Destiny Only Han

Chapter 204

Sanchuan County, Xingyang.

The leisurely time didn't last too long, and the haze of war once again enveloped everyone.

On the second day after Han Xin and Cao Shen led an army of [-] troops and the newly formed Langzhong cavalry crossed Hebei, standing at the head of Xingyang City, you could see smoke and dust rising from the east, and a series of fine vibrations faintly came from the ground.

The Chu army, which had enough rations and supplies, came in mighty form from Pengcheng.

The battle flag of Chu is fluttering, and the army array is boundless.

Standing on the battlements, Liu Ying stood on tiptoe and looked through the binoculars, only to feel shortness of breath and a little numbness in her scalp.

When sending off Han Xin before, he was there with Liu Bang, so he has a deep understanding of the scale of [-] infantry.

At this moment, the Chu army that appeared a few miles away from Xingyang City is conservatively estimated to have [-] people!
And this, in fact, is just the infantry of the Chu army, and the more elite cavalry are distributed on the flanks of the battlefield at this moment, and do not directly appear on the main battlefield in the east of Xingyang City.

Beside Liu Ying, Liu Bang, who was frowning, grabbed Liu Ying's collar and walked quickly down the city: "Before the Chu army encircled Xingyang, you should leave now!"

According to Liu Bang's prediction, Xingyang City will be the focus of competition between the two sides.

On this battlefield where rocks pierced the sky and arrows rained down like rain, he was a knight-errant and an adult with good martial arts skills.

When Liu Bang dragged Liu Ying down the city wall, he turned to look at Chong Da who was following him, "Lead the five hundred soldiers and send him safely to Luoyang..."

Well, Chongda is Guanzhong who just returned from Jiujiang Kingdom half a month ago.

According to the news he brought back, Sui He had successfully persuaded Yingbo to join the Han army. At this time, the Jiujiang Kingdom was collecting food and grass, training the army, and preparing to explode Xiang Yu's chrysanthemum from behind at a critical moment...

Liu Ying did not comment on this, and now he is desperately grabbing his collar with his backhand, trying not to be strangled to death by Liu Bang before he is killed by the Chu army!

Now he understands the saying that a father's love is like a mountain falling apart.

When Liu Ying gradually became short of breath, Zhang Liang, who was still passing by, realized the seriousness of the matter. He grabbed Liu Bang's hand and dragged Liu Ying forward desperately, avoiding the tragedy.

With Liu Ying clutching her neck and accusing eyes, Liu Bang shook his head indifferently: "Don't worry, Naigong has his own measure!"

I believe you are a ghost, you are a very bad old man... Liu Ying panted heavily and rolled her eyes crazily.

Zhang Liang smiled slightly, looked at Liu Ying and said, "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. This place is really not suitable for you to stay here too much, it is better to leave early."

People have self-knowledge.

In fact, Liu Ying also has this kind of thinking. Don't look at him, he has grown a lot taller than when he was in his hometown in Pei County, but he can't play a role in this kind of battlefield where real swords and guns are fighting each other. .

Anyway, during the period when the Chu army retreated and returned to Pengcheng to recuperate, he continuously transported the strategic resources prepared in Hanzhong and Guanzhong to Xingyang through the re-hardened Chidao.

Among other things, it is said that the crossbow arrows are used for launching strong crossbows. There are more than 200 million arrows stored in the arsenal in Xingyang City!
Even if the Chu army on the opposite side had 10 people, it would be enough to shoot them all into hedgehogs!

As for the defensive fortifications such as the Wengcheng and the cattle and horse walls, there are everything that one expects to find.

Now, the whole city of Xingyang is like a ferocious beast lying on the ground, picking and devouring people, waiting quietly for the Chu army to come to its door!
At the west gate of Xingyang, not long after Chongda left after protecting Liu Ying, on the outskirts of the east of the city, where Chu soldiers hurriedly set up camp, a cavalry team of about a hundred people galloped towards Xingyang City.

The first person, wearing a lake-blue hunting suit, a golden crown on his head, and a long knife on his waist, was none other than Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu.

The long knife hanging from his waist is exactly the style of the ring-shoudao of the Han army, but the scabbard is engraved with two words, Bailian.

This is the high-quality long knife issued to officers above a thousand stones in the Han army.

The ring sword in Xiang Yu's hand was a trophy obtained in the Battle of Pengcheng.

He came out this time mainly to spy on the defense of the Han army in Xingyang City, and to hunt smoothly, so as to relieve the loneliness of the long-distance march.

When the Chu army was marching, it had always been a tradition to carry Meiji fine wine, and Xiang Yu's visit this time was no exception.

It's just that although he brought Yu Ji and a dozen other concubines with him, he rarely stayed in their tents along the way.

In fact, ever since he had concubine Yu who was loved by three thousand people, Xiang Yu has become a scumbag who likes the new and dislikes the old, abandoning his old love like a shoe.

The main reason for taking them on the march this time was that after he left Pengcheng, someone would steal his home again.

just in case……

Not everyone, like Liu Bang back then, loves fine wine far more than beauties.

Once these dozens of hats are put on, they can't be taken off!

As for Concubine Yu, although every time she thinks of the other's charming cheeks and alluring curves, Xiang Yu's blood boils and it is difficult to control herself.

But when the other party really came under Cheng Huan's crotch and cried softly, Xiang Yu still had the appearance of another man inexplicably in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, in his mind, there would be the expression of Yu Ji crouching under the opponent, winking like silk, and biting her lips lightly.

The rage caused by jealousy, when the attack speed is greatly increased, will inevitably lead to a faster time to enter the cd period.

After going back and forth, when he looked at the other party with a somewhat sad expression, Xiang Yu felt that it was more fun to drink and have fun, and to hunt horses in the fields.

On the road leading to Xingyang City, because of galloping horses, several rabbits running around were startled in the farmland beside the road.

Xiang Yu immediately took off his hunting bow from his horse and chased after him.

As Wu Zai was flying around, the distance between him and the hare was getting closer and closer.

then.

The bow is like the autumn moon flying in the sky, and the arrow is like a shooting star falling to the ground.

Amidst the sound of piercing through the air, the rabbit that ran from left to right and did not escape in the end was directly nailed to the ground.

"The mighty king!"

The accompanying cavalry of the Chu army burst into cheers.

You must know that there were no stirrups at this time, and most of the prairie cavalry who were accustomed to riding and shooting could not loosen the reins with both hands on the back of a galloping horse and accurately hit the target with a bow and arrow.

Grassland cavalry like Xiang Yu has never been one in a million.

They were called Condor Shooters in this era, and they were called Jebe when the Mongols rose later.

At this time, if you want to be accurate in riding and shooting, you can only slow down the horse and then aim calmly.

Therefore, in the later battle between the Han and the Hungarians, there will be scenes of shock cavalry wearing armor and holding halberds, and nomadic cavalry archers beating violently and galloping and shooting.

Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Xiang Yu's heart was full, and he deliberately showed his hand again, so he didn't let anyone go to retrieve the prey, but put the bow and arrow back into the quiver, turned the horse's head and returned.

While the fast horse was galloping, Xiang Yu suddenly hid in a stirrup, hung on the Wuzhi with only the strength of one leg, and stretched his arm downwards, grabbing the rabbit struggling in the pool of blood.

In an instant, the cavalrymen of the Chu army cheered hoarsely after a brief stupor.

This is Xiang Yu's personal charm different from Liu Bang.

Xiang Yu held his rabbit ears, his eyes were cold, as if he was staring at what he thought was his lifelong enemy.

This time, the Chu army has enough food and armor, and they will definitely be able to take down Xingyang, and kill the man who brought him shame, and the other side's concubine who made him lose his glory!
Just a moment later, Xiang Yu, who appeared within a stone's throw of Xingyang City, was full of confidence before, but turned into resentment.

Not a man!

In Xingyang City at this moment, compared with what Xiang Yu left that day, the moat was twice as wide and deeper, and after the summer torrential rain, a pool of stagnant water was specially raised here.

Under Liu Ying's special order, a lot of household garbage in the city was dumped into the water.

The smell is pungent, and it is definitely an out-and-out weapon of mass destruction!
Even Xiang Yu, who didn't know what bacterial infection was, knew in his heart that as long as a wounded soldier fell into this kind of filthy water, he might not live long!

As for the round city gate of Xingyang City, which is as round as a tortoise, it was not beyond Xiang Yu's expectations.

The Xiang clan has been generals for many generations. Although Xiang Yu hasn't studied the art of war for a few days, he still has some understanding of things like Wengcheng.

Things are dead, people are alive.

Big deal, when attacking the city, it would be fine not to attack the city gate...

What surprised Xiang Yu the most about Xingyang City in front of him was the wooden sheds built along the top of the city wall.

The specifications and formats are very uniform, with layers upon layers, giving it a somewhat rough aesthetic.

And it is neat and tidy, which makes people with obsessive-compulsive disorder feel very comfortable in their hearts.

Although Xiang Yu didn't know what it was called, as a commander who had served in the army for many years and had commanded thousands of troops, he could see the usefulness of these things at a glance.

Archery.

These wooden sheds built on the top of the city have the same function as the archery tower. They are all fortifications for placing archers when the enemy attacks.

The cross-shooting formed by multiple layers can attack the enemy from different angles.

Xiang Yu held his horse's head in place, trying to see the city defenses in the distance carefully, but when his eyes were fixed on the city wall, he ignored the attention on the ground.

At the place where the black horse stood, there seemed to be many small white stones scattered in a mess.

In the city covered by the tall city wall, a row of trebuchets are slowly adjusting the counterweight and angle.

"160 steps, launch!"

Following the order of the engineer in charge of the trebuchet, the tall soldier swung a sledgehammer and struck hard on the horizontal branch of the trebuchet base. The branch turned downward, and the iron chain fixing the wooden box was instantly loosened. .

call!
The boulder rose into the sky, Xiang Yu was dumbfounded.

"My life is over!"

(End of this chapter)