Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 748: The Journey Across the Country, Unstoppable
"Liu San, do you think we can win this time?" On the city wall, Wu Guang appeared next to Liu San.

After Xiang Yu's elite troops left the city, Zhang Han's deputy generals directly surrounded the city of Daze and launched an attack from all sides of the city. Although the spies in the city were mostly eliminated by Liu San, there were still Qin soldiers outside the city clamoring, saying that Chen She had escaped under Xiang Yu's protection, causing panic in the city.

In order to inspire people, Chen She stepped onto the city wall with his big flag and stood under the flag so that everyone in the city could see that he was still there.

Then the people and soldiers in the city felt relieved.

Because Chen She climbed up the city wall and was directly exposed to everyone, Liu San also took a few trusted rangers to the city wall and stood beside Chen She as guards.

"Of course we will win." Liu San said as a matter of course.

He looked at the Qin army that was surrounding him - an army from all four directions, nearly 200,000 strong.

Plus the more than 100,000 troops on Xiang Yu's side.

This means that in just these few years, Zhang Han had built up an army of more than 200,000 to nearly 300,000 troops from scratch!

No, there are nearly 200,000 troops here, so how many troops does Xiang Yu face?

But in their understanding, the army under Zhang Han had no more than 200,000 soldiers - more than 100,000 were left to deal with Xiang Yu, and only tens of thousands could be used to attack the city.

They can definitely hold on.

But now - the number of the army besieging the city is three times what they estimated!

Under such circumstances, the possibility of defending the city is extremely slim.

They might not even be able to hold out until Xiang Yu's army returns.

——And Liu San was also worried about one thing.

How strong is Zhang Han’s ability to gather a large army?

The army besieging the city alone numbered more than 100,000. So how many troops were estimated to have blocked and trapped Xiang Yu to death?

Is it the originally estimated one hundred thousand, or is it doubled to more than two hundred thousand, or even more?

However, despite his worries, Liu San's words were still extremely relaxed, and people could not tell that he had any guilty conscience.

"It's just an army of less than 200,000."

"The Art of War says, if there are ten of them, surround them."

"What it means is, if you don't have an army ten times larger than yours, don't even think about besieging the city."

"And the number of soldiers and civilians in this Daze City is no less than 200,000 - this army of just over 100,000 is just the tip of the iceberg of 2 million."

"How can they conquer this mighty city?" Liu San said with great ease, easing the extremely tense atmosphere on the city wall.

"Also, although the city is short of food, with the protection of the gods, the soldiers and civilians in the city will not starve to death."

"As for holding on, it's easy for us to hold on until the end of time."

Then Liu San looked at Chen She.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, when we defend the city, we should pretend to be powerless, so that the Qin army from all sides can attack and attract them here, thus relieving the pressure on General Xiang Yu."

"Otherwise, if this army of more than 100,000 sees that there is no chance of conquering the city and abandons the city and goes to General Xiang Yu, then we will be trapping General Xiang Yu to death." Liu San said loudly.

Nearby, a few of Liu San's most trusted knights were also whispering to each other. Then, at the signal of the thin-looking young man, they quickly spread Liu San's words in all directions, letting the soldiers and civilians in the city know Liu San's judgment.

Although many people knew after hearing Liu San's words that Liu San was deliberately exaggerating his own advantages and deliberately weakening the pressure of the Qin army's siege - after all, even if it was to defend the city, even if everyone was a soldier, how could ordinary residents compare with the elite soldiers who had been in battle for a long time?

However, seeing the morale in the city become increasingly high after Liu San's remarks, those who saw that Liu San was playing tricks did not expose his lies at all.

And the more people saw through Liu San's rhetoric, the more they admired him.

After all, in just a moment, words could break the fear of the soldiers and civilians in the city about the siege and inspire everyone's confidence.

Even before the war officially started, they had already found an excuse for the disadvantageous defense of the city.

The soldiers and civilians who were finding the situation difficult would think that everyone was pretending to be defeated in order to share the pressure with Xiang Yu, instead of thinking that the city of Daze could not be defended.

How many people in the world have such quick wit?

……

"Attack the city!" Looking at the morale on the city wall, after a slight decline, the leader of Zhang Han's deputy generals, the one named Ma, also waved his hand and pushed his flag forward.

The army besieging the city numbered a total of 180,000.

When this 180,000-strong army was pulled out, not only the city of Daze, but even Zhang Han's deputy generals were shocked.

According to their estimation, apart from Xiang Yu's side, Zhang Han could only withdraw 70,000 troops at most. Therefore, if they wanted to capture the city of Daze, they had to adopt the posture of surrounding three sides and leaving one side missing, which would make the people here uneasy.

But who would have thought that when Zhang Han pulled out his army, the army they could get would be a full 180,000?
You know, they were almost with Zhang Han day and night - but even they, who were with him day and night, had a serious misjudgment of their own strength, let alone others?
After seeing the appearance of the extra 110,000 soldiers and their leader, these generals also knew how Zhang Han had gathered this military force.

Over the years, they have fought with Daze, with more defeats than victories, and the losses each time have been devastating.

However, after each defeat, their army was not annihilated, but simply dispersed - because these dispersed people rarely appeared on the battlefield again, so everyone instinctively assumed that these people had died in battle or fled.

But in fact, these soldiers who were killed and scattered were quietly gathered together by Zhang Han.

Because they did not dare to face Xiang Yu again, they never appeared on the battlefield.

But now, Xiang Yu is no longer in this city of Daze.

Naturally, Zhang Han deployed these soldiers again.

Qin law was strict, and military law was even stricter. According to Qin's military law, these soldiers who were killed and scattered were actually guilty of a capital crime, and most of them would be executed as a result of the crime.

Especially those generals who died but the soldiers are still alive.

But Zhang Han spared their lives.

For these soldiers, this was tantamount to a life-saving grace - as long as they could capture the city and capture Chen She while Xiang Yu was away, then the previous defeats, routs, etc. would naturally be forgiven in the face of a great victory.

So at this moment, the army deployed by Zhang Han was extremely strong and firm in both momentum and determination to capture the city.

When the leading deputy general gave the signal to attack the city, these soldiers rushed towards the city wall without thinking.

Various immortal tools for siege were also pushed and moved slowly. Many hooks, ladders, siege cannons, etc. were all fired at the same time.

Especially the deputy generals who were the leaders, they moved their flags directly under the city wall - the people on the city wall could hit them by throwing stones down. Such "enthusiasm" in attacking the city made Liu San's eyes twitch.

How could he know that before the army set out, in order to boost morale, the commander-in-chief Zhao Gao personally made a promise to them.

As long as they could capture the Daze City and capture Chen She alive, when Zhao Gao returned to Xianyang, he would take them and the first person to climb the city wall to pay homage to the First Emperor and report their achievements to him.

People outside the imperial system could not imagine how much motivation Zhao Gao's promise would bring to them.

Just this morning, before Zhang Han set out to "welcome" Xiang Yu, his lieutenants almost fought over it - because, after hearing Zhao Gao's promise, those who were originally scheduled to go with him to fight Xiang Yu also wanted to stay and attack the city.

Who in the empire doesn't want to pay homage to the First Emperor in person?
Who doesn't want someone to state his or her achievements in front of him or her, in front of the First Emperor?
The entire strategy formulated by Zhang Han was almost completely disrupted because of this.

For this reason, Zhao Gao had to make another promise.

After they captured Xiang Yu, they would bring them back to pay homage to the First Emperor, and then ask Xiang Yu to perform martial arts in front of the First Emperor to demonstrate the bravery of the generals in capturing Xiang Yu.

Thus, the dispute was settled.

On the high city wall, Chen She and others were overlooking the earth under the big flags - Liu San and other knights were quickly shuttling through every corner of the city wall, stabbing their swords from all kinds of unexpected angles, or cutting off the hooks that fell on the city wall, or severing the ladders that touched the city.

There are beacons everywhere on the city wall, and the movement of the beacons also demonstrates the attack and pressure that the city wall is under.

Amid the beacon fire, there was a faint sound of the earth shaking, and the beacon fire seemed to be distorted by the sound.

Chen She's gaze also followed the sound of the vibration - he could not see the movement on Xiang Yu's side, but he could clearly know that the movement meant that Xiang Yu had already come into close combat with Zhang Han.

At the other end of the battlefield, Xiang Yu had already launched a charge against Zhang Han's army.

The three thousand elite cavalry will open a passage for the five thousand infantry behind them, and then these infantry will charge in, protect the "hostages", and finally charge out along the passage opened by Xiang Yu and his men.

In front of the general's platform, Zhang Han waved flags and dispatched troops, either confronting Xiang Yu forcefully or using various methods to confuse the direction of Xiang Yu's cavalry, slow down its speed, and weaken the momentum of the elite flags.

Zhao Gao, who was watching the battle behind the command platform, looked at Xiang Yu who was leading the elite cavalry to charge, and suddenly understood what it meant to be "close to a god".

The man was riding a tall horse, and the weapon in his hand looked like a spear or a halberd.

When the weapon was swung, everything that stood in its way, whether it was people, horses, or the army, was cut in half.

Zhang Han's strategy for "killing" Xiang Yu was to lure him into a trap. He lined up the hostages on the river bank, and his army was stationed on the river bank, waiting for Xiang Yu to rush in and consume his strength with the deaths of countless soldiers.

Zhao Gao also raised doubts about this - after all, the army was clearly there, no matter how stupid Xiang Yu was, he would not directly attack the army's formation, right?

It would be better to set up an ambush first, and after Xiang Yu takes his position, troops will rise up from all sides and surround him.

Then Zhang Han told Zhao Gao that if they used an ambush to deal with Xiang Yu, there would definitely be loopholes between each route of the ambushing army.

As long as there is a flaw, Xiang Yu will definitely kill him.

Finally, under Zhang Han's firm attitude, Zhao Gao chose to believe in Zhang Han's battle strategy.

At this moment, looking at the changes in the battle formation, Zhao Gao suddenly felt extremely grateful and lucky.

If the army formation of 300,000 troops was compared to an enormous lake, then the 3,000 elite cavalry charging in the formation at this moment were like giant sticks stirring the waves on the lake, creating an extremely huge whirlpool in the lake.

As a result, the army formation and the lake water spontaneously gathered towards the whirlpool, and there was a tendency for them to escape the control of the commander Zhang Han.

You know, amid the chaos and fighting among the seven countries, the military power of the human world has developed to an unimaginable level.

The Mohist mechanism, combined with the Taoist magic, and supplemented by the magic of the method - under such circumstances, every order of Zhang Han can appear in the ears of every commander accurately and promptly.

Every time there is a change in the military formation, the commanders can respond immediately.

Any mediocre commander can, with various assistances, have a bird's-eye view of the battlefield.

It is conceivable how much such a change will help a commander in chief to control his army, and it is conceivable how much it will increase the commander's control over the army.

But at this moment, Zhang Han seemed to be having difficulty controlling the army.

Even Zhao Gao, who was not very familiar with military formations, could see how "struggling" Zhang Han, who was in charge of the military formation, was in a dilemma in order to get the army out of Xiang Yu's "attraction" and to prevent the water of the lake from being sucked away by the whirlpool.

This was when the 300,000-strong army was fully assembled and had already formed its battle formation.

If it were not so, but as before, they would first ambush with scattered soldiers and then form a battle formation before the battle - Zhao Gao did not dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

——The charge of Xiang Yu’s elite cavalry could no longer be called a charge, but rather a trampling of the formation!
In front of his weapon, all obstacles, all iron walls, were torn to pieces.

No matter how the military formation changes, it will be shaken by the weapons in their hands.

Then, the elite cavalry behind him followed his footsteps and rushed in.

As a result, all military formations and all defenses collapsed.

There was clearly a power that confused perception within the army formation. Except for him and Zhang Han standing on the command platform, everyone else had no idea where they were or where they were going. Even immortals and gods would lose their way if they stepped in.

However, Xiang Yu, who was rushing in the front, seemed not to be confused by the military formation at all.

The direction it goes seems to be a zigzag line, but in fact, every place where the line passes is a node of this large army formation.

Every time a node was knocked open, Zhang Han's control over the army would be weakened a little.

"Zhang Han, do you need me to activate the power of the tripod?" Zhao Gao couldn't help but ask.

Zhao Gao swallowed and couldn't help but speak.

An army of 300,000, with each 10,000 soldiers forming a formation. The 300,000-strong army, combined with the man-made terrain, forms thirty layers of defense.

But in just a short moment, Xiang Yu had broken through eight of the thirty layers of defense.

After these eight levels, Xiang Yu's speed did not slow down at all.

If this continued, Zhao Gao always felt that Xiang Yu would rush towards him at the next moment.

"It's not the right time yet!" Zhang Han flatly refused.

"Wait a moment, and listen to my orders!"

Even though he was already in a very difficult situation, Zhang Han's face remained calm without any trace of panic.

It seems that everything is still as expected and everything is still under control.

(End of this chapter)