At the second watch, more than 100 Chu soldiers drove more than 100 carts full of hay back to the barracks. It's just that the animals pulling the cart are not all ploughing cattle as Xiang Ye proposed, but there are cows, horses, mules and donkeys.

Xiang Ye couldn't help but smile bitterly when he looked at these animals pulling carts, the reason why he wanted to plough cattle was that ploughing cattle were very strong when they were running, and they ran at an even speed, and ploughing cattle were relatively strong, so it was difficult to be shot to death by the Qin army. But now Chu Jun, who went out to look for the cart, got back such a group of miscellaneous livestock, which really made him a little crying and laughing.

"General, we searched all the surrounding villages, and although the carts were all together, the cattle were difficult to find, so we had to bring back these cattle to make up the numbers! If you fail to complete the task assigned by the general, please punish the general! An officer half-knelt in front of Xiang Yu, who was standing in front of the convoy, bowed his head and clenched his fists and said.

Xiang Yu waved his hand to the officer and said: "You have worked hard, go down, now that it is a war, it is good to be able to find these, this punishment will be remembered for the time being, and I will settle it with you in the future!" ”

The officer thanked him, got up, took two steps back, and turned to leave.

After the officer left, Xiang Yu said to Xiang Ye who was standing next to him: "The cart full of hay is complete, but I don't know if these livestock are suitable?" ”

Xiang Ye had a bitter face, looked at the livestock pulling the cart, and said helplessly after a long time: "They are the only ones who are suitable for use or not!" I can't let the soldiers pull the cart and rush to the side of the wall! ”

"You're going to let these cattle pull cartloads of hay to the walls?" Xiang Yu stared at Xiang Ye in amazement for a long time before asking, "How can you drive these livestock to follow your instructions and rush towards the city wall?" ”

"I have my own way." The corners of Xiang Ye's mouth turned upward, and he said to Xiang Yu: "Now there is still something that needs to be done urgently, please ask the general to order the drummer to prepare to beat the drum, and we will light a fire under Yongqiu City with great fanfare!" ”

Xiang Yu looked at Xiang Ye with some puzzlement, he couldn't understand something like lighting a fire under Yongqiu City, it stands to reason that the more hidden, the better, but Xiang Ye wanted to make the movement very big, and he also had to drum to help.

"Order the people to immediately tie up the corresponding straw man according to the number of carts and settle in the position of the emperor." Without waiting for Xiang Yu to understand, Xiang Ye said to an officer behind him: "Be fast, after the straw people are tied, put on our army's armor, and immediately launch an attack on Yongqiu after everything is ready!" ”

Seeing Xiang Ye's confident appearance, Xiang Yu didn't want to ask much, so he had to let him go, and see what earth-shattering moves he could make in the end.

At the time of the third watch, the straw man and the cart were all ready, and Xiang Ye ordered people to drive the cart to the place where the Chu army lined up during the day and set up a formation.

Behind the cart, there were 1,000 soldiers and horses from Xiang Ye's headquarters, and Xiang Ye ordered these soldiers to all wear plains and stand behind the cart in a neat queue, shouting "Revenge for General Cao".

The shouts of the Chu army soon alarmed the Qin army at the head of the city, and many Qin troops who had already fallen asleep heard that the Chu army was attacking the city, so they hurriedly got up, loaded their crossbow arrows and aimed at the city.

"What are they doing?" Li You stood at the head of the city, leaned over and glanced down, and asked the general beside him with some confusion: "Is it that the robbers have started to attack the city again?" ”

The general shook his head, and said very puzzled: "Judging from the sound of the shouts, their number should be no more than a thousand, could it be that the subordinates of the bandit leader who died in the city before are now avenging the chief?" ”

Li You nodded, and said to the general: "Pay close attention to the movements under the city, the leader of the bandits is a man, if it is not for the hostility between the two sides, I must have a drink with him." ”

The general saluted Li You and said: "My lord, don't say such unlucky words, he has already been ambushed, and at this time he is separated from us by yin and yang, how can my lord have a good time with him?" ”

"Hehe, I ignored it!" Li You smiled and said to the general: "I'll leave it to you here, I'll go everywhere to investigate and investigate, in case the robbers attack from other directions!" ”

The general responded, leaned on the edge of the battlements, and looked at the dark city without blinking.

Xiang Ye rode on Chiji's back and looked at the Yongqiu City Wall five hundred steps away. Yongqiu City, which had been painted by mountain paint, only showed a misty shadow in the night, and if it weren't for the faint flickering fire on the city's head, it would have looked more like a black hole darker than the night.

Yongqiu City was like a vicious beast with its not wide arms and grinning at the Chu army with a big mouth. At the foot of the city, there are still nearly 2,000 corpses of Chu soldiers, not that Xiang Yu doesn't want to drag those corpses back to the burial, but the Qin army in the city is always paying attention to the movements under the city, as long as the Chu army moves slightly, they will fire crossbow arrows to the city, so that the soldiers of the Chu army who plan to go to collect the corpses do not dare to move forward an inch.

"Ignition!" Xiang Ye first looked at Wei Feng beside him, and then said, "Urge the livestock to attack the city wall!" ”

With his order, hundreds of carts full of dry grass were ignited by the Chu soldiers holding torches, and a flame suddenly ignited in front of the Chu army's camp.

The flames rose to the sky, half of the night sky was dyed red like the sunset under the twilight sun, and the Chu army standing behind the flames, everyone was reflected in a golden light by the flames, and from a distance, it was mighty.

Hundreds of donkeys, horses, mules, and oxen, who were originally quietly pulling the station in front of the Chu army, were startled by the flames that suddenly burned behind them, and they all screamed and spread their hooves and ran in the direction of Yongqiu City. In the chaos of donkey barking, horse neighing, and cow mooing, the blazing carts crashed headlessly towards Yongqiu City in the depths of the night.

In the position of the emperor of the cart, the straw men wearing the armor of the Chu army stood straight, looking from a distance, like a group of Chu troops who were driving the cart and preparing to fight with the Yongqiu defenders.

"Wei Feng, follow me!" After the cattle pulled the cart and rushed out more than a hundred steps, Xiang Ye turned over and jumped off the horse, beckoned to Wei Feng, and shouted in a low voice.

Before he could finish speaking, he was already bent forward and jumped forward.

Wei Feng also jumped off his horse, followed closely behind Xiang Ye, and jumped out in the direction of Yongqiu City.

The two of them ran very fast, and by the time the cart was still more than two hundred paces away from the city wall, they had reached a place only three hundred paces away from the city wall.

"Shoot that off-general!" Xiang Ye whispered to Wei Feng towards a figure on the city wall who was commanding the crossbowmen of the Qin army.

Wei Feng nodded, pulled out an arrow from his back, buckled it on the string, and shot it at the general who was busy directing the Qin army's defense on the city wall.

On Yongqiu City, the general of the Qin army is commanding the crossbowmen to arm, although the crossbowmen of the Qin army are well-trained, but they have just been awakened from their sleep, and their brains are somewhat chaotic, and they have not all completed the deployment in a short period of time.

Seeing that the burning cart was only more than 100 steps away from the city wall, the general was suddenly anxious, and when the cart rushed towards the city wall, he had already understood what the Chu army wanted to do, but the crossbowmen on the city were not angry, and after he gave the defense order, only a small number of people completed the winding of the crossbow arrows.

The anxious general saw a Qin crossbowman hurriedly loading the crossbow, perhaps because he was too nervous, he loaded it several times, and the crossbow arrows fell from the crossbow.

"Get up!" The general stepped forward and pulled the crossbowman aside, snatched the machine crossbow and crossbow arrows from his hand, glared at him fiercely, and roared fiercely: "I can't even load the crossbow, coward!" Get lost! ”

The crossbowman was yelled at by the general, and he was so frightened that he crawled away.

The general put the crossbow arrow into the crossbow, turned around and stood beside the battlement, picked up the crossbow flatly, and aimed at a brute bull pulling a cart.

His fingers were about to pull the crossbow when he suddenly felt a strong wind rushing towards him.

"Poof!" The general heard the sound of a sharp weapon piercing through his bones, which was the last sound he heard, because after the sound fell, he had already been firmly on his forehead with an arrow shot by a bow.

The general's body fell straight backwards, and the Qin army on the city wall had no commander, and they suddenly panicked.

Li You, who had just left, heard the commotion on the city wall, and hurriedly turned back, and when he arrived at the place where he was about to be shot, there was a "bang" sound from the city.

A horse with hair caught in the flames of the cart behind him struck his head against the wall, and after it hit the hard wall, the burning cart followed suit.

As the first car crashed into the city wall, a succession of large cars crashed into the city wall, and soon a raging fire broke out at the foot of the city.

"Let's go!" Xiang Ye, who was hiding in the dark, saw the burning cart crashing into the city wall, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, beckoned to Wei Feng, and greeted in a low voice.

After Xiang Ye said hello, Wei Feng followed him closely and retreated backwards towards the Chu army array that kept shouting behind.

"Defense! Defense! The general was killed, and Li You waved his sword and shouted to the Qin army in the city: "Beware of robbers in the city!" ”

Li You gave an order, and the crossbowmen of the Qin army immediately took up their positions on the edge of the battlements, each of them holding their bows and crossbows flat, aiming at the Chu army that had already disappeared into the darkness a few hundred paces away.

Xiang Ye and Wei Feng took advantage of the darkness to return to the array under the cover of the fire that ignited at the foot of Yongqiu City.

The two turned their heads, glanced at the raging fire at the foot of the city, looked at each other and smiled, Xiang Ye shouted to Chu Jun: "The task is complete, go back to the camp!" ”

More than a thousand Chu troops stopped shouting, took off the silk on their bodies, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield under the cover of night.

The Chu army stopped shouting, but the Qin army in the city did not dare to relax their vigilance, the fire under the city reflected the city wall red, and from time to time there was a "sizzling" sound when the corpse was burning, and the stench of the corpse being burned with the thick smoke poured from the foot of the city to the city wall.

The fire shone on the faces of the Qin army, so that their eyesight could only reach more than ten meters below the city, and the Chu army had already retreated in the distance, but the Qin army in the city did not notice it at all.