A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 254
The war between Qin State and Yiqu, Sanjin and Xichu has reached a critical moment of life and death.Fortunately, the Western Chu Kingdom was also overwhelmed by the Huai Kingdom, so they summoned a large army to help.

If Qin State continues to entangle with Western Chu State, this time Qin State will be seriously injured even if it does not destroy the country.

King Qin sent envoys to negotiate peace with Zhao Guo, and immediately liberated [-] troops, and King Qin immediately sent these troops south to attack the coalition forces of South Korea and Wei.

The coalition forces of South Korea and Wei State had no idea that Qin State and Zhao State were negotiating a peace, and they had no defense against the north.After the peace talks between Qin and Zhao, the state of Zhao withdrew its forces, and a gap was immediately vacated in the left wings of Han and Wei.

Qin, which had just been liberated, immediately went south from this gap and launched an attack on the two countries.

South Korea and Wei Guo are attacking Yin Jin with all their strength. The Yin Jin Qin army is already on the verge of collapse, and it seems that it will not be able to support it. At this time, the reinforcements of Qin State suddenly launched an attack from the side.

The soldiers of South Korea and Wei State became exhausted because of the siege. The army of Qin State waited for work and launched a surprise attack.

After defeating the allied forces of Han and Wei, Qin's army did not continue to pursue and expand the results of the battle, but retreated as soon as it was good, and dispatched the army to return.When Qin State and Han Wei were at war, tens of thousands of troops from the Yiqu State in Xianyang, Qin State, were besieging the Qin Army.

The Yiqu Kingdom implements half farming and half herding. It can be said that all the people are soldiers. All the soldiers in the country are proficient in riding and archery. It can be said that they come and go like the wind, and they are extremely mobile. It is not flexible enough, and the initiative on the battlefield is completely controlled by the Yiqu country.

The Qin army was terribly embarrassed by the harassment of the Yiqu country, and did not dare to pursue it at all, and the Yiqu country did not dare to fight the Qin country head-on, and it was stalemate for a while.

West Chu State, Jiangzhou.

After seeing that Jiangzhou City was difficult to conquer, Sun Bin did not attack by force. Instead, he defended the main roads in Jiangzhou, and then used trebuchets and bed crossbows to attack every day.The army began to attack the cities of the Western Chu Kingdom.

These cities were originally drawn a large number of soldiers and were short of troops. The Huai Kingdom used trebuchets and bed crossbows to suppress them, and then sent soldiers to take the opportunity to attack.One city after another was conquered by the Huai Kingdom.

After defeating all the reinforcements that came to King Qin, the morale in Jiangzhou City plummeted. After Sun Bin captured all the surrounding cities, Jiangzhou City would become an isolated city.At that time, even a siege can consume Jiangzhou City to death.

At the same time, in the Hanzhong Plain, Wei Zong continued to march towards Hanzhong after occupying Shangyong City. Hanzhong mobilized troops twice before and after, and the troops were exhausted.

After Wei Zong learned that the Hanzhong army had gone out of the Baoxie Road to attack Qin before returning, he immediately led the Tengjia Army of [-], bypassed Nanzheng, the prefecture of Hanzhong County, and directly arrived at Baogukou.Baogukou is the starting point of the southern section of Baoxie Road. The army needs to go northward from Baogu to cross hundreds of miles of plank roads, mountain roads, and river valleys to reach Mei County.

The army of the Western Chu State attacked the Qin State in the north. Once the Baoxie Road was blocked, tens of thousands of the Western Chu army would be blocked in this valley.

Although Wei Zong only has 5000 people, if these 5000 people are blocked here, the tens of thousands of Western Chu troops will be unable to move an inch.If Wei Zong was more ruthless and directly burned the plank road of Baoxie Road, the tens of thousands of Western Chu Kingdom would really be blocked in it.

But until the last step, Wei Zong would not use this method.Burn down the plank road, if the tens of thousands of troops of the Western Chu State do not want to die, they can only surrender to Qin State.

This is unacceptable to the Huai country.

Tens of thousands of elite Chu troops surrendered to Qin, and Qin's strength would greatly increase.Huai State's idea of ​​weakening Qin State was completely shattered.So the best way is to force the tens of thousands of Western Chu troops to surrender.

The army of Huai State bypassed Nanzheng, and the defenders of Nanzheng immediately understood what they wanted to do after seeing it, but Nanzheng's side was also short of troops, and worried that this was a strategy of Huai State to lure the enemy.It is to lure the Nanzheng defenders out.

The Southern Zhengxi Chu army hesitated, and at this moment, the follow-up troops from the Huai State also arrived.The Huai State attacked Western Chu this time, mobilizing 20 troops and 20 civilians.

The most difficult thing in attacking the Western Chu State is not the siege, but the roads. The roads from the Western Chu State to the Huai State are basically mountain roads, rugged and difficult, and a large number of strong people are needed to dig the road.Just like the road from Yicheng to Jiangdu, plank roads are often built.

In order to attack the Western Chu State, the Chidao being built by the Huai State also temporarily stopped, and the craftsmen who built the Chidao were sent to Hanzhong and Yicheng to build roads.

If you want to hold Jiangzhou and Hanzhong in your hands, transportation is very important.If the traffic is inconvenient, it will easily lead to local separatist forces. If you want to attack, it is also because the mountain roads are difficult, which will cost a lot of money and cause countless casualties.

Of course, this is something that can only be done after the Western Chu Kingdom is conquered.

Wei Zong's army blocked Baogu, and then the follow-up army surrounded Nanzheng, and then began to build engineering equipment to attack.

The land of Hanzhong is not small, surrounded by dangerous mountains and rivers, and a plain in the middle, coupled with the irrigation of many rivers such as the Han River, the land of Hanzhong can easily support hundreds of thousands, or even a million people.

The Huai army surrounded Nanzheng and built various siege equipment to attack.Nanzheng City lacks troops and is no match for Huai Country at all.

The columbine chariot, which was several feet high, was erected, and dozens of archers shot and suppressed the head of the Nancheng city. The catapult machine continued to throw stones the size of a fist. Like a forest.

The soldiers of the Western Chu State raised their shields to resist, but those shields were smashed by falling rocks, and were quickly smashed to pieces. Stones the size of several catties fell down, and even the iron helmet couldn't bear it, so they were smashed directly. Bloody head.

The defenders of the Western Chu Kingdom were originally second-line troops, and they couldn't bear such casualties at all. If it weren't for the fact that there were parents, wives and children in the city, these people would have collapsed long ago.

The army of the Huai State advanced quickly, and soon a columbine cart approached the city wall, and the one-foot-long baffle in front of the columbine cart fell instantly, just on top of the city wall.

In addition, there was an iron hook at the end of the baffle, and the iron hook hooked the city wall. For a while, the soldiers of the Western Chu Kingdom couldn't push it away, and as the baffle fell, the Huai country's first warriors who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward immediately. Go up and fight the Western Chu army on the city wall.

The pioneer warriors of the Huai Kingdom were all elites, all wearing rattan armor, holding horizontal knives and crossbow arrows, slashing left and right, and quickly cleared an open space on the city wall, and then a steady stream of Huai troops rushed up .

Nanzheng City was completely breached after only holding on for three days under the attack of the Huai Army.The army captured Nanzheng, and almost all the land of Hanzhong belonged to Huai State.

When the Huai State captured Nanzheng, tens of thousands of troops from the Western Chu State had already exited Baogu. Seeing that the exit was blocked by the Huai army, the Western Chu State army was shocked, and its commander led an elite attack.

(End of this chapter)