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A popular tactic in modern warfare is called "blitzkrieg".

The core idea is to concentrate forces as quickly as possible to cut into the enemy’s weaknesses after accurately mastering the information.

As a result, there is no disadvantage, and there are even traffic police maintaining order when the tanks enter the enemy city.

Of course, Qin Shi couldn't fight the "blitzkrieg" with tanks, paratroopers, or mechanized infantry like in World War II, but he could fight the blitzkrieg with ships and cavalry.

Needless to say in terms of intelligence, Qin Jun just retreated all the way from Ruyin not long ago, and Shen Bing found out the conditions of roads, defenses, and hydrology and mapped them out clearly.

Even after returning to Bucheng, intelligence continued to be sent from Chu Realm.

At the same time, Shen Bing also knew that Chu Jun was not prepared.

In this era, the homing pigeons were the fastest to deliver orders. However, according to the information obtained by Shen Bing, Chu Jun did not carry the homing pigeons to Ruyin.

This is mainly because Ruyin is the focus of defense but not communication.

The focal point of Xiang Yan's communication was Shouchun, who was the responsibility of the king of Chu. His frontline situation and decision-making needed to be reported to the king of Chu. It was necessary for the king of Chu to coordinate logistics and sometimes obtain his consent.

As for Ruyin...If you set up a station and come to an urgent eight hundred miles, you can arrive in half a day, and the pigeon is completely unnecessary.

It was this loophole that Shen Bing focused on.

What if the black armies can be faster than the eight hundred miles?

Does that mean that Chu Jun’s information cannot be passed on?

Or is it because Chu Jun just got the information and he didn't have time to prepare?

This is the reason why Shen Bing chose to attack at night. In the night, the speed of the Black Armored Army down the Shahe River was not affected much, but the Chu Army’s eight hundred li could not get up quickly...

This is the case for horses without stirrups. No matter how fast the night walks, you don’t know how much life you have to throw along the way. Whether you can reach the destination alive is a problem, let alone deliver the letter.

So I can arrive in half a day during the day, but I am afraid it will be overnight.

The situation on the road was as expected by Shen Bing. Because he could not get the order in time, even though the Chu army's grain transport team met with the black armour, they didn't realize it, thinking it was the Chu army.

In order to be in a hurry, the striker of the Black Armed Forces completely ignores these food transport teams... If the striker has any action, it will easily block the river and affect the whole trip.

But the rear army was different. Their task was to burn, kill and plunder all the way. If the looted things were horses, food, and arrows, they would be taken away with the ship, and if they were equipment, they would sink into the river.

In fact, Shen Bing's order was to only keep the horses for replacement on the road, and everything else would sink into the river.

But food and arrows are the lifeblood of the army, and the soldiers in the black armor can't bear it.

Later, they discovered that it was not necessary at all, because afterwards all they encountered were transportation teams, and they couldn't pay enough food and arrows.

There was no one to stop him, and the Black Armor rushed to Taocheng in an hour.

It is almost impossible not to be discovered by the Chu Army in Taocheng, because Taocheng is not directly connected to sand and water, but enters the city through a ten-mile long canal and another water gate.

Standing at the head of the city, the Chu army saw a fleet coming from a distance and ordered to stop, and then the Chu soldiers under the city fired torches to check.

Where the Black Armored Army would take care of these many, a rain of arrows passed by and shot these Chu soldiers into hedgehogs.

The Chu army in Taocheng immediately became confused. The water gate "KaKa" was put down, and the horns broke the tranquility of the night in succession, pulling the Chu army, who was still asleep, to the top of the city.

The black armies landed beside the canal without a hassle: unload their horses, drove off the wagons, and then set up a team under the city to attack.

"Taocheng has two thousand Chu soldiers." Chen Duan reported to Shen Bing: "They are all infantry, and there are one thousand laborers. However, there are five thousand Chu soldiers ten miles from the city, and they may arrive in half an hour."

Facts have proved that the reinforcements in ancient times were not so fast. Because of the unknown situation, they would not send reinforcements at will. In addition, they had to consolidate the army and walk on foot. The last batch of reinforcements arrived almost an hour.

Shen Bing nodded.

He had already set up spies in Taocheng, and these spies had ascertained the situation and were waiting here, so the Black Armored Army could get the latest and most detailed information.

"Quick fight!" Shen Bing ordered.

Chen Duan responded and arranged.

Wang Ben couldn't help asking from one side:

"Vice-General, although this Tao City is not a strong city, it is not easy to win it."

"And our army is a cavalry that is not good at attacking cities, how can we make a quick fight?"

Shen Bing personally took care of Tao Cheng's construction of the secret road. Because of confidentiality, only Shen Bing and Chen Duan knew about it, so Wang Ben had this question.

Shen Bing answered with a smile:

"When our army retreats, we leave from this city. How can we not do some tricks."

"After a while, the gate will open soon."

It was then that Wang Ben suddenly realized that all of this was a plan set up by the Shen Bing, I am afraid that even the retreat was...this came from the respect and admiration of Shen Bing.

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, a fire broke out in the city, and then the city gate slowly opened from both sides amidst a noise.

The black armour waiting at the city gate immediately drew out the bronze sword and rushed in, shouting.

The Chu army in the city dared to resist seeing this situation, so they could only raise their hands and surrender one by one.

Shen Bing didn't bother to pay attention to them, so he was just tied up and gagged and threw them into the room.

The Black Armored Army took out the materials placed on Chengdong Mountain at the fastest speed and replaced them with the armors of the Chu Army Cavalry... These were captured during the battle with the Xiangluo Cavalry, and Shen Bing specially reserved three thousand sets for use at this time. .

Of course, such a precious thing as rattan can not be thrown away, and then put back in the cave to hide.

In a blink of an eye, the three thousand black armours turned into three thousand Chuqis, and then they crossed the Chu army's defense line and went straight to Ruyin.

Along the way, there were waves of grain transport teams, from all directions.

These grain transport teams were all transported to Bucheng by the nobles of Chu Kingdom.

At this time, the intentions of the nobles in the Chu Kingdom had been successfully reversed by Xiang Yan, or it could be said that the nobles knew that Xiang Yan had won the battle and expelled the Qin army from the Chu territory...More importantly, Xiang Yan had not lost many troops.

The fact that Xiang Yan didn't lose too many soldiers meant that the great king was still strong.

In this way, if the battle situation is stable and the nobles do not perform well, won't Xiang Yan and the king take them at once?

So wherever the nobles dared to be lazy, taking advantage of the battle before the end of the fight to transport food to the front.

When encountering these food teams, the Black Armored Army didn't talk nonsense, but told them immediately that the food had been requisitioned, so that they gathered the food into a pile and put it on fire.

This only saw the soldiers and laborers of the food transport team look dumbfounded.

Some of them seemed to perceive that these cavalry were dressed up by the enemy, but even if they wanted to report a warning, they didn't come in a hurry.

Because the black armour is a cavalry, and it is lightly loaded and straight from the road to Ruyin...There is no faster means of transportation than horses in this era.