Chapter 59: The Way Back

Didn't Li Xin want to rob the corn in the fields of Chu and Wei? Then capture Xiangcheng and cut off his back road. Then burn all the way along the line of Xiangcheng-Fangcheng, forcing Li Xin to return to the rear. Once the reinforcements were returned, the Qin army's forces would be scattered on the logistics line from Xiangcheng to Wancheng and even to Xiangyang, which was hundreds of miles long. At that time, it was the moment of decisive battle between the two armies.

The second division led by Jing Sheng rushed to the forefront as the vanguard of the whole army, and the remaining more than 8,000 knights lined up a horizontal formation about three miles long. The horses did not run, but walked at a brisk pace. Looking at the knights on the left and right who were walking briskly and trying to keep the line straight, Xiong Jing suddenly touched the bypass.

The so-called ancient cavalry could not form a cavalry wall when charging, only modern cavalry could do it. Is the reason that the war horses of modern armies, like the infantry, stipulate the standard length of constant step, fast step, and running step? If the pace of each horse was the same, the line would have been able to remain in an almost straight line as the whole army marched forward at a brisk pace, as it is now. If you are fast, so should you charge.

Xiangcheng is thirty miles away, in order to maintain the horsepower to take a fast step, the ups and downs on the horseback Xiong Jing thought about the cavalry riding the wall, only felt that the root of the formation of the riding wall is different from the length of the pace, if the whole army of war horses are advancing with the same length of pace, a rhythm, when charging will inevitably form a 'knee to knees' riding wall.

The sky was only cloudy and drizzling, and the Qin people could not have expected that the Chu army would appear north of Rushui. Twenty miles away, when he was resting to feed the horses, looking at the reprimands who came to him from afar, Xiong Jing asked, "How is Xiangcheng?" ”

"Your lord, Xiangcheng is unprepared!" The knight who came to him said. "The Qin people transported millet back day and night, and transported it to the north of Fencheng through Xiangcheng, and there were countless Korean soldiers in the north and south of Rushui."

"A bunch of thieves!" Hearing this, Yu Jing scolded, "They are no different from the Qin people, they should be killed!" ”

"Koreans are also helpless." Zhuang Wudi argued. "The Qin people add up their spears, what can the Han people do if they don't obey?"

"They can fight for their lives with the Qin people, and if they are timid and dare not fight for their lives, they can move south to Chu." Fei Jing said again. "If they don't die, they won't leave, they are willing to be the people of Qin, so they should naturally be killed."

"How does Cheng Jiujun know that they can make a living by moving south?" Fei Jing was finally renamed in Chengjiu, a county north of Jingling. Zhuang Wudi called him a gentleman at this time, not respect, but more to accuse him of ignorant people's suffering. "The king, the minister thinks it is ......"

Zhuang Wudi wanted to persuade Xiong Jing to let the Han people survive during the attack, Xiong Jing interrupted: "The Qin people threatened each other with killing, and the Han people had to obey." If we are merciful, mortals will follow the Qin army into the Chu realm in the future and plunder them wantonly. Whoever is good will bully whom, does Sima think so? ”

"This ......" The Qin people are very bad, so the Chu people should be very good, this is Zhuang Wudi's logic, Xiong Jing's logic is that since the Qin people are very bad, then the Chu people must be worse than the Qin people, otherwise the Han people will not have any scruples about following the Qin army into Chu in the future.

Xiong Jing is talking about the survival logic of the common people, and the same is true for the soldiers of the old city under the rule. Themselves are good to them, and they keep fleeing; The Qin army treated them badly, and none of the old Yingmen soldiers in Fangcheng who were requisitioned before the resumption of Yingcheng fled back to their hometowns for several years.

He was already tired of hearing the news of the newly formed division brigade, as if there was no such army in the Chu army sequence. But he never intended to sit in the army like the Qin army, severely punishing deserters in peacetime, and short-handed troops in wartime. Those who are willing to fight will join the Chu army, and those who are not willing to fight should not go into the barracks.

"The minister thinks that the king should be careful about the world...... "The time to rest and feed the horses is very short, only half an hour, and Zhuang Wudi hurries up the time to admonish.

"No! There is only the state of Chu in the hearts of the widows. Xiong Jing had already mounted his horse at this time, and Chang Jiang handed him the riding spear. As soon as he started his spear, his expression suddenly changed, his face was full of murderous aura, and he couldn't hear what he said anymore.

Xiong Jing got on his horse, and Fei Jing and the knights of the guards also got on their horses, and all the more than 8,000 knights of the whole army got on their horses. I don't know who shouted, and the knights of the whole army cheered loudly. The three-headed phoenix flag that was originally gathered was erected in the drizzle at this moment, Xiong Jing shouted 'enter', and the phoenix flag pointed eastward, and the war horse was no longer moving forward as fast as just now, but running on the horse.

The rhythm of the war horses marching briskly is 'da-da, da-da-da......', and the rhythm of running and advancing has become 'da-da-da, da-da-da-da......' More than 8,000 war horses trampled on the fields after the rain, the sound of hooves was dull and fast, galloping in the mud to Xiangcheng, ten miles away.

Ten miles is already a very close distance, and on the Ruping Plain, you can already see the Qin army flag planted on the tower of the Xiangcheng City Gate. However, the rain curtain obscured everything, the mud covered the sound of hooves, and when the Chu army galloped to Xiangcheng five miles away to join Jingsheng's second cavalry division, Xiangcheng was still unaware in the drizzle.

The news of Qin's defeat was tightly sealed, and the news of the victory was not only widely spread, but Zhao Zheng also ordered the whole country to be drunk. 'The battle of Daze, the great army boat division broke the Jing people, the Jing people died 200,000, and the water was jammed', such propaganda war reports spread all over the Qin State and even the world, and when the news of the five days of Dayu was transmitted to Xiangcheng, the whole city was drunk for a while.

Xiangcheng Chengyi Mansion, the general stationed in this city, Anqi, was drunk and still not awake. In the past ten years, Qin and Chu have been fighting, and all of them have been defeated by the Qin army, and the Qin army has been extremely afraid of the Chu army. Unexpectedly, the Chu army died 200,000 in the first battle of Daze, and no one could believe it.

Whether the water was really blocked because the Chu army killed 200,000 people, the generals of Xiangcheng did not know, but the general Li Xin led the Qin army directly into Fangcheng without resistance, and it was rumored that the Xiang division and other divisions stationed in Fangcheng were all transferred west. It's a very simple inference: if it weren't for the defeat of the Chu army in Daze, why would Xiang Shi abandon Fang City and not defend it?

After a night of drinking, everyone kept shouting 'Jing people also have today' when they were half drunk and half awake, so that An Qi, who was sleeping soundly at this time, was still muttering: "Jing people are also today, Jing people are also today, haha......"

......When the Chu army rushed from the west to Xiangcheng three miles away, the soldier Lifu, who was transporting grain from Xiangcheng to the north, saw the sudden cavalry and was stunned at first, and when he saw that it was the Chu army that was killed, he immediately scattered. The abnormal movement and shouting in the north of the city attracted the attention of the soldiers in the city, and in a blink of an eye, I saw that the iron cavalry of the Chu army was several miles wide and bright armor rushing to the west, and the police drum at the head of the city suddenly sounded.

After a long time on the battlefield, no matter how drunk you are, you also have the most basic vigilance. As soon as the drum sounded, Anche jumped up from the side of the woman on the bed, and the sword was in his hand, and before he could stand still, he shouted, "Why are you beating the drum?" Why the drums?! ”

Anqi was naked, and the guards did not taboo him naked, and when he came in, he said: "General Yu, beat the drum in the west and north of the city, or scout the Jing people." ”

"Thorn scouts?" Anche did not believe such an explanation. The Chu army even abandoned Wancheng, and the entire Fangcheng was allowed to be attacked by the Qin army, so how could it be possible to send a cavalry to the north out of Fangcheng and around to the west of Xiangcheng? Or, since the Chu army sent soldiers out of Fangcheng to the west of Xiangcheng, how could it be a repulsion cavalry?

"Armor, armor!" Anche's thoughts were quick, and he concluded that it wasn't the Jing scouts who had been killed.

On the outer city wall, Qin Shu was hurriedly pulling up the suspension bridge and closing the city gate, but the three-mile gallop was only a matter of more than a minute for Ryoma. The Qin army found the abnormality, and before the drummer beat the drum, the dragon horse knight at the forefront of the rain curtain had already rushed into three miles; The drums sounded, and the Qin soldiers in the city stepped on the slippery ground to pull up the rollers of the drawbridge, and the knights had galloped outside the moat. Jing Sheng, who took the lead, rushed to the suspension bridge and cut the rope of the suspension bridge with a sword, and the wheels in the city were useless no matter how they turned.

"Hanging doors! Quick-release hanging door! As soon as the cavalry of the Chu army broke in, the gate guards who were closing the heavy city gate rushed to disperse, and the last resort was to put down the hanging gate weighing thousands of catties and divide the enemy who broke into the city and the enemy who was still outside the city in two.

The Qin soldiers in the city rushed to the top of the hanging gate when they heard the order, opened the machine and wanted to put down the hanging door, and at this time, Jing Sheng, who rushed into the city gate hole, shouted to a dozen knights behind him: "Resist, resist the hanging door." ”

The hanging door weighs 1,000 kilograms, and the so-called kilograms are only 250 kilograms. The Chu army, which had long expected that the Qin people would put down the hanging gate, had more than a dozen knights who did not carry armor, but carried a piece of beams and pillars that could fit together and were of the same length. Looking at the position of the hanging gate, in the hole of the city gate several zhang wide, these beams and columns stand in a row along the position where the hanging gate falls.

The hanging door cannot fall suddenly, and if it falls suddenly, the stone door will be smashed, and it can only fall slowly. The slowly falling hanging door happened to be lifted up by several thick beams and columns, and it could not fall down again in mid-air. The knights of the Chu army, who rushed to the west gate, rushed to the drawbridge, poured into the doorway, and quickly passed under the hanging gate. As soon as they rushed out of the door, they followed their comrades in front of them and shouted: "Kill——! ”

When Anqi left the city with Haojia, there were already shouts of killing inside and outside the city. When he ascended the inner city tower, he only saw a group of Chu army cavalry soldiers pouring into the outer city from the west, although the Qin army in the outer city was resisting, but he was caught off guard, and faced with the Jing iron cavalry, the two armies did not fight, half of the array had collapsed, and all the soldiers rushed to the inner city.

"How can this be?" Xiangcheng is the base camp of the Qin army, and there are no less than 20,000 Qin troops stationed there, but as soon as the morning dawns, the Chu army unexpectedly enters the outer city, and the Qin soldiers who have no command are only slaughtered.

"Close the gates!" The outer city can no longer be saved, and what Anchi can do is to defend the inner city.

"The general has an order, close the city gates." The officer shouted. Driven by the Chu army, the soldiers from the outer city rushed to the inner city like headless flies, and the inner city was closed, and the life and death of these people were in the hands of the Chu army.

"Close the gates!" The Qin soldiers in the city used bows and crossbows, and the Qin soldiers in the city gate cave used their chieftain spears to force the incoming defeated army out of the city gate hole, and the city gate slowly closed. Qin Pawn, who knew that he had been abandoned, shouted and scolded, but the city gate finally slammed shut.

"It's King Jing!" At this time, Anqi climbed the inner city tower, standing here not only to see the inner and outer cities, but also to see the outside of the city. At a glance, he saw the three-headed phoenix flag floating in the wind and rain outside the West City Gate. "Quickly tell the general, King Jing has invaded Xiangcheng."

"General, it's raining at this time, and the flight can't be communicated." Left and right. The autumn rain hindered the communication of the Chu army, and naturally also hindered the communication of the Qin army.

"Then send someone out of the city quickly!" King Jing's appearance in Xiangcheng is not trivial, this is to copy the back road of the Qin army.

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