Chapter 108: The Battle of Yongqiu 1
Meng Su glared her eyes widened and opened her mouth slightly. Xiang Ye's actions had already shocked her to be unable to issue any syllables. She did not expect that he would announce to others under such circumstances that she was his wife.
Two hot lips were pressed against Meng Su's little mouth. Meng Su was kissing blankly, slowly closed her eyes, and wrapped her hands on Xiang Ye's broad spine.
That night, Xiang Ye and others were sleepless. Six people sat side by side outside the barracks, looking up at the stars in the night sky. It was not until dawn that they got up, picked up their weapons, and walked towards the school grounds.
Xiang Yu had already issued an order to ask Liu Bang to stay in Chenliu to support the rear, and he himself led his troops to Yongqiu.
The army was advancing towards Yongqiu with great might. Li Xinpeng lay on his back on a carriage in the team.
An orange-red sun hangs high in the air, and the soft morning light shines on the earth, and the whole world is shrouded in an orange halo.
Li Xinpeng opened his eyes and looked at the orange-red fireball in the air. Although the light was soft, after watching for a long time, he still felt a little swelling and painful in his eyes.
He rubbed his eyes, supported his elbows, trying hard to sit up.
As soon as he moved, a tearing pain suddenly came from his shoulders. He bared his teeth and lay back helplessly.
"This is a shameless body!" After lying down, he clenched his fists and pounded the wooden car board hard, sighed helplessly, and tried hard to raise his head and look out of the car.
Xiang Ye rode on the horse, and since he set out with the team, his face has been not good-looking. He would always turn around and look at Chen Liu a few times.
Meng Su rode beside Xiang Ye, and behind them were Shi Lei, Bai Fu and Wei Feng wearing sergeant armor.
Xiang Yu did not give Xiang Ye a high position like Liu Bang. He only made Xiang Ye a lie, because of the fact that Xiang Ye fought with him for more than ten rounds that day without a chance of winning or losing.
Xiang Ye was very satisfied with the position of a general. At least now he is not just a false name in Liu Bang's military camp, and he also has more than a thousand soldiers in his hands.
Xiang Ye turned around and looked at the mighty and majestic soldiers following behind. He smiled slightly. Before setting off, he was ready. Since Xiang Yu asked him to help launch a strong attack from the front, he would become famous in this battle and let the people of the world know that Xiang Ye is also a brave general who is good at fighting.
As for Li You, Xiang Ye had no time to think so much. When he captured Yongqiu, he would try his best to find Li You. If he could save him, he would do his best to save Li You, but if he couldn't save him, he could only look at the wheels of history to crush Li You into powder.
The Chu army marched towards Yongqiu. At the same time, on Yongqiu City, Li You, who had already received news of the Chu army's attack, stood on the city gate tower, stretched his head and looked at the official road.
There was tranquility on the official road, and the figure of the Chu army had not yet appeared. Li You knew that this tranquility would be the last peace he enjoyed in Yongqiu. Perhaps today, Yongqiu City will usher in a fierce battle. Perhaps not many officers and soldiers standing on the top of the city with him could see tomorrow's sunrise.
Gradually, a piece of smoke and dust covering the sky appeared in Li You's vision. With the appearance of this smoke and dust, the earth seemed to be trembling, making a "boom" sound.
The Chu army approached Yongqiu step by step with neat steps. When the Yongqiu city wall gradually emerged from the end of the horizon, bloodthirsty light flashed almost at the eyes of nearly 100,000 people.
Xiang Ye turned around and looked behind him. The more than a thousand Chu soldiers assigned to him were all staring at him with red eyes and holding the weapons tightly, as if they were about to pounce on Yongqiu and bit the Qin army on the city to death in the next second.
On Yongqiu City, Li You turned his head to the side of the side and said, "Have I prepared what I asked you to prepare before?"
"Report to the Lord!" The side general hurriedly bowed to Li You and said, "We have painted the city walls with lacquer as the Lord told me. Fifty stoves were prepared on the city, and each stove was set up with a large pot, with boiling oil burning in the pot. In addition, we have prepared five thousand large stones and hundreds of thousands of arrow clusters."
Li You nodded slightly, and a gratified smile appeared on his face.
The number of Chu soldiers was nearly 100,000, and the number of Yongqiu defenders was only more than 10,000. This was a totally unsuspecting proportion in the siege. What Li You could do was to cause more trouble to the Chu army and let them encounter more obstacles when siegeing the city. It would be best to guard Zhang Han from Puyang to come for rescue.
"Soldiers!" The Chu army got closer and closer. Li You pulled out his long sword, pointed at the city, and shouted loudly at the Qin army on the city: "The bandits are already at the city, and their number is ten times that of ours! As soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, are you ready to die?"
The city wall was quiet, and no one answered Li You's question. All the Qin soldiers looked at Li You who was standing at the city gate with a decisive look on his face.
"Are you scared?" Seeing that no one answered, Li You looked around. The Qin soldiers around him were all as if they were dead, looking like they were bereaved.
"Look at you! Look at your appearance!" Li You stretched out his hand and pointed at the Qin army around him, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Among you, many of you are warriors who once guarded Xingyang with me. At that time, when facing 300,000 thieves, no one was afraid. What's wrong with you today? Just 100,000 thieves, are you afraid of being like this?"
"Sir, the one who led the troops to attack Yongqiu this time was Xiang Yu. He was a devil who killed people without blinking!" A Qin soldier said timidly.
His voice was not very loud, but on the quiet wall where even a feather fell off, he could hear the sound of the feather rubbing the ground clearly. This sentence was like a thunder. Everyone on the wall felt that his eardrums seemed to be almost pierced by his small response.
"You come out!" Li You pointed at the soldier and signaled the soldiers to stand in front of him.
The soldier's legs trembled unconsciously and walked timidly to Li You, trembling all over, and looked at Li You.
Li You inserted his long sword into the scabbard, stretched out his hands to tidy up the unturned collar for the soldier, patted his shoulder and said, "You are right. Xiang Yu is a devil, and a devil who kills without blinking. He slaughtered Xiangyang and Chengyang, and may also slaughter Yongqiu and Xianyang in the future! The entire city of Daqin may endure his slaughter!"
The Qin army on the city wall listened quietly to Li You's passionate statements. On the city wall, which squeezed tens of thousands of people, it was so quiet that even the sound of people's breathing could be heard clearly.
"You are all warriors of the Great Qin, and likewise, you are all people of the Great Qin!" Li You said to the Qin army with sadness on his face: "You all have parents, wives and children. When you fight on the battlefield, the white-haired old parents may be leaning against the door and looking forward to you to go home! When your blood-stained robes, your beautiful wife may be holding your child who is learning to speak, praying for peace for you!"
Speaking of this, Li You suddenly raised his voice and shouted loudly: "They care about you, who among you has ever cared about them?"
"We have never forgotten them!" As soon as Li You said this, tens of thousands of Qin troops were immediately dissatisfied. Many people shouted loudly: "We all want to go home, but we don't want to fight!"
"Don't want to fight?" Li You raised his hand and pressed it a few times to stop the noise of the Qin army. He first curled his lips and sneered twice, then raised his voice and shouted to the Qin army, "Go home? Don't want to fight? Open your eyes and see! Who is under the city? There are bloodthirsty bandits! It's Xiang Yu like a demon! You go home? Will they not kill you when you go home? Go home, can you protect your relatives with your personal strength?"
Li You's words immediately made tens of thousands of Qin soldiers look at each other, and each of their faces was filled with panic. No one was not concerned about the family, and no one was not afraid of their relatives' accidents. They were all bloody men, so naturally they would not watch their relatives suffer harm.
"Sir, tell me, what should we do!" A rough-looking officer pushed away the soldier standing in front and stood up, clasped his fists at Li You and shouted: "Even if we die, we cannot let the bandits pass through Yongqiu!"
"Okay!" Li You clenched his fist with one hand and shook his arms, shouting loudly: "Soldiers, look back at the direction of home! There are our relatives there! We fight here in bloody battles so that our relatives can live a peaceful life! For the relatives, we fight our lives and fight to the death with the bandits!"
"Fight to the death! Swear to the death! Swear to the death! Swear to the death! Swear to the death! Swear to the death! Shop to the death! Shop to the death! Tens of thousands of Qin soldiers raised their weapons on the city wall and let out a roar that shook the sky.
The roar rang straight through the sky and rushed out to all directions.
"Li You is really a character!" Xiang Yu, who was walking in front of the army, heard the roar from Yongqiu City, curled his lips and smiled, and said to Zhonglimei beside him: "It seems that it will not be too easy to capture Yongqiu City under such an obvious disadvantage!"
Zhongli looked at the black and white Qin army flag on Yongqiu City and smiled, shook his head and said to Xiang Yu: "If we are not in a hurry to attack the city, we just siege and do not attack, and within half a month, Yongqiu will be destroyed!"
Xiang Yu waved his hand and said to Zhonglimei: "The method of besieging the city is not advisable! Our army has more people than the Qin army, and it will inevitably consume much more food and grass than them. Half a month later, the Qin army will face shortage of food, but our army will also encounter difficulties in logistics supply. Although the Qin army is very morale now, our army can still use its numerical advantage to break through the city!"
Chapter completed!