their combat effectiveness is low, they can effectively stop the attack of our soldiers on the city wall." Meng Wu looked at the information sent by Luo Wang and said.

"How many more earth mines do we have?" Li Mu asked.

"Adequate. Wu Anjun, what do you want to do? Meng Wu asked suspiciously.

"Attacking Yingdu with earth mines, you participated in the attack on Dangyang City, so you don't know the power of earth mines in the siege of the city." Li Mu said.

"I've heard a lot, but can this earth mine siege really break through a city like Yingdu?" Meng Wu asked with some suspicion.

Li Mu looked at Meng Wu and suddenly understood why Meng Wu was inferior to Wang Jian in the Qin military, what Meng Wu lacked was not only the family heirloom art of war, but more importantly, flexibility.

Li Mu looked at the other generals again, these generals were also a little unclear, Li Mu could only sigh helplessly, but thinking that Tulei, a weapon that is far beyond ordinary people's understanding, if he has not used it personally, he does not know how effective it is, so Li Mu is also relieved.

"Tomorrow you have all the earth mines and catapults ready, and then the two white tigers are also pulled up, and tomorrow I will teach you a new way to siege the city." Li Mu said.

"No!"

"Convey the order to Wang Qian, tomorrow we will launch a general attack, and let Wang Jian and them must cut off the retreat route on the water and behind Yingdu. Then he ordered Yang Duanhe to besiege Jiangling, and be sure to strangle all the living forces of the Chu State in Yingdu and Jiangling. Li Mu said.

"No!"

After Li Mu's order was delivered, the entire Qin army began to mobilize before the war. The herald came to the Yingdu wharf with Li Mu's order, and Wang Jian was already encamped in front of the wharf at this time.

After receiving Li Mu's order, Wang Jian also began to actively prepare for tomorrow's general attack, while Yang Duanhe, who was in Jiangling, received the news in the evening and began to urgently prepare for tomorrow's decisive battle.

Xiling, inside the county guard's house.

Fu Su was looking at the letter in his hand with a puzzled face, and Meng Yi and Xiao He on the side also fell into deep thought.

"Li Yuan suddenly invited me to return to Shouchun, and I always felt that there was something wrong with it." Fusu said.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not go back, no matter what Li Yuan is thinking, he must not leave Xiling. According to the information transmitted before, Wu Anjun beheaded more than 100,000 Chu troops in the first battle of Dangyang, and the 200,000 troops of the puppet Chu State were all defeated, Yingdu had been surrounded, and the war of the puppet Chu State was about to end.

As soon as the puppet Chu State was destroyed, only half of the Chu State remained, half of the elite of the Chu army was still in the hands of Yang Duan and the general, and the north of Shouchun was also all in the hands of my Qin State. At this time, Li Yuan invited His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to Shouchun, and it was difficult not to wonder what his true purpose was. Meng Yi said.

"What Brother Meng said is that at such a critical juncture, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not leave Xiling. Xiling has now surrendered to His Royal Highness the Prince, and there are 20,000 elite garrisons of our Qin army, as long as we don't leave Xiling City, Li Yuan can't help us. Xiao He also agreed.

"But Li Yuan said in his heart that Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, has not had much time, and the letter revealed his idea of wanting to set up another king of Chu, and he also said that the three generations of Chu kings have no heirs, and the Chu royal family has no heirs, so he wants to choose the king of Chu from the side lineage, and specially pointed out that I also have the blood of the Chu royal family." Fusu thought for a moment and said.

Looking at the heartbeat that flashed in Fusu's eyes, Xiao He and Meng Yi were both silent, Li Yuan's words both inside and out had the intention of wanting to support Fusu to become the king of Chu, if Fusu became the king of Chu, not only would the Qin State no longer have to use swords to attack the Chu State, but it would also be extremely beneficial for the Qin State to govern the people of Chu in the future.

Fusu is the grandson of King Chu Kaolie, and the people of Chu will surrender to Fusu from their hearts and treat Fusu as their own, so that the people of Chu will no longer be disgusted with the rule of Qin.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should also be careful, this is inevitably Li Yuan's conspiracy to lure us to Shouchun with the position of King of Chu." Xiao He said.

"I don't think Li Yuan has the courage to do this, if the Qin State wants to destroy the Chu State at any time, the Chu State will not be able to resist my Great Qin's army. At this time, Li Yuan's attack on me was tantamount to begging for death, and according to Li Yuan's character, he would definitely not. Fusu said.

"Li Yuan won't, it doesn't mean that the magnates of Chu won't, although Chu has three households, Qin will die in Chu. This is what the minister heard by chance among the people, and there is no way to verify where it spread from nowhere, but the minister investigated and found that this sentence was widely circulated in the Chu State. Meng Yi said in a deep voice.

"Check, check this matter." Fusu said with a chill in his voice.

"I've already asked Luo Wang to investigate." Meng Yi said.

"It seems that I really can't leave Xiling City at will." Fusu said in a deep voice.

At this moment, there was a knock on Fusu's door, and a guard shouted outside

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the information sent by Xianyang."

"Send it in."

The guards entered the room, saluted Fusu, and handed over the information in their hands to Xiao He. Xiao He opened it to check that the information was correct before handing it over to Fusu. After reading the information, Fusu nodded to the guards and motioned for him to go out.

The guards exited the room.

"My father sent my uncle Chang Wenjun to Shouchun to see Xiong Huai." Fusu said with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Chang Wenjun?" Xiao He and Meng Yi were both very surprised.

Xiao He was surprised that Qin Guo sent someone to treat Xiong Huai, while Meng Yi was surprised that the person who was sent was Chang Wenjun.

When Xiao He entered Qin, the internal Qin State had been pacified, and he had only heard about the things between Changping Jun Chang Wenjun and Ying Zheng and did not know the specific things, but Meng Yi was different, as an old Qin man under the banner of the Zheng Black Xuanniao, Meng Yi was very clear about the things that had been exterminated at the beginning, Changping Jun rebelled, and Chang Wenjun gave up power and gradually marginalized. Now let Chang Wenjun bring people to Chu State, it is obvious that Ying Zheng is releasing a signal, a signal announcing that Chang Pingjun's rebellion has been completely turned over, and at the same time, he also said that he will use Chang Wenjun's signal again.

Chang Wenjun was enabled again, which was beneficial to Meng Yi, Chang Wenjun was Fusu's uncle and a relative, and he could only support the prince of Fusu, Chang Wenjun was enabled to show that these forces of Chu relatives also have the opportunity to grow again, and the final strength is only the power of Fusu.

On the surface, this matter seems to be harmless to Fusu Baili, but Meng Yi always feels that there is something wrong with this matter in his heart, but he can't tell what the problem is.

"If Chang Wenjun goes to Shouchun, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not be able to move. The court should know the current situation of the Chu State, so if you want to surrender without a fight, Chang Wenjun is the uncle of His Royal Highness the Prince, and he can also represent His Royal Highness the Prince, if Li Yuan really has an idea, it is enough to contact Chang Wenjun.

Xiling is the retreat of Yang Duanhe and the general, and it is also the rear to support the army to attack Changsha in the south, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is needed to take charge. Xiao He said.

"Then wait a little longer, waiting for news from my uncle." Fusu said.

Seeing Fusu's decision to continue to stay in Xiling, Meng Yi also temporarily gave up saying what he thought in his heart, and he was ready to take another look at the situation.

Handan, under the dark night sky, there was no sound in the entire Handan City except for the footsteps of the patrol soldiers and the collision of armor.

Two patrol soldiers were patrolling the street with lanterns, gossiping as they walked.

"Handan City has not been peaceful recently." The young soldier said.

"That's right, we have recently been ordered to patrol the streets strictly. You are new here, let me remind you, there are only three kinds of people who appeared in Handan City in the middle of the night.

The first type is soldiers, that is, soldiers like us who patrol the streets, and the second type is thieves, thieves who dare to come out in the middle of the night in Handan City are basically not small people, as long as we catch one, we just wait for promotion and fortune.

As for the third one." Before the old soldier finished speaking, he suddenly pulled out the knife at his waist and looked at the deep alley in front of him.

"Who!" The veteran soldier stretched out the lantern in his hand into the alleyway.

The little soldier also nervously clenched his knife, and as the two of them took a few steps forward, the lantern in their hands illuminated the situation in the alleyway, and dozens of men in power suits and hats and swords at their waists stood in the alleyway.

The man at the head was embroidered with a black spider and cobwebs on his strong clothes, and when he saw this scene, the old soldier immediately blew out the lantern in his hand, and pulled the little soldier out of the alleyway.

The little soldier shook off the old soldier's hand and asked

"Who are these people just now?"

The veteran swallowed his saliva and said nervously

"They are the third type of people, the net killers, they are a killer organization, it was rumored in the rivers and lakes before that they were a killer group that did all kinds of evil, but in fact, they were actually the assassin organization of our Qin State, they were responsible for secretly assassinating the dignitaries of the Six Kingdoms, and they were also targeting the rebels who wanted to rebel within our Qin State!

They must have made a move tonight. Luckily I reacted quickly, otherwise we would both have died. ”

"The Assassin Order? Such an organization must be very mysterious, how did you know about it, boss? The little soldier asked, puzzled.

"Nonsense, the average person certainly doesn't know. Lao Tzu told you that Lao Tzu was also a captain with great achievements in the army before, but later he made a mistake in the war, and almost missed the fighter plane before he was released, and later because he was injured on the battlefield, he became a street patrol soldier in Handan City. The veteran soldier said with a spit on his face.

The Snar-Killer didn't bother with the two street patrol soldiers, they had a more important mission.

"Remember, except for Zhao Quan, no one else is left in the Zhao Mansion." The leading killer said coldly.

"No!"

Dozens of snare killers climbed over the wall and directly entered a large courtyard, and the guard in charge of guarding the courtyard was blocked by a sword when he saw a black shadow and didn't have time to take a closer look. But a guard not far away saw that his own man had been killed, and cried out on the spot.

"There are assassins!" As soon as the guards finished shouting, they were directly choked.

But the voice of the guards successfully alarmed the others, and the guards kept moving towards the net killer, and Zhao Quan, the owner of the Zhao Mansion, also came to the courtyard under the escort of everyone.

"Who dares to commit murder in my Zhao Mansion?" Zhao Quan asked.

"Snare!" The leading killer said coldly.

Zhao Quan's face froze, and he saw the black spider on the leader's clothes by the moonlight, and the whole person began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Up, up. Kill them! Zhao Quan shouted with trembling hands.

The surrounding guards were stunned for a moment, and then attacked the net killer, but how could some family guards be the opponents of the net killer. Several figures appeared on the eaves, and with the sound of swords unsheathed, the net killers in strong clothes and hats launched a crazy slaughter against the family courtyard like a tiger entering a flock.

After cleaning up these homes, dozens of killers began to slaughter the entire Zhao Mansion, and Zhao Quan ran to his study.

Zhao Quan didn't pay attention to the screams everywhere outside, but overturned his bookshelf to the ground, lifted the floor on the bookshelf, and a dug pit appeared.

These letters are all the powerful people and some rich and powerful people who want to recover the Zhao State secretly contacted by Zhao Quan, some of these people are rich businessmen of Zhao State, some are powerful people of Zhao State, and some are local rangers, and Zhao Quan is the person responsible for contacting them.

Not only that, but Zhao Quan is also in contact with the old nobles of other countries who want to recover their own countries.

Now that Zhao Quan knows that he has been exposed, he wants to burn all these letters to cover the others.

Zhao Quan lit the candle on the side, just picked up a letter and was about to light it, a silver light flashed, Zhao Quan's wrist holding the candle suddenly burst out of blood, Zhao Quan screamed in pain, and the candle in his hand also fell to the ground.

The shadow of the leading net killer appeared in the house, trampled Zhao Quan to the ground with one foot, snatched the letter from Zhao Quan's hand with one hand, and looked at the name on the letter.

"Brother Zhao Quan's personal enlightenment, what an order." The leading killer reads, "He Ling, Julu County Cheng, one of the famous men of the Honorary Zhao State." ”

Zhao Quan's face was as dead as ashes at the moment, and his eyes were full of despair. The lead killer directly sealed Zhao Quan's acupoint, making him unable to move.

A killer walked in and said to the lead killer

"Lord Chen is here!"

"Take him and pick him up with me." The lead killer said as he put the letter in his hand into the box.

"No."

The lead killer took the box, and the killer took Zhao Quan out to greet Chen Ping.

At this time, Chen Ping came to the Zhao Mansion under the protection of two guards, looking at the corpses everywhere in the Zhao Mansion, Chen Ping's expression was calm, if it weren't for the fact that Zhao Quan was a more important person in the old nobles of Zhao State, and he also had something to do with the Zhao State clan, if he didn't have conclusive evidence, he would only get into trouble in the end.

"Lord Chen, everything is here, and people are here." The lead killer handed over the things to Chen Ping.

Chen Ping opened the box and took out a letter at random, which was written to Zhao Quan by Wei Yuan, the fugitive son of the Wei clan. Although the Qin State cleaned up all their magnates when they destroyed Han Wei and Zhao Yan, there were always one or two fish that slipped through the net, allowing them to hide and secretly plot rebellion.

The Qin State also knew about these people, but it was impossible for the Great Qin State in the world to monitor everywhere, so they had not been caught. Chen Ping opened the letter and looked at the contents, then folded the letter and took out another letter.

This letter was sent by Zhao Quan to someone else, and as for this person, Chen Ping was a little surprised, because this person was Zhang Liang.

"I didn't expect a big catch." Chen Ping looked at the letter and felt that he had started too early, and perhaps he should put a long line to catch a big fish.

"Zhao Quan is also here." Said the lead killer.

The killer took out Zhao Quan, who was holding the acupoint, and after Chen Ping glanced at him, he said to the leading killer

"You clean up the Zhao Mansion, and let the people in the net turn into slaves in the Zhao Mansion and continue to play the people in the Zhao Mansion."

"No!" Said the lead killer.

As a killer, he carried out Chen Ping's orders for no reason.

"As for Zhao Quan, don't let him die, send someone to interrogate him properly, and ask everything out of his mouth. I remember that someone in the net would be disguised, right? Chen Ping said.

"My subordinates will." Said the lead killer.

"Okay, you will pretend to be Zhao Quan from today onwards, ask from Zhao Quan's mouth how to contact other rebels, and continue to keep in touch with them." Chen Ping said.

"No!"

"I'll leave it to you here, let me know as soon as there is any trouble." Chen Ping asked.

"No!"

After explaining everything, Chen Ping left the Zhao Mansion under the protection of his guards and went to his mansion.

After returning to his mansion, Chen Ping opened the box and began to check the contents of these letters and the people who sent and received them one by one, and the more Chen Ping looked at them, the more shocked he became, because the people on these letters were either celebrities or fugitive criminals, and even local wealthy merchants, magnates and even officials.

Looking at these letters, Chen Ping was stumped for a while, there were too many people implicated in these letters, Chen Ping knew that the Qin State had the ability to deal with these people, but these people were enough to make a lot of waves about the current internal stability of the Qin State. Han and Yan said that Korea had been cleaned up by the Qin army before, and Yan Land had been cleaned up by him and Li Xin, and the two places basically did not have any strength to rebel.

Only Wei and Zhao made Chen Ping feel troublesome, and Zhao Guo needless to say, just pacified, it is the time to stabilize people's hearts, and they can't kill in any way. The Wei State was because of the surrender of half of the land of the Wei State by the disciples of Chu Ziyou, and the King of Wei also chose to surrender at the first time, which made the various forces and powerful forces in the Wei State maintain the best.

After the Lingyi system was implemented in the Qin State, the second pilot place was the Wei State, but because Ziyou and these disciples had the merit of dedicating the city, the Qin State did not do it to them, but other people other than them copied the family property and moved the family, originally thought that the old nobles of the Wei State would not be able to make much waves, but today from the letters obtained by Zhao Quan, Chen Ping felt a little afraid.

Half of these letters were from the Wei State, and the people who wrote or received the letters were somewhat prestigious in the Wei State, and some even had a slight relationship with Ziyou's disciples.

"It's a tricky thing." Chen Ping rubbed his head and said.

Now this matter is no longer a matter of counterinsurgency, but a matter that affects the pattern of the Qin court, if it is not handled well, it will inevitably break the current deadlock.

After Chen Ping thought about it for a while, after writing down all the names of the people involved in Zhao Di in it, he put all the letters back and sealed the box.

"Teacher, teacher, it's not that the disciple is cheating on you, but that the disciple can't handle this matter either." Chen Ping began to write a letter as he spoke.

After finishing the letter, he handed the letter to his servant along with the box, and asked him to rush to Xianyang overnight to hand over the letter to Ziyou.

The next day, the capital of Yingdu of Chu.

As soon as the scorching sun rose, the majestic horn sounded over Yingdu, and the soldiers of the Chu army, who were already nervous, hurriedly sounded the alarm bell after hearing the horn of the Qin army.

"The Qin army is attacking! The Qin army is attacking! The Chu soldier shouted on the city wall.

Xiang Yan, who received the news that the Qin army was going to attack, also hurriedly came to the city wall of Yingdu, and looked at the neat and orderly Qin army outside Yingdu, and nervousness flashed in his eyes. The Qin army's military formation was neat and orderly, the sharp soldiers of the Rui Shi Battalion were at the forefront with sharp swords, and behind them were the foot soldiers of the Qin army, the black Xuanniao flag fluttering in the air, and the huge catapult was particularly conspicuous.

Looking at the other party's catapult two white tigers, Xiang Yan felt uneasy in his heart, he thought of the soldiers who came back alive from Dangyang City, the Qin army had two huge white tigers, one of which knew the demon method and could summon the heavenly thunder to attack the city.

Xiang Yan didn't believe in the soldier's words at first, he didn't believe that anyone could really summon the Heavenly Thunder to attack the city, if the Qin army really had such a ability, then it should have been used when attacking Han Zhao Weiyan before.

But now looking at the rows of catapults and the two white tigers, Xiang Yan's heart began to waver.

"What the hell does Qin Jun have to do?" Xiang Yan said in a low voice, but now is not the time to think about this, Xiang Yan shouted to the nervous soldiers around him, "Archers, prepare, as long as the Qin army enters the range, shoot arrows immediately!" ”

Xiang Yan looked at the Qin army below and thought in his heart, let me see your so-called demon law, if you can really summon the heavenly thunder to attack the city, then my Chu State really deserves to die!

At this time, the Qin army was among the army.

Li Mu was in the middle army, and behind him were dozens of catapults, looking at the Yingdu City in front of him, the pace of the Qin army stopped.

"Up!" Li Mu said.

The herald on the side passed in front of the army formation, waving the flag in his hand, and Qin Lishi, who was in charge of the catapult, pushed the catapult towards the front army, and only stopped after reaching the exact position.

These wrestlers then began to load the prepared large earth mines on catapults, preparing to use the earth mines instead of stones to attack the city.

(End of chapter)