Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 470

Zhou Wen had an army of 40 troops, presiding over Xianyang City, and Zhang Han's troops on the other side also had 40 troops. From the perspective of the number of people, the strength of the two sides can be said to be equal to each other.

Zhou Wen's army is dominated by the people in the head of Guizhou who can't survive. It can be said to be a model of combat effectiveness. However, the Qin army on the other side was a group of prisoners who built the Afang Palace a few days ago, and it is not much better than that.

However, in terms of equipment, Zhou Wen's army is completely inferior to Zhang Han's.

Not only did not many of the 40 peasant army have armor at the moment, many even held bamboo spears and hoes as weapons. On the other hand, the Qin army benefited from the rich accumulation of Xianyang City, and their weapons and armor were very neat.

So in the first battle, although Zhou Wenjun fought very hard, after two days of persistence, he was still forced to withdraw from Guanzhong and retreat to Caoyang via Hangu Pass.

Zhang Han, who was the victor, was naturally in hot pursuit. Zhou Wen led an army to a stalemate with Zhang Han's Qin army in Caoyang City.

Zhou Wen, who was short of food and grass, immediately sent envoys to seek help from Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and the newly established Zhao and Wei countries. However, Zhou Wen was trapped in Caoyang for two months, but he did not wait for a single soldier or a single grain of assistance.

Zhou Wen, who ran out of food and grass, had no choice but to abandon Cao Yang and continue to retreat eastward to defend Mianchi.

In the city of Mianchi.

"How long can our food and grass last?" Zhou Wen, who was covered in tattered armor, rushed into a hall under the city wall with smoke and dust all over his body. After hanging his saber, he pointed at a frail scholar. asked the staff.

He had just repelled a wave of attacks from the Qin army, so he came here directly from the city wall without taking a break.

The thin staff member who looked like a bamboo pole replied to Zhou Wen without thinking: "General, even if we only drink gruel, I am afraid that the remaining food is only enough to last for two days."

In troubled times, human life is like a waste of time. After Zhou Wenjun entered Mianchi, not only did he control the treasury, but the food in the hands of the people in the city was forcibly confiscated.

However, even so, the food was almost exhausted after more than ten days of support.

"Is there no news from King Chen?" Zhou Wen was silent for a while after listening to the staff member's answer, and continued to ask.

However, facing Zhou Wen's inquiry, the staff member shook his head helplessly and said, "Not only did King Chen not respond, but the envoys sent to Xingyang, Wei, and Zhao did not come back."

After the staff member finished speaking, Zhou Wen slumped to the back of the table, slowly raised his head and closed his eyes, without saying a word for a long time.

Seeing Zhou Wen's expression, the staff member plucked up his courage and said to Zhou Wen: "General, Wu Chen, Zhang Er, Chen Yu, and Zhou Shi have all stood on their own, and they will no longer follow the order of King Chen. Why do we have to suffer here with the Qin army?" bitter battle.

It's better...or it's better, we can go back to Chen County directly, even if we go directly to Huainan, we can't be the king with the general's prestige. "

Now the flames of the uprising can be said to be burning all over the land of Kanto, and there are countless princes, large and small, but what they are facing at most are some county soldiers or county soldiers.

However, what Zhou Wen's army was entangled was the hundreds of thousands of Qin army. It was precisely because Zhou Wen was in the front that Zhao Wei and other countries had the opportunity to attack cities and land on a large scale in the rear and expand their territory.

However, in the face of Zhou Wen's call for help, all the princes, even Chen She and Wu Guang's choices were surprisingly consistent, so they ignored it.

Now the Kwantung princes stand side by side, and in the process of occupying the territory, each family is not without conflicts. Under such circumstances, if anyone goes to fight with hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, it will be fine if they win, but if they lose, I am afraid that your territory will be lost. It will be annexed by other forces in an instant.

Everyone knows that once Zhou Wen is defeated, the next goal of the Qin army will be self-reliant princes like himself. However, it is one thing to understand, and another thing to do it or not. The target doesn't have to be yourself.

If Lengtouqing led the army to rush forward, I'm afraid Zhou Wen would be the next cool one after Zhou Wen.

Many of his generals have already complained about Zhou Wen's decision to insist on a tough fight with the Qin army.

"Don't bring up this matter again!" After the staff finished speaking, Zhou Wen waved his hand and said, "I am incompatible with the Tyrant Qin. The princes are afraid of it and dare not fight against it. I will fight it with my strength!"

"General, the Qin army is coming to attack." At this moment, a sergeant ran all the way to Zhou Wen and reported.

It turned out that another wave of attacks from the Qin army had arrived.

"Here comes the sword!" After hearing this, Zhou Wen let out a loud shout, and the sergeant hurriedly handed the sword hanging from Zhou Wen to his hand.

Zhou Wen clenched the long sword that was already full of tooth marks, and walked towards the city wall with a determined face.

Two days later, the city of Mianchi was destroyed, Zhou Wen died in battle, and all his subordinates dispersed.

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At the same time, outside Xingyang City, Wu Guang led the 20 rebels to besiege Xingyang City for several months. However, the walls of Xingyang City are thick and relying on Ao Cang's food, the rebels have not made any progress under Xingyang City.

Rao Chen Shengdu has ordered several times to urge Wu Guang to break through Xingyang as soon as possible, so as to get the food from Ao Cang to alleviate the food shortage of the rebel army.

If it wasn't because Wu Guanggui was a fake king, and as a partner in the rebellion with Chen Sheng, he had many supporters in the rebel army. According to Chen Sheng's current temperament, he might have already split his head.

However, at this time, in a tent of the rebel army outside the city, several generals of the rebel army were secretly talking.

"Today the Zhou Wen army does not know the situation, and our army is exhausted here. If we can go down to Xingyang, if the Qin army arrives, we will be defeated. It is better to have a few soldiers left behind, enough to defend Yang, and gather the best soldiers to help Zhou Wen meet the Qin army. Now the fake Wang Jiao , I don’t know the power of the army, so I can’t count on it, if I have to punish him, I’m afraid of failure.”

The person who spoke was named Tian Zang, and he was the deputy general of this rebel army. However, what they planned was to kill the main general Wu Guang, and then lead the army to rescue Zhou Wen and face the Qin army.

Because Wu Guang avoided the battle in order to preserve his strength, all the generals had already murmured. At this time, when Zhou Wen raised his mind, everyone agreed to his plan after weighing it for a while.

That night, the generals prepared a banquet and invited Wu Guang to a banquet. At the banquet, Tian Zang took advantage of the opportunity to toast Wu Guang and ended Wu Guang's life with a dagger hidden in his sleeve.

After that, Tian Zang cut off Wu Guang's head and sent it to Chen Sheng. At the same time, he attached a document expressing his intention to lead the army to fight against the Qin army.

To everyone's surprise, Chen Sheng not only did not convict Tian Zang, but praised Tian Zang's loyalty and bravery. He ordered someone to give him the seal of Ling Yin of the State of Chu, and appointed him as the general and ordered him to lead the army. Go to stop Zhang Han.

At this time, Chen Sheng was no longer the boy who said "Don't forget the rich and the rich". The existence of Wu Guang, a fake king, had seriously affected his status, and it had to be said that it was a threat that he was inconvenient to deal with.

And at this time, Chen Sheng had already received the exact news that Zhou Wen died in battle, and Zhang Han was leading the Qin army to attack his base camp, Chen County. He also needed an army like Tian Zang to block Zhang Han's advance for him.

After receiving Chen Sheng's order, Tian Zang divided the army into two. Li Gui led part of the army to continue to besiege Xingyang, and led most of the elite army westward to stop Zhang Han's army.

However, although Tian Zang had the heart to resist Qin, he had no ability to resist Qin. When his troops fought against the Qin army led by Zhang Han, they collapsed directly, and Tian Zang was also killed by the Qin army in the rebellious army.

Zhang Han then led his army eastward, defeated Li Gui under the city of Xingyang, and broke the siege of Xingyang.

Then Zhang Han's army continued to break through the two rebel armies of Deng Shuo and Wu Xu in a short period of time, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chen County, Zhang Chu's stronghold.

Chen Sheng was defeated, first led his army to flee to Ruyin, then turned to the northeast and stationed troops in Xiachengfu.

For Chen Sheng, it is the best policy to retreat directly to Huainan at this time and use the Huai River to resist the Qin army. However, once he retreats to Huainan, although he is safe, the prestige of the "First Uprising" he has worked so hard to establish in the anti-Qin rebel army , I am afraid it will disappear.

Nowadays, although the princes from all walks of life have refused to listen to the transfer, whoever dares to call Chen Wang respectfully when mentioning Chen Sheng, but once he shrinks back, I am afraid that all this will be gone.

So after thinking for a long time, Chen Sheng did not cross the Huai River but took up residence in Xiachengfu.

At this time, a shocking news came from Changsha County. The South Vietnam Qin Army went north, and Changsha County and Nanjun, two counties that still belonged to the Qin State, were immediately taken over by him.

If the Nanyue Qin army went north, making all the rebels tremble with fear, another news that came immediately after that made them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

Qin Ziying is not dead, and now the commander of the South Vietnam Qin Army is Ziying!
That is Qin Ziying, Ziying, the number one hero of Qin State in pacifying the six kingdoms, even though the six kingdoms were strong back then, it was difficult for Ziying to resist Ziying's military might. It may be even more difficult to block the prestige of King Qin.

Among them, the most influential one is naturally Chen Sheng's Zhang Chu regime. In order to attract the people's attachment to the maximum extent, Chen Sheng used the name of Ziying, claiming that he started the uprising under the orders of Qin Prince Ying and Chu general Xiang Yan.

Who ever thought that Prince Qin's baby was really alive, which was no less than a blow to Zhang Chu, who was already on the verge of collapse.

(End of this chapter)