Now they want to rely on this "fool" with their lives and their lives.

Do you want face!

Chen Qi trembled and knelt down without saying a word.

He first asked Zhu Xianggong to save Guangling City, but now he is speechless. Didn't he know that he was brazen?

But this is the life of a city person, and he can only be shameless.

But Chen Qi was ready to be brazen in his heart, but he couldn't ask anymore, so he could only keep kowtowing to Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang couldn't bear it, but he didn't help Chen Qi.

He quietly looked at the other Chu scholars in Guangling City in the hall.

Under Zhu Xiang's calm eyes, the sergeants in the city knelt down one after another, kowtowing silently.

Zhu Xiang raised his head and sighed, and said, "If Guangling City can be defended, I am confident that Guangling City will become a wooden thorn in the heart of the Chu State, and I can persuade the King of Qin to send heavy troops to guard Guangling City." But all this must be based on Guangling City showing its loyalty and ability. ”

"Since I'm here, I don't want to do nothing, and watch the people of Guangling City being killed, so I'm willing to gamble." Zhu Xiang sighed again and said, "I'll give you a chance one day, if you want to leave Guangling City, you must leave tomorrow." After Guangling City and Chu State are enemies, you don't have extravagant hopes, and you can still open the city and surrender. ”

Zhu Xiang helped Meng Tian and Fuqiu up in turn: "I won't die." With my prestige, Nan Chujun and Xiang Yan will treat me well. Whoever holds me hostage to invite merit will be killed by Nan Chujun and Xiang Yan. At most, I will go with Xiang Yan to the King of Chu as a guest. ”

"And once Guangling City resists, it will definitely be slaughtered." After Zhu Xiang helped Meng Tian and Fuqiu up, his eyes lowered and looked at the people kneeling, "You have seen what happened to other cities on the north bank of the river, I don't think you have stupid extravagant hopes." ”

Meng Tian said anxiously: "Zhu Xianggong! Think of the Prince! The prince is still waiting for you to return to Wu County! ”

Zhu Xiang said: "What I say and do is from my heart, and I will not be moved by anyone. ”

He took out the tiger talisman and said, "I have the edict of the King of Qin, and I can take the tiger talisman of the three counties of Southern Qin at any time." Meng Tian obeyed the order! ”

Before Zhu Xiang finished speaking, Meng Tian relied on his late Zhu Xiang generation and played a trick.

He sat down on the ground and said, "Uncle, if you take my tiger talisman, you can take it, but don't try to drive me away." If something happens to my uncle, neither the prince nor my father will be able to spare me, so I might as well die here. ”

Zhu Xiang: "......"

The first time he saw Meng Tian's petty nature in front of him, he was really stunned.

Zhu Xiang has always been easy to be "pinched" by younger generations. Meng Tian cheated, Zhu Xiang could only change the topic: "You get up first, what kind of system will you become!" ”

Fuqiu and Jiao Yun, who didn't speak, hurriedly set up the little general who was sitting on the ground and played tricks on the left and right, so as not to let him continue to lose Zhu Xiang's face.

Zhu Xiang straightened his expression again and said, "You guys should also get up, whether you are guarding or fleeing, it is time to prepare now." Tomorrow night, I'll come back to hear your decision. ”

Zhu Xiang waved his hand and asked people to send these people away.

On the second day, Zhu Xiang asked the Qin soldiers to beat the gong to rule the city's people and nearby peasants, inform them of their current situation, and give them two choices: either flee or enter the city to help defend the city.

They only had two days to choose from, after which no outsiders were allowed to enter the city.

When the Chu people made their choice, Zhu Xiang began to send people to renovate the city walls, widen the moat, and build city defense equipment.

Then, Xiang Yan finally arrived.

Xiang Yan should have arrived a long time ago.

After symbolically resisting a few times, the Qin army soon withdrew one after another. It should not have been difficult for Xiang Yan to recover the lost land on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the Chu State.

What stumbled Xiang Yan's footsteps was the slaughter of the city and the internal relocation order.

Xiang Yan didn't want to go too far. The first massacre of the city was to fulfill his intention to deter the Qin army and the Chu people who surrendered to the Qin army, so that the city captured by the Qin army would cause civil strife.

After his strategic intent was achieved, he should have stopped. But he played it, and the internal relocation order set by the king of Chu and the king of Southern Chu made him unable to put away the butcher's knife.

According to Xiang Yan's original plan, the internal relocation order was to wait for him to recover the city, and then the Southern Chu Jun would slowly implement it.

But Nan Chujun obviously didn't want to take on this responsibility alone. Since it was Xiang Yan's idea, he wanted to pull Xiang Yan into the water.

Moreover, Xiang Yan also took the elite soldiers of the Xiang family, and just took the opportunity to attack the city and burn the city in one go. If Nan Chujun does it himself after Xiang Yan leaves, I am afraid that there will be civil strife and heavy losses.

Maybe he, Nan Chujun, will be ousted from power not long after he becomes a Southern Chujun.

This is actually one of Xiang Yan's purposes.

Although the internal relocation order is the only strategy to counter Li Mu, it is also a strategy to fight poison with poison. If the Southern Chu Jun did not operate properly, the newly established Southern Chu State would not be moral, and after arousing the resentment of the scholars, I am afraid that it would soon be broken internally.

At that time, the king of Chu will be able to easily re-annex the Southern Chu State and depose the Southern Chu monarch.

It's a pity that the Southern Chu Jun and the nobles of the Southern Chu Kingdom are not stupid, and they immediately saw through Xiang Yan's tricks that were not too clever.

The internal relocation order must be completed by Xiang Yan himself, otherwise they will directly ignore the cities occupied by the Qin State on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and even threaten to directly surrender to the Qin State and become a vassal state of the Qin State.

Xiang Yan's military ability is first-class, but his political ability is extremely young. He was countered by Southern Chu Jun, and now he is tied to the chariot and can't get on and off, not only his reputation has been greatly damaged, but the pace of the offensive has also been seriously slowed down.

Fortunately, the Qin army was determined not to want the city on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and if the Qin army counterattacked at this moment, Xiang Yan would definitely be defeated.

Forced to have no way to live, even the common people who were considered numb as pigs and dogs by the great nobles would rise up to resist.

There are also many rangers in the Chu State, they gather the villagers to confront the Chu army, although they are like mantis arms as a car, they are quickly crushed by Xiang Yan's chariot, but the number of times, Xiang Yan's chariot will inevitably suffer some damage, and the driving speed has become slow.

Zhu Xiang had half a month to prepare.

Guangling City is the last big city on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Xiang Yan stood on the chariot, looked at the dense bamboo fence in front of Guangling City, and sighed heavily.

"Zhu Xianggong, look up for a long time." Xiang Yan stood on the chariot and clenched his fists.

Zhu Xiang nodded to the people beside him, and with Meng Tian and Jiao Yun, he rode his horse around the bamboo fence, completely exposing his body to the sight of the Chu army.

"General Xiang, look up for a long time. You didn't write back to me. Zhu Xiang said lightly.

Xiang Yan saw Zhu Xiang so bold, and the expression of admiration on his face became even heavier.

Although he did not dare to hurt Zhu Xiang, this was another thing with Zhu Xiang daring to take risks.

"Zhu Xianggong wrote to me? I don't know, maybe the letter is missing. Xiang Yan opened his eyes and said nonsense.

Of course he received the letter, but he wouldn't reply.

Zhu Xiang is on the side of morality, and he is not right to reply to anything.

But he didn't expect that Zhu Xiang would personally ride a horse in front of him and question him about this when he was defending the city. It made him look a little embarrassed.

Xiang Yan has the ethics of an aristocracy, not a completely faceless scoundrel.

Zhu Xiang said: "Can Nan Chujun be here?" ”

A man with half a hundred hairs stood up on a chariot with a canopy: "The widow is here. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Just lose the letter." Then I will ask again face to face, can Nan Chujun and General Xiang swear in the name of their ancestors that they will not hurt the subjects of Guangling in the slightest? If they move inward, they will also be given enough land and houses so that they will not be displaced? ”

Zhu Xiang's voice was loud, and the Chu soldiers in front of and behind him were all moved.

But neither Nan Chujun nor Xiang Yan answered.

Although they wanted to deceive Zhu Xiang, it was a very serious matter to swear by their ancestors in this era. What's more, the establishment of the Southern Chu monarch was not right in the first place, and Xiang Yan was the new favorite of the King of Chu who had many enemies around him, and he didn't dare to break his promise easily.

Zhu Xiang asked three times in a row, and Nan Chujun and Xiang Yan were silent.

He sighed and said, "Then there's no need to talk about it, let's fight." ”

Zhu Xiang turned around and calmly walked back to his formation, passing through the first bamboo fence trench defense line, the second low wall and trap defense line, and crossing the bridge of the third moat defense line, and returning to the city gate.

The city gate was wide open, and the Qin soldiers and Chu soldiers defending the city were already in position on the three defense lines.

When all three lines of defense were lost, they would retreat back into the city gates, close the gates, and hold the last line of defense on the city walls.

Guangling City is not big at this time, there are only two gates, one gate is still near the water, and only this gate is open in front of the terrain for the army to attack.

Southern Chu Jun and Xiang Yan, as well as the soldiers of the Chu State behind them, all watched Zhu Xiang leave very quietly,

Xiang Yan sighed again in her heart.

He knew that Zhu Xiang's appearance this time must have dealt a big blow to his morale. I don't know if Zhu Xiang is a military strategy, or if he didn't do it unintentionally.

But he couldn't stop Zhu Xiang, and he had to let Zhu Xiang finish his words.

At this time, if he dared to shoot arrows to scare Zhu Xiang, or open his mouth to scold Zhu Xiang, his morale would drop faster. And if Zhu Xiang had an accident before the fight began, the king of Chu would probably have to hand him over and appease the anger of the king of Qin.

Xiang Yan had a headache. Although he hadn't fought yet, he knew that this battle was not easy to fight.

But the arrow had to be fired, and Xiang Yan could only order the army to attack.

The defenders of the city have been prepared, and the battlefield is limited to this side, and the Chu army and the defenders have no fancy skills at all, which is a hard-fought positional battle.

Zhu Xiang had a pit and a bamboo fence to cover it, while Xiang Yan used the bronze carriage as a shield to press forward.

The power of the bronze chariot at this time was no worse than Wang Qian's heavy cavalry.

What's more, Xiang Yan saw Wang Qian's heavy cavalry and also trained a cavalry. Although not as strong as the hoplites, they were able to press in front of the formation and shoot at the defenders at short distances, putting great pressure on the defenders.

The scene of the war was bloody and intense.

The defenders occupied the convenience of the terrain, and the Chu army led by Xiang Yan was almost five to ten people per person. But because Xiang Yan brought an army of 100,000, there were 30,000 elites alone. The defenders were fully armed, and there were less than 20,000 soldiers, of which only 15,000 were elite soldiers. Among them, only half were veterans of the Qin soldiers.

Therefore, according to the proportion of casualties in the positions of both sides, they are considered to have suffered heavy casualties.

The first line of defense was fought back and forth three or four times, and Xiang Yangang led the chariot to rush in, and was recaptured by the Guangling defenders with shields.

The mounted cavalry and the heavy infantry collided directly and face-to-face, and neither of them refused to retreat.

Zhu Xiang stood on the city wall and watched this scene with the telescope that the Mo family used to grind with transparent crystal.

The line where the Chu army and the defenders fought was like a tide of flesh and blood, sometimes advancing and sometimes retreating.

Such an intense scene, but it is like a mime.

In addition to the shouts of the army commanders, the shouts and shouts of killing that should be used to vent emotions on the battlefield in peacetime are very few on this cruel battlefield where the tide of flesh and blood is repeatedly pushed sideways.

Both sides were like silent beasts, biting wordlessly.

The whole battlefield was lifeless, as if it were a corpse.

Zhu Xiang took a deep breath, his nose full of blood.

"Beat the drums and sing Chu songs."

Zhu Xiang commanded.

Chen Qi, whose hair was grayer than before, took off his robe, exposed his upper body, and beat the drum himself.

On the city tower, Chu sang loudly.

Chu Ci became a system after Qu Yuan, but Chu Ge has always had it.