Chapter 634: The Fall of Yingdu (9)

The scene suddenly boiled, and the loud repeater of the order of the person Lu Lu rushed towards the "sac tile" like a fellow army ant. When Emperor Shi saw that the enemy army had taken the bait, he immediately turned around and ran away from the battlefield, and the enemy army was in hot pursuit. Due to his unfamiliarity with the terrain, Shi Huang finally found himself on a "dead-end road", he turned the head of the car and said to his comrades: "Thank you brothers for following me, but it is useless to die, and it is too late to escape." I cannot be despised by the enemy, nor can I be reviled by my countrymen, so I will meet the pursuers, and you will leave it at that! ”

But not a single sergeant on the scene wanted to leave. One centurion responded: "We are not afraid of death, but of following that maggot to death silently!" We are willing to die for the country's social welfare, please lead us into battle! ”

Shi Huang was very moved, he drew his sword, pointed forward and said, "Listen to my orders!" Line up in an offensive formation and move forward! May we be able to kill the enemy's head, and may the heavens bless the Chu country! ”

Under the leadership of Emperor Shi, the Liangguang Guards fought the most heroic battle since the beginning of the war, and it was also the last suicidal battle; The Chu army entered the sea like a mud cow, and was wiped out in an instant. The main force of the Chu army also went through the enemy camp and ran to the west.

The husband took the head of Emperor Shi and stood in front of the tent with a spear. He avenged his two sons and killed several prisoners of war, and finally let out a bad breath in his heart.

The sergeants on both sides had gone through four major battles and were already quite exhausted. The retreat of the Chu army was very slow, and the coalition forces were not in a hurry to catch up, and the army led by Fu Cheng was at the forefront. The defeated army marched to the west bank of Qingfa Water to cross the river, and Fu Xuan's subordinates requested an immediate attack to drive the Chu army into the river to feed Wang Ba. The husband said: "The trapped beast is still fighting, let alone a soldier of a great country?" If they knew that they would die, they would fight to the death; It is better to wait for the enemy army to be half exhausted, and those who cross the water first know that they will not die, and those who cross the water later have no fighting spirit, so that the enemy army can be defeated. ”

As a result, the Fu army used the tactics of Banji pursuit to defeat the Chu army again. The Chu army did not stop until it fled to Yongxi, followed by the Wu army, and soon launched a sudden attack when the Chu army was about to eat; The Chu army was caught off guard and had to continue to flee hungry. Wu Jun did not work hard and had a full meal. The battle was fought breathlessly and hotly.

The Chu army was defeated and retreated, the enemy army was pressing forward step by step, Yingdu was in danger, the situation was extremely turbulent, the population outside the city poured into the city, but the people in the city fled one after another. The soldiers of the state of Chu and Gyeonggi were all requisitioned and discharged, and although there were many people who could fight, they were not trained, and they did not have chariots, and the armor and materials were extremely scarce. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to hold on to Yingdu, and the people of Chu no longer had the strength to hold on until the arrival of Deng, Lu, Shen, and Xi reinforcements.

On November 27, the coalition forces were less than 50 miles away from Yingdu, and the people of the country were doing all kinds of unreasonable things like crazy, and the order in the city was in chaos. King Zhao of Chu decided to abandon the capital, so he escaped from the south gate of the capital under the protection of the minister's guard, boarded a ship at the dock of Zhugong, went up the Yangtze River, and entered the Gufu River in the north.

Zhen Yin stayed in Yingdu to make a last resistance, and he drove dozens of elephants used as honor guards out of the north gate, wrapped a fire rope around the elephant's tail, and lit the fire rope in front of the Wu army. The elephant couldn't help but hiss when it encountered severe pain, and rushed into the Wu army's position like crazy, trampling to death and injuring countless sergeants. After the elephant ran away without a trace, Zhen Yin Gu also fled. On November 28, Fu led the vanguard army into Yingdu.

The founding age of Ying's is no longer verifiable, in the early Spring and Autumn Period, King Wen of Chu moved the capital from Danyang to this place after ascending the throne. Ying's history as the capital has been more than 180 years, witnessing the whole process of the Chu State beginning to prosper, reaching its peak, and then declining.

Before King Chu Zhao ascended the throne, Ying's city had always been an undefended city. The people of Chu were very self-aware, and they began to raise and widen the city walls after they felt that the country was going downhill. But the elites, knowing that the decline of the country was caused by their own depravity, did not repent. They still feel self-righteously that since all the nobles in the world are degenerate, there is no problem in following the trend of degeneration. The magnates of the state of Chu lived in extravagance with their ambivalence of fearing the threat of foreign enemies and ignoring the danger. As a result, Yingdu finally collapsed under the joint threat of adventurers and warmongers of the Wu Kingdom.

This was the first time in the history of Chu that the capital was occupied by the enemy, and the tiger and wolf soldiers led by Fu Yi took the lead in breaking into the capital, and then began to create all kinds of atrocities. Generals robbed the rich and powerful, and soldiers robbed civilian slaves; If you don't resist or not, you can't escape being killed. I don't want to describe those tragic scenes here, what bad things did Dog Rong did in Hojing back then, the people of Wu were even better than them.

One of his sons, Zishan, served under his husband, and he was the first to storm the mansion and occupy the super-luxurious complex. At that time, he had not yet entered the city, and the husband did not dare to enter the palace without permission, so he blocked the gates of the palace and forbade anyone to enter or leave. When he finished the task and then headed for Ling Yin's mansion, he learned that his nephew had already taken the lead.

The husband roared: "How dare he call himself 'Ling Yin'? Outrageous! Come with me and blast him out! Neither can a king's son trespass against a ruler! So this robbery brigade rushed to kill the Yin Mansion with great momentum.

Zishan was visiting the complex at the time, and he hadn't reached the end of the circle when he got the news. Zishan was greatly frightened, and fled from behind after a hurried raid.

Two days later, He Lu led the main force to the northern suburbs of Yingdu, he left the army outside the city (for fear that the army would turn Yingdu into a ghost city), led the personal guards into Yingdu, and sat on the throne of the king of Chu half an hour later, receiving congratulations from the doctors.

Although the Wu army had entered the enemy's capital, the fighting still did not stop.

When Zuo Sima Xu received an urgent report from Emperor Shi, he had already arrived near Xicheng, and he slapped his leg and scolded Nangwa for being "stupid". Zuo Sima sent someone to inform the doctor of Xicheng, asking him to gather the children of Xicheng to rush to the aid of Yingdu, and then lead the army to turn around and return.

By the time Zuo Sima's army crossed the Qingfa River, the Chu army had already been defeated - Nangwa fled, and Emperor Shi was martyred; The army is retreating in the direction of Yingdu. Knowing that his 5,000 men were powerless to turn the tide, Zuo Sima had no choice but to slow down the enemy's march by attacking the army in charge of the palace.

Zuo Sima ambushed his army north of Yongli and spared the main force of the Wu army. When the rear of the Wu army passed through Yongyu, Zuo Sima Jun suddenly rushed out from hiding and launched an attack. The people of Wu thought that the Chu army had fled in front and knew nothing about the situation of Zuo Sima's army; When the Chu army appeared out of thin air, they thought they were hallucinating. As a result, the Chu army cut off the communication between the 3,000 troops of the palace and the main force in the first battle, and blocked the rear army to the east of Yongxi.