Chapter 153: Embattled
A large number of siege equipment attacked, the morale of the Huai soldiers was like a rainbow, and on the cloud ladder, more than a dozen archers and arrows rained down, suppressing the Chu army and not daring to raise their heads.
Because of the failure of the reform of the Chu State and the changes in the country, the morale of the army was not high, and under the siege of these siege equipment, the morale was even lower. Soon the city was attacked by a large number of ladders on the city wall, and the first to camp and rushed up. Soon the Chu army began to rout.
Wu Qi led the Huai army and broke three cities in a row, only then did he rest for a while, and then began to attack again.
On the river, after a big battle between the navy of Chu and the navy of Huai, they were defeated again. Huai Guo's repeated shots with bed crossbows set the ships of the Chu State on fire, and one ship after another was ignited. Then the Huai State Navy divided and surrounded the Chu State Navy Army.
Water warfare is a situation in which more ships fight fewer ships, and big ships fight small boats. There is a bed crossbow, and the navy of Chu is not an opponent at all. After several consecutive water battles, the state of Chu could no longer stop the Huai State water division, so it had to stick to the water village.
After the great victory of the naval army, he immediately sent a large army to detour behind the defense line of Dabie Mountain of Chu State, cut off the retreat of the Chu army, and cooperated with Wu Qi to attack in front and rear.
The 100,000 Chu troops defending the Chengyi Pass of the Dabie Mountain Defense Line of the Chu State were cut off from the back route and directly cut off contact with the Chu State. The northern army withdrew from Wei, and the armies of Zhongcai, Huangjiang and the four kingdoms harassed them along the way. The army of Chu was in a hurry to retreat, but unfortunately under the harassment of the coalition forces, the progress was slow.
For a while, the state of Chu did not have too many troops to mobilize.
After cutting off the retreat of the Chu army, the defense line here in Dabie Mountain of the Chu State became a lone army.
In the Huai army camp, in the big tent, Wu Qi was discussing the military situation with everyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time the army of Chu has been besieged by our army, if it is attacked, the loss will be not small, what is your strategy to break the enemy?" Wu Qi smiled and looked at the other people in the big tent, these people were all disciples of the Huai State Soldiers, and they followed Wu Qi to learn the way of the soldiers.
"Wai Sanque One"
"Night Attack."
Everyone said. After these people finished speaking, Wu Qi said: "This battle is to attack the city and attack the heart." ”
"It has only been ten years since the reform of the Chu State, and the shortcomings in the country have been accumulated, and now they are all breaking out, this is a godsend! Wait for good students to learn. ”
In order to hit the morale of the Chu army, Wu Qi broke three cities in a row before, and the Chu State was defeated in a row, and its morale was low. Immediately after being cut off from retreat, the morale of these Chu troops was even lower.
At this time, the news of the Chu State was cut off, and these soldiers did not know what was happening in the Chu State at all. Wu Qi ordered people to fail to change the law of Chu, and the land allocated by the soldiers had been taken away by the nobles, and their families, wives and daughters even became the servants of the nobles.
These true and false messages were written in cloth and tied to arrows and thrown into the city.
After the soldiers of the Chu State picked up these arrows, they found the contents written on the arrows, and they were all suspicious.
And after the generals of the Chu State found these silk cloths, they hurriedly sent people to collect all the silk cloths, and ordered that the private propagators be beheaded. And it was announced that the land of the soldiers had not been recaptured in the country, and that all the land belonged to them, and that as long as the city was held, everyone would be rewarded for military merit.
The general of Chu State made the soldiers suspicious, and no one believed the so-called rumors. With the ban of the generals of the Chu State, these silk cloths began to spread wildly in the city, and more and more people knew about these news.
And when the city was in turmoil, Wu Qi found people in the army who were good at singing and playing music, and went to the Chu army near the city at night to sing small songs from all over the Chu country and play homesick music. In this way, it is necessary to arouse the homesickness of the soldiers of the Chu State.
These soldiers were already very worried about their hometowns, but now that they listened to these hometown songs, many of them actually cried, so the soldiers became even more war-weary.
The generals of the Chu State were helpless against this. The defenders of Chu were demoralized, and the soldiers were even more reluctant to resist. After several shots, the morale of the army of Chu was almost on the verge of collapse.
When the generals of Chu saw this situation, their hearts were crossed, and they immediately ordered their guards to behead several soldiers in the city, trying to persecute the soldiers.
Originally, the situation in this city was extremely tense, and the actions of the generals of the Chu State could be said to have stabbed the hornet's nest. Originally, the soldiers were reluctant to fight, but now they were forcibly suppressed, which directly ignited the anger of the soldiers of the Chu State.
These soldiers were originally worried about the situation of their families, their parents, wives and children. They were very aware of the situation in the Chu State before the Fa change, they were slaves, and they knew how bitter the days were before. Now these people want to let them go back to their old lives, how can these soldiers be willing!
In addition, the generals of the Chu State forcibly beheaded some soldiers, which made the soldiers in the city very dissatisfied with them.
More than a dozen Chu soldiers hid in a corner and discussed something, and then quietly left.
A few hours passed, the moonlight gradually dimmed, and suddenly there was a killing cry in the city, and the original city guard saw this scene, and his face changed in fright. The population was immediately summoned to prepare for defensive resistance.
However, these soldiers in the city have long had a lot of grievances, and under the surprise attack, they didn't give him a chance at all. A large number of soldiers rushed into it, directly slashed the Chu generals with swords, and then sent messengers to ask for surrender.
What to keep, the land and property in the hometown are gone, and the parents, wives and children are likely to become the slaves of those nobles again. The back road is cut off, and hard work is a dead end. Without land, parents, wives and children, why do you have to work for the king of Chu?
If it was before, these people didn't dare to say much or resist, but now that they have experienced the changes and tasted the benefits of the changes, how can they still be willing to return to their previous lives.
After beheading the Chu generals, these Chu soldiers immediately opened the city and surrendered.
Wu Qi warmly received the soldiers and rewarded them. At the same time, let these soldiers go to other cities to persuade them to surrender.
Many of these soldiers are acquaintances, and even fellow villagers, with these soldiers to persuade them to surrender, how can the remaining Chu cities be able to hold on?
Of course, there are also some city generals who are unwilling to surrender, and when they see these soldiers who persuade them to surrender, they immediately pick up their bows and arrows and want to shoot them.
"San, stop fighting, surrender!"
"General Wu Qi has surrounded this place, this Dabie Mountain is a dangerous obstacle, but the naval army has been defeated, the back road is cut off, there is no food, sooner or later you will starve to death!"
"Jing Mugong has been killed, his land and family wealth are all gone, and his wife and children may have become the slaves of those nobles, what else are you fighting?"
"Shut up! Hugh wants to talk nonsense, he wants to take this city and let Wu Qi send an army to attack it! ”
The Chu army shouted again: "Listen to the brothers in the city, Sang is already crazy, quickly tie him up and surrender the city!" ”
"Who dare?" Sang yelled at the soldiers behind him.
The Huai army besieged the city, and the soldiers on the city wall looked at the Chu general. This person seemed to be quite prestigious, and for a while no one dared to move.
It's just that the desire to survive finally suppressed the prestige, and a few bold people stepped forward and said: "Brother Sang, what that brother said is reasonable, our back road is cut off, and the land shared by the family is gone, what are you fighting now?" It's better to surrender early, and maybe you can get some land! ”
"Fart, when domestic reinforcements come, these Huai troops will definitely collapse."
"Brother Sang, don't be stubborn, we don't know what's going on in the country, but don't we know about Huaijun?"
As the man spoke, several other soldiers around him glanced at each other, then quietly approached. After Wu Qi's tactics, the Chu army in these cities had long wanted to surrender, but this Chu general would not allow it.
Suddenly, the two jumped up and threw Sang to the ground.
"Let go of me, let go of me."
The crowd swarmed up, tied them up, and then Kaejo surrendered.
However, the ten-moon kung fu, which was regarded as an impregnable defense line by the Chu State, was completely broken by Wu Qi.
(End of chapter)