One day later, Lin Tian's army marched directly towards the Chu royal capital, where everyone was in extreme anxiety.
"Your Majesty, what, what shall we do? Lin Tian's army is about to attack, we, we fear we will not be able to resist!"
"Indeed! Your Majesty, with such a massive army, we cannot possibly defend the city. We, we should just seal the city like Wei!"
"Why hasn't Xiang Liang's army appeared yet? What is Xiang Liang's army doing? Has he not yet escaped from the Qin army for so long?"
Every single one of these ministers was extremely anxious. Many of them had also thought of many ways to resist Lin Tian's army.
However, they simply had no soldiers in hand. Even if they wanted to stop Lin Tian's army, they did not have the strength to do so.
At this moment, they were more like fretting in vain.
However, compared to their anxiety, the King of Chu was surprisingly not in a hurry.
Sitting on his throne, he was calm and composed.
It was as if he already had a plan to deal with the situation, and Lin Tian's army was no longer a major concern for him.
Even when he spoke, he was unhurried.
"All ministers, do not worry. Our royal capital still has tens of thousands of soldiers. These tens of thousands of soldiers can definitely hold back Lin Tian's army!"
"As long as we persevere, as long as our tens of thousands of soldiers hold back Lin Tian's army, and then Xiang Liang returns to reinforce our royal capital, our Chu state can still be saved!"
"Therefore, everyone should stay at home with peace of mind. We must believe in the soldiers under our command!"
"Issue an order. Tell the soldiers that if they kill the enemy, they will receive tenfold rewards!"
The King of Chu issued such an order not for the soldiers to hear, but for these ministers to hear.
He wanted to use this method to tell the ministers of Chu that he had appeased the soldiers of Chu, and that the soldiers of Chu would fight to the death for Chu.
Therefore, they only needed to wait at home with peace of mind.
However, after the King of Chu dismissed the court, he immediately summoned his personal guards.
"How is it? Have the things I asked you to do been handled properly?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, we have made all the necessary arrangements and can leave at any time!"
"Very well, we will leave tonight. When it is late and quiet, it will be less likely to be noticed!"
While the King of Chu was saying reassuring words to the ministers and soldiers, he was actually planning to escape.
Facing Lin Tian's army, he had no intention of resisting.
In his opinion, they would not be able to resist Lin Tian's army.
Therefore, he only had one thought in his mind, and that was to escape from here.
For the past two days, he had been preparing to escape.
However, outwardly, there were no changes.
Even this King of Chu was calmer than others, as if he would defend the Chu royal capital with the ministers and people of Chu after Lin Tian's army arrived.
But in reality, the King of Chu had already made all the arrangements in secret.
Many people were unaware of this.
Lin Tian also did not know.
After the surrender of Chu's 200,000 troops, Lin Tian felt that there was no longer any obstacle to his army in Chu.
No matter which city his army arrived at, those people would obediently surrender.
Wherever they went, no one was willing to contend with his army.
At this moment, Chu was almost half ruined.
Lin Tian could even foresee the next events.
There would definitely be the remaining tens of thousands of Chu soldiers in the Chu royal capital who were still putting up a desperate struggle.
But those tens of thousands of soldiers would definitely not be able to resist Lin Tian's army.
Therefore, the conquest of Chu was a foregone conclusion, and the unification of the six states by Qin was also a certainty.
However, while heading to the Chu royal capital, Lin Tian always felt something was amiss.
The amissness was that Chu was too quiet.
Even if they had no resistance to Lin Tian's army, they should have continued to resist.
Instead of staying put in the royal capital and letting Lin Tian's army conquer everywhere.
Lin Tian looked at the map of Chu and fell into deep thought.
He always felt that the current situation in Chu was not right.
But after looking for a long time, Lin Tian did not detect anything wrong. He just felt that there were too many waterways in Chu.
Such a large number of waterways posed a significant problem for the Qin soldiers.
There were few lakes in Qin, so many soldiers were unable to swim.
In actual naval warfare, the Qin army would be at a great disadvantage.
If the Chu people wanted to escape or counterattack Qin, they might resort to waterways.
Therefore, Lin Tian issued an order:
"Leave a portion of the soldiers to blockade Chu's waterways, preventing large numbers of troops from appearing on the waterways and preventing important Chu figures from escaping by water!"
To Lin Tian, this was a very simple order.
In his opinion, this order could effectively prevent a large number of soldiers from appearing on Chu's waterways.
As for other matters, he did not think too deeply about them.
However, even such a casual move brought about a disaster for the King of Chu.
At this moment, the King of Chu was unaware that Lin Tian had already sent people to blockade the waterways.
He was still following his previously formulated plan, escaping from the Chu royal capital by water late at night with his wealth and beauties.
But halfway through, an accident suddenly occurred.
"Who is it?"
Because the King of Chu had a large entourage, and they were carrying a lot of wealth and beauties, their procession was quite large.
Such a large procession naturally attracted the attention of the patrolling soldiers.
At this time, the Chu royal capital had already entered a state of alert.
Under such circumstances, with a large procession appearing, how could the soldiers in the city not be vigilant?
However, as soon as they became vigilant, the King of Chu's face changed.
He wanted to escape from Chu, but he wanted to escape secretly.
At the very least, before dawn, no one should know that he had left the Chu royal capital.
Now that soldiers had discovered him and were shouting questions at them, it could easily alert the Chu army.
Once the army in the Chu royal capital noticed their presence and intercepted their path, their intention to escape the Chu royal capital would surely become known to everyone.
This would not only cause him to lose all face, but he might even be unable to escape.
Therefore, when these patrolling soldiers questioned who the King of Chu and his entourage were, the King of Chu immediately ordered with great ferocity:
"Kill them, kill them immediately! We absolutely cannot let them expose our whereabouts!"