Chapter 83 Humiliation
If the Battle of Qingshui was won by luck, then the Battle of Daliang and Chen Ying was won by the upgrade of technology and tactics.
The three-slurry large wing crushed the single-slurry large wing, and the giant armor exploded the copper armor and leather armor. The column's tactics far surpassed the horizontal tactics. Even the most proud cavalry in the last war was difficult to compete with the Chu cavalry now. Over the past year, the Chu army has been continuously upgraded, while the Qin army has been as always. The only improvement may be that the crystal Lu Li mirror that was roughly copied by the Shaofu in his hand.
If such an advantage can be maintained - especially the advantages of the Big-wing warship, the Chu army will reverse the passive defense in ten years and turn to take the initiative to attack; twenty years later, when the Chu army trains a new generation of soldiers and establishes a modern and modern officer corps, Qin will inevitably be driven back to Guanzhong. However, in the next ten to twenty years, Chu will be unlikely to have free time to consolidate its military and martial arts. It can only be fought and innovate military technology, improve the training of soldiers and officer corps. It is difficult to maintain the advantage of Juti. After this battle, Qin will definitely find ways to study Juti. Perhaps Qin cannot make Juti, but it can always make a hundred-sharpen steel.
Face it and not be afraid of Qin is the attitude that Chu should have. The Union and Xiong Jing no longer think about it, and Qin can only fight on the battlefield. Because of this, the barrier of Wei is no longer necessary. Only by removing this barrier can the Chu people personally observe the crisis of survival, rather than thinking that before, the Wei State is blocked and Wei State is blocked.
Xiong Jing's attitude was like this, but Zhaoshu was worried. Because of the shield of Wei, Chu had not fought for decades. Now, the king not only fought with Qin as soon as he ascended the throne, but also had to face Qin and fought for years.
He was hard to agree with such a national policy. Any country in the world seeks profit and avoids harm, but the king insisted on asking for trouble. He wiped out the grain stored in Gaokuli in two years, and even if he could grab the corn from Ao Cang in a few months, it would be a drop in the bucket.
There will be no more days to rest with the people! Five days later, when tens of thousands of new soldiers, more than two thousand tons of corn, more than one thousand tons of military supplies, and more than three hundred tons of other supplies were transported into Chenying in advance, Zhaoshu returned to Yingdu with such regrets.
As soon as he left, the mouth of Donghu Lake was occupied by the Qin army again, and the mouth of the lake dredged by the Chu army was blocked by the boats filled with mud and sand again. In order to prevent the Chu army from repeating the same trick, the narrow areas on both sides of the lake were cut off by the Qin army, and the gourd mouth connecting the gap in the East Lake turned into a square trapezoid. In this way, the Chu army could no longer rely on the narrow terrain to resist the Qin army for five days, and the boats in the East Lake could no longer approach the land by the lakeside. These hundreds of steps wide were shallow water areas more than one foot high, and the water was covered with caltrops.
Everything was for the next time, but it was too late. The corn that had not been transported into the city and the bullets... were piled on the docks of the two water gates in the southeast. The Chu army happily carried it, almost like a wax sacrifice. Looking at the pile of corn like a mountain, the main general Meng Wu was not allowed to write to Xianyang to apologize.
The new reinforcements drawn from the Fengjun Army gave the Qin and Wei troops the color of the Qin and Wei army on the first day. They actually rushed under the corpse ladder outside the city wall and killed the unprepared enemy. The chariots that did not retreat to the top of the city two hundred and fifty steps in time were pulled down by Jingqiu one by one.
The continuous offensive day and night had to stop, and the Qin and Wei armies retreated 350 steps away from the city wall, just like two months ago. They had to start over from here - consuming the Chu army's bullets and arrows with tens of thousands of lives.
"Mengwu is incompetent!" Zhao Zheng, who received Mengwu's apology, was furious and threw Shujian to the ground.
"Please calm down the anger of the king." Huan Qi, the commander of the State, took the lead, and the other generals and advisers pleaded with Zhao Zheng together. "The Jing people seized both sides of Hukou and transported them, which was a premeditated plan. General Meng first took office, and it was inevitable that he would be negligent. If he was exempted from the commander, the morale of the army would inevitably be unstable. The morale of the enemy would rise and fall, which would be very detrimental to the attack of the city."
Huan Qi gave many reasons, but the last one allowed Zhao Zheng to extinguish his mind of replacing Meng Wu. "Even if it is inevitable, he will be given a third-class title." Zhao Zheng suppressed his anger, but his hands kept slapping the table hard. Thinking of the soldiers who died in battle in three months, he was unwilling to accept it: "All the generals in the military formation have all given a third-class title!"
"Now." The king's order is the law, not to mention that Meng Wu was really too negligent this time. He knew that the Jing people were powerful, so why didn't he beware of the Jing people using their boats to seize the narrow land in Hukou?
"What should we do if the rest of the war?" There is a map of Chen Ying in the Mingtang, and the picture is carved on a wooden board. Looking at the royal city in Chen Ying's center, Zhao Zheng wished he could pierce the picture with one sword. Unfortunately, it was just a wooden board.
"I think..." Tu Sui was making a suggestion, and Wei Liao interrupted loudly, "I have a plan."
"Tell me!" Zhao Zheng glanced at Tu Sui, and also glanced at Zhao Shan beside Tu Sui, and finally fell on Wei Liao. Last month, Li Si submitted a letter of advice to expel guests. When he walked to Taolin Pass (fortress west of Hangu Pass), he was recalled again, and only appeared in the Mingtang of the main hall today.
"The Jing people's huge armored soldiers should not fight against them, but should fight against them with wisdom; they should not attack the city with manpower, but should attack the city with the power of heaven and earth." Wei Liao's voice was high, and although the Mingtang was full of veterans, he could no longer be as humble and polite as before when he entered Xianyang again.
"Sir, please teach me what is the power of heaven and earth?" Like King Zhaoxiang, Zhao Zheng also had a time to seek advice, such as now.
"The people of Jing have to replenish food, fodder and weapons, relying on the Donghu Gate. Since this is the case, why not use water to break the city?" Wei Liao said. "I heard that Lian Po was guarding the city, and there were many secret doors on the city walls, so why not draw water to the north of the city to penetrate the city. The city walls are all built by rammed earth. If you penetrate the city, the foundation of the city will be damaged."
"Shencheng?!" The general in Mingtang was stunned. The veteran Zhao Shan asked: "The terrain in the north of Chen City is higher than the east of the city. How dare you ask the guest how to divert water from the north of the city?"
"Yes, the water is going to the lower place. The east side of the city is originally by the water. The base of the city is made of stone and must not be immersed. Although the north of the city is rammed earth, it cannot be dipped in water." For nearly four months of siege, Chen City has been engraved in everyone's minds. There are many cases of fighting to rush the city with water and flood the city with water. If it could rush the city, the Guowei Mansion would have decided to rush the city long ago, so why should Wei Liao come to mention it?
The generals questioned, and most of the strategists shook their heads. Wei Liao just didn't answer or refute, and had an unfathomable smile on his face.
"Please teach me how to lead the water from a low place to a high place to a high place to a city?" Zhao Zheng stood up and bowed deeply to Wei Liao. Wei Liao was inexplicably driven away by the King of Qin. He was very angry, but he had to come back because there was no better place in the world except Qin.
"Haha." Wei Liao smiled suddenly, "The king should ask King Jing about this question, how did King Jing lead water from a low place to a high place."
"Ah! I know, I know!" Someone shouted, "White Dragon Water Wheel, you can use the White Dragon Water Wheel!"
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But no matter how crazy he was, the water of the East Lake covered with thin ice was flowing into the water truck, and then flowing into the North City in white along the ditches. More than 300,000 people had built a canal more than one meter high, 350 steps away from the north city wall. The pits were bumpy and covered with corpses. The white land with broken flags returned to its original color as soon as it was moistened by the water flow. The water splashed everywhere, and the lake finally flowed into the blocked city protection, and then rose little by little.
"Don't worry, if heavy snow falls in the sky..." The Right Shi, behind Xiong Jing, comforted. The first month has passed, and although there is ice and snow in the fields is gradually melting. In February, Jiangdong is a day when spring is blooming, and there is no heavy snowfall in the sky.
"What do you think?" Xiong Jing was crazy, and Lian Po was stunned. In order to facilitate the Chu army to enter and exit the city, two or three hundred secret doors were dug up on the city. The rammed earth was originally not resistant to water, but now it has been hollowed out.
"So quickly fill the secret door." Lian Po's answer was a little old, and he then accused him of guilt: "I am guilty, so I should not open the secret door more often."
"What is the fault of the teacher?" Xiong Jing hurriedly helped him up. "If it were about the blame, the blame lies in the unscrupulous. If it weren't for the unscrupulous water cart, how could the Qin army lead the water to the northern city?"
"The king is wrong." The right historical minister disagreed very much. "The king built a white dragon water cart to relieve the suffering of common people's irrigation of fields. All the people in the world praised the king. They invited the water cart to return to the capital of Ying. The king benefited the world, and Qin suffered the world. What crime did the king blame?"
"Report!" The soldiers rushed over. "Tell the king that the Qin army sent our soldiers to send us to inform us, saying that an old friend stood on a high place outside the city."
"Old friend?" Xiong Jing didn't know what old friend he would be in Qin camp. He picked up Lu Li Jing and looked at it. There was indeed a person standing at the highest point of Qulei. The man also had Lu Li Jing in his hand. Seeing Xiong Jing holding up the mirror and looking at him with a smile.
"Wei Liao?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but shout out the man's name.
"What are the words of the king?" The historian wanted to record Xiong Jing's words and deeds, but the right historian did not hear Xiong Jing say anything.
"A bitch." Xiong Jing put down Lu Lijing and said disdainfully. Influenced by his ministers, he also hated Weiren - Weiguo was a survivor of merchants, and the ancestors of the Chu people were conservative and bullied by merchants. In addition to Wu Qi, the reformed ministers did not hate Weiren.
"Haha!" Wei Liao also put down Lu Lijing, he could read his lips. "Jing Wangyan, a bitch."
"The King of Jing was angry because of the plan of flooding from the superiors." Meng Wu stood under the brigade. Although he surrendered to three titles in a row, he no longer had a depressed expression on his face. "Liang Po was a native of the north. He didn't know that there were many ponds on the Huai River, and there were so many hidden doors in the city walls. The city foundation was soaked for two months to collapse."
"Two months are too long, at most one month!" Wei Liao came with the king's order, and the King of Qin asked to break the city within two months.
"January?" Meng Wu said that the city collapsed in two months was just a fool. Who can guarantee that the city collapsed in several months?
Chapter completed!