After Zhang Liang finished speaking, Xiang Liang also reacted!
Without catapults and siege equipment, it is obviously impossible to capture the small Chengwu City within a day or two! But now the catapults and siege equipment were destroyed and burned by the Qin army’s cavalry, and the camp was burned to the ground.
There is not much left among them!
If you want to attack the city, how can you climb the city wall without the siege equipment inside the ladder? How can you break through the city gate without the ramming cone? The most important thing is that without the cover of the catapult, the Qin army can defend on the city wall unscrupulously.
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It would be fine if the army had strong bows, but with the few thousand strong bows in the army, the Qin army would be almost wiped out with just one round of crossbow arrows on the city wall!
Now all the wood stored in the camp has been burned. If you want to recreate the objects in the catapult, you must cut down the trees again!
But Mengshan is twenty miles away. Regardless of whether the journey is far or short, just transporting it back in this hot weather is probably a very troublesome problem!
What a good plan! Xiang Liang sighed in his heart!
"What should I do now? Zifang!" Xiang Liang was anxious and asked quickly!
"For the present plan, we can only give up the catapult! When we return the wooden catapult, I'm afraid Meng Tian's army will arrive too! Fortunately, the large shields and other items in the army have not been lost much! Is there any ladder left?
Young Master! Now the only way is to attack by force! General!" Zhang Liang said helplessly!
"General, general, general!"
As soon as Zhang Liang finished speaking, a burst of eager and excited shouts came from outside the big tent!
"Why are you so alarmed!?" Xiang Liang said with a look of displeasure on his face!
"Report to the general!" A guard lifted the curtain and bowed!
"What's the matter?"
"General! Major General, General Long Qie and General Yingbu are back!" The guard raised his head and said excitedly!
"What?" Xiang Liang suddenly stood up and walked a few steps to grab his guard and asked!
"General, the young general is back!" the guard said excitedly!
"Xiang Yu is back? Take me with you, the general! Take me with you, the general!" Xiang Liang said incoherently in surprise!
"The defeated general Xiang Yu pays homage to the general! Please punish him!"
Before Xiang Liang finished speaking, Xiang Yu's words had already sounded outside the big tent! At the same time, Long Qie and Yingbu also sounded their pleas!
When Xiang Liang heard Xiang Yu's voice, he quickly opened the tent and rushed out!
I saw Xiang Yu kneeling on the ground in a cloth suit. Behind Xiang Yu were Long Qie and Yingbu who were also in ragged clothes!
Xiang Liang took two quick steps and helped Xiang Yu up. He burst into tears and said, "It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back!"
"My nephew is unfilial and makes my uncle worried!" Looking at Xiang Liang showing his true feelings, Xiang Yu's eyes were also red!
Xiang Liang straightened Xiang Yu's messy hair with his hands, patted his shoulders lovingly, then let go of Xiang Yu, and raised Long Qie and Ying, who were also kneeling on the ground, with one hand and preached: "The two nephews have suffered.
!”
Xiang Liang inherited the style of his father Xiang Yan. In the army, he always had only superiors and subordinates but no relatives. However, this time he called Yingbu and Long Qie uncharacteristically by calling them nephew instead of the military title. It was already clear.
It made it clear that there was no intention to pursue the three defeated generals!
"Stop the siege! Reward the whole army tonight!" Xiang Liang held Yingbu in one arm and Long Qie in the other and said loudly!
"Here!"
The guards next to him are all members of the Xiang clan. They are all sincerely happy for Xiang Yu's return!
When the news came out, Xiang Liang's army suddenly burst into cheers, as if they had not lost the battle today but had won a great victory! However, in today's short one or two hours of fighting, it is really difficult to say who won and who lost!
In an hour or two, the number of elite soldiers killed by the Qin army reached an unprecedented number of nearly 4,000! And these more than 4,000 people were all the elite Qin soldiers who guarded Hu Hai on his way north, not common people! Moreover, these elite Qin soldiers
Most of the soldiers died under the trebuchets of Xiang Liang's army! Among them were more than 2,000 Qin soldiers who were injured! Nearly 3,000 Chengwu civilians who joined the army on the front line were killed and more than 2,000 were injured!
In less than two hours, one-third of Hu Hai's 30,000-strong army suffered casualties! The most important thing was that the casualties of the elite Qin army had reached the point of breaking their muscles and bones!
Fortunately, the Xuanwu Army is still there, with six thousand elite soldiers!
As for the casualties of Xiang Liang's army, not counting yesterday's casualties. The casualties in today's siege should be around 20,000 people!
One side attacks the city and the other defends it, the casualty ratio is two to one.
This ratio really cannot mean that the Qin Army won! If we really want to calculate it based on actual combat effectiveness, the Qin Army should be considered the loser!
By the time Fan Zeng received the news and rushed to Xiang Liang's main camp, Xiang Yu, Long Qie and Yingbu were all wearing brand-new armors and were in high spirits after washing them!
For the first time since the war began, Xiang Liang held a banquet in the army to entertain the generals!
However, the atmosphere of the banquet was a little weird!
All the survivors of the Six Kingdoms and the generals in the army unanimously praised Xiang Yu's return, so this battle will be won. It seems that the next moment Xiang Yu takes action and Chengwu City has been destroyed, and then Hu Hai's head has been delivered to Xiang Liang!
But no one mentioned the annihilation of the 60,000 hundred Yue barbarian army led by Xiang Yu and his trio!
However, the more they didn't mention it, the more resentful Xiang Yu felt!
The surprise, confusion, confusion and deep resentment in the eyes of the Jiangdong guards who were killed by him have always been deeply engraved in Xiang Yu's heart! Their absence tortures him every moment!
Perhaps because they felt that Xiang Yu, the protagonist, was not in high spirits, everyone knew it well, and the noisy tent gradually became quiet!
As the coach, Xiang Liang was sitting at the head of the big tent. Below him was Zhang Liang on the left, Fan Zeng on the right, and Xiang Yu was sitting below Xiang Liang! From the beginning of the banquet, Xiang Liang kept watching with a smile.
Many survivors of the Six Kingdoms spared no effort in praising Xiang Yu, but occasionally looked at Xiang Yu who was drinking silently with deep affection, and then exchanged distant respects with Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng who were smiling!
When the big tent was quiet, Xiang Liang stood up and said: "Today, I would like to thank the ancestors of the Xiang family for allowing my nephew Xiang Yu to return safely! I will toast you all! Do it!"
"Thank you, General!"
Xiang Liang toasted in person, and all the generals in the tent and the survivors of the Six Kingdoms stood up one after another and bowed their thanks!
After everyone finished drinking and put down their wine bottles, Xiang Liang picked up a glass of wine again and said: "For the second glass of wine, I want to respect Mr. Fan! Do it!"
Xiang Liang didn't say why, it seemed that everything was left unsaid!
Fan Zeng stood up quickly, bowed his head to Xiang Liang, and drank all the wine in the bottle!
"For this third glass of wine, I, the general, would like to honor Zifang! Without Zifang's guidance along the way, we and our army would definitely not be able to surround Emperor Qin in Chengwu City! Please!"
"General, please!" Zhang Liang stood up and saluted Xiang Liang with a smile!
"With this fourth glass of wine, I, the general, want to apologize to all the clan elders who are sitting here again for my nephew! Tens of thousands and hundreds of Yue clansmen died in a foreign country! This hatred, Xiang Liangdan will live one day, and he will definitely take down that
Emperor Qin’s head was taken to comfort the souls of tens of thousands and hundreds of Yue people in heaven!”
Xiang Liang bowed to the dozens of Baiyue clan elders sitting in the big tent and said sincerely!
"General, it's serious! Since we are here to fight against Qin, the Qin people are fierce, and many of their sons have long been willing to die! From now on, all tribes in Baiyue will only follow the general's lead! Once the general gives orders, Baiyue will
All ethnic groups in Yue will definitely do their best to help!"
A strong old man with gray hair but still naked upper body and bulging muscles seemed to be the leader of various tribes in Baiyue. He bowed to Xiang Liang and said loudly!
"We are waiting for the great general to obey!"
After the strong old man finished speaking, dozens of armless elders from all ethnic groups in Baiyue stood up and shouted loudly!
"Liang, thank you all the clan elders!"
Xiang Liang fell to the ground with a deep bow to the dozens of elders of various Baiyue tribes who had stood up!
Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang next to them saw this, secretly glanced at each other, and smiled knowingly!
"Today, Liang has something else to tell you!"
After drinking, when dozens of elders from various Baiyue ethnic groups sat down, Xiang Liang said loudly!
"Now, Qin's Jiuyuan Marquis, General Meng Tian is leading an army of more than 100,000 people and marching through the starry night to Chengwu to aid the Qin Emperor!"
After Xiang Liang finished speaking, the big tent suddenly fell into dead silence. Immediately, the survivors of the six kingdoms and many generals in the tent started talking!
"General, please forgive me. May I ask, General, if this message is accurate?" Soon a survivor from the Six Nations stood up and asked for confirmation!
Xiang Liang smiled at the question of this survivor of the Six Kingdoms, and then said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet!" When the tent became quiet, Xiang Liang continued: "This report is absolutely true! Now I think that Meng Tian has crossed the Yellow River,
We will surely reach Chengwu in three days at the latest!"
One stone stirs up a thousand waves!
Who is Meng Tian? The invincible pillar of Qin!
Although Xiang Liang now has an army of more than 300,000 people, everyone here knows that these 300,000 people are powerless against the Qin Emperor's more than 10,000 Qin troops. Then when Meng Tian's more than 109,000 original troops
When they arrived at Chengwu, Xiang Liang's 300,000-strong army was afraid that they would be defeated in a single battle!
At that time, it was not about whether Emperor Qin's life was wanted, but whether Emperor Qin wanted their lives!
The survivors of the Six Nations in the big tent were all worried, their faces were pale, and their eyes showed panic!
Seeing these remnants of the Six Kingdoms looking like this, Xiang Liang had a hint of sneer in his eyes!
"What are the general's orders? Just say so!"
It’s still the surviving member of the Six Nations who spoke before!
Xiang Liang recognized him, Tian An, a nobleman of Qi State! I didn’t expect that Tian An was a bit brave!
"After the big banquet, the whole army began to attack the city! If we can't capture this small Chengwu by tomorrow night at the latest, then the day after will be the time for us to flee! However, as long as Chengwu is defeated, Emperor Qin will be in hand
, Even if Meng Tian comes with an army of 300,000 and nine yuan, what do we have to fear?"
The reason why Xiang Liang chose to hold a banquet today was not only to absolve Xiang Yu of his guilt, but also to put pressure on these surviving members of the Six Kingdoms and let them know that the danger is right in front of them. If Chengwu cannot win, then soon
It's time for them to flee with themselves!
"Report!"
Suddenly there was a rapid sound of horse hooves outside the big tent, followed by a loud report from Xiang Liang's personal guards!
"What's the matter?"
"Return to the general, Shouchun is here!"
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