Chapter 55 Trap
The Qin army in the valley quickly rushed to Qipanling, and then rushed down the mountain, heading towards Baocheng, where the city gates were wide open several miles away. The rain curtain not only blocked the view, but also isolated the sound. Until Jing Hua and others in the lead rushed to the city gate, the Chu soldiers guarding the city gate still didn't know what had happened.
"Why don't you guard? Why don't you guard?" Jing Hua, who rushed into the city, saw the Chu soldiers scattered with the common people in the city, couldn't help but ask questions. Unfortunately, no one answered his question. Including his command, all the soldiers began to harvest their heads in a hurry. The entire Baocheng was guarded by the soldiers, but they had no equipment. The Qin army attacked from the north gate, and the panicked common people escaped from the south gate, the east gate, and the west gate, or closed their own gates tightly, and hid in the corner of the house and were probably discovered by the Qin army.
"General Bai, the people of Jing are cheating!" As soon as Bai Linwan stepped into the city, Jing Hua hurriedly reported as soon as he saw Bai Lin.
"Why are there any fraud?" Bai Lin asked, his tone not sure.
"Why don't you guard the important area of Baocheng?" Baocheng controlled the entire Baoxi Road and rushed in with a rush. Jing Hua was very suspicious.
"The Jing people did not build cities and did not set up guards, so there were many things. When Wu'an Jun attacked Yingdu, the Jing people were like this." Although it was just a plank road, in just half an hour, Su Fu's lieutenant had all left the valley, and several subsequent lieutenants were leaving the valley one after another. Huang Long, the right school who had just entered the city, did not agree with Jing Hua's judgment.
"If the city had not been unprepared, why wouldn't there be many people in the city?" Jing Hua's observation was very careful. As soon as he entered the city, he found that there were very few people in the city.
"What are you worried about? You will know when you ask." Huang Long still didn't believe Jing Hua's judgment. He shouted: "Come here! Several people came here to ask."
It was better to ask, and soon the Qin army broke through the door and captured several people from Baocheng. The soldiers were in chaos, and the people from the town were dragged in like mud. One of them cried endlessly, and the remaining few were crying while begging for mercy.
"I'll ask you..." The question was Bai Lin, but unfortunately his voice was too small, and these people in the town had no response. Huang Long next to him stepped forward and stabbed the crying sword to death, and then cut off his head. The remaining few stopped crying, but their bodies trembled even more violently.
"Why is there no one in the city?" Bai Lin frowned slightly when he saw Huang Long killing people, but these were all men. The head was originally the military merits of the Qin army. He could scold Huang Long, but not all soldiers in the army.
"Yi, in the city..." A slightly calmer person raised his head, but he was really scared and his teeth clattered.
"You are also a citizen of my Daqin, so why are you afraid?" Huang Long's face changed, and his sword was still bleeding.
"Why are there no one in the city?" Bai Lin asked again, his eyes filled with encouragement.
"Now, no..." This man finally mustered up a little courage, "Nao Mian River has many dead people, and the Jing people want us to wait to Nanzheng..."
"How about it when you reach Nanzheng?" Bai Lin asked, and his heart was slightly relieved.
"I went to Nanzheng to restrain the dead." As soon as I said it, it was smooth. The man continued, "We are afraid and have never gone."
"So that's it." Bai Lin nodded slowly. The two armies fought upstream of the Mian River. The dead floated on the water and went downstream. There were few people from Juyi, so they could only catch up in big cities like Nanzheng.
"General, we are the people of the Great Qin Dynasty. We are devoted to the Great Qin Dynasty and have never helped the people of Jing..." The Nanzheng Basin has been a city of Qin for more than a hundred years. Even the people in the city are natives, they speak Qin language. This person just wanted to survive, for fear that his head would be cut off by the Qin soldiers and made military achievements, so he quickly called out to the Great Qin Dynasty.
Bai Lin did not answer, and the soldiers who dragged them in dragged them out of the crying and shouting. As soon as they left the city and the city, their ears were completely purified after several screams. The generals seemed to have heard nothing. At this time, the guards had not arrived and the officials had not arrived yet, and Baocheng was still the newly occupied enemy city. Since it was an enemy city, it was naturally no big deal for soldiers to cut off a few heads, as long as they did not cut off their own people.
"The people of Jing are not prepared." said Su Fu, the more steady commander, and Huang Long on one side looked at Jing Hua and snorted.
"Report to General, the Baoshui Bridge has been built." Qipanling and Baocheng are all on the west side of Baoshui, while Nan Zheng is on the east side of Baoshui. Before Bai Lin entered the city, he ordered his subordinates to build a bridge. There were many boats on the East Gate Wharf, and Baoshui was only a few dozen steps wide, so it was not difficult to build a bridge.
"Can there be food, fodder and supplies in the city?" Bai Lin asked again. He was not clear about the situation in Nanzheng. If he wanted to attack Nanzheng, he would always have to rush to the ladder.
"I'm reporting to the general, but Baocheng is a small town, so there shouldn't be much food or fodder." Bai Zhu replied.
"General, since the bridge has been laid, our army should quickly advance to Nanzheng, and the equipment of the Jing people in the evening..." Huang Long thought of his military achievements in his heart, and there seemed to be a nail on his butt, and he didn't want to stay in Baocheng for a long time.
"The dead man wants the head!" Su Fu looked down on Huang Long with a glance, knowing his intentions.
"I!" Huang Long was very unhappy when he said that the Central Sense was not a lieutenant. He could only explain with grievance: "If we don't want it, the other lieutenants will also compete for it, instead of..."
"I've seen the general." Huang Long was still defending himself. A subsequent lieutenant who came out of the valley arrived. There was an outsider here, and Huang Long immediately stopped.
"Will the general?" Bai Lin greeted him at the commander Xu Yan in front of him.
"Report to the general, all the soldiers are safe." Xu Yan said after answering, "General, I saw that there was a bridge on the Bao River, and Nanzheng was thirty miles away. Why didn't he attack? If it were late, wait for the Jing people to set up equipment..."
"It's not too late, and I have sent cavalry to Nanzheng, so there's no hurry." Nanzheng would definitely not rush in like Baocheng, so Bai Lin would not rush to Nanzheng with a hot heart. The valley road was narrow, and the Qin army's abandoned baggage marching line was greatly shortened, but the army still had to be gathered before the attack. Only by gathering the army can we quickly attack Nanzheng.
After one after another, the commander went out of the valley and entered the city to report. When the fifth commander came in, Bai Lin stopped staying. He looked at the five commander in front of him and said, "Prince Su is the right general, Xu is the left general, and those who have not arrived are the rear army, and they are guarding Baocheng and Qipanling. The entire army quickly advanced south to capture Nanzheng!"
"Receive the order!" The seven commanders arrived at five, and the other two were the rear army. Hearing that there were dead people outside Nanzheng City, the commanders who were not guarding the Jing people were overjoyed, and the voices of receiving the order shook the house.
The commander gathered in Baocheng. The soldiers who came out of the valley had crossed the floating bridge on the Baoshui River and gathered on the left bank of the Baoshui River. After arriving, the 50,000 soldiers rushed towards Nanzheng. After walking for more than ten miles in the drizzle, Nanzheng City was already looking at it from afar, but suddenly the sound of cannons sounded in his ears. The sound of cannons was not in front of him, but behind him.
"Report to the Lord, the Qin people are here." Cheng Feng stood in the rain at the head of Nanzheng City. Cheng Tong died in battle, Cheng Si was deeply surrounded. He, the concubine of Cheng clan, and the view of Xi Shi, became the backbone of Nanzheng City.
"Yeah." Cheng Feng Wuxi Wuyou, "beat the drum and leave the city."
"The lord has an order to beat the drum and leave the city!" The military officer shouted while shaking the drum. The drummers waiting with the drumsticks heard the sound and beat the drum hard. As soon as the drum sounded, the three city gates in the south, east, west and north were wide open. First, one cannon after another was dragged out of the city by horses, and then they were soldiers in rows. Unlike the regular divisions and brigades of the Chu army, these soldiers were not well-dressed and had different heights. Some people had shorter spears in their hands.
When the Qin army heard the sudden sound of cannons behind him, they couldn't help panic. The sound of drums sounded in front of him, and the soldiers became even more panic. Fortunately, they were all elite soldiers, and before the military order was issued, 50,000 people still maintained their formation in advance, but the speed of their advance slowed down and became cautious.
"How?" Looking at the scout running over behind him, Bai Lin asked anxiously about the situation behind him.
The scout knew the importance of the news and did not dare to speak loudly. He ran to Bai Lin and said, "The Jing people hit Qipanling with witchcraft, and the way out is gone!"
"The witchcraft hit Qipanling?!" There were no Chu troops near Qipanling, and Bai Lin was surprised and still puzzled.
"The Jing people's witchcraft is placed on the cliff opposite the Baoshui River, and the plank road is destroyed." The cannons were still roaring, and the scouts were panicked with their own eyes. Once the plank road was destroyed, Nan Zheng was wary again. The 70,000 people in the entire army were probably going to die here.
Bai Lin continued to remain calm on his face, but he knew very well that he had jumped into the trap of Ruoao. The trap was designed so cleverly that he might have started to arrange it since the Chu army let go of the Yuanwu Mountain fork and guarded the left bank of Misan River. Thinking of this, Bai Lin wanted to slap him a few times. Ruoao is the most cunning and bravest of the Mi surname, so why did he fall for them?
"General..." The scout behind was crying, but the scout in front was smiling. "The people of Jing are all old and weak."
"Old and weak?" The raindrops became smaller and closer. Without Lu Lijing, you can see the military formations listed by the Chu army in the north of Nanzheng City with your naked eyes. The array was very short and thin; when you picked up Lu Lijing, Bai Lin saw what the scout said was old and weak. Some soldiers were obviously only five or six feet tall, and some soldiers were gray-haired. This was not an appearance, but the entire military formation was like this. Based on the formation and width of the military formation, the Chu army in front of us would not exceed 30,000, and the elite soldiers and soldiers were less than 20,000.
"There is a Jing people and boat troops on the upstream of the Mian River." Baoxie Road was blocked by the Chu army with witchcraft. I believe that the Tangluo Road and Ziwu Road in the direction of Chenggu were also blocked. Only by pulling out Nanzheng can you have a way out.
But Bai Lin was also worried that when he was fighting with the Chu army, the Chu army's boat division would detour from the Baoshui River and hit him sideways. After agreeing, the cavalry rushed behind him. Only near Baocheng could there be a floating bridge to go upstream of the Mian River.
"General, the people of Jing are prepared, what should I do?" As soon as the cavalry left, Su Fu and Xu Yan ran over. At this time, the Qin and Chu armies were about five miles apart, and they didn't want to fight with each other.
"Our army's retreat is dead!" Bai Lin told the military situation directly, and the two of them changed their expressions. "If you don't fight, the Jing people will chase me. If you fight, you can seize Nanzheng City to defend it; if you lose, you can retreat to Guanzhong along the tunnel after the sky is dim."
"Respect the order." It was not as excited as before in Baocheng. Su Fu and Xu Yan's answers were trembling with a hint of tremolo. After bowing, the two quickly returned to their positions. At this time, the sound of drums in the central army suddenly became urgent. The Qin soldiers who were originally moving slowly changed their previous caution and began to move forward.
Chapter completed!