The Summoning World of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 908
The purpose of doing this is also very simple. The city gate on the dry road of Jiangzhou City has been completely destroyed, and now the south gate is also demolished, so it will be completely abolished; when the army comes to kill the waterway again At that time, Jiangzhou was called a city on the surface, but it was actually an undefended place.

With tens of thousands of people working together, even a city can be razed to the ground overnight, let alone a city gate. It didn't take much time at all, and the city gate disappeared from Xiang Zhuang's eyes.

"General, the Shu Kingdom Navy has arrived and is about to arrive!" The scout on the assault boat shouted loudly.

Xiang Sheng took a look at the sky. He could reach the Three Gorges Pass in the early morning of tomorrow. If he looked upstream, he couldn't see the billowing dust and smoke. After all, this was a naval battle, not land. Fighting; but Xiang Zhuang's eyes seemed to be able to see Han Shizhong's Shu army going south through the obstacles!
"Send the order, the whole army retreats! Take away everything you can take away, and throw everything you can't take away into the Yangtze River, absolutely not to the Shu army."

"promise!"

The generals around him immediately went to deliver the order, and a general squeezed in from the crowd, cupped his hands and asked, "General, do you want to burn the huge Jiangzhou City as well?"

"Press the ground and whip ten lashes!" Xiang Zhuang pointed at General Zhang He.

The soldiers laughed. When the army marched westward, Xiang Zhuang had already emphasized in the army that the purpose of this western expedition was to regain the hearts of Bashu, not to create killing and hatred here. Destroying the city gate would definitely is no effect.

Now that the war is going on here, only the soldiers of Shu and Chu are fighting. When Huang Gai and Gan Ning took Jiangzhou City without any effort, they killed hundreds of local ruffians who took advantage of the fire. People will never dare to mess around again.

When Xiang Sheng went south again, he distributed all the food in the city to the local people. After the mobilizers tore down the north gate, everyone dared not act recklessly. Those who had a way went to other places to seek refuge with their relatives and friends. Those who had no way out, That would only be in heavy suffering and enduring the military turmoil, but generally speaking, Jiangzhou changed hands twice in three days, but it still adhered to the principle of never offending the people in the city.

"what--"

"what--"

Although it was only ten lashes, the general was watching from the sidelines. The soldiers who executed the execution did not dare to lie, and still beat the warrior to pieces.

"Do you have a long memory?" Xiang Sheng pouted.

The general didn't dare to resent in his heart, he led the soldiers to push all the defense materials in the city that could not be taken away into the water, and built a fire, piled these materials together and set them on fire, it was completely enjoyable Well, I forgot everything that Xiang Zhuang said during the Western Expedition, and then came to ask.

"Long memory!" The general trembled, gritted his teeth and was about to put on his armor.

Xiang Zhuang couldn't see it, so he waved his hand and said, "Come on! Don't put on your armor, go down and apply medicine. This time we are going west to conquer Shu Kingdom, what we want is the people's hearts and land of Shu Kingdom, not to destroy it. How much did Lao Zi say? What’s the next time? The lips are worn out, whoever doesn’t have a brain and thinks about burning cities and slaughtering cities? Next time, it’s not a matter of getting a few whips!”

"Good to see you!" Xiang Sheng raised his voice and shouted loudly!

"promise!"

The soldiers of the whole army responded loudly.

"Let's go! Don't wait, otherwise, if Han Shizhong comes, we will risk our lives. It's not the time to risk our lives." Xiang Zhuang said again, with a smug smile on his face.

"start sailing!"

"Anchor!"

"..."

Shouts were heard, and the fleet started to move. Less than half an hour later, Xiangzhuang had disappeared on the river, and Han Shizhong's fleet arrived.

Li Jiancheng looked at the south gate that had been turned into ruins, and was furious, while Han Shizhong also had a gloomy expression.

"In the Chu army... I'm afraid there are some experts who are secretly pointing out!" Han Shizhong thought about it: "The situation is not good."

"Why?" Li Jiancheng asked hurriedly, feeling that the situation was very wrong.

Han Zhizhong pointed to the demolished city wall and said, "What do you think is that?"

"People in the city?" Li Jiancheng said a little puzzled, but just in the middle of the sentence, he himself felt that something was wrong. Now it is a time of war, and the people in the city... are actually walking on the street. Li Jiancheng stands at a higher angle than Han Shizhong Fortunately, he happened to see a shopkeeper carrying a load, selling things in the streets.

"What's the situation?" Li Jiancheng turned his head to look at Han Shizhong, and seemed to be a little uncertain and said: "Would you like to listen to the boat docking and go into the city to have a look."

"Don't chase!" Han Shizhong gritted his teeth: "Leave a thousand-man team here to meet Xu Shu's army."

Soon, a warship started to move and slowly docked on the coast, but Han Shizhong's army did not stay for too long, and went south along the waterway.

The story is divided into two parts. After Xiangzhuang arrived at the Three Gorges Pass, he opened the last bag.Reminiscent of the previous kit, Xiang Zhuang almost guessed what it would be. As expected, there were only four words in this letter: Burn off the gate and retreat!
Pass, that is, the Three Gorges Pass, here is a majestic pass across the Yangtze River, Xiang Zhuang stood on the warship, he hesitated a bit... It is really magnificent.

"General—"

The general looked at Xiang Zhuang's hesitation, couldn't help but stepped forward and cupped his hands, and shouted in a low voice.

"burn!"

Xiang Zhuang gritted his teeth and said, no matter how majestic the pass is, as long as it is not on his side, it will only cause innocent soldiers to die miserably. , Xiang Sheng also recognized it.

Before the early morning mist dissipated, the fire had already spread across the pass.

The fire light illuminated Xiang Zhuang's eyes, and for some reason, Xiang Sheng also felt a little heartbroken when he saw this grand pass disappear before his eyes.

"Back thirty miles!" Xiang Sheng ordered decisively, women should not be benevolent, this is what Xiangguo often said to himself.

The warships moved again, and the Chu army left a hundred men to avoid the crazy fire, waiting for the arrival of the Shu army. As soon as the Shu army arrived, they would report back to Xiangzhuang immediately, and Xiangzhuang would definitely lead the army back.

In this regard, Xiang Zhuang has given full play to his rogue spirit, as long as you dare to chase, I will dare to retreat.

If you retreat all the way like this, you will enter the deep hinterland of Chu State, and Han Shizhong's army may stay in Chu State forever.

Han Shizhong arrived, facing the wood with sporadic flames, which had not been completely burned; the Shu army was completely dumbfounded this time.

"Crazy! Crazy!" Li Jiancheng slapped the railing heavily, and cursed: "This is a group of lunatics. Wherever they go, they will destroy wherever they go!"

"General, what should we do now? To chase or not to chase?"

All the generals gathered here to listen to Han Shizhong's words.

"The whole army retreated to Jiangzhou City. Didn't the Chu State want to destroy our dangerous pass on the Yangtze River? Then we will let them destroy it, and we will stay in Jiangzhou City. If they have the ability, don't send troops. Go north and hide in the east like a turtle!"

The army retreated to Jiangzhou, which may not have been thought of by many people in the Chu army.

After Xiang Zhuang heard the report, he was also taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "I thought Han Shizhong would chase after our army like a mad dog, but I didn't expect that he would stop here. Xiang Sheng was defeated by this person. It’s not an injustice to send an order to the whole army, just rest on the warship for a day, after a day, our army will be ready, there will be a fierce battle waiting for us in Jiangzhou City.”

Xiang Sheng said again: "If you let the words out, you can get Han Shizhong's head and give it to the Marquis of Wanhu, and whoever cut off Li Jiancheng's head will be named Marquis of Qianhu.

After hearing this, the soldiers were very curious and asked, "General, then Li Jiancheng is Li Shimin's elder brother, why is he only a Marquis of Qianhu?"

"This is what you don't know." Xiang Zhuang said: "Li Jiancheng may be pulled out alone, and he must have a lot of ability, but in front of Han Shizhong, this person seems very reluctant. Killing Li Jiancheng is just a To kill one member of the Shu royal family, but to kill Han Shizhong is to cut off a pillar of the Shu Kingdom, which is more important, how can you not be clear?"

"I'll wait until I find out." All the soldiers retreated, and after Xiang Zhuang had set up the bright posts and secret posts, he also returned to the cabin, just like in Desheng City, smelling the fishy wind on the river, sinking heavily fall asleep...

In Jiangzhou City, after Xu Shu arrived here, through the team of thousands left by Han Shizhong, he roughly understood what was going on. I have to say that even from the side of the enemy, Xu Shu admired the Chu people's approach. .

Not only is it unique, but it is also poisonous!

"Right now, the general is going to lead the army here to fight Xiangzhuang to the death, so how should we control the situation in Chengdu?" Xu Shu felt a little embarrassed. He was the one who advocated sending troops south to repel Xiangzhuang, but now he encountered such a situation. As for the matter, Xiang Zhuang retreated without a fight, and deliberately faced Han Shizhong's leading army to pursue him. The purpose was already obvious, which was to delay time.

As for whether they are really waiting for the follow-up troops of the Chu army to arrive, it is really hard to say.

Li Jiancheng didn't like Xu Shu's eyes, and when he heard Xu Shu's words, he sneered: "At the beginning, General Han said that he would lead the army to the north and leave a part of the army to garrison in Jiangyang City to resist Chu State. It has already been destroyed, Master Xu now asks General Han like this, isn’t this intentionally making things difficult for General Han?”

Xu Shu said sternly: "One moment, then, if a person's wisdom can account for all the changes, is there still a need to start a war?"

Li Jiancheng snorted, "You're being ridiculous, but I want to ask Mr. Xu, if you're deliberately delaying time, is it to deliberately prevent our army from going to rescue Chengdu?"

This remark is a bit embarrassing.

Xu Shu trembled angrily, and scolded angrily: "Zhuzi, I have worked hard to plan for the Kingdom of Shu, and the king dare not question me like this. You short-sighted man, how dare you slander me?"

(End of this chapter)