Chapter 339 Soldiers approaching the city
In the horrified eyes of the Wu soldiers, the black and red Qin war flag slowly appeared in everyone's eyes.
Han Xin, with his 50,000 troops who were the first to log in, finally arrived before the Wu soldiers fled the water stronghold in large numbers.
These Wu soldiers looked desperately at the approaching Qin army, trying to escape before the Qin army blocked the gate of the village.
But Yuan Rong's cavalry was unwilling to let them leave.
These Yuan Rong cavalry and archers gave full play to their high mobility and blocked the soldiers of Wu State who were about to flee.
"wind!"
"wind!"
"Gale!"
The soldiers of Qin State shouted and lined up neatly, approaching the water stronghold of Wu State.
The Qin army was led by heavily shielded and armored soldiers. They only had a huge iron shield in their hands that was as tall as a person.
Behind them is a row of soldiers holding three-meter-long spears.
The Qin army pressed forward towards the water stronghold of Wu State in a semi-arc shape.
The Qin army successfully blocked all the Wu soldiers in the water stronghold.
On the lake, Qin's warships were still throwing kerosene.
Qin's soldiers were not willing to attack at this time.
They wanted to wait for the Wu soldiers to be defeated or surrender.
The scorching heat made these Wu soldiers covered in sweat.
Some Wu soldiers who were close to the source of the fire could already smell the burnt smell on their bodies.
"Brothers, everyone on the left and right is dead! Why don't we rush out and kill these Qin troops!" A scout from Wu State shouted loudly.
The Wu soldiers behind him responded in succession.
However, it is impossible for these Wu soldiers who have no morale and no organization to defeat the Qin army with just a desire to survive.
As soon as they rushed out of the camp, Qin's arrows rained down from the sky one after another.
How can these Wu soldiers, who are not even equipped with weapons, resist Qin's arrows?
Many soldiers of Wu State were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
But Qin's arrows are still falling continuously.
There was no way that Wu's soldiers could cross the distance of less than 200 steps.
Han Xin was riding on horseback, looking at the Wu soldiers who were constantly hit by arrows. He said slowly, "Tell the soldiers that they can surrender."
After receiving the order, the Qin soldiers began to shout loudly, "Whoever surrenders will be spared death!"
The soldiers of the Wu Kingdom, who had lost all morale for a long time, dropped their weapons one after another.
But there were also some die-hard loyalists of the Wu State who were unwilling to surrender just like that, so they still rushed towards the Qin army.
But what awaited them were only sharp arrows.
Wu's water stronghold burned for three days. During these three days, the Qin army's millions of troops had crossed Luoze Lake.
They rebuilt a new military camp next to the former Wu Kingdom's water village in order to guard the hundreds of thousands of Wu Kingdom prisoners of war.
In this battle, the Wu Kingdom's navy, which ranked first in the Great Zhou Dynasty, was completely wiped out under the joint pressure of Qin and Qi.
In this battle, Wu State not only lost its entire navy, but also nearly nine layers of elite soldiers.
Even several small princes around Wu State were wiped out in one fell swoop. A large number of soldiers were wiped out.
Wu Guo may be able to recruit a new group of soldiers.
But these soldiers, no matter in terms of morale or training level, cannot be Qin's opponent.
That means they have more armor and weapons than ordinary people.
But these people were all recruited by force.
There is no way of knowing how much morale there is.
What's even worse is the vassal states around Wu. Even if they want to recruit again, they don't have many people left to recruit.
As for Han Xin, in these three days, in addition to arranging for the Qin army to cross Luoze Lake and arranging for prisoners.
He also personally wrote a "Letter to the People of Wu"
This is a strategy called psychological warfare that Han Xin learned from Liu Hao.
Han Xin directly described the process and results of the Battle of Luoze Lake in his obituary.
Then he said that King Wu went against the grain and, as a minister of Zhou, raised an army to rebel against Zhou.
The King of Qin was ordered by the Emperor to launch an attack on Wu, which was a kind act to express the destiny and save the people.
Now that the millions of Qin and Qi coalition forces have crossed Luoze Lake, we hope that the people of Wu will give up their resistance.
At the same time, the military law of the Qin army was also written down.
As long as the common people discover that the Qin army violated military law, and it is proven, they will be rewarded.
Han Xin's move first determined the guilt of King Wu.
Then he told the people of Wu that our Qin army has now crossed the lake.
Even your most elite army from the Kingdom of Wu cannot stop us.
You people, just stay calm.
At the same time, military laws were also written down, one of which was to reassure the people.
The other is to build relationships with the people of Wudi.
Han Xin's move has also achieved remarkable results.
Some cities far away from Luoze Lake sent envoys overnight to the Qin camp to submit letters of surrender to Han Xin.
Han Xin now has no extra officials to take over these cities.
We can only send envoys to these cities and tell the guards.
Qin can ignore everything that happened before, but from now on, things need to be done in accordance with Qin's laws. Otherwise, don't blame Qin for being ruthless in its laws.
The officials in these cities were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they naturally nodded to Qin's laws.
A few days later, after Han Xin took care of the prisoners, he once again led his army towards the capital of Wu.
At this time, King Wu was sitting in his palace, shivering.
He originally thought that although he could not defeat the Qin army, he could still confront the Qin army at Luoze Lake.
Awaiting the outcome of the war in the north.
For this reason, he not only gave up the border city, but also retreated to Lake Luoze.
We also reached an agreement with those Japanese people.
Those Japanese people swore to him that they would be able to destroy Qin's logistics.
However, these Japanese people were beaten to pieces by Qin within a few days.
And his own general, the navy stronghold in Luoze Lake was also brutally and directly attacked by the Qin army.
There was no chance for him to prepare a second line of defense.
What's even more irritating is that of the millions of troops, apart from those who died in battle, only less than 100,000 were able to escape.
The remaining hundreds of thousands of troops were directly defeated by Qin.
Now it is even more difficult for Wu Fa to recruit an army again.
Not to mention how many soldiers can be recruited.
It is said that these soldiers were recruited and there was no time to train them.
Pushing these newly recruited soldiers onto the battlefield like this will only end up killing Qin.
Wu Fa felt that he had made a mistake by forming an alliance with the King of Jin in the first place.
"If I had known this, I should have formed an alliance with Qin." Wu Fa secretly regretted in his heart.
But things have reached this point, and it is impossible for him to surrender to Qin now.
Qin State cannot accept him. What Qin State wants now is to establish its prestige.
Now Wu Fa can only follow the Jin Kingdom and lead a dark road.
Finally, Sun Gong, who had escaped, gave Wu Fa an idea.
That means giving up all the cities and taking away the food.
Just defend the capital and wait for the end of the war in the north.
However, considering that Chen Guo had also done things to strengthen the walls and clear the country, he directly confiscated all the people's rations.
Qin State went crazy and attacked Chen State fiercely.
Therefore, Sun Gong suggested that Wu Fa should leave a certain amount of food rations for the people.
To prevent Qin from attacking the capital because of lack of food.
Wu Fa has naturally heard of Qin's style, and he also feels that if he just wants to strengthen the walls and clear the country and stall for time with Qin, Qin may still play with you.
If the state of Wu decided to confiscate all the grain and grass and force the people to beg for food from the state of Qin, with the style of that madman in the state of Qin, he would definitely be able to make the decision to attack fiercely at all costs.
Chapter completed!