Emperor Qin

Chapter 159 Human Heart

In the middle of March, the Qin and Chu battles took place outside Pingyu City, and the Chu army was defeated and fled to the city of Sleep a hundred miles away.

The banks of Rushui returned to calm, just when the soldiers on both sides thought that the stalemate would continue, at the beginning of April, Wang Jian waved his big hand, and the army went out to attack the city of sleeping.

Although Xiang Yan went to the city, the sleeping city was only a small county, and more than 30 troops were crowded in it, and they couldn't even breathe a few breaths. They couldn't bear the huge consumption of the Chu army, so Xiang Yan was rebuilding these At this time, after receiving the battle report, the Qin army went south.

He almost threw down the battle report annoyed!

Wang Jian was too watertight, from the very beginning, the initiative of the battle was not in his hands.

What the case!

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Of course, Wang Jian also knew that the Qin army was far away, and people's hearts were changeable for a long time. What he was fighting for was the new defeat of the Chu army, the morale was not shaken, and it was difficult to stop the Qin army's iron cavalry.

On that day, the Qin army besieged Xiang Yan's army in two ways, cut off the front and back of the sleeping city, and fought against the Chu army outside the city.

Although Xiang Yan was on guard and made preparations for sinking into a horse pit and a moat, he was finally defeated because time was short, and more importantly, the Chu army was unwilling to fight.

In the year of being conscripted, they repeatedly waited to go home after fighting, and their fighting spirit at the beginning had already been worn out. The Chu soldiers who were not motivated were not like the Qin army who knew that there was a big cake that could become a master, nor did they Once Qin Jun fled, his wife and children were all guilty.

There are many remote places in the state of Chu, and most of the monarchs in various places are county princes, who govern a county, like a country within a country, they will not and do not have much willingness to pursue the responsibility of deserters, and may even ask the Qin army to come to the county Only then will they know about the defeat of the army, or not only the Qin army fought over, but they had already dragged their families and fled away.

This fierce battle lasted for three hours, and the defeat of the Chu army could not be stopped.

In the art of war, the generals lead the soldiers to fight on their own territory, they are the subordinates; defending the city, they are the superiors.

Apart from trampling on farmland and affecting production, the reason is that Zheng's Dingkou is in their own home, they speak the same language, and their homes are similar, so it is easy to escape, and the homesickness will spread over time, and it is easy to collapse. If they lose, they can He fled to the nearest village and county to hide and then went home.

And if it is defending the city, it is difficult for the soldiers to get out of the city, so they will fight to the death.But the Qin army came from afar, in a foreign country, and the language and roads were blocked. If you lose, you don’t want to go back home, so if you fail, you will die. It is a good choice.

Using his own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses, Wang Jian's art of war is like Tian Ji's. He always uses the best horses to fight the enemy's middle horses, and uses the middle horses to beat the dismounted horses. He can judge which are the enemy's high and low in the chaotic battlefield , is already a talent that future generations of famous generals will envy.

Therefore, Wang Jian led the army for decades without a single defeat.

Xiang Yan was helpless at this point, because the enemy had more high-grade horses, middle-grade horses and low-grade horses than him.

Therefore, after three hours of fierce fighting, the defeat of Chu State became more and more obvious. Xiang Yan had two choices. One was to let the Chu army hide in the sleeping city and defend the city, but the danger of this approach was Once the city was besieged, the grain roads would be cut off. Now that all the troops of the Chu State are in his hands, there is no one to rescue them. If he is not careful, he will be surrounded to death by the Qin army.

Another option is to retreat to Huaidong, and then station beside Yingshui, and fight the Qin army based on the geographical advantage.

Xiang Yan was also a famous general, so he immediately made a choice. After dispatching soldiers, he picked up the remaining soldiers, crossed the Yingshui River, and retreated to Qiqiu, a hundred miles away, in order to take advantage of the Yingshui River to fight against the Qin army.

He has already seen that it was so easy to defeat Li Xin back then, all because Li Xin's soldiers were curious, light and unprepared, and on the frontal battlefield, the Chu army could not beat the Qin army one-on-one.

After Wang Jian received the news, he was laughing with all the troops on the sand table.

Yan Jiang stood in the corner, with an owl resting on his shoulder, watching them watch the sand table and discuss the military situation, and was drawing a picture of Wang Jian Mie Chu on the paper with a charcoal pen.

He is a man dedicated to preserving treasures for the country!

"How do the generals intend to attack?" Wang Jian asked them with a smile.

With Li Xin, an impulsive boy who boasted that Haikou lost his pants in the past, everyone’s discussions were very conservative, what to continue to fight for a long time before attacking, what is the siege of the city by the army, what is the siege after breaking the food road...

Li Xin hesitated to speak, but thinking of what happened before, this escaped young man shut up and acted like a gourd.

Meng Tian and Li Xin were the youngest of this group of middle-aged generals. He actually wanted to find out opinions, but seeing that his father Meng Wu didn't speak, he just held back.

Seeing this, Wang Jian couldn't help laughing and said, "Young General Meng, what do you think?"

Meng Tian didn't panic when he was suddenly named. He glanced at his father who disapproved, and said resolutely: "Qiuqiu is the place where the vassals will form an alliance. Ignore Qiqiu and Chu's army, and take advantage of their major defeat to send troops south along the Yingshui River to take Shouchun!"

Now that the Chu army is out, as long as the Chu army, which is still building a new camp in the distance, has not recovered and captured Shouchun, with the fighting power of the lords from all over the country, they will surely surrender.

Wang Jian laughed loudly, and said to Meng Wu, "There are successors to the Meng family."

This strategy was right in his arms.

But there is still one crucial point, Li Xin finally couldn't help but said: "Now the king is still in Chencheng, if the army goes south and the Chu army goes north to Chencheng, will it be disadvantageous to the king?"

Xiang Yan is not a fool. Chencheng is only 150 miles away from Qiqiu, and his Qin army is more than 400 miles away from Shouchun. If others also attack Chencheng, wouldn't it be a big joke in the world?

"The old man will write a letter to the King of Qin and return to the country." Wang Jian smiled slightly, and his eyes fell on Yan Zi.

All the generals suddenly realized it, and praised the general for his wisdom.

It may not be so easy for others to persuade the king, but this one... that's different, completely different.

Yan Jiang heard the words, and poked the cat's head on his shoulder with a charcoal pen to win: "Hey, did you hear that?"

Maotouying turned his head 180 degrees and pretended not to hear it.

How mighty the widow is, how could he be scared away.

Besides, Wang Jian's place is nearly two hundred miles away from Chencheng, and it flies back and forth, is it trying to exhaust him to death?

Chencheng is the old capital of the Chu State. The city is full of grain and grass, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers guarding him. It is also connected to the chasm, and there is no danger of food shortages. Xiang Yan is nothing. wrath.

Yan Jiang calmly said to the generals: "I will do my best."

Then he took Niao out of the tent and hugged Ai Niao, Ai Niao said with satisfaction: "The matter of exterminating Chu should be based on the overall situation, I will go back to Xinzheng to wait for you."

Yan Jiang naturally agreed, yes, yes.

So His Majesty spread his wings and flew away in satisfaction, and then changed into King Qin's large size to write the handbook, stamped the king's seal, tied it to his paws, drank some water, and then flew back.

So in less than half a day, Yan Jiang received the imperial edict of King Qin's parade and moving to Xinzheng, which made the generals overjoyed.

King Qin watched them from behind for several months. Their lives were like elementary school students whose homework was watched by the head teacher every day. grateful.

Under the single mind of the king and ministers, Wang Jian's army first sent tens of thousands of soldiers to build a wharf in Yingshui, showing signs of going eastward to pursue it. At the same time, the main force of his army sent south. .

And when Xiang Yan officially confirmed the movement of the Qin army, it was too late.

Shouchun was the capital that King Kaolie of Chu moved three times after Chen, Juyang, and later. Among them, he made a difficult decision not to lose to Mengmu. There was no way. After losing the land of Yunchu and Hanjiang, the land occupied by Chu State was in the south of the North China Plain and the Yangtze River. The middle and lower reaches of the plain, the plain, is suitable for farming, but it is also a place that everyone knows is safe and defenseless.

So when he originally wanted to establish the capital in Xiacai, Lord Chunshen proposed to build a new city on the other side of the river in Xiacai, so that the two cities could protect each other and form horns with each other. Even if the army of other countries came, Shouchun in the south of Huaihe River would have enough time to react.

But Wang Jian is such a scheming person. He was in a remote place on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, a hundred miles away from the capital of Chu. He ordered his soldiers to build a pontoon bridge, and the whole army went to the north bank, and then attacked Shouchun from the north bank.

The city of Shouchun, the capital of Chu, has only been built for 20 years. How could it have encountered such a magical soldier descending from the sky? More importantly, Shouchun has few people, but the city wall is wide and large, and it is thirty miles long—because Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, had an area of One hundred hectares (about ten square kilometers), so it is stipulated that the vassal states should not exceed thirty hectares (about three square kilometers).

But the Eastern Zhou Dynasty collapsed, rituals and music were corrupted, and everyone scrambled to build a big city, so as the new capital of Chu, the King of Chu built a new city with a huge area—bigger than the capitals of the other six countries.

What they never expected was that now, because of the small number of people in the city, it seems empty, and the [-] guards can't even circle the city wall hand in hand.

More importantly, the Chu army was defeated, the Qin army besieged Chu, and spread the news of Xiang Yan's defeat. In the panic of fleeing and breaking through the siege, the army was killed by Chunshenjun's retainers.

His head was thrown into the thorny gate of the palace city, just like when he threw Jun Shenjun's head outside the palace gate.

Although Li Yuan is incompetent, he can at least influence the king of Chu, whether to break through the siege or defend the capital. Now that he is dead, the city defenders and the breakout faction are struggling endlessly.

Wang Jian saw the opportunity and intensified his offensive. On the third day, the army broke through the east gate, attacked Shouchun, and caught King Han of Chu.

In the 800th year of the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu Guozuo came to an end.

When Yan Jiang stepped into this big Huainan city again, it was already a barren and dilapidated place.

The Qin army is orderly compiling various treasures and famous utensils of the state of Chu into a book, and sending them to the big ship of the state of Qin. , It was found that it was far worse than that of Weidi, not even as good as South Korea.

Even the nine-color lacquerware is not very good, which disappointed Yan Jiang. His Majesty thinks it is normal, because Bai Qi has already collected and scratched it once, and this time it is only a few decades, so it is difficult to save any treasures.

So Yan Jiang took the opportunity to teach him a lesson, saying that the truth is the same, you can’t get too much, and you have to raise it for a long time to get more things. Have more output to support your great cause.

His Majesty has calmed down about A Jiang seizing every opportunity to make him benevolent, and immediately said that A Jiang was right, and I will listen to you!

Although he knew that he would listen for a while, Yan Jiang still fell in love with his shining Kazilan's big eyes when he nodded, and hugged and kissed him several times.

After kissing and hugging, His Majesty asked casually: I am waiting for you in Xinzheng, when will you be back?

Yan Jiang smiled and licked his love bird: "Xiang Yan's main force has not been broken, I will go around and go back in two days."

Why back, Qi Guo is still waiting for him!

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