Huanjie was confused by the Chu army outside the city. He really couldn't figure out why they didn't attack the city but sent troops across the river. At first, Huanjie thought they were going to attack Bashu! Later, Changsha's soldiers

Xi Zuo sent a secret report, saying that Xiang Yu sent people to make Emperor Yi and take over Changsha County. Huan Jue almost smiled crookedly. Didn't Xiang Yu destroy the Great Wall himself?

Later, I heard that Xiang Yu captured Zhao Ping and his wife, children, and more than a hundred children in the military camp. The women were used as military prostitutes and the men were hacked to death with their own hands. The last one was Zhao Ping himself. Zhao Ping cursed and was stabbed by Xiang Yu.

The limbs were cut off, and finally the head was chopped off.

Huan Jue has not been idle in the past few days. He has been intensively preparing for defense. He reinforced and raised the city wall, widened the moat, and dug out the Yangtze River water to fill the river channel. Five more trenches were dug outside the moat. One foot deep.

The trenches are filled with sharp bamboos. There are heavy antlers on the horse path between the trenches. Behind the antlers are sand and mud bags as high as a person. Archers hide behind the sand and mud bags and wait to shoot arrows!

As early as in the Chu Kingdom, Jiangling City was an important defensive town. It was a strong city and covered a vast area. It stood like a steel giant on the riverside, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

At this time, the 12,000 crenels on the four gates of the city were all filled with Qin soldiers, with bright eyes and full concentration, ready to meet the enemy at any time.

Huan Jue is in the city, and the surrendered general Ben He is in charge of commanding outside the city!

After Xiang Yu took care of Emperor Yi and Zhao Ping, he immediately divided his troops into three groups and pressed towards the south gate of Jiangling City! Xiang Yu's army of Western Chu was in the center, and soldiers from Yingbu and Wu Rui were on the two wings!

"Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!" Bugles sounded outside the city. Xi Chu's Chinese army slowly advanced to the trench. Xiang Yu was wearing a purple war robe, carrying a bronze whip on his back, holding an iron halberd, and facing the wind with a war flag on his head.

Exhibition.

Thirty generals of Xi Chu were lined up behind them. The neatly arranged oars and shield soldiers were as straight as a solid gray wall behind Xiang Yu.

The battle flags are flying, the swords are shining brightly! Looking from the top of the city, the soldiers of Xi Chu are as dense and overlapping as the primeval forest, endless.

As the army marches, the sound of wheels, the sound of horse hooves, the trembling of the scales on the generals and armored soldiers, and the clang of combat boots have formed a murderous aura that lingers on top of the city.

"Let King Qin come out to see me!" Xiang Yu shouted at the top of his lungs, pointing at Huan Jue on the top of the city.

Huan Jue raised his hand to Xiang Yu and said: "Overlord, the King of Qin is afraid that you will be blamed for killing Gong Ao, so he has already gone back to Guanzhong. Now there is only the last general in Jiangling!"

Xiang Yu was secretly happy that King Qin was so cowardly that it seemed that he could take back Nanjun without much effort.

"Asshole, if you are afraid of being blamed, why do you want to invade the land of Dachu? I will give you one day. When your army leaves Nanjun, I will keep you around! I won't blame the King of Qin anymore!"

Is there such a cheap thing in the world? You can spit out the meat you eat!

Xiang Yu is in his thirties, how can he be so naive!

Huan Jue said solemnly, soft on the outside and hard on the inside: "Please forgive me, Overlord. Huan Jue was ordered by the King of Qin to guard the city here. He really did not dare to withdraw his troops without the order of the King of Qin. The former was an unprovoked invasion by Linjiang King Gong Ao.

The King of Qin had no choice but to fight back in the Bashu land of the Qin State. Now that the loss of Nanjun can only be regarded as the fault of King Linjiang, he is no different from others and has nothing to do with you, the overlord. Overlord, you should go back!"

This is said euphemistically, but the translation is: Can you take care of it?

Xiang Yu's majesty was trampled in front of hundreds of thousands of people. How could his fragile heart bear it? He suddenly became jealous and screamed: "Yingbu, attack the city immediately!"

Yingbu was almost angry to death. He had long expected that Xiang Yu would use his Jiujiang army as cannon fodder, and now it really came true. Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu, I really saw you right, you are really not a thing! I thought so, but he

But he didn't dare not go, raised his arms, and the Jiujiang Army on the left wing suddenly beat the war drums, and the soldiers shouted "Ho! Ho! Ho!", and followed his horse, marching with a sonorous and powerful rhythm.

In neat steps, they curved into a huge arc from the left wing and circled to the front of the Western Chu Army, preparing to start crossing the trench.

The battle was very fierce as soon as it started. A large part of Yingbo's Jiujiang army was the Chu army led by Xiang Yu. They still maintained a strong and murderous style. They felt more friendly when they encountered fighting than when they saw naked women.

Every two of Yingbu's shield soldiers were placed on a ladder, and the two rows of soldiers in front were relatively far apart. This was preparation for crossing the trench in advance.

The three-way drum sounded, and Yingbu gave an order, and the siege soldiers howled and rushed toward the trench quickly. Everyone who heard this sound had their blood boiling up and their scalps numb.

Ben He personally guarded the first trench. When he saw the Jiujiang Army pressing forward, he immediately ordered the Qin soldiers hiding behind the sand and mud bag offensive to release arrows. Rows of arrows erupted like rain. There were hundreds of people in the front line of the Jiujiang Army.

He was hit by an arrow and fell into the trench, where he was stabbed to death by a sharp bamboo. Blood flowed across the trench.

A series of ladders were set up on the trench. The soldiers behind shook off the heavy and clumsy hands and began to cross the trench on the ladders. The Jiujiang archers behind the shield soldiers raised their bows and arrows, drawing streaks in the air.

The arc formed an exchange of fire with the soldiers behind the sand and mud bags, covering the comrades in front to cross the trench.

Yingbu had seen the offensive built by the Qin army in advance, and predicted that Xiang Yu would probably let his army take the lead as cannon fodder, so he made a series of preparations. In particular, he added 10,000 accurate archers, in order to

The absolute advantage in numbers suppressed the rain of arrows behind the sand and mud bags, and this trick really worked. Huanjie deployed a total of 10,000 archers on the horse path of the fifth-level trench. In other words, there were two archers on each level.

Thousands of people, these people have no fixed position. If the enemy chooses to cross the trench from there, they will accordingly concentrate behind the sand and mud bags.

However, the Jiujiang Army had too many archers, almost five or six times that of the Qin Army. Although there were sand and mud bags as a barrier, there were still many casualties. However, the situation of the Jiujiang Army that crossed the trench was even worse. The Qin Army concentrated its firepower regardless of life and death.

They desperately fired at the soldiers crossing the ditch. The dense arrows even broke five or six bamboo ladders. The Jiujiang soldiers who had climbed halfway fell into the ditch with a mournful cry. Because they were too close to the Qin army's archers,

For this reason, as long as the Qin army pulls up the bowstring and shoots an arrow, it will definitely hit the vital part of the soldier. When the Jiujiang soldiers fall, many of them will take a comrade down with them because they are afraid of the sharp bamboo at the bottom of the pit, or they will rush to escape and use too much force.

The force suddenly broke the ladder, injuring more than a dozen brothers. They suffered heavy losses for a while. After a full hour of trench warfare, only forty or fifty Jiujiang troops managed to get over the beach. However, they were unable to gain a foothold and were still trapped.

The Qin army shot into a honeycomb. Dead bodies overlapped in the ditch, and the ditch was filled with blood!

Xiang Yu watched with great interest, and kept ordering people to beat drums to encourage the Jiujiang army to continue this suicidal charge. Yingbu couldn't stand it anymore, so he came to Xiang Yu and asked for a temporary withdrawal.

"Overlord, the losses of the Jiujiang soldiers are too great. The Qin soldiers are impregnable. It is better to withdraw first and think about it in the long run!" Yingbu thought to himself, after fighting for a few hours, Jiujiang's little fortune will soon be wiped out.

"In the past, Yingbu, who was the most courageous champion of the three armies, turned out to be a timid coward. What a pity. The battle has just begun, and the outcome has not yet been determined. If we just withdraw our troops like this, we will not let the Qin soldiers underestimate us. Send an order to attack with all our strength!"

Xiang Yu was focused on the battlefield, not even looking at Ying Bu.

Yingbu cursed in his heart, "You bastard, if it were your army, I'd like to see if you feel sorry for me."

The Jiujiang archers continued to shoot. Yingbu mobilized twenty-two ballista chariots to line up on the flanks of the archers. This type of ballistae used levers and cables to intensify its force. It took dozens of people to launch, and each vehicle could

More than seventy powerful arrows are fired at a time. These powerful arrows are more than ten times the size of ordinary bows and arrows, almost similar to spears, and are very powerful, enough to tear a buffalo into pieces.

"Fire!" The ballistae was ready, Yingbu gave an order, and a total of two thousand powerful arrows the size of spears flew towards the Qin army's position with a whining death whistle, and the exchange of fire in the sky

Still continuing, the Qin army suffered casualties, and the Jiujiang army's archers also fell one after another.

The ballistae attacked the Qin army's sand and mud bag positions with absolute high speed and power. "Plop, plop," a burst of flying sand and rocks, firelight splashing, countless sand and mud bags were torn in half by the crossbow, and some arrows

The arrow simply penetrated through the bag of sand and mud, and shot one or two soldiers in the chest. The Qin army's position suddenly fell into wailing. Many soldiers had their arms and legs torn off by the powerful arrows, and lay on the ground wailing.

The sand and mud bag offensive was incomplete, and a big hole was torn open in the iron-clad defense.

The most fatal shortcoming of the ballista is that it cannot be fired continuously, and more than seventy powerful arrows cannot be loaded continuously. Even the fastest speed takes about a quarter of an hour. Therefore, the Qin army still maintains a little strength to counterattack, although

Their souls were gone. Yingbu took advantage of the moment when the Qin army's bows and arrows were sparse, and ordered the Jiujiang army to cross the trench with all their strength. The archers shot arrows at the surviving Qin army behind the sand and mud bags. Many of the already timid Qin army did not dare to show their heads.

Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers from the Jiujiang Army rushed onto the horse path. There was a layer of deer antlers blocking the horse path. With no way to retreat, the Qin Army came out again to shoot. Many Jiujiang soldiers were killed by arrows.

However, more and more people rushed over, and the antlers were quickly removed and thrown into the ditch. The Jiujiang soldiers rushed over like ferocious wolves with blood-red eyes.

Ben He directed the soldiers to carry out the last few rounds of shooting, while preventing everyone from retreating from the gap between the two trenches to the second trench. Under the swarm of bows and arrows, the Jiujiang army crowded each other, and many of them fell into the trench and died.

In fact, Yingbu was watching behind him and rubbing his hands vigorously. In this moment, he may have lost five or six thousand people. It has not been two hours. If he continues like this, he will capture the fifth trench and arrive at the foot of Jiangling City.

At that time, I am afraid that the Jiujiang Kingdom will be completely wiped out. Xiang Yu, you are so cruel.

Ben He's army withdrew to the sand and mud fortifications of the second trench, and suddenly locusts covered the air. The Jiujiang Army that was closely pursuing them fell to the ground. There were three layers of deer antlers lying across the passage of the two trenches, and a large number of deer antlers were concentrated behind them.

The archers and the Jiujiang soldiers who wanted to take advantage of this moment immediately piled up the corpses.

The second heavy fortification was equipped with forty stone-shooting machines of the Qin army. Ben He, who was covered in blood, gave an order, and dozens of large stones rose into the air, crossed the two trenches, and shot Jiujiang who was loading arrows in front of the ballista truck.

The soldiers smashed a few to death, and the rest immediately ran away, afraid to come out. The boulders were fired much faster than the ballistae. After the second stone was launched, several ballistae carts were immediately smashed to pieces.

Lost combat effectiveness.

These chariots were Yingbu's lifeblood, and he would never use them unless absolutely necessary. Even if he took them out, he couldn't watch them being destroyed by others, so he hurriedly ordered the chariots to be transferred to the rear group and temporarily withdraw from the battlefield.

Without the support of ballistae and chariots, the Jiujiang Army that crossed the trenches immediately suffered heavy losses. Everyone seemed to see countless dragonflies flying past, so densely packed that there was no space left.

"Ahhhhh!" Dozens of screams came again. Yingbu's ears felt as if they were burned by boiling oil. He really didn't want to listen anymore. He brought the horse to Xiang Yu for the second time and plopped it down.

He dismounted and knelt on the ground: "Overlord, we can't fight anymore. If we continue like this, Jiujiang's soldiers will be completely destroyed. Overlord, they are also warriors of Chu!"

The greatest advantage of Xiang Yu is that he is a warrior of the Chu State. These words impressed him. He looked back at Fan Zeng and Fan Zeng also said, "The Qin army has been prepared for a long time. It seems that they can't be too anxious."

Yes, we captured the first level of trench today. We can order people to hold on and fill the trench at night, and fight again tomorrow!"

Xiang Yu thought to himself, Yingbu has learned a lesson this time, let's see if he dares to betray me in the future! He thought that this would make Yingbo afraid, but in fact he didn't understand that besides fear, Yingbo was mostly resentful!

The Chu army shouted gold, and the Jiujiang soldiers withdrew from the second trench. In view of the heavy losses of the Qin army, Ben He did not order a pursuit, and the arrows fired at each other subsided. Yingbu shouted to the retreating Jiujiang soldiers;

"Don't come back yet. Use the remaining sand and mud bags to build a fortification. Just hold on behind the fortification and continue the attack tomorrow!"

Just now, all the Jiujiang soldiers were thinking that tomorrow it might be the Hengshan Army or the Western Chu Army's turn to die. Unexpectedly, it would still be them. They all felt quite awkward. It seemed that this old fate must be left behind in the city.

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Due to the foundation of the Qin army's fortifications, the Jiujiang soldiers quickly built a barrier that could block arrows at the edge of the second trench. No one on either side could do anything to the other.

Ben He was hit by an arrow on his shoulder. The arrow went in between the scales of the armor and penetrated his bones. The blood had stained half of his body red. At the critical juncture, he had been desperately fighting, but he didn't feel any pain. Now both sides withdraw their troops.

, one left arm immediately became unable to be lifted. Several soldiers helped him cut off the arrow shafts at both ends, took out the arrows, bandaged them, and lay down behind the fortification. Suddenly, he heard horses neighing and men shouting, and chariots rolling.

Ben He managed to raise his head and took a look. He saw that the Chu army had retreated in large numbers, leaving only a few thousand men standing behind the sand and mud bag fortifications in the first trench. There were also more than 10,000 fortification soldiers digging and filling the trenches.

Trench. With the distance of the Qin Army at this time, it was possible to shoot these trench-filling fortification soldiers, but Ben He did not do so because the Qin Army suffered heavy losses and needed to rest. If he ordered shooting, the battle would definitely restart.
Chapter completed!