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Chapter fifty-ninth back road

Didn’t Li Xin want to rob the corn from the fields of Chu and Wei? Then capture Xiangcheng and cut off his retreat. Then burn and kill along the line of Xiangcheng - Fangcheng, and force Li Xin to return to the rear. Once he returns to the aid, the Qin army’s troops will be scattered on the hundreds of miles of logistics line from Xiangcheng to Wancheng and even to Xiangyang. At that time, it will be the time for the two armies to fight decisively.

The Second Division led by Jing Sheng was running in the front as the vanguard of the entire army. The remaining 8,000 knights listed a three-mile-long horizontal formation. The war horses did not run, but were only walking quickly. Looking at the knights who were walking quickly on the left and right sides and trying hard to keep the front straight, Xiong Jing suddenly understood the same thing.

The so-called ancient cavalry could not form a fence when charging, and only modern cavalry could do it. Is the reason why the horses of modern army, like infantry, stipulate the standard length of regular steps, fast steps, and running steps? If each war horse is the same long pace, then the entire army advances quickly like now, and the front line should be able to remain in an almost straight line. This is the case with fast steps, and this is also the case with charges.

Xiangcheng was thirty miles away. In order to maintain the horse's strength, Xiong Jing, who was undulating on the horse's back, was thinking about the cavalry and the walls. He only felt that the root cause of whether the walls were formed was different from the length of the pace. If the whole army's war horses advanced at the same pace and at the same rhythm, they would inevitably form a "knee to knee" when charging.

It was only dawn and it was drizzling. The Qin people could not have expected that the Chu army would appear north of Rushui. When they temporarily stopped feeding horses twenty miles away, they looked at the cavalry running from afar and Xiong Jing asked, "How about Xiangcheng?"

"Report to the king, Xiangcheng is not prepared!" The knight who rushed over bowed and said. "The Qin people brought grain day and night and returned to the north of the Fenxing Pass through Xiangcheng. There were countless soldiers from north to south of the Ru River."

"A group of thieves!" Gui Jing cursed when he heard this, "They are no different from the Qin people, so they should be killed!"

"The Koreans are also helpless." Zhuang Wudi defended. "What if the Qin people add spears and spears, and the Koreans don't follow each other?"

"They can fight against the Qin people. If they are timid and dare not fight against the Qin people, they can move south to Chu." Gui Jing said again. "If they don't die, they don't leave, and are willing to be the people of Qin, they should naturally be killed."

"How can Lord Chengjiu know that they can make a living by moving south?" Gui Jing finally changed his title to Chengjiu, a county north of Jingling. Zhuang Wudi called him Chengjiu at this time, not respect, but more of accusing him of not understanding the sufferings of the people. "King, I think..."

Zhuang Wudi wanted to persuade Xiong Jing again to let the Han people go a long way during the attack. Xiong Jing interrupted: "The Qin people threatened with killing, and the Han people had to follow us. If we were kind, the mortals would follow the Qin army and plunder the Chu territory in the future. Whoever is kind will bully whom? Do Sima agree?"

"This..." The Qin people were very bad, so the Chu people should be very good. This is Zhuang Wudi's logic, but Xiong Jing's logic is that since the Qin people are very bad, the Chu people will be even worse than the Qin people. Otherwise, the Han people would not have any scruples when they follow the Qin army into Chu territory in the future.

Xiong Jing was talking about the survival logic of the common people, and the soldiers of the old Ying who ruled the lower Fangcheng. He was kind to them, and they kept fleeing; the Qin army was bad for them, and no one of the old Ying soldiers of Fangcheng who were conscripted before Ying had fled back to their hometown in a few years.

He was tired of hearing the news of the new division brigade, as if there was no such army in the Chu army. But he never planned to carry out joint positions in the army like the Qin army, severely punish fugitives in normal times, and short-term troops were suppressed during wartime. Those who were willing to fight joined the Chu army, and those who were unwilling to fight should not enter the military camp.

"I think the king should be careful with the world..." The rest and feeding horses was very short, only half a quarter of an hour, and Zhuang Wudi seized the time to give advice.

"No! Only Chu State is in my heart." Xiong Jing was already on the horse at this time, and Chang Jiang handed him the riding spear. As soon as the riding spear was started, his expression suddenly changed, and his face was full of murderous aura. He could no longer hear what Zhuang Wudi said.

Xiong Jing boarded the horse, Gui Jing and the guards also boarded the horse, and more than 8,000 knights in the army were all on the horse. Someone shouted, and the entire army cheered loudly. The three phoenix flags that had been collected were now standing in the drizzle again. Xiong Jing shouted "Advance". The phoenix flag pointed eastward. The war horses no longer advanced as quickly as before, but ran on their horses.

The rhythm of the war horses moving forward quickly is ‘da-da, da-da…’, and the rhythm of running forward becomes ‘da-da-da, da-da…’ More than 8,000 war horses trampled in the fields after the rain, with dull and fast hoof sounds, galloping towards Xiangcheng ten miles away in the mud.

Shili was already very close. On the Rushuiyuan, Shili could see the Qin army flags inserted on the gates of Xiangcheng City. However, the rain curtain blocked everything, and the mud covered the sound of hoofs. When the Chu army ran to Xiangcheng five miles away to meet with Jingsheng's Second Cavalry Division, Xiangcheng still had nothing to notice in the drizzle.

The news of Qin's defeat was strictly blocked, and the news of victory was not only spread widely, but Zhao Zheng also ordered the country to be a big lord. "In the Battle of Daze, the army defeated the Jing people, and 200,000 people died in Jing people, and the Mian River blocked it." Such propaganda war reports spread throughout Qin and even the world. When Feixun spread the news of Da lord for five days to Xiangcheng, the generals of the city drank wildly.

In Xiangcheng City Palace, An Qi, the general stationed in this city, was still drunk. For ten years, the Qin army was defeated by the Qin army, and the Qin army was extremely afraid of the Chu army. Unexpectedly, the Chu army died in the battle of Daze, which was a huge 200,000 deaths, and no one could believe it.

Is the Mianshui really a blockade because of the death of 200,000 people in the Chu army? The generals of Xiangcheng did not know, but General Li Xin led the Qin army directly into Fangcheng without any resistance. It is rumored that the Xiang army and other troops stationed in Fangcheng were all transferred to the west. It is very simple to infer that if the Chu army had not been defeated in Daze, why would the Xiang army abandon Fangcheng and not defend?

Drinking hard all night, everyone kept shouting, "The Jing people have today," when they were half drunk and half awake, so that the sleeping An Qi was still muttering: "The Jing people are today, and the Jing people have today, haha..."

‘Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong…’ When the Chu army ran from the west to Xiangcheng three miles away, Li Fu, a soldier who was transporting grain from the Fenxing Pass to the north, was stunned at first when he saw the sudden cavalry. When he saw clearly the Chu army coming, he suddenly scattered. The abnormal movement in the north of the city attracted the attention of the soldiers on the city. In a blink of an eye, he saw that the Chu army was rushing to the west, which was several miles wide and shiny, and the police drums at the top of the city suddenly rang.

After a long battle, no matter how drunk he is, he will feel the most basic alert. As soon as the drum sounds, An Qi jumps up from the woman on the bed, pulls his sword in his hand. Before he stands firm, he asks: "Why do you beat the drum? Why do you beat the drum?!"

An Qi was naked, and his personal guards did not bother him naked. When he came in, he bowed and said, "Report to the general, beating drums in the west of the city, or scouts from the Jing people."

"Scout Jing people?" An Qi did not believe this explanation. The Chu army even abandoned Wancheng and allowed the entire Fangcheng to invade the Qin army. How could it be that a cavalry would be sent north to the Fangcheng and to the west of Xiangcheng? Or, since the Chu army sent soldiers out of Fangcheng and to the west of Xiangcheng, how could a cavalry be sent?

"Hold armor, hurry up!" Anqi was very quick in his mind. He concluded that the person who came to kill was not the Jing people scout.

On the outer city wall, Qin soldiers were hurriedly pulling up the suspension bridge and closing the city gate. However, the three-mile mercedes-running horse were only more than a minute for the dragon horse. The Qin army discovered that the abnormality was that the drum man had not yet beat the drum, and the dragon horse knight in the front of the rain had rushed into the three miles; the drum sounded as the Qin soldiers in the city stepped on the slippery ground and prepared to pull up the pulley of the suspension bridge, and the knight had already galloped outside the city protection pond. Jing Sheng, who was the first to rush onto the suspension bridge and cut off the rope of the suspension bridge with a sword. No matter how much the pulleys on the city turned, it would be useless.

"Hunting the gate! Let the hanging gate be released!" The Chu cavalry rushed in, and the city gate soldiers who were closing the heavy city gates scattered. The last solution was to put down the thousand-pound hanging gate and divide the enemies who broke into the city and the enemies who were still outside the city into two.

When the Qin soldiers in the city heard the order, they rushed to the upper end of the hanging door, opened the Jikuo and wanted to put down the hanging door. At this time, Jing Sheng, who rushed into the tunnel of the city gate, shouted to the dozen knights behind him, "Hold on, hold on to the hanging door."

The hanging door weighs a thousand kilograms, and the so-called thousand kilograms is only two hundred and fifty kilograms. The Chu army, who had long expected that the Qin people would put down the hanging door, had more than a dozen knights of the Chu army, but had not carried armor, but had beams and pillars that could fit the same length. Look at the position of the hanging door, and in the city gate hole several meters wide, these beams and pillars stood in a row along the position where the hanging door fell.

The hanging door cannot fall suddenly. If the stone door suddenly falls, it will be smashed. It can only fall slowly. The slowly falling hanging door was just pushed up by several thick beams and pillars, and it will never fall again in the air. The Chu army knights who rushed to the west gate rushed to the suspension bridge, rushed into the door hole, and quickly passed under the door. As soon as they ran out of the door hole, they shouted with their comrades in front: "Kill--!"

When An Qi came out of the city palace with the Good Armor, there were shouts of killing outside the city. When he climbed to the inner city tower, he saw a group of Chu cavalry pouring into the outer city from the west. Although the Qin army in the outer city was resisting, they were caught off guard and faced with the Iron Cavalry of the Jing people. Before the two armies had fought, half of the array had collapsed, and all the soldiers rushed to the inner city.

"What should I do?" Xiangcheng is the base camp of the Qin army. The Qin army stationed at no less than 20,000, but the Chu army unexpectedly entered the outer city as soon as the sky was dawn. The Qin soldiers without command were only massacred.

"Close the city gate!" The outer city can no longer be saved. What Anqi can do is to guard the inner city.

"The general has an order to close the city gate." The military officer shouted. Under the drive of the Chu army, the soldiers in the outer city broke into the inner city like headless flies. The inner city was closed, and the life and death of these people were at the hands of the Chu army.

"Close the city gate!" The Qin soldiers on the city used a crossbow, and the Qin soldiers in the city gate used their chief spear to force the defeated troops out of the city gate. The city gate slowly closed. The Qin soldiers who knew they had been abandoned shouted and scolded, but the city gate finally slammed.

"It's King Jing!" An Qi climbed the inner city tower at this time. Standing here, he could not only see the inner and outer cities, but also see outside the city. He could see the three phoenix flags floating in the wind and rain outside the West City Gate at a glance. "Report to the general quickly that King Jing attacked Xiangcheng."

"Report to General, it's raining at this time, and the message is not connected." He hurriedly said. The autumn rain hindered the Chu army's communication, and naturally also hindered the Qin army's communication.
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