The Huai River winds through the north of Shouchun City, and the nearest is even less than twenty miles.

Although it is the middle of winter, the water in Huai River is still very full. Zhonglimei stood by the river and looked around. He saw the river surface, and endless streams were flowing towards the east. He couldn't help but feel an indescribable desolation in his heart. He couldn't help but chant: "I'm on the river, is this the passing?"

Sima Jiang Ji, who was standing behind him, did not have the mood of Zhong Limei, and asked in confusion: "General, Han general Li Zuoche led an army of 50,000 to invade the territory. The general decided to defend Shouchun to the death. Why did the general take us away from Shouchun and run to this wilderness to drink the northwest wind?"

"What do you know?" Zhong Limei put away his emotions and said coldly, "We are not here to see the scenery. We bear the important task of life and death of the Chu army!"

Jiang Ji changed his face slightly: "What important task?"

"Dig the embankment!" Zhongli said sly, "Water floods Shouchun!"

"Ah!?" Jiang Ji was shocked when he heard this, "Water flooded Shouchun? Wasn't it even flooded the general?"

"Don't worry, the flood cannot flood our own people." Zhongli said, "Otherwise, what do you think so many bamboos you moved into the city last night are for?"

"So that's the case, it's not in vain for the bamboo we moved all night." Jiang Ji paused and said, "But since we were going to dig the Huai River embankment, why should we run so far? The Huai River is less than twenty miles northwest of Shouchun. It's easier to dig it from there, so why do you have to run more than fifty miles? Moreover, do you have to dig the Huai River from here and get the Han army?"

"What do you know? The general said it would be OK!" Zhong Limei said this and said, "Besides, Li Zuoche is not Fan Kuai. It is a dream to dig a dike near Shouchun!"

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East of Shouchun City, Li Zuoche Daying.

The army had just arrived today, and the soldiers were exhausted, so Li Zuoche did not intend to attack the city. Li Zuoche had even made a decision. If the remaining soldiers of the Chu army were still fighting and resisted fiercely, he would give up the strong attack and instead use the strategy of long-term siege to wait until their food was exhausted and then lure them to break through the west gate. At that time, the Chu army was exhausted and lacked fighting spirit, and would be able to destroy them.

The only thing Li Zuoche is worried about now is whether King Han would give him this opportunity.

You should know that Fan Kuai is the confidant of the King of Han. When he heard that Fan Kuai was beheaded, the King of Han would be furious. In order to avenge Fan Kuai, it was entirely possible that the King of Han personally led a large army to attack Shouchun.

Li Zuoche was thinking about his worries when Sima Xiahou Ren of another unit suddenly strode in.

"General!" Xiahou Ren bowed and said in a deep voice, "When I was observing the terrain outside the city, I found that the terrain of Shouchun City was far lower than the Huai River surface in the north, and it was a big depression. If the Chu army digs out the Huai River embankment and diverts water backwards, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"Don't worry, General Xiahou." Li Zuoche smiled and waved his hand, "This general has already noticed it."

After saying this, Li Zuoche said again: "I have sent patrol cavalry to patrol day and night in the northwest of Shouchun. Once the Chu army finds digging a dike, they will immediately repay it. So, they don't want to dig a dike! Besides, if the Chu army really digs the Huai River embankment, wouldn't it even be flooded? Could it be that the Chu army really dares to burn both jade and stone?"

Xiahou Ren then breathed a sigh of relief and said embarrassedly: "I'm so worried."

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In Shouchun City, the Chu army camp.

Bamboo as thick as a bowl filled the entire schoolyard, and hundreds of Chu soldiers were busy bunting bamboo rafts.

Not far away, more than a hundred female soldiers were busy placing the soles of their shoes. From time to time, male soldiers winked at the female soldiers and whistled. The female soldiers were not concerned at all. Some of them were brave and even dared to flirt with the male soldiers, which was very happy.

Xiang Zhuang was too lazy to pay attention to all this, and he was busy supervising weapons.

In the blacksmith shop, Yu Ziqi and the two blacksmiths were already sweating profusely, but the weapons needed by Xiangzhuang were finally made into shape. In the eyes of Yu Ziqi and the blacksmith, this was a "strange-shaped" weapon. It was obviously not a sword, because the sword was double-edged, and it only had a one-sided blade, but it was not a knife, because the knife was curved, and it was straight.

Xiang Zhuang weighed the weapon in his hand. It weighed about twenty kilograms and was about six feet long. This was actually a ring-headed knife without a ring-headed head, or an enhanced horizontal knife. The blade was narrow and straight, with a thick back single blade, and a cold air. Just put it there, it exuded a sharp murderous aura.

As a time traveler, Xiang Zhuang certainly heard of the famous reputation of the Ring Head Sword.

In a sense, the Han Empire defeated the Huns with its sharp ring-headed sword. The Tang Empire then defeated the Turks with its horizontal sword inherited the legacy of the ring-headed sword. Two thousand years later, the Japanese even developed the Taidao on the basis of the horizontal sword, which promoted the powerful force of the sword to the extreme!

Xiang Zhuang turned around and winked, Jing Qian drew his sword and chopped towards Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang raised his sword to greet him, and there was only a "clang" sound. The big sword in Jing Qian's hand had already been broken into two pieces, and the broken half fell to the ground with a bang. However, the "horizontal sword" in Xiang Zhuang's hand was unscathed, and there was no gap in the blade. The blacksmith who were watching the surroundings immediately cheered loudly.

"It's it!" Xiang Zhuang said happily, "but it only weighs ten kilograms and four feet long, and it costs five thousand hands!"

"General, this may not work." Yu Ziqi smiled bitterly. The raw materials were no problem for creating five thousand such knives. After two battles, the weapons seized by the Chu army were piled up like mountains and were enough to use. The key was to build such a knife, which was extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming. First, melt the original weapons, then cast the blast, then fold the blast repeatedly forge, and quench it. After one process after another, two blacksmiths can only make two at most a day!

Even if you summon hundreds of blacksmiths, you can only make one hundred knives a day!

It will take at least fifty days to build five thousand knives. Moreover, there are only a hundred blacksmiths in the army, and there are not so many stoves and tools. Therefore, even if it takes three months, Yu Ziqi may not be able to complete the task.

"Then try your best." Xiang Zhuang also knew that the processing technology of horizontal knives was complicated and expensive, so he said to Yu Ziqi, "General Ziqi, you don't have to worry about other things these days. Leave the rations to Mr. Wu. Just build weapons. All the blacksmiths in the general gathered up and do their best to build weapons!"

"No!" Yu Ziqi bowed and quickly summoned the blacksmith to go.

The blacksmiths who were originally gathered together also dispersed one after another. The blowing blowing, the casting, and the iron-making iron. The entire blacksmith shop was soon filled with the sound of the lingering sound of the lingering sound.

Xiang Zhuang slowly walked out of the blacksmith shop, looked at the horizontal knife in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

There are not enough horses now, so it is really unnecessary to build stirrups on a large scale. However, it is really urgent to replace the double-edged sword with a horizontal sword to become the melee weapon of the Chu army infantry. Once a large number of horizontal swords are equipped, the combat power of the Chu army infantry will inevitably reach another level!

But unfortunately, the conditions do not allow it.

At this moment, Xiang Zhuang really hoped that the Chu army could have a stable base.

However, the reality is cruel. The Chu army is now a water without a source and a tree without a root. Shouchun will be abandoned in a few days. After giving up Shouchun, the Chu army will enter the Dabie Mountains to hide the mystery with the Han army. Where can we get the time and where can we get the conditions to build a horizontal sword on a large scale?

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The next day, after a night of rest, the Han army launched a tentative attack on the East Gate of Shouchun.

Amid the endless sound of trumpets, teams of Han soldiers swarmed out of the camp and entered the wasteland outside the east gate of Shouchun to form a formation. Then, teams of light soldiers were already pushing the cloud ladder, and the siege car slowly drove out of the gate, following the cloud ladder, and behind the siege car were teams of light soldiers and archers.

The last one appeared were Li Zuoche’s two thousand personal soldiers.

Under the protection of the flags that covered the sky and the sun, a chariot slowly drove into the Han army formation. Li Zuo's chariot was like a vigorous century-old pine, standing proudly on the chariot.

Suddenly, Li Zuoche raised his right hand and pressed forward gently, and said lightly: "Attack."

In an instant, the endless sound of horns stopped abruptly. After a momentary pause, the dense sound of war drums soared into the sky. Their momentum was enough to penetrate the gold and crack stones, making people excited. Tens of thousands of Han soldiers yelled, and while they yelled, they also beat the shield with swords and shields with rhythm, or with halberds: "Roar! Roar! Roar..."

The next moment, the front row of soldiers shrank their formation and gave way out passages. The archers who had been waiting for a long time then held their bows and arrows in their hands and walked through the passage where the soldiers were making way out to the formation. With a shrill howl, all the archers pulled their bows and arrows in unison, and the cold arrowheads had already aimed at the city block ahead.

"Ao...ha!" Another shrill howl, and the two thousand archers released the bowstring almost at the same time.

In an instant, two thousand feathered arrows had already swept into the air, and then swept through the sky with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and finally turned into endless rain of arrows, and fell towards the head of Shouchun City.

At the top of Shouchun City, veterans who had experienced many battles had already hid behind the bush or under the shield. The newly-entered recruits had no idea how powerful the Han army archers were. They were all standing on the top of the city to watch the fun. In order to show their contempt for the Han army archers, a new recruit even raised his battle robe and urinated outside the city.
Chapter completed!