I have been preparing for more than two months, and if I am really nervous and panicked, it is also a situation that will only arise when I just found out.

Because of the early preparations, whether it was the generals or the soldiers, they were not surprised by the outbreak of war. It is precisely because of the two months of preparation, seeing that the war really broke out, although I was scared, I was more relieved, the time to come is always here, Lu Zhe has been treating them well, or dying on the battlefield or making military achievements, it depends on the present day!

In the direction of Nanyang County, there was news that the Qin army was coming, and it was sent to Hengshan County and Cangwu County the next day. The content sent to Hengshan County was to let the lieutenant step up the construction of the fort, and at the same time, the lieutenant also needed to dispatch 30,000 soldiers to be on standby at any time. The order sent to Cangwu County was for Wuliang to mobilize troops to rush to the lower reaches of Yuanshui, cooperate with the Yikan Bureau to annihilate the 6,000 Qin troops, and then march to the first line of the Yangtze River tributary (modern Wujiang), and choose a location close to the county to be secretly stationed.

If you don't move, you really want to move the "big crab" should also exert the power of the arrangement, and the tongs of Hengshan County, which is also adjacent to Nanyang County, are ready to go, and the other pliers of Cangwu County can be waved out first after they are ready.

Cangwu County borders on Ba County, and the Qin army attacks Nan County, so Lü Zhe will wave his army from a more southern position to attack Ba County, the soft rib of Qin State, and taking Tong County is equivalent to occupying the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, cutting off the road between Jiangzhou, the capital of Ba County, and Qu Ren, the land of grain hoarding. At the same time, controlling Zhan Tong County was also equivalent to containing the Qin army in Ba County, and minimizing the threat of the Qin army's possible attack down the river, and at that time, the front-line troops of Nan County in Ba County would be able to withdraw to support the needed defense line.

Lu Zhe's side is not busy restoring the Zhao State, and they have been preparing for war with all their strength in the past two months. Wang Ben, who had a cavalry army, was able to sweep two hundred miles in three days and nights and rarely encountered resistance, and as soon as the Qin army attacking Nanjun approached the border, it was blocked by the fortress and encountered resistance.

Taiyuan County has many terrain plains, and Wang Ben was able to sweep two hundred miles in three days and nights, relying on the cavalry, and then the Zhao army was lax.

The terrain in the south is mostly mountains and forests, and even if the incoming Qin army has cavalry, it is also large. Lu Zhe had built forts on various key roads in advance to block the way, and it was difficult for the Qin army to form a sweeping trend at the beginning.

Of the six forts in the direction of Deng County, only one rose with wolf smoke. It shows that the 20,000 forwards of the Qin army did not adopt the strategy of dividing their troops, but were concentrating on attacking one place; The seven forts in the direction of Shandu only raised a warning wolf, and it seemed that the 20,000 troops of the Qin army on this road had not yet selected a target to attack.

The role of the fortress group lies in this, which plays the role of early warning and makes it time-consuming to attack when the enemy attacks, and there is a risk of being attacked in the back if you do not make a detour. Of course, if the army is strong, you can also choose to leave part of the army to besiege, and the rest of the army will continue to move forward, but there is not only one fort, but at least six, how many troops should be left?

Lu Zhe had already discovered that the number of Qin troops coming to attack was only 100,000 for the time being. It seems that Qin's temptation is that the forces of the north and the south are the same. If the 100,000 Qin army wanted to besiege the fortress, at least 40,000 troops should be left, and only 60,000 were left who could continue the invasion. What can the 60,000 Qin army do when they invade Nanjun? Advancing to Ye County still has to attack again.

The chief general of the 100,000 Qin army was called Sima Xin, who was originally the chief of Shangjun, and after the establishment of the Central Plains Legion by Qin, he was transferred to the right lieutenant general of the legion.

Sima Xin was ordered to lead 100,000 Qin soldiers to the south, and stationed on the front line of the water, and clearly 40,000 tried to explore two directions. Deng County was discovered thirty miles away from Nanjun, and he also wanted to see how the fortress system in Nanjun was different from the fortress built by Meng Tian in northern Xinjiang, and attacked it one by one. When the 20,000 troops of Shandu Road crossed the river, they were delayed by a day by burning ash pontoons in fire boats, and they simply did not move when they advanced to the border of Nanjun. Wait for Deng County to capture a soldier fort all the way to accumulate experience.

The 20,000 Qin troops in the direction of Deng County had been attacking a fort for two days, and Sima Xin got a rough drawing, and it seemed that the fort in Nanjun was really very different from the fort in northern Xinjiang.

The fort built by Meng Tian has four walls, with corridors and arrow towers as the main means of defense. The fort in Nanjun also has a perimeter wall, but it is higher than the fort in the northern frontier, and it is not square but angular, and there is an inverted "V" shaped cover that blocks the sky on the walkway that allows people. On the periphery of the city, there are horses and barricades. The main body of the fort is a strange multi-storey angular type, which is completely different from the single-storey scattered buildings in northern Xinjiang.

The outer layer of the fort is empty, and there are many arrow holes in the wall. The top floor resembles the multi-faceted slope of an arrow tower. Outsiders can't see the layout of the inside from the outside, in fact, the inside is also full of corridors, the left and right walls of the corridor have a lot of holes for spears to pierce out, and individual corridors are low and hollowed out, as long as the defenders hiding in the dark room pull the mechanism, the enemy on the corridor should fall into it and be stabbed and injured by sharp wood.

The polygonal fort will be shot by the defenders' arrows when attacked from any direction, and this fort is built by water, one side is Hanshui, and one side is muddy, so there are only two directions left to choose.

It is impossible for 20,000 Qin troops to attack the fort that occupies about two miles, mainly because the fort is so large, and there are too many troops to carry it out, and a layered attack is the most correct way to attack the fort. The Qin army has attacked countless cities, how could they not know this?

At the beginning of the march, two thousand Qin crossbowmen lined up an arrow array at a distance of about four hundred and fifty steps from the fort, and just put the arrow array out before the sound of the bang to shoot a salvo, the fort was the first to shoot crossbow arrows, and at least more than 100 Qin crossbowmen in the queue were killed or wounded by arrows for a time. Fortunately, there were not many crossbow machines with a range of up to 450 paces on the outer wall of the fort, and the two thousand Qin crossbowmen stubbornly resisted the crossbow arrows fired by the fort, and lost more than 300 crossbowmen several times, and no crossbow arrows came from the direction of the fort.

The Qin army was good at using the advantages of bows and arrows, and with a little judgment, it was deduced that the defenders of the fort would not have more than 100 crossbows with a range of 450 paces. After they had finished suppressing the ten bed crossbows that they had brought up, they also arrived, and after adjusting the elevation angle at a distance of about five hundred paces from the fort, they struck at the hanging teeth, and there was a "buzzing" sound, and ten crossbow arrows about a battle long burst through the air and rushed towards the fort.

They had a subtle "buzzing" sound as they flew through the air, forming a semicircle and landing on the outer wall of the fort, some relying on the power of triangular arrows to penetrate the wall, others shooting through the top of the inverted "V".

The powerful thick crossbow arrow will shake when it is inserted into a depth of about twenty centimeters, and seven or eight crossbow arrows shot at the outer wall of the fort will make a loud noise one after another, and each sound will be made, and the defenders in the wall will feel a slight shock under their feet.

The thickness of the inverted "V" cover was no problem with the defensive bow and the arrows of the pouting crossbow, but it was not enough to resist the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow, and two long crossbow arrows fired at the top cover pierced through, and the top cover was partially broken by the powerful bed crossbow. One branch was stuck in the aisle without a shot, and the other was blocked and was able to penetrate a defender through the chest and nail it to the ground at an angle of 80 degrees.

The Qin army, which controlled the bed crossbow, was adjusting the elevation angle, and after another volley, this time five bed crossbows hit the top of the outer wall of the fort. Presumably, they want to destroy the roof on the wall profile and let the crossbow arrows behind them exert their power?

The Qin army's bed crossbow shot continuously, and each time there were several crossbow arrows of one battle long hitting the target, and at the same time as the bed crossbow shooting, the Qin army's arrow array also sounded the sound of bangzi, and wave after wave of dense arrows roared out.

The arrow array formed a suppression, and the infantry pressed forward in formation, preparing to move away from the horses and barricades on the periphery, and at this time, arrows began to be shot out of the main body of the fort, killing and wounding the Qin soldiers who rushed up to open the obstacles.

The Bunker's counterattack attracted the attention of the Bed Crossbow, who immediately fired the bolts at the location of the Bunker where the arrows were shot, but because the Bed Crossbow was not very accurate, it could only serve as a deterrent, and the guns in the Bunker's firing hole still kept shooting arrows.

The setting of obstacles such as rejecting horses itself takes into account the shooting distance from the fort, the Qin army's bed crossbow can shoot at the fort, but the crossbowman's crossbow arrow shooting distance is not enough.

After the bed crossbow turned, the Qin army's arrow array still suppressed the outer wall of the defenders, so that they could only hide behind the female wall and did not dare to take the lead. After firing a few waves, the arrow array advanced forward for some distance, which was exactly the range that the main body of the rear fort could not threaten. When they reach the projectile range, they switch to projectile, and the defenders on the wall in the projectile state will be killed by arrows falling from the sky even if they are hiding behind the female wall, forcing the defenders to temporarily transfer their troops. In this way, although the infantry of the Qin army attacking will still be shot by the arrows of the main body of the fort, the threat is much smaller.

The Qin army rushed three times on the morning of the first day, paying the price of more than 100 casualties to clear three-tenths of them.

It has never been easy to attack the fort, the generals of the Qin army who led this army transferred a thousand shield soldiers at noon, they raised their shields to cover five hundred robes and stepped forward, the defenders of the main body of the fort only shot three rounds and saw that they could not form an effective killing and no longer released arrows, and the defenders of the outer wall outline would usher in the shooting of the Qin army's arrow array as soon as they emerged, and they could only watch the obstacles set up being removed one by one.

By evening, the Qin army had cleared six-tenths of the obstacles on the periphery of the fort, and during this time, the fort had neither released arrows nor sent troops, and the silence was a little strange.

As night approached, the Qin army withdrew its troops.

Relying on powerful ranged troops, the Qin army had almost cleared the outer obstacles in one day, giving them the confidence to carry out a battle of the city the next day.

The first contact between the Nanjun defense force and the Qin army was accompanied by arrows flying in the middle of the sky, and after waiting for the Qin army to withdraw its troops, the fort was full of arrows, making it look like a strange creature with hair.

After the armies of the two armies ceased fighting, they each carried out the casualty statistics, and the losses of the Qin army were close to 500, and the defenders of the fort suffered 131 casualties because of the fortifications as a support.

The Qin army had 20,000 troops, and the garrison in the fort was only 1,000, and this was the first day of the Qin army's initial trial. (To be continued......)