As Jia Shixian's black spots fell.
Outside Jingzhou City, melodious trumpet sounds were also heard, and it seemed that a small-scale contact battle was breaking out.
Qin Yuan honestly stretched out the white horn of the star position and responded in a seemingly clumsy manner: "Master Jia is wrong."
"Military affairs are state affairs. We should employ troops with integrity and defeat the enemy with surprise."
While speaking.
The city gate, which had been tightly closed, opened and a group of people rushed out on horseback.
It seems like he is meeting someone.
Without even looking up, Jia Shixian picked up a piece and said with a smile, "Abandoning the city to fight is unwise."
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Jinming Village.
Yan Ce Tianzheng was discussing a plan to break the city with his generals.
A personal guard rushed in, unable to conceal his delight: "Your Highness! The turtle from Jingzhou City has come out!"
"What!" Yan Minshi jumped up suddenly.
"How is that possible? Why would they leave the fortified city and run away? There must be something fishy going on!"
In order to besiege Jiangzhou, they specially built Jinming and Dingchuan camps in the south and east of the city, and Qin Wang Yan Cetian and Li Shibin led their troops to garrison there respectively.
There is a big river to the west of Jingzhou, plains to the east and south, and the north of the city is close to the branch of Lie Mountain. The terrain is rugged and not suitable for camping.
In order to prevent the imperial court from sending people for help, the rebels sent out cavalry to patrol the north of the city every day.
Unexpectedly, the cavalry of Li Shibin's army caught a big fish. There were more than a dozen carts of supplies outside the city being quietly transported to the north gate of Jingzhou.
Li Shibin acted decisively and dispatched cavalry to intercept the imperial convoy.
Not knowing what was loaded on the carts, the imperial army, which had been hiding in Jingzhou and looking determined to defend the convoy to the death, actually sent a team of a thousand men to support the attack, desperately trying to get the carts back.
Upon receiving the enemy's message, the general sent by Li Shibin immediately led his troops to attack the north gate of Jingzhou and cut off the retreat route of the imperial army.
Seeing this, the imperial army did not bother to enter the city and escorted the convoy all the way to the north.
The personal guard said: "These people are very fast runners. When they saw that our army had cut off their retreat, they immediately fled north."
"General Li feared the enemy might try to deceive him, so he only dared to harass them and not pursue them. Luckily, he managed to seize one of the enemy's carts during the battle."
"The soldiers lifted the oilcloth from the carriage and saw dozens of giant arrows inside, shaped like iron spears, with iron feathers at the end."
They were all veterans in the army, and they couldn't help but gasp when they saw it.
Someone shouted, "One spear, three swords and arrows!"
Yan Cetian's face turned cold.
One Gun, Three Swords and Arrows got its name from the fact that it fires three arrows at a time. This giant iron crossbow can only be used with one type of crossbow mechanism: the three-bow crossbow, commonly known as the eight-ox crossbow.
The Eight Ox Crossbow has a maximum range of over three miles. Its extremely long shooting distance and strong force have always made it a city defense artifact of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It has been used to kill many Xiongnu generals.
Due to the extremely complex production and low output, most of them were deployed on the border to resist the Xiongnu and Tubo.
I don’t know where these eight-ox crossbows came from.
If it appeared on the city wall of Jingzhou, I wonder what kind of damage it would cause to the attacking army!
Yan Cetian made a prompt decision and ordered Li Shibin's entire army to attack and pursue the convoy, making sure to rob and kill it.
But the shadow of Hua Zijian's defeat was still there, and he did not dare to be too arrogant. He was worried that it was a strategy of the enemy to lure the enemy, so he had to send out all his troops to provide support.
After receiving Yan Cetian's order, Li Shibin, who had been winning battles in succession in recent days, immediately stopped restraining himself and put all his efforts into chasing the convoy fleeing to the north.
As long as you hold on, you will be able to blossom!
The chase lasted for forty miles and ended in Haoshuichuan.
The plan for the Battle of Haoshuichuan was proposed by Qin Yuan. The plan was to use the entire main force of the Shen Ce Army to severely damage part of the Qin King's rebel army in a field battle.
After all, if you defend it for too long, you will lose it. If you delay, something will happen. No one knows how turbulent the people in the city will be.
Yan Jiaoran's early morning show of force was intended to shock the city's villains and buy time for Li Yaoshi's battle.
Fortunately, the Shen Ce Army did not have many troops. There were as many as 300,000 people in Jingzhou City, including civilians. If there were only 7,000 or 8,000 people missing, it would be difficult to tell the real strength of the army.
As long as the battle is fought quickly and decisively, the combat objective can be achieved and retreated to the city before everyone can react. There will be no time for people inside and outside the city to react.
The battlefield chosen by Qin Yuan - Haoshuichuan, is located forty miles north of Jingzhou City.
The north of Jingzhou City is said to be a mountainous area, but it is actually a highland. The rainwater from the remnants of Lie Mountain has been eroding the plain for many years, leaving a huge fan-shaped alluvial area on the plain. The terrain within a range of more than 30 miles is full of gullies.
The most important one is called "Haoshuichuan". It is called a river but there is no water in it. The width of the river is only about 100 steps, but the depth is more than 20 feet.
At this time, the eight thousand most elite soldiers of the Shen Ce Army were waiting for Li Shibin's arrival in Sichuan.
The terrain of Haoshuichuan is rugged. Li Yaoshi used the one spear and three sword arrows specially used for the Eight Ox Crossbow as bait to lure Li Shibin from Dingchuan Village. Once they entered the river mouth, they split into several groups and pretended to flee.
Li Shibin was fooled. Based on the wheel tracks, footprints, and abandoned carts on the roadside, he judged that the enemy had fourteen carts and about three hundred people.
So he mobilized 10,000 of his men and launched an all-out attack.
They were few in number, while the imperial court was large, so they were most wary of attacking a city by force.
Since the enemy has come out, there must be something fishy going on, but they have no choice but to take the bait!
A field battle is always easier to fight than a siege.
Li Shibin did not hesitate to use the tactics of a hawk catching a rabbit and rushed out in full force.
One reason is to prevent repeating Hua Zijian’s mistakes.
Secondly, it is also to allow you to last longer if you are ambushed.
Ten thousand men lined up to defend the city, fighting to the death.
It would be impossible to capture them without a siege of one or two days.
As long as we can hold out for two hours, the King of Qin will arrive with his army and we can counter-encircle and destroy the enemy!
Of course, all this was within Qin Yuan's calculations.
Good water river.
Chen Wujiu climbed up the cliff and whispered, "Here they come!"
"That's not right."
Chen Wujiu looked at the smoke and dust in the distance and murmured, "It looks like there are only about 7,000 people. Where did the rest of the army go?"
"The troops have been divided." Li Yinhuan looked at the military report that had just been handed to him: "Li Shibin chased to the mouth of the river and split his troops into two groups, leaving a 3,000-man army at the mouth of the river, obviously as a support."
Li Dejian tutted his words and said, "Dividing our forces when a war is imminent is madness. It just saves us the trouble."
Suddenly, a flock of white doves flew up from the valley a few miles away with sharp whistles.
Li Yinhuan was greatly encouraged: "We have entered the encirclement!"
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On the other side, on the chessboard.
Qin Yuan's white chess pieces relied on their powerful external force to break a black chess piece's eye position, forcing the black chess piece to abandon the land and escape, forming a situation of surrounding and killing the black chess dragon.
Qin Yuan said calmly, "It's not easy to manage me, Lord Jia, please be careful."
Jia Shixian held a black piece and pondered for a long time, unable to make a move.
“Bang!”
Jia Shixian's surrounded dragon pressed towards Tianyuan's white pieces, making the decisive move.
Then he sighed leisurely: "It's a risky move in war, be careful not to play with fire and get burned."
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