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"Lieutenant general, you may not know that the Chu army has a saying: 'To fight against the enemy must be based on the important town of Chencheng in Huaibei'!"

"This city of Chen is an important place of the Chu State. It guards the upper reaches of the rivers of the Chu State. It has been a battleground for the Chu army since ancient times. How could it abandon it?"

"The deputy general is underestimating the Chu army."

In fact, it was Meng Wu who underestimated the Chu army. He only thought that the Chu army would guard one city and one pool as usual, so he insisted on the previous strategy of going down to Caozhou and then down to Chencheng.

Shen Bing could not refute this, because his analysis was based on "guessing".

In fact, from a military point of view, Shen Bing's approach is not worth advocating, because you can't pin your plans on the enemy's abandonment or failure.

So even Yang Duanhe was a bit biased towards Meng Wu's style of play, which was step by step.

However, just at this moment, a spy entered the account to report:

"General, I'll wait until we find out that tens of thousands of Chu troops in Caozhou are secretly retreating south..."

Yang Duanhe was surprised and asked:

"But retreat to Chencheng?"

The spies replied:

"Going back to the general, it seems to be withdrawing to Shouchun."

The reason why the spies answered the word "seems" was because no one could be sure where these troops ended up going, but they could roughly judge from the direction they were walking.

Yang Duanhe frowned and looked at the map, then looked at Shen Bing in surprise:

"This time, I'm afraid that the lieutenant general's words will be heard again, and the Chu army may abandon Chencheng."

The answer is obvious. Caozhou is the flank of Chencheng. If the Chu army wants to stick to Chencheng, they must stick to Caozhou. It was for this purpose that Xiang Yan transferred [-] troops from Shouchun to Caozhou.

But now, Xiang Yan has sent tens of thousands of troops back to Shouchun, and is still hiding his whereabouts...

This is undoubtedly to abandon Chencheng.

Meng Wu still didn't believe it:

"Why didn't the Chu army defend the fortified city?"

"And if the Chu army wants to abandon Chencheng, why do they build fortifications in Chencheng to block the river?"

Shen Bing replied:

"This time and the other."

"Before the Chu army thought that they could occupy Qiancheng and delay our army's attack on the city, so Chencheng could defend."

"However, since the water battle leading to the city, if the Chu army wants to defend Chencheng and Caozhou, they must fortify along the river."

"This requires hundreds of thousands of troops to operate for several years."

"Especially our army still has the Black Armor Army and has the advantage of water conservancy. It is even more dangerous to deploy defenses along the river."

"then……"

This is actually the theory that Shen Bing said before that offense is greater than defense.

On the surface, it seems that the Chu army has taken advantage of it. This line of defense has Chencheng in the south and Caozhou in the north, and there are dozens of large and small cities along the way, plus it can be dangerous along the Yellow River...

Landing on the beach is difficult even in the modern era of hot weapons, let alone Qin Shi.

It seems that the Chu army only needs to set up catapults by the Yellow River and deploy archers, and they can shoot and kill half of the enemies on the beach. Even if the other half can rush up, they will soon be surrounded by Chu soldiers and driven back to the river.

The problem is that this defense line is nearly [-] miles long, and the Qin army can attack from any point, while the Chu army must spread its limited forces to the [-]-mile long area.

For example, now, the Qin army has concentrated more than [-] troops in Daliang.

Although the strength of the Chu army is no less than that of the Qin army, if the Qin army wants to attack Chencheng, the Chu army must face the Qin army's 27 soldiers with [-] soldiers.

In other words, as the attacker, the Qin army had the advantage of being flexible and concentrating its forces.

If the Chu army wants to effectively defend against the Qin army... it must either have several times more troops than the Qin army and operate for a few years, or shrink the line of defense.

Obviously, the Chu army chose the latter, that is, to shrink their forces to the Shouchun area to form another line of defense.

This will not only shorten its supply line but also get reinforcements and support from nobles from all sides.

Shen Bing guessed that the first ones should be the slow infantry, while the fast cavalry still seemed to be resisting in the city.

Chapter 2 Chen Cheng

At this time, Yang Duanhe felt a little puzzled:

Since Shen Bing knew that the Chu army was going to abandon Chencheng, why did he suggest borrowing Anling City?

Then think a little deeper:

Ouch, it's not good... Could it be that he has fallen into Shen Bing's way?

Shen Bing knew that the king could not borrow Anling, so he used this to delay time?

This guy's tricks are so effective that even the old man is kept in the dark!

Thinking of Yang Duanhe glanced at Shen Bing but dared not say anything.

The reason is simple, although this suggestion was given by Shen Bing, it was reported to the King by Yang Duanhe.

If this is broken and spread to the king's ears... he, Yang Duanhe, can't get rid of the relationship no matter what he says.

So Yang Duanhe stroked his beard and added a sentence:

"It makes sense."

"If the Chu State does not withdraw its troops, Anling City is the best."

"Since we have already withdrawn our troops and intend to abandon the city, then Chencheng is the best."

Shen Bing was speechless when he heard this:

Can't you bury these words in your stomach?Is it too obvious that there is no silver 300 taels here?

Fortunately, Meng Wu didn't hear anything, he still stared at the map and said:

"If that Chu soldier withdraws secretly, then our army will have to..."

Shen Bing and Yang Duanhe couldn't help being stunned.

After Meng Wu came to Daliang, he didn't say a single right word, but he hit the point... Qin Jun can't just watch the Chu army withdraw and then shrink the defense line to make a good defense. It will be troublesome to attack at that time.

So Qin Jun had to launch an offensive in advance.

The whole army made preparations for three days. Yang Duanhe urgently issued a plan to attack Chu to Yingzheng. After obtaining the consent, he sent a batch of grain and grass from Handan urgently, and the Qin army set off.

The army was divided into three groups and marched towards Chencheng. Meng Wu led [-] Qin troops along the east bank of the Bian River, Shen Bing led [-] troops and marched southward along the west bank of the Bian River, and Yang Duanhe led [-] Qin troops to support them in the rear.

The reason why Meng Wu's [-] Qin army was arranged on the east bank was because the east bank was a dangerous area between Caozhou and Chen Cheng, so it was natural for Meng Wu to lead the regular Qin army to take charge.

On the other hand, there is even an area south of the west bank in South Korea, which is obviously safer than the east bank, so the troops led by Shen Bing are in charge.

Shen Bing felt that there was another reason for Yang Duanhe's arrangement:

Yang Duanhe didn't really believe in Wei Jiangbing.

Otherwise, the ancients were very taboo in combat, and the first battle should be an army with combat experience even if it does not require elite troops.

But the Daliang Army was a newly formed unarmored descendant.

Yang Duanhe made this arrangement because he was worried about placing the Liang army in Daliang... If the rebellious Liang was gone, the whole strategy of attacking Chu would be over, and the Qin army would immediately be surrounded by the enemy.

Although it was said that "suspects don't need to be suspicious", Shen Bing felt that this approach was okay, because the risk was too great, not to mention that there was nothing wrong with sending the Liang army out of the city to fight.

The news quickly reached Xiang Liangna who was stationed in Chencheng.

Xiang Liang is Xiang Yan's third son. He has followed Xiang Yan in marching and fighting since he was a child, and he is familiar with military books. At this time, Xiang Yan's generals can stand alone.

Xiang Liang frowned when he heard that the Qin army's more than [-] troops had gone south to attack Chen.

The Ministry will say on the side:

"General, the general ordered me to wait, once the Qin army attacks, we will abandon Chencheng and retreat."

"Should I..."

Xiang Yan raised his hand to interrupt the general, and after thinking about it, he said:

"The Qin army dispatched troops earlier than the general expected."

"The Caozhou soldiers have just withdrawn. If we withdraw at this time, I am afraid that we will attack Ruyin before the Caozhou soldiers withdraw back to the Qin army."

Ruyin is an important traffic town a hundred miles away from Shouchun. It forms a line of defense with Chengfu and Chengfu through Rushui River and becomes a barrier for Shouchun.

Xiang Yan's plan to shrink the line of defense is to block the Qin army in this area.

But of course, if the Qin army had already approached the city before the Chu army arrived, this line of defense would of course cease to exist.

The Ministry will be busy asking:

"How about that?"

Xiang Liang didn't answer, he just ordered to the spies:

"Explore again. Find out who led the two Qin armies, what soldiers they were, and how many people there are!"

The spies led the way.

It is not so easy to find out these messages. It has to be close or even infiltrated into the Qin army to find out.

So it was not until the next day that Xiang Liang got the news:

"General, the east bank is the [-] Qin army led by Meng Wu."

"The west bank is the [-] Liang army led by Shen Bing."

Xiang Liang couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this:

"Shen Bing? But the Shen Bing who flooded my army?"

The spy replied:

"It is this man."

"It is said that because of his meritorious service in training the Black Armor Army and defeating our navy army, he was asked to train another [-] Daliang Army."

Xiang Liang gritted his teeth with hatred, paused and asked again:

"So, the [-] Liang army is the surrendered army of Wei State?"

The spy replied:

"It was the Kingdom of Wei who surrendered troops, because there was no knight in the whole army because it had no titles."

Xiang Liang couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this:

"This is God helping me."

"The Qin army will attack with tens of thousands of unarmored troops from the State of Wei... If we don't fight now, when will we wait?"

The general said with some concern:

"General, is there any fraud here?"

"What's more, there are [-] Qin troops on the east bank to support them."

"It is said that Meng Wu, the leader of the army, is the son of Qin general Meng Ao, so we should be careful."

After looking at the map for a while, Xiang Liang replied:

"Don't worry."

"We can send a small team to harass and block the Mengwu army on the east coast."

"After Shen Bingjun moves forward...our army will be able to win the battle!"

"If Shen Bing's army is defeated, the Mengwu army will be alone."

"This can not only frustrate the Qin army's spirit, but also buy time for my main force to return to defense."

The generals nodded in agreement.

This is indeed a good plan.

The Qin army attacked from the east and west banks of Bianshui at the same time to control the waterway and reinforce each other.