Both armies crossed the river in a wide area with a slow current, and then burrowed into the mountains and forests. The two armies marched towards the Chu camp in a pincer formation, but they did not go far before they found that a trench blocked the way, and the direction of the trench blocked them in a very unfavorable position below. On the inside of the ditch is a wall of earth dug out of the ditch, and there is a gap every ten meters, and each gap is more than one meter wide. The walls were filled with former allies with bows and arrows, who had not long ago drunk and ravaged with them, killing and looting together. When the defenders saw the approaching army, they began to fire arrows.

Yong Leopard led the army to attack with a shield in hand, and he suddenly saw the military flag of the fish roe, and saw the fish roe next to the military flag to draw and direct the battle. Yong Leopard couldn't help but grit his teeth and roared: "Fish roe, your oath is still in your ears, and the blood in your mouth has not dried yet." Thou hast now renounced thy covenant, and turned to my enemies against thy allies; Aren't you afraid of the gods condemning you? ”

Roe said, "Leopard, it was your father who forced us to form an alliance, not of our own free will. If the forced oath must be fulfilled, then there is justice in the world? But now, what I see is that the gods are inflicting sin on you and killing your kingdom, and the widows are acting according to the will of the gods! ”

The leopard was furious and ordered a strong attack. However, the ensuing battle was very brief, and the fishmen condescended to fire arrows and arrows, inflicting a lot of damage on the enemy, and the attack was fruitless. The generals finally persuaded Yongzi to retract his order to die, and Yongzi resisted for a while under the cover of trees and then retreated.

But the Qin army suddenly rushed out from the breach of the guard wall, and the sergeants were expressionless, without saying a word, and frantically assassinated the enemy mercilessly. The mediocre people had never seen such a fierce and vicious "mountain ghost", so they fled in embarrassment. Roe shouted from behind: "Leopard! Those are the people God has sent to punish you! ”

The fishman did not chase out of the defense line, first, he was afraid of the mediocre, because the other party had been the overlord of Shanjung for a long time; The second is to be afraid of the Qin soldiers, because the Qin people really can't tell the difference between a fish man and a mediocre person.

When the mediocre retreated to the flat ground, the Qin soldiers also stopped pursuing, and the Yongbao led the defeated soldiers back the same way. They

When retreating, they were constantly harassed by the archers of the Chu army who had been waiting on the opposite bank for a long time, so they had to form a shield wall and hurried away.

Both armies suffered the same defeat, and the mediocrity was very frustrated. Believing that they had been punished by the gods, they held a grand sacrifice ceremony that night.

At night, the mediocre people no longer control their lights, and the city is full of fires; The tall altar was filled with torches, and people were crying, laughing, singing and dancing around the altar, and the sound of drums, bells, noise, and weapons striking each other came and went.

Yong Leopards and priests dressed in strange costumes began to slaughter Chu prisoners of war and Shan Rong hostages on the altar, offering sacrifices to the bloodthirsty and fierce gods they worshipped. Every time he killed, Yong Leopard lifted the head of the deceased and roared angrily at the tower of the Chu army, and the Yong Man let out an earth-shattering cheer with him. The Chu soldiers on the watchtower silently kept tears - those companions who dared to be captured were the bravest warriors!

None of the prisoners of war waiting to be sacrificed showed fear or sadness, and they looked in the direction of the Chu ** camp, just as their comrades there also looked at them. Suddenly, there was a faint singing sound from the direction of the Chu camp, and the singing voice grew from small to large, from weak to strong, and finally the entire military camp shook.

The comrades in the barracks raised their torches, ran to the heights, and saw off their comrades for the last time with their songs, and the prisoners of war also sang along with the songs, and the desolate songs echoed in the dark night sky. The moon also hid in the clouds, and the cold mountain wind whistled incessantly. The mountain wind mixed with the sad song flickered far and near, flickering quickly and slowly, flickering and clearing, and finally even the war horses neighed.

The people of Yongguo suddenly had a feeling of visual and auditory hallucinations, as if the dark night sky was full of undead who were issuing vicious curses, and the curses of the undead turned into a terrible night wind whistling in their ears. They were in a trance for a moment, and suddenly found that the curse was coming out of the mouth of the sacrifice continuously, and the mediocre people immediately became agitated, and then rushed to the prisoners of war, ignoring the orders of the leopard and the obstruction of the soldiers, took up arms and slashed wildly.

At this moment, the gentle and generous Dou Ru made up his mind: "Never accept the surrender of memorials!" ”

The next day, Yongbao received news that the Chu army led by Doujiao, under the guidance of the Shanrong Tribes, crossed the mountains and mountains from north to south, destroying many cities and villages of Yongguo and its allies along the way, and had approached the northern suburbs of the capital. Yongbao immediately handed over the defense task here to his uncle, and led an army to meet Doujiao.

On the same day that Yongbao left, the construction of two giant trebuchets in the Chu military camp was completed. The people of Chu love this place to death, because the trees here are tall, so any equipment made is particularly huge; The roar of the trebuchet is much more powerful than the previous one.

The people of Chu began to experiment with the performance of trebuchets, and the target was the mediocre people in Fangcheng. When stone bullets whistled down from the sky and smashed the houses of the mediocre, they even thought that the end of the world had come. People ran in panic while shouting, "The stars have fallen!" The gods have come to punish us! ”

Yongfang City is more than ten miles long, four or five miles in front, and the city walls on both sides are built along the hillside, winding upwards and disappearing into the dense forest. Fangcheng has been built for more than 200 years, because Yongguo has been the hegemon of Shanjung for decades, no foreign enemy dares to attack, and the defense of the other city is also relaxed.

For these reasons, many parts of the city wall have fallen into disrepair and have even become inaccessible. This generation of philistines also does not know where there has been a battle, let alone the site of a fierce battle between their ancestors and the enemy.

After a comprehensive and meticulous survey of the terrain outside the other party's city, the Chu people had found the weak point of the enemy's defense. All thanks to the hard work of the Fish-Man Scouts. The fish-man scouts even climbed over the broken walls to find out the terrain and defense arrangements in the city, and some people even found old friends in the city and spent a few nights.