Meng Tian was still wrong. When he received the news, Li Xin was no longer in Pingyu. He slowly left Pingyu and headed east with 30,000 elite troops from Guanzhong.
At the top of Pingyu City, the captain who was left by Li Xin to guard this place was worried as he watched the army march away.
In the view of this captain, Li Xin was able to defeat Pingyu in one day and did so by surprise.
The eyes of the Chu people were all on the Chasm, the line of Yingshui, and the besieged Xiangcheng. They thought that the Qin army at Cai was just a partial division led by Meng Tian. Didn't they know that under the banner of Meng Tian's partial general, he was the commander-in-chief of the Qin army?
Li Xin.
Li Xin gathered all the five captains from Neishi, Shangjun, Beidi, and Longxi under his command. In addition, he also had siege equipment built by Qin Mo and other craftsmen. However, in two days, there were only 2,000 defenders.
It was declared broken.
"This place overlooks Song Dynasty and Zheng Dynasty in the north, Huai and Miang in the south, leans on the heroes of Jingchu, and walks along the road of Chen and Xu. The fields are smooth and comfortable, so it is an important place."
"But as long as we break through Pingyu, there will be no danger to defend Huaibei. Between Ying and you, we are already a battlefield where we can gallop unimpeded!"
After looking into the distance from the top of Pingyu City, Li Xin said these words and asked the captain to stay here while he once again mobilized his troops to set off, aiming directly at the hinterland of the Chu Kingdom!
Prior to this, the captain who was ordered to stay in Pingyu also expressed worries and secretly dissuaded Li Xindao:
"The general is brave enough to defeat Pingyu, and because this city is not far from Shangcai, it can arrive in a blink of an eye, catching the enemy off guard. But further ahead, there is the hinterland of the Chu Kingdom. The general has an army of 30,000, but has no food.
Wouldn’t it be necessary to go deep alone to provide backup? Why not go north to join General Mongolia and jointly besiege Xiangcheng. After Xiangcheng is captured, it will not be too late to slowly move south..."
Li Xin disagreed. He said: "When Wu'an Jun attacked Chu, he also led tens of thousands of people to penetrate into the Chu land of 5,000 miles, which was said to be armed with millions of halberds. He attacked cities along the way, broke bridges, burned wooden boats, and cut off the retreat.
In order to make the soldiers concentrate on fighting, I must imitate them today."
"As for grain? Huaibei has always been rich, and the Chu people only had time to empty the border granaries. But the villages and towns inside must have a lot of grain. As long as each person in the army carries ten days of grain and plunders the countryside along the way, it will be enough for the army.
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In the past, he mostly fought against Yan and Zhao in the north. He left Taiyuan and Yunzhong, galloped in the North China Plain, chased the enemy in the vast wilderness, and often made meritorious deeds with his chariots and cavalry. This time when he came to Chu, his war thinking still stayed in the north.
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In Li Xin's view, there is a vast plain between Yingru and Yingru. The advantage of the Qin army is conducive to field battles. It lies in the chariots and cavalry that can be fully used on the plains. There are 300 military chariots from Xianyang and three thousand elite cavalry from Shangjun, Beidi and Longxi.
In their hands and on this land, they are invincible.
With such an advantage, he should roam the Chu territory, looking for the Chu troops supporting Xiangcheng along the way, and annihilating them, instead of spending time under the city, letting the horses fatten and the soldiers' armors become lice-infested.
Unlike the mature and steady Wang Jian, Li Xin is a person who dares to take risks, and he also believes in his ability to turn adventures into miracles!
Just let Xiang Yan confront Meng Tian under the banner of Li Xin in Xiangcheng. While he was trapped in a desperate situation, Li Xin under the banner of Meng Tian was about to penetrate the Huaibei territory of Chu State!
In the twenty-third year of the Qin Dynasty, on the tenth day of the first month (October), Li Xin led his army to leave Pingyu.
In the early morning of October 13th, after several days of marching, Li Xin's vanguard had arrived at Qiu Qiu, two hundred miles east of Pingyu...
It seemed that Haotian was also secretly helping the Qin army. That day, a heavy fog filled the entire Qinqiu.
…
Qiu Qiu is just a small town, with walls no more than ten feet high. King Zhao of Chu once granted Sun Shu'ao his son here, and to this day, there are still descendants of Sun Shu'ao who serve as minor princes here.
Although this place is not a high city and has a small population, it is the only way to go north from Xincai to Xiangcheng. A Chu army of more than 10,000 people starting from Xincai is passing through here and is stationed outside the city, asking Gongsun Feng to provide camps and food.
Because Li Xin broke through Pingyu and headed east too quickly, this army that had marched north from Xincai a few days ago did not know that to the west of it, through the thick winter morning fog, a Qin army cavalry
Already slowly approaching...
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
Gongsun Feng, as the great-great-grandson of Sun Shuao for countless generations, his family has been reproducing here for more than three hundred years. Until this morning, he thought he could live with Chu, but he was awakened by the deafening sound of horns and golden drums outside.
Got it!
Sun Feng hurriedly opened the quilt, abandoned his beloved wife, and got up from the couch. He ran out of the door and went up to the top of the city, only to find that the Xincai and Chu troops outside were in chaos, and the drum beats of the assembly resounded throughout the city.
"What happened?" Sun Feng asked, grabbing a soldier who was running and hanging his sword on a hook.
"It's the Qin Army!" The soldier's face was pale, which was in sharp contrast to his Chu-style armor dyed red.
Sun Feng was stunned: "Where did the Qin army come from? Isn't the Qin army in Xiangcheng?"
Xiangcheng is more than a hundred miles away from Qiuqiu, so he always feels that he is safe.
"A chariot is already two miles away! They must be approaching in the thick fog at night."
The military officer didn't care to say more and ran away in a hurry to call his subordinates to prepare to defend against the enemy. He only knew that the Qin army's cavalry vanguard was already close at hand. They took advantage of the morning fog to come to the front. The whole army was in a battle formation and could launch at any time.
attack.
Sun Feng stood on the wall in a daze. He looked down the city. The Chu army camp was in a panic. The soldiers were stumbling around in the cold air before dawn. Some were busy extinguishing the campfires. A few shirtless men had no time to put on their clothes.
The charioteers were harnessing their horses to their chariots.
He looked into the distance again. His field of vision was still full of pale fog, and he couldn't see anything clearly. Where was the Qin army?
"Dong dong dong dong!"
The drum beat again, this time even more urgently. The sensitive horses seemed to feel the murderous aura on the other side of the thick fog and neighed. The stallion horses and the service horses each ran away, leaving their chariots behind and rushing around the camp. The chariots and soldiers had no idea at all.
There was no time to get out of the battle, so only the disciples, holding spears and swords, hurried out of the camp to meet the enemy...
But before they could line up, a speeding chariot tore through the thick fog and suddenly appeared within a hundred steps!
A hundred paces away, a galloping chariot arrived in an instant. The charioteer kept beating the horses, and the sharp spear on the chariot's right hand was filled with chills.
At this distance, the army and chariots were unstoppable, and they defeated the weak defense line of the Chu army in one fell swoop...
Sun Feng just watched helplessly as thousands of Chu soldiers hurried out of the camp were completely shattered under the impact of the three hundred military chariots. They were broken into pieces like clay pots beaten by hammers, and were fired by the rapidly approaching Qin cavalry.
Shoot to death.
Following closely behind were the Qin infantry who emerged from the thick fog all over the mountains and plains. They hid behind the barriers made of shields and spears, and marched forward in unison, completely crushing the Chu camp under the Qinqiu City.
flat……
When the sun rose, the battle was coming to an end. The Chu army was defeated and scattered, and Qin people were chasing them everywhere.
Looking at this scene, chills and fear sneaked under Sun Feng's skin, making his hands twitch and almost unsteady on the city wall.
He only remembered that before his legs became weak and he fell down, he saw a big tiger-bear flag with the word "Meng" written on it, slowly walking towards the sleeping mound.
…
Two days later, on October 15th, on the east bank of the Ying River, one hundred and fifty miles east of Qiuqiu, Juyang City, the second line of defense of the Chu State, received a report from the remnant soldiers of Qiuqiu.
"Qin General Meng Tian attacked Qin and defeated our army!"
Along with the defeat and military situation, there was also the Qin army drinking horses by the Ying River...
