Daqin Engineering Corps

At that time, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe had already fallen asleep. When they heard the call from the king, they immediately put on their ordinary clothes and rushed over.

Ying Zheng put the map in front of the two of them and asked:

"In your opinion, is it feasible to flood Daliang City?"

Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe looked at the map carefully, and then looked at each other.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Jian replied:

"My lord, the Yellow River is a river on the ground, and water attack may be feasible!"

The so-called aboveground river refers to the fact that the water level of the Yellow River is higher than the ground.

This is caused by the high sediment content of the Yellow River.

Because of the high sediment content, a large amount of sand and rocks accumulate at the bottom of the river every year, so the water level of the Yellow River increases every year and has the potential to overflow the dams on both banks.

In order to prevent the river from flooding, people on both sides of the Yellow River strengthen and heighten the dams every year.

Over time, the water level of the Yellow River has become higher and higher... At this time, it is a few steps above the ground and is called the Hanging River.

With this height difference, the girders can of course be flooded.

Yang Duanhe went on to say:

"Your Majesty Yingming."

"If Daliang City is flooded, we don't need to make trebuchets and floating bridges."

"Even if the Chu army came to help, I'm afraid they can only look at the water and sigh helplessly."

"This is the best policy!"

Ying Zheng sighed, shook his head and said:

"This trick is not from the hands of the widow."

Although Ying Zheng is a high-ranking, brutal and bloodthirsty man, he doesn't bother to take the credit of others to himself.

Yang Duanhe was startled and said:

"Could it be...is this another plan by Shen Bing?"

Ying Zheng nodded slowly:

"Even though the widows said that Shen Bing was an extraordinary talent, they thought that he was only good at carpentry."

"But now, Wei Guo will be wiped out with a casual word from this son."

"It's not an exaggeration to describe it as Jingtianweidi."

Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe secretly nodded in agreement, this Shen Bing can already be described as "terrorist".

At this moment, Ying Zheng thought to himself:

"One day, if we can't protect Shen Bing comprehensively, we must not let him fall into the hands of others!"

There is no need to doubt this, because if a person like Shen Bing is taken captive by another country one day...would it be possible to destroy Qin with just a casual sentence?

But this is just the worry of Ying Zheng and those who don't know.

If Shen Bing knew this, he would definitely reply:

"rest assured!"

"It won't be long before the world will belong to Daqin, where else can I, Shen Bing, go?"

"What's more, I don't have the ability to destroy Qin with a single sentence!"

"So, there's no need to send someone to protect and monitor and then kill the killer at the end?"

But what Shen Bing thought didn't count.

The next day, Shen Bing discovered that Meng Liang's personal guards suddenly tripled to 200.

Chapter 125 Psychology

Meng Liang's explanation to the guard is:

"The miser laughed."

"My father was worried about the safety of his subordinates, so he sent more personal guards to protect Zhou Quan."

"Don't worry about the miser, they are also at the mercy of the miser."

"If the coward thinks it's not enough, the subordinates can transfer some more..."

Shen Bing replied:

"No need!"

"Thank you, Mr. Zuo, for your kindness. These many personal guards are enough."

Increasing personal guards is of course a good thing.

Although these personal guards are not Shen Bing's personal guards, these personal guards are people that Shen Bing can order after all.

On the other hand, the engineering unit also lacked manpower and military protection, so it was much more at ease to have Meng Liang's two hundred personal guards accompany them on the battlefield.

But for some reason, Shen Bing felt a little terrified looking at those guards, and always felt a little weird.

Especially Meng Liang, whose eyes seemed to be staring at him everywhere.

Shen Bing secretly thought, why are you, as Meng Liang's personal guard, not staring at Meng Liang but staring at me all day long?

But Shen Bing only thought it was his own illusion, so he didn't care.

After only three days of training on the pontoon bridge, there were rumors of war again.

On this day, Shen Bing was training soldiers to build a pontoon bridge with Zhang Xuan by the river...

Building a pontoon bridge is never easy.

It was winter now, and although Handan was not as cold as Yanji, the soldiers supporting the rafts in the water would inevitably get their feet or pants wet, and some even accidentally fell into the river.Then everyone was shivering with cold.

Not to mention those who want to practice swimming, they have to light a fire by the river, and after swimming for a while, they have to go ashore to keep warm.

Zhang Xuan was a little strange:

"Why did the general ask me to wait for this time to practice building the pontoon bridge?"

"Wouldn't it be better to wait until next spring when it's warmer?"

Shen Bing smiled and replied:

"How can we wait until next spring?"

Zhang Xuan looked at Shen Bing in surprise:

"The miser means..."

At this moment Fatty Tun ran up.

Perhaps it was because businessmen were easy to inquire, Fatty Tun always got the news earlier.

Fatty Tun said out of breath:

"Master, have you heard?"

"Recently, our army has caught a group of bandits, what do you think?"

Although Shen Bing guessed [-]% of it, he still asked:

"how?"

Fatty Tun said angrily:

"Those bandits are actually not bandits, but Wei Bing pretending to be!"

These words immediately attracted the attention of the nearby soldiers and unconsciously moved to this side.

During this period of time, the Handan garrison has suffered a lot from exile bandits, which is even related to the life and death of Handan...

At the beginning, the grain transported from Xianyang to Handan almost caused major problems due to bandits.Among them, many soldiers suffered from the sneak attack of the bandits, so of course they are concerned about the issue of the bandits.

Fatty Tun continued:

"That's just one of them."

"After I tortured those Wei soldiers, most of the bandits who were confessed by Wei soldiers were supplied with food by the state of Wei!"

"There is even General Wei in command."

……

The soldiers were in an uproar again.

Not long ago, Wei Guo wanted to take advantage of the danger of Qin State to attack Handan when Yan State launched a coalition. Qin State did not take advantage of this to attack Wei State, which has given Wei State great face. Wei State actually secretly supported the bandits...

Whether it is tolerable or unbearable, the soldiers became angry and cursed:

"This king of Wei is afraid that he doesn't want to live anymore, and dares to make trouble secretly."

"It's not just a secret trick, but they want my life!"

"Is this okay? I'll report to General Ming to take down Wei Guo and vent my anger!"

……

Shen Bing only raised his head towards Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan understood.

I'm afraid Wang Jian has already figured this out.

The reason why the news was released at this time was to arouse the soldiers' anger towards Wei before they could fight.

You must know that these soldiers stationed in Handan have been fighting one after another and are exhausted: they first attacked Zhao for several months, and finally won the country of Zhao. ...

After so many battles, not to mention the physical exhaustion, even the mental toss is unbearable.

On the other hand, winter is approaching and everyone thinks that they will enter a truce.

At this time, if the order is still issued from top to bottom to attack Wei, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers and low morale.

But if it is to arouse the hatred of the soldiers and then send troops...that is two different things: this is what you yourself asked to send troops, no one can blame you.

On the other hand, it is the ancient times that "teachers are famous".

Although everyone knows that this is just a matter of excuses, the excuse is different if it is very legitimate:

What the hell, you Wei Guo just sent envoys to ask for peace, turned around and secretly played tricks, who else will hit you?

Zhang Xuan also secretly admired Shen Bing, thinking that all of this might be in Shen Bing's scheme.

That Wang Jian is also deep in the city, despite the grievances in the army and the people, he just didn't say a word.

From time to time, a few Wei soldiers disguised as bandits came out to read out the charges, and then they were dragged to the execution ground and hacked.

It wasn't until three days later that the soldiers who called for the battle had gone several times, that Wang Jian shouted:

"Wei Guo bullied me too much!"

"We must uproot that Daliang City!"

"Come on, the whole army is ready to send out troops!"

The soldiers of the whole army cheered loudly and geared up for a while, all of them looked eager to try.

Therefore, being a general is not just about fighting and killing, but also knowing how to influence or even control the soldiers' psychology. Only in this way can the morale of the troops be mobilized to gain greater advantages on the battlefield.

Shen Bing had nothing to say, so he could only organize his luggage with the others.

In fact, there is nothing to pack in the army, just bring an extra marching quilt when the weather is cold.

There was no cotton in this era, and the quilts of the common people were usually stuffed with reeds and catkins, and wheat stalks for the poorer, while chicken and duck feathers were used for the rich.

Even better is to use animal fur with fur and mink hair.

Soldiers are of course poor, because their marching quilts are made in large quantities, tens of thousands at every turn. Even the reeds and catkins are not enough to fill them, so they can only use more dried wheat stalks.

The quilt made in this way is light and fluffy when you sleep, and it is still ventilated when you cover it.

If it's okay inside the city, it's going to be hard to live outside the city.