Qiang Qin

Updated: 2010-12-03

Xiang Yu stood at the top of the city and watched the Qin army ants attached to the ladders and attacked the city, while the Chu army in the city, led by Long Qie, kept suppressing the Qin people with bows, arrows, wood and stones. .The sound of drums resounded inside and outside the city, accompanied by the wailing before the death and the shouts when killing the enemy, constantly filled Xiang Yu's ears, and he couldn't bear it any longer.Xiang Yu couldn't bear it not because of the cruel battlefield atmosphere here, even if it was a battlefield hundreds of times more tragic than this, Xiang Yu would not frown when he saw it, but he couldn't stand his army being passively beaten by the enemy on the city .

This is already the tenth day when the Qin army attacked the city aggressively. Since Xiang Yu led the army out of the city to attack the city that day and failed, the Qin army mobilized all the troops to attack the city the next day.Xiang Yu's way of defending the city is completely incomprehensible. Fortunately, Long Qie used to be the guard of a county in Qi State. At this time, he naturally replaced Xiang Yu to take over the important task of defense.Under Long Qi's methodical arrangement, the Qin army's first tentative attack was quickly repelled by the Chu army.This also made Xiang Yu trust Long Qie a little bit more, so he simply handed over everything to guard the city, and he went to the city to patrol the city from time to time.

However, after the unsuccessful attack of the previous two days, the Qin army made a change. They no longer blindly let the soldiers rush up to feed the chaotic arrows of the Chu army, but first let the crossbow arrows stronger than the bow attack the Chu army at the top of the city. Suppressed, and then ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the opportunity of Chu Junfa to return to the defensive position immediately, so that the soldiers covered up and killed them, and set up a ladder on the top of the city.In this way, the siege battle changed from the initial charge and retreat to the battle on the city wall, and its tragic degree was even more severe than the initial stage.

And what Xiang Yu saw today was this scene. This kind of battle has lasted for eight days. Blood flowed into rivers above and below the city, and corpses were scattered everywhere.At the beginning, after the battle, some soldiers threw the corpses into the city, but as the battle became more and more intense, the soldiers were so tired that they leaned against the wall and fell asleep as soon as the battle was over, and no one was willing to move it. those corpses.Xiang Yu walked back to his residence by stepping on those hardened corpses and dried blood. At this time, he had made up his mind that he could no longer be passively beaten in the city like this, but went out of the city, and went out of the city with The Qin army fought a decisive battle on the plain, instead of hiding in the city and allowing the Qin army to attack.So he immediately asked his personal soldiers to come to his place with all the generals after today's battle, saying that they had important matters to discuss.

When the sun was setting to the west, Long Qi and a group of generals who had commanded the city for a day dragged their exhausted bodies into Xiang Yu's temporary command post.Seeing Xiang Yu, everyone was about to salute, but they were stopped by him: "All the generals have worked hard, so let's avoid these vain rituals. I came to you today to hear your opinions on defending the city of Surabaya. .”

Some generals who didn't know much about Xiang Yu's character mistakenly thought that Xiang Yu wanted to lead his troops back and abandon the city of Surabaya, so they immediately said: "Overlord, although the Qin people attacked ferociously, the morale of our army is still high There are enough food, grass, arrows and other defense equipment in the city, enough to consume the Qin army for a period of time, the overlord must not have the idea of ​​​​retiring." This is to persuade Xiang Yu not to retreat from the current situation in the city. military.Some people also said: "Overlord, this Sishui City is an important gateway to our Great Chu. If the Qin people occupy this place, they can drive straight into our Chu land. Moreover, this Sishui City is also a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It’s the same as Kuaiji and Jiujiang, so we should continue to stick to it.” This is to persuade Xiang Yu not to retreat from the city’s own characteristics and importance.What's more, he was eager to persuade Xiang Yu with his military spirit: "Overlord, if you give up this Sishui City easily, I'm afraid the soldiers guarding the city will be chilled, and they may not stick to the next few cities. Our country of Chu is really in danger."

Looking at the generals who were looking for reasons to persuade him, Xiang Yu could only smile wryly, but he still saw that a few people who had been following him did not speak up, and he felt a little comforted in his heart, at least these people still understood that he was not Will get cold feet.After those generals said such a big thing, Xiang Yu said lightly: "Who said that the overlord is going to abandon the city and leave?"

"..." All the generals stopped talking for a while, and looked at Xiang Yu strangely, just waiting for him to explain the purpose of his question just now.

"What Bawang means is that we can no longer just stay in the city of Surabaya and not go out of the city to wipe out the enemy?" Long Qie said suddenly.From the changes in Xiang Yu's expression on the top of the city these days, Long Qi can already see that he is very impatient and just stays in the city and is passively beaten. After all, Long Qi has been with Xiang Yu for several years, and he has no idea about his character. I understand very much.

Xiang Yu nodded and said: "That's right, that's what I meant. The damage we guarded in the city is indeed smaller than that of the Qin people outside the city, but if this continues, the soldiers will lose their vigor to confront the Qin people head-on, so we You can no longer be trapped in the city, but you should go out of the city and make a break with the Qin people."

All the generals were dumbfounded at once, they didn't expect that they had guessed Xiang Yu's thoughts completely wrongly. After a while, someone said: "The Overlord will pull the army out of the city to fight against the people of Qin. If there is any loss, I, Sishui City... "His voice stopped at this point, he didn't dare to express his worries in front of Xiang Yu, because not long ago, many people who disagreed with Xiang Yu were killed by him, and he didn't want to be the next .

But at this time, Xiang Yu was no longer a person who killed indiscriminately. He just smiled and said: "I led 3 horses out of the city that day, and I could break through the encirclement among the [-] troops of the Qin army, and even kill their central army." In the big tent, it can be seen that the Qin people rely on more soldiers and horses than our Chu army. If it is true, the elite soldiers are no match for our big Chu soldiers. Now we are fighting against the Qin people across the wall. The gap between the two sides cannot be seen, but if we go out of the city to fight, with the strength of our army, it is enough to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop."

After thinking for a while, Long Qi said: "In terms of insurance, we'd better stick to Surabaya, but if we want to repel the Qin army, we must go out of the city. But if the Qin army is not as bad as the overlord said , I am afraid that after the decisive battle, we will not be able to defend the city of Surabaya."

Xiang Yu said: "This overlord dares to conclude that this battle will be won, so you all make arrangements to go out of the city to meet the enemy tomorrow."

Now that Xiang Yu had already given the order, all the generals could only agree to it, whether they were willing or not.

At this time, Fusu was also fidgeting in the camp. Over the past few days, more than 1 soldiers had died in battle because of the continuous attack on Sishui City. The soldiers and horses did not have such a big damage. "Is my thinking wrong? Xiang Yu was just thinking about how to defend this place, and didn't intend to repel us at all?" Fusu's original thinking began to waver as the number of casualties increased.

At this time, Zhang Liang came to his side, and seeing Fusu's appearance, he had already guessed his thoughts: "Your Majesty, the critical moment has come now, don't be discouraged. This Sishui City is indeed very strong, otherwise Zhang Han's 20 army will not be invincible in the next few months. But the emperor's judgment should not be wrong. Although we may not be able to successfully take down the city of Surabaya, I am afraid that Xiang Yu will not stick to the city. One day he will come out of the city with his troops, and then our chance will come."

Fusu said: "In the past few days, I have seen that the Chu army in Sishui City is defending impeccably. Obviously, the generals defending the city are also very good. Will Xiang Yu change his strategy? You must know that defending them in the city is completely invincible ah."

"I have read Xiang Yu's experience in the past few years, and found that he is good at attacking. No matter how much difference there is in the strength of the enemy and us, he likes to use attack to solve the battle. If you attack Qi, you will be here with General Zhang. The battle in Sishui City is also the same. Now that he has become the de facto king of Chu, will he restrain his character and change from offense to defense? I think he will not, maybe within a few days, he will definitely Out of the city." Zhang Liang's tone was full of affirmation.

Hearing Zhang Liang, a person he trusted, said these words, Fusu's heart was a little shaken, and he calmed down a little: "Then do we have to attack the city?"

"We need to attack, and we need to send more troops to attack. The harder we suppress, the sooner Xiang Yu will leave the city."

But on the second day, the Chu army opened the gate of Surabaya and killed them.A knight quickly ran out of his formation, raised his hand and shot towards the Qin army's camp.The soldiers of the Qin army saw the cloth tied to the shaft of the arrow, so they quickly picked up the arrow and presented it to their generals.The man didn't dare to neglect after reading what was written on it, so he hurriedly handed it over, and finally came to Fusu's hands.

After reading the words on the cloth, Fusu's troubles of many days disappeared, and he said loudly: "The people of Chu have cast a letter of war to us, saying that the decisive battle will be outside the city of Sishui tomorrow morning, and today we will have a one-day truce. Everyone, go down and let the soldiers prepare well, tomorrow is the most critical battle between us and the Chu army." Then he wrote a line and ordered the soldiers to shoot it back to the Chu army.

The generals saw that the people of Chu were indeed as Fusu said a few days ago, and that the people of Chu had finally come out of the city to fight. They were overjoyed and respected Fusu a lot. They never thought that as an emperor, he would have such a good knowledge of people. means.So everyone went back to the camp to make arrangements for tomorrow's battle, and Fusu, Han Xin and others rushed to the camp of the chain horses that had never been used.