Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 440 Surprise Attack on Yingdu
"Fire arrows!"

In order to cover Gou Jian and the death squad of [-] people, Wu Jun's warships shot round after round of arrows, like locusts passing through the border, heading straight for the water village.

"Pfft!"

"what!"

Above the water fortress, the soldiers of the Chu army, who were exhausted physically and mentally, had to raise their shields to block the enemy's rain of arrows. Unfortunately, many unlucky Chu soldiers were shot by random arrows, and then died of exhaustion and fell on the ground. In a pool of blood.

After fighting for a long time, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally.

There were only a few thousand Chu troops in the water village, and they couldn't hold back the continuous attacks of the Wu troops.

"on!"

Gou Jian took a step ahead, holding a spear in his hand, and crawled on the ladder desperately, like a gecko, climbing up the pole.

However, the soldiers of the Chu army on the water village immediately reacted and shot arrows or threw stones at the enemy who was climbing the ladder.

"Oh!"

"what!"

The screams came one after another.

Even with the cover of the crossbowmen on the warship, the soldiers of the Chu army in the water village still dared to stand up and shoot cold arrows at the charging enemy.

On the ladder, many soldiers of the death squad were pierced by random arrows, or were crushed to death by rolling logs and stones, and fell onto the warship.

However, facing the temptation of fame and fortune, they also became more violent.

They stepped on the body of Paoze who died in battle, and rushed towards the water village without fear of death.

Go ahead!

"Pfft!"

"Humph!"

Gou Jian was suddenly shot in the arm by a random arrow, but he didn't fall down, he just grunted, and held the ladder tightly with his palm, not daring to retreat.

If you retreat, Goujian will only die, if you move forward, Goujian still has a chance!
Goujian has already vowed in his heart that he must successfully capture this water village and let Qingji take a good look at it!

"kill!"

Goujian let out a loud cry, and after crawling on the crenel of the water village with one hand, a spear stabbed out first, killing a Chu soldier.

Then Gou Jian's skill was very vigorous, he jumped up, pulled out the spears stuck on the enemy's corpses, one spear per person, and began to kill all directions on the water village.

It's just that it's not just one or two enemies who face Goujian, but countless soldiers of the Chu army!
"Go! Kill him!"

Seeing this, General Shi Huang of Chu gritted his teeth and waved his sword, pointing at Goujian not far away and shouting loudly.

The soldiers of the Chu army who were present also rushed towards Goujian with spears and daggers.

Goujian also became ruthless, waving the spear in his hand as if death was at home, stabbing, sweeping, picking, chopping... Every movement seemed clean and deadly.

Not long after, more and more soldiers of the Death Squad also went to the water village and followed Gou Jian to fight their way out.

At this time, Gou Jian had realized that the general of the Chu army was the middle-aged man not far away——Shi Huang.

So Gou Jian immediately straightened his blood-stained spear, regardless of his own injuries, and fought towards Shi Huang with all his strength.

The nearby Chu soldiers rushed over to stop Goujian, but they couldn't hold back. Goujian was very brave, killing them all with one spear, and couldn't help being afraid.

"clang!"

Gou Jian finally killed in front of Emperor Shi.

Seeing the spear stabbed by Gou Jian, Shi Huang was terrified, and swung his sword to block it, and then cut off the shaft of the spear with another sword, unexpectedly Gou Jian's speed was even faster.

Goujian directly clamped his bronze sword under his armpit, then took out the broken spearhead, and with a "puchi", it was inserted into Emperor Shi's heart.

Shi Huang's eyes widened, looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

As blood flowed profusely from his chest, Emperor Shi could only open his mouth wide in the end, his head fell to the ground limply, dying of breath.

"kill!"

After killing Emperor Shi, Gou Jian took another long dagger from the enemy and killed the enemy even more bravely.

On the flagship outside the water village, Qingji couldn't help being secretly startled when he saw Goujian's fearless appearance.

Goujian, the king of Yue in history, was logically just an ambitious man, a generation of tyrants with deep palaces.

However, Qing Ji never expected that Gou Jian would have such a tough and brave side.

This was probably forced out by Qing Ji.

……

After breaking through the water fortress, Qingji did not order the army to continue to pass through Yunmengze and march towards Yingdu, but let the army rest for a while.

Night falls.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Qingji summoned his four confidant ministers, Grand Sima Sun Wu, Yushi doctor Wu Zixu, Zhisu Neishi Fan Li, and Tingwei Boshun, to discuss matters.

Qingji took out a sheepskin map, put it on the table, pointed to the coordinates of Yunmengze, and said earnestly: "The sentinel came to report that the Chu army has built many water villages in various waterways of Yunmengze. Today, this water fortress is average, with about two to three thousand people stationed there, in order to lure our allied forces to attack."

"The second and third sons think that the Chu people are going to fight a protracted war with our coalition forces?"

Hearing this, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others couldn't help but look at each other.

Fan Li frowned first, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I think that Shen Zhuliang is a famous general of a generation. It is impossible not to see that the protracted war is not the weakness of our coalition army, but the disadvantage of the Chu army."

"Before Mi Sheng led his army to withdraw from Yingdu, he burned a large amount of soft grain and fodder in the treasury. From this, it can be seen that the people of Chu must be short of food and cannot survive."

"I don't know how long the Chu people can support, but it's too stupid for Shen Zhuliang to choose to fight a protracted war with our coalition forces."

Including Qing Ji, everyone present couldn't help nodding slightly in agreement.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.

In war, the logistics support of the army is extremely important.

After all, people are iron, and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

Every day people in the army eat horse chews is an astronomical figure.

In order to fight this battle, the State of Wu has been preparing for half a year, and has all the food, fodder and supplies, which is enough for the coalition forces to support for half a year, more than enough!
Therefore, in a protracted war, the coalition of princes headed by Wu is not afraid of the Chu army at all.

Then, why did Shen Zhuliang choose such a strategy?
Qingji thought for a moment, then said slowly, "The people of Chu are going to fight a protracted war, and I'm not afraid."

"However, the Chu army built many camps in various waterways to stop our coalition forces. I am afraid that after a long time, the soldiers will become tired. If it is like today, our army will pay thousands of dollars for every water village captured. The cost of human casualties is really inappropriate."

"Soldiers are deceitful. They should win by surprise, rather than follow the rules and be led by the nose by the enemy!"

"The widow intends to divide the troops and attack Yingdu by surprise, and hit Huanglong directly, so as to defeat the main force of the Chu army."

"If the capital of Ying is destroyed, the Chu army in Yunmengze will also become bereaved dogs. There is nothing to be afraid of."

Qingji pointed to the location of "Han River" on the sheepskin map again, and said in a deep voice, "I want to choose a powerful force to cross the Li River in Chu State, go straight to the Han River, and go deep into Yongyi, the hinterland of Chu."

"In this way, within a few days, this strong army will be able to advance to the east bank of the Han River and reach the city of Yingdu."

(End of this chapter)