Chapter 93 Night Walk
Daliang City under the moon is peaceful. There is no fighting in the city just at night. At noon, the fire lit up in the North City has also been extinguished. There are no lights in the huge city. The cold moonlight shines on the white houses and open spaces, covering the color of blood. The north wind blows wildly, and the burning smell of fireworks is blown without a trace, and only the fragrance of corn and rice is dispersed in the air.
The Qin army guessed that there would be a night attack tonight, so they were prepared for it. They also guessed that the enemy would attack Daliang by blowing the city gate by gunpowder. The city gate that left the city during the day was not blocked at all, but the violent explosion was still shocking. The smoke of gunpowder had not dissipated, and the panicked crossbow general stood up in a panic and shouted the order to "shoot".
The crossbowmen, whose head was still dizzy and whose hands and feet were so scared that they were weak, were also panicked. The long crossbow arms hit the crossbow frame heavily, making continuous thumping sounds. Arrows shot into the smoke of gunpowder. After shooting, the crossbowmen hurriedly turned on the strings and shot again. When the ambushed Su Fu came to his senses from the explosion, more than fifty powerful crossbows had been shot for several rounds.
‘Boom-!’ The explosion started again, but it was not at the south gate, but the south gate on the east side. It was not good to hear that Su Fu, who was on the south side, was secretly shouting in his heart. The enemy's voices hit the east and west. The real place to enter the city was not here, but the blocked south gate. He didn't know how the soil in the door hole exploded, but he heard the sound of drums mixed with shouts, and the enemy had already attacked Daliang City.
The explosion was heard for dozens of miles, and Xiong Jing on the south bank of Muze also heard these two explosions. Unlike the thick rammed earth city wall, the concrete city wall was very thin, and the blockage in the door tunnel could explode as soon as it exploded. Therefore, the shogunate formulated a plan to hit the east and the west. Hearing the sound of drums from the north, Xiong Jing's heart was finally let go and they entered the city.
"Da Ao..." Xiong Jing was not alone who heard the sound of drums. He was led by a general with armor beside him. Sima, who had been waiting, also heard these sounds. The battle in Daliang City can only be said to be a partial army, which was about to drag the Qin people to Daliang.
Xiong Jing knew what the generals meant. More than a thousand people attacked Daliang at night, and the Chu army would not fail. He nodded and said, "The whole army set off the camp!"
"Da Ao has his life, and the whole army will pull out the camp!" The army's orders were quickly conveyed. After a rest of the afternoon, the knights galloped on the snowfield to disperse the nearby Qin army's cavalry. The divisions, who had already prepared, quickly collected accounts and lined up. Half an hour later, the Xiang Division and the Huainan Division hurried out of the camp. Their queues were like the daytime. Each division marched in four columns, and sixteen formations were walking on the snow, and the ice and snow under their feet were stomping.
In order to arrive at the Shahai as soon as possible, despite the backward baggage, the Chu army still drove the camp north overnight. The actions of the twenty divisions could not be concealed for long. Before Xiang's army had reached ten miles, the urgent report reached the Shahai. Wang Jian, who was worried that the chaos in Daliang City would not be able to break through the southern city in three days, was shocked when he heard the news. He did not expect that his cavalry did not delay the enemy for even a day, and the Chu army was not afraid of chaos and marched at night.
"Can our army attack at night?" Wang Jian asked at the summoned generals. This was a question to everyone, but his eyes finally stopped on Juven. The night attack could only rely on the cavalry, and at least the cavalry would disperse the Chu cavalry on the periphery of the Chu army's marching formation.
Wang Jian looked at Wu Fen, and Wu Fen took a breath of air conditioning and opened his mouth halfway, but he just opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a while. Finally, the shogunate alchemist came forward and bowed and said, "Report to General, this is not true."
"Why not?" The shogunate alchemist prescribes hundreds of medicines to cure golden sores and cure all diseases. Such people should be respected, but Wang Jian was a little annoyed and excited and did not answer immediately, and the retort was loud.
"Report to the general, our soldiers are blind and blind. You cannot see things at night, and you cannot attack at night." The alchemist is very clear about the physical condition of the Qin soldiers. The physical condition of the Qin soldiers is stronger than that of the six countries, but over the years, the number of strong soldiers has decreased and fewer and fewer soldiers have been strong in recent years. In recent years, there have been a huge famine. There are fewer truly strong soldiers. The soldiers are weak and diseases are endless, and the blind soldiers are one of them.
As the generals went on, Wang Jian knew that the bird was blind and could not see things at night. During normal times, many soldiers were blind, and at this time, there were even more. Even among the 140,000 people who fled back in Shashui, many soldiers suffered from this disease. But he still did not want to give up and asked directly: "How many people are blind in the birds who ride on the stroke?"
"Report to the general, there are many people who are blind in the cavalry." A alchemist rescued the siege, and Wu Fen breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to attack at night because someone in the army was blind, but because the cavalry was newly defeated today and the unprepared attack on the Chu army at night would definitely not be very good.
"The cavalry will attack the Jing people's supplies tomorrow, and cut off the Jing people's food route. We will not attack them at night tonight." Liu Chi knew Wang Jian's intentions, but many of the soldiers in the army were indeed blind. It was okay for the hunters and herdsmen to be killed by the cavalry and the hunters and herdsmen to be killed by the cavalry often eat meat. The cavalry of the county and county can only guarantee the consumption of millet in recent years, and meat cannot be guaranteed.
The alchemist and the general of the cavalry all opposed the night attack. Wang Jian had to wave his hand to give up, but he still said unwillingly: "Why are the Jing people not blind? The Jing people can eat meat on weekdays?"
Wang Jian asked the Jing people with complaints, and the generals and advisers dared not answer this question at all. Those who knew did not dare to praise the enemy, and those who didn't know did not dare to guess. The Chu army did eat meat every day, and these meat was mainly fish and poultry, and then beef and horse meat. The fish was because the Chu State had fishing boats, and fished in large quantities every year during the fishing flood season; the poultry was no longer hatched naturally, but was artificially heated and hatched;
The beef and horse meat were seized on the battlefield. In the battle of sand and water, three or four thousand horse corpses were left behind. In addition, there were tens of thousands of horse corpses and cow corpses left on the entire battlefield. These meats were made into cans and supplied to the various divisions of the Chu army. But this is not the ultimate reason why the Chu army was not worried about the blindness of the birds. The key is that the Chu army added carrots to the Chu meal, which was brought by Age Valla from his hometown to Chu State.
The Chu army did not fully understand the health of the Qin army soldiers. The Qin army soldiers rarely surrendered because they were afraid of the end of the Zhao army in Changping. The health level of the small number of Qin army soldiers who surrendered was very unstable, but in general, the physical fitness of the Qin soldiers in the early stage was higher than that of the Chu army, but not in the later stage. Many of the Qin soldiers captured in the later stage were not as good as the Lu army. They were tall, but thin, and their lung capacity was about 3,300, and more than one-third were lower than the standard for joining the Chu army.
It was so dark under the lamp, including the Grand Sima Mansion and the shogunate strategists, the Chu army did not realize that the Qin army, which was previously stronger than itself, had already lagged behind it in terms of physique, armor, training, etc. The result of the Battle of Daze made the Chu people vaguely think that the Qin army was still stronger than it. The 600,000 army was pressing on everyone's hearts like a mountain, and the closer it was to the chasm, the heavier it became.
The Chu army set up camp, lined up, waited, and set up camp. They marched from the second spring. In the second half of the night, the Chu army rushed to the south bank of Honggou to establish a camp. Taking advantage of these four hours, the Qin army camps on the south bank of Honggou and the buoyant bridge on Honggou were all withdrawn from the north bank of Honggou. The ice was three inches thick, and the boat troops under Tian Pu could no longer enter the Chize, but the river flowing in Honggou did not freeze three inches of ice. Even if it was frozen, the warships and Qin soldiers would find ways to smash the ice.
When the Chu army advanced to the south bank of Honggou, the silhouettes of the Qin army's five-oared warships were all on the Honggou. Behind these warships was the rammed earth wall on the north bank. Gunpowder was in hand, and no city wall could withstand the explosion. Just to blow up this city wall, you must first cross the gulf. If you want to cross the gulf, you must drive the warships on the water surface several miles wide.
This is not a difficult task. When the Chu army established a camp, the artillery guards had already set up a building in the selected place. Once the artillery guards were built, the artillery guards began to fire their cannons. At this time, the curtain of the shogunate had just been set up. The rumbling sound of cannons in the middle of the night not only did not panic, but instead calmed the soldiers of the entire army. Behind the curtains, the barracks quickly became quiet. Except for the generals and soldiers on duty, the rest of the generals were all asleep.
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As soon as the night fell, two loud noises came from the North City, followed by chaotic drums and fighting sounds. Wei Zeng, the King of Wei who had not been sleeping in the south city of Daliang, was immediately excited when he heard these two loud noises. This was the Chu army coming! He immediately summoned the veteran Jin Zhu to ask him to send troops to respond. To this day, Wei State not only has no soldiers to fight, but also no generals to fight. Fortunately, Jin Zhu did not advance rashly. After investigation, he found that the drums and fighting in the North City were not fierce. This was not the Chu army entering the city, but a small group of troops attacked the city at night. He refused to send troops.
Jin Zhu was a general of the Wei army. He could not say that he could not send troops to Wei Zeng, and he had no choice. He sat in his bedroom for several hours. The sound of fighting in the northern city became less and less. When Wei Zeng, Xiangbang Cai Wen and others were almost asleep, the sound of cannons came from the west.
"Sand Sea! The Chu army is attacking and pulling out the sand Sea!" Wei Zeng jumped up quickly. His lower skirt was very long. He almost fell down when he stepped on the corner of his lower skirt.
"It's indeed a sea of sand!" The sound of cannons continued, and Cai Wen also heard that the sound of cannons came from the west.
Jin Zhu was a general, and the general's sense of direction was naturally much better than that of civil officials. When the cannon sounded again, he said: "It is not a sea of sand, but a gap."
The sand sea is northwest of Daliang, and the Great Groove is west of Daliang. The sound of cannons is roaring. It is difficult to distinguish when you are excited. However, if you calm down and listen carefully, you can still find the difference between the two. The sound of cannons does come from the Great Groove in the west. Because of insufficient troops, the outer city wall was occupied by the Qin army, and only the royal city and many areas are left in the hands of the Wei army. The Wei army cannot see the situation outside the city.
Jin Zhu, who recalled the Honggou, quickly guessed why the cannon sounded in the direction of Honggou. "The Qin people attacked our Daliang, while the Chu army took the opportunity to attack the sand sea. However, the ice surface was not thick, and the seal was opened to the west of Fengze. Therefore, the Qin people blocked the Chu army on the north bank of Honggou."
"What about it?" Wei Zeng grabbed Jin Zhu's arm, and the Qin army continued to fight, but the Wei army could not last long.
"The Chu army will definitely break Qinlei, however," Jin Zhu was very sure, but he was stunned when he said this, his thick eyebrows were frowning together.
"How?" Whether it is Wei Zeng, Cai Wen, or the ministers of Wei in Mingtang, they all looked at Jin Zhu.
Chapter completed!