Chapter 1786 Zulong (Part 1)


    Chapter 1784: Zulong (Part 1)


    "Lord, the last one is incompetent."


    The three generals Chongheihu bowed their heads together to apologize.


    Seeing this, Liu Xiu sighed and helped the three of them up one by one, comforting him, "It''s not your fault. Meng Gong made full preparations in advance. The Jiangling defenders were only tens of thousands, but they distributed 1,500 defenders to guard against you three. You have also shared a lot of pressure for our army to attack the city."


    Hearing Liu Xiu''s words, the three generals'' expressions improved a lot, but Chong Heihu still looked unwilling.


    "Lord, let''s attack the city tonight. Once it''s too late, your vision will be blocked. Even if the night attack is discovered by the Qin army, the crossbowman will definitely not be able to shoot so accurately. He will definitely be able to climb the city tower at the end of the day." Chong Heihu said confidently.


    Liu Xiu''s eyes lit up, and he smiled and said, "You can give it a try."


    After saying that, Liu Xiu decisively ordered the siege to stop the siege and the entire army withdrew the camp. After all, if it continues to attack, it is a struggle to consume it. Chu''s foundation is far inferior to Qin''s, and it cannot consume all its precious troops on the siege.


    Late at night that day, Liu Xiu led more than 10,000 troops, as well as generals such as Chongheihu, Wei Wentong, etc., to prepare to launch a night attack on Jiangling City.


    Looking at the sparsely lit Jiangling City Tower, Liu Xiu couldn''t help but think in his heart that he was calm, but he had just ordered an attack when suddenly countless torches lit up on the Jiangling City Tower, illuminating the entire city gate in the night sky as if it was daytime. Then the rain of arrows shot down from the city tower, shooting a large number of Chu soldiers to death.


    "Haha, Liu Xiu, do you really think you wouldn''t have come to the night attack?"


    Meng Gong appeared on the city tower and shouted to the city: "If you want to capture Jiangling, you can come and try it out, see if your Chu army has a large number of people or my Qin army has a large number of arrows."


    Liu Xiu, who had always been calm, had a rare look of anger in his eyes. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "Meng Gong, please wait for me."


    After saying that, Liu Xiu turned his head and said to the left and right, " Withdraw the troops and return to the camp."


    Chong Heihu said with confusion: "Lord, will you stop fighting?"


    "You still have a fart, and use the flesh and blood of our soldiers to consume the Qin army''s bows and arrows?" Liu Xiu said angrily.


    "Uh, this..." Chong Heihu was speechless.


    The Chu army came with excitement but returned in disappointment. I thought that night attacks could make contributions, but I didn''t expect that Meng Gong was so considerate and prepared for the night battle.


    Liu Xiu didn''t want to fight with the Qin army, so he had to retreat first and then discuss it carefully.


    Seeing that the Chu army retreated, Meng Gong breathed a sigh of relief. Even though he prepared a large number of tinder oil and torches, illuminating the night like daytime, but the night was still in black after all, and the crossbowman''s accurate head could not be comparable to that of the daytime, so he still didn''t want to fight the Chu army at night. Fortunately, the Chu army also did not want to fight the attrition war and retreated voluntarily.


    "I''m persisting for a while. As long as the governor comes back, the dangers in Jiangling will be resolved." Meng Gong murmured to himself.


    Meng Gong knew that with his three thousand defenders, five thousand new soldiers, and two thousand remaining troops, it was too difficult to protect Jiangling under the offensive of 50,000 Chu troops, and the only possibility of delaying the time to withdraw the main force of Yiling.


    So, at the beginning, Meng Gong''s main strategy was to delay time. If Liu Xiu''s envoy had not been shot to death by Han Shizhong, he would have even planned to make a fraudulent surrender plan.


    On the other hand, after Liu Xiu withdrew his troops, he immediately summoned all the generals to discuss how to seize the generals. But when facing the impeccable Meng Gong, he couldn''t even think of any good ideas. What other generals could have?


    "Report... Report to the lord, General Wei Zhang is back."


    Wei Zhang Wei Zhang, a general of Qin during the Warring States Period. In 312 BC, he had outstanding achievements such as defeating the Chu army, capturing its general Qu Yi, beheading 80,000, and seizing the land of Hanzhong.


    Wei Zhang was a general who was born by Shang Yang. His identity was the fallen Wei Yan tribe, so he naturally came to Liu Xiu''s command.


    The biggest feature of generals during the Warring States Period was balanced ability. After all, they could make a name for themselves in the chaotic era of the Warring States Period, and they must be excellent in all aspects, so the fifth dimension would not have too many shortcomings, and Wei Zhang was naturally the same.


    Wei Zhang, who has a balanced abilities in all aspects, is undoubtedly a useful talent in Liu Xiu''s eyes. Liu Xiu attaches great importance to Wei Zhang, so he handed over the task of intercepting Qin army reinforcements to him.


    Before the three armies of Chu State gathered in Jiangling, Wei Zhang had already led the seven thousand troops north to intercept and defeat the Qin army coming to Xiangyang to aid.


    In Xiangyang, Qin Zheng''s reaction speed was no slower than Liu Xiu.


    The Chu army had just landed in Nanjun, and before Qin Qiong''s order to send reinforcements was transmitted back to Xiangyang, Qin Zheng had already sent reinforcements to support Jiangling.


    Qin Zheng knew that Jiangling had too few defenders and could not stop the 50,000 Chu troops for too long, so Qin Qiong''s orders had not been sent, so he ordered Zhang Xian and Wang Gui to lead three thousand veterans and seven thousand new soldiers, a total of 10,000 troops to support Jiangling Meng Gong.


    What Qin Zheng didn''t expect was that Liu Xiu had long guessed that the Qin army in Xiangyang would send reinforcements to support the Chu army before the Chu army arrived in Jiangling, so he sent Wei Zhang to lead 7,000 troops to intercept him in advance.


    Wei Zhang''s mission was originally just to intercept Qin army reinforcements, but on the way, he found that an area was very suitable for setting up an ambush, so he set up a burial halfway and personally led three thousand troops to lure the enemy.


    Wei Zhang cleverly used a trick of deception to defeat, which made Wang Gui, the chief general of the former army lose his mind and directly led the front army to pursue him. As a result, he fell into the ambush of the Chu army without any care.


    In the end, Wang Gui was killed by Wei Zhang himself, and all four thousand front-line troops were wiped out, including a thousand precious veterans.


    When Zhang Xian learned that Wang Gui had left the army and went to pursue him, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and he was indeed ambushed.


    Zhang Xian originally wanted to rescue Wang Gui''s front army, but after he led the army, the front army was wiped out and Wang Gui had already died in battle.


    Zhang Xian wanted to defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop when the Chu army had just ended the war and was exhausted. However, the new and old soldiers under his command were mixed together, with too many new recruits and the entire army was too weak to fight. In the end, he was defeated by Wei Zhang''s exhausted army.


    Realizing that the new army''s combat power was too weak, even if the Chu army was already a tired army, it was still no match for it, so Zhang Xian decisively ordered a retreat in the direction of Xiangyang.


    Wei Zhang beheaded Wang Gui, defeated Zhang Xian, and won consecutive victories in two battles. The morale of the Chu army also increased greatly. After a little revision, he came to chase Zhang Xian.


    Wei Zhang chased for dozens of miles, and Zhang Xian was suffering. If Qin Zheng had not personally led the army to rescue, Zhang Xian''s army would probably not have been able to return to Xiangyang.


    The Chu army chased the Qin army for dozens of miles, and consumed a lot of physical strength, so naturally it was no match for the main force of the Qin army who was waiting for it.


    In the end, Wei Zhang was defeated by Qin Zheng’s main force of the 3,000 Qin army, and more than 2,000 casualties were suffered by the 6,000 troops. The Qin and Chu army were both defeated and injured.


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