Daqin Engineering Corps

And because the Chu army has a complex composition and they don’t know each other... In ancient times, the troops used to identify who they were was to put up a banner. "Character.

But even at the same time, the composition of Xiang Bo's army is also varied, even if Wang Ben typed the word "Xiang", no one would recognize it.

So Wang Ben made a mess this night, and the Chu army was in a mess and couldn't tell the enemy from ourselves.

Wang Ben and the other Black Armored Army can recognize it, the method is not to tie white towels... Even if you tie white towels at night, you can't see your fingers.

The password is used:

"Thief Qin is so brave, take a sword from me."

The Black Armored Army yelled and killed, and those who didn't yelled would slash wildly, and yelled again from time to time:

"I'm waiting for Xiang Jun."

"We are the guards!"

……

In fact, they just yelled and shouted so that the Chu army could not figure it out. In the eyes of the Chu army, it was Xiang Bojun who killed people indiscriminately, and Zhang Qi's guards killed them. Sometimes the two armies killed each other with great joy. .

The result is that no one can guarantee whether the people around him are enemies or friends. Seeing that they are allies, they suddenly stab them with a sword...

If you want to keep yourself safe, you must kill all the people who are close to you.

But if everyone thinks this way, Chu Jun will kill himself into a group...

This is very common in the era of cold weapon warfare.

In ancient times, there was a very serious crime in the military camp, which was to prohibit shouting and shouting while sleeping at night, and those who violated the order would not be pardoned.

There is no other reason, because the barracks are dark at night and the soldiers are very nervous, especially when there is a war.

If someone suddenly yelled or even talked in sleep at this time, it would be easy for people to misunderstand that there was an enemy attacking, which would cause a mess of hacking and killing in the camp.

It was night at this time, and it was not just roaring and shouting, there were still people like Wang Ben who were fanning the flames non-stop, so how could this "fire" be stopped, it only burned fiercely under the city, and it continued to burn more and more. , for a while, the sound of sword clashes and screams can be heard endlessly.

The Black Armored Army standing at the top of the city just watched all this in a daze, and many people didn't understand what was going on.

Chen Duan asked Shen Bing in doubt:

"Vice general, are you Wang Ben's gang?"

The reason why Chen Duan was "half-believing" was because he didn't believe that Wang Ben could make such a big commotion with only 500 people... It was as if tens of thousands of reinforcements were fighting against the Chu army below.

Shen Bing nodded and replied:

"Who else could there be if they weren't?"

"At this time, I can sleep for a while!"

As he said that, Shen Bing covered his head with the coir raincoat beside him, curled up in a corner and fell asleep.

Chen Duan felt the same when he heard it. How could the Chu army care about attacking the city when they were in a mess?

So immediately set up sentries and then ordered the black armor army to recharge their batteries.

The Black Armored Army hadn't closed their eyes for a few days, and even though the noise of killing in the city was loud, they fell asleep as soon as they hit the ground.

The shouting and killing did not end until dawn.

Only then did Shen Bing, who had fallen asleep, ask someone to bring Wang Ben and a group of people in.

The process is not difficult.

Shen Bing first signaled downwards with a torch to withdraw troops, and then Wang Ben and others secretly gathered under the city gate in the dark.

Shen Bing led the Black Armored Army to guard the city with bows and crossbows, and opened the city gate to let people in after getting ready.

Advance to the Wengcheng, and light torches in the Wengcheng to identify your identity.

Who would have thought that there were more than a dozen Chu soldiers mixed in... In fact, the dozen or so Chu soldiers were also stunned. They just happened to follow Wang Ben and others in the chaos just now and shouted, "The Qin thief is so brave, eat it!" I'll strike a sword" That's all, so I made a bunch of muddleheaded people and entered the city.

At this time, when the torch was illuminated and found that it was wrong, he dropped his weapon and surrendered in horror.

This scene almost made Wang Ben's group laugh out of anger, but because of the injury, the smile affected the wound, so he could only hold back.

At the last count, there were only a hundred or so of the five hundred soldiers under Wang Ben's command, and all of them were wounded. Even Wang Ben was no exception. There's blood all over the wound...

Infiltration warfare is good, but the disadvantage is that once it is launched, no one dares to guarantee their own safety, and life and death are left to fate.

Shen Bing patted Wang Ben on the shoulder and asked:

"Is it okay?"

Wang Ben smiled and replied:

"Reporting to the lieutenant general, it's just a skin trauma, not worth mentioning."

"Although we suffered heavy casualties, they are insignificant compared with the Chu army. The lieutenant general should not take it to heart."

Shen Bing nodded, and then asked someone to take Wang Ben and others down to bandage up.

Wang Ben is right, the casualties of more than [-] people are indeed insignificant compared with the casualties of the Chu army.

But this is not Shen Bing's ultimate goal.

You must know that the Chu army numbered [-]. Even though they suffered heavy casualties in the chaos of the infiltration battle, they still had the strength to capture Ruyin.

So this is just the first step.

Then Shen Bing asked people to pierce a lot of straw men and then put on the armor... Chu army armors are abundant in the warehouse, and they can have as many as they want.

After the completion, these straw figures were moved to the top of the city with only the top of the helmet exposed, and people were moved a few times or changed positions from time to time.

In the end, a few large banners were erected, with the word "Wei" on it.

After these arrangements were made, Shen Bing waited on the top of the wall.

As the saying goes, "it depends on people to make things happen."

Shen Bing has done everything he can, and it depends on fate whether Chu Jun is fooled.

Chapter 241 Reinforcements

Shen Bing's plan was right.

First of all, this infiltration war caused more than [-] casualties to the Chu army overnight... The more troops, the more complex the composition, the greater the casualties, sometimes so large that it is unimaginable.

As soon as it was light the next day, the corpses of Chu soldiers were everywhere under the city, and the tents, granaries, etc. were also in a mess.

What's more serious is that this also caused a psychological shadow on Chu Jun: who can guarantee that the people around him are not Qin Jun's disguise?

Therefore, the various units of the Chu army only dared to stay with people they knew for a while, and even within the same army, they were divided into small factions.

Let alone at night, the Chu army would not dare to attack the city at all.Because no one can guarantee that Qin Jun will sneak in.

This is not bad, and more importantly, the Chu army later discovered that there were many more heads in Ruyin City, and several banners with the word "Wei" were erected.

So Chu Jun began to use their imagination:

"Isn't the commander of the 'Daliang Army' under Shen Bing's regime the same as Wei Xi?"

"Could it be the 'Big Liang Army' who attacked our army last night?"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't the 'Big Liang Army'? The Black Armor Army has already been besieged by us in the city."

"How many 'Big Liang Army' went in last night?"

"Last night, I waited for more than [-] casualties, and this 'Big Liang Army' has at least a few thousand people!"

"This……"

The soldiers of the Chu army all had bitterness in their mouths when they heard this.

The [-] black-armored troops defended the city and let them attack for several days with heavy casualties and were unable to attack. Now that thousands of Daliang troops have entered, can this city still be attacked?

The soldiers wanted to think about it, they couldn't make a decision, they just talked in private.

Zhang Qi was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, the casualties were so heavy, and Xiang Yan couldn't hold on with the passage of time, if he didn't capture Ruyin in the next few days, all his previous efforts would have been wasted.

So Zhang Qi ordered without thinking:

"Attack again, only by capturing Ruyin and chopping off Shen Bing's head can the hatred in my heart be appeased!"

Xiang Bo hurriedly cupped his hands and persuaded:

"General Zhu Guo, my subordinates think that our army should investigate the spies first."

"If the Qin army is still mixed in the team, and when our army attacks the city, it will become chaotic, I'm afraid..."

Zhang Qi interrupted Xiang Bo's words without thinking:

"At this time, there is no time to investigate the spies. Two days later, if Ruyin does not come down, Chu State will perish. We can only continue to attack the city."

Xiang Bo responded and then retreated.

But although Xiang Bo responded in his mouth, he was not convinced.

This is because he reminded Zhang Qi yesterday.

Although Xiang Bo's reminder and actions are actually useless, Xiang Yan certainly doesn't think so at this time.

Xiang Yan only thinks:

If Zhang Qi was willing to listen to his request to suspend the attack last night, how could those spies of the Qin army provoke such a chaos and cause heavy casualties to the Chu army!

Fortunately, more than [-] casualties have taught you a frivolous child, but at this time you still don't listen to the advice, and just say "there's no time to investigate" and go on your own.

You must know that there were more than 5 casualties in just one night. If there are several more times, there may not be many remaining [-] people left.

You don’t need to investigate if you have less losses in the guards... The casualties of the guards are indeed less, mainly because most of the guards are Shouchun soldiers and they have been training together for a long time. Their composition is single and they know each other well.

But this made Xiang Bo feel grudges.

Because of this, Zhang Qi's order seemed very irresponsible: he ordered the whole army not to investigate if he was not worried about spies, which clearly did not care about the life or death of others.

What's more, Qin's reinforcements have already entered the city. At this time, there are tens of thousands of troops in the city and countless supplies. How can the [-] Chu troops outside the city capture it within two days?

In this way, Uncle Xiang and Zhang Qi are at odds with each other, and Bo Xiang belongs to the aristocratic faction of Xiangyan, while Zhang Qi is a private soldier of the King of Chu, so of course they cannot be united.

After Xiang Bo returned to the barracks, although he continued to attack Ruyin in obedience to the order, what was different from before was that he just put on a show, shot a few random arrows on the city wall, and retreated like a tide.

Then it took time to organize the army outside the range, or use a trebuchet to throw stone bullets at a distance. It seemed that they were attacking the city, but in fact they were doing foreign work.

Xiang Bo is actually doing two things:

One is to investigate spies.

It is not clear whether this investigation is right or wrong.

That's right, if there were a few more infiltration battles like last night, the Chu army would really not be able to bear it.

It is wrong to say that the Qin army has no spies in the Chu army. What Xiang Bo did would only cause panic among the Chu army, and even many Chu soldiers were identified as spies because of unknown records.

However, this is a reverse deduction after knowing the result. It is actually necessary for Xiang Bo to do so, and only in this way can he continue to fight at night.

Another thing Xiang Bo did was to send a fast horse eight hundred miles to send a letter to Xiang Yan.

In the letter, Xiang Yan reported the situation in Ruyin last night and at this time and asked for instructions on the next step.

Of course, Xiang Bo will tell Xiang Yan that the Qin army has reinforcements entering Ruyin, and it is hopeless to capture Ruyin within two days.

After Xiang Yan got the letter, her face was cloudy and cloudy.

If he was in Ruyin himself, he might see the clues and not be fooled.

But he is not in Ruyin at this time, all he knows is what Xiang Bo described to him in the letter, and he also knows that Zhang Qi has lost his mind and attacked...

In addition, Xiang Yan thought about another point: Although he led a large army to block the Qin army on the front line of Taocheng, if the Qin army dressed up as the Chu army and swam across the river to get past the Chu army's defense line, and then rushed to Ruyin at night, would it be true? It is possible to arrive within a few days.

So what else is there to think about?After all, it was still a step away.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yan let out a long sigh and said:

"Withdraw the army."

Xiang Liang couldn't help exclaiming:

"General, if we withdraw our troops at this time, all our previous efforts will be wasted..."

Xiang Yan handed the letter to Xiang Liang, and said helplessly:

"If Ruyin cannot be captured, what can our army do if we block the Qin army for ten days and half a month?"