The nine counties in the Western Chu are: Nanyang County, Nanjun, Qianzhong County, Dongyang County, Sishui County, Dang County, Chu County, Kuaiji County, and Qi County. Jiangling is Nanchu, Wu is Dongchu,

Wang Zhu's big attack was comprehensive. Wang Ao, Li Zuoche, Yuan Sheng and Chen Ping jointly formulated a comprehensive combat plan. The nine counties of the Western Chu, Zhongnanyang County, Nanjun and Qianzhong County are all bordering the Qin State. Nanjun and Qianzhong County are close to Bashu on the middle of the Yangtze River, and are also in the upper reaches. Nanyang County is in the gap between Wuguan and Han. This route is handed over to the old general Huan Yi, who has been idle for a long time, as the main army, divided the troops from Jiangling and the South and Qianzhong County of the Yangtze River. The Marquis of Gangwu urgently mobilized 5,000 warships from Bashu County, and 150,000 elite troops to support Huan Yi. Nanyang County borders Nanjun and handed over to Dong Yi's Korean army to handle it. The general Xiang Sheng, who is known for his greed for money and lust, has long been determined.

The remaining Kuaiji County and Dongyang County are south of the Yangtze River, so I will not consider it for the time being. Pengcheng belongs to Sishui County, Dang County and Qi County, and Chu County are all south of Chen City, Suiyang to the north of Pengcheng, and are surrounded by Wang Zhu's main army and Qi army. As long as Pengcheng is captured, these places will be destroyed without attack.

Xiang Yu's defense was made by Xiangzhuang guarding Pengcheng, Xiang Bo guarding Qi County, Xiang Han guarding Dang County, Xiang Xiang guarding Chu County, Xiang Guan guarding Kuaiji County, Ding Gu guarding Nan County, Jin Yueyuan guarding Dongyang County, and Ding Gong guarding Kuaiji County. Ding Gong and Ji Xin are Ji Bu's brothers, with great martial arts and extraordinary strategies, and are highly valued by Xiang Yu, so they also handed over their old nest Kuaiji to guard.

Pengcheng belongs to the category of Sishui County, and is actually Liu Bang's hometown. Therefore, as soon as the Qi army entered Sishui, Guan Ying first ordered his subordinates to seize Pei County and protect it, because there were many surrendered generals from Pei County in the team, and this place was very sensitive and must be protected to prevent accidents.

Pengcheng is not easy to fight! Guan Ying and Wang Ben realized this when they arrived at Pengcheng City. Xiang Zhuang is worthy of being a famous general in a hundred battles and made comprehensive preparations in advance. Moreover, the 100,000 soldiers in Pengcheng, calculated based on the number of people siegeing and defending the city, can be considered evenly matched. This battle cannot be fought hard.

After studying the map, Wang Ben first came up with a suggestion. He gave up Pengcheng and instead attacked Kuxian, Xiaoxian, Qingxian and Qiaoxian near Pengcheng. He completely occupied Sishui County, cut off all the water sources and grain channels in Pengcheng, and trapped his 100,000 troops in the city. Guan Ying added another one, so it would be better to dig the Sishui River channel and flood Pengcheng.

This strategy is easy to say, but it is very difficult to sit up, because Xiang Han and Xiang Bo, who are guarding Dang County and Qi County, will definitely come to rescue him, and it will take time to completely capture Sishui County. Xiang Han is a little bit good. As long as he is known, he is brave but not wise, he can block him as long as he puts a general on the official road. The key is Xiang Bo. It is wise and difficult to deal with. After measuring the importance of it, Wang Ben decided to send Luo Shen and Zhao Ba to deal with Xiang Han, and ordered Zhou Bo to lead 50,000 troops to intercept Xiang Bo. He must block Xiang Bo for half a month, otherwise a major event will be difficult to accomplish. Zhou Bo left after he issued a military order.

Wang Ben and Guan Ying divided the troops into two groups. Wang Ben rushed to Xiaoxian, Qingxian, Guan Ying fought against Qiaoxian and Kuxian. Anyone who encountered water sources were buried and blocked, and when they saw that the roads transporting food were all sent to station troops. Even a fly could not fly into Pengcheng City. Xiang Han was indeed the first to lead his troops to support Xiangzhuang, hoping to cooperate with Xiangzhuang in the city when the Qin army was not yet stable. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by Luo Shen and Zhao Ba when he left the door. Fang fought without any scruples for a while, and after a draw, they all lost their troops. Xiang Han could not pass, and Luo Shen insisted that he would not retreat, so he was in a stalemate. But strangely, Zhou Bo waited for two days but could not wait for Xiang Bo's reinforcements. This situation made him very worried. Professional soldiers knew that this superficial calmness often indicates an inner undercurrent, and they didn't know what tricks Xiang Bo wanted to play.

Wang Ben and Guan Ying personally attacked the county town, leaving Luan Bu and Li Biren Ao Qianqiu to siege the four gates of Pengcheng. The army was 200,000 generals, and they only surrounded and did not fight or challenge. They made the monk Xiangzhuang confused and didn't know what they were doing. All the detailed works sent out to deliver the letter were caught by the Qin army, and their ears and tongues were cut off and their eyes were put back, which meant to warn him not to beg for reinforcements. Pengcheng was already isolated and helpless. The soldiers in the city were indeed very scared, and they were silent at night when they slept. They jumped up immediately after they had any movement. Before the Qin army had sneaked out, they collapsed early.

Xiaoxian and Qingxian were soon captured under the overwhelming power of Wang Ben's 100,000 troops. How could the small Chu generals in the small county town resist the attack of more than 100,000 troops? Qiaoxian also opened the city gate two days later to surrender. However, Guan Ying's elite army could not fight hard outside Ku County. He met an excellent general of Chu. His name was Peng Zhifeng, who was a rising star in Chu. When Xiang Yu fought in the east, he once wanted to use it, but considering the safety of the rear, he left it in Ku County and temporarily became a county magistrate.

Peng Zhifeng had few soldiers and horses, nearly 15,000 people, all of them were infantry guarding the city, and only 8,000 archers were very average, but they were well prepared. When most generals of the Chu State believed that Kuxian was located in a remote place and would not be attacked, he thought of the four words of preparation for the future. Military tactics were military tactics, and those who won battles were prepared. Therefore, the rolling wood and rocks at the top of Kuxian were piled up like mountains, and the tung oil was hot all day long. Archers were waiting day and night to wait day and night, ready to meet the challenge at any time. The defense outside the city also reached the level of first-level combat readiness. Three trenches were three trenches deep and two trenches wide. The moat was locked with sharp bamboos and iron chains. Even if the enemy rushed over, they could not cross the river. The enemy's cavalry lined up one after another. There was no place for the enemy to stand under the city.

Guan Ying walked around the city far away, secretly saying in her heart that she didn't expect that there would be such a city guardian in this small county town. The arrow was on the string. Not to mention a small county town, no matter how big the obstacle was, it would be taken down today. Guan Ying even avoided persuading surrender. Such prepared people would never pay attention to the persuading surrender.

"Siege the city! Fight from all sides and attack the city with all your strength!" Guan Ying narrowed her eyes and looked coldly at the blue-gray giant rocks on the city. The huge rocks were covered with a layer of straw, and I don't know what they were for.

The siege team soon suffered a crushing defeat. Although the bows and arrows on the top of the city did not reach the point of covering the sky, their feet were filled with traps and tripping ropes, and the main legion at the main gate was soon defeated. Although Guan Ying admired the guards in the city, he had no time to fight wits and courage with him. His plan was to bully the opponent's people and take action from all sides, so that Peng Zhifeng could lose sight of the other side.

On the first day, Guan Ying returned in a defeat. Peng Zhifeng fought from all sides and repelled the Qin army's siege three or four times. The Qin army suffered more than 3,000 losses, Guan Ying ordered the retreat.

The next day was still the same.

However, the consumption of this small county town seemed to have reached its limit, with only less than 10,000 people left. Guan Ying was still fighting around and was determined to take down the small county town within two days. At this time, Wang Ben had already returned to the army and was about to dig the Sishui River to flood Pengcheng.

On the third day, under Peng Zhifeng's flexible command and the tenacious resistance of the Chu army, the Qin army was still bleeding from the city and could not move forward. Guan Ying screamed in anger and almost went into battle. The battle continued overnight, and the soldiers took turns to fight day and night, trying to use fatigue to drag down Peng Zhifeng's Chu army. Sure enough, the exhausted Chu army could not hold on anymore, and the three gates in the east and north were attacked by the Qin army. Tens of thousands of Qin soldiers were left under the moat. Guan Ying received the news and was happy, suddenly the three sides of the city.

The black smoke rolled on the wall, the flames flew over the sky, and the heat rolled towards him. A scream came into his ears, Guan Ying was panicked and asked quickly. The spy reported that the officers and soldiers in the city were sprinkled with tung oil on the horse road and the city wall, and the Qin army was sieging the city wall. The Qin army lost at least 20,000 people. The fire was connected to the ground, and the flames licked the city gate around the city wall, and the fire crackled. The city wall collapsed in the blast, and Mars flew everywhere like fireflies at night.

The smell of roasted human meat is disgusting. The attack at the South Gate was still in progress. Guan Ying hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but it was too late. When Mingjin's voice just remembered, the fire at the top of the South Gate city burst out at the same time with the smell of tung oil piercing the nostrils. The fire was everywhere, and it seemed like thousands of red monkeys rushing to climb the mountain mist of the cliff. After a while, the blue-gray city wall was roasted and rolled up, like a grilled bakery, red and translucent. All the people involved were fucked.

The bones turned into corpses, and even the soul was refined. Guan Ying didn't know what Peng Zhifeng looked like in the end, but he must have died, because there was no living person in the ruins. Under a small county town, the great and invincible King of Qi Guanying actually lost a total of 30,000 troops. He felt that his face was unlucky, and he returned to the camp in a dusty manner to attack Pengcheng, leaving only 20,000 people stationed in the ruined city wall of Ku County.

Wang Ben also regretted the talent like Peng Zhifeng and kept sighing: "The people of Chu are so generous and heroic. If Xiang Yu could accept advice and treat the people well, maybe I, the Qin Dynasty, would never get this land. However, God will do so, Xiang Yu will die!"

There is only one Pengcheng left in Sishui County, standing alone and trembling on this land. Wang Ben listened to the sound of the water from the Sishui River and slapped his face. It was time: "Ren Ao, ye Qianqiu, bow head, each of you brings 20,000 people to dig the river from the east and west and north, leaving only the South Gate for Xiangzhuang to escape. You can cross the river in that direction. I guess he will abandon Pengcheng and escape back to Kuaiji, so that we will save a lot of effort."

The rainy season just passed. The Sishui River was very full. Although there was no wind and storm, it was still two feet deep. The Qin army dug the river channel overnight, and it was three feet deep and ten feet wide. The river water surged along the trenches towards Pengcheng, and the outer wall of Pengcheng immediately fell into a vast ocean of water.

It was not until now that Xiangzhuang in the city knew that the entire Sishui County had been lost. Not only that, the water and food in the city had been cut off, and the flood outside the city kept pouring in from the gaps in the city gate, and soon the water in the city flooded the feet. Xiangzhuang was quite calm. He ordered people to build walls, block the city gate, block the water flow, and sent people to inquire whether reinforcements had arrived. The spies sent out soon knew that there was no flood in the south gate, and they all came back to report and asked Xiangzhuang to escape from the south gate. Xiangzhuang thought to himself, if I escaped from the south gate, wouldn't it be the trick of the old thief Wang Ben? If there was no flood there, there would be ambush and would be caught as soon as I went out.

"You guys go out to inquire. If you can break out, go to Xingyang to report to the king and ask him to return to the army to rescue him." Xiangzhuang had no hope at all. Several spies left after being ordered, and soon they were sent back. The ears were cut off, and their tongues were plucked out of their eyes, and they were bloody like a newly cut pig's head.

The flood rushed towards the city wall every day, and after five days, it was already level with the city wall. Xiangzhuang ordered people to use wooden boards and bricks to increase the city wall, and the water depth was increased by one foot. I don’t believe that the flood could run to the sky. The problem is that there was not enough food. Three days later, a grain shortage began to occur in Pengcheng. People began to escape quietly from the south gate. It was strange that none of the escaped people were caught and all ran away in a swagger. This began to make Xiangzhuang very puzzled. After a few days, he no longer puzzled. Because every night, soldiers disguised themselves as ordinary people who ran out of the city, from one or two to dozens or hundreds, and finally the deserters reached 10,000 or 20,000. The city gate to the south was simply closed at night.

Since the escaped people wandered from the moat and the suspension bridge was not put down, the Qin army could not enter the city with this point, and Xiang Zhuang secretly was glad. However, this situation could not happen again. He sent his confidants to block the south gate and prevented anyone from leaving the city.

The food in the city was getting tighter and tighter. The soldiers could only eat one meal a day, and there were three intestines idle and two and a half, and they were almost hungry. The city wall could no longer be raised. The flood waterfall flowed into the horse road like a waterfall. The soldiers guarding the city stood in the waist-deep water. The part raised by wooden boards and bricks was originally very unstable. The wind was blowing, the waves surged, and the water pressure gradually increased. Several places collapsed one after another. The water finally found a gap and rushed into the city from there. Pengcheng suddenly became a vast ocean of Hongze.

Guan Ying had already laid a raft and was waiting for this moment to come. The moment the flood poured into the city, 40,000 to 50,000 naval troops carried the raft and rushed into the city from three sides. A bloody battle on the water began. The city wall was useless, and the flood had long exceeded the height of the city wall. The Qin army's rafts entered the city from high to bottom, surfing, and the Chu army floating in the water was either chopped or captured by the pain. The flood immediately turned into red water. The people in the city also suffered disasters, farmland was destroyed, countless houses were washed away, their wives and children were separated, and their families were destroyed. This was war. Fortunately, the intelligent ones escaped from the south gate in advance.

Xiangzhuang led the team to swim in the uncapped water and struggled to escape towards the south gate. His ears were filled with wails and war drums and horns. The Qin army's rafts had already surrounded him from all directions. About 20,000 or 30,000 people were still escaping with Xiangzhuang, and Baixi was among them. In this case, he had no idea and just followed Xiangzhuang aimlessly. Dozens of Qin rafts came over. Baixi burst into courage, pulled out his sword and rolled onto one of the rafts, chopped and killed more than a dozen Qin soldiers on the rafts, grabbed a slurry and paddled to Xiangzhuang, and pulled Xiangzhuang, who was full of armor and could not move forward. Xiangzhuang cried on the raft.

Crying loudly: "I am worthy of my brother's trust and let me die." As he said that, he pulled out his sword and wiped it on his neck. Bai Xi was sharp-eyed and quickly blocked it, and said anxiously, "General, Xi Chu is in danger now, and the general is a general under the Overlord. If the General dies, the Overlord will seem to have lost an arm. The General is useful. Wouldn't it be better to stay for revenge in the future? Don't you think about it, Liu Bang and Tian Rong were so arrogant that they were not dead under the overlord's iron hooves, and let the Qin army be rampant for two days. We will go back to Kuaiji to recruit soldiers and reorganize the team. When the Overlord comes back from the east, we will cooperate to seize Pengcheng from the south."

After Baixi's guidance, Xiang Zhuang temporarily gave up the idea of ​​seeking death. He stood on the raft and called out the defeated soldiers of Chu and followed him to escape to the south gate. The defeated soldiers of Chu gathered more and more around the raft, and finally reached 40,000 to 50,000 people, and the rest were gone. It was probably either escaped or was stalked.

Baixi and Xiangzhuang were attacked by Qin troops from all directions on the raft. Arrows were flying everywhere, and swords and spears flashed everywhere. Countless soldiers from Chu were killed or injured, and they could not fight back at all. Baixi stood on the raft, while Saul's arrows were calling on the soldiers to seize the raft.

The Chu people finally woke up. Many people climbed onto the rafts and fought with the Qin people to bite them desperately. Most of the Chu soldiers who fell into the water had abandoned their beloved sharp blades and could only rely on their mouths and hands. After an hour of hard work, 20,000 to 30,000 people snatched more than twenty rafts, and some of them swamed and turned to the south gate. The south gate was high and the water was not deep, and it was only at the knees. The raft could not be used. The Qin army followed him and jumped down to continue to fight. The clanging and screams followed. Wherever he went, he was covered in blood and red, and the dead were crowded with shoulder to shoulder.

Baixi and Xiangzhuang have been leading the way in front of the road, knowing that they can open the city gate and jump into the moat, and run out of the gap in the trench. Outside the trench, there were about five or six thousand defeated soldiers from the Chu State like water-like dogs gathered, and more and more, and these people accounted for 90% of them.

Xiang Zhuang didn't care about these and Bai Xi and the five or six thousand people leading the way to escape to the official road. They ran out exhausted for ten miles and couldn't walk. Suddenly, they heard two cannons in the fork in the road ahead, and a man and horse broke out from the left and right.

Someone on the left shouted: "Luan Bu is here, go there in Xiangzhuang!"
Chapter completed!