Chapter 70 Siege 3
The Qin camp tent in the north of Chen Ying was full of fire, and the Wei army camp to the west was also bright. The battle flags trembled, the figures shaking, and there were neighing horses, and even the angrily shouts of the army. On the city wall, the Chu army generals and the county soldiers were sleeping, and the commanders to run around like headless flies. The county soldiers stood with their spears, and while their breathing was getting thicker, they touched the soldiers in their chests. They also remembered the witches who saved lives and helped the wounded.
Chang Jiang told Xiong Jing that when the Qin army wanted to attack the city, Lian Po had already stood on the northern city wall. When he saw him coming, the soldiers immediately settled. It was different from Chen Qin. Chen Qinchang beat drums and gathered generals in the Sima Mansion in the city and issued military orders. Lian Po liked to gather generals on the city wall to discuss matters. He tried his best to let more soldiers see him, even if the enemy troops under the city would see him because of this.
After looking around the Qin camp in the city, Lian Po retreated from the front building of the urn city to the rear building. As soon as he sat down, he pretended to sleep. When Chen Bu ran over quickly, he opened his eyes when he heard the sound of footsteps and stared at Chen Bu with a clear gaze, with surprise.
"Report to the general, the Qin army camp has made a sudden move but has not attacked the city. The last general thinks there is a fraud." Chen Bulai had already walked around.
It has been more than half an hour since the fire broke out in the Qin army camp. If the city was attacked, it would have been attacked long ago.
This is indeed a bit strange. Lian Po nodded and ordered him to stay: "Let the soldiers quickly launch fire bullets to detect the enemy's situation."
"Let the soldiers quickly launch fire bombs to detect the enemy's situation." In the military screen, there were soldiers and officers who ordered them to be transmitted to the city in the form of lights. After receiving the orders, the fires ignited, and red fire bombs threw over the city wall and fell two hundred steps away from the city. After the flames suddenly rose, the open space outside the city was white, with only a few dim silhouettes of the corridors.
"Send it again!" Lian Po, who felt more and more wrong, shouted in a deep voice. "Xicheng, Dongcheng, and Nancheng also fired and shot the enemy."
‘Bang…’ The fire bombs were thrown out of the city, but the enemy still disappeared. After that, the rest of the cities used signal lights to reply, ‘The enemy was not seen under the city’.
"Is there any difference between listening to the earth?" Lian Po asked again. This was to find out what the enemy was digging tunnels. Although there was groundwater a few feet below Chen Ying, he was not only negligent, but also asked about listening every day.
"Report to the general, the earth is no different." The army around him went hurriedly and then hurriedly returned.
"It's true." Everything seemed normal, and Lian Po frowned even tighter.
When the defending munitions were everywhere, the lakeside two miles away from the East City were covered with black Qin troops. They were carrying mud and filled the road sections that were unpassable to the pass. After the water of the lake receded, it was very soft. After the soil was filled, it was covered with wooden boards. A five-mile-long and four-meter-wide road slowly extended toward the narrow entrance of the lake connecting the gap.
On the chariot beside the road, Li Xin stood on the sword, looked at the fire bullet thrown by Chen Ying and laughed. The deputy general An Qi next to him heard the voice and said, "The servant Lian Po must be panicked at the top of the city. He didn't expect that the general would cut off the waterway of Chencheng overnight."
"The general is wise and knows that the East Lake is dry at the end of the year. Once the waterway is cut off, killing King Jing will be sure to win." Another flattering captain. "The last general only hopes that the general will be granted the title of marquis as soon as possible."
"The last general only hopes that the general will be granted the title of marquis as soon as possible." There were a group of generals standing under the chariot, with an exception being a commoner.
The common people laughed, but unfortunately Li Xin couldn't see him in the dark night. He also wanted to express his wish that Li Xin would be granted the title of marquis as soon as possible, but his fear made him speechless. With the celebration of the generals, Li Xin laughed and turned to look at the common people: "Chen Mu, if I was granted a title of marquis, how should I thank you?"
"General, general..." Chen Mu was a little frightened when he heard this. "A villain is a lowly man, how dare he accept the general's thanks?"
After the duel that day, Chen Mu was almost killed by Chen Qie. Later, he heard that Chen Ao was not dead. In the end, it was said that the county magistrate wanted to use the money to buy Jian. He paid a lot of money to buy Jian. After hearing this, the salted fish dealer had to flee with his family. He did not dare to escape to Yingdu, but wanted to escape to Wei. As a result, he was taken by Qin soldiers on the way. In order to save his life, he offered a suggestion.
"Give gratitude and revenge." Li Xin no longer looked at him, but looked at Chen Ying, who was bombing everywhere. "Didn't you want me to let you go? As soon as the sky was clear, I let you go. I will use a boat to send you back to Chencheng, how about it?"
"Ah." Chen Mu fell down in fear. He didn't expect that Li Xin's so-called release of him was to put him back to Chen Ying. "General, no, since the villain has given his advice, Chen must regard me as his mortal enemy, villain..."
"The nations all say that I, Qin people, have no faith and no righteousness, are the same as Rong and Di. If it is beneficial, I will ignore my relatives and brothers, like beasts. I will see that you are a beast, do you know that when the water is unique, everyone in the city will starve to death?" Li Xin was very young, not only young, but also successful. Without being tempered, he still cared about the straightforwardness and integrity of a young man. He liked Chen Mu's strategies, but also disgusted his character.
"General, please spare me. General, please spare me..." Chen Mu was so scared that he lost his voice. He lay on the wheel and kept twitching. The soldiers next to him raised him and dragged him away, while Li Xin looked up at the starry sky.
"Report!" Three hours later, "report to the general that the Mozhe is already setting up a pass."
"Great kindness!" The road finally reached Hukou. The lakekou is only more than one hundred steps wide, and it can be paved with seventy or eighty passes. The deep water is used to use a boat bridge. Once the bridge is four or five meters wide, the Qin army will be covered with the bridge. No matter how powerful the Chu army's boat troops are, they will not be able to open the road.
"Speed frame turn, speed frame turn." Following the newly paved road, one turner after another pushing vehicle was pushed into the water. After the turner was opened, it floated on the water surface. The soldiers in the water quickly connected these turner, and a water bridge gradually took shape.
"Put mud, apply mud, apply mud quickly!" Since it is a wooden bridge, it is naturally the most taboo to burn fire, so the bridge deck must be covered with mud. With the order, handfuls of mud were picked up from the bottom of the lake and applied to the bridge deck.
While building a bridge and plastering mud, the lake entrance was cut off in less than an hour. The soldiers quickly passed the Zhuoguan Bridge and lined up on guard on the other side of the lake. The soldiers who built the bridge did not stop under the supervision of Mozhe. More passes into the water. The bridge deck was only one zhang. By dawn, the bridge deck was already four zhang wide, and more than 10,000 soldiers stood on it. On both sides of the lake entrance, there were countless Qin troops, densely packed and unable to see at a glance.
"King, King..., the Qin army is besieging the city!" Chang Jiang, the old temple man, was nervous last night and panicked in the morning.
"Yeah." Xiong Jing rested after finishing writing the quarterfinder last night, and he had not yet woken up. "Didn't the Qin army have been besieging the city long ago?"
"King, Qin army..." Chang Jiang's words were not fulfilled and he wanted to slap himself in the face. "King, Qin army cut off the waterway last night."
"Ah!" Xiong Jing was still confused when he heard this, but he jumped out of the bed after a while, "Why? The Qin army cut off the waterway?!"
"That's it! That's it!" Chang Jiang nodded repeatedly. "The traitor Chen Mu offered advice to the Qin army, saying that the water in Hukou was shallow in autumn and winter, so the Qin army then built a bridge at Hukou, overnight, overnight..."
To the east of Chenying is a lake, and the entrance of the lake connects the gate, which is almost two miles wide. But this is summer. When Xiong Jing came, it was summer. It was already autumn and winter. The lake mouth, which is more than one mile wide, is less than half a mile away.
"Where is the general?" Xiong Jing asked quickly after thinking it through.
"The General is asking for the King in Mingtang." Chang Jiang brought the grind juice to let Xiong Jing wash her face. But at this time, she still had time to wash her face. Xiong Jing put on her clothes and walked out. Chang Jiang hurriedly held the hook and chased her with a short sword, and gave Xiong Jingpei a quick way.
"I have seen the king." Lian Po, who was old, was full of troubled Chen Bu, as well as Yang Wei, Zhuang Quji, the boat army's Honghu, Outuo, Gongshuji, the artillery's Gongshuji and others. The county's Duke Chen Jian also came, and he has not left his home for the past few months.
"No gift." Xiong Jing was nervous for a moment, and he seemed to be fine when facing the ministers. "What's the matter when all the ministers came to see me early in the morning?"
"My memory," Chen Bu was the most anxious, but when it comes to General Lian Po, the military general, and Chen Jian, the Duke of Wen County, was here, he dared not speak again after he spoke.
"Report to the king, the Qin army cut off my water route last night." Lian Po bowed and said.
"Break my waterway?" Xiong Jing smiled, "Those bunch of land ducks can also cut off my waterway, and they are not honest or believe."
"Tell the king, this is true." Chen Jian's rosacea has been much dim in the past few months, and his speech is not strong enough. "In autumn and winter, the lake mouth is only a hundred steps wide, and the water depth is less than fifty steps. Qin army..."
"Honghua, what do you think?" Xiong Jing interrupted Chen Jian halfway and asked the Zhou army general Honghua.
"Report to the king, as long as my big wing warship continues to hit, the Qin people will break the pass." Hong Kong Shu had already wanted to attack, but Lian Po was not sure.
"What do you think, General?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Lianpo again. He believed that Lianpo had Lianpo's considerations.
"Our army's boat team had known that I thought the Qin army had already laid chains before turning the bridge." Lian Po said. "The Red General led the boat to attack, but I was worried that the Qin army would seize the Dayi warship. The weight of the warship was greater than the weapon of throwing stones, so I ordered General Gongshu to transfer the stones to the boat."
"King, this strategy is very slow. For the current plan, we should quickly rush to fight with a large-winged warship." Chen Buyi told. "The Qin people still have hundreds of passes at Hukou. Every time an hour passes, the bridge is several feet wide."
"How much corn is there in the city?" Chen Bu was anxious, but Xiong Jing was not anxious at all. Last year, when the Qin army used copper ropes to block the Huai River, and this year it was not surprising that he used copper locks to block the Hukou.
"Tell the king," a corn guest squeezed forward, "There are more than 275,000 stones of millet in the city today."
"How many months can I eat?" Xiong Jing asked again.
"I would like to tell the king that there are 43,812 soldiers in the city, each of which has 6 stones of millet, 7 and a half liters of millet. If it is ginseng (2 stones/month), you can eat three months and four days; if it is 4 food (1.5 stones/month), you can eat four days; if it is 5 food (1.2 stones/month), you can eat five days; if it is 5 food (1.2 stones/month), you can eat five days; if it is 6 food (1 stone/month), you can eat six days; if it is 6 food (1 stone/month), you can eat six days." The corn guest calculated the consumption of grain and fodder before coming, and the answer was as follows.
"June 8th?" Xiong Jing was completely relieved. It was already April.
Chapter completed!