Daqin Engineering Corps

If you want to dismantle "Wu", it will be troublesome, and the household registration of the whole army will have to be changed. Of course, Shen Bing will not do such a thankless thing.

Seeing Shen Bing training like this, Wei Wei felt a little strange:

"Lieutenant General, my subordinates are puzzled... Can this solve the armor problem?"

Shen Bing nodded:

"Exactly, do you have a better way?"

Wei Wei was speechless for a while, but when he was about to say something, he saw Yang Duanhe and Meng Wu, who had a bad face, walking over.

It turned out that Yang Duanhe was leading Meng Wu to patrol around. Seeing that Daliang Army was practicing, he went into the camp to watch for a while, but he didn't want to see Daliang Army holding a moso bamboo to row back and forth in the school field, so Meng Wu was so angry that he stomped his feet.

"This is Daliang Army?"

"This is the army trained by Shen Bing, who claims to have defeated Chu's navy?"

"How can such an army go to battle?"

"How can military training be such a joke!"

Yang Duanhe was also puzzled, because he had never seen the situation of carrying moso bamboo on the battlefield, so he found Shen Bing together with Meng Wu.

"Deputy general!" Yang Duanhe asked Shen Bing a few steps away, "You are..."

Shen Bing hurried up to greet him, saying:

"General, General."

"The subordinates are training."

Yang Duanhe knew that there must be a reason for Shen Bing to train troops like this, so he was not in a hurry to deny it.

But Meng Wu couldn't hold back anymore:

"Absurd, has ever used moso bamboo to train soldiers?"

"I don't know what the lieutenant general's intention is?"

Shen Bing replied:

"General Meng didn't know that the entire Daliang Army had no ranks, so they had no armor."

"In desperation, the only subordinates are..."

Before Shen Bing finished speaking, Meng Wu interrupted him:

"So you use bamboo instead of armor?"

"Can it block arrows? Or can it block knives?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Arrows may be unstoppable, but knives..."

Meng Wu snorted and said:

"I would like to see how it can block knives and guns."

Shen Bing asked back:

"How to try?"

Meng Wu didn't speak, just waved his hand backwards, and a group of personal guards drew their swords and rushed forward in response.

Of course, this is not a real battle, but a similar modern exercise.

Seeing this, Wei Wei hurriedly raised a banner to let the soldiers get ready.

When the soldiers saw the team of guards showing their bronze swords, they immediately realized what was going on. They threw the bamboo towards the guards, shouted loudly and got ready for battle.

Needless to say what the result is.

Although these moso bamboos have not been equipped with barbs, the branches of moso bamboo are very resilient, and these personal guards are holding short weapons. If they want to get close to the Liang army, they have to go through the dense branches of moso bamboo...

But they only walked halfway through, and the spears of the Daliang Army appeared in front of them.

So it didn't take long for that team of personal guards to lose one after another, and they even touched the side of Daliang Army.

Seeing this, Meng Wu and Yang Duanhe couldn't help being greatly surprised.

In fact, it's not just them, Wei Wei also opened his mouth wide for a long time but didn't react.

Yang Duanhe asked:

"Lieutenant General, this formation is..."

Shen Bing replied:

"Back to the general, this formation is a formation of mandarin ducks, and the moso bamboo is actually a 'wolf'."

"It looks like moso bamboo, but it is actually a weapon. There are iron barbs hidden in the bamboo branches."

"It's the iron hook that my subordinate asked for from the general a few days ago, but it hasn't been installed yet."

Yang Duan said "Oh":

"I also thought that those iron hooks were boat-making utensils, but I didn't think they were used to make wolf whisks..."

Then Yang Duanhe was taken aback again, and looked at Meng Wudao:

"General Meng, if the barb is already installed on the wolf's whisk at this time, and your personal guard rushes in like this, I'm afraid..."

Meng Wu's face was very ugly for a while.

What Yang Duanhe said was that if the barbs had been installed, some of the guards would have been injured by the barbs if they rushed in rashly.

Shen Bing went on to explain:

"The general doesn't know anything."

"Without armor, the Daliang Army is taboo to engage in close combat with the enemy."

"You can't fight the enemy in close quarters, you can only fight the enemy from a distance."

"In front of this formation, there are wolf traps to stop the enemy, and behind it there are spears, bows and arrows to injure the enemy. If the enemy is lucky enough to break through the wolf trap, there will be sword and shield fighters to deal with it."

"So you can use your strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses."

Yang Duanhe nodded in praise and said:

"It's good to use your own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. It's a good battle."

Meng Wu was not convinced, and asked with a dark face beside him:

"What if the enemy attacks this formation with long soldiers?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Most of the soldiers of Chu state are one zhang and one chi long, while wolf whisks are one zhang and three chi long."

"Even if the enemy attacks this formation with long soldiers, they will definitely step into the branches and leaves of the wolf's trap."

"At that time, there will be bamboo branches and leaves to block the eyes and barbs to avoid, and the bamboo branches can prevent it from stabbing the long soldiers..."

"On the contrary, our soldiers have no such disadvantages."

"How can the enemy's long soldiers break through this formation?"

Yang Duanhe couldn't help nodding when he heard the words.

Meng Wu's face became serious, and he asked again:

"What if the enemy attacks with chariots?"

Shen Bing cupped his hands towards Meng Wu and said:

"General, if the enemy attacks with chariots, we just need to put our spears in the wolf trap."

That was the array of guns in the "bamboo forest", and the Chu army on the chariot still couldn't see where the spears were.

This time Meng Wu was also convinced.

With a shame on his face, he cupped his hands at Shen Bing and said:

"The lieutenant general's formation is very good, but the old man has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai."

Chapter 2 Abandoned City

At this time, news came from Yingzheng, and it was exactly as Shen Bing thought, the response to Anling City was:

"Anling City is not usable, we should think of other ways."

Yang Duanhe frowned when he saw the news, and immediately summoned Shen Bing to discuss...

Shen Bing had foreseen this, but he still pretended to be embarrassed and said:

"Since Anling City is unavailable...the only option is to take Chencheng and use Chencheng as a base.

Yang Duanhe frowned and hesitated:

"But this Chencheng..."

Shen Bing knew what Yang Duanhe was worried about.

Chencheng is the original capital of Chu State. Not to mention its thick walls, it also stores a large amount of food and is stationed by [-] Chu troops.

Although the Qin Army has 20, plus Shen Bing's Daliang Army has 27.

But these troops are almost enough to attack Chencheng. How can they attack the city and capture the Huaihe River to divide and encircle the Chu army.

And this is only the strength of the Chu army in Chencheng, Caozhou also has 15 troops led by Xiang Yan himself.

If the two cities support each other...it will not be easy to capture Chencheng.

Shen Bing didn't take it seriously, and said:

"Don't worry, General, it's not difficult to take Chen Cheng!"

Yang Duanhe couldn't help but wonder:

"Why is the deputy general so sure?"

Of course Shen Bing was sure, even Shen Bing knew that Xiang Yan would give up the whole of Huaibei.

Xiang Yan can't do without giving up Huaibei. The land along the Yellow River in Huaibei is fertile and good for irrigation.

If Xiang Yan fought the Qin army to the death here, it would only consume the troops of the King of Chu.

Xiang Yan would not do this, and King Chu of Chu would not do this either.

Shen Bing didn't know much about the inside story, but he did know that Xiang Yan would adopt the strategy of "luting the enemy to go deep" in this battle.

Since it is "luting the enemy to go deep", the Chu army will not deploy too many troops or be unwilling to defend even if the outer city is a fortified city.

For example, the Chu army has [-] soldiers in Chencheng.

Once these [-] soldiers are stationed in Chencheng, they will be surrounded.

Once surrounded, the Chu army must use more troops to rescue.

After going back and forth in this way, all the troops of the Chu army will be "sticky" near Chencheng. How can they "lure the enemy deep" then?

In fact, not to mention [-], even if the Chu army had [-] troops, they would not be willing to put them in Chencheng.

Therefore, from this result, Shen Bing concluded that the strength of the Chu soldiers in Chencheng was just a cover, and its function was to deter the Qin army from obtaining Chencheng too easily.

Once the Qin army launches an attack...the Chu army retreats with a feint shot, and Chencheng will be an empty city.

Of course, Shen Bing couldn't explain this to Yang Duanhe.

Shen Bing replied:

"General, at this time our army has reached more than [-] troops."

"The strength of the Chu army is only 25."

"Once our army besieges the Chu army in Chencheng, the Chu army will definitely have a showdown with our army outside Chencheng."

"Chencheng's flat terrain is conducive to the Great Qin's battle, which is not the wish of the Chu army."

"That's why the subordinates thought that the Chu army would abandon Chencheng."

Hearing this, Meng Wu couldn't help laughing "haha":