Chapter 5: Wind and Snow Tribulation Camp
Xiang Ta is a distant clan brother of Xiang Yu. He followed Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo to escape from Xiang Yan's fief Xiangcheng to Wuzhong.
Not all people named Xiang are Hercules. Xiang has mediocre martial arts and average talents!
The biggest difference between him and Chen Ying is that Chen Ying likes to pretend to be Tang Monk, and he likes to pretend to be Princess Iron Fan - from time to time, he would use a palm as big as a cattail leaf fan to slap the soldiers into pieces and stagger around. Therefore, the military discipline here is worse than that of Cangtou.
The military camp is a thousand times better!
Huanjue and Mengduo did not have Li Xin, so Li Shiqi was lucky!
The two four-foot-high archery towers in front of Xiang Ta's camp are brightly lit! On each archery tower there are two soldiers patrolling back and forth with their eyes wide open. The bows and arrows in their hands have been strung, ready to shoot the enemy at any time!
Every fifty steps in the camp, a bonfire was burning, and the flames made a hissing sound like the red snakes spit out by a giant python. There was always a sleepy and shaky soldier standing guard by the fire, holding a horn.
In case of emergency, notify the team to assemble!
All tents are arranged regularly in a tic-tac-shape, with a royal road in the middle for the horse team to pass. A ten-captain on horseback led a dozen people to patrol.
Compared with the combat readiness state, it is basically undefended!
Although the firelight in the village is bright, it cannot cover the trench. In this case, it is possible for a small number of people to slowly approach the camp. The key is the two pairs of eyes on the watchtower.
As long as the Qin army approaches within three feet of the outermost trench, the condescending Chu army will immediately notice something strange, and their success will inevitably fall short.
Huan Jue was lying on a low slope, with thousands of Qin soldiers preparing to attack behind him. Huan Jue lowered his voice and said to Meng Duo: "We must get rid of the two guys on the archery tower, otherwise we won't be able to receive the surprise troops."
The effect. But the distance is too far, so I’m not sure.”
Meng Duo made a visual inspection: "I don't have any bows and arrows!"
Huan Yan said: "This Thousand Stone Crossbow I have was given by the late Emperor. It is incredibly powerful and can definitely reach the shooting range. Come and try it!"
Huan Jue is getting older, and his eyesight and arm strength are not as good as before, so he really doesn't dare to take over everything!
Meng Duo was overjoyed. He took the peach-red bow and arrows engraved with ancient seals, gently pulled the bowstring, opened his arms to fully draw them, and relaxed them gently to avoid alerting the enemy.
"Sure enough, he is the general's son of a tiger. Your Majesty saw the right person." Huan Jue admired sincerely!
Meng Duo kept a straight face, didn't move his eyebrows, grabbed an arrow, put it on the bowstring, his pupils shrank, as if he put all his energy and energy on the arrow shaft, his arm relaxed, and whoosh, the arrow shot through the air.
Go, the Chu soldiers on the archery tower on the right fell to the ground silently and tiredly. It looked like it was right between the eyebrows.
Die soon!
The second arrow flew out with the tail of the first one in its mouth, almost in no particular order. The soldier on the left arrow tower was pushed backwards by a huge impact, and suddenly lay on his back on the wall of the arrow tower, bleeding.
Like a string of blood-red beads, falling vertically to the ground.
Everything happened so quickly and unexpectedly, and no one noticed anything strange. So when the Qin army quickly climbed over the trench, removed the antlers, and fired rockets wildly, the Chu army who was standing guard by the fire panicked.
He picked up the horn and blew it loudly.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, Zhai Shan was pulled down by the combined efforts of the Qin army, and Qin soldiers poured into the village like a river. At the same time, a shocking howl broke out.
"Kill - charge -"
Xiang Tao woke up from his sleep and ran out of the commander's tent immediately. What he saw in front of him was a fire cave and a slaughterhouse.
After hearing the trumpet, although the Chu army rushed out of the camp in time to stop the attack, they were caught off guard. In addition, the Qin army set fire everywhere and began to be unable to withstand it.
If Xiang Taida disappeared like Chen Ying, the Chu army here would definitely be wiped out. Fortunately, Xiang Taida is a experienced general. Seeing this situation, he immediately grabbed his sword and rushed out of the commander's tent.
He mounted his horse and ran around shouting, calling on the Chu soldiers to resist the enemy: "Hold it, hold it all, brothers, hold it -"
Meng Duo held a sword in one hand and a bow in the other, and was killing people everywhere. Wherever the horse came, the dead bodies of the Chu army were in a mess. When he was calm, he saw a horse as red as fire dragging a general with a curly beard.
Running towards the tent, the man was still on his horse and kept shouting, and many Chu soldiers were gathering towards him.
Meng Duo understood immediately that this person was the commander-in-chief!
Stop talking nonsense, brother, take an arrow from me!
"Whoosh" Meng Duo's broadsword lay across the saddle bridge, his arms pulled the bow, and the arrow turned into a white light under the strong force and rushed towards Xiang Ta.
Xiang Ta's ears turned to the wind, and when he turned around to look, the arrow had already passed through his forehead. The pain caused his blood-red eyeballs to burst out of his eye sockets. Before he died, he saw the white eagle feathers trembling between his eyebrows.
Meng Duo urged his horse to go straight forward, killing three Chu soldiers on the left and right on the way. Meng Duo jumped down in front of Xiang's dead body, chopped off his head with a knife, and shouted loudly: "Listen, soldiers of Chu soldiers, your commander has been killed by me.
If you don't surrender, how long will it take to kill him?"
Most of the soldiers led by Xiang Tao came from the mainland of Chu, and they were all fierce barbarians who were not afraid of death. They had heard so much about him there, and when they heard that the leader was dead, they became even more murderous, and each one of them turned into an old wolf with bared teeth.
Every Chu soldier gritted his teeth, waved the swords and guns in his hands, and shouted from time to time: "Brothers, kill! We Chu people are not afraid of death. Even if we die, we will drag the Qin soldiers on our backs!"
They didn't add a single wound to their bodies, but always left bigger and more fatal wounds on their enemies. When they were about to die, they hugged one or two enemies crazily and rolled together into the blazing fire. There were sounds from the fire.
There was a long scream, and the two fire-shaft-like bodies were still biting, kicking, and cursing——
The only one who can compete with the tiger and wolf troops of the Qin army is the Jingman. The further south you go, the more barbaric you become!
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the people of Qi were generally afraid of the people of Chu; the people of Chu were afraid of the people of Wu, who had tattoos and broken hair; and the people of Wu were afraid of the more barbaric Yue people behind them!
The tactics they used in the war were all unique. For example, when Gou Jian defeated King Helu of Wu, he even found thousands of Yue warriors to commit mass suicide in front of the battle. As a result, the Wu people were so frightened that their knees became weak, their calves twisted, and they were all defeated.
Later, Helu also died because of this.
Wu and Yue were eventually annexed by Chu, and these barbarians were collectively called Chu people!
The bravery of Jingman is evident!
However, Qin soldiers are not bad either. In order to strive for military merit and promotion, Qin soldiers usually carry three to five heads in their hands and one or two heads in their waists on the battlefield, while killing the enemy. Because of the war
Finally, these heads must be counted. The military merit regulations are very rigid. You can't just say you killed the enemy. There must be evidence. The best evidence is the human head!
Shang Yang had a purpose for making this provision. He had long expected that the soldiers of the Qin army would lose their humanity in order to be promoted. When the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms saw that the Qin people were so 'crazy', they must be like the Wu army when they faced the Yue army.
It was like a mass suicide, with the souls devastated and their scalps tingling. Therefore, after every war, heads more than ten feet high would be piled up in Qin's camp, piled up in a triangle shape {like Mei Chaofeng}, and burned collectively!!
This rule also has some drawbacks. In later wars, soldiers of the Qin army often killed each other because they competed with each other for the bloody and sticky heads in their arms.
When two teams like this come together, you can imagine the sparks that can be sparked.
It was a head-to-head fight. Both sides were furious. The clang of bronze swords clashing, the muffled sound of spears piercing the ribs, the screams of the dying, and the murderous roars all rang out.
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The flying snow fell halfway and was dyed red by the plasma that inadvertently flew up into the air——
Huan Ye's eyes were also red from the killing. There was a scorching fire in his heart. This fire had been burning in his chest for twenty years. Now he finally had the chance to spit it out. When the battle just started, his head was covered with white.
The veteran general immediately threw off his heavy armor, shook his arms and laughed, as if he had returned in triumph. Mundo was quite puzzled!
Huan Ye's upper body was naked in the biting cold wind. The blood and sweat mixed together and flowed down his swollen and strong chest that showed no sign of aging. He was already red-eyed and was running around on the horse with a knife.
, strike where there are many enemies, and the broadsword becomes the black wings of death. When it passes by, it will take away a few souls full of murderous intent!!
Although the Chu army was desperate, after all, they lacked command and unified dispatch. They gradually became unable to withstand it and suffered more casualties. After half an hour, it became a situation where three or four Qin soldiers were surrounding one Chu soldier!
Seeing that he was about to drive out the Chu army, Meng Duo paid gold and retreated his troops!
The Qin army fought and retreated, formed a formation, and retreated outside the triple trench. There were also the armored cavalry left by Meng Duo to respond. This was to guard against reinforcements from the Chu army and to block the enemy in the event of failure.
A few Chu soldiers chased them out without knowing whether to live or die, and were shot to death by a flurry of arrows from the cavalry. The dead bodies were crowded at the entrance of the camp, making it impossible for the soldiers behind them to pass.
In fact, as long as the Chu soldiers had some sense, they would not pursue them, because the Qin army was not defeated at all, but had planned a retreat long ago. The team was orderly, not chaotic, and could turn around at any time.
After the armored cavalry suppressed the Chu soldiers' crazy counterattack, the rear team became the front team, followed the infantry, and retreated to the camp.
The Qin army's goal has been achieved. If they continue to entangle, they will definitely attract Xiang Yu's reinforcements! If the retreat is cut off, they will all die without a burial place. Meng Duo and Huan Jue are not fools. They took advantage and fled.
When Meng Duo returned to the city, Wang Zhu personally went down to the city to greet him.
The two rows of soldiers guarding the city on the left and right stood as straight as two rows of poplar trees, with loud voices and raised their arms and shouted: "The Qin army is mighty, General Meng knows everything like a god - General Meng knows everything like a god -"
Li Xin and Li Shiqi have returned. They entered the city one step ahead of Meng Duo. Li Xin was dragging a half-dead and weak old man on his horse. He was only wearing thin underwear, his face was ashen, and he was trembling.
Frozen to death. Of course this person is Chen Ying.
As soon as the war started, Old Man Chen found that many people were dead, blood was flowing everywhere, and the camp had become a Shura hell. He began to feel dizzy {a problem similar to Stephen Chow}. A human head rolled to his feet with a gurgling sound, and it was warm.
Blood was sprinkled all over his face. Chen Ying sat down on the ground. He felt countless little stars spinning around his head. He felt regretful in his heart: Damn it, why am I rebelling? This is what humans do.
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People are like this. When they enjoy happiness, they never think about paying the price. When they really pay the price, they immediately regret the great blessings they have enjoyed before and swear that if God gives him another chance, he will never take this path. But.
If God was really merciful and gave him another chance, he would still have no hesitation and would be willing to look for wealth!
Chen Ying shook his thin body like chaff, and trudged on tiptoes among the countless dead heads. He was afraid that the blood would stain the soles of his shoes, which would waste the strength of nine oxen and two camels, so he ran outside the tent and found an unkilled one.
Cutting, the "Utopia" without the screams "lived in seclusion". Who knew that this Utopia was not *relaxing, but was found by the Qin Army's blanket search, just like pulling out a chirping mouse from a mouse hole.
He picked him up, threw him on the horse, and walked away without looking back. Then Chen Ying became the virtuous person in front of him!!
The Qin soldiers who were participating in the battle and those who were not participating in the battle in the city fell into a sea of cheers. Meng Duo was lifted up and thrown into the air by dozens of soldiers, fell down and was thrown into the air again - morale reached its peak since the expedition!
Facts have proved that the tyrannical Chu army is not invincible. As long as everyone is united, the Qin army will still be the tiger and wolf army that annexed the six kingdoms. As long as your majesty is wise and the generals use their lives to protect Qinchuan, the destruction of the six kingdoms will be just around the corner. The soldiers saw hope,
Laughter comes from the heart.
The cheers lasted for nearly an hour, and the soldiers' voices were hoarse. Wang Zhu then ordered to return to the palace. Meng Duo and other generals followed with the captive Chen Ying.
Chen Ying, like many common people in Li, has a natural phobia of the emperor!
The fear of Qin II is even greater? He is a tyrant who kills without blinking an eye and eats people without bones! This is the legend among the people.
Chen Ying knelt at Wang Zhu's feet, trembling all over and not even daring to raise his head!
When Wang Zhu saw that he was about to go into shock due to the cold, he pretended to be angry: "That's outrageous. Why don't you get some clothes for Mr. Chen? Hurry up and get the clothes!"
The generals couldn't help but laugh when they saw his embarrassed appearance.
Chen Ying put on a cotton robe, and the cold air dissipated a lot, but he still didn't dare to raise his head. After all, he is the real dragon emperor. If he sits up, he will naturally have the power to overwhelm the world. What's more, Chen Ying's rebellion can be regarded as a sin.
It’s all right!
"Are you Chen Ying?" Wang Zhu's tone was still very gentle!
"Damn, what is your Majesty asking you? Are you deaf?!" Wang Ling went up and kicked his protruding buttocks.
"Yes, yes, the villain is Chen Ying. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, they are the ones who forced me to do so. I have no objection at all. Your Majesty, please be merciful. Your Majesty, please spare my life!"
Wang Zhu thought to himself that although Chen Ying was useless, his influence in the Chu army was not small. He participated in the high-level planning, so he must know a lot of information!
"The villain is guilty, the villain deserves to die!" Chen Ying knelt on the ground and cried like a woman, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
Wang Zhu stepped down from the throne and helped Chen Ying up: "Mr. Chen, why is this beautiful lady a thief? I have long heard that you are a talented man of Dongyang generation. You are rich in knowledge, talented, extraordinary in knowledge, and concerned about the country and the people.
, Loyalty, filial piety and justice are rare in the world, why did you become a robber?"
Wang Zhu lifted Chen Ying to the sky!!
Chen Ying winked and wondered: Is he talking about me?
Chen Ying couldn't figure out the emperor's trump card and didn't dare to speak. He just kept wailing: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me!" He cried so hard that the earth fell apart and the mountains and rivers changed color. He was so sad that it could affect a robot with a heart of stone!
Wang Zhu is not moved! Stop giving me this set of dog-skin plasters!
Wang Zhu said sternly: "If you cry again, I will have you thrown into the frying pan!"
Chen Ying's face turned pale with fright, he immediately closed his mouth and looked at Wang Zhu pitifully.
This tyrant kills without blinking an eye. If he kills your whole family, he will not leave behind your family's watchdog - Wangcai. Chen Ying dare not be disrespectful!
What a tragedy, how could it fall into the hands of this devil!
"Get up!" Wang Zhu put on a cruel face. Coupled with his aquiline nose and triangular eyes, it made people feel chills running down their spines.
Chen Ying was so frightened that he almost became incontinent!
"Master Chen, I won't beat around the bush with you anymore. Tell me, if I don't kill you, what benefits will you give me?" Wang Zhu pointed out the question directly.
Chen Ying thought he would definitely die, but when he heard that there was hope of living, he agreed: "Although I have no ability, I still have one hundred thousand catties of gold at home, and I am willing to use it to honor Your Majesty!"
"What do I need that thing for? The whole world of Qin belongs to me, I don't care about it!" Wang Zhu almost got angry and thought, "rebel army", right? There's so much plundering! Like Chen
Ying has a hundred thousand kilograms of property, how can Xiang Yu be rich and successful? These bastards are just hooligans, and they even pretend to be saviors and come down to earth to save all sentient beings. When he got angry, he almost asked someone to pull Chen Ying out and quarter him into pieces.
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Chen Ying didn't know whether he was alive or dead, so he kept shouting: "Your Majesty, I have fifty concubines, fifty hu of pearls, and five agate stones, all of which I have given to Your Majesty. Please spare me, Your Majesty."
Wang Zhu fainted! What kind of child is this?!
Greed is inhumane and stupid as hell!
"Stop talking nonsense, I ask you, can you tell me the place where Xiang Yu collects grain? Tell me as much as you know. If I see that you are honest, I will consider letting you go back and let you continue to enjoy your happiness. If you are not honest - haha -
—Served in a frying pan!"
Chen Ying was immediately sweating profusely!
Chapter completed!