Chapter 52: The Way to Live
In order to hunt down the King of Chu, Li Xin quickly ordered the Yiqu cavalry and thousands of guards to go north from Wulishui to occupy the east valley entrance of Magu. Strangely, the Chu army that had previously stationed outside the entrance of the valley disappeared. The Qin army departed to Magu without using its power to break the force and blocked the King of Chu's way. After tonight, King Jing would definitely climb over the ridge and into the Magu, and crash into the net of Yiqu people.
As long as he could kill the King of Chu and the iron cavalry he led, Xin Sheng would not care who made meritorious and received the title. However, the heaven seemed to be moved by his determination to take revenge. After he said that, it started to rain. The rain dripped on Xin Sheng's hand. He raised his head and hit him in the face. The cavalryman next to him also found that it was raining, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "General, the bow and arrow of the Jing people are destroyed!"
Bows and crossbows have never been all-weather weapons. In addition to the temperature and humidity changes caused by seasonal changes, it will be even more devastating when rain comes. This is also the reason why all cold weapons strong troops attach great importance to hand-to-hand combat. There are many cases of sudden rain on the battlefield, and even more so in encounters. You can't just shout for a pause and wait until the sun comes out before fighting. Bows and crossbows are not reliable. The Qin army does not rely on heavy crossbows, and the Chu army also has a few people pay attention to bows.
As the raindrops fell, the Chu army also realized that they could no longer rely on Cheng Kui, who was good at shooting, and they stood up and released their cavalry swords to welcome the last fierce attack of the Qin army before darkness. At the same time, the Jiyi Basin led to the throat of the Nanyang Basin, and on the top of Dafu Mountain in the south of Fuyi, the county duke Yu Zhi was leading hundreds of soldiers to pry a cliff with huge iron.
The way to take Fuyi by Dou Yuzhi is not to attack the city, but to destroy the city. As long as you pry a cliff on the top of Dafu Mountain, the Qin army in Fuyi City will be buried by gravels if it is not smashed to death by gravels. The mountain road is narrow, and there is no problem with guarding for a period of time without a city. The most important thing is to lock more than 100,000 Qin troops in the Jiyi Basin.
"Report to the county magistrate, the cliff stone has moved!" The chief of soldiers came over excitedly to report. In order to leverage the cliff stone, the mausoleum specially created a batch of tools.
"Pry it down!" Next to the three animals that paid homage to the gods of Dafu Mountain, Dou Yuzhi was looking at the Nanyang Basin to the west, which was once the territory of the Chu State, and there were still the tombs of the ancestors.
"Ye!" The head of the soldiers shouted and rushed to the edge of the cliff, waved his hand, "Pie!"
Hundreds of Tangxian County soldiers were standing on the edge of the cliff, and the huge iron crow rod in their hands was deeply inserted into the crack of the mountain. After hearing the order, they began to pry the crack of the cliff. The cliff rocks began to shake slightly, and the back was shaking bigger and bigger. Even the mountain seemed to be shaking, "clicking", as if something had broken, and the crack of the cliff at the foot of the soldiers fell to the sky down the mountain.
The 'click' sound did not stop there. When the cracked cliff fell, a large piece of mountain was pulled out from the stone wall, so that the cliff rocks that had lost support above collapsed downwards.
"Retreat! Retreat!" The mountain was shaking down the mountain. The soldiers of Tangxian County who were so scared that they had forgotten to dodge. Dou Yuzhi's scream made them come to their senses. Finally, someone knew to retreat. At this time, they didn't even want the giant iron. After hundreds of people fell, they rolled and climbed away from the edge of the cliff. "Bang!" Apart from the stone, the cliff rock suddenly cracked and fell down quickly.
"Ah!" The soldiers with pale faces made a few screams at this time. They climbed to the three animals that worshipped the mountain god and bowed their heads repeatedly to ask the Dafu Mountain God to forgive their sins.
The Chu soldiers on the mountain paused the head of the Dafu Mountain God. The Fuyi at the foot of the mountain was the time when the Qin army made fire and made food. Unexpectedly, the fallen cliff stones came like a dark clouds. After a few loud bangs, it seemed that Fuyi, which had experienced an earthquake, had been wiped out half of the city walls. All the houses in the city collapsed, and smoke and dust enveloped the entire city. It took a long time to hear the Qin soldiers' screams.
"Kill!" The Tang County soldiers who had climbed to the bottom of the mountain, who had witnessed this scene suddenly shouted, without knowing that their comrades on the top of the mountain were scattered and urinated at the mountain god countless times.
"Kill!" Ruo Ao was the first to rush out of the forest while shouting. Thousands of county soldiers behind him were chasing him. Before the last ray of sunlight disappeared, these people rushed towards Fuyi, where the smoke and dust had not dissipated and the gravel was still falling.
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The rain kept falling, and after barely shooting a few arrows, Cheng Kui had to put down his longbow, untied the bow string and wrapped it around his neck, and used his body temperature to dry the wet hemp rope. The battle was not over. After packing up the bow string, he pulled out the cavalry knife and rushed forward to slash at the Qin soldiers.
When the sun set, the temperature in the mountains dropped sharply, and birds were flying in the sky, and only the soldiers of the two armies on the top of the hill were fighting for life and death, with blood splashing out and splashing on the yellow and green grass. Xiong Jing also pulled out his sword. He was more than five feet tall and his strength was still too small, but he had formed a cooperation with the soldiers who were protecting him: whenever Qin Shu rushed up panting and swung his sword, the soldiers on both sides would draw their swords to hold the short sword, and he quickly stepped and sprinted.
The thin sword was not heavy, and the chopping performance was sacrificed for length, but it could stab. Each of his stabs was aimed at the enemy's heart, and the stabs were fast and retreated quickly. Then blood was sprayed out, and Qin's hand stroked the heart and fell down. Killing people, especially killing the enemy, made people excited. After stabbing several Qin's hand to death, Xiong Jing couldn't help howling, but at this time, the Qin people had already retreated to the mountain.
"The king killed four Qin soldiers in a row, and he is brave!" The Right Historian recorded this. After writing this old man took the opportunity to flatter him. Xiong Jing couldn't laugh even if he wanted to laugh. He didn't regard this assassination as his military achievements. He sat on the ground, and finally lay on the grass and gasped. The sun had already set, and on the light blue sky, the semi-circular moon had risen. He suddenly missed his mother very much, and Mi Xuan very much.
"King!" Gui Jing, who led his troops back to the rescue in the dark, saw Xiong Jing lying on the ground, his eyes were full of tears. He rushed over and knelt in front of Xiong Jing.
"It's okay." Xiong Jing stood up and looked at him with a smile. "What's ahead?"
"Ha." Gui Jing let out a long sigh. "Report to the king, the convenience in front of him is Magu."
"Magu?!" Magu Xiong Jing had been there. A few months ago, there were Chu troops stationed in Magu. Of course, this was the past. Who would have thought that he would flee to Magu after withdrawing his troops?
Taking advantage of the last ray of light, he quickly took out the Magu map and the compass. Three days ago, the compass went north, and the compass jumped around southeast, west and northwest. What he didn't know was that there was a large amount of magnetite buried in this area. Zhangfan, not far from this, was an iron smelting city. If it weren't for this, the group would have arrived at Magu long ago.
"How far is the entrance of the valley?" Xiong Jing pointed to the valley on the map and asked Gui Jing. Gui Jing was actually not familiar with Magu. Fortunately, the people who accompanied him specially prepared two county soldiers who were familiar with Magu. They were the paths they went to explore with Gui Jing.
"Report to the king, if you cross this mountain, you will be in the Magu, about fourteen miles from the entrance of the valley." The county soldiers bowed and said.
"Oh, you can return to Chu at noon tomorrow." Xiong Jing was very happy when he heard this. After exploring the mountain valleys for a few days, he finally got out.
"The king doesn't know anything." Gui Jing smiled bitterly, "There are all Qin soldiers in Magu, and besides Qin soldiers there are cavalry from Yiqu people."
"They are..." Xiong Jing asked anxiously, and after a while he woke up. Before going to Qin, he ordered the Grand Sima Mansion to start evacuating the people and shrink all garrison forces on the Chu-Qin and Chu-Wei borders.
"I'm not without a way to live," another county soldier who once stationed in Magu said. "If you walk more than ten miles northeast after entering the valley, there is a valley that can reach the Wei territory."
"Wei Realm?" After entering Magu, there is indeed a valley on the north side. If this valley can go north, it will naturally reach Wei Realm. On the edge of the eastern side of the Nanyang Basin, it will reach Chengyang. Many people are unwilling to go to Magu. They usually go to Wei Realm first, then go out of Wei Realm, and go south, and pass Yiyi to Chengyang.
"The Wei territory is the Qin territory, and the Qin and Wei army are gathering in Shangcai at this time. We enter Wei, not far from Shangcai." Xiong Jing recalled the cities of Chu, Qin and Wei in this area, and shook his head slowly.
Hundreds of years ago, the Chu State had stationed Fangcheng in the Nanyang Basin. The section on the east side of Fangcheng passed through the valley entrance to the west of Magu. The west side of Fangcheng is the Qin territory, the east side of Fangcheng is the Wei territory, and the border of Chu and Wei is the mountain on the north side of the East Gate of Magu (the eastern foot of Baiyun Mountain). This mountain is the source of water. It passes through the valley road and enters the Wei territory, and is only more than a hundred miles away from Shangcai where the Qin and Chu army gathered.
"I think it's okay." Gui Jing said, "The Qin and Wei army gathered in Shangcai, and the cities and towns were empty. Our army still had more than 480 horses, and more than 200 soldiers who could fight. If we reach the plain, the Qin and Wei armies would not know our whereabouts. Even if we meet, our army could avoid its edge..."
"What about the injured? The medicine is insufficient." Xiong Jing said to her. Gui Jing was speechless. To this day, there are more than a hundred injured people, and the exact number is 113, more than 40 of them were seriously injured. Several horses carrying medicine accidentally fell down the valley while the escape was fleeing.
The sky was already dark, and after Gui Jing came over, the other knights came over unconsciously. Hearing that the king was considering the injured, Xiang Chao said excitedly: "Report to the king, I have a plan..."
"Don't listen." Xiong Jing glared at Xiang Chao in the dark. His so-called strategy was to hold the flag and pretend to be himself to lead the Qin army. The knights were all children of the Gong clan, and Xiong Jing did not want any one to lose for no reason.
"I ask the king to do Xiang Chao's strategy." Gui Jing immediately bowed. After him, the other knights bowed and begged.
"King," said the Right Historian, "Tomorrow, Xinsheng will have new soldiers to support each other. If the Qin soldiers of Magu know that I am here, they will be attacked from front to back, and they will be in danger."
"We can't stay here for a long time, however," Xiong Jing heard everyone's words. What he thought of was whether he could rush out of the mouth of the Magu. However, the Qin army in the Magu also knew that he would rush to the mouth of the valley with all his might. They could set up a trap at the mouth of the valley and wait for his net; if it went west, it was Qin's realm, and it wouldn't work.
"What city is there in Wei territory?" Xiong Jing had to put his hope in the north. If he could occupy a city, many wounded people would survive.
"Reported to the great king, since the ancestor Ping Wang moved to Dao, Fang, Shen and other countries, there was only Sang Tunnel here, which was closest to this place." Right Shidao.
Chapter completed!