Chapter 189: My Great Qin Has Already Fallen Into the Trap! This Old Man Is Very Evil!

“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

The sound of gongs resounded throughout the battlefield. This sound that was engraved into the bones was like a wake-up call that pulled the confused Zhao-Wei coalition back to reality.

Looking back, Qing She saw a flag waving on the top of Xiuyu City, signaling a withdrawal.

The three gates of Xiuyu City, the west gate, the north gate and the south gate, were opened at the same time. Three troops led by three generals came to the Qin army's central army on three sides.

Qing She took a deep breath to suppress the complexity in his heart, and shouted angrily: "Soldiers, our army has completed the general's order, and the general has sent reinforcements to help!"

"The front army will turn to the rear army, and the rear army will turn to the front army!"

"All units will cooperate to cover and retreat in turns!"

"Return to the city!"

While shouting, Qing She rushed forward, and a long spear danced like a long dragon to break the space for his side to dodge.

"Ding~"

The sound of metal clashing exploded.

A long halberd pointed precisely at the tip of the spear and thrust it upward.

The spear that was supposed to stab forward could not help but rise up.

Taking advantage of the gap when the spear was raised, the long halberd stabbed at Qingshe's heart!

Qingshe threw away the spear without hesitation and drew his sword with his right hand.

"Dang!"

The halberd blade was stabbed away, and Qingshe looked at the Qin soldiers standing in front of him with an ugly face: "Su Jiao!"

The last time he charged into the battle formation, Qingshe was blocked by Su Jiao.

This time when he withdrew his troops, Su Jiao blocked Qingshe again!

Su Jiao smiled: "I remember it clearly, and I won't report the wrong name on the road to the underworld."

Although he laughed, Su Jiao's movements were not slow at all.

The long halberd repeatedly pointed at Qingshe's vital points.

Qingshe hurriedly blocked with his sword and stepped back.

"General!"

Qingshe's family soldiers wanted to rescue Qingshe immediately, but the cowards and other Qin soldiers had already rushed up and fought with these family soldiers.

Suddenly, Qingshe turned his retreat into advance without any warning, and swept away the long halberd with his sword and rushed two feet in front of Su Jiao.

"Die!"

Seeing that Su Jiao had been pulled into the attack range of the sword, Qingshe raised his bent waist and stabbed the sword upward like a dragon swimming in the sea.

However, Su Jiao had already followed Qingshe's strength to turn the upward swaying spear tip behind him.

The back hand became the front hand, and the spear tip changed to the butt of the spear.

The right arm led the butt of the spear to hit Qingshe's forehead!

"Bang!"

The solid wood butt of the spear collided closely with Qingshe's forehead, and the strong impact almost made Qingshe faint.

Taking advantage of this moment, Su Jiao let his hands loosen and let the long spear fall, and his right hand grabbed the long sword at his waist and slashed it upward.

The sword passed, and the head was cut off!

The blood pressure of the aorta caused Qingshe's head to fly two inches, leaving Qingshe's eyes full of confusion.

Why did I fly?

I am dead? !

Grabbing Qingshe's head with his left hand and lifting it high, Su Jiao shouted angrily: "General Zhao is dead!"

"If you don't surrender, when will you surrender!"

Chen Mao looked over and saw Qingshe's head, which was still open, in Su Jiao's hand.

"General Qing!" Chen Mao's eyes were filled with sorrow, but he knew that there was no time for him to suffer. Chen Mao roared angrily: "I am still here!"

"General Qing's last military order is to fight back to Xiuyu City. Please obey the order of the Zhao army!"

"Zhao and Wei warriors, follow me to fight out of the siege!"

"I will take you home!"

The effect of Wei Qi's joining forces with Zhao and Wei was revealed at this moment.

After Zhao General Qingshe died in battle, the Zhao army was incorporated into Chen Mao's army without hindrance.

After taking a last look at Qing She's head, the Zhao and Wei armies screamed in unison:

"Go home!!!"

The sun watched the fierce battle under Xiuyu City.

It was not until the sun set that Chen Mao finally led the remnants back to Xiuyu City.

"General!" Chen Mao staggered towards Pang Nuan and Wei Qi, unable to hide his embarrassment and sadness.

Pang Nuan walked quickly towards Chen Mao, held Chen Mao's arm with both hands, and comforted him in a warm voice: "It's okay, it's okay, it's good to be back."

Chen Mao did not dare to look into the eyes of Pang Nuan and the Zhao army soldiers, and bowed his head and said: "I am back."

"But General Qing died on the battlefield!"

Pang Nuan was silent.

Even in Zhao, where many famous generals were born, Qing She was a great general who was famous in history, and he was also Pang Nuan's arm. Although he was not a deputy general in name, he was a deputy general in reality.

Now that Qing She died in battle, it was a huge blow to both Pang Nuan and the Zhao army!

Chen Mao continued to report in a low voice: "My troops suffered 5,720 casualties!"

"Forty-three chariots were lost!"

In the vast sea of ​​enemy troops, serious injuries are equivalent to death!

Only seven of the fifty chariots that went out of the city to fight remained.

Only 1,280 of the 7,000 elite infantrymen and 150 chariot soldiers who went out of the city returned.

Even these more than a thousand soldiers were exhausted, their morale collapsed, and it was difficult for them to fight again.

This elite team formed by the combined efforts of the Zhao and Wei armies was ruined!

General Zhao Huan, who was in charge of the rescue, also blamed himself and sighed: "My troops went out of the city with 10,000 people, 2,300 casualties, and 1,007 serious injuries."

The atmosphere on the top of the city became heavier.

Only today, the number of soldiers trapped outside the city alone reached more than 8,000!

In this battle, Zhao and Wei were defeated miserably!

Under heavy pressure, Chen Mao said in despair: "But who would have thought that the Qin army's trebuchets would run away!"

"Who would have thought that someone would install wheels on the trebuchets!"

The wheels that Cao Mao complained about became the key to destroying the morale of the Zhao-Wei coalition.

If the Qin army's trebuchets could not be pushed away, the Zhao-Wei coalition would not have collapsed in morale, and perhaps they would have completed their mission with less damage and returned to Xiuyu City!

Pang Nuan could see that Chen Mao's mentality had been hit hard.

Pressing Chen Mao's shoulder with a rough hand, Pang Nuan said softly: "It's okay, it's good to be back."

"This battle was a failure of my command, which made our army fall into the trap of Chang'an Jun."

"The defeat in this battle is all my fault!"

"Generals, go to rest first, and the rear army will rotate to guard the city in advance."

Generals such as Chen Mao and Zhao Huan took the order and left in despair. Wei Qi said bitterly: "It's not that the general is not good, it's that I failed to help the general, making the general too tired."

"If it weren't for my incompetence, the general wouldn't have been unable to rest for half a month."

When Pang Nuan just arrived at Xiuyu City, Pang Nuan and Ying Chengjiao were constantly adding small-scale battlefields. At most, the two even mobilized more than 20 small-scale battles at the same time.

In recent days, Ying Chengjiao has been actively provoking more small-scale battles, but Pang Nuan no longer fights back and tries to reduce the number of battlefields as much as possible.

Wei Qi knows very well that this is because Pang Nuan’s energy is not enough to pay attention to and think about so many battlefields at the same time.

Under Ying Chengjiao’s strategy of waiting for the old man, Pang Nuan can only exert 70% to 80% of his strength at most, and as Ying Chengjiao continues to wait for the old man, Pang Nuan’s energy will continue to decline!

Pang Nuan smiled gently: "Don't blame yourself."

"Since Lord Pengcheng has great faith in me, I must live up to Lord Pengcheng's trust!"

"Besides, the enemy is at hand and the war is not over yet. Why should you and I fight over the blame?"

"As long as we defend Xiuyu City, you and I will both have great achievements!"

"It's getting dark. Lord Pengcheng, please quickly command the civilians to pour water to defend the city!"

Wei Qi was comforted and excitedly promised: "Yes!"

The civilians who had been waiting under the city ran up to the city wall with buckets and poured the water in the buckets on the city wall as slowly as possible.

The biting low temperature made the well water slowly condense and adhere to the surface of the city.

The temperature gradually dropped with the sky, making the ice layer freeze harder.

By midnight, the wall of Xiuyu City was covered with an inch-thick layer of ice.

Seeing that this strategy did thicken the city wall in a short period of time, Wei Qi was very confident: "With this strategy from the general, my construction of Yucheng will be as stable as Mount Tai!"

Pang Nuan explained sincerely: "This method is to buy a moment of peace at the cost of building the city wall of Yucheng."

"When the spring comes next year, the ice outside the city wall will melt into water."

"The ice used to protect the city wall this year will slowly penetrate the city wall, disintegrate the rammed earth, and make this city collapse at the touch of a button."

"If you can destroy the enemy before the ice and snow thaw, your country will have plenty of time to repair the city wall."

"If you can't destroy the enemy before the ice and snow thaw, you can only hand over the construction of Yucheng to others."

Wei Qi was stunned. Most sieges were fought in quarters or even years.

How could the Zhao-Wei coalition destroy the enemy before the ice and snow thawed?

With his right hand on the battlement, looking at the cracks caused by the boulder, Wei Qi also understood that this was the best method at the moment, a method that Wei Qi could not think of at all.

Without this method, perhaps Xiuyu City could not even hold on for a month!

Taking a breath of cold air and forcing himself to calm down, Wei Qi bowed and saluted: "I will report to my king and ask my king to do everything possible to thicken and consolidate the walls of Daliang City!"

Seeing that Wei Qi immediately understood his intention, Pang Nuan bowed in return: "Thank you, Lord Pengcheng!"

Watching Wei Qi leave quickly, Pang Nuan's eyes flashed with a bit of guilt, and then he said in a deep voice:

"Send a message to the commander-in-chief, please fight quickly!"

The sun rose as usual the next day.

After more than 100,000 corvée laborers fought all night, a three-inch thick ice coat climbed on the outer wall of Xiuyu City.

Under the shining of the morning sun, Xiuyu City exuded a warm yellow luster like glass, like a dream!

Looking at the city wall that looked like a fairy-tale castle in the north, Ying Chengjiao straightened his back unconsciously: "General Pang is worthy of his name. He came up with a solution so quickly!"

Meng Wu was surprised: "General Pang is clever!"

"But General Pang's plan is just a temporary solution."

"Doesn't General Pang realize the damage to the city wall after the ice city turns into water?"

Ying Chengjiao was also a little puzzled: "Maybe General Pang has another trick?"

As he was talking, a squad of messengers came galloping over, and the squad leader in the lead shouted: "General Wang's troops, send an urgent military report!"

Ying Chengjiao gave an order: "Send!"

The personal soldiers sent messengers to block Ying Chengjiao's vicinity.

When they were still more than twenty feet away from Ying Chengjiao, the messenger sergeant dismounted, threw his sword to his subordinates, ran to Ying Chengjiao, and handed him a cloth bag with both hands: "General, here is the military report!"

"Take this comrade to rest!" After giving an order and letting his personal soldiers arrange for the messenger to rest, Ying Chengjiao opened the cloth bag and took out a bamboo slip.

After scanning the bamboo slips, Ying Chengjiao's face turned ugly: "General Wang's troops encountered the 200,000 regular troops led by Zhao General Hu Zhe."

"Four days ago, the two armies started fighting in Wu'an!"

Meng Wu was shocked: "How could Zhao General Hu Zhe and the main force of the Zhao army be in Wu'an?!"

Ying Chengjiao said angrily: "Zhao State had already predicted the direction of our Great Qin's attack."

"The old man Pang Nuan did not want to annihilate our army at all. He just wanted to hold our army in the territory of Wei State with 50,000 troops, and even actively lured our army to force Wei State, so that Wei State had to participate in the war between Qin and Zhao!"

"This old man is very bad!"