The Chu army surrounded Linzi City, but could not take it down quickly. Xiang Yu never expected that Linzi City was so conducive to defense. Not to mention that its walls were several feet taller and thicker than those in Xue County.

A few feet up, the moat in front of you is not that easy to cross.

Xiang Yu, who is in the south, has seen many cities with moats, such as Kuaiji and Jiujiang, but the moats only serve to prevent the enemy from easily attacking the city. As long as there are a few planks, they can still pass through. But Linzi

The moat outside the city is completely different. It is ten feet wide. It cannot be crossed smoothly with a few wooden boards or some ladders. Moreover, the water in the river is still running water. It is not known where it comes from.

The water was very strong, and there would often be waves, which made the Chu army, which had no equipment to cross the river, feel like they were in despair.

At this time, Xiang Yu was asking some generals in the main tent to see if there was any way for the army to cross the river smoothly and launch an attack on Linzi City. "In my opinion, it is okay for us to surround here. Now the Qi people in the city

They must not dare to go out of the city. They only need to guard a few roads leading to the outside of Linzi City to trap them in the city. The people in the city eat what the horses feed, and the food and grass consumption must be very large. Maybe they will abandon the city if they cannot defend it for a month.

Run away." One of the generals suggested.

"General Liu, you have never seen the granaries in Linzi City. If you had seen the three huge granaries in Linzi City, I'm afraid you wouldn't say that. The food stored in those three granaries is enough to feed 100,000 horses.

It has been more than a year, and the people of Qi have made up their mind to hold on this time. The food in the city must be well prepared, and there may even be more than the three major granaries. If we want to besiege the city and make them run out of food, I'm afraid it won't be so

It's easy." Another person immediately objected.

"This general has heard that the food in Linzi city is enough to feed the people of Chu for several months. If we can capture Linzi as early as possible, then this food will be of great benefit to Chu." Xiang Yu also said.

said.

"It's a pity that the people of Qi have already thought that the moat is their strongest line of defense, so they have cut down all the trees within dozens of miles of Linzi City. We can't cut down the trees to build bridges or rafts to cross the river." Then General Liu looked at it.

The bare ground outside the tent sighed.

"Why don't we let the soldiers swim across?" Another general suddenly suggested.

"Only a rough guy like you would think of this method." The general next to him laughed loudly, "Not to mention that not everyone in our army can swim, even if they can swim, when our army is on the water

Do you think the Qi army will sit back and wait for such a good opportunity to kill our army? And our army is on the water, and it will be disadvantageous to avoid the enemy's attack. I am afraid that nearly a centaur will fall in the water. Why then?

How about fighting with the Qi people?"

"If we don't fill up the river, even though the river looks wide, tens of thousands of our troops will definitely be able to fill it up."

"I just ordered people to try to throw rocks and sand into the river, but this river is living water. The smaller sand and rocks have been washed away by the current. There are not enough larger ones nearby, and it may not be easy to fill them up.

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Xiang Yu listened to the discussions among his subordinates, but there was no feasible plan. He couldn't help but miss Xiang Ta Lai, whom he tried his best not to bring with him this time. Although this man was more wordy, his mind was still very clear.

It's easy. Now that the weak country has him, maybe the moat won't be a problem.

In the next few days, the Chu army began to make various attempts. Some tried to fill the river with earth and rocks to create a flat area, and some tried to swim across the river due to good water quality. However, they all ended in failure. At this time, there was only one way, that

He and the Qi people in Linzi City will fight to see who can't stand it first. Then Xiang Yu will have to send people back to Kuaiji to ask the court for food and grass.

To Xiang Yu's expectation, his talents were sent out, and Xiang He came with hundreds of carts of grain and grass. Looking at Xiang Yu's strange eyes, Xiang He explained that Xiang Liang had prepared this early because when Xiang Liang sent

When Xiang Yu came to attack Qi, he knew that the Chu army would be trapped outside Linzi City.

After hearing Xiang Ta's explanation, Xiang Yu's face couldn't help but blush: "I contradicted my uncle so much, but I didn't expect that he was still working hard to arrange for me. Xiang Yu is really ashamed." Seeing Xiang Ta's arrival, Xiang Yu thought that he would be beaten this time.

He was told the reason why the troops were forced to stop here, and then asked him if he had any solution.

Xiang followed Xiang Yu and looked at the moat and said: "General Xiang told me before I set off this time that the general would be blocked by Linzi's moat. He was right. General Xiang had been here before.

Linzi City, after seeing the moat, I concluded that this is the most difficult barrier to break in Linzi City.

As long as we cross the river, the high walls will not be able to stop the attack of the army. When Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, Qi was the last to be destroyed. It relied on besieging the city for several months and making it unsustainable before opening the city and surrendering. But we don’t have the Qin people.

There was so much time back then, so the general gave me four words before I left."

Xiang Yu listened to Xiang Ta's rambling for a long time and finally got to the point, and hurriedly asked: "What four words are they? Can you really help me break the city?"

Xiang Ta said accurately: "Dayu controlled the floods."

"Dayu controlled the floods?" Xiang Yu repeated it very unclearly. Of course he knew this legend, but would the people in the legend come to help him break the flood? This made Xiang Yu very puzzled.

Seeing the confusion on Xiang Yu's face, Xiang Ta continued: "I was also very puzzled at the time, but I thought about it carefully along the way. After seeing the moat today, I understand the reason. That is to guide, as long as

If we open a canal to divert the water from the moat, then the barrier between us and Linzi City will no longer exist."

"But looking at the huge flow of water, is it possible for us to divert all the water from the river so easily?" Xiang Yu couldn't believe that things would be so easy to handle.

"So this requires us to find the source of the moat, cut it off, and then lead the water in the river to other places. This moat will become a ditch, and naturally a ditch cannot stop our Chu army.

." Xiang said.

"Yes! You are right. I will immediately send people to find the source of the river and cut it off. As long as the river dries up, our army can naturally march straight into Linzi City." Xiang Yu said these words excitedly.

Went to make arrangements.

As the saying goes, things are easier to do when there are more people. Within a day, the Chu soldiers found the source, and then sealed it with large rocks and sand. Then thousands of people dug a diversion canal beside the moat to divert the river water.

Go somewhere else.

Their behavior was naturally noticed by the Qi people on the top of the city. Seeing the Chu army's behavior, the Qi people knew what they were going to do. Originally, the Qi people wanted to use the moat and high walls to defend Linzi and wait.

Zhao people came to help, but within a few days, they thought they were in prison.

The unbreakable moat was broken in this way. There were two voices in the city for a while. One was to lead the army to rush out and kill the Chu soldiers while they were still working as "engineers", and the other was still trying to catch them off guard.

Relying on city wall defense and hoping that Zhao's army would arrive

Come, attack the Chu army from front to back with yourself. Of course, there are a few people who want to use bows and arrows to kill the Chu soldiers digging ditches on the top of the city, but their ideas are completely impossible to realize. The ten-foot-wide moat has become Chu soldiers at this time.

The amulet of the army, no matter how powerful the bow is at a distance of ten feet

It was also impossible to shoot. After several major discussions, the people of Qi decided to continue to stand firm and wait for reinforcements as planned at the beginning. Therefore, the people of Qi could only watch as the moat they relied on as a weapon to defend the city was destroyed by the Chu army.

Divert the water from the river until it becomes dry land.

Of course, it cannot be done in a short time to divert all the water from such a large river, but compared to besieging Linzi, this is the fastest way. After seven days of work, the moat was finally

It dried up, so at Xiang Yu's order, the army rushed to the foot of Linzi City on the still muddy river.

Seeing that their own support could not stop the Chu army's attack, the morale of the Qi army defending the city dropped greatly. Facing the Chu army, which was attacking like wolves and tigers, the Qi army could only parry. But fortunately, apart from this

The walls of Linzi City outside the river were several feet higher than those of ordinary cities. The Chu army was unable to break through the walls for a while, so they had to retreat to the other side of the river after dark and wait for dawn to launch another attack.

When the soldiers were sleeping and resting, Xiang Yu and a group of generals were still discussing how to capture Linzi in the shortest time. However, the majesty of Linzi City, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, was beyond human resourcefulness.

Only by relying on the desperate attack of the entire army can Linzi be captured. Therefore, this discussion had no results and everyone had to give up.

Early the next morning, the Chu army continued to launch a fierce attack on Linzi, but still could not capture it. After another five days, both the attackers and defenders were exhausted. Now the competition was the will of the soldiers on both sides.

Maybe the moment you give up is the second before the enemy gives up.

No matter how strong the city wall was, it could not withstand continuous attacks. Finally, on the sixth day, a gap appeared in the strong city wall. When Xiang Yu saw it, he was overjoyed and hurriedly sent a large number of soldiers to attack the gap. The Linzi city was about to be broken.

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At this moment, a bloody horse carrying a man covered in blood rushed behind the Chu army's tent. The man galloped while shouting: "The Zhao people are attacking our army's rear. Dongjun, Xue

The county was lost, and the Zhao army surrounded our Jibei County! The Zhao people attacked our army's rear route, Dongjun and Xue County were lost, and the Zhao army

Surround me in Jibei County!" The voice came into the tent, and Xiang Yu was suddenly startled. Once his retreat was cut off by the Zhao people, his tens of thousands of horses would be alone. So he immediately summoned the person who reported the message covered in blood.
Chapter completed!