Chapter 242 Withdrawal
The benefit of the Black Armor Army is that the pressure drops sharply.
On the one hand, the Black Armored Army can rest at night, because since the last infiltration war, Xiang Bo's army has never dared to attack the city at night again, and even if it attacks the city, it is just a good deal.
On the other hand, the Black Armored Army can concentrate its troops on the east to defend, and they can even rest in batches.
However, even so, the Black Armored Army, which had been fighting hard for days, was still hovering on the edge of the city breaking.
I don’t know how long it took, but Chen Duan, who was standing on the top of the city, suddenly shouted:
"Cabinet, the cavalry coming from the west!"
The reason why Chen Duan was so excited was that the Xiang Yan army was unlikely to retreat in this direction in the south of Ruyin, so if a cavalry appeared on the west side, it was very likely that it was the Qin army.
Sure enough, soon a black "Yang" banner appeared in everyone's sight, and the soldiers immediately cheered.
The Chu army under the city walls were all dejected like wilted cabbage.
There were not many cavalrymen coming, only dozens of people. They should be spies placed in front of the troops by the Qin army, so they just waved a few flags in the direction of Ruyin and did not get close.
But this is enough, because the arrival of the spies means that the main force will not be too far away.
Xiang Bo reported to Zhang Qi as soon as possible... Xiang Bo's intention was to withdraw his troops long ago, but Zhang Qi was suppressing him and refused to withdraw.
Now all the Qin army spies have arrived in Ruyin, so there should be no doubt about withdrawing the troops.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Qi still ordered:
"Send cavalry to disperse it and continue to attack the city."
This happened that even the several lieutenants appointed by Zhang Qi refused:
"General, Xiang Yan withdrew his troops from Rushui, and the Qin army must take Ruyin in order to break the Rushui defense line."
"If our army continues to attack the city, we will face hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Qin army!"
"General, we have not built defenses except for siege in the past few days, and our troops are less than 50,000, and our morale is not strong. If we fight against the Qin army here, we are afraid..."
In fact, Zhang Qi knew that he had to withdraw at this time, so he just couldn't swallow this breath.
Seeing that Zhang Qi was still unmoved, Xiang Bo turned his eyes and advised:
"A subordinate General Zhizhu Kingdom intends to fight with the Qin army."
"However, the general of the Zhu Kingdom is the escort army in the capital, and the cavalry and chariot soldiers are the main elites of the escort army."
"If the general fails here, who will defend Shouchun?"
"So, my subordinates urge to attack the city here and lead the army first!"
Xiang Bo said this very nicely, but you should know that Xiang Yan was in charge of military power at this time. Even if he was General Zhu, Zhang Qi did not dare to withdraw Xiang Yan's son first and left behind him.
However, Zhang Qi found a way out. He sighed and said:
"Forget it, I'll give you the advantage of Shen Bing this time and come and take his life again."
"General Xiang is very brave. However, the battle situation is decided and there is no need to attack again. Your troops will follow me to retreat to Shouchun!"
The generals were overjoyed and agreed.
So not long after, the Chu army retreated like a tide, leaving only an abandoned tent, siege equipment and corpses.
Seeing this, Shen Bing and the black armored soldiers had no strength to cheer, and they just sat on the city wall.
When people are nervous, adrenal hormones are secreted faster, so they don’t feel tired. As soon as they relax, they feel like the bones in their bodies are disintegrating.
After a while, Wang Ben laughed:
"This battle is enjoyable!"
"Wang Ben never dared to think about it before using three thousand men to fight against the 70,000 elite troops in the Chu army."
"But under the leadership of the deputy general, this battle came true..."
Chen Duan took a sip of wine with a water bag, then handed it to Chen Bing, saying:
"I can't believe it until now. I really repelled the Chu army, 70,000 Chu army?!"
Wang Ben asked:
"Do you still hope the Chu army will win?"
"If the Chu army wins, I'm afraid that Zhang Qi will have to tear us into pieces before he can vent his hatred."
Chen Duan smiled weakly:
"With this battle, what's the regret of being broken into pieces..."
Before he finished speaking, a mouthful of blood was spurted out of his mouth.
Seeing that something was wrong, Chen Bing hurried forward and pulled Chen Duan's leather armor... and found that there were two sword wounds wrapped in mao on his abdomen, and it had been a while since the degree of suppuration of the wound.
It turned out that Chen Duan had been fighting with injuries in order not to affect the command of the Black Armor Army.
Judging from his injuries, it might be fine if he had been recuperating a few days ago, but now the wound is seriously infected and he can only wait to die in an era without antibiotics.
Chen Bing sighed and asked only:
"Do you have family?"
Chen Duan answered intermittently:
"There is an old mother, I hope the deputy general..."
Chen Bing nodded:
"Stop saying anything."
"Don't worry, I will treat her like my biological mother."
Chen Duan breathed a sigh of relief, then shivered a few times as if he was catching a cold, and then there was no sound.
The soldiers around them bowed their heads to greet each other, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and it was shed on everyone's faces, but it was rain or tears.
Chen Bing slowly picked up Chen Duan's body, walked step by step to the city, and then lay flat on the ground... There were more than a thousand corpses, and the bodies of the black-armored soldiers who died in battle.
The ancients were very taboo to die in a foreign land, because they believed that if they died in a foreign land and buried it elsewhere, the soul would not find the way home and so they could not reincarnate and engulf the soul.
Therefore, all these corpses were not processed in order to have the opportunity to transport them back to Daliang for burial.
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Chen Bing felt unaware of what it felt.
They believe in themselves and follow themselves through life and death, but in the end they still have the result.
Although they won, they also received credit.
But what does these victories and credit mean to them?
Sometimes Chen Bing didn't know whether it was right or wrong to participate in the disputes in this world.
Just when Shen Bing was stunned, soldiers shouted excitedly on the top of the city:
"Deputy General, reinforcements, reinforcements are here! It's the general's troops!"
It was Yang Duanhe's troops who came. Knowing that the war in Ruyin was tense, he personally led 5,000 light cavalry and 5,000 chariot soldiers to reinforce... The Qin army was heavy invasion but not heavy cavalry, and it was good to be able to collect enough cavalry of this size temporarily.
Originally, Yang Duanhe thought he had to fight a battle in Ruyin to resolve the siege, but obviously he was too worried.
When the Qin army arrived, the Chu army had already withdrawn.
Due to the tight time, the Chu army did not even get the body away and was not buried... Part of the reason was that the casualties were too great during the infiltration war, and more than 20,000 people were killed or injured in one night, so it was too late to bury them.
Another reason is that the Chu army was in a mess and unfamiliar with each other. There were no relatives and so many people, so they naturally couldn't take care of it.
The corpses everywhere stunned Yang Duan and his cavalrymen under their command.
Yang Duanhe even asked Li Yan around him:
"Can our army have other people reinforce Ruyin?"
Chapter completed!