My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 423: Catching a turtle in an urn and catching a turtle in an urn! Ying Chengyu asks for help!

October 5, the twelfth year of the reign of Emperor Qin.

The autumn harvest has completely ended, but it is not yet time to go up the mountain to stock up on firewood. This is also the time when Guizhou leaders store the most food.

During this period of peace, the leaders of Guizhou in Qin Dynasty would celebrate the wax festival.

They would use two pieces of fat meat to reward themselves for their hard work for a year, or use free materials such as bamboo and wood to make toys for the children, or contribute to the population of Daqin.

But this year.

The old and weak women and children of Da Qin lay exhausted at home, recovering from the depletion of their bodies due to high-intensity work, and spent the twelfth lunar month guarding the empty house.

Almost all the young men in the Qin Dynasty went out to fight, stepping on the boundary line between life and death to 'celebrate' the festival with the enemy.

"Go first! Seize the city!"

"Su Jiao's troops turned to the road leading to the city and broke through the door!"

"Fight to the death, Shangzhu Kingdom will not give up on us! Are you willing to give up your servants at home!"

"Prepare the chariot to cover up the enemy's retreat!"

The roar resounded throughout Hubei City!

It returned to calm after a few hours.

Su Jiao, covered in blood, rode his horse out of the city gate of Hubei, and finally stopped in front of Ying Chengyu, holding a head high.

"Live up to the coach's trust."

"Magistrate of Echeng County, confer the first title!"

After letting Xiang Rong and others escape in the battle at Dahongshan, Su Jiao felt a surge of energy in his heart.

Su Jiao just wants to use more military achievements and heavier gains so that Ying Chengyu can give him more trust!

Following Su Jiao, Yang Huan also rode back and bowed his hands: "E City Water Village has been captured!"

"A total of 792 Chu army naval vessels were seized!"

Ying Chengqiao smiled happily: "Good!"

"Thank you for your hard work, generals."

Immediately, Ying Cheng said in a solemn voice: "Order!"

"Captain Su Jiao and Commander Qiang Huai are sweeping the battlefield and cleaning up the city of Hubei."

"Anyone who dares to make noise and cause chaos in the city will be killed!"

"Anyone who dares to resist our army's home inspection will be exterminated!"

"Anyone who colludes with the Chu army to commit treason will have their clan destroyed!"

"The rear army camped outside the city and the whole army rested for the night."

"Captain Xifeng, Commandant Li Xin, and Commandant Yang Wei will prepare food tomorrow at sunrise. At meal time (7:00), we will break camp and rush to the aid of Dengcheng!"

Although E city was still the territory of Qin a month ago, the results of the Chu army's one-day attack on E city made Ying Chengyu completely unable to trust the people in E city.

Therefore, Ying Chengyu did not hesitate to guard against and speculate on the city with the greatest malice, and even directly cleared the city in accordance with the attitude of opening up territory and expanding territory instead of recovering lost territory.

No one felt inappropriate about Ying Chengyu's order, and all the generals raised their hands in unison: "Wei!"

After the military order was conveyed, Ying Chengyu calmed down his expression and said warmly: "Everyone has worked hard on this expedition."

"Tonight, I will lead my troops to patrol the camp and keep vigil. All generals, please have a good rest."

"In the next period of time, except for the troops of Captain Xi, Captain Li, and Captain Yang, our army should be able to get some rest and recuperation time."

Ying Chengxuan's words were not polite.

Since the expedition, Ying Chengyu's troops have either been burning and killing the enemy, or on the road to burning and killing the enemy. The only relaxing days are actually the time when they are traveling by boat.

Even during the days of ambush in Dahong Mountain, I didn't dare to set up camp or light a fire. It was hard and unbearable.

The intensity of the war following him is much higher than that of following other coaches!

However, all the generals were all smiling: "I'm so tired! I'm not tired at all! The last general can still fight one more time!"

"Hahaha, so is the general. All the soldiers under the general are still clamoring for war!"

"It is indeed a bit hard to follow the coach on the battlefield, but it is so hard that no one can envy me!"

Going on an expedition with Ying Chengyu is indeed painful, but also joyful.

As long as they can win victory and title, the Qin army soldiers are not even afraid of death, so how can they be afraid of hard work!

Yang Hu said with a smile on his face: "The main infantry force of Chu Shangzhu Kingdom has been completely destroyed in the battle, and only the navy is left."

"However, now that our country, Great Qin, owns Dengcheng and Echeng, we can use these two cities to encircle Chu Shangzhu's troops!"

"Even without a water battle, our army can trap the Chu army to death on the Han River!"

"The situation of catching a turtle in an urn is complete!"

Echeng is the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Han River, while Dengcheng is the intersection of the Han River, Xiaoqing River, and Feishui River.

When Echeng and Dengcheng all fall into the hands of the Qin army, the Qin army will be able to control the upper and lower reaches of the Han River at the same time, making the Chu army unable to advance forward, unable to retreat, and unable to replenish supplies!

The Han River is the urn prepared by Ying Chengyu for Xiang Yan!

Now, the big urn has been sealed!

Yang Hu couldn't help but thank his former self.

Fortunately, I stood firmly on Ying Chengyu's side and slashed out the sword against Fan Yuqi without hesitation.

Otherwise, how could I have won today!

There was no smile on Ying Chengyu's face: "If everything goes according to plan, our army will indeed be sealed."

"Of course, the pressure on the shoulders of Captain Meng and Captain Cen is too great."

"I hope Captain Meng and Captain Cen can defend Dengcheng!"

Although the total strength of Meng Tian and Cen Bian's troops is not much less than that of Xiang Yan's troops.

However, there are significant differences in the abilities of the generals on both sides and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on both sides.

Ying Chengyu only hoped that the news of the victory at Dahongshan would boost the morale of Meng Tian and Cen Bian's troops and dampen the morale of Xiang Yan's troops, so as to help Meng Tian and Cen Bian's troops delay for some more time and delay Li Xin and other three captains. Lead your troops to the battlefield!

Yang Hu said warmly: "Captain Cen is a veteran general. Although Captain Meng is on his first expedition, he comes from a family of generals."

"It has only been ten days since Captain Meng and Captain Cen met with Chu Shangzhu."

"With the abilities of the two captains, it is not difficult to persist for half a month."

Li Xin said casually: "My troops will speed up the rescue. We will reach Dengcheng in four days at most."

"By then..."

Before Li Xin could finish his words, there was a cry from a distance.

"Commander!" The eighth husband and the foolish man, holding a messenger on the left and right, ran quickly towards Ying Chengyu, and shouted anxiously: "Dengcheng Army Report!" Just looking at the despairing eyes of the messenger, all the generals were thinking A thud.

Hearing Bafu's anxious voice again, Ying Chengyu's heart jumped even more.

Seizing the bamboo tube from the hand of the ordering soldier, Ying Chengyu asked directly: "Is Deng Cheng still holding on?"

The soldier who ordered the order said bitterly: "I am reporting to you, Commander, that our troops are unworthy of your expectations."

"Dengcheng is lost!"

The smiles on all the generals' faces disappeared.

Yang Hu even asked in disbelief: "Dengcheng was lost?"

"How many days have it been since Captain Cen and Captain Meng fought against Chu Shangzhu?"

"How come it was lost!"

The voice of the messenger became more and more bitter: "As soon as the state of Chu Shangzhu came into contact with our army, they pursued and attacked relentlessly."

"In just a few days, our army killed more than ten thousand Pao Ze."

"After the military report of the great victory in Dahongshan came, our soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief. As a result, this breath of relief was even greater!"

"The Chu army took advantage of our unpreparedness, sneaked into our water stronghold, set fire to disrupt our army, and then took the opportunity to sneak attack and capture Deng City."

"By the time our army discovers this, it will be too late!"

While the messenger was describing the battle situation, Ying Chengyu had already finished reading the military report, his eyes filled with anger.

"Wu Cun! Huang Ping!"

Handing the military report to Yang Hu, Ying Chengyu said coldly: "Wu Cun, the magistrate of Dengcheng County, surrendered, and Huang Ping, the prime minister of Dengcheng County, has long been incited to rebel!"

"The main reason and culprit for the fall of Dengcheng!"

"It even caused Dengcheng County Lieutenant Eji to die in battle!"

Ying Chengxuan had long sensed the people of Nanyang County's desire to go to Chu because of the speed of the Chu army's advance. For this reason, Ying Chengxuan also made a lot of preparations.

But before the fall of Dengcheng, all city and county magistrates were at least still fighting for Qin. Few surrendered, and there were never any people who were instigated to rebel.

However, Deng Cheng's leadership team gave Ying Chengyu a blow in the head at the most critical moment!

Hearing this, Su Jiao couldn't help but angrily shouted: "These national thieves should all be killed!"

Other generals also yelled angrily: "We are fighting life and death on the front line, and they are selling the city in the rear and surrendering? Your mother will do it!"

"My mother, the people of Nanyang County cannot be trusted! The powerful people in the world cannot be trusted!"

"If Deng City is like this, then the officials in other cities can no longer be trusted!"

"Now that Dengcheng has fallen, although the naval divisions of Meng Duwei and Cen Duwei are still there, these two naval divisions are no longer able to reinforce Hubei City!"

"Not only that, the Chu army will guard Sanshui, but will form a siege on our army!"

The fall of Dengcheng had a great impact on the Qin army's overall strategic planning.

This created a gap between the Qin army and the cities of Qin State.

Previously, Ying Chengyu would mobilize county magistrates from Wancheng and other cities to coordinate operations.

But now, the Qin army can no longer trust any county magistrate in Nanyang City!

Even if Ying Chengyu expressed trust in these county magistrates, the generals under Ying Chengyu could not trust these officials.

Ying Chengyu shouted in a deep voice: "Silence!"

"What our army needs now is to break the situation, not to accuse!"

Su Jiao handed over his hand without hesitation: "The general advises us to immediately send troops northward, seize the city along the Yangtze River, and continuously reduce the activity space of the Chu army's navy."

"Send another unit to go north along the land route and recapture Dengcheng!"

"The last general invites you to fight!"

Wherever it was lost, it was taken back.

Su Jiao's advice was simple and crude, going straight to the point.

As for the ambush laid by Xiang Yan to seize the place where the Qin army must be rescued?

Now that the Qin army is powerful, it will be a tough battle at worst!

Li Xin also hurriedly handed over his hand: "General, please be the vanguard!"

Yang Hu frowned: "If this is the case, our army will be restrained by the Chu army!"

"Although our army's urn is cracked, it is not unusable."

"If our army follows the Chu army's movements, then all our army's subsequent arrangements will be nullified, and the Chu army's baggage line will be opened again!"

Initiative is important in war.

From the beginning of the war, the Qin army lost a lot of initiative due to the weakness of its navy.

If he gives up his plan because of the fall of Dengcheng and follows the Chu army, how can the Qin army win?

A famous general spoke one after another, and Ying Chengyu was also thinking deeply.

But Ying Chengyu discovered that although he now had an advantage on paper, he was actually at a disadvantage.

And this disadvantageous position cannot be solved by Ying Chengyu’s strength alone!

Finally, Ying Chengyu spoke slowly: "No matter what, Danyang cannot be lost again."

"Dengcheng has fallen, and our army can still supply supplies from Danyang to Wancheng."

"But if Danyang falls, our army can only obtain baggage through the Qinchu Great Wall, and the baggage line will become extremely long."

"make!"

"Captain Xifeng and Commander Yang Huan immediately broke out of camp and rushed to Danyang's aid. Everyone in Danyang was at the command of Captain Yang Huan."

"The order is sent to Commander Meng Tian and Commander Cen Bian to also retreat to Danyang and station in Danyang Water Village. They must defend Danyang to the death!"

"The rest of the departments will rest first!"

The rank of a captain is comparable to that of a county magistrate. Coupled with Ying Chengyu's orders and the soldiers and horses in their hands, Yang Huan can completely control Danyang City's defense system.

Yang Hu couldn't help but ask: "Coach, what should I do next?"

Ying Chengyu said solemnly: "Waiting for help!"

(End of this chapter)