Human beings are social creatures, so it is human nature to be obedient.
Even after initially being persuaded to surrender by the soldiers of Shangshui, the vast majority of the Chu army was still hesitant and unwilling to surrender due to many scruples. However, when the Wei army launched a large-scale attack, more and more Chu soldiers began to attack.
When the wind came down, many Chu soldiers no longer hesitated, took the initiative to discard their weapons, knelt on the ground and surrendered.
In an instant, hundreds of thousands or more than 200,000 Chu soldiers knelt down and surrendered. Such an astonishing scene made it difficult for Qin Shaojun, Yangquan Jun Yingbo and other Qin soldiers to understand.
"Chu people are so spineless?" Yangquan Jun Yingbo murmured.
After hearing this, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army who was next to Yangquan Jun Yingbo, felt somewhat uncomfortable, so he explained: "His Royal Highness King Su once said that the policy of the Chu State was abnormal, and those in lower positions sacrificed and shed blood, maybe
In the end, you can't even drink a sip of soup, but those in higher positions can enjoy the benefits. In your country, low-ranking people can use their military merits to improve their titles and finally reach high positions; in my country, the Wei Dynasty, civilians can also pass military merits, pass examinations, and gain equal status.
Bu Qingyun became a new noble; but in Chu State, you don't have to think about this. A person's origin determines his fate..." As he said, he pointed to himself and said with an example: "I defected to the Wei Dynasty.
After several years, I became a general, on par with Bailiba, Sima An and other generals. However, if I were in Chu State, I would have spent more than ten or twenty years to achieve countless meritorious deeds, and at most I would only have two.
Thousands of generals."
"Really?" Yangquan Jun Yingbo asked in disbelief. After all, in his opinion, Wu Ji was a rare and powerful general. It seemed like such a powerful general couldn't even compete with a general in Chu State?
Faced with Yangquan Jun Yingbo's rhetorical question, Wu Ji smiled bitterly and remained silent.
The State of Chu is a country controlled by the Chu people of noble blood, not the common people of Chu State. This is a consensus in both the eastern and western parts of Chu.
Therefore, in the Chu State, there were almost no soldiers shouting slogans about protecting their homes and the country when they went into battle, because these soldiers only went to the battlefield to get a share of military pay and a share of rations. How could they really fight for the nobles of Eastern Chu?
?
"It's unbelievable." Yangquan Jun Yingbo shook his head.
You must know that even in the Qin State more than 20 years ago, that is, before Wei Yang proposed the military merit system, Qin's policy towards its civilians would not be as harsh as Chu's. It is a shame that such a country still has
able to survive till now.
Just when Yangquan Jun Yingbo was talking to Wu Ji, the Qin and Wei allied forces had invaded the Chu army camp. This force consisted of 30,000 Northern First Army, 40,000 Shang Shui Army, 3,000 Iron Eagle Cavalry and 5,000 Tattooed Army.
The coalition forces rushed into the hinterland of the camp with overwhelming force. During this period, almost 90% of the Chu State's grain and grain recruits they encountered surrendered.
Even the main army of Chu State surrendered in large numbers, driven by the surrendered grain soldiers.
Faced with this overwhelming defeat, even Shouling Junjingshe was unable to save the situation, so he had to immediately order the entire army to break out of the encirclement.
At this time, "Shangyang Jun Xiong Zheng", "Pengli Jun Xiong Yi" and other representatives of the Chudong nobles dared to negotiate with the Wei army, and it was too late to escape.
"Report!... Tens of thousands of Chu troops are breaking out to the south!"
After Shouling Junjingshe ordered an immediate breakout, Zhao Hongrun received reports that several Chu troops were fleeing south.
After thinking for a moment, he ordered: "Send an order to Nanmen Chi and order him to lead 20,000 Shang Shui to gather the surrender troops, and the rest of the army to pursue the Chu army retreating south!"
"Follow the order!"
As a result, the Qin and Wei allied forces swept through the entire battlefield like a gust of wind, and began to pursue the Chu army retreating south without any hesitation. Compared with the Chu army that had surrendered one after another, those who followed Shouling Jun Jingshe retreated south.
That was the core army of the Chu army. With the intention of "eliminating all evil", how could Zhao Hongrun just watch these troops return to Chu safely?
Faced with the relentless pursuit of the Qin and Wei forces, Shouling Jun Jingshe and others had no choice.
At this time, in the Beiqiu area of Yongqiu, the rebel general Nangong Yao saw the chaos in the Chu army's camp from a distance. He sighed sadly, "The Chu army is gone." He gave up rescuing the Chu army and led the army back to Suiyang, preparing to attack Suiyang.
Expand the army to cope with the conquest from the Wei army.
"Report! The Suiyang army evacuates!"
After a while, the news that Nangong Yao led his army to evacuate Yongqiu reached the ears of Suiyang New Army General Chen Shou, who was not far from Beiqiu.
Chen Shou expressed deep disdain for Nangong Yao's two-way approach.
"Withdrawing troops at this time, are you planning to return to Suiyang? Hey! When Nangong returns to Suiyang and sees that guy Huan Hu has attacked the city, I wonder how he will feel."
Thinking of this, Chen Shou felt secretly happy.
It turned out that after Huan Hu had illegally released the Youma Army on the battlefield a few days ago, he knew that this was tantamount to breaking up with Nangong Yao, so he conspired with Chen Shou to let Chen Shou lead the army to stay in Yongqiu.
The area was paralyzed and Nangong Yao was paralyzed, while he himself returned to Suiyang at starry night.
You must know that in Suiyang, Huan Hu’s accomplice Jin Gou, the former leader of Fuqiu who is also a wanted criminal in Wei State, has many hidden thieves under his command. As long as Huan Hu uses Nangong Yao’s name to defraud the city,
The trust of the general may not be enough to capture Suiyang.
It has to be said that Huan Hu is indeed a decisive and ruthless person.
"Since Nangong Yao has led his army to evacuate, there is no need for me to stay here."
Thinking of this, Chen Shou immediately ordered his Suiyang New Army to withdraw from the Yongqiu battlefield.
He knew that after his and Nangong Yao's armies returned to Suiyang County, and after Nangong Yao discovered that Suiyang County had been occupied by Huan Hu, their two armies, both named Suiyang Army, would inevitably return.
There was a big battle.
Of course, Chen Shou was not worried about this. After all, in his opinion, although the Suiyang army was more elite than the new army under his command, as long as he could kill Nangong Yao, everything would not be a problem.
With his force, is it difficult to kill Nangong Yao?
easy!
Before setting off, Chen Shou couldn't help but look back at the Yongqiu battlefield. He couldn't help but think of Shen Yu, who he had met on the battlefield a few days ago.
It has to be said that Chen Shou was not even afraid of Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, but he felt really guilty about Shen Yu.
"The life I owe you, I will eventually repay you in the future... Before that, don't be easily killed by the Chu people."
After reciting silently in his mind, Chen Shou waved his hand and ordered: "Send the order and the entire army retreats!"
At the same time, Shen Yu, whom Chen Shou was thinking of, was leading thousands of Shang Shui Army reserve troops to join forces with Shang Shui Army deputy general Zhai Huang to drive and pursue the retreating Chu army.
Although the main Chu armies fought and retreated in an effort to preserve the army, under the general offensive of the Qin and Wei coalition forces, the Chu army, which had no morale at all, was retreating steadily.
Almost every moment, a regular army of the Chu State dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender when they saw no chance of survival.
Since 99% of the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army were former Chu people who defected to the Wei State, it was not difficult for these former compatriots to accept the surrender of the other side.
Even Wei general Zhai Huang and others instigated the surrendered Chu troops to pursue Shouling Jun Jingshe's army, promising that "if they perform meritorious service, they can join the Shang Shui army", which made thousands of soldiers
The Chu army defected before the battle and joined the Shang Shui army's pursuit, causing the Shang Shui army to snowball like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger.
However, compared to the Shang Shui Army, which recruited soldiers from Chu State in the rear and made a fortune in silence, the other armies of Wei Fang were more dazzling.
Among them, three thousand iron eagle cavalry were the first to perform meritorious service. Qin general Wu Zhao killed Peng Li's general "Zhou Zheng", Tian Meng captured "Peng Li Jun Xiong Yi" alive, and Meng Yue's formation killed Chu general Tian Ge, forcing Peng Li's army to kneel down and surrender.
Subsequently, the Tattooed Army led by Qin General Wang Ling defeated the Chu Army, leaving behind Shouling Army, Xinyang Army, Liyang Army, "Fei Xing", "Sun Bai", "Ma Wu" and other Chu generals.
They were all among the rebels and were hacked to death by tattooed soldiers and their heads were beheaded.
Even the Northern First Army, which was a friendly army, was shocked by the bravery of the tattooed army. They stared dumbfoundedly at the five thousand tattooed men, chasing and killing tens of thousands of Chu troops, abandoning their helmets and armor, and were in a state of embarrassment.
When the Chu army fled to the hills in Qiqǐ County, Wei general Shao Hu led more than 20,000 Wei Wu troops to fight out of the ambush, and cooperated with the Qin and Wei coalition forces to launch a two-sided attack on the Chu army.
The Chu army did not dare to fight, so they had to leave an army behind and evacuate quickly. Unexpectedly, after only ten miles, they were intercepted by a Wei army led by Wei generals Long Ji and Yi Gu respectively. They were defeated for a while and left behind countless
soldiers.
When the Chu army approached Xiangyi, they were ambushed again by Wei general Bailiba. The Chu army did not dare to withdraw to Xiangyi and had to continue to break out south.
On the fifth day of April, Xiang Mo, the general of the Chu State who was stationed in "Yu County", learned that the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Shouling Jun Jingshe had suffered a disastrous defeat in Yongqiu. He was shocked and hurriedly led his troops to support him.
Shouling Junjingshe took a breath.
But the good times did not last long. Within a few hours, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun led hundreds of thousands of Qin, Wei and Chu surrender troops to pursue him. The momentum was so huge that even General Xiang Mo was shocked.
It has to be said that this is not the first time that Chu State General Xiang Mo has learned about Wei Gongzi Run's snowball tactics. I remember that it was the same in the last battle: Wei Gongzi Run initially only had 50,000 troops. After the battle, he
The number unexpectedly increased to nearly 200,000. Xiang Mo was amazed by this method of fighting.
Seeing that he was unable to defeat the enemy, Xiang Mo also cooperated with Shouling Jun Jingshe to retreat together. From the fifth to the seventh day of April, the Chu army retreated hastily to its home country, which was full of dangers.
Because not only were the Qin and Wei coalition forces led by King Su Zhao Hongrun behind them chasing them, but in front, there were also Wei soldiers and civilians from the cities previously occupied by the Chu army, who organized themselves and added insult to injury.
On the eighth day of April, Shouling Jun Jingshe and General Xiang Mo led their troops to flee to "Yangxia". They originally hoped to withdraw from "Pingyu Yi" in the south of Yangxia, but unfortunately, they were defeated by the Shang Shui Army.
Wei general "Gu Liangwei" blocked the attack.
At this time, the army of "Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu" of Chu was stationed in the north of "Chen County", which was only thirty miles away from Yangxia. However, Xiong Hu of Pingyu County was facing Shouling Jun Jingshe and General Xiang.
The "Chu Dong Army" led by Mo turned a blind eye to the difficult situation and had no intention of rescuing or putting pressure on Shang Shuiyi.
Seeing this, Shouling Junjingshe had no choice but to turn to Ku County. Unexpectedly, the Qu family in Ku County added insult to injury and gathered troops to block the river bank, preventing the Chu army from crossing the river.
In desperation, Chu Dong's army under Shouling Jun Jingshe had no choice but to turn back and head east.
However, when passing through the Song Dynasty, they were attacked by Song Yun, the leader of the Song Dynasty rebels. Even when they arrived at Sishui County, the army of Lu State and the famous general Tian Dan of Qi State also led their own troops to block the attack, leaving Chu Dong
The army suffered heavy losses.
When the fifth month approached, Shouling Jun Jingshe led his army to break through the siege and return to the border of Chu State. He had only a few thousand men left among the millions of troops under his command.
"Hey! It's all my fault!"
With a long sigh, Shoulingjun Jingshe drew his sword and killed himself on the bank of the Chushui River.
On April 28, the 23rd year of Wei Hongde's reign, Lord Shouling Jingshe returned home after being defeated. Feeling that he had sinned deeply, he drew his sword and committed suicide by the Chu River. He was forty-two years old.
At this point, all the "Three Pillars" of Chu State were destroyed.