Daliang City under the moon was peaceful, there was no fighting in the city at night, the fire that ignited in the north city at noon had been extinguished, there were no lights in the huge city, and the cold moonlight shone on the white vast houses and open spaces, covering the color of blood. The north wind blew wildly, and the smell of fireworks after burning was blown away, and only the smell of corn and rice diffused in the air.

The Qin army guessed that there would be a night attack tonight, so they had already taken precautions. I also guessed that the enemy would attack the girder by blowing through the city gate with gunpowder, and the gate that went out of the city during the day was not blocked at all, but the violent explosion was still terrifying. Before the smoke cleared, the panicked crossbow general stood up in a panic and shouted the order to 'shoot' in a panic.

The crossbowmen, whose heads were still dizzy and whose hands and feet were weakened with fright, also pulled their brackets in a panic, and their long crossbow arms slammed into the crossbow carriage with a continuous thud. One by one, the arrows were fired into the smoke, and after the crossbowman had finished shooting, he hurriedly wound up and fired again. By the time Su Fu, the commander who was ambushed here, recovered from the explosion, more than 50 strong crossbows had been fired several rounds.

'Boom——! The explosion resumed, but not at the south gate, but at the south gate on the east side. Su Fu, who heard clearly that it was the south side, secretly screamed in his heart, the enemy was attacking from east to west, and the real place to enter the city was not here, but the south gate that had been blocked. He didn't know how the dirt inside the door had exploded, but he heard the sound of drums mixed with shouts that the enemy had already entered Daliang City.

The explosions could be heard for dozens of miles, and Xiong Jing on the south bank of Muze also heard these two explosions. Unlike the thick rammed-earth walls, the concrete walls were so thin that they could be blown apart by a single blow to the blockage in the doorway, so the shogunate devised a strategy to strike at the west. Hearing the sound of drums from the north, Xiong Jing's hanging heart finally let go, and they entered the city.

"Da Ao ......" Xiong Jing was not alone in hearing the sound of the drum, but also Sima Ming, who was in full armor and had been waiting, also heard these sounds. The battle in Daliang City can only be said to be a partial division, and this partial division wants to drag the Qin people in Daliang.

Xiong Jing knew what the generals meant. More than 1,000 people attacked Daliang at night, and the Chu army would not be without action. He nodded and said, "The whole army is out of camp!" ”

"Da Ao has a life, the whole army will pull out the camp!" Military orders were conveyed quickly. The knights, who had rested all afternoon, galloped across the snowfield, dispersing the Qin army that had isolated the nearby cavalry. The divisions that had been prepared for a long time quickly collected their accounts and lined up, and after half an hour, the Xiang Division and the Huainan Division hurriedly left the camp. Their ranks were the same as in the daytime, and each division marched in four columns, and sixteen marches walked on the snow, and the ice and snow under their feet were clattering.

In order to rush to the Shahai Sea as soon as possible, despite the backwardness of the baggage, the Chu army still pulled out the camp and went north overnight. The actions of the twenty divisions could not be concealed for long, and the Xiang division had not yet gone ten miles, and the urgent report reached Shahai, and Wang Jian, who was worried about the chaos in Daliang City and might not be able to break through the southern city in three days, was shocked when he heard the news, he did not expect that his cavalry did not delay the enemy for even a day, and the Chu army was actually not afraid of chaos and marching at night.

"Can our army attack at night?" Looking at the summoned generals, Wang Jian asked. This was a question to everyone, but his eyes finally stopped at Yu Fen. The night attack could only rely on the cavalry, and at least the cavalry should disperse the Chu cavalry on the periphery of the Chu army's marching army.

Wang Jian looked at Yu Fen, who took a breath of cold air and half-opened his mouth, but he just opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a while. In the end, it was the shogunate's priest who stepped forward and said, "General, this is not possible." ”

"Why not?" The shogunate priests mainly used a hundred medicines to cure gold sores and cure all diseases. Such a person should be respected, but Wang Jian was a little annoyed that he didn't answer immediately, and asked a loud voice.

"General, our soldiers are blind, they can't see at night, and they can't attack at night." Fang Shi was well aware of the physical condition of the Qin soldiers. The physique of the Qin soldiers was originally stronger than that of the Six Kingdoms, but as the war went on, there were fewer and fewer strong soldiers, and in the past few years, there was a great hunger, and there were very few really strong soldiers. Soldiers are weak and diseases emerge one after another, and blindness is one of them.

For the sake of a long time, of course, Wang Jian knew that he could not see at night, and in normal times, there were many people who were blind, but at this time there were even more. Even among the 140,000 people who fled from the Shashui War, many soldiers suffered from this disease. But he still didn't want to give up, and asked Yu Fen directly: "How much is the blind person in the stroke?" ”

"General, there are many blind people in the cavalry." There are Fangshi to break the siege, and Yu Fen is greatly relieved. He didn't want to attack at night not because some people in the army were suffering from bird blindness, but because the cavalry army was newly defeated today, and the unprepared night attack on the Chu army would definitely not be too good.

"The cavalry can attack the Jing people again tomorrow, cut off the Jing people's food route, and don't attack at night tonight." Liu Chi knew Wang Qian's intentions, but many of the sergeants and soldiers in the army did suffer from finch blindness, and the hunters and herdsmen in the cavalry were okay, these people often ate meat, and the county cavalry could only guarantee the food of millet in recent years, and the meat could not be guaranteed for a long time.

Fang Shi, the general of the cavalry, and the heart of the cavalry were all against the night attack, Wang Jian had to wave his hand, but he was still unwilling to say: "Why is this Jing man not blind?" Can Jing people eat meat on weekdays? ”

Wang Jian asked Jing Ren with a complaint, and the generals and strategists didn't dare to answer this question at all. Those who know dare not praise the enemy, and those who do not know dare not guess. The Chu army did eat meat every day, and these meats were mainly fish and poultry, and then beef and horse meat. The fish meat is because the Chu State has fishing boats, and they catch fish vigorously during the fishing flood every year; Poultry meat is the poultry of the Chu State that no longer hatches naturally, but is artificially heated and hatched;

Beef and horse meat was captured on the battlefield, and three or four thousand horse corpses were left in the Shashui battle alone, plus the entire battlefield left, there were tens of thousands of horse corpses and cattle corpses, and these meats were made into canned food and supplied to all divisions of the Chu army. But this is not the ultimate reason why the Chu army does not suffer from bird blindness, the key is that the Chu army added carrots to its diet, which was brought to the Chu country by Ngago Wala from his hometown.

The health of the Qin soldiers and the Chu army was not fully understood. The Qin soldiers rarely surrendered because they were afraid of the fate of the Changping Zhao army. The health level of the small number of Qin soldiers who surrendered was very unstable, but in general, the physical fitness of the Qin soldiers in the early stage was higher than that of the Chu army, and it was not good in the later period, and many of the Qin soldiers captured in the later period were not as good as the Lu division. The height is tall, but thin, and the average lung volume is about 3,300, and more than one-third of them are below the Chu army enlistment standard.

As dark as the lights, including the Great Sima Mansion and the Shogunate strategists, the Chu army did not realize that the Qin army, which was previously stronger than itself, had fallen behind them in terms of physique, armor, training, etc., and the result of the Battle of Daze made the Chu people faintly think that the Qin army was still stronger than themselves. The 600,000-strong army weighed on everyone's hearts like a mountain, and the closer they got to the chasm, the heavier it became.

The Chu army pulled out the camp, lined up, waited, and set up camp, and began to march in the second spring, and the Chu army rushed to the south bank of the chasm to set up camp in the second half of the night when the rooster crowed. Taking advantage of these four hours, the Qin army camp on the south bank of the chasm and the Zhuanguan pontoon bridge on the chasm were all withdrawn to the north bank of the chasm. The ice was three inches thick, and Tian Pu's boatmen could no longer sail into the pond, but the river flowing in the chasm did not freeze three inches of ice. Even if it froze, Zhan Zhou and Qin Pawn would find a way to smash the ice open.

When the front army of the Chu army arrived on the south bank of the chasm, the chasm was full of silhouettes of the Qin army's five-oarled war boats, and behind these war boats was the rammed earth wall on the north bank. With gunpowder in hand, no city wall can withstand an explosion, but if you want to blow up this wall, you must first cross the chasm, and if you want to cross the chasm, you must drive away from the warships on the water several miles wide of the chasm.

This is not a difficult matter, when the Chu army set up camp, the artillery soldiers had already set up a column in the selected place. As soon as the fort was built, the gunners began to fire. At this time, the curtain of the shogunate had just been erected, and the rumbling cannons in the middle of the night not only did not make people panic, but calmed the whole army. After setting up the black curtain, the barracks quickly quieted down, except for the generals on duty at night, the rest of the generals slept peacefully.

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As soon as the night fell, there were two loud noises in the northern city, followed by chaotic drums and fighting sounds, and Wei Zeng, the king of Wei who had not slept in the southern city of Daliang, heard these two loud noises and his sluggish spirit suddenly lifted. This is the Chu army coming! He immediately summoned the veteran Jin Zhu and asked him to send troops to respond. To this day, Wei not only has no soldiers to fight, but also no generals to fight. Fortunately, Jin Zhu did not rush in, and after investigation, it was found that the drums and fighting in the north city were not intense, this was not the Chu army entering the city, this was a small army attacking the city at night. Refusal to send troops.

Jin Zhu is the general of the Wei army, he said that there is no way to send troops to Wei Zeng, and he sat in the bed for several hours, the sound of fighting in the north city became smaller and smaller, and when Wei Zeng, Xiangbang Cai Wen and others were almost asleep, there was a cannon sound from the west.

"Sea of sand! The Chu army is attacking the Sand Sea! Wei Zeng jumped up sharply, his hem was very long, and he almost fell when he stepped on the corner of his hem.

"Indeed, it is a sea of sand!" The sound of cannons was endless, and Cai Wen also heard that the sound of cannons came from the west.

Jin Zhu is a general, and the general's sense of direction is naturally much better than that of Wen Chen. When the cannon rang out again, he said, "It's not a sea of sand, it's a chasm." ”

The sea of sand is in the northwest of Daliang, the chasm is due west of Daliang, the cannon is roaring, it is difficult to distinguish under the excitement, but when you calm down and listen carefully, you can still find the difference between the two, and the cannon sound does come from the chasm in the west direction. Because of the lack of troops, the outer city wall was occupied by the Qin army, and only the royal city was left and many Lu domains were in the hands of the Wei army, and the Wei army could not see the situation outside the city.

Jin Zhu, who recalled the chasm, quickly guessed why the cannon sound sounded in the direction of the chasm, "The Qin people attacked my Daliang, and the Chu army took the opportunity to attack the Shahai. However, the ice surface is not thick, and the Qifeng to the sand sea must pass through the west of Fengze, so the Qin people are on the north bank of the chasm to block the Chu army. ”

"So what?" Wei Zeng grabbed Jin Zhu's arm, and the Qin army continued to kill, and the Wei army couldn't last long.

"The Chu army will break through the Qin base," Jin Zhu was very sure, but he was stunned halfway through this, and his thick eyebrows were furrowed together.

"How?" Whether it is Wei Zeng, Cai Wen, or the ministers of Wei in the Ming Hall, they all look at Jin Zhu.

"If this battle is lost, the world will die!" As soon as Jin Zhu spoke, he couldn't help but sigh.