Ni Chu

A Qin general held a whip in his hand and kept beating the trembling Qin soldier, cursing him while beating him: "What the hell are you afraid of? Aren't you just a bunch of mobs? You are the great army of the Great Qin. Since wearing Wearing this armor, you only have two things to do, one is to kill, and the other is to be killed! As soldiers, the best ending for us is to be shrouded in horse leather and die in battle! Now that we have such a good opportunity, you **** Still afraid! Did you lie too much on the belly of the girls? Grind all your eggs? You don’t have any manliness at all!"

Qin Jun, who was beaten, endured the pain, but dared not speak. He just stared at Chu Jun who was approaching them.

When the [-] Chu army led by Xiang Yu was still a hundred steps away from Chengyang, the Qin army on the city heard the loud sound of the Chu army's feet stepping on the ground, and their morale, which was not very high, suddenly fell. A few points.

"Old soldier, are we really going to die?" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old Qin soldier secretly tugged at the hem of the veteran squatting next to him, looked left and right, and asked in a low voice when no one was paying attention.

The old soldier looked at him, stretched out his hand to stroke the back of his head, smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, we are going to die. One hundred thousand Chu soldiers are approaching the city, how can the 5000 of us and this dilapidated city wall be able to resist it?" What's more, the leader of the Chu army is still the devil-like Xiang Yu, who is so brave that he alone can kill thousands of people, not to mention there are hundreds of thousands of wolves and tigers behind him. well!"

"I don't want to die, old soldier!" The young Qin Bing was about to shed tears from fear, and leaned against the old soldier tremblingly.

The old soldier patted his shoulder lightly and said, "Don't be afraid, child, there is nothing to be afraid of death, it's just a pain, and it will pass soon."

Xiang Yu led [-] Chu troops to the city of Chengyang, and stopped two or three hundred paces away from the city.

Seeing the Chu army stopped two or three hundred paces away, the guard on the top of the city shouted joyously, and shouted to an officer, "Quickly, give the order and shoot them with a crossbow!"

"General, we don't have stepping crossbows, only ordinary Qin crossbows, I'm afraid the range is not enough!" The officer who received the order looked at the Chu army outside the city and reminded him.

"How can my Great Qin's crossbow arrows not have enough range?" After hearing the officer's words, General Qin was furious. He drew his sword from his waist and threw it at the officer's neck, roaring, "How dare you disobey my order?"

Seeing that the guard was angry, the officer didn't dare to persuade him anymore, so he turned around and ran away.

Not long after, the battlements of Chengyang were covered with Qin crossbows. The officer stood on the city wall, looked at the Chu army outside the city, sighed, and shouted loudly: "Fire!"

"Swish, whoosh, whoosh", following the officer's order, a cloud of crossbow arrows flew towards the Chu army with the sound of wind overwhelming.

Xiang Yu looked up at the crossbow arrows that almost covered the sun, and shouted to the Chu army behind him: "The people of Qin have shot crossbows, everyone be careful!"

Several crossbow arrows shot into the camp of the Chu army, and two Chu soldiers were shot by the crossbow arrows before they could dodge. However, the crossbow arrows did not penetrate the armor of the Chu army after piercing them, but bounced to the ground.More crossbow arrows landed thirty or forty steps in front of the Chu army.

"Hehe, big brother, the people of Qin are in a hurry!" Long Qie, who was following Xiang Yu, rode his horse and took two steps forward, standing only half a horse away from Xiang Yu, and said with a smile: "Why don't you lead the army to attack, big brother wait My good news is."

Xiang Yu raised one hand, put it next to his ear, and stopped Long Qie.He turned back to look at the dragon and said: "I asked you to come here this time to support me. Our siege is not only to break the city, but also to ensure that the casualties are minimized. You will lead 2000 people to the left." Turn sideways to attract the attention of the Qin army on the top of the city, I don't give orders, you don't attack, understand?"

"Decree!" Long Qi clasped his fists in response, ordered two thousand soldiers and horses to lead the order, and made a detour towards the left side of Chengyang City.

Sure enough, the attention of the Qin army on the top of the city was attracted by Long Qie's 2000 people. Many crossbow arrows roared and flew towards the [-] Chu army who were turning to the left. any harm.

After Long Qie led the army to leave, Xiang Yu waved his hand towards Xiang Tong, and Xiang Tong immediately shouted knowingly to the Chu army behind him: "The shield array is ready! The archers follow closely!"

Xiang Tong gave an order, and thousands of Chu soldiers with large shields came out of the formation, holding their shields high and rushed towards Chengyang City. After these soldiers with large shields rushed out, many archers caught in the shield formation Nei followed and ran towards the city wall.

The Qin army on the city saw two or 3000 soldiers suddenly rushing out of the main formation of the Chu army, and immediately understood that the Chu army who had come to the left was just a decoy, and the real siege would still be launched from the front. , and shot crossbow arrows at the Chu army charging towards the city wall.

Due to the closer distance, the crossbow arrows caused a lot of trouble to the Chu army this time. Many crossbow arrows got through the gaps between the shields and shot the Chu army hiding behind the shields, shooting many Chu soldiers to the ground. .

The Chu army who fell on the ground and did not die lost the protection of the shield, and suddenly became the target of the Qin army's crossbow arrows, and they were shot like hedgehogs by the crossbow arrows that rushed from the sky.

When the Chu army rushed within the range of the bow and arrow, the shields formed a solid shield wall, and the Chu army's archers hid behind the shield wall and started shooting at the Qin army on the city.

Since the Qin army was protected by battlements on the city, it was difficult for the Chu army's bows to be effective. Most of the arrows bounced off the battlements and fell to the ground. A pile of arrowheads quickly piled up at the foot of the city wall.

Xiang Yu watched the arrows of the two armies shoot at each other, knowing that although there was a shield to protect, but after a long time, the Chu army who attacked from the bottom up would still suffer a big loss, so he raised his hand again.

Seeing Xiang Yu raise his hand, Xiang Tong shouted again: "Siege ladder attack the city!"

Hundreds of Chu soldiers rushed towards the city wall with shields in one hand and long ladders in the other.

This kind of ladder is very long, and there are twenty or thirty Chu soldiers on the left and right sides of each ladder. Calculated, a ladder needs to be carried by 50 people.

Hundreds of Chu troops were only carrying more than a dozen siege ladders. These Chu troops rushed towards the city wall quickly. When the Qin army on the top of the city saw the Chu army rushing towards them carrying the siege ladder, the target shifted again, and the crossbow arrows Immediately, the sky and the earth flew towards Chu Jun who was carrying the ladder.

The Chu army carrying the ladder raised their shields high above their heads to block the crossbow arrows flying down from the top of the city, and rushed towards the city wall regardless of their lives.

During the charge, many Chu soldiers who carried the ladders were shot by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground, while the remaining Chu soldiers continued to carry the long ladders forward.

The archers of the Chu army who had been hiding behind the shield formation under the city stepped up and fired arrows at the top of the city. Although the archers of the Chu army rarely shot the Qin army on the city, they somewhat suppressed the Qin army.

Seeing the Chinese army launching an attack, Longjue, who had already made a detour to the left, couldn't help feeling a little anxious, and looked in the direction of the Chinese army frequently.

Not long after the Chu army carrying the ladder rushed out to the city wall, Long Qie finally waited for the signal from the Chinese army. A large flag was waved back and forth by the Chinese army, which was a signal ordering him to lead the army to attack.

After receiving the order, Long Qi was overjoyed and shouted to the Chu army behind him: "Siege the city!"

Several ladders came out of Long Qi's camp. When the ladders came out, Long Qi got off his horse, grabbed the shield from a soldier, rushed to the side of a ladder, and rushed towards the city wall with the ladders first.

The Qin army on the city wall originally thought that the dragons were just luring the enemy, but they didn't expect that they would actually attack them.

The guard quickly ordered to send more people to defend the east wall, and a group of Qin troops rushed eastward with crossbow arrows. The strength of the Qin army defending the front suddenly became weaker.

The Chu army who launched an attack from the front finally rushed down to the foot of the city wall. They put the ladder on the wall. As soon as the ladder was erected, they swarmed towards the top of the city.

Seeing that the ladder was erected, Xiang Yu twitched his mouth slightly, and charged towards the city wall on his horse.

The Qin army on the city wall saw Xiang Yu rushing towards the city wall, and quickly fired a dense cloud of crossbow arrows at him.

The crossbow flew towards Xiang Yu whistling, Xiang Yu saw the crossbow flying towards him, shouted loudly, and spun the halberd in his hand quickly, as if he had added a strong shield in front of him.

The crossbow arrows shot at Xiang Yu were thrown to the ground by the halberd in his hand. In the blink of an eye, he rushed down to the foot of the city wall.

At the foot of the city wall, Xiang Yu got off his horse, chose a nearby ladder, and climbed up.

Seeing that Xiang Yu took the lead, the morale of the Chu army was greatly boosted, and they all howled and rushed towards the city wall. Even the shield wall that had been formed before was scattered in an instant, and everyone crowded at the foot of the city wall.

The Qin army on the city kept pushing away the ladders erected on the city wall. Many Chu soldiers who were climbing towards the top of the city fell to the ground together with the fallen ladders, and their bodies burst and died unexpectedly.

The death of these Chu soldiers did not scare the Chu soldiers behind. The Chu soldiers who were still alive removed the ladder from the corpses of their companions, lifted the ladder up on the city wall again, and rushed towards the top of the city one after another.

Several Qin soldiers supported the ladder that Xiang Yu was climbing, and desperately retreated. The ladder swayed. Xiang Yu roared, and pressed down the hand holding the ladder, and the ladder that had been pushed away from the city wall fell back again. on the city wall.

After the ladder fell back, he accelerated his climbing speed. When Qin Jun on the top of the city wanted to push the ladder away again, the halberd in his hand stabbed upwards, and it happened to plunge into a Qin Jun's throat, that Qin Jun didn't even have time to hum, he fell to the ground and became a corpse.

After stabbing a Qin army to death, Xiang Yu quickened his pace again. When he was still two or three ladders away from the top of the city, he shouted loudly, jumped up, and jumped towards the city wall.

Seeing Xiang Yu leaping towards the city wall, more than a dozen Qin soldiers quickly thrust their spears at him who was still in mid-air, trying to pierce a bunch of transparent holes in his body while he was unable to use his strength.