The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"According to military law, those who praise the enemy to frighten the crowd shall be killed!"

On October 29, in the Qin army camp outside Xiangcheng City, under the gaze of everyone, an unlucky soldier was tied to a pillar beside the gate. He was first displayed for a day, and the military judge announced his crime, and then he was killed alive by the executioner.

The soldiers were no longer surprised by this scene. They watched expressionlessly and warned each other to take it as a warning. Only Hei Fu in the crowd looked at the bloody corpse, and for no reason, a chill rose from his head.

"If I dared to say that Li Xin would lose, the Qin army would lose, and the Chu army would win in the past few days, I am afraid that at this moment, I would have the same fate as this person."

The Qin army had strict military law. If anyone dared to flatter the enemy and undermine morale, once reported, this would be the fate.

According to the Qin army's nature of joint responsibility and mutual supervision, unless they are brothers from the same mother, it is difficult to expect people who live together and eat together not to report. It's not that the friendship between brothers is worthless, but because the military law stipulates that if someone in the squad violates the ban, the whole squad will be exempted from punishment if the people in the same squad report him. If they know but don't report, the whole squad will be punished.

So this unlucky guy in front of him ended up like this just because he said a dejected word while staying in the city for a long time. This sounded a wake-up call to Hei Fu. Although he knew the result of the failure of this war, he couldn't complain.

So Hei Fu could only shut up the big mouth of the prophet, and kept silent to the captain Li You and his subordinates. He couldn't say anything, but asked his 100 men to pack their quilts and carry their weapons at any time every day, so that they could run away at any time.

But the facts have proved that when the defeat comes suddenly, no matter how much preparation you make, you will be caught off guard.

First, on October 29, the Chu defenders in Xiangcheng suddenly changed their minds after hiding for a month and began to attack the Qin army.

When Heifu heard the drumbeats of the assembly, he was eating dinner. He quickly swallowed the hard-to-chew rice, picked up the weapon beside him, and walked out of the tent with everyone.

The Qin army had been under the city for a long time, and they were afraid that the people in Xiangcheng would not come out, so they immediately beat the drums to assemble and resist. Although most of them were miscellaneous troops from Shandong counties, their combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the Chu people, and they had the advantage of a large number of people.

But just when the Qin army killed a large number of Chu troops and was about to counterattack into the city, they did not expect that there would be chaos in their rear.

The Nanjun Corps was in charge of the left wing, as a reserve force, ready to fight at any time. However, on the battlefield where shouts were like thunder, Hei Fu was patted by Ji Ying, who liked to look around. When he turned around, he was shocked to find that there was a fire on the bank of the Yingshui River where the Qin army stored food!

The flames shot up to the sky and the smoke billowed, which meant bad news.

For a moment, behind the two barriers, the Qin people who had been at ease were all shocked. The soldiers saw what was happening behind them, and fear and anxiety spread among them.

"Why is there a fire?"

"Is there a Chu army behind me!"

Hei Fu's heart skipped a beat.

"The docks by the Yingshui River are either supplied from the upstream Yingchuan County or sent along the Honggou."

"Yingchuan is the rear base of the Qin army, it is unlikely to be in trouble, is there a change in Chen Ying?"

This moment of panic caused the Qin army's offensive to stop, because the soldiers were frightened and all looked back, and could no longer concentrate on fighting.

"Nanjun soldiers, follow me!" At this time, the messenger began to convey Li You and Du Wei's order, and Meng Tian asked him to go along the river bank to rush to the rear.

A thousand people went first as the vanguard, followed by the main force, and Hei Fu and his hundreds of short soldiers tightly surrounded Li You's chariot. When they arrived at the river bank, they found that it was already in chaos. The soldiers guarding the docks and warehouses were fighting with the enemies who came out of nowhere.

The grain official with soot on his face hurried to report: "It is a ship from Chen Ying, which was thought to be an ordinary grain transport ship, but it rushed directly to the shore, burned the dock first, and then tried to rush into the warehouse and set fire everywhere."

Li You stretched out his hand to feel the wind direction, and his face changed drastically. The wind was the north wind that often blew in winter, and the dry weather caused the fire from the dock to spread southward, and the tents were slowly lit up...

"Rate A and rate B will repel the enemy, rate C, rate D and the short-armed guards will quickly follow me to put out the fire!"

After a series of orders, the Nanjun soldiers were divided into two parts.

Although the Qin army camp was reasonably arranged, it still could not withstand the cooperation of the raging fire and the north wind. There were burning wooden boat hulls and burning felt tents everywhere on the dock. The blazing flames swirled and rose until they were more than ten feet high. The flames shot up into the sky, reflecting the red faces of Hei Fu and his soldiers.

Such a fire cannot be put out by human hands, not to mention that the Chu people who landed from the dock rushed into the camp fearlessly, not to kill the enemy, but to set the fire.

"This fire cannot be stopped." Bu Cheng said so, coughing non-stop due to the fireworks.

Heifu told his comrades to pass on the message to each other: "If there is any disturbance, gather around the captain immediately!

He had a premonition that the Qin army would be defeated today!

As expected, the chaos in the rear affected the fierce battle in the front. The Qin army was unstable and the offensive gradually slowed down. At this time, a fresh force of more than 10,000 people came from the rear of Xiangcheng.

For a time, the offensive and defensive momentum was reversed. Instead, the Qin people began to retreat step by step. The Chu people attacked the Qin wall, which was less than ten feet high, and climbed the rampart first. A Duwei County Corps responsible for defense was submerged in the tide of the Chu people.

During the half hour when Heifu and his men were busy putting out the fire, the first barrier of the Qin army was breached by the Chu army, and Meng Tian had to order his troops to retreat to the second barrier.

The Chu army had no intention of stopping. Xiang Yan's banner, which was supposed to be on the top of the city, suddenly appeared between the two walls. At the same time, the Chu soldiers held many broken flags of the Qin army that they had captured. No one knew where they got them from.

The Chu people shouted in unison.

"Li Xin has been defeated, his entire army has been wiped out, and Chen Ying has also been recovered. Why don't you surrender? "

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The grain ship from Chen Ying brought the enemy army that was setting fire everywhere. The rear camp was on fire, and the front was attacked by the Chu army. The morale of the Qin army was shaken, and the first barrier was breached. Then, the second barrier did not last long.

The Chu army had already played a momentum, and the Qin army had no advantage after losing the barrier. Moreover, because of the chaotic and burning camp behind them, they could not form a battle formation to fight the Chu army. In this case, trying to hold on to the camp was a dead end, and Meng Tian had to issue an order to retreat.

In this situation, retreating would have only one result, that is, the endless pursuit of the Chu army. Meng Tian's move was like a gecko cutting off his tail. Between the annihilation of the whole army and the preservation of half of it, he chose the latter.

In this way, for each camp, the next thing is the question of whether to be the head or the tail.

Unfortunately, the Nanjun Corps, which was still well-organized, was assigned to the rear guard.

"General Meng wants me to be the tail of the gecko."

The moment he received the military order, Li You sighed, with a few resentments on his face, but he still chose to obey and moved to the back of the camp with the Nanjun Corps.

Under Li You's strict order, the Qin soldiers who suffered such a defeat for the first time began to line up with another Duwei Corps. They were asked by Meng Tian to abandon the camp, support their retreating comrades, and block the pursuit of the Chu army!

Hei Fu and his men did not run away, but still surrounded Li You. He saw that there were crossbowmen in front holding crossbow machines, shooting the Qin soldiers who were running dizzy to death, so as to prevent them from attacking the formation. So the soldiers wisely went around from both sides, and the two Duweis and the formation of more than 10,000 people had gradually formed. These were the last two armies of the Qin army that could still fight.

The two barriers had been broken, and they were the last strong wall. Not only did they have to face the impact of tens of thousands of Chu troops, but they also had to withstand the landslide retreat caused by the soldiers.

The military judges still stood in the back with dark faces, their swords were already stained with blood, not from the enemy, but from those who deserted and planned to flee.

He couldn't leave either, the palm of Hei Fu's hand holding the sword was full of sweat, he looked at Li You who was also uneasy, and then looked at his subordinates who were still intact behind him. He had sworn to save his own life and theirs.

Hei Fu admired those who fought bravely, fought nobly, and fought with honor, but he didn't want to die inexplicably.

"Pass the message..."

Hei Fu asked Ji Ying to pass the message on his behalf to Dongmen Bao, Gong Ao, Xiao Tao, and other diehards.

"If the battle goes badly and the front army is defeated, follow me and retreat with the captain's car!"

The Qin military judge's sword can only kill one kind of person, and that is the short weapon protecting the retreating commander!