Under Yinling City, the Chu army in ocher clothes and black armor came from the northwest.
The soldiers on the tower hurriedly reported to the top.
Then several fast horses galloped out and ran toward Shouchun in the southwest.
Yinling is a small city.
The original tall city walls were demolished when Qin unified the six kingdoms.
The current short city wall was built in the past two years.
A few days ago, Yinling was occupied by Liu Jia's troops from the Han camp who were stationed in Shouchun.
If it were not for the long-term garrison here to monitor the movements of the main force of the Chu army, the city would also have been massacred.
There are now three thousand soldiers stationed in the city.
Xiang Yu stared at the city with his double-eyed eyes, thinking that Yin Ling must be captured, and captured quickly, as a resting place for the army and a backing when the army crossed the river.
The Chu army surrounded Yinling, but did not launch an attack immediately.
They seemed to be building siege equipment.
An arrow flew up to the top of the city with a piece of brocade cloth.
After the guard unfolded the brocade cloth and took a look, his liver and gallbladder trembled.
The above meaning is simple and clear, asking them to surrender, otherwise they will be cooked and killed after the city is broken.
One hundred thousand Chu troops built 2,000 ladders and four battering rams in just two hours, and fed the 20,000 soldiers who participated in the siege.
The Han garrison still had no intention of surrendering, so Xiang Yu gave the order and the attack began.
The soldiers of the Chu army raised their shields to meet the arrows of bows and crossbows, and set up two thousand ladders to climb the city on all sides.
Twenty thousand Chu soldiers were like ants, climbing up against rolling logs and rocks.
Four battering rams, operated by four groups of strong men, began to attack the city gate.
However, only one of the four walls was used for actual attack, and the other three sides were filled with old and weak soldiers selected from the Chu army.
On the actual attack side, Xiang Yu deployed 200 system blast shooters and 300 elite shooters selected from an army of 100,000.
Although they are said to be elite, in fact, what these three hundred shooters can do is only hit three to four out of ten shots within 100 meters, but this is already the best among the millions of peasant rebels in the late Qin Dynasty.
Both the cost of the bows and arrows themselves and the training of archers were too luxurious for the peasant army.
Therefore, both the Han camp and the Chu army had very few archers and crossbowmen.
The Han troops at the top of the city threw rolling logs and stones, and poured boiling oil and boiling water at the Chu soldiers on the ladders below the city.
But on the city wall where the Chu army was mainly attacking, as soon as a Han soldier showed his head, at least one powerful arrow would shoot through his head, chest and even hit his throat accurately.
The Gale Archers used composite bows and arrows with iron cluster arrows, and their range was slightly improved compared to the composite bow archers of the Bronze Age.
The effective range reaches 100 meters to 120 meters, but the sharp iron cluster arrows are unmatched by the bronze arrow clusters in terms of armor-piercing ability.
Two Han soldiers were carrying a large iron pot of boiling water and were about to pour it down the city.
A strong arrow shot into the eye socket of one of them, and most of the eyeball was squeezed out.
Without even a cry, the person fell backwards in an instant.
A pot of boiling water was poured on the ground at the top of the city, splashing onto the legs and feet of another soldier and several surrounding soldiers, causing them to scream in pain.
Before the Han army captains and military lords at the top of the city could react, among the first batch of Chu army warriors, only half of them were stabbed with halberds or spears by the Han army defenders when they climbed up the crenellations.
In addition to killing, most of them still succeeded in setting up the city.
In addition to the bravery of the Chu army, this was also one of the reasons why the Han army generals were extremely inexperienced in forming formations at the top of the city to defend against the enemy.
These hundreds of Chu warriors took off the round shields on their backs, raised their iron or bronze swords and fought with the Han soldiers.
The current short-range weapons are mainly ordinary iron swords and bronze swords.
The expensive Huanshou Bai steel-making swords are only equipped in a small amount among the Chu army's cavalry.
The soldiers of the Han army were no match for the bravery of the Chu army, not to mention that the long-handled weapons in their hands were almost useless in front of the Chu army armed with swords and shields.
He was arbitrarily killed by the Chu army with shields and swords.
The following Chu troops continued to board the city in batches.
The situation at the top of the city quickly reversed, and the northern city wall where the Chu army was mainly attacking quickly collapsed.
The Chu army marched along the corridor of the city wall towards the other three city heads.
At this time, due to the tight situation at the top of the city, the Han military commander was forced to transfer the soldiers guarding the gate to the top of the city, which caused one of the city gates to be broken by the battering ram.
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An hour later, the Chu army completely controlled Yinling, and all the remaining approximately 2,000 Han troops in the city were captured.
"Your Majesty, how should we deal with these prisoners?
Should we behead them or cook them?"
Xiang Zhuang asked.
Xiang Yu spit out two words: "Don't kill."
"If you don't kill the king, the two thousand soldiers of the Han army are all northerners, not us Chu people.
They will flee if they are recruited.
Should we let them go?"
Xiang Zhuang thought he heard wrongly.
In such troubled times, if you don't massacre the city, you can be regarded as a benevolent and righteous teacher.
If you don't kill the prisoners and surrender 200,000 Qin soldiers, how can the overlord who burns Epang Palace be as benevolent as Song Xianggong?
"From today on, unless there is a particularly urgent need, we will neither slaughter the city nor kill prisoners, with the exception of a few enemy chiefs.
This may seem detrimental to us in the short term, but in the long run it will only benefit our Chu army."
Xiang Zhuang stopped talking, and he would unswervingly carry out Xiang Yu's words.
"However, all officers above the rank of military marquis and captain were singled out to see if they had led their troops to participate in the massacre of our city in Chu.
If so, they would be cooked and hung to show the public," Xiang Yu said coldly.
"promise" All the food in Yin Ling was looted, just enough to feed the Chu army, which now had less than 100,000 soldiers.
The cauldron that had just finished cooking the military porridge and rice was filled with water, and firewood was added to boil it again.
Then the soldiers escorted out a large number of naked prisoners.
They were all officers above the rank of marquis, and they must have participated in the massacre of Chu.
Among them were the younger brothers of the rebel general Zhou Yin, and of course the guard of Yin Ling.
Although this guard general did not participate in the recent massacre, his stubborn resistance caused thousands of casualties among Chu soldiers.
The overlord must do what he says and what he does must bear fruit.
Everyone was tied up like rice dumplings and hung on a rack above the cauldron.
He was immersed in the boiling water for a few seconds with a popping sound.
As soon as the screams stopped, he was immediately taken out and then used a hard brush to scrub off the scalded skin from head to toe.
Finally it was hung on the top of the city.
Xiang Yu just wanted to cook and kill him, and the skin removal was completely an "innovation" out of anger by his Chu soldiers.
Such punishments were carried out one after another.
The people behind them were already pissed, crying and begging.
Of course, there were also those who were not afraid of death.
They kept yelling and scolding, and their tongues were immediately cut out by the Chu soldiers.
Yu Ji, who was by Xiang Yu's side, saw this scene and quickly covered her eyes to avoid entering the house.
At sunrise the next day, Xiang Yu led his army and headed south.
Xiang Yu left Xiang Sheng to guard Yin Ling with 5,000 soldiers, and ordered him to hold on for two days and then retreat to the Wujiang River due south.
Just as the Chu army rushed towards the Wujiang River two hundred miles away, Zhou Yin, who stayed behind in Shouchun, took the remaining 30,000 soldiers to make preparations to defend Shouchun.
Liu Jia had taken away most of the troops three days ago.
He said that he wanted to go north to Chengfu's line to encircle the Chu army.
But yesterday, he came to report that the main force of the Chu army had reached Yinling, and the next move was probably to attack Shouchun.
This made him extremely nervous.
While strengthening the city defense, he quickly sent a message to the ministries in the north.
At this moment, Jin She, the vanguard of Liu Bang's headquarters, finally arrived at Chengfu, which was an empty city in ruins.
King Han Xin of Qi personally led 30 troops to Gaixia, but Guanying's troops who captured Pengcheng and swept through Huaibei were the furthest away and had already crossed Huaihe.
Water, ready to wipe out all the Western Chu lands in the north of the Yangtze River in one go
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