socalfunplaces Chapter 398
Chapter 398
Bai Qi's army was defeated and retreated, but he did not join Xiang Yu, but retreated to Jinyuan and joined Sima Cuo over there.
This operation made Wang Mang, who received the news, a little incomprehensible.
"Strange, how could he retreat to Jinyuan instead of going to Wanchun to find Xiang Yu?"
Wang Mang thought for a while, feeling that Bai Qi seemed to have some conspiracy brewing.
You must know that Wanchun is in the northwest direction of the east of the city, which is not very far from Chengdu, and there is a fierce general Xiang Yu over there, which can boost the morale of the retreating Qin army.
And although Jin Yuan's Sima Cuo is also a famous general, compared to Xiang Yu, it is still a little unsightly.
If he, Wang Mang, had chosen at this time, he would definitely have gone to Xiang Yu instead of retreating to Jin Yuan!"
"Kong Ming, what do you think?" Wang Mang turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang, who was looking at the map in the hall.
Although Zhuge Liang's advice to be cautious yesterday was not adopted, Bai Qi's movements at this time were very strange, and he had to be cautious.
Zhuge Liang frowned when he heard this, pointed to the situation of the soldiers and horses on both sides on the map, and said: "Your Majesty, please see!
Now Li Xin is in Xingang, Sima is in Jinyuan, and Xiang Yu is in Wanshou, and they are forming a three-sided attack on Chengdu.
And Jin Yuan is in the middle of these three discoveries
, Bai Qi as the commander, of course, is in the middle of the command! If Bai Qi really has a glimpse of Chengdu, he should mobilize some soldiers and horses to go to Wanshou to give Xiang Yu, after all, although Xiang Yu is strong, he does not have many soldiers and horses.
Only in this way will it be possible for them to attack our army on three sides!
However, this is just Wei Chen's conjecture, Bai Qi may not want to fight our army, and return to Jinyuan just to command all the soldiers and horses to converge on him, ready to evacuate this place at any time!"
The meaning of Zhuge Liang's words is very simple, Bai Qi now has nothing more than two choices.
The first is to allocate some soldiers and horses to Xiang Yu, take Wanshou as soon as possible, and form a three-sided encirclement of Chengdu.
On the other hand, after seeing the power of Wang Mang's talisman, Bai Qi felt that he was not an opponent, so he wanted to gather all the soldiers and horses.
Now, it's up to them to judge Bai Qi's actions and then make countermeasures!
After listening to Zhuge Liang's analysis, Wang Mang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and he couldn't make up his mind.
If it was other generals on the other side, Wang Mang would definitely not hesitate to think that the other party would retreat.
But the other party is Bai Qi, that is a ruthless person, not a loser, this time he let the other party lose more than 30,000 people, he doesn't believe that Bai Qi retreated like this.
"This matter still needs to be judged according to the next movement of the enemy army!" Wang
Mang's eyes narrowed, and he immediately ordered: "Pass the order down and pay close attention to the movements of the Qin army!"
Anyway, he is not in a hurry now, he only needs to wait a few more days, and the two armies of Wild Wolf and Silver Leopard will come here.
At that time, with his strong military superiority, he will definitely be able to annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop.
As for why he didn't launch a large-scale campaign right now
, of course, it was because Bai Qi might have the talisman given by Yingzheng in his hand, and if the other side used the bean-scattering talisman in other battlefields, the Dahua soldiers and horses would suffer a loss.
When the other two legions came, even if Bai Qi used the talisman, they would not be afraid!
It was about five days, and he Wang Mang still had to wait for this time.
Zhuge Liang also agreed with this idea, and in the case of Bai Qi's unclear movements, they could only wait for the other two major legions to come.
And in the past few days, Zhuge Liang didn't believe that Bai Qi would come up with any big plans.
However, what they didn't expect was that the day after the order was passed down, Xiang Yu on Wanshou's side actually launched a siege battle!
"Kill!" "Rush!"
The sound of drums resounded in the sky, kicking off the prelude to the siege vehicle.
The shouts of killing moved the sky, flags were waved outside the city, and the cavalry constantly patrolled and raised dust, and the whole world was covered by this battle.
On the city wall, Zhang He looked at the Qin army outside the city with an indifferent face and sneered: "Hmph, I want to capture Wanshou in such a battle, I really don't take me Zhang He seriously
! Pass the order, according to the order of the previous general, the archers wait for the other party to approach and then release their arrows, and specially send a team of people to shoot and kill the siege warriors!
Others, prepare hot oil, rolling stones and giant trees, and smash them down when the enemy rushes up!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" For a while, the black arrows of the entire heaven and earth roared down.
In an instant, the Qin army that rushed over from outside the city was shot down in a large area.
But Xiang Yu had already prepared, and the shield hand was on top, with sharp arrows on his head, and the infantry behind him continued to charge.
After paying the price of pieces of corpses, the Qin army finally came to the city wall and set up a cloud ladder on the city wall to attack the city.
At the same time, the siege wrestlers also pushed the siege cart to the city gate and were constantly hitting the city gate.
Wanshou City is not very big, and the city gate is certainly not very strong, if it continues to be hit, it will soon be breached.
Fortunately, Zhang He had already prepared, and a team of archers specially shot these siege fighters, disrupting the rhythm of the other party, so that the Dahua soldiers behind the city gate could always resist the city gate and prevent the other party from entering.
As for those Qin troops who were attacking the city on the city wall, some were killed by sharp arrows, some were pushed to the ladder and fell, and some were smashed down with boulders and rolling logs.
For a while, blood splattered, flesh and blood flew sideways, and screams were repeated, like purgatory on earth, and the screams of the Qin army were everywhere.
But even so, Xiang Yu still did not order a retreat, but kept urging the soldiers below to continue the attack.
For a whole morning, the Qin army attacked the city non-stop, leaving more than 2,000 corpses outside
the city! Even Zhang He had a solemn face when he fought until noon: "I can't imagine that Xiang Yu is so crazy and has been attacking the city non-stop, isn't he worried that the Qin army below will be killed?" To be honest, Zhang He couldn't understand Xiang Yu's operation, and he didn't
know what the other party's purpose was.
But as the defender of this place, he knew that his responsibility was to defend this place and not let Xiang Yu capture this place! Even if Xiang Yu was
hard-hearted and wanted to attack the Qin army regardless of life or death, he still wouldn't give the other party any chance.
Outside the city, Xiang Yu watched all this expressionlessly, his hands clenched tightly, and no one could see what he was thinking.
Only the adjutant general on the side kept persuading: "General, we can't fight any more, our army has lost 2,000 men in just two hours!"
Xiang Yu is a general who has been hired, and the deputy general is worried about whether the other party wants to deliberately take the life
of the Qin army to fill this city! But Xiang Yu only snorted coldly when he heard this, and glanced at the deputy general coldly: "Hmph, do you think that Ben General wants to attack the city
like this? This is all Bai Qi's order, saying that the city must be attacked like this!
However, now Ben General has acted according to his orders, and today's matter is over, the order will go down, and the whole army will retreat in the direction of Jinyuan!"
At the sound of an order, the Qin army retreated like a tide, without even bringing baggage, and left with only food.