General Qin.

Chapter 228
"Report...the Chu army has arrived thirty miles away from Xiacai. Looking at the Chu army's flag, it should be Xiang Yan!"

On the second day, as Li Xin's rangers who had been out for thirty miles before came back to report one by one, the entire city of Xiacai was filled with a sense of depression that was about to come.

"General Li, our army is smaller than the Chu people, and yesterday we stormed Cai, and the soldiers suffered a lot of damage. If we fight in the field, we may be disadvantaged. It is better to defend the city, relying on Cai's city wall defense, and then deal with the Chu army."

In the big tent, after confirming that Xiang Yan was leading the army approaching, the generals and officials looked terrified. During the military discussion, a school lieutenant proposed a strategy of relying on the Xiacai city wall to defend.

Yesterday Li Xin led the army to attack the city, all relying on the soldiers carrying ladders to force the attack. The Qin army did not cause any damage to the city wall. With the help of this strong city defense facility, they could kill and wound the Chu army in large numbers in order to seek a chance of victory.

Hearing this, several captains in the tent couldn't help nodding.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, Xiang Yan is the most famous general of the Chu State today, comparable to Wang Jian of the Qin State.Now that Li Xin's army went deep alone, and had just gone through a siege battle, no one wanted to go head-to-head with an enemy of Xiang Yan's level.

Li Xin's eyes were cold and he didn't speak.

"We can't stick to Xiacai, otherwise we will die."

General Pi Xin Wu vetoed it, and explained: "Our army has penetrated deep into the Chu land, and we are isolated and helpless. If we defend here, there will be no reinforcements to rescue us. On the contrary, the Chu army occupies a favorable location and can continuously send troops from nearby cities. Replenish the army and supplies. If you stick to the city, although it looks like you can take advantage of the city wall, you will be surrounded by Chu people here. If Xiang Yan does not attack, until the food in the city is exhausted, we will lose without a fight. "

"Moreover, there are tens of thousands of Xiacai and Chu people in this city. They will definitely echo the Chu army outside the city. When the Chu army attacks the city, the Chu people in the city will rise together, and our army will be attacked from inside and outside. An Neng is determined to defend against the enemy. !"

As he spoke, Xin Wu sighed again: "If you defend Xiacai, once the city is broken, the whole army will be wiped out. If it is a field battle, most of our soldiers are chariots and riders, and we have an advantage in the wilderness. Even if we lose, we can turn to Zhou Xuan. It's better than defending the city."

Although everyone nodded at Xin Wu's words, there was actually a kind of pessimism in them.This veteran with considerable battlefield experience is not optimistic about this battle.

After Xin Wu finished speaking, no one mentioned the matter of defending Xia Cai.

Then Li Xin said calmly: "The Chu army has reached thirty miles away. Judging from Xiang Yan's way of ambushing me in Juyang, this person is very experienced and will not come here by force. He must delay it until tomorrow." He will arrive nearby to preserve the strength of his soldiers to fight our army. Therefore, we still have one more day."

Li Xin's eyes flashed brightly.

"There are many soldiers in Chu, but we have few soldiers, and our army is dominated by chariots and cavalry. If there is a decisive battle, we will lose the wind. On the contrary, with the speed of our cavalry and chariots, galloping across the wilderness will have a miraculous effect!"

"Let the soldiers have a good night's rest today, recharge their energy, and set off for the north early tomorrow morning."

"I want to surprise the marching array of the Chu army with chariots and horses, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

Li Xin's resolute voice sounded in the tent, full of indomitable momentum.

What defense, what positional warfare.

Neither is Li Xin's style.

Only attack is the best defense.

With the speed of chariots and riders, surprise the Chu army!

This is Li Xin's tactics, and this is what Li Xin should look like!

……

The next morning.

Standing on the Xiacai city wall, Li You watched the Qin army outside the city begin to set off from camp. The wheels rolled, the horseshoes flew, and long black snakes began to meander toward the north.

He couldn't help feeling worried.

Li Xin's battle plan is very simple, just like Xiang Yan raiding Li You's troops on the march, use chariots to raid Xiang Yan's army on the march. The Qin army can tear apart the Chu army's formation with a single charge.

Then the Qin army's infantry followed closely, took the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and at the same time killed the Chu army's rear.In the case of a surprise attack, the Chu army's forwards must have panicked and dispersed, and their defeated soldiers were driven by the Qin army to counterattack the Chu army's rear.

As long as this happens, it is very likely that the entire Chu army will be defeated on the battlefield. At that time, let alone 3 people, even if it is 5 people, Xiang Yan will definitely be defeated.

"But that's Xiang Yan."

Li You couldn't forget that day when he was raided by the Chu army and saw the terrifying look of endless red soldiers rushing towards him.Li Xin is considered to be second to none among the younger generation of Qin generals, but can he be Xiang Yan's opponent?

However, Li You was not qualified to speak out at this time. In the case of a disastrous defeat and the abandonment of the army, it was a kind of tolerance for Li Xin not to punish him severely, and it could even be said that it exceeded Li You's expectations.

Of course, Li You couldn't be blamed for that incident. Under the circumstances at that time, [-] Qin troops were suddenly attacked by more than [-] Chu troops. Even if Wang Jian came, it was impossible to turn the tide of the battle.Li You's ending is nothing more than death in battle or escape.A young general like Li You, who was born as an official and had a bright future, would naturally not choose to die meaninglessly. It was only natural for him to escape. At worst, he would be punished by cutting his rank after the war.

So Li Xin didn't criticize Li You too much, but instead gave him a task.

Queen!

He led more than a thousand defeated soldiers gathered yesterday, plus the slightly injured soldiers of the Qin army, a total of about 2000 people, and did not participate in Li Xin's surprise attack.Instead, they were in the rear of the Qin army, deterring the Chu people in Xiacai City, and preventing the Chu people from Xiacai from attacking the Qin army from the rear under the leadership of someone in the city, causing the possibility of Li Xin being attacked by the enemy.

"Marquis, all the ships on the Huai River have been scuttled, and there is no ship near Xia Cai."

A master of two or five hundred came to report.

Li You nodded, and then said: "Put all the food, fodder and supplies into the car, and wait for half an hour after the army leaves, we will set off."

……

The spoke wheel turns, leading the car forward.

Standing on the chariot, Li Xin couldn't help but turn his head, looking to the south.

He looked at Xiacai City in the distance, which was still in the twilight of the morning light, and the river behind the city that he could no longer see.

Huai River.

Li Xin sighed softly, his voice was full of regret and unwillingness.

He had already conquered Xiacai, drank the water from the horses and Huai Rivers, and was only one step away from crossing the big river, taking Shouchun, the capital of Chu, and capturing the king of Chu alive!

The monstrous feat is right in front of your eyes!

Unexpectedly, Xiang Yan's sudden appearance disrupted all his plans.

He has no certainty of winning this battle.

The Chu army has 3 people, even if Li Xin can win, he probably won't have the strength to cross the Huai River and attack Shouchun.

If you lose, let alone.

Moreover, Xiang Yan is not the only enemy of his Li Xin.

Li Xin turned his head and looked northwest again, with both anger and worry in his eyes.

Changping-kun!
This person leaked his ingenious strategy to the Chu army, presumably because he had a heart of betrayal.

Lord Changping sits in the important area of ​​Huaiyang and is in charge of the transportation of grain and fodder for the [-] troops of Mengwu and Wu.Once he rebelled, it would be like a knife stabbing into Meng Wu's back from behind, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Meng Wu, I'm afraid it's in danger.

……

At noon, it is more than ten miles away from Xiacai City.

A long red dragon is slowly moving forward on this wide and flat field.

In front of this red army, there is a small hill, not high, but enough to block the sight of normal people.There is also a forest on the west side, in which many birds fly up and flutter in the air.

Ye Cong served as the chief general of the Chu army's vanguard. He was standing on the chariot at the moment, staring at the forest.

As a child of the Ye family, Ye Cong is a born noble in this country, so he has naturally learned the art of war. Now seeing the birds soaring in the forest, he can't help but whisper: "The art of war says, all trees move, come; all grasses move." Those who have many obstacles are doubtful; those who rise up are also crouching. From this point of view, the Qin army will definitely ambush here!"

"Defend in formation, there is an ambush here!"

Ye Cong yelled, and the short soldiers beside the chariot immediately yelled, and at the same time waved the flag, conveying the general's order to the other parts of the Chu army.

Just then, the earth shook.

The rumbling sound was like a thunderstorm on a sunny day, shaking people's hearts.

The first thing to move was not the dense forest with flying birds that Ye Cong saw, but the hill in front of him.

The four horses galloped, pulling the chariots out from behind the hills, and marched rapidly on this wilderness.

On both sides of the chariot, there are cavalry galloping along.

After the chariot ride, there were countless black-armored Qin soldiers closely following, striding and galloping. From a distance, it seemed that a wave of black-armored soldiers was madly sweeping towards the red dragon.

At this moment, even though Ye Cong had seen through the plot of the Qin people to ambush, even if the soldiers of the Chu army had taken precautions, they still couldn't stop their limbs and bodies from trembling involuntarily.

Thousands of horses are galloping, and hundreds of chariots are charging.

How shocking and frightening this scene was.

"Array! Arrange!"

Ye Cong shouted, trying in vain to make the soldiers under his command form a defensive formation.

However, watching the scene of the chariot and horse charging and the ground shaking, fear had already covered the faces of these Chu soldiers.

Except for Ye Cong's short soldiers, these soldiers recruited from Ye's fief in the east of Chu State were not elite soldiers.Even before this war started, they were nothing more than farmers wielding farm tools in the fields, and many of them hadn't even killed anyone. In such a horrific scene, there was no fighting spirit.

Before the battle, some Chu people began to flee, one fled, ten fled...

The defensive formation couldn't be formed, and Ye Cong only had time to swear, and the Qin army's cavalry rushed in front of them.

Fear surfaced on Ye Cong's face. Immediately afterwards, the forward of the Chu army he was in was overwhelmed by the Qin people's chariots.

At this time, it was not only the Chu army's forward who encountered the Qin army's chariots.

In the dense forest where the flying birds flew into the sky, thousands of black armored Qin soldiers also appeared. First, they held the Qin crossbows that had already been loaded with arrows and shot wildly at the Chu army at the edge of the dense forest, and then the Qin army behind the crossbowmen The soldiers launched a charge and went straight to the middle of the red dragon, trying to cut off the Chu army in the marching formation.

"Xiang Yan used a surprise attack to defeat Li You the day before yesterday, and I will use the same method to deal with him today."

Under the guard of short soldiers, Li Xin walked up the hill and looked into the distance.

The best time to make a surprise attack should actually wait until the Chu army moves forward, so that the ambush in the dense forest can directly attack the central Chu army, where the commander is. This will definitely cause chaos in the Chu army and achieve the best effect. Moreover, the charge of Qin Jun's chariots can also exert its greatest power.

It's a pity that the Huaibei Plain to the north of Xiacai is suitable for riding a car, but it lacks cover.The hill where Li Xin was located was already the best place to hide the army nearby, but it was still not wide enough. Once the Chu army got closer, they would definitely find ambushes, which would be bad.

Moreover, Li Xin looked at the flock of birds soaring in the dense forest. If this obvious flaw was delayed, it would be discovered by the Chu army sooner or later.

"Enough is enough! Judging from the reaction of the forwards of the Chu army, the Chu army under Xiang Yan's command is not elite. It's nothing more than a group of motley troops that have been conscripted. I am able to attack him with [-] elite vehicles and [-]!"

Li Xin watched the Chu army's vanguard completely defeated, and the defeated army was driven to the rear by the black-armored Qin soldiers, rushing back to the Chu army's rear formation, and he could not help showing a smile on his face.

The situation in front of him was exactly as he had expected.

What about Xiang Yan?
It's just dead wood.

……

At this time, looking from Xiang Yan's direction, there are countless panic-stricken Chu soldiers running back in front of them. Behind them, there are also Qin people in black armor approaching. The Chu army is about to be defeated. look like.

But Xiang Yan's face was not only not panicked, but with a faint smile on the contrary.

"Shangzhu Kingdom's fortune teller, this Li Xin really chose to carry out a surprise attack while we were marching, and everything was within Shangzhu Kingdom's expectation." Zhaoping said with admiration.

Xiang Yan smiled.

"Most of Li Xin's subordinates are chariots and cavalry. If he sticks to Xia Cai, he will not only be unable to give full play to his advantages, but will also seek his own death. If he wants to escape to the west before our army arrives, he will inevitably be chased by me. Under the lack of supplies, the Qin army will sooner or later Fallen. So Li Xin can only choose to fight me head-on. With his character, he would not choose a positional confrontation, but a surprise attack with a chariot, which is also his consistent style."

Xiang Yan spoke very plainly, he had already studied Li Xin's character, except for Juyang's surprise, Li Xin's tactics were generally curious and dangerous.

How Li Xin acts is basically under Xiang Yan's control.

Zhaoping nodded, looking at the fleeing former army ahead, he couldn't help sighing: "But Shangzhu Kingdom deliberately used the soldiers recruited by Ye Shi, Sishang, and Lu to consume the Qin army's chariots and cavalry, it is a pity, even if it can win , Our army also suffered heavy casualties."

Xiang Yan said indifferently: "What a pity, Li Xin has far more chariots and riders than our army, and is also more elite than our army. If he is raided by him on this plain, he will definitely suffer great damage. Instead of letting the elite under his command go To bear it, it is better to exchange those thousands of mediocre soldiers for the attack of the Qin army's chariots. This way I can maintain the strength of the elite under my command, and when the Qin army's chariots are finished, they will perish."

Under Xiang Yan's watchful eyes, the rear of the Chu army was a neat square formation of three stations, and the three red flags fluttered in the wind. The three military formations also showed no signs of being affected.

Qu, Jing, Zhao.

The elite soldiers from the three major families of the Chu State are far from being able to compare with the ordinary Chu soldiers who were defeated by the Qin army's chariots and riders.

"Those who dare to rush into the army, beheaded!"

At the sound of the order, the soldiers in the front of the three army formations leveled their spears and halberds at the same time. As long as the defeated soldiers of the Chu army who fled back from the front dared to charge forward, they would be mercilessly poked on the ground by the robe Ze at the front of the army formation. .

After killing more than ten people in a row, no matter how panicked the escaped Chu soldiers were, when they saw the shining spears, halberds and swords ahead, the ruthless faces, and the corpses on the ground, they knew the reason for rushing into the army. After that, he quickly fled to both sides.

In this way, under the large area of ​​fleeing soldiers, the army formation composed of soldiers from the three major families still stood neatly and was not affected in any way.

Finally, when the soldiers of the Qin Army who chased and chased the Chu army all the way to the rear arrived at the rear of the Chu army, they were shocked to find that the expected Chu army's rout did not occur.

In front of them, instead, there were three Chu army formations in an orderly manner, lined with spears and halberds, and bows and crossbows.

After a round of charging, the horses of the Qin army had begun to tire, and the Qin army's infantry ran all the way to chase, slashing and killing the Chu people, and their arms and feet had begun to become heavy.

Faced with the elite soldiers of the three clans of Chu State who are well-ordered and energetic.

The outcome of this battle speaks for itself.

Xiang Yan turned her head and smiled at Zhaoping beside her, "The Qin army has been defeated."

　The update is later, mainly because I want to finish this battle in one chapter.After thinking about several tactics for this battle, after hesitating for a while, he still felt that taking the initiative to attack was more in line with Li Xin's character, while other tactics did not suit Li Xin.

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