Xiang Yu stood at the top of the city and watched countless Qin army ants cling to the ladders and attack the city. The Chu army in the city, led by Long Qie, continued to suppress the Qin people with bows, arrows, wood and stones.

The sound of drums resounded inside and outside the city, accompanied by the wailing before death and the angry shouting when killing the enemy, constantly filling Xiang Yu's ears. He could no longer bear it. Xiang Yu's intolerance was not because of

The cruel battlefield atmosphere here, even if it was a battlefield hundreds of times more brutal than this one, Xiang Yu would not frown when he saw it, but he couldn't stand his troops being pinned down on the city by the enemy and being beaten passively.

This is already the tenth day of the Qin Army's large-scale attack on the city. Since Xiang Yu led his troops out of the city to attack without success, the Qin Army fully mobilized their troops to attack the city the next day. Xiang Yu had no way of defending the city.

, Fortunately, Long Qie had been the guard of a county in Qi State at that time, so he naturally took over the heavy responsibility of defense instead of Xiang Yu. Under Long Qie's methodical arrangement, the Qin army made its first tentative attack.

He was quickly repelled by the Chu army. This made Xiang Yu trust Long Qie's ability even more, so he simply handed over everything to defend the city to him, while he went up to the city to patrol from time to time.

However, after the unsuccessful attack in the first two days, the Qin army made a change. They no longer blindly let their soldiers rush up to feed the Chu army's random arrows. Instead, they first used crossbow arrows that were more powerful than bows to attack the Chu army at the top of the city.

Suppressed, and then ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the opportunity when the Chu army could not return to their defensive positions immediately, so that the soldiers could cover up and kill them, and set up a ladder at the top of the city. In this way, the siege battle changed from a charge and a retreat at the beginning to a

The battle on the city wall was even more brutal than the initial stage.

And what Xiang Yu saw today was this scene. This kind of fighting had been going on for eight days. Rivers of blood flowed up and down the city, and corpses were scattered everywhere. At first, when the battle was over, there were still soldiers throwing corpses down the city.

But as the battle continued to become more intense, by the end of the battle the soldiers were so tired that they fell asleep leaning against the wall. No one was willing to move the corpses. Xiang Yu just stepped on the hardened corpses and dried blood.

He walked back to his residence. At this time, he had made up his mind. He could no longer stay in the city and be beaten passively. Instead, he wanted to go out of the city and fight the decisive battle with the Qin army on the plains instead of huddled in the city.

The city was allowed to be attacked by the Qin army. So he immediately asked his own soldiers to come to his place with the generals after today's battle, saying that they had important matters to discuss.

When the sun set in the west, Long Qie and a group of generals who had been commanding on the city for a day dragged their exhausted bodies into Xiang Yu's temporary command post. When they saw Xiang Yu, everyone was about to salute, but he took action.

He stopped and said, "You generals have worked hard, so please forgive me if you can avoid these false courtesy. I came to you today to hear your opinions on guarding the city of Surabaya."

Some generals who didn't know Xiang Yu's character very well mistakenly thought that Xiang Yu wanted to retreat with his troops and abandon the city of Surabaya, so they immediately said: "Overlord, although the Qin people attacked fiercely, the morale of our army is still high.

, there are sufficient grain, grass, arrows and other defensive equipment in the city, enough to be used by the Qin army for a period of time. The overlord must not have the thought of retreating." This is to persuade Xiang Yu not to retreat based on the current situation in the city.

Some people said: "Overlord, this city of Surabaya is the gateway to Chu. If it is occupied by the Qin people, they will be able to march straight into our land of Chu. Moreover, this city of Surabaya is easy to defend and difficult to attack."

The city is no different from Kuaiji and Jiujiang, so we should continue to hold on." This is to persuade Xiang Yu not to retreat based on the city's own characteristics and importance. It is also more eager to persuade Xiang Yu with military spirit: "

Overlord, if we give up this city of Surabaya easily, I am afraid that the soldiers guarding the city will be heartbroken, and they may not be able to defend the next few cities there, and then our country of Chu will be really in danger."

Looking at the generals who were finding reasons to persuade him, Xiang Yu could only smile bitterly, but he still saw that a few people who had been following him did not speak, and he felt somewhat comforted. At least these people still understood that he was not good.

He would retreat in the face of battle. After those generals said such big things, Xiang Yu said lightly: "Who said that this overlord is going to abandon the city and leave?"

"..." All the generals stopped talking for a moment and looked at Xiang Yu strangely, waiting for him to explain the purpose of his question just now.

"What the Overlord means is that we can no longer just guard the city of Surabaya without thinking about going out to annihilate the enemy, right?" Long Qie suddenly said. From the changes in Xiang Yu's expression on the city top these days, Long Qie could already tell that he

He was already very impatient to just stay in the city and be beaten passively. After all, Long Qie had been following Xiang Yu for several years and already knew his character very well.

Xiang Yu nodded and said: "Yes, that's what I mean. The damage done by us defending the city is indeed less than that of the Qin people outside the city, but if this continues, the soldiers will lose the vigor to confront the Qin people head-on, so we

We can no longer be trapped in the city, but we should fight out of the city and end things with the Qin people."

All the generals were dumbfounded. They didn't expect that they had guessed Xiang Yu's thoughts completely wrong. After a while, someone said: "The Overlord will pull the army out of the city to fight with the Qin people. If there is any mistake, I, Sishui City...

"He stopped talking. He didn't dare to express his worries in front of Xiang Yu, because not long ago, many people who disagreed with Xiang Yu were killed by him, and he didn't want to be the next one.

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But at this time, Xiang Yu was not a man who killed indiscriminately. He just smiled and said: "That day, when I led 30,000 troops out of the city, I could break out of the Qin army's 100,000-strong army and even kill their middle army."

In the big tent, it can be seen that the Qin people only rely on more soldiers and horses than our Chu army. If it is true that the elite soldiers are no match for our Chu soldiers. Now that we and the Qin people are fighting across the wall, maybe we can still

The gap between the two sides cannot be shown, but if we fight outside the city, with the strength of our army, we can defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop."

Long Qie thought for a while and then said: "In terms of safety, it is better for us to stick to Surabaya, but if we want to repel the Qin army, we must fight out of the city. But if the Qin army is not as bad as the overlord said,

, I’m afraid we won’t be able to defend the city of Surabaya after the decisive battle.”

Xiang Yu said: "I dare to conclude that this battle will be won, so you all go and make arrangements and go out of the city to meet the enemy tomorrow."

Now that Xiang Yu had given the order, all the generals had no choice but to agree regardless of their unwillingness.

At this time, Fusu was also restless in the camp. In the past few days, more than 10,000 soldiers had been killed in the continuous attack on Sishui City. This consumption was still too great. Even when he attacked Hangu Pass that day, he

The men and horses were not so badly damaged. "Am I wrong in thinking? Xiang Yu was just thinking about how to defend this place, and had no intention of repelling us?" Fusu's original thoughts changed with the number of casualties among the soldiers.

increased and began to waver.

At this time, Zhang Liang came to his side. Seeing Fusu's appearance, he had already guessed what he was thinking: "Your Majesty, it's a critical moment now. Don't be discouraged. This Sishui City is indeed very strong. Otherwise, it would

Zhang Han's 200,000-strong army will not be unable to attack in the next few months. But the emperor's judgment should not be wrong. Although we may not be able to successfully capture the city of Surabaya, Xiang Yu is probably unwilling to defend the city.

One day he will lead his men and horses out of the city, and then our chance will be here."

Fusu said: "I have seen that the Chu army in Sishui City has been defending the city in the past few days. It is obvious that the generals guarding the city are also good at it. Will Xiang Yu change his strategy? You must know that they are completely invincible if they defend the city.

ah."

"I have seen Xiang Yu's experience in the past few years and found that he is good at attacking. No matter how big the gap between the enemy and our troops is, he likes to use offense to solve the battle. He attacked Qi like this. Here with General Zhang

The same is true for the battle in Surabaya City. Now that he has become the de facto king of Chu, will he restrain his character and turn offense into defense? I think he won't. Maybe within these few days, he will definitely do it.

We're leaving the city." Zhang Liang's tone was full of certainty.

Hearing Zhang Liang, a person he trusted very much, say these words, Fusu's somewhat shaken heart finally calmed down a little: "Then do we still have to attack the city?"

"We need to attack, and we need to send more troops to attack. The harder we press, the sooner Xiang Yu will leave the city."

But on the second day, the Chu army opened the gate of Sishui City and fought out. A knight quickly ran out of his formation, raised his hand and shot an arrow in the direction of the Qin army's camp. The Qin soldiers saw

When he saw the cloth tied to the arrow shaft, he quickly picked up the arrow and presented it to his general. After reading what was written on it, the man did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly handed it to the superior, and finally it came into Fusu's hands.

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After reading the words on the cloth, Fusu's worries for many days disappeared. He said loudly: "The Chu people have submitted a letter of war to us, saying that they will fight outside Surabaya City early tomorrow morning, and we will have a one-day truce today.

"Everyone, please go down and let the soldiers prepare. Tomorrow will be the most critical battle between us and the Chu army." Then he wrote a line and ordered the soldiers to shoot it back to the Chu army.

When the generals saw that the Chu people were indeed as Fusu said a few days ago, and the Chu people finally came out of the city to fight, they were overjoyed and respected Fusu greatly. They did not expect that as an emperor, he could have such a good knowledge of people.
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