Chapter VII Subjugation to Qin
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The Qin army led by Wang Jian was currently on the ice and snow on the west side of Daliang. Seeing the two closed city gates opening little by little, a little smile appeared on their faces. The Qin army seized the Chu army's witch medicine, but several cities were blown up one after another, and all the witch medicines that Shouying had not yet been blown up.
The surrender of Wei and Zhao is the best. After the surrender, the Qin army can quickly advance to Chu. Even if the Chu State can still gather tens of thousands of troops, the building will collapse. The morale of the Chu army, which collapsed with the death of the King of Chu, is no match for the Qin army. Morale is on the one hand, the Battle of the Sand Sea and the surrender of Wei and Zhao have allowed the Qin army to obtain enough troops and witchcraft that were not originally not available. It can be said that the Qin and Chu army have no equipment except training. In terms of quantity, excluding the 100,000 people under Qi Xi's command, the Qin army still has 180,000 people, and the most elite old soldiers are still 90,000.
When the sun was in the corner, the sun was already rising, and a ** figure soon appeared in the two open city gates. Wei Zeng, King of Wei, Zhao Qian, was naked, with his country's seal hanging on his neck, and holding a sheep in his hand, walking towards the feather flag outside the city step by step. As soon as the two kings left the city gate, they were now in the sight of the Qin generals, the Qin army burst into laughter, and then the soldiers shouted and jumped.
The Qin army won a very lucky victory in the Battle of the Sand Sea. It was precisely because of the victory of the lucky defeat that the generals' fear in the hearts of the generals has not disappeared with the defeat of the coalition forces. The coalition soldiers seemed to continue to survive in their hearts, which stimulated their nerves from time to time, making them unable to control their exclamations and confusion. The generals' actions made Wang Jian frown, and Fusu and the representative Zhao Zheng came to accept the surrender of Wei and Zhao.
The Qin army is a new victorious army. No matter what the Wei and Zhao countries are now, they were always a great country in the world. Although this time they surrendered, they always had to maintain the majesty of the Qin army. They must not be frivolous in their behavior, especially they should not be as joking as they are now. Wang Jian, Fusu and others frowned and were displeased. Liu Chi immediately gave a few instructions to the military officials beside them. When Wei Zeng and Zhao Qian approached, the shouts and jumps of the Qin soldiers in the array disappeared.
"I am not alone, and I cannot serve the King of Qin. I am angry and the city is too bad. I am still the crime of being alone. I dare not listen to it. He captured the Jiangnan region to make the seashore, and he is also the only order. He cut it (cut it) and thought it was county, and the envoys were also the only order..." Wei Zeng was older. He came to Dunliu and knelt down and defeated, shouting for surrender, asking for forgiveness of the King of Qin.
Following Wei Zeng, Zhao Qian, who was holding the sheep, knelt at the foot of Dunliu, and shouted the same words: "I am not alone, and I cannot serve the King of Qin, so that the King of Qin is angry and the city is too bad. I dare not listen to it by order. He captured Jiangnan to make the coast of the sea, and he was also orderly. He thought it was a county, and the envoys were also orderly..."
The king who originally asked for surrender would say, "If you have good fortune in front of you, you will not lose your country, and you will not lose your country, and you will change your service to the king and be barbaric in the nine counties. The king's favor will be the only one who dares to hope for it." (If the King of Qin considers his former friendship, he asks for blessings from King Li of Zhou, King Xuan, Duke Huan of Zheng, and Duke Wu of Zhou, and does not destroy our country, and let our country serve the king again, which is equivalent to the counties of the Qin army. This is the king's favor, my wish, but it is not what I dare to expect.)
However, the meaning of Qin's annexation of the world is well known that the surrender of Wei and Zhao cannot be forgiven. Although it is not necessarily "captured in Jiangnan to the seashore" (captured in Jiangnan and exiled to the seashore), it will definitely be "destroying as counties and envoys" (dividing Wei/Zhao, establishing as counties, and allowing Wei/Zhao people to be subordinates of the king).
The north wind was subtle under the winter sun, but such subtle north wind was still blowing by generals Wei Zeng and Zhao Qian. The lambs they held were unknown, and they screamed in waves, as if they were looking for their own kind. Wei Zeng was old and had already seen everything since he made the decision to surrender Qin. However, the coalition forces were defeated too quickly. That night, Zhao Qian, who did not escape from Daliang in time because of his mother's coffin, couldn't help but cry. His life suffered setbacks one after another, and this was not the most serious time.
"No gift." Dunliu promoted Wei Zeng at the right time. Zhao Qianliang said that he would not give gifts. Although the two of them put on their tops again, the seal on their necks had been taken away by Dunliu. "General..."
King Zhao of Wei and King Zhao of Wei surrendered to Qin, and of course the Qin army had to enter Daliang. Wang Jian waved his hand and the drums sounded. Qin soldiers who had been waiting for him left the city in a row among the bells. Inside and outside the city, they were all their neat footsteps and the rustling and groaning sounds of the giant armor. Daliang, the capital that was founded in 108 years, finally surrendered to the Qin army, and Wei and Zhao, the twin brothers separated from Jin at the same time, also destroyed the country 177 years after the founding of the country.
The Chu army artillery soldiers who left the Shahai Chu Camp and passed west of Daliang City to Yuguan happened to see this scene, and the Qin soldiers who escorted the delegation out of Qin also saw this scene. The Qin soldiers were excited and shouted long live, and the Chu soldiers were so calm that they couldn't help but change their faces. The artillery soldiers were the most educated division and brigade in the Chu army. In addition to the driver, any artillery soldiers had attended elementary school. Daliang is the most important gateway to the north of Chu State. Since Daliang surrenders, will Shouying be far away?
The artillery soldiers were thinking about this issue, and the Grand Sima Mansion was considering this issue on the day when the coalition army was defeated.
Naojiu planned to surrender to Qin with the purpose of protecting the common people of Chu, but the fact is that if Chu surrendered very early, the Qin army would definitely cross the river to Jiangdong earlier to pursue those Chu people who temporarily lived in Yue and crossed the sea to Xinying. Time was only the moon of the evening, and the La Festival had just passed, and the first month had not arrived. There were at least ninety days left before the March when the monsoon turned.
If the Qin army surrendered to Qin for more than 90 days, the Qin army would have advanced straight into Yue. Before the monsoon turned, the Qin army might have already arrived in Yue. About 400,000 boys, 200,000 craftsmen would be captured by the Qin army. What the State of Chu can do now is to concentrate its last troops to defend Shouying to death, and at least until March, the monsoon turns, and it is best to guard the Sixth Division of Douyuzhi who changed the order south to rush to Jinling. Only in this way can more people in Chu escape to Xinying.
However, when Shahai was defeated, the main ones who escaped from Shahai were the Wei army led by Jin Zhu. Yuewu was Yuezhi, Lu army of Lu, more than a thousand Qi soldiers, and some other defeated soldiers with generals as their backbone. The Wei army was stationed in Daliang and could not be transferred; Lu army, Qi soldiers returned to Lu territory, and after Dongyegu died in battle, Meng Hui, who led the army, did not want to take Lu army to Shouying; the two Song army originally stationed in Song territory were unwilling to give up their hometowns and go to Shouying. In the end, there were less than 6,000 defeated soldiers who escaped from Shahai, as well as Ba people who arrived at Chu later, and warriors from the southern tribes. These people were less than 30,000.
There were very few soldiers, and even fewer ones were artillery. The artillery that the Chu army could use was either on the sea boat or in the defeated army. The Qin army took advantage of the ice of Huai River and went south. Without artillery, it would definitely not be able to defend Shouying. What the Operations Department could do was to take back the 192 lings of the commander's pipe guns that had been lent to the sea jacks and arrange these 192 lanterns of the cannons in Shouying.
Last year, the sea soldiers launched ten new gunboats. In addition to these ten, the sea soldiers launched a total of twenty-six gunboats. Four of them arrived in Xizhou and failed to return. There were only twenty-two ships in China, but eight were modified this year. These 192 gunboats were the guns of these eight modified seaboats. Once the cannons were taken back, the sea soldiers would only have twenty-two gunboats, which was only two more than last year.
There were choices between land and sea. Although Shen Yinshang kept opposing this matter, Naojiu still signed a military order. Today, 192 15-jin cannons were transported from the Yangtze River along the Yinglu Canal into Shouying. At this time, Shouying had become a large construction site, with countless women working outside the city in the cold wind, and Li Qi and Shentong Operations Department were accompanying Naojiu, the great elders Song and Ba Hu patrolling outside the city.
"In the battle of Xiaoyi, the defenders of the city were not soldiers, but artillery." Li Qi's eyes were covered with blood, and he pointed to the fortifications excavated in the north of the city and said, "However, the artillery was set up in the right place, but the only place was that artillery killed people.
Our army spent one man to dig trenches and build trenches, and the Qin people spent as little as twice as much as the number of manpower, and the number of more than twice as much as the number of more than it is. However, our army is not short of food and fodder, and the Qin people need to transport food and fodder for thousands of miles, which is a huge cost. I also built trenches with concrete, so the Qin people had to blow them up with half the effort. The Qin people had to use gunpowder or bombard them with ten kilograms. Our army had fifteen kilograms of cannons, and the Qin troops had ten kilograms of cannons, and the most were sixty-eight kilograms of cannons. The former was insufficient in power, and the latter could not be far away. I still don’t know how much the Qin people got my cannons..."
Li Qi specifically emphasized the various advantages of the defenders in his words to enhance the confidence of the Great Elder Song, Ba Hu and others. In fact, Shouying is a big city with a circumference of more than 50 miles. If you want to turn such a big city into a bastion like a small body in the south of Jiying City, it is definitely not something that tens of thousands of women and more than 20,000 soldiers can complete in one or two months. Even if it is completed, the 192 cannons in the hand of the defenders are not enough to defend the city.
But the Chu army only needed to delay the Qin army's southward movement, not really stationed here for a year or two, and 192 artillery cannons could still be fought hard. In addition, Shouyingcheng was more than 50 miles away, but the Zijin Mountain in the northwest corner occupied a long time, which helped to reduce the arrangement of artillery.
Li Qie was in a state of great enthusiasm, and the Communications Department Yin Qu Le ran over from a distance. The coalition forces were defeated and Da Ao died in battle. Qu Le appeared with bad news. When he saw him, Li Qie stopped talking unconsciously and watched him walk in from afar.
"What's the matter?" Li Qi looked at Qu Le, and the rest followed him and looked at Qu Le. Naojiu saw him holding the newspaper in his hand and asked loudly.
Qu Le did not answer, but just handed the report to Naojiu. "Wei Zhao surrendered to Qin?"
Nao's words made everyone lose their minds. Everyone knew that Daliang might not be able to defend for long, and the Wei people might surrender, but unexpectedly, the Wei people surrendered to Qin today, and this was not a battle.
"The people of Zhao had no soldiers to fight. The people of Wei had long wanted to surrender to Qin because of the country." Naoji tried his best to show his calmness. He handed the report to Li Qi and asked again: "What else is there?"
Chapter completed!