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Early in the morning, the gate of Xuancheng was opened, and he walked across the moat and knelt on the ground, he was tied with hemp rope......

And behind him were the generals of the Yue army, all kneeling behind him.

In front of Wu Yuan was King Chu Huai riding a white horse, King Chu Huai looked at Wu Yuan and nodded, and then swaggered into Xuancheng.

And the Chu army followed into Xuancheng......

The war of the Chu army in Xuancheng lasted a total of three months and ended with the surrender of Wuqi......

At this time, the Qi army had already been stationed outside Gusu City, and elite sailors were also selected......

And Gusu City has been surrounded by the Qi army, but the Qi army has not fought with it, but only blocked Gusu City.

The vanguard led by Zhang Heng and Sun Bin captured Xieli on the third day and Yuhang on the fifth day, and was already in the land of Fujiao at this time.

Neither Li nor Yu Hang had a standing army, and they were defeated under the surprise attack of Zhang Heng and Sun Bin......

Yu Hang and the county guards with Li would not have thought that this Gusu City had not yet been breached, and this Qi army had already arrived at them.

They were easily defeated without defensive preparations, and the strategy adopted by Sun Bin was to destroy the defenders of the ground first, not to occupy it, and then gradually break through, quickly raid, and the main city ......

A city contains about ten lands, not all of which are inside the city like Pengcheng and Xuancheng, and the land under the jurisdiction of the city is generally outside the city.

After all, it would cost a great deal to build a great city and enclose all the land under its jurisdiction with walls.

There are also city walls, but they are all small walls, which can basically only withstand the impact of cavalry......

However, Zhang Heng and Sun Bin led 30,000 cavalry, although they lost some in Zhufang, but later they were supplemented by the Vietnamese army surrendered by Zhong Wu and recovered to 30,000.

Zhang Heng and Sun Bin led 30,000 cavalry as the main force, but they also led 20,000 strong men recruited in Pengcheng and Zhongwu as auxiliaries.

After the Qi army arrived in Zhongwu, it incorporated the troops of the Yue Kingdom, and pulled Zhuang Ding with Zhong Wu in Pengcheng, and forcibly recruited Zhuang Ding to expand the army.

This Zhong Wu and Peng Cheng are basically not Yuan Yue people, they are basically Wu people, although the Qi State was forcibly conscripted, they did not betray or anything on the battlefield, after all, their hearts are not very deep in the Yue Kingdom......

It is also because of these 20,000 people that Sun Bin and Zhang Heng can defeat Li and Yu Hang, otherwise they would not have been able to break the city by relying on cavalry.

After all, the city walls can block the onslaught of horses, and the siege of the city still depends on the infantry......

After breaking through Yuhang and Xili, Sun Bin and Zhang Heng pulled up 50,000 strong men in these two places, and the army led by Sun Bin had reached the scale of 100,000 at this time......

Although the real combat strength of these 100,000 is cavalry troops, there is no standing army available in Yue except for the standing army in Huiji.

The 400,000 Vietnamese troops in Xuancheng had surrendered to the state of Chu under the leadership of Wu Li......

No one guessed that the Vietnamese army in Wuli's hands would abandon Xuancheng and surrender to the Chu army in this way......

At this time, in the camp of the Qi army outside Fujiao, Sun Bin looked at the battle report: "This Wuli actually surrendered!" ”

"I thought that this Chu army would be in the Xuancheng War for a year, but I didn't expect that after only three months of fighting, this Wu Yuan surrendered!" Zhang Heng said on the side.

"It stands to reason that if you don't surrender, you can really fight in a year, after all, this Xuancheng has enough food, and there are 400,000 standing elites of the Yue Kingdom!" Sun Bin said to Zhang Heng.

"Well, it seems that the two of us can't rest yet, we have to quickly break through Fu Jiao to reach Huiji!" Sun Bin said to Zhang Heng.

At this time, outside Gusu City, Tian Dan had already selected soldiers who knew water in Zhu Fang and arrived at Gusu City.

"I really didn't expect Wuli to surrender!" Zhong Jun on the side said.

"Gusu City must be taken within a week, we have to go to Huiji to meet Sun Bin and them!" Guan Zhong said to Tian Dan.

"Understood!" Tian Dan sounded the horn of war, and the Qi army began to attack the city of Gusu......

The moat of Gusu City is very large, but fortunately, there are more soldiers in the Qi army who know how to water, and the vanguard of the Qi army who rushed to the first row is actually a death squad, they set up a ladder, and this group of people is basically a strong man pulled from Zhongwu and Pengcheng......

Those who began to ascend the city in the middle understood water, and the siege vehicles of the Qi army had also arrived at the gate of Gusu City......

Guan Zhong clapped his hands: "It's time to play, our new weapon!" I saw the Qi army pushing five major wooden utensils to the outside of Gusu City.

"I learned about this thing from the maritime merchants a long time ago, and I bought the design drawings from them, but it has not been used, and after arriving at Zhongwu, we just rectified the soldiers, so I asked people to develop five units to try the effect!" Guan Zhong said to Tian Dan.

"This thing is called a catapult by the maritime merchants!" Guan Zhong said to Tian Dan (Maritime merchants, merchants outside the Zhou Empire, or merchants who went overseas to do business!) ）

Three of the five huge catapults were placed with boulders, and the remaining two were placed with an iron spherical object!

"Launch!" Guan Zhong gave an order, only to see the stone fly towards the city wall, and the two iron spherical objects reached the city wall with a bang......

"What is this iron ball? The power is so. Tian Dan looked at Guan Zhong and asked.

"I learned from my maritime merchants, they call it cannonballs, but this thing is very difficult to make, and it took three months for us to make twenty of them!" Guan Zhong said to Tian Dan.

"If we were in Pengcheng, we would have this thing......" Tian Dan sighed as he looked at it.

"This thing is only suitable for siege purposes!" Guan Zhong said to Tian Dan.

Tian Dan didn't think so at first, but later found out that this thing could really only be used for siege, because it took about an hour for a stone or a cannonball to be filled......

For an hour, you're still filling up the shells, and the army has already arrived in front of you......

"What is this?" Xie Fu looked at the five catapults under the city and was stunned......

"I've heard this before, it's called a trebuchet and it's a siege weapon!" It was Liu Fang, the county guard of Gusu City, who spoke.

"How can this Qi army have such a thing?" Xie Fu said incomprehensibly.

"This kind of thing is only available in the Qi Kingdom, this thing comes from outside the empire, and the Qi State is the country with the most merchants outside the Song Kingdom, they have a lot of maritime merchants, this thing should be brought by the maritime merchants!" Liu Fang said to Xie Fu.

With the catapult, the siege was quite smooth, only four hours, at this time the large army of Qi arrived at the city tower, and the city gate had been opened......

"Remove the catapult!" Guan Zhong said to the soldiers in front.

Although the catapult is very powerful, it can only be used for siege, after all, a catapult needs hundreds of people to control, and it can be released once in an hour at the earliest...... This time, only two of the Qi army were released once in an hour, and the remaining three were only released twice in these four hours.