Chapter 302 Food Road (1)
To the south of Chen County, outside Xiang County.
The warm sunshine shines on the official road leading to Chen Ying. The pedestrians step on it, and the autumn breeze blows, and they don’t feel tired even after walking for two hours.
The food sent to the front line of the Chu army was continuously transported to the city of Chenying through this wide and flat official road.
The front line reported good news. Xiang Yan, the state of Chu, led a large army to advance into Chen County. The head of the Chen area of Qian was in sight and descended, and ate a pot of slurry to welcome the Chu army, and successfully broke into the city of Chenying.
Thinking of being able to take Chen Ying, who was once the capital, the Chu soldiers were inexplicably filled with a strong excitement.
As well, the corvee soldiers recruited rushed forward and their steps became much lighter.
"When we transport grain to Chen Ying, maybe the Shangzhu Kingdom has already conquered Chen Ying."
A black-faced man in his thirties drove a ox cart and said to his fellow villagers who were in labor service beside him.
"What a person is Shangzhu Kingdom? I destroyed Lu in January and attacked Yue people in the east, and was famous. I was not able to capture Chen Ying." Another tall man raised his head and was full of energy. "I remember that back then, I followed Shangzhu Kingdom to conquer Lu, but I captured Qufu in less than a night."
"Haha, nine out of ten are Confucian scholars in Qufu, it's really a cheaper one." Someone quipped in the grain transport convoy.
It was a very hard thing for the Warring States to conscript corvee labor and support the front line. This team of grain transporters was looking forward to entering Chenying again, and their morale seemed very high.
"You know nothing!" The man who claimed to have captured Qufu snorted coldly, "There are many Confucian scholars in Qufu, but you can't underestimate others. These Confucian scholars all wear swords, and they are no worse than you and me when they kill people."
"What a pity, now I'm old. If I were a few years younger, I could follow Shangzhuguo again this time, conquering Chen Ying, and avenge the previous shame."
The black-faced man who spoke first held a whip in his hand and gently waved the whip on the cow's butt, feeling the faint pain from his arms, and couldn't help but feel the regret.
When he joined the army in his early years, this black-faced man was once a soldier and fell into battle wounds.
"Isn't we just transporting military rations now to serve the Shangzhu Kingdom?" The tall man turned his head and patted the black-faced man on the shoulder, "Start up the road, I'll be over, I'm afraid I won't be able to witness the Shangzhu Kingdom breaking Chen Ying with my own eyes..."
Dada dada--
Suddenly, a slight vibration came from the air.
After a few breaths, a black wave emerged from the dry fields east of the official road, five hundred steps away, and surging in.
The black waves were rising and falling, and a black flag appeared and disappeared in the middle.
The tall man had sharp eyes and looked at him with a sharp eye. On the black flag, a black dragon looked down on the black flag, looking down on it, lifelike.
"Qin··Qin army is coming!"
The tall man's throat was a little dry, and he tried hard to make a slight sound.
This black dragon flag seemed to evoke the memories in the subconscious mind of the Chu people.
Qin and Chu fought for a hundred years. Facing the black Qin army singing Qin Feng, the Chu people never won a single victory. They retreated step by step, abandoned their territory, fled in panic, and flowed eastward, and blood flowed into a river.
This is the memory of the Chu people.
Most people in Chu had fear of the Qin people in their hearts. Faced with an opponent they had never won, the Chu people never had the confidence to win.
"Qin Army? Why are there Qin Army here?"
The black-faced man's arm hurt even more.
Xiang County is located at the junction of Chen County and Jiujiang County, close to the border of Chu. Four hundred thousand Chu troops swept the southern part of Chen County overwhelmingly, and Xiang County became a big rear. Logically speaking, it was impossible for the Qin army to go so far.
The Qin army had only 200,000 people, and there was not enough defense to defend the Chenying line, so there was no extra force to open up the battlefield behind enemy lines.
The surprise of the Chu people fell into the eyes of the Qin general Li Bi, and a sneering mockery arose.
"Li Zuoche, fight quickly and decide the food!" Li Bi issued a skillful order, "If you can't take it away, you will burn it, and no grain can be left to Xiang Yan."
"Two and three sons, let me kill you!"
Li Zuoche could no longer hold back, so he pulled out the ring-headed sword around his waist and led the five hundred cavalry under his command, and rushed out like a gust of wind.
Three hundred steps away, the Qin cavalry picked up the Qin crossbow and released a rain of arrows at the Chu army's rations team.
After the three-wheeled arrow rain, Li Zuoche led his army to the Chu army's ration team, and then chopped it with a knife, like chopping melons and vegetables.
The Chu army's grain transport team was like an unguarded merchant ship at this time, facing the bombardment of battleships, and had no power to fight back.
"puff--"
With one knife, he cut off one head again. Li Zuoche did not stop at all. He waved his sword forward and caught up with another Chu man who was fleeing in a panic.
The Qin army earned the merits for beheading, and ordinary soldiers even killed each other in order to fight for a head. Li Zuo's car body was the 500-year-old master, and no matter how many beheadings were, he could not remember the merits.
Li Zuoche liked this feeling of killing. As his title rose, he brought more and more soldiers, and he rarely had the chance to go on the battlefield and kill the enemy in person.
Haven't you seen that after Meng Tian became the chief general of the army, the sword on his waist was covered with blood. After a year, he could not see it several times.
"The first level cuts away, and the food that cannot be taken away will be burned!"
Li Zuoche put away his ring-headed knife and wiped the blood on his face, with a hint of warmth.
After surrendering to Meng Tian, Li Zuoche led his army to attack the Three Jins. Li Zuoche felt a little resistant. The Qin army went south to fight against the Chu people. He returned to Li Bi's command and harassed the Chu army's food route, and finally found a familiar feeling.
Although the Chu State had once gained the status of overlords, in the eyes of the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains in the north, they still belonged to the barbarians in the south. When attacking the Chu barbarians, Li Zuoche had no psychological barriers in his heart.
When the three families had just divided Jin, the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei formed a group and attacked the Chu State in the south more than once.
The land of Daliang, Yongqiu and other places in Wei State originally belonged to Chu State. It can be seen that Chu State suffered a lot of losses in the hands of Han, Zhao and Wei.
The breeze blew, and the strong smell of blood in the air drifted towards Xiang County in the south.
Li Bi looked up at Xiangxian's direction, frowned, with a little hesitation in his eyes.
"Does General Li want to attack Xiang County?"
Li Zuoche, who led his army back to the army formation, noticed Li Bi's entanglement.
"The general ordered us to block the Chu army's food supply route. If we can succeed, we will attack; if we cannot succeed, we will escape far away, and preserve our strength." Li Bi glanced at Li Zuoche and explained, "It is obviously not in line with the general's order to attack the city with cavalry."
After Li Zuoche surrendered to Meng Tian, Meng Tian attached great importance to it. As a confidant general under Meng Tian, Li Bi naturally had a very friendly attitude towards Li Zuoche.
"The general gave General Li the right to deal with it on the spot. As long as he could create enough trouble for the Chu army's supplies, it would be okay to attack Xiang County." Li Zuoche's eyes turned and he immediately had an idea, "Our army only needs to do this, and we will definitely be able to break Xiang County and destroy the food and supplies stored in Xiang County by the Chu army......"
Chapter completed!