Wang Zhu was quite hesitant to eliminate the princes of different surnames.

The war in Jiangdong went very smoothly, and Wang Ben and Huan Qi crossed the Wujiang River without any effort. The Chu army in Jiangdong, which had no fighting spirit, blindly defended passively and did not set up defenses on the Yangtze River at all.

The hundreds of thousands of troops of Wang Ben and Huan Qi were invincible, as if they were entering an uninhabited state, attacking Zhu Fang, seizing Yanling, and attacking Changzhou. The entire Dongyang County was soon conquered. The Chu general Jin Yueyuan committed suicide by defeating himself. Wang Ben fought steadily and took steps to camp. After resting in Dongyang for 20 days and gaining a foothold, he sent people to Kuaiji to lure the surrendered generals Ding Gong and Ji Xin.

Ding Gong, Ji Xin hated the Qin soldiers to kill their elder brother Ji Bu, and ignored Wang Ben's generous treatment and refused to surrender. Chen soldiers and Qiantang River estuary, trying to block the Qin soldiers' offensive southward.

It was an evening, and Mr. Ding was staring at the river in the mouth of Qiantang River. The sunset was setting, the sun was shining brightly, half of the river was bleak, and half of the river was red. The horns suddenly soared into the sky in the Qin army camp opposite, with thunderous war drums and thunder. Countless medium-sized warships rode the wind and waves and rushed over. Just among the tumbling waves, warships flew like swallows, sometimes bumping at the top of the waves, sometimes sinking into the bottom of the valley, drifting through the waves, and getting more and more galloping horses.

"The Qin army crosses the river, the Qin army crosses the river--" Mr. Ding pulled over the reins and turned back, running back, shouting loudly while running. The Chu army camp beside the river was horned, and 20,000 archers rushed out of the camp, bent their knees by the river, lined up in three rows, bent their bows and arrows, and entered the defensive state.

A thousand dragon boats were thrown into the torrents amid a tight drum sound.

Although the Qiantang River is known as a big river, it is not as wide as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and it is impossible to accommodate thousands of large ships to fight a water battle. Ding Gong has lived here for a long time and has seen this very thoroughly, so he is unique and arranged the archers and spearmen on the dragon boats, using the speed and flexibility of the dragon boats to restrain the Qin naval army. He wants to completely control Wang Ben's army to the north of the Qiantang River.

Ding Gong stared at the battle situation in the river without blinking.

There were crowds of people along the river. The dams ten miles along the coast were crowded with black heads. Some of the sad and angry Chu soldiers were too excited. In order to repel the invaders, they simply rolled up their pants and stood in the river water at the base of their thighs. The cold and bone-breathing river water lost its original power in the infinite battle clouds.

On the river, there were thunderous sounds of gongs and drums. A thousand sharp and long dragon boats were rowing towards the middle of the river in response to the drum beats, as if a few willow leaves floating on the river were light and fast, and the speed was like an arrow from a string. These thousand dragon boats each had their own brightness and colors, red, blue, and purple. The bow of each dragon boat had a sergeant, beating drums and shouting and beating desperately. There were usually twenty soldiers rowing boats on the dragon boats. These soldiers carried bows and arrows on their backs and spears in the cabin, and they could rise up and kill the enemy at any time.

One thousand dragon boats, each twenty in a group, a lieutenant-level officer stood at the stern of a boat in the middle as commander-in-chief, holding a gong in his hand. When he beat the gong, his body leaned forward. The blades of the oars were as neat as numbers, and they were rowing and rowing. With the rhythm of the oars, the sailors shouted the horns of "Hi Hi Hi" in unison.

"General, look, the Chu army actually used dragon boats as warships to fight our army!" A consort on the Qin army ship suddenly pointed at the dragon boat capital that was coming from Jiang's heart and said. A splash of water appeared in front of Wang Ben, a piece of silver and white. In the blink of an eye, several dragon boats had already flew through the river dozens of feet and came to the Qin army's battleship array.

"Shoot, hurry up, shoot arrows, shoot arrows!" Although Wang Ben has been fighting for a long time, he has not even seen the dragon boat. He has never seen it before. He has only heard people mention that he was shocked by the speed of the dragon boat. After calling out these few arrows, the flagship was surrounded by twenty dragon boats. These dragon boats were scattered like a few fallen leaves falling from a big tree, dotted with the flagship in the middle. Swhoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, swoo, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, and squirts, squirts, squirts, and squirts, were suddenly shot at the dragon boat. On the

"Awesome, shoot arrows and fight back!" Wang Ben took a breath of air conditioning; "Take a flag and notify General Huan Shi, let him be careful and not participate in the war for the time being."

Huan Qi was about to supervise the rear army to enter the water to join the war. He suddenly saw Wang Ben's flag whisper and ordered him to hold his troops still. In amazement, he looked at the river and suddenly saw dragon boats biting like grasshoppers around relatively huge warships. The warships waved their limbs and resisted brute forcefully, but could not find traces of the dragon boats. Several medium-sized warships were already crawling on people and were engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand combat. Some of the other ships were slowly sinking to the bottom of the water, as if they were sunk.

In addition to being shocked, Huan Qi ordered the soldiers to raise flags and notify Wang Ben to withdraw the troops. Wang Ben was not as good as Huan Qi's battle situation as Huan Qi saw the flags and notified him to retreat. He had to order the soldiers to shoot and fight back while turning the bow of the ship and retreating like Jiangbei. The dragon boat was like a blood-sucking mosquito, biting him and not letting go. From time to time, someone on the flagship was injured and injured by arrows and died.

The flagship retreated, and the other warships also retreated. The dragon boat chased out ten miles of water, and suddenly retreated, coming and going like the wind, unable to catch it at all. The Chu army on the south bank of the Yangtze River immediately became boiling. The drums on the dragon boat were loud, and the gongs were noisy, bursting and shouting.

Wang Ben and Huan Qi were unable to deal with the dragon boats, so they stayed on the north bank of Qiantang River for ten days and could not move forward. They wrote a letter to Xianyang to request a long-term station to destroy the enemy's fighting spirit. On the fifteenth day, the spy sent to Xianyang to deliver the letter finally came back and brought the emperor's reply. Wang Zhu gave Wang Ben an idea of ​​connecting the boats with iron chains. He asked Wang Ben to connect all the battleships together with iron chains, lay wooden boards in the middle of each warship, and connected them into one, crossing the river to deal with the dragon boats.

After reading the letter, Wang Ben provoked the emperor, and immediately ordered the fortification soldiers to build iron chains and connect the warships. Three days later, two thousand medium-sized warships were all connected. Each fifty ships were integrated with wooden boards, covering the middle of which was more than ten miles across the river. They could run horses back and forth, and archers stood on the wooden boards, and could shoot arrows at dragon boats. The attacks of the warships and the density of arrows were greatly improved.

When Ding Gong from Jiangnan saw that Wang Ben had not moved for half a month, he thought he had given up the idea of ​​attacking Jiangnan and was smug. Suddenly, a signal was sent from the watchtower, and the Qin army was in a hurry toward the border. Just like last time, Ding Gong released a thousand dragon boats and shot towards the heart of the river quickly.

As the tides were rising and falling, Ding Gong couldn't help but be shocked. The Qin army's serial warships advanced to the south bank like a gray wall. A thousand dragon boats were as small as the mantis under the wheels, and there was nowhere to hide. It was too late when Ding Gong wanted to withdraw the dragon boat. Due to the last easy victory, the Chu army on the dragon boat was obviously very proud and did not notice the huge changes in the Qin warships at all. They also wanted to use the wolves tactics to defeat them one by one. Unexpectedly, the giant warships had already been connected together, with iron plates, chains stretched straight, and unified action, and unified advance and retreat. The speed of the dragon boats that were flying could not find any gaps in the group of closely arranged and tightly arranged warships. Just as they were about to retreat, the serial warships suddenly raised their sails and walked with the wind. The speed suddenly doubled, and they rushed towards the grasshoppers as if they were flying.

The Chu soldiers on the dragon boat hesitated for a while and determined their fate of dying. Under the urge of the wind, the huge warship produced a powerful explosive force, smashing the dragon boats into pieces of powder. The rumbling and explosion sounded endlessly, and the screams of pig-killing sounds came one after another. The heart of the river was red, and blood stained the river water. In an instant, dozens of dragon boats were sunk. An arrow on the serial battleships seemed to be a storm and raining on the river. The dragon boat soldiers were shot into arrows and turned to flee to the south bank.

Wang Ben ordered the warships to beat drums on the flagship and chased them tightly behind the dragon boat. Anyone who was caught was hit by a rain of arrows would be sunk immediately. All soldiers were swallowed by the whale-like ship.

Ding Gong witnessed all this on the south bank and was frightened. The loss of hundreds of dragon boats was still the second. The most important thing was that the Qin warships had already followed the dragon boats to kill. Ding Gong hurriedly organized infantry archers to line up and prepare to organize the enemy to land. The dragon boats were parked on the shore, and the Chu army on the boat jumped into the water and ran to the other side. The chain of large ships coming up squeezed all the dragon boats into powder. A fierce and incoherent arrow broke out on the south bank. Dozens of Qin soldiers were killed in an instant by arrows in the front warships.

"Login, get off the boat and land!" Wang Ben stood among the soldiers holding oars and shields and issued the general attack order.

Under the attack of Qin soldiers several times his own, Ding could not defend the river bank and retreated backwards with the remaining soldiers. Wang Ben directed the soldiers to chase and kill more than 20,000 people in the remaining Chu army on the shore. Ding's camp was caught by a fire, and the food, grass, and horses were lost countless times, and he fled back to Kuaiji with injuries.

After crossing the river, things became simple. Wang Ben continued to carry forward the Qin army's usual style of winning with more and defeating less. He first eroded the counties and counties around Kuaiji County, and then surrounded Kuaiji from all sides to attack Kuaiji. Soon, the five counties of Meili, Gusu, Lize, Zuili, and Wu County fell one after another, and the Qin army surrounded Kuaiji County from all sides.

The majesty of Kuaiji County in the past was as sunset as the west mountain. There were only a few soldiers guarding the two dark gates, but the head of the beast with green face and fangs on the gate was still as scattered as before. Ding Gong and Ji Xin could no longer recruit soldiers. There were less than 20,000 soldiers guarding the city, and they were still defeated soldiers and could not resist Wang Ben's hundreds of thousands of elite troops.

After Wang Ben and Huan Qi siege the city, they personally came forward to persuade Ji Xin and Ding Gong to surrender many times, but they were loyal to Xiang Yu and would rather die than surrender. In desperation, Wang Ben had to order the attack of the city. How could a crumbling city wall withstand the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops all night? Although Ding Gong and Ji Xin personally defended the city, holding swords and swords, and supervising the battle, they could not help but be defeated. On the third night, Kuaiji City was finally captured. Ding Gong and Ji Xin committed suicide the moment they broke the city.

Wang Ben Huan Qi took the opportunity to sweep Jiangnan, and the Chu army's forces were clearly without a trace within a month. On the way back, Wang Ben received an order from the emperor to take advantage of the opportunity to sweep the territory of King Wu Rui of Hengshan. After Wang Ben's army crossed the river, he was about to attack Wu Rui, but Wu Rui had sent people to surrender in advance. Wang Ben submitted a request. Wang Zhu's reply was to abolish Hengshan Kingdom, and Wu Rui and his son were renamed King of Changsha, and the two came to Xianyang to meet.

Wu Rui agreed happily, but unexpectedly, Wang Zhu was not Liu Bang, so he had no intention of giving him an inch of fiefdom. After tricking him into Xianyang, he came under house arrest and only gave him the title of "King of Changsha", but he did not let him go back to his country to become a vassal. From then on, Wu Rui and his son became idle people in Xianyang.

Wang Zhu finally thought about it that killing the king of the different surname should start with Peng Yue. This is not to say that Peng Yue is not loyal, but his idea is quite introverted. Logically speaking, the king of the different surname that threatened Wang Zhu the most should be Guan Ying, King of Qi and Ying Bu, the king of Huainan. The two had hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, occupied the southeast, and even had a good place and had people to reconcile. It was really a big trouble. However, now that the Huns threatened the north, and fighting against the Huns also depended on Guan Ying's Qi army, so Guan Ying could not move. As for Ying Bu, Jiangnan has just been pacified and the situation is unstable. Ying Bu is in charge of Huainan and Jiujiang monitors both sides of the Yangtze River, which is of great importance and cannot move. Han* is purely a coward, so there is no need to worry, so he can only start with Peng Yue.

However, it is not easy to kill Peng Yue in justification without attracting the attention of other princes. Wang Zhu held in Xianyang for several months and his scalp was almost broken, and there was no way to do so. The method Liu Bang used was not smart at all, but he just found a subordinate of the princes to sue him for rebellion, and then took advantage of the princes' inattention, and captured him in one fell swoop, and went to Chang'an to take action. Peng Yue and Han Xin arrested him in this way. Ying Bu was forced to rebel. Wang Zhu wanted to think of a better way than Liu Bang, so that Peng Yue would not complain and the other princes would not be suspicious.

This is very difficult, because Peng Yue had no idea or intention to rebel from beginning to end. The problem is that Peng Yue did not rebel, which does not mean that Peng Yue's son did not rebel, and that his son did not rebel, does not mean that his grandson did not rebel. It is still that Qin Shihuang's county system is relatively safe. No matter how bad it is, he should use a move of "No King of Ying" or something. The king of the different surname is absolutely unreliable, especially at this moment when the national strength is greatly weakened. If the king of the different surname is not eliminated in one day, Wang Zhu could not help but deal with the Huns.

Maodun has returned to Longcheng. I heard that he had been fighting with the Donghu people recently. The Donghu people asked him for a 'sweat-blooded BMW'. The ministers of the Huns thought that the Donghu people were too much and asked to go to conquer the Donghu. Maodun said cowardly: "Why are you embarrassed to have a war horse with a friendly neighboring country?" So he gave the war horse to the Donghu people. The Donghu people were so proud that Maodun was timid and afraid of them, so they became more and more demanding and sent someone to tell Maodun that he needed a Que family from Maodun to do it.
Chapter completed!