Under Xingyang City.

Liu Bang's camp was shrouded in fog. Early in the morning, the soldiers patrolling the camp also hid in corners sheltered from the wind. In this cold weather, patrolling the camp was an extremely painful job. If possible,

What these soldiers hope most is to sit around the fire in the tent, warm a pot of good wine, and take a bite of soft corn cakes. Only then can they live a comfortable life.

Baggage camp.

Xiao He looked at the grain piled up like a hill with a complicated expression. His hands shrunk in his cloth robe were trembling slightly. Beside him, Lu Wan had a relaxed look on his face. He was holding a lit torch in his hand.

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"Old Xiao, don't be reluctant. As long as we take Xingyang City, you can get as much as you want from this little thing?" Lu Wan said with a smile.

Xiao He sighed: "These grains are hard to come by. It's a pity to burn them like this."

Lu Wan shook his head and sneered: "It doesn't matter if it doesn't burn. If you don't burn it, those people who have nothing to eat will fight tooth and nail. If you ask me, Pei Gong's method is really brilliant. With the intensity of the fire, as long as it spreads that Qin Dog attacked the camp,

After burning the grain, the soldiers attacked the city with red eyes and risked their lives. When the time comes, if the city is captured, everything will be easy; if it is not captured, there will be less people to eat."

After Lu Wan finished speaking, he raised his hand and threw the torch into the pile of grain. After a while, a raging fire ignited, reflecting half of the rising sun in the sky.

"Qin Dog has robbed the camp, brothers, fight with them!"

"If there's nothing to eat, let's go to the city to rob it and kill it!"

"Wind, strong wind!"

Liu Jun's generals were excited. Under the instigation of Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, Guan Ying, Li Shang and other generals, groups of soldiers with blood-red eyes and swords lined up quickly, rushing towards the base of Xingyang's dark city wall.

Came over.

Three days of bloody fighting.

Xingyang City changed hands several times, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

After the first two siege battles, the moat outside Xingyang City had been buried in sand in several places. Under the urging of the generals, the furious Liu Jun generals rushed to the bottom of the city from the sand-filled corridor, and then set up

Yunti climbed up to the city without his life. Cao Shen, Guan Ying and even Zhou Bo all went to the front line to command the battle.

If they don't win, they will be defeated. Obviously, Liu Bang's army also knows that this attack on the city is their last chance. If they win, they will eat a big piece of meat and drink a big bowl of wine. If they lose, they will lose everything and flee in panic.

Liu Bang was originally a gambler. This time Li Yuan took advantage of the fire and stole Xingyang from his plan. This made Liu Bang, who had always only taken advantage and rarely made mistakes, angry. In anger, Liu Bang burst into a rare

With rare ferocity, he actually resorted to seizing military rations. The newly integrated Liu Bang army was thrown into the Chengheng meat grinder by Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and others without almost any formation training.

The kerosene was immersed in fire, igniting a sky-high fire; the ignited wood was suddenly thrown down with the falling heat, causing Liu Jun's soldiers who had no time to escape to wail.

"You are all howling in mourning. Come on, Qin Gou can't hold it anymore!" Guan Ying roared angrily. This time, Guan Ying got the task of attacking the North Gate first before Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and other generals.

Guan Ying was very anxious. Cao Shen attacked Xingyang twice but failed to capture it. If he were to enter the city in one fell swoop this time, he would be the first general among the generals of Liu Army to achieve the greatest success.

Under Guan Ying's urging, the Guan soldiers entered like ants along the five or six rough wooden ladders leaning against the city wall. One soldier was left behind, and another one followed behind. Even though there was a group of soldiers

After being swept down by the hot oil and rolling logs, the other team behind them quickly took over the task of ascending first, until they were also killed by the guards on the city.

The high-intensity attack and defense of the city put increasing pressure on the defenders. Liu Bang had no intention of taking advantage of the situation at all this time. After discussing with his generals, Liu Bang's attack showed an aura of determination to win from the very beginning.

Of the nearly 50,000-strong coalition army, only less than 20,000 were actually commanded by Liu Bang's direct descendants. The rest were all miscellaneous troops of small princes. These soldiers, who were young and strong not long ago, could really be brought to the battlefield by waving flags and shouting.

Yes, let them fight with real swords and guns, and the possibility of them breaking up in a rush is quite high.

Taking advantage of the lack of strength of the Xingyang garrison, in order to let the young men who have not undergone any training and just shout a few times with wooden sticks to become real soldiers, they must see blood. After one or two battles, the young men can become real soldiers.

A tragic battle that I will never forget until my death.

As for the amount of losses, there is no way to fight without death. Liu Bang didn't care about how many people died, and was even very proud of it, because after more than half a month of confrontation, Liu Jun's food and fodder supply had begun to be tight.

It turned out that the grain captured from Yang Xiong's army had been almost consumed. In the past few days, Liu Jun's baggage mainly relied on supplies collected from the occupied counties in Dangjun and Dongjun. This put a lot of pressure on Liu Bang's supply.

Quite big. Now, a fire burned all the remaining savings of Liu Jun. Liu Jun's soldiers, who had no more thoughts, howled in despair and pinned their hope of survival on conquering the city.

Xingyang City.

This large granary is undoubtedly the best testing ground for Liu Jun's generals. Regardless of victory or defeat, Liu Jun's generals who have emerged from blood and fire will be a force that cannot be underestimated.

I have to admit that Liu Bang's actions were so sophisticated and decisive that Li Yuan was caught off guard. If Li Yuan had been paralyzed at all before, Liu Jun would have been in the city by now.

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Spear in hand.

Blood drops splashed down, and the enemy corpses were carried to the top of the city.

Li Yuan glanced at Chengheng and saw densely packed soldiers of the Liu Army swarming up like ants. The two sides were engaged in a fierce and dramatic battle at the entrance of the city battlements. From time to time, brave soldiers of the Liu Army jumped onto the top of the city and waved their hands.

The weapon attempts to gain standing space for the companion behind.

Li Yuan never took off his armor and never left his gun. He personally led Li Bi and Cao Xin to fight on the front line of the North Gate. Although he was already the commander of an army and his safety was at stake, Li Yuan was still more accustomed to treating himself as an ordinary person.

A soldier is regarded as a small leading corporal in the army of later generations.

Using bit by bit efforts to support the confidence of the soldiers, and using his own actions to win the support of the soldiers, this is what Li Yuan has been doing.

Cao Xin and Li Bi were both surprised. They were surprised by Li Yuan's desire and persistence for victory, and by Li Yuan's style of taking the lead. At first, they just thought that Li Yuan was just showing off at the beginning, but they did not expect that Li Yuan would

It is really like a low-level officer in the Qin army, leading a team of elite soldiers to charge left and right.

The blood boils in the chest, and the glory rises in the heart.

"Da Qin, Da Qin!" The panting Qin army guards shouted desperately, using all their strength to knock down the enemy soldiers who climbed to the top of the city.

"Porphyry, porphyry, porphyry!" The sound of the rapid firing of crossbows was mixed with the shouts. It was not eye-catching, but the results of the battle were eye-catching. In the area just occupied by Liu Jung, the Qin army's densely firing crossbows were like

Like locusts, they were nailed to the bodies of Liu Jun's soldiers who were only wearing civilian clothes. They screamed in agony and lay dead on the ground.

Four hundred crossbowmen selected from the surrendered soldiers of Zhao Ben's army, plus machine crossbows and arrow clusters shipped from the Xingyang Mansion treasury, which were enough to destroy nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers. Under Chen Ping's supervision, this long-range strike elite launched a

The enemy soldiers coming up from another gap were eliminated one by one.

The company's platoon of machine crossbows, coupled with the use of three-stage strikes, made the machine crossbow a powerful weapon "crossbow gun" in the Qin Dynasty to deal with dense formations under the specific conditions of defending the city.
Chapter completed!