Daqin Engineering Corps

Shicheng was at a loss for words for a moment, but he didn't know how to answer.

The king of Wei smiled quite proudly, and then said to the left and right:

"Let's drive, I disturbed my dream, I happened to go to the mastiff palace to have a look!"

Hearing this, Shicheng almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, this general is really not as good as a dog!

Of course, the corpse would not dare to say these words to Wei Xun, otherwise Wei Xun would be pissed off.

Shen Bing on the other side was quite surprised when he heard that Wei Jun had stolen camp in the river.

There are still a few capable people in the Wei army who know how to steal out of the encirclement by using the tactics of attacking east and west.

Going north... the destination is Guangwu Mountain?

Sure enough, it was a good plan. If they successfully attacked Guangwu Mountain, it would really cause big trouble for the Qin army.

But why did the Wei army withdraw at the critical moment?

Incredible.

Suddenly a messenger came to Shen Bing and reported:

"Miss, the general has a request."

Shen Bing responded, and then he got into the carriage and followed the orderly soldiers towards Yang Duanhe's handsome tent.

On the way, Shen Bing was a little strange. At this time, Shen Bing's camp was quite far from Yang Duanhe's camp, and it took about half an hour for the carriage to come and go.

If it was not an important matter, Yang Duanhe would not ask Shen Bing to discuss it at this time.

Is it because of Wei Jun's counterattack?

Shen Bing thinks otherwise.

It is normal for the Wei army to counterattack and break through. After all, they have been surrounded and it is clear that they are going to flood the girders. If they don't do anything, they will die.

If there is any surprise, it is a Wei army that appeared in the Bianhe River.

But the Wei army was discovered in time and returned to the city with heavy casualties, so in the end there was no danger.

Then what will happen?

Could it be... Shen Bing had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, when Shen Bing arrived at the commander's tent, he saw that the atmosphere in the commander's tent was quite tense. Li Yan and other generals gathered with Yang Duanhe to discuss something.

Seeing Shen Bing come in, Yang Duanhe said:

"The stingy man is really good at predicting things. What you worried about a few days ago has become a reality."

"But it's not Wei Jun, but Chu Jun!"

Shen Bing was shocked:

"Chu Jun?"

"Has the Chu army come to help?"

Yang Duanhe nodded, then pointed at the map solemnly and said:

"It is said that the Chu army has 20 troops."

"They have already made preparations. At this time, since Caozhou (now Heze) went straight to our army's side, they have taken Qiancheng, Yongyu, and Dunqiu..."

Needless to say, Shen Bing knew what happened.

That area is the water network area between Handan and Daliang, and it is also the transportation channel for the Qin army.

If these positions were occupied by the Chu army, it would almost hit the Qin army's seven inches.

Li Yan asked:

"Can we transport grain from Yangdi?"

Yangdi is the capital of South Korea, and after South Korea is destroyed, it will naturally be the land of Qin.

If the food road is cut off by the Chu army from the north, then find a way to survive in South Korea in the south.

But Yang Duanhe shook his head and replied:

"The Chu army deployed heavy troops in Chencheng. At this time, [-] troops have been dispatched to capture Yangdi. Yangdi may not be able to protect himself."

The characteristic of Chu State is that it has a large number of soldiers. Wei State has only 20 troops in the whole country, and Chu State has 25 troops whenever he goes out.

In addition, Chencheng and Caozhou, the bases where he dispatched troops, do not know if there are any reserve teams.

This is troublesome: although Yang Duan and the 25 Qin army surrounded Daliang, they were completely surrounded by [-] troops.

Although the encirclement has not yet been closed, it is conceivable that the 20 troops of the Chu army in Caozhou will advance westward and intersperse to the rear.At that time, the Qin army would have nowhere to escape.

Shen Bing secretly thought this is wrong!

This was not the case when Wang Ben annihilated the State of Wei!

But after thinking about it, I understood why.

Wang Ben did not have such a dilemma when he destroyed Wei.

But they considered in advance that the Chu State would come to aid Wei, so they first laid down more than a dozen cities of Chu State and defended them.

This is a shock to the state of Chu, and the second is that the state of Chu cannot help Wei even if the key points of these cities are guarded.

Now that the Qin army is temporarily trying to destroy Wei, the situation is of course different.

Shen Bing asked:

"Then the general's reinforcements..."

Yang Duanhe replied:

"The general has led an army of one hundred thousand to help."

"But the Chu army deployed formations along the river and used water nets to defend to the death, and it was difficult for the general to make any progress."

Now it seems that the Qin army has no choice but to retreat.

Moreover, it is necessary to retreat early, otherwise it will be too late when the Chu army closes the encirclement.

Of course, Xiang Yan was responsible for the Chu army's plan.

At this time, Xiang Yan's appetite was not as simple as forcing the Qin army to retreat to aid Wei.

A minister asked Xiang Yan:

"General, the Qin army is attacking Daliang. I'm afraid Daliang will be breached in a few days."

"Why don't we reinforce Daliang but work hard and mobilize people to attack Yangdi and take his food?"

Xiang Yan hummed, and replied:

"The king of Wei is despondent and fatuous, so what can we do if we save him?"

"If this guy died in the hands of the Qin army, it would be easy, Wei Guo will be guarded by the Chu army!"

It turned out that Wei Guo's performance against the enemy this time disappointed Xiang Yan and even King Chu of Chu.

The interest of Chu State is to hope that Wei State can consume the military power of Qin Army and become a buffer zone between Qin and Chu.

But if Wei Jun only knew how to flee back to the city to protect himself like now, then this buffer zone would be meaningless to Chu State.

One day the Qin army is going to cross the Wei State to attack Chu, will the Wei soldiers still hide in the city like this?

Another day, if the Qin army went to the Wei state to grab food, would the Wei soldiers do the same?

Then isn't the state of Wei equal to the state of Qin?

What is the difference between this buffer and no?

Therefore, Xiang Yan kept on doing two things, and originally planned that the Qin army would fight a battle and directly support Daliang, but temporarily changed his mind and turned to encirclement.

This encirclement and rescue are different.

Rescue is a favor, and the soldiers will retreat after the fight.

To encircle is to occupy Wei's land and city walls all the way, and they are not going to return them.

Especially in Daliang, when the Qin army and the Wei soldiers were about to fight, the Chu army came up to clean up the mess.

1 Chapter Forty

A ministry general suggested:

"General, my subordinates thought they could only withdraw their troops!"

"Even if we capture Daliang, it will be futile to be surrounded by the Chu army!"

This is the voice of everyone.

Daliang's problem with Qin State has always been not Wei State but Chu State.

Chu State is too close to Daliang, and Caozhou and Chencheng of Chu State still control Daliang from the south to the north, so it is easy for the Chu army to form a double-sided attack or a large-depth outflanking situation on Daliang.

It's not that Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe haven't considered the situation of the Chu army coming to help.

It's just that they didn't expect Chu to organize an army of 25 so quickly after the internal chaos, and the strategy was still interspersed with encirclement...

At this time, the general of the Qin army would think: If he is surrounded by the Chu army, is there any point in capturing Daliang?

This is equivalent to the fact that a large net has been cast outside, and the fish and shrimp in the net are still fighting each other.

Yang Duanhe hesitated for a moment, he was also inclined to withdraw troops in his heart.

There is a saying that "if you keep the green mountains, you are not afraid of losing the firewood mountains." For the Qin army, retaining troops to preserve their strength is the most important thing.

If we can't destroy Wei this time, we can wait for the next time. If the army is besieged, it will not be so easy to recover.

Yang Duanhe's hesitation was not whether to withdraw the army, but whether to flood the girders before considering the withdrawal, even if the girders could not be destroyed, it would still make Wei Guo uncomfortable.

At this time, Shen Bing said something surprising:

"General, my subordinates think that we cannot withdraw our troops."

Everyone looked sideways after hearing the words.

Li Yan retorted with disdain:

"What do you know, a poor man?"

"Is it as easy as you think to lead troops to fight?"

"Just do your carpentry well..."

No wonder Li Yan questioned it.If it weren't for Shen Bing's previous guess that the supply line would be attacked, a military meeting like this, Shen Bing, should not even have the right to participate.

Yang Duanhe glared at Li Yan and interrupted him, then turned to ask Shen Bing:

"It doesn't matter if you say it, why can't our army withdraw?"

Shen Bing didn't answer and asked instead:

"The subordinate wants to know, if I wait to withdraw the troops, how will I withdraw?"

Yang Duanhe replied without thinking:

"Since the west has withdrawn to Qin."

Qin Jun originally had three directions to retreat.

But the situation has changed at this time: there are 20 main forces of the Chu army in the north, and [-] Chu troops attacking Yangdi in the south. The Qin army has only one direction to withdraw...to the west to return to the Qin territory.

Although there are only [-] Chu troops in the south, Yang Duan and the [-] troops are fully confident that they can defeat them, but they are afraid that being held back by them and unable to escape will eventually lead to bad things.

Shen Bing replied:

"If we retreat to the west, I'm afraid we will fall into the tricks of the Chu army!"

Li Yan smiled and said:

"It's alarmist, if you can't withdraw to the west, can you still withdraw to the east?"

All the generals burst into laughter when they heard this, because to the east is the state of Chu, which is naturally impossible.

Yang Duanhe had the most contact with Shen Bing and knew Shen Bing's ability well, so he didn't despise him like others. He looked around everyone with a slightly reproachful look, and then asked Shen Bing: