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Sure enough, the battle was as Xiang Yan had expected. When the Qin Army rushed to the Chu Army's defense line, he could not advance half a point.

The first to rush to the line of defense was the one hundred thousand Qin army led by Mengwu.

Mengwu's road can be said to be awe-inspiring. He led his troops to capture more than ten cities and villages along the way, and almost all of them landed without a fight.

This made Mengwu's arrogant Chong subordinates shout "Light soldiers advance, and Chu will be destroyed in two months."

Qin Jun's morale rose for a while, and he yelled: "Light soldiers advance quickly and destroy Chu in two months!"

At this time, Mengwu was a little anxious.

Mengwu needs this battle to prove himself...

In fact, Mengwu also knew that the king had the intention to cultivate the Meng family.

This is not a secret for generals who are long in official careers. Any country taboos credit and power in the hands of one person and one general.

Because if this goes on, power will fall away. In the end, the emperor and his officials secretly suspect each other, such as the relationship between Li Mu and Zhao Wang.

It is thought that the way of the emperor is to disperse the merits and military power, so that the ministers and generals will check and balance each other.

Now that Wang Jian successively destroyed Han, Zhao, Wei and then defeated the State of Yan, no one can surpass him.

At this time, it is time to support Montessori to make it meritorious and power, so that the Qin country can be peaceful.

Meng Wu has been running Montessori with his father in Xianyang since he was a child. How can he not know these official truths?

Otherwise, with so many generals in Qin State, why did he let him lead the army to destroy Chu?

Mengwu knew that this was Montessori's opportunity, but it was also a test.

Because once the king thinks that Mengwu is a mud supporting the wall, he will choose to support others.

Therefore, Mengwu wanted to prove to the king that he was no worse than Wang Jian.

Wang Jian can have the power of destroying the country, and so can he Mengwu.

After the destruction of Chu, Montessori will once again restore the glory of his father Mengyu in his hands and sit on the same level as Wang Jian.

It's just that Meng Wu couldn't think of it. These things have to be realized by his son Meng Tian, ​​and they are only partially realized...If Wang Jian didn't take Wang Ben to retreat, there would be nothing wrong with Meng Tian.

Stimulated by this thought, Mengwu led soldiers all the way to the city of Fucheng.

At first, Meng Wu thought that the city father was also like other cities, just some old and weak Chu soldiers stationed, so he simply built some siege ladders and eagerly ordered the attack.

Needless to say what the result was, the Chu army was hit by arrows and shot down the city, killing more than a thousand people.

On the other side, Yang Duanhe and Shen Bing's troops also rushed to Ruyin.

In fact, the beam at this time can reach the Huai River and even Shouchun along the waterway.

The main role was the Wei State. In order to develop the north-south water and land transportation during the Wei State's prosperous period, the Bianhe River was excavated to inject sand and water, and the sand was sent to Chencheng, and then digging south to the north of Shenqiu to inject Yingshui and then Yingshui Enter the Huai River.

This is the gap in history.

It's just that due to years of fighting, many waterways in the chasm were blocked.

Until Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang re-widened and dug these waterways and cut and straightened them, it became the famous "Tongji Canal".

But of course the Qin army led by Yang Duanhe couldn't directly attack Shouchun along this waterway... If you did so, you would have to make a big bend along the river and enter the Huai River, and then down the Huai River south.

The cities that come down this way are only 200,000 people blocked and unable to garrison.

After Yang Duanhe's 100,000 troops descended along the river, they could only choose the nearest point to land and then rush to Ruyin. This is also the fastest and safest route for replenishment.

After Yang Duanhe looked at the battle report sent by Meng Wu, he frowned and said to Shen Bing:

"This Mengwu seems a bit aggressive."

"It's just a few days to the city father, this is far beyond what I expected."

Shen Bing reminded:

"Chu Bing seems to be prepared to abandon the city all the way."

"Now that the city father has soldiers, it means that the Chu army may use Rushui as a barrier to defend."

Yang Duanhe nodded and said:

"This statement makes sense."

"On the south side of the city father is Ruyin. In this way, this Ruyin is also the place where the Chu army must guard."

After thinking about it, Yang Duanhe ordered the messenger:

"General Mengwu is ordered not to advance, Chu Jun seems to have intention of defending the city father, and I should also plan to fight for a long time."

The messenger responded and sent the order.

There is a big difference between this long-term battle and the short-term quick battle.

Long battles will save strength to find the enemy's loopholes, but quick battles will not hesitate to consume troops to launch an onslaught.

But Mengwu was reluctant to listen.

When Mengwu received the order, he said to the general:

"It is said that Wang Jian is too old to play, and I don't want Yang Duanhe to do the same."

"In the battlefield of the general army, there are many signs of confusing people. Otherwise, why does the military strategist say that it is "showing"?"

"The only basis for judging all kinds of news lies in the power of the country, the general trend, and not on the facts."

"Xiang Yan is also a veteran, will he be a man's arm as a car?"

"According to the facts, Xiang Yan has only one plan: According to Shou Ruyin, we can delay our army so that Shou Chunnan can escape! That's all, how can he be?"

It should be said that Mengwu's judgment also makes some sense.

He believes that from a general perspective, neither the national power nor the general trend of Chu is enough to resist Qin.

Therefore, Xiang Yan had to take the Chu army and continue to flee south into the dense forest water network area with the help of the terrain.

Therefore, Chengfu's defense was a fake, a method used by the Chu army to delay the Qin army so that the Shouchun royal family had time to escape.

Under this judgment, it should be a quick battle rather than a long battle.

The battlefield is sometimes so strange, no matter what you think of, you can find some truth from the military books, so "the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother is reasonable."

Until the end, no one knows and is not sure who is right.

Meng Wu thought so at this time, and he did not take Yang Duanhe's order too much in his heart, but continued to command his troops to attack Chengfu with all his strength.

When Yang Duanhe arrived in Ruyin, he started to log wood and build a village step by step, and then build trebuchets, quarry stone bombs, shipbuilding and siege equipment.

While building on the other, Yang Duanhe asked Shen Bing again:

"Can the black armored navy help our army break through the water?"

Shen Bing shook his head and replied:

"On the east bank of Rushui, there are Chu army trebuchets and crossbowmen, while the black armored navy has only three thousand men."

"If you want to break your water, I'm afraid I'm not strong enough!"

Yang Duanhe looked at the map and sighed, saying:

"So, you can only attack Ruyin."

It is true that only the two cities of Ruyin and Chengfu can be attacked, otherwise they can only venture to cross Rushui.

Although Qin Jun had a pontoon bridge to quickly cross the river, the situation where there was a large number of Chu troops defending on the opposite bank was just a joke...Qin Jun was killed after a batch of them, just like adding oil.

If it weren't for these geographical advantages, Xiang Yan would not choose this line of defense as a defense line to defend the country and counterattack.

But Shen Bing didn't panic at all.

Because he did not hope that Qin Jun could attack this line of defense at all.

He is waiting, waiting for a chance.