Chapter 281: It's Time to Harvest
When Xiang Yu heard this, he suddenly became energetic. The word "carriage" was so attractive in his eyes. Isn't it the carriage he was waiting for?
What does a carriage mean? A carriage means food, supplies, and his own chance, an opportunity that can completely ruin Ying Gao's position.
Xiang Yu was still experienced in fighting. After discovering the carriage, he did not act rashly, but let the soldiers under his command continue to hide in place.
The result he wanted was no longer the mere granary that burned the Qin army like last time, but actually took all these food and supplies for himself.
In fact, in this era, the battle to the end of the war is nothing more than the strength behind the scenes. Although Xiang Yu's Jiangdong soldiers are backed by most of Kuaiji County and even Jiangdong, they are not on the same level as the Qin soldiers, so it is almost impossible for Xiang Yu to win this battle in a slap.
Although they said that the Emperor of Daqin could not stay on the front line for too long, he would have to go back within two or three months.
But when Ying Gao returns, will the army in Chen County also withdraw? This is unlikely. What if Meng Yi and others are still fighting such a tug-of-war with you? In that case, Xiang Yu will not be able to hold on in another two months, and he will have to pay all the money he has saved for so long in Jiangdong.
So Xiang Yu wanted to make one thing worse in this way. This time, the Qin soldiers' food and grass were cut off, and the ones burned last time were enough to make the Qin soldiers insufficient food in just a short period of time.
If we could seize this opportunity again, Xiang Yu believed that he could not only solve Chen Ying's annoying team, but also pose a significant threat to Ying Gao, and then tilt the battle situation to his side.
Xiang Yu was thinking in his heart, and he could only hear the sound of horses neighing from the originally quiet night sky. Xiang Yu knew that this group of Qin people who were carrying heavy responsibilities were coming.
Like a qualified hunter, he silently calculated the team he walked through the path in front of him, looking for the opportunity he thought was the most suitable.
Finally, when the team was about to reach the middle position, Xiang Yu held the arrow in his hand tightly and shot an arrow into the crowd ahead.
A soldier in the middle of the Qin army fell to the ground. Then, the children of Jiangdong who had been ambushing here for several hours came out one after another, pounced on the prey in front of them like hungry tigers.
The joyful battle that Xiang Yu wanted finally seemed to appear on himself.
However, what Xiang Yu had no idea was that just when he was ambushing here, thinking about letting Ying Gao suffer once, he thought that the place where he hid the warship was foolproof, was experiencing what he least wanted to see.
What kind of general is Han Xin? He was able to make the Nanyue tribe honest with his 50,000 army in his hand. Now he has 40,000 troops in his hand, while Xiang Yu only had 5,000 guarding the warships.
Moreover, Han Xin was an unexpected army in the dark, and the five thousand troops guarding the warship had long been figured out by others.
So there is no need to guess the result here...
Han Xin didn't even pick at night, and directly launched an offensive against these 5,000 troops on the clear morning of the day agreed with Ying Gao.
Although Han Xin knew that Ying Gao must have taken some measures in Shouchun, although he did not have strict requirements on himself, once it was involved in war, it would not work. Han Xin did not want to let anyone go for 5,000 troops.
It is precisely because of this that he did not choose to take the night here better, because he would definitely let some people go at night. In the morning, his vision was really good. If someone really ran away, he could see clearly more than ten feet away, so it would naturally be much easier to catch him.
For this reason, Han Xin almost mobilized all the 40,000 people under his command and carefully designed more than ten routes. As a result, just like his own plan, he caught a turtle in the jar and almost did not let the enemy run away. The poor Jiangdong children who Xiang Yu trusted very much died in battle three or four thousand. The remaining 1,800 people saw that it was really impossible to do anything, so they had to choose to surrender to the Qin army.
It was so easy that Han Xin completed the task assigned by Ying Gao.
If he smashed all the warships one by one now, Xiang Yu's retreat would have been cut off, but of course he didn't do that. This was a large warship. It was made by Xiang Liang in Kuaiji County for no reason and verbal money and verbalism to persuade the then county magistrate Yin Tong.
If this is just smashed, Ying Gao would have to make such many warships of this size for at least two or three years.
Since Han Xin has come, he must have kept these warships. This is also the second surprise he gave to Ying Gao. However, in his heart, Xiang Yu's retreat was cut off and Xiang Yu's warship was taken down. These conventional matters cannot be considered real surprises. What he wants to do is something that Ying Gao could not imagine at that time.
After taking this place, Han Xin's 40,000 troops were not lost much. At this time, he was in the largest warship, looking at the structure of the warship with interest, and checking whether there were any fish that had escaped the net hidden in the ship. After all, the size of the warship was quite large. If there were one or two Jiangdong soldiers hiding in it and running to Shouchun when you were not paying attention, Han Xin would not do the job perfectly.
Behind Han Xin, there was the commander of these five thousand men and a deputy general who Xiang Yu trusted quite. He had already set his sights on Han Xin when he came to check in. Therefore, when the attacking, Han Xin repeatedly told him that this general must live and must not ruin his life. Whoever kills him will be dealt with according to military law.
Such an order must be given, otherwise Han Xin had already seen that when Qin soldiers fought, they had almost only one purpose except for executing the general's orders, that is, to collect heads.
In the eyes of the soldiers of Daqin, once they arrive on the battlefield, the opponent's sergeant's head is no longer a head, but a smooth road for them to be promoted to their title.
Especially with such obvious one-sided combat power, the result will definitely be like a tiger entering the flock of sheep, and the enemy's generals cannot be spared for the Qin soldiers, because in the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty, if you, an ordinary Qin soldier, could kill a general of the enemy, it would be amazing, and would be worth more than a dozen ordinary enemy troops.
So if Han Xin wants to save the life of this general, he would like to remind his soldiers. It is precisely because of this that Jiangdong general could stand behind him and look at the seven dissatisfied and eight resentful expressions on his face. Han Xinxin said that if it weren't for my brother, you wouldn't know who would have broken your head now...
"How many defenders are there in Kuaiji County, and where are they camping?"
Han Xin did not make any preparations, but turned around and asked this question.
"When the Major General leads his army to come, are you tens of thousands of Qin soldiers still dead? How can we, Jiangdong's children, become intimidated by the Qin people in a few words?"
The reason why this general was left by Xiang Yu to look at the most important warship was that loyalty would definitely be without any problem. If he asked so simply, Han Xin would have to think about whether what he said was true.
"Do you know how Xiang Liang, the uncle of Major General Jiangdong, died?"
Han Xin did not ask about the previous things, nor did he go up and just punched and kicked him. Instead, he arrived in front of the man and asked in a low voice.
Xiang Liang's image in the hearts of the children of Jiangdong was really very tall. When Han Xin said this, the general naturally could not respond. He just lowered his head deeply and stopped paying attention to Han Xin.
"Xiang Liang was captured like you, and then he came to the king's body. At that time, the king asked the beam a question like me, and that beam was exactly like you before, and then...tsk tsk tsk..."
Speaking of this, Han Xin looked up at the Jiangdong general and found that this guy's expression was not as firm as before. He was also secretly looking at Han Xin, which meant that he had no idea in his heart.
After pausing for a moment, Han Xin's mouth opened again.
"Then, the Lord of the Lord did not ask any more words, and directly pulled Xiang Liang out of the door and cut it open. I think you have seen what happened to Xiang Liang's head after that. I am not the Lord of the Lord, so naturally I cannot do such decisive things. Therefore, I should at least give you another opportunity this time, and you said no, right?"
After saying these words quietly, Han Xin slowly repeated the question he had just said.
This time, the generals of Jiangdong were no longer as determined as before. Just Han Xin's words made his previous psychological defenses scatter.
He no longer knew what the consequences would be if he could hold on. He only knew that if he was not good, his head might be hung on the coaching flag, or he would not even have the qualifications to be hung on the coaching flag, and he would throw it directly into the river.
Looking at the general's expression, Han Xin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this guy must have been taken down by him.
The reason why I thought of this method was because Han Xin said in a conversation after Ying Gao killed Xiang Liang, that is, what scared the enemy was not death itself, but learned that he was on the road to death and was getting closer and closer...
Although Han Xinxin was so despised at him, now he is racing against time and he can't control so much.
Xiang Yu didn't know the situation on Han Xin's side, and Ying Gao didn't know so much. They both have their own set of things to do now, so they don't have time to take care of those things at all.
After Xiang Yu in County Chen gave the order, the children of Jiangdong rushed towards the carriages like slaughtered tigers. They had not fought such a refreshing battle for a long time, and they were also very eager.
But what surprised Xiang Yu a little was that the number of Qin soldiers escorted these carriages seemed to be quite large, and there were only five or six thousand. If he had to resist with all his strength, he would not have been destroyed by the army under his command in an instant.
But these Qin soldiers had just discovered that they had been attacked by sneak attacks, and they almost ran away before they could meet the soldiers in Jiangdong.
Of course, Xiang Yu knew how the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty had achieved their virtues. He had almost rarely done such a thing before he could fight.
The whole row of carriages looked heavy at first glance, and they were all thrown on the road.
This relaxedness was completely beyond Xiang Yu's expectations, and it made him murmur, but the carriages and boxes on the carriage were placed in front of him.
"Open these boxes, check them one by one, and see what they are?"
When the soldiers from Jiangdong lined up and all reached out to open the seemingly tight wooden box, a sudden change occurred!
The lids of those wooden boxes suddenly opened themselves. When the soldiers in Jiangdong subconsciously looked in the moonlight, they realized that there were no food and grass, not weapons, but living people...
Almost all the boxes opened on their own at the same time. It was nothing else inside, but the Qin soldiers holding Qin crossbows tightly in their hands!
"not good!"
Xiang Yu was very aware of this situation, but before he could say anything, nor before the Jiangdong sergeant who had just relaxed around the box could react, the arrows were fired one by one...
Caught off guard, hundreds of soldiers in Jiangdong were shot down, which caused quite a stir.
In just a moment, Xiang Yu's heart fell from the clouds to the mortal world.
He was most afraid, but he kept comforting himself that something that would not happen happened at this moment. The huge flaw of Qin Bing that he had deliberately discovered was completely a trap. It was obvious that after he fell into this trap, with Ying Gao's temperament and ability, he might have been a little difficult for this battle.
"Major General? What should I do if I do this?"
Once such a change happened, Long Qi's heart was also cold. Long Qi knew what Xiang Yu was thinking too much. Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang did not agree much about this matter, so Xiang Yu could be said to be at great risk. Now that he has come like this, if he loses this time, it may not be necessary to have such a chance.
"Quickly withdraw to Shouchun, I'm afraid that the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty will not stay in Chen County honestly at this time, Shouchun is in danger..."
Chapter completed!