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So why move the capital to Dongting, and even go to Baiyue to avoid the war... Who knows what hardships?

So King Chu Chu knew that the hope of uniting various ethnic groups to attack the supply line of the Qin army was very slim, but he was still willing to give it a try.

He didn't realize the seriousness of the problem until the Qin army besieged Shouchun Tuantuan: If the Qin army continued to besiege like this, one year, two years, three years... wouldn't he starve to death in this city?

During this period, King Chu of Chu also visited the city twice.

But seeing the high morale and murderous spirit of the Qin army below, the king of Chu felt even more regretful, secretly thinking that he would listen to Xiang Yan's move of the capital if he knew this, and he would never wait to die like he is now.

At this time, the servant sent a letter to King Chu of Chu, saying:

"My lord, a secret letter from the general."

King Chu hurriedly opened it.

The letter first said that although Lord Changping tried his best to lobby, all ethnic groups were unwilling to send troops, and also said that the current strategy is to break out from the north of the city with the inside and outside. I don't know if the king is willing to leave the city?

The king of Chu couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately sent a letter to Feige to express his willingness to go out of the city and asked about the detailed plan.

The breakout time was set at midnight three days later.

The reason why it was set at Zishi was that most of the soldiers of the Qin army were already asleep at this time.

In addition, not many people will pay attention to the drop in the water level of the Huaihe River at night.

In addition, it is more difficult for the Qin army to rebuild the pontoon bridge in the dark, so the Chu army has more time to attack the Daliang army.

The battle plan is very simple. For the Chu army in the city, it only needs to attack from the three city gates and outflank the Daliang army when the Huaihe River stops flowing.

Xiang Yan even has arrangements for how to get out of the city:

Let the soldiers prepare a large amount of "straw bag mud" at the city gate.

The so-called "straw bag mud" is the sandbags used by the ancients to build dams.

Only after the Huai River stopped flowing at night, the soldiers were ordered to take "straw bag mud" out of the city to fill the river and pave it into a road to block the river.

Then the soldiers went out of the city first and Xiang Yan's main force flanked the Daliang army, while the capital guards covered the Chu king's exit from the city to join Xiang Yan's main force.

All the arrangements are perfect. If this plan is implemented, Shen Bing and his Daliang Army may really be taken over by one pot.

After all, that was more than [-] Chu troops, and Shen Bing and his party were in no danger to defend.

If there is any "danger" for Shen Bing to defend, it is the city wall made of wooden fences.

But this fortress couldn't stop the attack of the Chu army's catapults at all.

On the other hand, Yang Duanhe and his army will be blocked by the dry Huaihe River... In fact, they will not be blocked. Yang Duanhe's army can still reinforce Huaibei.

However, the reinforcements had to go down to the river bed and cross the river on the mud. This was not only slow, but also easily blocked by Xiang Yan and the Chu army who went out of the city to fight with catapults.

At that time, it may be a drop in the bucket to successfully reinforce Huaibei's troops.

At that time, Shen Bing was reorganizing the Shenwu Army.

The Shenwu Army has suffered heavy casualties since the last battle in Ruyin. There are only 1000 or [-] soldiers left in the whole army, and the school lieutenant Chen Duan also died in battle.

Not to mention the need to reorganize the establishment of these more than a thousand people, they also need to replenish troops to maintain combat effectiveness.

The reason for the reorganization at this time is that both Yang Duanhe and Shen Bing believed that the siege would be long-term.

Because it is not difficult to imagine that the king of Chu dared to stay in the city because he must have sufficient food and grass.

They even drove out a group of people before the Qin army arrived... Most of these people are old and weak. The old and weak will only consume food in the city, while the young and strong people may become a source of soldiers and labor if they stay in the city.

So if you want to use up the longevity and spring food, at least you will have to wait for a year or two.

Yang Duanhe was not in a hurry, anyway, if the king of Chu surrounded the state of Chu like this, it would exist in name only.

Since the future is long, Qin Jun naturally does what he should do.

Shen Bing intends to expand the Shenwu Army into a 5000-man cavalry army.

This time there is no need for this cavalry army to be able to fight in water and to ride and shoot... The reason why the black armor army was required to be able to do both was to destroy Chu.

There is a saying that "people who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries", Shen Bing thinks farther.

If Chu State is destroyed, then Yan State, Dai State, and even Qi State are not worth mentioning, and it will not be difficult to unify the Central Plains.

Next is the problem of the Huns in the north, that is, what Shen Bing will face is likely to be the Huns.

What tactics to use against the Huns?

Use a lot of people's power to connect the Great Wall of various countries like Meng Tian?

This may be useful, because many dynasties after Qin strengthened and extended the Qin Great Wall to prevent the northern nomads from going south.

Although it is still unstoppable, it has contributed a lot to the stability and prosperity of the Central Plains.

However, Shen Bing believes that the construction of the Great Wall does not need to be rushed for a while, but can be done slowly, and a large number of people are expropriated like Yingzheng.

If there is no rush to build the Great Wall, another effective and feasible way to defeat the Xiongnu must be found.

No need to think too much, of course, ride with a gram.

And it must be cavalry and archery, that is, real cavalry rather than infantry on horseback.

The Shenwu Army must be such a cavalry.

It takes time to train, so Shen Bing must think ahead.

There are many sources of soldiers, and with the support of Yang Duanhe, the cavalry he put down was left for Shen Bing to choose.

Shen Bing couldn't help being overjoyed, he even felt that this was a bit unrealistic... You must know that these cavalry are all old subordinates who have followed Yang Duanhe for many years, many of them participated in the Qin-Zhao War, and even the reason why Zhao Guo surrendered Northern goblins ride.

Needless to say what happened in the Qin-Zhao War, Zhao Guo cavalry is well-known all over the world, even if you can fight against it, even if you don't win, you have honed experience under its tactics.

The Beidi Jingqi is an elite who has been fighting the Huns for many years and even beat the Huns to the ground.

Now Yang Duanhe is willing to give these veterans to Shen Bing?

This is a big favor.

Of course Shen Bing didn't know that Yang Duanhe was planning for his future:

Give Shen Bing more help now, in the future when Shen Bing takes over...

So Jiang is still old and spicy. Although Shen Bing knows how to deal with the enemy and prepare for the future, he is still stunned by these internal human accidents.

So a 5000-strong Shenwu army was quickly formed, and they trained riding and shooting under Shouchun City.

However, during the training, Shen Bing found that there was something abnormal in the city of Shouchun.

In the past two days, the number of soldiers at the top of the city suddenly increased, and some people were looking into the Huai River below the city...

That was when the Chu army was estimating how many "grass mud bags" Huaihe needed to fill a road.

2 Chapter Fifty

Shen Bing failed to guess their plan from Chu Jun's small actions.

But intuition made Shen Bing feel that things were not simple.

Shen Bing found Yang Duanhe at the first time, and during this time, he specially observed the head of the Chu army's city from the south, so he was more sure of his thoughts.

"The subordinates thought that the Chu army had a plan to break through." Shen Bing said to Yang Duanhe, "And it should break out from the north."

Yang Duanhe disagrees.

"Our army can reinforce Huaibei through the pontoon bridge at any time. What difference does it make if the Chu army breaks out from the south or from the north?"

Shen Bing thought for a while and replied:

"In this way, the Chu army may have a way to break my pontoon bridge."

Yang Duanhe couldn't help but wonder:

"The pontoon bridge is under the strict protection of our two armies and there is a chain to block the river. How can the Chu army break my pontoon bridge?"

This is true. The pontoon bridge is the hub connecting the northern and southern Qin armies. Of course Yang Duanhe was prepared.

The wooden stakes and chains cut off the threat of the Chu army's waterway, and the fortress on land cut off the enemy's attack path... Even Shen Bing couldn't figure out how the Chu army could break the pontoon bridge.

After hesitating for a while, Shen Bing explained:

"The Chu army in the north of the city has increased suddenly in the past two days, and people are observing the Huai River below the city from time to time."

"Our Daliang army only has 2 people. If the Chu army can break the pontoon bridge and attack the northern camp from both sides, I'm afraid..."

Yang Duanhe looked at the map, nodded and said:

"Never mind."

"If the deputy general is worried about this, I will send [-] troops to the north bank to help defend."

Although Yang Duanhe didn't really believe that the Chu army would attack the Beiying camp, anyway, the Qin army was pretty much the same everywhere...

With the pontoon bridge, the Qin army can reinforce the northern camp if there are more southern camps, and more northern camps can reinforce the southern camp, so it is not a bad idea to allocate [-] troops to defend the north.

However, Shen Bing shook his head and refused:

"The subordinate thought that this might not be the opportunity I was waiting for."

Yang Duanhe asked puzzledly:

"What does the lieutenant general mean?"

Shen Bing explained:

"If the Chu army is really going to break through from the northern camp but our army moves its troops to the northern camp first, then it will be 'whacking the grass to scare the snake' so that the Chu army will not dare to break through."

Yang Duanhe couldn't help laughing:

"Don't dare to break through, wouldn't it be more..."

Then Yang Duanhe's smile froze on his face:

"What does the lieutenant mean to say that King Chu of Chu will be included in the breakout?"

Shen Bing nodded:

"If the Chu army only wanted to destroy the Beiying camp or take my Shen Bing's life, why did they go to war so aggressively?"

"The subordinates boldly speculate that the Chu army's move is to save the king of Chu from the city."

Yang Duanhe thought for a while and replied:

"Then if the King of Chu wants to leave the city, he should have escaped before I arrived at Shouchun. How could he have waited until now?"

Shen Bing did not explain much:

"No matter what Chu Jun's plan is, it's okay anyway, and it doesn't matter if I try it later."

Yang Duanhe thought it was right. Anyway, it would be boring for the army to be around the city, so it would be good to use it as a drill.

So Yang Duanhe asked Shen Bing:

"So in the opinion of the deputy general, how should we deal with it?"

Shen Bing replied:

"It's actually quite simple."

"I will not increase my troops during the day, but I will secretly increase my troops every night, and return at dawn the next day."

The purpose of Shen Bing's doing this was to let the Chu army not know the strength of the Beiying, thinking that the Beiying still only had [-] Liang soldiers.

Yang Duanhe agreed without even thinking about it, because it was indeed a trivial matter.

So in the past two nights, as soon as it got dark, [-] Qin troops quietly entered the northern camp through the pontoon bridge for reinforcements, and then quietly turned back before dawn the next day.

Shen Bing and Daliang Bing still do what they usually do.

It was Yang Duanhe's general Li Yan who led the troops to reinforce.

Originally, Yang Duanhe didn't need to send General Li Yan, because Li Yan was already a general and Shen Bing was still a lieutenant general at this time. There would be a command problem: Is the North Camp under Li Yan's command or Shen Bing's command?

But considering that once the North Camp is attacked, it is likely to be attacked by the enemy from both sides, so the North Camp actually needs two people to command, otherwise it will be in a hurry and ignore the tail.

On the other hand, the military system of the Daliang Army is very different from the military system and tactics of the Qin Army... The Qin Army is simply five people, one five, two five and one shack, while the Daliang Army is organized according to the mandarin duck formation.

In this way, there may also be problems with only one person in command.

This is also one of the reasons why Yang Duanhe let Daliang Jun guard Huaibei alone.