What is carried on the ship is all food.

It was food for Chu's 400,000-strong army and must not be destroyed by the Qin army. The general responsible for transporting food hurriedly directed the soldiers to lower the boat and move as much food as possible before the ship sank.

How much can be saved?

If all the grain goes down with the ship, all the people carrying it will die.

However, as soon as they prepared the boat, the warriors in the water immediately appeared, killed the soldiers on the boat, and seized the boat, cutting off all thoughts of the Chu army.

The general who was transporting food said anxiously: "Shoot them first."

The grain transport soldiers quickly took out their crossbows and fired at the Da Qin warriors, but the warriors slashed the boat with a sword, dived into the water, and quickly disappeared.

"shoot!"

Gengwu said again.

Whoosh!

The crossbow arrows of the powerful crossbows were fired out, and the Chu army's crossbowmen who looked out from the side of the ship immediately felled more than a hundred people.

Seeing that the attack was almost complete, Gengwu shouted again: "Everyone go into the water!"

thump!

All the warriors jumped into the water together and swam to the grain ship.

The soldiers transporting food on the ship were in a panic now. Because they had to transport food, most of the ships were filled with food. There were only more than 2,000 soldiers on more than 100 ships. Many of them had been killed by the Qin army in the simple confrontation just now.

They saw so many Qin troops coming, including the generals transporting grain, that they were completely at a loss and in a hurry. Then they heard a "boom" and the first ship began to roll over and was about to sink completely.

The ships behind were not much better.

More and more ships are sinking.

"Jump off the ship and run away!"

The generals who transported the food could be sure that they could not save the food with their own abilities. Even if they deserted, it would be better than being killed by the Qin army.

thump!

The soldiers transporting food followed their generals and jumped off the ship to escape.

Gengwu and others had already swam over, and there were also the first batch of warriors who entered the water. They were prepared in advance to kill the Chu army's grain transport soldiers who were about to flee one by one, so as not to let these people escape.

Gengwu picked up a powerful crossbow and killed the Chu army's grain transport general with one arrow. He then said: "Kill all the others!"

After such a long period of training on the water, the warriors became more and more capable of fighting on the water. After the massacre, the Chu soldiers in the water were unable to stop them. More than two thousand people were quickly killed.

The ships carrying grain sank one after another.

The Chu army's food supply was thus cut off.

"go back!"

Gengwu said loudly.

This batch of food was destroyed by them without anyone noticing. By the time the next batch of food arrived, Xiang Yan would have been defeated.

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A few days later, the Chu army camped.

"The food Xiangcheng sent is only enough for us for another half month."

Xiang Yan looked at the records of grain import and export, frowned and said, "When will the grain from Shouchun be delivered?"

Xiang Rong said: "The king has given an answer and has sent someone to deliver it. However, our scouts have been waiting at the Fenshui River for a long time and cannot see the ships carrying food. Could it be that the king is just perfunctory with us?"

"impossible!"

Xiang Yan shook her head and said.

If the King of Chu was perfunctory and refused to provide food, the lives of 400,000 Chu troops would be given to Baizhong, and no one would be able to defend Shouchun for him.

"Maybe it's just a little slow!"

Xiang Yan could not imagine for the time being that the grain transport ship was destroyed by the Qin army, and said: "We can still persist and continue to wait!"

I waited another seven or eight days.

There is not even any news about the grain transport troops.

They thought that the King of Chu had not sent anyone out yet, so they continued to wait. The King of Chu did not know that the grain ship was destroyed, and they thought that the grain had arrived at the military camp. Neither side knew what happened.

"The king is opposed to fighting Qin, he must be deliberately denying food!"

Xiang Liang was unhappy at first.

The Xiang clan fought for the Chu State.

He felt chilled and unhappy that the King of Chu treated the army here like this. If this was Shouchun, he would have gone directly to the palace to question the King of Chu. Why?

"Something's wrong!"

Xiang Yan walked around for a while and said, "I think something might have happened. Someone is here!"

Several Xiang family generals quickly walked into the tent from outside.

"You arrange a few people to go back to Shouchun as soon as possible and ask the king about the specific time when he will send the grain. Then arrange some people to check it out on the way to transport the grain. I want to know as soon as possible whether the grain has been shipped. What happened to it?

Unable to deliver."

For some reason, Xiang Yan felt very uneasy.

Xiang Rong asked: "Is Aweng worried that the Qin army will take action?"

"Baizhong's methods are endless, so we can't help but worry."

When Xiang Yan said this, he frowned again.

If Bai Zhong would really do that, it would be too late for them to investigate now. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, feeling that something bad would happen soon, so he continued to walk around.

Xiang Rong worried: "If Bai Zhong really robs our food, what should we do next?"

Xiang Yan stopped and thought, and finally said two words: "Retreat!"

If we save some of the current food, we can eat it for more than half a month at most. Once there is no food, how can an army of 400,000 fight?

Even if we save food, if the soldiers don't have enough to eat, they won't have the energy to fight.

Xiang Yan had no other choice but to retreat.

Two more days passed.

Those people who had been arranged to go out finally came back, bringing with them a corpse that was soaked, smelly, and rotten and covered with insects.

"Shangzhu Kingdom, these are the corpses we found from downstream. The clothes belong to our soldiers. There are dozens more of the same corpses, entangled in the water plants on the shore."

The family general continued: "Not far upstream where we found the body, we saw many sunken grain ships under the water, with soaked grain inside."

The results are obvious.

"It's Bai Zhong again!"

Xiang Rong said angrily.

The sunken grain ship must have been built by Baizhong's people.

All their food was sunk under the Fen River. They didn't know what happened until today.

"Looking at the degree of decomposition of the body, it must have been soaked in water for more than ten days."

Xiang Yan sighed in his heart that he was still not as good as Bai Zhong. He suddenly felt like he was more than ten years older and said helplessly: "We can't wait until the next batch of food is delivered. The Qin army will never send the next batch of food.

Pass on my military order to retreat tomorrow and return to Xiangcheng first."

It's really impossible not to retreat.

The two Xiang Rong brothers, no matter how helpless and unwilling they were, had no choice but to follow the order and retreat. The two sides were in a stalemate for almost half a year, and finally this was the outcome.

Xiang Yan added: "What Bai Zhong is waiting for is our retreat. There will definitely be some action. We must prepare in advance. Xiang Rong, you come to break up the rear. Xiang Liang arranges his generals to explore the road ahead to prevent the Qin army from ambushing...

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Chapter completed!