When Zhaozhong was killed, his son immediately surrendered to the Han army with the remaining Zhao clan members, and the resistance in the camp on the west side was soon over.

At dusk, Li Mu was already sitting in his own chariot surrounded by many Han soldiers and entered this camp in a mighty manner.

From the previous Han Army Camp, Xiacai City is actually quite far away, but if you stand on the west side of the camp, the city is already close.

Looking at Xia Caicheng, who was so close to him, Li Mu couldn't help but sneer.

"What's the use of making those fancy things all day long?

True strength cannot be defeated by these things."

On the other hand, Zhao Kuo also received the news, and then a smile appeared on his face.

"At the current speed, the war should be over soon."

Zhao Kuo said to the many Han generals in front of him.

This is really not Zhao Kuo's boast. After all, it took only one day to break through the west camp of the Chu people. Then, at most, it would take a few days or even a little further away. It would be almost possible to break through this city in ten days and half a month.

Xia Cai City is now the last line of defense for the Chu people. Once this city is broken by the Han army, the Chu people will completely lose all the power that can continue to fight with the Han people.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, the generals of the Han Dynasty naturally agreed and their hearts were filled with joy.

After all, everyone knows that as long as the Chu State is destroyed, the world will be completely unified.

By then, as the heroes who led the Han Dynasty to unify the world, everyone can happily enjoy their old age at home.

Zhao Kuo didn't know what these generals under his command were thinking, otherwise he would definitely say with a smile that the ideas of these generals were definitely very stupid and naive.

But no matter what, since the camp on the west side has been captured, Zhao Kuo naturally announced the combat plan for the next day.

"From tomorrow, we will place our main force in the direction of the attack on the east side of the camp.

As for the camp on the west side, of course, they should continue to send troops to attack the city to restrain the city's power. They must not allow the city to continue to support the camp on the east side.

After both camps are taken down, we can launch a total attack on the city and completely end the war."

Faced with Zhao Kuo's orders, all the Han army generals present naturally responded in unison.

Zhao Kuo slept very well that night, but his opponent Jing Yang tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

On the one hand, Jingyang suffered huge pressure from the war, and on the other hand, he heard the news of Zhao Zhong's death.

Although Zhao Zhong is Jingyang's political enemy and the person Jingyang wants to get rid of the most, Zhao Zhong's death is absolutely bad news for Jingyang.

Because this means that Zhaozhong's Zhao family has completely declined, and the three major families have since become two major families.

If it is in peacetime, this is definitely a very good thing. Jingyang can lead his Jing family to madly invade and obtain the extra power vacuum after the decline of the Zhao family.

But now is the war period, and the powerful force of the Zhao family was wiped out in today's war, causing the Chu State to lose more than 50,000 troops.

Now Jingyang only has about 130,000 troops in his hands, but Zhao Kuo on the opposite side still has nearly 300,000 troops. The pressure is too huge.

After the absence of the west camp, Jingyang's previous conception of the entire defense line was equivalent to a complete failure.

It is no exaggeration to say that the failure of the entire war seems to be a matter of immediate vigor.

What should I do?

Even Jingyang himself couldn't get any answer.

This night passed and the dawn of the second day came again.

Like the day before, the Han army also began to set up camp when the sun rose, and soon launched the attack of this day.

However, compared with yesterday, the Han army this time put the main forces of the attack on the east camp and launched an extremely fierce offensive against the east camp.

Jing Yang originally expected this, but when the war really started, he discovered that the Han army's attack on the eastern camp was far beyond his expectations.

Not only the camp on the east side, but at this time, Li Mu in the camp on the west side also sent a large number of troops to launch an attack on Xia Caicheng.

Jingyang was in a dilemma at once, because he could not continue to draw down his troops to support the east camp. After all, his most important task was to defend the Xia Cai City.

Moreover, when the war was at noon, something that made Jingyang even more worried happened, that was, the main force of Zhao Kuo, who had been holding troops, finally entered the battle and launched an attack on Xia Caicheng.

In this case, Jingyang's three-pillar tripod has now lost one corner, just like a three-legged bronze tripod that has lost one corner and has become shaky.

But Jing Yang was also very clear that now he could have any better ways besides continuing to persevere?

In order to stick to it, Jingyang also used all kinds of strategies, and even sent people to walk back and forth on the city with great fanfare, trying to create the illusion that the number of Chu troops is still very large.

However, facing Jingyang's various strategies, the Han army was completely indifferent. It just adhered to the war style of yesterday and just attacked the city. Jingyang should have a headache for other things.

Moreover, with the development of the Han army's attack level, the super weapon explosives that made Jingyang and all the Chu people worried seemed to have begun to appear.

A general of Chu came to Jingyang without any possession and said loudly to Jingyang: "Sima, the Han people sent several carriages, and it is very likely that the carriages are the kind of explosives they have in their legend!"

When Jing Yang heard the news, he jumped up and said to his subordinates in front of him: "You can send an order immediately and let all the soldiers on the city wall launch rockets immediately and blow up all these explosive trucks. They will never be able to reach the bottom of the city."

After several years of careful research on explosives, Jing Yang also has some experiences, such as when he learned that explosives will explode immediately when they encounter fire.

Under Jing Yang's order, many rockets immediately shot on the explosives trucks. Sure enough, one of the explosives trucks caught fire and began to explode. The rumbling sound could be heard even in Jing Yang in the city.

After receiving the news that this combat method was effective, Jing Yang was even more overjoyed and repeatedly asked the soldiers of Chu on the city wall not to take it lightly and to use rockets to submerge all the explosive trucks directly.

However, what Jing Yang didn't know was that his approach was actually just as Zhao Kuo expected.

Because Zhao Kuo's idea was not to directly break through Xia Cai City, but to first remove the camp on the east side, so as to win the entire war step by step.

In order to achieve this, Zhao Kuo specially arranged an explosive truck to be blown up by Chu State, which allowed Jing Yang to obtain a wrong message, thinking that Zhao Kuo was indeed planning to capture Caicheng.

In this way, Jingyang would concentrate all the main forces in the city and would never release even one soldiers to support the east camp.

Sure enough, later that day, another good news worth celebrating came, and the camp on the east side of the Chu army was also defeated.

The only difference from the west camp is that Qu Feng, the guardian of the east camp, did not choose to commit suicide like Zhao Zhong. Instead, the Han general Xiang Yan, chose to lead all the Qu clan soldiers to surrender to the Han Dynasty.

After this news came out, it was another very important blow to Jingyang.

At the same time, for other generals of Chu, this news was also a very, very serious psychological shock.

Here, among the three major families of Chu, there were only the Jingyang and Jing clans who were still guarding Xiacai City.

I remember how glorious it was for the three major families to surround Chu State back then, but now only Jing Yang is left to support it, and all this has only been two days since it happened.

If it is a slow decline, then everyone can actually understand it, but now this decline that is almost as fast as light is falling, it definitely makes everyone feel frightened.

After all, even when the pillars of Chu, such as the three major families, collapsed one after another, who knew whether the end of Chu was near?

As the chief general of the Chu army, Jing Yang should have made some speeches at this time to stabilize the morale of the Chu army soldiers, but at this time Jing Yang was obviously not in the mood to do so. Instead, he locked himself up and saw no one in the study.

Jing Yang's behavior was actually to relieve stress by himself, and it was also his usual habit, but what he did not expect was that this habit brought great psychological pressure to the soldiers of Chu at this time.

Everyone didn't know what Jing Yang's usual habits were. After hearing this news, everyone subconsciously felt that Jing Yang should have been beaten by Zhao Kuo.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was so bad, the main general was beaten to such an autism by Zhao Kuo, and the morale of the soldiers of the Chu army naturally fell and continued to fall.

On the other hand, the Han army led by Zhao Kuo was becoming more and more motivated.

After all, the two camps and one city in front of me look quite difficult to mess with.

However, this very difficult line of defense was conquered by the Han army in just two days.

If even Chu State is nothing more, then isn’t the real victory already in front of you?

On the third day, all the soldiers of the Han army were full of fighting spirit. They got up early, after breakfast, lined up outside the city, and looked at Xia Cai City in front of them.

Zhao Kuo also stood on the chariot of the main general, and smiled and said to the Han army generals around him: "If possible, if we can, we will take down this city today, and we will save a lot of trouble in the future."

Zhao Kuo said so, and the Han generals around him took the initiative to ask for the battle, hoping to seize the final contribution.

Zhao Kuo calmly pointed the names of several generals, making them as the vanguard army. The other generals who were not named naturally showed disappointment on their faces, and they all felt that they might miss the great contribution this time.

Zhao Kuo also smiled at this. After all, there are indeed quite a lot of generals in the Han Dynasty. You can't say that everyone leads troops to seize this predecessor. You must be able to choose some young generals who are more promising and Zhao Kuo also values ​​more to do this.

There is a special candidate among them, that is Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan has now become the leader of the Xiang family of Han. As a former Chu native, his identity can be said to be relatively sensitive.

It is also because of this reason that Zhao Kuo did not intend to send Xiang Yan to fight in this war to wipe out the Chu State at the beginning.

In fact, Zhao Kuo didn't even want to bring Xiang Yan with him when he went to war. However, after learning the news, Xiang Yan took the initiative to come to the door and told Zhao Kuo that he was now a minister of the Han State and that he should fight for the Han State.

Not only that, Xiang Yan also said that even when facing the old subordinates and old acquaintances of Chu State, he would not show any mercy.

The facts do prove this. In yesterday's attack on the east camp, Xiang Yan's indomitable move can be said to be the biggest contributor to conquer the east camp.

Not only that, Xiang Yan also successfully convinced Qu Feng to surrender, which was also a great achievement.

Why do you say so?

This is about a very famous saying in history.

In history, after the demise of Chu, a man named Nangong once said with great grief and anger: "Although Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed, Chu will be destroyed!"

The "three households" here do not refer to three families, and it is impossible for Chu State to be conquered by Qin State to only three families.

The meaning of Nangong is that although the Xiong clan of our Chu State has been destroyed by the Qin people, there are still the three major families of Zhao and Jingqu. One day they will avenge the Chu State and destroy Qin State.

Later, after hearing this, Qin Shihuang immediately took very cruel measures of suppression and killed all the descendants of these three major families.

But what Qin Shihuang never expected was that it was not these three major families that overthrew the Qin Dynasty, but came from another Xiang family that was not yet top in the Chu State at that time.

This is what is called "human calculation is worse than God's calculation."

But no matter what, the Xiang family is not as famous as the Qu family in this common saying, which is enough to prove how famous these three major families are in the Chu State.

Therefore, the ability of the Qu family to surrender to the Han State will definitely make the Han State more convenient to conquer the people of Chu State. This is something that Zhao Kuo pays more attention to than winning the war.

Zhao Kuo's eyes fell on Xiang Yan, then nodded at the other vanguard generals, and said with a smile: "Okay, go and end this war!"
Chapter completed!