Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 16 Counterinsurgency and Implications

"Strange, have Qin's reinforcements arrived yet?"

A few miles away from Meng Ao's garrison city, a huge military camp is located here. In the military camp, hundreds of dark red tents present an extremely delicate formation.

Once an enemy invades, no matter attacking from any direction, the soldiers in this barracks will be able to gather combat power in the first place and launch a counterattack.

In the central main tent, the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army—Wu Anjun Li Mu looked at the deduction sand table and moved several flags in succession. Finally, if he frowned, he shook his head with a puzzled expression.

"It's still not right. If the enemy's reinforcements arrive, it's best to take a detour from the rear of our army, and then attack back and forth... Could it be that the opposite side has seen through the old man's trap?"

Li Mu continued to calculate in his mind several times, but each time the result was completely different from the current situation.

The first is the number of enemies.

According to the statistics of the number of Qin army killed in battle that they cleaned the battlefield before, Li Mu can basically be sure that at least half of the elite Qin army lost in this battle.

After all, after a war, whether in Qin or Zhao, there were not a few people who had amputated limbs or even died due to wound inflammation.

But the fact is that during the previous rounds of sieges organized by Li Mu, Qin Jun's defense showed far more strength than he had estimated at the beginning.

This is the first variable.

Secondly, Qin Jun's attitude is also surprising.

Before the start of this war, Zhao Guoming had sent a small army to destroy the largest batch of grain and grass supported by the Qin army. The longer the stalemate between the two sides, the more unfavorable it would be for the Qin army. .

So at this time, no matter whether the Qin army chooses to forcibly attack or retreat, Li Mu can understand.However, the other party chose the most unreasonable approach.

It would be fine if there were reinforcements in the follow-up, but Li Mu had laid out the bait for such a long time, but he didn't even have a single prey to take the bait.

"Could it be that something happened inside Qin?"

Just when Li Mu had a flash of inspiration and felt that he had caught a certain clue, suddenly, there was an urgent call from outside the tent.

"Report to the general, the Qin army has retreated!"

"what?"

Li Mu was startled when he heard the words, and then decisively lifted the curtain and walked out of the barracks.

After a few hours.

Li Mu stood outside Chili City, looking at the empty wasteland in front of him, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Qin Jun's retreat was much faster and more thorough than he had imagined. Even the three cities that had been captured before were abandoned after simple looting.

It can be seen that this retreat was also an unexpected situation for the Qin army.

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"kill!!!"

Outside the city of Qingdu, Meng Ao was in charge of the central army, while Zhang Tang led the charge in formation. Under the cover of catapults and chariots, the army rushed out of the city gate almost instantly.

Then, with the help of the siege hammer, the gate of the city was quickly blasted open, and then Zhang Tang led the troops to attack Huanglong, and soon controlled all the guarding soldiers and a kind of general.

After Meng Ao entered the city, he ordered all the soldiers to be guarded temporarily, but they were not detained.

Because no matter what the rebellion is, it has little to do with soldiers.Even if it is liquidated afterwards, it is impossible to affect these soldiers.

Once the law does not blame the public.

Secondly, in wars, soldiers are the swords in the hands of generals. Although Chang'an Juncheng rebelled, these soldiers are innocent.

But the soldiers at the bottom are fine, but it doesn't mean that the generals at all levels are also innocent.

In such a rebellion, the higher the position, the more serious the subsequent crimes.

Therefore, all the generals were strictly imprisoned by Meng Ao, waiting for the king to issue a judgment afterwards.

After capturing Qingdu.

Only one day has passed.

Outside the city wall appeared a retreating army that was fleeing in a hurry, and the leader was Chang'an Jun Chengyu.

The appearance of Chang'an Jun Chengyu is the same as that of Ying Zheng, and he also inherited the blood of King Qin Zhuangxiang, and he is very heroic.However, at this moment, Cheng Yu was covered in blood and messes all over his body, and he couldn't see the demeanor of being a prince and nobleman at all.

"Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly!"

As soon as he approached Qingdu, Chang'an Jun Chengxue started to shout crazily.

Chang'an Jun Chengyu caused a rebellion in Tunliu, and Qingdu was the last retreat he left for himself. This place is adjacent to the border of Zhao State. As long as he takes a step back, he can directly escape into Zhao State's territory.

But it's a pity that Cheng Yu's rebellion completely angered Ying Zheng, so that even if Ying Zheng gave up the three Zhao cities that he had already acquired, he would have to outflank Cheng Yu from the back and completely cut off Cheng Yu's back road.

So when Meng Ao walked out from the city wall of Qingdu, Cheng Yu's face instantly turned pale.

"The traitor becomes a weed, and he will be caught before it's done."

With a roar, the gate of the central city opened wide, and Zhang Tang led the troops to rush towards Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu's face changed drastically, and he resolutely abandoned his troops and fled.

Meng Ao ordered all the rebels to be disarmed and captured, while Zhang Tang continued to chase in the direction of Chengyu's escape. On the way, Zhang Tang led the army and successfully joined Wang Jian's army.

The rebellion started by Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi was a joke.

With a mere [-] troops, how could it be possible to compete with Qin's million-strong army.

Although Fan Yuqi resisted a little, the news of Chengyu's rebellion spread to Xianyang until the end of the rebellion.Even including the time it took for Wang Jian to organize his army to travel, the whole journey would not exceed three days.

Except for Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi.

The generals and soldiers under the two men were all beheaded and captured.

Today's Cheng Yu can be said to have nowhere to escape, especially under the encirclement and suppression of a hundred thousand troops, there is no place for Cheng Yu in the entire Qin country.

I thought it would be a surefire thing to catch Cheng Yu.

Yet at this moment.

Cheng Yu did something that no one expected.

He surrendered to Zhao.

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"Bastard!"

Meng Ao, who was taking over the garrison power from Wang Jian's army, suddenly heard the news and was furious.

To Meng Ao and Zhang Tang, Cheng Yu's betrayal of Ying Zheng is actually not worth caring about. After all, it can only be regarded as a contradiction within the royal family.

But the moment he surrendered to Zhao, the nature of the matter changed completely.

As a member of the royal family of Qin, surrendering to Zhao is an insult to the blood of the royal family and a challenge to the dignity of Qin.

as predicted.

On the second day after Meng Ao received the news that Cheng Yu had surrendered to Zhao, a military order from Xianyang was sent to Tunliu.

"Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi's generals above the centurion level were executed."

"The centurion and below will be deprived of military posts and titles."

"All the people who stayed in the fief were exiled to Lintao."

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(End of this chapter)