The first day of the sixth lunar month in the first year of the Second Qin Dynasty! Late at night!
Endless darkness shrouded the entire land. From time to time, on the tall walls of Chenxian City, on the streets in the city, and in the alleys, groups of shirtless soldiers or soldiers wearing simple leather armors walked past!
Except for the torches in the hands of the patrol soldiers, the entire Chen County was in darkness! It was like a dead zone!
In the dark county town, a huge mansion was brightly lit. Countless huge torches were inserted into the tall courtyard walls, illuminating the entire mansion within a radius of fifty steps.
Within a hundred steps around the mansion, there were obviously more patrolling soldiers than in other places. The closer they got to the mansion, the tighter the defense became!
Looking outside the entire mansion, there are probably no less than thousands of soldiers guarding it! It shows that this place is extraordinary!
Hundreds of black shadows suddenly appeared in various streets and alleys in Chen County!
Among them, more than a hundred black shadows alternated lightly with each other, dodging groups of patrolling soldiers, and gradually approached this huge mansion that was heavily guarded by layers of soldiers!
The remaining more than a hundred black figures are either in a group of more than ten people or in a group of more than twenty people, each running to different places!
As these hundreds of black shadows continue to move forward, a few ordinary insect sounds can be heard in the darkness from time to time! Along with the insect's sounds, there will always be a low muffled sound, and then disappear.
In the dark!
The hundreds of black shadows running towards the huge house are already less than a hundred steps away from the huge house. If they move forward fifty steps, they will be exposed to the bright firelight! They will face thousands of soldiers head-on!
These more than a hundred black shadows carefully sneaked under the cover of the night. They avoided the patrols one after another. They stopped at the intersection of light and darkness! They seemed to be waiting for something!
Yin Shi!
The patrol soldiers who had been going back and forth all night finally began to slack off, and the replacement of each other was no longer so fast!
Five or six fires suddenly shot into the sky from all over the city, and in the blink of an eye it became a prairie fire!
As the fire light rose, pairs of soldiers who were patrolling around rushed to the nearest fire point. In the darkness, crossbow arrows continued to shoot out, killing the patrolling soldiers who looked a little panicked!
Soon the sound of firefighting, footsteps, shouts, and fighting sounds were heard throughout Chen County. The originally dead zone of Chen County suddenly became lively as if a pot was exploding!
Xiang Liang had already received the news when there was a fire in the city. He had just fallen asleep at this time!
After Yang Xiong's remnant army of more than 10,000 guards was rescued by Li Xin and the Jiuyuan Army, Xiang Liang came straight to Chen County, hoping to encircle Li Xin, including Yang Xiong, and more than 20,000 Qin soldiers.
Die in Chen County!
Unexpectedly, after Li Xin and others retreated into Chen County, they did not stop, packed up their things, and left, retreating all the way to Yingchuan. Xiang Liang thought about it but still did not pursue it. If Li Xin had backup, he would not need more, just
Another Qin army of thirty to fifty thousand is needed. His army of more than two hundred thousand has gone from chasing people to being chased!
The undefended Chen County naturally surrendered without a fight. Xiang Liang, who was expecting a big harvest in Chen County, felt his heart sink when he saw the empty Chen County treasury!
After asking, I found out that when Li Xin left Chen County with more than 100,000 soldiers captured by Zhang Er and Chen Yu, they had emptied the entire Chen County treasury, leaving not even a hair for Xiang Liang!
Although Xiang Liang was filled with hatred, there was nothing he could do!
In the battle of Huaihe River, he saw that his army of more than 200,000 people did not even leave behind the 20,000 Qin army who were trapped in the encirclement in the end. Xiang Liang was shuddered by the Qin army's combat power, but at the same time he was deeply grateful!
He was glad that he had conquered Wu Rui. If it were not for Wu Rui's 200,000 Yue barbarians, I am afraid that all of his 70,000 to 80,000 Jiangdong soldiers would have been killed by the Qin army!
Xiang Liang deeply understood that his own ragtag army, even if it numbered 500,000, was no match for the 100,000 Qin army, so Xiang Liang learned from the painful experience and sent a small number of soldiers to capture various counties in Chen County while remaining in Chen County.
Start training the army!
Even at the Chu King's Succession Ceremony on May 18th, Xiang Liang only sent Fan Zeng there, firstly to congratulate him, and secondly to ask for soldiers, food and weapons! But he himself still stayed in Chen County to train.
Soldiers are collecting food everywhere!
And now all Xiang Liang’s food harvest from the past month is in that huge mansion heavily guarded by soldiers!
So when the personal guards came to report that there was chaos and fires in the city, Xiang Liang's first thought was whether the huge house had been burned! It was only after he confirmed that it was not a huge house that Xiang Liang breathed a sigh of relief!
Immediately, he ordered the troops stationed outside the city to be mobilized into the city to put out the fire and arrest the spies! He also ordered the guards at the huge mansion to guard the huge mansion closely!
Xiang Liang knew very well that it would take at least ten days to transport the grain and grass from Jiujiang and Jiangdong to Chen County in the north of the Yangtze River, but the grain in the huge house was concentrated all the grain harvested in Chen County. Once it was burned, he would
The entire army will fall into a foodless land!
Although the other counties in Chen County also have harvested grain, it is obviously not able to support the consumption of the entire army! What's more, if all the grain in Chen County is harvested and the people are fighting for food, then the Chu army will definitely lose the support of the people.
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Killing the goose to obtain the eggs is not what Xiang Liang wants to do!
But what he didn't know was that when a fire broke out in Chenxian County, the barracks around the camp outside the city were also ignited by a continuous stream of rockets shot out of the dark night, and the fire immediately broke out!
In the entire Chen County, as long as the county seat was captured by Xiang Liang's army, someone suddenly set fire to it at this time!
Thousands of soldiers guarding the giant mansion heard the sounds of fighting coming from all over the city, and they suddenly became agitated when they saw the flames rising into the sky. However, they quickly calmed down under the pressure of the leading generals, and the guards around the giant mansion became even tighter!
It did not lure away the guarding soldiers, but instead made the soldiers who had become somewhat lazy become more vigilant. This situation obviously exceeded the expectations of the hundreds of black figures lurking fifty steps away.
Three short, weird insect sounds suddenly sounded!
Hearing these three short, weird insect sounds, the hundreds of black shadows lurking in the darkness all trembled!
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The second day of the sixth lunar month in the first year of the Second Qin Dynasty!
Hu Hai got up and left Xianyang Palace early in the morning. When Hu Hai got up, Concubine Li was still on the big bed in the emperor's study. Hu Hai had been tossing about most of the night last night and fell asleep in the morning! So she didn't know at all.
When did Hu Hai leave?
After leaving Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai first went to Shangfang for a morning, and then returned to the Bashang Camp again in the afternoon!
Not long after Hu Hai left Shangfang, more than a hundred huge carriages with weird shapes left Shangfang, left Xianyang and went straight to the Bashang camp!
The reason why these carriages are said to have strange shapes is that these carriages are not the two-wheeled carriages currently used in Daqin, but all have four wheels. The carriages are more than two feet long and are as square as a box!
The four-wheeled carriage was naturally produced by Shangfang, who provided the idea provided by Hu Hai!
The entire carriage has a container-like structure, and you no longer need to get on the car from the shaft, but have two doors at the rear of the carriage! The bottom of the carriage is a row of six shock-absorbing iron pillars wrapped in thick cowhide.
Of course outsiders can’t tell at all!
The wheels of the carriage are no longer wooden wheels or blue bronze wheels. They are wheels cast from fine iron. The wheels are tightly wrapped with thick cowhide and rivets to reduce the friction of the carriage moving forward!
The subsequent larger box-type carriage Shangfang is still under development. As long as the bearing and shock absorption problems raised by Hu Hai can be solved, I believe that Daqin will soon have six- or even eight-wheel carriages with greater loads!
The windows of these carriages were all tightly closed, and they were escorted by more than 6,000 Xuanwu troops from Weng Zhong who came to Shangfang yesterday!
The carriages are all loaded with brand-new armors produced by Shangfang and some special equipment, as well as some craftsmen from Shangfang!
Hu Hai was very worried about the 20,000 people he would bring with him this time to the north!
Weng Zhong's six thousand heavily armored Xuanwu Army has been exposed to the world, but it is obviously impossible for them all to follow Hu Hai northward because there are no suitable horses for them to ride!
So after much deliberation, Hu Hai decided to take only a thousand Xuanwu troops to follow him north, and those box trucks could carry these thousands of Xuanwu troops and their equipment was obviously just right!
If possible, Hu Hai only plans to lead 10,000 escort soldiers to the north. This way, with fewer people, the speed is obviously faster, and he does not think that there are any rebels in Shandong and other places that can threaten him, who is protected by 10,000 elite Qin troops!
But obviously he can only think about this idea. The situation in Daqin is tense now, and Li Si and others will definitely not agree no matter what the reason is, and Wei Liao, Ying Teng, Zhang Han and others who have rarely opposed him are here.
But he is extremely determined on this matter!
In the end, the 20,000 guard soldiers were the result of compromise between Hu Hai, Wei Liao and others!
There are many new equipments, especially stirrups, saddles and other items. Hu Hai obviously cannot and will not expose them to others at this time. He knows very well that once these cavalry artifacts are introduced to the heroic lord Mao Dun'er who is waiting for an opportunity north of Yinshan Mountain,
What will be the result of the Central Conference!
After much deliberation, Hu Hai decided not to bring any other infantry except a thousand heavy armored infantry this time. All the remaining 19,000 people chose cavalry, and of the 19,000 cavalry, there were still 2,000 already.
Heavy armored cavalry who have been training for a while!
Of course, these heavy armored cavalry are all mixed in with the ordinary cavalry. The heavy armor and war horse armor on the cavalry are all packed in boxes. Except for the saddles and stirrups, which are not equipped, the cavalry and war horses that followed Hu Hai on his northward and eastward tour include
All the horses pulling the cart were secretly shoed!
Selecting 17,000 elite cavalry from the 600,000-strong army of the Bashang Camp is a very simple matter, but it is also a very difficult matter!
It’s easy because there are 600,000 people there. It’s difficult because everyone wants to go!
It took two days, with Zhang Han, Wang Qian and others to select all the soldiers to escort Hu Hai to the north this time!
And the generals who will follow Hu Hai northward have also been determined!
Except for Weng Zhong, Wei Liao, Zhang Han, Wang Qian and others all stayed at the Bashang Camp. Li Xin's 19,000 original troops had left the conspicuous route along Wuguan Road to garrison at Wuguan today!
However, Du Teng, who was a prisoner and is now a captain, as well as Zhou Bo, Fan Kuai, and Xia Houying, who came to Xianyang with Liu Bang, were specially ordered by Hu Hai to be transferred to the army heading north!
Coupled with the two hundred dead soldiers of the Dragon Guard, the emperor's northward and eastward patrol was completely confirmed!
The fourth night of the sixth lunar month in the first year of Qin II!
Tomorrow, Hu Hai will leave Xianyang again!
"Your Majesty, the red letter!" Ying Yi's voice suddenly sounded from outside the big tent, and Hu Hai, who was writing quickly at his desk, suddenly paused with the brush in his hand! A large ink mark appeared on the snow-white paper!
It’s the red letter again!
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