Daqin Engineers

As usual, the battle started with the catapult.

The advantage of the wooden castle is that it is simple and easy to build, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to prevent the bombing of the trebuchet.

The Qin Army focused on bombing the Shahebank, taking into account the entire defense line of the Chu Army.

However, this is also the focus of the Chu army's defense. The walled city was supported by several rows of wooden fences, and many arrow towers were set up along the river.

The arrow tower here can provide cover for land forces and block off the river.

However, Qin Jun deployed hundreds of trebuchets here. As soon as he ordered the stone bullets to fly towards Muzhai one after another, the sawdust flew around and screamed and even the arrow tower was blown up Staggered, the archers standing on it fell one by one.

It took a full half an hour before Qin Jun came forward in a neat formation.

Only then did Xiang Yan realize that the Qin Army was not only destroying the walled city and obstructing the construction of fortifications, but actually counterattacking.

However, Xiang Yan was still a little puzzled:

Could it be that Daliang transported a new batch of grain to Chencheng?

Or shipped from Handan?

Otherwise, where would the Qin army counterattack?

However, the news that Xiang Yan found did not change.

If Qin Jun had the ability to counterattack, why wait until this time?

Xiang Yan faintly felt that she had fallen into the trap of Qin Jun.

But he was not sure.

Because there is another possibility that Qin Jun bluffs and hopes to force Chu Jun back.

When Xiang Yan hesitated, he saw that the two armies at the walled city had started fighting.

The Qin army swarmed in along the gap made by the trebuchet, while the Chu army swarmed up to block it, and the Chu army archers in the rear shot rows in the direction of the Qin army.

Stone bullets fell fiercely from the air into the dense crowd of Chu army, and occasionally a few flint bullets flew to illuminate the night sky.

On the stage, Xiang Yan vaguely saw Qin Jun using his horse to break the remaining Mucha through the light of the fire.

This is not surprising, because only by opening the gap wider can more soldiers enter the Chu army camp.

However, Xiang Yan still felt something was wrong.

If Qin Jun wants to break the city, why not continue to bombard the city with stone bullets or burn it with fire bullets?

After all, the range of the Qin's trebuchet is farther than that of the Chu's. In this way, the walled city will become a ruin after a few days of bombing. Wouldn't it be easier to attack then than it is now?

Why does Qin Jun want to choose the easier?

A series of questions made Xiang Yan not focus on the battle itself, but thinking about the intentions of the Qin army, and even turned a blind eye to the fight and screams on the defense line.

This is Bo Xiang hurried to report:

"Admiral, our army is about to be unable to defend."

"Qin Jun seems to be fully counterattack..."

Xiang Yan hesitated, then ordered:

"Withdraw troops."

When Bo Xiang responded, he sent the order.

Xiang Yan’s approach is wise. They shouldn’t fight the Qin army at this walled city. This is also the strategy he made at the beginning. Otherwise, if these 300,000 people have finished fighting in Bucheng, who else will guard the Ru water defense line? ?

So Chu Jun retreated to the second line of defense.

Because Xiang Yan had prepared and even practiced several retreats, the Chu army retreated in an orderly manner.

But Qin Jun was not in a hurry to chase after him, and he stopped after taking the city.

What the Qin army needed was only to take down the city. In fact, all they needed was the fortification of the river crossing the city.

As soon as the Chu army retreated, the Qin army lifted warships with wheels from the camp, crossed the chains of the river and the stakes, and put them into Hanoi.

Among them are many soldiers carrying processed long wooden boards.

After bringing them here, you only need to nail these long planks with wooden nails in the middle of the two warships, and finally nail a few simple fences along the sides of the ship to splice a boat.

Needless to say, what this boat is used for, it is used to house the horses.

If it is just a wheeled warship, each can barely hold three horses, and two can only hold six.

However, as long as it is slightly modified, that is, connecting the two ships with wooden boards, the space can be doubled and it is very flat. One boat can hold ten horses and ten soldiers at the same time.

Eight of the ten soldiers are responsible for handling the boat, and two are responsible for guarding the horses.

Because there are fences along the boat, there is no need to worry about the horses falling into the river. The two people who look after the horses only need to be responsible for comforting the horses from being frightened.

Three thousand horses and three thousand black armies were loaded by three hundred such boats.

Then an order was given, and three hundred boats flowed down the sandy water.

On the way, even Xiang Yan led the retreating Chu army. How could the Black Armor be polite to them? It was a random shot at the Chu army with its bow and arrows on the boat.

Chu Jun was beaten up with a dazed expression, hurriedly raised his shield to protect him and shouted:

"Qin Jun is in the river, they are chasing from the river!"

Xiang Yan was still commanding the troops to retreat. Hearing the flustered cry, he hurriedly pulled the horse's head and rode on a small mound, but there was nothing to see in the darkness.

"Rocket!" Xiang Yan ordered.

Uncle Xiang immediately passed on the order, and soon someone lit a rocket on the bank and shot it into the river.

Xiang Yan was taken aback by what she saw. Shahe under the fire was already full of Qin army boats, and the black boats were everywhere. On the boats stood the black armored army, and there were many war horses in the boats. , Faintly can still hear the nose of the war horse.

Xiang Yan secretly said a bad cry. Because the Chu army had to deliver grain and grass for 300,000 people during this period, they did not close the river all the way down, and the Qin army went down the river...

As soon as I thought about it, I let out a cold sweat.

But Uncle Xiang shouted from the side:

"Admiral, the Qin army wants to copy our army back."

"Let me lead a team to challenge..."

Before Xiang Bo finished speaking, Xiang Yan cursed:

"Qin Jun is copying my back, they are clearly going to fetch Ru water!"

"I'm waiting for Qin Jun to lead the snake out of the cave!"

Uncle Xiang still doesn't understand:

"Rushui? But..."

Regardless of whether Xiang Bo understood or not, Xiang Yan ordered:

"Quickly, prepare a few fast horses and fly down the river to report to the lower reaches to stop the Qin army."

"At the same time, let Kuai Ma Fei report to Ru Yin and Cheng Fu, so that Qin Jun will not be able to get ahead!"

Although Xiang Bo was puzzled, he still arranged according to the order.

Xiang Yan is worthy of being a well-known general who has been on the battlefield, and when I look at this configuration, I know that Qin's goal is Rushui.

It's not hard to guess that the advantage of the Black Armored Army's cavalry and shooting is that it can only be used in open terrain and in the daytime.

It was night at this time, and Chu army and fortifications were everywhere from Bucheng to the south.

If the Black Armored Army, like Xiang Bo said, just outflank the Chu army and land in this area, it would be tantamount to seeking a dead end.

So there is only one possibility, and that is to attack the more important and farther place: the Rushui line of defense.

However, Xiang Yan only thought of this at this time, afraid it was too late.

Because it was night at this time, Kuaima would not be as fast as the Qin army downstream.

Therefore, Xiang Yan can only hope that the Taocheng defense line along the way can block the Qin army for a period of time.