Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 9 National Destruction (Part 2)

The wolf smoke finally rose outside Xinying City. The huge Qin army divided the brigade into countless squads, rushing over and attacking Xinying day and night. Originally, the Chu army swarmed into the city when they saw the Qin army coming, and was on guard together, but they couldn't resist the Qin army's constant struggle day and night, and they couldn't stand it in just two days. They were dragged to a pale face and thin skin, and were dying.

Under the cruel lesson, Jing Qi finally understood the intention of the Qin army to get tired of the enemy. He immediately divided more than 100,000 remaining troops into three shifts and overturned the guards, but this made him startled several days and couldn't rest day and night.

Even if the army is like this, the people and powerful people in Xinying City can't stand it even more: Xinying City has not heard of war for decades, and people are used to enjoying themselves. Now that the Qin army is overwhelming, everyone is scared to death! Don't talk about assisting the defenders to resist, even if they close their doors and stay at home all day long, they are scared by the Qin army's constant shouts of killing day and night, and are in panic all day long! In particular, the cunning Fusu kept shooting some letters of persuasion, temptation, and intimidation into the city, which made the people in the city not only dare not help the Chu army defending the enemy, but also gradually grow up the desire to surrender. Therefore, in just six or seven days, the Qin army had not yet truly begun to attack the city, and the people in Xinying were already in chaos!

...

"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong..." The grand sound of war drums quickly spread in the early morning air, and huge blacks quickly appeared outside the originally empty Xinying City: The Qin army is coming!

The prelude of the cat-playing cat-like mouse ends here, and Xinying City has ushered in a real test!

"Dangdangdang..." The alarm bell at the head of Xinying City quickly rang, sending out the most urgent enemy signal!

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Damn, hurry!" A large number of Chu soldiers quickly climbed the city and prepared to take on the battle!

Jing Qi stood above the north gate and looked into the distance: a huge black line appeared in the distant sky first, and gradually the black line turned black, covering the distant earth like the dark night. The murderous aura and the strong murderous aura quickly rose into the air, seizing the light of the sky and the earth, and firmly covering Xinying City!

"Bump..." The Qin army's neat and powerful footsteps slammed into the hearts of the Chu army like a heavy hammer. The Chu army's faces changed, which was a kind of horror and shock at the powerful force!

When the Qin army vanguard arrived at Xinying City five hundred steps, the brigade stopped. Jing Qi clearly saw hundreds of huge siege equipment lying quietly behind the Qin army formation, many of which were strange, which Jing Qi had never seen in his life, and he couldn't help but feel worried!

At this moment, the Qin army began a routine operation. "Do not surrender to the Chu people! Do not surrender to the Chu people!..." The Qin army slammed the ground with its halberds and made a huge shout. The shouts rolled in, and the Chu people's ears roared like a mountain collapse and the ground cracked, and the horror on their faces became even stronger!

Silence, astonishing silence, the Chu people at Xinying City responded to the Qin people's persuasion to surrender with silence!

The Qin army waited for a while, and saw that the Chu people were not moving at all, as if they were angry by the rudeness of the Chu people. Suddenly, there was a wave of war drums and thunder behind the Qin army. Tens of thousands of Qin crossbowmen came out and walked towards Xinying City in neat steps.

"Touch! Touch! Touch!..." The powerful steps declared the strong will and determination of the Qin people!

"Five hundred steps!" Chu Jun looked at his hands and shouted hard!

"Four hundred steps!" The voice trembled even more!

"Three Hundred Steps!" The voice was already a little hoarse!

At this moment, Jing Qi waved his hand: "Click the crossbow machine!" As soon as he finished speaking, a sour sound of spring sounded from the head of Xinying City, followed by a "swoosh" sound of thunder like a continuous bead. Then a cold light rose into the air, and he rushed towards the gradually approaching Qin army crossbowmen group!

"Pu Pu Pu..." The Qin army crossbow suddenly felt aroused from the sound of monster blood flowers, and the bloody aura quickly drifted with the wind, filling the sky.

A famous Qin army fell down, but the robes behind him turned a blind eye and immediately came forward to the bench, and ignored the crazy crossbows of the Chu army, turning a blind eye to them!

"Two hundred and fifty steps! Stop the formation, lift the crossbow, and prepare to launch!" The strong formation stopped instantly, and teams of Qin soldiers aimed the crossbow machine in their hands at the sky!

"Let me!" As a Qin army commander shouted vigorously, "Chi Chi Chi Chi..." Tens of thousands of arrows jumped up from the sky above the military formation, making a huge strange scream, shocking people's eardrums, and pounced towards the head of Xinying City like a group of black locusts!

"Snatch..." The huge Xinying city was instantly plowed hard by the dense arrow rain of the Qin army, and followed by poignant blood flowers and heart-wrenching screams!

"High wind! High wind! High wind! High wind!..." Seeing the crossbowmen showing their might, the soldiers in the Qin army's rear formation paused and shouted loudly! The huge shouts shook the world and guided the Qin people's blood that had already boiled to the extreme, and the Qin people were jealous!

The sound helped the army's power. Once the Qin army's three-section serial crossbow formation was launched, the huge power could not be stopped: wave after wave of huge arrow curtains rose up over the crossbowman group, covering the entire sky, making huge strange screams, and plowing the city of Xinying over and over again!

In recent years, the Chu people, who had little experience in fighting with the Qin army, immediately suffered major casualties. The embarrassing Chu soldiers barely fought back for several rounds, but were suppressed so much that they did not dare to raise their heads. They hid like a group of turtles in the battlements and shields, trembling!

It is unquestionable that the routine arrow cover of the Qin army before every attack on the city is not only a huge effect of siegeing the enemy, but also a huge power of a large number of effective forces to kill and damage the enemy!

"High wind! High wind! High wind! High wind!..." The cheers of the Qin people became louder and louder!

"Swoosh swish swish swish..." The last round of arrow rain rose from the sky above the Qin army's crossbowmen group, sprinkling another handful of salt on the wound on the head of Xinying City!

"Collapse the crossbow! Retreat!" With the shout of the Qin army commander, the Qin army crossbowmen put away their crossbows, endured the huge soreness of their arms, and quickly retreated to the formation. It was time for the Qin army infantry to perform!

Amid the powerful footsteps of the Qin army crossbowmen, the head of Xinying was silent. For a moment, only the sound of flames burning wood and the sound of blood falling on the ground were heard, but it was so quiet that there was almost no breath of life!

Indeed, under the powerful coverage of the Qin army's 400,000 to 500,000 arrow rains, the Chu people were killed and injured. Even the soldiers who were fortunate to survive were deeply shocked by the Qin army's terrifying attack power, and were in a huge horror for a while!

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong..." A new round of war drums under Xinying City sounded, and this time the war drums were even more rapid and violent: Yes, this is the Qin army's siege drum!

With the sound of drums, hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers around Xinying pushed countless siege equipment swept across the ground like a black tide. The huge shouts were as frightening as a mountain torrent! Under the sunlight, the blue cold light covered the sky and exuded a sharp breath of death!

"Dangdangdang..." The alarm bell that had been silent for a long time at Xinying City finally rang again. The Chu people, who were shot by the Qin army's arrow rain, finally stood up one after another. However, the Chu people seemed much lonely. About 30% of the Chu soldiers were either shot to the ground or fell to the ground in pain and kept moaning. The Chu people paid a huge price in this round of arrow rain!

Jing Qi also looked up under the escort of his personal soldiers. Seeing the Qin army's huge siege, he couldn't help but be stunned. He immediately shouted: "Prepare to roll wood, beat stones, boiling oil, boiling water, crossbowmen prepare to be prepared, listen to my order to launch!"

The Chu army was in a hurry and the messy defensive formations, which were shot by arrows, were immediately reorganized and prepared to take on the battle!

At this moment, another huge strange sound suddenly came from the sky. The Chu army had never heard of such a strange sound before, and couldn't help but look up together!

In the far sky, a group of black dots roared and rolled in, making a huge roar! Quickly, the black dots turned into black shadows, and rushed straight to the top of Xinying City with a thunderous momentum!

"Hide and hide--!" The clever Chu people yelled hard. As soon as they finished speaking, countless huge rocks raided in the air. The loud noise of "rumbling..." was constantly ringing, and the ear drums were filled with the miserable howls of the Chu soldiers, and blood mist rose into the air; wood chips flew around on the top of the city, stones flew across, and the huge city wall trembled like a swaying shaking!

Immediately afterwards, a new round of attacks arrived in the air. This time, a group of huge red balls. "Bump..." When the huge balls fell one by one on the head of Xinying City, splashed all over the sky. As the turbulent oil passed, a raging fire immediately rolled up on the city head, igniting countless Chu people's guarding equipment, gate towers, and arrows! "Ah——!" Countless Chu soldiers screamed and rushed out of the fire, and their bodies were already burning like a burning torch!

Therefore, before the Chu army could make any effective attacks on the Qin army, the head of Xinying City had been swept across the city like a sudden wind by the Qin army's huge and advanced siege weapons! The Chu people were successively attacked by the Qin army's new tactics and weapons, and their combat power dropped sharply, with casualties and tragic deaths!

As the saying goes, take your life while you are sick! The Qin army saw a sea of ​​fire at the head of Xinying City, and the Chu army was in a hurry. They were overjoyed and rushed up like a crowd of peaks. Countless bridges and cars turned the wide moat into trenches, and cloud cars like rain, and ladders mounted on the top of the city. Immediately afterwards, countless Qin army accompanied them like black ants and attacked the top of Xinying City!

In the fierce fire, Jing Qi stood up and shouted loudly: "Show the arrows! Smash me, don't let the Qin army climb to the top of the city!" The surviving Chu army tried its best, flying arrows like rain, shooting the Qin army attached to the ants one by one; then rolling wood, rocks, gray bottles, and cannons fell like rain. The Chu people didn't even need to aim. As long as they caught some guy and smashed it under the city wall, they would definitely gain, because there were too many Qin troops under the city wall!

The swords and swords at the head of Xinying City were instantly lit and slashing, corpses and blood, and the behemothing beacons were clearly heard for dozens of miles away. The soldiers of the Qin and Chu army sacrificed their lives and fought hard to fight, all fighting for the interests of the country!

………

The sun gradually sets westward, and the golden sunset begins to shine on the earth, placing a layer of gold on everything on the earth.

Finally, with the sound of a golden dou, the Qin army who had been playing in the mountains and fields retreated. After beating Xinying City for a whole day, they took away the bodies of their companions, leaving behind countless siege equipment! And they also left a prominent commemorative symbol for the Xinying City Wall: broken battlements, broken walls like city towers, and walls everywhere in the huge pits! The huge and solid Xinying City changed color and appearance in one day!

On this day, the Qin army almost created a wonderful achievement in the history of world siege: in large-scale siege battles, they were on the offensive side, relying on advanced tactics and weapons, and the number of casualties was actually less than that of the Chu army in a defensive position. This huge success made the Qin army's retreating pace become cheerful and powerful!

On a hill in the distance, Fusu and Wang Jian and other Qin generals watched the battle situation all day and couldn't help but be satisfied with today's achievements. Fusu smiled and said to Wang Jian: "Elder General, today's battle will probably consume 40 to 50% of the Chu army's combat power, which is far beyond our army's expectations! If this continues, it will probably take one month or half a month to capture Xinying!"

Wang Jian nodded and said, "I didn't expect that the siege of the Lord was so effective in siege. It seems that Xinying is the item in my Qin State! By the way, General Meng, how is Xiang Yan's troops in Huai Shang?" Meng Wu replied, "Xiang Yan is recruiting soldiers, and a new recruit of 50,000 or 70,000 people have gathered, and is under urgent training!"

Wang Jian shook his head when he heard this and said with a smile: "Sharpening spears at the time of battle is a taboo for military strategists! Even if Xiang Yan has wings soaring into the sky at this time, he may not be able to fly out of the end of Chu Fei!" The generals laughed when they heard this!

*******

In the next half month, the Qin and Chu armies fought fiercely day and night, and the city of Xinying was like a hell on earth. Every day, tens of thousands of soldiers of the two armies were stained with blood and sacrificed their lives for the country!

At the same time, under the cover of the Qin army's tide offensive, the Qin army's tunnel operations were also going on like tea! On this day, Jing Qi, who was fighting fiercely with the Qin army, heard the news that the moat water suddenly dried up, and it was unknown why! Jing Qi, who had rich combat experience, immediately judged that the Qin army was digging tunnels on a large scale! He immediately buried hundreds of large urns under the Xinying city wall to listen to its sound. In one day and night, Jing Qi broke through more than ten tunnels of the Qin army, and more than a thousand casualties of the Qin army, and the tunnel offensive gradually slowed down!

However, after Fusu ordered the Yangtze River to be poured into the abandoned tunnels, the originally soft foundation of Xinying City was greatly damaged. The huge city body gradually cracked under the joint attack of natural downward force and Qin army catapults and chariots, and gradually collapsed! Although Jing Qi had a strategy, he could only do nothing at this time!

In mid-June 224 BC, half a month after the Qin army besieged Xinying, Xinying Xicheng was the first to fail and collapsed three places. A large group of Qin troops rushed into Xinying like a flood. Jing Qi led the remaining troops to resist ineffectively and died in battle. King Fu Chu of Chu was captured by the Qin army, and the Chu State was declared to be destroyed!

When she heard that the capital fell, Xiang Yan looked west on the Huai River and cried bitterly for three days, his eyes dripped blood, and he fainted several times. He was persuaded by the generals to stop! Soon, Xiang Yan supported the younger brother of the Prince Changping of Chu on the Huai River as the King of Xinchangping, and sent an edict to the old land of Chu and continue to fight against Qin by the new king!
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next