A member of the Qin generals held a horsewhip in his hand and kept whipping the trembling Qin soldiers, scolding while whipping him: "What the hell are you afraid of? Isn't it just a rabble? You are the heroes of Great Qin, and since you put on this armor, you only have two things to do, one is to kill and the other is to be killed! As soldiers, the best ending for us is to be shrouded in horse leather and die on the battlefield! Now that there's such a great opportunity, you're fucking afraid! Is it lying on the belly of the too much? Lost all your eggs? There is no gentleman's spirit at all! ”

The beaten Qin Jun endured the pain, but he didn't dare to speak, just staring at the Chu Jun who was approaching them.

When the 10,000 Chu army led by Xiang Yu was still a hundred steps away from Chengyang, the Qin army in the city heard the earth-shattering sound of the Chu army's feet stepping on the ground, and the morale of the originally not very high suddenly dropped a little.

"Veteran, are we really going to die?" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old soldier of the Qin Army secretly tugged at the corner of the old soldier's clothes squatting next to him, looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to him before he asked in a low voice.

The veteran looked at him, reached out and stroked the back of his head, smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, we're going to die." 100,000 Chu soldiers are coming to the city, with our 5,000 people and this broken city wall, how can we resist it? And the leader of the Chu army is still the devilish Xiang Yu, this person has the courage of ten thousand people, he alone can kill thousands of people, not to mention that there are 100,000 wolf-like Chu troops behind him, alas! ”

"I don't want to die, veteran!" The young Qin soldier's tears of fear were about to flow down, and he leaned towards the veteran in a trembling manner.

The veteran grabbed him on the shoulder and patted him lightly and said, "Don't be afraid, child, there's nothing to be afraid of dying, but it just hurts, and it will pass soon." ”

Xiang Yu led 10,000 Chu troops to the city of Chengyang, and stopped two or three hundred steps away from the city.

When the defenders at the head of the city saw that the Chu army had stopped two or three hundred steps away, they immediately shouted with joy and shouted to an officer: "Quick, give an order quickly, shoot them with a crossbow!" ”

"General, we don't have a crossbow, only an ordinary Qin crossbow, I'm afraid the range is insufficient!" The officer who got the order looked at the Chu army outside the city and reminded him.

"How can my Great Qin's crossbow arrows have insufficient range?" After hearing the officer's words, General Qin was furious, and suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist and slammed it at the officer's neck, roaring angrily: "You dare to disobey my orders? ”

Seeing that the guard was angry, the officer did not dare to persuade again, so he hurriedly turned around and ran.

After a while, the battlements of Chengyang were full of Qin crossbows, and the officer stood on the city wall, looked at the Chu army outside the city, sighed, and shouted loudly: "Launch!" ”

"Whoosh, whoosh", with the officer's order, a piece of crossbow arrows flew towards the Chu army with the overwhelming sound of the wind.

Xiang Yu looked up at the crossbow arrows that were almost blocking the sun, and shouted to the Chu army behind him: "The Qin people have shot crossbows, everyone be careful!" ”

Several crossbow arrows were shot into the Chu army's camp, and two Chu soldiers were shot by the crossbow arrows before they could dodge, but the crossbow arrows did not shoot through after piercing the armor on the Chu army, but bounced on the ground. More crossbow arrows landed thirty or forty paces in front of the Chu army.

"Hehe, big brother, Qin people are in a hurry!" Long He, who was following Xiang Yu, rode his horse and took two steps forward, standing only half a horse away from Xiang Yu, and said with a smile: "It's better for the junior brother to lead the army to attack, the eldest brother is waiting for my good news." ”

Xiang Yu raised a hand and put it in his ear, stopping Long And. He turned his head to look at Long and said: "I asked you to come this time to ask you to give me a strategy, our siege is not only to break the city, but also to ensure that the casualties are minimized, you and lead two thousand people to the left side to detour, attract the attention of the Qin army at the head of the city, I don't give orders, you don't attack, understand?" ”

"Order!" Long He clenched his fists in response, and ordered two thousand soldiers and horses to lead the way to the left side of Chengyang City.

Sure enough, the attention of the Qin army at the head of the city was attracted by the two thousand people of Long He, and many crossbow arrows roared and flew towards the two thousand Chu troops who were detouring to the left, but the distance was too far, and the crossbow arrows did not cause any damage to the Chu army at all.

After Long Ji led the army to leave, Xiang Yu waved his hand towards Xiang Tong, and Xiang Tong immediately shouted to the Chu army behind him: "Prepare for the shield array!" Archers follow! ”

Xiang Tong gave an order, and thousands of Chu troops holding large shields came out of the formation, holding their shields high and rushing towards Chengyang City.

The Qin army in the city saw that the main formation of the Chu army suddenly rushed out of two or three thousand people, and immediately understood that the dragon and the Chu army that was detouring to the left was just a bait, and the real siege would still be launched from the front, so he hurriedly turned the direction of the crossbow and shot crossbow arrows at the Chu army that was charging towards the city wall.

Due to the proximity of the distance, this time the crossbow arrows caused a lot of trouble to the Chu army, and many crossbow arrows drilled through the gaps between the shields, shooting the Chu troops hiding behind the shields, and shooting many Chu troops to the ground.

The Chu army, which fell to the ground and did not die, lost the protection of the shield, and suddenly became the target of the Qin army's crossbow arrows, and one by one was shot like a hedgehog by the crossbow arrows that rushed from the sky.

When the Chu army rushed within range of the bow and arrow, the shield formed a solid shield wall, and the Chu archers hid behind the shield wall and launched a confrontation with the Qin army in the city.

Because the Qin army on the city was protected by battlements, the bows and arrows of the Chu army were difficult to be effective, and most of the arrows bounced back on the battlements and fell to the ground, and a pile of arrows quickly piled up at the foot of the city wall.

Xiang Yu looked at the arrows of the two armies, and knew that although there was a shield array to protect them, after a long time, the Chu army that launched an attack from the bottom up would still suffer a big loss, so he hurriedly raised his hand again.

Xiang Tong saw Xiang Yu raise his hand and shouted again: "Siege ladder siege!" ”

Hundreds of Chu soldiers rushed towards the city wall with shields in one hand and long ladders in the other.

This kind of ladder is very long, and there are twenty or thirty Chu soldiers on the left and right sides of each ladder, and one ladder needs to be carried by fifty people.

Hundreds of Chu troops were just carrying more than a dozen siege ladders, these Chu troops quickly rushed towards the city wall, and the Qin army at the head of the city saw the Chu army rushing towards them with the siege ladders, the target shifted again, and the crossbow arrows suddenly flew towards the Chu army carrying the ladder.

The Chu army, who carried the ladder, raised their shields high above their heads, blocking the crossbow arrows flying down from the city, and rushed towards the city wall with no regard for their lives.

In the process of charging, many Chu troops carrying ladders were shot by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground, while the remaining Chu troops continued to carry the long ladder and rushed forward.

The archers of the Chu army, who had been hiding behind the shield array under the city, strengthened the firing of arrows at the head of the city, and although the archers of the Chu army rarely shot the Qin army in the city, they played a somewhat suppressive role in the Qin army.

Long Ji, who had already rounded back to the left, saw that the Chinese army was attacking, and couldn't help but be a little anxious, and frequently looked in the direction of the Chinese army.

Soon after the Chu army, which was carrying the cloud ladder and rushing towards the city wall, rushed out, Long Ji finally waited for the signal from the Chinese army to attack him, and a large flag waved back and forth in the Chinese army, which was the signal ordering him to lead the army to attack.

After receiving the order, Long He was overjoyed and shouted to the Chu army behind him: "Siege!" ”

Several ladders came out of Long Ji's camp, and when the ladders came out, Long Ji turned over and dismounted, snatched the shield from one of the soldiers, rushed to the side of a cloud ladder, and rushed towards the city wall with the ladder first.

The Qin army on the city wall originally thought that the dragon was just luring the enemy, but they didn't expect to really attack them.

The guard general hurriedly ordered more men to defend the eastern city wall, and a group of Qin troops rushed to the east with crossbow arrows, and the strength of the Qin army defending the front was suddenly weaker.

The Chu army, which was attacking head-on, finally rushed down at the foot of the city wall, and they set up the ladder on the city wall, and as soon as the ladder was erected, they swarmed towards the city.

Xiang Yu saw that the ladder was set up, the corners of his mouth pulled slightly, and the longitudinal horse rushed towards the city wall.

The Qin army on the city wall saw Xiang Yu rushing towards the city wall, and hurriedly sent him a dense crossbow arrow.

The crossbow arrow roared and flew towards Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu saw the crossbow arrow flying head-on, shouted, and the halberd in his hand spun quickly, as if adding a strong shield in front of him.

The crossbow arrows shot at Xiang Yu were all dropped to the ground by the halberd in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed down to the foot of the city wall.

At the foot of the city wall, Xiang Yu turned over and dismounted, chose a nearby ladder, and climbed up.

Seeing Xiang Yu taking the lead, the morale of the Chu army was greatly boosted, and they all howled and rushed towards the city wall, and even the shield wall that had been formed before was scattered in an instant, and everyone was crowded at the foot of the city wall.

The Qin army on the city kept pushing away the ladders on the city wall, and many Chu troops who were climbing towards the city fell to the ground along with the fallen ladders, and they fell to the ground and died.

The death of these Chu soldiers did not frighten the Chu troops behind, and the still alive Chu soldiers removed the ladder from the corpses of their companions, lifted the ladder again and erected it on the city wall, and rushed towards the city head one after another.

Several Qin soldiers helped Xiang Yu to climb the ladder and desperately retreated, the ladder shook, Xiang Yu roared, the hand holding the ladder pressed down violently, and the ladder that had been pushed away from the city wall fell back to the city wall again.

After the ladder fell back, he sped up the speed of climbing, and when the Qin army at the head of the city wanted to push the ladder away again, the halberd in his hand stabbed upwards violently, and it happened to pierce into the throat of a Qin army who poked out his head, and the Qin army didn't even have time to snort, and fell to the ground as a corpse.

After stabbing a Qin army to death, Xiang Yu quickened his pace again, and when he was still two or three steps away from the city, he shouted, jumped up, and jumped towards the city wall.

More than a dozen Qin soldiers saw Xiang Yu jumping towards the city wall, and hurriedly stabbed his spear at him, who was still in mid-air, wanting to take advantage of his inability to use his strength to stab a bunch of transparent holes in his body.