The soldiers of the Chu army worked hard to shoot arrows, throw javelins, and use spears and halberds to attack the Han soldiers in the barrels.
The oarsmen of the Centipede boat also rowed hard, repeatedly ramming the barrels with the hull of the ship, and once they hit, the barrels were smashed into pieces.
Although the Chu army tried their best to intercept the Han troops who were riding wooden barrels to their deaths, the river surface near the shore was densely covered with such wooden barrels.
It's simply impossible to intercept them all.
In the end, more than 3,000 dead Han soldiers managed to reach the river bank of Guangling City, which was inside the Xuanyue Formation outside Guangling.
This place is still one mile away from the south wall of Guangling City.
At this time, the entire periphery of the Chu army was being attacked by hundreds of thousands of Han troops.
There were only a few hundred Chu troops patrolling and guarding on the river bank.
Seeing this situation, the school officer organized to meet the enemy and ordered the soldiers to inform them quickly.
Xiangzhuang.
Hundreds of Chu troops quickly spread out along the river, with halberdiers in the front and crossbowmen in the back.
The halberds were drawn out and arrows were fired.
A large number of dead Han soldiers who were wading ashore fell dead in the water.
However, unable to withstand the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Han army, most of them succeeded in landing on the shore.
The dead soldiers of the Han army raised their shields and brandished their swords, and came up side by side to kill the generals.
A dead soldier of the Han army blocked the opponent's halberd blade with his shield and cut off the opponent's halberd with the steel knife in his hand, but was hit by an arrow in the thigh.
Enduring the severe pain, he limped forward to the Chu army with a broken halberd, and stabbed the steel knife into the opponent's abdomen.
Soon the Han soldier was hit by another arrow in his head and fell to the ground dead.
But then, the Chu army who fired the crossbow was also killed, and a blade emerged from his chest.
It turned out that a large number of Han soldiers, relying on their overwhelming strength, landed on the outside of the two wings of the Chu army and began to surround the Chu army.
At this time, the Chu army could only disperse and fight separately.
In this case, long-handled weapons had a natural disadvantage against short-handled swords, and their numbers were much smaller than the opponent's.
They were quickly annihilated by the Han army.
The more than 2,000 Han soldiers who survived were divided into two groups.
One group was stationed on the river bank, and the other group rushed deep into the Chu army's camp.
When Xiang Zhuang received the news that the Han army used wooden barrels to attack the south of Guangling, he was shocked, but he quickly calmed down.
Now it is meaningless to allocate troops to intercept, because no matter where the troops are deployed on the front, it will be broken by the Han army that is furiously attacking.
It would be too risky to pull out the more than 5,000 defenders in the city to intercept this part of the Han army.
It is very likely that the position and the city will not be saved.
We can only abandon the formation to protect the city.
Xiang Zhuang gave the order decisively: "Send my order to the whole army to withdraw to Guangling City in an orderly manner and abandon the camp barriers."
After saying that, he led his personal guards to intercept the Han army infiltrating from the river.
Immediately, bursts of strange drum beats came from the Chu army's position.
The Han soldiers who were attacking the Chu Army's Xuanyue Formation from all directions were suddenly attacked by dense arrows, crossbows, and fire dragons.
This was an all-out shot without any expense of ammunition, which blocked the Han army's offensive for a moment.
When the Han army launched another attack, they found that they were no longer hit by arrows or crossbows.
They carefully climbed up the barrier and saw that the Chu army had already left their position and rushed towards the city.
They quickly climbed over the earth barrier and moved forward to pursue them.
The Xuanyue Formation is not empty.
There are also several small fortresses on both sides in front of the city gate.
They fired arrows wildly at the Han troops who were charging at the front.
Under the cover of these small strongholds and fortresses, a large number of Chu troops successfully withdrew into the city.
Xiang Zhuang led his personal guards and ran into the dead Han soldiers who were fighting with the retreating Chu army.
The Chu army received reinforcements, their morale was greatly boosted, and they gained an absolute advantage in local strength.
Before the Han army could climb over the barrier and come in, they wiped out the approximately 1,000 dead Han soldiers.
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Then they quickly withdrew towards the city.
Han Xin, surrounded by soldiers, came to the foot of Guangling City and looked at the watertight city surrounded by the Han army, without any joy.
Although he achieved his combat goal in this battle, he lost more than 25,000 troops.
This was the battle with the greatest losses in his life.
Without the 100,000 troops provided by Liu Bang, he would not have dared to act like this.
His eyes swept across the Chu army's camp, and when he saw the bed crossbow that had been destroyed by the Chu army, he stepped forward to take a closer look.
These bed crossbows have been dismantled to pieces, and the bow strings have been safely torn off.
Han Xin ordered to go down and collect the remains of these bed crossbows and give them to the craftsmen in the military workshop to study to see if they could be copied.
Han Xin, who had no foundation in modern knowledge or craftsmanship experience, believed that this crossbow was just an enlarged version of a crossbow, so it should not be difficult to imitate it.
At this time, a canopy came from a distance, it was Liu Bang.
Ten battles away, Liu Bang said with a smile: "The King of Qi is indeed a god with his troops.
In just half a day, Guangling was surrounded tightly."
As he spoke, he had come to Han Xin's side.
Then he continued: "Now that the bait of Guangling is ready, it depends on when Xiang Yu takes the bait.
At that time, King Qi will have to plan hard.
Xiang Yu will be completely wiped out, so that we can enjoy peace."
The Han army under Fancheng finally calmed down after experiencing heavy casualties.
This is because Liu Jia listened to the advice of his advisers and could not continue the fight like this.
Haste makes waste.
You should calm down and make siege equipment.
Only after accumulating a large number can you take advantage of your own strength and attack in one go.
In addition, it can also assist in soil work.
So Liu Jia gathered all the craftsmen in the army to build siege vehicles, and began to dig tunnels.
This process took nearly a month, and more than 150 Louqi cars have been built.
In order to prevent the Chu army's crossbow bombardment, the key beams and columns of these building carts were thickened and reinforced.
Liu Jia was afraid that the same mistake would happen again if the number of chariots was too small, so he asked the craftsmen to build fifty more chariots.
He believed that only by attacking the city with two hundred chariots at the same time could he give full play to his military advantage.
At this time, the tunnel has been dug into the underground of Fancheng.
The Han soldiers underground were shirtless and sweating profusely as they continued to dig the tunnel forward.
Some people are digging forward, and some people are lining up to carry buckets to drain water outwards.
Originally, the tunnel was very dry and there was no stagnant water.
However, there have been several heavy rains in the past few days, making the tunnel full of stagnant water.
A veteran of the auxiliary army went down with a hoe, and it felt like he had hollowed out a wall.
I carefully dug out bit by bit with a small hoe and found a well wall.
He quickly lowered his voice and said to the person next to him: "We dug it.
We should have dug the dry well marked on the map."
At nightfall, a large number of Han troops were assembled, and more than 150 siege vehicles were ready.
Since the tunnels had been dug without anyone noticing, Liu Jia decided to attack the city in advance.
The plan was to first let two thousand dead Han soldiers enter the tunnel and sneak into the city.
After they sent a signal in the city, the Han army outside the city launched a general attack.
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