Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 161 The Name of the Veteran
The situation that worried Xiang Yan the most finally happened. Before the Qin army attacked, the Chu army's camp was "broken" by his own people.

Although when the Chu army reached the camp, reaching a certain number would inevitably lead to a qualitative change, but Gongziqing's actions undoubtedly played the role of a catalyst and accelerated the process.

"The general has an order to abandon the camp and cross the river!"

At this time, dozens of cavalry guards rushed out from Xiang Yan's big tent in the center of the camp, scattered and ran towards the surroundings of the camp, and issued Xiang Yan's latest military order while running.

Making the decision to retreat without a fight was actually a last resort for Xiang Yan. He made people die, and originally planned to fight to the death, inspiring the blood of the soldiers, so as to give the Qin army a go.

This is not a good strategy when the enemy is strong and we are weak. Later Xiang Yan's grandson Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, used this strategy to defeat Qin General Zhang Han's army.

However, he never thought that the commander-in-chief of the Qin army would be so "shameless" and drive more than 20 hungry Chu troops to be vanguards.

The line of defense that I carefully built was wiped out by my own people before the Qin army attacked.

The Chu army who had fled from the front line without any recuperation, many of them had even discarded their armor and weapons on the road in order to reduce the weight of the escape.

Moreover, these people are as afraid of the Qin army as they are of the gods and demons who kill without blinking an eye, and they don't have the courage to face Qin's tiger and wolf division at all.

Even if these frightened Chu troops meet the Qin army again on the battlefield in the future, this war will become a shadow in their hearts.

And these people's fear of the Qin army sent a very bad message to the Chu army in their camp. There were more than 40 Chu troops on the front line who were vulnerable to the Qin army, but now there are only 20 on their own side. Even with the addition of these defeated troops who have no combat power in a short period of time, there are only more than [-]. Can the Qin army be stopped?

Moreover, after the camp was dispersed, one's own side could be said to be defenseless.

If you were to fight against the Qin army at this time, the defeated Chu army would be basically negligible, and your original 20 subordinates would not only be swarmed into the ground by the defeated army, but also the whole army would be filled with a strong sense of sadness. Cowardly before fighting.

Xiang Yan believed that if he fought forcefully, there would be no other possibility for the outcome of the battle other than the complete annihilation of the Chu army.

The soldiers of the whole country are lost in one battle.Then Chu State really has no hope.

At this time, retreating before the large-scale handover of the two armies, it may be possible to leave a little fire and a glimmer of hope for Chu.

The original boats on the Suishui River had already been pierced under Xiang Yan's order.Under Xiang Yan's order, the soldiers of the Chu army jumped into the Sui water one by one like dumplings.

Although the winter in the 24th year of Qin Wangzheng was not too cold, the Suishui in the early spring was still bitingly cold.

Even if the Chu people are good at water, it is difficult to adapt for a while.Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Chu troops swarmed into the water, and it was difficult to hit the water even with their hands in the densely populated places. How could they care about the comfort of their fellow soldiers at a critical moment of life and death.

Many soldiers of the Chu army were pushed into the water by their colleagues behind them just because they got in the way.

The Chu people who are familiar with water, even if they are caught off guard and pushed into the water, can persist for a while underwater. In order to get back to the water, they naturally have something to grab, grab someone's leg and go upstream.

There was sudden chaos on the Suishui.

And the Qin army, which was only following the defeated army, had already reached the vicinity of the original Chu camp.

With a loud drum, the 60 Qin army began to massacre the Chu army still on the shore.

As a result, the Chu army still on the shore was in a panic, and there were many casualties under trampling each other.

And many Chu soldiers who fled all the way from the front line of Pingyu jumped into Sui Shui and failed to swim a few times before being taken away by the rolling Sui Shui.

They were extremely exhausted and had no strength to support them to swim through the bitterly cold Sui water.

"Command the crossbowmen to line up on the shore and shoot them!"

When Wang Jian gave an order, tens of thousands of crossbowmen lined up on the bank, and the arrows fell into the Sui River one by one like a rain of arrows.

At this time, the Chu army was densely packed in the water like dumplings squeezed together in a soup pot.

Every time the rain of arrows falls, a large number of Chu soldiers will be killed.

Sui Shui immediately turned red.

While the rest of the Qin army was constantly chasing and killing, the soldiers of the Chu army who fled in all directions, and the Chu army who had no fighting intention on the shore were also harvested piece by piece.

The killing continued until the evening, when there was no longer any standing Chu army on the shore, the red-eyed Qin soldiers slowly lowered their blood-drenched weapons.

Streams of blood merged into small streams and flowed into Sui Shui, completely dyeing the river for more than ten miles in blood red.

No matter on the shore, there were no less than [-] Chu soldiers who died in the Sui River alone. The corpses of tens of thousands of Jingchu soldiers flowed down the Sui River into the Huai River, or flowed into the sea or were stranded on the shore. .

The last touch of the setting sun on the horizon, red and dazzling, like a bath of blood.

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After the battle of Suishui, the Qin army divided into two groups, one led by Meng Wu and Li Xin to sweep the area north of the Huaihe River in Chu State, and pursue Xiang Yan's remnant army.While Wang Jian and Ziying were in command of the main force, they turned to the southern army and pointed at Shouchun, the capital of Chu.

In March of the 24th year of Qin Wangzheng, the Qin army crossed the Huai River to encircle Shouchun, and the king of Chu conscripted all the men who were taller than the wheels in the city to guard the capital.

At this time, the only generals available in the city are the Changping Lord Xiong Qi mentioned by Qian Qi and Lian Po, the former general of Zhao State who is eighty-five.

The king of Chu was in charge, and he had originally appointed Xiong Qiwei, who was born in the royal family, to guard the capital of Chu. However, when the order of the king of Chu arrived at Xiong Qi's residence, the building was already empty.

In desperation, the King of Chu had no choice but to appoint the veteran Lian Po as the General of Chu to defend Shouchun. After receiving the Wang Ling, Lian Po put on his clothes again without saying a word, and took on the important task of defending the capital of Chu.

This is not the first time that Lian Po has been ordered in such a critical situation. The first time was more than 20 years ago. Yan Guo took advantage of the emptiness of Zhao Guo after the Battle of Changping and sent 50 troops to attack Zhao. This time it was Lian Po who led the attack. Leading one hundred thousand soldiers of Zhao State, the few defeated the many, and the weak defeated the strong. They not only wiped out the invading enemy, but also directly killed the capital of Yan State.

During Lian Po's life, he served successively as General of Zhao State and General of Chu State, which is rare in the world.

However, this time the situation is more severe than last time.

The last time Lian Po was less than 60 years old, but now he is an 85-year-old octogenarian. Although he has re-dressed, he is no longer suitable for war horses.

Moreover, Lian Po may be the most shabby general in the history of Chu State. Although the king of Chu allocated all the palace guards to him after he took office, Lian Po also immediately ordered all the slaves of the wealthy families in the city to be sent to the army. , the strength of his men is only 3 people.

(End of this chapter)